. >> the motion passes 4-3 with fong, kroppel and hillis voting no. that puts us at the next issue. this is a downtown property authorization. >> good afternoon commissioners. the item before you is a downtown project authorization -- and conditional use authorization for a mixed use development on market street. it's located on the south side of market between 6th and 7th in the downtown commercial zoning district and the market street theater and loft historic district. the lots are currently developed with a two story vacant building. the project would demolish the existing building and construct a tourist hotel with retail on the bottom. the project requests an exception foreground level wind currents and conditional use for establishing the 160 room hotel. the department believes that the arrangement of the ground floor does not comply with section 138. the current proposal places the publicly open space behind the reception area that doesn't easily convey the nature of the space. alternatives such as removing or relocating the rooms were rejected by the sponsor. the ground flo

. >> so like commissioner kroppel, i feel there's no good options in this situation. i heard from the owner's representative a new suggestion that i hadn't heard from anyone before, which is to remove the stoves, which is creative. and that also makes me think that very valuable vouchers will buy even less for the tenants because they won't have a stove. and that just kills me. this landlord, to me, has taken advantage of the tenants, the city, our code and the folks most impacted are the tenants. so i did have a question for mr. buckley, we did have, you know, one of the commenters who mentioned he was not a veteran. he does not have a voucher. i want to hear from you -- he said he wasn't the only one. we heard from miss cowen, but the flash vouchers are pretty valuable and feels confident we can find comparable housing and it can be the case, but what about the folks without vouchers, are they included in the relocation plan and what are we going to do about that? >> so commissioner melgar, i'm going to defer to staff on some of the questions. i'm going to let matt