>> good evening thank you, good evening, appeals board, my name is justin raade we're the owner of 867 vermont street which is the subject of tonight's hearing. i want to tell you the store have i of a leak and our intent to fix the leak, in 2009, there was a strong wind storm and a rain that produced a leak on the south wall build it made a puddle in the basement this was noticed by the hoa and they had a meeting to discuss fixing for that leak, we got a quote to replace the whole south wall which is at enof life, it is a fly wood frame from 1989 when the property was built and it deteriorated and needed to be replaced so we got a bid for the whole wall repair for about 35 thousand dollars, but chose instead to do a sort of superficial repaint and renail repair job, that was in 2009 websinger moved in in june of 2009 and the leak returned there was another wind storm with rain and the leak came in, in many place ins our unit, so it came in our master bedroom, it came in our closet, it came in on the second level which is below that and 25 feet away from the street, in our den and it c

department approval the property is at 867 vermont street protesting the issuance march 19 2015 to justin raade of an al ration permit for the installation of alside prod di insul elated vinyl siding on the right side of the building and we'll start with the appellant, mr. ernst, you have 7 minutes to present your case. >> good evening, commissioners, i'm carl ernst, the rear yard is at a level that is a peak point an eye point of a radius of 700 feet in all directions. the pivotal issues of this appeal are whether the vinyl siding will prevent rainwater to leaking into 867. it would subject the south side units and the neighbors to the south of increasing rattling noise from high winds to the side. the answer is two-fold it will likely not stop the water leaking into 867, the plan won't work because the leaks appear to be elsewhere and yes, there will be increasing noise growing louder over time from the loosely mounted final siding because the styrofoam or polystyrene backing with not reshape itself once compressed by movement caused by the high wind at the location creating an increasing rat