my name is peter dwyer and i've lived four doors down from this property since 1977. and i'm here to tell you those that haven't visited, this is a magical spot. it's really a quasi-public piece of property. it should be protected. there should be a balance of what this development is going to wind up being and the developer's profits which they have every right to make. i walked down those steps on a daily basis and i see hundreds of thousands of tourists a year in a rather romantic spot taking pictures of the city. the way this massive project is, it not only takes the view away, it takes the light away. it will darken those steps. not to be negative, but rather a constructive as possible. what i would suggest, given all the risks -- maybe they're not true, maybe they are true of this large excavation -- if they put back toward the rear of the property four homes that can be very valuable to them to sell, then have reminiscences of hoyt tower and not what's designed now which i think doesn't work in that location from an esthetic point of view, move it back, let the