Looking at the house, I'd say that even if it weren't in disrepair, I'd have an argument against the Heritage Blahblah people in terms of its significance. It give s me a cold feeling too.

Yeah, he should have sold it a long time ago, but if he loves the land but hates the house, and there was no provision in his original contract about preservation, then tough noogies.

If this is all you have on him at the moment, I'll sleep tonight.

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What do we know about this project? Not much from the above, but we know that (i) it's not someone putting up a McMansion on a postage stamp they just bought, and (ii) it's pretty unlikely the house has any historical value because, let's face it, it's Woodside. Not to mention that this is the same area that Larry Ellison has dotted with mock shogun castles. So it's none of the commission's damn business, and it's certainly none of our damn business. Let the man build the house he wants on the land he owns, already.

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Go walk around the nouveau riche areas of suburban NYC - Westchester and Fairfield Counties, commutable NJ - and see what "hey, just let 'em build what they want" gets you: mile after mile of stone-in-front, clapboard-on-the-sides 7,000+ square foot mansions with enormous cellars that cause flooding for the neighbors' property, stick out like sore thumbs, and are unsellable to anyone.

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Besides being old did something historical happen there? I for one am not a fan on anyone telling me what to do (within reason) with my property.

Personally if this was my house I wouldn't be surprised if the old wiring caught fire to the house and it had to be demolished!

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