. all right. you all good? can you all hear me now? i'm supposed to look at the cameras but we got the whole crew over here. >> so forgive me as i look at them. i'm not trying to be rude, but thank you all for being here. i want to thank supervisor matt

dorsey for being here. i want to thank district attorney brooke jenkins for being here. i want to thank police chief bill scott for being here and marissa rodriguez, the ceo of the union square alliance and scott rowe, its executive director of the year bob wayne a partnership. i want to thank the arts and culture sector that is represented over here to our right. the hospitality sector as well as jeff travel, alex bastian. i want to thank tyler florence for being here. i want to thank our seiu local 87 janitors for being here. really appreciate that. ufc w local five is also here and the building trades. i appreciate labor being in the house. thank you all very much. so good morning everyone and thank you. today we're gathered downtown a place that we can all admit is not what it used to be. anyone who grew up in

san francisco remembers going to union square for holiday shopping or seeing the tourists lining up for the cable car. this was the face of our city and we are all still so proud of it. but i want our kids to feel that same sense of pride that we had growing up. downtown's public safety challenges have hurt our economy, our businesses and our workers. it has also hurt the morale of our city. historically our core hospitality area has been split between three police districts . >> this has been divided. this is already divided limited police resources across an area with unique public safety needs. but it is a new day in san francisco. we are ready to face our challenges head on with a hyper focus on results. >> that's why today i am proud

to announce the san francisco police department's hospitality zone task force. this hospitality zone task force will make downtown safe and kick start our economy. >> the hospitality zone task force will supplement existing sf pd deployments leveraging resources that were previously divided. the task force will also work directly with local businesses and hotels to ensure their needs are met while helping visitors shoppers and convention goers get around safely. this new effort is part of our diversified strategy to get san francisco san franciscans back to work to clean up our streets and welcome more people

to our city. it will also coordinate with multiple agency entities like dimock which is currently active in the tenderloin and on sixth street. the task force builds on our work to end the hotel strike. it also complements our effort to fully staff the police department. the sheriff's department and 911 dispatch and to address the fentanyl crisis on our streets through our fentanyl state of emergency ordinance. >> san francisco those tourism and hospitality industries are the lifeblood of our economy. >> these industries generate 75% of the city's economic impact. they provide tens of thousands of jobs and help fund the services that that support residents in every corner of our city. let me tell you during the jpmorgan health care conference i stopped by union square.

>> it was packed. there was people taking up every coffee table in that square. the bars and restaurants not just in union square but here in soma were packed. i stopped by some after our parties. >> there was life everywhere. and i have to tell you i loved every moment of it. that's how it should be. 365 days a year. >> during that conference the mayor's office, s.f. pd sheriffs, the department of emergency management and other city departments executed an effective public safety plan with a constant visible law enforcement presence. and it worked. the jpmorgan conference is coming back to san francisco in 2026. the task force will be an

important part of our public safety plan for next week when we have the lunar new year parade and we have nba all-star weekend. but let's be clear it's going to continue after that every single day. the hospitality zone task force will provide residents and visitors with the security they deserve. >> 365 days a year. >> i am deeply grateful to all of our partners here today who have worked with us to get this task force off the ground including the san francisco police department, local business leaders and our dedicated first responders. i also want to thank my colleagues at the board of supervisors who are here today and who voted over whelming in favor of our fentanyl state of emergency supervisor.

thank you for co-sponsoring that legislation. >> in this new era of collaboration our potential as a city is sky high. while a safe, bustling downtown, we will attract businesses and visitors. we will create jobs, generate revenue and provide better services for everyone in san francisco. when downtown wins we all win. >> now it's my privilege to turn it over to chief bill scott. >> thank you, chief. thank you. >> thank you, mayor lori. let me begin my comments with thanking our mayor daniel for his vision on this hospitality zone task force. we've proven as a city over and over again that we have what it takes to keep this city a great

city as it is and as it should be. i want to also think supervisor dorsey i'm not going to repeat all the things that the mayor gave but i just want to call out a few people. supervisor dorsey for your leadership. this has been something that you have been talking about for quite a while now. and i thank you for your partnership and support of mayor lurie's vision. our district attorney brooke jenkins who is an incredible law enforcement partner. we cannot do our work without her support and the work that she and her office does also supervisor sartor who hit the ground running and it's been an incredible first month for everything that you have brought to the table. >> so thank you. melissa rodriguez who we will hear from next. i want to thank you because you are an incredible partner and without the union square alliance.

