Tamara Shopsintamara

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Occupy Planning Dept

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8:00 am: People trickle in one by one. A woman is starting a personal training business. She draws her floor plan on the back of a land use form. The city takes the plan though it is missing a dimension. …

Surf City

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Monday City hall looks like Charlie Chaplin’s studio. It was built as part of a WPA project. Peter Koht, our city contact introduces us to everyone. They give us coffee mugs and an office in IT. We call it the fish bowl …

Field trip: City Hall

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Pre-field trip: Debate on dress code – Blazers vs. Track Jackets Travel: Muni with clipper card tutorials for the bikers. SF City Hall Wiki trivia: Dome is the fifth largest in the world. Conference room: Freezing, fellows glad they had …