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founder of paxton gate that's where we are here on ra11sia street. >> it started more of a quirky gardening store. we leaned in this quirky side over the years and started with insects and learned how to hydrate them and symmetrical or natural poses. which then went intomall taxidermy. i saw interest in the oddity side and purposely expanded that to more of a natural side oddity store. this is interesting mechanical pa in the beetle. african porcupine is cool. theyook at their eyes. i grew up on what many call a farm but it was in the to us. we raised animals it a garden i was involved with plant.

had a rock cotion goes from your basic house plants to an air plant. avoid this term people happening they survive on air alone thewa. i went to school for business here and finishing up at sf state. and this idea fell in myap and masterfuled my interests and i learned a lot over the years. i like to view it as like a museexperience. rather hahn sales people they might be like dossants they are not har selling you but more conveying iorming or knowledge about the products. teeth, that's the shark that would getp to 60 feet long. we are launching class we did them before the pandemic.

a bunch of hand's on learn to do things classes that we getting around to relaunching. this is our insect spreading kit. inside is a striped needles, forceps, instructions and the other tools you need to take up the ho of spreading insects. had is a prize to manyple is 80% of the stuff we get is from vendors or merchants. people think do you trendous finding these. i don't get to do this. that is a still born kitten that had oneeye. the most common question is, is it real. almost everything is. we have replicas like the sabre toot tigers and things that would be present low expensive

to procure and sell or illegal we'll do replis w have, l of real stuff. ♪♪ >> when someone gets out and the winds hits their face they are making the decision whether they will go left or right. >> the freedom raider program came about because there was two things. one, there was the need for more program inside san francisco county jails. and with san francisco pretrial we work with presentence clients who are fighting their case. the freedom program serves women in san francisco county giving

them an opportunity to decompress everything they have been going through. what does freedom mean to you? how do you create it within yourself? >> having conversations with my daughter who we put out a call out to the expo page and they started to comment and say, i'm down. >> we are handing down the torc and it starts with us. but it does in the end with us. >> tell be a movement. >> yea. you have to start with a big movement. gi think the good thing about this program is that we will be able to also connect them with the partners we work with. like the latino task source. san francisco pretrial. and provides opportunity for people to get llc's the san francisco sheriff's department. we are a one time thing but it

flourished to 11 weeks in the jails. >> one of the main goals of the sheriff in the last strategic plan was to find better vocational programs specific low r wome this course is offered in both english meeted needs. our diverse community. the benefits of vocional training they take a real skill with them. bring it b tackthe communities. make money for themselves reduces recidivism and e eliminates the possibility of recurring the economic crimes that are out there that is basically the nexus of why an are■i■, incarcerateed begin wit. >> so i hope it will bring you

more strength you have and i will see you outside. yes. >> the reaction to the program has been rewarding. the smiles, tears each monday you see a bit of growth inside of them. now, the ladies come in on monday, what is up! what is up! now they understand that you have sisters here. it takes a community to help a young person. i feel community needs to be in the county jails. we need that they need that. >> so on our first week there is a few that needed help perfecting and a good amount of people this did in the know how to brave what so ever. today is our final week and all

the women know how to braid. they are confident and excited to get out and start their braiding business or braid on fellow inmates. the freedom program spoke to me i was incarcerated and when treat people like human incarcerated they come home and be human. when you treat them like animal its diminished the human aspect they come home and they are back they did in the learn skills temperature is important to have those kind of bonds. >> [inaudible]. feels good. tastes good. the community response has been overwhelming. in order for us to really expand and to the scombrars these communities and other facilities, we need the funds to sustin a program like this. and when we tie it to breaking

cycles to economically driven crime its rings a bell that's what happen in the our community. we have been getting a lot of response from our city walton w proclamation to the women instructors. >> we are grateful for the dedication and commitment to teach art of braiding to the incarcerated women at the san francisco county jail. >> not only has the freedom braiding class kind of paved the way of the training we want to have moving forward; we have already taken steps for more programs such as this. i think we are onhe right electronic. >> my hope for this program is -- i want the women it get out and go home to their families to love on their babies, nieces and nephews and moers. and giving them the skill set for them to love themselves

again. although the lives stay on 24/7. their place is dark. i hope this program is shining a bit of light in their histories and minds to wanting to stay alive and free. occasions. >> my name is tina i say owner of the first books in san francisco and immigrant bookstore for 3 three yrs that is housed and and hispeculaon used for a number of things the farms what makes us unique maintained the

original furniture up here you see the ancient fitting and those are the original fixtures of what was here in the early, you know, 1920s or so. we're a little bit of everything but i'll say your strongest will litter and history and of course, we try to pride ourselves on fine tuned restoration we binge in behind jams or things that inspires someone we specialize in cuit >> one of my favorite parts i sitting in chair out front and saying hello to people when they come in and my favorite to recommend a book you have homes and work and well a thirdla

