mr. williams and his client's concerns. and my brief was addressed fully to that. mr. williams did not bring up the issue, mr. sanchez did not bring up the issue of the fact that in his brief he brought it up tonight to you. to you only. you only, and so, i would be happy to brief it. >> we have to i am sorry, go ahead. >> no, go ahead, go ahead. >> i don't have a particular problem with that. because i think that there is lack of clarity. we have had a lot of different dba and whatever thrown out and if somebody can go and substan ate a change of ownership or who is the signatoree and what list of services that are going to be provided i hope that clarifies because i think that the issue does resolve around that. >> so commissioners, we should finish with rebuttal and unless there are other questions for counsel. >> mr. sanchez. >> we were not finished? >> no. >> sorry. >> thank you. >> scott sanchez. planning department, just to respond to the couple of the points that were raised by the permit holder, first application was not routed to planning i saw that there was

mr. williams mentioned that is in irvine has a similar name but it is not the tenant in the lease but it is not affiliated with mr. chin and i ask him to show otherwise. we have a letter from the principal indicating that he is not running his insurance agency, he is running a financial service agency. >> as you probably know insurance companies have rated other entity and principals in them have licensing in financial service and investments. will insurance be offered here? yes, as one of many, many vehicles, the kind of insurance that will be offered is a financial asset based insurance not your typical life insurance. this is a financial service company. i doubt that was brought to the attention of supervisor chu's office. and we are going to show in the next few minutes, why the financial services company does not need a conditional use permit and it is based on the fact that a financial service's company unlike a business and professional services, does not require conditional use for active, frontage. by the way, speaking of active frontage, this use will have active frontage it doe

mr. williams? >> is mr. duffy here? >> i think that he should hear the questions that are being raised. >> why don't you start over again, mr. williams. >> thank you. >> i'm steve williams and i am representing one of the adjacent neighbors, who has lived with her family two doors down from the site for nearly 40 years. the other neighbors also support the appeal. and as i was saying earlier, the reason for appealing the electrical and plumbing permits, which we never do, was because the site, they would not stop work at the site. and so that was the point was to try to get the work stopped at the site and as i understand it from the neighbors, the work is still going on. so, i mean

mr. williams. >> i am steve williams and i represent the (inaudible) and the plans are still incorrect. you know, they said that they have had (inaudible) and the window locations (inaudible) there. >> objectively incorrect. and if you look at the building is three stories above grade. and at crown court and it is actually two stories above grade and here is a photograph that i took off of the internet this afternoon. here is the building and it is two stories and so, in numerous respects the plans are still incorrect and that the exist f shows three floors. and so this is confirmed that, incorrect and there is a design issue with this building as well. all of the buildings up there have openings decks and etc. on one side. this building breaks that pattern and breaks that concern. we went and laid out all of the things that occurred along with this permit. all of the fixes are after the fact. >> so if you have the question about the environmental review after the permit was issued. >> it is not the way that it is supposed to work. it has been afile for a while and managed to straighten

mr. williams, prior to arriving in south florida.is revealed substantial evidence linked to stepha henry, we are charging mr. williams with second degree murder. >> please, if you see anything, please call the police. >> we feel this is a peace of t the -- piece of the puzzle we would like to take a look at. we don't know what time she left or who she left with. >> we have spoken to friends, this was a promotional party, there were people who did attend it give us a call. >> he denied spending time with her at all. then there was the promotional video taken at the bar the night she goes missing, they are standing there together. he said, yes, i did meet her. i never spent any time with her. i really didn't get to know her. everything that he said to police, he lied about. his lies were easily detected. >> a warrant was issued for the arrest for the charge of second degree murder and tampering with evidence. the bond amount established and issued by the judge is no bond. you will be held no bond on these charges, do you understand? >>

