, mission affordable housing, low income housing and middle income housing on your handout here, you don't have those numbers listed. i am assuming they have not changed? it's for affordable housing its 100 million. 50 million for the mission, 80 million you mentioned for public housing. is there. >> yes. if you look on this page their >> shame on me. it's right here. you're right. i appreciate that. lastly, the middle income rental, that's running as a pilot program, is that correct? >> that's right shifted with a league-leading 40 in terms of how we know that this pilot program is working, effective,. i think what criteria were using for its success >> we are very hopeful that will be successful although it is -- we look to new york which is a similar model and that had great success. we've done our reach to the market rate developers with whom will need to cooperate and order to convert market rate units to affordable units beyond any inclusionary requirements. we got a good response so far. we've run many financial models . the measures of success are, number one, the number of u

housing. we just had a demonstration here in our chambers, not a demonstration by people you're coming here for public comment that lasted 7.5 min. people from the mission district who are facing dramatic changes displacement, and decertification, i think the response to actually grow the bond is the right way to go. so i do appreciate working with my colleagues to push for a larger bond. i want to thank supervisor eric mar and compost for pushing for a larger size that we originally come forward with a $500 billion housing bond and really, that was to show that we had dramatic amounts of need to address and we needed to have something of a larger size to try and fill the holes that are being created in our housing city but we knew we have to come down from that. we knew that we had to find a pathway that we can all agree on in city hall and i think we've done that. so, i do appreciate the mayor's office to work with the controller and my office to first increase the size of the bond of from 2

to have group housing to be excluded to be be mandated not inclusionary group housing is a disservice to all the residents of san francisco because there's a lot of people that are struggling i myself was homeless at one point my son is homeless a vet i know many many people who are homeless or struggle to make it or people living in a tiny sro home for which of years it is important we get the homeless off the streets to give them back their dignity and make that easier for them to be able to turn things around quickly you see me, i'm the president of the association on disability but 2 analyses years ago i was homeless to be able to turn things around quickly housing is crucial so i'll express about you to remember we need to include housing for ink including those are the thirty percent a lot of of us are struggling we want our dignity back thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm alexander a community planner with the tenderloin community association we're happy to find out that supervisor wiener's amendment will

and group housing. and so they can move forward in a single ordinance >> okay. great. thank you so much. just to add on to the conversation about supervisor wiener's amendment and i made my comments that i feel this conversation is more appropriately had when we introduce dial. because it allows developers to produce more units at a lower subsidy, or to produce lower income units at deeper subsidies and fewer of those. i think that is the time to have this conversation and that whatever we decide, should impact all types of housing development, not just group housing. i wanted to add on to what fernando said, that we have units that are marked at roughly 90% ami and so if we allow group housing developers to provide inclusionary housing units at 90 %, i think we should be consistent. 55% ami is what we require on-site at 12% is what we require of all housing developers. i don't think we should differentiate between group housing and other types. i am a strong supporter of ensuring that we are building m

cost of housing and trying to ask them to have 40 percent ever more of low end of affordable housing is not going to make sense it is not going inform happen so blanket some kind of justification the only way this can possibility happen a blanket statement made by economic analysis that applies to all the projects that fit that category but to audio to the cost by having each one it is a project killer and you know the more projects you kill the more costs of existing hours which is the only game in town yeah. there's been a lot of problems for a long time in the attitudes in the mission district i remember in the 70s when we drove out federal saves that was a good business for some reason they have an ugly building but besides that they drove them to san mateo because they didn't do something certain community members didn't like the language in here saying the planning commission is goovbld guaranteed we're not guaranteed to do anything we did a good job making rules if you don't like the rules those are the rules we can try to make solutions by addressing the shormg of affordable

