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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fairfax County, right northern Virginia. Where is the Greenbriar section
of Fairfax County.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Like Fairfax fair Oaks is Chantilly?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Okay, all right, I'm asking I should have looked that up.
I should have looked that up. So there is a
small so in this neighborhood. This is on Marble Lane. Sorry,
I know that anyway, there is There is a house
on Marble Lane in the Greenbriar section of Fairfax County,

(00:33):
and there is a a. And this is where I
need a little help.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
What is a What is an a frame house?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
It looks like an a from the outside of it.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Okay, are they on do they tend to peak? Do
they tend to be on the smaller side? Because they
they say that this is a small ain frame a
frame house built in the nineteen sixties.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
I think you are limited with what you can do
because as you make your way down to the foundation,
it's it does widen. But think how narrow the second
level would be.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Okay, yeah, all right, so that makes sense. That makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
So there's this house on on Marble Lane in the
Greenbriar section. Hey, Chris, if if somebody knows about this
house or this neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Somebody call me please.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
So you're suggesting that people know about this. You're not
going to tell them about.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
This one one. What's happening?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh, this is great, This is great, and the neighborhood
is split and not like like.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Hate it or like get over it.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
But if somebody lives around there again, this is the
Greenbriar section in Fairfax County, right by Marble Lane.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Is there another tunneler?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
No, no, no, no, you'd take a tunnel or eight
six six to Elliott s two three five five four
six eight.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
So anyway, there's this itty bitty little A frame house right.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well, they've decided there's no hoa Okay, so they've decided
they want to build an addition onto the house.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
So imagine you're in the street and you're looking at
the house.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Right, you're looking at they're not tearing the house down,
they're not tearing.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
The house going on, you're going to add an addition, right.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
So anyway, so you're standing in the street and you're
looking at it, right, So the A frame is right
here in front of you. If you were going to
put an addition, where are you gonna go? Where are
you gonna go on the back, right on the back.
Maybe maybe you chop off the roof and just.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Square it up a little bit. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no.
So on the right hand side of the house, are
we are we sloping towards the street or sloping to
the sides? What do you mean the the shine frame? Yeah?
Oh to the sides, Okay, to the sides.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
So you can't you can't build on the side then
because of the existing roof.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Oh no, I'm sorry, now I see what you mean.
It's it's like this. Oh, it's sloping towards the streets.
So the sides are flat. Yes, correct, correct, the sides
are flat. Can't put something on the back then unless
you're doing it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
So on the side of the house, on the side
of the house, they are putting in a massive, massive,
three story long addition to house three generations of a family.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
What does that look like? Garbage good being constructed?

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, I've only seen the wood, but you know what
it looks like. It looks like something when haywire.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's it's like somebody, can you see it? Somebody rolled
in and put up a garden apartment building next to
this house.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
They said it looks like condos are going in attached
to this house.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh my god. And the neighbors, well, they're split. See
the video.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Oh it's amazing. Oh my god, it's amazing.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, look at it.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Even the even the Springfield District Supervisor Pat Herrity is like,
there's no place for this. There is no place for this.
But I feel bad because they talk to the neighbor.
And the neighbor, the neighbor who lives in the shadow, Yeah,
she's angry. Yeah, could you imagine the house next door?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
You look out?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Honestly, Diane's right, it looks like you put in a
condo building right attached to the house.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
The neighbor's a rem style, so it's just the one level.
Might be a basement, but just one story.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, right next to it. Yeah, not anymore. You can't
see anything. Is the sun up?

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Don't know, can't see it.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
I'm permanently in shade.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
My god, how is this allowed? No HOA?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
But doesn't that You gotta go through permits though, have
to say or sign off. Yeah, even if there isn't
an HOA, there's.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's other neighbors are like, if they do it, everybody's
gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
That's true. No, who's putting that.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Wow, by the way, that is a and again they're
the drone shot. Yeah, the drone SHOT's great because it
looks like, you know, small nineteen sixties house, small nineteen
sixties house, small nineteen sixties house.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Oh, they put in a hampton In. Unbelievable, that's what
it looks. My god, it just gets larger. It's bigger
from the back. You see it from the back.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
It's bigger from the well because you don't want to
clog up the street.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
It's bigger from the back. Wow, it's wider in the back.
You were not exaggerating calling it a hotel. It looks
like a hampton In. Yes, yeah, look at that.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
How many rooms are going to be in that, I
don't know, but I know there's three generations.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, they're moving in crap.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
Now.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I know they've got neighbors on both sides. And I know,
I said, the neighbor is really pissed off. I don't
know about the one where that's her.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
She's the woman that lives in the shadows.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, there she is.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
She walks out onto her driveway and look at that monstrosity.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
And by the way, the summer. I don't know her name.
She is pissed.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I don't blame her, but you said some neighbors okay, pause,
sun is out.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Look at her house. You'll never grow grass again. Absolutely not.
Look at that. But you said it was split. Some
neighbors are like, hey, you know what this is. This
is why you move into an h o A. Oh
my god. Some people think it's going to lower the

