thanks. >> thank you. >> hello my name is john strickland and i i'm the project sponsor. thank you for hearing this today. i built family housing in san francisco for over 20 years. i remember the first time i came to the city and i realized it was going to be my home and i feel extremely fortunate i have been doing this until today without appearing before your commission in this process. i always sought to achieve a balance between neighbors and neighborhoods and the city and if my role is done right it have a positive effect on the city, on the neighborhood by allowing new families to be welcomed with quality housing. i work hard to build consensus around the properties in the area. i received support for my neighbors -- concerned neighbors of perine place and california and from the neighborhood association and the department. in order to do so i have cut sections of the building beyond the envelope and have improved design. i have unable to appease the dr requester but nonetheless i design the building with fashion smaller than what is allowed and meet his needs for

i am steve williams and represent the project sponsor john strickland who is here with dave sternberg of the sternberg architect firm. in may of this year i represented the families who have owned the building to the west directly next door since 1965 and just to give you a little perspective on this very busy corner. here is a photograph. it's also in my brief at page five. here's the family's building. here's the subject building and next door is the chevron station. molly stones is on a conner and another gas station there. they started out with grave concerns about the project and they attended the pre-application meeting, and the variance hearing and after that we followed mr. sanchez's advice and meet and confer about the project and see if we could come to a agreement. these developers were willing to give a tremendous amount. they redesigned the neighborhood essentially to help the neighbors and these neighbors live there. doreen who teaches the dance class for my daughter lives next door and they made changes that were acceptable to these residents and mr. strickland who is a

john strickland is director at jls consulting is and joins us for more. good to see you, john. it's easy. is it giving an advance in overriding? and if so, why? >> i think the key thing is they both have very different business models. it's not really a case of either/or, but there's room for both to succeed. easyjet focuses mainly on primary airports. that's why business travel where they offer competitive pricing, expectative frequencies. ryan air seems to be move focused on secondary airports, although we see recently changed in the approach to win more business traffic. we need to recognize both carries atone for 5% of the market each. >> because ryan air earlier this month cut its annual profit for the second time in two months, admitted it needed to improve customer service. saying we're looking for organic growth, they're buying more jets, they're going to expand bases in naples, for example. it's a slightly different picture. >> yeah. >> why is that? >> i think ryan air is very much on the back of on an speshthed poor winter now. sta scanned flaf nave scann they want to