>> you know, we've we work through some very difficult challenges in union square and i am so optimistic about the future because of you and your work and the work of your team. >> so with that, let's get down to business and talk about talk a little bit about talk a little bit about what we're here for the hospitality zone task force. this is a vital initiative for us, the san francisco police department because we know how important this corridor is this area is to our city. it's important to our economy. it's important to the image of san francisco. these are some of the most traveled and the most visited streets and corridors in our city and it's very, very important vitally important that we are pristine 24 hours a day, seven days a week not just for conventions, not just for conferences, not just for the nba all stars but every day. and quite frankly, we've had some challenges trying to do that. i am extremely optimistic with this footprint of the

hospitality zone task force because two things we will collaborate with all the work that we're doing and what mayor lori mentioned the demak work, the all the different components the sheriff's department who are here with this the probation department adult and juvenile, our federal partners all that work will be collaborated into this zone to make a difference and to keep our streets safe and clean and i think that is what we all want. so how will we do it? it will take multiple districts stations who will come together to do their work collaborative and we struggle with that in the past with this task force model will alleviate some of the silos that we've seen in the past. as the mayor mentioned, we're talking about multiple district stations but we haven't had this model before where we put those officers together to work side by side collaboratively with all the other agencies that you see here before you

and that is the model that this task force will will will do every day. and this is going to be the basis of our success. a couple of other notes. the zone will be focused and i'll i'll read the streets out in a second but this zone will be focused for the areas where our hotels are our a lot of our shopping corridors are a lot of the tourists when they come to our city and enjoy san francisco, this is where they come. we want them to walk away with a beautiful experience. we want our residents who have struggled with street drug usage and drug dealers on the corner. that is no more that is no more . now i'm going to say this clearly we know that this work is not an overnight thing. we're not going to snap our fingers and all the problems that we have seen and endured will be gone tomorrow. but i can guarantee you this you will see a noticeable difference with this task force a note of a noticeable difference and you will see it

very quickly. >> mayor lori has been very clear with the direction that he wants this to go in. the sense of urgency that we need to get this work done, the collaboration that he and the people of san francisco need to see in order to be successful. and we are we are crystal clear on that direction and we are crystal clear on our mission and we will get this done. we want people to feel safe. we have some of the lowest crime statistics that we've had in decades but that is not enough. is it evidence that we're doing some of the right things? yes, it is. but that is not enough. i don't know of a mayor during my term and you probably have to go way back in the records that has had his first month with zero homicides during his watch. now i'm going to say this very

clearly we have a lot of work ahead of us but it's a great start. car break ins are down 70% even from where they were last year and last year was a record in reductions in car break ins. so we know we have momentum. >> this is one more thing that's going to add to that momentum to get us to where we want to be. >> so as i close, here is what you can expect to see. we will have our command band stationed in the hospitality zone area. you've seen it in union square. that will remain but some also is vitally important to our success. you will see resources. you will see uniformed officers. you will see honda motorcycle officers, you you won't see the plainclothes officers if we're doing our jobs right. but they will be out there making arrests. when drug dealers come to town we have a message for them. go back to where you came from because it's not happening here and that is so we have a lot of

