my name is william reese, and i'm a friend of marlene kramer's. i am not a resident of california. i live in chicago, but i am a registered architect, so marlene is a relative, and we're also really good friends, have been for a long time. she -- you know, i don't want to say consulted. she was asking me for some insight over this whole course of this project as to, you know, sounding board and everything else. i don't -- i didn't have any access to the plans until the other day, when we went down to the building department and reviewed the plans. and they are consistently lack of clear scope of what is actually taking place, and that has taken -- that's over the course of the whole project. so when -- when this appeal for the interior room configuration perplans, that is tweaking of little things of the big stuff they already did, okay? so it's little tiny little modifications. i want to speak to the structural concerns here, also. they did remove the retaining wall at the back of the house. there is no -- they also -- when they fixed the crack, they removed the entire slab of the

i'm marlene kramer, and it's with great pleasure that i finally have a chance to speak my piece regarding the property at 2242 35th avenue. >> yeah, if you could move the microphone, please. >> i am a retiree, and while my other neighbors work, i have been home, breathing toxic dust, feeling my house shaking during a months long excavation well beyond the scope of permits, listening to deafening jackhammering and witnessing total gutting of the adjacent property at 2242 35th avenue since last august. with an incredible amount of frustration, i'm appealing to you, the commissioners, to deny the structural addition on the second floor rear deck. it will look directly into my back yard and black more sun and privacy, and you can see the -- the photo on the screen over here. significantly, according to newly revised drawings as of march 1st of this year, the deck will be supported -- this is a really important issue to me, the deck will be supported by a new retaining walls, built by owners and contractor sunny tang, license number 976437 with misleading wording, and without proper permits un