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July 15, 2010 To Whom It May Concern, We are writing this letter in response to the recent approval on the second story addition at 6114 Homer Court. We live directly next door at 6104 Homer Court. Prior to this we had heard about the planning of this project off and on by the Lopez' but did not know they were formally moving forward until a week or so before the hearing as we did not look at the card sent out by the city for quite some time. It really did not come to our attention until Mrs. Persin came to our door to make sure we received the card and to explain her concerns and issues which clearly concerned us as some of them would be impacting us as well. From the beginning privacy was a 100% concern as the close proximity of our two homes would mean the privacy of one half of our back yard would be jeopardized. Although property value can be a subjective area, it is a definite concern of ours. We did go to speak to the Lopez' regarding our concerns a few days before the hearing. They explained to us that there would be no windows on the side of the house unless it became a problem with the back two neighbors. We let them know we would be getting in touch with our realtor regarding our concerns on property values. Unfortunately our realtor did not come out to our house until the day before the hearing to give us her professional evaluation. After walking the perimeter of our home and measuring the distances between the two homes it was clear to her that the value of our home would definitely go down not up. The most significant issue being the obstructed view and overbearing shadow the new structure would cast from the main front window of our home. Because our two homes are on the turn of the culdesac the distance between the two front room walls is approximately 20 feet. As it stands now when we look out our front window on the left all we see is the side of their home but at least there is open airspace and natural sunlight. With the new structure we will no longer have that. This is the MAIN front window of our home as we only have two. This is the focal point of our home. Apparently there were some comments in the last meeting that we do not use this living room which I would like to clarify is 100% untrue. This room is one of the main reasons we bought our home as we both grew up in small homes where children had to share bedrooms and did not have both a family room and a living room. This is the room we use to entertain our family and friends and I use to meet with clients as I also work from home. Regardless it is not out of line to want natural sunlight and an unobstructed view out of the MAIN front window of our home. This is how 1 bought it. In addition when driving up to our home it will appear as a tucked backed home once again taking away from its curb appeal. Since we did not receive this information from our realtor until the night before the hearing and I was unable to attend as planned due to childcare issues, my husband and I both made separate calls to Shweta Bonn the morning of the hearing regarding our concerns.