my name is serena calhoun. i'm a local architect. i've been working for several years on things related to this property. the owners asked me to take a look at the proposed development. several of my clients do this regularly and generally, when i look at them, i just advised them it meet does the planning code, it doesn't, don't bother filing a dr if their concerns are invalid. in this case, when i looked at the proposed development, i was surprised to see planning support for a couple of reasons. one is there's a very significant height differential between the two properties and on either side of this, and in my experience planning is required additional building oz planning step downs. it seemed like the building was much taller than it needed to be. there also -- we in theed that the ceiling heights asome of m other projects, i've had a lot of planning comments about not having stairs continue to the roof deck. i've been required on many projects over the past several years to just do a roof patch, and here we have both stairs a

my name is serena calhoun. i'm going to speak to the items that are related to the project itself, and then let the property owner and manager speak to some of the complaints that are related to maintenance and rent-lease issues because they're kind of outside my purview. as it relates to the project, the issues raised by the tenants are related, the majority, to the trash area, and as referenced earlier, we did start out in looking at providing a trash room in the lobby. okay. so i'm just going to do a little preliminary plan on the left here, you can see the basement plan, and i've highlighted in red the two trash chutes. you enter at the grade level. the lobby is on the level, and the trash cans are in these two units. you can see that the site slopes really dramatically, so from the street where you enter, there's a full story down where the units are, and so these trash units come down in the basement, and here, you can see the trash chute, and this opening you see behind it is essentially the front door t