it was just slide of two years ago i should say just north of two years ago, from the board on which charlotte served and the great inspiration was from a real veteran, a man who carries the title of general. he announced the arrival of the carriage just earlier, but more importantly, he cobbled together a real idea that the veterans beautiful memorial must be complete and must be done. mayor lee, not only did the bechtels generously give of their own to this effort, but they did what we politicians love to do, and that is scilicet it from our friends, additional help. this project received the benefit of that great mailing list. i wish i could get my hands on it because it produced almost as much as they had given, completed the payment, and made the good general very, very happy as well as his board. ladies and gentlemen, words from steven that bill bechtel. [applause] thank you. we still call you meier, don t we? you can, if he does not mind. we still call you mayo
addressed, i lived at i live nine floors up, and the 150 tenants there also experience this nice. i live on the ninth floor, and i hear the noise. i do not understand the 50-fed or 10-foot distance. noise troubles upwards. i do not know travels upwards. we also have these three-wheel scooters, the blast out amplification if you are walking. we re trying to make this a sustainable walking city. there is nothing worse than the smell of diesel and being blasted with the same script over and over. i do not know if you are including this. i very much appreciate the local tour bus are forming the association, but it is such a heavy burden for us to enjoy the quality of life if we have to take the license plates, the numbers, the time and date of the person violating this. how do we find out who is local working with us? who is out of town? it is an important issue because these buses blocking driveways. this is our home. it becomes a city that is very difficult to live in. we s
ok. conversation? the captain again. i have no objections to this venue. vice chair joseph: thank you so much. i appreciate that. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. this group of owners owns a number of really great venues around town. we do not have any problems with them usually at all. the venues are upscale and great in my experience. this particular location i have looked at. it is underground. i think noise will not be an issue because of where it is. i wish you a lot of luck. i am glad someone is developing that space. it is screaming to have someone develop it. having said that, i would like to entertain a motion. i moved to approve this permit. commissioner perez: aye. commissioner tan: aye. vice chair joseph: aye. good luck to you. item number six, commissioners comments and questions. commissioner perez: i am working on the collateral sale at monday. we are looking forward to that. vice chair joseph: good job. this is something
there would have been a problem because in both of those towns, there is only one street, and it has already been named main street. it is breathtaking to think that a street here is named for george and myself. coming in on the carriage, i rather like that. the surprise is i guess that they are giving us the carriage and horses? i cannot wait to arrive at the opera. mayor, do you think we should get some permits for the horse and carriage on russian hill? i don t know. seriously, everybody knows that has ever talk to me more than a few minutes that i am passionate about these buildings. i have had the opportunity of being involved with the bond issues for the symphony hall, the restoration of the opera house, and, of course, the city hall, may gift helping mayer brown with that a bit helping mayor brown. it was said that the only thing that was not done when these buildings were built is the memorial for veterans because we ran out of money. have you all heard about that
dates and times and locations in this brochure to make sure you can be part of the process and that more community conversations like this can happen with your thoughts, your ideas, and your energy and investment. thank you, everyone. have a good night. [applause] let me thank the marine corps division band and the color guard for joining us and making this such a very special occasion. let me welcome each and every one of you on behalf of the war memorial opera house board, last that i come for dissipate, and they extend an invitation to each one of you to for this update because this retired member of the united states marine corps, a veteran and his wonderful wife, george n. charles schulz george and charlotte shultz. this afternoon, we are doing something that, frankly, should have been done a long time ago. in this city, when the concept of a memorial for veterans what spurs done, they said it would be right here. of course, we have finally, after many, many tries, g