it is not filled with mcmansions. it is filled with homes that are home-sized. they are livable space is. the reason i ask you to look at the hearing is to see how close together the houses are on edgewood. we are not always good neighbors, but we are always close neighbors. it is that closeness which is now going to be made almost razor-thin between the properties in question here at 178, 184, and i do not know the one on the other side. i have experienced what dr. campbell spoke to you about the shuttle that falls on his property from the house built next door to him. the house is also next door to me. a nice guy built it, a wonderful architect. the house is bigger than anybody thought it was going to be. it was built on what was a vacant lot next door to my house. it extends beyond the edge of my house, as this one will. president olague: thank you. are there additional speakers in support of the dr? >> i would just like to confirm that you have the letter in your packet from joe boyle. president olague: i saw it. >> thank you very much. president olague: any

the addition is being characterized as a manchin -- as a mcmansion. that is absurd. as for the green space, i have been in backyards down there. the backyard is nice. they are all large. the code is 25% remaining backyard space. it would still feel enormous in context of that space. there is a lot of sun. it is on a sloping hill. i saw the shadow studies in december when there were put up. i did not feel like there were impacting. there is some impact. whenever you build, there is a point to be an impact. but to say it is as negative as i am hearing today is an overstatement by far. i support the project. president olague: thank you. additional speakers? seeing none, dr requestors, you each have two minutes for rebuttal. >> on behalf of the robertsons, i would like to take more than two minutes since the other side took 50 minutes on their presentation. the couple of things to address. at the end of 5 minutes, we were trying to describe the alterations with would find satisfactory. i want to point out on the overhead that at the rear is a slight reduction in the size

it is going to cause a domino effect that is when to put -- that is going to put mcmansions into the avenue. i thought we had escaped that. with the recession, i thought it would not happen. urban renewal will not come to my neighborhood and this small corner of san francisco, like edgewood. this house is too massive. i live in a house with 30%. if we doubled our house footprint, which we could, we would obliterate four homes to the side into the back of us. we do not need to do that. i do not think this needs to be done. i think the backyards are as important as the streetscape, the front yards that everybody talks about character. please save my neighborhood. thank you very much. >> i am alan skolnikov. i have lived on edgewood since 1965. i have to experience as a would like to live with my neighbors. like to live with my neighbors. one is south of me, downhill of

maybe i won't buy a big mcmansion or something like that. i don't know. >> suarez: professor schiller, thanks for joining us. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. after days of quick advances, the rebels in libya were forced to retreat under heavy fire by moammar qaddafi's forces. syrian president bashar assad accepted the resignation of his entire cabinet, in a bid to calm pro-democracy protests. and the u.s. supreme court heard arguments on allowing a huge class action lawsuit against wal-mart over charges of sex discrimination. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the newshour online. hari? >> sreenivasan: there's more from miles about his visit to chernobyl. that's on the rundown. today's morning line has analysis from our political team on president obama's speech about libya. plus, we talked to correspondent lowell bergman about the money behind basketball's march madness. that's one of three stories on tonight's "frontline." also on the broadcast, more from martin smith's profile of wikileaks suspect private bradley ma