david winslow, staff architect. the item is a request for public initiated request for review, a building permit application, 2019.0923.2311 to construct a new single family home with ground floor accessory dwelling unit on a vacant tree lot on bayshore boulevard and rancine lane frontages. the building front is set back 16.2 inches from bayshore and 27.10 from rancine lane. no on site parking is proposed. the dr requesters are adjacent number and adjacent neighbor to the north of the proposed project. the dr requester is concerned -- the project does not conform to be compatible -- >> david, i'm sorry to interrupt but you're going to have to kill your video. your audio is choppy. >> that's fine. how is my pace for translation? >> great. >> okay. good. residential design guidelines related for design of the building to be compatible with the height and depth of the particular buildings and to minimize for light and air and request the existing pattern of side spacing. the proposed alternatives are to have the buildi

we have david winslow who can speak more to how the project was and how we got to this point. >> yeah. it is a bit higher than the surrounding buildings, but it's in scale given everything else that's going on on that street. as far as the depth goes, we could maybe navigate to a plan view so we could look at it and talk about it at the same time, who has control of the site plan or a drawing set, we could get to the site. >> clerk: what do we need? >> could we maybe go to a site plan which shows the context proposed to the adjacent? >> clerk: do you have a slide number? >> i don't know the slide number offhand. let's see... >> you know, i think there's an existing cottage in the back and then a building to the left, the three-story building to the left of the proposed is deeper than the proposed addition. the building to the right, we asked for, and they provided some reasonable open space in the diagram that i think the architect shared. both vertically, there's these open space blocks of massing that are reductive and, to our point of view, provided adequate light and air to adjace

i david winslow, staff architect. a request for discretionary review of the building permit application number 2020. to construct a new rear deck on an existing one-story garage on the rear of the lot that faces the alley. the d.r. requester, the adjacent property and the west of the proposed project is considered that the proposed deck will cause privacy and noise impacts to the immediate and adjacent neighbors. there are no other -- there are other decks to the use of the building currently and proposed. the proposed alternative would be to deny the roof deck over the garage. to date, and i want to amend my report, there have been two letters opposing the project. the department's review of this confirms support by locating a deck on the existing roof which is allowed by code. and in such cases, where the design might be considered for impacts to privacy and adjacent neighbors and the department review found that modifications are needed to bring it into conformity. the deck may extend to the front of the garage tha

i david winslow, staff architect. a request for discretionary review of the building permit application number 2020. to construct a new rear deck on an existing one-story garage on the rear of the lot that faces the alley. the d.r. requester, the adjacent property and the west of the proposed project is considered that the proposed deck will cause privacy and noise impacts to the immediate and adjacent neighbors. there are no other -- there are other decks to the use of the building currently and proposed. the proposed alternative would be to deny the roof deck over the garage. to date, and i want to amend my report, there have been two letters opposing the project. the department's review of this confirms support by locating a deck on the existing roof which is allowed by code. and in such cases, where the design might be considered for impacts to privacy and adjacent neighbors and the department review found that modifications are needed to bring it into conformity. the deck may extend to the front of the garage tha