lane reconfiguration, sidewalk widening, and underground storage, creation of the van ness medical subdistrict within the van ness special use district to allow increased floor ratio at the hospital side from 7 to 9 and at the medical office site from seven to 7.5. and to allow projections over the street, reduce tight for the loading spaces at the medical office building, and to allow block modifications for conditional use. it also includes mass amendments to all-out increase height from 130 to 265 feet, and there are several conforming map amendments to go along with this. there are several conditional use authorization is requested, including additional unit. a conditional use for demolishing five housing units and to allow modification within the van ness special use district. also, allocation is required for the medical office building, and there are several other approvals from other public agencies. i will touch on the caltrans approval for the tunnel in just a moment. at the may hearing, the commission requested a comparison of what was driving the size of the facility at van ness and

and alcoholic beverage special use subdistrict, and 55-x height and bulk district. i believe there will be a request to remove that from the consent calendar. three is 2011.0211c for 2499 folsom street to allow a small self-service restaurant in an existing limited commercial use space in the residential house three-family zoning district, mission alcoholic beverage special use of district and 40-x height and bulk district. following public comment, which would automatically remove these items from consent and with the understanding that item 3 is pulled off of consent, item four is before you for your consideration. commissioner olague: yes, i will be pulling item three of the consent calendar and discussing possible continuance at that time. is there any public comment on the remaining consent calendar item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini: move to approve item four. >> second. >> commissioners, the motion before you is for a total of item four. on that motion -- commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner fong: aye. commissioner moore: a

according formula retail pet supply stores in the subdistrict. commissioners, supervisor eric mar is here to present. supervisor mar: 54 during us tonight. i just want to say it has been fascinating to watch the issues you are discussing tonight. i am here to ask your support for a piece of legislation that i've been working on for several months with a coalition of pet supply stores and richmond district small businesses. it is a broad coalition of groups, the coalition to save san francisco pat stores. i want to also say that this legislation will help level the playing field for many businesses along that corridor, and it serves a legitimate public purpose, preserving the mix and diversity of services of goods and goods provided to the richmond district. it also hopes to maintain the special character of our neighborhood. i also wanted to say that the board of supervisors have had similar efforts in the past. north beach, chinatown, mission district, and many other towns, so it is not new. the coalition i am working in this predominantly based

we also see that world through the afghan people's eyes because we're in so many villages, subdistricts, and districts with them. and i just disagree that the gains are going to be easily reversed. in fact, i see a stream of intelligence routinely of the taliban in significant disarray, at the leadership level, many of whom live in pakistan as well as in the field. >> sir, i was just repeating what i am told by general petraeus and others, and every testimony read in the congressional record, they sit where you're sitting and they say the gains are fragile and reversible. i was simply repeating that. >> i have said that as well, which you also said that they are easily reversible. i just disagree that that's the case. they only become irreversible if we get the afghan security forces in charge of their own destiny. that's the goal over the course of the next three years. four years ago they virtually had no afghan security forces, certainly no effective forces. that's the challenge. that's the path home. we all know that. and we see that through their eyes as well as look at it through