a negative nod from mr. duffy that it probably can't be. it disturbs me that there is no other review to be had of this. all we can do, at least all i feel that we could do is ask that d.b.i. give this extremely close scrutiny and make sure that all things are as they should be and that no damage is done to requester's property. but given some of the things that happened here earlier, i don't know that i want to start friday willing our rules. at any rate, that's how i feel. president floor? president goh: i can move to continue this in order for the parties to provide additional information regarding the scope of the project. we have a -- >> i just want to say that -- the building inspection commission. they'll probably hear and it they could ask the d.b.i. to investigate that the permit was appropriately approved and reviewed for the structure of that and the retaining wall. it seems to be a geotechnical and structural matters that are being brought up by this lady, the appellant. so is that what ump asking me? commissioner garcia? commis

i do wish mr. duffy were here. i have a question for him about the square footage better -- measurements. i did watch the video, the streaming video, and thesf gov tv version over the last several days. i applaud the commissioners and the members of the public who sat through it live and also applaud the council for the two sides. i thought the arguments were very interesting and well done. the chase argument, the list of uses in the district, and financial-services are listed in that category, i understand that argument. appellant argued that the category of retail sales and services includes financial services and points to planning code 711, providing a zoning table that provides a list of what our "retail sales and services." that list include 711.49, which are financial services, and that specifically references 790.110, describing banking services. if the appellant is correct in their argument, it falls on 703.3, which calls out retail sales and services in the thenc2 district. i found that argument persuasiv

vice president garcia: mr. duffy, if you would sir. one issue that has been raised by the request for jurisdiction has to do with seeping of water from one property to another property. that is against code, correct? or that the case, that would have to be corrected. >> that is correct. i would imagine that going through the review at dbi by structural engineers down there

russo and mr. duffy to talk about the report. >> thank you. fred russo from the budget analysts office. i want to do a quick overview of our report, prepared at the request of supervisor mar. he provided a number of project objectives for us on this research. i guess that the machine is not done. reviewing practices and bottles for aging in the community, starting in the place that expanded into community when we realize that some people were aging while staying in their home was not a good option. what the supervisor asked is that we review demographic information about the population in san francisco and that we look at housing programs to determine the number of seniors in an on waiting lists for affordable public housing, providing legislative recommendations to encourage and enable residential upgrades to allow seniors to remain in their homes and communities. i will start with at the demographics. as the supervisor looted, the baby boom generation is aging and the impact is certainly going to be felt in san francisco. in 2008 the populat

. >> mr. duffy. questions for you. do you have any comments? >> have you any questions, commissioners, for me? if you want to know about the suspended ceiling, i can speak about that. that was a previous issue. i know that the board did give them a permit for that. i did believe that not signed off on this morning >> for having a suspended ceiling? >> the suspended ceiling is totally gone. >> it is for taking it down. can you talk about the door at 731 commercial and how it used to be flush with the sidewalk? that would require a permit? >> yes. >> are you aware of the permit that was pulled for that work? >> i am not aware of it. it certainly would. if you move the door from the front of the building in 3 feet, you would need a permit for that. >> the list that you have, i do not know what that is that mr. sanchez was referring to. if such a permit existed, would it be on that report? have you already determined that that permit -- such a permit is not on there? >> i have not determined that. this that i have in front of me goes back to 1999.

mr. duffy has returned. could you step up to the microphone? did you have a chance to go out and measure the square footage? >> we have not measured the square footage yet. president goh: thank you. >> i was not aware we had to do that. we can easily do that if need be. president goh: i heard a request from the public and from a commissioner. ok. thank you. >> shall i call the roll? >> mr. sanchez would be able to weigh in on the square footage issue. he has spent a lot of time today on the plants. president goh: my question was of dbi had measured. >> i don't think there's anything to measure. >> did you have a question? >> measure what? >> measure this or footage. -- of the square footage. >> what would he measure? >> the square footage. i believe the question was asked by one of the commissioners to find out whether or not it exceeded the -- >> that is the plan. commissioner hwang: there had been questions raised to whether the plans reflected actually the limit, the amounts presented in the permit, which was 50 square feet short of the 4000

