takes us on a journey of strange travel suggestions in his one-man show. coming up next. belva: good evening. i m belva davis and welcome to this week in northern california. joining me tonight on our news panel are jim carlton, reporter with the wall street journal. amy allison, publisher of oaklandscene.com. carla marinucci, political reporter with the san francisco chronicle. carla, governor jerry brown called for a special election on june 6th to try to solve the state s budget problems. what has been the reaction from both political parties and the public? well, you know, the reaction this week belva has been interesting because this is a drama like california has never seen. we saw this week in the chamber, 14-minute speech, this is his eighth state of the state address. and you could see this one was different from any other one we ve seen. this is a governor who is an experienced politician, who knows this stuff inside and out, who knows these people in the
takes us on a journey of strange travel suggestions in his one-man show. coming up next. belva: good evening. i m belva davis and welcome to this week in northern california. joining me tonight on our news panel are jim carlton, reporter with the wall street journal. amy allison, publisher of oaklandscene.com. carla marinucci, political reporter with the san francisco chronicle. carla, governor jerry brown called for a special election on june 6th to try to solve the state s budget problems. what has been the reaction from both political parties and the public? well, you know, the reaction this week belva has been interesting because this is a drama like california has never seen. we saw this week in the chamber, 14-minute speech, this is his eighth state of the state address. and you could see this one was different from any other one we ve seen. this is a governor who is an experienced politician, who knows this stuff inside and out, who knows these people in the
and travel writer jeff greenwald takes us on a journey of strange travel suggestions in his one-man show. coming up next. belva: good evening. i m belva davis and welcome to this week in northern california. joining me tonight on our news panel are jim carlton, reporter with the wall street journal. amy allison, publisher of oaklandscene.com. carla marinucci, political reporter with the san francisco chronicle. carla, governor jerry brown called for a special election on june 6th to try to solve the state s budget problems. what has been the reaction from both political parties and the public? well, you know, the reaction this week belva has been interesting because this is a drama like california has never seen. we saw this week in the chamber, 14-minute speech, this is his eighth state of the state address. and you could see this one was different from any other one we ve seen. this is a governor who is an experienced politician, who knows this stuff inside and ou
easier ways of moving as it relates to working with neighborhood groups and trying to work towards certain goals and the greater good for the city and none of us have an agenda other than to try to live in a more livable city. to the extent that we can work together on some of the other orphan blocks and ceqa reform and if we could work on it together, then great. so thank you. thank you for all your work on this. president miguel: commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: i have some questions and concerns. anmarie, i have a question for you, please. thanks. part of many of the things that are in here, i think everyone agrees with. but there are a couple of things that the division of dwelling units. i think we talked about that and what happened was on market octavia, there was a hybrid that applies from the safeway west, i guess, and where they don t have the open ability to create unlimited number of units within the framework. in other words, they need to abide
impair neighbors historic resources within the district if department s conclusions remain unchanged. the project as proposed would not relate in a significant impact to an historic resource. again, to recap, the 3,300 square foot project site at the southwest corner of valencia and hill streets is not located within any potential or established historic district. the proposed project would replace an existing commercial building with a five-story, 50-foot high, approximately 16,000 square foot building with 6 residential units over a ground floor and full service restaurant. the existing 1,700 square foot, 100-story building ormgally in use as a kentucky fried chicken is now occupied by sp orbing by spork restaurant. there will be no decision to approve or disapprove the proposed project. the hearing is on the environmental document only. the commission may at a future discretionary hearing weigh the staff recommendation on the merits of the project. the decision before th