is a place where i look for community and you build community i think that is christopher's and other businesses like that are a third place and turn to come in i knew they were born and have their kids. >> that's how long i've been here with the history and connection and board member wright a few priority is one of the most amazing cities in the world and love creating a community >> hi, i'm same gabble the marketing director at moe green in

downtown san francisco. the finest lounge and cannabis dispensary in san francisco. a state of the art cannabis lounge with a dab bar, high roller room in performens spaiss for nightly events. interested in cannabis even if you don't know how to use it yet you can come and learn how to use it safely. a lot of people are still learning about it, even though it is legal for a while. i would recommend coming to a place like moe's with experts here to walk you through the process. >> anything in particular you are looking for today? >> have a good time and being [indiscernible] like in a vegas cuveneo. conseeno, we have movie and trivia night. something for everybody's. it is lovely place to gather work or be by yourselfism there are many ways to enjoy cannabis, we have flowers edibles, extracts tablets. a lot of different ways to consume so if you don't like the heat of fire while you don't want to be a

smoker but still want to engage in medical benefits of cannabis, it is great for pain and great for easing yourself. it isn't just about smoking weed, but we are showing what cannabis can be a part of in the greater participation of a city and of downtown san francisco. that's what is important about it to me. you're watching san francisco rising. today's special guest is monique gray. >> hi. i'm chris mannis and you're watching san francisco rising. the our guest today is marquise

gray. he runs out of the office of the mayor in the city and county of san francisco. and he's with us today to talk about the recent progress of the sunnidale hope sf housing project. welcome to the show. >> good morning. thank you for having me today. >> let's start by talking about the existing residents of sunnydale and their history. >> so sunnydale was built in the 1940s for a workers. it's the largest public housing community west of the mississippi. it's about 50 acres. pretty huge. about 760 single story units one to four bedrooms. >> i understand it's an ambitious rethinking of the residences. can you briefly describe the scope of the program and hope sf's involvement? >> yeah. the work of hope sf is this

idea of more than housing. that acknowledging that our public housing community, the levels of violence and poverty that are in these communities are not by accident. you know, it's our opportunity to address a system issue, you know, that people need more than housing. they need health services. resources. economic investment opportunities, jobs and things of that nature. and so hope sf strives to work with our city systems to better serve our public housing communities. >> so recently, mayor breed and speaker pelosi toured the site to both put focus on a national housing initiative and also to highlight the completion of the first new building. how many units does it contain and when will people start moving in? >> yeah. it was an amazing event. honored to have the secretary here with us as well in our community. it's 167 units. it's about 75% going back to

the original families that currently live on site. so the replacement. so i did forget to mention i want to say real quick, the beauty of hope sf is housing development, new development without displacements or anti-displacement initiatives. so, for example, the building is 167 units. 75% of those units going to families that have lived there in the community for generationings and the other 25% are tax credit units adding to the affordable housing stock here in san francisco and those units are up and running now. they're leasing them as we speak. people are picking their units each week until they're filled up. >> so was this particular building put on a new plot of land or did people have to move out so it could be constructed? >> that's a good question. our first building was vacant which you may have saw across the street from this building and then this plot of land is

the way we kind of do it, we do it in phases. once one goes in, we're able to move families into the new unit and where they previously were occupying, able to demolish old buildings to build the new. so this area had some older units that were demolished. >> it's impressive that construction has been able to continue during the covid-19 pandemic. can you talk about some of the challenges that needed to be overcome and how the community has managed during the crisis? >> that's a great question. you know, in san francisco, if i understand it correctly, i could be wrong, i believe housing was an essential service. the mayor made a strong commitment early on in the pandemic that we would continue to build housing as housing has been a critical issue in our city. so the housing part hasn't impacted us too much. 67 units have been going on its

current time line. the bigger challenge for us was showing the families in our communities, low income families had the resources we need to survive the pandemic. many of our families didn't have the luxury of working from home, working in the zone and things of that nature. making sure they had access to covid testing and things of that nature. so i want to give a big shout out to our resident leaders, our service providers across all four sites. for those that don't know, hope sf is four sites. sunnydale is one of the four sites. and so across those four sites, the most critical thing was making sure folks in these neighborhoods which have historically have been disconnected from resources have the things that they need to remain healthy, to, you know, survive the pandemic as we all had to survive the

pandemic and we did pretty well. we were able to bring back scenes and covid testing on site. food distribution was happening all throughout the week. wellness services and things of that nature were all happening on site thanks to our resident leaders and our service providers across the sites. >> so, finally, when could we expect the next set of residents to be ready? despite -- i guess we just said covid doesn't have an impact on the schedule. when will the next residences be ready? >> yeah. things are rolling. we have block a3 and block b3 to the building we were referring to earlier. and things are on pace. things are going really well. so we're looking at starting construction spring of 2022 and that will be 170 units and the goal is to have that lease up around 2024. >> well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming

on the show, mr. gray. thank you for giving us the time today. >> thank you, chris, and i really appreciate your time as well. >> and that's it with this episode. you've been watching san francisco rising for sfgov tv i'm chris manners. thanks so much for watching. >> you're watching san francisco live with chris manner. >> today's s f f is - >> hi, i'm chris you're watching or imagining the city

we have ivar satero director of sfo welcome to the show. >> go to the with you. >> thank you nice to see let's talk about how the airport as and the number of depreciations you're serving. >> yeah. it is really exciting we consult strong out the crisis and full swings with in carriers and poetry's and great dedications have a lot more to the mix and we have others we had talked about wonderful depreciations and people are loving that we're at with an hundred and 10 percent the precovid international position without the full recovery so we'll anticipating china but the recovery is excited to see how busy the temperance are those

days. >> had renovation or expansion plans are currently underway? >> great. a lot of exciting programs we suspected some that have the work because of crescent trail he now we're back in full spring or swing and finished the harvey milk terminal one and talk about setting a standard in passengers traveling and it exceeded any exceptions fhi harvey milk terminal one and now knowledge on another terminal that's one of the last terminals to receive the 70 patch focuses on the passengers expense and west torrential has will kicked off and now taking the next four and a half years to 34re89 34re9 and have a lot of the investment structure and part of on $11 billion investment over the 5 years to seven years and

$8 billion and $3 billion in the extra and excite to implement a new wastewater treatment plants and we'll be able to reuse the water at ivar satero director of sfo and next the question is san francisco san francisco international airport is well common for the opportunity. >> could you debilitate on those a little bit. >> we set aggregate goals we set the zero goal this is the zero net energy greenhouse gas emissions and zero water and we have had that as one of the permit values for over a decade and exciting to see our entering use is down by 4, 3, 2 , 1 percent if 2012 our water use is detain 20 percent and is greenhouse gas emissions is down thirty percent and that is about the investment we made and the

quality of facilities we build and reduces the entering consumption and heating and cooling those things when we make those investments what is that commissioner vietor that benefits the environment when we design and plan the buildings is really exciting and wonderful to see little success we're having. >> i think about the future and skuntd fuel and we building that since 2018 to show the leadership in the advancement of constitutional aviation and 70 will be the airport for the fuel of any airport in the world this year and next year and so that's a huge workforce at 70 but undoubtedly has an impact over the regional xhivengz and just facts as you, you know, we are the latter jock center in san

mateo county we have 40 thousand people at 70 and we contribute about 40 board of appeals to the regional economy about one hundred and fifty thousand job is rely on the successful operations of our airport it is really a tremendous interest rate to our economy and about the operations and construction programs and you'll talk about the investment we've been investing in the facilities for so many years i've been here 3 decades and under construction that whole time almost and the job addition for the contradiction program is meaningful for well paying trades work and intifrmz has on a priority and this year with our interns yesterday over one hundred interims supporting the team we're a perspective of the support we get the the labor that is available to 70. >> that's great. >> so finally what

advancements will be for the passenger experience and operations, you, know, many people for those of you who don't know the history of this is a long alter 70 and in father 1959 we had jets and the disruption that has happened are particularly with uber and lyft wiper the first airport to permit their precautions $50 billion and with the taernlz with the technologies like automatic. >> what an experienced for people going to the check lines and our dependant cure system the bag system the lath technology and the first in the u.s. so have an independent carrier system and 0 now you hinge with the notification it is really tremendous particle as we develop a new facility but,

you know, for us too about our operation and unfor the future there is exciting new development happening we have recently implemented a ground based agree mansion system that is technology improves the arrive rate of airport and allows for which the development of arrivals that benefit community by higher elevations and offsetting over the water we invested in that that noise and quality of life but also, you know, for the delays details delays are a community by the people when cooler weather and traffic comes in after midnight we're investing in our familiarity and investing in the operations we have our airport integrated operation system underway with technologies to give us much better especially

realtime awareness and auto operations and embarcadero to adjust our operations to address congestion, you know, roadside congestion and checkpoint congestions gives us much better awareness and other things we can talk about that are existing wall but taxis an noopgs 234506gs we or working with the industry on this that might look in the 70 and preparing for the future of air taxis and one of our big initiative to engage the broader region in the developments we have to have policies that address the air taxis innovation we are conducting with berkley transportation center and engaging the industry and engaging decision makers and the region in helping to develop policies will give us a

framework for addressing the air taxis that's a step for the next several years. thank you. ivar satero director of sfo for sharing the information for san francisco international airport we appreciate the time you've given us and thank you. >> we'll be back with another one i'm chris thank you for okay good evening and welcome to the january 22nd 2025 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. president jose lopez will be the presiding officer tonight and he is joined