located at 1856 pacific on and off mid-block on the north side of the street between franklin and gough streets. the property is located in the

located at 1856 pacific on and off mid-block on the north side of the street between franklin and gough streets. the property is located in the rm-3 zoning district ada heightented bulk district. the immediate neighborhood comprised of the subject block face and opposite block face is characterized by tall buildings ranging from 4-11 stories and subject block face with the exception of subject property and the adjacent lot to the east contains tall multi-unit buildings of 7-11 buildings. the property proposed a one-story vertical addition that would increase the building's height from approximately 42' to approximately 56'. which is well within the property's 80' height limit. the two partis who initially filed request for discretionary review of the project are the owner of the adjacent 7-story participant parking apartment building. the 5th floor tenants in the adjacent building are concerned that the project will reduce light and air to their apartments, which is located at the rear of the building behind the large light court on the eastside of the building. the department has recei

this shows some recent retail we did on gough street which is not a nice treat but it's real possible, it's not retail if you do it right and questions, feedback, thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. baker. >> okay. opening it up for public comment. celiashumen. >> [inaudible] hester, these are two different case numbers, i wish you could do more than three minutes for the public because we have to speak to two projects, and you acknowledge the difficulty by giving more time to the project sponsor. two projects totally. >> commissioners, this item was called up, both of these items were called up together. it has been your practice to allow three minutes for each speaker. it is the pleasure of the commission chair to change that. >> let's stay with three minutes, i have two speaker cards here, if there's not an overwhelming amount of people, we can revisit that. (calling speaker names). >> hi, thank you, good afternoon, my name is seal yeah shoe m*n and i am here on behalf of the owner of 1rhode island street, we are a property that is diagonal to the 1 henry adams street project. w

. >> terry gough talked about inserting robots where we saw chinese workers. american workers built things. that got shipped over to china. chinese workers said, hey, i kind of like this disposable income and jobs. is it possible we could ship that back to the united states and give it to robots and china would get lost and never take part in the industrial revolution? >> if your comparative advantage in the world economy is cheap manual labor, that is really precarious. a couple more ticks of moore's law. >> they can do similar things. >> the robots are getting more capable over time and cheaper over time. >> that could be devastating for india and china. >> it can. >> and maybe for us. >> i would rather have our problems than anybody else's problems right now the phenomenon you described is already taking place. you pointed out earlier that we've been shedding manufacturing jobs since about 1980 in this country, while output has gone up. what people don't realize is that the year peak manufacturing employment in china was 1996. they employ a lot fewer people

it was to provide uniformity and consistency among various counties, lance gough county as always, somele say it is unfair because there county doesn't do those and we have overlapping jurisdictions and many elected officials and school districts, local issues. with that said i want to go over a few, major issues that we had, maybe we haven't dealt with in the past emulated based off of such a heightened 2012 media frenzy with the state of ohio, cuyahoga county specifically, that was something we did not expect. we did not expect what was a cog and effect of being such a heightened state, a state so focused on make or break the election for the president or elect a new president. it was factual that we have a president and vice presidential candidate or surrogate in their almost every other day in the last 45 days. it caused many concerns and many issues we had to deal with especially in our neck of the woods from voter turnout to come down to the boards to vote to the heightening scrutiny. national media was constantly in the board of elections asking questions that would be the topic