commissioners, i am here with my client that owns and operates a restaurant down near the park near townshend. these restaurants are doing pretty well. they are rock-and-roll in down there. this is a slightly odd one in that the south of market got a zone to disallow or basically disallow entertainment usages. and when they did that, they put in this to a 5.3 planning code that allows temporary usage of entertainment. what we have done in the past, and what we would like to do in this situation, it allows the owner of the business to do new year's eve and some big parties. back to the issue at hand, i think the commissioner like this. this includes three neighborhood groups and some residents. pretty much every neighbor with in the buildings of every direction. we have gone to those people and talk to them about the operation and what we would like to do. and as for a business card. my clients are available for any questions and to request a conditional. >> any questions of the applicants? >> how expensive is it? >> it is huge. >> i am confused. no new permits are being issued? >> the same is

it is bounded by townshend and bluxome. we have worked with the businesses and residents to put in metered parking as well as residential permit parking in this vicinity. on this particular block, we previously came to you and legislated parking meters on the freeway side and residential permit parking areas on the frontage side. we found that now that we are in the process of trying to install the meters on the side where the freeway is, there is a sidewalk. so there is no place to put the meter pool. -- meter pole. we will have the meters on the side with the sidewalk, where we can put the posts in. will have the resident parking on the other side. -- we will have the resident parking on the other side. it increases the resident permit parking spots by three, because there are no driveways on that side. chairperson nolan: all in favor, say aye. >> item 10.4, authorizing the executive director to accept and expand funding in the amount of $6.90 million for the bay area vehicle tax the corridor project. the item was removed

. >>> well, they were channeling their inner pete townshend the other night in the hard rock hotel outduring his career would have been proud. more than 1,900 people showed up to set a new world record. >> the destruction was for a good cause. the broken parts will be donated to artists who use it in their works, and maybe the weirdest thing, it was to mark the grand opening of a parking garage. stuff you can't make up. >> we'll be right back. >>> as we all know, politicians say a lot of things, and it doesn't matter if it is a republican or a democrat. a lot of it ends up being nothing but a big fat lie. >> and in the past year, of course, there was plenty to lie about, so which politicians laid the biggest whopper of them all? with that here's jake tapper? >> reporter: pinocchio is an adorable symbol of fibbing, but politicians are not nearly as cute when they shave the truth. cute when they shave the truto cute when they shave the truth. the folks at politifact.com make it their mission to let us know when they're telling us things that are not so. parafiddles, flimflams and present

. >>> well, they were channeling their inner pete townshend the other night in the hard rock hotel outaradiddles, flimflams and present the political lie of the year and unfortunately as always there are many, many possible nominees. politifact narrowed it down to a handful of finalists. >> the president of united states will be taking a trip over to india that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day. >> reporter: minnesota republican congressman michele bachmann repeated this untruth. based on one unknown muss comment an unnamed indian official told an indian publication. $200 million a day. more than the cost of the war in afghanistan. the white house and previous administrations called that apparently made up figure crazy talk, and politifact called it untrue. soon to be former congressman alan grayson, democrat of florida, ran this tv ad about his opponent. >> wives submit yourself to your own husband. >> which is also not true. grayson was taking the words of now congressman-elect webster out of context. webster had cited that biblical passage as one husband should no

let me also say since the theme of this lecture is international peace, dean townshend has been a strongcing international programs in the college and in the university. even in these difficult and challenging financial times, he has committed resources to the politics department to hire five professors this year. in fact, we met this morning to make our recommendations after reviewing more than 200 applications from around the world and interviewing 16 candidates. it is really my great pleasure to introduce to you my game, dean john townsend. -- - dean, deemed the john townsend. [applause] >> a kiss me great pleasure -- it gives me great pleasure to be here. this chair honors the memory of president anwar sadat with a commitment to outstanding scholarship and public outrage. he initiated this lecture for peace, which has engaged leading figures to share their insights on peace issues around the globe. it is my pleasure to introduce our new president, dr. wallace lowe who will tell you more about the lecture. dr. lowe is an outstanding educator and leader. we are delighted that he is wit

townshend just delivered the reflects that hope and rejuvenation. next is a colleague and a gentleman with whom might have shared the stage over the summer in paris at a rally in support of the people. he has always done an excellent job. i'm positive he will do so here. the hon. john bolton. he is a diplomat and a lawyer, sometimes a challenging and somewhat schizophrenic task to be both a diplomat and a lawyer. he has spent many years in public service from august 2005-2006 he served as the u.s. permanent representative to the united nations. from 2001-2005 from he was the under secretary of state for arms control. he is a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. his articles have appeared regularly in "the new york times," cote the wall street journal," and "the london times." >> thank you. i would like to think any of and executiveaction for inviting us all here today. primarily from the perspective of the nuclear weapons threat that the regime poses. this has been an active program for over 20 years in their effort to get both nuclea