, two units, combining units before the building is even occupied. they have blueprints and plans that i have seen that we hope will allow for easy incorporation of the units. where you can easily combine a unit and create a family unit. it's very important to us. what we don't need in rincon hill is more 500, 300-square-foot studio apartments. studio apartments create absentee landlords and a dearth of livable housing in the area. this project sponsor for the first time that we've been working on this plan came before you today and said they are going to work to encourage family and workforce housing, and this is critical in rincon hill. it's critical all over san francisco. now, family and workforce housing in rincon hill is not necessarily the affordability index they may want to see in the mission, but it certainly is family and workforce housing nonetheless. it's needed. we are going to hold the project sponsor's feet to the coal on this one and make sure the sponsor follows through. we're glad to see that the project sponsor is -- president ola

you cannot just remodel one unit and one unit and one unit. you're going to put in new meters. that is what was done. as the attorney for the owner properly pointed out, this tenant has the right to move back in korea all of the other tenants have reached an agreement, and he is going to be an obstructionist, and i do not think is good for the commission to reward an obstructionist. we need to do something. if we're going to move forward, the people that like to you, we need to do something about this. we need to punish it rather than rewarded, and you are going to punish the property owner, and that is not fair. commissioner hwang: excuse me, are you on behalf of any particular entity? >> absolutely not. i am here representing myself. i am speaking on behalf of mr. o'sullivan. i am not associated with him. commissioner hwang: you mentioned raquel fox. >> we have gone to her. when people were being evicted, that is correct. we took up the issue. thank you. note director goldstein: any of the public comment? seeing none, commissioners, the matter is submitted. there are two. com

mooring's unit? inspector duffy: yes, there is nothing to stop them with the nine permits, which does happen. that is entirely up to the permit holder. commissioner hwang: at this time, you have a single permit for the nine units, and you'd be open to a modification of existing permit so as to make them into eight and leave the one alone until this dispute is resolved. inspector duffy: i do not think we would object to it or stop it, no. commissioner hwang: 50. director goldstein: is there any public comment? please step forward. president goh: i do not see anyone else on this item. >> donny hue. first, i want to remain the commission, which needs reminding, that this is a jurisdictional issue, and i am very familiar with the 201 clinic, because we had used the service many times, and he makes much ado that they helped him make up a complaint, and we might point out that in my letter, i point out that there was a sin of omission by the appellant, that had the appellate come to the residential builder

well as we've been talking about libya the united states went to the united nations to take the lead on military intervention in that country and no fly zone but this week the u.n. is become a punching bag of u.s. lawmakers as ambassador to the u.n. susan rice has been on the hill defending the organization against budget cuts hearing today on reforming the when quickly pitted believers against nonbelievers take a listen to the u.n. we all agree it's far from perfect but it delivers real results for every american by advancing u.s. security through genuine burden sharing we should pay for u.n. programs and activities that advance our interests and our values if other countries want different things to be funded they can pay for it. for more now i'm joined by matthew lee journalist for any intercity press dot com he really has the pulse of the united nations here and there i think you might live there actually may have you thank you for joining us now and that's actually as you just heard that hearing today headed right against the lawmakers who both kind of agreed that the united nat

hundred years the cuban say get out the united states say the state says to cuba go to hell the united states has placed the embargo on cuba i mean what could cuba do to the united states other than surrender in other words that's i think what the u.s. government is demanding well if you will this i'm going to go in the united states process of democratization it could recognize that the opposition on that island is not that well wishers i mean it mercenaries in the pay of the united states it can begin to open up an excuse me i think of truth on that island ok i have to jump in here we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on cuban state with our team. download the official tea allocation chobani phone the i pod touch from the saps to . life on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s mine comes and says feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the com. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the future covered. wealthy british scientists. are not. the market. to. find out what's really happening to th

