together with my wife elsa wong we're the owners of 2179, 5th avenue. we bought this house knowing it was a fixer upper a number of years ago it has more extensive damage with termites and dry rot and despite need of seismic upgrades the cost of doing all. this would obtain prohibit active unless we improved other parts of house so we added on some of the living space in the form of an extension and a third story edition we had a neighborhood meeting only 3 neighbors showed up the south neighbor had no objection and the neighbor across the street none and then the plaintiffs showed up within seconds of seeing the third story edition said this was unacceptable nothing in the neighborhood is like that >> i catch off gaud because 3 other houses on our block alone have third story editions and a fourth story edition was implemented aaron around the corner. so right off third making inaccurate statements. they said it would cast a shadow across their house. which i thought surprisingly given the weather conditions in the sunset but we spent the next 6 months