That will be the order. [gavel] madam clerk, please call item number 2. Item number 2 is a resolution imposing interim zoning controls for an 18month period requiring conditional use authorization for limited Financial Service and business or professional service uses in the upper market neighborhood commercial Transit District; making environmental findings and findings of consistency with the general plan and with the priority policies of planning code, section 101. 1. ~ Transit District thank you. Im the author of this legislation. Colleagues, today before us are interim controls that i have that im proposing to address potential challenge relating to the significant new development occurring along the upper market corridor. We have quite a few developments happening along upper market between octavia and castro, and with a significant amount of new retail space that is going to come online. This is an exciting opportunity for the neighborhood in terms of a new retail space, more ac
Permitting process, but also on the outside looking at the enforcement of our own guidelines, how do we enforce those, how can we do a better job of it. Right now were seeing the city failing in its shall, but how are we Holding Private companies to the same standards . So, thank you for beginning this conversation. I know its going to be a long one, but San Francisco beautiful, were happy to be a participant and work with the community. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is drew howard. Im a native san franciscan and actually formerly a staff member of sfmta but i am now retired and i am speaking to the issue at hand. It is a very important one and its one that should be looked at in terms of requirements, needs, and desires. And i know that a lot of times the desires have a tendency of overriding the real requirements. Specifically, in terms of our operators and their rest room needs, we run muni service 24 hours a day in a lot of busin
Worked closely with San Francisco and Agricultural Alliance and spur for citywide Agriculture Program. Spur had previously released a report called the public harvest report that showed even though we had seen tremendous demand for urban agriculture, Community Gardening and urban farms grow across the city in recent years, there has been a notable lack of coordination among different agencies that govern urban agriculture. The legislate ition helped create the Program Designed to serve as a one stop shop for urban agriculture to assist in the formation of new garden projects, to provide resources and tools, and partnerships with various community organizations. The legislation last year required that a Strategic Planning process take place and that is something that happened in the second half of 2012. I want to thank the office of the city administrator who is the lead city agency for this planning and the city administrator released the results of the Strategic Planning late last spr
Welcome to cbs this morning. We begin with breaking news from london where a helicopter crashed this morning at the height of rush hour. It caused a huge fireball o them to be believed the helicopter pilot and 13 more have been treated for their injuries. Flames and debris filled the road when a thick plume of black smoke marked the scene of the crash not far from one of the capitals busiest commuter intersections and the site of the new embassy. The helicopter collided with crane near the top of a highrise building at a construction site before spiraling into the street in the middle of londons rush hour traffic. Local resident matt haverson feared the worst. We thought it was a terror attack. Someone shoultted that the plane flew into the crane. Reporter British Police were quick of that unfinished building. Charlie and norah . Elizabeth palmer thank you. Boeing 787 dreamliner is having new trouble this morning. One of the groundbreaking airliners had to make yet another Emergency La
You can also email us, journal cspan. Org. We will begin with josh rogan who broke the story. He is our Senior Correspondent on the phone. Is headline in your piece the Obama Administration secretly suspended military aid to egypt. How did you find this out . The primary source was senator patrick leahy, he is the chairman of the state and foreign appropriations subcommittee. I asked a lot of people what was going on with this 1. 3 billion of u. S. Military aid to egypt. Their understanding was that it had been halted. I investigated a little bit further and what i found was that the administrations review of military aid is ongoing. They are going through a broad review of the entire u. S. Egypt relationship. They decided not to disburse most forms of the military aid, with some exceptions this was a with some to exceptions. Despite the fact that the administration is determined that if that sounds at the mouthful, it is because it is. Wheres the money in the process . And what impact