president olague: speakers in support of dr requestor? >> mr. david thompson is going to speak, and he is somewhat hard of hearing, so he has asked that i stand next to him in case you have questions. president olague: that is fine. no worries. >> good afternoon, commissioners. if you have any questions, i think miss houton can interpret for me. a month to discuss one thing -- parking. that is not a new subject for you, i am sure. however, i think presidents are sometimes very dangerous. i have been the property owner at 276569 filbert st. for almost 40 years. i think i've probably owned that property longer than any of us on the street. last year, and in 2007 and 2008, there was a big dustup when somebody came in and bought a house that had deteriorated up the street from where we were. and they whipped it down and added two flores and four bedrooms. and they did not add any parking. that was a very sore point for me. it was a very contentious issue with the number of houses on the street. i am sensitive to the subject. when we had a presentati

second dr requestor, you have two minutes. >> i said most of what i had to say. just what we are asking is a modest pullback from the proposed plan, maybe a couple of feet would make a big difference, certainly coming to the edge of our house or even the average of the two houses. president olague: thank you. project sponsor, you have two minutes. >> thank you, commissioners. on behalf of john dibenedetti and his family, we have filed a request for accommodation in the americans with disabilities act so he can get the vehicle into his garage. it is steeply sloped. it will require a trench brain. it continues to the midpoint of the grosz. it is completely impossible to pull a car in. the doors themselves fold in order to open. the extension to the rear maintains the same percentage of lot coverage enjoyed by the robertsons' in the house to the north. we have a tapering block. this is a good response to a tapering block. we have a building that is stepping down to the rear and putting the mass the toward the rear. we are not changing the facade significantly. they

it would match an existing light well on the dr requestor's wall. the proposed fourth story would be set back approximately 4 feet for the entire length of the eastern property. ? our proposed on the flat roof surfaces at the front and rear of the fourth floor edition -- addition. in an open staircase along the west property is proposed to connect to the roof of the fourth floor addition, although no deck is proposed on top. the building immediately adjacent to the east is three stories tall. the building immediately to the west is three stories tall, with a partial fourth story, similar to what is being proposed on the subject property. due to the lateral downward slope of filbert st. from east to west, the dr requestor's third floor roof surface is slightly lower than the subject property's. the dr requestor is concerned that the addition will have an impact on light and privacy to a fourth floor addition which was constructed approximately 10 years ago. btr was filed in response to the program which was sent with a 311 notification that was since

anyone in favor of the dr requestor. >> my name is chuck geithner. i live on the house for this to the south on the same side of the street, up the hill. it is as far as you can get from the project and still be nearby. yet i oppose the design. everybody has spoken in terms of footprint and so on. i ask you to look at the aerial photographs. the poetry of the neighborhood that everybody wants to live in -- why are some neighborhoods desirable? why do people scramble to get into some neighborhoods and to say, "not really" about others? the reason people want to live here is because it is so livable. it is not filled with mcmansions. it is filled with homes that are home-sized. they are livable space is. the reason i ask you to look at the hearing is to see how close together the houses are on edgewood. we are not always good neighbors, but we are always close neighbors. it is that closeness which is now going to be made almost razor-thin between the properties in question here at 178, 184, and i do not know the one on the other side. i have experience

there are also letters from dr requestors who could not attend the meeting. edgewood is a short secluded street with cul-de-sacs on the other and which contain single- family residence is mostly constructed in the early 20th- century. the proposed project involves -- approximately one and a half feet. this can be put up on the screen for use in review. at the second and third floor, the building will be extended approximately 16 anthis was alse single car garage to make it more functional for the honors but it would not increase the size. the modifications that the project sponsor has proposed and the department supports and false increase in the height of the one-story addition by two and a half feet so that this is consistent with the level of the interior to compensate for the increased type, this will be further set back from the north property line for a total setback to 5 feet. this option was suggested by the residential design team along the initial review in october and did better addresses the excess ability needs of the property owners by keeping t

from east to west, the dr requestor's third floor roof surface is slightly lower than the subject property's. the dr requestoris

dr requestor respective -- dr requestors, you have two minutes each. >> commissioners, i am almost beside myself. the sponsors response to our complaints -- it is terribly upsetting. if mr. arcolini works for muni, he clearly does not take a bus. we will stand by our commitment. there is not a bus stop within three blocks of that property. there is not. if you do, you have to climb a mountain to get there. secondly, this irrelevant stuff that gets in there -- i don't know. the owner of the property owns three other properties, one of which is a six-unit apartment building not a half mile from where we are talking about. if he has a problem with renting income in retirement, there is something wrong with the other three buildings he owns. thank you. president olague: would you like the additional two minutes? project sponsor, you have two minutes. >> i wanted to talk a little bit about the sidewalk. i and the architect met with dpw and with the building department, and what they like about what we are doing is the following. there is a wall that has been cut in two. that now creates a dang