fact a rental unit. for those reasons, the board upholds the and -- we request that the board upholds this. >> does this give it any way to the fact that the work will return to the way it was when it was billed? >> this is a chilling in its and there are other alterations that can be made to the building that can pertain to the dwelling units which would be appropriate for the design of the building. this would be appropriate to to remain as a two-unit building. >> the rental unit had been vacant for a year. did your department to verify that? >> we have not verify that independently. the issue here is to meet the finding and this seems to be owner occupied in currently this is not owner occupied. >> that made me think of something else. both units are rented now? >> the owner does occupy the lower dwelling unit and this is the upper unit on the third floor which are the rented units. >> i think the owner occupied thing probably comes from jersey street and we have done some of this. i don't know if you

occupy a unit? who can inherit the right to say their loved one past, so they inherit the right to take over the unit and live in it? the answer to that would be a qualified child is income qualified, so we would stick with an income qualification only, and also a spouse or domestic partner who happens to live in the unit with the person. supervisor maxwell: all right, public comment on this item? >> good evening, supervisors and listening audience. i'm here as a concerned citizen, and i'm also here to try to find out -- who is in control here in city hall? all these departments are coming to you, and they are going to be restructured, but my concern is who is in control? how did us community people get engaged of a community politics? it is something i have been talking to the mayor about. [inaudible] there have not been any upcoming or follow-up meeting of the department heads. particularly the mayor's office of community works, development, so we in the community would like to know what the hell

the united nations general assembly, and december 2006, adopted by consensus a united nations global strategy. we have coordinated with all countries around about world in close coordination with the security council. when these people, terr orrist,, in and tried to attack, we have to make ourselves prepared against any contingency. this is very hard, very difficult. we have to make all necessary precautionary measures. at the same time, unless the whole international community is united, it will be increasingly very difficult. >> middle east peace talks right now -- are you hopeful? >> i've been working very hard with the leaders in the region, and with the leaders of the united states. most recently, i've spoken to prime minister netanyahu of israel and abbas. i've been constantly discussing this. as the united nations secretary general, how we can contribute to the middle east peace process. i hope that even though we have a very limited time we will be able to make a certain break through so there is the peace process, a direct negotiations can continue without disruption. >> you

most developers choose on site, and most units themselves are on site units. the second reference book -- both in terms of the products themselves in the unit when you look at the unit total, is off site, and the final preference is the fee. nothing has really changed through this program but that we cannot mandate mental anymore. why did we not exempt rental as some cities have done? he did not exempt rental units entirely and we did create an opportunity for them to develop through development agreement because we believe rental development is very important to the city. i wanted to mention a staffer for -- staff report. i wanted to mention a couple of changes that the mayor's office of housing is also proposing. we are proposing we work with the planning commission to address some stakeholder concerns that are coming up over the past few years in response to the ordinance. it is an exciting program. there are many opinions about the program both from those who own the units, but the units, assist those trying to get into the units, and it has been a pleasur

the units being identified, so if they have a four-unit building with an illegal unit that's a five-unit building and gets pulled into the whole process and addressed. >> city policy on whether to legalize or require upgrades to have somebody taking it out. no, we're not following recommendation for -- how owners can be incentivized in order tord carry tout seismic strengthening. but that's not one this caps project is taking a position on. >> buildings don't change ownership over hand. in fact, many are under one-family ownership and would not be affected. and that's really why we have sourt of a two-pronged approach. pronged in approach to how we would lay out. because of the housing losses and the safety threats from the five-unit residential buildings wrth with the soft stair story. the buildings is having to deal with it. it's not one that relies on the building to sell over time. it doesn't, and that's an important issue for the city of san francisco. and i would think dealing with those buildings, we're not going to wait until they might sell some time in the future. the city woul

and we hope this partnership with the united states and between the united states and afghanistan willn will not see with concern and at the same time, we hope that our neighborhood and our neighborly relations with iran are not seen in any other way by our friends and partners in the united states. >> larry: how about the story that authorities in your country, southwestern afghanistan, seized 19 tons of explosive devices transferred from the border in iran? is that an effort by iran to interfere with coalition efforts? >> well, events like that, discoveries like that, news like that emerging from our neighbors, whether it's pakistan or iran, is of concern to us, of course. and this is an issue that we have talked with our neighbors and will continue to talk to our neighbors. and i hope we will be able to resolve this transport of explosive materials and arms and ammunition to afghanistan or from afghanistan -- if it's happening. this is an ongoing headache for all of us and i hope we can resolve it. >> larry: have you talked about it with ahmadinejad? >> we have discussed all these i

