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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council 4-4-11 Page 14 is, does the fact that Ms. Bernstein's mother never objected to this dwelling, does that have any relevance to the argument? Council President Buckholtz can't really answer on the spot. It's a collective opinion here. We will be reaching a collective decision. Duly noted. It's a good point that you raised, something that we would take under consideration, but I'm not sure. What it comes down to is 2 or 3 decisions that were made by another legal body of the Village. So really we are looking to some kind of resolution on whether to accept, refute or modify those decisions that have been previously made. Ms. Pangonis stated, it appears to me that you can look back at things that happened years and years ago and object to them now and it's something that happened a long time ago. It kind of seems like an odd situation to me that her mother didn't object, why is she objecting? The other point is I don't think that taking that property down, I'm not a realtor but I know about realty, houses and homes in the neighborhood. There's no way that taking that building down is going to put her house value up to $450,000 so she can recoup all that money. It's just not possible. It's not realistic at all. Council President Buckholtz thanked Ms. Pangonis for her thoughts. Mr. Saponaro asked Ms. Calta, do you have an opinion on that Diane in terms of the lack of objection by Mrs. Spuzzillo? Ms. Calta replied, I would just note that the fact that a neighbor does not object does not change the nature of a Code violation. If there's a Code violation, there's a Code violation. It can't be waived by agreement of a neighbor. Certainly there are circumstances where neighbors would consent in the event of a need for a variance from a Code that's taken into consideration in that context. But when there is a Code violation, there is a Code violation. It can't be waived. Mr. Marrelli would look at it strictly as a Code violation. Howard Bernstein The structure was there when Mrs. Spuzzillo was alive. It was half the size. And, there's 11 years of construction. Is there any time when construction has to come to an end? Would you buy a house next to total construction for 11 years? When is enough enough? And it's a shame because the work is nice work. It's a11 good looking stuff. But when does it end? Does it ever end? Can you build just forever and ever? Council President Buckholtz thanked Mr. Bernstein. Anyone else? . Casey Kucharson 6564 Hunt Circle Quite honestly, I don't really care about the outcome here between the two parties. The only thing I would ask Council to consider, I'm on Ordinance Review Committee. I have had these