housing both bmr group housing and non-bmr group housing in my view is a very important part of the mix. we need to make sure that we're allowing various types to be built. i know at least one group housing project that was in the pipeline, when this legislation was introduced, converted to a more traditional apartment or condo building. they said it no longer penciled out for their financing and we lost a group housing project. i have heard from other group housing developers that it can pencil out. so i think it's a little unclear here, but clearly having inclusionary housing ordinance apply to group housing does increase the costs of the projects. that is not to say that we shouldn't do it. i think the bmr program, our inclusionary housing program is a very, very important one and one i support. what i would like to suggest, and after public comment i will make the motion to amend, that we have some additional flexibility in terms of ami. 50% of area median income and i would like to propose that the maximum median income for rental bmr be 90%, which is into the moderate-income r

project the color requirements apply to all housing requirements specifically group housing, however, another section of the planning code the explore requirements apply to buildings with that 10 or more units since group housing is measured by hours not unit so it is not having the explore group housing grounding group housing projects were supportive for housing and homeless shelters those would so been exempt hundred affordable units from the inclusion requirements recently the group housing project the department has received for reviewing mandatory private by the time suits is limited cooking families similar to market rate buildings highlighted the explore program this ordinance proposes that the explore requirement apply to projects not received they're first construction permit before may 2015 and staff spofrts this recommendation it catches all the group housing in the pipeline staff supports the recommendations of this ordinance to clarify the code language and in that regards staff also has modifications recommended administrations to this ordinance first the quality of li

housing. either 100 percent for [inaudible] or low and moderate income or mixed use of housing for law, moderate and [inaudible] the mayors office can taerm determine it isn't feasibility and come back to some of the ideas mr. martin set out earlier. it sets out a path fwrai developing affordable housing. thank you very much. >> thank you mr. martin >> good morning. my name is james [inaudible] director of community organizing [inaudible] supervisor kim, thank you so much for doing this important work and happy birthday yesterday. so, i was one of the organizers that helped bing the surplus property ordinance toort. it was a process of research with homeless people with low income people working together with people from legal and affordable housing background and we all that amazing work there are a lot of holes in the original ordinance and this goes a long way in laying a clear pathway to make it work. we only got 2 buildings out of the original campaign, which is wonderful but not enough.

that's really the bulk of our low income housing. surly, public housing. we have 80 million in public housing. the 100 million in low income housing.. the low income piece will go up to 120 in some circumstances because we have -- the plan to expand our small sites program, which allows residency up to 120% of area median income. as you know, if we were to help the developer purchase an existing rent control building, there's no means testing to live in rent-controlled housing. may have someone who makes $10,000 a year's on social security, and someone who makes $100,000 a year living right next to each other. we want to use those proceeds from the higher income, 120% ami household cross subsidize the extremely low income household and i will create a feasible acquisition and rehab development. now, for middle income, we expect that most of the funds that we've allocated there will go to household about up to 120% ami. the middle income rental program in particular, we are estimating that would allocate about $20 million for that, assuming we have a test w

having more units of housing means more affordable housing. whether it is 12 percent or 33 percent, that is going to go up. the number of affordable yuts go up as the number of over all units in the project go up. i also think in terms of affordable housing, i do not think that is the kind of conversation you have in termoffs whether it is 12 or 33 percent in the context of one neighborhood commercial district. that is a city wideory neighborhood wide discussion for affordability levels so that is a conversation we should have and are having. i want to make one last point and appreciate supervisor kim and i have a different perspecktdive on the microunit issue. by pure coincidence this morning i talked to someone who lives in the micro unit south of market in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the sit a and pays 1100 dollars a month which is dramatically different than what we for one bedrooms like south of market and castro. i don't agree with the concept that microunit somehow is not a key part of the mix. they are and we also know t