to-- rival to the united states. >> is that acceptable to the united states that you know? >> i think to the united states we have today, absolutely. i any it's hillary clinton was sitting here she would say that is exactly what we want. >> a partnership with europe. >> yes. >> rose: we're not a senior partner, we're both -- >> well, let's leave that, as vague. senior, whatever, they will economies of equal size. they are massive. >> rose: but the growth rate of the united states economy is a bit higher expectation than the growth rate of the european economy. >> you know what, and also in military power there is no comparison. so it's going to be doing slightly different things. but maybe when it comes to afghanistan or pakistan actually the civilian side is at least as important as what the military can do. >> rose: and tell me what it is that europe is prepared to do in pakistan and afghanistan. >> well, europe gives more than half the official development aid in the whole world. and in civil kwan reconstruction as in the balance begans-- balkans, on january dam ree type

i have legalized dozens of dwelling units, illegal units, for people in san francisco. in the last 10 years, there has been a sea change within the bureaucracy, the building and planning departments, where the attitude has been very proactive in trying to help property owners bring things up to code and to save

two units and even five units is dr. we have talked about it before like a year ago, 1 1/2 years ago, about, and i'm not sure you guys have addressed this. is are -- if the property owners out there have been justly represented in your meetings. i've been to the meetings. don't see too many people there that are owners, or for that matter, tenants. have we addressed you know, the illegal units in these projects? especially in the stop story building. i know my street alone, the block that i live on, there's two or three units that are illegal. and these would come under that category. what do you guys plan to do with these units? do you plan to have to move these people out? are the units going to be legalized? because that's one question, and you know, the other one, you know, i like the recommendation. i like, you know, nudgal market by requiring evaluation upon sale by a decline. -- by a dead line. well, there's a percentage of buildings in san francisco that never go on the market. and probably never will. they stay

. >> as far as the number of units? vice president olague: sure, and the zoning. >> and it is zoned primarily rh2, and that is where we are. feel like i know the neighborhood very well and probably 60 or 70 percent of the homes that are single family and it is a little block by block, case by case we do the analysis. we did take into consideration that this specific block is so consistent in single family and character. having said that, we recognize to commissioner antonini's comments that this is a new architectural style for this side of the block and represents a modern character that's not currently present although it is present across the street. there is a mix of style and scale in this block. but the determination in the end is it was appropriate to replace a single family with another single family. president miguel: commissioner sugaya? commissioner sugaya: in some ways some people don't want to be landlords if i were in a situation that would involve demolition and even if it was an rh2, i wouldn't be intere

would support those on the streets but not go out themselves today only the two main train unions are united in their fight against the pension reform in one thousand nine hundred five most of the existing french trade unions were as one on the streets the then prime minister was seen as a cold technocrat and despite the fact that the current french president nicolas sarkozy is not a popular figure in france his popularity ratings are still a lot higher than the former prime ministers but the main difference it seems is that the french people are tired of losing battles that drag on grinding life in the country to a halt. extremist there is an extremist populist radical current in france today that encourages violent actions and this time they went too far. even more with the people losing patience with not only the government but also the never ending protests it appears public opinion is changing and the trade unions may well lose not only. battle. gas trainers are about right t. carriers. and douglas weber professor of political science from one of the world's largest graduate business sc

well i mean there's really no question that the victory here was definitely for the pro chavez united socialist party of the p s u v i mean they won sixty percent of the national assembly the legislature at the same time i think we call it a bittersweet victory because certainly the opposition did regain some of the space that they did used to have in the legislative body but it's not a sufficient bloc to really try to put a brake on the chavez government's policies i mean the international media is trying to portray it as some kind of defeat against chavez or blow to his his presidency but it's really not and it reaffirmed imagine a political party that's only been in existence for three years and he's going to be eight seats out of one hundred sixty five in the in the legislative body. so it's definitely a clear victory and the chavez bloc will be able to continue to implement the same policies as they have been over the past several years ok so why do you want to jump in there already go right ahead. yeah sure well it's important to know that maybe and all through but she works for

