. >> good afternoon, sarah jones, acting environmental review officer. it was include an alternative that identified a height of a building that would not add shadow to union square. we are obliged under ceqa to analyze a project as it is proposed to the planning department. and that is what is contained in the eir. we are also oobligated under ceqa to look at reduction of significant impacts and we did identify a cumulative impact around shadow on i meanon square and the proposition k issue was the basis, as i say for your decision to include that 351' alternative. because an eir also needs to provide information to decision-makers to support an informed decision and so we felt that was a necessary piece of information for decision-makers; that what height the building would be to avoid that shadow on union square. >> okay. so in other words, what you are saying is that the planning department is not necessarily taking a position right now with regards to proposition k. you are simply saying that the eir is adequate because you have looked at alternativ

sarah jones started getting phone call and overwhelms from justin true and - let me see when the puc hearing was on or about march 11th the day before the puc hearing. 60's us -- >> by the way, i work with her. >> we asked what she was referring to and on the evening of march 11th he finally e-mailed this to us. >> i'm sorry what evening? march 11th >> i'm sorry what's the document in our hand? >> the document that i had was a document that was finalized. >> february 22nd. in other words this document was put out when you were about to do the addendum >> it looks like it came out about 4 days before i issued it. >> here's my fundamental question our your environmental addendum report says there's no new information that shows that the modified project would cause environmental impacts that weren't already impacted do you have a different opinion today? >> not necessarily we have references before the engineering report were here this is the type of information that were done before the review the d b i is the agency that handles this sort of thing. we do have detailed jerry we don't

. >> good afternoon, supervisors, sarah jones environmental review officer. the way i understand this legislation is difference between the opt in e-mail notification versus the opt in mail notification addresses those notices that are done. we do a lot of noticing now. for example we already under chapter 31 have several categories of exemption that require mail notification. it's notification required for the city's purposes. under supervisor wiener's legislation that would be e-mail unless somebody asks for mailed notification of that versus under supervisor kim's legislation that will remain as mailed notice although someone can ask they receive it electronically instead. so at the mail versus the mailed notification would apply to current notification as well as any new notification under chapter 31. would you like me to address the other aspects of notification that are embodied in these various proposals? >> under both supervisor wiener and supervisor kim's legislation as well as in these new amendments that came up there is discussion of map based pos

>> sarah jones acting review officer. in the context, there are a lot of factors that go into whether a shadow will impair the use of the space and obviously to some degree that is a consideration that is going to be different for different individuals. in terms of their own use and enjoyment of a space, some may appreciate -- one of the factors that went into the analysis at jessie square was the fact that yerba buena gardens is a sunny, open space and there were adequate recreational activities within the area, that were sunny. so we were looking at the scale of the impact and types of uses that are being affected. the times of day and times of the year in which shadow would occur? in the context of the transit district, which was adding a substantial number of shadow from a large number of buildings, that is a situation that we did identify a significant shadow impact and, in fact, for this project, the reason that we found the contribution of the 706 mission project to be significant -- to the shadow on union square t

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sarah palin criticized obama for exploiting victims of gun violence. cnn's athena joness there live for us this morning. what is happening where you are? >> reporter: good morning, randi. things are just kicking off this morning getting under way. we've been here for several hours. folks started lining up at 7:00 a.m. local time to get in and now they are being let in and from what we've seen it will be another day of blockbuster attendance. what to expect inside? yesterday from the speeches it was more of a political rally. today it's going to be about getting down to nitty-gritty. nra members will get their marching orders and a corporate report to shareholders. what's the state of gun rights in america and what is nra doing for its members and what does it plan to do and what does it want to see done by its members? so folks here are going to be hearing from nra executives. that's different from yesterday. yesterday was all about politics. political rally i should say. hearing from big political stars in the republican party. people like senator ted cruz from right he

jones joining me live from houston. it looks like the nra is really pushing back against its critics and is using some pretty big names, athena. >> reporter: hi, randi. that's right. big names like saraherstar in the republican party. she spoke yesterday at the end of a long series of speakers. many of whom touched on this idea that people who are pushing gun control measures, people like president obama and new york mayor mike bloomberg are trying to use events like the tragedy in newtown as an opportunity. listen to a little bit of what she had to say. >> we have a mainstream media that tore apart another president for using fleeting images of 9/11 attacks in campaign ads crying that he was exploiting tragedy for political gain. well, that same media is now the reliable poodle skirted cheerleader for a president who writes the book on exploiting tragedy. [ applause ] this president flew in grieving parents on air force one making him backdrops on his campaign style press events. instead of leaders that offer solutions, we have leaders to practice the politics of emotion. now, emotion is a good and a necessary thing but we have politicians exploiting emotion for their own agenda. >>