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Note: The first four photos show before and after photos of the hill with and without Haji House.

Note that the after pictures do not reflect the additional visual blight of a 350 foot roadway with tall retain walls above and below.

NOTE:  These photos were shot from about 5 degrees north of due east from the orange 10' x 10' marker on the hill.    The Haji house is 50% further away from my camera than McLean's house.  The display above is a composite panorama from 5 photos.  The display below shows an upward perspective demonstrating Haji's potential visual blockage of the ridge-line.

 

 

 

Note: The drawing below shows Haji House and the McLean home in the same scale.  Note that the McLean home is one of the larger homes on the hill at roughly 3,000 sf with a length of about 90 feet.  However the McLean home was designed with a bend to minimize the bulk of any single view.  The McLean view shown here was taken from the cul-de-sac at the end of Tiburon Court, the largest face shown to the homes below.

Note: The office buildings in the drawings above and below are the same, and Haji House and the building are to scale in the drawing below.  This demonstrates the aesthetic inefficiency of the Haji design.  The view presented to the east (Secluded Valley) is similar to that of a relatively tall two story office building, such a building with typical width-to-depth proportions would contain from 30,000 to 50,000 sf of floor space.  A typical 3-story office building would only be only slightly taller than Haji's purported 34' "peak," but contain from 45,000 to 75,000 sf of floor space..

 

The aerial above and panorama below show the open-spaces and neighborhoods whose views and privacy will be impacted, by the Haji Development.