(06:33):
real estate value the comps. Yeah. Others are like, no,
this will actually drive it up. I mean, this thing
is going to be expensive. Look at her.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
There's the and some people. Some people are mad at her.
That's the neighbor. Some are like, get over it, Karen.
By the way, if you're wondering why it's so dark
there they did it the interview in her driveway. Yes, yeah,
that that chicks school with it.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
But where does she look because she lives like two
blocks away.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Actually she does. She lives a couple of blocks. Time
they throw that drone back up there, I can't.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
It is amazing at the size. They were like, hey,
this would be a great place for a Hampton end.
We're just gonna put it in these people's yard.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh wait, mine too, Hi Elliot, All right there, Bert, Yes,
hi Ellie in the morning.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Hello, Hey, who's that?

Speaker 6 (07:22):
This is Paul, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
How are you Paul? Do you live in that neighborhood?

Speaker 6 (07:26):
I sure do, maybe seven houses up on that same street.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Can you see the addition that they're putting on.

Speaker 6 (07:36):
Not from my house, but every day you drive by it?

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yes, sir, when you drive by it every day, or
do you have the same reaction that we do every
time the drone flies by it, like.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oh my god, big?

Speaker 6 (07:48):
Pretty much?

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:49):
So it started out by obviously ripping down the garage
and one edition not too bad, right right, And then
you would see then you would see a second story, okay,
all right, a little much, and then one day that
third story just popped up and that's when they and
it looks.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Like it looks like every other house is either a
one story. There are some who have built up and
put a second story on the house, and nobody got
a three story like that. Also, look how far it
juts out towards the street.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
It does. So imagine that the parking you're gonna have
threes gner eights is there, like they say, right, But
where they're gonna park.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Didn't think of that.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
And by the way, if the house is I'm making
this up from front door to back door is twenty feet,
it may be more than that. This for the addition
front door to back door is sixty five feet like
it is so long.

Speaker 6 (08:42):
Easily. Yeah, like you're saying about the the sunshine, you're
right that that one neighbors is never gonna go grasp again,
the one that was pretty pissed off. I actually spoke
to the guy who lives on the other side and.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
He seemed to be okay with it.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
Which I don't know how, but uh, yeah, that lady's
got to be really picked.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
You know why he's okay with it because he can
look out his door and go, thank god I don't
live there, and we.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
See gets some sun the shadow it's almost like it's growing.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
So there's a lot of houses in here that have
done addition, but nothing to this U.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yet, nothing has an addition like this, honestly, unless they
send build a hotel next to your house.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
But did you see the shadow goes into the street.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
It's gonna affect driving the No, it's not, because I
look at that that's shadow in the street right there.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
But it's not going to affect driving because I have
three generations of cars to park.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Be able to get around those aren't moving. God, that
is it is.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
And again I understand not everybody lives in that neighborhood
or can see the video.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
It's on Facebook, and oh my god, it is. It is.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
No matter how much you go, this is really a
touch overpowering until you see it or you like, oh
my god, this is overpowering.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
You know, obviously you could ride by. It just looks
even worse.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, it's almost like they said, let's build a small
a frame onto this hotel, like you would never It's crazy,
all right, dude, thank you, my friend. Also, if you're
the if you're the complaining woman who lives next to it.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well she's not alone. It sounds like.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
No, no, but I'm saying that if you're her, Like,
if you look at it, like listen, my neighbor's house
is right up against mine, but like when you look
out you could see windows, like it looks like a house.
There's barely any windows on that side, so all you're
looking at is just blank wall.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
I didn't even notice that. I got to get the
drone on the other side.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Oh you'll see there are some windows, but not a lot.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
God, look at you that one. They're not even in
the neighborhood. And you can see it from so far away.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
The Luxe or the lux or spotlight, the Grand Canyon
and this edition or the three things that you.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Could see from space in the space station. Yeah, see
there it is. Yeah, it is limited.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, very few windows, very few windows, a lot of sighting.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Oh yeah, line, how long have they been building this?

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Because he made it seem like they had no idea
it was going to be a monstrosity.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Well, we've also run into a little bit of a problem.
I can tell you that. Hi, Elliot in the morning.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
Hey can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah? Hi, who's that?

Speaker 6 (11:24):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (11:25):
This is Stan.