that make it easier to build more affordable housing and inclusionary housing in the city i think we'll work together on the issue of the pipeline we support what planning is doing to come up with a list and how they're going about this for the inner controls as we stated we're really for the project that has gone through the permitting process and paid all the fees we shouldn't be subject to the conditional uses so that's our comments thank you. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong and commissioner wu and the commissioners is the mission better off 7 years ago than today, i is no and fingers have been pointed popper neighborhood has fallen into decay and negligent they've got a struggle historically the mission real estate values are depressed from 3 to 5 percent calendar to real estate values in the surrounding neighborhoods only 75 unit were built last year in the mission the rest were blocked and the developers have that obscene amazes u amounts of financing and crime as arisen on 16th street and the building of the mission t will effect the curb appeal of the mom and pop b

the old group housing before the marietta housing is that type of housing can still go forward. >> yes. that housing is in the planning code it provides an exception of a hundred percent affordable and some of it is liv the diamond shelter is more service oriented and not income but people are there for a month or so i want to make sure those types of projects are not impediment and those are for the homeless shelter or count as subsidized housing that is exempt from the inclusionary. >> so i think this all make sense thank you. >> commissioner johnson and thanks very much i agree with commissioner hillis this is we've talked about that for the past few months just a couple of quick things on i think that the there's one recommendation from the planning department didn't make a recommendation to ask us to continue to study the open space and requirements for group how's i have a suggestion i'm assuming you don't want to go through the staff study would it be possible to consider the common space part you know in exchange for that some of the exposure requirements because group housing

what did she bring to the role in the white house? william: she brought an incredibly strong supporting role to the president. their -- their lives had been that way. she ultimately was very supportive of him. she'd argue, and all, but she was supportive to him. and they wanted to represent in the white house the ideal american family. and they weren't there but a few days when this huge portrait was brought in on an ox cart and hung in the red room. you know, the white house had been open to the public since jefferson's time. and they put this in the red room, this huge picture of the grant family so the public could see it on the tours -- see this was their home, this is where they lived. so, this whole symbolic home julia grant developed. susan: since you're working on a biography of her, tell us about her personality and what kind of woman she was. pamela: she was very outgoing warm. in some ways, they were opposites, and yet, they had similarities, as well. both had a fondness of riding horses and -- and reading. she was a very l

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housing. we hear are there are real estate agents coming into their rooms for purposes of conversion. as high-end group housing is growing around the city, we need to close this loophole, add more actual below-market rate housing that is affordable. as a non-profit worker in san francisco, i can't afford 90% ami. and so we ask you to pass this legislation and move this legislation forward without any of the proposed amendments. thank you. >> good afternoon, again, supervisors. my name is fernando martin with the council of community housing organizations. thank you, supervisors avalos and kim for introducing this piece of legislation. it is much-needed and we hope that will you will recommend it to the full board for passage would you tell us the proposed amendments. the first amendment raising about income and whether it's an appropriate place for that kind of level? frankly, i would like to say that raising the ami level for group housing to 90% ami is quite ludicrous. if you take $60,000, w

affordable housing is vanishing. and advocacies continue to -- advocates continue to push and push for changes in the policies trying to keep low income residents from losing out. join me are sarah scrubs, director of outreach and at large council member chairs the housing and community development committee and the executive director of the coalition for nonprofit housing and economic development. welcome to news4. >> good morning. >> news4's tom sherwood in his weekly blog recently wrote this, you see massive redevelopment. if you listen closely amidst all the development noise you will hear the cries of the poor and lower middle class who are losing their homes and hopes of ever finding other homes in the nation's capital. what's your response to that, miss barnes? >> you know, it's the truth in many instances. across the city, those persons who have been here long term are finding it more and more difficult to stay in the district of columbia. the cost of living is sky -- the sky is the limit now and particularly

it as his little white house.t the moment we're in president truman's living room. his library. during the daytime it was his office. every evening it became a movie theater. he has a staff of 59 seven are playing poker so what do you do with the rest of them? they ran first run films here in the living room. now there's many neat things about the little white house and the living room is somewhat iconic in the number of pieces that are actually connected with president truman. ♪ his piano is in the corner. now rare l did the pi an jobs did the president have the piano here in key west. he had instead the piano came aboard the president's yacht uss williamsburg. on occasion it came into house to. that's how it was when the president was here as president. president truman was an extremely talented musician. at the age of 6 they found he had incredible musical talent and enrolled in music lessons for the next ten years. they expected him to become a concert pianist and around the age of 15 16 he drops out, saying h

