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Republicans could not get all of their own party to agree on the legislation. let alone democrats. so what went wrong? i'm joined now by obeth roy, a senior fellow at the manhattan institute and former health care policy for mitt romney. ovit thaumpgs thanks for coming on. where did the leadership fail? >> i wrote a piece for forbes today about this it's, paul ryan yesterday in his press conference, he said that republicans were having growing pains that republicans were trying to figure out how to be a governing party. whey meant was the house freedom caucus and other right-wingers were the p...

basically, what would be required is if you use the minor encroachment, as noted in the code, you are allowed to encroach 25% of the sidewalk with. that would give you a 3.5 ft. encroachment into the sidewalk to game 5 inches. that would require some type of variance from the building department. commissioner fung: that, to me, would be preferable over a split sidewalk. >> that would most likely require an automatic door opener and a variance from ddi -- dbi, not having to have the level landing. commissioner fung: yes. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? commissi...

would be preferable over a split sidewalk. >> that would most likely require an automatic door opener and a variance from ddi -- dbi, not having to have the level landing. commissioner fung: yes. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? commissioners, the matter is yours. commissioner fung: i would like to ask a final question of the architect. following along the same line of thought, speaking with the department representative -- i was trying to find a solution that would reduce the amount of split sidewalk. it appears, based on your analysis and their analysis, that...

warping of the sidewalk across the building, is there a way to reduce the split side walk, so the impact of this and the way we can treat that -- perhaps there is a better way to do with this. >> we would definitely consider something. i wrote the letter that was signed by mr. kwan. we would consider -- right now, the current design that was approved had these put levels leadfoot at 8 foot 8 inches wide. basically right up to the edge of the tree wells. we would consider a narrow width of the split will sidewalk, still living today -- split level sidewalk, still living -- still leadi...

the appellant and the department's response would be due one thursday prior, which is may 3. president garcia: i think it would be as simple as calling the board, if it turned out you needed extra time. >> i want to make it clear to everyone involved in this case that you also need to provide copies of your material to other parties at the same time provide them to the board. >> thank you. >> we need a motion. commissioner fung: i am going to move to continue this case to may 9. >> with the additional briefing as described. >> on that motion -- and again, it is to allow time for the ...