Speaker 7 (11:25):
How's it going good?

Speaker 3 (11:26):
What's going on? Stan?

Speaker 7 (11:28):
I've driven by that house and let me tell you
it is.

Speaker 8 (11:31):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (11:31):
Do's not The pictures and everything does not do a justice.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Catches your breath a little bit, done't it?

Speaker 7 (11:37):
I just there's so many questions. I mean, if I
lived in that house, it's gonna be you know that
house that you know, the breaking bad house. Uh, and
that woman who moved in and everybody started, you.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Know, throw pizzas on the roof, right.

Speaker 7 (11:50):
Yeah, yeah, and then she was the one who got upset.
I feel like this is the same situation. It's gonna
be like a spectacle. Everyone's gonna just drive by it,
stand by it all the time. Du people, I really
don't understand the point.

Speaker 8 (12:03):
You know.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's like we're moving three generations of our family in
and we just built the addition.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Here's my question.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
I've seen the neighbor, the complaining neighbor, and then that
guy said he talked to the other neighbor. Does anybody
know the people who actually own the house, the a
frame house, the addition, haven't heard any info on it.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Are the people who own the house living in it
right now?

Speaker 5 (12:26):
Well?

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, I mean I still have the.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
I didn't know if they because of like connecting the
two there is some sort of.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Oh, you're going to have to go through a wall.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, but you could live in a house while something
like this small project.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Have you ever replaced a toilet? It's just like it. Yeah,
you can live in the house. Line too. What's their
next door page? Hi? Elliott the morning?

Speaker 5 (12:49):
Hey is this me?

Speaker 9 (12:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (12:50):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Who's this?

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (12:52):
This has been from Gainesville. I had something really similar
happened to me about five years ago. We ended up
selling our house. We had three generations moving in. They
started dumping shipping containers in their backyard to store their stuff.
They started building the house, ran out of money, started
living in tents inside and using space heaters during the wintertime.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's not a hazard, is it.

Speaker 9 (13:15):
It was insane. And then to top it off, they
put a giant pig in the front yard that was
made a ceramic and spray painted. I was like, I'm out,
this is crazy. Hey, you can look it up. Go
look it up. It's a house in Annandale on Old
Columbia Pike. You can't miss the pig ann and.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Dale, Old Columbia Pike on it on it. Thank you, sir,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Wouldn't you hate wouldn't you hate having to move though.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Of course because of an iore in your neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah yeah, well you say, iyesore, you haven't seen it
completed yet. Okay, that's true, And we don't know when
it's going to be completed.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
I don't even see when it started. And I'm still
trying to get on the Greenbriars Facebook group.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Here's the problem. So with the addition going on.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
The people who are up in arm have brought out
their own surveyors and.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
The stop construction.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well, they want anything to get rid of. It.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Turns out, depending on which surveyor you listen to, it
appears as though the addition is within eight feet of
the neighbors property line. Bingo, Yes, so we've had to
pause while we figure this out. So now all you
get is the wooden frame, and it's gonna sit there

(14:35):
until we get it figured out.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Interesting, Well, at.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Least we'll throw some lights up on it for the holidays,
so or a movie.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
What do you do with it? Well, it sounds like
we're in court now, right, Yeah, Well, I.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Don't know if it's gone to court yet, but it's
if it's just sitting.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
There, If it's too close to their property line, that's
that's a county thing.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
But if it's like a couple of inches, let's get
over it said eight ft. No, No, it's within the
eight It encroaches the eighth foot mark.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
It encroaches the eight foot mark.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
If you're the lady who's going to live the rest
of her life in the shade, are you gonna are
you gonna be like, oh, I should get over it.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Or are you telling him you got to rip that
down right now? Yes, yes, anything to get it torn down.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Or are these people gonna go, okay, you want to
play this game over two inches?

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Watch this and it's just going to create a pissing
match between the two.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Because you know what else I put up there? Motion
activated spotlights?

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Where's this damn.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Anytime that woman rolls over in bed.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Plot out, it's like Christmas vacation.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
And a lot of and I you know, I put
in Sono systems, I've got outdoor speakers, loud Knot's coming
off that side.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Where am I going? Line four? Hi Elliet in the morning.

Speaker 8 (15:56):
Hi, Hi Carrie, Hi Carrie, How are you good? I
live in the same neighborhood around the corner from the monstrosity.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Can you see it?

Speaker 8 (16:08):
Probably no, you can't see it, but I walk my
dogs by it all the time. The one thing I
don't know that you mentioned about the neighbor who's living
in the shadow. Yes, they paid to have solar panels
put on.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Why are you laughing at that? You know, many thousands
of dollars in their house.

