basically in a four unit building you can expand two of the units but not the other two. this would allow you to expand the legal nonconforming units provided that you don't expand the building's envelope. unless there had been a no fault eviction in that building. does that help? >> yes. my other question is you said merger in two units. what exactly -- >> so, that would occur -- say you're dealing with the same four-unit building and an owner comes in and has purchased two of the units and decides to combine the two units into a larger space. perhaps -- in that case either the unit would need to be empty to do that or t

they bought a 3-unit building and they want to turn it into a one 1 unit with a tiny unit. but butt that's my struggle personally on this based upon our policies and trying to preserve housing stock and the fact that there are so many affordable units in the market. i feel it's something who bought the building, if it was once a single family home and maybe we can wait 5 years and do the same. that's the challenge i have with it. not specifically per say what the outcome is in terms of the size. we've seen cases where you make it 3,000 square foot unit and give us a studio of 500 square feet. that's the struggle. >> i just wanted to respond to a couple of your comments. the studio unit that is in the front of the second floor that is being maintained went from gross square footage loss to 44 square feet. but it gained functionality. it's definitely small. it's 300 square feet. it's a studio and it has access to the foyer and elevator and garage, parking and storage. we are in essence improving that studio unit. i want to make sure it wasn't looked at just sliding this. unfo

unit. this tramths to one hundred and 10 percent as a 4 percent household earning. we do anticipate that any additional moderate rate units will be built for affordable housing. the full built out in the south the oc i will have one hundred and 8 additional units. based on the affordability of the financing forces we anticipate all the 11 hundred units to be low and there's no other tax credit that target the moderate rate. there's an inclusionary requirement that requires an inclusionary unit to target the low income. so block 4 p is the only additional income unit. so the xifs requirement is 80 unit with 49 market rate for sale for a total of 4 hundred and 29. this is a brief history of the site. it's on had one serious proposal since 1998. that developer for grassroots we approved the systematic design but the developer pulled out because they couldn't get the financing. personally, i joined the mission bay in 2007 and i got two or three calls from other developers and none of them have

those are not in law units. typically ass those are non-conforming unit that are built before our laws that were built in the city and the age of the opt are prominently rent control units. there are nearly 52 thousands of those units e.r. 52 thousand of the cities stock. we have a map i have it here that shouz shows the units are they're all in the core of the city but throughout san francisco. again 14 percent of overall housing stock a 3 unit building in an rh unit the owners because designate two he thought units at the conforming and one as non-conforming and the building owners are still allowed to pick the non conforming unit their usual the most undesirable ones in the believe. they have the urban affordable housing and the planning code doesn't allow those unless the work will eliminate the housing unit. this ordinance will allow four africans to those non-conforming it is to preserve those for rent controlled housing. currently because the aefls are prohibited but the removal is loud the current code c

we did explore keeping the rear unit as the maintained unit and we did explore trying to maintain a unit on the ground floor as you suggested because of the nature of the beast which is a couple trying to build their home for the long-term. there was a few non-negotiable items from the husband's perspective one of which was a library that opened up that was way from everybody else in the family. that's not for you to care about, but we did explore that. it didn't make sense for this project. >> maybe i can ask some questions. do you have any comparison of similar cases. every single family house is very different. but if you can just give us some perspective on whenever this sits on other mandatory dr cases you have seen. >> i will defer this to washington. >> we evaluate this case based on the criteria. essentially they that had majority of those particular findings to support. as far as trying to job my memory specifically on projects where we have had residential alterations that resulted in creation of a unit that was substantially smaller than what may have been the original configu

the rentals rates for the units for the moderate level units. i wrote them down fast but i understand $2,400 >> i'm sorry could you repeat numbers please. so based on 2013 numbers the affordable would range from 24 hundred to 3 thousand from a one to 3 bedroom and for the market rate for the other units is 3 thousand to 4 thousand 2 hundred. >> and the rate you get to you work backwards and you look at thirty percent of that gross income and that gets you to how much the monthly rent b will be it's in the 24 hundred flat they'll be upgrading it periodically. >> yes. that's correct and those are the assumptions that are tied to - >> sorry want to clarify those are for one using a family of 4 and they change smaller will households have smaller income but. >> the table goes from one hundred 10 down. so they circulate based on that you'll have 4 people in the - >> it make sense from a rationale standpoint. >> that's why people ask that. >> yes commissioner mondejar. >> i think ms. reilly can you address the decision your rem this can you explain or

