0 here was the issue. the pennsylvania passes this new voter i.d. law in march. people that didn t have a driver s license, a government-issued photo i.d. could get the michigan state identification card. then the state said that can be used to board airplanes. we need all sorts of forms of identification. then the state changed its mind and said we ll issue a voter i.d. card that s different. only if you can t get the other card. then they changed their mind on that. the judge said i can t be sure. even though the state has now cured a lot of these problems, i can t be sure enough people are going to be able to get the right kind of identification to allow this law to go into effect. i m going to let the state continue to educate people about the need for photo i.d. i m going to let the state ask for photo i.d. atle positive, but enjoin the part of the law that requires voters to have photo i.d. people wanted it all put on hold. the judge said i don t need to go that far. there is alw
go that far. there is always the possibility the state could go back to the supreme court on this, but begin how skeptical the supreme court was when they looked at this a few weeks ago, i think it s over. that means that the new voter i.d. law for the most part will not go into effect in pennsylvania. people who oppose this law say the judge s ruling may create confusion. it leaves the impression you may have to have a photo i.d. law. he doesn t think that will be a problem, but he can t take the state s word that they are going to get all the problems fixed in time for the election. it s a big development with 20 electoral votes in pennsylvania. later we ll get reaction to this decision from former pennsylvania governor ed rendell and mayor michael nutter. who will bring the dynamite to denver? a little over the a day for the presidential debate. both president obama and mitt romney getting ready for their first face-off tomorrow night in colorado. doing the hefty lifti
announcing yesterday the good news 23,000 american troops will be home before the end of the summer from afghanistan. the bad news is that the rest of the troops won t be home until the end of 2014. in other words, this ol war is going to drag out for another two and a half years. hey, we will get into that from every angle and a lot of other stories this morning, but first here with the latest current tv news update, out in los angeles, jacki schechner. hi, jacki. hi, bill. good morning, everyone. as bill just mentioned, the big news this morning is that president obama is back in dc after his surprise visit to afghanistan where he marked the one year anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden. he plans to have 23,000 troops out of afghanistan by the end of the summer. he and president karzai signed a cooperation agreement yesterday outlining that transfer. the u.s. embassy in kabul is on lockdown and has cancelled all appointments after at least two major explosions r
need a permit? that is not a planning issue. i do not know if you need a permit to cut down a tree in your rear yard. that would be nothing the planning a program would be involved with. vice president goh: nothing the planning department would be involved with. vice president goh: thank you. president peterson: is there any public comment on this item? please step forward. good evening, commissioners. my name is peter roth well. i am one of the neighbors. i live next door to their current residents, four doors away from the proposed house. i am just here to support their bid to build the house they have been planning for many years. i think they are well within their rights, and the conditions in this situation are no different than many conditions in the city where you have neighbors close by. in fact, the neighborhood has very deep lots. i think the privacy issues are being overblown here. i just want to put my 2 cents in and support the project. president peterson:
den? patrick o reardon, senior building inspector and. commissioner garcia: i think my question was satisfied. if there is indeed a need to get an emergency permit for the foundation, that is separate from any of our process. generally speaking, the way that works if there is a compromise of the structure, they would submit to us a structural engineering report showing what the emergency work for repair, mitigation of that condition, would need to be. there would need to have one of our engineering staff go and evaluate at the site based on the report. the permit would be issued based upon our engineering staff concurring with their engineer s report showing an unsafe foundation that would be grounds for possibly issuing an emergency order and a permit for the repair of the foundation. commissioner garcia: thank you. commissioner hwang: typically, what is the turnaround time for such a permit? if it is thought to be an emergency, we generally get our stuff out immedi