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include the building's interior, including the sanctuary, murals, another significant interior features. to briefly summarize, the property a significant force association with the development of the san francisco latino and spanish-speaking communities from the late 19th to the mid- 20th century, as well as the geographical and spiritual heart of the latino and spanish-speaking enclave that existed in north beach until the 1950s. it is also architecturally significant of the work of master architects at chez and locke west and an exceptional example of an early 20th century mission revival church with a highly ornate interior displaying renaissance and baroque ornamentation, including its interior murals painted by a master artist. the department has received two letters in support of the designation amendment and has shared a draft of the designation report with the property owner who has testified
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in support of the designation amendment and is also present today. there is no known public or neighborhood opposition to the amendment. the department believes the building's interior meets the established eligibility requirements and that amendment for the landmark designation is warranted. this concludes my presentation and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you miss smith and thank you to staff of the planning department and historic preservation commission. is there any public comment on this item? seeing then, public comment is closed. madame clerk, i would like to add my name is a sponsor, and if there is no objection, we will forward this to the full board with recommendation. that will be the order, and we are adjourned.
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shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering
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place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things
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that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's very important that you do so.
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>> my name is amanda
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[inaudible] over see the girls sports program. when i came to san francisco and studied recreation and parks and towerism and after i graduated i moved to candlestick park and grain r gain adlot of experience work with the san francisco 49 and [inaudible] be agfemale in a vore sports dynamic facility. i coached volo ball on the side and as candle stick closed down the city had me move in92 too [inaudible] >> immediate interaction and response when you work with kids. i think that is what
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drives other people to do this. what drew me to come to [inaudible] to begin with for me to stay. i use today work in advertising as a media buyer and it wasn't fulfilling enough and i found a opportunity to be a writing coach. the moment [inaudible] you to take advantage of how you change and inspire a child by the words you say and actions you do. >> you have a 30 different programs for girls through rec and park and fast ball, soft ball and volley ball. i started the first volley ball league and very proud what i have done with that. being a leader for girls is passion and showing to be confident and being ambiggish and strong person. [inaudible] for about 5 years. programs offered
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thraw thirty-three rec and park and oversee thg prms about a year. other than the programs we offer we offer summer camp squz do [inaudible] during the summer and that is something i wherei have been able to shine in my role. >> couple years we started the civic center socking league and what an amazing opportunity it was and is it for kid in the neighborhood who come together every friday in the civic center plaza on green grass to run and play. you otonly see soccer and poetry but also see books t. is a really promoting literacy to our kid and giving them to tools to make it work at home. real fortunate to see the [inaudible] grow. >> girls get pressureed with society and i know that is obvious, but we see it every
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day, magazines, commercials the idea what a woman should look like but i like to be a strong female role for it goals that play sports because a lot of times they don't see someone strong in a female role with something connected with sports and athleticism and i love i can bring that to the table. >> soccer, poetry, community service. we now have field of dreams. we are [inaudible] all over the bay area and excited to be share our mission with other schools across the bay to really build the confidence and character of kids when they go out to play and close their eyes and think, why was [inaudible] we want to make sure-i want to make sure they remember me and remember the other folks who [inaudible] >> get out there and do it. who cares about what anybody else says. there will be poopal people that come up and want to wreck your ideas. that
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happen today eme when i went to candle stick part and wanted to [inaudible] people told me no left and right. whether you go out for something you are passionate about our something you want to grow in and feel people will say no. go out and get it done. i can be the strong leader female and i love that.
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♪ >> welcome to hamilton recreation and aquatics center. it is the only facility that has an integrated swimming pool and recreation center combined. we have to pools, the city's water slide, for little kids and those of you that are more daring and want to try the rockslide, we have a drop slide. >> exercises for everybody. hi have a great time. the ladies and guys that come, it is for the community and we really make it fun.