balance between affordable housing and market rate housing and also taking into account housing that's removed from the protected rent control housing removed from the market the 3 tomato takeaways i'll calling your attention and you have it, it is new posted on the website is that number one this report looked at the last 10 years from 2004 to last year one is that thirty percent of the new housing was affordable and if you take into account the housing that was removed the affordable housing from protected status the total balance is 21 percent and third is that the there's a great variety within the city between different neighborhoods like district 10 have over 50 percent of balance and others in the negative because more housing was removed from rent control than was produced so some of the west side are in negative was an interesting fact that come out of that report i was surprised to see this report is required by itself legislation this particular version of the report the timing was simply to look 10 years but to be done twice a year september 1st and may first, it we'll be d

the rate of the loss of housing exceeded the amount of affordable housing produced. this demonstrates more tools but also protect our existing housing staff and residence from displacement. 5 measures on the queue to do that very thing. one is surplus public land balt measure that insures affords housing is the priority for publicly owned [inaudible] for our own development and sale. 2, the tenet protection legislation which will strengthen protection for tenet facing eviction threats. third the housing stabilization trust ordinance to establish a comprehensive housing acquisition following the mandate of proposition k that focus on neighborhoodss with high rates of eviction. the affordable housing bond measure provides low and moderal housing, 3 times this was put forward in 1996 which was then at 100 million dollars. so we have many measures before us but i think this report will give us some pause in terms of what more the board and city needs do to insure our we hit our goals. i look forward to the discussion and this hearing at board committee this month. second

we will return one last time to the house in ohio and learn more about the house.video clip] >> if james a. garfield were to walk in this house, he would not recognize it. this was actually the kitchen. after his death, lucretia made major changes. this was changed into the open reception room. the most significant change she made with the construction of the very first presidential memorial library. as begin to the top of the steps here before we go into the memorial library, we come first to the memorial landing and we find one of her favorite portraits of her husband. this was done by a good friend of the garfield and it shows james a. garfield as a major general during the american civil war. this is the room lucretia garfield came up with to really memorialize her husband, keep his memory alive for herself for their children, and for the country. all over the room, you see books that belonged to james a. garfield. this is a beautiful piece that was sent to mrs. garfield completely unsolicited by someone in italy. it's a beautiful memorial piece with an image o

housing gun killed that young lady if she had a house she wouldn't be dead 3 hundred millions gun and 3 hundred and $20 million people thank you. >> is there any additional public comment. >> hello, i'm wendy and in general, i want to say i support the concept of group housing however, i know if it get built was affordable housing component it would be detrimental to the neighborhood if this project gets built as is others will come we don't want what happened to the mission to happen here it will - and when others come there maybe a skis on the nonprofit that are serving the community at this time i want to hazard a guess that a lot of the residents that will in the sro's earn less than $20,000 a year and this market rate rental the income disparities i wonder whether someone moving into the market rate rental will be making 4 to ten times above that i don't think it will be a good mix i support the idea but there needs to be an affordable housing component in this thank you. >> is there any additional public com

program that was passed by the board in 2002 committed group housing and it is said that group housing developers will be providing affordable housing under this ordinance, however because of wording languages around the dwelling units and it wasn't applied because we haven't seen a lot of market rate sro's types of developments come before the board the market is so hot those micro units are financeable and being proud we have 3 in the district i have 1178 fulsome street and micro units at 2 hundred 90 plus square feet and one that impacts the residents leavenworth is the 2 hundred and 38 units of apartment that are roughly 2 hundred and 50 square feet we're finding those units are 90 percent medium average income my mind but all developers are providing 12 percent on i take it and 50 percent of ami many of you mentioned this is far above the income of people in the tenderloin $40,000 a year for a person of one we want to insure that is provided if we want to talk about increasing the ami oversight affordable housing we should do that through the longer process of amending our inclusi

