basically, i feel it is not very contextual with the neighborhood. it might be a little late in the game to change that now. it certainly would be good. let me give you a few examples. you have a vertical element that are emphasized and that makes the building look taller than it really is. it is already taller than the holmes who either side, which are all victorians and have been there 100 years. certainly, if there is a way that those elements could be horizontal elements rather than vertical, it might help to mitigate, to some degree, the imposing nature of the building, at least from my point of view. secondly, doing something with the top of the building, whether it be a cornice or whatever to make that terminate, we are not trying to copy something from 100 years ago, but by putting an element at the top of the building that spells the end of the building in a vertical manner, it helps it to fit in a little bit with the buildings that it surrounds. and then the windows again. it would be nice if there was a little less glazing. i do not know h

i just do not find it contest will at all. -- contextual at all. we welcome you to go up and make the comments. the neighbors mentioned they have concerns. they are trying to create a more walkable area and sfmta is creating a home zone. i wonder a little bit what that means in relationship to parking requirements and that sort of thing. i am wondering if that is something that has been included in this vision at all. the home zone, do they have any construction and is the parking -- i know there is existing zoning, but what i they looking at? >> we have a representative from the mta here to talk to you about it if you like to hear it. president olague: yes. i would like to hear it in terms of traffic coming --affic --- traffic-calming. i support what the parents are supporting. >> i am an assistant engineer with the mta. you cannot really see, but i am managing the implementation of the home zone in. we are looking at implementing some measures to halt traffic -- to calm traffic between 14th and 15th and south van ness. these bulb outs have alread

tavis: chaldea contextualize your career? a lot has been said about you. how did you contextualize your career? >> it is something that i love to do. the late beloved announcer of the lakers -- i am not sure any of us were worthy of what he said. the way the city of los angeles has treated me has been remarkable. i am flattered that people feel so good about you. i see a lot of your players walking around today with bodyguards and stuff and i say to myself, no one would even know you if you walked the streets. why would you have a bodyguard? it is a feel-good thing. as you get older, you appreciate the fact that people respect you. that is what life is really about, if they respect you. i am not a perfect person. the one thing i always will do until i die is i will always have time for people. tavis: the new book by jerry west is called "the west by west." courageous of them to put some much of this personal narrative on the pages of this new book. i think you'll enjoy the read. good to have you on the program. that is our show for tonight. thank you for w

tavis: chaldea contextualize your career? a lot has been said about you. how did you contextualize your career? >> it is something that i love to do. the late beloved announcer of the lakers -- i am not sure any of us were worthy of what he said. the way the city of los angeles has treated me has been remarkable. i am flattered that people feel so good about you. i see a lot

can they make this contextual? i am not sure that we need to schedule anything today but this is a conversation we need to have in the future to see how the commissioners feel about this because obviously, this is being done at a staff level. commissioner borden? >> tomorrow, from 4:00 until 8:00, we have a couple of blocks of art by urban solutions, an organization that works with small businesses in the lower fillmore, they help them work on their business plan. this will showcase the amazing businesses across sixth street. this is between market and howard, and artists will be showing their work. the businesses will be open to walk in. and discover all of these vibrant businesses. i recommend for you to come out and join us. this will show what a local organization can do to revitalize the neighborhood and how we can help this organization. >> commissioner moore? >> commmissioner moore: i would like to comment on an e-mail about file 747, with improvements for small business and landscaping qualifications, a pro

. >> this vehicular -- the project is coming forward today for people which we believe is a contextual modern interpretation for the site. this is masked by the tree over here. we see more of the building as we get closer. this is not dissimilar from what we have seen. also, this is a view from the corner of polk and clay. you can see some of the buildings as we go up the street beyond the project. the project on the right side of the street. if we were coming down from frankland, that is the building on the left. you can see some of the buildings of similar height on the left as we head down to the site. a very

this is a building that is really contextual with downtown, and i am hoping to see it built as soon asssible. >> ims to seconded that motion. -- i missed who seconded that motion. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner fong: aye. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. commissioner miguel: aye. president olague: aye. >> that motion passes unanimously. i believe the director is filling in for the zoning administrator. >> i approve the extension of the variants as well. >> that places us on item 18 on the regular calendar, case 2,011.0547d. request for discretionary review. >> of the afternoon, planning commission. this proposal is to add a 12 foot by 18 ft 1-car garage. it will be constructed beneath the second floor front entry patio for the front of retaining wall. it will be installed to cover the opening. the following is a brief synopsis of what has transpired so far with this property regarding requests before the department of public works. the project received a tree removal permits. it allows removing a street tree, and the privately-owned

