i have to disagree with mr. paul who stated that boma was at the table. when this was passed unanimously, they were not involved. this was to bring vitality to underserved areas of the city where there are not restaurants, cafes, sandwich shops. we have a plethora of them downtown. we are not underserved in any sense of the word. if you look at the list of firms that have been applied for, over 50% of them are downtown locations. why? that is where the customers are. we had these constraints around the city of not being allowed, not allowing mobile food trucks to operate in hospitals or near hospitals and schools. that needs to be changed. we need to make some modifications to look at density. how many are too many? right now, we are saturated downtown with mobile food permits. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i am the owner of the gaylord restaurant in the financial district. my restaurant is within a short distance from the subjected location. i have operated this restaurant for about 30 years and i ha

aguilar. >> i just want to comment on something that mr. paul said. my family has been in the restaurant business since i was born. we have two restaurants in the embarcaderos and one of in sacramento. my parents opened the restaurant with blood, sweat, and tears. they are now retired, living a nice life. i have been running the restaurant for seven years. i am 31 years old and i think i am doing a good job. i am also on yelp, facebook, twitter, you name it. as times change, restaurants change. i do not think my dad ever thought, i'm going to open a restaurant and let this truck parked in front of it to steal my business. it does not work that way. who could start of a business with $500? it is the way the customers are treated. that is why they come back and it is why we have been open for so long. it would be sad for our restaurant to close and for all of these people to have their dreams crush over a truck. thank you. >> mr. paul, you have six minutes of rebuttal. >> thank you. president goh, was indicated i should have additional time if i should

it is technically legal that they can do that, as mr. paul pointed out, but i think a quick fix in the lot to redefine the rental of less than 30 days, even if the rental is greater than 30 days, that is less than 30 days, it is a violation of the apartment conversion law. but nonetheless, we should not be rewarding golden gateway for these illegal conversions. we should not be setting the stage for golden gateway to become another parker said fight, and we certainly do not need more luxury housing for the very, very wealthy. thank you. president chiu: thank you. our next speaker is john, and if he is not here, we will go to another. supervisor mar: i think he will be the last speaker, and then we would jump to item two and then continue. >> good evening, supervisors. my name is frederick. i would be categorized as an expert on sales on the north waterfront. i have had the privilege to represent 72% of every condominium sold north of washington, all of the way up to the waterfront, $1 million, and i have also had clients to purchased at other

the tech craze, the things mr. paul was speaking about. and yet, in the application here and the way it has come through dpw, i agree with vice president garcia that we could not approve it tonight. because there must be current compliance and there is not. i think we do not have a choice in that regard. in this particular area, maybe the hearing officer could have looked at mitigation measures around the area being fully by elisa, density considerations, ms. dick asked the question how many is too many? maybe there are too many here. the economy has a lot to do with it. we have heard from one appellant owner that all of the money is made in 1.5 hours. i believe that. it makes sense in this economy. if we were in a fleshy economy, maybe it would be different. maybe there would be enough to go around. i agree with my fellow commissioners that those issues are worth considering. maybe by ceqa, maybe by the dpw hearing officer. the system is set up so that person has some discretion. i believe that person should exercise that discretion. we a

uphold the decision and require us, there would be a prenotification requirements, which is what is mr. paul is concerned about specifically. commissioner garcia: and i think it is our content to strike the two. director: public comment, is there anyone in the public wishes to speak on this item? ok, directors, it is yours. president goh: ok, we need a motion, pursuant to the agreements made by the parties. commissioner peterson: a stipulation. president goh: does somebody want to make a motion? commissioner garcia: you just made a motion. president goh: i did not. secretary pacheco: on that motion, [reading roll] thank you. the vote is 3-0. the permit is upheld with those two locations struck and on that basis. thank you. director: thank you. president goh, there is no further business this evening. president goh: we are adjourned. the biggest issue in america today? segregation still exists... racism... the repression and oppression of women the educational system stem cell research homeless people cloning government health care taxation announcer: so, is there anything you're doing to hel

mr. paul: well, i think congress has failed. you know, we haven't passed a budget up here in two years, much less a balanced budget. we can't even pass a budget under the normal procedures and are showing no signs of being able to balance our own budget. they say that the american public when you ask them are you for a balanced budget, 70% to 75% of the people are for it, republicans, democrats, and independents. now, congress currently has about a 10% approval rating. my thought is maybe our approval rating is so low because we're not listening to what the people want. the people want to us balance our budget. they want us to do the responsible thing. but they also don't want to say, oh, social security we'll put it to the side. they want that social security fund to be sound, too. what are we doing right now? reducing the funding to social security. we're doing exactly the things that we shouldn't be doing up here. so i think it is important, as you said, that the balanced budget needs to in