block any house sun they build that house my house will be medical do in the house my house didn't get sun because the other rows of hosing houses in the backyard i don't get sun in the bedroom and backyard i'm concerned because i don't get you live over there in peace for thirty years i hope you understand me thirty years peace i like the house because the sun in the afternoon i planted i will retire there and get the sun in the afternoon over there but now i feel something no coming because they build the house the house over there is always like this one behind to the other one i don't know if you want to look as you can see that or no or no. >> you can see one one one and nobody blocks anybody i want to tell the architect please build the house the same way as the other ones because everybody be happy and peace we had our neighborhood the block i live for thirty years is like brothers and sisters one thing he don't have problems with nobody welcome to the athens but leave the house same as before thank you very much that's all i want to tell you. >> okay project sponsor. >> your te

housing ladies and gentlemen i know we can do all of this together we must continue to build housingaffordable to people across you'll protect spectrums in order to generate the revenues to build every o even more affordable housing over the next 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar years new market rate development is anticipated to generate more than hundred million dollars in affordable housing fees that can be put to work to insure sites and build housing throughout the city with the success of how city we have a special opportunity to insure the prosperity of our city extends to all the residents i believe this is a balanced and responsible budget that not only security guards vital city services and affordable a budget that keeps our city save and solvent and successful we'll continue to invest in the diverse neighborhood in the infrastructure and most importantly in the people of san francisco to make sure that we retain the city for everyone i take this opportunity to thank the group of people that have been working hard on this budget that is my budget staff led by kate howard (cl

to group housing i don't know anyone is august that housing crisis locate san franciscans are being adapted and leaving their homes more and more people are finding themselves homeless and people that are homeless can't afford to get a unit and waiting literally years to find housing pr people are literally launching in drop in centers like hospitality runs across the street from one the proposed housing developments if all people want to move into 0 place of their own it is unbeknownst consciously that a developer can development market rate housing with no inclusionary unit and avoid the low inclusionary housing requirement we hear that the city wants at&t all san franciscans to share in the prosperity i encourage you to vote yes, sir. on this amendment so we can see movement to that end thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon commissioner i'm weekend i'm from hospitality house i'm fortunate because i do live in a below market rate in the city it's a big big i can't tell you self-worth and just being self-esteemed boost i can live in affordable housing here in the

and she got into it by wanting to create a house, they were crammed in this house. they only lived upstairs. you see, to understand it, on the picture, the middle of the upper picture, the columns and just the four windows to each side of it, the office was on the left. the east room was just below that and the other public rooms on the ground floor, then the other end, the west end, or the right side, was the family quarters which was seven rooms and a bath and a half and she wanted something big to live in. but something also to entertain in because the harrisons entertained all the time. and so she had this plan done which you see here. you're looking at the south, of the back part of the white house with the round porch, where president truman later built a balcony. the center part is the old white house building that was finished in the 18th century and the white house is on a bank. it's a three-story house on the walkout on the back. about 17 feet, i guess. and so what you see here was a quadrangle with the green houses that they had had, which were really spe

in the house itself. often times, servants were housed in separate quarters in the backyard. or perhaps in the basement. latrobe, being from england, was not used to the segregation of the races. they had servants, indentured servants in england. but latrobe did not go along with the idea of separating the enslaved african-americans physically from the property of their owners. we are and what is the main hallway of the pope villa, the stair hall. we might mention a bit about the engine henry latrobe -- benjamin henry latrobe. he came to america in the early 1800s. evidence suggests he moved to the americas to escape that debt -- bad debt in england. the laws did not really pursue people if they left one country and went to another. we are pretty short latrobe escaped his bad debts in england and was able to start afresh in america. we might also pause to look at what, an image we see in the plaster on the wall in front of us. it very clearly in the -- illustrates the shadow of a railing you could hang on

