commissioner moore? commissioner moore: i wish to explain myself to the other commissioners. i had asked for this item to be pulled partially. we have an outstanding meeting with the city attorney to discuss affordable housing and renter and ownership issues. and since this falls right in the middle of the discussion, i think we would be well advised to hear the position first. and for that reason i asked the item to be pulled. i do also believe that the public is anxiously standing by to see where all of this is going. the numbers we read in the papers are getting increasingly more alarming, that by now about 4% of working-class people have lost their retirement benefits due to the difficulties in the economy. all of that plays into hoey we define afford -- how we define affordability and that's in line with commissioner antonini's concerns about affordability in an ever-vibrant discussion which deals with the reality. so it is for that reason and many others that i believe we're not really doing page street any disfavor by holding it over for a couple of weeks and then maki

commissioner antonini: i have to agree with commissioner moore. on the second part, there was a basis for recommendation. we are actually establishing a separate residence in addition to the care facility that we approved a couple of years ago. the other thing of is that the zoning administrator would perhaps grant variants to the parking and pretty much the district will have the requirement of a parking place with the unit. you can grant a variance, and i do want to create some kind of precedence. i am not quite sure why we would not want parts that would be required by this. >> on the variance issue, i share the skepticism about what is the hardship here exactly. it is a level that they have maxed out the development potential. to me, looking at it was the issue of, if they can add a separate parking space that will reduce the square footage available, they have 12 people that live there. the parking requirement kickstand at 9. if they were to increase the amount of parking the reduce the capability to care for people, there would be parking sp

commissioner moore: i would take the d.r. and ask that we not decide on this building today, that both parties come together in a more discretionary and appropriate response to the architecture and work on a different building solution. i am not prepared to -- commissioner antonini: that might be more properly continuous. commissioner moore: yes, thank you, i'm getting tired. commissioner antonini: i will second your motion for continuance. commissioner moore: yeah, let's continue it and give it some instructions what have we're expecting. two months. 10 weeks, i don't know. >> i second it. july 20. president olague: july 28. it may not come back to us if they're able to resolve it. that's the goal. commissioner sugaya: i think there's a number of different -- no, no, i think there are various opinions about what the neighborhood character is or isn't and i think that there's been some terms used as far as looking at the street as being a mixture of things and diversity's been used. but from my viewpoint, looking at the stree

now, let's talk about howard moore jr. who was there on the left. howard moore jr. was general counsel, a native son of atlanta. he had been inspired to attend law school when thurgood marshall came to atlanta and wowed a crowd. moore said to himself, i can talk like that. and so he could. but, howard moore, despite walden before him, horace ward and other ambitious african-americans, had to go out of state. that was because of the time he was excluded from university of georgia because of his race. he went north to boston university, and when he graduated, he came back to georgia. he really wanted to be a member of the georgia bar and the practice in his home state and city. he joined the bar in 1962, and when he -- when he did he was only the tenth full-time black lawyer practicing, not in atlanta but in the entire state of georgia. which might strike you as pretty incredible. those numbers by the way didn't improve very much until the 1970s. once he joined the bar, he went to work for donald hollowell, another legendary lawyer who was very important to the studen

commissioner moore. commissioner moore: i would like to ask staff to -- the public was saying that they only had two weeks' notice, is that correct? or is that a misstatement? could you please tell? >> commissioner moore, the conditional use requirement is a 10-day notice. commissioner moore: so only two weeks. >> i'm sorry. it's a 20-day notification. and the notice was sent on april 29. commissioner moore: i found a comment from one of the gentlemen very compelling. and he was saying that hearsay and starting the rumor, particularly in the way communication travels these days, is a very dangerous way of starting to cast a shadow. i found the presentation itself, the application, the modest application, the business was his and only his. and based on that, until this other commentary came, i didn't have any problems approving this. and if he couldn't succeed in the larger space, this might give him if he's as qualified as we have to believe he is, to really start something. but i think the pushback base

