on the existing plans that was submitted to dbi and the planning commission which were approved by mr. lum already shared with you that shows adu. so i have a legal obligation with my contractor to have him build it out. i'm paying him money for that, so there's no way i'm not building this adu. and the only reason we are adding the basement at a cost of almost half a million dollars just to do all the excavation is because the planning commission said without going up and out, because the neighbors didn't want us to, they said adding it in the basement is where you should do it with the set backs so there's plenty of light. i'm happy to not do it in the basement and do it above zone and push it out perthe zoning at 25% lot line, but that was what was not acceptable to the neighbors, so we didn't do it. we've tried several approaches. i just think it's time to move on and start construction without further delays. >> and lastly, i did want -- there was a question about why it was so large. there was a question, especially christine johnson, the planning commissioner, did request it to be l

lum davis then forwarded it with its attachments to elliott broidy. and we confirmed that today both withes in davis and the representative of mr. broidy, so we know that is what happened. here's the question. why would steve stockman in all his glory think that if he did want to be ambassador to the united arab emirates the person he needed to convince of that, the person who needed to receive his letter begging for that job and making his pitch for that job, would be elliott broid qi? why did he think elliott broidy would be able to get him an ambassadorship? and steve stockman, now in federal custody, he stands out alone as different from your typical member of congress. but on this issue, of him discerning this route to this particular job that he wanted, he actually had lots of republican company. "newsweek" reported a couple of months ago that another person who wrote to elliott broidy to spell out her desired job in the trump administration was a woman named marie royce. marie royce among many other things is the wife of the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the republican-controlled congress. her husband is co