. >> then, mr. duffy said britain's interests would be jeopardized.ld you stop doing interest with britain? >> the libyan state would make the decision. i am challenging him to show me the bank account in britain. i do not like money. i challenge them and put my fingers in their eyes, if they can find any account, whether inside or outside. >> colonel gaddafi, how you and this crisis? a large part of the country is under control of rebels. there is a great deal of foreign pressure. what about the fact that you have lost control of a lot of the country? >> we are concerned about our people, and my people are with me. we shall remain, and they will fall. >> and off he went, always called the leader by libyans, but he says he cannot resign as he has no official position. bbc news, tripoli. >> and reviewers outside the u.k. will be able to see more of that exclusive interview in a special program starting on tuesday morning. i spoke to our correspondent, who give us the latest on how the united states is reacting to the crisis in libya. >> there is a clea

vice president garcia: mr. duffy, if you would sir. one issue that has been raised by the request for jurisdiction has to do with seeping of water from one property to another property. that is against code, correct? or that the case, that would have to be corrected. >> that is correct. i would imagine that going through the review at dbi by structural engineers down there -- obviously, they are going to review the g attack -- the geotech reports. that is still going through review. if it was a problem later on, obviously we would look into it. but it is a dispute obviously between two geotech reports. we are going to review it as part of the approval process. vice president garcia: mean staff at -- you mean staff at dbi? >> we would be looking at all the geotech plans and calculations. all of that should be reviewed thoroughly and then built accordingly. it should be designed not to have any problems with water. commissioner fung: -- vice president garcia: thank you. >> i think we should call for public comment since we have heard fro

and this is in favor of and mr duffy and his supporters of the pictures on western t.v. said this is absolutely opposite to what we see on the official libyan period but the problem is not the t.v. screen of the problem is that yes there are very contradictory of the old what is going on there who isn't in charge of anything and what is going to happen next so for me is the most important thing right now for everybody for for russia for the union for nato for the united states to get access to all the reliable information in order to take proper decisions which is not the case here as soon as we do not have this information i do not believe in strong actions of a full force will not. military force excluded he mentioned the lack of information and sometimes contradictory information coming out of libya and perhaps that's why france seems to be failing to gauge its again rather wide support from the e.u. countries and recognizing libya's rebel opposition how likely do you think are those are the e.u. members to follow. unfortunately this is very possible scenario for the

no budget, no pay, mr. duffy. i'm sorry. if our colleagues over there, who are very extreme -- and i know there was a big article that democrats are calling the budget proposals over there extreme; they are. if they're going to stand on that far right line and hurt the women of this country and hurt the families of this country and hurt the children of this country and hurt the seniors of this country, and they're not willing to meet us halfway when they only control a third of the government and they don't agree, and this government shuts down, yes, mr. duffy, shoe not get your pay. we need to have the same pain inflicted on us as is inflicted on others. now, the speaker can say anything he wants, and eric cantor over there, they can say whatever they want. free speech, absolutely. but their actions speak louder than their words. when they say, oh, they don't think they should get paid but they fail to pass a free-standing bill like we did, they're not serious at all. they phut in a bill that's -- they put it in a bill that

mr. duffy, do you have questions? well, i'd like to thank so much the witnesses. this has been a very informative and very helpful to us, and thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and i might wait until later, but those members who have written questions, that will be open for 30 days for submitting questions to you and answers in a written response. we will now move to the next panel. [inaudible conversations] >> if we can do this very quickly, i might mention that the floor is estimating that we will have votes between 11:45 and 12:15, so we want to move as expeditiously as possible. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> okay. if the panel can take their seats, and if they know where they are sitting. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> all right, i'd like to introdeuce the second panel. we have vice president and taxpayers for common sense in washington, d.c.. then we have teri sullivan, the committee on flood insurance national society of realtors in spokane, washington. s