president olague: commissioner moore. commissioner moore: it is for the same reasons that commissioner sugaya and commissioner miguel summarized, the original permission you have aft of the incident occurred is to rebuild it to the condition in which it was before. beyond that, everybody knows that you go through the process if you want to build an addition or change things about the home including adding windows or changing roof forms. i do find building inspections commission minutes rather revealing because mr. sweeney says that in 2008, quoting, the owner has admitted to changing the plans on his own after getting the plans back from the city. and it was over the permit at the time attempting to renew the expired building permit for the damage to the condition that it was originally in. and then it goes on to say mr. sweeney saying he believed the owner was a reti changed th. and the commissioner said he would believe rightfully so somebody practicing as an engineer in the city and this type of housing falls within th

commissioner moore: do you have any words of wisdom for us on this one? any precedent? in case of family illness, often in the case of business -- this was presented a bit abruptly. >> it would be great to know, if we communicate with people, that there is a deadline in which they need to let us know. sometimes you have a situation where link electronics, inc. model number: pdr-885 software version: 3.0c is continued. i do not know if we have a policy -- >> generally, staff does not give items until they reached an agreement, especially in dr. an agreement with both sides. from that point on, if something happens, an emergency -- we all have our emergencies. if something happens like that, a business situation occurs, this brings about the need for a continuance. the commission considered that. >> i did receive an itinerary. >> i personally do not believe a reason was given for the continuance. just that he would be out of town. now, that is up to you to decide whether or not you are going to except that or go forward. generally, there needs to be a reason for you to go

hey, quincy. >> reporter: moore's also seeing some of her regular wards less frequently. she says their owners are traveling less, and she wonders if high gas prices are the reason. >> they're not taking these little weekend trips like they used to. they're waiting for the big trip in june, or july, or august when the kids are out. >> reporter: moore is hopeful gasoline will drop at or below $4. but even if it does, she thinks she'll still have to watch her budget. >> i'm still going to have to be very diligent about what i spend and look at my clients. >> reporter: diane eastabrook, "nightly business report," lagrange park, illinois. >> susie: it was a sea of red on wall street. stocks sold off at the open as prices for oil and other commodities tumbled. let's take a look in tonight's "market focus." not surprisingly, energy stocks led the way down. shares of exxon-mobil and chevron were among the biggest losers in the dow, both off at least 2%. they were hit hard on that plunge in oil prices we reported about earlier in the program. cabot was the weakest energy stock in

commissioner moore: i have two questions. if we go the way commissioner miguel is suggesting, this was not even the architect from 1998. there's a big hole there. i'm prepared to go back to the 1998 overall envelope description with whoever's architect designing it what needs to be. i don't care. but something will have to probably change between that 1998 -- >> is that to the project sponsor or architect, you're giving that instruction? >> yes. and i would still think that the repeat of this commission in september is warranted because we're going down a very siply slope given the history of this project. i would like a present of all of us to support what we still, as commissioner miguel just summarized quite well, is unacceptable to us. we're here to support it under certain conditions. and those are go back to '98 overall envelope description, the architect take it's wherever he needs to take it and we will look at it one more time and send it on its merry way. >> commissioner sugaya? >> commissioners, the motion on the f

>> mary tyler moore was my first big hit. but mary and her then-husband were -- my beloved husband, they were best friends. they were the first people when alan and i started to go to gathered that he introduced me to. mary and i were great dear friends. the casting director one time, there was this happy homemaker character who could do anything, fix anything, " anything -- cook anything. chlorous liegeman -- chlorus character suspected there was something going on because her husband would come home with his clothing cleaner than when he went to work. this achingly sweet -- the sickeningly sweet that white type. they said why not get betty white? i guess that cannot find somebody sickeningly sweet enough. they called me and said, would you do the show, one shot? the nice thing was we did the show and jim byrnes and brooks who created the show, they came to me and said we had a couple of ideas for scripps. just hang in there, like to use you again. what a blessing. you can imagine how thrilling that was. tavis: and the rest,

