in the market batavia area there has been no formal housing of any kind. with the exception of octavia boulevard, there has been no affordable housing of any kind built in the market octavia, simultaneously built in the last quarterly pipeline report there are 270 units of housing proposed in that area. there is a critical need for unit production. the economics of production is one that feeds out every time. this is an alternative to allow for the increase of obligation to hold future developments. it is a second best in this important that we do not walk away. the technical questions that i have, out of the planning commission there was questioning about the formula. i might ask if you could ask the mayor's office of housing to clarify. the equivalency of doing this option verses anything else was sorted out in a 40/40 formula. i think that it is important that we hold -- hold that formula. i think it is important not to end up over-favoring one option or the other by abandoning that. beyond that, we were supportive but are curious to know what the speci

irene dumped more than 10 inches of rain into the batavia kill creek, in a matter of a couple hours. and as the water washed across the street here, check this out. the road just washes away. look at that telephone pole, or that car over in the hole. main street is wrecked. none of the 1,800 people who live in windham, new york had any idea what was about to happen as irene moved in. certainly not antonia schreiber. >> we thought we were going to lose electricity, at most. >> reporter: you didn't think you were going to lose your store? >> no. >> reporter: less than an hour later, the 26-year-old owner of this full-service day spa knew it would be far worse. >> it was coming down main street, it was a raging river. this little creek, which is still larger than normal, was gushing against that bridge at full force, and we saw the bridge and that was when we decided we had to evacuate. >> reporter: known as the city on the mountaintop, higher ground didn't help, as up to four feet of water went rushing through windham. 24 hours ago, where would the water be on us? up to our waists? >>

. >> reporter: this is windham, new york, a small town normally alongside the batavia kill creek. but irene's downpour joined town and river as one. >> the water is, like, picking up speed. >> reporter: john and linda schofield woke up to whitecaps across their front lawn, their river front main street home suddenly an island. no escape. their plight documented by a grainy cell phone camera, their only link to the outside. >> it's starting to come up high on the porch. >> things are really bad. >> reporter: how intense was this, linda? >> it was raging. i was shaking. it was so bad. >> reporter: in front of their eyes, windham was floating away. >> we were watching dumpsters, refrigerators, these huge propane tanks, shooting off propane. >> reporter: there was no warning. no evacuation orders. even the fire chief was surprised by the flash floods that put him and his rescue workers in four feet of water on main street. >> the current goes against you and it's unbelievable. you can't stand up, you know, it's unreal. >> reporter: it's like this all through the catskills -- >> make s