mr. williams, prior to arriving in south florida.ensic analysis revealed substantial evidence linked to stepha henry, we are charging mr. williams with second degree murder. >> please, if you see anything, please call the police. >> we feel this is a peace of the -- piece of the puzzle we would like to take a look at. we don't know what time she left or who she left with. >> we have spoken to friends, this was a promotional party, there were people who did attend it give us a call. >> he nied spending time with her at all. then there was the promotional video taken at the bar the night she goes missing, they are standing there together. he said, yes, i did meet her. i never spent any time with her. i really didn't get to know her. everything that he said to police, he lied about. his lies were easily detected. >> a warrant was issued for the arrest for the charge of second degree murder and tampering with evidence. the bond amount established and issued by the judge is no bond. you will be held no bond on these charges, do you unders

mr. williams said. he makes mention of in his submission we are creating a fourth floor. we are creating a fifth floor to be clear. it's an existing three-story above basement building. we're creating a fourth floor addition. there are a number of inaccuracies. we've also got [speaker not understood] about not seeing the actual building in question. this image shows the white building is the subject property. the building up the hill from that is mr. low's property. the red dotted line you see depicts the proposed addition. and as you can see, even from the worst possible angle over the partially vacant lot, for the most part from public spaces, this petition just isn't visible. it is visible to other owners and buildings and the issue as i mentioned earlier i genuinely believe is about views. i don't believe the concerns are about character. i believe it's about views. i'm not sure how relevant it is, but in the context of a petition created based on some information that wasn't even true, we also discovered that the hearing poster on the side of our building had an atta

mr. williams brought out the fact that mr. peskin does not think that the numbers are quite correct. to say that the guidelines were created for demolition and construction guidelines in 2003, when i was the president of the building inspection commission. >> he did not write the guidelines and we created the guidelines and we need not only the planning demolition guidelines and also meet the dbi guidelines. we meet both and we welcome the peer review and we will pay more if that is required. >> thank you. >> we do not want another permit. >> thank you, your time is up. >> mr. sanchez. >> thank you, scott sanchez, planning department. has noted the property at 125 crown terrace, located in a single family zoning district, the appellant's property is in a r1 zoning which higher density which explains why there is a apartment building. this is the latest incarnation that had filed a demolition and construction in 2008. and abandoned that project and sought the alteration permit that is on appeal before you today. that was filed in october of 2011. and we performed section 322, neighbor

williams again. addressing the entire presentation of mr. low, this is not about mr. low. we have people here from across the street, from down the street, from behind, from in front. when you can't get a single supporter for your project, not one supporter for your project, something's wrong. he didn't put up story pole. your plans are not to scale. you wouldn't even supply a set of the plans to the neighbors. that's something that went wrong here. the graphics flashed on the screen. first time we've seen them. they're not to scale. they're not accurate. they're not submitted. they showed the same photos of what they claim is the neighborhood. the project site is not in any of the photos they showed. that is a block and a half north where the high-rises are. the lowe's penthouse is not an occupied space. you heard that from his sister eva chan low. it is a 200 square foot laundry room and you can't compare that to a 1300 square foot fifth floor addition. it's a historic anomaly that was put on the building when it was built in 1910. yes, there are other buildings that als

mr. williams we will start with you and you have three minutes. >> thank you. steve williams, again on behalf of albright. there was a lot of focus on the neighbors, the 20-foot set back that was referenced by mr. blache that is all on romona's property there is not set back being provided on the property and she objects to the openings on that side. and this is a site permit and i submitted as exhibit 21 the administrative bulletin that says that what you have to do in order to get a site permit, they have not complied. mr. duffy also referenced this, if you look at 4 d, structural design document was not submitted in order to obtain this site permit and you have to do that if you are going to get peer review and you heard the engineer say that we welcome the peer review. they have not complied and the permit should never have been issued. this is a demolition, you do not have to wait until they take all of the walls and ceiling and floors down because we know for a fact that is what is going to happen because the building code does not allow the elements of t

