i am the owner of 415 grafton avenue.h, i was born and grew up in san francisco, and i absolutely love this city. and i feel incredibly , uh, privileged and lucky to be able to have bought a house here and live close to my family. uh, my partner and i feel that we got one of the, uh, last deals in san francisco that has allowed us to stay here. um i live there with my partner, my six year old, seven year old son, my three year old daughter, and my mother in law, uh, in about 1000 square foot space. it is old, um, and needs to be updated and upgraded. our whole plan this time was to live in it until we could save up enough money to do a remodel. um, we have gotten to that point now where we are ready to do a remodel and add a little bit more space. about 650ft!s of additional space. um, we believe this to be a very modest addition. uh, really meant to allow us to grow into the space. uh my two kids currently share an incredibly small room that they are quickly growing out of. and so we need, uh, to make more space. um when

meet yesterday and heard one case of interest to the planning commission for the property at 415 grafton. um an appeal of an alteration permit to construct a vertical addition to an existing one story over basement, single family dwelling. the adjacent neighbor to the west had previously filed a discretionary review with with light and air impacts. um, from the addition privacy impact uh from the property line windows concern. and at the march 30th, 2023 hearing, the planning commission heard testimony from both parties and voted 6 to 0 to not take doctor and approve the project as proposed. uh, the board of appeals generally felt the same, and the proposed addition, um, is modest in size, and the appellant's own 11 foot wide side setback is more than sufficient to provide separation between the two neighboring buildings. um and with that, the board voted unanimously to deny the appeal and uphold the discretionary review. uh, additionally, the board elected jose lopez as the president and alex lemberg as their vice president. with that, commissioners, we can move on to general public com