profit off the unit. we reprice the unit and tell the house told how much they can sell the unit for. if we decide to raise the qualifying income level by 20%, we would then require that the household selling their units sell it for perhaps the price they bought it for and make no profit off of it, so we would do everything we can to balance how much the unit is selling for so we do not lose that affordability, with a provision that allows the unit to sell. the reason why it is still hopeful right now to raise the income level of a qualifying household is that it is so hard to get financing and most banks are requiring 10% or 20% down. supervisor maxwell: but as long as we're making sure that our goal is to keep the units affordable, what ever you do, but as long as that goal is so that another person coming in -- we do not want to get to the point where we do not have any bmr units -- >> exactly. i think that is what we are trying to do. supervisor maxwell: you are trying to do that, but you need to make

and the united states signed the so-called swift deal that gives american officials access to all bank transactions within europe a further lichtenberg austrian politician and member of the european parliament says there are no guarantees the data won't be misused. every time when it comes to terror and prevention of terror and measures and collaboration between states between the united states and european states then we have this big big problem that. the same requirements that for us in europe are normal cannot be met within the usa so this is an ongoing debate in lots of issues in the us except expect us to adapt to their standards but it's very difficult to convince them that they should alter to ours concerning especially data protection we have to collaborate that's clear if there is a clear. case about some people about some transfers then we really have to go for it but if it is mass state out that proves processed this can be misused and we really have difficulties to control which you the u.s. makes of the data that they get we still. see member states that are reluctant to

very good perspective at home from domestic stations and i'm thinking of the the networks in the united states and cable television so i mean people looking for a different angle and there's many reasons for that foreign wars for example how different conflicts are reported upon i can we could look at the gaza. war. rushes com rush is a reaction to george's invasion of south a city i mean if they weren't these other alternatives out there then an american audience would have got a very very rigid one sided view of events. well i think that's a fair point i think it's very important that american journalists cover the world for americans and i think that's something that we've become concerned about. the window but in fact the american public's view of the world isn't rich by having news come from other countries the whole point of four news after all is to accentuate the foreign part to tell us things we don't know and to give us person perspectives we don't know so well i don't think we should forget about having traditional journalists report the world for us i think having these new

even 3,200 existing units are kept as they are now and 5,679 new units are built, this alternative is unacceptable to me for the same reasons. according to phase one of this project, the buildings will be built from 2010 to 2015 around building number 40 where i live. please ask yourself how would you like to live in a massive construction and demolition site for the next 20 to 30 years? would you expose your own families to asbestos and other cancer-causing substances produced by air pollution and excessive construction noise. the san francisco planning department, why do they want to destroy the building avenue and bringing a train inside the complex that will cause so much distraction, noise and pollution in our beautiful avenues and street of parkmerced. 8, 900 units in a place where there were 3,221 units before, i think it's not possible. there is only so much density that can be placed in a predetermined space. try to pour two gallons of water in a one gallon container. thank you very much. president miguel: thank you. >> yes, i'm a resident of parkmerced since 1959. parkmerced

currently proposed is a 2- bedroom unit. this is the only unit that we will be able to afford. this would not be a good option for us. we would like to get married and have a family. >> speakers in favor. >> this is the first time that we have seen the project sponsors daughter. if she needed to raise a family, she could live in one of the other two units. it is not like she has to be on the top floor. the other thing is that when we're talking about the drawings, had as we were listening to this, this is the same person who is trying this project. thank you. >> project sponsor, you have two minutes. >> my daughter cannot afford to have her and her fiance living in a three-bedroom, two-floor. this is two bedrooms. this is 75% the size of the others. she is largely funding a large part of the project. she could not afford to occupy one of those other two units. you cannot see hardly at all the existence of the top floor. this is above the two neighboring properties. and you take it from the floor of the grosz, when you take it from the sidewalk, this is 30 feet. this shows you h

united in six months on a ranch and more than more than that and. it killed ninety six people on board including the made that us president. also this week marks nine days since u.s. troops entered the got to start in the so-called war against iraq but some say some merican soldiers about commuting the plains of bonnets as well as a town about. once mission made possible they modernized digital so you spacecraft carrying a new russian american crew successfully dealt with the international space station . the world learned from latin america both in terms of its recent study is that success is that's the question. asks his guest today the count's and thrust of passionate debate up next on cross talk only see. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice ses to face with the news makers. and you can. follow and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle going its own way in a relatively short amount of time latin america has transformed itself both politically and economically greater popular participation and pragmatic