the landlord hats evicted us to get out it's going from 4 unit to 2 unit. it's like the ellis act was to allow the owners to evict and build something new. the seniors in order to get huge profits it's a dislocation of longer san franciscans to leave the area and drive us into homelessness. those tenants are being replaced by new conforms >> thank you, very much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you supervisor avalos for our proposal. >> tom director of loveable city. thank you supervisor avalos. we have a huge for a moment crisis and when you're in a hole we need to stop digging and this was mentioned before really catch the planning code criteria policies up with the housing elements criteria policies that favors keeping housing and those dpaelt towards housing issues. on the questions of group housing we brought together a few different definitions of demolition. the article 7 and 8 that was covered in mixed youth districts they include the demolitions and article 317 that covers the other districts of city doesn't include groip group housing. we want to

tendencies in the united states and this i think is a far greater danger going forward that in the united states being overcommitted to small countries ok john if i go back to you in washington israel has been brought up and so has been iran i mean it's real in saudi arabia that are blocking a potential breakthrough in diplomacy between washington and tehran i mean these alliances are stopping a very i mean you know this is a great debate about iran but this is an opportunity in front of us should alliances be that barrier shouldn't be resolving regional issues. look that's that's exactly right the united states has some gold and to its suppose it allies in saudi arabia and israel that you know we have this possibility to have an actual detente with iran and it's clearly within our interests because the other alternative is that isolation and tensions continue down the line and we have supposed allies like israel advocating war just as they did in iraq and you know that that's that was a real possibility if we didn't have some willingness on the part of the leadership in washington and te

he is russia's ambassador to the united nations. russia's playing an increasingly prominent role on the world stage, along with the united states, it brokered the ongoing geneva 2 conference which aims to tend syrian civil war. the country's also a key player in nuclear negotiations with iran. closer to home, president vladimir putin recently bailed out ukraine's embattled government, a move seen as an attempt to increase moscow's influence. the eyes of the world are on russia as it prepares to host the winter olympics in sochi next month. as concerns mount over terror threats, president obama has offered the kremlin full security assistance. for those reasons, i'm pleased to have vitaly churkin back at this table. welcome. >> thank you very much. good to be back. >> rose: let's start first at the g-2 conference. it seems to be a dispute among some people over the objective of the conference. and certainly what it means for president bashar al-assad. where is russia on this question? >> well, the objective of the skfrns to end the c

the white house i mean and we have to look at what's going on in iraq now what obligation does the united states have to reintroduce itself in a greater military way not with troops not boots on the ground but what obligation does the united states have to save the molecule government well the answer is none and not that anything could actually help the united states state spent nine years applying hellfire missiles and drones and automation and attacks of all sorts of kinds and none of that worked it is the definition of of mental illness to keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results introducing weapons into iraq at this time from the united states will likely have as much success this time as it did the last time ok richard if i can go to you in new york i mean this is kind of deja vu all over again do you do the same thing again we try these united states and its western allies try to stabilize a regime that it actually installed in the first place. it was elected. it has behaved incompetently in terms of reaching out as a majority shia government to these

no more than 10 units. it's conceive that believe they could still provide 12 units within the building, that said we have not seen plans and reviewed plans. they have to meet requirements. given the configurations, that is a corner lot that they have three possible option to provide exposure. but certainly they would be smaller units. we would need to review it. it seems that it could be possible for the same number of units in a smaller building. >> the caveat in the eastern neighborhoods require larger units. they have to be larger units. >> that would be part of your analysis? >> yes. if they came with the proposal for 12 units and 4 stories. >> the neighborhood design? okay. >> we would have to review it. >> okay. thank you. >> you want to make a motion? >> yeah, i would move to continue to a new briefing particular to the government code section. i don't know how many pages you want to limit it to. >> 5 pages? is that more than enough? what would you suggest? i think that i would like to, do you think

