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The appropriate plantings there and encourage the project sponsor to eliminate the stair penthouse. Second. Commissioner fung . Commissioner moore . Mr. Lum, could you explain why the unit that is on the top, which now gets the roof deck, and i agree with the shaping of the roof deck and the possible elimination of the penthouse, why does it also need to have a deck the lower level . The main level . That is correct. It accentuates we had to do a setback for that because of the 30foot, 10 foot rule that says if you are doing in averaging of the rear, the building cannot be any taller than 30 f...

Nice job assessing the project against the citys residential design guidelines, which is the framework that should be assessed. And the other thing i would observe is the abutting neighbors on the east and west seem to support the project. It seems the Planning Department was constructive in terms of bringing people together in an inherently process that we have. I just want to say that intend no disrespect to my neighbors who have concerns and issues about it. Its a small neighborhood and we pass each other so i want to acknowledge to disrespect against their viewpoints and the comments and c...

Doing that kind of work. Thinking you have to know everything is not what people expect have you, but they expect you to ask questions when you dont know and thats important. My mom was diagnosed with cancer. That was really difficult. She encouraged me to go to school because in case anything happened i would be able to protect myself. I wanted to be in oncology. I thought going to school it would set me for the trajectory and prepare me for my life. We need the hardships to some of the things that are going to ultimately be your strength in the future. There is no way to map that out and no ...

In addition to, you know, the Research Work that you had done for the adobe project, and the work the amazing work for the cultural districts, which as you know, i was the sponsor of the legislation. So i can not tell you how important that so to me and how much i appreciate that work. In terms of sort of the Technical Work around Historic Preservation, can you describe any other circumstances or in addition to that circumstance, exactly how youve interacted with our city and with the Historic Preservation commission and advocating for the preservation of either a building or a community. Okay...

Remember the fire. I was i across the street watching the fire go up. It was a pretty good fire. He was going up the fire escape, the ladder and im watching him. I could literally see it going six inches back and forth, hes got 70 pounds, with tank and everything, loaded down. So i happened to see him later. I asked him, [laughter], i said, did you i said you must have felt he said, yeah, it was just rotten. Being the firefighter, he kept going. He didnt say i cant go up there, its rotten. And he was breaking a hole in the roof and was very important to get that fire out. But i thought thats w...