and ultimately, we do respect the right for the d.r. applicants to file their d.r.'s, but it's clear they have not been able to come to any agreement. we understand that the building is going to change their environment, but we also know that what we needed to actually focus on is not what they're proposing, but the merits of this project, does it fit in? does it make sense? there has been substantial compromises in this process and, therefore, i ask you not to take d.r. thank you. president olague: thank you. myra, patrick, gabriel, clare. >> good evening, commissioners, my name is nrra and i live at 311 eureka street. i plan to move back in when the project is complete. at the last hearing, it was suggested that we continue to work with our neighbors to try to arrive at a compromise. i realize we could have done a better job explaining to you how much we have already worked with our neighbors because it might not have been obvious. i have to say, i do take issue with the suggestions from the d.r. requesters that we haven't done enough already. so our packets includ

president olague: let's here from the d.r. questioner and we are going to -- the d.r. requester gets five minutes and then all preceding seekers will be limited to two minutes because we have heard this project before. >> yes, good afternoon, commissioners. could i have the slide? president olague: yes. >> george howser. at the last hearing, we left with the hope that we were going to kind of turn the corner with the project sponsor and enter into a more collaborative design phase and i have to tell you that did not happen. the sponsor basically retrenched, they made a few changes, modifications to the project, very minor in scope and basically handed them to us as a kind of take it or leave it proposition. we were very disappointed when we saw that coming. we decided the best use of our time was to developed some alternative schemes. we presented them to the sponsor. we met with them to discuss them. they rejected them. there was very little discussion of the merits of those schemes and about the only comment we got was, well, they were done by you. we are not interes

the d.r. applicant says it is historic. it is not and the staff concurs. he has an alternative plan that destroys the building. the square footage comparison of mr. howser's alternative plans were overexaggerated by 728 square feet for the third level and 834 square feet for the fourth level. the height of our existing building is 26 feet, not 23 feet. the height of mr. howser's existing building is 36 feet, not 31 feet. the new building height at 64 feet from eureka street will be 30 feet tall, not 40 feet tall. he references a nonexistent 40-foot high wall along our shared property line to the south. it was important for us to defend our project against these inaccuracies. thank you very much for your time. >> good evening, commigsers, i'm liz, an attorney apparent and i own a home a couple of blocks from the owners who i have known for 15 years. i'm here to read a brief statement from a neighbor across the street. her statement reads, "i live across the street at 328 eureka street. my family met myra and clare. they have always been thoughtful neighbors

on a d.r. and a c.u. this is not a c.u. this is a major project if you have one here. like the project today, the others that have been cont roversial. the staff rdisregards this. everything is two weeks in the rules. and i ask the planning director to start enforcing the rules. thank you. >> and is there any additional public comment? general public, and is closed and the meeting is adjourned.

on a d.r. and a c.u. this is not a c.u. this is a major project if you have one here. like the project today, the others that have been cont roversial. the staff rdisregards this. everything is two weeks in the rules. and i ask the planning director to start enforcing the rules. thank you. >> and is there any additional public comment? general public, and is closed and the meeting is adjourned. hello, and welcome to the department of elections ranked-choice voting instructional video. this video is part of the department of elections' ranked-choice voting outreach campaign and is designed to educate san francisco voters about ranked-choice voting. today we will learn what ranked-choice voting is, and who is elected using this new voting method. we will also talk about what the ranked-choice ballot looks like and how to mark it correctly. finally, we'll see how the ranked-choice voting process works and show you an example of an election using ranked-choice voting. so, what is ranked-choice voting? in march of 2002, san francisco voters adopted a charter amendment to im

on a d.r. and a c.u. this is not a c.u. this is a major project if you have one here. like the project today, the others that have been cont roversial. the staff rdisregards this. everything is two weeks in the rules. and i ask the planning director to start enforcing the rules. thank you. >> and is there any additional public comment? general public, and is closed and the meeting is adjourned. >> good morning. today is july 20, 2011. this is the regular meeting of the building inspection committee. the first item on the agenda is roll-call. [roll call] we have a quorum. the next item on the agenda is president's announcement. >> good morning. for those in the chamber, welcome to the monthly meeting of the building commission. i would also like to mention some of what dbi has accomplished in the past few months, especially the newly established boys scheduling system, where customers can call the number and schedule those inspections. both dbi and staff, and volunteers, handed out brochures and answered questions during the chinese februarynew n february, and during ci

