obama has called the comments made by mahmoud ahmadinejad about the september 11th attacks as it is usable. later, the iranian leader said that the american government might have been involved in the attack. president obama says that he believes that mr. -- that the iranian president's opinions are inconsistent with that of the american people. >> this was offensive, hateful, and for him to make the statement here in manhattan just a little north of ground zero where families lost their loved ones, people of all races and ethnicities who see this as a seminal tragedy of this generation, for him to make a statement like that was inexcusable. this stands in contrast with the response of the iranian people went 911 happened. there were candlelight vigils and a shared sense of humanity and sympathy that was expressed within iran. this shows once again the difference between how the iranian leadership and this regime operates and how i think the vast majority of the iranian people who are respectful and thoughtful think about these issues. >> in your first video message, he spoke to the people

it's really usable artwork. in this case, it means selecting text with the help of experts by writers from the bay area or those who write about the bay area, and also incorporating a number of languages. spanish, chinese, english, so that people who read the work will also have some kind of association and ownership of it. one of jenny's earliest projects was this in 1982 in new york city's times square. tto address people where they would be anyway. this is one of her texts "protect me from what i want." she would use existing signs early in her career. this was at the old candlestick park to get people where they would be congregating and gathering with her own writings. while she used the l.e.d. medium as something that she could use readily, that she could smuggle her ideas into, she later developed ways of using l.e.d.'s really as an architectural and sculptural moment. this is at the guggenheim where she had a retrospective in 1989. she was able to develop this even further when the guggenheim commissione

this will cause 60,000 to be injured in the region and the majority of our hospital beds will not be usable. this is a lesson that we learned in 1941. we pass legislation and we have been building better buildings ever since in 1994. these projects have been working towards a goal for a long time. this is a very difficult project. you can expect another 10-15 years. >> i am representing the san francisco naacp. i want you to address this. we support this project. this is not talking about the adequacy of the report or whether you agree with the development or not. many dispossess committees can come out of those training programs and work at these hospitals when they are open. we are concerned about what is happening in our communities. this is an opportunity to do some brilliant things. i think this will change the neighborhood for a good thing. you give up things on the city. hospitals are noisy but they are close to you. you can get back and forth relatively simple. when you live around california and van ness, this is in the city and you have to take the good and bad. thank you for your

the comment on his face is 452 square feet and the existing usable open space is only 220 square feet. the code requires a minimum of one of street parking space per dwelling unit and we have none. there are also a key violations of the planning code. many have a ceiling fight of greater than 7 feet. -- a ceiling height of greater than 7 feet. such a structure would never be allowed today. the removal is supported by the neighborhood association and by our adjacent members. we would like a garden and we hope you would approve this request. >> thank you. is any public comment on this item? public comment is closed. commissioner antonini. >> i think that we will move to not accept dr and the project will be brought into closer conformity which is two units. the edition is not historic and it is probably not hard illegal because you have a ceiling heights being being low. i would move that we do not take this and approve the project. >> seconded. >> on the motion to not take discretionary review and approve the project as proposed. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> this brings you two c

usable public open spaces, making it a net addition of 5679 individual dwelling units. plus significant neighborhood serving amenities. interestingly, in doing this we were able to achieve a 60% reduction for home using energy, potable water, and production of wastewater. likewise the use of the automobile based on current technology. we are producing more rental units in the project for a current total of 89 when complete. importantly, we will be introducing these neighborhood amenities, which will allow us to begin to use pedestrian movement and reduce reliance upon the automobile. here is a plan to view of the project, the boulevard being on the left, with 19th avenue above. the plan is to introduce a retail corridor, day care center, a community center, and so forth, with a majority of the neighbors in a 400 block. with this will be a series of small core elements that will contain business centers for work at home, car sharing and bicycle available to residents for weekly use. a huge part of this is the introduction of green space systems that will link the communi

seating blocks and benches and planters and trees in that and creating a space that's intimate and usable by the community of coffee drinkers but the residents and the business owners and anybody else who happens to wander through hayes valley and feels there and discovers this special space that's accessible to all. the meaning with community members was you know it's one thing i never liked to do. you meet with people and faced with a hundred objections or a hundred different ways of doing something we approached a collaborative idea. we do have a preconceived notion of the desired outcome but not on how to get there. the result was just an input of good ideas from unexpected places. people that you know are not necessarily professionals or used to thinking about urban spaces in these terms. i think that was one of the keys was going into it not knowing. as a professional i didn't know how to do something like this. i had never done one before and i think that was an enabler. relying on the network of people at stages through the permitting process. and you know which is where we are no

the waiting area at the front of the building has the benefit of being usable for special events that could open onto the plaza. one goes up into the core to the access way for the gangplanks and directly over to the ships. it should be noted there is also provisions in the site planning for the semis that arrive in advance of the passengers. they have a route over here where they are screened and stored in a way that does not conflict with the other activities in the gta and also avoids any backup on the embarcadero from that process occurring. debark -- what happens is people arrive by ship and walk on the top. they go through customs and border patrol, like the experience one has at the airport. you go to clarence. the collector baggage. if you are okay, you can walk out. that occurs on this area of the building. you come up to the gta and there are povs and taxis waiting that can be staged offsite so you can always have taxis waiting in this area as well. the idea of this building, because we are trying to work with the existing shell, which does not have a very good energy seal,

