on 19th avenue, but something like that could be helpful. for example, on the excelsior along 280, you could have some sound walls, sharif, trees that would knock down the particular matter, and toward some of the chemicals loss from automobiles. -- absorb the chemicals from automobiles. also keeping trucks off of 19th, trying to keep them on 101, 280 would certainly be a good idea. trucks that close to residents results in fairly aggressive exposures. supervisor chu: thank you. any member of the public that would like to speak on this item? the seeing none, public item is

closed. did you want to say something? >> i strongly support you excepting this grant. the board passed the seqa guidance earlier this year looking at impacts of toxins. the reason we went ahead with a community reduction plan was to look at more city-wide exposures, rather than at night project by project basis. that is what tom was saying. it gives you the chance to look at the majority of forces in a community. much of that is roadway traffic. it allows you to understand what would be appropriate medications that the city could pass that could be local ordinance. it also allows tearing off of the community risk reduction planned. if you have a project that is complied with the plan, you would not be required to do

another analysis. so it has benefits for local businesses as well. we are also offering this grant to san jose and other communities that have been identified as impacted, which includes oakland, richmond, alameda county. many of these places where you already know has these air impacts. i urge you to support this grant. >> thank you. any other members of the public? supervisor chu: >>thank you. item is move forward without recommendation. are there any other items before us? thank you very much, we are adjourned.

>> there has been an acknowledgement of the special places around san francisco bay. well, there is something sort of innate in human beings, i think, that tend to recognize a good spot when you see it, a spot that takes your breath away. this is one of them. >> an icon of the new deal. >> we stood here a week ago and we heard all of these dignitaries talk about the symbol that coit tower is for san francisco. it's interesting for those of us in the pioneer park project is trying to make the point that not only the tower, not only this man-built edifice

here is a symbol of the city but also the green space on which it sits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them, you have to understand the topography of san francisco. early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure. the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest

people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the beginning. and a group of 20 businessmen decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained for the public. so they put their money down and they bought four lots at the top of the hill and they gave them to the city. lily hitchcock coit died without leaving a specific use for her bequest. she left a third of her estate for the beautify indication of the city. arthur brown, noted architect in the city, wanted for a while to build a tower. he had become very interested in persian towers. it was the 1930's. it was all about machinery and sort of this amazing architecture, very powerful architecture. he convinced the rec park commission that building a tower in her memory would be the thing to do with her money.

>> it was going to be a wonderful observation place because it was one of the highest hills in the city anywhere and that that was the whole reason why it was built that high and had the elevator access immediately from the beginning as part of its features. >> my fear's studio was just down the street steps. we were in a very small apartment and that was our backyard. when they were preparing the site for the coit tower, there was always a lot of harping and griping about how awful progress was and why they would choose this beautiful pristine area to do them in was a big question. as soon as the coit tower was getting finished and someone put in the idea that it should be used for art, then, all of a

sudden, he was excited about the coit tower. it became almost like a daily destination for him to enjoy the atmosphere no matter what the politics, that wasn't the point. as long as they fit in and did their work and did their own creative expression, that was all that was required. they turned in their drawings. the drawings were accepted. if they snuck something in, well, there weren't going to be any stoolies around. they made such careful little diagrams of every possible little thing about it as though that was just so important and that they were just the big frog. and, actually, no one ever felt that way about them and they weren't considered something

like that. in later life when people would approach me and say, well, what did you know about it? we were with him almost every day and his children, we grew up together and we didn't think of him as a commie and also the same with the other. he was just a family man doing normal things. no one thought anything of what he was doing. some of them were much more highly trained. it shows, in my estimation, in the murals. this was one of the masterpieces. families at home was a lot more close to the life that i can remember that we lived. murals on the upper floors like the children playing on the