there are two lawyers, lynn holt and harold moore, jr. who became allies of the student movement during the 1960s. and my book spends many, many chapters detailing the synergies between these lawyers and the student movement over the course of the 1960s. .. i want to emphasize two points. they are first to students heard to date direct partly out of frustration with civil rights leaders and the civil rights litigation, the pace of civil rights litigation was too slow for them. by two, even as they pursued their new tactics, they didn't turn entirely away from the law and i want to read you a quote from john lewis that eliminates the nature of the students critique of a lawyer dominated movement. lewis said quote, we were all about a mass movement, and irresistible movement of the masses, not a handful of lawyers in a closed court to, but hundreds, thousands of everyday people taking their cars unbelief to the streets. not so interested in the years. now, it's important to appreciate the contacts of the statement. he made it at a time when

commissioner moore: aye. president olague: aye. >> the motion passed unanimously. you are now on item 16, case for 897 hyede street. >> eric hollister, department's staff. it is a request to install a wireless tel commissions facility -- telecommunications facility operated by at&t. it would consist of nine penthouse-mounted antenna is, screened from view by the privacy screen. equipment cabinets would be located in an internal storage room. according to setting guidelines -- siting guidelines, it is a preferred location. since materials were distributed, the department has received reports in support and opposition to the project. i have a couple of copies. concern was basically surrounding rf exposure. the department of public health has determined that the parameters of public exposure are met. after analyzing all aspects of the project, it appears to be desirable and compatible with the neighborhood. the wireless facility would allow expansion of the wireless network coverage, consistent with setting guidelines -- siting guidelines. when viewed from public righ

commissioner moore: there is a wide variety of circumstances in which we do the same. we often approve something which we describe in words without the plans in front of us exactly showing what we are approving or what may mean in words. that leaves a lot of vagueness and risk for those people who are on the receiving end of something they are having concerns about. i think we might have to move more deliberately into an area where we are reviewing project which indeed show drawings which are more commensurate with what we would be approving. in this case, i would say the external appearance of how this thing looks like from the concerned neighbor side is almost completely left out. we do not really know what it looks like, which means the project has to be explained a little bit more extensively in order for us to really know what we are building. that is not such a complicated situation, but there are other areas where we are really approving words, or the intent of words. i would like to in general suggest that we ask for projects to be taken at least to an explicit

president olague: commissioner moore. commissioner moore: i would like to take a step back and i am sure my view and i love the smart and connected city and would love the city to become a premier city as a wireless modern connected community. however, there are three types of cities. there are 1.0 city which doesn't have any wireless overlay and a 2.0 city and one like our where is you have the wireless overlay over an existing city. and then you have the 3.0 city and some of the cities in asia where you plan immediately based on wireless and broadband from the gitgo. and i believe that unless we plan more comprehensively as an overlay to our entire city, we will be falling further and further behind. because there will be a point and i am not sure when that is -- i am not an expert on completing networks and what creates interference with each other, but i do believe i observe in a very prominent downtown location that since i bought my 4g iphone, my service has rapidly basically almost disappearing. while i used to be

president olague: commissioner moore? commissioner moore: i just want to say it's clear transferance and quite logical. what i hope you will find if you're indeed starting to gain permit, there is a certain kind of break on cause, for example, if you go to, let's say a hairdresser as a strange example. i'm sorry, but have you several thing -- you have several things done, you have your hair cut and your hair shampooed and whatever, it starts to be a sliding scale and they explain that to you because you're not really coming back for completely new appointment and new service. and there's some lodge nick that. i don't know how it staps but it must be something and i think it would be an encouragement to have people think comprehensively of how they engage you and have the fee structure reflect that. i think to be discouraged of the sequential permitting , for example, there might be a benefit for everybody in there. president olague: commissioner sugaya? commissioner sugaya: thank you. just for the edification of the publi