it is overall a maximum of one space per unit. each individual development may not follow the exact ratio. we will make sure that overall the ratio does not exceed one to one. as you pointed out, 50% of the units are on the east side. it would not be possible to build a 50% of the parking on the east side. just in terms of how those parking ratios relate to other areas, if the commission is interested in this -- we sort of feel that it falls on the spectrum of where we have been adopting various plan areas of the last several years. looked at it in comparison to the ocean avenue commercial transit district adopted as part of the balboa park station plan. the residential ratios are the same. the commercial ratios are slightly more aggressive. that are more transit-oriented than the hunters point area. the ratio falls within the spectrum. in terms of how the density compares with other neighborhoods in the city, the proposed density is about 59 units per acre. it falls within that middle tier of san francisco neighborhoods. it is ha

policy toward iran is short sided it's going to fire back on the united states and it's going to hurt the american interest in the region because basically it's going to radicalize the pro-democracy movement in the country because the people in bahrain think there is a green light from the united states to saudi arabia and the government of bahrain to crack down on peaceful protesters you know you cannot support peaceful protesters in libya or egypt or any other places and then just stand a blind blind eye toward the legitimate grievances and i think is going to basically turn the people away from the legitimate causes and maybe radicalize them and that will hurt the american interest and by having you know it's even if i go back here i think it's really interesting we look at the arab awakening starting in tunisia going all the way to today. my read of it is you know i don't see a fundamental american islam element in it at all you see people striving for the right things i think we were on this program would agree for agree to but the more the different reactions are so stark don't

that is up to a minimum of 500 units and a maximum of 2500 units. so put it another way, if the fewest is 3, and the most is, i think, about 12, so the project will be broken up into larger small pieces, and each development phase approval has to specify specific development, block by block, and then, finally, and most importantly, the delivery of the public benefits must conform to the development phase in plan, which is in the agreement, and there are triggers for thresholds. that is specific intersections, public improvements. they must be implemented. no further permits can be initiated until the specific thrust roles are met. the specific -- >> -- no further permits can be initiated until the thresholds are met. there is a very detailed urban design criteria as set forth in the design standards document. that summarizes phasing. we're now going to talk about the replacement unit program. when control is prohibited in new housing. specifically, units occupied after 1985. it is important to note though that this law has an expressed exception. th

the united states and particularly its intelligence services worry about an attack on the united states it is not nuclear weapons chemicals it is not biological but it is technological. a surprise attack against its satellites is a catastrophic. scenario studied by the u.s. armed forces by knocking out fifty u.s. military satellites the chinese could literally cripple the u.s. military. they could prevent the military from being able to communicate with its forces they could blind the u.s. intelligence community which uses electro optics satellites turman military force movements around the world and they could also cripple the guidance systems that are used on precision guided munitions. in many sense or could be a kind of an electronic pearl harbor. without space the u.s. would be unable to conduct any type of military operation in an effective way. the civilian space industry generates more than two hundred fifty billion dollars every year the destruction of even a single orbiting satellite could put at risk the economy daily lives and well being of millions of citizens. if you look

and if it fails, and people of already basically moved in to the units, had units demolished, and the that the development agreement is not good as far as this particular provision, those people are going to be s.o.l, and that is unfortunate. in fact, it would be more than an unfortunate. it would be tragic. to approve the developing agreement before you let them go ahead, with conditional approval, singing we need to go to the court and get the relief as to provision is valid or not, because there are hundreds of people's lives that depend on whether this is going to work, and do not want to love that for about six years down the road. we really need to find that it -- at the start, so that is my suggestion, that you agree, maybe find a test tenant who is willing to serve as a plaintiff and have it litigated and determined before this project. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. >> thousands of tenants have apartments that will be destroyed. i want to point out that the continued use of the phrase bourbon in fill is really a hero aeneas and not supported. as was pointed out in the

