D.1.a - 815 Rutherford Place and 1204 Alta Vista Avenue - applicant's letter — original pdf
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Gaudette, Angela From: Sent: To: Subject: Gaudette, Angela Monday, October 19, 2020 2:22 PM Gaudette, Angela FW: Letter to commissioners for 815 Rutherford Place From: Younghee Kim Sent: Monday, October 19, 2020 2:18 PM To: Gaudette, Angela <Angela.Gaudette@austintexas.gov> Cc: Sadowsky, Steve <Steve.Sadowsky@austintexas.gov>; Hoon Kim Subject: Letter to commissioners for 815 Rutherford Place To commissioners, I am writing this letter to request the release of a demo permit on 815 Rutherford Place. We have spoken with a few neighbors since the last meeting. What the neighbors seem to ignore is the fact that we are a local small business owners, mother and a son, and this is our livelihood. We are not big national builders, nor have a large pool of investor’s money backing us. We live in this neighborhood, work here, give what we can here. We too are mindful of our community. We took out bank loans to purchase the property, construction loan to build a new house. We feel we have the same right and freedom to build the house we want abiding the city codes. If the neighbors feel strongly about keeping the houses as they are as rentals they had the same opportunity to purchase the property when it was on the market as we had. We are not in a financial position to be a landlord at this time. This is our only project underway carrying us to next year. We have already spent in excess of $50,000 on architects, engineering, and city permit agency. We even asked architects to come up with the design that would blend well with the characteristics of the neighborhood which they did. This delay puts us in a financial hardship. Please consider our situation. Thank you for your time. Younghee Kim Sent from my iPad 1