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people think it is only for those that play basketball or swim. >> i have been coming to the pool for a long time now. it is nice, they are sweet. >> in the aquatics center, they are very committed to combining for people in san francisco. and also ensuring that they have public safety. >> there are a lot of different personalities that come through here and it makes it very exciting all the time. they, their family or teach their kids have a swim. >> of the gem is fantastic, there is an incredible program
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going on there, both of my girls have learned to swim there. it is a fantastic place, check it out. it is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities. it is as good as anything you will find out why mca. parents come from all over. >> there are not too many pools that are still around, and this is one-stop shopping for kids. you can bring your kid here and have a cool summer. >> if you want to see some of the youth and young men throughout san francisco play some great pickup games, come wednesday night for midnight basketball. on saturdays, we have a senior
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lyons dance that has a great time getting exercise and a movement. we have all the music going, the generally have a good time. whether it is awkward camp or junior guard. >> from more information, visit shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49?
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>> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting
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local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's very important that you do so.
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>> welcome. i am the general manager of the recreation and park department. welcome to our fixer-upper. in all seriousness, we are pleased to welcome you today to the future site of what is truly going to be an amazing space, a space of health, a space of equity, a space that connects neighborhoods, a space of place, a space that respects the cultural history of the bayview, india basin park. i am thrilled to be able to introduce someone who is committed to equity, to environmental justice, to housing for everyone, to livable and healthy communities for everyone. it's been absolutely invaluable to our project. we thank her for her leadership.
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we thank you for being our parts champion. you're mayor, london breed. >> thank you. >> thank you. good afternoon, bayview hunter's point. i am so excited to be here. at this time, i also want to acknowledge some of our elected leaders who are joining us here today. our treasurer, thank you for being here. our new public defender, thank you so much for being here, and i know -- there you are. schumann in walton, supervisor is here. [cheers and applause] >> i'm so excited about this project and what we are doing to support this community, because for so many years, many of you who live in this community, you have lived here, and often times
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, he probably felt as though you were being neglected, that this community was being neglected. it took us so long to get the work done at west point, but we got the work done -- joyce armstrong. it took us so long to really focus in on this particular area , and to address what we know has been environmental injustice in this community. we know that there is a lot of work that needs to be done, and we know it takes a lot of money to get that work done. the city and county of san francisco is committed to transforming unity, not for the people who are going to move here, before the people who live here. [applause] back in november, i signed the legislation for the india basin development agreement, and part of that agreement is, yes, 1500 new units with 25% of those units below market rate. yes, it is 200 square feet of
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possible commercial space, transportation and infrastructure improvements so that our people who are walking the streets and biking in this community can feel safe, and of course, 14 acres of public open space along our waterfront. finally, the rest of the city is seeing what we know has existed for so long, the beautiful views of the bayview hunter's points community. but this project is more than just about building buildings. it is about creating a park, supporting and sustaining the existing community. it is about a complete community , and as our city grows , we have to find more ways to make sure that all of our communities are equitable. that all of our communities are diverse, and that we don't continue to make many of the
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same mistakes that we had in the past with the western edition community where we lost the thriving african-american community. part of the restoring of this open area is to make sure that the neglected -- the neglect that has occurred for far too long is remedied, and doing so, we can ensure that all of our residents come together and to be part this amazing community. there are thousands of new homes that already exist that are planned within miles of this area. this open space will serve them first and foremost, along with the residents from across the city. there are so many benefits, as we know, to have an incredible -- to have incredible spaces like this. safe spaces for residents to gather, to exercise, to enjoy one another's company, create better communities. we will restore our environment
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and protect our natural habitat in this area, and at the same time, plan for sealevel rise. this space will preserve the rich history of the bayview hunter's points community, which is one of san francisco's oldest and most culturally significant communities. it will provide job opportunities for the residents who live here, we are going to prepare them so that they have access to work on this site. [applause] >> to reach these goals, we need community involvement, which has been strong and supportive from the beginning, but we also need funding. so that's why today, i am so thrilled to announce that we have secured $25 million as a result of a generous, generous contribution the john frisk or family foundation to kickstart
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this project. these funds will support the initial phases of this project, including design and remediation , as well as community engagement and a portion of construction that was chosen as a place to give one of the single largest gifts san francisco project is completed,
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so we have to get started sooner rather than later, and there is still more work to be done, with a view hunter's points community , i have to tell you, i can't tell you how happy i am that the work that went into this a reality, it means so much , and i want to acknowledge the hard work of the san francisco creation and park department. thank you to the leadership of phil ginsburg. thank you to the president of the commission for his tireless work on behalf of the city and the recreation and parks department i am just so thrilled so excited, now it is time that we get to work and make this the most incredible, beautiful waterfront anywhere in the city and county of the school.
