now diamond heights our western border is right at glen park. and our residents would greatly benefit from the renovations and the improvements. and so we do urge you as association to deny the appeal. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, next, speaker, please? >> good evening, my name is hugh (inaudible) i would like to say something that the project will except some of the park of the project. i mean the moving their tennis court and cut the trees. my point is to this project is substitution of the bad maintenance over this park. i can give you some samples. if you saw all of the chunks of wood, not by... but during the last five or ten years. actually it should be cleaned. and let me show some pictures. this is maintenance of the main building. this is the windows. i think that my point is like the last window were installed in 1945. the same windows, and this and there is another picture, another picture, this is the wall. this is the top of this wall. >> this is the roof. >> this is at least 25 years old. >> you can see this wood

my husband and i have lived on the edge of glen canyon for decades. and we have deep roots in our community. i ask that you deny the appeal. and rely on the experts with recr, and parks, thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> my name is tony astrela and this is my daughter kristin, we moved directly across the street from the canyon we are where diamond heights boulevard and elk come together and when i walk out of my front door i look to the left and i see all of those trees. kristin our house was built around a huge tree that existed for 20-some odd years until a branch fell off and it was removed. if those trees are removed it will destroy the quality of life, i think. not just for the people in glen park down by the playground, but all of the people surrounding all of glen canyon, if you have ever driven down oshanasy, you know that the canyon is huge and it needs its mature healthy trees. i am curious to know of those 58 in this initial plan that are to be removed, how many of those are hazardous? >> how many are mature healthy tree

>> rose cats and i am a resident of glen park and a frequent user of the park. i have already submitted my written comments. i would just like to you a, deny the appeal. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, my name is maria monodory, i am a city resident and thank you board members for hearing us, i have three remarks. the large old trees, have enormous crowns that slt leafy portion where the photo synthesis occurs, on the surface of every leaf are pores to which carbon dioxide is pulled out of the atmosphere, they are like natural vacuums that move the pollution from the air. they plan to cut down 190 trees over all in the multiple projects for glen park. which will result in more pollution to the debt triment to all of us in the city. just think of how that will effect the children with asthma. park and rec say that these trees will be replaced by seedings. how many seedings would actually replace the function of one large tree? 50? 100? there is not enough land to substitute, 100 seedings for one tree. the roots of the tree burrow deep into the earth ser

was actually is doing is it is killing glen park and destroying while life habitat. the permit says that they have the exemption because the work will not be done in the areas but on the... and it is totally untrue. the removal of the trees which are under the construction must not be attached to the center project at all. this project will be wasting tax payer money on building a new entrance, and the hills and trees and planting native gardens instead of using this money to work on the recreation center filled with the play grounds and playing hills. it was a half a million, ad promotes. the process did not actually consume the neighbor's information was withheld from the community. in the information provided was... and will be doing the presentation. >> so, i am also a park user and i would like to say thank you for hearing the appeal and considering our concerns. it is absolutely not correct that spending a half million dollars for a repeated community workshops replaces the compliance with the environmental control regulations. the workshops are more about mark

>> rose cats and i am a resident of glen park and a frequent user of the park. i have already submitted my written comments. i would just like to you a, deny the appeal. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, my name is maria monodory, i am a city resident and thank you board members for hearing us, i have three remarks. the large old trees, have enormous crowns

also, about 3,000 people signed a petition, asking to save glen canyon trees and to revise the plan. people even valleyed on the street corners in the rain asking rpd to revise the plan and rpd has yet to meet with the public to explain the poor suitbility criteria that is being used for removing the trees. so, it is absolutely correct what rpd is saying as far as the 44 trees, in the natural areas, but they are not related to the construction. rec and park tacked those trees on long after the last community meeting and the trees are going to be replaced with about 2,000 native plants. but at best is the appearance that they are influencing the controversial and unapproved natural areas program with using rec center funds. even if one agrees with removing these trees, the removal belong with the forestry project and not hijacking the funds for the recreation facility. none of these trees, except for emergency removals are exempt from the environmental review. trees are considered the lungs of the city and are being stripped bit by bit. as of october first, three currently funded proj