you know essentially be the loss of any deterrent for the united states in your book you mentioned. you know that the lack of that caution that we have seen in some of the misadventures that your country has been engaged into over the past. several decades and i think one common thread that we can see in your book is that regardless of how valid the policy objective may be it seems that it often lacks a thoughts through reality based implementation strategy you know the united united states proclaim some certain goal but it never follows through and never a brings it to any sort of completion and you give the example of the first iraqi war which you believe was a tactical success but a foreign policy failure simply because it was sort of abandoned pathway and i think we can see the examples of that in many other american adventurist so if you don't mind me comparing the united states of finding a matter for four b. years foreign policy with comparative person with a the age the who is eager to. many things but than sort of abandons them halfway because he lacks i don't know discipli

tonight we talk about china and and the united states with cui tiankai, china's ambassador to the united states. >> i hope the united states will have a better understanding of china's history, culture, china's past, china's present, and maybe china's future. and i do hope that the u.s. will not be so much worried about possible challenge or threat from china. we have no intention to assert everybody. the so-called rise of china is rise from our own past. it's not to prevail over anybody else. certainly not the united states. >> rose: we conclude this evening with kate tempest. he is the a brilliant and eloquent poet and former rap artist. >> i came from a school of rap and of rhyming and telling poems where you just knew it. you put it -- you commit it to memory so that you can go anywhere and be doing it with people and so the idea of reading something from a page, it putsing? between me and you. and if i want to tell you a poem i want it to be almost occurring spontaneously. and if you commit it to memory so well that you don't even have to reach for the words it's just -- you can jus

end of the deadline set by the united states has lost. the visiting officials gave no indication of how much longer the government might tweak. i'm still sort of seeing releasing the business would try to find his name the talks and talks. gates said he was optimistic that it would soon be reached on the long delayed by lax security agreement. off to the meetup site i'm convinced. its result of our long meeting with karzai we have narrowed those differences. and i believe that we can look forward to designing the city and in the implementation of that sooner rather than later the state's only recently songs. isn't it wrong so often did to become citizens of dancing with the government and non stop which is fighting. i didn't want to sit and see the united states will assist in funding over the facility. the goals of the individual to consider that they do this. he is. it says that this is said to be the response of the full moon day of getting fifty seven of taunts and sixty us pull its troops. billions of dollars in aid. we also teach on

possible to avoid criticism while applying critical thinking to american role in foreign affairs the united states has a democracy and one of the responsibilities of citizens as i see it is to speak out and try to influence policy and that's particular the case when the policies that are being followed are either unrealistic or counterproductive. and in the middle east in particular u.s. policy has been pretty consistently counterproductive in recent years so i don't see a contradiction at all between my service for the u.s. government. own view of myself as an american patriot and criticism of my government's policies now many of the policies that bureau i analyzed in your book america's misadventures in the middle east tend to have some sort of recurring patterns you know some of the mistakes tend to be made over and over again and yet i think. there is so little self reflection on the part of both the american public and the american decision makers i wonder why is that we are a continental sized country of three hundred and fifteen million people very self-absorbed we are. slated from t

which us officials deemed the vehicle was to inspect the united states. in two thousand eight a us court ordered the dvd release. some of the nice that he did at salvador switzerland island east and often dollars china has previously due monday. we used to be returned to china. the us government says i will not do so because they face prosecution in bed. we could see all the topix speaking most people. china's restive far eastern region of cgi many believe is shaped and restrictions that culture language and religion the government insists it wants them to proceed in this region has been beset by violence. she's ninety one people including seven police have been killed in august can see john. since april according to steve to get the bolts. china has seen some of the violin so it's not just militants had connections to foreign groups including al qaeda. teen who the war. i am. thus the acting united states by its statement on the net that isn't measured by china its nz and while the autonomous region. chinese foreign ministers of the united states the bac

