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discussed the situation at school claiming we were horrible people to put them through the second-story addition appeal process. The applicants video-taped our children, called the police on our 85-year-old uncle sitting in the backyard listening to music, maintaining it was too loud. On multiple occasions, the applicants have pointed their home security cameras in our home's direction and pointed spotlights into our backside windows. The applicants even told the police that we were the people that caused their vandalism and called the news reporters when we were in Louisiana adopting a baby, and our kids had to call us to say there were police and reporters at our doors because we were accused of vandalizing their home and we were not even in the State. "You would think that anyone in their right mind would have figured out that they got what they wanted from the City Council review process and would settle back in their lives and try and make peace with their neighbors. For some reason, though, they won't. They continue to try and intimidate and instigate. We do not know why. I refuse to watch the quality of my family's life deteriorate, so I chose to alleviate the decision, and we have cried and my wife did not want to go, and saw what we were getting into and we left that home so we could be in a place that was more peaceful. As I said, we have added on completely. My father added onto our house, built us a beautiful wing on the house for our family and all of our children. We have eight children. We don't live there anymore. Customized specifically, we have murals all over the house that we had designers come portraying our children in their lives with all of our family and their animals. We do not live there anymore. "When my friends saw me speaking at the City Council meeting on television last time, they said, 'why did you not speak up?"'Why did you not say what the Lopezes had done?' I said I chose to take the high road. I did not want to do that tonight. I am going to put it on the table tonight so at least it is on the record for people to see what we all had to deal with. You will hear from the Perrys. They are the ones who got it a lot worse than we do. I hope that hearing about these incidents will lend some background to the issues of control that are going on here because that is all this is about. Over more than a year's time, all of the conditions including one being disputed here were adjusted, evaluated, modified and finally approved. It is not reasonable to allow the Applicants to take yet another bite of the apple. The Applicants were happy enough to accept approved final conditions so as to be able to build their second-story addition. To allow them to now come back and allow them to go through condition by condition to make changes is not fair and if you do not send this message to them, this is exactly what they will do. Their actions are motivated solely by control. In fact, not only have the applicants not provided payment for the skylight to the Perrys they were supposed to have done with 30 calendar days from receiving the bids on November 2nd of last year, but they have also deliberately failed to comply with the condition to plant landscape screening near the Perrys' home within 45 days of the City Council approval. That was last January. But, as they just said, for some reason they cannot plant there because of garbage cans and things a year later now. They have not done any of them. EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, January 25, 2012 Page 6 of 12