i have been a resident from glen park two blocks for 40 years. i support the plan and i urge you to deny the appeal before you and to grant the permit. to understand, community support for this project is important that you look at the minutes of much more recent meetings than the one that was just referred to recently. when i walk through the recreation center part of this park, he can see the very real need for better picnic and safer play and accessible rest rooms and a safe and welcoming park entrance, i also support the landscaping plan ta that is associated with this project. there is so much focus on the tree removal and we have ignored the rich pallet that has been proposed. although it is not an ecological project, it still does offer an opportunity to increase the biological diversity of our park and neighborhood and to offer environmental education opportunities. not everyone agrees that no tree should ever be removed for any reason unless it poses an immediate hazard to life or property. trees stand very often need to be thinned for t

the content plan for the glen canyon trail system, which includes creek side trail loop was approvedy recreation park commission in august of 2011. we expect the bid and award for this to happen later this year, or in early 2013. and construction to be scheduled in spring of 2013. the state park grant funds provided through this program will be used mostly to the existing creek side trail. the state park grants require grantee to provide public access for period of 20 years for property that benefits from the grant program. the legislation authorizes director to record memorandum of unrecorded grant agreement for this purpose. in closing i'm requesting committee recommend to the board of supervisors to accept and expend the grant and to authorize the director of real estate to record the memorandum of unrecorded grant agreement. i'm available to answer any questions. >> thank you very much for the presentation. for this item i believe we do not have a budget analyst report. like to open this up for a public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to speak on item number

i am glen davis and i am seeking reappointment to the committee. i am doing so and i really enjoyed the role of being a citizen member, being on a committee that is holding government accountable for the money and spending of prop k funds through the intent of the voters. i have a master's in administration and worked in the community for 10 years around many years and education and housing and directly or indirectly affected by prop k funds and schools and the light rail stations or upcoming cal train station, so that's pretty much it in a nutshell. i can take any questions. >> okay. thank you. just wondering what do you feel is the greatest input you've had on the committee. >> i would say there's two items that come to mind quickly. one is as the chair was the tree maintenance and the issues that homeowners were having around tree maintenance and the cost to them and the potential liability to them, and i think we've moved that forward and the folks that came before the committee and asking for help with that feel good about what is moved forwar

the content plan for the glen canyon trail system, which includes creek side trail loop was approved by recreation park commission in august of 2011. we expect the bid and award for this to happen later this year, or in early 2013. and construction to be scheduled in spring of 2013. the state park grant funds provided through this program will be used mostly to the existing creek side trail. the state park grants require

what i imagine the project looking at at the end of the day it is going to dramatically change what glen canyon looks like if you remove those huge eucalypase. there is nothing stopping them from taking down the trees that need to be taken down that are hazardous. >> the other thing is if you look at the priorities from the project which is not what you guys are evaluating. if you look at the priorities from this project, the lowest priority was the hillside. and people did not get an option to go in and say i don't want this, they were not given the option to say what the highest priority and those were definitely the lowest priority for the community. >> thank you. >> ma'am. i have a question. i don't know whether the appellant received the brief from the department? >> yes. >> so you are aware that there is a letter in there from the planning department following the initial determination? >> yes, basically, that e-mail came after i was contacting the department. >> i just want to make sure that you saw that. >> i did see that and my point is that that is not a certificate of determin

environmental review officer specifically said that the proposed project would not involve any work in the glen canyon park natural area. it wasn't... it was with that in mind, presumably and based on that information, that the planning commission, awarded the contract in august. and it is only after this appeal was filed, that the planning department realizes oops, in fact we are doing this in the natural areas. this is something that was completely under the radar, it was not disclosed to the public and it was not disclosed to anybody. and so to accuse these people of delaying when it was not really until october that somehow everybody came to the realization that this was in the natural areas is really unfair to the opponents to this project and to suggest that the opponents of this project have to file another appeal, oh, no, you are not the ones who get to decide this, although i thing that the charter requires you to resolve these issues because it is not in the best interest of the public that this goes forward as planned. but to suggest that they have to go forward to the board of super

