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33rd this year being hosted just outside washington, d. C. In Montgomery County, maryland. Ladies and gentlemen, i do hope you enjoyed that new rendition. That was our unofficial state song for maryland. Why is it unofficial . Because, it was written by our very own congressman jamie raskin. Lets hear it. Come on. [applause] that was maryland, my maryland. Find it on youtube. After you listen to it and listen carefully to the words, you are to pick up the phone and, while you are emailing them, your delegates and senators in the legislature, tell them you want the current official song to change and go right over to jamie raskins, steve jones, and sung by, by the way, london. And, you want those words, that are more appropriate, and reflect maryland today, to be the official state song. Lets hear it for our new official maryland song. Ok. For those of you that were not here this morning, barbara goldman, and on behalf of our en ....
It is justover 40 minutes. He 33rd this year being hosted just outside washington, d. C. In Montgomery County, maryland. Ladies and gentlemen, i do hope you enjoyed that new rendition. That was our unofficial state song for maryland. Why is it unofficial . Because, it was written by our very own congressman jamie raskin. Lets hear it. Come on. [applause] that was maryland, my maryland. Find it on youtube. After you listen to it and listen carefully to the words, you are to pick up the phone and, while you are emailing them, your delegates and senators in the legislature, tell them you want the current official song to change and go right over to jamie raskins, steve jones, and sung by, by the way, london. And, you want those words, that are more appropriate, and reflect maryland today, to be the official state song. Lets hear it for our new official maryland song. Ok. For those of you that were not here this morning, barbara go ....
[singing] we are waiting for the conference to begin hosted by the Affordable Housing conference of Montgomery County, maryland and we can see some participants, congressmen jamie raskin and congressman glenn ivey getting photos and greeting attendees at the conference that is about to begin. We will also hear from Adrianne Todman the acting secretary of housing and urban development. [singing] maryland, my maryland. Mr. Chesapeake for me and you. All of the orioles will come home too. Some of the participants at the conference are being greeted, taking photos with maryland congressman jamie raskin and glenn ivey joining the acting secretary of housing and urban development Adrianne Todman. This is an annual summit, the 33rd this year being hosted just outs ....
No. It was not empty. [inaudible] commissioner richards i will ask you a question in a second. My understanding, i bought it from the owneroccupant. They vacated. I purchased it. I put in tenants of my own. Theyre still there. Right now, theyre paying 7,000 a month. They plan on being there through april. Commissioner richards thank you. Somebody from capp street do you have anything to add . Come up to the mike. Im giving you the same chance to make a comment. One person. Its been completely unoccupied since it was purchased last june, 2016, and there are temporary, maybe vrbo or air bnb, but nobodys there. Its vacant. Its a facade. Commissioner richards thank you. President hillis when we had this hearing and now, have you met with the neighbors on capp street that have had concern about this project . I have not. I called them and emailed them and they were unable to meet in the short time window we had between the two hearings. The neighbors i had contact with, the building across ....
Unit. So that was almost just as easy as a decision for us. This is not as much of a nobrainer because theres an existing house there. But one thing that pops up in my mind is the proximity to bart and the fact that for planning purposes, we should be densifying near the bart stations. It doesnt have a fourcar garage or anything like that. Its a fourunit building, which is if you think about it, it will make it more affordable than it would be if it stays asis. And proximity to bart is putting me over the fence on this one. It wouldnt be the end of the world if it was continued, but im supporting the project asis. Commissioner richards we talked last night and we talked about the dominos falling and this will be the first of the entire street and then there goes the entire street. And i asked you to provide us with a look at what the street looks like even though ive been there. This would be for the rest of the commissioners. And you said you would. Can you help us out by showing us w ....