For everyone through the nighttime hours. So no changes over the next five days. Its going to be hot and humid. Theres that storm chance every day the next five days. More coming up. Despite the humidity, plenty of people braved this blistering heat today. Cbs 2s Vanessa Murdoch live on the Upper West Side with more on how its going. Vanessa . Reporter well, dana, we are right now feeling el storms so nearby. You heard lonnie talk about rumbles of thunder. Well, look up. We have a storm cloud due site of us so we are not getting rained on but we are certainly hearing the thunder out here. Not a lot of sunshine at this point in time but that was not the case earlier today. The sun blared and burned up the blacktop. Heat index soared above 100. New yorkers we spoke to didnt excessive heat offensively hot. It offends my sensibilities that it is this hot it feels very muggy. Its very humid. Uncomfortable too hot for summer reporter why . Tell me why. Because in the wintertime, its freezing
Test, test, test, test, test test like to welcome everyone to the historic meeting for wednesday, september 18th. Please know that we doesnt allow any disruption. Like to take roll. calling names commissioners first on your calendar is general Public Comment and the public may address the items that are within the jurisdiction with expectation to agenda. Each member of the public may address the commission up to 3 minutes. I have no cards do i have any member of the public wishing to speak on items not on our agenda . Thank you then seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners that will place you under department matters. Good morning the director will be joining us shortly. However, the report contains the information and ill answer any questions commissioners any questions seeing none, well move on. Past reviews and announcements. Good afternoon week after a vacation. And the Planning Commission scald much of its meeting while this commission was off as well and i dont have a
For a community and people of color and for San Francisco at large. I brought a letter i know you require 10 or 15 but i hope you take s it and copy it on behalf of our department thank you, sir. And youll have other statements. Thank you. calling names . Commissioners thank you for your attention to this today. Im dr. Kenneth im here to ask you designate this maushg us bookstore the architect maintenance the soviet and the commercial facade around it. Still for me a sober and civic activists it should be designated as a landmark. The marcus has told stores and shaped there maushg us willing shaped the nation. Since most of you are going to hear many stories an for example, it was a site of numerous poetry and other arts. Maushg us what the save haven that shaped the phil more so still going on things. The owners julian and Ray Richardson provided the state for sober justice they provided the is that a for the constitute stylists who resolution listed the black studies and the college
Intellectualism. Its hosted so many incredible fingers like rosa parks and others. Its iconic and appropriate that the Historic Preservation has been asked to keep this historic plays. Only the occupants in that building a historic i think the buildings age and narrow escape disproves that. I would remind i thought National Regulatory that the commission uses the criteria says a building may receive historic landmark status because it has a board pattern of our history or are sobered with persons significant in our past. Without question this building rises to that level. Some have suggested that the Commission Delay considering this landmark status i commend we cant let that be deferred by its present circumstances. Nor can we see the time between the past and present. Orwells said he who controls the past controls the future. This is recognizing our history in japan town and so it may have a chance to survive in the future. History is not a static and landmarks dont survive on delay
We appreciate everyone the commission members, supervisor breed and everyone else who has come to our support important were not here to beg or ask for salvation but redemption. Again beside me is my lovely wife karen johnson. Someone mentioned the present vs. The past were the present. We now introduce you to a gentleman were going to go into our speaker cards. To the San Francisco Historic Preservation committee im with the San Francisco State University where i teach. Im the form leader of the San Francisco Civil Rights Movement when people could on the work in their own communities. We willing busting u busted open opportunities for a blacks. The store was the Historic Site first for japaneseamericans and they were incarcerated. And then from 6 to 45 thousand i know the history from julian who basically scald the scholarship in black studies. And before there was an installation called black studies this was an institution called marcus bookstore. Dr. Was the deepen of the college