family units. supervisor weiner: i have asked to this privately. it is now on my time. >> so i can breathe now, thank you. supervisor weiner: i still think this is a really important point and issue, and i would like to hear perspective on that. i was not on the board when trinity was negotiated. i do not remember whether tenants groups formally endorsed it. there seemed to be broad consensus by the end on it. there was probably some, but not overwhelming. casta hawkins was around there. another have been some intervening for decisions related to bmr apartments. i still do not totally understand why there was such approaching consensus around trinity, which may not have been as big as parkmerced, but it was a significant number of units, and why there is such behemoths opposition now. i understand the issues around the transformation of this neighborhood. i understand that. but focusing on the casta hawkins issue -- why the 180 degree flip? >> i was not involved in the trinity deal. something was g

yes i do the even though the united states is -- >> the united states -- people are moving into enclaves, john, by race and ethnicity, all over this country. >> irish need not apply was the sign in the window when this date nation was dominantly what, uk settled? >> no, this was dominantly british. >> right. >> but it took generations before the irish were -- >> because of the set into which they came! this setting today is different. >> john, take a look -- >> it's multi-cultural! it's multilingual. >> john, you got a multi- cultural -- >> go ahead. >> i don't think the wave of the future is racial and ethnic enclaves this this country. i think people are and will assimilate but i also think a lot more americans will learn to speak spanish, and i think that's a fine thing. >> again, i get back to the distinction between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. legal immigrants that come from central and south america assimilated. they're grateful to be in the united states. they exercise their right to vote. the illegal immigrants and we've seen this over the past couple months, actuall

i am one of those people that rarely considers two bedroom units to be three units. having raised three kids, having seven grandchildren, i'm stan wood family units are and how they work. i also understand that an automobile not used for a daily commute to go to work, but used to carry your children around town. to carry the equipment that sort of adheres to children nowadays much less when i started my family. but a lot of it is safety authorize or required equipment. even to get two or three kids out to golden gate park. you would not take public transportation. i challenge you to do it. it does not work. the concept of one to one parking, i do not endorse because of daily use, that type of thing necessarily. i do believe it is necessary if we are going to encourage families. i would support a motion on both of these items. originally, i thought we would not need it. if it was not for the three- bedroom units, i would not do it. >> i am in full support of the department's recommendation. we support our own work and our efforts to really understand the city at large

with each other and also unite with others so there has been this various you know from the beginning of this there was distance criticism of skepticism from all these countries were to really they were but they were coordinated ok ok we're going so why did they think that is why they didn't why the u.n. resolution was voted on the way they did because you know what comes up for me is why did you know they're talking about leveraging more of their power in the united nations together yet we saw these countries abstained from voting on the u.n. security resolution on libya south africa voted for it so why do you think that decision with me. well i think it was a mistake but i think that they were to some degree blindsided by the fact that you know they didn't coordinate in advance. they were i think somewhat surprised by the defection of the libyan diplomatic corps and according to their public statements india. you know they are very skeptical but the the libyan diplomatic corps which is the defected from the government and demanded these un resolutions i think the intervention of the

past couple months it is becoming increasingly brutal police state and yet the united states stands by the monarchy the united states has refused to condemn the intervention by the neighboring family dictatorships to suppress what is at least as a legitimate a pro-democracy movement as you've seen in other arab states matthew what you think about that in new york. i think that we've heard the phrase double standard thrown around i think that what we're actually seeing is a relatively consistent set of standards applied to wildly differing circumstances in libya there was an urgent call to action the arab league asked us to intervene. forces were moving towards benghazi and moammar gadhafi promised to raise the city and killed citizens in bahrain there are these abuses in their tragic and they're awful and they're evil there's not something that we can do we can stop a motorcade from going to a particular city because these forces are in the same city as they're both women are much. so there's just not the same urgent call for a response to say what do you think about that i mean there