two units available to merge into a larger unit. >> okay. so, to make your legislation, connect the dots for me. how does this save rentals? or affordable -- what are we trying to do here? >> according to this incentive for units to be demolished or merged and converted. one of the ways is if there has been a no-fault eviction or there is a disincentive, you can't evict a tenant because you're not going to be able to actually make a conversion of the building or merge units in the building or demolish the building in the future. so, it could actually work to preserving the tenants and the rental stock in those building. we're also making sure that where a property owner does want to make improvements to nonconforming units, that a building where there are conforming units, that they be able to make those conversions and to actually stabilize that overall property and making sure that we're preserving rental property in those units that are nonconforming to be able to become a higher standard, but also make sure there remains -- maintain thei

unit. so the xifs requirement is 80 unit with 49 market rate for sale for a total of 4 hundred and 29. this is a brief history of the site. it's on had one serious proposal since 1998. that developer for grassroots we approved the systematic design but the developer pulled out because they couldn't get the financing. personally, i joined the mission bay in 2007 and i got two or three calls from other developers and none of them have progressed other than initial conversations. in addition the master developer told us they've been marketing this site with those existing o pa requirements and haven't been to attack the one developer who couldn't make it work, however, they started construction in 2011 and exploring opportunity to amend the o pa to make it feasible. just before i move on there was a systematic design and this design looks like this the integral are having this design. so we will not come back with the design if they change it significantly we'll come back to you for additional

it's something very widely assumed in the united states.i was quite shocked to find that people have this attitude towards the country. it's completely contrary to all of the historical. you don't need to have one language to share a common allegiance or to collaborate. i do predict in the book that hispanics won't maintain their language in the future and i greatly regret that and i think that is a terrible shame because if this were a genuinely binding country it would be twice as a good because [inaudible] you know how this enriches your life and how it doubles your vocabulary and opens up the different possible faults and gives you access and the literatures and it is life. the united states doesn't understand and they think it means teaching -- then you could have a bilingual country and would be culturally so much more exciting to live and generate. i suggest it would generate so much more achievement and look at every other great society and the history it had more than one language. >> host: if that projection is true, one of the th

the inmates are on the move. >> we move inmates out of these units often so we can do unit repairs.ll be relocated to another unit while that is being done. >> put your stuff behind your back and your hands on the wall. >> the inmates carry their possessions inside sheets. before they're allowed off to enter the new unit, officers conduct a shakedown for contraband. >> the more contraband i find, the more i'm going to throw out. >> finally the inmates are taken to a unit, almost identical to the one they left. but one of them has decided his time in the unit is up. >> hey, you, just stand there for me. kyle beauchamp says he is straight but requested to be housed with homosexuals when he was first booked into the jail. older inmates told him with his green hair it would be safer than general population. >> a lot of times some of the convicts will mess with the young ones. you will see how naive they are and tell them stuff like when you talk to the officer make sure you tell them you want this, this, this, messing with them. and they do it. then they realize they got played. >> all

you think people in america realize how much power they have all over all of you know beyond the united states well there's a disconnect in in our thinking on the one hand as you indicate americans have always sought to aspire to a higher standard for ourselves and to try to persuade the world that we we have that aspiration then that in some respects we live up to those those aspirations on the other hand we are very powerful country in the military sphere in particular we have no peer there is no one who can begin to match us and economically until very recently there was no challenger to our ascendancy so we have we have been able. to have an inordinate effect on people abroad without really realizing the way this this looks to the people who are on the receiving end of american power but do you think it's simply because the american people don't care that they don't travel around or while they on all day interested in foreign news and therefore couldn't care alas or is it because of the way some of the american institutions are sat up and i think it's. the case that. you know during

