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1 that visually depicts a segment of this.
2 MR. BIERIG: How about Exhibit 5.03M? That
3 might be it. That's not the one. That one's not bad.
4 MR. BRIGGS: This is a good section used for
5 this discussion. This dashed line right here is the
6 existing grade.
7 MR. BIERIG: Right.
8 MS. GOTTSDANKER: So we have 50 percent above
9 existing grade.
10 MS. ALMY: Mr. Chair, Commissioners, I'll
11 import the fact that our height is now measured from
12 finished grade. You can see what finished grade is, and
13 it surrounds that garage area.
14 MS. BLACK: The definition doesn't talk about
15 existing grade. It's above the average level of the
16 adjoining ground. I think it's finished grade.
17 MR. BIERIG: I think it probably is as well.
18 Finished grade makes sense. But we can look at Jameson
19 as a potential method for measuring from since the rest
20 of it is fill because, if you put a building on top of a
21 hill, you can build it as tall as you want. Let's look
22 at 5.03M.
23 MS. BLACK: I do think it's important, while
24 looking at this, to realize that the definition says
25 "shall be counted as a story if more than one half of
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