. >> good evening, commissioners, my name is patrick buskovich, i was retained two years ago on this house and during the last two years this project went from a de facto demolition to remodel so i'm quite taken aback that people have said that this project is big. during my tenure it's been scaled down dramatically to now --. >> are you part of the project team? are you the engineer for the project? >> i was the engineer doing the soundness report but there is no longer a soundness report because there is not a demolition. >> you are not retained by the owner, though. >> when i was retained this house needed over $300,000 worth of work. during this hearing no one said it but it was in the dr briefs that this is an affordability issue. no one said it today because that's ridiculous. my family all lives within a thousand yards of this house. we own about 6 residences here. we're natives of the city. if you look up this alley you will see probably the smallest house in the neighborhood, which is earthquake shack no. 26. it's not skewed. the problem with this house, and it has a fundame