work to do and we are here for you. we want our city to thrive, not just survive and that is what we plan on doing. so thank you mayor lori. thank you for all of our partners in community the business community. >> and with that i'd like to call up to the mike. melissa rodriguez thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning everyone. my name is marissa rodriguez. i'm the ceo of the union square alliance. i first want to acknowledge those in this room. >> this is our lifeblood right here in san francisco and i want to thank all of you for showing up because you have continued to show up day after day after day to bring our city back. i see neiman marcus. i see macy's. i see you rodney from the chamber. i see as of travel i see bryan fenwick, our hotel community, our hilton, our largest hilton peter, i see you and i know

that everyone is here. karen flood, i see you as well. these are the pillars of our community who have been holding us up through the hardest times . the pandemic was not kind to us. i see you tyler to thank you for bringing you back to union square to help us thrive. as i said, the pandemic was not an easy time for us and we have had a difficulty emerging especially with the negative narrative. but i'm going to tell you in this last few months i don't know maybe roughly around november things have changed. >> there is a feeling of optimism and i want to thank our mayor for being here to support us in 2022. >> the union square alliance did delivered its strategic plan for the district. >> we recognize the things that we knew we needed to see marriott, that we needed to really come out of this and come out strong.

this was a new era, a shift in how people experience life. it was different and we needed to meet that moment. but first and foremost the way that we do that is clean and safe. that was clear. that was number one. that is why you have a former prosecutor in this role. >> right? second was economic development. but you can't have the economic development without the clean and safe. >> it has been a two and a half year journey getting here. >> however, within two months of his term not even that we are here and that is huge. >> and for that i think this mayor deserves a round of applause. >> thank you. >> san francisco and our neighborhoods cannot come back unless we have a thriving downtown and that is union square as well.

>> this is the face we put forward. this is our iconic city center. this is where all of you come to work where everyone comes to work. we want to come here feeling dignified. we want to feel safe on public transportation. we want to feel safe when we come in on budget. we want to be able to walk to work and spend a day at work and not worry that a car is going to plow through the door. >> we want to make sure that everyone feels like this is our community that we can be proud of. we are a world class city. there is no place like san francisco so the cable car runs through union square. we are going to protect it and i thank you so much for your support and our convention center. scott it is our partnership. this is how we bring our city back. we cannot move our convention center west of twin peaks. it is here. it is here to stay and we are going to support it and together we are going to put our best foot forward so that

people understand we are this city by the bay. we are the city that everyone loves because we're amazing and we're going to stay that way. let's work hard. let's do this together and thank you again and before i go on i want to welcome and recognize rda another partner that has helped us. thank you. it is not by accident that crime is down because our police chief and rda are working in tandem together to make that happen. this is incredible. this is an incredible time. let's keep the momentum going. we feel it. we came off a great holiday season. it was like the light switch went off. people came in. we came off jp morgan it was a success. we're going to go into the nba all-star game. it's going to be an even bigger success. we're going to have our lunar new year parade. >> maybe a statue. we'll talk about that later. my god. but we're going to make it happen because our city deserves it. thank you so much and welcome brooke jenkins.

>> there is nothing better than having a former prosecutor be my partner in trying to turn union square around. i can say that she we understand each other's language. but no, i'm honored to be here today to express my thanks and my support for this new hospitality's own task force. for the last almost three years, chief scott and i in particular have worked so hard for our department to finally row in the same direction for the sake of our city. but to make sure that accountability and consequences were a common tone and theme across this city and not only in this city but across the world so that people understood we are not a city that is tolerant of lawlessness. we are not a city that allows anything to go on our streets but that we are going to get back to enforcing our laws in the way that they should be enforced which is across the board. all crime in san francisco is illegal and that has been the case for almost three years.

