commissioner antonini: i have a question for ms. kirk, please. -- ms. kerr, please. we spoke earlier today and you had some concerns about parcel months. i assume those are the averaging you were talking about earlier. are there other concerns? >> i think providing the parcel mapping shows there are two parcels next to each other and that one was skipped over for the purposes of rear yard average and. that was an issue we have brought up. i do not know if that has been resolved. commissioner antonini: i will ask stuff a question. my other question is that i am looking at this wording by the za in 82. he says the rear deck has that effect of providing a separation. there are no conditions, but it is a finding. >> correct, but in the sense that there is a requirement that the building be built according to the plans that were presented at that time. when wilson, as he mentions in his declaration, building to those plans, did require that to be provided. it was a finding that the deck space needed to be provided for the open space. commissioner antonini: the proposed so

ms. jenkins is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you for holding this important hearing and thank you, ambassador kirk for being here today and for your service. as you briefly touched on in your opening remarks, russia has been seeking to become a member of the world trade organization for more than 16 years. rushes of joining the wto on the right terms would be good for both our countries, strengthening the rule of law in russia and promotes -- promote closer economic ties. last fall our two governments made very encouraging progress in resolving a number of key outstanding bilateral trade issues, and work continues on the multilateral terms of russia's accession to the wto. with that said russia has much work to do on the various long-standing issues of concerns thomas such as ipr enforcement, barriers to u.s. agriculture exports and other nontariff barriers. such trade concerns combined with a broader foreign policy and human rights concern that congress is going to make it difficult to congress to consider legislation. as russia's deputy oh session to a top administration priority, and if so what exactly is the