. >> good afternoon, president, commissioners, david winslow, steph architect for the agent before he is a request for discretionary review for a public initiated request for discretionary review for a building permit application. a mandatory seismic retrofit through removal of three offstreet parking spaces and construction of accessory dwelling unit in the ground level garage of an existing four story apartment building. no expansion outside existing building envelope is proposed. the reason for the d.r. is the d.r. requester from the san francisco tenants union, on behalf of one of the building tenants is concerned with one issue, that the removal of the garage space is part of the tenant services that are included as part of the tenant lease and the tenants have not agreed to give up. public comment to date, the department has received no letters in support nor any letters in opposition. and the recommendation, in light of the d.r. request, department has reviewed the request and proposed of the accessory dwelling unit complies with the planning code and the applicable design guid

david winslow, staff architect.the item before you as a public discretionary review for a building permit application. for the demolition of a 3250 square foot single-family dwelling. and new construction of a four story 5900 square-foot single-family dwelling that would be sent back about 18.5 feet from the street. without going into details, we have a deal that the d.r. requester and the project sponsor have arrived at, and we are recommending that the commission take the d.r. to honor the agreement as represented in the drawings in your packet. there are -- the reason for that is there had been substantial amassing changes, still code compliant, but if the d.r. was withdrawn, it would have required free notification of the project. with that, let me itemize those changes in words. the project sponsor revised the plans to essentially move the garage portion of the ground floor level garage further towards the street, still within the required front steps back to allow it to break up this year massing of the four s