harney for mitigation. in my opinion, none of them impeachment the intent of the code section that i cited. thank you. president olague: thank you. let's keep calling cards. michelle sudis. kathleen courtney.

joe harney. harvey hacker. joanne allen followed by richard lerner. you can come up however, whatever order, you know. >> commissioners, i'm joe harney, owner of 1221 union street. and i'm very disappointed that this matter has become so contentious. as i've stated all along, i'm not opposed to this project. i've only asked the project sponsor make every reasonable effort to minimize the impacts of this penthouse and roof deck proposal to my tenants into my property. i hope you had the opportunity to read my letter to mr. willis. it demonstrates that i've made every attempt to reach compromise with mr. willis but he chose to fight me. commissioners, i do feel it is necessary to set the public record for the commission on one important matter. i never agreed to support this project. you can imagine my anger when i come across the document that mr. willis submitted to you stating that i did. you don't need to ask or take my word for it. one of two occasions, he admitted that this was false. once at a meeting at his own architect's office on may 10, atte

>> finally, that determination has to be up to harney. i would say the most useful thing to do at this point, because we have this maze of story poles and strings from layers of proposals would be to give it a fair shake and block out the most recent proposal and look at it from the apartments and say, this works, or this is inadequate. commissioner antonini: ok. thank you. today we are hoping to make a decision on this. we may go with what we feel is an adequate amount of -- i don't know if you wanted to add anything to that. the other part of this is the awning. they have diminished the size of the yawning and i can see that going away entirely. it may be helpful. there are ways to use shutters or curtains to block the problem of the light within your unit. i would think at least half the size of awning. can you give me an idea of what you're thinking of? >> in their own light study, october 20, 2010, it says that they can have the exterior lines. i am not a light study expert. if they had exterior lines, it would not need an awning. it

harney for mitigation. in my opinion, none of them impeachment the intent of the code section that i cited. thank you. president olague: thank you. let's keep calling cards. michelle sudis. kathleen courtney. scott he had monday son. -- scott edmonson followed by sarah tabor. >> if i may, i'm ben devries. i'm here to represent thethere s within a block of the parking garage. i need to speak to the fact that our viability as businesses in this community, where restaurants have flourished, in this economy coming in this day and age, challenges without that parking, without the hourly access to the parking. when it shut down for about six weeks two augusts ago, business dropped 25%. that is a sustained drop. we are talking probably 20 people being laid off. we are talking most of us going out of business. the hourly public parking is paramount to our survival and a thriving of the business community with and that two- block radius. it has developed a beautiful culture of restaurants and small businesses. all o

last october, i was contacted byjoe harney -- by joe harney. he had some concerns about a large box attached to garage. -- large duct attach to the garage. i met with the project sponsor and the building owner. joe wanted john to remove a very unsightly three-foot diameter duct that ran down a ligh twell and -- light well and past the windows of the building. his position was that it was potentially dangerous and he wanted john to remove it. he asked joe whether he had concerns about the project and joe said he was not opposed, and he was also in the real-estate business. with that understanding, john asked me to remove the duct, which i did later that week. removing that had the effect of significantly improving of view and light of at least two units. i have been on the roof many times and i know the conditions well. the only two windows on joe pose a property that have a sideline of the new building are primarily looking on the existing concrete para pit wall of the garage. one of the tenants keeps her curtains drawn during the day so it app

it was against the widening of harney way. but other than that, figured that most of the programs -- also, fran would like to have seen more community involvement and selection of the projects that were recommended. the last item was the interchange at candlestick park. the amendment was to request staff to work with bicounty partners to create a mechanism for more community involvement. chu: thank you for your report. any members of public who wish to comment on item number 3? >> my name is francisco decosta. i do not know if you noticed that when the gentleman was giving the report reportly pointed out that they are dealing with huge projects linked with the southeast sector involving highway 101 south. the widening of the street. the implications are very serious. and one of the ways the san francisco county transportation authority can address the situation is by having a localized meeting so people can have the best input. we are talking about millions of vehicles that are going to be flying in this area. we are talking a

john harney who was the editor of the savannah georgian who wrote in 1818 just before he left which,by the way, was two years before savannah one today the ground -- burned to the ground twice, wrote this parting shot: may all your free citizens, wealthy or poor, be bribed for their votes as they have heretofore. may every quack doctor be patronized still and his talents be judged by the length of his bill. may all your quack lawyers find themes for their tongues and their brains get the applause that is due to their lungs. may your miserly merchant still cheat for their pence, and with case any brains show a great deal of sense. now, to finish my curses upon your ill city and express in few words all the sum of my ditty, i leave you, savannah, cursed as far, the worst of all curses to remain as you are. [laughter] however, we certainly have had our people that have been charmed by savannah, and one of them being john who in the early 990s, of course, "midnight in the garden of good and evil," one of the best-selling books in the history of publishing. matter of fact, tourism and the