Pete Docter, the writer-director of Pixar production Monsters, Inc., wants to build a home in the sky nestled in the branches of a giant, fake oak on a $950,000 piece of land in Lafayette, nestled in the hills behind Berkeley.

The plans call for a master bedroom, two children's bedrooms and a living room, all connected to a two-story house on an adjoining hill, with an elevator leading up from an underground garage. County inspectors and city staff are supporting the project so far. "If the city will allow him to do it, I have every belief that he will follow through," city planner Greg Wolff told the Contra Costa Times. My advice to Docter? Don't invite the infamous tree-sitters of Berkeley over. They'd never leave.