valerie's personal story helps explain her drive to remedy wrongs born and raised in clovis california where her family settled as sikh farmers in nineteen thirteen she has someone with literally deep roots in the american earth. but when a close friend of hers was the first person killed in a hate crime after september eleventh two thousand and one she began to document hate crimes against sikh and muslim americans. which resulted in her first film the award winning divided we fall and helped launch her life of civic engagement. the second thing that dazzles me about valerie is that after spending much of her life combating horrific injustice and intolerance having been inside supermax prisons. at guantanamo and at sites of hate crimes and mass shootings she emerged not as an embittered cynic. but as an apostle of love as the ultimate source of social action. she founded the revolutionary love project a national initiative which uses a wide range of communication and mobilization to. to equip and inspire people to practice the ethic of love. i encourage you if you were is moved by val

valerie's personal story helps explain her drive to remedy wrongs born and raised in clovis california where her family settled as sikh farmers in nineteen thirteen she has someone with literally deep roots in the american earth. but when a close friend of hers was the first person killed in a hate crime after september eleventh two thousand and one she began to document hate crimes against sikh and muslim americans. which resulted in her first film the award winning divided we fall and helped launch her life of civic engagement. the second thing that dazzles me about valerie is that after spending much of her life combating horrific injustice and intolerance having been inside supermax prisons. at guantanamo and at sites of hate crimes and mass shootings she emerged not as an embittered cynic. but as an apostle of love as the ultimate source of social action. she founded the revolutionary love project a national initiative which uses a wide range of communication and mobilization to. to equip and inspire people to practice the ethic of love. i encourage you if you were is moved by val

clovis. has a bachelor's degree in arts and science and minor in urban studies and planning from the university of california san diego. >> welcome. >> i feel like willard scott doing this. heather daniels. he joined the department as a planner i on our flex adu team and cod enforcement teams before joining planning. worked briefly for pg&e on the team and graduated in summer 2021 and received the bachelors from san francisco state university. >> welcome >> and dakota speecher. did i get that right? >> [off mic]. >> is a planner i with the southeast team for three months prior to joining planning spent the last two years getting a masters in planning from cal poly pomona and the historic preservation department of the city of west hollywood. >> thank you. welcome all of you. >> welcome. [applause] >> good afternoon commissioners. i am the from the staff. thank you director for the introductions. i want to let the commission know that my colleague elena is taking over as the coordinator for the planning department moving forward. moving on to the application. we have six legacy business applications today. ea