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Pearlman, yes. Commissioner hyland, and missioner wolfram. Yes. And well mac sure she get conveyed to the Plan Commission an department. Is the Planning Commission the board and mayor . Board of supervisors and the mayor. Thank you. Commissioners items 10 a and b for 17 lbr. 479 castro street and kearny street. These are legacy business applications. Good afternoon, Desiree Smith Planning Department staff. The eye tomorrows today are two legacy business applications, nominations submitted to the Planning Department on october 19th and ready why for your recommendation. While all applications were previously reviewed by the office of Small Business for completion prior to transmittal to the department. Your packet contain a draft resolution outlining the tradition as to the success of each business. The first application before su for cliff variety. A neighborhood hardaway and Variety Store founded in 1936. Its a familyowned store and it offers hardware, home goods, candy and other ever
Of the project sponsors team . Yes. Okay. Your opportunity to speak was during the project presentation, however, the commissioners may have questions and may call you up later. Sure. Thank you. My name is otter duffy. I live a couple of blocks away from this project. Im kind of ambivalent. Im not sure if i should have got up, but i kind of support this project going forward. I was involved in the redistricting and in 2012, that particular building was the you can go back to actually the files on the redistricting and read this, the Bristol Hotel was the reason that that block was included in district 6. It was scheduled to go into district 3, you know, and its true that its in the the union square Historic District, as well, but you know, i think theres some truth that its kind of a bridging element between the two districts, the union square preservation district and the tenderloin preservation district. That being said, all the people who were living there, we thought belonged in di
Witnesses to the final panel. The final phase of today is to discuss with the Tech Companies and academic experts as well. If i could start off by asking members of the panel if they could give their view on an issue that is giving us cause for concern. Public uset consumption is increasingly moving out of a curated news space. The news bulletin, edited newspaper, or news website, and people are consuming news more and bite sized pieces that they discover and share via social media. Increasing numbers of people get their news by social media. Of the people in this country get their news from social media sites. What causes concern does that give you about news from your also from theand consumers point of feel whether they are getting a fair and balanced picture. If they are consuming a variety if theyre or exposed to the newsfeed on social media sites. , if you could give a perspective from your News Organization. Thisy wilson on one hand, is the reality of how people consume news and
And return live with more coverage of the george washington, d. C. Field trip of house of commons on this socalled fake news. Again, live coverage here on cspan3. And for this to be joined by people who are leading the investigation and research into the issues that we were discussing in the first session. And not only question you directly, but through as the session goes on to welcome any immediate ob sservations on the Tech Companies, but i wanted to r start with david carroll. In the session with facebook, there was a reference made to an investigation that the u. K. Information commissions office is conducting and this is your case. So i thought that perhaps you could tell us something about it. My understanding is that you have made an application to Cambridge Analytica for the data they hold about you that was linked to the election period in america in 2016, and that because at some point that data must have been within the u. K. Jurisdiction, the u. K. Information Commission O