my name is earl weiss. i am the architect. although this is a c.u. and we're looking at whether it's appropriate to take out this small building, we also know that there is a lot of people here and unfortunately there seems to be a lot of confusion and a lot of panic in the neighborhood. so i would like to take part of my five minutes. go into a little more detail than i normally would on how we're approaching the massing, the finishes, and try to address their concerns. so let's start with the building itself. this is the building itself right here. i think it's been abandoned for many years. it's basically falling apart. the street facade is a bit challenged. we have this '70s thing over here and then we have something more traditional on one side. so we wanted to approach this as blending the facade, but before we even talk about the facade it's really important to talk about the massing. so when we look at the google earth image right here, one of the first things we look at is obviously rear yard and white walls. you can see here right here how