i am liz clark and an adjacent neighbor to have 721 sanchez street. ever since the project sponsors said we know someone in the planning department so you're going to lose, the events that have led us here today have been frustrating at best and appalling at worst. as beginners, we have had no choice but to trust and respect the city's process and we have exerted every effort and explored every avenue per city documentation and city recommendations to discuss and comprise on a scaled down version of the submitted plans but gotten nowhere with the professional developers and the high-powered team. instead, we have been bullied, threatened, and derided throughout. today we are asking that you please modify the plans. please take a look at section 241 of the dolores special use district and ply it to this project. building out 11 feet into the special use district is taking a huge chunk out of very limited and valuable green space that should be protected at all costs. as described in the residential guidelines as a significant community amenity and the

my name is liz clarke. within our neighborhood, there are no roof decks, no top floor roof decks available in my neighborhood. i think mr. jones was referring to properties outside of the dolores heights special use district. regarding the improvement club, the neighbors were never questioned regarding these plans until they had a major presentation with us for the very first time. at that point, the dhic, the design review committee, had already written that there were supporting this project. unfortunately, we found out after the fact. we also found out, per mr. cobb's website, that he utilizes zephyr realty as his real-estate company. the head of the design review committee also works from zephyr and would not recused himself from this proceeding. we got very distressed by the fact that this was one-sided. you can see here where mr. cobb suggests the supper realty is his business. i just wanted to clarify that. >> this is the greenery that jeremy paul was referring to right there. we have allowed that to