think that -- commissioner miguel: i think we encourage because we also encourage people to talk about d.r.'s and talking about other things and to negotiate and as we know, sometimes that comes down to right outside the door. so absolutes are a problem and we're encouraging it in another sense. >> we know the language within the rules and up to you to enforce it. and i know because of the whole nature of negotiation, it is hard to enforce something when you are encouraging negotiation and that might happen just prior to us calling the item. it is really up to you do you keep it and change it and do you want, and how do we better address making sure all sides adhere? >> that is a loaded question. and encourage that it happens but i am not sure we can ever enforce it. i don't think it will happen. i couldn't support something that would be so rigid because these things of cur. >> i think it is enough that it is in your rules and i am not sure what else you can do beyond that. >> i would like to open it up for public comment. >> sue hester, and i submitted revision and none of them are refle

of the nine or 10 changes staff wanted and it was surprising that the staff and not a neighbor would d.r. the project. there are portions that planning thinks are excessive. let's start with those. the staircase, a doughnut hole in the middle of a staircase is making it grandiose. it is the home of a future wheelchair accessible elevator once jean's parents move in and stairs become inaccessible. they believe the third floor deck is larger than needed and the two light rails should be put in the center of the building. the solution was to -- space that's on the third floor brings in light and heat into the interior rooms, provides some shelter and a neighbor asked that there be no stairs to the roof because of its height and the roof deck was eliminated and this takes its place. that makes this open space very important. i heard it asked why two parents cannot share one work space. graphics are certainly a noisy showing produce. the overhead drawing shows that john and jean would lose a bedroom. the next one, the planning department requires 15-foot setback be done. why? because the form

. >> we'll come back to that a lot on the "d.r. show."t to talk about bill clinton and wish him a happy birthday. bill clinton is 65 today pap couple of us worked in his administration. david you did as well as i did. we've actually got a picture of bill clinton when president and a picture afterwards you can kind of compare the then and now. now, this is -- this is striking to me. let me go back across with david and then to krystal and jonathan. i remember when we were excited about clinton in those days, because he was young. now we're all getting older, i think. this speaks to the boomers hitting rocking chairs. the long-term problems of country has. do you wax nostalgics and feel a little older today? >> i am a lifelong fan of bill clinton. i'm going to wax the in a tall dia. al is looking pretty darn good for 65. at least in his case he got to keep all his hair. more than i can say. in reality, the baby boom generation has been sort of this rorshach test for all of society because it is such a monumental population movement through

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and d.r. horton gained a more modest 2.7%. meantime, real estate services firm core-logic jumped almost 30%, still not enough to make up for the damage earlier this month. big volume. but the buying today came as the company announced a committee to explore strategic options. what does that mean? those options include a spin- off, merger or possible sale. the biggest gainer among s&p 500 stocks was online jobs site monster worldwide. how about this move? shares shot up 21.5%, a big gain and on big volume. the trading pace was almost four times average. tomorrow we get month private payroll data from a.d.p. and on friday the government reports august employment figures. but today it was disclosed three monster executives have purchases a combined 87,000 shares recently. leading to the rally. a couple of retailers moving off of their earnings and outlooks. dollar general gained almost 6% as it raised its profit forecast range. and book retailer barnes and noble jumped almost 15% despite losing money in the latest quarter. still,

started production of liquid natural gas within d.r. take. note of how much faith into north norway so in that way we are already experiencing increased business because of our gas resources in the arctic russia of course by far the greatest resource potential but of course the costs related to developing these resources are very uncertain and so it's also the international market so it's difficult to to speculate how large the change is little be what is evident is that no way is investing a lot in human capital and infrastructure so that we are positioned so that our international companies will sign away at the relevant partners. developmental seat in the arctic you probably know about russian stock when in all projects if those pipelines or rather when those pipelines are are fully developed do you think they will somehow affect norway's role as a major player in the gas market so basically the world needs more energy and it must be taken from. the arctic is one of the most. promising regions and norway has its difficult share of the arct

