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That they have to bring eastern vegetation with them and make the necessary adaptations in their own life, desert communities can continue to live. Man the biggest water user in the desert is turf. Turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what weve done here is use artificial turf. Youre never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the look of, say, california, with subtropical plants, but our landscapes are still lush and use about 30 of what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. Las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. Were using less wate...

Allbee its not just about the sustainability of the assets, its about the sustainability of our water resources. Parts of this country that thought of themselves as water rich 20, 30 years ago, now are discovering that they really are not water rich, they have source supply issues, they have serious questions about how theyre going to accommodate additional growth in their communities. Melosi if we can find alternatives, we can preserve a water supply. Conservation of water is a way of generating more water. Allbee we think that a household can actually reduce its water usage by about 30 . And...

Addressed well and the deck, and a couple of other issues that were raised. I mean i realize that we have never considered parking impacts as an Environmental Impact and you know, that would be nothing different here, although, you know, there is in my estimate a shortfall that will be an impact from these additional cars for residents, but, you know, it is not to be considered as part of the neg deck or any Environmental Impact report and so therefore, that is a discussion that is better had during the time of the approval of the project itself. And, the serpintine issue, we have another proj...

Is sounds like this is addressed well and the deck, and a couple of other issues that were raised. I mean i realize that we have never considered parking impacts as an Environmental Impact and you know, that would be nothing different here, although, you know, there is in my estimate a shortfall that will be an impact from these additional cars for residents, but, you know, it is not to be considered as part of the neg deck or any Environmental Impact report and so therefore, that is a discussion that is better had during the time of the approval of the project itself. And, the serpintine issu...

Building and i mean this is encountered every time that someone replaces a residential foundation and impacts and on the adjacent foundation and i think that is appropriate and more on the dbi and we are happy to put the conditions on the or in the approval document, i think that the project is appropriate here. And it meets the requirements of the eastern neighbors plan, and potrero is a wide street and i think that it takes this height and i praoerp the top two floors being set back in the changes that were made in the response for some of the comments by commissioner moore and at the last h...