this is right on glen falls parkway at windsor mill road. if you are traveling through the tunnels everything is up to speed. no delays whatsoever. as far as the justification is concerned as we -- jfx is concerned as we check in and take aloof hook north of 695, everything moving right along. no delays right now heading downtown. as far as 695 is concerned, as we check in and take a look at the abc2 timesaver traffic dry times no problems to report on the outer loop from 95 all the way up to 83. just 11 minutes and conditions nice and clear over on the west side of the beltway. an 11 minute ride as well on the outer loop from 795 down to 95. megan and charlie, over to you. >>> news time now 5:31. he was 17 years old killed in a car crash on tuesday night. now they are planning to honor the man's life. abc2 news linda so is here with the details and what are they planning to do? >> reporter: friends of michael mcvery are i plan to hold a vigil in his honor and tomorrow night the varsity football team at westminster high school where mcverry

. >> reporter: fire crews spent much of the morning on a two alarm fire in glen burnie. details coming up. >> reporter: tis the season for santa and beautiful holiday lights. where to find it all for free coming up. >> we can get a couple light showers this morning but we are going to get sunshine this afternoon. i will tell you when it wind down coming up. >> reporter: no problems to report on 95 downtown but we are dealing with a very serious crash in baltimore county. i will have the details coming up on good morning maryland. >>> this is your of a bc2 news to go on this -- abc2 news to go on this friday morning i am megan pringle. >> and i am charley pringle let's get to the forecast with lynette charles. >> a few showers diminishing through the rest of the morning we will get sunshine throughout the day. looking at maryland's most powerful radar around pocomoke city this morning as we go through time we are going to see temperatures stay cold. so we are starting out cold and stay chilly cold going into the afternoon. man chester at 34 right now. and frederick at 35

i said, "glengarry glen ross?" he goes, "i don't remember." and that was it. picture. you're just staring, gazing at him. >> i'm like, on my eighth mini orgasm. [ laughter ] yeah, they had this press conference, like second day of rehearsal. so, i still wasn't used to being around him. and they put me right next to him and he talked the most of the time and that's all i did. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: that's not even al pacino. it's a madam tusseau wax figure of al pacino. [ laughter ] he didn't move the whole press conference. >> but, it was amazing, you know -- you grow up like, thinking about your favorite actor. i did at least. and you're like, you think of the conversations you would have with them, like -- and then, you know, you're a kid and you're like, "oh, al would understand this. i know he would." and during this whole press conference, i was literally sitting there going -- "oh, my god, he's totally answering all the questions the way i thought he would." it was unbelievable. >> jimmy: it's like you're controlling al pacino's mind. well, you're

alex glen with one of his four blocks. howard, man, he's in transition and he is going to get it right back to him. the two-handed jam. 18 points for the big guy. the blocks were money. so were the shots. dialing long distance all night. that is a freshman seth allen. the lead had been cut to eight points. he drains one of his five threes. allen with a team high 19 points. maryland wins, 91-74 to improve to 2-1 this season. redskins at 3-6 and talking a lot this week about turning the season around. starting this sunday first is the eagles. their quarterback, their newly elected captain, robert griffin

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plan ahead, you may want to use glen road.we check the crash now on the shoulder virginia, 95 prior to the beltway. northbound lanes are open, but still slow past the ocoquan. >> 6:49. today at 4:00 p.m., do you believe in miracles? can extraordinary things happen to ordinary people? they bring you this year in miracles 30 inspirational stories. today at 4:00 p.m. right here on abc 7. it is 6:49 right now. 49 degrees in washington. >> coming up, a live round up of today's top stories. first, a quick check on the forecast. >> coming up here, mary attorneys on the wrong side of the law. accused of sexual assault his wife and major prosecutor. he will break down a bizarre case. right here on a good morning america. >> right now 6:52. time to your friday express. >> we start things off with jummy olabanji. >> d.c. police are investigating an attempted robbery. a live picture is coming from near the white house at eighth street and madison. police said there was an attempted robbery near 18th and jefferson. somehow this got transpi

