reader, basement under deck, portables on in basement interior, horizontal addition on first floor, new decca audition at first floor leader, and we will start with the appellant. >> 7 minutes. >> good evening, commissioners. i always like to say what the case is really about. it is never what it is really about. a permit was filed about a year ago to build a retaining wall. there was an agreement from my client to the owner of a certain amount of vegetation would be installed and they would not have to see the construction. the series of retaining walls and the addition in the back. we have been trying to work with the neighbor about fulfilling the requirements and having the landscapers talk. that agreement has fallen apart. we have the votes of the permit, reason we have looked at the permit, and a retaining wall we are talking about is this yellow area, and that was a permit issued. it was subject to review by my client end of previous attorney. i am not going to justify the previous work, and now on the retaining wall they are building a structure. that is the only one we can appeal, and

i don't want to lose sight of my original decca which it isn't about opt in or opt out. we haven't had any public discussion what it might be a good thing for vehicles to be network devices and innovation and useful information. i don't know what they plan to do with the data but suppose we could get 10% decrease in congest and in the greater d.c. market if all cars were connected. i am not sure many of us would oppose that if it were the only way the data were used or how it would be used. the question is who can get to the data, how might it be used. it is a red herring. what you are really saying is every seat on the airplane is going to be built for someone -- most of us are not. >> we will get into this discussion shortly but to hang on to something you said how do we have the conversation you just detailed in a way that most americans understand? all of us can have a conversation whether it should be opt in or opt out of the system. how do you have it in a way that conveys to the average mom and dad that what they did may make sense in the context down the road, ho