for these reasons, i express my support for the project's approval at 700 innes avenue. i anticipate a future for this community with help set forth by build. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is lauren shawnessy, and i'm here to read a letter on behalf of the c.e.o. habitat for humanity, greater san francisco. habitat for humanity is a nonprofit housing organization that helps people all over the world whebuild their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage. the commission is to provide local families with a spring board to secure stable futures through affordable home ownership and neighborhood revitalization. habitat believes that people should have safe healthy, affordable places to live, play irregular and grow. habitat san francisco has build 248 homes in ten cities across san francisco, marine, and san mateo counties. build intends to convey at no cost to habitat, parcels h-4 and c-6 on the india basin site. they will be graded with infrastructure. we will construct approximately 50 dwelling units

innes avenue is only two blocks long. all the developers that have come out there, they have the zoning that you have. you will be creating this blank wall. it is bad planning. i know the pressure on you to go ahead and do that. it has opened up spaces of discussions where do we go from here. that place, innes place, it's not place you will be able to build that 16-stories. what is behind you today is to up the zoning of that area. dozen in the compatible. it is not good planning. the ecosystem that one of the people mentioned, it is a place that we want to create restaurants and everything that is in that plan. >> commissioner richards: are any developments in the southern waterfront -- if you looked a the planning and developments from mission bay all the way down. i'm not sure what area it covers. what actually looks like the plan calls for. what areas? >> i worked on mission bay pier 70 up to shipyard. all those areas. we have the master plan for that. i was here supporting pier 70. i was here supporting work space, e

the incident happened saturday night at the knights inn motel on university avenue. threatened to kill the victim unless he paid them 30-thousand dollars. the investigation led police to the city of paterson... which is about a 30 minute drive from tracy. patterson police arrested the kidnappers and rescued the victim. the victim was injured but is expected to be okay. ( james ) happening today... the san francisco board of supervisors will consider whether to change the city's ban on marijuana shops in chinatown. the ban was approved unanimously earlier this month by one of the board's committees. the full board will vote ont eh issue tonight. supporters of the ban say that the booming marijuana industry will drive up commercial rental prices and force many chinese-owned businesses out of business. ( darya ) another big story we are following... police are looking for the person who opened fire on three people outside a restaurant in antioch. we frst brought you this story as breaking news yesterday on the kron 4 morning news. it happened in the parking lot outside

the incident happened saturday night at the knights inn motel on university avenue. say the men threatened to kill the victim unless he paid them 30-thousand dollars. the investigation led police to the city of paterson... which is about a 30 minute drive from tracy. patterson police arrested the kidnappers and rescued the victim. the victim was injured but is expected to be okay. ( robin ) in national news... plans for 3-d printed guns will be legally- available online starting tomorrow. this comes after a settlement was reached last month... but now several states are still trying to block the release of the designs. attorneys general from 20 states... including california... and washington d- c sent a letter monday to the secretary of state and the u-s attorney general. in the letter... they argue the availability of plans for 3-d- printed guns helps arm criminals and terrorists. they're urging government to withdraw from a settlement that ended a years-long legal battle with "defense distributed"... which first published plans for a 3-d- printed handgun in 2013.

it all started saturday night when berkeley police were called to the knights inn on university avenue near sacramento. >> a friend gave us a call and said that his friend had been kidnapped. the ransom is were demanding $30,000 in cash. >> reporter: officers determined that the victim, a 21-year-old man, was beaten, robbed, and kidnapped at gunpoint, then driven out of the bay area while tied up. surveillance video and other evidence led please -- police to believe the suspects were in patterson. >> it is very unusual for us to get a ransom case, particularly one like this, where the victim is transported so far away. >> reporter: a sheriff's deputy set -- spotted the suspects suv. patterson police posted this picture on facebook, showing an assault rifle they found with the suspects. these five men were arrested. there are all from south carolina. each was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, robbery, assault weapons possession, as well as torture because of serious injuries the victim suffer. the hotel manager told me that whitehurst went to the room for about $200. the suspects are

inn and so washington won. they cut the plan down. the house would have been about four times the size it is now because the plan called for a grant avenue right outside decatur house that went up to it and came from three streets and join joined as one with gates and bollards and the usual idea of french palaces. this didn't work, but washington was going to have his house, and he also realized it was more likely to be able to finish that house than the capitol so he put all -- a lot of his interest into that and doing it. he -- when the plans were being made for reducing the house, he wouldn't step back on the carving. carving was personally very important to him, and so that had to be kept, and as hoban was a very easy man to get along with, and had different ways of doing this. well, it happened to be, as the way the world works, at a meeting at fountain inn, john suitor, a scot, overheard one of the meetings and realized they were after stone cutters and he told them he had a cousin named williamson who was working in new york, was from scotland, and williamson hurried down and they turned the whole thing over to him. whole project.