Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is pat tura, and i am the president of the Duboce Triangle neighborhood association. Dtna has been involved in this project for close to seven years. In 2007 the market octavia rezoning Historical Survey was done. In 2008 the proposed duboce park landmark district was identified and documented as eligible for the national register. In 2011, it was added to the landmark designation work program. The planning staff has done an excellent job in frameworking and doing the Due Diligence in working with the community to identify the value of this historical resource. They worked at the request of really come to honor and to codify this Historic Resource there. As peter said, in this area is found one of the largest concentrations of intact historical buildings anywhere in the city. Reason to phase and preserve these buildings. It was at the request of the neighborhood that supervisor wiener worked to amend the mills act to better understand the workings
Ive actually emailed all of you my specific articles so you have that detailed. What i want to put on the record today is a list of 18 residences, 16 are owners, all of them are opposed to this designation. This is not lent to represent everyone who is opposed but those who i could speak with personally and gave me permission to present their names today. So i have i was at the mercy of someone elses printer so i only have one copy but i will provide that. And so despite what i believe are the best intentions by the city to run a survey, i know that myself, i did not receive a card in the mail. I know several other neighbors were not notified. And so that is why i went around and actually started to talking to people because i didnt feel it accurately represented what was going on in our neighborhood. If you look at these numbers what you have is really a neighborhood that is split. And i think thats unfortunate. I think were still a very cohesive neighborhood but we are deeply divided
Objectives and policy developments that were developed during the the market octavia area plan. This plan k5u8 called for the designation and protection of important historical buildings. Thank you. President fong thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment on this item . Lfjclnpizgc good afternoon. I had a card filled o owd out. Should i be here now . I john sham bray. I own a property at 75 pierce street and have been there 28 years. Ive come to just about all the hearings and have been in opposition to it since it came to my attention in early 2011. Only because i feel that thek3j. Historic designation of our neighborhood should have been something that the neighbors, who purchased and maintained these homes, should ask for, not something that the city should be imposing on us. Beginning, what does this do for the homeowners, other than add additional loopholes, additional fees, additional approvals, over and above the already inconsistent application of the existing law. It s
Give taken a particular interest. You go there lots a what draws you up there . A couple of things. Canada as in northern nation. That is what, one of the things that makes us distinct from the United States. Whereas in canada, the United States, you say go west to find your identity. In this country, it has always been go north. That is the part of the country that defines our identity and has so much promise in terms of its abundant resources. I do want to say this one of the things we tried to do as a government, with some success, is we come to office with two views but too often in the past, were seeing. One is that this government is extremely proamerican. The valiant the relationship with the United States. We could not be in a better situation than to have the United States as our only real labor, closest economic partner and oldham of the allied. And ally. At the same time, were Strong Canadian nationalists and think in our own modest way. We see no incompatibility with that.
Very seldom. The heart and soul of america is a free country. Just over a month ago we devoted a program to a discussion of the modern presidency. The response to the program was overwhelmingly positive so were going to try something similar this week which will also enable us to take the week off to celebrate the fourth of july. This time i want to focus on civil liberties. The jobs of power are always open to devour and her arm is a we stretched out to destroy the freedom of thinking, speak in, and writing. John adams. He sounds like arch campbell. About two and a half years ago the bill of Rights Institute conducted an Online Survey of knowledge of the constitution and the other founding documents. 42 you could find a phrase from each according to his ability, his needs, in those founding documents. Unfortunately that came from karl marx. [laughter] 60 could not identify the principle that the government derives its powers from us from the american people. In that survey, 20 of adul