Twitter Co-founder's Plans To Rebuild Home Ticks Off Neighbors

Twitter co-founder, Evan Williams, is not making a lot of friends in his neighborhood lately. With plans to tear down and rebuild his $3 million dollar home, he seems to making quite a few enemies – 240 of them and counting.

According the the San Francisco Examiner, Evan and his family live in what is described (by neighbors) as a “unique property [that] adds diversity of architectural interest to the neighborhood.”

And the couple’s plans to tear down the Parnassus Heights house (in San Francsico) to create “a new ‘zero net energy’ home with solar panels, a green roof and sun-friendly windows” is being met with hostility, including more than 240 opposition letters – even though the couple also plans to address common conflicts over obstructing views in the redesign, by lowering the height of the home by 18 feet to preserve a line of sight to the San Francisco skyline.

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