. >> president melgar: thank you, mr. drury. commissioner diamond? >> commissioner diamond: could the city attorney please respond to the legal arguments made by mr. drury? >> sure. in no particular order, the -- the -- the department was following the direction -- the department was authorized to step up the environmental review following the cadx. an initial study would have been the next step, and finding environmental impacts. the mitigated neg dec could have been an appropriate action if the commission decides that the mitigation measures are sufficient. it is true that the legal standard is whether or not there is substantial evidence to support a fair argument, but substantial evidence must be based on evidence in the record. and so it is up to this commission to determine whether the opinions and statements by the appellants are, in fact, based on evidence in the record. >> may i a . >> commissioner diamond: may i ask a follow up question? >> president melgar: yes, please. >> commissioner diamond: mr. drury claimed that the mitigation measure

. >> president melgar: thank you, mr. drury. >> clerk: and mr. drury, you repair who? >> philip kaufman, owner and resident of 2421 green street. >> president melgar: thank you. we will now hear from appellant number two. >> okay. i'm speaking on behalf of susan berg and mike lamphart. they live adjacent to 2417. they're in this white house that you can see on this -- that you can see on the map, and i'm going to read their testimony. i know there's a crunch time here, but i owe them that. we recognize the right of the property owners to improve their homes. we have remodelled our house and many of our neighbors have done so, but we have gone about it in a fairway. we followed city regulations and policies and the cow hollow guidelines and worked with our neighbors. when we remodelled our home, we did so within the existing footprint and building envelope. what the developer has done is the complete opposite of this. instead of playing fair and by the rules, he has done work without permits, has disregarded the neighbors' concerns and has prepared plans that are incons

the language that mr. drury put up on the screen is there may be an impact, and directed them to do an environmental analysis. and that impact was found that lisa mentioned, and the mitigation is for an extra level of review of the plans. it's not an extra level of review when there's dirt falling on the site, it's an extra level of review of the plans. which as commissioner johnson says is the normal process, and we are saying we're adding a level of review to the normal process of reviewing structural plans. so number one. we've done exactly what the board asked us to do, and i was in discussions with supervisor stefani, and that was clarified. and number two, those plans are the only real way of knowing what happens on the project. there isn't any other act of mitigation that we can give you today that says to something different with the structural plans. we are not the ones to do that. that is why when the plans go forward, they are reviewed by d.b.i. the other minor thing i want to clarify, the crown terra

the language that mr. drury put up on the screen is there may be an impact, and directed them to do an environmental analysis. and that impact was found that lisa mentioned, and the mitigation is for an extra level of review of the plans. it's not an extra level of review when there's dirt falling on the site, it's an extra level of review of the plans. which as commissioner johnson says is the normal process, and we are saying we're adding a level of review to the normal process of reviewing structural plans. so number one. we've done exactly what the board asked us to do, and i was in discussions with supervisor stefani, and that was clarified. and number two, those plans are the only real way of knowing what happens on the project. there isn't any other act of mitigation that we can give you today that says to something different with the structural plans. we are not the ones to do that. that is why when the plans go forward, they are reviewed by d.b.i. the other minor thing i want to clarify, the crown terra

. >> president melgar: thank you, mr. drury. >> clerk: and mr. drury, you repair who?> philip kaufman, owner and resident of 2421 green street. >> president melgar: thank you. we will now hear from appellant number two. >> okay. i'm speaking on behalf of susan berg and mike lamphart. they live adjacent to 2417. they're in this white house that you can see on this -- that you can see on the map, and i'm going to read their testimony. i know there's a crunch time here, but i owe them that. we recognize the right of the property owners to improve their homes. we have remodelled our house and many of our neighbors have done so, but we have gone about it in a fairway. we followed city regulations and policies and the cow hollow guidelines and worked with our neighbors. when we remodelled our home, we did so within the existing footprint and building envelope. what the developer has done is the complete opposite of this. instead of playing fair and by the rules, he has done work without permits, has disregarded the neighbors' concerns and has prepared plans that are inconsis

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