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Business. I urge you to make a wise decision and support this business unanimously. 100 . Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, how are you doing, hi everybody. Im the neighbor of saba store, the one in oak oakland. Its less than 100 feet, the same block. In three years i never noticed anything from them, no noise, so clean. And we have no problem with them. I want to say youre ok, come visit the place in oakland, youre going to see. Everything is ok. We enjoy every d...

Thank you very much and at this time well open up for Public Comment. For those mobes when would like to speak and for clarity there is a opportunity for speak with department of public work inspector after the hearing and Public Comment has been heard in order to address your individual case. First member of the public. And just for clarity, this is not not general Public Comment. Thank you i would like to see you fix up the sidewalk [inaudible] [singing] fixing up the sidewalk, fix it the best...

Public comment has been heard in order to address your individual case. First member of the public. And just for clarity, this is not not general Public Comment. Thank you i would like to see you fix up the sidewalk [inaudible] [singing] fixing up the sidewalk, fix it the best you can. Fix it up great, we can hardly wait, fix up the sidewalk woman supervisor and men. Fix it up the sidewalk if you can, wont you do it woman and man, so well be safe, the best that you can. Thank you thank you, next...

A Good Business for some reason they have an ugly building but besides that they drove them to san mateo because they didnt do something Certain Community members didnt like the language in here saying the Planning Commission is goovbld guaranteed were not guaranteed to do anything we did a good job making rules if you dont like the rules those are the rules we can try to make solutions by addressing the shormg of Affordable Housing by getting more built not by trying to eliminate market rate ho...

Offices first of all the p pa or the least e e a will be the first document that is issued should be the time when a project is felt to be an active project a project that is working along through the period up to this time there has been talk about moratoriums for a few months and talk about other things theres nothing that has come concrete changes to the eastern neighborhoods until this time the cut off date should be at earliest it today or july 23rd the controls might go into effect the bui...

Not doing that. It is important to start the discussion about creating tools of measuring our Affordable Housing and creating tools to enforce that. I grew up in new york city, one to my parents who had immigrated here to the u. S. Actually, i started really becoming active in working with the community when i was in high school. Came out to california for college, went to stanford. I was always politically involved. When i was a college student, i worked on the initiative to get rid of affirmat...

Other departments here but i want to know which departments how many of the city departments are having this as a measurement . Because i think its important to gauge from a Customer Experience standpoint how much time it takes for people to go through the process . In the report it says on average someone i think went through a process and took four months but we see cases someone went through and waited two years to do a full build out. Yeah, we didnt find that i recall and my team can speak t...

The road when opening a business when they sunk time and money into that and probably despite the best efforts of departments people will come into the process from a lot of angles and are the ways to route people toward the Planning Department early on no matter where they come in the process . Okay. And then i dont know if planning wants to chime in. Sure. Im the assistant director of planning. As ryan mentioned were not always in control of when people reach out to us but when they do reach o...

Us to go and sell the program to the whole city. We need jobs and a break on their energy bills and that kind of thing. You need to be able to adopt in the lower income communities such as much solar as highincome communities. So that buildout piece is important and i think we need a hearing about that either at lafco or the board. I want to chime in on public bank. That, if you look at what is happening in greece right now, it becomes really clear that the Global Private financing and Banking S...

Competitive rfq process to look for qualified respondents. In 2009 we did a public rfp and got two bids and one from recology and one from Waste Management. We looked at other environmental factors which came out fairly evenly but the thing that was very striking was the difference in cost which would translate to over 100 million for ratepayers over the lifetime of this contract. So recology was selected by the panel. Lawsuits were filed. Lawsuits were dismissed and over the course of the next ...