we would offer live music on any given night. we expect to do a lot of corporate business, related to any business that comes into the convention center. vice chair joseph: any other questions? >> its is the occupancy load is to be determined. >> it has been established at 250 by the fire department. >> are you going to have outside promoters? >> absolutely not. vice chair joseph: anybody else? ok. conversation?

>> the captain again. i have no objections to this venue. vice chair joseph: thank you so much. i appreciate that. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. this group of owners owns a number of really great venues around town. we do not have any problems with them usually at all. the venues are upscale and great in my experience. this particular location i have looked at. it is underground. i think noise will not be an issue because of where it is. i wish you a lot of luck. i am glad someone is developing that space. it is screaming to have someone develop it. having said that, i would like to entertain a motion. >> i moved to approve this

permit. commissioner perez: aye. commissioner tan: aye. vice chair joseph: aye. good luck to you. item number six, commissioners' comments and questions. commissioner perez: i am working on the collateral sale at monday. we are looking forward to that. vice chair joseph: good job. >> this is something very similar, a freestanding banner. when we are doing things like small business week or anything that is not in city hall, people can know we are there.

this is pretty neat. >> regarding sixth street, a lot of people say the neighborhood is changing and is totally different now. i just want to say that that has been the same neighborhood for a very long time. anyone who thinks that are going to open a venue there and change the whole neighborhood -- people live there. it is a community. people have been there for many years. just because they are not wealthy enough to afford a $12 cartel does not mean that are not a community or that are not a thriving community. to think you are going to go into sixth street -- i am not sure that is what our applicant tonight was saying. i just hear that a lot. i want to make sure people understand there are people who live there. it is a thriving, vibrant

community. it may have its issues, but you should consider the people who are there as a community. with that, i am going to invite you to the harvey milk club 36- year anniversary party celebrating the best in my life. a 90-year-old will be accepting his lifetime achievement award. it will be an amazing evening. is a multimedia up live music and performance event. commissioner tan: nothing for me. vice chair joseph: my only comment is san francisco private june 23-24, civic center. the lineup has yet to be announced. i have nothing to announce. but martyr calendars. it is going to be a really busy

weekend this year for sure. with that, new business, anybody? i move to adjourn. thank you all for coming. >>. touring england was a time when robert as mentors were being challenged by a quickly growing middle-class. for endeavour's crew of new artists began to assert themselves, offering new definitions of the athletics of arts and beauty. over 180 objects of avant-garde

design and art from the victorian england has been collected inside the legion of honor snoot exhibition, it's the cold of the ec. -- the cult of beauty. >> there was this group of artists that were not only revolutionaries in their artistic expression but also in their personal lives and their interest in democratizing art in introducing beauty into the growing middle-class. >> one of the inspirations for the victorian avant-garde was the industrial revolution. quality household goods were now being mass-produced. artists responded by either creating elaborate unique court or by embracing technology and trying to share a beautiful creations with as many people as possible. >> william morris was in a

difficult position, because he wanted the middle-class to be able to acquire really beautifully made objects. but the piece is that he actually made, you know, took so much handcrafting that there were quite expensive. i think he would have been pleased to know that there are things like restoration hardware anne craig and bare all that tried to make available to the middle-class -- and crate and barrel that tried to make these things available to the middle class. >> over 60 lenders contributed art and craft to the exhibition. one of the partners is london's victoria and albert museum, which has been collecting the finest examples of victorian craft since queen victoria herself attended the groundbreaking ceremony. the artist of the victorian avant-garde believe that every object could contain an expression of beauty. the attention given when creating a towering sculpture

should be the same as when creating a simple cottage gate. they embraced arts for arts own sake. whether in the curl of a flower or a stray lot of unpin hair. surprisingly, sensuality returned to public view during the victorian era. albert moore and others were inspired by ancient greek sculptures and found new uses in modern times. >> many of these paintings are large. when you get close to them, they seem to wrap you in this luscious colors. there's a great sensuality to the paintings, even though there's nothing sexual going on in the pictures. the artists just took delight in luxurious fabrics and colors and beautiful women. >> symphony in white is a life- size portrait of the immense stress of james wisler.

it is featured prominently in the exhibition. harmony in gray and green was an of socially judged as a disagreeable presentation of a disagreeable young lady. the first public reaction of this series was so divisive that led to court proceedings. today, they hang in london's tate gallery. walking to the exhibition, you might be distracted by objects that seem to modern war appeared to be at least art deco era. forward thinking victorian artists emerged the economical ambitions of 18th-century cottage's style furniture with the asymmetrical design elements of japanese art that was introduced to london in 1862. >> so you come out with these very beautiful and sleek design worms that the artist combined -- a design forms. very modern. our visitors are really

surprised that so many of the works at a very modern feel to them. >> they believe that no object needed to be considered worthless or low class. each thing, existing in its own place, was the best thing for its place. and what first seems to be idle showiness, shows the richness of today and yesterday. >> it is exciting to have a project you have worked on for so long coming in know, come to your own museum. and museum curators are among the luckiest professionals, because we get to share with tens of thousands of people the things that give us enjoy and the things that explain to our visitors the relationship between art and society. art is not just a frivolous, you know, sidebar. it is a very important expression of culture and

morals. this particular moment, the artists were interested in community. >> san francisco is the exclusive american host for the cult of beauty exhibition. the legion of honor is website has more information about the artists and tips for planning your visit. learn more at the website. thank you for watching

supervisor mar: good afternoon, everyone. my name is eric mar, the chairman of the committee. to my right is supervisor cohen, to the left is supervisor wiener. we're joined by president chiu. >> completed copies or documents should be submitted to the clerk. items will appear on the may 15 board of supervisors agenda. supervisor mar: i would like to give crops to s -- props to

sfgtv. i believe item no. 4 might be continued at the cult of the sponsor. we will come to that in a moment. >> amending the transportation code to eliminate restrictions on clarifying the -- it is a violation. president chiu: today, i have an ordinance that will hopefully end one of the great mysteries of muni. the question of why there are some doors on buses that can't be used to get onto buses. this amends division 12 allow riders to board the doors as long as they have proof of payment. hopefully this is a proposal that will help speed up muni.

