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f <br />board design, which is the same on both sides. We had granted permission to go <br />on our property and the matter would have been resolved then. <br />Summary <br />A Contractor working for the homeowners at 1777 Glenview Avenue started building a <br />fence in August or September, 2009. In 2007, we understood that they were not going to <br />build a fence. In 2008, we asked that in the event they wanted to build a fence, to discuss <br />the issue with us first to be respectful of the decline in value of our home that would <br />result from a fence being built. In June, 2009, we offered to get together with them to <br />discuss boundary and fence issues so we could better understand their concerns. We told <br />them we would be happy to get together and to give us a call. Instead of calling us to get <br />together, they hired a lawyer. Then we received a series of letters from the lawyer who <br />kept imposing short artificial deadlines on us at a time when our youngest child was <br />graduating from high school, we were preparing for her graduation open house, attending <br />all of the gradation open houses of her friends, supporting her efforts to find summer <br />employment, helping her prepare to attend her freshman year of college and welcoming <br />our oldest child back home after his sophomore year at college. Sometimes when you are <br />trying to accomplish something with other people, it is helpful to understand where the <br />other people are in their lives and to try to empathize with their situation. Just because the <br />homeowners at 1777 Glenview Avenue wanted a fence immediately didn't mean that we <br />were in a position to have the time to meet these short deadlines imposed by their lawyer. <br />We told their lawyer over and over that we did not want a fence because we believed it <br />would reduce the value of our property. We shared that the "park like" setting in the back <br />of our property is what attracted us to the home and these aesthetics are what gives our <br />property value and what visitors are most impressed with. We expressed that a fence <br />would significantly alter the enjoyment we have experienced for the almost 18 years we <br />have lived in our home. We offered multiple times to get together to understand their <br />concerns and asked their lawyer to give us a day and time when we could get together her <br />clients, the homeowners at 1777 Glenview Avenue. The lawyer said her clients chose not <br />to meet with us and mischaracterized the tone of our letters. We responded to this lawyer <br />by saying that if the homeowners chose to build a fence, we did not want the contractors <br />to trespass on our property. Since they would not meet with us, relying on the Zoning <br />Code, we understood that this would require the homeowners at 1777 Glenview Avenue <br />to ask permission for their Contractor to enter on our property to build a fence on the <br />boundary line with the face of the fence facing our property (at which point we could <br />finally gain an understanding of what kind of fence they planned to build and maybe get <br />to give some input into the process) or the Contractor would build the fence "set back" <br />sufficiently from the property line so it could be built with the face of the fence facing <br />our property in accordance with the Zoning Code and it could be properly maintained <br />after initial construction without needing permission to enter our property on a regular <br />basis to cut and trim grass and maintain the fence. The Contractor for the homeowners at <br />1777 Glenview Avenue did neither and built the fence right on the property line with the <br />face of the fence facing the home at 1777 Glenview Avenue in violation of the Zoning <br />Code. The fence footings were made sloppily of cement above the ground and many of <br />