secondly, the city attorney's office recommends that an uncodified section be added to the end of this legislation that will just recognize that there are numerous pieces of legislation in your process right now that all amend section 401 and 415.3 of the planning code. so to avoid nip of those things inadvertent lie superseded, we're recommending adding this uncodified language to make sure that every piece of legislation that you adopt is given full force and effect. none of the pieces of legislation conflict. they just happen to amend the same sections of the planning code. and i provided supervisor chiu with complete amendments of the whole committee, but these pages summarize the changes. supervisor maxwell: thank you. supervisor chiu, any comments or questions? supervisor chiu: i just want to thank the planning staff and our deputy city attorney for all the work you've done with all the recent amendments we've had to do. supervisor maxwell: let's open this up for public comment on item number one. >> my name is francisco dekosta, and i just want to make a general statement. the f

secondly, there would be a conflict created? the limits personal uses are listed as permitted in the rv district. that's a little inconsistent, we all right have controls for how they shrug divided. we don't want to prejudice back to 231, but to keep consistent, we will just use the same nc controls, secondly we are proposing adding as use citizen limit. any use size over 6,000 square feet would be conditionally permitted. we feel this is a mine another change, most use of that size would already likely require a conditional use authorization. and then next providing that liquor sources be principally permitted on the ground floor in rc district, unless otherwise specified. much of the area in the tenderloin is in north of market special use district which has an outright prohibition on alcohol uses and that would remain in effect for those areas. next, just to clarify, drive-up facilities are not permitted in rc use district. this is not a change. these uses are in the permitted, so we would make sure that

secondly, the outpouring of the community is also very compelling here. this is clearly a concern for the public in this particular community, and i think that way is strongly in my thinking -- weighs strongly in my thinking that the appeal should be granted. vice president goh: i do support mcds and think there is a need for them in the city. however, our charge year for the board of appeals is to consider the impact of any development on the surrounding community and the adjacent properties. we have seen here today a really profound showing of what this particular district, this particular neighborhood, thinks about this business. i was impressed -- i will not say suede -- by the seven eleven owner who came forward and said that the mcd owners claimed he supported their business when he says he does not. the lack of a feeling of trust from the community toward them -- toward the project sponsor i think was represented by that. i do think the public process was flawed at the planning commission with the lack of having a translator. and i agree with what

secondly, the outpouring of the community is also very compelling here. this is clearly a concern for the public in this particular community, and i think that way is strongly in my thinking -- weighs strongly in my thinking that the appeal should be granted. vice president goh: i do support mcds and think there is a need for them in

secondly, dawn weiss is here from the marin energy authority, as well as david orth from the san joaquin valley energy authority to talk about their status of where they are with their program and also to address -- am i getting feedback? to talk a little bit about -- these are two programs that are independent programs. they are structured differently than ours in that they have taken on the risk themselves as a public entity for the program. this was an issue that came out before our commission, so they will address some of the issues on risk that they have dealt with in their jurisdictions. so with that, we are going to start with mike. >> good morning, chairman, commissioners, my name is michael campbell. as ms. miller just highlighted, i am going to give a status update on the variety of areas we are pushing aggressively at the puc to make sure the rules that are set up are as favorable toward the cca as possible. right now, the deck is stacked against us. as mentioned, we will have discussion from representative from the brent and san joaquin valley power authority. first of all, i

zero firstly the summit adopted made his new strategic concept secondly the summit took place without russia's participation russia participated. exactly participated in the russian nato summit which had its own agenda indeed many political analysts are saying that the summit was successful indeed a new strategic concept was adopted nato and russia agreed that russia should be more involved in supporting nato to it is an afghanistan that they agreed to work together on a european missile defense system but there are other issues for instance that of urging russia to a knowledge it's decision to recognize south a said. the summit did not discuss our initiative on the european security treaty escapism i also believe there was no breakthrough on the c.f.e. treaty so odds say that was a summit of a major international organization concerned with security representatives of nato member states assess it as successful we for our part took note of its results nonetheless i want to stress we would really like to cooperate with nato in such areas as maintaining security in of ghana stand and ce

