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Water Court home,and so they have lived there for about nineteen(19)years. They closed right after Hurricane Andrew in 1993, and so the house has been near and dear to his heart. Everything that they have done to the house they have tried to do within the context of maintaining the house. The windows are a constant work because they are all wooded, the shutters are up a lot because you have to take the windows down, strip them, and they have all the glazing in them which has to be taken out. A lot of times they have to replace the glass and put them all back up again, and so the house requires a lot of maintenance. But in general,they raised their kids there and they have been very happy there. City Historian Richard Schulman said the reason this property became historic was because the founder of this whole area, Harvey Baker Graves, lived there in the 1920's, and it became historic by the Miami-Dade County Historic Preservation Board on January 19, 1984. Our City re-designated it an historic site in October of 2004. It is one of five historic sites in our City. Chairperson Masters noted that this request has been recommended by our Consultant, and he asked if there were any questions before they voted on this. Trina Duluc said she passes the house and noticed that the fence is very dense and you can't see through it to see the house, and since it is historic, why can't we have more of a view of the beautiful mansion. Commissioner Scholl said because it is private property, having an historic house is an interesting perspective because basically he considers it an uncompensated burden. In other words,he has the burden of living with all these rules and regulations, and he gets no benefit for that but they also protect their privacy. They used to have the front open and they had droves of people walking into the yard and taking pictures in front of the house because it was rumored that it was Al Capone's house, and there is a lot of folk lore associated with it. Over the years what they try to do is to limit that and at the same time protect their privacy and that is why they have the hedge there. Frankly they never had a fence before,unfortunately what they have had to do over the years is to keep getting increasingly better security. Now what is happening is with the point finished, it was under construction for a while with the roadwork there. Now folks are fishing on the point again and they walk along the seawall and they decide to fish in their yard and so it is unfortunate. Mainly for personal privacy,because they don't have a backyard,the house is set all the way back on the water. Any time they spend in the yard, they spend in the front yard, and when they do that people pull up in their cars wanting to come into the yard to take a picture. Warren Stamm said it was unclear from the picture where the fence you are proposing is going, and Commissioner Scholl said on the east side of the house they have a wall that goes half way down the property and a wooden fence in the back that goes to the bay. In front of the house they have stem walls,there are columns and little stem walls,and Ms. Uguccioni showed the site plan (2 pages). Commissioner Scholl also showed a picture from the package of what was already in, and what is being proposed in extending the fence. It is the same fence that they have always had there, it is just extending it. The house is on the water and so the fence won't obstruct the view of the house. The biggest issue that they have had is from a security standpoint. They have a house in Colorado and so they spend a lot of time there as well, but when the road work got done, the folks walking on the property went up expeditiously, which is why they have decided to do this. Cassey Gabor said it may also cause a liability if someone slips and falls on the property. Commissioner Scholl said that is the issue, ultimately somebody slips and falls and they get sued. He also stated his wife is a lawyer and so she is much more cognizant of those things than he is. But that is really the issue, and where the pergola used to be, it blew down Agenda 2012-0717 HPB Mtg Page 3 of 5