mr. duffy, do you have questions or we'll move to the next panel? i'd like to thank so much the witnesses. this has been a very informative and very helpful to us and thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> and i might -- those members who have written questions, that will be open for 30 days for submitting questions to you for written response. and we'll now move to the next panel. >> if we can do this very quickly, i might mention that the floor is estimating that we will have votes between 11:45 and 12:15. so we do want to move as expeditiously as possible. >> okay. if the panel can take their seats and if they know where they're sitting. all right, i'd like to introduce our second panel. we have stephen ellis on behalf of the smarter, safer coalition and vice president, taxpayers for common sense in washington, d.c. then we have terry sullivan, chair of the committee on flood insurance, national association of realtors and owner of sullivan realty in spokane, washington. spencer houldin, chair government affairs committee and independ

mr. duffy, do you have questions or we'll move to the next panel? i'd like to thank so much the witnesses. this has been a very informative and very helpful to us and thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> and i might -- those members who have written questions, that will be open for 30 days for submitting questions to you for written response. and we'll now move to the next panel. >> if we can do this very quickly, i might mention that the floor is estimating that we will have votes between 11:45 and 12:15. so we do want to move as expeditiously as possible. >> okay. if the panel can take their seats and if they know where they're sitting. all right, i'd like to introduce our second panel. we have stephen ellis on behalf of the smarter, safer coalition and vice president, taxpayers for common sense in washington, d.c. then we have terry sullivan, chair of the committee on flood insurance, national association of realtors and owner of sullivan realty in spokane, washington. spencer houldin, chair government affairs committee and independ

mr gadhafi here is the man who knows him personally. a military coup which began in libya's second largest city of benghazi forty years ago brought the young market duffy to the pinnacle of the country's politics but today's rebel and ghazi has reason to shake off its call my favorite account gadhafi won't give up and he's using barbaric methods to suppress the rebels and strikes and shelling of the crowds of protesters quickly made the dictator a deeply unpopular and welcomed figure among the old leaders. how mr thank you very much for being with us thank you for an official welcome back you're always welcome in the studio my studio like your my studio is yours and you are bring your friends one of your friends is mr perfect maybe i will leave you like remains under not only the reason for my coming listen here you you really you met him two years ago everyone of the year one of the you are rare breed one of the few people who spent an hour one to one witness to correct your impression of. the stories you know. probably know i have a hole for four weeks so already more than twenty years in there my program for the lost power well make a portrait of th

stage is just how far back the duffys forces have been pushed and just how much of his military might has been destroyed now the government spokesperson here in tripoli mr ibrahim mousawi said that these actions by the international community were not only illegal and immoral but they were also a violation of the united nations security council he said that the international community said it was getting involved in libya because it wanted to protect civilians but instead what it's actually doing is bringing this country to the brink of civil war now apollo we're hearing from some of the certain rebels are saying that they're grateful for the international military intervention here but there seems to be a general condemnation. across the arab world against western powers being involved now we're poised to see nato take over the operation within hours what libyans are expecting in this change of command do you think. but what we are hearing is that tonight's sunday evening nato when in fact take over commanding the enforcement of the no fly zone the discussions on the table right now after what is being called a no fly plus which is a question of whethe

is the duffys of white haired man he is trusted by gadhafi but he certainly has been described as a shrewd operator by the international community so many here are asking what is it exactly that mr wiesel koussa knows that has caused him to defect and just how important any information he has be to the coalition partners. of the bushes and of course you say libya's defected foreign minister won't be granted any special immunity you've got it's national relations professor mark harmon says it's embarrassing for the taking except in this case there isn't. any notion. of threats against you do not exist and are going to wrong leaving a key figure in the lockerbie bombing. of the one hand he has an enormous a knowledge of the charges against congress and he will the british government. or the british public market are wrong and he's also if you figure in trying to undermine graft. but he also has a legacy or. it goes against. the words of the chief of police. of the united states has a long and mixed history of supporting rebels in internal conflicts and is also used again energy can reports helping out anti-government forces. the international community permitted intervention in li