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-2- for deleting the curbing in these areas is to allow sheet drainage storm water through the grass area which provides some filtering of pollutants in the storm water. The curbing is also proposed to be deleted from the south side of the parking lot as this would be the area where the parking lot would be expanded in the future and these concrete curbs would then have to be torn out. The applicant proposes instead I believe to put concrete bumper curbs along this side of the parking lot. The only question with regard to code requirements ~s it affects the concrete curbing relates to that area along the south end of the parking lot which is closer to the front lot line than the buildin~ Under the definition of a front yard in Section 2-720, the front yard extends from the front lot line to the principal structure and from one side lot line ~~, the other. A literal reading of that definition would put the 'area in question in the front yard and require that the curbing in left in that location. Under the definition of yard, however, in Section 2-710 the Council is given the authority to determine the yards at the time of building permit issuance where because of the unusual configuration of a principal structure or of a lot, the definition of any yard appears inapplicable. This section, of course, was added after the building permit for the building in question was issued. In this case, the area of the lot that is under discussion is not immediately adjacent to a street but rather adjacent to another industrial development and it would seem to be within the Council's power to determine that concrete curbing in this location would not be necessary to meet the requirements of the Code because of~the unusual configuration of the yard in relation to the streets in the area. The applicant would like, therefore, the Council to approve a revision to the landscape and plot plan to allow the modification of the landscaping according to a revised plan that has been submitted and to allow modification of the parking areas and concrete curbing according to a revised site plan that has been submitted. The second request of the applicant which is under discussion at this time is a request to be allowed to occupy the building without a sprinkling system having been installed. According to the requirements of the Uniform Building Code, the fire sprinkler system is required, however, the union whose members install sprinkler systems has been on strike for quite some time and from all indications, will be on strike for quite some time to come, in addition to which even once the strike is settled, the considerable back log of work that exists because of this strike will take a long time to be removed.