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The city. Even more important, this project, this fight about the north beach Branch Library, about joe dimaggio, fundamentally was about whether we were going to be moving forward as a city. Whether we were going to focus just on the past or also on the future of our city. Whether we were going to focus on what recreation was like 25 or 50 years ago or what needs to happen today and in the future in San Francisco . And we won that battle and we sent a clear message that that city has a strong f...

Battle and you all stood with us and were here today to break ground on this great library, big hand for all of those who put that effort in. [ applause ] this project is the 24th library that our agency has been involved in. We have renovated 16 libraries, and we have built 6 new ones. The 23rd is in the bayview in my neighborhood and that will be ready for groundbreaking in january and for completion and opening in january and now were groundbreaking on this project. As part of this project, y...

As our librarian just said, the very first meeting i took, even before he was swornin, after i was elected was about this library. And i got to tell you, that was only four years of a tenyear struggle. There have been hundreds of meetings coming together. There are High School Students today who were preschool students when we started this conversation. And i have to tell you as we all know, it takes a village to raise our kids, but it has taken many villages to build this library. I want to sta...

Capstone, julie christiansen. Thank you can i get my team up here . I have been fielding all the thanks, but it doesnt really belong to me. It belongs to all of these people. Who else is here from our group . Come on up. Who am i missing . The whole village, come on up. So we have a couple of city folks. Where is greg scott . Gret get up here. Greg, get up here. I want to point out jill, karen. Jill is the deputy chief librarian and karen, these two women are the fairy godmothers of this project...

Group that better defines partnerships for the city and support and the Publicprivate Partnership than the friends of the San Francisco Public Library and have provided the funding for all of our furniture, the fixtures and all of the equipment. It truly owns our library in that regard. Its my pleasure to introduce of the executive director of the friends of the San Francisco libraries scott. [ applause ]. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be here. As luis said we had this fantastic Publicprivate Par...

You eat some cake and join us for our campaign in north beach. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you, scott. Were almost there. Oh, former commissioner lonnie chen. Thank you lonnie for being here [ applause ] were almost there. One more individual. She has already been mentioned. Its a perfect tribute, a capstone, julie christiansen. Thank you can i get my team up here . I have been fielding all the thanks, but it doesnt really belong to me. It belongs to all of these people. Who else is here from ...

Case the much easier case, because of that separation of the one part that is the strongest argument for the other side, that there is an element of coercion, that your application is is being ruled on, that the separation the town has adopted makes that much less persuasive. We think the other elements that the respondents have pointed to for coercion are ones that trouble us because they are things that have analogs in our history. So, for example, they point to the presence of children. But, ...

Theres an underground stream that runs through duncan theyre to have to dig down that is of concern. This project is from a dispensary that will be getting out of the project as soon as possible its a dispensary locking to maximize his profit i hope youll remove the penthouse and deck commissioners i dont think ive tried or introduced myself ill not be addressing at this point thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, im meredith thank you for taking the time i live on duncan street dire...

Timely float roofs and blockage multiple unit buildings directly across and you can see, in fact, uphill across the street street 3 flat roof buildings in a row to chiefr that as flat roof is not correct the consistentcy of the Design Guidelines i see the kind of example of the consistency of the scale but the varying kind of scales and styles and somewhere in between those two is the nature of that block. In terms of the overall bulk the zone allows the map like this that red mass would be if w...

My opposition this to this construction we live there and our new neighborhoods will be part of our community dont you want them to start open a good foot please, please consider our dr and remove that top deck and penthouse thank you. Hi, im cynthia i live on duncan across the street from the development. I moved there in the 84 i was a c w a union member and could afford to buy a home in San Francisco its a great culdesack and i want to say ive never bonding been to a Planning Commission meeti...