Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, william brangham. Brangham good evening and thanks for joining us. Voters in New Hampshire are getting their last looks at the candidates on the ballot in the firstinthenation president ial primary. Candidates still running have spent a total 444 days on the ground in New Hampshire, according to manchester t. V. Station wmur, while the candidates and superpacs supporting them have spent a combined 84 million in the state alone, according to the new york times. Thats a lot of time and money to win over the roughly 500,000 primary voters whore likely to vote. And last night, seven republican candidates shared the deb
The planning code does allow for 20 of the total booth area to be occupied by structures above the height limit. If youd like further discuss the technicalities of the code and residential Design Guidelines, id be happy to do that during your deliberation of the projects. I would like to remind the commissioners that you may perhaps remember this project from an approval in 2003. They are the same project sponsors pursuing this project currently before you. At that time its was also a sixstory mixed use ground spaces at the ground floor, 33 parking spaceses and also 27 dwelling units. With that said, the current design before you today that has been reviewed against the planning code, the current planning code, and also the current policies and practices of the Department Today regarding the design of the project. At this time the Department Recommends the commission to approve the project with conditions as the project is desirable and necessary and appropriately infills a vacant lot.
Street because it is one of our grand boulevards. For an architect it is an opportunity to do infill housing and recreate some of the residential cache thats was part of that historic thoroughfare. We did design 2655 van ness on the opposite side of this same block, a very successful project. And i think set a little bit of standard for that area for a very contextual, very well organized, well scaled building and i hope to propose to you tonight this opposite side of the block that were designing is also of that character. As glenn said, there is just a little bit of history on this development. Another architect designed it in 2003. We were asked to in the fall of this last year to redesign that project and bring it into compliance with the current environmental, and that is the single reason that it was taken out of the mayors Stimulus Program and put into the conditional use. The building itself, the program itself as we propose tonight is very, very similar to the program, as glen
Sixstory mixed use ground spaces at the ground floor, 33 parking spaceses and also 27 dwelling units. With that said, the current design before you today that has been reviewed against the planning code, the current planning code, and also the current policies and practices of the Department Today regarding the design of the project. At this time the Department Recommends the commission to approve the project with conditions as the project is desirable and necessary and appropriately infills a vacant lot. It attempts to address the scale of van ness avenue but also responds to the finer grain adjacent neighborhoods. The project would provide future Business Opportunities and the commercial space is provided. And also the project would add 27 new units to the citys housing stock. With that, that concludes my presentation. And i will be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you. Project sponsor . Commissioners, my name is warner maul, design architects. We are agent for the pro