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Pressman ship. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is andy levine. I am an architect, i live in the 400 block of 29th street, three doors down from the property. My family has lived there for 22 years now, and we have been very excited that theres to be a project to take away this abandoned building that is more than 20 years that has been empty. We saw the drawings for the project, for the first time last wednesday. It was not mailed out, as part of the 311 process because of the conditional use area i left a message for mr. Townes, he did not call me back. We left an email, week later he replied to the email. It turns out they were the wrong drawings area their outdated drawings area he sent us updated drawings, they are very close. So, for the last week it has been a hectic time to try to elicit a response from the neighbors to talk about what we thought the project was good or bad. In the process, i did send to the commission the petition that we have
And do some vital programming for the programs and families that are going to be moving into the area. We support this project and the market octavia amendment. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am a hays valley resident and a longterm supporter of market and octavia. When this was coming up and talking about 400foot towers, they would say you support this . Yes, i do. This is the transit hub. So to much criticism from some people, i was an aggressive supporter of all of this. I think some of what concerns me about this in addition to some technical points and the points raised by the other speakers about the adequacy of muni and other things like that for services, when the proposal to raise some of the 400foot towers was first voiced, it was look at the esthetic of this tower with 400foot towers. We can do thinner, elegant, beautiful, very tight and its going to really look gorgeous. Well get some extra housing out of it. Isnt that good . Yeah, that sounds good. However, as its deve
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Rather than a static sculpture and do some vital programming for the programs and families that are going to be moving into the area. We support this project and the market octavia amendment. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am a hays valley resident and a longterm supporter of market and octavia. When this was coming up and talking about 400foot towers, they would say you support this . Yes, i do. This is the transit hub. So to much criticism from some people, i was an aggressive supporter of all of this. I think some of what concerns me about this in addition to some technical points and the points raised by the other speakers about the adequacy of muni and other things like that for services, when the proposal to raise some of the 400foot towers was first voiced, it was look at the esthetic of this tower with 400foot towers. We can do thinner, elegant, beautiful, very tight and its going to really look gorgeous. Well get some extra housing out of it. Isnt that good . Yeah, that so