06-01-2000 Regular Meeing and Public Hearing

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RECEIVED FACTS RELEVANT TO THIS MATTER: PUNNING 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 beauty of our residence or yard by putting anything on it that is not up to par with the already well -kept and maintained condition of our area. I believe someone objected to our having a storage container 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 neglected 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 in 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 "make -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 it from the road. However, any time we have mentioned fencing our property, our neighbors disagree to the fencing, 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 Official's Decision to have the building removed. 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 of a 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. .