exceptionalism yes united states is exceptional because of its prison inmate population is quite exceptional death penalty not to many have countries in the world have that exceptionally bad health care maybe that will change social inequality public education none of these things are particularly proud beacons in american society right now if you compared to other countries if i go to peter on the out there i mean all the things that we used to be so proud of in the united states there are a lot of them are lagging and blagging very badly. i would agree with that. and i would say as as we say in our book that excessive exceptionalism has two sides of the coin there are some very bad ways in which we are exceptional as well as many good ways so i would not contest that at all what i would say is that the united states is unusually. it's usually strong in its self-criticism. for all the arrogance that it may be perceived abroad the united states the mescaline is a very very self-critical people and so the the the processes the political processes for remedying these ills are very very robust

or exception but very rarely. the largest project, the larger the project, the more quirks that seem to be built into it. if i can use that non- architectural term. these exceptions are extremely minor. i am in full support of this going ahead. >>> commissioner moore: thank you for summarizing the importance of 16th street to make sure that mission bay does not become an island unto itself. also driving -- this is a reminder that the high-speed rail extensions need to follow an

played a leading role in all of those except obviously for the e.u. which you. played a facilitator of but certainly certainly did won't. so that's one thing the second thing is that the fact that a statement is arrogant. that it causes negative reactions around the world does not mean that it's false. it may mean that has been said in a different way in the west and the west. you know assertive or aggressive way but it doesn't mean that it's false. the third thing to say is that let me jump in here a bit if i can just say something about woodrow wilson i mean would your wilson said in a speech in philadelphia there is such a thing as being to try to fight it was not too proud to attack mexico twice and in fact he did get involved in the one but what he did do was to suggest that the rest of the world must adopt the ideas in detail even when they were country to the interests of other people that is a cold war those ideas that they were lower those ideas they were personal freedom they were they were well you know david here we go you know we have to invade coun

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they are analog exception. there is a small love -- amount of rooftop features that are also required. stairs to the roof and elevators, and penthouses. mechanical rooms. they are very

we do believe that these exceptions should not be granted. i have a list that i will quickly go through. the planning cut section, and the project does not comply with this section and several areas not limited to the requirement of 25% rear yard the death -- depth. we're not sure it will be a public park. it looks like it will be used to allow for this exception. we are concerned about that. we're concerned that it will be the appropriate 25% rear yard. these will be included but not limited to the requirement facing the street. >> the purpose of this cut is to foster healthy community of advantages. and we believe that the disadvantage will be exploited in this case. additionally, the lack -- there are minorities and other economic disadvantages. we believe that allowing this is a family friendly. this is included but not limited to the requirements for active use there is nothing to improve local businesses available and service companies, thereby we believe it will increase the crime rate. we believe that the planning section cut is in co

they are analog exception. there is a small love -- amount of rooftop features that are also required. stairs to the roof and elevators, and penthouses. mechanical rooms. they are very small percentages of the route space. you are allowed up to 20%. we are below 20% of the roof space. the only thing that goes up to 16 feet is the elevator penthouses. >>> commissioner antonini: let's try to keep the design so the more we can ask these elements, the better. if you are high enough looking down you will see them but someone at the same height or from a distance away on ground level, the more we can ask these, the better. whatever you are allowed to do with parapets is welcome. comments were made upon the unit sizes and they talked about 700 square feet as being an average. i assume there is a distribution here. i do not know that there are a three-bedroom units. it would be nice if we did have distribution to allow for units that would accommodate people with children that needed more bedrooms and if that can be wo

there is a 20% exception. there is a -- about the transit on 16th street. it is envisioned as a brt so that should address the transit concerns. the 22, you cannot get the 20 to two blocks away. it sure what. >> president olague: commissioner sugaya? >> commissioner sugaya: just to follow up on that. for any purpose? >> basically for any purses than -- purpose that is listed in the code for mechanical equipment, skylights, whenever an exception. 20% total. -- what ever it exception. 20% total. -- whenever exceptiatever excep. >> commissioner sugaya: it calls for various unit mixes -- i think that is the perspective i am coming from. i realize the and lasalso becaue of the drive to provide affordable housing, there are requirements. if this was market driven, we would not have affordable housing at all. i think the public policy aspect of it has to take some precedent. >> president olague: i wanted to mention, this has been a long time coming. i remember meeting about this during the eastern neighborhoods discussion, talking about daggett triangle. the issue

but exceptions dangerous presidents exceptions are the first steps to erosion of civil liberties we've already experienced this firsthand in here in america over the last ten years and i love it is being used as an excuse by the government to systematically strip us of our rights and create exceptions in emergency situations and the fear of our national security being at risk to pretend to make it all ok how about the patriot act how about the obama administration's continuous push to make warrants court orders likely the past they don't want them to be necessary when arthur already strapped a g.p.s. device to your vehicle without you knowing it they don't want them to be necessary when they want to obtain your internet records and just to make it a little easier to excuse themselves congress is now trying to force i ask these to store your data for up to a year by law so i thought these can access more and with fewer restrictions were disposed to accept it all because they know better what a dangerous world it really is it's for our own good. then it is the other hand if you dare spea

there are exceptions. for residential kitchens, more than 50% of the wattage has to be energy-efficient and throughout the rest of the house, you have to use energy efficient dimmers or you have to use fluorescent light bulbs. you can design with incandescent lights, although i anticipate in future energy efficient codes, that exception will go away. >> there are lots and lots of other requirements in the california energy code that relate to electrical installation. for example, you can no longer put electriresistance heat in buildings unless you have put in a gigantic solar system or something that shows a reasonable tradeoff. it simply can't be done. when people put in an electrical baseboard heater and plugged it in and turn it on or hot wired it, you can't do it any more. it's not allowed. >> electrical resistance heating, it's not allowed. >> that's right. >> here is another successful of an energy-efficient light bulb that takes 55 watts and it lasts 10,000 hours. it puts out much more light than a

