is environmental review. i can t confirm what the environmental review might have been for the various components of the building code. commissioner johnson: okay. thank you. i think the reason i asked that question is particularly as it relates to the handling of livestock and disposal of remains, those activities broadly are covered under our existing codes, so, for example, i believe that halal method is different in the sense that you re not just dumping blood in sewers. i mean, the animals are blessed and they re processed for slaughter and processing, but where there is effluent or where there are other remains or materials, it seems that that s covered under our plumbing and green building code. specifically, i don t know where the disposal of effluent and blood would happen. the program is going to be required to go through additional review through the building department, as well as receive approvals through dph and possibly the state for disposal of the waste, t
those questions, and with due respect to the commission, knowing you ve had a long night, it s also difficult to convey the information that we d planned to convey in half the time that we thought we had, so thank you for calling me. thank you for calling me back up to make a couple of more points because they re the san francisco public utilities commission does have a program that regulates industrial uses and what they can put into into the sewage system, and so there s an industrial use permitting requirement in place that requires operations like these to divert solids and to divert biological wastes from the sewer system, and so what that s done, when the chickens are slaughtered, the blood is captured into a tank. the feathers are similar ly put into another container to hold them, as with the meat by-products. those are cleaned, they re put into air tight containers, and they re stored in an on-site facility for san teitary reaso and they re collected by darling,
dwellings allowed on the current lots. new lots are required to be 25 feet wide and possess a lot area of 2500 square feet, and then perplanning code section 134, projects with new dwelling units must maintain a rear yard equivalent to about 25% of the yard area. the proposal would create two new lot widths and would construct two new buildings without a required within the required rear yard. the department recommends approval of the conditional use authorization given the project sponsor s commitment to voluntarily designate i will note upon a site visit at those subject residence, we did only observe three dwelling units, although city records do record that there are four on the site, we only actually found three, of which two were occupied by tenants. the project sponsor has noted that the tenants will remain in place, and they ll provide more detail on that. after analyzing all aspects of the project, department staff recommends approval with conditions. specificall
we will go to houston and port arthur texas for the latest. we will speak with george about the crucial questions hurricane is not being asked about. another suspect in the brutal beating of deandre harris. he has been arrested. why has it taken so long when the beating was caught on film? we will speak with the reporter who interviewed deandre. there was all of this chaos going around. i felt myself getting hit. every time i got up, i lost consciousness and fell. and tooks picked me up me over there so i can get help. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. in texas, tropical storm harvey made a second landfall wednesday near the border with louisiana, bringing more rain and catastrophic flooding to the gulf coast as the death toll from the unprecedented storm rose to at least 38. on thursday, the city of port arthur, texas, which is 100 miles east of houston was completely under water. flood
back to school, he was a couple of hours to ourselves this morning and early this afternoon. clouds off to the west of us, the clouds will continue to move in this morning. i do expect by this afternoon is mostly sunny skies, just a slight risk of a passing shower or brief sprinkle this morning. otherwise, we will warm things back up in the upper 80s to near 90 degrees, boston on mid-80s to the north and west. we lower the afternoon, so it is more comfortable despite a muggy start. and if you do have the day off heading out to the beach, temperatures well into the 80s. more beach weather despite turning the page to september. your forecast is coming up. time now for fast track traffic, and here s daniel. happy monday to you. outside, here s the bridge heading into town. braintree to boston, northbound on boston, just about 12 minutes, and route 43 february 4, 1995, looking good. they will wrap things up as we head in and out of town on the pike did a little bit of traffic