jesse ray, bill knudsen, joe land, joseph collins, steven brown, mike schulte and joel halliwell. speak in any order. please line up on this side of the room. if you are ready, sir, go ahead. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm crispin hollings. i live on collingwood street. this is my neighborhood. i'm here to support the permit. normally i would favor adding a unit to a property, but in this case, i think that planning is proposing a density change mid stream. planning has allowed the property owner to make substantial progress. to add another requirement is unreasonable. i am concerned they will slow it to such an extent that not even a single unit will be built for some time. planning has for a long time discouraged me from adding a unit to the backyard cottage i live in. it has a basement that could be turned into an additional residence. it's supported by owner and neighborhood alike, but as i've been told by commissioners and staff, creation of additional unit would require variances that would prob certainly prevent creation on that site. on state street there, if more d

comments that largely seem to be peace advocates, and i should mention, by the way, ray mcgovern was there, rocky anderson, jesseentura, thom hartmann, max blumenthal. it was really a who's who of the peace community that regrettably has to resort to a foreign tv network in order to be heard in this country. ,uan: jill, i want to ask you you mentioned the foreign tv network. your response to the attempt to essentially ostracize rt tv in the united states, having them declared just registering as a foreign agency. your sense of what is happening in the campaign against rt tv? >> it interesting. i do not watch rt myself, excep there are some programs i find very interesting and informative. there are several newscasters who were thrown out of u.s. corporate media because they opposed the war. chris hedges, who refused to accept the disinformation by the intelligence community in the run-up to the iraq war coming is a program. featured.thal is thom hartmann. there are good programs on rt. hillary clinton is on record praising rt several years back saying when she is out of the country, she watches rt and recommende