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My name is Barbara DeRosier. Because itis difficult for me to speak,, I am submittm-a this letter* I bought the 1836 Carl Street property in 1992. That is the only property I own. Unfortunately for me, *in Fall of 1993, 1 suffered a very severe accident that resulted in Traumatic Brain Injury and Aphasia [speech difficulty]. I remained in coma for many, many weeks and endured very serious brain surgeries. When I eventually regained consciousness, I was unable to walk or talk. I've been working hard to re -learn walking and talking, to name a few things. I am on Social Security Disability and have no other income. 41 I'm very sorry that I didn't know that a building permit was required forjust fixing an old garage that had been on the property ever since I bought the house. One of my neighbors, Mr. Dave Walters, a very compassionate person, brought together a group of carin�x.4 neighbor volunteers who decided together they would try to ft the old garage for me as a very kind and much appreciated gesture. Apparently they all thought the garage looked pretty awful and needed some fixing. As you probably know, Mr. Walters died a few weeks ago. I didn't even think that a permit would be needed in a case where: There was no paid labor involved whatsoever. Some of the materials used to fix the garage were used and donated, The replacement large garage door was donated, free of charge. Al LA The square footage of the garage remained exactly as it was before the fixup; The placement on the lot remained exactly as it was before the fixup since the old garage remained on the same base where it was originally located. It was never moved •or change] The size of the walls remains the same, as those are the original walls, The size of the roof remains the same, as that is the original roof except for a small section that had been damaged during a storm.