my name is john kessler and i live at 10 of 4 deloris street, apartment number 7 and i'm here to make a jurisdiction request to the board of appeals. this request concerns 201612225670 for the addition of two dwelling units in the garage at 1064 deloris street. in the interest of time, i will focus on the jurisdiction requested south. i will summarize a few of my concerns. at this point, i would like to submit letters from three other tenants who couldn't be here but was told by the board of appeals they could be taken into public comment. >> just give them to garry, if you could. >> today or landlord has only confirmed this work is i in the planning stages and provided conflicted assertions about the duration and scope of the project and how it will impact tenants and about their intent to mitigate and/or compensate for any result of services either temporary or permanently, such as garage parking, access to laundry facilities located in the garage and storage lockers also be located in the garage. although the landlord has communicated that they intend to return parking laundry and

, vacancies increased from 8.5 to 12.9% and most of which were concentrated on market street when deloris and castro. in the time since that data has been collected, the problem worsened. the reasons for upper market's vacancies are the more restricted requirements in effect there and not in other commercial corridors, including nearby valencia street and haze valley. this results in a longer and more expensive process for businesses hoping to open. in upper market it took 332 days from submission to secure a conditional use authorization. when combined with other permitting requirements, the entire process can take years. for many applicants that means two years or more of paying high rent on a storefront that hasn't opened yet. in a neighborhood struggling with vacancies, the city should be doing everything to attract businesses and help them to open as quickly as possible and that is what we're hoping to achieve with this legislation. our office worked with neighborhood stakeholders over many months including the castro merchant's association, castro community benefit district, eureka