commissioner moore: no. vice-president miguel: aye. president olague: aye. >> so moved, commissioners. that passes 6-1. you are now on item 15 for 333 baker street, condition for authorization. >> good evening, at department staff. this proposal is to permit horizon -- verizon to put antennas on the subject property. at this time, the department recommends approval of the proposal. i am now available for any questions you may have. >> thank you, project sponsors. >> good afternoon. i am representing verizon wireless. i want to thank staff for all of the hard work they put into the report. verizon wireless is formally requesting the existing use permits. this is the parcel on which the development is proposed is on baker street. it is owned by mercy terrace llc. they currently own the property. the housing community is providing subsidized housing for senior residents. it is in the haight-ashbury neighborhood. it is surrounded by the residential neighborhoods. the 1.725 acre parcel is flat and has 158 housing units with a total of 150,0

commissioner moore? commissioner moore: it is very difficult not to be persuaded by motivational speakers of which you had quite a few. perhaps we should follow in the footsteps and we always have strong support to recognize the need for schools and appropriate housing for families and this is a very easy one to look at and i think the design is really very sensitively done and the package is really stellar and we should keep it because it's one of those packages where you usually understand of what is required here and looking at all your very happy students who are exceptionally good speakers, unless they were well coached, i don't see any problem to support this school because it really speaks to what we did with drew and i do believe that the idea of maintaining housing and using it in an adaptive reuse form for offices for the school is the right way to go. and it is a condition as is described says that the houses remain as potential resources, i don't have a problem using it that way. i would enco

danny moore's house flooded last year. he lost all his furniture. two weeks ago he was afraid his house would flood again so he put everything he owns into a storage unit. >> you come back and your house is still dry. you go check and the storage unit's flooded. there's nothing in the world like it. you think, my goodness, what else can go wrong? i felt secure by putting it in the storage unit. we put everything in it you could. what you see here is stuff that we didn't have room for in there. you do cwhat you've got to do, just keep praying and -- sorry. >> flooded storage unit. > moore lost things back in 2009 from a fire. >>> heavy rain that could produce flash flooding. i want to check in with reynolds wolf. this is flooding on top of flooding. >> well, it's a little different area, but it is threatening parts of the same region, still the southeast. what we've been dealing with, obviously, over the last couple days, we've been following flooding on parts of the mississippi river, even parts of the ohio river. now the threat pushes towards the e

commissioner moore? commissioner moore: i just wanted to comment on the building it and i think it does a lot of skillful things from diven shating the building to the -- of differentiating the streets and being in the vernacular and it's a larger building and still breaks the building down into the different building expressions and very much like stepping down and transitions to the lower buildings and i do not have any suggested modifications to the contrary and would like to differ from commissioner antonini's observations that this building in it has the design which speaks to a complete thinking it through and i don't think any xhept we make by tweaking it here and there would make it a better building as it stands as it is. i am in support of it. as it is proposed. president olague: commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: i would like to acknowledge the leter from liberty hill neighborhood association and intreing they gave their full support knowing they had raised some vigorous opposition to a

. >> commissioner moore? commisioner moore: should they be as successful taking both spaces, i don't see any reason not to approve. so move to approve. >> commissioner antonini? >> i was going to speak to it. there is a retail in that area and that would help a lot. >> there's a motion on the floor for approval on that? >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner miguel? >> aye. >> commissioner olague? >> aye. it has been approved unanimously. you are on item 17 a and b. there's been a request from the supervisors to continue this item for three weeks. >> so we'll hear the continuance at this time. >> any speakers in support of the continuance? whoever would like to speak either for or against. >> good evening, commissioners. steve on behalf of the project sponsor. at noon today we are agreeable to a two to three week continuance at the request of the supervisor. i understand your calendar is busy. >> july 7th -- >> i would like to rearrange the schedule for a two-week conti