>> but what we know is that it's not enough for that for us to see the data that crime is dropping. >> people have to feel safe and that's about your perception. and when streets are not clean, when they don't see police officers who they know are there to respond if something happens or to prevent something from happening that that data means nothing. and this hospitality task force is important and very significant not only because of where they will be placed in our city but because they will actually engage in foot patrols in these areas and that is significant to point out. this isn't just officers who are there to respond to calls. these are officers who are intended those who are not plainclothes of course to be visible and to be accessible to our tourists and our shoppers and our in our labor force who is coming to work here every day so that they see the presence of somebody who is there with one sole purpose and that's to keep them safe.

because when we have that that aids in people saying okay, the data is one thing but now i can rest i don't have anxiety as i'm walking down the street i feel invited to come shop in union square because i'm not worried about my car being burglarized. i'm not worried about being robbed as i walk out of these designer stores with my bags. that is what is key. and so i just thank you, mayor, for working with the chief and the board to to make this happen. i know, chief, that this has been an uphill battle with the with the low staffing that you're that you're contending with. but that we have made this a priority so that we can get back to the point where we are fighting this narrative that's been painted of our city and where we are actually making positive experiences not only for those that visit but as i talk to labor all the time for those who work here and live here. that has to be the case because otherwise we'll continue to see store closures and we'll continue to see hotel vacancies and that is something we just cannot sit by and watch. and so thank you all for your

partnership and i'll continue to do my job to make sure that we have consequences for those who don't get it right. and i will now turn it over to my district supervisor actually matt dorsey. >> thank you. thank you, everybody. and welcome to district six. this isn't just my district. this is part of my stomping ground and this is where i usually i'll point to the gym and say that's where i where i work out. >> but the reality lately is it's where i pay a membership and occasionally go my parish church of st patrick's my office, my office weekend offices, the grove. so you see me here a lot. so welcome everybody. and when you come to this neighborhood you really have to express a debt of gratitude to the soma filipinas cultural district and raquel rodan diaz . >> this is the heart of that district and i just want to say ,you know, when the history of this this time is written, you know, with all the economic struggles it was the cultural districts that really stepped

up and carried us forward. and i really think soma filipinas is meant as much as any other in the city did that i want to express gratitude also to the house of labor and the people who are here from the janitors and local 87 we've got steam sprinklers, fitters, electric workers as i see here local to hotel workers. >> so much of the safety work that we do is also for the people who come here to work and i want to express our gratitude to that. early in my ten years on the member as a member of the board of supervisors i opened up the hood on police redistricting working with chief scott and his team and one of the things that we found when we looked at other cities that depend on economic activity for destination activities like tourism and conventions is that san francisco is unique in being a city where you might get up at your hotel room in union square in new york in one police district you cross market street and you're in another police district and you go to the convention center and

then you're in yet another police district. there is a better way to do this and i really appreciate the leadership of mayor in recognizing that and in his first month acting on it to fix it to make sure that we are coordinating better and doing everything that we can to protect and better serve the economic interests of this city with this groundbreaking task force. >> i also appreciate mayor larry's leadership in recognizing that this is one step in a process that necessarily includes getting to full staffing in our police department, our sheriff's department 911 operator and also something that i hearing that i announced this week that i'm going to be holding. you know, we have to also make sure that one key element in our public safety infrastructure is prosecutors. we have to have a conversation too often the district attorney's office is left out of that conversation. so we're going to have a hearing on that to discuss their needs as we go into a

difficult budget year. so i'm really excited about this innovation and i'm also excited about some of the colleagues that i get to work with and one that i'm particularly excited to be working with somebody that i supported right out of the gate danny sauder from district three. good morning everyone. thank you. supervisor dorsey mary lori thank you. my name is danny slaughter. i'm your new district three supervisor and so excited about this because it includes a lot of district three and union square and parts of the financial district. but i first want to say thank you to the men and women behind me in our pink jackets. >> i want to ask for another round of applause for them. you know our ambassadors around the city whether they're in a pink jacket or an orange jacket or yellow jacket. there's some of my favorite people because wherever they are they are immediately making sure that that corner, that block that neighborhood is safer, it's cleaner that there is a friendly presence there,