as alarming as such numbers maybe, the united states homicide rate involving -- it is the united states homicide rate involving handguns that makes the united states stand apart internationally. in 1996, for example, handguns were used to murder 30 people in great britain, 106 in canada, 15 in japan, and 9,390 in the united states. the cdc, center for disease control, reports the rate of firearm deaths, that is the number of americans shot to death per hundred thousand as hovers between 8.8 and 9.2 for white americans in 2000 and 2005, between 7.5 and 7.8 for hispanic or latino americans, and between 18.4 and 19.3 for african-americans. such statistics suggest that there is something unique and frightening happening in the united states. of course, the homicide rate is only one measure of violence. i talk about all kinds of different things in the book. and in part, that's the point. to sort of look at under currents of violence in american life to look at what i call the ethoughts of violence in american culture and american society. and accordingly, i spend time in the book in the fir

hundred years the cuban say get out the united states say states says to cuba go to hell the united states has placed the embargo on cuba i mean what could cuba do to the united states other than surrender in other words that's i think what the u.s. government is demanding well if you will this and i'm going to go in the united states process of democratization it could recognize that the opposition leaders on that island is not which is a minute mercenaries in the pay of the united states it can begin to open up an excuse me i think of truth on that island ok i have to jump in here we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on cuban state with r.t. . we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals with the bar props we do not want anymore a new deal molds. our core system is to say there was a cause more experience and i'm just i'm just appalled that that's allowed to go on americans. are getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like the board to experiment

would of course united states lead. well yet again please you know so you think it's all just a ploy that the united states has kind of slowly step back and aren't already taneja with what we know nato wouldn't be there if united states didn't seem to be . so so then that raises the question why the united states wants him to be there why does the united states waiting for a game it's the united states now i think the end game is to. get rid of that regime for several reasons one breaks up the channels or supply from libya to it gets rid of gadhafi who refused to join the united states african command you know we've set up an african command and two thousand and seven and the purpose i think was to counteract china's economic penetration. with american military organization so look at forty nine of the african countries and the united states african man and he does he refused so that's another reason to want him out and a third reason is he's not a us puppet and so we the americans don't completely control the mediterra

it was 110 units. this is the reasonable, preferred alternative that we've been looking for and i think to change that, to reduce it by one unit would be a tragedy at this point. the people supporting this project have already compromised from 110 units to you -- to 48 units. i would not are you d.c. -- reduce it one more unit. the design will get worse. >> thank you. members of the commission on youth are here to address us at this time. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is ava and i'm the legislative affairs officer for the -- of the san francisco youth commission, a body of 17 12 to 22-year-olds charged by the city charter with advising the mayor and board of supervisors on issues affecting our population. in 2005 after noticing a severe lack of housing for -- affordable housing for transitional age youth we did exactly that. we recommended that the mayor ordain a task force on this legislation. i repeat this history which the members of this commission are likely already aware of with the g

the units are smaller than units that have been up there and that is by conscious design on the part of the developer. that is what people have done to get in trouble on a lot of these units, they were buying gross square footage. what this developer has done and is attempting to do here is moving what would have been expensive individual unit area into common area amenities so you can have what you need but don't need to pay for it inside your unit things like business center where you can leave your unit without having to buy a bedroom that is never utilized. it reduces the unit size, reduces the unit cost and then you can get what you need from the building. this responds to the parking exception to see the ratio. in balancing the parking interest we have clearly acknowledged the city's policy on providing less parking. even though the unit count is going up to 320 and the parking count is for 265. at the same time we are trying to satisfy the customers and the lenders. i must say unfortunately the lenders have as much to say about parking as the consumers do. one of the things th

nations when in reality only when the united states wants to do these types of military actions does it happen the u.s. is the main driving force behind it there is no such thing as nato without the united states so let's be clear here that the u.s. is running this operation i wouldn't say that it's only a political calculations though i do think that some of the key people within the obama administration are what i would call cruise missile liberals people like susan rice people like samantha power who do believe in sort of a humanitarian bombing or humanitarian war which of course should be just a grotesquely oxymoronic phrase but you do have some pretty key neoliberals that have pushed for these kinds of wars before susan rice for instance the u.n. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. before obama was elected was really agitating for similar action to be taken in sudan calling for airstrikes and aiding rebels on the ground so i think this is part of the kind of cruise missile liberal call that permeates some of these more right wing democratic circles that are really driving the agenda

