people who afford to pay for this and they would rather live in san francisco than somewhere on the peninsula or outside san francisco and marin but there isn t a big stock of these homes and buying an older home is a lot more expensive proposition because you buy the older home and have to pay a lot for that and put a lot of money into upgrading a 1925 openly which oftentimes has not been, you know, brought up to date so they re looking for this type of product. and i would agree with staff we need some design changes. this is really knowy valley and know it s on the border with diamond heights but clearly is with nowie valley and it was changed a few years ago and gold mine comes down in a culdesac from diamond heights. but should reflect the style in nowie valley and looked at the stuff that s been built more recently and the ones built in the 1990 s wasn t too bad but the single family home built in 2011, maybe it s a bad picture of it, but i don t think it s very good, m
2007, february, when we actually did the formal application, there was never any indication the department wanted anything higher density than what we proposed and it wasn t until july 2009, over two years later, that, you know, the planning department mentioned they wanted a higher density. and even then in our discussions with r.d.t., i was not convinced there was an overwhelming staff support for the six units. and i think at the time r.d.t. had some strong personalities which i believe are no longer there. also, i d like to point out we held two neighborhood meetings for the project, and there was no opposition from the neighbors, and in the presentation that we made to them, it was always presented as a four-unit project and now to go back and say that we have to put six units when the neighbors are opposed to nothing being done and going from four to six is probably going to be a difficult thing to pass through to the neighbors. also, increasing density will also make t