Thats where the rubber hits the road in this stuff. I dont think this is going to come back while i agree with commissioner hillis, but i think that having an open application is better than having no application and although it will come back to us as something completely different, or some other way of overriding our zoning code to do the thing that we sort of, you know, without the bureaucratic wording of our codes would want to see happen. I think it is easier to do that when you have an application penting that you are working on versus starting from square zero, nothing. Commissioner moore . Im concerned about the psychology of people affected by it. When we put these things into indefinite continuance behind the scenes, things happen. Right or wrong. Which totally comes out of the limelight of those who will be affected by it and im concerned that for that reason. I do not want to create ambiguity and uncertainty relive to what it could potentially do to the affected parties who
People, but is there Public Comment on this . We had it. Did we not have it . We had it. We did call it. We did. A couple of people actually commented. Can i say one thing no. No. Unfortunately were done with Public Comment. But thank you. Commissioner moore . This requires further discussion as a discussion item, i think we should agendaize it as a generic discussion. And have the Department Talk to us in which Zoning Districts and what reason it is, and it is impossible, to have a clear metrics that we dont understand your double guessing. For this project to come back by the end of february as theyre currently asking for. And there will be a foremost disclosure and robust discussion in the room being allowed to comment in Public Comment and take it further potentially as a policy discussion beyond what this project challenges us to do. But i appreciate commissioner johnson raising it to a level of much broader discussion. Commissioners, i might recommend if you want you could do an
Think that having an open application is better than having no application and although it will come back to us as something completely different, or some other way of overriding our zoning code to do the thing that we sort of, you know, without the bureaucratic wording of our codes would want to see happen. I think it is easier to do that when you have an application penting that you are working on versus starting from square zero, nothing. Commissioner moore . Im concerned about the psychology of people affected by it. When we put these things into indefinite continuance behind the scenes, things happen. Right or wrong. Which totally comes out of the limelight of those who will be affected by it and im concerned that for that reason. I do not want to create ambiguity and uncertainty relive to what it could potentially do to the affected parties who are speaking in front of us, particularly because the issue was rent control and potentially b. M. R. Completely unanswered in this parti
Lot more normal for this time of year. Palo alto 38 degrees, Mountain View 38, san jose at 41 and santa rosa at 32 degrees. Todays temperature trend will be rather interesting. We have this trough sitting off of the pacific and thats going to bring a cooling air mass over the area. You might start seeing a combination of sun and clouds although right now its not very cloudy, but thats going to keep our temperatures in the 50s and low 60s for today. Believe it or not we are not expecting any 70s, even though earlier this week we hit daytime record highs. That will be interesting to watch and might each feel chilly in some spots. 62 degrees by 10 00 for santa clara. The Doppler Radar showing that upper level low ive been mentioning. I will talk about who is going to get the chance of possibly seeing a couple showers. Lets take you over to the Winter Olympics, if youve been watching you are there in spirit, maybe you want to experience the cold but maybe not. It is 9 degrees with a windch
China is the dragon. So youve got the dragon, and you have the great wall. And then the people, the men in this frame, are the men of guangdong province, or canton, where most chinese who came in 160 years ago came from. And the work that they did there was very difficult. They were farmers. They were laborers. Robert and that brings us to sue the second frame is where you have the man looking or hearing about the lure of Gold Mountain of america, of california particularly, and contemplating probably that he would be leaving his family behind his wife, his child, his children. And who knew when he would see them again . And yet, he did leave, because he needed to make a living and make sure that his family would be in good economicin a good economic situation, and searching for a better life, so he left. Robert historian connie young yus family was one of those pioneering families. Robert so what are we walking on . Connie young yu were walking on railroad ties, and i think its very s