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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Greenbriar is a mess. Has anyone actually driven through it?! Shudders. One of DS's team mates lived there.[/quote]

There is nothing wrong with the neighborhood. It isn’t shiny and new, but it isn’t “a mess”[/quote]

I wouldn't call it a mess, but it looks like a middle middle class neighborhood filled with 1950s-1960s split levels, some of which are quite poorly maintained. People are melting down about architectural cohesion when the neighborhood architecture isn't even nice. [/quote]

It was built in the late 60s-early 70s

What is wrong with a middle class neighborhood?

Are there some properties that aren’t well maintained? Sure. No HOA, remember? [/quote]

Surely you knew there wasn't an HOA when you bought the home.[/quote]

Yes, we knew there was no HOA. And?[/quote]

Then you knew you couldn't control what other people would build.[/quote]

Most in this neighborhood didn’t realize that the county zoning office would approve a monstrosity like this. What everyday citizen gets deep into zoning to figure out that the county would allow a 3 story Motor Lodge to be attached to modest cape cod?[/quote]

Are you saying you were oblivious to basic zoning requirements? Or that you expected the county to illegally deny a permit for a legal addition? It is troubling either way, but I'm curious.[/quote]

It’s troubling that someone just going along in life doesn’t spend hours thinking about the outer limits of what county zoning might allow?

No, we honestly didn’t realize. We’re not asking them to deny legal additions. If this is within the rules, there isn’t much to be done. The only move any of can make moving forward is to try to work with county officials to change things moving forward.[/quote]

You're surprised someone might want to build something at the maximum allowable height? Or it isn't something you cared enough about to make it an issue?

Pretty crappy of you to later decide it is important after someone spent $100k on their home.

If there was a substantive violation, that would be one thing.  But you've just been looking for a technicality to kill it. And I think that's an awful thing to do to a family.[/quote]

It also isn’t very nice for someone to figure out the maximum limits of a structure that can be legally built and then technically follow those limits without any thought at all for how the structure would look and how it would affect the neighbors. It isn’t very nice to do something that will make it harder for everyone on this block to sell their homes someday and then they’ll only be able to sell for less than they could have had this structure never been built. It isn’t very nice to think only about oneself and not care about how one’s actions will affect others.

And to be surprised when those you are harming have the nerve to ask questions about what you’re doing- well, that pretty much takes the cake. 
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That's what limits always do- you see a clustering at the limits. In this case, the upper limit on height corresponds to a functional capability- namely, the ability to add a third floor. I really don't understand why you'd be surprised by this. [/quote]

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