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

and the overlook and swings pavilion are concerns there on innes avenue is being redesigned for m.t.a. and planning commission issues, and we need to make sure that this is a coordinated design. i am not convinced that that's a good place for swings and for a pavilion. right now, we have an open view to the water for people driving by, walking by. it's a wonderful access point to the new park, and we don't want to block that. we have plenty of water walls on the waterfront. don't put one where we don't need it. [please stand by] >> the coordination of the design of the pavilion and swi swing. >> sure. i will start with the boat launch and ramp and -- at india basin shoreline park. if i may, i may go back to some of the diagrams. the boat launch is intended to meet elevated pier instructor. we do not believe the elevated pier would be bottomed out on the mud, given the 480-foot extension into the bay. >> vice president low: and it didn't move from one original location to another to address that? >> since the original 2017 concept design, it didn't. >> vice president low: ok. >> so we

and the overlook and swings pavilion are concerns there on innes avenue is being redesigned for m.t.a. and planning commission issues, and we need to make sure that this is a coordinated design. i am not convinced that that's a good place for swings and for a pavilion. right now, we have an open view to the water for people driving by, walking by. it's a wonderful access point to the new park, and we don't want to block that. we have plenty of water walls on the waterfront. don't put one where we don't need it. [please stand by]

they're going to jump start the neighborhood planning for innes avenue. other stakeholders are involved. pg&e and they've agreed to use their influence to bring these people to the table and get this process started soon. i want to just take a second to comment on mr. -- >> your time is up. thank you very much for coming down. >> i understand that. >> i appreciate t i'm sorry i can only allow you the allotted time. mr. hammond. thank you so much for coming down and taking the time. >> i'm voting now if you continue. >> thank you mr. hammond. thank you, very much. we really appreciate you coming down to talk to us. much appreciated. do i have anymore public comments? no. seeing none. do i have a motion to approve? >> and i have a second. >> all in favor aye. >> aye. >> and the opposed. no. hearing none it is approved. thank you so much. ms. pain and both of you for coming down and it's an unfortunate fact at the end of a long meeting sometimes the biggest projects get the least attention but congratulations on the work you've done on this. it looks like it

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

reporter: it all started saturday night when berkeley police were called to the knights inn on university avenue near sacramento. >> a friend of the victim called us and said his friend had been kidnapped and the rain summers were demanding $30,000 in cash. >> reporter: officers determined the victim, a 21- year-old man was beaten, robbed, and kidnapped from the motel and driven out of the bay area while tied up. surveillance video led police to believe the suspects were in patterson in the central valley . his back it is unusual for us to get a ransom case, particularly one like this where the victim is transported so far away. >> reporter: a stanislaus county sheriff's deputy spotted the suspects suv and pulled it over. the victim was found in the seb and rescued. patterson police posted this picture on facebook showing an assault rifle they found with the suspects. these five men were arrested and all from south carolina. it was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, robbery, assault weapon possession and torture because of serious injuries the victim suffered. the motel manager told me off- ca

reporter: it all started saturday night when berkeley police were called to the knights inn on university avenue near sacramento. >> a friend of the victim gave us a call and said that his friend had been kidnapped and the ran summers were demanding $30,000 in cash. >>> when officers determined the victim, a 21-year-old man, was beaten, robbed, and kidnapped at gunpoint from the motel and ran -- and driven out of bay area while tied up. surveillance video led police to believe the suspects were in patterson in the central valley. >> it is unusual for us to get a ransom case, particularly one like this where the victim is transported so far away. >> reporter: a sheriff deputy spotted the suspects suv near an rv park and pulled over. the victim was found in the suv and rescue. patterson police posted this picture on facebook showing an assault rifle they found with the suspects these five men were arrested and are all from south carolina. each was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, robbery, assault weapon possession as well as torture because of serious injuries the victim suffered. >> motel man

inn. the area is northeast of brentwood in discovery bay. the chp officer first reported the officer on nights and avenue shortly after noon yesterday and a nearby fire engine crew also saw the smoke and responded. the person who owns the shed had been doing some welding work inside but had left the shed. no one was hurt in the fire. >>> more than 75 people arrested on national forest land . it was part of an investigation of illegal marijuana grows here in california. it was called operation forest watch and focused on illegal marijuana grows in california's 18 national forest. federal, state, and local authorities worked together to seize 95 marijuana grow site, 600,000 marijuana plants, and 12 and have tons of processed marijuana. >> that is real money coming directly out of the pockets of the cartels. more importantly, we have reclaimed our land to a large extent. >> authorities say 20,000 pounds of toxic pesticides were found. they also found environmental damage. after the pot grows are removed environmental cleanup crews will go in to restore the forest. >>> the state of california is taking more aggressive steps to fight climate change.

inn march 2017. so the accounts actually criticizingtr inaction by the current administration using emotional issues like water crisis and police brutality as an avenue to try to shape is on a geopolitical issue. >> i completely agree there's a commercial commercial dimension of this which is underreported in the lap are going on the commercial space in these attacks than those reported. when they discuss some of them, we've seen other customers and sometimes they are tied these political attacks veryor basicay punish the falsely amplified boycott campaigns and similar measures for doing something which is politically now for russia would like to see. >> dr. helmus, psychologists jonathan he gave a speech i've seen recently called the age of outrage at the manhattan institute where he basically describes a narrative where there a lot of things conspiring to manipulate us and invoke outrage or whatever is going on, whether it's cable news, social media or the like. what can regular americans do to protect themselves against those whether they be stateho act hei, whether they be individuals, with malicious intent, what can they do to protect themselves