secondly, extreme events do need to be managed. we need to think about how do we manage flood water on the ground. thirdly, that conveyance is likely to be more cost effective than the more traditional attenuation and storage solutions in the future. coastal protection is only likely to be affordable to protect high value areas. urban flooding must be managed above ground as well as below ground and that integrated approaches are the way forward. thank you very much. . >> good morning, everyone. my name is tom franza, i am the assistant general manager for the waste water enterprise of san francisco public utilities commission. and i really appreciate the opportunity today to speak to you about a very specific problem we face in san francisco with rising sea level. the previous speakers i think have done an excellent job giving an overview of what we might expect to happen with climate change and i wanted to bring up a very specific problem and how we might approach that, hopefully to let all of you see what we're doing and perhaps

secondly, this is why we are trying to get ahead of the issue. we want to do it in the context of a capital plan. to the degree that any institution is to reserve more and to capital preservation, we want to be able to give the kind of guidance in a timely fashion. >> obviously they are not lending and that is another drag upon recovery. >>sure, at this juncture, i wish the capital requirements for the principle drag upon landing. they don't seem to be. the demand factor seems to be playing a greater role. >> my last question has to do with what many people are asking them cells. they pick up the paper and there is an understandable sense of outrage from someone who has been on deservedly foreclosed upon. at the same time, you read these articles and it would appear that a fair amount of this are technical paper problems that ultimately will be resolved. do any of you have any sense about the percentage of these cases that are miscarriages of justice for lack of a better term and how many of them are purely technical and postponed the day of reck

secondly it is a new set of responsibilities for the federal reserve and i really complement the staff on bringing together a lot of economic analysis, consumer oriented knowledge in terms of how we're going to understand differences in these positions and legal knowledge. is a new set of responsibilities for us and in part because of that we should listen to comments on people's perspectives. it is not our job to substitute our judgment for the judgment of congress. congress has given us some clarity on rules and what our regulations should suggest. with that i do support the proposal. i would be particularly interested in comments on whether there is a viable or more pro competitive alternative to setting prices consistent with the legislation and secondly interested in better the impact of a proposed rule on the broad set of payment options available to consumers so we continue the trend toward a more dynamic -- >> i support putting forth proposal and would like to add my compliments for the job of identifying issues and gets robust comments. i thank you for the work you put into it

secondly, it accumulates in low spots. in the uk, it's very interesting what you find in those low spots. first of all, you find that's where the low income houses, that's where the poor people live, the people who have no say really in what goes on in the community. so i was really pleased you make the point about environmental justice. the second thing you find out in the uk it's almost always where we put our emergency services because the land is cheap. your fire departments, the ambulances, all that disappears in the first half hour of the storm. >> we use earthquake faults for that. >> okay, but i like the idea of the pilot project because people don't have to commit themselves so much. you get them working on the pilot project and then you expand it. >> certainly san francisco has a problem along these lines as well. we've been looking at developments that -- i guess i preface my statement by saying maybe, echoing the mayor's comment about we should have started looking at this 10 years ago, 10 years ago, at least i

secondly, they have been intimately involved in the jihad starting from 1979 and many of them, are mostf them, you know have been debtors from their jihad said they quickly settled down and very quickly mix around. many of them have even married in part -- that part of the world. they have pashtun wives or pakistani wives and children and families are there so they have been able to integrate that way with the local populace. there is a certain arrogance and a certain reflection of the difference in what we would call a set. they are not prepared to accept anybody from afghanistan or pakistan to really go into that hierarchy. it continues to be dominated or exclusively hindered by arabs. this is what i wanted to explain. so, given this integration, given this experience that they have gained in their part of the world over the last 20 years, it is not easy to segregate them and target them. >> we have time for i think one more question. yes, sir. wait for the microphone please, sir. and if you could identify yourself. >> just another professor of the subject. general el haq i wonder if

