this is done all over the city. i would encourage the department to support the building. this should be lifted up to a level that is appropriate and we have homes of stature. these homes have a little bit more design. >> i appreciate the comments because i was thinking exactly the same thing. they are code compliant. first of all, the comment on construction is very standard and not before this commission. these are two bedroom homes and

they fulfil the density concept that the city is supporting. but these remind me of the homes that had only a change in balconies design. there is no reason why the second code could not be in a totally different material to that house and if this goes through, i a with like the architect to work with the department on it and create a visual impact is the neighborhood. >> i have a question. >> can you come up for a second? >> i should reveal but ms. davis

and i work together. don't they have design guidelines in place? >> yes, and the architect made great strides to comply. i emphasize that the designs are good and this is not anything that we are in a position to -- lot sizes and open space. the improvement club has reviewed the design as they have come out over the past several years and we think they have done a very good job. >> i think that staff should show continued to work and look at the surrounding buildings. i don't know the neighborhood that well, but the material seem to be somewhat simpler than the

variety on the building. >> it is not quite have the quality of the paint. the similarities have quite a bit of distinctive looks. course we want to ask the request your. i have a question. >> from our conversation, there are the setbacks which are before us for approval. is that your understanding or would you prefer to have further setbacks? >> there is an 18 inch set back on the upper level which i felt was a token measure.

in the second round of negotiations, at that point i was in the neighborhood. are there two houses or three houses. what i have objected to are the masses at is this. this is a solid wall there was a wonderful change in the rear design and the most recent offer and that was the second level set back. this was an additional 3 feet. we might have been avoided some of this if we had a more generous compromise. it is very pleased with the 3 foot setback. this does not look like a wall. this looks like a canyon on that whole side of the property line. he offered up on all three

properties and i thought that that was a very nice change. they did not change the height of the building. what they did change was a wing that was added. they did not lower them. the building has 10 ft stories and floors and we asked them to drop the height of the floors for the looming quality and they will reduce this. this has a 19 foot height. these are 21 or 22 in height and trying to bring it down to 19 would bring it down to some of the canyon creations. >> they have accommodated the setbacks and this is a little confusing. >> there's nothing in the current plan that you were shown, this was in the negotiations in february. >> was this in the plans? >> they are not.

this is part of the conditions. >> maybe i can talk to the project sponsor because i'm confused about what we have. the request years have said, i am trying to look at the pictures, there is a 3 foot setback. is this part of our plans? >> the current plans to not have 3 foot and this is my offer to miss taylor. for all the changes, we did not initiate, mr. greene asked us to do this. the offer to do 16 inches, we give him every item he asks for.

the reason that we go with this is that we could not stand it anymore because they keep on asking that is why we stopped at the 3 feet. the biggest problem is that we are looking in one area. this is only one parking. we go right through the car parking. we are reducing the length, this definitely reduces one car parking. >> you have your rear yard setback which makes it compliant and that is where the building against, i think this is 6 feet, i'm not sure how far that is from the property line. when you get above the first to

second floor, you. but to the third floor and that is where you have your said back. that is 42 inches, that might be the height as compared. >> that is the fate of the building. >> what i see was that there was a roof pattern that has been eliminated and now we have a more pitched roof instead of a roof that has a pitch. >> i have a sketch. i think i can see this. the one to make sure what i see is what will end up. >> this was lowered to two feet. the folding building height was lowered two feet. >> thank you.

