i'm dan gershwin representing the project sponsor, laurel height's partners llc. with me is my colleague, greg miller. supervisors, out of respect for your time and given the comprehensive staff, i don't plan to use my full 15 minutes. i would like to focus principallably on the sequa appeal and i would say why they fail to meet burden and lack merit and finally, i will address the arguments raised by appellant in a letter submitted this morning. sequa is a disclosure of law requiring an eir informs decision-makers as they consider project approval. a standard on to approval is whether the eir is adequate and correct in its conclusions based on substantial evidence. as you've heard from staff and as you've seen in the planning department's appeal, this eir meets and exceeds those standards. appellants documenant's argumene contrary are without merit. similarly, for the map approval, dpw was required to support record evidence. as explained by city staff, the record contains extensive information in these findings, including that the project is desirable for and co