lucas eastwood, and the address is 4612 19th street. i would also like to put on the overhead, this is the photo submitted with our d.r. application, in the top picture here is the view from within our living room, standing 10 feet away from the window, we are not at the window, back from the window taking this photograph. you can clearly see the roofline their contention that we will be above their next story addition is not quite right. we can see the top of their roof , and we can see the top of the second-story windows. this bottom diagram with the black box is our best effort to scale with -- what the new addition will look like. you can see we will be looking directly into the windows at the third story of the additional story, and how much that roof will stick out versus the adjacent buildings. we have offered several compromises in our application, and we have discussed them also with the project sponsors. all of our suggestions have been rejected as being not possible. i am not an architect, so i don't know if i am being told t

i'm here with lucas eastwood, the project sponsor and general building contractor. as was mentioned, the proposal seeks to demo an existing two-story single-family home, and a privately owned street to construct a new four-story two family home. we are here in front of the commission requesting a conditional use authorization to remove a dwelling unit, additionally, we are seeking a variance for the newly proposed building to extend 26 inches deeper into the lot than would normally be allowed under r.h. two zoning codes. first to address the see you for demo. our design process looked at options to alter the building under a renovation permit, however demolishing the structure emerged as a practical route as the following considerations were clarified in the process. the written historical evaluation of the 1912 structure , which notes its overall high integrity from a lack of alterations over the years, concluded, nonetheless, that it does not stand out as being exceptionally representative of the period. many similar homes exist within a two block radius. the plan