often a friendly smile to make sure that visitors and tourists know where to go. and with today's news we're saying that more help is on the way. we now have more resources and more coordination from our police department and other partners to make sure that this area, this really, really important area is safer. you know, the i think there's a realization from all of us up here that so much of the impression of san francisco and so many of the memories from san francisco are made in these surrounding blocks and we want them to be good memories. right? we know that these are folks that go back home and go back to their companies and they say they're always asked how was san francisco? we want it to be good news. we want it to be tells of riding the cable car along power street. we want it to be the great jazz at john's grill. we want it to be the ice skating at union square in the winter walk. i mean that's what we want. and so with today's news we're one step closer to that and it

comes at the perfect time. these next few weeks the world's eyes will be on san francisco as we celebrate our incredible annual lunar new year. chinese new year parade starting in union square and going on in chinatown. we have so much activity for the nba all-star game although it's going to be at chase center. i've been seeing pop ups up and down union square of different companies that are here to celebrate that with us and we want it to be an incredible experience. today's news make sure it will be thank you once again, we want to thank all of our community leaders business, arts, culture, entertainment at august hall in the house. and so thank you all for being here. >> we're happy to take a few questions from members of the media, have questions you tell me what exactly? >> yeah. so what is going to be changing

is additional officers. the zones are covered now this area is covered by a sector car which is two officers who not only have a responsibility of a pretty large piece of real estate but they also have the responsibility of handling radio calls is really hard when you're going from call to call to concentrate on problems to problem solve these hospitality's own officers will not be assigned radio calls. >> their focus is to problem solve to make sure when they see something that we address it before it becomes a problem and that that alone makes a huge difference and we have not been able to to do that the way we would like to do that and this effort will allow our officers to have the time they need to actually prevent problems from becoming problems and to focus on the things that they need to focus on. so that's that's a fundamental huge change. the other thing is the coordination union square we've had deployment in union square. we've up that we know about some of the past problems but looking forward since we have

upped our deployment assigned a lieutenant who will still be working that detail with with his officers they will combine with the officers that work the soma and there will be daily coordination 24 hours a day, seven days a week. and the same thing goes for the union square officers. they're not assigned radio calls. they can pick up radio calls if they're in an area of their right there where crime occurs or something is happening but they're not assigned radio calls and we've seen that that is a very effective way to police to prevent things from happening. the other thing that's different are resources that have been assigned to demak. they've been basically the same zone concept as what we've been what we've been using with the mac. but to have the availability of for instance the homeless support team i mean the ace up the healthy streets operation center which has officers and also has a component of of professional staff type personnel who who they problem

solved know we try to get people back home who want to get back home. we try to get people connected to the services they need so they're not out on our sidewalks. so the collaboration with this task force and that team is something that we have not really opened the demak model up to the rest of the city because we want to grow smartly but now it's time so they all have access to those resources and other resources so collaboration is the key. these officers won't be able to do it all by themselves. that's why we have all of our partners standing behind us. our ambassadors play a huge role but it has to be coordinated so better coordination, more resources you will see more visibility, the ability to problems solve effectively because they're not assigned to radio calls and quite honestly, you know, when i was in patrol when you're working a patrol car, your responsibility first and foremost is to go to those calls and people need is is really hard to do that and then

do problem solving so this is the model that we're going to go to to make sure that those officers have the time they need to solve our problems. so we're going to share how long the first down will be straight and where the on the key is our ability to to scale things so union square the officers in union square it goes from ten and we've had as many as 40 we scale it when we need to scale it. this some area is a total of ten working seven days a week but we have the ability to add to that when we need to to scale this model and we've done that for instance during the holiday season we scale up if we have a conference or major convention we scale up our problem has been consistency and what the mayor's vision will do is there will be police officers assigned to this zone

seven days a week. no excuses, no nothing will prevent us from deploying and we have had problems doing that. so we're going to dedicate these resources. and let me say this too because you may ask well how come you didn't do this before? we have about a 25% shortage in our staffing in the fleet and in patrol and we have to prioritize our resources and so with the new vision setting priorities, yes it comes at a cost but we'd like to start this off bigger but we started off with a motto that we know we can scale when we need to and that's how we will start this off. the mayor was quite clear that this has to happen now and i think this is a great way to start but we will scale it when we need to. as a matter of fact in two weeks you'll see it scale or in a week when the nba all stars when those festivities start. but the chiefs got to talk a lot about the feeling downtown . you'll see specific benchmarks this task force will be used to

