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through these hearings before and i think some have been sats -- satisfactorily answered. they've agreed to this thing. if i'm reading it wrong -- ok. it certainly reads according to this document that i have from barbara garcia it looks like these are in the process of being reached. i'm happy and i certainly am very much want cal pacific to work with people in the mediate neighborhood but in my -- immediate neighbor, but this is a hospital for our entire city, region and that we have to make sure that we address everyone's concerns and the concerns of the tenderloin ress dents are -- residents are just as severe
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with the campus less than a mile away than at vaness where it's going to be. the concerns are just as critical despite the location of the hotel, -- the hospital. the timetable, i think we've been at this for a long time and i think we can make it hopefully through the time disable that we have tonight. i want to clarify that the report that we gave to the commissioners were only the resolutions and that in the near next couple of days by early next week, we will have a finalized report that culminate this is information along with that. all you is the resolution to say the number eight thing. you do not have the report out. >> i thought those were agreed to. >> you do not have to report on how they will accomplish it.
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>> ok. thank you. >> commissioner sugaya? >> one was mentioned that perhaps we might have received a development agreement example but we don't have that in our package. mr. rich do you have access to that stanford -- >> it's part of the packet. >> that's coming from you guys, ok, great. i still have to make a comment on the presentation that was made by cpmc where they show a map of the city and the street as a divider. that was fine for illustrating their particular needs. but if you draw the line north south and separate the city east west, there's no hospital on the west side at all. i found that a little -- never mind, i won't go there. >> commissioner illy? commissioner moore? >> i wanted to ask the commissioner if he will look
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attendser loin and traffic issue -- tenderloin and traffic issues along vaness at pine -- along vaness at broadway. we have very large housing projects for seniors. vaness as it is, it's extremely difficult to cross. you've got to be really running in order to make it across. it's primarily geared towards fast-moving traffic going on highway 1 enroute to san francisco. it's basically the thorough fair -- faer which is not pedestrian friendly. i'm just asking that when you look at it, move the study to the north. >> commissioner? >> i just wanted to say that as we wrap up the hearing which we
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really are going to do -- start fighting with the devil but we sometimes use language -- yeah, you do. but we -- sometimes we use language that is designed to bring home a point. i just want to say for whatever reason the amount of charity has gone up, certainly can go up more. we heard and know and understand that they provided 40% of care -- we -- the expression that we want you to operate in good faith and as someone who served on the planning committee on our side, there's lots to be done. there are certainly agreements that we want to have with you and on behalf of all the women that get their breast care at st. lukes and all the babies that are born in your hospital and the work you've done, we do
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believe -- i believe you have operated in good faith, that you will continue to do so and you will make the changes needed to make to provide the best care for the citizens of fran -- san francisco. i do believe that you operated in good faith and been good partners with us in the last couple of years. >> commissioner sanchez? >> i just wanted to state that in reference to the health commission protocol, we've had numerous hearings and we've had a committee that's been ongoing which we will be following up on this, but i just wanted to share the fact that since our initial hearings there has been some significant outcomes and there has been a great deal of inclusion including and as a result of blue ribbon committee, etc., etc. when we first started the
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hearing, there's going to be a lot of things on the radar scope affecting the city. one of them, of course the major one is starting for many institutions, july 1, with presidency requirements pertaining to hours, cutback on hours, training and also the mandate to increase primary care. as many of us know in the city and it's been reviewed both in the health commission particularly with the committees, we have a co-hort of primary care physicians and we have a shortage in the committee. and the st. luke motto was started with the a.c.m. and became part of our family practice residency program and then it was disengaged. what i'm saying is given the fact that we have a multitude of challenges how we're going
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to provide professional services in the city, it may be an opportunity to revisit some models which at least work a number of years ago but could be modified now given the fact that our academic health science centers are facing a number of mandates where we really have to work even more closely together and partner a do a lot of things in a sharing mode rather than a separate mode. you know, the days of building five recent cancers is no longer a reality. it's a matter of how we're going to integrate and provide the highest health care. and that's been the experience pertaining to the rebuild of cpmc. a lot of positive things have been undertaken. we look forward to positive outcomes again. but as i said, there is unique
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opportunities which i think we could really grasp because the rubber's going to hit the road very shortly. it's going to be challenges times and we really thank our colleagues here in the planning commission and many of the people who participated in the hearings. it's going to be an ongoing dialogue and it's going to affect not only the city and county of san francisco but the state and the nation because we are looked upon as one of the finest health, science centers given the diversity of our hospital and of our patients. we want to maintain that focus. thank you. >> director? >> just wanted to add my thanks for everyone for coming today and i my thanks to the health commission and the barbara and her staff for working so closely with us on this. the commission has pointed out and as i learned over the past few months actual it'sly
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difficult to separate the land use issue when you're dealing with a project of this size. one of the advantages that we have is being able to be on a daily basis learning a whole new world. i hope that the health department are learning the crazy world of land use of san francisco. i just wanted to clarify that -- on the -- regarding the development agreement, it's come up several times tonight. and it has been staff recommendation that we work on a development agreement that would address the resolution of many of these issues if not all of these issues which seems be the primary and most beneficial mechanism that we can use to make this happen and whatever the resolution might be. and so at the hearing in may we have intended to give you the draft of that that addresses many of these issues. ken is working on that in the office of economic and workforce development is very much involved in that. so it is important.
