. >> so -- so you can see that the project site and sites to the west are zoned rm 1 and occupied by apartment buildings, but all buildings to the north are zoned rh 1 and are single-family homes. 27 street slopes very steep doe down towards cost row -- steeply down twoerts castro. the slope conditions and key lot configurations result in the facing elevations appearing like very tall monolithic walls in the back yards of primarily single-family homes, and this is exactly why we have asked for significant terracing and sculpting and so did rdat. you can also see from this graphic, you can sort of see the impact of the walls, and the impact to privacy. they're both on cesar chavez, cesar chavez and castro where we have impact to our privacy, both -- and to our back windows and to our back yards. so the problems are the project removes two big boxlike, and it does not respect the surrounding lower density soaping, the surrounding one and two-unit homes, the site topography, the effects of the unit size on housing and affordability, direct. it does create sight lines directly into castro

one more thing interesting about the pac heights one -- it's zoned rm-1. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. mr. bus. >> afternoon, commissioners, steven bus. sorry i haven't been around for a couple of weeks, especially my apologies to commissioner richards. i wish i would have been here to answer your question about that nato green article. i'm still working on research to provide response to it. hopefully i will have that shortly. i want to talk about two prior things. first, when mr. david was talking about water usage, he said, makes sense that we useless in san francisco because we don't have lawns, things like that. and i want to highlight -- nearly 50% of water usage in sprawling, outlying areas goes to outdoor usage. he's right, the reason we use so much less is partly because we don't have lawns and prioritize native plans that need very little active irrigation. the more people we fit into san francisco, the more the benefits become clear. instead of having 100 new lawns, you just have one building with one small sid

. >> commissioner moore: i'm interested in seeing the zoning to rm-2. i think it's a great idea. i think it would probably be in the best interest for us to have an inquiry to caltrans and somebody else to figure out what is happening here. i believe that the staff's position of maintaining the sidewalk is accurate, but given the uncertainty about the bulb-out, it's a different story. so we need that information to support this in its entirety. >> vice president melgar: commissioner koppel? >> commissioner koppel: i agree. i don't think we have all the information. is there a bus stop there? i'm thinking that maybe it's taking the place of that. and i think a pedestrian was killed on that middle section last year, so maybe they're trying to re-engineer that. >> vice president melgar: ms. hoe hams. msms. ms. mohan, can you said some light on this? >> there is a bulb-out that's been proposed before, but they sped up the work due to the pedestrian fatality that was mentioned. and it's a larger effort for it to be repaved. so sfmta has been working with caltrans and public works on t