mr. williams pulled out a letter in 2011 where he said that around 90 percent of existing foundation and walls will remain in place and mr. santos may want to speak to you, but my experience on these type of projects we don't see any of the existing foundation remaining it has to be taken out because it has to be taken up to today's code. the other thing about the demolition and the walls remaining. the city departments with the codes and regulations and whenever planning approves something like this and the building department gets involved and we have this walls to remain in place. and then you have got structural drawings, where someone wants to keep the walls and it is seismic in the building, that is challenging for everybody, from the developer to the inspector because you are looking at old walls that have to remain and then, you know, sometimes there is dry rot, sometimes there are, and so this is a very challenging thing to do and we said earlier that we work very closely with the contractors to try to get them to suspend the walls. if you would not see it anywhere else and we st

mr. william clark? >> i have some questions. mr. clark, maybe i can ask you first. i am looking at the e-mail that was included in our packet i'm not clear exactly how this -- it's page 32 of our packet which it looks like it's an e-mail to s o t s. it looks like this was the text here is yours at least in the middle. i'm looking particularly at the portion that says "we sent howard lazar the following e-mail on may 27, 2011. >> that's my complaint. >> right, but you are referring to they mail you sent to mr. lazar and it says, mr. lazar i'm not requesting any documents but i would like an answer to the following questions. do you see that? is that an accurate statement? >> yes. this is what i said. this is my e-mail that i was asking for public information because i didn't know whether he had any documents at that time. i didn't know whether or not there was anything that had transpired between the hayes valley merchants and the arts commission and i just wanted to know if something had gone on, if something had gone on between the two of them i would have requeste

mr. williams? >> >> would you like to specify the length of the briefing and the timing and the subject matter. >> they can present a brief up to five pages in length. >> do i want to have to subject on the conditional use and the nature of the business? >> i would like it to focus on whether that leasee conforms to financial services. >> and my recommendation would be to have the permit holder briefed first and then have the appellant and the department respond. so the permit holder could be i am not sure how much time in advance. >> could i limit how much time they get when they come back? >> do you want to discuss that with the president. >> could i limit how much time they get when they come back? other than just now? >> we continue they could be offered the full seven minutes per case which is four cases. >> the hearings have been held and closed. it is a discretionary matter. we have heard a lot tonight. >> so i am thinking then that the permit holder's brief would be due, two thursdays prior

mr. williams implied in order to justify this cost, it must be a tic, it must be a condo conversion. we have no intention of that. the existing vacancies, we bought the building with three vacancies. we have kept those vacant. this is killing us and the lost rent, i mean it's been a year and a quarter. with no rent that's crushing us and we're doing it with the sole intent of being able to move tenants around to install sprinklers and sheer walls within the unit. >> it is your intention during construction to retain -- >>> we are trying to. i mean, we'd love to do that. it would suit them. i know it's very expensive if we would try and move people out and fund all of that. we would love to keep them if we can. >> thank you. that is not something we can require as part of -- my second issue is design. if you were here for the last item, it's not that we oppose kind of a more modern design, but i think it somewhat over shadows the existing building in the neighborhood. it is an addition that's not meant necessarily to be seen. you know, with the setbacks, but it's a little highly desig

and shove it back at them and let's not forget throw up our like chris matthews well guess what mr williams the rest of the country appears to be disappointed with you because according to a new rasmussen poll only six percent of americans view the news reported by the mainstream lapdog obama mania media as very trustworthy and you don't want to know what we find so disappointing the fact that you your liberal mainstream media cohorts the people that work on your network burying stories about how the administrations for example bullies the press. i have no words of is that fox news that the bone to pick with brian williams but truthfully it's hard for me to even fathom what he's saying here that the only the liberal media is the mainstream media so under his logic all liberal media is the mainstream making fox the target for you i think not you know the funniest thing about hannity is incoherent rant is that the report he used to prove his point actually doesn't prove it at all in fact it implicates fox news for the same bias in coverage take a look on. six percent right news media as very