. >> this vehicular -- the project is coming forward today for people which we believe is a contextual modern interpretation for the site. this is masked by the tree over here. we see more of the building as we get closer. this is not dissimilar from what we have seen. also, this is a view from the corner of polk and clay. you can see some of the buildings as we go up the street beyond the project. the project on the right side of the street. if we were coming down from frankland, that is the building on the left. you can see some of the buildings of similar height on the left as we head down to the site. a very quick overview of some of the buildings that are within this road. the general trend for some of the historic buildings that are there ought to have averted cavity and have a hierarchical breakdown and architectural elements. they mentioned there might be a subjective opinion on this, but we believe the design we are putting forward has a vertical breakdown as we look at the main eight story buildings. a few more examples of the neighborhood of buildings that are like that, som

i want to get back to the contextualizing decision on how best to move forward. to commissi >> the slide on page 12, the black line is the status quo. the blue line is the decision we have already taken a lot of cuts to our capital program. slide 14 goes through capital reductions of what are power- related. you can see we have already made significant cuts to the capital program. we have cut $60 million from the capital plan for city-owned it renewable generation. that was a very hard decision. we have had to cut $30 million in energy efficiency, a very hard decision. we have had to cut $120 million of costs on of country transmission. a very difficult decision. it only looks as good as it does after those cuts. there will be a lot of policy discussions and decisions on how to do more investments in city- owned generation as well. with that, i wanted to briefly update you on the timeline, finalizing negotiations with shell and mobil, on december 2011. i mentioned we arctic at the rate fairness board discussions under way. we have show them how average bills will

for me, when i do an adaptation, i try to frame it in present day life context or contextualize it in another moment and bring that skeletal story line structure into it. and i couldn't make any headway. then a story that had been kind of floating around in my head kind of came to the fore, and is as the case when i write, there will be story lines floating around in my head for years, years and years are floating around in my head waiting for a moment to find its moment. and this story that i had been working on off and on about this boarding house in san francisco post internment camps. as i worked on this rashamon story, this other one came alive and they began to meld and they wrote themselves and became after the war. so when you see the play, you will see elements of rashamon in the play, but you will have to look very closely. and to cary pearloffs and scp's credit, they were very cool about it, which is the neat thing about working in theater as opposed to film. they said fine, let's go with this, let's run with it. once they were comfortable with it we continued to work on it

it's contextually bigger than anything there but i don't believe it will happen. >> andrea: he doesn't have deduction for employer healthcare coverage here. so he is moving all of to us voucher system? >> dana: meaning perry? >> andrea: perry. i agree with the metaphor. the candidates are moving in the right direction. at least we're having a conversation. it's long-term because it's complicated thing to reform the tax code. but it's better than democrats. >> bob: i didn't understand it at all. i didn't get it. the last time there was a major rewrite of the tax code was 1986 and it changed things a lot. tax reform is the major legislative push after the 2012 elections. >> dana: what kind of tax reform would a second term president obama give? >> bob: hopefully what he would do is go to fairer flat tax than this. >> andrea: you even favor a flat tax. >> bob: i do. we could get there. where does he start the flat tax? $35,000, $50,000 a year is where it starts. it say no taxes up until $90,000 a year. >> andrea: you wouldn't eliminate the child tax -- >> dana: $30,000. >> bob: too low. i

african-american women throughout the 20th century, but there's also in-depth historical, social, contextual policy analysis and the connections that are made between them. i mean, it's a very rich format. it's clearly quite intentional. can you speak a little bit to what you had in mind? >> well, i wanted to, in writing the book i wanted to start with how people really learn and think finish how they learn -- how they learn about inequalities. we learn about inequalities or we learn inequality through a number of devices. we learn through history. we learn through laws, how we think about equality is sometimes shaped by how we think about the law, how we think about rights. but we also learn about equality through pop culture and literature. hansbury's raisin in the sun really was a story about what are the end game results of an integrated society, of a quest for equality, a dream. we learn about it through pop culture like "the jeffersons," and we learn about inequalities through pop cull chair that -- culture that depict women in unfavorable ways. and so i wanted to really reach the read

there are other books we need to consult and read in order to frame and contextualized malcolm's life and legacy. i had a chance in 1958 i met malcolm and he changed my life. heaven only knows what i was on my way to but he showed me a direction and i was eager to follow him. first time i went to the mosque in detroit i was mesmerized. my cousin took me and we were sitting there and he would have a lectern or blackboard on the stage. he is writing all the time as he is talking to people and he misspelled word. i nudged my cousin. do you going to tell him? not going to tell him. no way in the world by will correct him on that and after it is over we have a chance to meet demand you stand in the aisle when he goes up and down shaking everybody's hand thanking them for coming out. later on in life i shall will chamberlain's hand but i remember malcolm's hand. one of the most powerful groups i ever experienced. like you can pick up a flower and point down a road with it and the strength of that hand and his integrity has lived with me all these many years. i knew ahead manning parable ver

the relationship between the images we are seeing on these contextual shows. almost >> answered it by asking it. i want to say, thank you. in an economic downturn in a country where demographics are shifting rapidly, not only our demographics shifting rapidly in a general sense, the students we talked about earlier, my college students, the only secretaries of state they have ever known are madeleine albright,: paul, condoleezza rice, and hillary clinton. -- colin powell, condoleezza rice, and hillary clinton. they are like, that is the black people, the woman job. they are all making a decision and thinking about the world. interpreting the constitution and stuff. [laughter] part of what we have to do is have this enormous nostalgia for this time. if mammy just come back. [laughter] if she would just give us her ample bosom to lay our weary, unemployed heads upon, if only these airlines would enforce those weight restrictions on their workers against the we could look at something cute and pretty while we ride back and forth across the country destroying the