third, the general contractor ken gwon is not a rogue contractor. he has never been cited for exceeding the scope of permits in his 15 plus years of working in san francisco. fourth, the 2014 plans approved by the planning department and d.b.i. called for removal of the vast majority of the existing structure and a small portion of the work exceeded the scope in the approved plans for life safety reasons. fifth, the general contractor who is also a licensed structural engineer made judgments giving field conditions to remove structure elements he felt posed life safety hazards. dangers that cause injury or death to construction workers. the general contractor submitted affidavit describing what he encountered and i would be happy to answer questions of the element that's were in danger of collapse and why he had to act without shutting down the job. we wish the sequence of events in the field could be been different even though the end result of removing structure elements would have been exactly the same. unfortunately, the decision by the general c