secondly, those tax rates helped our economy and job production. they did not create the problem that we have today. that was a problem created, as you know, by the crash of fannie mae and freddie mac and the housing market, the so-called bubble. it had nothing to do with these tax rates. without the taxes being where they are, the situation would have been much worse. that's why they need to be extended for some period of time. >> schieffer: let me just ask you this. i'll ask both of you. are the votes there now in the senate, in your opinion, to extend these tax... >> rates. >> schieffer:... rates as you call it, for all americans if the package includes extending unemployment benefits? is that do-able? are the votes there right now? >> there are other items that both the president and republicans would like to see a part of this package as well. as one of the six negotiators, i can tell you there have been a lot of discussions about the other elements as well. at least in theory, i think an agreement could be reached in the relatively near futur

secondly, it adds additional language to explain that if there are fundraising events with additional commercial marketing benefits, those events would fall under potential regulation of this promoter legislation. the third would provide to the director of the entertainment commission the power to remove the promoter from the online registry if the director determines that a promoter intentionally submitted false or incomplete information. the fourth change would be to require the entertainment commission to lift new promoters that wish to register unspeaking agendas to provide the public with that level of notice. my understanding is that these are acceptable to the various stakeholders. i would like to open it up at this time to public comment. and to see if there is anyone that wishes to speak on this. let

but secondly, underlying it is not only we gave the drugs away, it's that we developed the drugs.s emerges in the early '' '80s. we have no idea what it is. viruses are traditionally extremely hard to find, identify and tame. we can do it with bacteria, but with the viral, it's much harder and in three decades we turn a death sentence in to a chronic condition. it's an amazing story of mostly american science. yolked with american generosity and it saved millions of lives. >> bret: julie, bono and others point to bipartisan effort. president obama continuing with what president bush launched with the funding of global aids efforts. >> it's true. i thought it was interesting how bono was circumspect with his praise to obama. president obama, that red ribbon today was so striking against the white house. but the same time, the global aids alliance has given president obama middling grade on the aids program saying yes, he made the first ever presidential multi-year commitment on funding but the same time, they feel like it came up short of the money that america should be giving, wh

secondly, i will do that. a new policy that when we are pitching over something, i will invite the exs over to talk about why it is annoying to move the fusht around. -- the furniture around. >> i have never seen a president in a hurry for anything. the world runs by their clock. that was what was weird. >> what party would start without him? you are going to the wrong party, dude. >> bill, but you have to admit they had awesome gingerbread cookies. >> absolutely. the round cookies with the kiss in the middle, no one has a name. they are round -- >> you thought that was a chocolate i gave you yesterday? that's interesting. i hope you enjoyed the whole basket. wow, your taste buds are getting bad. this is a trend whose sign has come. right when she started bringing up puppies or children dancing or the last episode of "mash." what if she was like, cheney. cheney comes in. cheney gets stronger and answers and scares people and brings down the hammer. that's andt everyone needs. >> i think we learned something he

secondly, they have been intimately involved in the jihad starting from 1979 and many of them, are mostf them, you know have been debtors from their jihad said they quickly settled down and very quickly mix around. many of them have even married in part -- that part of the world. they have pashtun wives or pakistani wives and children and families are there so they have been able to integrate that way with the local populace. there is a certain arrogance and a certain reflection of the difference in what we would call a set. they are not prepared to accept anybody from afghanistan or pakistan to really go into that hierarchy. it continues to be dominated or exclusively hindered by arabs. this is what i wanted to explain. so, given this integration, given this experience that they have gained in their part of the world over the last 20 years, it is not easy to segregate them and target them. >> we have time for i think one more question. yes, sir. wait for the microphone please, sir. and if you could identify yourself. >> just another professor of the subject. general el haq i wonder if

