i declined because of the proximity of my home to this site when i was called back against by alice barkley they needed avoidance to move things along from the planning department i looked at the record and thought that was time to end this those are my neighbors as well variance decision is based on pretty simple set of facts it is like the sightings of the home and which is toward the rear of the lot in fact a portion of the home is in the rear yard before we started what you have in front of you i'm going to try this gadget i brought ambassador if it works mr. rubbing benefit it will help us more mr. pacheco. >> okay. so what we have here shaded what is code compliant building portion of the lot that this homes adds to it is the front and west that was part of defining features of what is a preservation asset yes, it is a contributor to a potential historic district but i'm going to tell you i've done 10 homes and every single has to deal with the issue and if the planning department wants to change it's approach a lot of people would be delighted it's not that but the fact it starts at