Wednesday, April 06, 2005

THE BIG HOUSE On the front page of our paper there was an article about big houses built on little lots in old neighborhoods. People are moving from the suburbs back in towards the city but they still want their suburban McMansions. The interesting thing for me is that the article is about my neighborhood where many of the houses are ~70 years old. This picture was taken 3 blocks away from my house. The little bungalow on the left belongs to a good friend of mine. We watched in horror as this monstrosity went up. It’s not only big it’s butt ugly! Something needs to be done to stop this sort of thing and in our neighborhood that just might happen. It turns out that this house is too big, about 4 feet too high and since the community won't sign off on a variance that issue will have to be dealt with. The house also violates the lot line requirements of building within 10 feet of your property line, don’t quite know how the inspectors missed that. With any luck at least the top will have to come off this thing and cost the owner a plenty. When it happens I’ll be he one across the street selling popcorn. 8:06:09 PM    Throw Me A Bone []

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