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1 be a place -- there was a public comment which a member
2 of the public said that in her estimation, because the
3 basement was out of the ground above grade, you know,
4 that it should be counted as a story.
5 You know, so we have not been counting this
6 as a story. I think we've actually counted it as a
7 basement, and because the Coastal -- I do believe the
8 Coastal code requires that buildings be two story, not
9 three, not four. I'm willing to give up No. 4.
10 But in order to get that clarified for
11 myself, given that what we're saying is a basement is
12 now above grade, even part of is above grading that's
13 being proposed, how do we make a determination that we
14 don't count that as a story?
15 MS. BLACK: That's a different question than
16 what I thought you were going to ask. I think what the
17 speaker said was it should count as FAR because -- and I
18 think that's just not correct. It's still a basement
19 whether --
20 MS. GOTTSDANKER: That's accurate. She did
21 tag on at the end of her statement the thing about
22 stories, and it also came up in some written
23 documentation we'd gotten in letters. I think it comes
24 up in the Coastal -- specifically in the Coastal Law
25 Group letter where they have -- I think it's in that
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