it is inconceivable that thomas sherman was not familiar with the concept of the commons. his properties were very clearly important to sherman. right after he finished construction he and his wife moved into the corner building at 3700 broderick and remained there many years. he only worked on the sherman every bit was to landscape and hone erring the tradition of the marina gardens respecting the 8 and 10 foot patterns and bringing design traditions of the commons to san francisco. ~ project sponsor might ask if this side yard was so important to mr. sherman why didn't he include a deed restriction on the property. and the answer, of course, is that thomas sherman like i saw was a product of his time and place. he would no more have recorded a deed restriction on this property than he would have asked his wife ivy for a prenuptial agreement. it simply would have been inconceivable. to him and other marina residents, side yards were clearly intended for permanent preservation at the full width at which they were designed. just want to briefly return to the k 1490 san fran

we're not appealing his decision of where the rear yard s but we want to make the point again, thomas sherman traded off that rear yard for the side yard. it is chris -- crystal clear from the sand born map. most of the open space in this lot is on the side yard. most of the open space for this block is completely blocked from these small buildings and the dark green that mr. armor showed you, yes, they have a small, you know, usable open space together, a visual open space, but it pales in conpair son to the normal large space when we expect the mid-block open space. i think really that summarizes everything. i'd like to thank the neighborhood so much. it's the neighborhoods who we depend on ho help us decide what is important in the neighborhood ~ and i think they have spoken to us clearly today. >> thank you. project sponsor, you have a two-minute rebuttal. >>> i just want to address a couple of points with respect to the timing of the compromise proposal. you know, during the time that we've been discussing things with the neighbors and with their representative, all we ever got from them

and the answer, of course, is that thomas sherman like i saw was a product of his time and place. he would no more have recorded a deed restriction on this property than he would have asked his wife ivy for a prenuptial agreement. it simply would have been inconceivable. to him and other marina residents, side yards were clearly intended for permanent preservation at the full width at which they were designed. just want to briefly return to the k 1490 san francisco street. you heard this july 2012. corner building adjacent with property line windows. planning department designated the side yard as the rear quader. buff you all recognized it was a side yard to the adjacent building. [speaker not understood] was to add an outdoor deck onto the noncomplying garage. the commission uniformly concurred and mentioned the fact that, yes, side yards are important to the marina, especially that in that they are overlooked by property line windows also characteristic of the neighborhood. commissioner antonini stated for the testimony in that hearing that there were several types of side yard

enders and say we will govern, we will govern this nation in the tradition of george sherman, of james madson, of thomas jefferson by listening to the other side. by shutting down the extremes and thinking about the long-term interests of this great contry. mr. speaker -- country. mr. speaker, with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. cclintock, for five minutes. mr. mcclintock: thank you, mr. speaker. a crisis is not a good time for inflammatory rhetoric or other attacks. i believe that my colleague from connecticut just missed the mark a moment ago when he threw out terms such as dead enders and extremists, and i'll simply say that yesterday the president missed an opportunity to bring both sides together. that responsibility now rests solely with us. nobody on the republican side of the aisle wants to see a government shut down or a credit default, let's make that clear. and i'm confident that nobody on the democratic side wants to see millions of americans lose the health plans they were

vicksburg in which general sherman sent the guys up the entrenched, and they got mowed down, and so it was an incredibly horrible defeat for the union, and a reporter named thomas knox for the herald were there, not albert and junius. they were elsewhere. junius kept missing, somehow missing battles. he's kind of funny in his ineptitude, but knox wrote a dispatch, sent it back, and they sent it in the mail bag with the union army boats, and general sherman who hated reporters, thought they were akin to spies, he had his fact totem take the reporters' letters from the mail bag, open them up, and sherman read them, got mad at knox, had him court march shammed as a supply, was not shot, could have been, but sent out of the army and forbidden to ever enter the army again. richardson, who really had a talent for moving and shaking among powerful people, after fredericksburg, he heard from washington, had a reporter and politicians and others sign it and took it to see lincoln along with the guy named winchel from the "new york times," and they went to see lincoln, and lincoln met them, listened to them, and basically said, well, i agree that loyal reporters should b

of funny in his ineptitude, but thomas knox wrote the dispatch to send back and put it in an envelope and put in the mail bag with the union army boats. and general sherman who hated reporters, he had, told them take the reporters letters out of the mailbag and open them up, and sherman redden and he got really mad at knox and had them court-martialed as a spy, and he was convicted and he was not shot which i guess he could've been but was sent out of the army and forbidden ever to enter the army again. so richardson, who really had a talent for moving and shaking among powerful people, after fredericksburg he went back to washington and heard about this, and so he got a petition and had reporters and some politicians and others signed it and took it to see lincoln, along with a guide named winchell from the new times. they went to see lincoln. lincoln met them and listened to them and basically said, well, i agree, you know, loyal reporters should be allowed to cover this. he said i will write to general grant telling him that he should let knox come back into the union line. and then he wrote that an albert was thrilled, and he said, you know, the gene