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How will adding parking and larger apartment sizes affect the project's affordability?

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Council Member Hanks seeks to understand the trade-off between adding parking, larger apartment sizes, and the affordability of a project.

Hanks expresses a need to analyze the impact of requested changes by a council member, including parking and larger apartment sizes.
She discusses the necessity to evaluate how these changes would affect the project's affordability.
The discussion indicates a trade-off between enhanced project features and affordability.
The mention of WMBEs (Women and Minority-Owned Business Enterprises) suggests additional complexity in assessing the project changes.

Kamillah Hanks

0:31:53

I think that I do have some questions and I know that my colleagues have questions, so I wanna get through those first.

0:32:00

And then just kind of make you understand that there are going to be additional additional work that needs be done on this to see the juxtaposition as opposed to what you believe is the the the proper way to go and what changes the council member wants to have.

0:32:21

I think that that is something that we just need to see.

0:32:24

And as a result of that, we will then see what the reduction is of affordability in comparison to the additional pieces that the council member wants to put in, which is parking and larger apartment sizes, but there is a a a trade off.

0:32:42

But my understanding Yeah.

0:32:44

And the WMBEs.

0:32:46

But there will be a trade off in the affordability component.

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