swings and i think the little deer in the forest where you could come and see them in the woods and the sports that were always available, i think it did express the best part of our lives. things that weren't costing money to do, you would go to a picnic on the beach or you would do something in the woods. my favorite of all is in the staircase. it's almost a miracle masterpiece how he could manage to not only fit everyone, of course, a lot of them i recognized from my childhood -- it's how he juxtaposed and managed to kind of climb up that stairway on either side very much like you are walking down a street. it was incredible to do that and to me, that is what depicted the life of the times in san francisco. i even like the ones that show

the industrial areas, the once with the workers showing them in the cannery and i can remember going in there and seeing these women with the caps, with the nets shuffling these cans through. my parents had a ranch in santa rosa and we went there all summer. i could see these people leaning over and checking. it looked exactly like the beautiful things about the ranch. i think he was pretty much in the never look back philosophy about the coit. i don't think he ever went to visit again after we moved from telegraph hill, which was only five or six years later. i don't think he ever had to see it when the initials are scratched into everything and people had literally destroyed the lower half of everything.

>> well, in my view, the tower had been pretty much neglected from the 1930's up until the 1980's. it wasn't until then that really enough people began to be alarmed about the condition of the murals, the tower was leaking. some of the murals suffered wear damage. we really began to organize getting funding through the arts commission and various other sources to restore the murals. they don't have that connection or thread or maintain that connection to your history and your past, what do you have? that's one of the major elements of what makes quality of life in san francisco so incredible. when people ask me, and they ask me all the time, how do you get to coit tower, i say you walk. that's the best way to experience the gradual

elevation coming up above the hustle and bustle of the city and finding this sort of oasis, if you will, at the top of the hill. when i walk through this park, i look at these brick walls and this lawn, i look at the railings around the murals. i look at the restoration and i think, yeah, i had something to do with that. learning the lessons, thank you, landmarks meet landmarks. the current situation at pioneer park and coit tower is really based in public and private partnership. it was the citizens who came together to buy the land to keep it from being developed. it was lily hitchcock coit to give money to the city to beautify the city she loved of the park project worked to develop this south side and still that's the basis of our future project to address the

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we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers.

we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. you are set to go. >> good evening, commissioners. i want to remind you that this is not in my report, but, again, we had to more less than discontinued emailing repackages, and i asked the

commissioners to come by last week to pick up their binders in advance of the meeting, but nobody did that, note so i am going to remind you guys again, until we find another way of using secure technology, you will have to find a way to come by the office to get it so you have time to review your materials in advance of the meeting. the first thing i want to do is talk to you under the heading of legislative and policy of detente. supervisor chiu introduce legislation, which i gave you a copy of, including the press release, to register voters. he introduced this on september 21. as you know, most legislation introduced sits under a 30-day world, so we are in a period of time, and we will be scheduled

for a hearing at the public safety committee as early as november 1. that is the earliest it could come. it may push forward a bit. it is not likely to be passed and signed until early early next year note -- until very early next year, depending, of course, on how those meetings go. supervisor chiu's office has asked us to act. two years ago, when legislation regarding promoters was introduced, the entertainment commission held a hearing. alternatively, the president may choose to create a short-term ad hoc committee to examine the legislation and to bring comments back to the full body, and so staff at the end of this report will ask for direction in that regard.

on the same subject more or less, i wanted to report that in that followed a meeting with promoters that i told you about in advance last time, september 16, ec staff, may your personnel, fire department personnel, the mayor himself, and others were in attendance -- mayoral personnel. there was a call to organize and professionalize the nightclub industry. the above mentioned legislation was sent to all of the promoters when we got in on the 21st, who gazed of content information from both of the city hall meetings that we had. it is my hope that they take the opportunity to comment on the proposal, eager to us directly, depending on how we proceed to examine it, or the supervisors, the public safety committee. initial reaction was positive in

spirit, but they did not have the actual piece of legislation until after that meeting. just to stay on track, the legislation i talked about last meeting, there was a conditional use authorization. it has not yet been scheduled for the supervisors' land use committee, and when it gets there, i will let you know. last time, mr. granelli made some comments, and some are working towards compliance for their membership, which would cover the security best practices and other things. there is no date set yet. there is a possible agenda and

