dan sider with department staff. i will try to keep my remarks brief. this is a modest project. there are very few projects in the planning department, very few permits that can be approved as of right over the counter. this project was one of them. part of the reason for that is is a cantilevered system which has fewer impacts than conventional, independently supported? -- decks. they are at most 7 feet deep and they provide 3 foot side setbacks. in response to an issue, it is important to note that this is not what we would view as a precedent-setting case. the president has already been set. there are a number of decks elsewhere on this block. they are i believe much larger. then what is being proposed here. i suggest that if there were allowed the construction of an addition to this property, an enclosed, habitable space, that is not the case. as we have noted in other cases, we do live in a dense urban environment and this modest proposal is for much in keeping with that reality without imposing any unusual or extraordinary conditions or situations on the adjacent propertie

dan sider with the planning department. i am uncertain on where to start with this one. the history is monday. a little cloudy. maybe that is a result of things beginning here with work without a permit. what i would like to do is run through the sequence of events as we believe them to be and hope that leads us to a conclusion. we didn't know the work was done without a permit -- we did know the work was done without a permit. we also know that work included probably a doubling of the area of this platform or balcony or whatever it is at the rear of

dan sider with the planning department. i am uncertain on where to start with this one. the history is monday. a little cloudy. maybe that is a result of things beginning here with work without a permit. what i would like to do is run through the sequence of events as we believe them to be and hope that leads us to a conclusion. we didn't know the work was done without a permit -- we did know the work was done without a permit. we also know that work included probably a doubling of the area of this platform or balcony or whatever it is at the rear of the property. dbi , this work and a notice of violation was issued. and a permit was sought and obtained to trim back the deck to the previous as-built conditions. what it seems like happened is regardless of that corrected permit, work continued to some extent that it had begun. thus creating an additional violation and exceeded the corrected permit. specifically, the trimming back here did not take place and there was an image the permit holder had that might shed some light on that. we sure your observation. we are intrig