Massive home addition causes confusion in Fairfax County neighborhood

[Anonymous]

Laundry/kitchenette ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In that particular model, the laundry room is behind the garage, so it would have been destroyed while ripping out that whole section of the house.

The Ashley model has no basement and the kitchen has a door to a utility room behind the garage. The utility room has 2 other doors, to garage and outside. Plus it has washer/dryer and HVAC and a water heater.

Google Ashley Poplar tree and see sold houses - Compass site has a function where you can get similar properties [floor plan].

I suspect that the 4210 Marble washer/dryer, HVAC, water heater were not located in the demo area for this addition project. Where they went from the original could have been done via unpermitted work. Where's the permits for the 32 by 12.5 addition on the back in the Feb 2025 survey? That thing doesn't match the google aerial.

This entire thing is shady af. Did they have permits to turn the garage into a living space? Because that was also done prior to this monstrosity being constructed.

How are they living in this home at all right now? They absolutely would have had to relocate the laundry/hvac room prior to this.

Good googly. I live elsewhere in the neighborhood, and feel so awful for the people on Marble dealing with this insanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In that particular model, the laundry room is behind the garage, so it would have been destroyed while ripping out that whole section of the house.

The Ashley model has no basement and the kitchen has a door to a utility room behind the garage. The utility room has 2 other doors, to garage and outside. Plus it has washer/dryer and HVAC and a water heater.

Google Ashley Poplar tree and see sold houses - Compass site has a function where you can get similar properties [floor plan].

I suspect that the 4210 Marble washer/dryer, HVAC, water heater were not located in the demo area for this addition project. Where they went from the original could have been done via unpermitted work. Where's the permits for the 32 by 12.5 addition on the back in the Feb 2025 survey? That thing doesn't match the google aerial.

This entire thing is shady af. Did they have permits to turn the garage into a living space? Because that was also done prior to this monstrosity being constructed.

How are they living in this home at all right now? They absolutely would have had to relocate the laundry/hvac room prior to this.

Good googly. I live elsewhere in the neighborhood, and feel so awful for the people on Marble dealing with this insanity.

Yes shady af. I didn't post links to other Ashley's since Compass had them as sold properties. One had a floorplan. Nice houses in great neighborhoods. Notice the pics of the abomination- the framing is not for a garage door - window. Record ALTR-211230106:
Residential Addition/Alteration states voided and it was to add "2 additional room" to the back of the house. No completed inspections.

[Anonymous]

Comparing the plans to pictures/footage of the home (news clips, owner submitted photo for appeal, google street view, etc.), the window cutouts and locations of them do not conform to what is in the approved building plan. What is even going on here?

[Anonymous]

With this winter storm bringing sleet and freezing rain, have they closed up and sealed all the empty cutouts in the walls where windows would eventually go?

If not this addition is going to be full of ice.

[Anonymous]

I hope the family is able to go somewhere with heat during this storm. I feel bad for them that they’re without heat. Granted, bad decisions were made, but the children especially had nothing to do with that and it is just too cold to have no heat at all right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope the family is able to go somewhere with heat during this storm. I feel bad for them that they’re without heat. Granted, bad decisions were made, but the children especially had nothing to do with that and it is just too cold to have no heat at all right now.

Well, if children are involved, the builder should be allowed to do what he wants. He should have mentioned that on his appeal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope the family is able to go somewhere with heat during this storm. I feel bad for them that they’re without heat. Granted, bad decisions were made, but the children especially had nothing to do with that and it is just too cold to have no heat at all right now.

Well, if children are involved, the builder should be allowed to do what he wants. He should have mentioned that on his appeal.

Builder shouldn’t be allowed to do what he wants. Builder should have planned the renovation better knowing the family was still going to live there. They should have planned the renovation so the HVAC was not disrupted until the very end of the project.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope the family is able to go somewhere with heat during this storm. I feel bad for them that they’re without heat. Granted, bad decisions were made, but the children especially had nothing to do with that and it is just too cold to have no heat at all right now.

Well, if children are involved, the builder should be allowed to do what he wants. He should have mentioned that on his appeal.

What? Are you saying the county should allow people to build whatever they want on their property if they have children?

That seems like a recipe for chaos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope the family is able to go somewhere with heat during this storm. I feel bad for them that they’re without heat. Granted, bad decisions were made, but the children especially had nothing to do with that and it is just too cold to have no heat at all right now.

Well, if children are involved, the builder should be allowed to do what he wants. He should have mentioned that on his appeal.

What? Are you saying the county should allow people to build whatever they want on their property if they have children?

That seems like a recipe for chaos.

Think of the children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope the family is able to go somewhere with heat during this storm. I feel bad for them that they’re without heat. Granted, bad decisions were made, but the children especially had nothing to do with that and it is just too cold to have no heat at all right now.

Well, if children are involved, the builder should be allowed to do what he wants. He should have mentioned that on his appeal.

What? Are you saying the county should allow people to build whatever they want on their property if they have children?

That seems like a recipe for chaos.

Think of the children.

Haha 😆

[Anonymous]

If the side setback is the only issue then the house will stay. It's either the architect, surveyor, or builder that will eat the cost of correcting it, not the homeowner. Either way, the addition is going to exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the side setback is the only issue then the house will stay. It's either the architect, surveyor, or builder that will eat the cost of correcting it, not the homeowner. Either way, the addition is going to exist.

That is incorrect, it is the homeowner that bears all of the liability here as they were acting as the general contractor. Had they used a licensed GC instead of going at it themselves, they would have a path to recourse to potential recoup the loss. That being said, the project would not be in the situation it is in had they engaged professional help.

I would not be so sure about the addition staying for sure. There is a higher onus on the homeowner to get an appeal approved, and even then if the appeal is approved, anyone else with standing (not a very strict bar) can bring the matter to the circuit court. This will be tied up in process for a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1740796

“There's outrage in a northern Virginia neighborhood tonight, this time over a new addition being built onto a house. Some say it's way out of line, even though it meets all zoning requirements.”

Did they pull permits to do this?

Diversity in action

Getting their just rewards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the side setback is the only issue then the house will stay. It's either the architect, surveyor, or builder that will eat the cost of correcting it, not the homeowner. Either way, the addition is going to exist.

That is incorrect, it is the homeowner that bears all of the liability here as they were acting as the general contractor. Had they used a licensed GC instead of going at it themselves, they would have a path to recourse to potential recoup the loss. That being said, the project would not be in the situation it is in had they engaged professional help.

I would not be so sure about the addition staying for sure. There is a higher onus on the homeowner to get an appeal approved, and even then if the appeal is approved, anyone else with standing (not a very strict bar) can bring the matter to the circuit court. This will be tied up in process for a while.

Even if the appeal is denied, they'll move the wall rather than just giving up. Expensive, but doable.