do you want know continue on beach l.a.? >> sure. >> okay. very quickly under supervisor kim's legislation, there would have been notification to interested parties when the exemption was originally issued and that would occur by mail and online an appeal could be filed after issuance of that exemption but would not be scheduled after the parks and recreation. and then the appeal window on the

do you want know continue on beach l.a.? >> sure. >> okay. very quickly under supervisor kim's legislation, there would have been notification to interested parties when the exemption was originally issued and that would occur by mail and online an appeal could be filed after issuance of that exemption but would not be scheduled after the parks and recreation. and then the appeal window on the project would stay until the last building permit issue which will be several years after the parks and recreation commission consideration. under supervisor wiener's legislation, the exemption determination would identify the approval action, in this case the parks and recreation commission on the project and that would be posted online. the appeal could be filed after issuance of the exemption same with supervisor kim's and would not be scheduled after the action by the parks and recreation and the appeal window would end 30 days after the parks and recreation commission action. >> if there was no parks and recreation action, because i don't think the

opponents to the supervisor's legislation, supervisor wiener's legislation, have brought up the beach l.a. project in a way and i think that's a misunderstanding. i want to be clear. my understanding here is that under supervisor wiener's legislation, there would have been more proactive notification of the categorical exemption for beach l.a. and it would have been easier and better for opponents to know what's going on under supervisor wiener's legislation than as it was last spring. in support of supervisor wiener's legislation, it is common sense and as a journalist easily understanding the rules of governance that creates fair competition of these ideas is vital to the city to pass this legislation. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >>> hi, xiiixv. supervisors. my name is sam ball. i'm a film documentary maker at the [speaker not understood]. my wife say public school teacher in san francisco unified. i really appreciate supervisor kim's questions and comments about large scale development and i just want to speak about my experience in support of supervisor wiener's l

. >> with regard to beach l.a., our procedures have changed and at parks and rec's. that will had not been approved by the parks and recreation. that exemption was not right for appeal even in 2010 even though it had been issued four years earlier. what could have if the issues had not been raised as they were, if they had considered the project at a notice of public hearing and they approved the project, this isn't under either ordinance, if they approved the project, then the ceqa determination and kad ek determination would have been appealed and as a result the ceqa exemption could have been appealed. but i will go over how the -- unless you have another question. >> in dolores park that was approved at some point. >> dolores park, the planning department issued a negative declaration which has a 20 day circulation period which at any time any individual can comment on the negative declaration and request that it be heard before the planning commission which is also an appeal. it's a different

l.a. paloma. we need to go down to north beach or down to polk street. you may not be old enough to remember that at one time there was such a place on east side of hyde street a little place where you can go for coffee in the morning for a snack and for those that live alone that don't like to cook dinner but don't want to go to a restaurant. there was a place like that in the 90s. i just think, i'm here for several neighbors who also work and couldn't be here who embrace the idea having such a gathering place in our little village. thank you. joseph? >> i'm here in favor of the project. of course i'm one of the owners. >> do you care to submit your name for the record? >> joseph own ram. i have the market and have been serving that community for the last 30 years. as a native san franciscan i have always tried to serve the community and this is a continuations of one. i was presented with the opportunity from the owner of the business to take it over and looking at the community and what was being served and the one thing i realized that a cafe as a co

l.a. long beach is a donor for that port harbor maintenance tax. we only get 0.1% back of what we give.awould really like to do deep dive into the harbor maintenance task direct fund and talk about are we ready to achieve some kind of equity question mark -- equity? like to see the money go back to the ports were it was collected. many of them are on the receiving end tax. i do not feel that we have the time to deep dive into that. one of the things i have not heard today which i do think it's going to be a problem that we need to address and that is the environmental impact of our expanded transportation project and initiative. if that isng something that we need to look at an address in a commonsense way when we come up with the national freight policy. i know in los angeles and hung beach we had to address environmental mitigation as we have grown our ports. we do have to clean trucks program. we are expanding the ship's ability to plug into shore side power. we have an intermodal project that i fear will be held up because them by mental impacts of that project. it is a good project

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l.a. >>> a scare as a small plane was forced to land on the highway. the aztec airways beachlight from a nearby airport. the pilot chose to abort the flight, landing safely on u.s. 27 north of i-75. the ntsb is launching an investigation. >> and the best selling memoir, "look me in the eye" exposed what it's like to live with asperger's, new a new memoir, "raising cubby," where he tells the story of his son, who also has asperger's. it's an autism spectrum disorder, and yesterday was at sixth annual autism awareness day. >> good morning, and welcome. >> good morning. thank you for having you with me. >> as we mentioned, you wrote this book about being an adult with asperger's and you talk about your son, cubby and tell me, can you take me back to the moment when you first realized you had an a-ha moment, where you realized my son is following in my footsteps in terms of having asperger's? >> every dad thinks his dad is following in his footsteps, and every dad thinks he taught his kid everything worthwhile. when my son was little, we would sit down at daycare and think it wou

l.a. and find mixed-race people they are stronger, more beautiful, more intelligent, and then in my book i say go to south beachand miami beach if you doubt it was wrong, but it took 150 years for his view and the first responder and his comrade for their vision of america to come through, and frankly that is a vision that i prefer to the white hero that goes in. >> going back now to landscape, i'm curious, those of you that spent a lot of time in the los angeles area, this is pretty boring geography. it is flat, and i'm curious how has the physicality of the landscape affected the decisions over the years of what to build and where? how will it build the mall? >> for most urban planners it has made it almost impossible because the city is an accumulation of roughly almost 100 municipalities, and they are spread across the landscape from it depends upon your definition, may be all the way to san diego now, but certainly from malibu to long beach to palace, to pasadena and you can just start rattling off all of these locations and each one of them represents its own base of political power and in some cases econ