they were to provide a replacement rooftop deck which would meet current code and safety requirements and which could be submitted to dbi for a permit application. mr. weisberg did so, and mr. michael white, of michael white general contractors, submitted the plans to dbi for a permit, which was granted on august 31, 2011. the appeal is aimed at assuring the safety of the supporting roof structure directly below the rooftop deck. the permit holder, mr. baristas, has responded to the appeal and has hired a civil engineer, mr. paul cox, of wje associates to take the steps in the appeal, including making copulations to determine the adequacy of the supporting work structure and it necessary to provide a strengthening scheme to ensure of the safety of the supporting work structure to allow the construction of a rooftop deck that does comply with current code and safety requirements. mr. paul cox, the civil engineer, upon investigation of the supporting were structure directly below the deck found the rooftop -- found the roof support structure inadequate. mr. cox has subsequently prepared

and we were thinking that black rooftops were not the best use of that rooftop area. so we have begun to explore a variety of sustainable treatments, from rainwater harvesting to solar to a variety of treatments that could be used up their, even possibly urban agriculture to grow something's that japantown restaurants could use, in a wide variety of ways, looking at how those three city blocks that are currently black rooftop could be used to help sustain and rebranded the mall's if we go through a process of acquisition and remodeling for the malls. finally, the technical assistance went into some of shadow analysis, because in the heart of japantown at the end of becky -- buchanan street is peace plaza. that is the rec and park property which is subject to prop k, and future building analysis has to take into consideration new shadows into the public open space. with the help of staff, we helped to begin some preliminary shadow analysis, possible minor height increases along opposed and buchanan street in our study. finally, i want to thank j uaquin for neighborhood

the plan would seek to help fund the rooftop parking as well as the second and howard proper -- park. these are rough estimates of what it would take to produce those. in order to help try to pay for these, the plan proposes essentially two new financing mechanisms. one would be a new set of additional impact fees that would go primarily for streets and transportation, including the transit center, as well as open space. we are currently in the process of financing the legally required nexus analysis studies required by state law to justify these impact fees, and working with the city attorney's office closely on that, and we hope to have it completed in a few weeks so we can essentially set those at the announcements, what you see here, in terms of and acting revenue is very hypothetical and sort of illustrative of what we think we can achieve, but once we complete the studies, we will know for certain what the fees can be set at. again, this would be in addition to the existing fees that exist today room. those would continue to exist, and this would be in addition to that. on top o

cops are stationed on two chick-fil-a rooftops. the cops will hoist the money up to the top of the roof. the cops on the rooftops fund-raiser will continue until 10:00 tonight at the waldorf and laplatea chick-fil-a restaurants. grab the umbrella if you're going to go. and a coat. not even a jacket today. the heavy stuff. >> something with a lining, really, is what you need out there for today. chilly stuff. you would never guess we changed months between yesterday and today, would you. yesterday, beautiful september afternoon with sunshine and 75 degrees. everyone's like, wow, the weekend is almost here. and today, yeah, the weekend is here, and mother nature took an ugly hard left turn during the overnight hours. cloudy skies outside all day today. this is georgetown. tourists and locals alike bundled up, fleece, down, umbrellas, hats, scarves, mitttons, all of it. you notice not a single smile on any of those faces down there in georgetown today. cloudy skies remain in place overhead. 51 degrees our current temperature down at n

with the best rooftop bars restaurants not lush in the world and how is the image of the capsule and muscovites obsessed with the look and feel of contemporary life and can my time illuminations simply be too much to discuss these questions a move that's nice to speak. chris christie you say you know you've been here for years here what do you think the rescue capsule would look like before you came here i was. eight years ago i came here nearly said. it's a tree he was from new york is way way i came from. i expected it to be very dark and very frustrating and depressing and my first impression was like that actually because if you go on the streets eight years ago you went to the street people are very. well nobody was smiling it was time for our. i was really bad but i started to look to city and also you know if you were to give any tourist some advice about where to visit in moscow join the night where with a day definitely of course. if you didn't look at the red star. because . it's very beautiful i think you should come to this hotel here. on the top you can see the city down

