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There is a beautiful view. This is towards San Francisco and you can see a whole lot better and we can actually see San Francisco this morning. Yesterday, it was covered in gray. Temperatures are also off to a cooler start with clearer skies and drier air moving in and we have temperatures of falling off this morning. You can see the afternoon approaching and temperatures are going to warm. We have 53 degrees in San Francisco and upper 40s in oakland and a mid40s over livermore and san jose is 49. We will see we are down by a few degrees in most areas down by six over oakland, cooler by 11 00 in napa and san jose is a degrees cooler. There is the cloud cover and it is a mix of cloudy skies and sunshine to start the day and you can see visibility maps, napa is reporting less than a mile at the airport, and everybody else is looking pretty good. The closer you get into the sacramento Central Valley, you can see the darker shade of gray indicating dense fog. If you have an early drive, th
Stories of desperate calls for help. Last i love youse and some found just outside their front doors. Cal fire determined the fire was caused by a faulty pg e transmission line. It destroyed roughly 19,000 buildings with most of the damage occurring in the first four hours. The day the fire broke out the town of paradise had a population of 26,000 people. So far only 3000 have moved back and one year later the number of destroyed homes that have been rebuilt stands at 11. The future paradise is bright. City Officials Say the rebuilding of 450 more homes is in the pipeline. Alex savidge has been in paradise all day and he joins us live with much more. Reporter there certainly is a lot of construction happening all over the town of paradise and surrounding communities. Tonight we are here at the Paradise Alliance church where fire survivors are gathering to honor the lives that were lost one year ago in the camp fire. While this is a somber day, a lot of people are also very hopeful, exp
This limit of five hearings would not apply. It would apply to most were people are not looking for exceptions to the planning code. They would most likely apply to these projects as well. The five the limit of five public hearings include can ten humans hearings and appearance and appeal hearings as well. Last category is the rules around unit replacement and Relocation Assistance in the event of existing units being removed as part of the developing projects. In general, any type of unit, if you have a project that proposes removing these units regardless who is living there, the project would have to produce the same or more units then the project being removed. There is also a definition of protected units in the bill which includes units that are housing household on section eight, housing choice it develop meant, belowmarket rate units, restricted affordable units, rentcontrolled units, units that were vacated by ellis active actions, in any unit that is occupied by a low income
Use development at 1066 Market Street. The project sponsor will provide you an overview of the installation. In march of 2016, the Commission Approved a conditional use authorization and provided downtown project authorization for the construction of a 12story building with approximately 300 dwelling units and 4500 square feet of retail space. Pursuant to planning code section 429, the project required a public art component valued at an amount of 1 of the Construction Costs of the development. The project sponsor has chosen to satisfy this requirement by installing a sculpture on the Market Street facade and the buildings main entrance. Ivan navarro is an artist that uses light as his primary medium. The cost of the proposed art is at least 1 of the hard Construction Costs. The piece will be visible from the public rightofway and is not considered an architectural component of the building. The projects condition of approval also requires that the final art concept and location be sub