mr. bellder. >> good afternoon, president hillis, members of the commission. just in regard to 655 alvarado, which i heard some discussion earlier. if you look at the building code, demolition is defined as removing all of the building from the site down to foundation. that's why you can leave one stick and you're not demolished. but then if you look at the other definitions that the building inspectors have to enforce, like building, enclosure, shelter, if you look at all of those, once there are only two walls, like at alvarado street, it's no longer sheltering anything. a building is a shelter, if there's no building there, was it demolished? i think so. if you look at building area, you're allowed to calculate the building area between enjoining enclosing walls, but there are none there. if it's carport, you can calculate the area underneath the horizontal surface. there are none there. so i could list, and i will at the hearing on april 12th, how badly the building inspectors twist all of the definitions of the code to wrongly interpret only one. i'd like