>> this is an unusual pattern. you have the next floor and then the spaces on top. you only have so much space. i would rather see two homes. i think this is probably not enough for us to agree. >> the motion is to not approve the project as proposed. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> thank you, commissioners. you are now a general public

comment. >> is there any general public comment on items on the agenda? if not, the general public comment is closed and this hearing is finished. there are so many ways that the internet provides real access to real people and resources and that's what we're try to go accomplish. >> i was interested in technology like video

production. it's interesting, you get to create your own work and it reflects what you feel about saying things so it gives perspective on issues. >> we work really hard to develop very in depth content, but if they don't have a venue, they do not have a way to show us, then this work is only staying here inside and nobody knows the brilliance and the amazing work that the students are doing. >> the term has changed over time from a very basic who has a computer and who doesn't have a computer to now who has access to the internet, especially high speed internet, as well as the skills and the knowledge to use those tools effectively. . >> the city is charged with coming up with digital inclusion. the department of telecommunications put together a 15 member san francisco tech connect task force. we want the digital inclusion program to make sure we address

the needs of underserved vulnerable communities, not communities that are already very tech savvy. we are here to provide a, b and c to the seniors. a stands for access. b stands for basic skills and c stands for content. and unless we have all three, the monolingual chinese seniors are never going to be able to use the computer or the internet. >> a lot of the barrier is knowledge. people don't know that these computers are available to them, plus they don't know what is useful. >> there are so many businesses in the bay area that are constantly retiring their computer equipment that's perfectly good for home use. computers and internet access are helping everybody in the community and people who don't have it can come to us to help with that. one of the biggest problems we see isn't whether people can get computers through programs like ours, but whether they can

understand why they need a computer. really the biggest issue we are facing today is helping people understand the value of having a computer. >> immediately they would say can i afford a computer? i don't speak any english. how do i use it. then they will start to learn how to do email or how to go back to chinese newspaper to read all the chinese newspaper. >> a lot of the barrier still is around lack of knowledge or confusion or intimidation and not having people in their peer network who use computers in their lives. >> the important thing i learned from caminos was to improve myself personally. when i first came to caminos, i didn't know anything about computers. the second thing is i have become -- i have made some great achievements as an individual in my family and in things of the world. >> it's a real issue of self-empowerment where new immigrant families are able to communicate with their families

at home, able to receive news and information in their own home language, really become more and more connected with the world as well as connected even inside their local communities. >> if we value the diversity of our city and we value our diverse neighborhoods in the city, we need to ensure that they remain economically viable. equiping them and equiping residents in those areas with jobs that will enable them to stay in san francisco is critical to that. >> the important thing that i see here at caminos is it helps the low income community, it helps the women who wouldn't have this opportunity otherwise. >> the workers with more education in san francisco are more likely to be able to working that knowledge sector. where they are going to need that familiarity with the internet, they are going to find value with it and use it and be productive with it every day. and half of the city's population that's in the other boat is disconnected from all

that potential prosperity. >> we really need to promote content and provide applications that are really relevant to people's lives here. so a lot of the inspiration, especially among the immigrant community, we see is communications with people from their home country but we as much want to use the internet as a tool for people to connect within the local san francisco community. >> i think it's our job as public educators to give them this access and give them this opportunity to see that their efforts are being appreciated beyond their immediate reach. >> you have to blend this idea of community network with computer equipment with training and with support. we can pull all that together, then we've got it. >> it's as much about social and economic justice -- in fact it's more about social and economic justice than just

supervisor chiu: welcome to the public meeting of the san francisco public safety board. i am david chu. i am joined by sean elsbernd and ross mirkarimi. do we have any announcements? >> [clerk announcements] supervisor chiu: please call item 1. >> hearing on san francisco's public safety conditions, including a discussion of

citywide crime levels and crime levels by police district station and or neighborhood. supervisor chiu: we are joined by the san francisco police department for a presentation. >> good morning, supervisors, i am here to report on the extraction period from july 42009 to july 10, 2010. homicides are down. rate is down 56% -- rape is down from 15 to 7. robberies are up 1.6%. aggravated assaults are also down 10%, 298 to 267.

property crimes in the area of burglary, down 23%. 43 burglaries in the last extraction period, this year, 12th. burberry that from the calls, 716 to 534. arsons are down a total of 33%. i also wanted to make a note the last time i was here, supervisor chu, you requested information on our homicide rate. i am pleased to announce that as of last friday, i spoke to our homicide lieutenant. he calculated the rate for may. for 2010 homicide cases we cleared 50% of the cases. out of the 28, we have cleared