>> the entire house.e just spent $1.5 million bringing the first floor of the home back to what it looked like during their time. using vintage photographs and creating a lot of the wallpapers and furnishings. >> you are looking at some of the results on your screen. we will learn more. you have been hearing allusions to lucy's choice of the china for the white house. we will show it to you next. you decide. do you like it? >> we are lucky to have a number of items that belonged to us from lucy hayes at the white house. one of the more controversial collections is the white house china. it was controversial at the time. it remains controversial to this day, because of the pattern of the china. lucy was an outdoors person. she loved nature. when it was time for her to choose what the white house official china pattern was going to be, she wanted to do something with ferns. davis was chosen as the artist to work with her to create the china. they met out and were going to decide what would make a good patte

for san francisco thank you. >> thank you. >> edward mason i basically oppose this housing is a city responsibility not not district please resolve the airbnb issue for housing that turns our neighborhoods into hotels the cumulative effect is not considered growth should fund infrastructure growth and the market rate establishes the reversal for the rentals and the parking impact plan development areas p are in process the treasure island and ooermdz we're trying to shoot more additional unit please resolve the airbnb there is no guarantee this unit will not become an airbnb the cumulative effect is not considered in one square block of 24th street and church street light 17 units that have been shoed into the neighborhood that is done with variance and the 0 response they can take the 48 of the j line the point is that growth should fund infrastructure growth their transportation sustainability fee program is already too years behind schedule there won't be new funding for muni muni it planning to add additional fees and what do they do we need another $500 million bond the growth s

group housing. but at many point, the planning department made an unofficial determination that group housing was not subject to the inclusionary housing program. however, this determination was never formalized in a written zoning administrator determination, which could have been appealed to the board of appeals. therefore, we only recently became aware of this unofficial policy. and recently developed and proposed a number of market-rate group housing projects that have brought to light the fact that the planning department is currently not requiring them to comply with inclusionary housing program. so this ordinance clarifies that the planning department is to follow the original language of the inclusionary housing program, and apply it to group housing. i believe we have staff, who are also here from the planning department to present. and i believe we also have some amendments that i believe you will be prepared to talk about as well. so i appreciate that. the amendments that i have copies of

but that includes the housing that is market rate because what the absence of sufficient new housing at all levels including market rate it is housing only affordable for the rich and people that don't qualify for affordable housing are stuck in the middle i'd like to see up zoning in the neighborhood i'd like to see less impediments to develop in the neighborhood hopefully another some point there is a place i can afford in the mission and stay there i'm concerned 75 units built last year in the mission and the if i units in the pipeline today at risk of being derailed by additional impediments i'm concerned this will only make that harder for many people like me to stay in the neighborhood thank you. >> hi, i'm david golden i live in the mission and work in the mission i oppose this legislation like the previous person what we have seen a supply in the mission we've build less than hundred units in the past year a hub where a more residential feeling neighborhood and it makes it attractive for people like myself and others brother you and i want to see building become easier in the

in term thofz need for affordable housing we continue to be in a housing affordability crisis and lands a extremely precious resource and a constraint in dwemb housing. there is a finite supply of these sites suitable for building housing and taken up by market rate housing which is unavailable to the vast majority of san franciscan. 60 percent of san francisco residence need afford nl housing. many city agencies own land in san francisco that have no longer needed for their core spungz is this is a public resource that should continue to serve the public interest. our current public lands builts upon the surplus property ordinance that was enacted in 2002. the ordinance established 3 use priorities for surplus or underutileized property and allows the proceeds from the sale of the sites to be use today finance affordable housing. the priorities for the current surplus property ordinance are affordable housing for people who are homeless, services and non profit space for people who are hometless and people making up to 60 percent ami. in 2004 the ord nnss was updateed with the formati