secondly, for allowing us to do our comments first. like many people here, i have already read the plan, heard the top, knew what they were talking about, so we appreciate being able to say what we want to say. i have come to know this landlord, and being somewhat cynical about va -- fading concern for the community but very clearly in actions about being really just focused on trying to make the money. that is sort of the background. i live in the second story of a garden apartment. outside my window, i see hummingbirds, butterflies. i get life in my apartment all year round. i live in a community where we know each -- [inaudible] wanna hear the promises about rent control that i have not seen in writing, [inaudible] hawaii in addition, what nobody has mentioned yet is those apartments will no longer be rent-controlled apartments. lastly, i just wanted to mention, the amount of noise, the amount of disruption, [inaudible] i really urge you to reject this proposal. thank you very much. [applause] commissioner miguel: [inaudible] [readi

and secondly the basic and related question of valor. we have public officials across the country, members of congress, public officials in

secondly, sfpd has two restrictions for work force hours. this was not one of our objectives, but we came out across it. we found examples where officers were exceeding 14 hours of work in a 24-hour putto and exceeding -- period, and exceeding 20 hours in a seven- day period. third, supervisor mar: we are going to lose our quorum quickly. if i could ask you to summarize this as best as possible. >> sure. the other points had to do with 10b overtime. we looked at bay breakers. one payment was late. there was also an overpayment department-wide for the uniform all lots. that is it on the audits. supervisor mar: thank you. supervisor chu? supervisor chu: this is a fairly interesting audit. i know there are a number of pages of recommendations and responses to it. because i have to leave for the health services system committee soon, i will not be able to stay, and that is why we will not have a quorum. if we are not able to go to the department's response, perhaps i could recommend that we can continue this item. supervisor mar: i would be supp

secondly, we should be honest about where the system is failing. at one time, our office was a public defender's office. we have made huge steps to make it just this mean for and create outcomes that are just. we are spending more money in california on prisons than we are on education. we have too many people in prisons to our liking people out of city college. what is happening is more than an outrage. the systethis is something thate take immediate steps to protect. we have seen that this falls on deaf ears. unless the people make their voices heard, we will not see change. we know this is a recipe for failure. going forward, we must become involved in the justice system. this is not someone else's problem. we will sit and wonder why the crime rates have gone up. >> when you think about the cost to our society and every person that lives in our society. it becomes very clear that we have no option but to act and act now. i am hoping that you will be motivated to get involved in non ordinary justice. we have yet to live up to that promise. i look

secondly, i woke up really early in the morning and asked jimmy baker to come down here. my dad's dear friend and one of the greatest public servants ever. and it worked out fine. and it was an interesting period. >> as president, you met and dealt with many foreign leaders. you write about some of them in the book. you write i have always been able to read people. vladimir putin, when you first met him, you said you got a sense of his soul. >> i looked in his eyes and saw his soul. >> later you told him he was cold-blooded. >> yeah, i did. >> did you read him wrong? did he change? what can you tell us about him? >> first, let me tell you the story. condi and i were in a room in solvenia. thankfully, they didn't ask me to identify where it was when i was running in 2000. i now know where it was. it's a fabulous country. one of the most beautiful on earth. i'm meeting with putin for the first time in 2001. he's talking to me about soviet satelliting the russian fed indication. -- federation. after about five minutes, listening to him talking about the debt, is it true your

secondly, you don't need to do this. if you do this, i don't think you'll get the intended result of providing the parking spaces. they will be used by people for other reasons. thank you very much. it seems that last parking provided, the more demand there is on the street for existing parking. there should be concerned about compounding the problem with a lack of available space. there have to be a way to explore this as exploratory and parking. nothing would be more of a tragedy than to provide commuters with free spaces in a neighborhood. i share that opinion. those are my observations. >> we're talking about 18 spaces. this is minute compared to those that are necessary. i acknowledge it will help but i don't think very much and i agree with you that this parking lot will be so visible man that i don't think in reality it will provide any additional parking for people visiting the exploratory and. >> thank you. >> i have two comments. i believe it is inappropriate to use public funds to provide an optional accommoda

