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Chair and thank you for agendizing this item today for the committee. Colleagues these interim 18 month zoning controls before us today would help apply to the corine hietd and it is Corona Heights neighborhood help to bring order to a pretty chaotic trend in the neighborhood now in terms of smaller Single Family existing homes that are expanded or replaced by very large Single Family homes leading in a series of discretionary reviews to the Planning Commission. This proposal would bring some order to the process by providing that under certain circumstances that these kind of massive home exp...

The city of San Francisco sfgtv land use and Transportation Committee meeting occurring on march 9, 2015 will begin shortly. Scott wiener. Vice chair and to my left is yain jane and our clerk is ms. Andrea ausberry. I would like to recognize sfgtv who are the techs helping us broadcast this Committee Meeting on sf govern tv. Madam clerk do we have any announcements . Yes. Please silent all Electronic Devices and submit all items to the clerk and maybe on the future board agenda of the board of supervisors unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Can you call item 1. Item number one is for...

Square feet. The legislation would generally require a rear yard open space of at least 45 of the lot area and the current requirement under the planning coat. The exist tg requirement is of a 45foot 45 of a lot area in terms of rear yard. However, there are loopholes that have under mined that clearly stated requirement, and you so this would tighten up that requirement given the importance of rear yards in many of our neighborhoods. There have been some concerns expressed as i indicated that this legislation is somehow antihousing and that is not the case. The legislation does nothing to red...

Agricultural Research Service scientists are leaving no stone—or rather, leaf—unturned in their search for new ways to counter the fungus that causes tar spot, a yield-robbing disease of field corn in the midwestern United States.First reported in Illinois and Indiana in 2015, tar spot has now expanded to include other nearby states, as well as Florida and Canada.

Stromata are a tough, structural form of the fungus that enables it to survive the winter and release spores the following spring that infect the next corn crop.