i am representing the appellants, , foster, -- margaret foster, sherida ireton, and sheriann ireton. relief they are looking for from the board. the appellants filed this appeal for the very narrow issue of assuring that the permit holder, john britton, who is also the owner and the landlord of this, does not use this permit in order to eliminate the appellants' long-term laundry facilities at this. they recognize and have never disputed that the notice of violations issued by the department of building inspection do, in fact, identified and list serious problems with conditions of the decks and the stairs at this property. on top of that, the appellants welcome repair work if it is in the scope that he will conduct pursuant to this permit. they welcome that repair work to actually abate these notices of violation. it is very important that the board understand that that is not an issue here at all. the only issue here, once again, is that based on permit holder's communications with appellants based on the permit holders lack of response to the appellants' fears over the last few mo

tried to point out in the brief, even the notice of violations do not address any issues with sherida ireton's on ground service porch. if i read this correctly along with the pictures that were submitted by the permit holder, the issues here have to deal with the post's leading up to the top floor deck or service porch on the second unit, the deterioration and the rotting of the top floors service porch, and sherida, who would be most impacted by the elimination, her apartment is on the bottom floor. it is their position that her laundry facilities should not be interrupted temporarily even during the repair because there is no repair work to abate a notice of violation that would go to her facility. the upstairs are different. there definitely is repair work that they would need to move their washer and dryer prior to the permit holder being able to make the repairs, but we do strongly believe that after those repairs are finished, those laundry facilities should be put back in their position just like they have been from prior to ms. foster moving here into the premises, which was 1967. the

i personally have written a reasonable accommodation letter on behalf of sherida ireton and sheriann ireton over one month ago. he has never responded. these are separate issues but a pattern of practice which has brought us here. once again, the narrow issue is that the opponents would like the board to preserve their longstanding laundry facilities. i understand this is not aesthetically pleasing to the permit holder. he probably would like to sell the property for a profit, and it does not look great. i also understand that for whatever reason the house will was no likelihood prohibit this and will likely be an ongoing issue, but the fact of the matter is that the laundry facilities have been there for over 50 years. these tenants have lived their respective weafer and 1967, 1973, and 1981. there has never been an issue with these laundry facilities, even when the notorious landlord -- this has only become an issue since the permit holder purchased the properties calm and it became an issue two days, well, one week after he purchased the properties, and then the tenants spent the