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now we have projects that are like 500 units with 10 exceptions. and then they come and they are an understands case. and no one enforces the rule for two weeks in advance and there is also a planning code rule for 309 and 309.1 and that says 10 days in advance. that is not hon in order. rincon hill cases have the 10-day and i come here and be a crank saying this and i proposed ap amendment and it didn't get reflected and i got this last week and i am saying you're never going to change the practice that makes informed public comment possible. because people cannot get the final divisions from the developer on friday afternoon and have a hearing on thursday and get you the material in advance. it doesn't function. i ask that you redefine complicated cases to be just about the project that has an e.i.r. and a negative declaration or a tiered project which is all of the eastern neighborhoods that you get that come through as categorical exemption even though they may be 100 units. like 1501 which was then taken off calendar and 2121 which was continu

. >> it sounds like the board which a strike all ordinance except for the bathroom in model. is that acceptable? >> a rather it was comprehensive. perhaps there are items there veto about that needs to be done, otherwise there are other tenants? >> you would run into a lot of work if the violation is there. some of it would be ok if what i know this is quite a lot of violations that would not be covered under this from the foot that is not a solution. >> that way we can clean this up. >> that does not affect this plumbing permits. i think we would like to go ahead with the bathroom remodels, which is final, and then the logical permits which are fine, and then take all of the notices of violation of this permit. >> when you are going through line by line, can you add something about the lead paint abatement? >> i would like to contact our housing inspections. we want to make sure that the contractor does comply. >> is very motion? >> i want to be perfectly clear. >> there are probably appropriate portions that we don't want to delay for a different tenant. if we continue this

or was there nothing except an inxoerable deadly silence. and the next reader is rick london. >> i'm going to read a few poems by the palestinian poet mahmud darish. i have the wisdom of one condemned to die. i possess nothing, so nothing can possess me and have written my will in my own blood. oh, inhabitant of my song, trust in water. and i sleep pierced and crowned by my tomorrow. i dream the earth's heart is greater than its mouth, more clear than its mirrors, and i was lost in a white cloud that carried me up high as if i were a hupo and the wind itself my wings. at dawn, the call of the night guard woke me from my dream, from my language. you will live another death, so revise your last will. the hour of execution is postponed again. i asked, until when? he said, wait till you have died some more. i said, i possess nothing, so nothing can possess me, and have written my will in my own blood. oh, inhabitant of my song, trust in water. this last poem has an epigraph, the cypress is the shadow of the tree and not the tree itself, and has

are there any exceptions to that? >> the residential design guidelines, by definition are guidelines. whenever there is an exposed upper story, the setback is 15 feet. that's the policy. when they review cases, there are cases when they feel extenuating circumstances are present and they have been known to increase or decrease that number. the guidelines are clear clear. >> the scenes yes, there are exceptions. >> -- answer is yes, there are exceptions. >> there have been, yes. >> the fact that there are 12 other residents on that block that have three storys with no setback, what effect does that have? >> the immediate context of this house is that it is the center house in a row of five that are all two stories but step down a block. there are houses that are higher up the block. they have their own character and that defines that part of the block. one thing that mr. gladstone mentioned is that neighbors are looking to this house as a modeling indicator as to how they might feel about it. we certainly welcome it. w

there's one exception to that where a city can declare fiscal emergency with unanimous approval of the board of supervisors to place a general tax on the ballot, but we didn't think that that was an appropriate course. so in terms of why we chose these specific items, i think there are a couple of reasons. the first is that a lot of these are very kind of core public services that people depend on and value. and we could have chosen from a lot of good services, but we know that each of these are both reasonable services, the public safety and the social safety net, they're reasonable services. nare not going to just go to waste. and we also know that these services are potential subjects for state reductions. they're kind of usual suspects. when the state balances its budget, it has limited option, just like we do in san francisco. and as a result, it kind of naturally happens that they are forced to reduce certain services and local governments. and we've seen it year after year where we see cuts to the social safety net to health care, services affecting homeless individuals, and in

that a platform of business is much more open to try to find solutions which are not car- related, except for here and there. also, for the population, it is hard. they have in mind, if you are better off to have a car, and have the car in front of your door. it is still a long way to go for us. the mobility plans that local authorities are now obliged to develop, and the hearings that are organized because of that, are almost always concerning parking places. we have now a program where we are having one less car parking space. in the streets, you see, there is one car less because now bicycles can ride their bikes, but the comments are not as enthusiastic. you will have to be from the cycling movement to be happy about that. it is a hard struggle. >> you, sir? >> with health insurance, i think people are realizing it is an idea whose time has come. maybe we're trying to make the same thing with cycling. in the united states, many people, especially in big cities, are much more resistant to the idea, including individual motorists, not just businesses afraid of profit. i am wondering, i

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