. >> hello commissioners autumn kirk scott i've lived one highway north of the subject property on downey street i'm not here for the dr i didn't sign the dr petition and don't support many of the dr arguments. the dr process leads to innovating comments that would be hypocritical of me i tried n for years with the project sponsor law firm to attempt to rise the dr progress that could have been avoided if the project sponsor got a variance from the outset he didn't and i can't support this project as currently proposed. some quick history after an emergency occasion in 2001 we knew that the previous owners opposed this project in 1991 he twice on variances from the zoning administer the zoning administrator in 1991 approved a rear yard with 20 feet expectations and also required terraceing and to preserve is rear yard mid block small business. the drawings are in the project sponsors packet. the project sponsor knows he would have my full support i noticed him and he said he was innovate required to have my permit is permitting him to reduce the yard and this argument was false based on t

of one of the largest slave barracks in was owned by the family of francis scott key, the author of the star spangled banner. kirks takes us there. >> reporter: under a sky threatening rain, archaeologists scrape the earth. on the property of a private school appreciation treasures are being -- precious treasures are being revealed. >>it's amazing. definitely well preserved. >> we have a mid 19th century foundation. >> reporter: this is one of the largest slave barracks ever found in maryland. >> it measures 34 feet by 34 feet. it was probably two stories tall. it is very rare. >> it's rare not only to find a foundation so large but to even find it at all. >> we have the surviving brick pavement outside and inside the building. that just doesn't happen in arguology. we're so used to seeing things obliterated by lots of different things. but in this case we got lucky of the even though there's a house on this location, it still survived. >> reporter: as the crew continues to dig and screen and clean, it is not forgotten that the job is really not to find out what is here. it is to find out who was here. >> it's a