commissioners the matter is submitted. >> i am inclined to deny the appeal, uphold -- i'm sorry, deny the appeal, and strike the permit. uphold the department. sorry. based on what was presented. >> i agree. are you making that a motion? >> yes. >> i will second that motion. >> the motion then to deny the appeal and uphold the department? >> yes. >> so on that motion from the president to deny this appeal, up hold the denial. and it was on the basis of the testimony presented? >> on the record. >> by mr. kwong. >> thank you. >> i think i would prefer it's on the basis of the department's analysis. >> i will take that amendment to my motion. i will accept. >> so again, on that motion from the president to uphold this denial. on the basis of the dpw's analysis. on that motion, commisioner fung? >> aye. >> and commissioner hurtado is absent. vice president lazarus? >> aye. >> and commissioner honda? >> aye. >> thank you. the vote is 4-0, with denial is upheld on that basis. >> we'll call item no. 9, appeal no. 12-101,shumei fang doing busne

denis. mcdonough. i have been counting on denis for nearly a decade.ince i first came to washington when he helped set up my senate office along with pete, he was able to show me where the restrooms were and how you passed a bill. i should point out that even then dennis had gray hair. i have been trying to catch up to him. but at that time i relied on his intellect and his good judgment and that has continued ever since. he's been one of my closest and most trusted advisers on my presidential campaign, on my transition team. he has been an indepesensible member of my team. from the war in iraq to winding down the war in afghanistan from our response to natural disasters around the world like haiti and the tsunami in japan to the repeal of don't ask, don't tell, to countless crises in between day and night. and that includes many nights. i've actually begun to think that denis likes pulling all-nighters. the truth is nobody outworks denis mcdonough. you have seen such warmth of applause because denis is a humble guy. to many friends and admirers he's t

the zoning administrator subsequently denied the variance application because the -- cu had been deniedsubsequent to that, the department of building inspection canceled the related demolition permit application, and building permit application associated with the proposed project. in july of 2010, the project sponsor and the property owner filed a state court action against this city, challenging the denials. in december of 2010, they filed their first amended complaint and petition for writ of mandate, which we litigated. and we filed what's called a demur which is a motion to dismiss, which was granted i believe on july 1, 2011. the project sponsor and property owner were given leave to amend. they did. in an august of 2011, they filed the second amended complaint which included 11 causes of action. they were challenging the decisions -- all the denials, damages, based on the denials, undertakings, and federal civil rights statutes. the city filed a demur to the second amended complaint and also a motion to strike portions of the second amended complaint. in october of 2011, part of

he's deny, deny, deny until there's not a penny to be gained anymore and then see what you can gain from confessing. >> david, you never hold back. people will tune in to hear lance armstrong's confession. i think most probably assumed at this point with the evidence and the conversations that have taken place he was guilty of something. is there any way this guy can save his name or is it gone for good? >> can lance armstrong save his name? interesting question because cycling is a nish sport. i could ask 100 people to name a cyclist and say lance armstrong and then name two cyclists and 99 people probably look at me like i have no idea but there are reservoirs of people in this country who feel very connected to him because of the fight against cancer, because of of livestrong and the yellow bracelet and whatnot and so i'm curious to see if he can rebuild his reputation but it's very difficult and i'll tell you why. because the next ten years of his life is going to -- a lot of it spent in court. >> yes. >> there is going to be a macy's thanksgiving day parade of lawyers outside of his

i am going to ask you to deny the permit and not only deny the permit but make the contractors come to a board that's set up to deal with these issues, so that nobody is left out. there is such a thing as a good neighbor policy. this contractor out of the gate said he didn't want to be a good neighbor. how do i know he said that? his actions. and the department of building inspectors -- i'm sorry but a notice of violation is supposed to be important. how do you allow a contractor to ignore a notice of violations? and yes we've had some experience with notices of violations also because we have a lot of repairing and rehabbing that needs to be done in the neighborhood. i take public transportation. now, public transportation in bay view hunter's point except for two lines. i'm not exactly good, but when you are blocking traffic for public transportation and you haven't even taken that into consideration that's the height of arrogance and that's all i can say is that this contractor from the gate has been arrogant, and it would not have happened if it had not been bay view hunter's point

