the green diamond is carolyn's current property, the square is this house on lampson lane. the residential design guidelines which you are very familiar with suggesting emphasis of development on corner properties so this is the house on the opposite corner of the block. this is the quintessential corner house development , this is knobby parks folly, this is the corner of 19 *lt and douglas. so the corner lots are intended to be emphasized and the visual character of the block is intended to be followed. now, this is what the residential design guidelines shows as a mixed visual character and you can see going up the block that we have an almost picture-perfect example of a mixed visual character. the highest house up the block, the one that's about 45 feet at the flat roof point, that is one of the dr requesters that looks directly across us. this is back to that perspective. so the question is, does this project meet the requirements necessary to take dr i think not. the addition is code complying, the portion of the project that requires a variance is essentially undern

all we are asking for is a 3-foot reduction in height so what is so important about lampson lane? if you've ever been there you would have seen some of the nicest public views, this is looking down lampson lane, we've got corona heights, what i called rocky mountain growing up. if we have this project we will essentially lose that view from the top of lampson lane there at 19th. another view is of knobby park's fall right this is from further down lampson lane, this is what you will see when that property is built. finally, the current size will exceed the relative height above grade midpoint of the uphill house across lampson lane by 3 feet, even though the subject property is substantially downhill of it and will reach about the same absolute height. for these reasons and the previously presented concerns i respectfully request that the planning department accept the dr thank you for your time. >> good afternoon, commissioners, my name is dr. linda tucker and i live directly across the street from 4546 19th street. i moved to san francisco over 30 years ago from new york city bu

lampson lane is not castro street. lampson lane is an extremely narrow alley and i don't think it justifies putting such a large structure there and qualifying as a corner lot to do that. i'm going to leave the remaining time for ken, another dr requester. >> i'm ken calstein, i live at 4565 19th street across from lampson lane and i want to do two things. one, i want to show you the front of the canadian consulate now, this is how it was before. same height, same width. also when they talk about a habitable space of 2600 square feet, this building in reality is 5,000 square feet. there is 570 feet of garage, 470 square feet of garage, rather, 350 feet for a workshop, two storage units of 660 square feet, so what started out as an absolutely huge building is now 5,000 square feet. thank you. >> thank you. project sponsor, you have a two-minute rebuttal. >> thank you, vice president wucommissioners. michael smith from the planning staff and his residential design teamworked pretty hard with this project architect and th