and there was a side of it that had a checkerboard pattern that unfortunately reminded me a bit of the one that was not too successful. the overall design is pretty good. some of the elements of think me a little bit of refinement to make what i believe is a good, green, thought out design that works. while i am not being critical of the way it is brought together, mainly just of the design things. that is what we were talking about, the 63 foot hospital at 63-65 feet through most of that. that is what i would like to see. i realize it has to be higher at the aspect. i think it would be a lot more respectful. briefly, some other things that came up, i asked earlier today during the hearing, what is the geographic center of population density. a budget is pretty close to where this hospital is planned on. and if you do some figures, i think that this is the perfect place to put the hospital because it does put forward access equally from all parts of the city as well as outside of the city. a and the traffic can be mitigated. i think they provide lots of parking which is very important

boundaries of what our survey was for dog patch compared to what the actual area is, it is like checkerboards. there are so many things that are not historic. i really appreciate the fact that you do have the ability to preserve but also build. a historic brick and timber building, the real use of a warehouse that was turned into housing and achieved completely from the start to finish -- [tone] supervisor wiener: thank you very much. >> i am here today as my capacity of the east share citizens advisory committee. we are 19 members appointed by the mayor and board of supervisors and our charter is to be the keeper of the eastern neighborhood plan and provide guidance on things like this. we have been undertaking legislatively mandated surveys of the neighborhood and we remain concerned we do not see a process that balances the results of those surveys being performed with other priorities of the plan which include housing, transportation, balancing jobs, having a policy line item -- that does not mean balance. we see potential districting coming out of those surveys. we feel they are overused

those searching for answers in black and white macy only jumbled blocks, a checkerboard of squares with no discernible border. but i holding pixelated image at arms length, a pattern emerges, a mind shift occurs. it becomes a matter of peridot, i've gained depth perception, and focus. with change in positioning comes change in perspective. i'm hopeful that there are ways to address the problem of random violence, to address the problems of mass shootings. i think it was tasha i think it requires the creation of national conversation of public dialogue, about all of these issues and how they interlock. we have been good at addressing particular problems, like drive-by shooting in 1980, or carjackings in the early '90s. what we need to do is figure out how to address the issue of violence writ large. and i hope that this book is a step in that direction, and i hope it is able to contribute to a kind of dialogue. i said that i would talk a little bit about myself, and i'm self-conscious doing this because again as an academic i don't usually this is a part of the book, so let me just addre

one we called a checkerboard. we'd insert an infantry company at dusk, three platoons, three squads. they would predetermine a position for each squad. these squads would go out, these men of eight or ten men, and we had nine ambush sites. that would cover a square kilometer. that wasn't very much. we had to have more in the delta. the thing that changed the delta for us at night was our snipers. we want snipers. we went to the army unit at fort benning, we got 44 sniper rifles, the unit to come over and train our people. our fist class graduated in november, and the snipers went out. one sniper, two infantrymen. man, that changed the whole idea of the division. the rest of the soldiers saw these three guys can go out and have great results, we can do it too. so they weren't afraid of the night. they went out, night was just as easy for them as daytime. this is our number one sniper, sergeant wald on. he has two dces. this guy was phenomenal. he could hit a fly on your head at 500 yards, i'll guarantee it. it was