just to confirm, there's no one here to speak on appeal 17-145, the bruce and nick leppla? h, you're speaking on them -- their behalf? [ inaudible ] >> are you miss curry, right? okay. i just wanted to make sure there was no one here to speak for the lepplas, so go ahead, and you can be next. >> good evening. >> hi. good evening. five weeks ago, along with four other neighbors that came here for help and asked you for some guidance, and we were here to protest demolition and rebuild of a building in sea cliff. and it was great, we talked about presentation and the appreciation of all the buildings in sea cliff. i still think about that free man building, the house that you mentioned, mr. swig, and just the differences there. and the take away that i walked away with from that meeting was twofold. essentially the architecture and the contemporary design was fine, and the last thing i heard, was work together as a group. if not, we'll do it for you. we're back here today to say i think we need some help and for you to do it for this group. essentially, it's been five weeks sin