ing-rid egers >> my name is ingred egers and live in the cottage next to the development. my cottage is one of the oldsest on the block. it was built in 1867 and it is still more or less in that shape right there. i have a map here >> could you put this-there is something on the overhead. go ahead >> my cottage shows the red arrow and that is from 1874. you can also see there was no front house yet, however the house that is discussed here was aurd there. i lived there for 17 years. i'm 70 years old and i'm a writer and take care of my grand daughter who is 2 years old 2 day as week and do a little bit of [inaudible] to make ends meet. this life of mine will be gone once this major coninstruction starts next door. i have to say i'm not gaens renovation. i think the house needs to be renovated. there should be a garage and old and new combined, but inway it is done here is still tripling the size of the foot print and basically digging 25 feet into the ground. i think that is not what should happen. i grew up in a 500 year old farm in germany where lots of renovation was do