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states to go after peace activists in the mideast i mean the midwest of the united states over twenty peace activists are now resisting the special grand jury that was called to go after them and so we have this problem in the united states to i know the united states also just now criticized for something that a lot of people see as a human rights abuse and that is the case of first class bradley manning. united nations representative on torture i'm talking about one mendez he just issued a reprimand to the united states and this is something that's where this is something that doesn't happen in terms of the u.n. issuing reprimands to the u.s. usually it's to much more authoritarian countries and it says you know he wanted to meet with bradley manning and the u.s. refused to let him so that's that's one case that's going on here but it's interesting when you look at this report this human rights private came out and talk about some of the finding activists like yourselves journalists detained and arrested talk about some of the sort of what you see as hypocrisy in this report that th

so what's the unit count? is it what we're looking at today or, if all after sudden in november of this year someone wans to put down money and says, i want a three-bedroom unit, will it be different? >> technically the unit count would be 320 and the affordability would be 12% of that. i suppose that later on, if the mergers were to happen, we wouldn't necessarily lower the affordability ratio. unless at some point maybe -- >> not the ratios, the actual number. when is that established? >> that would be a certificate of occupancy, unless you put a condition in at some point that the merger would happen afterwards. commissioner miguel: i still want the number as we're looking at it today. >> so then would you prefer to add a condition that the affordability remains relative to the 320 units? -goal correct. that would be my suggestion. president olague: commissioner moore. commissioner moore: in support of what commissioner miguel and commissioner sugaya are saying, i think the way we approve it today is hopefu

years during which they could have brought collude sheikh mohammad and his coconspirators to the united states for trial and they didn't and that's two years before congress put in place a ban on transferring any point on the detainees to the united states for trial but i want to ality disingenuous to turn around and say i'm sorry that it was just congress is right i didn't mean to interrupt you but i just do you think it's really politically possible that it just would have been that simple that the obama administration could have transferred those suspects to the u.s. i mean already we've seen obama not be able to deliver on his campaign pledge to close gitmo and even he said it just proved to be too politically difficult so with the opposition that is beyond just the restrictions from congress we've seen more recently do you think it really could have happened is that a little optimistic to believe that it happened. no i mean and in fact this was a cornerstone of his campaign was closing guantanamo bay and bringing these people to justice and yes closing guantanamo bay is challenging

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

to tech united states to put the united states out of the middle east and the authoritarian regimes of the united states in the middle east would then fall so saudi arabia would fall and the mubarak regime would fall. this was the principal aim of the law non 9/11. the opposite happened. we occupied if and stan and iraq. the strategy did not think carefully in terms of what he was actually trying to achieve. none of the outcomes have anything to do with al qaeda. it was the popular revolution about any cannibal government. the strategy didn't work on 9/11. we made some strategic missteps in response. osama bin laden going back to the question of why is more the answer he thought war was the answer because it was the only way to basically put enough pressure on the united states to change its policies in the muslim world. that turned out to be untrue. when we spoke to him in 1997 he based that analysis on the idea of the united states is week as the former soviet union which he had fought in afghanistan. he based that on our withdrawal from vietnam and beirut in 1983 after the attacks a

is the for support of the united states militarily for for. actions that we're not sure about yet i think if you dare say what i said i'm sorry i have a few more time but it is a very interesting point many thanks my guess a day in washington and austin and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are t. see you next time and remember cross talk rules. and you can. download the official anti up location giovanni phone the i pod touch from the i ching sampson. the jaunty life on the go. video on demand keys a minefield comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the quality dot com. it. could. be. wrong.