list of topics with the hotel council, and we are waiting for them to tell us what your schedule looks like so we can get that moving forward. but you what their schedule looks like. we are happy to have found -- we are waiting for them to tell us what their schedule looks like. similar to last year, staff is working with sfpd command staff, and there are event happening over how the weekend 22. this year, halloween is on a sunday night. however, there are many things that will take place on friday and saturday night throughout the city. there will be no event on castro. .-- in castro. we want to have as few nighttime surprises as possible. we will be adding this to a growing list of the events as we

get up to that friday. i know that command staff is here, as well, if you want to speak to them. there is a cultural association that is planning a compliance workshop. for the venue owners, on the october 20, at the regency center, before the house of the weekend, again focusing on having a halloween weekend, -- before the halloween weekend. coach compliance, security best practices again, and hopefully -- code compliance. lastly, under this heading, as most of you know, and oracle corp. had a super duper or large

open world conference last week in san francisco. this event included an additional st. closure on mason street. there was also the java conference. providing sound for various events, including the largest that has taken place on charger i have been for the last few years. some of you may remember, the 2009 event got numerous complaints from island residents and even further away than treasure island. this year however, staff is extremely pleased to report that there were virtually no sound complaints from a party for 20,000 people on the island that went until 1:00 in the morning staff believes this was due to the very hard work of inspector granelli, who did sound checks

earlier and then was on scene during the event. there were also outreach efforts to the residents. the studios did great work. this down vendors to keep the sound directional and reasonable throughout the evening. -- the sound of vendors. -- sound vendors. five calls came in on one line throughout the whole evening, and most of them were concerned with traffic issues. this has brought a lot of money to the city in many ways, not just of the ski event of treasure island. -- not just obviously the event on treasure island. it is really important. we expected the worst, and it turned out great, so we are

happy about that. on the citation issuance procedure, continuing to keep the commission informed, we almost had it right, and then we had a little glitch with the production department, and they were printed but with some errors, so we had to send them back, and we expect a report by the end of the week so that mr. granelli can work with that -- we expect a reprint. there are the number of one time permits that we issue. a lot of you know about what the issue because you work with applicants all of the time. we do a tremendous amount of work in the office with a loudspeaker permits, one-time event permits on a regular and ongoing basis. i gave you a little chart, and

as we move through the balance of the year with less resources with three of us in the office, as you know, and most of the time there is two of us in the office and bogged down in the field, timely and efficient, and most clients are very happy with the service they get. i just gave you the list of january through october so far, a huge jump in september. we expect the same thing to continue in october as outdoor events are a big deal in september and october here in san francisco, and then we go into new year's eve. but lastly, there were no corrective actions on permits. since the last meeting. and, again, i am pleased to report this, because we have had quite a few weekends in a wrote -- in a row with no substantial violence with a nightclub where we have done any kind of

corrective action, and that makes me very happy acting director, so with that, i want to turn it over to mr. granelli. >> go ahead. >> first, we have mentioned one it to you a few times in the past. my feeling in the feeling of the staff is that go after continuing warnings, we have yet to see any real control of their sound, and we are recommending that, one, this commission answer questions on why they can no longer or have not been able to control their sound, and two,

which are also looking at the ground, whether we have the legal grounds to serve them with a seven-day suspension for the violation of the sound. the deputy director kane and i are trying to make sure that we fit those very padilla the guidelines and move forward from here. .this has been an ongoing problem. it has definitely gotten worse and worse and worse lately. sutra on broadway, the ongoing saga of sutra, we are not sure what their future is. we are still getting complaints from those residents. there are complaints we are

working with the residents to take care of that. safire was a land that we reported on last meeting. they do have a poe, and it is an older poe, and they do even as very, very rarely. their next event will be able to get in some more real-time sound readings and check and observe how they are doing their events so we can bring them into compliance and also get ahead of impossible problems down the road to deal with that particular venue. also, we have trigger. we have been working with the planning department on the problems with trigger. basically, deputy