>> good afternoon, my name is -- the owner of 23 allison street. i have lived there for 53 years. i love my house. spending many hours in the yard gardening and planting vegetables and fruits. the 15 allison has only moved to the property for a year. he wants to make big changes to his property. that will -- my life. his project will block light to my house. i understand that the builder want to make a profit, but that profit will come at my

family's expense. my husband would have liked to attend this meeting, but he could not attend because he has heart problems and breathing difficulties and also difficulty to walk. i have five grandkids. they play in the yard. how can they take away all this pleasure. thank you very much. >> thank you. project sponsor? you have a rebuttal? you have 2 minutes. you don't to have use them. okay. the public hearing is closed. we are opening it up to commissioner

comments. commissioner wu? >vice-president cindy wu: to the dr. requester, i hear your concern but to the scope of the type of project we see, the addition doesn't seem to be extraordinary or exceptional to me. i'm in support of taking dr.. commissioner sugaya? >> >>commissioner hisashi sugaya: yes, i have a concern about the floor flan on the ground level. it looks like it could be converted very easily. i'm going to make a motion to take dr. with a note of special consideration that this is a single family dwelling. >> second. >> commissioner moore? >>commissioner kathrin moore: i think i'm in support of what commissioner sugaya is saying. i want clarification on the

first floor of the hall means that it is basically a space and a column and leads to what is described as an office which has all the makings of a bedroom because normally in an office you might have a sink, you could have a toilet but you don't have a bathtub nor a closet. not in that arrangement. i think the restriction would be important and otherwise i don't think the size of the expansion is of any excessive size. that's why i don't think we can only basically do what commissioner sugaya says. >> the property is in an rh 1st district single family residence. it would be a violation for them to create a

second unit on the property and it does -- >> you know how things work. >> the only point is legally they couldn't install a second unit anyway. >> that's all in the public sector. this is going to be in the deed, right? >> okay. so. >> commissioners, there is a motion. >> sorry. >> if the project architect make sure the light well is painted in a light color, that would help your neighbor. >> commissioners, there is a motion and second to take dr. and require a special notice restriction filed and recorded to note that this is a single family dwelling. on that note,

commissioners moore, wu, moore, fong, sg i -- sugaya. that motion passes 5-0. places you under public comment. i have no speaker cards. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. the meeting is adjourned. >> >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> >> >> >> good morning, everybody.

thank you for attending the conference on market street. i think it's all part of the the

initiation for the new ci o. when i got interviewed by the city administrator and mayor lee, i was told that for tradition of the 12 days of hercules it was to accomplish and the first one would be the easiest one. i would like to ask you to join me the very inspiring mayor who is going to tell you the first tasks of those 12 is. mayor lee? [ applause ] >> thank you, mark. well, you just met mark, he's our new cio for department of technology. he's already approved himself to be a hard worker. we've

tasked him with showing us what he can do in a short period of time. i would like to thank our supervisor wiener and working closely with the p.d., department department of public works and the ability to present an internet connectivity wireless ability along market street has been very important to me because it is part of what we were trying to do on the whole market street. so, today is of course announcing that the department of technology has been able to complete this with a very special partner ruckus wireless and i know selena is here today and i want to thank her for providing the professional

guidance, the hardware as well as the good technical advice to the department of technology along with all the other partners that you see behind me working together to collaborate on this. so as of today, we have wireless technology free to the public. also not filtered. you can use it anonymously. all along, from here all the way to the ferry building, probably about the length of kaepernick pass to vernon davis as the whole market street and it's all of it's crosses streets and sidewalks will have access to wireless accessibility. why is

this important? market street is such an important thoroughfare for the city of san francisco. not only have i focused on its revitalization for it's economic viewpoint, not only are there additional residents living on it and more people shopping along it and eating and enjoying themselves but now they have this free internet access use to it. also because it's such a diverse city use. it's over a quarter of a million people walk this corridor on an everyday basis. it has a huge diversity of population. it has small businesses, large businesses, as well as financial as well as restaurants all along the way, established and new. we wanted to signal this was part of that revitalization. i know supervisor wiener is very happy

with this because he along with supervisor chiu has been asking to do more with communities of ethnic diverse backgrounds. this is a demonstration of what we can do in a major corridor. we have a vision that other corridors in other of our diverse communities can also benefit similarly as this will be. and again, it's the right way of doing it. it is the kind of public private partnership that we've been seeking with companies like ruckus wireless to help with us, dt will be maintaining it from here on to make sure it is accessible to everybody. like i said earlier, it's one that we will keep market street as something that department of technology on behalf of the city would like to do for it's residents, for it's businesses to allow them to have that access. so, what are other candidates?

