. >> hello, my name is joelle and i support item /thaoe three and four. we need a mix of businesses and we have three mcd's. we don't need anymore. as a as a matter of fact, if if the 5201 club goes in, plus a club at 15 leeland avenue it means the i there will be 6 mcd's within the police department's district. we are bearing the burden because we're so close to the san mateo county border and san mateo does not allow medical dispensaries store fronts or delivery services so people are coming into our neighborhood to utilize our pot clubs. i want to see a mix of businesses on our street around and we do not have that. thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm an attorney and represent lucky dragon. i wanted to make a couple of points. i /ae agree there were problems with process here. the notice for this hearing did not make the green zone in district 11 along this corridor. the second issue i have is really on the substance of the item number three which is that mcd's and patients alone are going to be subject parking restrictions, or requirements for a parking p

>> joelle. >> here is my question.ives lectures about civility and says the prubl plan is for dirty air and water. they want the old people and the elderly and kids with autism and down's syndrome to fend for themselves. none of which is true. how does he get to speak that way and lecture us about civility? >> young people are tired of the vitriol in washington but on both sides. >> you're a democrat. are you tired of president obama, too. >> i'm tired of the current political debate -- >> i didn't ask you that question. are you tired of obama doing it, too? you're a democrat. >> i would argue -- you asked me to defend him but didn't realize i won't defend it because the most important thing for young people to do is get involved with political activities themselves, to work in the community to get involved to make change. >> what you are saying is good. but do you also blame the president. >> it is difficult to blame one person. >> you don't want to answer its. >> everyone can see. people are appealing to the most low

our next two will be jane -- [inaudible] and joelle -- [inaudible] >> i'm here representing myself. thank you for hosting this session on standards for carbon emissions. your generosity is not lost on me. we like to add things up and evaluate the consequences, and by my reckoning you're going to be sitting through one or two thousand of these three-minute testimonials, so i hope you have a deep bench. and thank you for accepting mine. i'm a middle-aged mother of two with a busy job as a clinical research scientist. i work on tuberculosis and the search for a biomarker that will help us better diagnose and treat this disease which kills 1.4 million people a year, most of them outside the u.s. but still poses a grave threat to our population given the advances of drug resistance. i am booked up to my eyebrows with family and work and my community. yet every day i get up and wonder what else i should be doing to enhance my visibility as a climate activist. i've hosted, for the last two years i've joined protests and media campaigns, i've hosted meetings and provided beds and meals for

steinem is the face of the feminist movement and was dubbed "the leading icon of american feminism" by joelleattinger in "time" magazine. she solidified her feminist legacy by co-founding "ms. magazine" in 1972. more than 40 years later, she is still a consulting editor to the magazine now published by the feminist majority foundation. ms. steinem celebrated the magazine's 40th anniversary right here at the national press club last year. she said then it was the right place to do it since she was also the first woman to appear as a national press club luncheon speaker after women were finally admitted to the club's membership in 1971. [applause] she received a man's tie as a thank you. [laughter] she's in town this week to receive the presidential medal of freedom from president obama. [applause] ms. steinem is a granddaughter of a suffragist and worked as a journalist in the 1960s after living here in washington during high school and heading to smith college, from which she graduated phi beta kappa. after college, she spent two years in india on a chester bowles fellowship where she wrote f