some of the best rooftop bars restaurants nightlife in the world. how important is the image of the capsule and muscovites obsessed with the look and feel of contemporary life and can my time illuminations simply be too much to discuss these questions a move let's meet this week's guest chris christie you see you know you've been here in moscow for years yeah what do you think the recent capital with the choir before you came here i was there because you know years ago i came here i mean he said come to moscow check it out. it's a lot of energy he was from new york as well where came from. i expected it to be very dark and very frustrating and depressing and my first impression was like that actually because if you go on the streets eight years ago you were in the streets people are very. well and nobody was smiling it was time for our. just started again it was really bad but i started to love this city and also now if you were to give any tourist some advice about where to visit in moscow join the night. definitely of course as. i like there and i

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of them the three hundred sixty degree kind of rama is something to be see now by some of the best rooftop bars restaurants nightlife in the world but how important is the image of the capsule and muscovites obsessed with the look and feel of contemporary life and can my time illuminations simply be too much to discuss these questions a move that's nice to speak stressed chris great to see you really see you know you've been here last year for eight years yeah what do you think the first in capital would look like before you came here i was critical of you know years ago i came here i prank called me and he said come to moscow check it out you know it's a lot of energy where he was from new york is very well i came from. i expected it to be very dark and very frustrating and depressing and my first impression was like that actually because if you go on the streets eight years ago you went to the streets people are very bitter taste like a salad nobody was smiling it was time for our series the wire and the end of october it just started to get when i was really bad but i started to love th

some of the best rooftop bars restaurants and not life in the world but how important is the image of the capital. subsist with the look and feel of contemporary life and can my time illuminations simply. too much to discuss these questions a move that speaks cast chris christie you see you know you've been here for years here what do you think the russian capital would look like before you came here i was difficult you know years ago i came here i mean he said come to moscow check it out you know it's a lot of energy he was from new york is way way i came from. i expected it to be very dark and very frustrating and depressing and my first impression was like that actually because if you go on the streets eight years ago you went to the streets people are very the face like. nobody was smiling it was time. and just started again winters and it was really bad but i started to love the city you know so if you were to give any tourist some advice about when to visit in moscow or join the night where would they be definitely of course is very beautiful like they were and if you didn't loo

whole eurozone how much momentum is there among the activists there you know i think you're on a rooftop you can look down and see you know tell us what's what's the scene. what i have to say that in four or four of the spanish residents the protests are actually things a means things as usual they have been essentially protesting since may sixteenth of this year in fact for several months protesters were camped down here in the main square of the spanish capital of them so they have disbanded that camp but for months they were out here they were demanding that the government do something rather than implemented a severe a stereotype measures because those have less people value jobs without homes without any opportunity for essentially a normalized people have been evicted from their homes because thousands literally have been losing their chance to pay rent the chance to pay their mortgage loans. spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in the grizzle in fact it is the highs the twenty one percent that has an immense unemployment rate for the youth citizens it's over forty five

to rooftop solving a puzzle to figure out how to open a door or hacked into a computer. >> batman game goes on sale today for the x box and playstation. i am rob nelson. >>> time for traffic and weather every ten minutes. >> it is cooling off this week. it is pleasant. >> it is not too abrupt. >> it is fall, so this is what we get this time of year. it will not get to a frigid levels or anything. temperatures will been running a little below average this week and into the weekend. -- will be. no rain showers this morning dust clouds moving overhead, like yesterday morning. a mixture of sun and clouds throughout the day. afternoon sunshine. i want to point out a couple of systems. off to our west in the lower mississippi valley power around arkansas is an area of low pressure if with widespread rain from the ohio valley towards louisiana. we also have a system over the gulf of mexico that is bringing rain soon florida. these two systems will converge to our south later today into tomorrow pan and then move over heads as a bigger star assistant. these two are coming together to make one

