When Janice Hobbs set out to create her dream home 10 years ago in Laguna Beach, California, she never imagined the opposition and costly delays she would face from neighbors and city regulations. But a decade later, there’s still no completed home. Instead, negotiations, redesigns, lawsuits, and appeals have cost Hobbs hundreds of thousands of dollars—and her unfinished house sits unoccupied on a prime, front-row lot overlooking the ocean. “This was my dream home. This was saving up my whole life to be able to build this house. It’s a wonderful location and the view is fantastic, and there should be a beautiful home there,” Hobbs told The Epoch Times. Hobbs, 65, has spent years arguing with neighbors and the city’s Design Review Board (DRB), a panel of residents that oversees the construction of new and existing developments, over the height of her proposed roof. Neighbors say the project would …