Jennifer Aniston Joins Protest Against Building Of 'Giga-Mansions' In Bel Air Neighborhood

By Maria Slither - 15 Jul '15 08:49AM
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Jennifer Aniston and other celebrities started a protest to new settlers in Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles who are building the so-called giga-mansions as they are allegedly destroying the 'peace and quite of the subdivision.

"The very idea that a building of 90,000 square feet can be called a home seems at the least a significant distortion of building code," the Cake actress, who owns a 8,500 square foot Bel Air home, wrote to a local building agency via Fox News.

Aniston joined forces with other celebrities like Fred Rosen, who built Ticketmaster, formed a group named Bel-Air Homeowners Alliance to stop the creation of luxury homes covering up to a whopping 90,000 square feet, Mail Online said.

"The excavation and hauling of dirt has been the single largest risk to the health and safety of residents in Bel Air and is endured on a day to day basis on our city streets. The result of the digging and hauling is that we have literally thousands of unsafe truck trips up and down our narrow streets and roads placing residents in danger," the petition said as reported by Canyon News.

Abdul Aziz' 90,000 square foot property and real-estate developer Mohamed Hadid's 30,000-square-foot estate among others as those who are included in the petition.

Hadid's estate is said to have included features that are not included in the building permit and contract.

Hadid's circular-shaped estate contained glass, steel and cement mansion in Beverly Hills that stands at 103 feet tall, such dimensions re said to have violated the subdivision's 36-foot height limit.

Entertainment attorney Joe Horacek, whose property stands a few yards away from Hadid's mansion is reported not to have felt at ease anymore.

"I feel the privacy is completely and totally gone,'" Horacek said in a TV show interview.

Lee Williams, of Charles Rutenberg Realty, a Long Island real estate agency, sympathized Bell-Aire residents who feel upset about the building of these gigantic structures.

Of course, those who've been in the neighborhood for five, ten or more years may simply see this a threat to the way of life they have become accustomed to from the earlier days," he said.

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