Item 2 - Exhibit 11 - Applicant’s neighbor outreach effortsDetailed Description of Neighbors’ Outreach, Their Concern,
& UTOPIA’s Response
Concerned Neighbors, image 01:
-23 Loma Alta Ave.
-100 Los Gatos Blvd.
-45 Whitney Ave.
Overall Concerns:
1- Privacy
2-View Of 15 Loma Alta From Their House/Backyard
3-15 Loma Alta Shadow Over Their House/Backyard
4- Overall Architectural Design
All neighbors provided photos of their backyard. Image 01
Individual Concern:
-Resident of 23 Loma Alta concerns about the roof garden and if the future
resident overlook to their backyard. Also didn’t like the view of flat roof
from their backyard.
-Resident of 45 Whitney Ave. concerns about the roof garden and
overlooking to their backyard. Also blocking their sunset view.
-Resident of 100 Los Gatos Blvd. concerns about the view from their kitchen
window and needs explanation on how much the future house will block
it. Also, if the future house will shade over their house.
-All three neighbors weren’t happy with the architectural design.
Reports & Summeries:
We set up two meetings on Friday Sep.11th 2020
-ZOOM call with the neighbor at 23 Loma Alta.
-In person meeting at 15 Loma Alta with the other two neighbors. Please see
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1- The roof garden is removed, and a gable roof is proposed. The roof starts from
5 to 6 feet from the balcony side sloping down towards north! It blocks both
access and sight to 45 Whitney Ave. and 23 Loma Alta. And will put that specific
concern in bed. Image 02-04
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2- We are proposing to replace flat roof of living room with a sloped roof. This
way the resident of 23 Loma Alta won’t look at a flat roof from their backyard.
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3- We are planting some greeneries in the left-over balcony in order to block the
look of future structure tfrom 100 Los Gatos Blvd Kitchen window. The resident at
100 Los Gatos Blvd will see only greeneries with mountains in background.
4- On the garage we are proposing to either remodel the existing garage or
replace the flat roof of proposed garage with a hip roof. There won't be any
possibility of using garage roof as a balcony in future.
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5- We agreed to install fences at the border of the project and 45 Whitney Ave if
we demolish the existing garage.
6- we have explained to resident of 100 Los Gatos Blvd. that the future house
shadow won’t impact their house more than the existing elements such as two
large oak trees and their own garage structure.
7- Based on the photo provided by 45 Whitney Ave. resident (image 01) the
future house doesn’t impact the sunset view from their backyard. The tip of trees
is still higher from the future house structure.
Conclusion:
All 3 neighbors fully understood and agreed that there won't be:
- No additional shadow will hover over their houses/backyard created by
future house.
- No view blockage caused by future house after our new roof proposal
presentation.
- No possibility of overlooking to their backyard and invasion of their privacy.
All 3 neighbors don’t like the architectural style of the house.
- The architectural style of the house has been approved by Town architect,
Canon Design Group, and Town of Los Gatos. We have followed all of
Town’s rules and guidelines and agreed to all Town’s recommendations. It
is impossible to make every single neighbor’s happy and satisfy their taste.
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