Massive home addition causes confusion in Fairfax County neighborhood

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long til the county makes a decision on the variance? And what happened to the argument that bc he poured a new foundation that the setback changed so he would still be out of compliance

There was a news clip last night saying he had a meeting last night with the county, and has to get a new survey of the property. Depending on the results he can either proceed or apply for a variance. Applying for a variance can take several months and it sounds like the immediate neighbors can choose whether or not to sign it.

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-marble-lane-construction-three-story-media-county-leaders-survey-propery-zoning-land-development-impact-herrity-neighborhood-greenbriar-chantilly-culture-parents-restrictions

If the grandparents are the actual on record owner of the property, how can the adult son keep claiming he is the owner and how can he pull permits? Wouldn't the sign off have to be from the actual owners?

Mike did not pull the building permits. Ngoc Hoa Thi Pham, the owner pulled the permits. For the question on the permit, “is the property owner acting as the contractor”, the answer was yes.

Interestingly there’s another permit pulled by Mike Nguyen of Rack Mount Solar to install solar panels in 2023.

[Anonymous]

This whole thing is shady AF

I need to go read the 300 comment thread on the neighborhood page, but what I am piecing together:
The parents are likely the actual owners
They are the parents of the schizophrenic man who attacked connolly’s office in 2023.
The person interviewed may or may not be the son/owner?
With the schizophrenic son in a facility, the parents and this guy and his family are likely living in the existing cape cod structure. That would be a tight squeeze and I can understand wanting to expand some
The information for this structure seems to show 6 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms, which is not an addition, it’s an apartment building
A normal person would bump back rather than build this way
I 100% do not trust any of what this man has said

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long til the county makes a decision on the variance? And what happened to the argument that bc he poured a new foundation that the setback changed so he would still be out of compliance

There was a news clip last night saying he had a meeting last night with the county, and has to get a new survey of the property. Depending on the results he can either proceed or apply for a variance. Applying for a variance can take several months and it sounds like the immediate neighbors can choose whether or not to sign it.

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-marble-lane-construction-three-story-media-county-leaders-survey-propery-zoning-land-development-impact-herrity-neighborhood-greenbriar-chantilly-culture-parents-restrictions

So if he gets a laser survey and metal property point makers plus ground paint stakes strings...Who's doing the survey?
Google maps has historical imagery. The addition appears to be wider than the 1 car garage converted to a room. It also extends into the driveway so that could be a front yard setback issue.

How did this get so far with a new foundation, framing, plywood on a 3 story addition with no stop from the county? Knew of FX County situation where someone 's contractor digging foundation - visual too close-county came , measured, stop work.

Found a great house zoned for Rocky Run /Chantilly- similar to the original of this. Added front dormers and a uitlity room behind garage with master suite above garage- great rooflines and lovely home.

Currently for sale?

[Anonymous]

The county requests a final survey from a licensed surveyor to confirm no setback violation. The county also requests a height certification survey - again from a licensed surveyor to certify height is less than 35ft. As mentioned earlier, after walks are poured the best practice is to perform a wall check survey (the owner or contractor should don this) however the wall check survey was not completed in this case or the height survey. The county does not require a wall check survey but most contractors will do it for peace of mind. Why would you want to proceed without confirmation? Obviously there are plenty of incompetent and idiotic contractors operating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole thing is shady AF

I need to go read the 300 comment thread on the neighborhood page, but what I am piecing together:
The parents are likely the actual owners
They are the parents of the schizophrenic man who attacked connolly’s office in 2023.
The person interviewed may or may not be the son/owner?
With the schizophrenic son in a facility, the parents and this guy and his family are likely living in the existing cape cod structure. That would be a tight squeeze and I can understand wanting to expand some
The information for this structure seems to show 6 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms, which is not an addition, it’s an apartment building
A normal person would bump back rather than build this way
I 100% do not trust any of what this man has said

NP here. So does is the interviewed guy related at all to the owners and the schizophrenic son?

[Anonymous]

So if a variance is needed but denied, what happens? Will he have to take down and rebuild ? Can the county ensure that the structure is removed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if a variance is needed but denied, what happens? Will he have to take down and rebuild ? Can the county ensure that the structure is removed?

Yes county can enforce removal of structures

[Anonymous]

6 bedrooms as 6 bathrooms? Is that in addition to the original structure- if so, that’s 10 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms? How many generations are living there?

Let’s say there are the grandparents, parents, and 3 kids. Wouldn’t that be about 5 bedrooms, assuming each kid has their own bedroom? Why 10 bedrooms?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:6 bedrooms as 6 bathrooms? Is that in addition to the original structure- if so, that’s 10 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms? How many generations are living there?

