Definitions for drinking and eating uses in the planning code and it was reduced to three. It was based on alcohol consumption. A bar owning alcohol. And a limited restaurant, no alcohol. We were able do this because the city had adopted controls which made the different layers of restaurant definitions unnecessary. So we had definitions that said, if you serve in disposable cups, youre this kind of restaurant. If you order at the counter, youre this kind of restaurant. We simplified that to three basic things. For those in controls, we left the fullservice restaurant the same, but permitted limited restaurants without alcohol, through most of the city and obtained existing prohibition on neighboring retail and commercial districts through that. So recently we developed our cb3 process, which is community, processing program. For qualifying businesses, it requires conditional use authorize, hearing date in 90 days, placement on the consent calendar. No guarantee they stay on consent, b
Have in Environmental Health. In addition to that, i wanted to say that we are trying to streamline our inspection process so its more riskbased following the center for disease controls five major issues that cause foodborne illness. And supervisor peskin has sponsored that. Its been before you, so we will become more in line with the counties around us using red, yellow, green. So its consistent as you move from county to county, and also Restaurant Owners are not seemingly punished because they have a broken tile in the back. Or a broken tile in their bathroom. Or they just dont seem at that time to have paper towels or soap in the bathroom. So its really punishing them in that way where they lose points, this is more riskbased. Its based on food temperatures, food storage. Hand washing, if they dont wash their hands and finally where the source of their food comes from. So were making changes to the way that Environmental Health has operated in the past. And were moving forward wit
The most walk us through a peer started with college peer. It was just my 10 year reunion so [laughter] i did not attend i graduated 2009 from Wesleyan University with a degree in sociology. I just read in the wall street journal that 2009 was the worst job market for generations. I had the good fortune to walk straight into that. After my internships and my parents in music for a while i worked at a Literary Agency for a couple of years in new york. After that joined doing a netflix or ebook type. I was there just for three months. It was just supposed to be that i was the person that knew about books and publishing. It was a fourperson company want to join three of four founders. From there went to San Francisco and worked at a Data Analytics startup. At that it would be a great application for my sociology degree. Little did i know i wasnt what they were looking for. I did the 18 months which is probably the longest 18 months of my life. And i really like to work in a Company Buildi
The most backwards process imaginable. Walk us through it starting with college. Going with college, itwas just my 10 year reunion. I did not attend. I graduated in 2009 from wesley and university with a degree in sociology. And i just read in the wall street journal 2009 was the worst job market for generations so i had the good fortune to walk straight into that. And after a bunch of internships and living with my parents, working in music, i work in publishing at a Literary Agency for a few years in new york and after that joined a startup was doing a sort of netflix or ebooks type of app. I was there sort of it was supposed to bethe person you know about books and publishing. It was a fourperson company when i joined. Three of you were founders. And from there i went to San Francisco and iworked at a Data Analytics startup. Which i thought would be a great application of my sociology degree. Little did i know not exactly ebooks but i did that for 18 months and it was probably the l
There will many stories of people looking out for one another. We begin our Team Coverage with laura anthony. Shes opinibeen helping our sis station all day. Shes live now in katy, texas north of houston. Reporter this is where weve been all day. Focus of a lot of efforts here in terms of the rescue and bringing people out. You can see behind me, this is a neighborhood called cinco ranch. Its in katy, texas. Were west of houston. The situation despite the fact it hasnt been raining that much has gotten worse over the last 24 hours. Lets show you what it looked like earlier today when we went out on a boat. These are just citizen rescue crews that have come here. We saw the national guard. The ones that are making the most effort or having the greatest affect are actually the citizen rescuers. These guys came with their own boat, a flat bottom boat. We went out with them. They were taking calls tr people who wanted to get rescued. We were riding along with them. We went through these ne