satellite imagery, moving to the north of dominican republic and rain being felt through parts of the d.r. and puerto rico. we'll continue to see our weather conditions deteriorating in the path of hurricane irene. right now it is a category 2. but it looks like within the next 24 hours, tuesday it's going to become a major hurricane. the winds have been holding steady at 157 kilometers per hour. as we go into tuesday, the late afternoon, as well as into the evening, it's going to be very close to right on top of the turks and caicos as well as southeastern parts of the bahamas, with winds 194 kilometers. look what will happen. as we go to the northwest winds 204 kilometers and eventually you can see 204 just to the east of florida. as we go through wednesday morning, it's going to be in central bahamas and into thursday, you can see where the location is going to be. still some uncertainty as we go into the weekend. it's going to be skirting, looks like along the coastline of the u.s. right now, we do have a hurricane warning in place. anywhere you're seeing in red, that includes bahamas

emily taking a move at haiti and d.r.vastated haiti leaving parts of the port-au-prince in ruins. today, more than half a million people are still homeless. and now they are preparing for the possibility of more destruction. steve harrigan streaming live port-au-prince, haiti tonight with more on this storm. steve? >> shepard, the clouds are beginning to roll in here and this country is on red alert. whether emily turns out to be a tropical storm or a hurricane really doesn't matter so much. what they are worried about here in haiti is the rain. if they do get that torrential rainfall anywhere from 12 to 20 inches of rain it could prove to be very deadly. back in june heavy rains killed 20. these rains could be much worse. haiti is particularly vulnerable for a couple of reasons. for one thing, 600,000 people are basically living on the ground in tents as a result of last year's hurricane. another reason the country has almost all of its trees been cut down and a lot of the sewage and drainage is blocked one garbage. also

one thing to keep in mind, after that earthquake in haiti and the d.r., a lot of mountainous terrain flash flooding is a real concern here. then we'll watch it head on up toward the north and the west. we'll be talking about maybe thursday where the u.s. really needs to start getting concerned. continue to track this throughout the week. >> thanks so much for the heads up. we've got a little time. >>> a woman faced with heart surgery says no. instead, she changed her habits. we'll explain. pile on the products. or challenge all that effort with olay. simply sweep on the new total effects dark circle minimizer. it tightens and helps conceal to beautifully reveal younger-looking eyes. it's a clean sweep. is it the new forty, i don't know. i probably feel about thirty. how is it that we don't act our age? [ marcie ] you keep us young. [ kurt ] we were having too much fun we weren't thinking about a will at that time. we have responsibilities to the kids and ourselves. we're the vargos and we created our wills on legalzoom. finally. [ laughter ] [ shapiro ] we created legalzoom to help y

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wouldn't be fun with the rain coming down and there is flooding going on in san juan and flooding in the d.r. and haiti. >> you're watching it, we'll be watching it. also watching the breaking news out of libya. i'll hand it over to wolf blitzer. "the situation room" starts right now. >> brooke thanks very much. >>> happening now, breaking news the collapse of moammar gadhafi's regime unfolding right now. libyans celebrating at rebel forces gain ground and move closer to a final victory, this hour, extensive live coverage of the fight for libya. >>> and the hunt for the man who held an iron grip on the country for decades, will gadhafi and his inner circle be brought to justice? president obama is warning the fight for libya is not over yet. cnn is using its global resources to cover the latest gasps of a brutal regime and deadly civil war. >>> to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> libyan rebels say their real moment of victory won't come until moammar gadhafi is captured. we're following breaking news out of libya. th

>> leaving the dominican republic and it's leaving the influence of haiti and the d.r.' turks and caicos in flat and no mountains to tears it up. right now it got dropped down toe a 90-mile-per-hour storm. it was 100 yesterday all afternoon and evening. it is forecast to turn

d.r. >> recent incident in japan with fukushima, is essential that lessons learned will fly to our country in the event of a similar scenario? >> i just signed m.o.u.'s with japan and new zealand. we have had staff there in the aftermath. not everything that happens is affable to us. we go to the process of what happens, how did you deal? what is interesting about tornadoes, hurricanes, and the tsunami, which is tragic because we did not focus on the real story, the loss of life, but looking at this from a standpoint, but we're actually released our strategic plan leading up to it. we did not know the tsunami was going to occur, but if you look at the numbers, the tsunami in japan fits in underneath what we were saying were realistic thresholds for maximum maximum events. this are validating some of the things talking in may. you never have something that big. i am not in the business of the things we can handle. when something like that happens, what will we do as a nation. one of the interesting things about our conversation about australia and new zealand, new zealand has a very similar