appeal number 17-189, the property's at 524 to 528 valencia street protesting the judgment given to nilesh patel, remodifications to rear firescape drop-down ladder, and we will start with the appellant. please step forward, you have seven minutes to present your case. >> my name is joe kenas. i'm a tenant at the crown hotel. the construction that alternated the fire escape without a building permit on the 12th of april 2017 was done just to remove the fire escape on the ground floor to favor the restaurant there. the contention that i'm setting forward is that the california fire code from 2016, page 274 states exactly what is possible from the determination of a fire escape or a large capacity building, large occupancy. the crown has generally about 50 beds and about three or four of those rooms are usually double occupancy and in addition to that, there's also people that are staffed there without beds. there's night watch or desk clerks, so it's well over 50. the california fire code insists, on page 274, under the 1104.16.6, the determination must go to the ground in the form of a stairway