k housing balance of 50 percent of affordable housing we should be doing everything possible and coming up before the november ballot is surplus policies for initiate i have questions how that factors in i know that mr. updyke walked us through the one hundred percent affordability and the cost that that are challenging for a citywide like ours i want to ask where would we wave the city's ordinance for this if you could explain that mr. updyke. >> so in this case we have an active use for a lease back so let's step back into the normal course of finding a surplus and offering that with the plus ordinance that is normally unproved land or vacate vacant and it is straightforward to follow the as much as policy act if not available for onsite then prudent to pursuance to the ordinances the sale if i understand go to affordable housing in the tersely as articulated in the ordinance the difference we don't have a supplies asset we have age asset that is delipidated that needs future capital investments that's an option another option to seek a respect of that asset elsewhere without that rep

the white house is the consummate this old house.it included highly skilled carpenters electricians, operations engineers, furniture handlers, painters and plumbers. the chief usher also supervises the national park service staff of 24 gardeners that take care of the 18 acres of grounds and gardens. my staff and i administered developed, and track the expenses -- expenses for these activities. the chief usher establishes the budget for the executive residence, approximately $12 million. i was responsible for tracking billing, and presenting to the president and the first lady more recently it was the first lady, each month the bill for their food, beverage, dry cleaning and personal items used by the family and their personal guests. most people do not realize the president pays for these expenses out of his own pocket. for your general information, i will give you a brief history of the white house itself with the exception of our first president, george washington. every president has lived in the house. president washington was in

she married the president in a white house ceremony, the only white house ceremony for a first lady.he bodice, filled in with a neck piece. this goes around it and creates a softening effect. it was a longsleeved dress. and this wonderful long train on the underside, trimmed in lace. even the underside of his clothes you don't see had this beautiful trimmed. and this sweeping train. the collection contains more than clothing. at their wedding, we have public and personal pieces. one of my favorite things in the entire collection, this cake box. each of the guests at the wedding were given a satin covered box, painted with the bride and groom initials, to hold a piece of wedding cake. before the wedding, grover and frances signed a card for every cake box. inside, wrapped in lace. there would have been a piece of cake. this particular cake box was given to the minister who performed the wedding. byron sunderland. the minister at the first presbyterian church in washington, d.c. testament to the public fascination of frances cleveland. this is a piece of sheet music the cleveland's wed

more in the house.n the senate, the one family that sticks out is howard baker, who is married to join derksen the daughter of everett dirksen. howard baker married nancy kassebaum, they were in the senate together. that is the first time to senators were married. nancy kassebaum's father ran against franklin roosevelt. they are political families. brian: on the house side, any marriages? ray: not in particular. there were some spectacular marriages, nicholas longworth, when he was speaker, when he married the daughter of the president of the united states theodore roosevelt, alice roosevelt longworth, a real fixture in washington society for many years. i interviewed her myself when she was in her 80's, late 80's at the time. we had early pictures of her and we wanted, she was a beautiful woman. that was one of the most spectacular marriages. i remember finding a slide of nicholas longworth as speaker, at the time they were being married. he was not listed as the speaker or anything. he was listed as t

i'm arithmetic banner my house actually sits occupy the property line of the back of this house so i'm the only one in the houses that didn't have a deck and so the issue i think is two-fold one it really is a privacy issue in that space that we all sort of feel like we're on top of each other because of the decks and the walls so for tom in the front who basically it has an issue with the deck i mean that behooves the city to that about the minor things we can do to help the privacy of all of us question don't have to live close to each other and a deck having a deck is the same that it would be important for the city to say do we all need decks for privacy i feel infringed upon and the neighbors look down on me all the time the other point i'd like to add i think that having conversation with all the neighbors before construction starts is a good thing to do and in this case it would have really helped all of us if those are conversations were the new owners would happen before construction and the issue why there was conversation with the neighborhood has to do with with the amount