i am the father of denise ledbetter. i'm a widower. i first came to san francisco as a young soldier at the age of 17, having grownup in cape cod, massachusetts. i see what is coming up now is a rather box house out of place with the other houses in the community. that's the -- one of the charms of san francisco is tourists and there's not a day go by that i'm on my afternoon walk that i see tourists coming out to take pictures of the houses and making maps of them or graphic designs. and it would be a shame to see this lost in a town like our city like san francisco, and i think under the circumstances, san francisco does not need another box house and i thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> hi. first of all, thank you for being here. i wouldn't want your job. i live at 768 castro street. my name is andrew should warch. i've lived there for 45 years. i've seen that building on that property as a commercial site for 45 years, which means they go home at night. they go home and there's no parking problem or an

ryan paterson for denise ledbetter. assize from this project be a bad proposal, the variance proposal is from 2015 for a lot split. neighborhood notice was also issued before the variances were issued. normally, that may not be a big problem, but here, there's no basis for a variance. there's no right to include two oversized buildings on one lot that they're somehow constrained from buildings. in fact, there are nothing justifying building this at all. even if the existing structures could be in unusually condition meriting variance, which they can't, they're here asking for a demo litigation permit. they're replacing the building with something new, and they can build whatever they want. most troubling is their variance will have serious impacts on my client's property. hundreds of thousands of lost property value as the documentation that i provided you. it's a modernist tower that's going to stick out like a sore thumb among its historic queen ann neighbors, and on top of it all is a massive party deck. on a more ba