eric starr, department staff. the item before you is an ordinance that would amend the planning code by adding section 313 to require pre-application meetings for certain projects in the production distribution repair 1b zoning district. andrei a bruce from supervisor cohen's office is here to talk about the proposed ordinance and i'll finish my presentation after her remarks. thank you. >> [speaker not understood], from supervisor malia cohen's office. thanks for your patience in hearing this out of order. when we were working through your next item, it actually -- one of these significant areas bears on that one. this legislation came about for us actually due to a little bit of an unfortunate event that involved the demolition of the barkley farms plant lot indicated in the district 125 oakdale, which involved -- i won't bore you with the details, but involved a long series of notices of violation. and what we discovered through our negotiations with the project sponsor and those d-b-i and planning staff in tha

eric holder is choosing the special prosecutor. >> but at the end of the day i don't think there's a way at least i know around it. there used to be a statute that appointed ken starr which you would have an independent committee or panel do it. but there is no statute for that right now. so the person to appoint it would be eric holder at this point. jon: right. >> so you would have to hope the public pressure is so much that he would feel the need to appoint someone beyond blemish. jon: and then there's senator max baucus, he doesn't like the idea of a potential counsel atil counsel, but isn't he one of those who wrote to the irs and urged them to start investigating some of these conservative groups? >> with he certainly was. he asked the irs to look into conservative groups. he didn't ask them to look into conservative groups at the expense of looking at anything else or only target them specifically, but maybe that was the sense the irs got from people like max baucus and other democrats who hammered them to look into tea party groups. i think that, ultimately, as i said, a special prosecutor is needed not only to look at that, but also to look at some of thes

starr that dragged on for years and years and years. but at the end of the day can you get to the bottom of it by appointing your own guy? that's the issue here. ericwould have to sit back and say we're going to go through these resumes here, going to pick somebody to investigate us. >>anna: what is ironic is the tea party is reporting they are seeing an increase in donations and that there is actually a gaining support for the group that of course wants smaller government and less taxes. >> to what paul said, he's definitely losing credibility. i'm not sure if it's the moral authority right now. you have jay carney going out there every single day, the story about the i.r.s. changed three times. at first they said the white house didn't know about it. then they did know about it, then they knew about it at a later date and tried to roll out the p.r. explanation for it. to go out there day after day after day and explain this, i don't know if that is going to hold water with the american people. >> when you have a special prosecutor and special investigation that drags on for years, the question at hand at this hour is can the department of justice