TUSTIN : Wider Siding OKd for Historic Home
The City Council voted unanimously Monday night to allow the owner of a 1924 Colonial Revival home to replace narrow clapboard siding with wider siding.
Homeowner George Santori, who had been denied city permission to use the wider siding because his house is in a historical district, had appealed to the City Council.
Apologizing to Santori, Mayor Richard B. Edgar said that when standards become too prohibitive, they do not accomplish the goal of preservation.
Other council members agreed.
The Community Development Department denied Santori a “certificate of appropriateness” to put up the siding in March and again in August. Staff members said the new siding, 5 inches wide instead of the existing 3 inches, was not compatible with the home’s Colonial Revival style.
Santori, who purchased the 5-inch siding because it was cheaper than the 3-inch siding, appealed the decision to the Planning Commission, which deadlocked on the matter in September. He then appealed to the City Council.
Santori had gathered signatures from 50 to 60 neighbors who agreed with him that the wider siding is acceptable.
The historical district, roughly bounded by the Costa Mesa Freeway, 1st Street, Prospect Avenue and 6th Street, was created two years ago.
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