i had numerous conversations with mr. matchen and he never told me what is acceptable and you will see in my submittal and this type of building is and articulated and unbroken and this a collaboration between the staff and the neighbors that live there and the design team and we're asking for the commission's support of this project. thank you. i would like to bring up the project architect and i believe also that the project sponsor mr. strickland is going to say a few words. >> good evening. dave sternberg . i really don't have that much to add. i assume you have looked at the drawings of the builng

i had numerous conversations with mr. matchen and he never told me what is acceptable and you will see in my submittal and this type of building is and articulated and unbroken and this a collaboration between the staff and the neighbors that live there and the design team and we're asking for the commission's support of this project. thank you. i would like to bring up the project architect and i believe also that the project sponsor mr. strickland is going to say a few words. >> good evening. dave sternberg . i really don't have that much to add. i assume you have looked at the drawings of the buildings and that you understand the situation. again i am just reiterating quickly. we worked as hard as we could through all of the processes, meeting all of the neighbors, the neighborhood groups. we have gone through a couple of major revisions of this project to satisfy planning staff and a lot of the udat input. we feel it's a great project. in fact there's some neighbors here also to support the project. we feel very stron

in between the buildings which will actually allow the light coming from the southern end to reach mr. matchen's building here and the half lot here and that was the thought to take the height away from the rear yard and the windows in the rear that account for most of the light to that building, so we have been trying to engage and find solutions and we weren't able to and we are respectfully asking the commission to send this project forward as is. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay, the public hearing is closed and opening it up to commissioners. commissioner antonini. >> mr. cabreros i have a couple of questions. dr requester brought up some points and i don't know enough about the code to make a decision without you helping me on it. he claims when you have a situation with two buildings on a lot that goes through between streets that you need to have the same configuration on both sides. is that true or false? >> well, there are provisions of the code when that pattern is established of both buildings on either side of a through lot and that pattern exists that lot development can