commissioner moore: i need a technicality on this before we start this comment. i'm talking about the pro jess. nothing to do with the project of item up in 17. and the planner told one of the neighbors -- wait a minute, linda -- that you guys were going to throw these files out and she needed to copy it. this lady's on fixed income. if anybody can leave the files back with linda or with the planner, we'd appreciate it, because she doesn't have a lot of money, thank you. president olague: tom rid uvolic. >> good afternoon, commissioners. executive director of livable city. i'm actually here to talk about the way the city does transportation analysis. and we had met with the developers of the parkmoor project to talk to the city's problem with analysis. when we met with the developers, they had proposed some transportation mitigation, things like transit passes and so on. they also have a terrific amount of parking in that project. a very high level of parking. on -- especially for the nonresidential uses. very much higher than you do in a transquarter. but becaus

commissioner moore: could i add one additional question? they could help us answer the most -- much repeated question of the likelihood of a tunnel. that would be caltrans and highway. could you shed some light on that? >> these issues come up all the time. i think it is a city-wide issue. i want to understand better how this is affecting the bigger scene and scenario. thank you very much. thank you, staff, architects. >> ok. thank you, commissioners. you, unfortunately, still have a general public comment. >> we are at general public comment? is there any general public comment on items not on today's agenda? seeing none, in general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned.

commissioner moore: could i add one additional question? they could help us answer the most -- much repeated question of the likelihood of a tunnel. that would be caltrans and highway. could you shed some light on that? >> these issues come up all the time. i think it is a city-wide issue. i want to understand better how this is affecting the bigger scene and scenario. thank you very much. thank you, staff, architects. >> ok. thank you, commissioners. you, unfortunately, still have a general public comment. >> we are at general public comment? is there any general public comment on items not on today's agenda? seeing none, in general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned. >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products

commissioner moore: i echo everything my fellow commissioners have said. i am in full support of the office in the hospital. i have lived three blocks away from the hospital for many years. i know the central role this hospital place. much in contrast to the discussions we had recently. this is the one place which has 150% support of the community because it is an expression of the community. it is also contrary to what we're hearing about some other impacts in other locations. they will come to the hospital walking, assisted by a family member or community assistance. it is remarkable to see the traffic impact is almost zero. that is the same thing with the hospital on k street. you see people aided by other people walking by moving to the community. i am really happy to see that is always as far along. most significantly favor when they come in front of us. they are mostly hard to understand. you have a concrete plan. i am in full support of what you are trying to do. commissioner sugaya: i am also in favor of the imp. i would like to head something off,

president olague: commissioner moore, did you have any more comments? commissioner moore: yes i do. the question about substantive changes. staff has so much to do today that i wanted to put to the record, looking through three documents simultaneously, it is not easy to spot the changes. i think it is a bold move out in the middle of controversy the developer is suggesting lowering the height in four buildings. that is perhaps a different impact as to whether or not it mitigates the impact. the tower height of the most prominent building, block c-1, has been proposed to be lowered to 450 feet, a net reduction of 200 feet. but in addition, now this particular c-1 block will be shared with the historic naval chapel. the original plans had proposed abolishing the historic building. the tower height in the three other buildings it is proposed to be lowered from 450 to 350 feet. this is showing the most recent version in the april 5 plan. that reductions in historic building preservation are just a reasonable response to the many particular plants. the fact they constitute a major chang

. >> not only me, but michael moore. okay. so it's michael moore. and we know how he can get under your skin, he is extremely left wing. but what he said on cnn's piers morgan about the killing of osama bin laden is getting a lot of attention. >> we're at a point now where we don't -- yeah. what do we need a trial for? just get rid of him. the second you say that, you're saying that you hate being american. you hate what we stand for. you hate what our constitution stands for. >> bear with me. moore thinks we should have put bin laden on trial like we did with the top nazis like we did in world war ii. but before you blow him off, we also have a conservative who kind of agrees with michael moore. >> if they were going in with no option other than to kill him, then i do think that's a problem. they really don't want to capture al qaeda leaders. i mean, i think the record seems pretty clear on that. they've done everything they could to try in the past to transfer this over into a law enforcement operation. so they don't want to face those legal quest