telecommunications service facility that consists of six panel antennas which will be a facade and rooftop amounted to a six-story mixed use building as part of the at&t wireless network. following public comment, which would automatically pull this from the consent calendar, this item is in your hands. president olague: is there any public comment on this item? public comment is closed. there is public comment? ok. in that case, it will be coming off the regular calendar and we will hear it on the first item of the regular calendar. >> with that, we can move on to item no. 6, consideration of the adoption of the adoption of the regular meeting, following public comment in any modification and/or corrections you may have, we ask you approved the draft measure. -- a draft minutes. commissioner miguel: is there any public comment on the draft minutes? public comment disclosed. -- public comment is closed. on the motion to approve the draft minutes of september 8th, 2011 -- [roll-call] thank you, commissioners. at any other commission manners? commissioner moore: i wanted to ask the director,

elephanted stranded on rooftops. >>> they have been up all night.undreds waiting for the release of the apple iphone 4s. leading the pack in california, apple co-founder steve wozniak. it's october 14th. your "a.m. wake-up call." i'm carol costello joining you live from new york. it's a countdown to a showdown. the mayor of new york says protesters need to leave the park so it can be cleaned. occupy wall street organizers say they are staying right where they are. in fact, the protesters have begun cleaning up the park themselves as they see it, the mayor's cleanup is really an eviction notice. >> mayor, we do a lot better up cleaning up wall street than this park. not only that we have more than 650,000 signatures from every country in the world. supporting the people we're occupying wall street. the mayor needs to not evict them. >> they've been there for almost a month protesting the weak economy and a political system many deem corrupt. >>> the best response tore the alleged plot to kill the saudi ambassador. sanctions are paying off and they vo

the only visible sign of police were a few squad cars but police were stationed on the rooftops of nearby buildings and teams of officers were nearby but out of sight just in case they were needed. san jose police say there were no problems. >> this time we were still focusing on the fact there were outside groups coming in and we also believed that it wasn't beyond possibility that there might be frictiontion between the same group. >>> from the air you could see the flag draped casket taken out and carried to its burial site. he was killed at this cemetery two weeks ago when he was attending the funeral of -- some kind of internal conflict among the hell's angels led to the shooting and the suspect is still on the run. >> the way it went down is not a good thing. it's kind of sad it had to go that way. steve was a well known person and very well respected and he was a good family man. and i hate to see it do anything to damage the name of the hell's angels. >> reporter: as for steve are you is, police are still looking for him. they believe he is on the run with a current or exgirlfrien

the mechanical rooftop, a lot of people being on their roof, the noise from putting some equipment as well. he says he is going to soundproofing it, but there is no guarantee this is going to be done very good he says a lot of things. previously i have problems with people dropping cigarette butts and pushing them under the door. i had an incident where people were flicking cigarettes out an open window on the second floor, and how do we address these things, because david is not very approachable when there is a problem, and he is usually not a round. other concerns aren' i will file the appeal, and i was the one who brought attention to the board of appeals that there was a tourist hotel. i saw the progression of that throws hotel -- progression of the tourist hotel when he started having people stay there and there were attendance on the lower flat but was renovated. people were staying there, and when other tenants were forced out, the same thing happened. he never admitted to having 0 centa hotel. i do not think there is really an effective way. i do not think a memorandum were h

even if it means lifting vehicles with big guns onto rooftops. [gunfire] cotton sniper fire, the attacking forces have reverted to bombing and blasting their way forward. there is now evidence that those forces loyal to the ntc are beginning to focus their attack on the center of sirte. there is a square mile inside the city which is still being held by colonel gaddafi's loyalists. it is not subtle or pretty, shelling that it's the city. the flag still flies. everyone has had enough. he is an interior designer from tripoli with a wife and two children. after a month from the front, he is desperate to leave. he says there is a job to finish. fighting.till we will take it. i hope today. >> wishful thinking given the amount of fighting today. these soldiers care little for gaddafi's hometown and have laid waste to much of it. in some areas you can see the wealth and privilege for which it was known and and the threat would be a. this, a luxury beach from complex, for vip visitors. most of the residents have fled. lifelong supporters of gaddafi, leav

