Snails are being released back into the wild after a successful Breeding Programme at chester zoo. Hello, a very good morning to you. Welcome to bbc newsroom life. The first round of voting in the conservative leadership contest is under way, tory mps have their first chance, this morning, to vote for the person they want to see lead the party in the country. At least one of these ten candidates vying to be oui of these ten candidates vying to be our next Prime Minister is going to be knocked out of the race today. The mps are holding a private ballot, with contenders needing a minimum of 17 votes to carry on. Voting started in the house of commons this morning at around 10am, with a result expected to be announced by the 1922 committee at around 1pm this afternoon. Further ballots will be held next week with the two most popular mps moving to a run of five tory Party Members. The winner is expected to be announced in the week of the 22nd ofjuly. Lets talk now to our political assistan
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Traditional, some of them are more modern. It gives a vibrancy to the city, and i really think this project should go forward. Good evening. Jennifer fever with the San Francisco tenants unit. I also want to speak in support of the project and against the dr. This strikes me as classic nimbyism. As long as no tenants were displaced, it seem dos totally reasonable. We have a severe eviction crisis as the dr knows, so were desperately in need of housing which is affordable. Thanks. Good evening, commissioners. Thank you. My name is pat buskovitch. Im a neighbor. I live at diamond and 23rd. I speak here on behalf of my family who lives at 22nd eureka and jersey and diamond. We live all around this. My family has been in this neighborhood for 30 years. This project is truly a creative request to develop four units on one lot with a second unit building in the back. Theyre going to take that two unit building and eadd an adu n an illegal office thats been there for years. Theyre going to ta
Mcmansion . How is it in the best interest to tear down a modest housing or how is it in the best interest i have no problem with this guy building modest housing, but five levels . Finally, ask the commission not to reward the project sponsor who refused to rent or acknowledge and fought to keep this unit off the book with permission to demolish rental housing and building something that we all know will never be rented, will be only for the 1 of the 1 . Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Please. Hi. I agree with the tree on the castro, as someone who rides that bus all the time. Its difficult for me to understand how this project meets the criteria of protecting the relative affordablity of existing h housing, which it must meet as part of the granting of the cu. Demolishing a structure that may or may not have a small unit on the site, and creating a huge singlefamily home that will sell for many millions of dollars does not protect relative affordablity. If this project was to pre
We live all around this. My family has been in this neighborhood for 30 years. This project is truly a creative request to develop four units on one lot with a second unit building in the back. Theyre going to take that two unit building and eadd an adu n an illegal office thats been there for years. Theyre going to take the front building and demolish it and building a mansion resulting in 6,000 square feet on one lot. I worry about allowing demolition of rental housing, that they refuse to acknowledge. Housing that i looked at. This mcmansion will have negative impacted on the neighborhood, way out of the neighborhood scale. I drive down castro driving to my favorite place. You all know where that is, and im really concerned about the facade of this street. There is a three quarter of a Million Dollar variance, a three quarter Million Dollar top floor penthouse chlts theres 2 million of greed in this house. The front building was built in 1909 as a Grocery Store with a unit in back.