it is zoned r2h meaning it can have two units with two secondary units, two granny units. a month after the new planning code was adopted in 1979, the planning department inspected and found four units. they said okay as long as it is two families we don't care how many units it has. today 34 years later the property is rent controlled and has still the same four affordable units. however, beginning in 2004 the building and planning department decided that i as a new owner and not the original builder who purchased the four unit building had installed a new kitchen. they filed an abatement against the building, billed me for a fine which i paid and then have continued to harass me, telling me i must remove two affordable rent controlled units. i have repeatedly pointed out this is in violation of their own stated principles of not removing affordable housing installed on improved -- on approved permits. they have posted a lien against my property. i cannot sell it or refinance since i could not refinance when the loans were 1 and 2% during the downturn. the harassment has

while that kind of tells you something about america, about the united states today which has a very strong perception that you speak and the country is being transformed by the hispanic demographic. >> host: very much so. obama -- i want to drill down on that point a little bit because obama did win in the last election more than 70% of hispanic votes, but you don't think -- >> guest: there are places like mexico and colorado and florida which are always going to be critical in general elections in the country where he could have on this basis but i think if you break down some in the case of obama's last election he won by such a margin that even the statistic. >> host: you mentioned florida even talking about obama just now. in the first chapter of your book that's where you say it was the first time that anglo american and spanish america fused. what did you mean by that? >> guest: well, we started in places which were very far removed from one another and that's really because the spanish empire pre-empted all parts of the hemisphere that were accessible from the outside and eco

first of all in terms of obligations by by the united states to the iraqi people if we could we should go back to the fifty's and undo the damage that was done to the developing a society then when we manipulated events so that the bath is ended up in power because they were afraid communists of socialist would end up in power so you had with the ba'ath this trend over time still the development of civil society a secular society a material base for you know a decent economy and then the united states decided to involve iraq in its project to undo the iranian revolution and so it had iraq go to war with iran and the iraqi people suffered there again when that was over they weren't satisfied there was a fabrication of babies being murdered in a nursery and a bunch of other things and apparently saddam hussein exerted more influence than washington had ceded to him in you know any kind of a grant occupied kuwait and that became a reason to go to war again then there was the period under clinton with the iraq economy was made to scream in a way that would drown out the screams of chalet u

lot of neo cons crazy for some of the things he said you know he was the head of the of bin laden unit at the cia and he he makes the point that there is no it is making gains worldwide but his question is why on earth is u.s. policy any everywhere in the world it seems designed to to increase. graphs to to expand them you know look in the in egypt u.s. intervention had led to a. weapons flowing everywhere look in libya the us invasion of libya weapons went to syria everywhere from syria to nigeria so if there is this dangerous threatening al qaida why does the u.s. seem to be doing its bidding everywhere in the world you know in tel aviv would you like to respond to that to me because you know if you look at syria i mean obama and his people give still say assad must go i mean the house is on fire but assad must go when you look at the gains that al-qaeda and similar groups of made in syria there are still wanting to see the end of a secular leader in syria. let me stick to my question of what is ok that in syria have two principal groups one of them is in iraq and in the shah and the

for unit 175, the unit was on the market and vacant from april to may, 2013, prior to april 4th, occupants josh green and robert and john rented the unit from july 20, 2011, to march, 2013. for unit 3179, occupant anneal became october. in order for the project to proceed, the project requires planning commission approval under section 1332 and 1331 to allow the condominium conversion. i'm ethiopia answer any questions. >> is there any public comment on this item? >> i'm the attorney representing the owner of this. there are just typographical errors. >> thank you. any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner antonini? >> it appears this doesn't change anything other than the fact that it was type graphically done. the conditions met

if i were to buy a unit, i would want the marsh to be an asset. anyone living in that neighborhood would feel so. therefore item g requiring prospective tenants or owners to be alerted of the existence of the marsh makes sense? adhering to the construction hours and limiting them to classes are not disrupted also makes sense. i hope that you will conform to these agreements, thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i live at 22 south van ness. two 2 blocks from the project. i'm concerned about the housing prices in the area. i was not happy to find they are planning to remove the housing. from on top the 4 units the project already lost from similar neighbors. while these seven lost units won't make a huge difference to the over all supply of housing, you are telling them they need to take off a floor or two to battle of the area. that does make a difference. if you walk down valencia recently the 5 story building that have already been built don't look out of place. similarly i'm glad this project proposes bike parking for the residents. i think it

