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MINUTES PLANNING COMMISSION June 27, 1984 Page 5 Jim Geranda, 5352 Brookside Court, urged denial of the conditional use permit application. Their property values have suffered. The owners have incurred approximately $75`0,000 of internal damage to their homes. This strongly effects the resale and property values. Many realtors will not handle these townhouse properties. If it is a primary function to protect their private property values, than there is a link to be used. Based on the 150 existing homes having problems, these 24 proposed homes may have problems also and approval would be unfair to all concerned. Commissioner Wilson stated that if he owned one of the units he would have had repairs made to protect his property but then after talking to one of the owners last night, he discovered that an individual homeowner cannot make individual repairs to the roof. Mr. Geranda indicated that this is correct. You cannot fix it yourself because if you do then you become responsible for the next door neighbors roof also. He indicated that to repair the roofs, membranes must be removed. They have two bids ranging from $1,000,000 to $1,070,000. Commissioner Wilson commented that all flat roofs leak. He indicated that the cost to repair the roofs appears to be high. Mr. Geranda indicated that perhaps the bids are high but Stoneson had the ability and roofers in the first place to remedy the situation. Commissioner Wilson pointed out that one could get five bids and have the same person own all five roofing companies.. Jim Carley, 5173 Willow View, is aware of the roof problems while he has none of his own. He disagreed with comments made by Commissioner Wilson that all flat roofs leak. He has lived 30 years in New York with snow and everything else without the roofs leaking. These particular roofs have a design defect and there is no slope to any of them and there are no proper drains. The drains are two inches above the roof level. One must siphon the drains. A reconstruction is needed. He indicated that CC&Rs govern what they can do with the property. The people do not own the roofs. They only own the air space and a small backyard. They have no legal right to repair any of the roofs. Commissioner Wilson suggested that an effort be made to change the rules which govern the homeowners association. It appears to him that the group has a lot of strength. Eleanor Peabody, 5143 Oakdale Court, has been a resident of the townhomes for nine years. They were the twelfth family to move in the units. She was president for three years of the homeowners association and has now been retired from that function for three years. The last time she met with Art Schumacher was in San Francisco and at that meeting he had agreed that if contact was made with an engineer satisfactory to both parties, he would agree to go along with recommendations made. The engineer selected was Walt Glowkowsky. A check of the structures indicated that flashing and other items had not been properly done. The center of the roofs had sunk and water was standing on them. At some point the cooperation stopped and the attitude of Stoneson was to "sue us." She said she went on top of the strucutres with a representative of the building department who was appalled at the condition. Mrs. Peabody indicated she has had a leak in every single room of her house because of lack of calking and workmanship and other things which should have been done. Paper on the roofs now crumbles. Commissioner Wilson asked Mrs. Peabody if she went to the Division of Real Estate or the Contractor's Licensing Board. Mrs. Peabody indicated that while she was president she worked with Stoneson to resolve the problems. -5-