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appearance of his home. “If the house were the courthouse, or something, I would have a different view,” Mr. Barton said.

The ARB was concerned with setting a precedent that could be interpreted as allowing vinyl siding throughout the town. Mr. Barton said there was another danger: “One precedent we don’t want to set here is that we’ve got a citizen here who wants to upgrade his home and make it more attractive. We don’t want to say, ‘Un-uh, it’s not historic enough.’ ”

The motion by Mrs. Willis to approve passed 5-0.

In other business, the ARB approved:

• A hanging sign on the center column of the portico to the old gas station on Main Street, owned by the Jenkins sisters. Pageland Homes made the application, which passed 5-0.

• Tearing down a picket fence next to the Sisk House, now owned by The Inn at Little Washington. Frank Culley, who made the application, said that “all of it’s fairly rotted,” and that while it had once acted “as a sense of demarkation, it’s no longer the case.”

Mr. O’Connell, chef and co-owner of The Inn, recused himself from the

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