i'm helen duffy a resident of glen mark. in the appellant's brief, he provided data on building sizes. he looked at all new and existing residential building in glen park to show the buildings, especially the new homes are large so his home should be large as well. many lots in glen park are standard 2500 square foot park and those are more than double the 849 square foot size of the lot we're talking about tonight. we are not talking about removing a unit from the neighborhood. we're talking about building a unit that fits within the context of the lot. marilyn and ken sent you an e-mail and documents the size of nearby lots and building sizes. the lots and buildings the residential guidelines considered are the first and second-levels of context for this project. this shows us two things. first, that most nearby buildings have less square footage than what is proposed and second, this is true even though all the nearby lots are larger. in other words, the proposed building is larger than others though the lot is far smaller

i'm helen duffy a resident of glen mark. appellant's brief, he provided data on building sizes. he looked at all new and existing residential building in glen park to show the buildings, especially the new homes are large so his home should be large as well. many lots in glen park are standard 2500 square foot park and those are more than double the 849 square foot size of the lot we're talking about tonight. we are not talking about removing a unit from the neighborhood. we're talking about building a unit that fits within the context of the lot. marilyn and ken sent you an e-mail and documents the size of nearby lots and building sizes. th

if you've been out to the project and to glen mark and seen the project? so you come down the hill. i live at 2554 diamond at the top of the hill. so you come down the sidewalk and as you get down to the bottom and there's a beautiful tree in front of the property. if i go like this i can barely -- i can just barely get partially around the tree because it's huge and it comes up like this and has a beautiful branch. the garden club had it pruned themselves. i want to clarify, we're not against change. we are not against housing. we are not against creativity. we have a lot of creative buildings in the neighborhood and welcome them all. we're not against any of this. wa we are for breathing and having sunshine in a place to stop at the rest there and have air and trees provide fresh air in the neighborhood and our country. if we destroy the trees, we destroy our whole humanity. if they come in and take away the roots and put in the machinery and the overhang, they have to cut out half the tree and pretty soon the tree is dead and destroyed. that is really immoral. we don't mind him b

. >> and now we bring you a couple of programs from the rose glen literary festival in sevierville, tennessee. first up, mark powell discusses his book, "small temperatures." "small treasons." >> good morning. thank you all for coming to sevierville's rose glen literary festival. our first speaker, mark powell, has been called the best appalachian novelist of his generation by ron rash and a writer on the verge of greatness by pat conroy. he's the author of five books including "small treasons" published by simon & schuster in june of 2017. powell has received fellowships from the national endowment for the arts, the bread loaf and suwanee writers' conferences, and in 2014-a fulbright fellow to slovakia. in 2009 he received the chafen award for contributions to appalachian literature. he holds degrees from yale divinity school, the university of south carolina and the citadel. he lives in the mountains of north carolina where he teaches at appalachian state university. ladies and gentlemen are, mark powell -- ladies and gentlemen, mark powell. [applause] >> good morning. thank you all for coming out. a littl

mark. the rain isn't over yet. but for now it's coming down heavier through st. helena, yountville getting a break, glen ellen a nice drizzle instead of what were you dealing with about 30 minutes a ago. rainfall in tiburon east bay san ramon, tassajara, san ramon, hayward, the whole area getting dumped on. lighter in sunol but heavy rainfall. a nice calm in the middle of the storm. here's a look at the santa cruz mountains. that's an area where they could see another 2 to 4 inches of rainfall there. rockslides an issue. a lot of the bay area except for right now the north bay are dealing with strong, strong rainfall rates. sfo 20-mile-per-hour sustained winds gusts high at 30, 35. so we are noticing strong winds out of the south all associated with the atmospheric river that's bringing a lot of rain right now to central california so strong winds and low visibility. >>> right now, we are tracking a problem for drivers using 580 heading into castro valley all due to a crash and it left one car facing sideways in one of those lanes so chp is blocking all lanes of traffic while they clear it. the backup s

glen temperature trend, by 10:00 a.m. eventually into the 40s, but we will climb nicely into the 60 degree mark by tomorrow. we could even see some 70s on the forecast. let's check in with mike. >>> we are looking at a pretty smooth drive for the roadways. i want to tell you about that train crash. looking toward the south bay and up toward the bay bridge where the am l are on, things are moving smoothly in a pretty easy development for this friday. we are seeing some slowing coming up through san martin and also a crash reported around cochran but that he may have gotten the location wrong. we will let you know about that typical slowing for the pattern up toward morgan hill, 17 also an easy drive through the santa cruz mountains. capital corridor the trains are held up right now, sacramento davis area but they may start coming through. there was a freight train that hit a vehicle no major injuries reported. more updates and video coming into the newsroom right now. back to you guys. >>> coming up on "today in the bay," getting ready for today's snow pack survey. new this morning we investigate the declini

mark rol ents at the royal shakespeare company at that time. >> stephen: he makes me try. i cried at the end of "twelth night." >> it's a comedy, steve glenall through it. you don't laugh through shakespeare a lot. i laughed through the thing but at the end i cried because it was so beautiful to see someone do shakespeare so well. it was really moving. >> that's the great thing about shakespeare, isn't it? you have the laughter and you have the seriousness. and i-- now i'm going to do a brilliant segue talking about the film i have just done. i'm sorry to be so crass. the reality is that was why-- i love that kind of work. i love work that is funny and serious and sad at the same time. >> stephen: the movie is called "the leisure seeker," with donald sutherland, and what is it about? >> a couple going on their last road trip. >> stephen: why their last? >> well, because they're both facing major health issues. so he's got alzheimer's. he's forget ago it's the last time he will ever be able to take a trip like this. and she wants to take him to his dream, which was to go to hemingway's house in key west. so you're following them on this so