this is the lightwell, which responds to the adjacent building that kimberly mentioned, and our rooftop which is basically our common area and a landscaped public space that will be open for all the residents of the building. so the main kind of issue that i wanted to describe are these two possibilities. option a, the entry to the parking off south van ness, and option b, the entry to the parking off 15th street. and we've, plord both of them. and both of them work in terms of the broad sort of conditions of the project. but i think there's some issues at a neighborhood and city scale that we need help determining the right direction on. so in terms of the garage on south van ness, the result is basically that most of our commercial space then gets pushed around the corner on to 15th street. next to the garage we want to potentially have the lobby in, and those two things go together and consume a lot of the frontage on van ness -- on south van ness, and then most of our commercial is a

you can see the rooftops, the tops of factories, the tops of trees, but everything else is flooded. even if it was to stop raining now, it would take several weeks for the water to recede. the bad news is that another storm system is coming. the government has made protecting this huge industrial estate at top priority. there are more than 200 factories here, employing tens of thousands of workers. volunteers tried to reinforce defenses. the message went out that more sandbags were needed. this, the response. it is all in vain. there is a breach. water seeps in under the embankment. frantically, they tried to stop the flow, but it is no good. the evacuation order is given. this particular battle has been lost, but there may well be more to come. rachel harvey, bbc news, bangkok. >> the richest woman in france, the heiress to the cosmetic giant l'oreal, liliane bettencourt, has lost a legal battle with her daughter over her mental health. the court decided the 88-year- old was no longer mentally fit to manage the family wealth, estimated at $20 billion. >> she is very old, very rich,

a team of professionals used power washers to clean rooftops and rain gutters. they also removed trees and topsoil from gardens. >> translator: i am hoping the radiation level will go down, but i think they should have started decontamination work earlier. >> fukushima city's ultimate goal is to decontaminate 110,000 residences, public facilities, and roads near schools in the next two years. authorities plan to ask residents and volunteers to help clean up areas where radiation levels are not too high. >> translator: things have finally started, but there are so many hurdles ahead. i think it will be a long battle. >> some of those hurdles include securing the necessary man power and finding space to store radioactive waste. >>> vietnam had a tsunami drill tuesday on the coastline facing the south china sea. it is a sign of how this year's disaster in japan has made ocean facing communities everywhere more alert. dao van hung has more. >> reporter: we never experienced a tsunami before, but what happened in japan was the worst tsunami evacuation drill. more tha

the building contains an existing wireless facility on the rooftop operated by verizon wireless. the project was to install a wireless facility consisting of six panel antennas, six of which would be facades amounted, and two of which will be roof mounted. there will be painted to match the building. the equipment cabinets will also be located on the roof. it is a preference two location per the setting guidelines because the site is considered a co-location site. there has been one phone call from a neighbor citing health concerns. the department of public health has also reviewed the rf report and has found the proposal coincides with current fcc guidelines. the department recommends approval with conditions, for the following reasons. it complies with general planning code policies. it is a location preference, eighth to use location, which is preferred under the guidelines -- a two use location, which is preferred under the guidelines. the antennas will be minimally visible from pedestrian level. and the project will improve the comprehensive wireless telecommunications netwo

i live within a block and a half of this project and it will have a 49 seat rooftop garden. because of the height limit, you will be able to see south of market, a bond to twin peaks and it will be a nice place to have breakfast or brunch on sunday. this is showing the bar area again. there is a dance floor and stage, a big bar. the second is a large balcony, a vip area looking down. the two living units are separated by airspace and yard. when this project is done, we will be consulting charles s alter for sound attenuation. this is the first rebuilding of a major entertainment venue i know. i have been doing this for 30 years. it is going to be a mixed used project with residences and entertainment venue in the same building. we are excited about this because we believe it can happen and we believe that with the right sound attenuation, the right design from the beginning, that this can work and it will set a standard for other venues, we believe. it gets down to how much separation you have, you have all this stuff separating the the main sound system from the residences

