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Mark Grapin, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer (top), makes a personal appeal before the board of zoning appeals to be allowed to keep the treehouse he built for his sons. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Army Nation Guard Chief Warrant Officer Mark Grapin argues his case before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning Appeals for permission to keep a treehouse in his family's yard. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Mark Grapin, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer, right, hugs his son Eric, 11, as his mother-in-law Lena Christian, from left, and wife, Brinda, after a hearing before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals in support of an ordinance that would allow him to keep a treehouse in his front yard, in Fairfax, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Mark Grapin, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer, testifies before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals in support of an ordinance that would allow him to keep a treehouse in his front yard, in Fairfax, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Mark Grapin, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer, testifies before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals in support of an ordinance that would allow him to keep a treehouse in his front yard, in Fairfax, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Mark Grapin, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer, at left, sits with his family while waiting for his case to be called before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals in support of an ordinance that would allow him to keep a treehouse in his front yard, in Fairfax, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Mark Grapin, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer, at right, talks with attorneys Mark Shaffer, from left, and Grayson Hanes, who volunteered their time to help Grapin with testimony before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals in support of an ordinance that would allow him to keep a treehouse in his front yard, in Fairfax, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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Mark Grapin, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer, left, tucks in his son, Eric's, shirt before an interview with the press after winning an appeal to the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals for an ordinance that allows him to keep a treehouse in his front yard, in Fairfax, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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A treehouse sits in the front yard of the Grapin family home in Falls Church, Va., on Nov. 30, 2011. Mark Grapin, walking in background, an Army National Guard chief warrant officer, testified before the Fairfax County Board of Zoning and Appeals Wednesday in support of an ordinance that would allow him to keep a treehouse in his front yard. An initial hearing in September rebuffed Grapin's attempt to keep his treehouse in place for his two sons, but an appeal was allowed and Wednesday's hearing granted an ordinance that gives the family five years until the treehouse must be removed. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
