hyman hired brett gladstone to do research of the permit history of this building, what he found was that there were no novs issued for seismic work for this building. s there were no permits for seismic work issued for this building. and that city records are very mixed in showing whether this building is a single family home or two units. enough so that without some encouragement by the owner, to show others, to would list the number of units as unknown which three reports have been increasingly done and the city policy makers encouraged the department of building inspection not to incentivize, where the permits are not clear by reducing the number of units on a three-hour report. instead the department of building inspection referred the owner to the planning department to make the mergers the official way when the records are not 100 percent clear. this is not surprising given that the building is zoned for two units and when mr. hyman rented his unit the building consisted of three rental units all being rented to tenants. >> i would like to ask mr. hyman to give a statement abo

brett gladstone speaking for the project sponsor. for about 15 years i have worked on development at this site. this is the first project that i worked on for the current owner, but in the past developers have tried to keep the theater even passing legislation at your board to create a dinner theater second story restaurant, which wasn't allowed by code. so i'm particularly pleased to be here today after 15 years with what i think is the best possible project. in 2009 i presented this project to the planning commission and as you know it received approval. the project that is made possible by this legislation is the same project. after the approval in 2009, my client had fully intended to go forward and build it, but as you know the recession that started to hit badly at the end of the 2008 made financing and equity impossible. as he started to put the financing together to start again late last year, the city came and asked to borrow the site and obviously a majority of the neighborhood wants it and my client feels it's good for the