dr. tong. he couldn't be here tonight because he's on call. he's a neurologist, and ecoonly come on the 23 of may. he asked that i speak on behalf of him. i'm georgia schuttish, and i'm going to speak on behalf of dr. tong. i get seven minutes? okay. well, dr. tong is the adjacent neighbor, and i think he clearly articulated his goals in his brief as well as what he said at the hearing and what happened at the hearing for the d.r. back in june and september of 2017. i think he hoped that if you had a chance, you watch those hearings, because he was baffled by what happened, and he wants you to understand why -- what he experienced. at those hearings, and tonight, if he was here, dr. tong represented himself and his family and his neighbors, and he hoped to obtain some privacy for all of them and a reduction in the mass in keeping with the neighborhood character and the stepping down of the houses on 28th street. he is on gold mine behind them. both units, and there are two units in this rh 1 n

dr. tong's, or you accept hana's, or you do both. because i think the whole point of appealing the demolition was to preserve relatively affordable housing. that's my interest. i live in noe valley. i've lived there for 30 years. i'm very lucky to live there. i know that. i've seen the changes, i've seen the changes everywhere, and i think that if you keep existing housing, you're going to have more affordable housing. if you allow these big things, as this was going to be a so-called monster home, which it may turn out to be if you can't enforce it. you're not going to have affordable housing, and you're certainly not going to comply with the adu law, and it's a very, very big excavation, bigger than originally thought to be. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. we will now hear from the permit holder. >> okay. well, i just wanted to address some of the responses from m. s we did meet with her architect, and he gave us a list of items that he thought would appease here, and then he couldn't get her to agree to it. she actually, in the ve