our privacy is denied, you know. we don't have no access. if somebody comes up, they'll say, he's not here, she's not there, right. okay. they should have a phone down in the lobby to call upstairs. we're denied our privacy to come up there. and they're very, very rude. you know, if you said -- i didn't have a bathroom. i have aids. i asked for a bathroom. my doctor wrote a thing for me to have a bathroom. [speaker not understood]. vertical, too. i'm denied a bathroom. it's very difficult in the building and it's very -- it's filthy. that's what it is. and the environment period is ugly. bathrooms, the shower heads, okay, i have got tb, right, and the shower heads don't have no shower heads in the bathroom. you know. it's just straight water. i'm like that, you know. it's off and on. and when they do do water construction thing, they don't post and say, hey, the water is going to be cut off for two hours. they don't even do that. the water is not on. they don't do that.

on that motion to deny and up hold vice president fung. >> aye. >> president hwang is absent. commissioner ann lazarus. >> aye. >> and it commissioner honda. >> aye. >> this permit is up hold for those reasons. >> thanks calling item seven bay view office for community planning versus the department of building inspection, planning department approval. the property is at 2065 oakdale avenue protesting the issuance on october 11, 2012 for permit to alter a building and existing main building to remain. application number is listed and we will start with the appellant 's representative. >> [inaudible] >> you have seven minutes. >> very good. good evening. i am dan dot. good evening commissioners. thank you for hearing this. i am a resident and business owner in the bay view district and here for the bay view office group and offering project monitoring. i believe you had the opportunity to review the brief that i have sent. the project is located at 2065 oakdale avenue in san francisco, a largely residential area. i believe that is on the board. largely residential area that has

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. >> >> two lawsuits and one was ceqa and negative declaration filed in 2005 and denyed in 2006. mr. lagos a pied that. the other churches and schools did not appeal the court of appeal and dismissed that appeal in 201270 later in 2007 is there was a permit issued for tree removal and this board upheld that permit. mr. lagos and another neighbor filed a second writ petition in 2007. that was denied in 2008 and no appeal to that denial. >> so neither of the lawsuits dealt with anything relating to the lapse in use condition? >> that's correct. >> okay. thank you. >> counselor, i have several questions. back to the question i asked the zoning administrator. your chronology was quite detailed. it shows mostly end dates as to when you procured certainly types of approvals. can you flush out that period of time what activities were taking place between 08 and 11? there were only one item in that time frame that was an actual approval which was the arts commission approval. tell us what activities took place during that time that justifies your contention there was no lapse? >> there w

it the cia deny it mainly cia absolutely deny it but those are the cold hard facts do york university and stand for you over a city don't play me talk to them david how do you think i was what they had was all about very heavily i was. in yemen it's in somalia it's in other countries there's a major base being expanded in djibouti. bases all over the place you've got these computer terminals you could fire away operators you got more close in operate is but there is a very. large and forty thousand realizing who in the us and i might call nigeria when i call jumpin houses or hear me sir sir sir just listen for a moment please give me the courtesy of this tell me who is fighting whom in yemen could you tell me. well it certainly isn't american though i'm handling for the yemenis it's not for america oh you know this is you know you i'll bet on your hind legs ronnie you kate you are not for america and then is not america's wall of yemen is a war being fought between superpowers in the region iran and saudi arabia sunni and shia islam fighting each other in this area the idea that ameri

is often used for presidential funerals or to celebrate new presidents. >>> boy scouts once again denied the life-long dream of a local boy scout. they denied him because he is gay and he was given a second chance but the boy stated, he does not agree to scouting's principles of duty to god and his father said, that is not the case. >> it is important to him that nobody else should have to go through this. ryan should not even have to be going through this, this is just ridiculous. >> his son has never denied his lutheran faith. he believes they are once again trying to keep him from achieving the highest award in boy scouts. >>> they are scheduled to take place and a detective is scheduled to testify about the shooter's strange behavior after the colorado shooting rampage. >> we believe somebody is shooting in the auditorium. >> a detective is expected to say he wore pup puts on his hands and tried to jam a stable into an outlet and his pupils were dilated. >>> staff members for more than 2 dozen colleges and schools took part in a simulated shooter but the shootings at the colorado sch

