My covert husband

So I talked Jesse into taking a photo of the house on his way to work to show the weird fencing going on in the owner's driveway.  I had originally estimated the alcove to be 1x12 foot.  But now that I see it in daylight, I think it is 1 foot by much more than that...maybe over 20 feet possibly.  It's a real head-scratcher.  Why does the new owner find this to be remotely a good thing to do?  I am not the only one.  I see various people across the street just standing in their yards looking     as perplexed, staring at the house that is slowly becoming encased in a wooden capsule.  People walking down the street and cannot help themselves from looking at it with a furrowed brow.  I know what they are thinking because I am thinking it too.  They are saying to themselves, "What are these people doing??"