Hello and welcome to the program. Im emily angry and the detention of dozens of people working in the media in india has been condemned by journalists organizations as well as press freedom and civil Rights Groups for the beach. I paid government says the rights were carried out to protect National Security, claiming media organizations are using secret chinese funding to undermine the states. Itd be j pays opponents say the Police Action is a sign of a 3rd, a version of press freedom in a country, often price for being the Worlds Largest democracy. So what is happening to india is media, and just how free is journalism that will be discussing all that and will without guess shortly. But 1st, this report from baghdad. My history, the media office rates and journalists question seems that are becoming common in india. On tuesday, it was the turn of a news portal, critical of the government. Police search, the office of news, click, and the homes of several of its writers. Dozens of them
Thank you, come to the podium please. Good afternoon, commissioners, the Ruth Goldberg building, she is on her way but i think we might miss our opportunity so i went ahead and jumped up. We want to thank you for being placed on the nofr 19 agenda, we are moving forward, were excited about our report and the progress in trying to preserve our building. Thank you so much and well see you on the 19th. Any other member of the public wish to speak on an item not on our agenda . Seeing none we will close Public Comment. Commissioners, that will place you under department matters. Item 1, department report. Tim fry, department staff. The directors report was included in your packets. Happy to answer any questions you may have about the report. Seeing no questions, we will move on. Item 2, review of past events at the Planning Commission, staff report and announcements. Commissioners, again tim fry, department staff. Nothing to report from previous Planning Commission hearings, just wanted to
Commission hasz, here. Commission johnck, here. Commissioner john, here. And commissioner matsuda. Here. Members of the public may address the commission on items of interest that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except for agenda items. With respect to agenda items your opportunity to speak will be afforded when the agenda is reached. I have no speaker cards. Thank you, come to the podium please. Good afternoon, commissioners, the Ruth Goldberg building, she is on her way but i think we might miss our opportunity so i went ahead and jumped up. We want to thank you for being placed on the nofr 19 agenda, we are moving forward, were excited about our report and the progress in trying to preserve our building. Thank you so much and well see you on the 19th. Any other member of the public wish to speak on an item not on our agenda . Seeing none we will close Public Comment. Commissioners, that will place you under department matters. Item 1, department report.
Respond to in writing in the comments and responses document and i believe what you are ruefr r referring to is the alternatives considered but rejected section. We will provide some more detail in response to your question in the cr anything else . I have a lot of comments but i can wait until later. Okay, commissioner johns. Has there been a presentation of this item to the commission before i arrived . There hasnt . I guess im surprised about that and was expecting that today, that there would be a presentation in order to, that we can look at the environmental document in context and particularly environmental documents, while absolutely critical to the understanding of the project, they can be kind of mechanical and kind of functional and what you miss is an overall vision for what were trying to achieve here. Because this is a huge change in the city, its very exciting but lets say i was expecting a presentation. And the other question i have, at some point i think it would be im
Compatible with the historic structure while being clearly differentiated will not result in the removal of historic fabric and the historic character of the landmark building will be preserved. The new kiosk will have nonhistoric material and will be configured to retain the arches, columns and Spatial Relationships that characterize the north arcade. Installation of the new retail kiosks will allow the full width of the arcade to be more visible than is the case with the existing steel storage structures and a 10 foot wide corridor will be maintained the length of the arcade to provide continuity with the historic circulation patterns. The proposed design utilizes materials that are characteristic of the building and employs a design aesthetic that is clearly contemporary but does not compete with the Architectural Expression of the arcade or the embarcadero facade of the Ferry Building. In order to ensure that the details of the design are consistent with the character and visible q