the united states in favor of reconciliation in afghanistan it's not. not now elements of the taliban but the know now but the taliban in order to reconcile unacceptable terms they need to be under constant military pressure you're saying they have to so they have to surrender is that they have to surrender and paul they have to surrender when they have the upper hand right now why would they even do that. they don't you know. there's an ongoing fight and you don't know who to surrender but they do they do have to accept certain terms and those terms include renunciation of violence acceptance of the surrenders and always aware of their target. which is rather ok so go ahead this is the problem the idea that we're going to get the taliban which is by far a politically stronger than the afghan government to say that it's going to agree to join or you know to serve that the government and its present constitution is absurd because it's never going to happen and u.s. officials know that very well i just did a story last week quoting somebody who within the

i have legalized dozens of dwelling units, illegal units, for people in san francisco. in the last 10 years, there has been a sea change within the bureaucracy, the building and planning departments, where the attitude has been very proactive in trying to help property owners bring things up to code and to save these old, illegal units, rather than force them to be abandoned. the attitude of the city has really changed a lot and people are more likely to get help from their building inspector rather than enforcement. >> what i had hoped we could do is look at this little hand out for further discussion. starting on page one, it is from a website, home remodeling magazine, there is a long list of things supposedly san francisco-based, adjusted for local conditions, and how much of the cost you can expect to recoup for the work you're doing in the building. if you're doing work because you want to live there and you want to appreciate the improvement, that is different. if you're doing work with a clear eye to how much you can get back, i am shocked to see under the colum

states from within it is latinos in the united states you know marching in two thousand and six. going out to vote in two thousand and eight and now reacting again to the sort of these scores that he's got to exercising some of the fringes of the republican party. you know setting a new notes in a new tone and a new destiny for the united states and these transformation mirrors really on a has said correctly the transformation that we have seen in the south grassroots movements taking the lead governments becoming real regard to the rather than rather the vanguard governments and checking very closely the sorts of policies coming out of the i.m.f. and the world bank that wrecked havoc in latin america during the eighty's and ninety's these also combined with a more pragmatic or i say more intelligent approach to global economics and global politics is the secret for looking american rice ok i'd like to ask everyone here and ask are you preempted me a little bit and let me have a chance or not all right i mean you guys can go go ahead go ahead if you want to i mean why because we

>> well, the united states came to afghanistan after september 11th in order to make the united states more secure from terrori terrorism. that, they wanted to do by making afghanistan and this region more secure. as i mentioned in my opening remarks, part of that has been achieved. the united states and actually all of us around the world must find ourselves more secure from the threats of terrorism and we should do the right thing in order to get that. and in our opinion, the right thing is to be focused strategically on the financial resources to terrorism, on the sanctuaries to terrorism, on the availability of guidance to them and training to them. if we do that correctly and together, all of us, we will surely succeed sooner. >> larry: was it a good idea, mr. president, for the united states, the surge, the adding of 30,000 troops? was that a good idea? >> the united states, towards the end of 2007 and '08, felt that what the afghans were asking for a long time in 2002 and 2003 was adequate resources in both men and material to fight terrorism and to rebuild afghanistan. that was

that is kind of the united states. we have got a really good offensive capability in cyberspace, but we do not have the ability to defend this country. it is the policy of this government that the new cyber command is essentially military. my friends and the department of homeland security proposed to defend the rest of the government -- my friends in the department of homeland security are supposed to defend the rest of the government. somehow, they are supposed to provide for the rest of us. essentially, the electric power grid, railroads, banks, pipelines -- all of the things that could be attacked in war are on their own. the government's policy, when you boil it down, says you guys should really defend yourselves. it is a bit like the 1960's. we said to the president of u.s. steel, the russians have a lot of bombers. in the case of war, they might comment on your steel plant. you ought to go out and buy some fighter planes. some air defense missiles to protect yourself. that is what you're saying. that is our poli

but there are a couple of things that the division of dwelling units. i think we talked about that and what happened was on market octavia, there was a hybrid that applies from the safeway west, i guess, and where they don't have the open ability to create unlimited number of units within the framework. in other words, they need to abide more by the particular zoning and that being rh-2 or rh-3 or whatever it is. am i correct about that? >> yes. commissioner antonini: that is what we're saying is going to be in here is the consensus has been we don't want that unlimited -- it's not unlimited, but more or much less restrictive ability to chop into smaller and smaller units in the area. >> the larger market octavia plan has a two bedroom requirement and certain areas that are closer to the block that we're talking about with this legislation that impose additional controls on dwelling units and in addition to what you discussed also, this area adjacent to the block is a rear yard requirement that starts at the first floor of the dwelling unit. first floor