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Mr. Lopez added that again, in good faith, they had had purchased the tree within the time allotted but did not plant it because it would have been thrashed from the construction. Commissioner Blank noted that the City Council meeting Minutes state Vice Mayor Cook-Kallio as saying that "if the belly band is something the appellants did not necessarily want, she did not want the applicant to incur the added expense." He asked Mr. Lopez if they had actually gone ahead and installed it anyway. Mr. Lopez replied that the Perrys had indicated to staff that they wanted all the options. David Persin, former neighbor, started by saying that he had the most respect for Mr. Dolan and did not say this lightly. He noted that Mr. Dolan has been in a very difficult situation in all this and that while he agrees with the staff report, he disagrees with Mr. Dolan that the background information here is not salient; rather, it is completely relevant. He added that after dealing with this issue for 18 months, he would like to get on the public record: "My name is David Person and my wife and I were the previous residents of the home at 6209 Robin Court, located directly behind the Applicant's residence. am speaking at the request of our friends, the Perrys, as they feel I may be more comfortable than they are at articulating some of the frustration of their situation. I am also speaking to corroborate what was said in the mediation meetings between the parties, which discussion ultimately led to the formulation of the skylight condition. Finally, I'm speaking to set the record straight about the Applicants who continue to try and portray themselves as the victims when in reality they are, and always have been, the aggressors. This is critically important. This is about control and nothing else, and you will hear that when you hear from me on what has gone on and you will hear about what has happened with the Perrys. "Let me first tell you that this past June, my family and I moved out of the home we had lived in at 6209 Robin Court for the past 16 years, that we put an addition on, that we customized for ourselves, that we put hundreds of thousands of dollars in, because we could no longer live by these people and what they've done to our family. We don't live there anymore. We left our close friends and our neighbors — people that we have loved as part of our family — because we cannot live by those people anymore. My wife has been aggressively approached at our daughter's elementary school. My wife has been verbally assaulted by Ms. Lopez at her daughter's dance studio. My wife has been followed in her vehicle by Ms. Lopez and aggressively approached by Mr. Lopez as she went over to the Perrys' house to pick up their daughter. My daughter has been stared down and verbally accosted — she was nine years old; her birthday is today; she is 10 — at her dance studio and at school by the applicant's children. My son has been stared down by the applicant's son at his middle school, Thomas Hart Middle School. Parents and teachers at both our children's elementary and middle schools have told us that Ms. Lopez has repeatedly EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, January 25, 2012 Page 5 of 12