ms. wuerfel has no intention of allowing us to improve our home. but years later, i am at the board of appeals. is it reasonable for a homeowner to have to justify a wanting windows in their home to provide ventilation, which open and close, and to comply with fire safety codes? is it reasonable that we should want our children's home environment to be more free? none of these factors are important to ms. wuerfel. they don't need to be. they affect our family life on a daily basis. the appellant has made it abundantly clear by her past and present actions that she will appeal and obstruct any project we propose, no matter how detrimental the actions may be to the property she claims deserves special attention because of its historic nature. i fail to see how preventing whether proving can be -- weatherproofing can be found protective. none of our work affects the historic character. of the 17 complaints filed by the appellant, and others -- a number specifically affect things we wish to correct. missing windows, broken window, sky like letting in l

ms. wuerfel, she does seem a little jealous about what goes on with this house. maybe she is jealous about upholding the code. but one wonders about that. my inclination after tonight is if they want to say re-roof around a dollar that might be illegal, and it ultimately cost them more to remove it and then have to re-roof again, i do not think i am the person to tell them they cannot do that. if they want to put a door, replace the door on a patio on a part of the building that is not legal, and it turns out that they have to remove that part of the building, along with the door they just installed, maybe that is not something i should concern myself with either. my inclination right now, pending the comments of my fellow commissioners, it is certainly no problem. the second protest has to do with the roof. definitely we ought to let that go. but i also feel we ought to uphold the other permits and allow them to do this. if it turns out that by doing that they create more problems for themselves, hopefully they will understand if we were inclined to prevent that