they could have done a letter of determination, david lindsey recommended it, and they didn't do it. there is no formal interpretation written down that says that the garage can be a living space. >> okay, we can take rebuttal from the permit holder. >> for the project and as the zoning administrator, clearly stated, the planning is filing when it comes to the property line trees and we are not, we are going to take all of the precautions when it comes to the excavation, we have an arborist and they have their expert and my client is perfectly willing to invite their experts during that excavation, and we know a great deal about this site. the building, was completed in 2006. and we have pictures that clearly describe the cross section of the soil, and the 21 inches of planting soil, and the rest is bed rock, and the roots are on that surface, and on the top layer. and we will be doing the excavation, very cautiously, and we will have our soils engineer and our arborist review the conditions of the encroaching roots and this is not a planning issue, this is a issue of implementation

and in this particular case, they felt that an office/study would be fine and we send them to david lindsey at scott sanchez asking and they were sent to david and he is the head quadrant of that district because they thought that it was special enough and he confirmed that we could do that and for this particular jurisdiction we did not need a 311, so we did not need neighborhood notification or anything like that, but of course, he suggested that we should do out reach to the neighbors, which andrea and peter did do, they talked to the neighbors and talked to them about the plan and specifically this neighbor and showed them the drawings and which have not changed i will cory address the issue of it being too tall and we have drawings that were approved and shows the natural grade and how the addition is no more than 3 feet above grade and it is invisible to everybody and it is literally an underground room and i think that is mainly the two things that i would like to say, thank you. >> if you have any questions. >> i do. did you consider the five foot set back that is being raised. >> i

i'm david lindsey from department staff i'm discussing discretionary case 15 filed been an altercation permit application to add a ground floor of a semistory house on the properties open the west side of the street between euclid to the south of laurel village the second would be behind the two car garages. the dr request was filled by peter who resides in a two-story building diagonally cross the street from the subject prop point public position was summarized in the staff report we've since that time, have received many additional public comment and in summary i'll give you the total including the comments received from the pass week that includes both letters and signatures the total being 20 in support of project and 22 in opposition to the promise. the dr requesters and neighborhoods concerns with summarized as follows there's a feel that the existing neighborhood character a single-family in nature and a second dwelling opt would be inconsistently with the neighborhood character. others feel the size the significant building is inadequate were multiple unit and that the additio

>> commissioners david lindsey from the department staff. the projection sponsor is continuing to work with staff and a neighbor group from polk strot street on this. with the holidays coming up we weren't able to come down with a definite date we've left it open when we come upon a date >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner moore. >> for the record the applicant sent a letter to the entire commission regarding - he's did you deliberating working on the project that were that xhifrmdz what you're saying the letter hadn't aspired. >> commissioner borden. >> i have a question is the continuance being requested by the public? >> actually, the department is requesting the continuance a 19 plus page letter we received late and haven't had a chance to look at it. january 16th is within our timeframe to look at those >> okay. great. >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes. for the january hearing i'd like a lot more information including where the addresses. i know there's there's a map but the map didn't have any addresses the nature of the bui

as is lindsey graham. roberts. david, this is what's stuns. we know politics has a lot to do with television these days and radio and, of course, still the newspapers and getting your name out there. people's names -- everybody knows mitch mcconnell follows american politics. everybody knows probably lindsey graham. these guys spent 20 years building up their reputation -- no, they're afraid of losing to people that nobody's ever heard of. >> mitch mcconnell, in particular, he has won several elections in kentucky, but at really low margins of what you'd expect for a national political -- >> why is he afraid of -- >> because already his disapproval rating, mitch mcconnell's is -- look what he gets to do now over the past few months. when he wants to, he can say, i'm a deal maker, got the deal that ended the government shutdown. he wants to say, i'm against the budget bill, he can say that now. >> my question is, why is a guy a well-known politician by definition, in trouble? on the right, they don't like anybody they recognize. they like these

as is lindsey graham. roberts. david, this is what's stuns. we know politics has a lot to do with television these days and radio and, of course, still the newspapers and getting your name out there. people's names -- everybody knows mitch mcconnell follows american politics. everybody knows probably lindsey graham. these guys spent 20 years building up their reputation -- no, they're afraid of losing to people that nobody's ever heard of. >> mitch mcconnell, in particular, he has won several elections in kentucky, but at really low margins of what you'd expect for a national political -- >> why is he afraid of -- >> because already his disapproval rating, mitch mcconnell's is -- look what he gets to do now over the past few months. when he wants to, he can say, i'm a deal maker, got the deal that ended the government shutdown. he wants to say, i'm against the budget bill, he can say that now. >> my question is, why is a guy a well-known politician by definition, in trouble? on the right, they don't like anybody they recognize. they like these

and we've had peter on before, chief market analyst at the lindsey group and a cnbc contributor and davidegist at morgan stanley investment. you were on a few weeks ago? >> yeah. >> moving totally against you again. >> yeah. i miscalculated the multiplier effect of the increase in the fed's balance sheet. they printed about a trillion. >> just in the last three weeks. >> well, it's december. anything's possible in december. i thought the market would respond negatively to -- well, 2013 was qe and 2014's going to be qe. qe on the upside in 2013. and according to the fed's plan, a reduction in qe. we saw 50% correction after qe 1 ended and same thing after qe-2 ended. and i don't think it'll be any different when qe-3 and qe-4 ends by year end. >> all right. surprising, we were right around 16,000. will you ever convert back to, wow, maybe i miscalculated on the positive effects of qe on the underlying market? >> qe has incredible temporary impacts on markets and i acknowledge that. when the fed started -- >> how long is temporary, then? >> well, as long as it's going. >> a day of reckoning