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or 200 years ago.

Tb learn more about these materials, board members last week visited a home in the area built six months ago with these materials.

“I think it is the wave of the future,” said ARB Chairman Ed Barton about the use of synthetic materials.

“You’re using the word synthetic as though it is a four letter Anglo-Saxon word," he said at one point in the hearing.

The issue, Barton said is not if it is synthetic, but if it is compatible with the architecture in the town.

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We have a town

that wants to

show its age.

Donna Kevis

“You’ve got your head in the sand if you don’t realize this is what the future is going to be . ... "said Barton.

In the end, the board rejected Worley’s application because it couldn’t approve it in its entirety and “it does not complement the overall scheme that exits in the historic district.”

The board, in an individual poll, had no objection to the Marvin windows, the Permex shutters and the floorboards for the porch as proposed by Worley and his wife. Charlie Kevis abstained from the vote on the floorboards.

The mtyority of the board (O’Connell, Donna Kevis, Susan Babcock) voted against the balustrade and pickets, the Hardiplank siding and the Majestic Slate roofing made of

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