and shove it back at them and let's not forget throw up our like chris matthews well guess what mr williams the rest of the country appears to be disappointed with you because according to a new rasmussen poll only six percent of americans view the news reported by the mainstream lapdog obama mania media as very trustworthy and you don't want to know what we find so disappointing the fact that you your liberal mainstream media cohorts the people that work on your network burying stories about how the administrations for example bullies the press. i have no words of is that is that the bone to pick with brian williams but truthfully it's hard for me to even fathom what he's saying here that the only the liberal media is the mainstream media so under his logic all liberal media is the mainstream making fox the target for you i think not you know the funniest thing about hannity is incoherent rant as if the report he used to prove his point actually doesn't prove it at all in fact it implicates fox news for the same bias in coverage. take a look only six percent rate news media as very trustwo

mr. williams no. mr. duffy no. mr. van hollen aye. ms. schwartz aye. mr. yarmuth aye. mr. pascrell aye. mr. ryan aye. ms. moore aye. ms. castor aye. mr. mcdermott aye. ms. lee aye. mr. cicilline aye. mr. jeffries aye. mr. pocan aye. mr. hoffman aye. mr. car difficult. mr. blumenauer aye. mr. schrader aye. mrs. blackburn no. mr. chairman. mr. chairman no. mr. chairman, on that vote the ayes are 16, the noes are 22. >> ayes 16, noes being 22, the amendment is not agreed to. are there further amendments in tier 1? >> mr. chairman, i have an amendment. >> the gentlelady from wisconsin. the clerk -- does the gentlelady from have an amendment? the clerk will designate the amendment. the staff will distribute copies. >> mr. chairman, an amendment offered by ms. moore to protect our vulnerable. >> the gentlelady is recognized for nine minutes. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman. you know, it's always great to serve on the budget committee and it's oft repeated mantra is that budgeted are -- budgets are statements of morality and our principles. i was really happy to see, starting on page 27, th

mr. williams, thanks you so much for coming by. >> thank you so much for having me. >> did i get any wronge. >> no, you did it better than i could have. >> i don't know. it seems logical you would want to do a buy back in new york city if you did one at all. how did you get this idea? >> way is challenged to do it. commissioner kelly was speaking about stopping first and he challenged the community to come up with better solutions than what they are doing with nypd. it inspire node think after way the hip-hop commune could give back. get on the good side of the new cycle. >> how zpt mentorship side of it work. obviously having been a manager and the different jobs you've done in the music industry, you know everybody. networking is a big part of how you have been as successful as you are. are you talking your network and music industry and community connections you've got to build that mentorship side of it out. >> yes. my idea was to take relationshipens and and partner a nung person that comes in and finds specifically a mentor for what they want to do. if someone wants to be an engineer

mr. williams no. mr. duffy no. mr. van hollen aye. ms. schwartz. mr. ryan aye. ms. moore. mr. mcdermott. ms. lee aye. mr. cicciline aye. mr. jefferies aye. mr. hudson aye. mr. blumenauer aye. mr. schrader aye. ms. moore aye. mr. mcdermott aye. mr. chairman no. mr. chairman, on that boat the ayes are 16, the noes 22. >> are there other amendments? it is closed, i apologize. had he been present, you would have voted aye. i apologize. mr. blumenauer? the clerk will report the amendment. let's ask unanimous consent that the role of the previous vote be open and record the vote as aye. mr. blumenauer has an amendment at the desk. >> mr. chairman, an amendment offered by mr. blumenauer, an amendment related to transportation. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we have had some spirited debate about the national budget deficit. one area that we really have not addressed is a threat, i think, that is affecting all of our communities. i think each of us have heard about it. that is the infrastructure deficit. it is no secret that the american society of civil engineers has been doing its by-

mr. williams, thanks you so much for coming by. >> thank you so much for having me. >> did i get any of that better than i could have. >> i don't think so. in hindsight it seems logical that you would want to do a buyback in new york city this way if you were going to do one at all. but how did you get this idea? >> i was actually challenged to do it. commissioner kelly was speaking about stopping first and he challenged the community to come up with better solutions than what they are doing with nypd. so it sort of inspired me to try to think of a way that the hip-hop community could give back. that we could get in on the good side of the news cycle. >> how did the mentorship side of it work. obviously having been a manager and having done all the different johns you've done in the music industry, you know everybody. networking is a big part of how you have been as successful as you are. are you talking your network and music industry connections that you've got, community connections that you've got, to try to build that mentorship side of it out? >> yes. my idea was to take relationships