well, the last time he was here that particular unit was an active gang unit.going to go back to an active unit. >> go ahead and have a seat here on the blue couch. >> but since he's been gone some things have changed. >> housing unit b.a. no longer houses active orejones. but newly arrived arrestees pending assignments to house units. >> he panicked a little because he was afraid. and he admitted to nap. >> because i was so scared i didn't know what's going to happen to me the only thing that came to my mind was kill yourself. i don't have the heart to kill myself, sir. i don't. >> all right. come on. >> before sanchez can be taken off suicide watch he must also convince staff psychiatrist dr. garcia that he's not suicidal. >> have a seat. >> so i got scared. and the only thing that came to my mind is if i tell them that i'm suicidal. >> so basically, you said you were suicidal for safety concerns. >> that's pretty much it. >> okay. you're really not suicidal? >> never came to my mind. never crossed my mind. i don't have the heart to. i have a 2-year-old son.

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collector's edition also includes a segment from oliver stone's showtime series the untold history the united states a film adaptation of the joint book authored by stone and historian her cousin that could take a lot. if the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike. that the torch has been asked to a new generation of americans. but with his murder the torch was passed back to an old generation the generation of johnson nixon ford and reagan leaders who would systematically destroyed the promise of kind of these last year as they returned the country to war and repression. joining me now to discuss j.f.k. and their five year long project oliver stone excellent to have you thank you so much all or i want to start with you it's clear that you're serious that's j.f.k. apart from other presidents what makes you think he would have been different if he led. he was different in those three years he came into office after thirteen years of national security state build up a monstrous build up we had we had thirty thousand nuclear weapons by nineteen sixty mandated by eisenhowe

and the united states whupped them. they are hiding out. would like to point out that in morocco, tunisia, ybor city, there haegypt,you've had seculas with egypt or modest, like alnafta which has won in elections and played politics in the western european way. so i would say much of the muslim world, al qaeda ideology is on the ropes. >> brian i'm wondering as the u.s. pulls out of afghanistan, does that become a new sanctuary for al qaeda? >> it certainly has that potential. but let me go back to the issue of the media. there may be pecular skepticism but al qaeda suspect selling any cars either, despite a communications campaign aimed at radicalizing home grown terrorists, inspiring terrorist attacks in this country, they may have created a virtual army, but thus far it remains virtual. we have no evidence offully deep reservoirs of support -- of any deep reservoirs of support for al qaeda. the campaign has gained absolutely no traction among american muslims. the numbers of individuals who have been arrested for providing material suppo

minimum, those affordable units will not count against the unit density limits for the property. so we will incentivize the creation of more affordable housing, the units will be on-site instead of somewhere else and it will not reduce the number of market rate units that they will be able to produce. so we'll create an incentive without creating a disincentive. it will create more housing over all and will create more affordable units. in addition for completely affordable hundred percent affordable units which are by definition greater than 20 percent, density controls will be removed and affordable housing developers who are affordable housing developing unit can build on their project. colleagues as you know that we all agree on is that we have housing crisis and particularly housing affordability crisis. there are many many ways to approach this. there is no one magic bullet but creating more affordable housing is certainly one of the key things that we need to do to address the crisis and this legislation will help move us in that direction. i also have two in memoriam toda

as well as all of the united states. and when to talk about the consequences should such as denying the humanitarian aid helping provide a welcome bc. in my opinion. we really need to focus on the civilian population the weekend off think about. salt off. in retaliation. tenacious fight to stop painting this unit in aid from being provided the cheese. with two of them can carry and stops mendez had been killed already the ball. what started as just described is precisely why is so urgent to be able to end this conflict. and for countries to come together an irresponsible way. and try to seperate the existing john kerry speaking at the us embassy here in paris following his meeting with russian foreign minister said in the probably talking a bit more about that. manassas the chief foreign editor robert parkinson just a few minutes we're back with the next election after the break dc ten. because you pray to st kitts was in the day. cos breaking news on wednesday. so much. either or situation. stocks. for it good news. sin