Disruptions of any kind. Proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president hillis commissioner Vice President richards commissioner fong commissioner koppel commissioner melgar and commissioner moore. Commissioners, that places you under your is consideration of items proposed for continuance number 1888 tennessee street large project authorization is proposed for continuance to april 27, 2017. Commissioners further under our discretionary review calendar items 12 ab 659 guerrero street discretionary review and variance staff is prop a one week continuance commissioners sort of oddly enough 4 drs with filed during the notification period we received a 5 dr requester that was filed on valentines day february 14th that dr requester is unable to attend todays hearing to afford that person due process i think we have at least continue is one week. I do know that the dr requester
Public access. Over 2,000 pages of the documents the eir never addresses the impact of confining the public to trails. There are lots of comments about this during consultation on the draft but no response from planning. Eve inen in the response memoes they never address this ground of our appeal. Small. Rpd smalled the signs in the natural areas in 2015. Do they mean we cant walk off trail . The ramp says off trail access isnt allowed in ma 1 and 2. The signs indicate this applies to all the natural areas and last weekend i had the opportunity to watch lisa wayne leading a Walking Group in mclaren park and fielding questions from a grup of 30 people. When asked of the intent of the sign the least sensitive areas will be off limits. This means the plan asks us to give a quarter of our park land in the city to this program instead of parks wealver a few trails to walk through the areas where we used to play, picnic and explore. These maps show two things, they show trail closures and fe
Quality of life issue. I urge you not to allow the forest to be destroyed by mismanagement, dont allow trail tooz be closeed restricting access to parks stop the use of poison in the parks and vote to snd the eir back to planning deparchlt. Thank you. Thank you for the comments. Next speaker, please. Commissioners, my name is vick malhone a resident of mera loma park and want to underlying concepts that might be influencing how this whole remodeling of the eco system is going on. The conspt of restructuring a ekey system to a prior time may appeal to personal vanity but challenges realty. Applying the label Invasive Species sumes there is a no baseline or eco system populated by non native species. Is this realty . Who defines what constitute said a eco system. What date was choseen. 10 million or 5 thousand years ago or yesterday . We are dealing with a artificial contruckt here and obvious the definition of a native habitat is artificial construct and simply a guess. It also implies
Plane when attendants get on and tell everyone to turn off their phones. Samsung shares in asian trading, lets take a quick look, down about 8 at the moment. Samsung strugsles have helped shares of apple we should note because the stock jumped hitting its highest levels since december. So well see if really all those folks that were getting samsung you running to the apple store. Because we actually had at t mobility ceo on squawk alley yesterday and i asked him are people actually getting, you know, sort of shuffled into other devices and he said no they are likely to get an earlier samsung device than switch to another carrier. They like the eco system and like it and stick with something they know. Were you able to see what we showed the picture . I did. Charred. Youre not surfing the web any more. No phone calls or anything. Right . Wow. Talk about a phone named brick. There it is. Its not funny. But wow. That would be frightening in your pocket. Thats what they say. In your purse.
Areas of fog this morning, but most areas are not reporting any problems. Temperatures are holding in the mid to upper 50s this morning and should warm up nicely today with southerly winds helping out. They are 5 to 15 mph today but will end up 1020 gusting higher. Clouds will track out for this morning and leave us mostly sunny today, but there is another system to our west that brings a change for a few days. Highs today will be very mild in the 70s with gusty south winds. That changes tomorrow, though, with northwest have more on that forecast in a few minutes. Four weeks from today america heads to the polls. This president ial race is more polarized than ever. Tracie potts is in washington this the republican party. Special prosecutor, here we come, right . Donald trump, defiant as ever, promising more to come if they wanna release more tapes, saying inappropriate things well continue to talk about bill and Hillary Clinton doing inappropriate things. Its caused a big rift in the r