benefit the success. >> well, one of the things that we know and i think district attorney jenkins mentioned this and i think we all mentioned it starting from the mayor i call it the eye test. you know, when you get off the bar and you see 200 people in you and plaza or 200 people here in yerba buena and anything and everything is happening drug sales, drug use, illegal vending hot dog carts there's a feeling of it doesn't feel safe. first and foremost that cannot happen. we cannot allow those types of things to happen. the other thing is the crime statistics don't tell the whole story but it does tell somewhat of a story because when people aren't getting robbed, when their cars aren't getting broken into and people aren't getting stopped, shot and stabbed that's where crime statistics are derived from and those things aren't happening overall people are going to have better experiences and the combination of what you see, what you feel and then what we know is happening in terms of crime or not happening in terms

of crime all of those things combined to a feeling of safety . the other thing is the narrative of what people's experiences are because all it takes is a bad social media post about somebodies terrible experience to go viral and then that permeates with what gets in people's minds about our city. we want as best we can to eliminate the possibility of that happening now that's going to be a lot of work to do that and not to say that there won't be crime but we know certain things we cannot allow. we cannot allow the streets to be out of control with illegal vending narcotic sales, narcotic uses. we have a lot of mentally ill people walking around our streets. that's the other thing the resources to help those people will be tied in to this collaborative collaborative partnership and we want to make sure those resources get to the people that they need to get to. >> so thank you. let me i i'd also just like to talk about, you know, all the business leaders down here and you know, occupancy rates,

storefronts not being shuttered but actually being opened. we will look at all of those statistics in terms of measures of success. mr. mayor, real quick, the news of the day on curious attorney general bondi said that she's going to cut away federal funding towards sanctuary cities. how much does going to stand to lose our deficit to listen, we're monitoring everything coming out of d.c. this was a hit. we were hit with this about eight years ago. we fought back. we actually won in the courts and so district attorney sorry city attorney david chiu is working on this as we speak mission. we're going to ask for your support, your decision to leave that office wondering what went into that decision and how that aligns with your vision for the future. >> listen, i talking to colleagues at the bar supervisors over the last month

what we have stated early and often in my administration is we are going to have a new day and a new era of cooperation and collaboration. i'm looking for commissioners across commission appointed ments who will work with us that will collaborate and that will communicate and i look forward to the support going forward of all of the commission important appointments that i make. yeah. over time to fill this team is there going to be like a central coordination between all these agencies to make sure that the information that needs to go out is being shared? well, let me answer the overtime now these officers are assigned to this task force

seven days a week. we can scale up using overtime which we often do because of our staffing shortages in terms of communications, yes, that's one of the tenets of this is communications across the board between districts the task force, the two components of it have to communicate and i'll just add to this you know what helps our communications now is our our fort cameras that we have across the city are drones where we're able to track cars that are committing crimes in union square when they come to some or any other part of the city and we've been able to make some great arrests because we are communication communicating properly. so yes, communication is a part of this. the officers are assigned full time and we can scale up using overtime when we need to too. >> thank you. so some of these questions one is when you see what the task force are and it seems that it's going to be something that's going or it started it started last weekend. okay. and then what are you going to

do because the perception of security is awful especially you know, the mentally ill health. yeah, that's you you so how can we really basically, you know, make that take care of that or you be so close to you is clearly not going to tell us to call so well this is where i want to think are the supervisors we just passed a federal state of emergency ordinance 10 to 1. it's going to allow us to stand up more mental health beds, more drug treatment beds, more shelter beds, hire more case managers, more first responders more quickly. so we are tackling that issue. i want to reiterate what the chief said. all of these things will not happen overnight but we put one foot in front of the other. we have a successful jpmorgan health care conference like we did have a successful lunar new year weekend which we plan to do next week an nba all-star game and then we start inviting the world back to san francisco and telling them that we are

open for business. we are working day and night together with everybody that you see up here. this is really truly a new era of cooperation between departments, between labor, between the business community, the arts community and i'm looking forward to continuing on the momentum. >> okay. we can we can we can get we'll get you a map. >> okay. thank you all. thank you to everybody from the community for being here

