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jean quan. but as anne makovec tills, her challenger isn't giving in just yet. good morning to you, anne. reporter: good morning. they are making history here at oakland city hall with this election but it is not without controversy because the ranked choice voting system that voters here in alameda county used this past week. kwan beat out former state senator don perata and eight other candidates for the job. perata earned more first place votes, though, than anyone else. it was people's second and third choices that launched quan to victory with 51% of the vote. now, quan is goi...

the health care services master plan once adopted. as proposed, any change of use to the medical use facility over 6,000 square feet of occupied floor area or any addition of more than 3,000 square feet would require a medical facility to file an evaluation to determine whether the medical facility is consistent with the master plan. thirdly, the ordinance would apply to all applicable projects once the master plan was adopted. projects in that project would not be exempt from undergoing this consistency determination process. lastly, the ordinance would require the plan at the minim...

wilderness, to provide a few words. president miguel: supervisor camps, thank you for coming. supervisor campos: thank you, mr. president and commissioners. i like to underscore the importance of giving clarity on the issue that was raised before, because you have the medical cannabis community that needs to have that clarity. for many of us who have worked with this group, it is difficult for us to understand how that can be classified as as an mcd. i think the sooner we address that, the better it is for the city. that said, amid talk about why we are here, which is this piece of l...

commissioner antonini: thank you, supervisor. and one follow-up on the threshhold. presently anything over 10,000 square feet has to have a ceqa determination and almost anything has some reason for conditional use and most of it does even at lower levels and i just don't understand why the square footage is lower for this than would be the case than what it presently is. >> sorry to interrupt. that threshhold was originally provided by planning and we are open to discussing what it should be. we are open to that discussion and certainly do not want to create inconsistency in how pro...

because of the inequities involved in that, we amended it to make sure there was consistency in the treatment of all projects. we also recognize there are legitimate concerns about smaller projects that by virtue of their size and the nature of the projects do not really have the kind of impact that concerns us in terms of health care access throughout the city. because of that, one of the things we are changing and proposing to change is the trigger for when the legislation is implicated. the suggestion that was provided to us by planning and perhaps a suggestion that's modified som...