schuttish, because you have two appeals you have 14 minutes. >> i am georgia schuttish and i am the apellant and i am here to talk about relative affordability as it is in the planning code section 317d3c, subsection 9. that part of the planning code is all tieed up with demolition. you cannot have a demolition unless you check off that box. that box was checked off by the project sponsor in his affirmed document saying that the proposed single family dwelling protects the relative affordability of existing housing. i want to talk about how relative affordability of existing housing can be protected. but before i do that, i just want to describe the block to you because i think that's an important factor as well so you understand it. done can street is a dead end street, it's about 50 percent grade. if you were standing on the north side of duncan street you would see the following. you would see four single family, four peak roof homes going up the hill, and you would see the project site. currently the house is at the rear so there's an open lot, and you would see four more peak roof homes

what georgia, miss schuttish, explained from the beginning, we are looking at the issue of relative affordability. obviously san francisco is hardly affordable in the normal context. it is your job to decide what is relatively affordable. the idea of reducing the square footage feels very appropriate to me because of the ability to have a house that fits within the neighborhood context. obviously google maps can show you and the exhibits georgia put in her brief show very clearly while it's not a perfectly consistent neighborhood, there are primarily peaked roofs. right across, right next to it, it's like 8 on each side, practically. so the idea of putting a big modern box to add to that and to say that it's consistent, the subjectivity is so strong. so i do not see it as consistent. i understand the planning department has worked with them and there have been compromises, i appreciate that, but i still feel like the roof deck, the flatness and the massing both at the street and especially on the east wall, are not truly kupb sifrt stepbt with the neighborhood context. i think what about the gonz