you will see the usable items for sale. to grow and smoke pot.ut always in the back across from another r. bruce for and against prop. 19. the ballot measure to legalize for dree shall use of marijuana. supporters of prop. 19, say marijuana is not the so- called gateway drug, which will entice tuesday's other narcotics considered more dangerous. >> right now doesn't pass, we will maintain the status quo. kids have easy access to a now they still well afterwards we will not be able to change that, if this passes it, it will give us the ability to regulate in to get out of their hand. and selling it in the open legal market in lices businesses. >> flight to ship copper is a medicinal marijuana user, is a gauge prop 19. she feels that the measure passes there will be too much government regulation. >> prop. 19, is going to not only take away the existing rights of medical patients like me to grow marijuana for solves, as much as we need to so we could make her own medication which is exactly what i have been doing. >> ken and it's made when manager

bowling river in the cascade mountains east of the city and two reservoirs and ten million gallons of usable storage. we have a secondary ground storing source on the south side of the colombia river and we have capacity to serve our base needs just by ground water some you can count portland among those that believe climate change is real and have been following it for over two decades. the ctional is a national leader. i know i need to tread carefully in san francisco talking about treading in this area but most of you are probably familiar with the list i have up here on this slide. in terms of predicted impacts for continued global warming on western water utilities perhaps it is most fundamental. what we're really struggling with is the notion we may faced increase demands in the summer with reduced supplies. so, in terms of climate change impacts portland is most concerned about. here are five according to me and my staff. i'm sure there's more and thinking on this i tried focus on things we're dealing with now. as i mentioned the higher summertime demand because of higher temperatures

it is definitely very much usable. it is all there to service the industrial businesses during the day. that's absolutely available. on weeknights and on weekends. as far as the noise, we have been very conscientious about that. we hired an acoustic consultant. we have taken all of his recommendations. we have no reason to believe he doesn't know what he's doing. he comes highly recommended. the planning department also seems to think so. we are absolutely going to -- going to make adjustment that is will be needed. we're respectful of our neighbor the. we made every effort to get look. even the requester i think would agree that is the case. we'll do everything not to impinge on them. thank you. >> thank you. i'm -- i'm personally very familiar with this neighborhood. i live on prattal hill. i -- i pass by that building constantly both on foot and in car. i patronize, my wife and i a number of the establishments that have come in along third street and that area in recent years, including -- including the restaurant o

we design and establish criteria for furnishings that are durable, made tenable, comfortable, and usable. and again, the idea of connections. how do we connect open spaces together down to the waterfront? a good example of this is in vancouver where they have lives that come down to the waterfront so that it is not a linear system that if you drop from at&t park to herons head park, you just have to jog back, but you might be able to look into the neighborhood and provide down to the water and back up into the neighborhood, so it is something we're looking at as part of the connector street along the blue green way. since the community workshop and at the community workshop, we received a number of commons. most of them work around these six areas regarding have attacked. there were comments that we need to identify appropriate places to allow for future habitat and make sure that they are compatible with the types of programming and news is we are talking about for some of the open spaces. there were also comments regarding environmental issues, indicating that we need to identify more

this will also be a pilot in terms of ease of use by customers, usability, simplicity, and whether it will stand up to an urban environment. >> aside from the meter head itself that we're piloting to see how durable it is and whether or not it is easy to read, with also built-in security measures -- we have also built-in security measures into the infrastructure itself. all of these parking meters have an hour thing that rotates. this is to prevent people from putting a pipe cover on it -- pipe cutter on it to remove the head. [unintelligible] >> how you assure people that put in a credit card in [unintelligible] >> part of the specification was the highest level of security or credit card processing. none of the data is stored on the meter or by the mta. it is handled by the meter company and processed as quickly as possible. there's very little risk of using credit cards at the meters. >> [unintelligible] concerned about the possibility of [inaudible] [traffic] >> one of the great things about the meters is that it makes it so easy to pay. people should get a lot fewer parking ticke

the ceqa significance criteria asks if a project with affect usability of publicly accessible open space or outdoor recreational facilities or other public uses. as you see in the comments and responses document, we do respond to concerns related to shadow, sheeting on publicly accessible, privately owned open spaces, and in that context, the eir does not consider shadow impacts. similarly for when they eir finds some -- when the eir -- eir finds this to be less than significant. eir identifies a number of significant and unavoidable impact related to traffic congestion at the intersection of harrison and second street, as well as cumulative impacts at the intersection of howard and third, howard and montgomery, harrison and second street. the project would make a considerable contribution to future traffic volumes that could result in significant delays at these intersections to determine that no feasible measures are available to reduce these effects. commissioners, the draft certification motion is included in your packet. staff recommends certification of this eir. this concludes my

we design and establish criteria for furnishings that are durable, made tenable, comfortable, and usable. and again, the idea of connections. how do we connect open spaces together down to the waterfront? a good example of this is in vancouver where they have lives that come down to the waterfront so that it is not a linear system that if you drop from at&t park to herons head park, you just have to jog back, but you might be able

that were moved more closer to the curb it would make that stretch of sidewalk more accessible and usable to everybody. >> but one of our big issues today, one of our big topics, is what is easily or readily available? something as simple as moving the sign, making sure it isn't sticking out where everybody is walking. >> lawrence, what is going to trigger the need to upgrade to this readily achievable standard? is it an inspection, is it a change in code, when do we need to do it? . >> excellent question. what triggers meeting the readily achievable standard. >> readily achievable is an ada standard and it's based upon the business. essentially what you can say it's what's doable based upon the business' finances and also what's cheap and easy to do. if you are a mom and pop grocery store and you have 3 steps into the business, you probably don't have to build a ramp. i say probably because there may be other circumstances. if you are ibm, what's not readily achievable to ibm to do? build a ramp into an office building. >> but the question is what triggers -- no construction triggers it.