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Two announcements, a, please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make personal Public Commentses on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. It is strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card submitted to the Commission Secretary [speaker not understood]. The next order of business is item 3, report on actions taken at previous closed session meeting, if any. There are no reportable actions. The next matter of business is item 4, matters of unfinished business. We have no i...

The needs in the city. Thats why were talking about 20year cap and 6 years for new units. So were trying to put in restrictions to make it fair for all folks in the city but really expediting the Affordable Housing for the people who need it. Youve heard from the Defense Services there are ways very few things we can do on the local level to change the law here. We want to do what we can to make sure that folks are not open the street when he steve comes and were evicting the lee families and other families. So we can make an argument been extending the population for housing but to assist the...

Serious concern in this regard. However, i also think that in the particular facts of this situation the building ought to be preserved. There are a large number of reasons most of which are in the report why it should be preserved. But this shows that well, it shows to me there are implementations far beyond just this project in article 10. And i am referring to the secretary of interiors standards. Over which we have heard before this commission a lot of testimony whether they were rules that must be followed or whether they are really a series of standards and guidelines that are to be appl...

I would like to comment on something that a couple of people have said and i totally agree with the one size does not fit all. I have used my role as a commissioner here to look at and look out for the entire city in terms of transportation, that is the charge. And the same time being mindful of neighborhoods and groups and individuals, and circumstances that are around the city, i can assure you that it is an extremely difficult job and for us it is going to be getting much more difficult in the coming year because the transit effectiveness project will be coming out and that does involve som...

Its a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. The building is built as a palace. Not for a king or queen. Its built for all people. This building is beautiful art. Those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, San Francisco had an enormous french population. Therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. Jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that San Francisco had to regain its place in the world. He decided to have the tallest dome built in the United States. Its now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the Uni...