CC 10-05-2021 Item No. 9 Appeal of Application R-2020-035 RM-2020-023_ Owner Presentation10/6/2021
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Planning Permit
1506 Primrose Way
Cupertino
I, Chaman Hafiz and my husband Tariq Khan have been peacefully living
with our neighbors at 1506 Primrose Way, Cupertino, CA since 2005.
Our family has gotten bigger, elderly parents, our Children, daughter‐in‐
law as well as grandkids on the way, this small house can’t
accommodate the big family. It's necessity for our family not a luxury.
We've discussed with neighbors and have got overwhelming support
for the construction. Our direct neighbors ‐front, left, and to the right
of the home have waived and declared their support for the rebuilding
of this home along with 12 other members from Primrose Way have
offered their support with a letter.
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We submitted our first design to the city in September of 2020 that
met all of Cupertino's rules, regulations, and codes and was approved
by the Cupertino City planning commission.
After this first submission, we had multiple revisions of the design to
respect and meet the back neighbor concerns along with the city's
comments. We modified the house design by reducing the height 23ft
(even though city allow 28ft), ADU from 800sqft to 746sqft., along with
the privacy plan.
We finally received city approval in April of 2021 after much back‐and‐
forth discussions, however now here we are in court due to this same
neighbor's complaints again.
Our back neighbor complains that Primrose Way is a community of single‐
story homes. This is a completely false statement.
4 two‐story homes (house# 1260, 1272, 1320), 1 beginning of Primrose way
6 two‐story in front of our house on Waterford Drive
27 two‐story on Poppy Way
Additionally, there is a big two‐story house recently built in our
neighborhood in 2018 with a size of 4086sqft (7411 Wildflower Way).
There are many homes in our neighborhood that are big and two‐story. Our
final City approved plan main house 1st floor only 1551 sqft and garage 462
sq ft and upstairs only 932 sqft. With this sqft is not enough for my big
family. I'm not requesting anything extra, the reason why I'm highlighting all
of these different homes is that I want to have the same rights that other
members of our community had in building a two‐story home.
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In addressing the privacy concerns, we hired a Land scape designer and
submitted a privacy plan to address our back neighbor's concerns
directly. Although a lot of tall trees in our backyard that will block any
view, please see the below backyard trees.
After the city permit, we should be happy to put a sign up in front of
our house that states we're building this house, but unfortunately
putting this sign up means that we have a public hearing against our
back neighbor which makes us so upset and breaks our hearts.
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It should not be this way, neighbors and members of our community
should be good friends, well‐wishers, and offer support. We've met all
city rules and regulations, approved code and even have a privacy plan
to maintain our neighbor's privacy. After meeting all the Cupertino
city’s code, rules, and regulations if we can’t build this house than it’ll
affect in our neighbor’s relationship, in our community, and it’ll be bad
example to our kids and next generation. We’ve respected everything
the city has told us and asked of us, along with what our neighbor's
comments. We truly appreciate you taking the time to listen to us.
So, I humbly ask you all to bless us so that our dream takes fruition! In
fact, it will be valuable addition to the neighborhood!
“A home is where love resides, memories are created, friends always
belong, and laughter never ends!”
Thank you very much.
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