110 Chestnut Street CUP

Lives two doors down; worried the narrow lot can't fit three garages, that the modern two-story design clashes with 1930s homes, and that school-related parking is already tight.

Says parking near Lincoln School is already a nightmare and multiple units with multiple cars will make it worse and change the neighborhood's character.

Submitted a five-page letter with 18 exhibits; argues the project is effectively a rental triplex, questions the CEQA exemption, raises drainage, soil contamination, and the owner's record of problem properties, and asks the commission to send it back to staff.

The project owner says he bought the burned-out house to live in with his family, that the neighborhood's problems long predate him, and that he's spent 18 months and thousands of dollars redesigning to address concerns.