additionally, the stair penthouse at the roof should be reduced to only the minimum height and width required as necessary required by the building and fire code. this concludes my presentation and i'm happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you mr. winslow. we will now hear from the d.c. >> hand them to me. >> thank you, very much. my name is chat hamilton and i'm a resident at 202cortland avenue. i'm here to speak ton behalf of my neighbors who oppose this project. first, i want to say that we support additional housing. especially more affordable housing. but we believe the four-storey project such as this has very negative impacts on cortland avenue and on our neighborhood. first of all, it's dramatically out of scale with the surrounding neighborhood. it's more than double the average height of other buildings in our neighborhood. we fear it would lead to increased demolition of existing one and two-storey buildings in our thriving neighborhood commercial area. because of the unique street and block grid, the project will have extreme negative impacts on its neighbors

that is not even being addressed i believe, also, that the stair penthouse. >> they took it away. >> but it is not shown in drawing form yet. it is not sean -- own indrawing form. if you make the penthouse smaller, and that would be basically chopping it off from the east side, the wide catalogue that looks like a long rectangular deck would have to become much narrower. rather then looking like another leg to an already very large deck, which create privacy issues for people on the adjoining street. i think this project has so many little tweaks and tax that i would like to see worked out before i approve it and i would like to suggest this drawing needs to be properly drawn, redrawn, potentially considered doing three units on three floors and creating units which eliminates the second stair. i read in the business times a few weeks ago that the market was closing and i did not at all bring it into the context of this particular project. i said it spoke about another butcher closing. there was one on polk street that just closed a few weeks ago it mentioned this one as closing as w