house garden television network, you typically find buyers of homes looking for an open concept floorplan. as they look at late 1800 and early 1900 homes, it is inevitable that they do not find that open concept. here is a home that frank lloyd wright created in 1908 that has all of those open characteristics. southeast grand rapids, michigan, at the meyer may house that was designed by frank lloyd wright in 1908. we are told that it is the most comprehensively restored of his harry styles homes. frank lloyd wright was a very successful architect in 1908 when he was commissioned to build a house for a family. clothing a local merchant. his store was located in downtown and rapids. he was successful as a marketer. recognized forly being the first to display clothing on wooden hangers in a settiell -- retail ng. he was very aggressive and successful financially. those were very important if you are going to be a client of frank lloyd wright. he was going to design a home that is very different from the neighboring homes. having that progressive nature, having developed a thick skin that an

the third floor and presumably there will be setbacks that come along with this reversing of the floorplan to reduce the presumed shadowing. there is literally not enough space to provide adequate living areas per my clients requirements which are not excessive by my judgment. can i comment on tennis? if you look that shadow diagrams carefully you see this small third floor addition removes the [inaudible] being in and out of the shadow at moments of day and would make more fr a more equitable play, not always dividing the court. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you. so, this is a challenging one. normally with these projects i don't like to redesign single family homes but this is where we are looking at the protecting the public benefit of literally a park, like public open space and i'm challenged here because the layout of the park the only programmed space other than just a grassy knoll is where the shadow will be. the tennis court st. the only thing that is programmed space where you do a certain set of activities. i dont see any way of really reducing that impact other than not hav