i'm -- my name is peter holtz. our goal -- first and foremost was to meet the stipulations of the alleged ordinance. to do that we had to measure the ambience, the noise environment on site. we set up meters along both streets, 18th and tennessee to monitor for 72 hours to get a general overall view of the ambient. and they we conducted short-term measurements in the back of the existing courtyard eight feet from the building to do measurements there as well. this established the noise environment as stipulated by the ordinance with an eight d.v. allowance for a commercial space. the criteria imposed for the project is 66 d.b.a. while we were on site we measured traffic path bies and trucks and cars to be in the 65 -- the 0e, 65 decibel range. so close to the -- to why the citia is set. the building proposed design, we have now added a -- a -- a two-sided inflatted wall. a two-sided inflated creel to reduce noise as well as a double laminated glazing for the windows facing in that direction. and always have -- also