Massive home addition causes confusion in Fairfax County neighborhood

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That addition is so so bad. And completely out of place for that neighborhood. Those poor neighbors who are stuck living next to it. Good for them for raising awareness to stop
That monstrosity but how awful to have that tension with your next door neighbor. There’s no coming back from this.

Even worse, the neighbor’s property value just took a major hit. Who would want to buy a house next to that awful thing.

[Anonymous]

Buy the houses on both sides of this monstrosity and build really high apartment buildings to completely hem in this neighbor's house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buy the houses on both sides of this monstrosity and build really high apartment buildings to completely hem in this neighbor's house.

That’s not how zoning works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it just the view but in google maps photo it looks like the roof slopes toward neighbor so all the rain is going to go in that direction.

This roof is problematic for this area. If you watch the newstory, it shows that as well.

[Anonymous]

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.

Trust me, no one is jealous of this ugly a$$ addition or whatever it is. It’s tasteless and selfish in not giving a crap about otters. It would have been best to just tear it down and then construct as big and tall a home allowed per permit, even larger than the current abomination . Does that make me jealous? Just looks like shi$ attached to the original structure. Tasteless

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That addition is so so bad. And completely out of place for that neighborhood. Those poor neighbors who are stuck living next to it. Good for them for raising awareness to stop
That monstrosity but how awful to have that tension with your next door neighbor. There’s no coming back from this.

Even worse, the neighbor’s property value just took a major hit. Who would want to buy a house next to that awful thing.

This. I feel terrible for the neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe the construction has been paused because the addition is being built too close to the property line of the neighbor and even though they got a permit for the addition it is not being built in compliance of the set back under the permit.

it was on the news.

surprise surprise.

Oh, thank goodness! This is just awful; a real health hazard to the neighbors!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Trust me, no one is jealous of this ugly a$$ addition or whatever it is. It’s tasteless and selfish in not giving a crap about otters. It would have been best to just tear it down and then construct as big and tall a home allowed per permit, even larger than the current abomination . Does that make me jealous? Just looks like shi$ attached to the original structure. Tasteless

Are they trying to house their existing immigrant village. The existing house already housed 2 generations. You don't need that much more room for an addition for a third generation. A tasteful addition could have been built but the owners went cheap to get maximum square feet.

Many immigrants come from countries with zero zoning.

The impact on the houses on either side is horrible. It blocks their light and makes their back yards tough to use.

[Anonymous]

I would never ever buy on that street. It needs torn down. How hard is it to have zoning laws that say that the addition needs to blend in with the house?

Then again, I can’t stand 1940s-60s homes and love when they’re remodeled into nice homes and get rid of split level plans. I would hate for a remodel to have to keep the split level or the rancher because that’s what the original was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That addition is so so bad. And completely out of place for that neighborhood. Those poor neighbors who are stuck living next to it. Good for them for raising awareness to stop
That monstrosity but how awful to have that tension with your next door neighbor. There’s no coming back from this.

Even worse, the neighbor’s property value just took a major hit. Who would want to buy a house next to that awful thing.

This. I feel terrible for the neighbors.

The thread about a pot smoker next door to someone had some ideas about how to run off a neighbor, getting them fired, having them lose their property, etc.

[Anonymous]

Looks a bit much because the setbacks are not correct and sight line rules. The original houses are too small and old so it's not unexpected

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never ever buy on that street. It needs torn down. How hard is it to have zoning laws that say that the addition needs to blend in with the house?

Then again, I can’t stand 1940s-60s homes and love when they’re remodeled into nice homes and get rid of split level plans. I would hate for a remodel to have to keep the split level or the rancher because that’s what the original was.

Lol

[Anonymous]

It’s fine. If you cannot buy your neighbor’s lot then you have no say here.

[Anonymous]

Any builder coming out to quote the job would have told them to tear down the original house and build new to get the square footage they wanted and good quality results.

The addition looks like something an owner designed and found someone with a GC license to build.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another Asian bringing down the neighborhood.

I say this as a child of an Asian parent who treats her property as if it was Sanford & Son's opening image. Even my uncle, her brother, who is a real estate shark looked at her house and said "I can always tell if an Asian person owns a particular home".

It's a feature of Confucian culture not to prioritize any responsibility towards your neighbor. One's only obligation is to the family and that's all that matters. Clearly here, housing the extended family, even if it means trampling on the neighbor's access to sky is a bigger priority than the community.

What a terrible thing to do to the property values of your neighbors.

Please don’t lump me, my family, society, and culture in with you and your self-hatred. There are 4.8 billion Asians in the world - hopefully you can imagine that not all of us subscribe to anything close to this.
- different Asian, clearly from a very different background than you