mine would be the fourth and again for the bad faith and this action i think this has to be denied and the permit go forward. thank you very much. >> i have a question. you were slated to start construction december 1 but apparently you don't have the appropriate permits? >> can i get mr. lows? that's out of my expertise. that's my understanding. maybe i misunderstood. >> it was a long time -- at that time - - [inaudible] now i have more white hair than you. when we first get our site permit in november we can push for the addendum as fast as possible, but when the permit put there so we hold everything off. we have the addendum plan already. we scheduled meetings with the plan checker. we might not be done by december 1 but partially permit and the foundation and different work. in his mind that was starting construction. >> mr. wall, you indicated that the permits hasn't changed based upon the building department -- i'm sorry mr. wall. mr. sires, you know when i looked over that form i'm not sure it shows it never changed, but let me ask you the question. has your design change from

all she has to do is just deny it. so, believe me, i've been a target for seven years and i can't take it any more. this is the most frightening thing that's happened to me. i mean, it was scary enough to have a fire in the building and have an injury and then have this on top of it. anyway. i'm really frustrated. >> ms. shaw, very briefly, can you give us any inclination on what you're trying to do to correct anything here? >>> we're working on it. i'm working on it with mr. [speaker not understood]. we're getting a lot done. which met with the city attorney yesterday. it was a very productive meeting. and you know, we're getting actually quite a bit done. and, so, the fire damage building, a lot of the pud problems on that building are being corrected. * they were corrected over the years. i had a contested case. i lost over a million dollars because of that. it was a struggle. i mean it was one struggle after another. i had a lawyer, david [speaker not understood], little colorful. my bankruptcy attorney is now in j

he's denied ever knowingly using steroids. but in 2011, he was convicted of obstructing justice in testimony to a grand jury investigating the issue. clemens won the cy young award, as best pitcher, a record seven times. and in 2008, he denied using human growth hormone in congressional testimony. >> let me be clear: i have never taken steroids or h.g.h. >> brown: clemens was later indicted on charges he lied to congress, but last june, he was acquitted of all charges. sammy sosa belted more than 600 home runs in his career, including 66 during the 1998 season. he, too, appeared before a congressional committee in 2005, insisting he never used steroids. that committee also heard from another former star, mark mcgwire, who admitted to steroid use five years later. today, he was denied entry to the hall of fame for a seventh time. barry sverluga covers baseball for "the washington post" and joins us now. >> barry, for our non-baseball followers, explain the dilemma here. these players, bar bond and roger clemens in particular, t

they believe their son's application was denied because of his sexual orientation.allie rasmus. >>> governor brown slammed the allegations of prison allegations. >> i've read most of those. >> i read some of them. >> the senator pounded one of the reports. he says it's time to return to state control. >> california is a powerful state. we can run our own prisons. and by god let those judges give us our prisons back we'll run them right. >> brown said it would take -- he would take his fight to the u.s. supreme court if necessary. >> federal judges imposed a prison population cap back in 2009 after they found that overcrowding violates inmates constitutional rights. the state is already sending thousands of less serious offenders to local jails under a law passed just under a year ago. this new federal order would require california reduce the prison population by 33,000 more inmates to about 110,000 total prisoners by june. >>> a city councilman in martinez is suggesting a parcel tax as a way of keeping one contra costa fire station open. the shell avenue station ne

rodriguez is denying the report that says he was involved. morning, espn new york reports that the yankees are attempted to void the remainder of a-rod's hefty contract. >>> and the 49ers and ravens can get down the business now that the supersuper bowl's media day is done. the headline, ray lewis denying a report that he used performance-enhancing drugs trying to recover from a torn triceps earlier this season. >>> and randy moss seems serious when he says he's the best wide receiver ever. >>> it was a wild finish between the mavs and the blazers. fourth quarter, tied at 101-101 dirk nowitzki looking for the lead. he gets 3 of his 26 points here to put the mavs up, 104-101, with 11 seconds to go. under 10 seconds, the three, the first triple of the season to tie it at 104-104. 1.5 seconds left. aldridge for the win, his second career buzzer batter. the blazers win, 106-104 in dramatic fashion. >>> college hoops, kentucky. taking on ole miss. second half. julius mays hits kyle kilsher for the jam. later, ryan horrow, kentucky up four. hollowa