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between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar

has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu

deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the

conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives. [music] >> discover the heart of san francisco in district 5. tapestry of neighborhood rich in history and unique character. from the iconpic hate ashbury and fillmore and japantown to hayes valley. the north of pand handle, western

addition and tenderloin, this district showcase city diversity at its finest. >> i'm consisten evans a resident and small business owner in the historic haight ashbury. i own [indiscernible] haight ashbury is a unique place. it was the most colorful part of the city when i was a kid. i ended up moving here and owner a book stoor here, which was the dream. we have people of all walks and visor its and tourists around the world that come to the haight ashbury. coming sometimes to see the histzry of the neighborhood. the rock stars, janice jaupson and grateful dead house. people are free spirited. here we have many second hand clothing stors. here are eco conference so

people enjoying the street and a place to stop and people watch. while you are doing that, stop have lunch. we have [indiscernible] fun restaurant. cha, cha, cha, neighborhoods class. ic. they have a place next door. i could go on about all the really great places to try in the haight. i'm part of the haight ashbury merchant association and work promoting the corridor as a destination. people don't just come to haight street to one destination they visit 3 or 4 places when they visit. if we have vacancies we have fewer reasons people are coming to the street. we had 21 vacancies going into the pandemic. that increased to 32 during the pandemic so one thing we had been advocating was a stour front vacancy tax.

voters passed prop d and that revus deuced from 32 to 14. you should come to the haight ashbury, enjoy the beautiful weather, get a meal on haight street. kwrrks district 5 feature slow and safe street that cckt our neighborhood. haight shandsads a shining example bustling with bikers and pedestrians and recognized the city most successful slow street. the golderen grate greenway and car free hayes, turned to safe welcomeic spaces for walking and biking. >> after having lived all over the city, i wanted somewhere where i never needed to use a car. and i also wanted somewhere where i am a little separation from my job downtown. i drew a 25 minute radius around downtown and hayes valley seemed to fit

the bill. i found this neighborhood like kind of the most community i experienced. people tend to linger reminds me of a european city. i see a lot of people just hanging out outside and patss people and you get to know people in the naurbd. it is a pretty special environment. one of my favorite landmark is where we are standing patricia green. it was the former site of the freeway. she was part of a group of people that lead the movement to get the freeway taken down and this was the embarcadero is one of the best examples of what happens when you remove a free way and give space back to people. there are tons of places to shop and eat. pretty much something for everybody here. my friends kid had their first birthday party last week and i walked to [indiscernible] and got a present for them. if it is warm like today you can hope to home town creamly and get ice cream.

another favorite is mercury cafe down actaveia and another faiviate is hayes valley baker, where they have incredible bake goods and breakfast and sandwich and employ and train at risk and disabled people, so there is a real social angle to what they do. every friday saturday since covid the 400 block of hayes street between octaveia and gough was pedestrianized. we open to people. it doubles the size of our town square. for anybody in d5 or anywhere around the city, it is really a great gathering space to just lijer. you don't need a plan, just come and hang out. >> the fillmore at the heart of district 5, one of san francisco

historic black neighborhoods. after endureing redevelopment scr displacement the community is experiencing new businesses fresh life and vibrancy to the area in recent years >> i'm erica scott and we are here at honey art studio. i grew up here in the neighborhood i feel fortunate to have my business here. we are a multipurpose place. we teach art classes and we also have live entertainment, and community meetings. private event space. the history of the fillmore, dates back generations before me. that is a big part of our studio here. there is a book the harlem of the west, and that book depicts what the harlem of the west was which is the fillmore and people really from all over the world would come here. it was a huge-just everything, this was the place to be to experience black

culture and just to live. i definitely want to give honor to that. culture to my generation, new businesses. we have something really special and unique, which is in the black. sits on the corner of geary and fillmore. it is a home to i believe 30 entrepreneurs. it is like a marketplace. super cool. a lot of the things are either custom or just really unique. jazzy hair slaun. saloon and believe they are applying for a legacy business ownership because they have been in business over 25 years. there are lots of cottage and home bases. >> brother mar key mohammed in the fillmore since 1999, been established here since 1999. my products, oils and cosmetic items, clothing.

