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Regular Council Meeting <br />7/17/95 <br />Page 6 <br />expense of several on Beech Hill who have been very clear (and he supports looking <br />for a consensus or a win-win), but he thinks it is a win-lose as far as the people on <br />Beech Hill are concerned. It seems to me that if you are going to approve <br />something, you ought to approve the driveway and the house that is farther back <br />from the people on Beech Hill and then you've got the win-win. Mr. Sobel said he <br />urges you to reconsider that before you vote to find a better consensus, a better win- <br />win. Let there be a driveway, a new house, but push it deeper into the woods on the <br />back of our lot. <br />Mayor Rinker said that is exactly what P&Z was trying to vote tonight--the <br />appropriate setback. Mayor Rinker said what you are basically saying is that you <br />don't think it is good enough. <br />Mr. Sobel said right. He does not think it is good enough and if you have this many <br />people from Beech Hill.... Mr. Wills wrote a letter; he could not be here tonight. <br />Mayor Rinker said after the last meeting, we thought we were at a point where we <br />had a pretty good understanding from residents that setbacks were the major <br />concern. There are two issues--one he would like the Law Director to address as far <br />as the appropriateness of splitting the lot or changing it and the access of the street. <br />Apart from that, we get back to an aesthetic consideration. Fundamentally, what he <br />sees as people's concern is they don't want to feel their privacy is being encroached <br />upon and they would like some more buffering there. He thinks there are some <br />constraints as to whether we have anymore flexibility there and he would ask <br />Bernie to address that. No one here wants to create a situation where neighbors are <br />going to be so upset with one another--or one group against another property <br />owner. It doesn't do anyone benefit. We thought we were at a point where we had <br />a happy medium. <br />Mr. Sobel said he is not a lawyer, but it seems to him that nothing can happen <br />unless you authorize the split with those restrictions. If you don't authorize that <br />split, there is no frontage on Beech Hill for D and the existing driveway for over 20 <br />some years is the Wilson Mills driveway. If you are going to change that (and that is <br />within your right to do), then he is saying at least [he said he would not give a <br />number] go back farther into the woods. <br />Council President Fixler asked if Council wished to consider this this evening. <br />It was the consensus of Council not to consider it.