Flooding. Winter weather watch is in effect from maine down to the carolinas. Some areas expecting 18 inches of snow with bone chilling temperatures to follow. Live coverage from Lauren Blanchard in Atlantic City new jersey where the governor has declared a state of emergency. Reporter up and down the east coast the storm blamed for multiple deaths plus it is knocked out power to 100,000 customers. This is heavy. It is heavy snow. Reporter a massive storm system technically known as a bomb cyclone blasting the northeast on thursday. It is coming out heavy. Reporter delivering heavy snow up to 18 inches. Hurricane force winds triggering blizzard warnings from North Carolina to maine. We stay here until tomorrow night. Reporter forcing thousands of Flight Cancellations and stranding travelers. Our flight was canceled. We never got information it was being canceled. Now we are delayed. We are not sure we will be flying out anytime soon. Reporter massachusetts has been seeing flooding with
Like last year and previous years. Maybe not the drought years but i dont want people to crush the cars or anything because of the weather, but it felt good. We dont want to hear any talk about the drought right . Right, you want the rain we want the snow in this year as well. My drive was White Knuckle all the way. I got off of 580 and took five streets to get here. I saw three ambulances. I was watching you as you give me that heads up for the accident by gilman and i left home early because of that. So thank you. Steve and i have been here since 4 00. Steve, coming here. We were on the air at 4 00. Yes, but this is how it used to be. I am trying to bring it back. It seems like it is all or nothing. There is no rain at all or we are getting too much. This system is making its presence felt from south to north although there have been the most amount over parts of marin county into berkeley and emeryville as well is kensington. In Alameda Pam Nolan says the Current Situation is we are
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
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
Neighborhood commercial district capacity to promote and market their area, to care for the public realm and to activate public space. We think that there should be some changes potentially with storefront regulations and Design Guidelines and aaron just gave a couple examples of some of the ways this those affect Small Businesses in commercial districts, particularly looking at more flexiblity in some areas is one of the implications of our study about what goes in the ground floor and reducing barriers to combining uses within a storefront, the accessory use. We didnt spend much time talking about curb management policy, but clearly, theres a lot of competing pressures on curbs, and so we need to keep in mind the Overall Health of the corridor and the needs of Small Businesses, and we would be open to working with mta and the Small Business community to think through how these pressures and major transit improvement projects taken together some lead to some changes. And then finally,