Let’s say there are the grandparents, parents, and 3 kids. Wouldn’t that be about 5 bedrooms, assuming each kid has their own bedroom? Why 10 bedrooms?

Because it is not really intended for just family to move in. It will be income generating as a resident business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:6 bedrooms as 6 bathrooms? Is that in addition to the original structure- if so, that’s 10 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms? How many generations are living there?

Let’s say there are the grandparents, parents, and 3 kids. Wouldn’t that be about 5 bedrooms, assuming each kid has their own bedroom? Why 10 bedrooms?

It could be the grandparents, several adult children who are siblings or cousins, and then all the children of the adult children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, aging parents are not living in this. No way. Those are apartments. JFC. This just gets worse and worse.

I live in this neighborhood and we really love it here. It’s a throw back in a great way. Except for the racism of the original builders (Leavitt)-we are all very proud of how diverse our neighborhood and schools are.

The neighbor has reached out to the county pretty much daily and is working on legal options.

We have seen other odd additions/renos happen, but this one is so completely ridiculous and we cannot believe it is legal under current zoning. It is twice the size of the original house, a 4 br/2 ba cape cod with 1500 sf (a previous addition had already been done)

Levitt was not racist. At that time period people liked to live with similar people, might suprise folks but in Roosevelt Long Island not far from Levittown Long Island Levitt builder an equally nice community for returning black soldiers.
Astoria was Greek, Woodside Irish, Williamsburg Orthodox, Great Neck Regular Jewish, Hicksville Indian, Garden City Wasp, Manhasset Rich Catholic, as back in 1950s to 1970s people self segregated and just how it was

Building racially segregated developments in a place where segregation was not the law IS racist.

Black people were trying to get out of de facto segregated neighborhoods and were prevented by covenants, redlining, and violence.

[Anonymous]

These people know what they are doing. This will be a highly profitable rental property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long til the county makes a decision on the variance? And what happened to the argument that bc he poured a new foundation that the setback changed so he would still be out of compliance

There was a news clip last night saying he had a meeting last night with the county, and has to get a new survey of the property. Depending on the results he can either proceed or apply for a variance. Applying for a variance can take several months and it sounds like the immediate neighbors can choose whether or not to sign it.

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-marble-lane-construction-three-story-media-county-leaders-survey-propery-zoning-land-development-impact-herrity-neighborhood-greenbriar-chantilly-culture-parents-restrictions

So if he gets a laser survey and metal property point makers plus ground paint stakes strings...Who's doing the survey?
Google maps has historical imagery. The addition appears to be wider than the 1 car garage converted to a room. It also extends into the driveway so that could be a front yard setback issue.

How did this get so far with a new foundation, framing, plywood on a 3 story addition with no stop from the county? Knew of FX County situation where someone 's contractor digging foundation - visual too close-county came , measured, stop work.

Found a great house zoned for Rocky Run /Chantilly- similar to the original of this. Added front dormers and a uitlity room behind garage with master suite above garage- great rooflines and lovely home.

Currently for sale?

No it is not so I didn't post the link to the address, That house showed up on images when I searched the address of the weird addition house. Under contract in less than 1 week and sold over list. Area over the 1 car garage is 299 sq feet- master bedroom, bath, walk in closet, FR addition, 3 bed up, 2 main level. Not smoothest cape conversion without teardown but looks great as you cruise the street on google st view. 2 big dormers on the cape portion have same roofline as addition. Guess chimney gets extended up. Happens when adding height on split level/ranch/capes. We bookmark houses that are great redos on them without teardown.

There's original build Ashley models capes for Greenbriar West ES- not sure if that's the original Marble model. Those were 2 beds on main-hall bath. 2nd floor 2 beds , hall bath. So whatever the original model- add dormers mimicking addition over garage roofline and put in a master suite.

[Anonymous]

We bought a similar home. We wanted space for grandparents and grown children as they aged. To convert the current house we would have had to do something like this ( actually contractor/ architect suggested we dig out our back yard and put in a basement and two level addition with a small walkway to the existing structure). We did a tear down instead. Some neighbors were very upset for years. I am hoping this craziness makes them realize they dodged a bullet.

[Anonymous]

This entire situation is so weird. The owners are in fact the parents of the 50+ yr old man who attacked Connolly's staffers. So I'm going to out on a wild limb here and say based on how young the "owner" in the tv interview looks, that guy is probably not the brother of the attacker or the son of the owners.

So why is he, his wife and their kids living in the house and posing as the owners? And if the owners aiready live there, what set of "grandparents" is the owner referring to when he says his culture doesn't put them in nursing homes so he needs to build this large addition for them. It seems 6 people already live there (the owners, the man, his wife and 2 kids).

His story doesn't make any sense and I really don't think he is related to the real owners. Why is he living there? How did he convince the owners to do all this? Is this some sort of elder scam?