my name is noni. i am president of the small property commission of san francisco. the hughes are members of our organization, and they have asked me to appear. they definitely live in that house. i visited the property today. there are parking spaces all over the place. i saw two buildings facing two streets, and those buildings appeared to be totally unrelated to each other. there is a cute cottage on 19th street that sits in a sad state of repair, and it may continue so if they can't get a loan to rebuild it. there is no reason not to allow this to become two parcels. if it became two parcels, a bookkeeping procedure, there would not be any open space lost, no parking spaces lost, nothing lost. it will simply allow this property to become more livable. the people who were against the partition previously are apparently angry. they are trying to punish the owners. what they are really doing is shooting themselves and the rest of the neighbors in the foot. the neighborhood has a dare electricity property. it is time to partition the property. to separate that reque

dick, millet, noni, jill webber -- i apologize if i am not pronouncing your name correctly. angela, jackie gorman, shannon gorman, fleesh feng. please step forward. you have two minutes. >> hello. i live right next door to the old house. i also have a lot that is 100 by 25. my house is 1892, and i was not in the city at the time that the 1976 decision was made

all the tenants move out and nonis in the building, how long would it fake to affect what you need to do to make it seismically safe? >> right now, probably no less than six months. every time you ask a structural engineer how long it will take, we always respond six months, but in this case it actually would take six months. there is the retaining wall, the staging and the curing process, and the structural steel. we are ordering the structural steel ahead of time. as commissioner garcia mentioned, we will be working closely with a reputable, fully bonded and insured contractor that is going to be keeping up abreast of all the elements of construction. we in turn will tell the tenants if there are any deviations from the previously agreed schedules and plans. >> can you estimate sort of by percentage how much the cost would increase if the tenants were to stay in the building? >> that is a good question. i think it was asked, and given the nature of that settlement, i want to venture to say it could be maybe 25% more than we would in order nearl spend for an effort like this. there i

dick, millet, noni, jill webber -- i apologize if i am not pronouncing your name correctly. angela, jackie gorman, shannon gorman, fleesh feng. please step forward. you have two minutes. >> hello. i live right next door to the old house. i also have a lot that is 100 by 25. my house is 1892, and i was not in the city at the time that the 1976 decision was made to add a new address to the same block. because it was the first address when i moved in there was 1120 19th street. there were chickens out front. when i came back three years later, there was a house there. the house, i thought, was not allowed to be there. now since, there was a new addition. the new addition was made just recently. if they knew that they were going to ask for a division of property, why did they make it 40 feet high? they could have divided it. also, they said there were two parking spaces in their application because there were two houses and that is what was part of the application. now if they separate it, there is no parking space for the smaller house. there are all these other problems that h