>> good evening, commissioner scott emblich on behalf of the permit applicant. as you've heard, this is one simple issue: did the zoning administrator -- first of all, did the project architect and then zoning administrator calculate the height at this location in the right way? so the answer is they did. they followed the letter of the planning code. what do you do when you're trying to measure height at a location like this? could i have the overhead, please. you have -- first, you start at mr. teague pointed out, you determine what frontage you're going to work from. we selected the northern frontage. the -- you'd have a professional survey done, which is what we did. that shows that the frontage -- that the height at the northern frontage is about 333 to 334 feet, and then, the height at the rear of the property is 340 feet. that's an upsloping lot. you then do your calculations. the architect then does the calculations based on the upsloping lot and designs the appropriate height. we knew this was going to be an issue because some of the neighbors raised at