mr. williams: i am a proud supporter of the right to keep and bear arms. i am apalled by the president's attempts to erode our constitutional freedoms and impress his will by executive order. our founding fathers would not have imagined the right they listed second in the bill of right, the right to bear amples, would be systematically attacked by opposition to what the president proposed is based on the fact that his plan is not only unconstitutional but is not effective. the federal government has try tad ban on these weapons before and it did not work. the national institute of justice said there has been no significant reduction in the legality and prevalence of gun violence due to the assault weapon ban. the phase assault weapons ban is a term of art. these are semiautomatic guns that shoot the same bullets as small game hunting rifles. these are hunting rifles made to look like military guns. banning it for cosmetic reasons doesn't make sense and won't save lives. third, banning large capacity magazines won't stop criminals. any gun that can use a ma

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mr. williams: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you very much. we owe it to the american people to produce a smart, responsible budget. a budget that balances, that encourages job growth, and supports job creators. a budget that simplifies our overly complicated tax code and lowers tax rates for corporations and the middle class. this budget just doesn't add up. in fact, it further complicates the tax code and will greatly hamper job creation. it would create five new tax brackets for upper income individuals and small businesses. and would raise taxes on hardworking middle class americans. it's not good policy to raise taxes and it's not good policy to raise taxes ever. and especially not in the struggling economy. i know what it takes to run a successful business. i have owned and operated my small business for 41 years and it was said, i walked the walk. i talked the talk. and this budget won't work in the real world and it won't work in any world. this budget contains trillions of new tax, trillions of new spending, and trillions more to the

mr. williams. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. williams: ever person in america has to balance the budget. i'm a small business owner. i still own a business. i have owned and operated my business for 41 years and i balance my budget every month and in many cases every day. the government should be no different. and until we balance the budget, we don't know the true fiscal condition of our country or of a company or of a family. it's like a business that is overleveraged or a family that has overborrowed. deficit spending can obscure the real pinth. but eventually the numbers come out. once they line up, you get a view of your fiscal condition. we have gone far too long without knowing our country's financial condition. in the last four years, we have had trillion dollars deficit. our nation's credit rating was downgraded and our publicly held debt is on track to exceed 76% of g.d.p. in 2013. yet we still spend more money that we don't have, pushing the country towards a department-driven crisis. if the government deposit have the

mr. william mcgee. journalist, writer, and consumer advocate for consumers union. of former editor in chief the report travel letter and a member of the department transportation future of aviation the advisory committee. thank you for appearing before our subcommittee today. i would ask all witnesses to rise and raise their right hand as i administer the oath. testimonyirm that the you are about to give the committee will be the whole truth, the truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you, god? thank you. now we will begin our testimony with mr. thomas horton. >> thank you. i appreciate the invitation to testify and what did you would like to explain why this merger will have a positive outcome for customers, people, and financial stakeholders. thanks to the extraordinary efforts of our people who are with us here today, we are on the verge of completing one of the most successful corporate restructurings ever. andave renegotiated leases optimized fleet facilities and achieve certain stability with labor contracts in place. we have strengthened our network and i

mr. williams: the pentagon deems this workplace violence rather than combat violence. this is shameful and the american people should be outraged for the government to refuse its wrong. it was a blatant terrorist attacks and we owe it to these patriots and the uniforms before them. they willingly and admirably put their lives on the line to protect our freedom. i ask my colleagues to pass h.r. 705, the fort hood victims and families benefits protection act and start providing the needed assistance for the victims and families of this attack. y god bless those who have served. yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? mr. woodall: mr. speaker, by the direction of the committee n rules, i call up house resolution 122 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 22, house resolution 122. resolved, that at any time after the adoption of this resolution the speaker may, pursuant to clause 2-b of rule 18, declare the house