d.r. requestor? please come to the microphone at this time. >> i live directly across the street from the proposed development. i am a senior and contributor. i requested that the height to be modified to 54 so that it stepped down the slopes like everyone else and all of the other houses. the broad -- which is the same grade driveway. he has put a turntable that works if you have only two sub- compact cars, otherwise it does not work. they promised us at the last meeting, that he would take care of lighting at the site. in winter, it becomes a dark hole. i have a handout for the board. can you pass that out? he had agreed to provide this lighting based on the model lighting ordinance, a national lighting ordnance created by the international dark skies, so that the lights are not dependent on someone coming home, they turn on when there is insufficient daylight. they suggested that actor -- after a four hours of light, they done with motion sensors. the also request alike to be 60 degrees, actually

d.r. requestor? seeing none, project sponsor. >> in the afternoon, members of the commission. first of all, i would like to apologize for being here. i would like to let you know that my firm, we have been doing design and engineering development in this town for the last 30 years. i am a partner for the last 15 years, and you rarely see me before you. if you do see me here, is for conditional use permits for some technicality. the reason is that i have a san franciscan, i love to briefs and francisco air, i love the people. i always try to work out my issues with the neighbors. this is no different. months and months, before we submitted to the permit, we met with the neighborhood association and with the neighbors. we used the math of the building going from property line to property line, produced in on both lots. with regards to excavation and how it was going to go off, let's be sensitive about it and we raised the level of the garage to 4 feet below the sidewalk level. and during the last planning commission hearing, we heard from you and from the neighborhood associatio

d.r. requestor? >> good evening. i am the requestor. i live next door.ctured on the photograph, i live here. the project sponsor's current plan will dramatically alter the visual character of our streetscape and the overall neighborhood context by requiring the removal of a significant juniper tree to tree. the landscape on the street is very special in terms of himens. it is one of a grove of four. an alternate proposal for the location of the door has been collaborated between the architects and he arborists. preventing construction whoa not disrupt the neighborhood landscape. issues contrary to what has been represented, and of the of the proposal offers greater pedestrian safety by clustering the existing front stairs which are an encroachment whiff of the driveway, though it eliminates an additional wall that appears on one side of the proposed driveway because you were nesting the two together. the planning commission of the neighborhood association in a letter of september 19 has asked the planning commission to determine if there is an alternate

d.r. requestor, you have two minutes. >> commissioners, he did approach me and we had a good conversation. what i said to him was that if there are no -- everything is conforming, but there are no issues to be addressed and no safety issues, we will probably have a pretty good project. that is not what we found. there are still issues, maybe they can explain them with the safety of the parking situation and increase the drainage. i just want to point out high additional document - -m0- my additional document. >> [inaudible] >> all the hpagepages here confm to the building heights. let's have consistency. the stepping down. that is not what we have. we have a third loevel, a second floor over the garage. that is not uniform for the neighborhood. i can understand why, it is a beautiful option, but it is not conforming as far as we are concerned. president olague: thank you. project sponsor, you have two minutes. >> commissioners, as far as the d.r. requestor stated, there is not sufficient data on the survey map that shows how height has been calculated. however, this is not a construction s

d.r. requestor you , you have two minutews for rebuttal. >> i think the neighborhood association is well respected and has people that have the concern of the community at heart. they strongly recommended that we explore options for saving what they deem to be a significant landscape, if the trees were removed, a serious error. the report attached to the packet is a very extensive. he specified that the amount of room to fall that was required to save the juniper and he felt that it was perfectly adequate and specified that in conjunction. and also, the 12 inch increase is not unreasonable if it allows the saving of both the juniper and the street tree and retains the landscape intact rather than a very small or replacement of 3 immediately adjacent to the front of the house. i would request that you do what is possible to change the driveway to accommodate these existing trees. president olague: project sponsor, you have two minutes. >> there was a discussion in a previous hearing about the facts and opinions. i wanted to share 4 fax with you. this is from the executive director of the san franci