certainly our school district. we already have about 27 public libraries have all been wired up and as you heard several months ago have a partnership with google to wire up one of our public parks, city hall, regional parks and we have more to do. we want to update the public housing sites as well to provide access to people who couldn't afford to do this on their own and that's reflective of some of the values that we have. that is important. making accessibility to everybody in the city is important to us as we roll out more and more of what i think is the connectivity for our future. now, having said this, i also want you to know that last year

we signaled that our city would join on a national movement and when the fcc gave a mega bit challenge to the rest of the city. i happen to be the head of the task force innovation and technology for mayor's and we signaled our support for that challenge and also signaled our support for broadband and more internet connectivity for all over the country. we want to do this for every neighborhood as fast as we can because this will help education wise, small business wise and the more free and affordable it is, it will definitely help a lot of our communities with different economic levels to be connected so that they can be part of the 21st century. and then as we get the education, unions involved this will definitely help our job skills particularly for our kids in the future. i want to thank the department of intentional for their leadership on this. i

want to thank all the agencies that have worked together to produce this, our police department as well because i know they will work collaboratively with transportation. i know that we want to do more and this is where i continue to join the efforts of supervisor wiener and supervisor david chiu. mark, you have done a great job starting us out. keep going not only with market street, we have other corridors in the city to make sure that everybody becomes part of the 21st century. this is the innovation capital of the world with a special emphasis on those that need it and are part of the 21st century. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, mayor lee. now i would like to introduce somebody who has been a friend of technology at this service

since i started and who is thinking out of the box to try to help us simplify and accelerate president david chiu. [ applause ] >> thank you, mark. happy holidays! i am so excited about what we are doing today and part because when i first ran for office in 2008, i told my constituents that the vision of having free munis in san francisco is what i was interested in having and i was having a conversation with former mayor for this and i want to thank our current mayor lee and the city agencies for working with us and supervisor wiener for really moving forward and getting this done. i also want to make a note that our current head of technology is the fourth chief who i have

spoken to about getting this done. i don't know how you managed to do it in the first 6 months but congratulations for what you have been able to do. [ applause ] >> i want to mention that this weekend we has hundreds of folks dressed in santa claus outfits running through here in the castro, i want to thank selena because you were the ones that delivered santa's gift in helping make this vision a reality. in the 20th century, access to roads, electricity and water was how communities and cities succeed. in the 24th century it's access to broadband. we noticed, and we know that we are not leading the way and not even in the top 10 countries in the world when it comes to high speed broadband. as mayor alluded to that we have a challenge as a city and nation capital of the

world we need to make sure that we have the most fastest and most accessible broadband wechlt -- we know it's good for our economy, education and infrastructure. we know it's going to help everyone succeed in our city. i have two visions that are beyond where we are. first has to do with market. i know mayor lee shares this as many of us share this on market street. not only with congestion on our roads, we want to see a huge number of people on market street, spending time in cafes, shopping and enjoys what it is to be a san franciscans and what it will be on the major thoroughfare. i have more

ideas, it shouldn't be just market street. every street? san francisco should be like market street. we would like to bring free wifi to all of our communities. if we need to do republican -- renovations in our streets, we'll put in the infrastructure to make sure we are wiring every corner of our city, every street in our city so every household and residence can succeed and i look forward to working with our mayor and all the departments and the private sector. happy holidays!. thanks for being here. >> thank you, david. now i would like to invite the supervisor of this beautiful district scott wiener. [ applause ]

>> thank you, mark. thank you mr. mayor. welcome every one to district 8. this is the upper market which is sometimes the forgotten part of market street. we see a lot focused east of octavia. i'm thrilled that this initial roll out of free wifi will extend all the way into the tas castro from the ferry building. we have seen a renaissance in san francisco of public space of having new and graed -- great and better public spaces. we are in the plaza which was the very first of the program that began about 4 years ago where we decided to really start creating new plazas and having new public spaces. this plaza has been in incredibly

successful in the castro and having free wifi here in this public space and other public spaces and in our parts is an incredible part to make sure that people can use these public spaces and that people can congregate here and get work done here and tried -- read the paper and whatever else they want to do. i'm glad that we are celebrating here in the plaza. next year we are going to be wiring the sidewalks on castro street which is part of the strategy to keep improving these places. thank you very much and congratulations on the work. [ applause ] >> thank you, scott. and now i would like to invite the technology visionary that helped us accomplish this

corridor. selena lowe from ruckus. please join me. [ applause ] >> good morning. ruckus has been selected by the city of san francisco as the technology foundation for this milestone launch of wifi along one of the most beautiful and famous thoroughfare in the world. i want to personally thank mark and the team for the support in collaboration that we enjoy in putting this and designing and implementing this network in record time. the launch of this service as mayor lee said is just the beginning and we are really really excited by the opportunity. at ruckus, we share a vision with the city of

san francisco for a reliable wifi u actuality that provides not only free public access but also can serve as an economic stimulus for private and public online services. we believe this project will become a model for cities everywhere in the world. today, we are turning that vision into a reality. the mobile internet has changed everything in our life. anyone can tell you that wifi has become the preferred way to connect to the internet. we all use wifi daily perhaps hourly, perhaps constantly. wifi access is now viewed as a utility just like power and water. therefore like power and water, it has to be reliable,

pervasive and fast. that's where ruckus is coming. ruckus is a solution provider for wifi services and equipment. we have wifi networks deployed in many public areas including new york, los angeles, shanghai, beijing, hong kong, tokyo, london, paris, etc. now having san francisco select ruckus for this challenging high density wifi environment along market street is really another level of achievement for us. our technology is specialized in dealing with high capacity broad coverage, challenging environment , public

environment that includes buildings as well as lots of interference. we have technology to deliver that and confident that we can provide a great service to san francisco. at hulk -- ruckus we are excited about the opportunity to bring the millions of residents and businesses as well as visitors wifi access as well as new online services to the great city of san francisco. thank you. [ applause ] >> well, before we ask the mayor to officially activate symbolically with his big switch. be careful, mayor. i want to acknowledge the op