Leo DenOuden entered the Planning Commission hearing room on Monday with trepidation. County code inspectors had told him he had no real choice but to tear down the two buildings on his Forest Knolls property in which he spends many of his waking hours, painting, tinkering and growing wheatgrass. He wasn’t counting on the commissioners to throw him a lifeline, but they did—for now.
Instead of ordering him to tear down his greenhouse and art…