ryan patterson on behalf of the appellant, michael kirwan. we are here disapproval of apartment. with the best of intentions, the planning commission sometimes steps outside of its legal boundaries, outside of its mandate. the applicant is a longtime san francisco renter, local business owner. after years of renting he was finally able to purchase his first home here. he bought a modest two unit building, with the intention to fix it up, correct deferred maintenance, bring it up to code, and move into one of the units. specifically he applied for a permit to add a betterment about him to each unit prayed he proposed to do this by excavating the basement to make use of the non- habitable space in the back of the garage, by adding a room on the roof. a couple of neighbors took issue with the project. one next door, one across the street. they filed for discretionary review. at the d.r. hearing, these neighbors opportunistically made this about -- they try to vilify this applicant. when the applicant purchase the property, there were tenants on the second unit. the former attorney n