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thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> that works for me, because i was going to say, we don't just want breed to be alive when this project is done, we want her to still be in office when this project is done. [laughter] >> i would next like to introduce someone who has been such a champion for open space and equity, even before he took office, he is actually a member, was a member of the india basin open space task that worked with us, and the india basin neighborhood association, and the myriad of community groups to help us design and think about this space. his predecessor on the board, who is now the chair of the board of equalization, a former supervisor, malia cone was one of the chairs of the task force, and now supervisor walton is picking up the mantle and running with it.
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it is my pleasure to introduce supervisor shimon boulton -- supervisor walton. >> good afternoon. welcome to the southeast sector of san francisco, welcome to bayview, welcome to india basin where we have always known that the sun always shines. what you see here today is one of the most amazing gems that we have in district ten, and for the next four years, next eight years, next 20 years, next 13 years, we will continue to highlight the beauty of district ten, the beauty of the southeast sector of san francisco, not only because we know how amazing it is, but because we deserve it , and we deserve to make sure that everyone knows that we are here. thank you for coming out today. [applause] >> i definitely want to acknowledge our board of education members. thank you for showing up. we also have commissioner richardson and i will be remiss
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if i did not mention a long-term resident geo- fox who worked hard to make sure that we highlighted india basin, highlighted its beauty, and thank you for being out here today. like mayor breed said, projects like this happen because we need the resources to get it done. of course, we want to thank our donor we want to say that donations like that allow us the opportunity to make sure we take care of all of our parks here in district ten. we will make sure that the beauty of the southeast sector that we all imagined, that we have already known for so many decades and so many decades is realized, and we will do it quickly, and do it sooner rather than later, and i also have to, and i know she will come up and speak, but i want to thank jackie flynn for being a champion, not only for parks, but also for young people who
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have access to our parks. if you look around you, this is a connection to the water, and we don't do enough water activities here on this side of town because we haven't had the same level of access, even though we have the beautiful waterfront. is a lookout here is a seat more young folks here, this is a time for us to get excited about what is to come and what is here in the southeast sector. i want to thank director ginsburg for continuously pushing for this to happen, and i want to thank all of you for being here as we realize this dream together, a beautiful, amazing park right here in the southeast sector attached to the water. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor walton. next i would like to introduce, a supervisor walton already acknowledged, an extraordinary advocate. not just for the bayview hunter 's points community, but for open space, for recreation, for health, for community, her
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organization ensures the neighborhood projects truly benefit neighborhood people. it is my pleasure to welcome jackie flynn, the executive director of the eight philip randolph institute. [cheers and applause] >> one of my fondest memories is this very shoreline. i was out here with my father. when i was a teenager, i was a little bit of a rebel, very independent, and a little stubborn at times, so to keep us out of trouble, me and and my brother does, he would wake us up early every saturday morning and make us come work for a p.r.i. i had no idea how important our job was. i only knew that at the end of the day, he owed me $20 cash as soon as we were done. so one saturday morning, he took me up to northridge. if you drive across northridge,
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you guys will all see this view from above, so encourage you to go up there after this if you haven't gone. he asked me to look out and just see how beautiful the shoreline was, and imagine and dream about what this place could be in the future. at that time, i had no idea how much those moments would impact my life today, fast-forward 25 years, and i now serve as executive director of the fill randall institute. i'm very proud to stand alongside my mayor and my supervisor because we are the community leaders that you all dreamed of. this project will create opportunity we could have never imagined 25 years ago, from jobs , to economy and local business ventures, to social and economic, as well as environmental justice that this community deserves. this project will give back what is way more than then past due in bayview. bayview wants space, beautiful,
