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(� 0 Zone District Regulations and Adoption of an Individual Review, from City of Palo Alto), mentioned that: "City of Mountain View regulates the size and location of second story windows to ensure the privacy of adjacent homes. Other cities require an increased setback for second stories to address privacy." 3. Exhibit IV ( "San Pablo, Code of Ordinances, Appendix A - Residential Design Guidelines "). "second story side yard window can intrude the privacy of neighbor". I am very sure that there are a lot more documents that we can gather regarding discussions on second floor windows issues on privacy; and their regulations from many other cities. Just from these 3 documents alone, we can clearly see how all cities have similar attitude about protecting their residence from having to live under constant gaze by their neighbor due to poor planning. I have not seen or told if there is any, the guidelines or regulations that city of Pleasanton has for such matter, and if such privacy issue had never been handled or documented by city of Pleasanton, it would be appropriate for city of Pleasanton to leam from the documents and try to extract what is the right thing to apply to city of Pleasanton. I do believe, like many other cities' residences, Pleasanton residences still value privacy very much. Our expectation is that, because the purpose is not right, the location is not right, the orientation is not right and the size is not right, and all are directly impacting our ability to enjoy privacy in our own property, I sincerely hope that the commissioners to disallow the plan and ask the applicant to opt for other solution to the lighting problem the applicant is trying to solve. If the applicant choose to enlarge the existing window on the other side of the wall, we will be willing to share 50% or up to $200 to open the wall for the bigger window, to help partially fund the applicant to fix their egress issue. We have this consideration because the moment the window addition is done, the architecture of the home and our home's comfort level will change immediately, forever; which damage will be permanent to us. We also understand the inconvenience caused and would really like our relationship to be back to normal again. In the case that the planning commissioners still favor the applicant over the addition to the second story window, we would expect at least a compromise to this. We saw that the applicant's property has many Italian Cypress trees (see attached photo) that can grow 30+ ft with a very small base, with the tree width of approx 2 feet. We would like the city to put a condition towards the addition of the windows that if they were to pursue the option, they would plant 4 Italian Cypress tree of at least 20' tall each in their side yard, put in place as closely as possible side by side ( -2 feet apart) so that they somewhat form a living screen against the most offended areas of our property as posed by the window addition. And that the applicant should make sure that the plants are taken care properly until they are settled. The Italian Cypress trees also blend nicely with the theme of the applicant's home. Again, we felt that the applicant's plan has completely ignored the need to minimize privacy intrusion to the adjacent neighbor (us). It is not thoughtful and it is not right. If decision is being maintained as previously made without compromise, we feel that the city of Pleasanton is unfairly treating this case, and is completely disregarding the value of privacy; and that this will be a very bad precedence of privacy issue in the city of 4