i've known chris durkin for 10 years. he has a young family, two kids. he would like to be the neighborhood to the downhill and uphill and have a good, neighborly relationship. for some reason, they don't want him to raise his family there the way they did theirs. he's trying to work quickly to mitigate the noise and the disturbance to everybody. all of his work has been approved by the planning department, architects, engineers, general contractors. everything's done correctly. some of his neighbors feel like they own the entire block and they own his home and he's merely a custodian of his own home. he's trying to mitigate the possibility of earthquake damage to his own home. almost every building in this city has been required -- if it's multifamily, to have their brick foundations replaced. some of his neighbors have used political influence. he's trying to work with everybody. he really is. it's funny how there's working done on every block in pacific heights, let alone the rest of the city, but somehow chris shouldn't be able to do the work on his