They don't account for two-story rooms with their cathedral ceilings, which add bulk to a structure and have a negative visual impact from the road. It's not calculated in your floor-area ratio because there's no floor there.

Everybody has cathedral ceilings now. That's why they want these big trees.

What I've seen is that it's not necessarily that the homes are too big, but they're much larger than the homes adjacent to them. The older homes are a lot smaller. When [the new homes] are adjacent to a small ranch or a small Cape Cod, you're really impacting your neighbors.

We can open up the ceilings and make the reverse gables come into the house, and add an arched-top transom window so [homeowners] can actually experience the gable.

No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.

We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss O'Shea, we believed your 200 dollars.