take glen road over towards falls and you can join 270 and there you are.o problems for virginia commuters as to push north. interstate 95, a quiet round. 395 to and across the 14th street bridg nd quiet. >> still to come, we will show you how hillary clinton is honoring the oh! green mountain coffee! how do you always have my favorite coffee? well, inside the brewer, there's a giant staircase. and the room is filled with all these different kinds of coffee and even hot cocoa and you'll always find your favorite. with so many choices, keurig has everyone's favorite. and i just press this button. brew what you love, simply. keurig. >> hillary clinton paid tribute to the u.s. ambassador who died in the attacks and libya. chris stevens and three other americans died and enter the attack in benghazi. she called him a fallen hero the understood diplomacy involves taking risks. >> he understood we would never prevent every act of terrorism or achieve perfect security in this world and our diplomats cannot work in bunkers and do their jobs. >> officials revealing

we have the winds, gusts up to about 28 glen burnie and 30 chesapeake beach. 29 bel air, it's makingt feel colder this morning. that 32 bel air, that's what you need to dress for this morning, high pressure going to build in behind the cold front, much colder air, see the snow to the north, around the great lakes we won't get any snow, we will see plenty of sunshine in to tomorrow. that trend will continue in through time. today the temperature 50 degrees. 32 tonight and the seven-day forecast looks like this. as we will see 48 by wednesday, temperatures stay below average. let's get a check of the traffic with loren cook. >>> good morning, in addition to the rain and fog, we are dealing with the water main break in mount vernon, expect delays in the neighborhood. now, madison street has re- opened, you are able to take that and make a left on to gillford and straight downtown. a live look here on madison, repairs are underway, no word on when this main will be fixed. they have a tremendous amount of progress this morning. expect delays, the off ramp, 83, gillford, has been re- opene

. >> i want to ask you about glen hubbard, closest topic, economic adviser to mitt romney, "financial times" suggesting a new approach, being more -- much closer to what the president has been proposing. what are you seeing in your private talks with democrats and republicans? there seems to be a lot of give. >> i'm not part of any gang but i'm talking to multiple players and have been since election day and before and have crafted a bill that i hope can be useful in helping us come to a close here. first of all, i think that, you know, friday's meeting, all of us are going to be watching to see whether it's a photo op or whether this is something where these guys are really going to engage. let's face it, the two most important people in this right now are the president and speaker boehner. i mean they are the most important players as to whether we get a result. secondly, i've said from day one, i've been saying it for two years, the most important piece of this, andrea, really is medicare because as you look at glen hubbard, as you look at others talking about all these things, the

problem in the ben lomond area santa cruz mountains, wires down at highway 9 between upper and lower glen arbor closed there is a power outage in that area. northbound 101 shoreline boulevard in mountain view, debris in lanes has several cars off to the shoulder with flat tires. northbound embarcadero between second and brannon closed for roadwork until 5:00 this morning detour in place. >>> that detour take as extra five minutes. >> next, abc7 news follows up on a frightening encounter with occupy demonstrations. >>> talk about fanatic, midnight release that had hundreds lined up in the cold for hours. >>> first here's this morning's tech bites. >> reporter: today microsoft has shown its window guy the door, the president of the window's unit is leaving the company less than a month after the launch of windows 8. new blackberry operating system and phones that run it will be unveiled the end of january go on sale the next month research in my shun hoping this will make blackberry phones relevant again. call of duty black operations goes on sale today. many who plan to buy in admit they w

take you to the santa cruz mountains, highway 9 has a problem at glen arbor. a car took out some wires and there's reports of a power outage in the same area, about 3,000 customers affected. it may or may not be the case but it will take three or four hours to clear. you might be able to get on to glen arbor and use it as an alternate but that will mean disruption for the morning drive. you'll have to get over to 17 likely. >>> live look outside across the bay bridge here with the tiny little red lights. that's good news. tiny bit of traffic on the upper deck. no problems between the city and oakland. back to you guys. >> thank you very much. >>> the grand opening of the devil slide bypass tunnels is now being delayed. caltrans pushing back the date into early 2013. county officials say they need more time to perform safety and electronic testing. the two tunnels cut through a mountain between pacifica and half moon bay and by passes a stretch of highway 1 which is certainly prone to landslides. >>> it is 5:07. an extramarital affair may not have been the only

