Appeal Letter (2019-11-13)ll/6/2019 Campbell Tree Removal Letter -Google Docs
NOV 1 3 2019 .
Dear City of Campbell,
My name is Ortal Liberty, my family are myself, husband and four little children.I recently
purchased a home located at 505 Sunnybrook Dr, Campbell, CA 95008. -This house was designed for a tear down completely and re build, something that will have a
benefit for us as a large family as well as for the neighborhood.
Our new house design showing the same distance from the sidewalk as the old house. 15' from
that we have 2 big trees that blocking the house specialty with the new two story house. . ...... .
City request us to hire an Arborist service in order to apply for these trees to be removed.
Arborist report mention the tree is Healthy BUT for the following reason they are definitely
recommend to remove the trees:
-The trees are interfering with the power lines
-structure fair tree has history of poor pruning practice's due to proximity to PG&E
wires.
-due to close proximity to home and utility interference.
-This tree creates an unusual hardship for the property owner and restricts the economic
enjoyment of the property.
-Lower the value of the property dramatically
After all-city denied that request and now asking to push the house back 15' more from the tree
root zone -total of 30' just from the trees meaning -50' from the sidewalk. They also mentioned
to us that if we were to submit an application to remove the tree without any new house plans to
be built they will most likely approve it right away.
Pushing that house 30' from the trees will obviously take a large area from our backyard and
will leave only much less space for my kids to play and for us to enjoy as a family together.
Another fact is that if we're planning to add a pool I ADU unit in the future -this will limit my
options.
Having my house sit so far back from the street will also look odd in the neighborhood as all the
homes on my street sit in a straight row.
The neighbor right on my left side also had the same tree and were allowed to remove it.
When we originally bought the house we had a dream that we can build the same house like our
neighbor on 540 Sunnybrook as well as 531 Sunnybrook Dr, but unfortunately the city keep
rejecting design plans with the reason that we are not compliant with the neighborhood. The
request to push the house back 50' from the sidewalk is definitely not compliance as well.
Second thing is that my house was first design with a large balcony on the second floor.The city
mention they will not approve that, and asked us to come back with wither two smaller balconies
on each side or a smaller one in the center. We changed it again and came back with a different
design showing a smaller balcony and now it looks like they are refusing it again and want us to
have it enclosed.
11/6/2019 Campbell Tree Removal Letter -Google Docs
Any redesign changes have been very expensive to us, as well as Arborist report and time
consuming to get any feedback from the city. We also still paying high monthly mortgage and
monthly rental in a different house we are staying at currently .
Please take consideration into helping us solve this problem and please grant me the same
permission as my very next neighbor
Thank you for your time,
(In the photo its the niber tree)
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