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disinterred plays of solidarity in ukraine today. this afternoon, first lady jill biden making an unannounced trip into the western part of the country. there she met a school and also met with ukraine s first lady. the first time american diplomats have been in the capital since the war began. and canadian prime minister met face to face with ukraine s president zelenskyy. zelenskyy also holding a call with president biden and g 7 leaders who all agreed to phase out russian imports. the timing of this, it s a show of unity, and it s no putin marks victory day. the holiday will include an over the top military disinterred play. you re looking right now at this week s practice run. monday s parade will celebrate a massacre in ukraine. it shelled a school sheltering 90 civilians looefg behind that smoldering pile of rubble you see there. scott, we got word of this attack about 24 hours ago, now we re hearing from some of the survivors. what have you learned? reporter: ....
commission about getting involved in or making a condition of approval a private agreement among or between private parties. and so to make a private agreement a condition of approval for the commission is often fraught with legal difficulties. one other thought i had, and perhaps this is where commissioner johnson was going with the development agreement thought is that there are other circumstances in which the city establishes an opt-in program. maybe home sf is an example, that a developer may choose to avail themselves of a particular set of benefits that the city offers in return for which the developer may offer more than is otherwise sort of the baseline requirements, so there are other mechanisms that the city could use and other circumstances where the city could have these additional requirements as part of sort of an opt-in program where a development gets a particular set of benefits from the city, and then, would agree to offer additional community types o ....
perthe chair, he s allowed to ask, but i just get tired of people rushing to the podium, please. commissioner fong: i ll ask you, what is the relationship, official or not with la cocina, because obviously it s a great local organization. yeah, i m sorry for sort of rushing up. we ve been working with them for a long time, number of months, not years. there is nothing written. there is an mou out there. both sides are committed to working together, and i don t want to speak for people who are not here, but there are reasons just beyond what s on the paper why someone isn t here from la cocina as to their commitment on this program. commissioner fong: okay. and regarding the art program, what is the understanding with regard to any potential art programs, are they on a pdr space or on actual physical walls at the moment, and mr. hernandez has brought up if there s going to be any opportunity, let s keep it local. well, what we ve done is retain a local district to ....
supervisor: second. commissioners, since we have time not that we want to sit and debate the design, since commissioner richards has provided a dissenting voice on the facade, but it sounds like a majority of the commission is okay with the facade as is, i will weigh in from the urban design teams perspective, we did find the facade was a good way of knitting the building with the existing elements. it would help to provide a strong reelthshlationship to we existing relationship is, so it was a nice meld of new and old. vice president richards: i agree on the intent. it s just the result, so was there talk of a set back of even 3 feet or 5 feet? i don t think there was talk of a set back. because of its location on the corner, we felt strongly that the massing needed to anchor the corner, so maybe we could work with the architect to find a detail to find more reveal on the facade, and i m sure knowing the architect, it s something he can potentially find and ex ....
esteemed board of supervisors for the prestigious honor, something i feel i have not earned or deserve, with all due respect, though i would say this honor is something i would accept on behalf of my fellow artists in the city and wherever they are working hard behind the scenes to follow their visions and dreams of making the world a more beautiful place with their art. i m also sincerely grateful to the friends and folks here today for the support you have all shown the artists in your life. transcends ethnic labels and for me a more universal identity. always be grateful to the city i love to be part of the fabric of life here and follow my dreams to become an artist. san francisco has always been a magical place from my childhood, although i was not born here, my two sons were. i m a kid of the 1960s, and those were for me formative years in art school, i give thanks to richard stevens, the director of the original academy of art for the working scholarship. he alwa ....