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phase is relocated the existing families into the existing public housing so that they are not displaced offsite. that is definitely one of the intentions of the program. supervisorsupervisor mar: that y appreciated given the travesties of other programs. i really appreciate that. let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we take this without objection and move it to the full board on june 14? thank you. please call item no. 5. >> the ordnance amending the code for updates. >> i am anne-marie rogers from the planning department. this is technical in nature.
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it corrects critical errors and makes language changes and updates various sections. it is really exciting stuff, i promise. the department reviewed over 62 pieces of legislation that would amend the planning code. in my belief, the planning code may be the most amended of all of our municipal codes. it may be among the most frequently amended codes in the country. of the 62 ordnances we reviewed last year, about 21 of them were sponsored by our department. about 41 were sponsored by elected officials like yourselves. there is a lot of interest in the planning codes. with all this interest and these changes, over time there have been errors. text has been inadvertently dropped. amendments made in one ordnance are not reflected in the next. they have become out of date. this legislation is intended to correct the accumulated errors in planning code and update
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sections as needed. the planning commission initiated the ordinance in july of 2010. on august 5 of leicester, the recommended approval to the board of supervisors. originally the legislation contained amendments related to historic preservation issues. since the planning commission action in august of last year, hpc has continued to have dialogue with the planning commission. as they continue in their dialogue about historic preservation issues, all of the modifications related to preservation have been pulled out to allow that conversation to continue. instead, we have all of the non historic preservation items before you. we hope to bring the rest forward in the coming months. with the ordinance before you, there has been another change since august of 2010. both the commission and the board have continued to approve
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planning code amendments since they acted in august. the ordinance before you as an updated to reflect all of those amendments that have occurred at the board in the intervening months. the legislation amends things such as moving the net to 2500 because it was originally only supposed to move to the 2000 for one year. that was two years ago. we need to move it back to the proper location. in makes similar technical amendments i can describe in nauseating detail, but you probably do not want me to. supervisor mar: it is like three and 39 pages of nauseating detail. -- 3 and 39 pages of nauseating detail. it is everything from errors corrected to modernizing signs and planning regulations. i have no questions. colleagues, are there any other
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questions? supervisor cohen: i do not have a question. i am all questioned out. supervisor mar: let's open this up for public comment. mr. paulson. >> ♪ it is a miscellaneous merkel make a miscellaneous miracle and dreams are made of amendments ♪ supervisor mar: thank you. anyone else from the public that would like to speak? public comment is closed. can remove this item for without objection? -- we move this item forward without objection? thank you. i do not think this one needed to be a committee report. we have moved forward with a positive recommendation. please call the last item. >> item # 6, the hearing on the interagency plan.
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>> i am from the planning department. i will quickly go over the two reports in front of you. they are both required by the ad men and planning code. they are annual reports. i think there from article 36 of the abdomen code called the interagency plan implementation committee. it is a mouthful. it is a committee set up to make sure all the good work we do in area plans for neighborhoods and upcoming plans, all the infrastructure, community improvements are being coordinated with all of the implementing agencies with the planning department taking the lead. this report is a progress report to our commission and to you about the work we've done
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each year. as you are probably aware, there has not been allowed development. therefore, a lot of impact fees have not been collected. that has been going slower than anticipated. in the interim, we've been working hard on identifying grants that will help fund the projects identified. we were awarded at least one transportation grant in each area. the street buzz will be going twa's -- v haight street bus will be going both ways. in balboa park, we will be completing the field project. in the mission, we received a grant for new open space. those are some of the great accomplishments that have happened in the last year. we are also doing more detailed planning work so that we know
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the infrastructure we need to build in the coming years. we have also identified a few new funding tools. those have been before you. that includes recon hill. we are looking at establishing rfd's in other areas as well. they have both done a lot of work in the last year. the market octavia created a list of priority projects. that has been integrated into all the work. the eastern neighborhood has been working on their prioritization process. they are new are. they also reviewed the future agreements -- a few of the agreements for improvements, including a child care center approved on third street. that is the first report in front of you. when you look for it, it does go through each area and talk about the accomplishments and how much revenue we anticipate.
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the sec report was drafted by the comptroller's office. it is much more of an accounting of all of the development impact fees. this cannot of article four. we put all of the impact fees in one article. we tried to get really strong. this was the mayor's office legislation on how we administer and keep track of all of our impact fees. this includes not just the area plans but also the city-wide fees and downtown fees. on page 9, it shows you a list of all 25 of them. this is pretty good for us to start seeing the impact fees is a revenue source we need to be keeping track of and doing good planning on. we have been working with the capital planning committee closely and looking at this is an important revenue source. the only other piece is at the end. the other thing that cannot article for is that we decided we would inflate our impact
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fees -- out of article four is that we decided we would inflate our impact fees. the capital planning committee determined what the rate would be. the comptroller's office increased all of the development impact fees by about 3%. that is another thing that will be happening annually. that is an administrative process. supervisor mar: it is increasing all of the development impact fees by 3%? >> that is correct. the planning committee looks of how much it costs the city on average to build a piece of infrastructure the year we set the fee. they look at how much the cost is increased. they do a full analysis about the differences and determine what makes the most sense for san francisco. that number is used in a couple of other places throughout the city like financial planning. that is the rate we used to inflate the fee rates. in rincon hills, the rate
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was $8.60 zero square foot. now it is $8.86. that is all i have. supervisor mar: is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? mr. paulson? >> ♪ you make it here and there you work real hard and then you will see that the impact fees are coming back to your me now ♪ supervisor mar: and sweet. can we move this forward with a positive recommendation without objection? >> that was short and sweet. thank you so much, everyone. >> would you like to file this or continued? supervisor mar: is an annual
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report. let's continue to call the chair without objection. any other business before us? >> there are no further measures. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. the meeting is adjourned. ♪
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>> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been
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installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates
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that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible] the flower of industry. >> it is like a compass. there's an arrow pointing north. >> within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible]
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the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail. >> coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. >> there it is. >> there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the
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work. >> what are your hopes for it? >> that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on -- they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that -- they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood. that is my hope. >> is such a beautiful addition to our public art in san francisco. thank you for joining us. it was nice to meet you. and thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. thanks for watching "culturewire."
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when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you? if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide
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health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their pregnancy with other women that have
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similar due dates. our doctors here are family doctors. they are able to help these women deliver their babies at the hospital, at general hospital. we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little
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english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to
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sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or their hepatitis b. we actually provide group medical visits and group education classes and meeting people who have similar chronic illnesses as you do really helps you understand that you are not alone in dealing with this. and it validates the experiences that you have and
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so you learn from each other. >> i think it's very important to try to be in tune with the needs of the community and a lot of our patients have -- a lot of our patients are actually immigrants who have a lot of competing priorities, family issues, child care issues, maybe not being able to find work or finding work and not being insured and health care sometimes isn't the top priority for them. we need to understand that so that we can help them take care of themselves physically and emotionally to deal with all these other things. they also have to be working through with people living longer and living with more chronic conditions i think we're going to see more patients coming through. >> starting next year, every day 10,000 people will hit the age of 60 until 2020. . >> the needs of the patients that