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Design review board directs staff to return resolution limiting roof height and plantings for 700 Hawthorne remodel
Summary
The Tiburon Town Design Review Board on April 2 directed staff to return a resolution for a remodel at 700 Hawthorne Drive that would modestly lower the proposed roof, restrict outside‑fence plantings to four feet maximum maturity, and require the chimney/flue meet minimum code height after neighbors argued the project would intrude on established view corridors.
The Tiburon Town Design Review Board on April 2 agreed to send a proposal for the remodel of 700 Hawthorne Drive back to staff with conditions aimed at protecting established view corridors while allowing the homeowner to proceed with interior improvements.
Neighbors pressed the board to require alternatives that avoid raising rooflines above the existing neighborhood datum. "My concern is not really with the building itself, but with the proposed way that the building is being put forth and with the impact on a very long established primary view corridor from our home," said Neta Shafagi of 705 Hawthorne, who urged the board to "build down instead of build up." Several other nearby homeowners reiterated that a roughly 2½–3‑foot…
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