mr. winslow's magic.[laughter]. >> i will say that, you know, the thing about the commercial space, i worry quite a bit about our commercial space around the city, particularly places like cortland, 24th street, ocean avenue, that have these older, one-story retail spaces. because it is not good for businesses today. businesses are competing with amazon and increasingly, you know, we want to keep our commercial spaces vibrant, but when you don't have an internet connection because the wiring is old and the plumbing doesn't work, it affects the entire health of the commercial corridor, and so, you know, i think that having a project that will rebuild the commercial space and add housing units in an infill project that works, that is not displacing an existing business, that is what i want to see, you know, i want over time, to preserve the character of the neighborhood, but the physical space has to be workable for the businesses or they will go under. we are seeing that all over the city. i support having

mr. winslow. we will now hear from the d.c. >> hand them to me. >> thank you, very much. my name is chat hamilton and i'm a resident at 202cortland avenue. i'm here to speak ton behalf of my neighbors who oppose this project. first, i want to say that we support additional housing. especially more affordable housing. but we believe the four-storey project such as this has very negative impacts on cortland avenue and on our neighborhood. first of all, it's dramatically out of scale with the surrounding neighborhood. it's more than double the average height of other buildings in our neighborhood. we fear it would lead to increased demolition of existing one and two-storey buildings in our thriving neighborhood commercial area. because of the unique street and block grid, the project will have extreme negative impacts on its neighbors. impacts of privacy and massing, shadows. we request the commission limit this project to three-storeys. this would lessen the project's negative impact and align with