i am going to turn the podium over now to brett gladstone. thank you. >> good evening, brett gladstone. >> and appellant gardener is correct that the rear would be eliminate and three or more bedrooms are lost and the renovated building would not reach the depth of the other buildings. which i will show you in a few minutes. not even the adjacent building oen the other side of our building is substantially deeper than our existing building today. i wanted to address the argument that the appellants have that their entrances are op 22nd street, and this is the best photo to do it. this is an a photo of exhibit d. and you will see the entrance steps -- thanks, darren, over here, are showing in the original photo of 1921. where these steps removed with permits? no. was the fence given an approval by the planning department to be higher than the 3 foot that you see here which is code complying for a front yard? no, and i will show you that in a few minutes. approval from the building department, but not from the planning department. why don't you

. >> brett gladstone. we're not going to take the full 15 minutes. >> you said that last time. >> no, i said i wasn't going to take the full 35 minutes. but first, we've heard that there's a derelict property owner, that he's the developer. and it's been 1.5 hours since we've heard from bill callahan. and i just want to let you know why the building has gone this way for song. >> the owner removed weight bearing walls. we tried to get access in the 1990's to -- the tenants removed weight bearing walls. we tried to get access in the 1990's, but we couldn't get insurance on the property anymore. they wouldn't -- the tenants wouldn't let us in, so we had to resort to the ellis act. and in doing so, we paid the tenants $13,614, which was twal to 8.1 years of rent. but also, i mean, my wife was diagnosed with a.l.s., and we were trying to create a home that we could live in. >> i'm going to ask john lum to point out and put the camera on the side windows that -- that the -- that the gentleman who spoke lives in