the matulas will be 100% responsible for this. they get to pick their poison. it's more dangerous to build a sidewalk and a lot higher level of liability for a sidewalk that's been constructed than for natural land. if someone's hiking up through these bushes as it is now they will at least have that defense, but won't have that defense on this steep slope of concrete. as you heard from the neighbors, mr. brand is bent on attacking the matulas, who knows why, and he's bent on rehashing arguments that went out with the dr. he talks about windows, and the design. the design has been set since 2006. the only thing he's been dealing with is the access, but he keeps going back to that. we tried desperately not to be here tonight. we tried to settle this. we tried to make a gift to this developer of the illegally constructed path and the illegally constructed path makes a heck of a lot more sense than what they're proposing now. here's the illegally constructed path that slopes gently up. here they were building it columbus day weekend they went out and built it ille

brief, but the official sidewalk here is 15 feet so there's a ledge slated sidewalk width that the matula's are already responsible for maintaining, whether it's approved or not, whether it's constructed as a con skreet sidewalk or whether it exists in its current state as just unimproved shrubbery basically. so based on that, we issued a street improvement permit for the construction of this 15 foot wide sidewalk to city standards, no additional notification was required as a result because the sides walk is being built to city standards. there's a number of projects all over the city where there are unimproved sidewalks and based on the better streets plan, ada improvement to make it less liable because if a pedestrian is walking on an unimproved sidewalk it would reduce the liability for the property owner that will ultimately be responsible for that sidewalk. thus we request you up hold our decision to issue the street improvement and provide access to the subject property. i'm here to answer any additional questions any of you may have. >> in your department's criteria for the design o