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Commissioner borden . Aye. Commissioner hillis . Aye. Commissioner sugaya . Aye. Commissioner wu . Aye. Commission president fong . Aye. So moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously 6 to 0. Commissioners, it will place you on item 17 for case no. 2013. 0707dd for 133 17th avenue , request for discretionary review. Good evening, commissioner. I am David Lindsay from department staff. This case consists of two requests for discretionary review of a project that proposes a horizon addition at the rear of a twostory over basement singlefamily house located at 133 17th avenue in the inner richmond. The horizontal addition consists of a twostory component that extends approximately 101 2 feet beyond the buildings main rear wall. In a one story over crawl Space Component with a bay window that expands approximately 10 feet further. The proposed addition would be setback a ....
Wide by 120 feet deep is flat and located in the middle of the block between lake and california streets. Except for several rm1 zone lots california street at the end of the block, the block is zoned rh2 and is comprised of a mix of modest size singlefamily houses and some two unit and two multifamily buildings. The subject building is in the middle of a group of several singlefamily houses with similar front and side setbacks creating a pattern of spacing and design on the block base. The subject property and the adjacent property to the south each contain garage structures in their rear yards accessible through a shared driveway. Since the commission packets went out last week, the department received two emails and one phone call from neighbors in support of the project. And ill pass copies of the emails for the commissions review. Okay. First dr requestor. Oh, im sorry. The dr requestors are the immediate adjacent Property Owner ....
A continuity of development in this particular midblock area. I wish to address three things this afternoon. I want to talk about the neighborhood, the project, and our goals for today. In this neighborhood theres a clearly defined pattern of at the rear of all of the yards. I brought this aerial photograph which i believe youre all pretty much familiar with. Ive also put a red line across the center of the rear yards, the rear extensions of all the buildings. You can see that theres a clearly defined pattern here. And that there are side yards. We had seven homes that are all in this matter. If you go to the opposite side of the block on 18th its much similar. The only changes to this actually happen to be the houses have garages in the rear of the yards, both [speaker not understood] and the subject property. So, this has a Significant Impact on our air and light as well. In early january there was a preapplication meeting f ....