Summer Loveland, Head of the Neighborhood Committee, writes the City to exclude stucco in the proposed ordinance.

If the Ordinance Passes You will Lose

You will lose time:

Routine home maintenance will require another level of approval on top of a building permit, delaying completion and adding to your costs. The Department of Planning and Urban Development’s average time for review?

Work Not Requiring a Building Permit Must Still Go Through Review with The Director of the Dept. of Planning and Urban Development.

You will lose $Money:

Appealing a Denial: Just filing paperwork will cost $600-1000 plus a tree-killing amount of paperwork. See what is required on the City’s Website. It’s mind-boggling.

  • Plus attorney’s fees
  • Plus the cost of construction delays

Fines. $2,000 per day per occurrence for unauthorized work.

Fines. $2,000 per mature tree removed or seriously damaged in front yard.

You Will Lose Use of the Equivalent of a Living Room

In the Development Standards, something never discussed was snuck into the Ordinance (see (4) Development Standards, (2) Driveways, curbing and parking). We never discussed or agreed to this in neighborhood meetings.

Any new front entry driveway must extend at least 20 feet beyond the front yard setback.

Couple this with A driveway from the front street must be between eight and 12 feet
wide and you could lost about living room (AI says a typical living room is 216 feet).

  • 20 x (8 feet of driveway) = loss of 160 square feet of building area
  • 20 x 12-foot-wide driveway = loss of 240 square feet of building area

You Will Lose Control of Your Property

The City will have complete discretion through the inclusion of regulations like this:

  • Window must be typical of the architectural style.
  • Doors must be typical of the architectural style.