both deny the allegations, though tyler hamilton tells a very different story.after stage 11 of the 2000 tour de france, he, lance armstrong and kevin livingston had their blood reinfused. everything was handled by the team's management. >> we were in this small hotel. it was pretty wild. i arrived in my room and the staff had sort of prepared everything, the doctors. there was a blood bag taped up on the wall, hanging from the wall. a red tube coming down -- a tube filled with blood coming down. and basically he injected me here. i have pretty small veins, so the one place that always worked was right there. you can see the scars today. >> tyler hamilton says the three riders lay on beds in adjoining rooms with an open door between them. could you see lance armstrong? >> yeah, yeah. yeah, i saw him. i saw his bag of blood, saw it in his arm, yeah. >> they were taking a huge gamble. >> i'm glad we didn't get caught. i would have been -- we all would have been. serious stuff. and like now looking back, oh, my god, what was i doing? but you're so deep into it, you

he even denied a resolution there and denied a fight going on between the government and the opposition saying only a fight between syria, the homeland there and its enemies. randi? >> denied a revolution, that is amazing. still no real solutions and in june when he spoke, he called for unity. but, you know, as we said, certainly the arab league envoy, brahimi, who you mentioned, he is saying that 2013 could be the bloodiest yet. he said this, in fact, do not expect 25,000 people to die next year, maybe 100,000 will die. the pace is increasing. do you expect that we will get a solution to this soon at some point? >> there's no end in sight right now to the fighting, unfortunately. this is fighting in the nearly two years since the uprising there began that assumed the lives, according to the u.n. this past week of at least 60,000 people and the u.n. said, in fact, they believe that number to be an underestimate. that coupled with the remarks you just mentioned, randi, he believed that thousands more could die next year and as high as 100,000 people it just looks more and more grim in sy

>> well, the government has denied it. there has been no evidence to show that they did cantaloupe. this, of course, could ultimately play out in some way. that is another chapter of the soap opera we have yet to see. but the fact that channel 3's license is up for grabs and there is an investigation going on whether their license should be renewed, maybe they got cold feet. they are saying they practiced self censorship. violence? there is a lot of violence on soap operas. now the government is saying, if that is the reason, we want to see the tapes. >> the opposition is now really capitalizing on it. >> yes, they have been seizing on anything because this is a popularly elected government. and the opposition is having a very, very difficult times now. in another case, you could look at the soap opera, maybe the ending was going to be that the prime minister is coming to be assassinated. we are not sure. there is speculation about the plot. is that too violent for thailand? there aspects and the real world. but they painted themselves into a corner. they created a problem among the

he denies anything improper about the trips in question and denies he was with prostitutes. florida eye doctor and his campaign contributor with whom the senator stayed is now under scrutiny with the fbi. dr. salmon's office has been swarming with fbi agents for the last two days. it's unclear why. the fbi has been carrying out boxes. the fbi will only say it is conducting quote law enforcement activities. it's unclear whether the fbi raids have anything to do with senator menendez. cnn has also learned in 2011, melvin was slapped with an $11 million tax lien by the irs. dr. mill began has not returned repeated calls from cnn. menendez acknowledges in a statement that he's flown on the doctor's corporate jet. the doctor has a vacation home at a lush seaside resort in the dominican republic. now, it appears the senate ethics committee may be involved. last fall, it got this e-mail complaint from a new jersey republican state senator asking for an investigation into those caribbean trips. the e-mail complaint questions whether menendez violated the code by quote repeatedly fly

he's denied ever knowingly using steroids. but in 2011, he was convicted of obstructing justice in testimony to a grand jury investigating the issue. clemens won the cy young award as best pitcher, a record seven times. and in 2008, he denied using human growth hormone in congressional testimony. >> let me be clear: i have never taken steroids or h.g.h. >> brown: clemens was later indicted on charges he lied to congress, but last june, he was acquitted of all charges. sammy sosa belted more than 600 home runs in his career, including 66 during the 1998 season. he, too, appeared before a congressional committee in 2005, insisting he never used steroids. that committee also heard from another former star, mark mcgwire, who admitted to steroid use five years later. today, he was denied entry to the hall of fame for a seventh time. barry sverluga covers baseball for "the washington post" and joins us now. >> barry, for our non-baseball followers, explain the dilemma here. these players bar bond and roger clemens in particular, the