i think there might be ways to solve the problem. up to now, there has been no attempt to solve it with design considerations. thank you. president fong: second d.r. requestor. good evening. my name is scott seligman. i am part owner of the home. i apologize for being here. with your enormous responsibilities that you have to mediate between two one percenters arguing over expanding a huge home to a larger home. i tried to compromise and failed. i am sorry. peter fenton is a brilliant venture capitalist. not yet 40, a general partner at benchmark capital. that is a leading venture capital firm in silicon valley. he is self effacing and a practicing catholic triathlete. his wife is a graduate of harvard and yale law school. the architect is one of the leading builders of a great city. these are the best and the brightest, a credit to our society. i am at a loss by their attitude in this project. this is no david and goliath struggle. it is goliath versus goliath. i own com
larger home. i tried to compromise and failed. i am sorry. peter fenton is a brilliant venture capitalist. not yet 40, a general partner at benchmark capital. that is a leading venture capital firm in silicon valley. he is self effacing and a practicing catholic triathlete. his wife is a graduate of harvard and yale law school. the architect is one of the leading builders of a great city. these are the best and the brightest, a credit to our society. i am at a loss by their attitude in this project. this is no david and goliath struggle. it is goliath versus goliath. i own commercial property in the city and have developed property in the city. i own sterling break sterling bank and trust. we have 14 branches in our community. we frequently have to deal with securing permits and working with community groups. our commercial and residential loan portfolio in san francisco is $500 million. we consider ourselves the largest community bank in the city. as a matter of principl
look directly into a bedroom. it was just a question of privacy. they have agreed to do that. the had also agreed to do the opaque one window that looks into the living room of mr. wulfe s property. i understand if you are not able to do that legally. but that was something we have agreed. it was two windows. the third window, item number one, the have also agreed to do that. it does not bother me for the privacy of their tenants, if they want us looking into their property. that is their prerogative. we can do that. i do not have a problem with it. my big concern was that it was finally the window. every time somebody walked by, our dogs would go crazy. that is the rest, i think. i think everything else is ok. commissioner antonini: i have a question for staff about item three, which mr. marquez was referring to. is it true that there is a requirement to remove this partially constructed deck, or not? from my understanding, the deck was made illegally. i guess when i was
with this. is there an architect? not present. bad mistake. ver bad very bad mistake. your other mistake was buying a property that had a lien on it you did not know about. either you did not look at your papers, or you have an incompetent real-estate agent. third bad mistake was not dealing constantly with your neighbors, who you knew. this does not work, as far as i am concerned. it does not work at all. if you want a commission to deal with something, the purchase the property was non-conforming, that had work done without a permit, and you expected to go ahead without any actual people to work with you or testified to this commission that our experts in the field. i cannot deal with this. it should not be in front of us in the first place. commissioner sugaya: i would agree to the comments from the commissioners before me. on the other san on the other hand, there are certain conditions i cannot except either. opaque windows are not going to make it with me. forcing t