my wife grew up on --el camino del mar. her parent have lived there for 40 years. they were not able to be here. we have dinner at their house every week and i'm quite familiar with the area. milton myers built this house. as it's been mentioned the property is on an upslope, while it's a single story residence, it's all around the lengthy front footage of the property giving a sweeping view from every room from 2 bedrooms, living room, dining room and kitchen. the neighbors don't object to the project sponsors improving their property, they would like to see them do so in a way that if it meets their needs. they do object modifying in a way that takes away from the historic property and in mpinges on the mid block open space. as soon as the property went on the market prior to the death of the own, the neighbors listed to the broker that they would object that this development to the project plate applicants are now proposing that they would oppose this. the dr applicants would like to work with the sponsors to develop a plan that will satisfy their needs and be a

but because of the curve line on --el camino and del mar. that could never be parallel to the front of the lot. as a technical matter, this section doesn't really apply and the way the rear yard is calculated is discretionary. and it's discretionary the department should apply the rear yard calculation in the way that best fulfills the policy code and the residential design guidelines. a two story structure completely occupying a rear yard cannot comply with residential design guidelines. that's what we have in this instance. we have a 2 story garage structure that is going to be expanded which violates this policy. so that the non-compliant uses expands to occupy more of the lot at different levels is an interpretation which i think flies in the face of discretionary measurement of the rear yard and if you look at the second page of our exhibit, 8, if you imply the interpretation you have 2 different ways you can configure this rear yard so that the goals of requiring some open space on this lot are met. and that rear yard can go down to th

this shows the view from sea cliff and --el camino and del mar and the maids room. this is the proposed view with our addition. as you can see it's quite modest. it's the extent of the building mass that would be seen from the same way at sea cliff and --el camino and del mar. finally with respect to the neighbors on 20th avenue, we can get into more details about the numbers of the discussions we've had with them, but in the upper diagram or photograph we are showing the existing condition, the edge of the current second story maids room. you can see a little patch of blue ocean. with the original idea of our addition we suggest that we had considered a shed roof which is a pitched roof that you see in the center photograph. we also were concerned about responding to neighbors concerns about the stairwell which you see sort of the vertical slot. just to the left of the shed roof. so we hide some views where the major concern of the neighbors. we lowers the height of both the stairs and of the roof itself over the bedrooms. so there is a flat roof. this is the view

the project at 535el el camino del mar exist on the existing parcel of the second floor of this single family house. the project includes changing the roof over the kitchen,en closed the front entry and adding a new window on the buildings front facade. it's located on a large triangular lot where the home corners east. the building was determined financing to be a historic resource. the proposed alteration were found in the ere and was found not to be a problem for the compliance. also exempt under sequel. the project has received letters of support from par. the linkin park home owners association and neighbor to the east and neighbors on the north side of --el camino del mar. five discretionary reviews were filed. 4 live on the southeast of the property and one lives south of the property. all the er's were filed. the projects adverse effect on a historic structure, the project's incompatibility with the neighborhood character including prevailing heights and roof forms. the adverse effects on neighboring properties access to light and mid block open space and the invasion of non-na