it has to become more efficient for us to have a world-class transportation system. this effort sounds simple, but it has been a long time coming. it is a test that never happened, the rear-door boarding. groups like the san francisco transit riders union pushed toward that, and i hope that it will become a reality. we have one minor amendment that we need to make on page 2 of the ordinance to add of the word cable car. a reliable streetcar, motor coach, charlie, etc..

-- cable car, etc. >> thank you very much, president chiu. ed riskin, director of transportation. i have a chance -- a presentation here that was given to the mta board a week ago and received a there unanimous consent to recommend this to you, to the board of supervisors. i would be happy to answer any questions the u.s. to the public may raise. we are undertaking a number of things. it is another tool that we are

getting ready to employ. it would make us the first in the country to go to boarding of all vehicles. the reason for doing yet, and maybe it makes sense here is that we have a very high number of boarding at any given time period. we are at the top of there with new york in terms of the frequency of boarding. it has a measurable impact on the speed of the system. it is really the essence of what

we're trying to do. it is to allow people in an organized way to be able to go through the back door and not have to queue up at the front door. there is a change in behavior, and it is legitimizing current behavior, which is commonsensical solutions. it will be a mockup of the site age - - signage. we are looking at universal sides that will change that messaging to the public.

we will be working with the media and through various outreach mechanisms. and really why we are doing this is to make the system work better. while this is not a pilot, it is something that we will be monitoring very closely. we are bringing in any changes,

operational revenue very carefully and we will look at it carefully as needed. it would recommend removing current restrictions and reaffirmed the policy on board. i would be happy to answer any questions. >> i have heard different complaints that the standard scanners sometime malfunction. it looks like to scan and and then transfer.

is the equipment operating function need to make the system work? >> we were an early adopter of the clipper system. people would go on and see that there would be a red light or it would not be functioning. it was a big problem for the potential revenue loss and it also makes inspection very difficult. the responsibility to fix that they did last august. that legacy of the early implementation, by and large,

the reliability of those units is very high. we measure and to monitor those on a daily basis. supervisor wiener: thank you for bringing this forward, i want to complement the agency for making tangible steps to look forward. and the hare inspectors and the other part of it. they have been doing robust community outreach. i think that it is terrific and i thank you for your leadership on this.

>> on the extremely long buses, it seems it will help in the long blocked areas. if there are no other questions -- president chiu: i do have a technical amendment, adding the word of "cable car."

>> can we move this forward? >> item two, approving. as a nation -- >> think you for this opportunity. i came before you last year and you designated for six months of these two spaces off of stockton street. these spaces came about because of the central subway construction that has adversely impacted seven spaces that we have half of stockton.

i am here today to ask you to extend or read designate for another six months the two spaces on post street. and if necessary, i will come back six months from now. but we will see what happens with the central subway construction. supervisor mar: is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? can we move this forward without objection? ms. miller, please call item no. 3. >> resolution approving an agreement for an easement. supervisor mar: the sponsor is supervisor cohen. john updike? supervisor cohen: thank you, mr. updike. >> thank you, supervisor cohen.

acting director of real estate. i'm joined by the mayor's office of housing that will give you the overview of the project. i will speak to you about the technical aspects of the item before you today. the location here is tat 1 kashmire, an overall shot of the location. a more particular look and the area impacted by this proposed easement runs right here on the edge of the cul de sac. simply put, what we have about 850 square feet of these men to be granted. it is determined as part of the resolution before you today is granting -- if it furthers the public interest and therefore,

there is no cost involved in the transfer. it is a perpetual easement, but it includes the right to terminate has the terms of conditions are brief in some way. so that, in a nutshell, is the real estate item, and i think john can give you some contact has to why this is before you today. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the project manager, and most of you are probably familiar with hunters view, a redevelopment of an existing hubble housing project. the easement 04 you will provide a long-term access to a maintenance of kashmire connection, there will be

landscaping and lighting that will cut back the stocks in two different neighborhoods. kind of eliminating the isolation that currently exists. it connects hunters a view to the other area. it can act in three ways. it seeks a greater level of social interconnectedness. that leverage is non-city funding sources by 2.5 to 1. the city provided about $200,000, the state $500,000. and it provides connections were people can learn where to go. supervisor mar: is there anyone from the public that would like to speak?

public comment is closed. colleagues, let's move this forward without objection. any objection? with recommendation, yes. thank you. the last item on our agenda is item 4. please call item 4. >> hearing on the municipal transit agency's progress on improving taxi service. supervisor wiener: we, at the request of the mta, would like to move to continue this item to june 11. that is the motion that i make. supervisor mar: left open this up for public comment before acting on that motion. is there anyone that would like to speak? supervisor wiener: sorr yoy you

had to come out. supervisor mar: can we continue this until june 11 at the urging of the supervisor? is there any other business before us? >> no. supervisor mar: meeting adjourned.