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Starting the week of August 15, 2022, the contractor notified the neighbors about the construction (he gave us the names and phone information). The contractor said nobody complained or raised concerns at the time and so the concrete slab was installed. However, we were subsequently contacted by the Code Enforcement Officer. The officer, acting on a neighbor's complaint, asked if we were building an accessory unit. On being told it was a tennis court, he mentioned no objectionable code violations and did recommend we contact the planning department for the next steps. My email of August 22, 2022 and the reply by the Planner on Duty, Eric Luchini, on the same date are attached as Exhibit A. Mr Luchini's email was very clear: "Thanks for your inquiry. The tennis court would not require any Planning review or permits. The same for the 10-foot-high fence from a Planning perspective, but again it cannot exceed 10 feet at any point. A Building permit would be require for the fence. Regarding the lights, if they exceed 10 feet in height, they would be required to go through Administrative Design Review with the Planning Division first and then obtain Building Permits. I have attached the submittal requirements and application for the Administrative Design Review process." We conformed to the conditions explained by Mr Luchini, i.e.10 feet on the fence height (which does not require planning approval) and to file for an Administrative Design Review for lights if we wanted to install them at 12 ft height. The fence posts that have been installed are 10 feet high, and while we do not have current plans for lights, back then the ADR Application for installing lights was filed by our contractor in November 2022. On November 9th, 2022 our contractor received an email response from Mr. Diego that is attached in Exhibit B Mr. Diego's email stated that our ADR application was incomplete, and it needed more information. The email instructed: "The property is zoned PUD-LDR and subject to the R-1-20,000 development standards. Per the R-1-20,000 standards, accessory structures are required to be setback 5-feet from the rear setback line and 3-feet from the side property line (see Table 18.84.010). Please label setbacks of the proposed light poles to property lines accordingly." We have since decided not to install the lights. However, this email provided us with setbacks we should propose in case we wanted to install 12 ft high lights. Page 3 of 18