my name is sherrie steiner. i live a block away from the proposed development. i'm here to urge the appeals people to uphold the appeal that has already been decided by yourself and to reiterate the many voiced support for the smaller building with the same amount of units. i don't understand why the developer is saying, well, if we have one less floor it's going to be more expensive. why is it going to be more expensive for him to build four floors instead of 5? it doesn't make any sense and the concept of well, we're losing affordability units doesn't make sense. i do believe you made affordable housing in the city and i wish you would uphold it. thank you. >> my name is alice mallorca. i have seen lots of changes. i want to say that i'm very open to change and i encourage change and i'm happy to see valencia going through these changes. i want to show you going first here is the original building with the five floors. this is the marsh. here is the new building with one floor down. when i was here in december, what i showed you is what we were hoping that we