gamez and she's here. the neighbors and the liberty hill neighborhood association oppose this project because it's out of character with this neighborhood. it incompatible with the neighborhood scale. it's too tall, too dense and has a stark design. the development team describes this project as an exclamation point to demark ate and define the busy congested four lane corridor and that is on the developers brief. think of an exclamation point and something taller than the rest of the sentence, think of a silo, the rest of a tour. -- tower. the neighbors object because there is no building. this claims the area is filled with these buildings. it's a fundamental agreement and even the matter from which the incompatibility is to be judged. let me suggest to the board that the department are ignoring the basic fundamental principles for objecting the compatibility of the building and the existing neighborhood. the planning code says first you look at the immediate context to determine compatibility when consi

for hearing today. 5dd appeal no. 13-098 alicia gamez, appellanttss vs. dept. of building inspection, respondent planning dept. approval 1050-1058 valencia street. protesting the issuance on july 17, 2013, to m. rutherford trust / shizuo holdings, permit to erect a building erect a five-story, 12-unit apartment/retail/parking building with 3000sf of ground floor areaa application no. 2010/12/27/7437"s".item 5c & d: 5cc appeal no. 13-097 alicia gamez, appellanttss vs. dept. of building inspection, respondent planning dept. approval 1050 valencia street. protesting the issuance on july 17, 2013, to m. rutherford trust / shizuo holdings, demolition permit demolish one-story restaurant building with 2,000sf of ground floor areaa. application no. 2010/12/27/7436. for hearing today. 5dd appeal no. 13-098 alicia gamez, appellanttss vs. dept. of building inspection, respondent planning dept. approval 1050-1058 valencia street. protesting the issuance on july 17, 2013, to m. rutherford trust / shizuo holdings, permit to erect a building erect a five-story, 12-unit apart

. >> thank you commissioners, steve williamson behalf of the other appellant alicia gamez. they skipped the indemnitial review. i gave it to the zoning administrator. both the permits were filed and the applications were filed in 2010. they were allowed to skip that to get preferential treatment on that. look at the numbers in front of you. planning commission took this very seriously. they imposed six conditions. the conditions were ignored. the community liaison was support to be done before the permit issue. the permit issue, the community liaison was appointed from september 19th after the hearing here and i got a complaint. i got a letter saying i'm appointing myself. and nothing was done. the second condition, the liaison and the staff was supposed to work to step down this project on hill street. that's what it says. it was ignored. now, he was right. the planning commission could have imposed some very concrete form of step down. you can correct that mistake. you can do that today. you can impose that step down. since the planning commission commission said this bui