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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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

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 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.

No one is jealous that they don’t want to build (not can’t build) a hideous monstrosity onto their house and tick off all of their neighbors.

This is near Chantilly so nowhere near DC proper. People move to the outer suburbs because they want a suburban neighborhood. Not a patchwork hodgepodge that makes it look like a boarding house is being added to an existing property.

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.

It looks like an office tower.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know that you could really argue 3 stories is over doing it in this area. I understand how people feel about it but plenty of the gigantic new builds are 4 levels including the basement. The economics of tear downs mean you need the biggest house possible to recoup the value.

It looks like some hotel in the middle of a single story or 2 story SFH neighborhood. It's also not a new build and looks out of place/out if proportion looking at it in isolation as an addition to the existing single story home.

Those of you who don’t like HOAs — this is why you might appreciate an HOA.