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and that agreement as it is with other development projects that the planning commission has seen an agreement that it doms the planning commission and your recommendation is forwarded to the board of supervisors. you don't necessarily aprove the final version but you certainly make the recommendation on the board on the specifics of that agreement and we will be sure to have a robust discussion about that at that hearing and subsequent hearings. >> commissioner moore? >> and i think that our goal is to definitely -- at least my goal is to get this done by june. 2012. but i think -- i'm sorry -- 2011. it's late. yeah. i think, though, that we asked a lot of questions here. i think we've asked, you know,
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for a certain thing and we'll just see what the progress -- hopefully progress is made and we'll be ready to move on this by june. if not there are other projects we have to continue them out. i'm hoping we don't have to continue this beyond june. but here we are. >> we want a motion to adjourn.
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>> welcome to "culture wire." on this episode, we explore what it means to the aged, in today's society -- what it means to be chicana in today's society. chica chic features an array of artwork by five leading chicana artists that addresses a range of issues such as integration, sustainability, and integration. using a distinct visual approach, each of the artist's response to the shifting needs of their communities in ways that offer unique perspectives and multiple points of entry. >> the exhibition is to bring together the voices of a new
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generation chicana artists, all of whom reference the works of the civil-rights movement in their works, but they are also responding to a new cultural concerns and new cultural circumstances. >> the works in the show include a large canvas depicting a woman washing the beach with her hair at the u.s./mexican border. the painting encourages the viewer to engage with the current debates over immigration and the politics of women and labor. influenced by the campaigns of the chicano civil rights movement, this oakland artist is a print maker whose work has helped and sustainability with the immigrant community as well as other current sociopolitical issues. this print-based work draws on appropriated agricultural worker manuals and high fashion labels
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to satirically address class issues, cultural identities, and consumerism. >> angelica -- her father was an agricultural worker, so she has drawn a lot from the materials the agricultural department sends to agricultural workers, referencing the depiction of farm workers and some of the information about pesticide application. >> mitzi combines a variety of media, including embroidery, to create artifacts of mexican, chicano, pop culture. she greets immensely detailed drawings of celebrities on the same platform of her friends and families. her work combines elements of chicano portraiture and low writer art, rendered in upon new art style, or intricate drawings on handkerchiefs, also -- often associated with prison art. her portrait of three girls is
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among several of original posters by the exhibition artists, which are on view at various bart stations as part of a public campaign funded by the national endowment of the arts. from the outset, the curator felt it was important for the exhibition to have a public art components of the work could reach the widest possible audience. more than just a promotion, the posters connect the work of these powerful artists with new audiences, including the vital chicano and latino community. images can be found in bart stations located in san for cisco and oakland. >> it is enormously exciting for me personally and for the institution. the poster with up right after new year's, and i remember very vividly -- i am a regular rider, and i went into the station and saw the first poster i had seen, it was incredibly exciting. it is satisfying to know that
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through the campaign, we are reaching a broader audience. >> for more information about supervisor mar: the march 7, 2011, land use meeting. joining me is supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener.