Speaker 8 (16:28):
Out of an addition, they did so many upgrades and
the solar panels and now those are in the shade. Yes, Jesus,
that's the crappiest part that you know. I get why
she's complaining, and I haven't really heard anybody that's too
happy about it in the neighborhood. The Okay, it's a
scary thing.

Speaker 9 (16:46):
A couple I live in the.

Speaker 8 (16:47):
Same house, right that that little the little piece that
the owners living in.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Right, Yeah, No, the small little a frame part you.

Speaker 8 (16:56):
Eat next to the next to the apartment building.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
By the way, How did nobody How does no article
mentioned they just spend all that money on solar panel
And I don't.

Speaker 8 (17:06):
Know why nobody's saying that.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, because because you can't see them because they're in
the shade.

Speaker 8 (17:11):
They're in the shade.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Hey, does anybody know the people that actually live in
that house?

Speaker 8 (17:20):
I've seen her, but no, I don't.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
I don't know her.

Speaker 8 (17:24):
And so what happens she all the people who walk
by and says, we have permits, we have permits.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Keep walking.

Speaker 8 (17:34):
Hey, what is there?

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Is there any word I would do anything to shoot
the videot's outside that house?

Speaker 3 (17:41):
What are the what? What? What do they do?

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Though?

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Now that there's this encroachment issue about pausing construction.

Speaker 8 (17:50):
I have no clue. I know it's it's stopped. And
to answer your question, Tyler, the the this has been
going on for months and months. In months, they spent
a long time breaking down that one side of the
house and building what looked to be a foundation for
this new apartment building.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
It's an addition.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 8 (18:13):
Just walk by it. The quality of the workmanship of
the plyword board boards is also a good.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Thing to look at.

Speaker 8 (18:21):
It's a mess.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Okay. By the way, Tyler pulled up a picture. You
are not joking. There are a ton of solar panels
on the top of your.

Speaker 8 (18:29):
House on her house, Wow, Wow, newly installed?

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Oh my god? What's the warranty on those? Wow? Hey?
Was there any pre existing beef between the two neighbors.
I guess you may not know them.

Speaker 8 (18:50):
Well, I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Hey, what is it?

Speaker 8 (18:53):
I know the woman who's having the addition put on
has lived there for a long time.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Is next door going crazy every.

Speaker 8 (19:01):
Time I walk by with my dogs. No one's outside.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
No.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
No, I meant online like you're like the.

Speaker 8 (19:07):
In the neighborhood talk in the neighborhood everybody sending everybody
else to drive by it, walk by it, do whatever, yees. Yeah,
but all the time everywhere.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
All right, very good, very good, Thank you, ma'am, thank you.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yes, Rev said he drove by it Saturday. Hoas are
a bitch, but they help preventing this very thing from happening.
Hopefully the encroachment permanently halts construction.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, but does that mean you have to take it down?

Speaker 9 (19:34):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Well who's going to pay for that? Look at the
size of that. Wow, unbelievable. I still can't get over it.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
And we've now had these videos up for fifteen minutes.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
So what does Pad Harrity do? He is the Springfield
District supervisor. What does he do.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
If I'm the lady with the solar panels? I'm sending
him lasagna or something.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
No, you're not, can't use that. My stove runs on electric.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
It's too damned cold in house.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, I haven't had power in six months all this,
poor woman?

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Where am I going? Line one? Hi?

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Elliot in the morning, Ellie, what's happening?

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Hey? Real quick? What can I do for you? Sir? Okay?

Speaker 5 (20:21):
All right, So look, I'm in the design build industry
and we do additions all the time. So to answer
your question, this then goes back to the county. So
if they're over their setback, typically your side yard setbacks
are eight feet. You cannot encroach any further than eight
feet into your neighbor's yard. If you are an inch
over or two inches over, they will stop construction and

(20:44):
typically they will make you take it down.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
So that so the woman who's yelling at everybody, she's
got to get out there with a sledgehammer and.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Take it down.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
That's on the contractors to do it right.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
She can't do that.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
That's on the contractor because they built. So they did
that foundation, and that foundation is too far into the setback.
They're going to have to dig take that down, dig
up the foundation, move it back within the setbacks, and
rebuild it. Or the homeowner who's building this addition can
go to the county and they can ask for what's
called a variance. Variants take three or four months to

(21:18):
have to go through, and then you have to go
to all your neighbors and you have to have them
sign something saying that they're okay with what you're.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
About to build. Well, I know one neighbors against that.
I know one neighbor cut it down, one neighbor is
going to be a posed to that. The one with
no power in.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Her house, I'm a writing down.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Hell no,
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