Politics, the official agreement with the community should be honored and signed. Honorable commissioners, my name is charles moser. And as you heard, i live a few doors away. I am also a charter member of the focc. And founding member, which has had other names over the years. And but we have always been involved with and improving fair oaks street and the Community Around it. We are not a bunch of pranks who like to complain about the real estate issues and to come before the board. We most recently won a justice award from the District Attorneys Office for assisting substan hally some survivors of sexual attacks in and around our street. We are interested in the neighborhood improvement. And when we heard that this some what decrepid building was going to be redone and turned into a residence, we were happy about it and we were interested in what the developers were doing. And we entered into a good faith agreement and it was signed off by the Planning Department and mr. Wang. I hav
to agree to the dr. i was in the president last year and i was involved in the whole process and the thing for me here is that this is a very robust community development. and this is a project where we spent a lot of time with the architect and the developer. it is tragic that a set of developers could renovate and this should not be the set up and to the extent that whatever you end up deciding getses memorialized that will be a plus. project sponsor you with five minutes. i am the attorney for the project sponsors. first of all they did push this and did not apply for a permit because they honestly did not understand the planning process in san francisco and having lived there for 27 years and it is something that is alien to the experience. and now, they came they were told that they were told that they cannot do anything, and they were moving it and they were surprised and i advised them to immediately apply for a permit to ask for permission, and they did that. i
faith agreement and it was signed off by the planning department and mr. wang. i have made many improvements to my house over 40 years and i have always followed the process of a permit and it is seeums burdensome dealing with the city process but i respect the process and this is a density populated city. we have to have some way of doing these things. and i report the necessity for it so i am asking you to up hold the design request, and adhere to the original agreement, which we all entered into in good faith. thank you. thank you. my name is gary goal and i live on fair oaks street. i also sent in a letter which was aparently not noted in the planning department package that was on-line. but also a nearby neighbor that was involved in the discussions with the developer and the architect over, and i ask you to agree to the dr. i was in the president last year and i was involved in the whole process and the thing for me here is that this is a very robust community d
i was in the president last year and i was involved in the whole process and the thing for me here is that this is a very robust community development. and this is a project where we spent a lot of time with the architect and the developer. it is tragic that a set of developers could renovate and this should not be the set up and to the extent that whatever you end up deciding getses memorialized that will be a plus. project sponsor you with five minutes. i am the attorney for the project sponsors. first of all they did push this and did not apply for a permit because they honestly did not understand the planning process in san francisco and having lived there for 27 years and it is something that is alien to the experience. and now, they came they were told that they were told that they cannot do anything, and they were moving it and they were surprised and i advised them to immediately apply for a permit to ask for permission, and they did that. it is twofold, one is
that floor are 6 feet per the mandated plans. we bought this house in good faith looking forward to the next stage of our lives and everything that behave done has been in good faith as well. we never intentionally violated any city rules and i would like to end with the cover letter of the e-mail that mr. segal s former president of the focc sent to the commissioners. he wrote to me just early they are week, i really struggled with how the process that we went there prior to our ownership and also support your totally reasonable desire for a larger deck and i think that he even acknowledges that it is a reasonable desire for this, thank you. the last speaker in support of the sponsor? my name is alegra and i am a student at uc berkeley across the bay. but, i consider 201 fair oaks san francisco is to be my family home i often come here on weekends and i bring friends home with me sometimes from school and i have a lot of friends in the area as well. but i am also here