-- direct it to aaron starr, or you can direct us to -- to write some recommendations for the planning department to consider. >> hello. i am with the planning department's staff. i am going to present to you the proposed legislation introduced as part of the planning department recommendation. i will start by going over current recommendations and finally the staff proposal. currently, there are 13 definitions for eating and drinking uses in the planning code. mirkarimi's legislation would modify three of those -- retail coffee stores, self-service restaurants, and large fast food restaurants. the fast food restaurants are currently differentiated by the total square footage and number of seats, limited to one dozen square feet and 56. also, coffee shops are not permitted to have on-site food preparation or equipment to reheat food and prepare meals. large self-service restaurants are not permitted in and eight neighborhood district, and small self-service restaurants and video stores require conditional use authorization. what this legislation would do is maintain the current use def

. >> i think you have directed comments and made statements to aaron starr, and we can pass that on to supervisor mirkarimi. you are welcome to direct staff to say you would like a formal letter saying we support the direction of this and look forward -- president o'brien: there is a bigger picture for me, and that is respecting the fact that all legislation is supposed to come before the business commission, which some supervisors and to ignore. we hope more supervisors will follow that example. that is what i wanted to put something there, thinking him for bringing it to our attention and allowing us to hear it, and secondly that we support in principle what he is doing here. >> you are welcome to make a motion to that. president o'brien: as president, am i allowed to make a motion? >> i move. >> i second. president o'brien: anybody object? do you have that? ok. seeing none, the motion is approved. thank you very much. next item. >> item 10, director's report. >> commissioners, due to the long meeting last month, you do not have a written report. i just wanted to provide you with an

we don't know what but we know that he took aaron for a reason and to rest them too. >> we'll bring in barbara starr. she's been working this story all weekend. barbara, you're hearing more about what happened yesterday in afghanistan. what do we know now about the purpose of this special forces mission? >> well, joe, what we know now is as we have discussed, the navy s.e.a.l.s were brought in to try and help another unit pin down on the ground. they were already in the middle of a fire fight and needed help and called for it. and the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s came. we now know that the unit that was pinned down were u.s. army rangers, members of the arm my's 76th regiment they have been deployed in afghanistan for some time. part of this country's special operations forces that are conducting these anti-terrorism raids across eastern afghanistan. they needed help and the s.e.a.l.s came and all indications continue to be we are told that that helicopter was brought down by enemy fire, joe. >> the more i'm hearing about this, just as an outsider and lay person, the more it sounds like this was a very atypi