to glen hutchens quick. i know you signed onto the fix the debt coalition. concerned about the debt situation. who is better at dealing with the debt of this country? >> it's a good question, maria. one thing i want to say you were talking about hurricane sandy and christie and obama. i think to see governor christie and barack obama working together to solve a huge problem like the results of the hurricane gives me a lot of courage that we can work together on the nation's problems across the aisle like that. i hope it doesn't take an economic hurricane to get there. >> you know, glen, voters are motivated by different things. there's nothing like weather or natural disaster to get their attention. do you think an issue as complex as the fiscal cliff can ever motivate people the way this has, the way sandy has? >> i hope so. i think maybe hurricane sandy could remind us of what 2008 was like when we lose control of the economy and allow events to ride man. the fiscal cliff is facing us. we need to solve it. it's the most important thing that government can

california highway 9 by glen arbor. otherwise the eastbound eastbound lanes of highway 4, this is your ongoing road work. one or two lanes are going to be blocked. in the meantime westbound doesn't look bad from antioch toward the concord area. more are road work in marin county. everything's pretty quiet across the span at the golden gate bridge. toward sir francis drake you'll find various lanes blocked. a lot of things should be rapping up in the next 15 minutes or so. ferries, everything reporting no delay. that is traffic and weather together every 10 minutes, back to you guys. >>> closing arguments are planned today in the state of washington in the preliminary hearing of a u.s. soldier accused of killing civilians in afghanistan. army staff sergeant robert bales is charged with 16 counts of premeditated murder and 6 counts of attempted murder. he shot and stabbed the victims including children back in march. the hearing will determine whether he faces a court marshal. he could face the defense penalty if convicte

biggest of their holiday season and that they are thankful for the support of their neighbors. >> willow glen is a very tight community, and we support each other. >> the local guy is -- he's the backbone of america. that's the foundation. it's what america's all about. entrepreneurship. >> great thursday appears to have stolen some of black friday's thunder. retail shopping tracking company shopper track says consumers spent $11.2 billion at retail stores on friday, which is down 1.8% from last year. the company says stores opening their doors on thanksgiving day led to fewer shoppers in stores on friday. >>> well, it looks like a scene out of a movie. coming up, the race to save the driver trapped in this truck, dangling over a busy highway. >>> plus, a groundbreaking cancer treatment close to approval. and bay area researchers are leading the way. >>> and we're seeing a chilly saturday night around the bay area. already near 40 degrees in fairfield and santa rosa seeing some patchy, thick fog, too. visibility's down to a quarter mile. that's what you're going to wake up to tomorrow morning

. >> glen scaff voa and partners in handel architects here in san francisco. we are very excited of being part of this project as mr. mercy pointed out. the challenge for us was to really get this building back up to a standard of 2010 structurally, esthetically and from a unit standpoint so this is going to be a short presentation on some of the changes that we have made. as you know the project sits on fremont street between folsom and harrison and midblock in the rincon hills district. this gives you indication of the parcel of land here. you can't see the chart but i think you have some handouts there. as mr. mercy pointed out we reduced the parking but we have below grade parking so nothing is visible from the street and the building is broken down into three components and the below grade and the building and the tower itself and at 400 feet. one of the other significant changes and adjustments that we made of course the client pointed out the structural system. as you can see from the drawings one shows the old system which was small and the new system

look at temperatures. 33 degrees in glen burnie. ijamsville at 24 degrees this morning. we are in the 20s so because of this, we are dealing with the freeze warning once again until 9:00 for the areas shaded in the purple color. basically everywhere except along the eastern shore. we need to bundle up especially as you head to the polls today. you can have long waits in the lines. and as we look at maryland's most powerful radar, the good news is you don't need the umbrella until we head into tomorrow. that's when we talk about the nor'easter. but this is your plan he for the rest of the day. cold through the morning, and as we go into lunchtime chilly. 45 degrees but we will get plenty of sunshine before the clouds start to move in as wehead throughout the day. let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook good morning. >> reporter: good morning. bring on the sunshine. we can use it. traveling on 95 this morning in white march thereby are no delays heading into the city. marsh there are no delays heading into the city. as far as 83 as we look if you are useing