commissioner moore? commissioner moore: ceqa asks us, have the benefits outweigh the unavoidable impacts of the project. i leave that hanging and i'm going to quote from livable cities, letter on the governance structure which is very important part to consider if we're going to the next number of approvals. "we have long objected to the fragmentation of planning in san francisco away from the planning department commission and towards various unaccountable bodies. the impending demise could bring the city under single planning code and administration with unified and coordinated planning vision. now that the treasure island supermarket proposed to be governed by the planning code, it is point thomas maintain a separate tihdi bureaucracy. the existing waterfront design advisory committee providing design review of projects on trust land. i like to pose a challenge to the planning department. the planning commission has been in the trenches with this department on what i consider outstanding standards for

brian moore, wbal-tv 11 news. >> the most intense manhunt in history is finally over. bin laden was born into one of the wealthiest families in saudi arabia. his activities began after he graduated from college. bin laden left saudi arabia to join the afghan resistance where he became a top guerrilla leader. he opposed the alliance between the united states and saudi arabia and began trading his forced to carry out attacks and gaining the u.s. military out of foreign lands. >> reaction. among those first response was dutch ruppersberger. 11 news spoke with him about what this means to future terrorist. >> we have been advised, a few of us, that the was a possibility of being able to target osama bin laden. but the intelligence had to be gotten and i have been on the intelligence committee for a long time. we have gotten many leads but none of them have been destroyed. bin laden would never communicate other than -- if you want to kill a snake, you cut its health-care it was important for us that we proved that we did get osama bin laden. this puts us in a very unique p

brian moore is in washington with the latest on bin laden's death. >> this is where osama bin laden met his end -- not in a cave, but a suburban mansion in pakistan. the world's most wanted terrorist and the mastermind of 9/11 taken down by u.s. forces at the order of president obama. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al-qaeda and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children. justice has been done. >> u.s.a.! u.s.a.! >> impromptu celebrations erupted outside the white house -- >> it was important to bring a wicked, murderous person to justice. >> and at ground zero in new york. in towns large and small across the country, what can best be described as patriotic victory rallies. but for families who lost loved ones on 9/11, it's a day of closure wrapped in complex emotions. for nearly a decade, bin laden had taunted the united states. u.s. intelligence received a break last august. >> it was far from certain and it took many months to run this thread to ground. >> and on sunday, the

. >> commissioner moore? commissioner moore: taking what commissioner sugaya said one step farther, since we have changed how we pick up trash there is in this situation obviously the green pickup, which is very difficult, even in an enclosed building location, has created a whole set of new problems. the stuff stands around for three quarters of a week and then the composting bin, it's in the a composting bin, put that on the sidewalk, it raises another issue. i do think just to help the discussion, that will make a difference what we say today, we might have to talk to historic preservation commission and d.b.r. and we might have to reinvent some of the ways how it's done. in the end, i think it will be of benefit for everybody, aside from the early morning noise when people throw the glass out into some truck. i think it's a reasonable request for us to take for that. >> commissioners, the motion on the floor is to not take deform r. and to approve the project. i haven't heard any change to that motion. on

olague r commissioner moore. commissioner moore: could we see the model one more time please? is that a model you did or prepared -- is this an accurate -- is this an accurate depiction? >> i would like to ask the architect have you given any thought from the stair side of the other person's building and this angle doesn't look so awkward. is there a way of really closing that all the way to the top and creating an architectural edge by which the stair opening becomes smaller on their side? when you look through this here, obviously this is an awkward angle here. >> you mean actually add a -- >> like where the two buildings meet. >> i understood that. yes. it is an awkward connection. we were wanting to keep it as -- we weren't trying to grow the opening any larger or close off the opening further than was necessary. so yes. so we hadn't considered that because we knew they were objecting to the 6 square feet and we didn't want to go any further there. commissioner moore: and i personally do not have any objections to that roof being a pitched roof because it is a small room t