by our neighbors' trees, dapled or not, this is sunlight into our home.posal will completely block our light. they're almost doubling the height of their current structure. so the bottom two drawings exhibit ideas put forth in plans by george howser referred to as the neighbors' design. i am in support as the neighbors' design, it takes the bottom level of the house 4 1/2 feet down to grade. thereby decreation the overall height of the building and preserving some of the sunlight into our home and small yard. george came up with two different ideas here. one is three stories. one is four stories. they exhibit a different use of space to achieve comparable square footage to the plan. they have explained to us that they do not want to do this because they do not want to incur costs associated with excavation and they don't want to impede the natural light coming into their home, but we hope that the commission can take all of that into consideration as you make your decision. president olague: i'll start calling up those who support the d.r. requesters. jan