we share a history with our neighbors on carolina street and with the case of mrs. larson and mrs. snider we intend to keep our efforts on carolina street. i ask that the board present with mrs. larson and snider and as my other neighbors. i concern with their appeal, please respect and consider what your long-term citizens have to say, we have put our hearts and souls into this neighborhood, thank you for your consideration. >> i have a question. have you had any contact -- sorry, i have a question. have you had any contact with the project sponsors? >> no. >>-okay, thank you. >> next speaker please. >> hi i am cathy quadros, that was my mother she owns the apartment at 934 carolina street. i lived on this block on carolina in my childhood and as an adult. as with my parent's tradition, i am now the hands on manager of their apartment building and come up to potrero hill on a weekly basis. i am deeply concerned about the trend of monster homes. i continue to see small charming homes replaced with massive homes. please note that three of the neighboring buildings, my mothers and mr

mrs. larson's testimony almost verbatim. she said everything i would say about this project, i thought it was eloquent and reasonable. if i was in her position i wouldn't be as reasonable as she was, and i would be insulting. and i compliment your reasonableness and i support almost verbatim what you presented tonight and therefore i am in support of the appeal. and on her terms. based on the adjustments that she made to the design and for the reasons she said. >> i have another approach not unprecedented coming from me and to continue the matter for a couple of weeks. and highly encourage the parties to get together with the assistance of the planning department. it's worked before. neither party comes back very happy, but that's probably okay. i am not comfortable specifying changes. i agree with the overall sense it's not to the scale. but i rather that the permit holder and the neighbors work it out. or try to work it out put it that way. >> i would support that motion. >> if we do that we need to give them a little more

mr. larson. >> thank you, mr. chairman. one of the advantages and disadvantages of being on a committee for 14 years you can look back and say i remember when. some of the folks on the committee have been here longer. but in 01 the mantra was any missile defense was better. and with bipartisan cooperation of the committee we moved to a concept of more like better missile defense is better. and now it seems like with this amendment we're starting to sneak back into any costly more expensive missile defense is better. i think that's not the direction we ought to be going. we ought to be focused on what's smarter what's better in missile defense. that's where the two side agree and where we pushed the department of defense to move towards test then deploy as opposed to deploy only. so i am going to ask the committee members to vote against this amendment for that reason. we made a lot of advances in missile defense and affected missile defense. changed some concepts i would say on the margins rather than on whole cloth. but wh

the first appellant, mrs. larson, you have seven minutes to make your case. >> can i make a note we were told that the plans changed again. >> speak to the microphone. >> i want to make a note that we found out that the plans were changed again, we haven't been notified. i was told about this two minutes ago. this is typical. >> okay why don't you make your presentation. >> okay. >> or are you asking for a continuance? >> no we really want to have these plans changed completely. because the house is completely out of size for the neighborhood. okay, good evening, i am dorothy larson, the owner of 906 carolina street i am here to show the size of this enormous project at 910 carolina street and to straighten the board of appeals with the information. and i tried to get in contact with the owner a couple of times and never got response from the e-mails issue so my main contact was their contractor. and i notified them about the massive scale of the house and the loss of light. and let me know that the design team recom

mr. larson and chairman thornberry. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from texas. mr. thornberry: i'm pleased to yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from north carolina, mr. walker. the chair: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for one minute. mr. walker: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman from texas for yielding. mr. speaker, i rise today to express my gratitude for the hard work and dedication put forth by chairman thornberry ranking member smith, and their colleagues on the armed services committee in drafting the national defense authorization act of 2015. i'd like to thank the rules committee, chairman sessions, and ranking member slaughter for their efforts in ensuring members on both sides of the aisle had an avenue to voice their opinion. we recreptly finished 10 town halls in 10 counties. the number one thing from our constituents is making sure that washington is held accountable. these efforts help restore our constituents' faith in this body and the process of lawmaking. i thank the

is committee meeting is brought to the public by sfgtv, staff, jessy larson and jonathan stockhouse and thank you for your work and, mr. clerk, could you please call the next item? >> item number one, roll call. >> avalos? >> present. >> campos in >> present. >> cohen? >> absent. >> kim? >> absent. >> mar. >> here. >> we have a quorum. >> okay, and could we call our consent calendar?

is committee meeting is brought to the public by sfgtv, staff, jessy larson and jonathan stockhouse and thank you for your work and, mr. clerk, could you please call the next item? >> item number one, roll call. >> avalos? >> present. >> campos in >> present. >> cohen? >> absent. >> kim? >> absent. >> mar. >> here. >> we have a quorum. >> okay, and could we call our consent calendar? >> consent calendar, items 203, come price and considered routine and they are prepared to be sider and any of them can be manufactured and considered separately. >> okay, any comments, or concerns about our minutes? >> or or nine month report? >> okay, seeing none we will go into public comment on these items any member of the public that would like to comment, seeing none, we will close public comment. >> and colleagues, could we have is a motion on these. >> so manufactured. >> second. >> and from commissioner mar, and seconded by commissioner campos and we will take that with the roll call vote. >> avalos >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> cohen? >> absent. >> kim. >> absent. >> mar. >> aye. >> items passed. >> okay, very good, let's go on

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