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Speak Out
Varying Viewpoints
In last week's discussion of home sizes, consider the following:
Most of us now have a home office/computer room. (Subtract one bedroom here.) We help reduce the smog (by working from home). We reduce traffic problems. We spend more time with our children (instead of commuting) and god knows we all need to after seeing what happened in Littleton.
As our parents are growing older some of us are choosing to have them live with us.( Subtract one bedroom and another for a living room for them.) The demographics of the valley have changed; we now have more people with extended families living under the same roof.
So it's not like Dale Bryant said. We don't live in half the house for one year and the other for the rest. We do need the space.
How do you think property values would fare if people knew that they could not add to/modify their house? The 45-percent floor area ratio counts the garage, accessory buildings (sheds, etc.) and carports too. There is nothing wrong with the 40 percent footprint rule which still prevents use of more than 40 percent of the plot area.
Please continue this discussion with more articles on this matter from all the varying viewpoints. I realize this may be a challenging task for you as it seems that Dale Bryant seems to be showing a bias against those of us with larger homes.
Daraius Sorabji
Campbell
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Willow Glen, California Since 1992
