mr. buscovich. actually, if you could wait for a commissioner to return, we will begin momentarily. vice president garcia: did you want to go to the bathroom? we will wait. i am assuming that is ok with madam president. president goh: that's fine. >> please go ahead. you have seven minutes. >> i will not be seven minutes. maybe other people will talk. the owners of my client's building are here. thank you very much. in a past life in the 1980's, i did wait too much shoring and underpinning and then i would want to do in my life. it is a shoring project. i have long since passed from that life, but i am familiar with the issues of underpinning. a little bit of history -- our project has had shoring and underpinning done on it. there is a permit to do work on their side of the property line, but they have underpinned our building under a permit. that altered our deck. they talked about tearing the deck in the back down. along the side property line, they altered our debt and done a temporary shoring. the current debt is the only way in for the tenant. it is along the canal supported a

mr. buscovich. >> i am property owner for the -- i am council for the property owner. my involvement in this case is relatively new, given the history of the dispute. this permit was told in the days shortly thereafter from reform retention. we did not have an opportunity to confer before this was told. we were not notified. there is a bigger principle that this order should be concerned about. the idea that someone can go into the department of building inspection and, over the counter, pay for a permit for someone else's property. it is contrary to code, policy, and there is a civil dispute that underlies this appeal. when not asking you to resolve it, to get involved in the settlement discussions. quite frankly, it is inappropriate for that to be in the other side's brief. it is not an appropriate subject of this body writ in the issues are the legal issues that were raised about the brief, the propriety of filing for a permit that crosses every property line, and the incorrect statements that stated there was no such work. does the building across the property line