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we're also going back and verifying the number of units before we get the requests for additional addresses to make sure they are legal and there is a whole process of going in place that is brand new to to the fact the city's address will override the address system and dbi will be providing the street number addresses. before they just sent the lots to the assessor and the system address to be assigned, nobody assign the address. we probably have about 10,000 addresses to be assigned, due to
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the fact that there are apartment units. that will help us when we go to the new permit system. we will have a clean address base and that will save us a lot of time. several people are working on it to clean our own database sense we are going to be the final push button on whether an address is legal in the city. >> is there a monthly update on what is being proposed and what is in place? >> there are proposing to go live on august 15th. hopefully we can show you how the demonstration and have them come in and show you how it is going to work. it is a new thing that will be available to the citizens and they will be able to point out an address and find a property. >> terrific.
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technology advancing on this category. >> is their public comment on the director's report? any public comment? item number seven, commissioners questions and matters, agrees to staff. commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, practices and procedures which are of interest to the commission. >> i believe it would be good to get an update from our departing deputy director.
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there has been support and interest in moving for some of our mandatory program discussions. it would be good to bring the men and had them update us on that. >> thank you. commissioners? >> with regard to an article i recently read on violations within the housing authority and the housing stock itself, we have significant issues that continue to not be responded to by those that are responsible for correcting this. do we execute nov's to those
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properties or follow-up in responses by those respective -- >> can i add to that? also an agenda item to talk about the state of the mou we have a housing authority and what our policies are. >> is more at the next meeting. >> we can have that as an agenda item and we do have information on that. >> there was some articles and at freedom of information act -- freedom of information act requests regarding our code enforcement. i think it's time to see where we are at with the housing authority properties and our understanding of helping them achieve good code enforcement. >> we can certainly do that. >> great. maybe we can invite the director of housing authority. >> if you couldn't, during the
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course of how your discussions take place -- >> we should invite them. >> i would like to see it. >> me, too. >> item 7b -- the commission may take action to set the date of a special meeting and determine the items to be placed on the agenda for the next meeting and other future meetings of the building commission. >> we requested a joint commission with the planning commission. can we get that on the books? >> we have had and potentially have a couple of dates being considered.
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there are those where the rules of the engagement of topics of what is to be covered will be discuss prior to the consolidated meeting. >> maybe it would be good to get a date for the meeting. >> yes. if you could provide me some of the items -- >> i will do that. >> that will help me. >> the next meeting of the building inspection commission will be on august 17th. >> and the rescheduled meeting? >> i'm not sure. >> 18th of august? >> ok. >> public advisory committee. is there any public comment on item number seven? item #8 -- review and approval
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uptown historic district. in the past couple of years we have installed the store? . we have a landmark sidewalk program that we want to institute. we also want to restore some of the historic advertising signs, which developed the neighborhood's character. in order to get this money, there is a challenge grant program. when we applied for this grant, the person in charge of the program was ultimately a cao named ed lee. so the mayor had to decide whether or not to fund this project, so i am glad that he did. we had support and additional financial support from the people that run the
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organization. jon dugan as well. you can see that great historic pedestrian lighting, which we only have on taylor street and a small part of golden gate. i did not know this, but when he was a cao, ed lee got those installed on taylor street. the mayor also has a plan that would restore 135 historic street lights to the tenderloin. that is an incredibly important thing for them, from an aesthetic and from a safety point of view. we are also one of the darkest neighborhoods. this is important. you can see how nice those are. imagine how nice they would look through the neighborhood. i also want to introduce leroy
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looper who goes back to the 1980's with us in the tenderloin. nothing that any of us are doing would have started without leroy's vision when he bought the cadillac. we always need to appreciate them for their contributions. so without further ado, i want to make -- introduced a person who made this possible, mayor ed lee. >> great podium. i am happy to be here. happy to celebrate these wonderful murals that have been restored. we have been working on this for many years. i just love the fact that he is leading this effort with so many of the other community people. this community challenge grant
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was an easy decision that we made. i see our acting city administrator. she is continuing that very good community-based approach, working in close concert with the people from clean city, who are doing the sweeping around here, working with nonprofits as well. i want to thank the tenderloin development megacorporation. you are part of our partnership. as well, the tenderloin economic partnership. i want to celebrate these because it is part of our history, but we are renovating them and giving them a facelift. this is an historical part of this district and kids like to the history that we are still trying to make sure that people feel the vibrancy of this community. you have to see the other ones as well. the one that says original
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joe's -- john is here. there is also a coca-cola one. i want to see them put the old phrase in their "the real thing." i missed that. we are also doing some restoration. it is all about making sure we pay attention to the uptown tenderloin historic district. we have done this for some years now. ever since the fire that occurred here -- unfortunately, there was a fire here a few years ago. my predecessor gavin newsom asked me to come down here to work with the arts community, come up with every idea that we could, to work with the office of economic development to please key dollars here.
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we are working with so many organizations working our way up this great street, finding out that there was a lot of history to showcase. we wanted to make sure that we used our artistic ability, the ability to forge artistic programs, and that is why we invested in this foundation. they are taking over the old theater. now these murals. i want to thank the people who got our two artists here. their work is presented here, in this unveiling of these advertising murals. and we are going to do more of this.
