Massive home addition causes confusion in Fairfax County neighborhood

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Anonymous wrote:This is no different than a tall townhouse being built in dc among other small ones. People are just jealous they can’t do it too.

I seriously doubt that people are jealous and want to live in a home that looks like this atrocity.

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Anonymous wrote:So it looks like there’s a setback issue but also an unresolved issue on the height (from August). I have a very hard time believing there was an architect, engineer or even a contractor involved in this monstrosity.

I watched the interview. Construction was paused because the building violates set back by 6 inches in the rear corner. Owner says he built exactly to the approved plan and seems very confident he will be granted a variance. How likely is that? Who is ultimately responsible?

This is super petty.

If you look at the complaining neighbors house they have a side that is equally long, just not as high. I don't see the issue with it and it was probably done becuase it was cheaper.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d be ok with it if it were not attached to the old shatshack. Would just look like a “modern” shoebox house. Arlington has many. Just saw off the shatshack and all good!

A modern shoebox 1.5m. Their budget was 200k

Irrespective of cost, they are all
Ugly

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Other than it being pretty close to the other house, the main complaint that everyone has is that it's not aesthetically pleasing. Who cares? The way these neighbors talk, you'd think he stole a part of their property and put a house on there.

Not aesthetically pleasing is not the issue here and you know it PP.
It is like saying that Hitler had a negative personal energy to him.

Am I supposed to take you seriously after an analogy like that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So it looks like there’s a setback issue but also an unresolved issue on the height (from August). I have a very hard time believing there was an architect, engineer or even a contractor involved in this monstrosity.

I watched the interview. Construction was paused because the building violates set back by 6 inches in the rear corner. Owner says he built exactly to the approved plan and seems very confident he will be granted a variance. How likely is that? Who is ultimately responsible?

This is super petty.

If you look at the complaining neighbors house they have a side that is equally long, just not as high. I don't see the issue with it and it was probably done becuase it was cheaper.

The entire neighborhood is petty as hell. Just look at all the comments here. They don’t really have a reason to oppose it other than “they don’t like it.”

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Anonymous wrote:this is what happens when you remove single family zoning. it destroys the neighborhood as people rush to create rental income and have unvetted people live next door.

liberalism at its finest. we all have to sufferrr

They are saying that "family members" are going to live there. I don't believe it. It says 3 generations in the article.

I'm a healthcare worker and we brought eight h1bs over last year. It turns out they all live in the same 2 bedroom house hot-bunking with the owner, a lady from their home country. I looked her up and she has been in legal trouble before for running this operation. Maybe she is saying they are all family.

you have to remember that coming from the 3rd world, almost any living situation in the US is better than what they came from.

removing or losening Single Family zoning is to help families be able to live in areas, not for landlords to take advantage and turn these neighbordhoods into nightmares

Loosening the single family zoning does not help families move into certain areas. It allows landlords to do things just like what has happened here and ruins the neighborhoods for everyone.

+100

Anyone who believes they are doing something altruistic by supporting relaxed zoning is painfully naive and stupid. Developers and landlords want to make money, period. They will gladly ruin a community if they can line their pockets.

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I feel so bad for the neighbors.

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It has all the architectural charm of the Bin Laden compound in Pakistan.

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Anonymous wrote:In the news story, some of the boards on the upper story don’t look as though the edges meet up with the boards they are next to or above. The edges look like they are sticking out unevenly.

Is this the way it is supposed to look? I’m not a builder, but it looks like poor attention to detail to me and just not well put together.

Anyone know more about how those boards are supposed to look?

I don't think it was ever inspected.

An inspectir would have noticed the set back issue at tge very beginning of the process, certainly by the time they did the framing inspection.

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Anonymous wrote:Whenever there are updates, please respond to this thread! I am very curious how this shakes out!

Zillow has a picture.

Construction workmanship looks terrible.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4210-Marble-Ln-Fairfax-VA-22033/51793309_zpid/

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Other than it being pretty close to the other house, the main complaint that everyone has is that it's not aesthetically pleasing. Who cares? The way these neighbors talk, you'd think he stole a part of their property and put a house on there.

He is going to kill all their grass in one season, and kill their trees too.

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I notice there’s no company name on the work vehicles in front of the house. Whenever a contractor has done work on my house, the name of the business is always on the vehicles. Even the contractor who is a sole proprietor has his name on his truck.

Usually people in the building business want the free publicity they get when neighbors see them doing work they’re proud of and they tend to get more business in that neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

And these poor neighbors can’t even sell because no one wants to live in the shadow of a shoddy apartment building in the suburbs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Whenever there are updates, please respond to this thread! I am very curious how this shakes out!

Zillow has a picture.

Construction workmanship looks terrible.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4210-Marble-Ln-Fairfax-VA-22033/51793309_zpid/

Owner pulled the permits himself, plus a bunch of unmarked vans from whoever is doing the work- probably some random unlicensed GC. So basically a DIY special.