if the properties are subdefied -- subdivided, then the proigs -- prohibition against improving a nonformed structure would be moot because they would each be on their own separate lots and they would be conforming. >> i'm not sure i understand the question entirely. >> two buildings on one lot. one is nonconforming, right? >> right. >> so one is not meant to improve the nonconforming structure, right? >> what they are seeking here would render the properties more nonconforming in that right now they have the code required amount of parking spaces at two. so the subdivision would receiver the parking accessibility from the 19th and pennsylvania properties. that would create a new deficiency in terms of parking. also, the rear yard would become even more noncompliant because we are cutting whatever open area there is now in half. it doesn't do anything to increase or improve the conformity of the buildings to grant the variance. >> so if they wanted to improve the smaller building -- >> there is nothing at all-pro hibting improvement of the properties, or maintenance of the properties. as yo

. >> along the same lines, the manifest building is actually totally nonforming at this point, isn't it? >> yes, because it is completely in the required year yard. rear yard. >> if the lot split occurred, then the front damage of that building would be off of 19th, and the required rear yard would be behind that, wouldn't it? >> i wouldn't it -- believe it wouldn't -- they don't satisfy a rear yard requirement. >> i understand. i am saying if that was a lot, then the calculation of the rear yard would occur from 19th street? >> that is correct. >> thank you. >> first of all, just to make it clear, because michelle hughes is very upset. he he she stood in front of the planning commission pregnant with twins. she broke down crying because people accused her then of not wanting to live in the place she was already living in. that is why she added a floor. it was to add bedrooms for the twins. so this idea that they were developers and greedy, i don't get it. i've done variances for 25 years, and many of you have seen and read them for years. you probably know that one of the key questi