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well-maintained parks and open space that allow all of our families to grow. this project is for all of our kids who dare to dream and all the families that may face challenges, but hold hope in their hearts. thank you mayor breed, thank you supervisor walton and phil ginsburg, special thank you to another true community leader that couldn't be here, but her team is here, and that his former supervisor malia cone. >> thank you, jackie. in closing, it is a wonderful gathering, it shows how much depth and how much excitement and how much collaboration and community wants this project to happen. we can't thank each and every one of you, and we want to particularly knowledge some of the people who have been deeply involved in the project. we have a number of department
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heads here today. to all of my colleagues, thank you very much for your support. i want to acknowledge debbie, this is an environmental justice project. i want to acknowledge john around for being an executive champion, and the department of economic and workforce -- workforce development that has helped us every step of the way. a lot of electives have been acknowledged. and then of course, our park partners, the trust for public. we will get this done. congratulations. to the india basin task force and all of the representatives who have participated in a. five years of planning, special shout out to hunter's point family,
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the neighborhood association, young community developers, literacy for environmental justice, project level, and morgan heights neighborhood. thank you very much. and no doubt, we are leaving folks out because this project has depth. finally, a very important thank you to the recreation and park team, a special shout out to stacy bradley who helped us acquire this piece of property. and to nicole who has taken this very challenging project and keeps driving it and driving it and driving it and won't let it quit. and last but not least, we get direction from our mayor, from our board of supervisors, and from our commission. demark you will, tom harrison, cat tenders, anderson and the entire commission, thank you for your faith in us and your
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leadership. let's build a park. thank you very much. [applause] >> right before the game starts, if i'm still on the field, i look around, and i just take a deep breath because it is so exciting and magical, not knowing what the season holds holds is very, very exciting.
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it was fast-paced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. there was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. i continued working for the grizzlies for the 2012-2013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the san francisco giants. i applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didn't apply. i was so nervous, i never lived anywhere outside of fridays know, andfridays -- fresno, and i got an interview. and then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. but i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14, 2014. every game day was a puzzle,
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and i have to figure out how to put the pieces together. i have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. it's fun to put that altogetl r together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. a lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. and then i'll talk to lucille, can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers. i just organize it from top to bottom, and it's just fun for me. something, we don't know how it's going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but you've got to try it. or if it fails, you just won't do it again. or you tweak it. when that all pans out, you go oh, we did that.
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we did that as a team. i have a great team. we all gel well together. it keeps the show going. the fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and that's our job. i have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and they've been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. renelle is the best. she's all about women in the workforce, she's always in our corner. [applause] >> i enjoy how progressive the giants are. we have had the longer running until they secure day. we've been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. i enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that
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and is all inclusive. that means a lot to me, and i wouldn't have it any other way. i wasn't sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadn't have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. i've grown more in the past four years professionally than i think i've grown in my entire adult life, so it's been eye opening and a wonderful learning
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>> welcome to a refill week. welcome to everyone joining us at chase centre and in b.c. sports bay area, we are on t.v. today, so thank you very much. we are from one '07 seven the bone. thank you. paul and i have been radio partners in the bay area for over 30 years and over those 30 years, we have had the opportunity to make a living by playing and listening to some of the greatest artists of all time that is what brings us to state the -- to the stage day for the press conference. the act, the chase centre and the warriors will be announcing