14. year to date, we include homicide from other years. we have an astounding 100%. our total homicide year to date is currently at 28, compared to 29 last year at this time, 60 in the year 2008 and the same time. period. supervisor chiu: thank you, capt. supervisor elsbernd, do you have any questions? we are just receiving them, so we are trying to piece them together. could you give us an update on the status of the justice project? obviously, constamstat is basedn the collection of data. some of us are concerned about

the amount of time it takes to collect information. could you tell us how that process feeds into comstat? >> i am not part of the program. that is a part of the admin bureau. i do not feel comfortable giving you an update to that. supervisor chiu: you know that project is 10 years overdue and billions over budget, so many of us have been concerned about the project. we all agree about the positive components of using comstat but we are still divided over what it can achieve. supervisor elsbernd: perhaps this is something that has come up before, but the one statistic that jump out to me is the year to date number of stay away

court order violations. i assume there is a process that has changed that accounts for the large jump. >> yes, and these were calculated by myself. if you look at the numbers here, in 2009, we were calculating the dv related and unrelated together. in 2010 with our new processing, we are now separating those categories. that is why they are being split up now. supervisor elsbernd: thank you. supervisor chiu: as i look at my own district's statistics, it looks like crime has gone up

41%. could you help me break that down? how you add up the numbers, what is a 40% increase inpart 1 crimes representing? >> and increase of 12% in robberies, 17 to 19. there was a 9% increase in aggravated assaults. 23 to 25. in the area of dv, a 50% drop. stay where a court order is not related to dv, those numbers

were not calculated in 2009. could you point out to me where you see the increase? supervisor chiu: the bottom of the sheik, the aggregate number. 86% increase in the number of aggravated assaults. 16% increase in larceny. are these numbers -- do you average them? do you get that from an average? >> each number is taken separately. supervisor chiu: the numbers are calculated separately. so the 47% number reflects the specific number of incidents, as

opposed to blending those percentages in the middle column. ok, supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. good morning, capt. this was a helpful process that we started four years ago, in what was then the safety committee. it is now easier to read and understand, largely thanks to constat. what about part 2 crimes, other crimes that are not captured here? >> we can calculate that. i did bring that last time, but i did not bring it today. i can get that for you. supervisor mirkarimi: like your

predecessors, who really had to do the extracurricular work of crunching numbers at home, when will that process stop so that we can have, with greater simplicity and access, other part two crimes that are not here? >> we can definitely work on that. they do not push out a part 2 crimes report like they do with this one, but i could get it to you within 30 minutes. supervisor mirkarimi: this has certainly been an area of interest. if generally, quality of life crimes. it would be helpful to get a city-wide perspective as to what those numbers are.

there seems to be a lot of misinformation or speculation. it would be nice to have an even understanding as to how it is catalogued, how this is captured in the criminal justice system. >> i understand, but to clarify, what i have learned through the hierarchy of crime, the misdemeanor, like laundering -- if someone is arrested for a number of offenses, like water ring, l --oiterin-- like loite let's say that someone was wanted for a felony and then they do this. supervisor mirkarimi: the perception is either the

violations are not actually being registered or catalog and yet there is a preponderance of citations the issued. i think it is important to get a more realistic understanding of that statistic. the other issue on captains. when i look bywords over the past year of photographs attached, i think it would be helpful, the captain that are changing over the year -- in some stations, we have had three changes in the past month. it is important that we have a consistent understanding of when we have capt. changes. would you have any of that information with you? >> not with me, but i believe

you are speaking speakingthe engleside station -- you are speaking about the engleside station. i am not privy to the workings, but they were the ones that had all of the changes. terror bell recently received -- terraval also received a new captain. supervisor mirkarimi: were there any other capt. changes that you were aware of? >> mceckard has taken over the southern station. we put in capt. meissner in the we put in capt. meissner in the crime lab.