speaking on behalf of janet fowler. first of all, i want to thank you for the action i took when i was a dr presenter, also for your endeavors to make this plan work right. this project caught my attention because i'm a friend to the next-door neighbor, and also i enjoy the drive from market street to castro on the 24. i took a video of that ride and that's what i put on the overhead. you can't see it all, but i think you can see that the proposed project is out of sync with the neighborhood and out of character with the castro street residents. there's nothing like it on the entire side. it also juts out into the sidewalk pedestrian path rkts located on the uphill side of the dr requester, it will be on the side of a tall wall, and will cast a shadow on our house all day long. i want to remind you the effect of a similar wall on rusty mccalls house on wallfman avenue. almost every home on this street of castro street as as well as all the others on the three corners. developers should be required to remove one story an

janet fowler, georgia schiudas, richard and if you'd like to speak, come on up. in any order. >> i don't think ms. power's here. i just want to -- i was going to show you some photos. you probably don't want to see them. i mean, you know what the problem is. we all know what the problem is. i respect the staff greatly. and i want to make that clear since -- i don't want to be categorized as spreading false rumors. i don't think i did that. my concern has always been the issue of demolition and how much should be demolished. i think the current criteria in section 317 is really worth looking at in terms of demolition. and that was my concern. i respect the staff. i get what they were trying to do. i didn't understand it. because i don't think it dealt with the tantamount to demolition as it should. i still think that is a decent concept to work with and one definition of demolition may not be fair to people that want to do legitimate, honest-to-god alterations and that is my position. thank you. and we can talk about it again in the new year. and i really do hope