michael smith, planning department's staff. you have before you a staff- initiated request for discretionary review of a building permit proposing to construct a one-story commercial addition -- vertical addition and facade of alteration. as you know, this is a staff- initiated dr, which is rare. the reason we are putting this before you today is to do not feel it complies with residential design guidelines. in specific, we are asking for a 15-foot front setback. originally, the project came to us with pay a fairly large stair penthouse. that has since been removed. we also received additional letters of support from members on the street, 10 letters in total. there is support of their for this proposal. the owners have lived on the street for a long time and have talked to their neighbors. however, the department -- it is hard to take that into consideration, the fact that neighbors all support it. how we look at vertical editions is that we look at the pattern. we have two buildings on this block of day street, 11 of which ar

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