Help with a Development Zoning mis-justice

[lentower.livejournal.com]

Hi!

DATES HAVE CHANGED


The new dates are:

Planning Board hearing changed to
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 6 PM
at Somerville City Hall

Zoning Board of Appeals hearing changed to
Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 6 PM
at Somerville City Hall

The developers have found a new way to stall and delay getting this
matter back to Land Court.

Could you please come to one or both of the meetings below to stop an illegal development and help me and my neighbors out? As well as anyone who wants to stop
inappropriate development in Somerville.

See http://www.haydenterrace.com/

A developer has illegally added a 3rd story and gable roof to 1-4 Hayden
Terrace, off Linden Avenue. We want the building returned to just 2 stories. It's 45 feet behind my yard, and is blocking light/air/views for me and many homes around it. It also will add traffic and
parking congestion when it's occupied. He played tricks with the permits and

a building department inspector, so no one knew he was doing more then interior
rehab, and then used pre-built trusses, etc to put up, in less then two weeks,
a third floor with a gable roof on a building that had been two stories with a
flat roof. The gable roof was framed in under a day.

Come by Hayden Terrace and look at the monster. Also go uphill on Linden
Avenue two houses and walk up Gussie Terrace to see the side and back of the
monster. You'll see why the neighbors are upset. Even people 3 and 4 houses
up the hill. A loss of parking, privacy, air circulation, and views. There is
no parking on that lot. The spaces and garages on Hayden Terrace belong to the
two houses on Linden Avenue.

Might you be interested in helping us fight it by coming to a hearing? Just
attendance would help. Attendance and signing in helps more. Attendance,
signing in, and speaking your opposition would be the best.

Please forward this on to anyone who lives in Somerville, you think might be
interested in coming to the hearing and asking that the building be stopped.

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Planning Board hearing, Thursday, November 2, 2006, 6 PM at
Somerville City Hall.

Zoning Board hearing, at Somerville
City Hall. See

http://www.haydenterrace.com/

after Wednesday, October 4, 2006 for the new ZBA hearing date.

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Could you please forward this on to anyone who might come and support my
neighborhood?

You are welcome to come by and look at the development in question.

Thank you either way.

We also have a web site that suggest more things to do and has much more
information.

http://www.haydenterrace.com/

One more thing to do is to call the Somerville Journal's Speakout phone line
at 671-776-9844 and comment on the article that George Vroom got started and
is quoted in. It is at

http://www.townonline.com/somerville/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=565347&format=text

When I've done this in the past, they made the headline out of the first few
works. I know suggest a headline at the start of my Speakout.



Thanx either way,

-len tower

Comments

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

It says simply that long posts should use an lj-cut - this one should definitely use one.

Also, to better reach your audience, len, you might move that paragraph that actually explains what you're fighting to the top of the post, instead of having it buried after a bunch of links.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

In fact, speaking as a moderator: yes, this could use one. It's not too late to edit one in, though perhaps not urgent; but definitely use one in the future for posts this long, please.