360 Carpenter Road variance

Representing the applicant (who was overseas), she argued the shared driveway is the only practical access, minimizes curb cuts, and the half-acre lot keeps the rural feel.

Said a new house would sit practically in his backyard, hurt his home value, and force him to install screening; urged the commission to oppose it.

Said a new home could come within seven feet of his house, and worried excavation on the hillside would worsen stormwater runoff where there are no storm sewers.

Said the area's rural feel and privacy drew him there, and another home on the parcel would change that dynamic.

Said he'd be looking at a neighbor's front door from his back door and called the privacy the whole value of the area; said he's 100 percent opposed.