the idea we would demolish over 1500 units is appalling. i would hope we have learned a lesson from the fillmore redevelopment. that is the last time we talked about dil neighborhood with promises that it will be ok because of replacement housing and the right to move back. these are parallel. it is the closest thing we have seen since that time. this project, as the city's own consultant said, may not be financially feasible. i would urge you to look at the consulting report that specifically says that. it is part of the reason you see the reaction about the details of what is going to happen when this rent-controlled housing gets challenged. when you take a project that is not financially feasible, the only way to make it financially feasible is to start reneging on various promises. that is what you see on other predatory equity schemes of this type. on the public benefit, i think the public benefits are overstated. the capital improvements and operating and maintenance money is a private benefit. the rent control suppose a benefit -- su

if there are 4000 units in the city, there are a lot of bedbug units. the other point is, the inspection of dph does not have a particular form, nothing standardized. these inspectors, i have seen them raise a mattress cover, look around -- there are no bad books. we will go back in and verify that there are bedbugs. the city is called in again and they say, okay, there is. in the meantime, the tenant has been living there for 30 days without help from the city. the other issue would be -- in 10 years of doing this, i have never had dph, for us, a pest control operator, any information on bedbugs, other than doing generalized city-wide meetings. no training that i know of. i have never gotten any support from dph or dbi. i am not saying that they are bad, but we need procedures in place so that pest control operators know what we need to do when there is an infestation. we cannot just go in and sprayed. tenants need to prep, sometimes they need help. we are trying to have a collaborative so that tenants, property owners, pest control operators, has a mi

the support of the united states militarily for for. actions that we're not sure about yet i think if you dare say what i've done we're going to have to give you more time but it is a very interesting point many thanks my guest today in washington and austin and thanks to our viewers for watching us here arche see you next time and remember cross talk rules.

it acquired those units. i want to emphasize s.f. state has been a good partner. but s.f. state does not need to follow any of our rent ordinances or our local zoning controls. our concern is if over time the growth plan -- additional parcels. in that circumstance, the city would have effectively no say in those parcels and the protection of rent control. the way we have designed the development agreement would actually impose contractual obligations that run with the land in the form of nsr's. that would require replacement units and rent control for a transfer to take place. that would help protect against the further encroachment and loss of property, even if a sale occurred. there are a lot of details were going into, but i think it is really important. the first slide showed said existing conditions and opportunity costs. i think the point to emphasize is the cost of doing nothing is potentially significant. supervisor elsbernd: if i could throw out one other piece -- on the san francisco state parcells,

more housing units will help attract businesses, like twitter. if we get twitter, how many people would like to live in the city? affordable housing, as was mentioned, is very necessary. there are two major academic institutions, including city college of san francisco, within two miles, and next door. there are many living in park merced right now. this will allow students to the close to where they're going to school. it was already mentioned, but we have 20 or 30 years of construction jobs. we have construction jobs. korea architectural jobs. we have the administrative jobs. and to go back to agenda item number two, a large, organic urban area. thank you so much, and i hope you support it. supervisor mar: think you, ma'am. >> good afternoon, and eric brooks, the san francisco green party. even though the rent control issue is huge, and the only way to solve that issue legally is to change state law, that is not the main issue that is the problem with why the green party is opposing this. the main issue is that this is a massive demolition to r

hundred years because i would say get out the united states say states says to cuba go to hell the united states is place the embargo on cuba i mean what could cuba do to the united states other than surrender in other words that's i think what the u.s. government is demanding well if you will this i'm going to go on the united states process of democratization it could recognize that the opposition on that island is not mercenaries in the pay of united states it can begin to open up an excuse me i think of truth on that island ok i have to jump in here we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on cuban state with our team. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the t.v. . they say this is not a problem in the war. which it should say everybody is sure to support the dream speech so they have no idea about the hardships to face. plate one it says it all comes to the same. for any army the life that you say is the most precious thing in the world. uses of self-sacrifice a