mr. paul hasn't exactly said that. newt gingrich has gone after mr. the last several weeks on a whole host of issues. and rick perry invested money in web videos trashing his fellow texan mr. paul. focusing on trying to bring down ron paul in the last 5 to 6 days. who would have imagined with all the candidates who had their rise and fall in the polls, as we get into the final days ron paul is getting his moment, too. megyn: thank you, sir. we are taking this show "america live" on the road. we are broadcasting live from the iowa caucuses and in the days ahead of the iowa caucuses. monday and tuesday live from the hawkeye state. we hope you will be with us. one other developing story, the occupy wall street movement taking on the iowa caucuses. protesters hoping to disrupt the first presidential contest six days from now. hoping to make their voices heard. they have already done so. interrupting presidential gop candidate michele bachmann. listen. megyn: matt, it's quite a coordinated the effort. yesterday, tuesday they met these activists to go throu

uphold the decision and require us, there would be a prenotification requirements, which is what is mr. paul is concerned about specifically. commissioner garcia: and i think it is our content to strike the two. director: public comment, is there anyone in the public wishes to speak on this item? ok, directors, it is yours. president goh: ok, we need a motion, pursuant to the agreements made by the parties. commissioner peterson: a stipulation. president goh: does somebody want to make a motion? commissioner garcia: you just made a motion. president goh: i did not. secretary pacheco: on that motion, [reading roll] thank you. the vote is 3-0

uphold the decision and require us, there would be a prenotification requirements, which is what is mr. paul is concerned about specifically. commissioner garcia: and i think it is our content to strike the two. director: public comment, is there anyone in the public wishes to speak on this item? ok, directors, it is yours.

mitt romney today took mr. paul to task suggesting that mr. een okay with the idea of iran obtaining nuclear weapons with all of its threats to the state of israel. newt gingrich has pounded ron paul for a host of his positions over the course of the last several weeks. and rick perry a fellow text and has been on the air and has criticized congressman paul on a host of issue as well, whether it's on foreign policy, the legalization of degrees. on international policy most of the republican field organization that ron paul is out of step, too isolationist and would make a bad commander and chief. ron paul will make the case for himself in about an hour. fitting that it is alternate the speedway, an is at the finish line and there may be a checkered flag in his future. jon: the emergency evacuation of a southwest airlines flight. the pilot aborting take off after his plane's tires burned up. 130 passengers on board saying it was a very rough ride. all right. we don't apparently have that report to bring you. we had some comments from some of the

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president chiu: our next speaker, mr. paul. >> thank you. others have spoken about the need. we talked about this. what you may not know is that they are destroying this. they own the golden gateway. they own 80% of the site we are talking about. they are the only ones that are getting the height increases being asked for, so they are a major partner. they are partners. you talk about the green fence, they have kept it that way to make the argument that the only way to do this is to do the project. the 1200 unit golden gateway to short-term vacation and sweet. how do i know that? there is the hotelization of the middle class rental housing. the picture on the front of very much looks like something else, and if you go to the executive suites or a number of the sites for short-term rentals on the web, these are advertisements. hundreds and hundreds of units are being lost, so getting 29 units a lot of this does not make up for what we will lose year after year after year. why reward this kind of behavior? the same property owner is not paying their fair share of property taxes

an option to purchase the club from the current owner, so the protestations you heard today from mr. paul and even from our esteemed former city attorney about the condition of the club or things going on in the golden gateway center with respect to the dwelling units there, they have nothing to do with the project sponsor of this project, and i think it is important that we make that known. i want to thank the board for having this -- president chiu: i am sorry. i need to understand this. there will be a profit, and one is responsible to the green fencing, and in addition to what the opposition is trying to support. >> there is an option to purchase the property, so in any situation like that, a purchase and sell agreement, the current owner would be paid to sell their property, so that is certainly a benefit to them. in addition, they will get back at the end of the day a condominium interest and a fitness club. if this gets approved in the wisdom of this board and others, there will be a condominium created as part of the purchase price, so there is actual cash that gets paid. there is