02-24-2000 Regular Meeing and Public Hearing

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'; . .; .t. .~.. i' = . " . . FACTS RELEVANT TO TIllS 'MATTER: .We have lived at this residence since 1979.We have kept oUr house and yard in excellent , condition 'during these years. We would never jeopardize the integrity or b~auty of our ' residence or yard by putting anything on it that is not up to par with the alieady well-kept and maintained condition of our area. I believe someone objected t9 our having a storage ~ntainer here. We bought it in January with all good intentions of having it's exterior redone immediately into a more pleasing look of a storage building. But shortly after we had it delivered, Mr. Childs underwent an operation that restricted his activity; therefore we got no further with our project than painting it brown to match our house. . , We have, pampas grass growing all along the .boundary of our property visible to the road. As you know we had a drought last summer and I'm afraid. we neglecte4 the pampas . grass in favor of watering our garden and other. plants. ' As far as the length of the building is relevant, we own (9) nine lots and two tracts of other land and the building is not m the least disproportionate with the amount of property we own. In fact, we have, ample room to add other amenities. . I believe that when we are finished with our ,"m~e-over", it will be both pleasing to the eye and completely unrecognizable as a shipping container. If this is not enough, we will consider putting a fence up to screen ~t from the road. However, any time we have mentioned fencing our property, our neighbors disagree to the fencmg, saying the.openness of the land is more ethically pleasing than fencing. We get along well with our neighbors and agree with them about fencing. TYPE OF RELIEF BEING SOUGHT: , ' We want to appeal the Building O:ffi<;ial' s Decision to have the building, rem~ved. We, request a public hearing to have the Zoning Board of Adjustment re-evaluate the ' decision. GROUNDS FOR THE REQUEST; ~ We live at ,the end ofa dead end street and it is impossible to see the building except from Idaho and as I .said before, it will be screened from the road. I don't think we are hurting anyone's property value by have the building here and after the outSide has been converted into 'a normal, storage building, it will be an asset to our property.