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,c' .') 1. bottom photo on page 19, there is not so much a back yard right now as there is a long, exposed side yard. 3. With the other options we pave a fair chunk of the backyard, reducing the usable private space for our family. We do not want a parking /ot for a backyard. A larger backyard is consistent with every other home in the area. 4. Option A prevents us from being more cut off from the back yard of our neighbor to the west, compared to Option B. It also gives them a better view, not cutting off any more of their views to the woods with a long wall of house. 5. The only room that looks out on to the large woods north of us is now the garage, so it makes sense to give a high-use family room the nicest views. How can you live by such nice woods and never see them from the house? Effects on our neiohbors . Initial contacts with our neighbors have been positive. Our five closest neighbors, either abutting or across the street from our property, all have no problems with our adding a new garage. (They are labeled A, B, P, Q, and R on the map on page 14.) We know this because either we or the Browns have specifically ask8d them about it. Since we haven't moved into the house as this is being written, we haven't fOllTIally met them all, but by the time of the Planning Commission and City Council meetings in June, we anticipate having all their () signatures on a petition for approval. . If you look again at the map on page 14, you will see that the visual effect of our proposed plan on the surrounding properties is minimal. Our only next-door neighbor are on the opposite side of the home from the new garage, and they would not be able to see it at all from their house. The other closest neighbors are all across the street from us. The closest of them, marked "A" on the map, has their garage about 115 feet away, and the view of our new garage from their house is blocked by woods, All other neighbors who have a view of the new garage are between 150 and 230 feet away, so an aesthetically done new garage will not negatively affect any views they have. Other options for improvino the property We have looked carefully at two other possibilities for improving our property. Here are our analyses of them, Option B, on page 16, would incorporate a garage built mostly within the present building envelope, although a variance of 7 feet would still be needed. The drawbacks, and these are significant, are these: 1. It would create a long building that would be pretty ugly. 2. It would put the garage in the prime spot for nice views of the woods. 3. It would cut us off from our neighbor to the west. 6 .