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New challenges for nato me get more from london. And the death of a good pop star in 3 months spots an intense debates among the pressures young celebrities face in south korea. I dont welcome. Thanks for your company we begin with some breaking news at this hour germany has expelled 2 Russian Diplomats working at the Russian Embassy in berlin and this follows a decision by federal prosecutors to take over the case for georgian citizen killed in berlin in what this suspect russian or chechen involvement was that of the victim a national was shot dead in the park in central but in last august german prosecutors believe russian intelligence agencies. To the killing a russian citizen it was addressed to the scene of the shooting russia denies any involvement. So long to story lets go straight to our Political Corre ....
Transportation committee for monday, september 16, 2019. Im the chair of this committee, aaron peskin, joined by vice chair supervisor safai and to my left, supervisor haney. And were joined by supervisors fewer and mandelman. Our clerk is erica major. Any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speakers cards to be included as part of the file be given to the clerk. Supervisor peskin could you please read the first item . Item number 1 is ordinance amending the plumbing code to delete the local amendment to the california code referring to the San FranciscoPublic Utilities rules and regulations and Cross Connection control, affirming appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin thank you. Are there any representatives from the department of building inspection or ....
Today. Im available if you have questions. Supervisor fewer any questions or comments . Supervisor peskin could you remind us of your name . Katy sherping. Supervisor fewer you mentioned many of the permits being streamlined. Which ones are you streamlining . The legislation that was signed last week did a number of things. I may not have them all off the top of my head. It reduced some of the duplicate inspections that would happen. If you did a buildout and apply for an entertainment, you would have to do that again. So that goes away. There are other areas where we updated our health code for example to be more in line with state health code around when restrooms are required to be accessible for patrons. This expands opportunities for businesses to, for example, have like a small coffee cart or Something Like that without having to provide a restroom for their customers. There were a number of other pieces of this legislation. ....
Definitions for drinking and eating uses in the planning code and it was reduced to three. It was based on alcohol consumption. A bar owning alcohol. And a limited restaurant, no alcohol. We were able do this because the city had adopted controls which made the different layers of restaurant definitions unnecessary. So we had definitions that said, if you serve in disposable cups, youre this kind of restaurant. If you order at the counter, youre this kind of restaurant. We simplified that to three basic things. For those in controls, we left the fullservice restaurant the same, but permitted limited restaurants without alcohol, through most of the city and obtained existing prohibition on neighboring retail and commercial districts through that. So recently we developed our cb3 process, which is community, processing program. For qualifying businesses, it requires conditional use authorize, hearing date in 90 days, placement on the consent calendar. No guarantee they stay on consent, b ....