1519 Joseph Street garage

Laid out the servitude history, the collapsed garage, and why the rebuild must be on the old footprint; cited three neighbor support letters.

Said construction started before the permit, was stopped by a work order, and worried the garage will secretly become an efficiency — asking for a proviso barring that use.

Added (donating his time to his wife) that the pavilion, pool, and potential efficiency could have been sited elsewhere on the lot if the layout weren't driven by the original efficiency plan.

Said the servitude has lapsed from non-use, he watched concrete poured two days before the hearing, and the applicants never used the gate clicker he gave them.

An attorney and the opponent's son, he argued losing a non-conforming garage doesn't create a demonstrable hardship and that weed-clearing isn't servitude use.