All levels of portbility that pushes the demand father out into the neighborhoods, according to the planning director, 80 percent of the citys development is taking place on 20 percent of the land and that raises serious issue abouts the fairness and now the density is distributed in the city, it is imperative that we start to think more creatively about how the land is used and we believe that this is a good project and if the city is serious about addressing this crisis, and that we face in our housing supply, we are going to have to figure out a way to adopt and build, many, many, many more, projects, of this type, and it is thoughtful and there is a full of the type that we need. And we believe that strongly that turning down this project hurts the interest of the city, and we believe that approving projects like this, that take it and take the advantage creatively of the available land is strongly in the interest of San Francisco. Thank you. Next speaker please step forward. We we
East Side Alliance and i will skip through some of what i have prepared here because you heard smufp of the history already. For what mr. Sanchez said about proapproved the building set back it was the board of supervisors in 1962 who approved the subdivision map that contained the building set back lines. In terms of additional history about who required it, i think in july you heard from robert pass more and we heard from robert in order to reduce the density at the time, and the city worked with the developer to require these open spaces which row vied the views across the bay and the streets and the lower twin peaks and the solid walls the Building Permit application was applied for in 2009 and the permit holder not apply for a subdivision although they proposed to subdivide and dfrl apply until this year. And i believe that was a tactical move on their part because in 99, they applied for subdivision first and then failed with the subdivision for other reasons and building set bac
Gerri hello, everybody, im gerri willis. One of the big issues congress is promising to tackle is immigration. Congress passed the jobs act replaces green card lottery to permanent visas to those with doctorates in science, technology, engineering and math. Two outgoing republican senators introducing legislation granting residence to those bought in the country illegally. Though call it the achieve act, similar to the d. R. E. A. M. Act. I spoke to one. Bills cosponsors, senator kay bailey hutchison. Welcome to you here. How is your legislation different than the d. R. E. A. M. Act . Our legislation gives legal status to the young people in conundrum. They have grown up here. This is the country they know yet they are illegal because their parents brought them here before they were 14 years old. But we dont go into a citizenship track. We allow them to get in line behind the people who have been lawful and waited in line. So we dont give them a preference in line but we do give them a
Gerri hello, everybody, im gerri willis. One of the big issues congress is promising to tackle is immigration. Congress passed the jobs act replaces green card lottery to permanent visas to those with doctorates in science, technology, engineering and math. Two outgoing republican senators introducing legislation granting residence to those bought in the country illegally. Though call it the achieve act, similar to the d. R. E. A. M. Act. I spoke to one. Bills cosponsors, senator kay bailey hutchison. Welcome to you here. How is your legislation different than the d. R. E. A. M. Act . Our legislation gives legal status to the young people in conundrum. They have grown up here. This is the country they know yet they are illegal because their parents brought them here before they were 14 years old. But we dont go into a citizenship track. We allow them to get in line behind the people who have been lawful and waited in line. So we dont give them a preference in line but we do give them a
Hi, everyone, happy new year. Im diane macedo joining you live from fox business headquarters in new york. Were following the breaking news in washington. Were waiting for the house of representatives to vote on a fiscal cliff deal that the Senate Passed early this morning. They have been in a Conference Meeting a little less than an hour. Speaker boehner, majority leader eric cantor walking into that meeting. Still waiting to hear how it is going. Even before the meeting was called, cantor and other Top Republicans were saying they wont support the bill. The fate here is really uncertain. Rich edson is live on capitol hill keeping track of this for us. Rich, is there any word what specifically theyre discussing in this meeting and whether or not theyre making any progress . Well, diane, the point here is whether or not to amend this bill, to change this bill or bring this bill, the proposal that passed the senate last evening up to the house floor to a vote. This is a decision that Ho