There is such a degree of uncertainty with it when you dont even know at the end of the day after months or maybe a year of going through the process whether youre even going to be able to go into that space, that it its very discouraging for potential retailers to come into our neighborhood commercial corridors, so i hope that were going to be taking a look at expediting the process to increase the certainty and enable retailers to be able to get in as quickly as possible. Also, i think flexiblity is key, and i heard a lot of that today. And i i think its with the changing conditions of retail in the city and in the country, i think its very important that a diversity of uses be able to go into ground floor commercial spaces, including professional services. And one of your colleagues, supervisor peskin has been promoting legislation that would restrict that. We would really encourage diversity. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is deidre
580. Three vehicles near grant line blocking the third lane from the left. 580 and 205 now stacked up. Once youre past that it looks pretty good all the way into the livermore area. Its about a at 980 near jackson in the blocking lane, too. No slow traffic yet but were following it. Sue, thank you. A high school teach certificate accusing her male students of sexually harassing her, doing everything from physically touching her to leaving obscene letters and phone calls. That teacher is at Tamalpais High School and shes the second teacher in the north bay to come forward with such accusations. Reporter Amy Hollyfield live for us in mill valley. Amy . Reporter hi, reggie. Math teacher eva riter says it is time for her to say me too. She has been sexually harassed more than a dozen times by students here at Tamalpais High School, she says. She went public last week at the school Board Meeting. The Tam Broadcast Network recorded her statement. I have received profane phone calls and attac
In place to fast track that, thats something id like to look at. Yes, supervisor, thats a complaint we do have often from the Supervisors Office and applicants. We do have a program called cb three peat. If you do meet certain criteria, with you expedite your petition. Not all uses meet that petition. If youre massage use, formula retail, we dont expedite those. It is a limited program, but we have had success with it. We are looking for ways to speed that up, especially for smaller businesses. Okay. Any other further questions, comments . I think theres a lot of work were going to have to do internally on this issue. At this point, im going to turn it over to Public Comment. If not, if i dont call your name, just come on up. Anyone who wants to come up and speak, please come to the podium. Good afternoon, supervisor, first of all, id like to say congratulations to supervisor tifani for being appointed to district 2. I think you can do a fabulous job, and thank you for being there. Its
Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is deidre vonne rock. I am the president of the rest portal rock merchants association. While im proud that we have the lowest vacancy, that is not how it appears on an objective view. In west portal, absentee land lowers who have no interest in the block of a huge problem. For example, we had a discussion in anchoring a project on the west tunnel because they were still collecting rent on a formula retailer. We had a radio shack that sat vacant for years because the owner wanted another radio shack. Finally, verizon showed some interest in it, but its been meyered in planning for well over a year. Just recently, one of the owners of the four buildings where three of our businesses recently has been devastated has been unresponsive, delaying the Recovery Efforts of all the other businesses. The Merchant Association is often asked about the status of the vacancies and what can be done, and our answer is nothing. Not until there is anymore enforcement
In the neighborhood. Were cutting down the back yard. Were taking a two bedroom one bath house and turning it into a five bedroom four bath house. Theyre trying to disguise that its going to be multiple families by saying that they have two laundries in the house. Theres going to be a laundry upstairs and another one downstairs. I say that downstairs one, which on the original plans which i received, was called a wet bar is actually going to turn into a kitchen and be another unit. Thank you. President honda thank you, sir. Good evening and welcome. Im paula davis debella. Im at the same address of stanley. I wanted to bring up the fact that two years ago we were given plans by the owner or his agent. We had a neighbor give several comments and we never heard anything further. Until recently, which is about two years later, when we were made aware that a permit had been issued to build a much larger building. However, this time there was no effort to provide plans or to meet with neigh