I wanted to follow on the question, just to clarify, is the president negotiating on whether or not to reopen the government and raise the debt limit . Our position has been no ransom for reopening the government or congress responsibility. Is he not negotiating . The president has had it depends on what you mean by negotiate. He has been having conversations with lawmakers. What he has firmly made clear again and again is give the tea party its ideological agenda wish list in exchange for Congress Opening the government or congress raising the debt ceiling so the United States doesnt default. That has been his position all along. It is clear in its simplicity, open the government, pay our bills, stop threatening default and stop doing harm to the economy and American People. That has been our position all along. And reiterating those points. It was to make clear that we see progress in the senate. We see in the senate process, the kind of bipartisan effort is the path to resolving the
President obama it is visiting ia in the wake of the ukraine crisis. Ownews, bloomberg thank you for joining us. How is Obama Meeting . What are we looking for in that . A kind of reassurances . What kind of reassurances . They are looking for measures ,hat were required by nato increased air controls and increased presence in the deployment of us. Those measures are expected to be basically extended for the longterm. That is what the leaders are looking for. How concerned are estonians and other leaders about what russia does next . I have to say they are really concerned. Theyre basically at the existential worry now. We have to remember that ever since the war in georgia between russia and georgia in 2008, there were concerns that have been increasing in the baltics. Terroristses back to in soviet oppression. That is obviously the background of this. What about the role of russia minorities in this . Places like estonia has large populations of russian minorities. What are they sayi
Comment okay seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner antonini i think this is an excellent project and have famous with rincon point its a source of exercise most nights when i go for runs and walks this is completing it, its important as pointed out there were two previous paralyze with the lower building and this is more appropriate 2 hundred and 50 feet because of tower separation, you know, there will be distances between the towers has there should be but more comparable with the turns over on the street in the vicinity of 4 hundred feet 399 and also 340 is pretty tall and, of course, the recent completed building adjacent to it is lower because of the tower separation thats ascetically good and the second thing i think theyre doing us a big favor of going in lieu tons the projects theyre not being built because theyre not funded this will provide funds towards that because the Mayors Office and other Affordable Housing builders are waiting to build these until their f
Clerk, any other business before this committee . No, mr. Chair. Thank you you were adjourned good afternoon, everyone. And welcome to the San Francisco Land Use Economic Development committee im supervisor wiener the chairman thought it committee to my right is supervisor jane kim and vice chair to my setting is Supervisor Malia Cohen and our clerk is andrea ashbury and i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting todays hearing specifically jonathan madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Please silence all electronic devices. All files and documents to be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the october 28, 2014, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Thank you madam clerk please call item one. A resolution imposing zoning control for the Ground Floor Office uses. Supervisor kim is the author. Today is a interim between king and fulsome to support and promote an actual retail frontage along Second Street and south of market and support our Neig
speaking foreign language. so just briefing i want to thank supervisor cohen and mayor ed lee and maria for helping us get this piece of our Community Center back when two years ago the seniors were running our center for over 20 years was asked to move to our invitation center a lot of the seniors wanted to program but that was under foreclosure thank you supervisor cohen for listening to our seniors and expressing their needs to have their programs here were very happy to be partnering are mayor ed lee and supervisor cohen to provide the programs the seniors need and thank you very much it up for listening anticipate protecting our seniors making sure they get a place they call their second home so thank you very much clapping . In closing, i want to say this is the physical manifestation when everyone has a team effort again, thank you to the Community Partners and other Community Partners behind me thank you as the giants pulled together they can pull out a victory when everyone pl