Scenes pictures and videos, author information and to talk directly with authors during our live programs. Facebook. Com booktv. [inaudible conversations] [applause] good afternoon. Im gene mccormack, and Jean Mccormack, and i have the privilege of serving as the president of the edward m. Kennedy institute for the United States senate. Welcome to the heart of the institute, our replica chamber, where every day senators in training are debating the issues that matter. Yesterday we had a wonderful 8yearold stand in opposition to something and be very articulate. I always think when i see that, that senator kennedy would smile. We are delighted to have so many of you here with us today for this program which celebrates the new book, lion of the senate, by our own board member, nick littlefeld and our alumni, david nexon, and welcome to many alumni who served with senator kennedy. As we often say, you may be off the payroll, but youre never off the staff. [laughter] were here happy to hav
Train. Yes. Id like to add that under the ada and the fair housing some of the processes are already in place were not recreating the wheel certainly working with our office to sort of lay out the legislation and a to make it an easy transition. Commissioners is there a motion . Commissioner antonini. Yeah, ill recommend adaptation of this policy. Second. Commissioners on that motion to adapt a recommendation for approval commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards sxhovrng and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on item 15 ab for case numbers 1140 fulsome street a request for conditional use authorization as well as a request for a large project authorization. Good afternoon, commissioners Rick Department staff the project is a large authorization conditional use authorization and planned Unit Development so far the proposed development on fulsome street the prop
Narrows at the point where the driveway comes out to people have to go an extra difference where the street narrows its a difficult turn and the preservation of a human scale in the city with the intention of fulsome street as grand boulevard theres a tension between grand boulevard and our western selma plan that preserving the small streets theyre part of town with if i parks and provide respite for residential neighborhoods and bicyclists and our preservation of residential enclaves preserves all the things we have walkability and vicinitycy and Pedestrian Safety but we need time to work this out democratically and ralph street is not a Service Corridor and shouldnt be treated as one thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, im Jerry Jessica a homeownership on ralph street and thank you for hearing our comments im in favor of this development and i and i appreciate how the developers have worked with the community and im asking for a continuance because of the concerns about the drive
Town hall meeting i was in at the scene i ask the lgbt representatives how much are you going to pay us for thank you for the opportunity our lives upside down and when after repeated the response from lgbt was theres no lay that says we have to do that. My partner and i are sdanld with hiv and aids we cant work we know people that are suffering from kidney failure and skansz cancer and lgbt has demonstrated a lack of good well and good faith and moral obligation to the neighborhood tenants who lives and health had been permanently effected by this development anticipated noise occasions and excavation and pile driving and toxic air quality resulting from the construction will have a Significant Impact on us and our health and our daily lives and this Construction Activity may require us to move out of our home and potentially out of San Francisco a devastating blow to our lives with and aids due to a loss of medical services we have to stay within the city limits before allowing lgbt
calling names . Im im martha i live on ralph street for 18 years im a member of the ralph student neighbors some are following on line asking for a continuance of this matter i especially want to thank april from sdmmz office to support United States we need a continuance to work out where the driveway should be this is not about the developers responsibly were not opposing is one hundred and 12 units theyve worked with us on many, many issues we pleased theyre asking for 84 units we look forward to continue to work with the developers weve dealt with george hourser in 1988 and but those guys are we have we wrote to the Planning Department they issued about driveways and alleys in general began on october 29th why they want criterias on ralph this was a document from the Directors Office yesterday morning about garages on alleys thats a short time between then and today theyre full of wrong assumptions we could have corrected if we were involved but we were not now we finally had a goo