Entitled to the peaceful and quiet use and enjoyment of their home. The western soma process as we described at our first informational hearing was a process of inclusion. The arts and the entertainment are represented on the task force. We had three town hall meetings. Entertainment was on the agenda for each of the meetings. 200 or more residents and Small Business owners and entertainment people participated in each of those three town hall meetings. I can fully admit at the first town hall meeting tensions were throughout the room. There was a lot of tension, a lot of anxiety because neighbors were afraid of what was to come and the Entertainment Community was there arguing for more certainty. I can credit Chris Shaffer and the professional facilitators that she brought into that town hall meeting to kind of tone down the tension and the anxieties and instead turn people everybody involved there on more to a simple problem solving path. How do we make these potentially incompatible
Exist forever. No dangers that we will lose any of the existing night clubs. Stronger Building Code standards are written into the plan and placed the burden of sound proofing for venues. Clubs as kobe mentioned will have the rights to expand. Would change the club to allow non conforming status to continue on even beyond the demolition of the current building and continue that entertainment use after new construction is completed. We allow all forms of entertainment for expansion in the new area south of harrison street. Its just a logical extension of the purposes of the sally Zoning District to have the service and Light Industrial uses with the prohibition of Housing Units it seems like a natural extension if the Entertainment Industry does need to expand sally seems like its the place for that to occur. Im sorry. We also welcome entertainment to be part of the folsom Street Commercial corridor through limited live performance. We dont increase residential capacity along 11 ethstre
Back. We redesigned the building so there is only one bedroom and studio apartmentos the front of the building so there are no family buying units on the front of the building so we made those changes in response to our meetings. We thought that met their concerns. I explained that with modern Architectural Design and other modern design there is no measurable sound coming from 11th street into those units so i feel they are compatible uses. The incompatibility that is being discussed is coming from older buildings with no acoustic insill laigz and designed long ago. If i was a young person i would be delighted to live on 11th street and i went to clubs all the time. I think there are lots of people that would like to live in the area so what happened in 2005 after we made the changes that the night Time Entertainment industry was requiring of it, which i was happy to do, and then they came back and any type of housing isnt compatible with night time uses so after i redesigned the buil
Whole thing is jerry disabled. Just trying to put this into perspective, i travel a lot and was in new york meeting said dave the news the little tabloid a story in the quarter the corner sat in queens new york the judge the critics thought he was too liberal and he was mugged on his way to his car then he said today it is unusual but i have an opening statement. I know there is an old joke a liberal is a conservative that has not been of but i have been mugged and i will not change my views a little lady steps up and said beat him up again he did not get the message. [laughter] that is what we do with the polls. Retry and i will tell you is it works like that little old he they keep beating them up until they get the message that is why at the end of the day i become less cynical because American Public opinion really does referee the worst instincts of behavior. So with that we are happy to take any questions and i forgot to ask is there any press in the room . I see one. Good to kno
Quorum call quorum call a senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senior senator from alaska is recognized. Ms. Murkowski thank you, mr. President. I request the proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Ms. Murkowski mr. President , i would ask unanimous consent at this time to enter into a colloquy with my colleague from north dakota. The presiding officer is there objection . So ordered. Ms. Murkowski thank you, mr. President. I rise today to speak to an issue that in my state of alas alaska, in the state of north dakota, quite honestly so many of our home states, we have we have facts, we have statistics, we have issues that face our Indigenous Peoples, most particularly our indigenous children, that, truth be told, these statistics are are not what we want to write home about. In fact, in many, many cases, these statistics are shameful and the effort and the initiative to make a difference in the lives of of