we took that -- it was turned down by the appellant and we took it to the planning department and flatley rejected by the preservation staff and said that there's no way they'll approve anything with less than a 15-foot setback from valencia street. so it's basically meet their demands or meet the neighbors and lose the square footage. >> clerk: thank you. sorry, you'll have time on rebuttal. thank you. >> thank you, good evening, president fung and commissioners. the project at 645 valencia is within the commercial transit zoning district and i think that the project sponsor gave a very thorough history, the background of the history of the project. first came into the department for review in 2013, that environmental review and p.p.a. are preliminary project assessment were submitted at that time. it was to be a demolition and new construction with nine new units. as the department was reviewing it and as the noted evolution of the historic importance of the building, the project was changed from a demolition, new construction to an alteration to maintain the existing building which is

you say support for terrorism is fundamental to the iraan regime, it puts us on a course that is flatley contradictory to basic american national interest. iran has been the central banker for international terrorism for a longme. that's not behavior that we should tolerate. and when you consider theer dang of a terrorist regime in possession of apnuclear ons i think you can understand why our concern with the badly flawed iran nuclear deal lead the president 20 withdraw the united states and to take the steps we have taken which we think have already had a significant detrimental impact iran. >> with all due respect, sir, a lot of people listened to what you said and what you have written over the years 679 your support for the group mek, a group that advocates for regime change and also the administration's policies right now in general, advocating forr protests thatcalling for political change as well as putting economic pressure on the regime, is that not a policy to actually change theegime itself? >> no, it's not. and i'm always happy to have reporters and anchors refer to my previ