my name is peter subert, and i live at 801 castro, so directly kroot from this proposal. -- across the street from this proposal. i attempted to sent copies of this on tuesday. my comments are in those. so there's just a few points i want to make. we do feel that this is grossly oversized. my numbers just niggling around was that it was ae just a 60% average of a noe valley family house, and it's being put into a space that has a lot of challenges on its own that make it move forward and then it's this rectangular behemoth structure. it's like sitting behind a refrigerator. it is block a lot of the views. from our house in particular, we can see out to roosevelt hill in our version of the painted ladies down castro street, and those would be completely blocked. and then, i don't know what the rationale for granting variances is. i was reading something that says there's a practical and unnecessary hardship, and it seems like all this is just to make a larger unit to the advantage of a single developer, and that's going to be to the detriment of the appearance of the neighborhood and ev