New Apartments

We've been anxiously watching the apartments get built behind our house. When we bought our home a few years ago, there was an Almond orchard behinds us. We were told that apartments would most likely be built there, but it was to be "...in the future". Future is a relative term. We were hoping for five to ten years; we got less than three.

September 15, 2003 - Before the house was built. The trees were at our backyard fence.

October 13, 2005 - Amanda watches as they take out the trees.

At the planning meetings we were told that the units directly behind the wall were to be single story. Technically, they are. But, they've got ten-foot ceilings and snow-pitch roofs. Add that to the fact that the building pads are about 18" higher than our house and these single story multi-family units become much taller than our house. And since they're being built about 10 feet away from the wall, the windows face right down into our backyard, living room and dining room.

April 19, 2007 - This is the view out of our back door now. You can see the two-story units behind the singles.

It's called progress, but we miss the almonds.