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we want to do all of this in partnership with neighborhoods. that is what randy is all about. i loved working with him because he and everyone in this neighborhood wants to take pride in where they live and work. we see kids growing up in the tenderloin. they need to know the history of this area. we also need to make sure that not only are they safe, but that they appreciate the history of this neighborhood. i want to thank everyone is level of cooperation here. we have a piano theater coming in. we have the underground for the clay and ceramics. that will represent the role that part plays in helping us for a revitalization to this neighborhood. we are doing that at central market as well. and we are trying to revitalize this whole street. this is ground zero for where
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arts and civic minded this come together with local government, to forge a ongoing partnerships to make this revitalization their welcome and new. also, if you go around the corner here, you will see the newest restaurant around. they are investing in our neighborhood. a great restaurant has come in and they are going to start another trend of great food. you see the revitalization already happening. the inspiration comes from everybody working together and never abandoning our neighborhoods. we never want to do that. so thank you very much for being here. i appreciate everyone's cooperation and thier roles. [applause] >> our next speaker is john dugan. he is a legend. we love that he helped to get
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these merrill back of on the buildings. >> i know you have a busy schedule, mr. mayor, but before you leave, thank you for your decision to keep this city ticking away that it is. i want to thank many of these people. you have been around here. thank you. i know it was not easy. but what a courageous decision. we are certainly behind you. randy chopped, what can i say about randy? we have gone back and forth over 30 years, but the mural restoration is just another wonderful step -- and it is a happy step. a few months ago we were here talking about police protection, but this is a happy step. something that the tenderloin residents, the retail community, and property owners, can rejoice in.
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as long as we continue to work together, this tenderloin is going to get better and better. randy, again, thank you for what you did hear. >> carolyn from the mid market cbd is also here. there is a story about market and tenderloin, dark past, shared future. now we are going to have some fun hearing from the actual artist, susan cervantes. >> thank you, randy. thank you, everyone, for coming out. i want to thank the mayor for his passionate comments. for our part, we feel very honored to have had this opportunity to do some
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restoration in the tenderloin. we have a couple of other minerals, one on golden gate and one on the glide, for we have contributed to neighborhood beautification. we love the fact that this is historica. it was amazing, when we started to do the research on the signs, looking at the walls, how much history there was. we took the one that were the most recent and restored those and even had to cover up some of the others. but it was amazing to see all of the layers. and when you look at the coca- cola sign, you can see that the railway school actually overlapped it, so we left it that way. layers of history. when we started to clean the
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wall, the crew that is responsible for the painting -- i was just sort of directing them in the process of recreating them, making decisions about the color. but when you get up to the wall, we restore the actual color. when we were far away, we could not see what color it was until we clean its and then matched those callers. so that is the process of restoration. it is not just going up there and painting them any way that we want to. we really wanted to preserve the history of the signs, when they could work created back in the 1930, 1940's. we want to thank the people here who have put so much into the neighborhoods. like i said, i was not the one that painted them. i have some talented artists
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that did the work. it is a lot of scaffolding to go up and down. i know that my son is here. come on up. and there weren't four artists. -- were four artists. one of them is actually in poland right now doing a community mural there. but we are all proud of the work and we hope that you appreciate the brightness and uplifting of the community. we really want to thank you very much. >> i will mention, people know that original joe's is moving to north beach. but as part of the sidewalk
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project, there will be a plaque in front of original joe's installed in september or october to commemorate it, as well as the corner of the continent cafeteria. the famous location that started the freedom movement in san francisco. so we are in history here. i want to thank all of you for coming. i know on friday there is a mural presentation at the post office at thahyde and golden ga. 5:00. arts in the tenderloin continue to flourish. and anita just came. thank you for shepherding us through the process. without your help, we could not have done this.
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san francisco forty-niners, for the city of san francisco. we have had a great relationship with the city of san francisco and a great relationship with this community. despite one of events on saturday, this has been a great place to watch football games and a great community to be part of, and we want to continue to make sure that we are part of this community in a positive way. the degenerate behavior that happened on saturday will not be tolerated. if that means we need to make a business decision to not sell a ticket to someone that is going to be there and impact negatively the fan experience and the game experience that people love and cherish at candlestick, then that is something we are going to do. we will not allow this type of behavior to happen at our football games. i am happy to be here with mayor lee and chief sur and jim mercurio from my team to make sure everyone gets their questions answered and you have
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an opportunity to hear what we are going to do. this is a game where you have a rivalry situation, and unfortunately, you have the worst segment from -- a very small segment from both fan bases that brings about this type of an event, and it is our belief that we should recommend to the nfl that this game is at least postpone for some time, and we will continue to work with the nfl and work with the raiders to make sure we have the right decision and make sure that everybody had a 49ers game going forward has the experience that they deserve. i would like to turn it over to mayor lee. mayor lee: thank you. good afternoon, everyone. i want to thank the management of this team in working closely with the city. right when we were first observing these horrible incidences, and we were both mutually looking at it, we were
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communicating. we immediately got in touch with our police chief, who is here today, and also our recreation and park director. we have been on the communications very constantly since those times. these were very horrible incidents is, once that not only do we need to express our very strong abhorrence to, but that we need to go forward and take steps to prevent them. we immediately have been working -- our staffs with the police chief and the security team -- have been working specifically on ideas to make sure that we can implement it. not only is there a great level of intolerance for these types of activities, but steps need to be taken to make sure that people know that they will be caught and prosecuted for these violent acts. what we have to do is to prevent them, so we will be emphasizing things like early texting and
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emphasizing to all the fan base for a ride that if they observe anything that may even make them uncomfortable, that they feel -- and they should feel -- comfortable texting bad and getting the security of both police and on-site security, wherever they may be, to be intervenors -- comfortable texting that. they are here to be enjoyed by the families and the kids and the responsible adults that are here. we want to make sure that there is more information shared to prevent these things from happening. there will be focused on alcohol management and making sure, as we announced today some steps that will be taken to do the. there will be more accountability with respect to season-ticket holders who may not be paying attention to
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