secondly, i will raise peak time taxes again. i realize we're not going to be meeting, but some put we can have a follow-up with deputy director hiashi to see where we are on that. recent evenings in the rain have reminded me that our citizens and tourists who want to spend money are looking for taxicabs on friday and saturday night. finally, on the rain, i had the pleasure of writing in a cable car for my kids for most of sunday afternoon in the rain. we do not say it often enough. the cable car operators and coach operators -- the cable car operators were amazing, dealing with a crowded, what situation, making sure they got fares, and being courteous to our tourists and pointing out directions. maybe not knowing who i am, they were super nice to my children. in those difficult conditions, i was impressed with their attention to the customers and to safety. an operator named fisher and several other people i met the other day -- thank you. you guys are representing the city well. >> thank you for bringing up the tax issue. i hav

secondly, there is an operational dimension, i would argue. al qaeda 62 blood -- seeks to flood law-enforcement departments with noise, with rather -- with radicalize individuals. that has to consumed the attention of the authorities. nonetheless, what i think al qaeda's goal is is to engage in widespread radicalization, encourage self-radicalization in hopes of distracting us, in hopes of fixating us on these low-level threats so a more serious al qaeda threat can see -- sneak under the radar with what they think it's a devastating blow to us, at least psychologically. second, they seek to encourage divisions within the alliance. this is one of the reasons why in southern afghanistan, the al qaeda allies have concentrated on a tax of the united states' closest allies, the australians, the french, the battalion, and the dutch. they believe the strategy -- the i italians -- the italian and the dutch. they see their ability to focus on our allies as not only succeeding, but as isolating the united states gradually and imposing more of a burden o

so the idea is to support the economy and secondly the jobs provided are very good stable jobs. some activities that used to be clearly unindustrial active, because of technology changes take place in a base that looks like an office. printing takes place in some big, industrial places. now a lot of graphic work is done in a space that looks no different than a law office. we struggled in how to define those activities. we are forced to call them offices. yet clearly they should be allowed to go on. we have figured out how to parcel. in come areas, we saw, no we want real true industrial businesses. we need to preserve an amount of production distribution and industrial activities. we need to do something proactively to change the rules. the market will probably push it out of the city over time. some people, they look at how much industrial land to retain. what should the rules be around affordable housing? we have a proposal. and in those areas, we are asking for a higher percentage. it's been the most expensive process we have done in san francisco. we estimate we have had 50

allocation of reserves that would be allocated first to those who have guarantees of allocations and secondlyto those who have purchases above their guarantees. in the discussion in the last year or so, particularly with commissioner marin -- moran, it would take a different approach, more akin to what we looked at through the process. this would limit the individual supply allocations. it would reduce sanders in santa clara -- it would reduce san jose and santa clara. you can reduce their allocation without having to commence the process that i talked about earlier. if you reduce their allocation much more than that, you have that in the system, and i do not believe that is anyone's intense. there are the individual -- it is an increase over the supply assurance. there is a particular contract that does not limit the amount of water that you can purchase from san francisco, so that is the case any way we deal with it. this would eliminate reserve. this is proportional to the individual supply guarantees. this would be a way to balance out anybody u.s. excess demand and get that from another

much more with secondly or third cesarean birth. >> a dramatic increase in the maternal death rate. possible connection to the rise in c-sections. comparing to hospital with similar demographics they revealed that rising c-section rates cannot be attributed to changes in patient's health but johnson says one significant conclusion can be drawn. >> it looks like people are doing a lot of unnecessary c-sections out there. >> >> most popular tvs in recent years has been the projection lcd. michael finney explains. >> jack and arlene were enjoying their big screen tv when they heard a groan and a pop. >> we turned it on again and it went like that. >> second time it was a bang, actually. >> the screen went black. it had happened before. the projection lamp of their rear projection lcd had burned out. no problem, the tv was still d under andd under extended warranty with a company. so they made a claim. >> what do you mean it's not covered. you covered it two years ago. >> we don't cover that lamp. i said, well, according to my contract, it doesn't say it doesn't cover it. >> the warrant