Please help us slay the monster to Protect Glen Park's Grace! Glen Park is a very vibrant, close-knit community, full of families with young children, a younger generation with younger children as well as original owners. This petition's goals is to keep this neighborhood "neighborly". Pleaser join us in keeping the grace of Glen Park and avoid the precedent the "monster houses" are welcomed in our community.

What is a “monster house?”
A monster house is a structure that, due to excessive mass, placement, or aberrant architecture, threatens the heritage, character, and well-being of surrounding homes, their residents, and the neighborhood.

Ten key points about monster houses:

• They don’t add to the housing stock.
• They don’t provide affordable housing.
• They don’t fall under the heading of traditional home renovations.
• They aren’t being undertaken to meet the needs of growing families.
• They don’t fit the character of surrounding structures and the neighborhood as a whole.
• They jeopardize the area’s air, light, open space, and vegetation, and place excessive demands on neighborhood infrastructure, including fire protection.
• They stand to devalue adjacent properties.
• They don’t contribute to a vibrant neighborhood, as they typically are undertaken in a philosophy of “demolish, develop, and depart.”
• They don’t improve a property but merely wring every possible dollar out of a lot at the expense of nearby residents and the community.
• Virtually all are being pushed by persons who don’t have any commitment to the area and who have shown no interest in working with neighbors!