how is it going? >> going good. >> good to see you. i still have my old customers that come in. this is a sense of community. we have little remanence of the old vibe here. >> the fillmore is the famous jazz district and we still have elements that. you want to come and experience it. friendly people and a place where you take a piece of san francisco, a piece of the fillmore right back with you. >> since the redistricting in 2022, the tenderloin is part of district 5. introducing a vibrant community to the district. the tenderloin is rich in history with unique land marks like retvens alley renamed from shannon street. what was a blighted alley ask a gathering place where veterans express through art and connects with one another. the neighborhood also boast a tenderloin museum offering programs that highlight the area

cultural historical significance. >> the museum has a permanent collection about the history of the neighborhood and we also have a community art gallery featuring tenderloin artists and working on projects irn the neighborhood. >> we have become known having inspired arts programs and that's something that makes us very unique. we are producing a play about the cafeteria riots. we started to work as many neighbors and organizations as possible to create really diverse programming for diverse neighborhood. tenderloin is a close nit community, in just like all most decade i have been working here, you are able to make so many connections with people. [indiscernible] an incredible neighborhood working class bar in the tenderloin

neighbor, the first queer bar in the neighborhood. shows experimental performing arts and have been great partners and do a lot for the neighborhood. we have little saigon and saigon sandwiches. i think one of the classic staples of tenderloin. yemen kitchen is a restaurant that opened in the neighborhood that i highly recommend. the phoenix, the hotels, such a tenderloin legacy business. that brings in like people into the neighborhood that might not normally stay here. there is so much more in the tenderloin that you read in the news. a story from the people who live here themselves. >> probably the most unique feature in japantown is the peace bugoata built as part of the japan trade center.

the other-japan center itself, the oldest indoor shopping mall in san francisco. built in the late 1960's. despite all the changes japantown has been through, it is really still a authentic japantown. it is still a japanese american community. so, you could still find a lot of japanese american food here. japanese ice cream stores that are really popular. we have what is called maucha drinks here. the other thing that has become really popular in japantown is all of the new shops opened up. every japanese restaurant had [indiscernible] anything you could order, but now it is all specialized so they come from different parts of japan and they feature their home town style of ramen. it is a really safe place to

hang out. you come down here and you get a sense of the japanese american history and culture just by being down here. it is just one of the great places to visit in san francisco. >> district 5 is a vibrant diverse area with so much to offer both residents and visitors. it is a place where people can experience the amazing community spirit and explore the many unique small businesses that make this district truly special. [music]

meter. >> hello, i'm captain tom the coordinator for the san francisco fire department. this oversight is the three and 4 anniversary of loma linda earthquake i want to go over a few things to help you preparation building a supply kit and supply kit does is not have to be put together all at once take your time on the website have a list of recommendation and have enough food and water to feed your family through three to 5 days and purchase the fire extinguisher if you have an extinguisher at hand will stop a

small fire from being a by fire it is simple to use check the gage make sure it is charged and then repeat the word task task stand for pull to pin aim the novel and screws the trigger and successes to the because of fire the last recommendation to look at the gas meter electrical gas lines cause fires in the loma linda earthquake and we want to show you how to turn off the gay only turn off if you hear gas or hear hissing and coordinator nathan will demonstrate how to turn that off. >> with a whenever i'm going to turn it over one quarter turn.

so in on holler orientation in turn off our gays meter don't turn it back on get a service call from