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our clerk is -- clerk: items will appear on the march 15 board of superi answers agenda, as otherwise stated. -- the board of supervisors and agenda, unless otherwise stated. -- the board of supervisors' agenda. supervisor mar: i also want to thank sfgtv for televising us today. could you please read item number one? clerk: an ordinance amending the zoning map. >> the board of supervisors adopted the market octavia plan
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on the overhead. there were many amendments that were made, and as the market octavia plan moved, somewhere in the process, the lot outlined in block continued to show up, but it should be changed. in fact, that is the only item in your ordnance today under this item. those specific ones were
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changed. this is the market octavia plan with the board of supervisors, what they thought they did in 2008. supervisor mar: so this is just clearing that up? >> that is correct. supervisor mar: questions, colleagues? supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: the property owners that have been impacted, have they been contacted? >> yes, thee mark -- the market octavia plan had extensive outreach, so that occurred, as well as the required mailed ordinance. for the ordinance in front of you today, we did another notice to the property owners of the
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area shown in black. supervisor wiener: have there been any responses? >> not to the planning department. supervisor wiener: thank you. supervisor mar: let's open this up to public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues? so moved and seconded without objection, with a positive recommendation. that means just double-check. do we need to do the committee report? -- let me just double-check. no. so moved. madam clerk, could you please call item number two? clerk: this is an ordinance
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amending the san francisco planning coat and the zoning control table in the upper -- san francisco planning code and the zoning control table in the upper fillmore. >> lifting the ban on new restaurants in the upper filllmore -- fillmore district. this allows some to come into the area as a restaurant. this is in response to a 1987 piece of legislation, which banned new restaurants in the upper fillmore area, and right now, we have vacant areas. this would allow them to come into the neighborhoods and really shore up some of the
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empty storefronts. as part of the conditional use permit, the planning commission would also take a look at the détente usage of these potential new restaurants, -- take a look at the potential usage of these potential new restaurants. that was something that was very important. i have met with the fillmore organization and another, which are the main merchant bodies and neighborhood. i have met with the number of restaurateur's, so we will be doing that. second of all, today, i am going to introduce an amendment to clarify some technical language in the language -- legislation regarding some of the restaurant
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classifications. again, a very technical amendment, not substantive. we do not have to continue it. we cannot approve it today. i would be happy to answer any questions -- we could approve it today. supervisor mar: so, supervisor farrell, the revisions or the amendments, could you just give us a little bit about -- they are just technical, and they are not substantive, but, in general, what are the amendments, just so we know? >> -- supervisor farrell: this is where it applies, and also says that bars can come in only when they are attached to new restaurants, and it is clarify the language around that. the merchants and the neighbors were not in favor of opening it up two new restaurants only. other things were ok, --
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eyeopening give-ups -- opening in upper -- it up to new restaurants only. supervisor mar: the merchants are supportive, and even though there is fast food on here, those supported by the local merchants could be allowed. that is my understanding. supervisor farrell: when i first thought of "fast-food," i thought of mcdonald's. we would eliminate some restaurants that are typically classified as fast food in the code that we would want in the area, and there are some restaurants around pacific heights in the marine and that
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technically meet that definition. -- around pacific heights and the marina that technically meet that definition. s great. thank you. i do not see any questions. let's open this up for comment. supervisor farrell, you have at least one card. supervisor farrell: denise tran. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is denise tran. we are characterized as a large fast-food restaurant, and this conversation is really relevant to me and directly impacts me and my business, and i am here to speak in support of the
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supervisor's legislation. i think the discussion of fast food, i think everybody always thinks of mcdonald's. i did, too. that just happens to be the characterization. it basically means, large, being over a certain square footage, you are characterized as large, and for us, we are quick casual, meaning that we do not have servers, meaning that you come in, you order, and someone will bring your food out to you, which is very common oon f -- on fillmore street. many restaurants on fillmore street do that. and my restaurant is a vietnamese gourmet shop, and we
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are attempting to create 20 to 25 full and part-time jobs there, and currently what is going on is that i have a prohibition on my use that prohibits me from getting a beer and wine license, although i am primarily a lunch location. we cannot release survive on fillmore street, and getting a beer and wine license -- [bell] >> i am sorry. i am over my time. i wrote to the planning department to ask to see how i could get this restriction removed, and i was told that currently the status quo is depth i wrote -- is that through
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the conditional use the process, i would have to change to a full-service restaurant first before i could apply for the beer and wine rest -- license, which does not make sense, because i do not have any servers, so i was told that if this particular legislation passes, then i could get the type 41 license. so that is kind of where i am act, and i am hoping that you guys will support his legislation -- so that is kind of where ibm -- where i am at. supervisor mar: is there anyone else from the public who would like to speak? please come forward. >> good afternoon, supervisors.
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my name is demetrius. i am president of a musical and cultural association. we air -- are a nonprofit organization of artists, and generally dedicated to preserving arts, culture, in music -- and music here in san francisco. we would like to fully support supervisor farrell's legislation. we think this is great not only for the upper fillmore area but for san francisco. for san francisco to maintain its status, its colón mill in world -- its culinary