if you do have any reason for v ariance, i am creating the hardships or my client is creating hardships. it is a simple thing. they have an ideal lot with a view. there is lots of open space behind it or beside it. nobody is going to be imposing anything on them. i do not understand how they cannot build within the parameters of the planning code and the building code, and i think they should. this has been going on many years. i do not understand at all. the boosters do not understand it. star king open space does not understand it and that is why we have been hanging in there. thank you. >> i am audrey cole. i was first introduced to the open space through a garden club which i am also involved with which is on that same block of the property we are discussing. this location had a regular garden, a regular back yard. it opened out onto the open space, both the backyard and the open space. i do not know if you have been there, but it is a marvelous benefit. it is a gem for potrero hill. it is unique. it is therefore the neighborhood to take advantage of. i do not see any reason why thi