d.r. applicant. all told, this extraordinarily long process has cost my husband and me the equivalent of my salary this year and it's cost my inlaws more than a year of time with their grandchildren. thank you. >> i'm anne's husband sam and i'd like to read a statement from my parents david and nicole ball, who own this house with us. for four decades, we taught high school and college in western massachusetts. we are retired and we would like to move into our house. we used much of our life savings to buy it. we want to live in the same building as our children and grandchildren, but of course, we envision a separate life for ourselves. the life we have enjoyed as a couple for decades. we bought a house that needed extensive renovation, but the price was one we could afford, unlike all the other properties we saw that matched our needs. we would like to have a door separating our floor from the floors occupied by our family, like most people, we value our privacy. the reasons why we want a stove are

applicant, it is totally consistent with the neighborhood. anything else would be inconsistent, including having to raise the retaining wall, and i move we do not take d.r. this should never have been before us. commissioner borden: i would have to say the same thing. i was confused, because once they have the permit, it doesn't matter what we do because they can still remove the three. it is actually a moot point, there is not anything to be done. i always think it would be great to save a tree, in this case, it doesn't make sense to put it on the upward sloping portion. it probably requires more excavation and as more of a danger to the neighborhood streets and the trees having it on the upward portion of that retaining wall. just from a technical standpoint, it doesn't make sense to put the garage there. there is a reason why they put them on the downward sloping parts of the lot. what concerns me is that there is a history of conflict a route of this situation. i think what is difficult for us, is that people use all the different processes to keep an issue going in circles, and for me, it is sending a little bit of a message. once something has bee