they have a lot of schemes, they sold the suits off rooftops. they were very close. that was one of the things. also that he started out to be a singer, not a comedian and cut six r&d sites -- sides. tavis: when i discovered that in the ?, it did not surprise me because he was always singing. that did not surprise me. it is wanting to wants to be a singer and end up in comedy, happen -- when did he know he was gifted enough to be a comedian? >> he was always a funny guy. he was always the class cut up in school. when his music career was going nowhere, and he got an invitation from a friend to come to a club in baltimore that was by the docks. it was there that he discovered this a gift for interacting with the audience and making them laugh. he was the don rickles of his day. in a way that was funny and not and mean-spirited. he discovered he had this gift. that stent lead to another at another clap and on and on. before you knew, he had met sloppy white and they started a tour. tavis: one of the things i did know, the absolute success he had with records. he did no

people lined the embarcadero and climbed on rooftops to see the performance. yesterday's show was cancelled because of fock. >> speaking of fog -- because of fog. >>> speaking of fog, we have some around the bay and it's a steady drizzle for some. yet towards the south bay, you can have some cloudy conditions and very mild muggy-like conditions. there is a lot of moisture in the air. cloudy skies today, mild, tropical feel for some, but a steady rain, especially up the russian river. drizzle for many. we'll carry that in to tomorrow morning, and then clear it out. wednesday, thursday, machine. should see some mid- to upper 80s. today is -- the air mass is just saturated. the system is drags across. a little bit of a south wind as well. the live stormtracker2 shows there is a little bit there. most of it is falling below the radar beam. you can see the moisture. i will get out of the way so you can see it. there is a lot there. there is a bag edge. a lot of this should start to thin out. i don't think we'll lose all of the cloud cover. if we had more sun, it wo

picture from our rooftop camera towards downtown san francisco don't see mist, drizzle or rain, it isthere sort of hit and miss style. mike will tell us more when the heavy rain is coming in. >>> more news, the nobel prize in physics has just been announced one of the winners is here in the bay area. 52-year-old saul perlmutter had the project at uc berkeley. he will share a 1.5 million dollar prize with fellow american and australian citizen. the citation said their discoveries have helped to unveil a universe that is unknown to science. >> most students have met the deadline for vaccination against whooping cough. more than 1,000 have not and they are being kept from school. a spike in cases promised new state law requiring middle and high school students to receive the booster shot by last thursday. 1500 students who did not turn in documents were told to stay home. in oakland school officials are not turning students away, 1300 have not submitted their paperwork. in san mateo only 22 middle school students were told to stay home because they didn't have proof. >>> famous monday ni

195 becquerels of strontium per kilogram, more than six times the government safety limit, in the rooftop sample. the science ministry says radioactive strontium can accumulate in bones and that it poses a cancer risk. the ministry says it has conducted only a few checks for strontium outside of fukushima prefecture because the amounts detected within the prefecture were very small. high levels of radiation have also been detected in southwestern tokyo. a roadside reading in setagaya ward earlier this month showed 2.707 microsieverts per hour. the reading was taken near an elementary school. >> translator: i pass here every day and i used to play in the park nearby. so it's a surprise. >> translator: i wonder why in setagaya. >> setagaya ward is more than 200 kilometers from the dpis abled fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. what has people concerned is that the radiation levels were slightly higher than the reading in the village of iitate that's inside the government-designated evacuation zone. iitate's less than 50 kilometers from the crippled power plant. setagaya ward intends to c

decidedly enjoying high life on a rooftop is becoming more popular the capital's panorama is alluring at night a city totally transformed into a sea of colored lights. every year that blaze of light and confidence swells as a true symbol of growth and development moscow's is truly a heaven for those aiming higher than the sightseeing and as one of the most vibrant cities of europe you might well be dazzled by the desire to joining. what. side but unfortunately that's that's all we have left on this week's program about moscow by night i'll see you again at the same time next week begins around the russian capital until then for me and the rest of the current by now. historic. dynamics. lead . heat. police on the other wall street protest is confiscating their heating equipment just as this up is a blizzard hitting the east coast leaving hundreds of. in the cold. a stern warning from the arab league is calling on syria to stop the bloodshed as dozens of civilian deaths are reported fresh anti-government police syria continues to for another round of crisis talks with damascus. and this