i look forward to the project coming before us. >> that will put us on item 13. case 2010.0470c. this is a conditional use authorization. >> i am putra of the department staff. this is for a change of use from retell coffee stored to a self- service restaurant on 2301 market street in the commercial district. they are doing business through power up cafe with a gold's gym. this contains 550 square feet. this does not involve any improvement by the tenants. the project sponsor wants to have this occupied by a self- service restaurant that does not formula of retail. they can support this product because the company was planning to close the cafe. the department recommends approval with conditions and sciences to be desirable for the following reasons. this is consistent with the general plan, and the projects usage will generate additional commercial activity. and is currently has 11 vacancies, and this is also well serviced by the public transit. the neighborhood contains a mixture of neighborhood retail, and services, and it should not be adversely affected by changing these to a

item one, 2010.0311c, items 2a and b, 500 capp street, request for conditional use authorization and variance. item three, case number 2007.1117c 1731 paul street, and item four, case number 2010.068 2c 2332 taraval street. i received some speaker cards. president miguel: i will call the card. if you wish to speak on it, we will take off the consent calendar and we will hear it at the beginning of the regular calendar, depending on whether or not we have to take the health care legislation to interrupt the order. elizabeth sweet, david? if you would come up? >> i noticed a lot of the neighborhood -- president miguel: you just wish to take off consent and here at the regular time? >> yes. president miguel: okay, that is sufficient. we will hear it later. >> my name is david, and we can hear it later. president miguel: ok. is there any other comment on items proposed for the consent calendar. yes? >> i object to the consent, 500 capp street. president miguel: okay, is there anyone else who would wish to speak? if not, public, disclosed. commissioner sugaya? commissioner sugaya: i would

which puts us on item 14, 2009- 0278c, for 1814-1816 anza street. >> is there nobody here? >> let's -- forgive me. this is a staff -- the staff is not present. >> let's hold this and move to 15. >> item 15, 2010.0039c. for 185 berry street, the conditional use authorization. >> starting to listen to the game. >> it's not on yet. >> yes, it is. >> 4:37. >> have you seen the recommendation? >> would you like to move to the next one? >> i can do no. 16. >> the case before you is number 2010.0039c, the proposal for three new panel incentives for part of the wireless transmission network, operated by verizon. this complies with the applicable requirements of these policies, and the facility's guidelines. we recommend that you approve the request with conditions. and i have the speaker card. >> the project sponsor? >> good afternoon, commissioners. we concur with all the staff recommendations and if you have any questions i will be happy to address them. >> and is there any public comment on this item? if not, public comment has been closed. commissioner borden? >> i will move to

we heard items 15, 16 and 17, which places us on item 18, case number 2010.0081, the summary of work plant request for authorization of t.m.a. as connects the continued transportation program services and authorization to provide resident appropriate placement and training work plan. >> good afternoon. the item before you is a report and request from the championship management association of san francisco, tmasf connect to improve through 2006 through 2011 program summary and it's 2011 through 2021 proposed work plan pursuant to section 163. in addition, tmasf connects is requesting authorization be given satisfying section 164 by providing the resident placement and training program brokerage services. they have submitted to you a proposed employment work man from 2011 through 2016. tmasf connects is a private organization that represents over 50 downtown buildings subject to the requirements of transportation demand management. since 1989, tmasf connects ha provided its members a specialized set of commuter-related services that encourage alternative modes of transportation to and

helping us focus on what is in front of us -- was helpful in helping us focus on what is in front of us, and both of the things in front of us are appropriate. >> i will second those two items. >> i wish this were public utilities committee land, but i feel this is out of our jurisdiction and this is a rec and parks decision. it is their land, and they are going to deal with some big issues, and perhaps there is some way this commission can weigh in. i am interested to make sure they do the right thing, and there is another opportunity around climate change and endangered species, and i am hoping they bring in the appropriate people to advise them on what to do about the endangered species issue. it does seem like one final question is this question, because i was surprised by the comments last time that in the eaves and the future of the park has changed in the 10-year term, it would then be incumbent upon rec and parks or north county to say it is now going to be a wet land, so we are going to redirect and pay the cost. how would that work? >> i felt like my comments were misconstrued. the point i was trying to make about alternative uses. there are no existing alternativ

item 9? i also want to announce that supervisor david chiu is with us for this item. >> item 9. hearing on francisco municipal transportation agency's transition to the clipper card on the following topics: 1) implementation of the clipper card; 2) 25-cent surcharge for single-use tickets; 3) technological problems with fare gates; and 4) outreach on the transition to the clipper card. supervisor chu: thank you. i just want to thank supervisor chiu for bringing this forward. we have heard from many citizens about the implementation of this card, how people purchase it, how it is implemented. very glad that we have this hearing before us. >> thank you for hearing the item today as well as to the mtc, mta, and our vendor for attending this presentation. today's hearing is about the clipper card, which we hope will be in short order ubiquitous and something well known to every household in san francisco. let me first start by saying i absolutely support a single fare card use for transit. the concept of one car to ride them all, to ride the alphabet soup of transit agencies, the mtc, mta, bar

incentive of the rockefeller bill that would take spectrum that they give up an option for wireless use, that one item that seems to be universally supported? i really haven't heard anybody on either side same incentive options are a bad thing. is that one of things that wins the day no matter what happens? >> guest: sorry. i think the concept is there a lot of details you have to work out in terms of how much money to the existing -- you know, to the existing licensees just get compensated to seize business? do they get compensated to be relocated to a different band? so there are lots of issues involved in nine to the mechanics. i think in general, using auction proceeds. i mean look, the spectrum below three gigahertz is ideal for commercial mobile services. the spectrum below one gigahertz is even better because it got better propagation characteristics. you could build fewer towers. so there's a lot of interest in making more spectrum below one gigahertz available for commercial mobile use. if you have to displace existing licensees, but some sort of wrenching decisions that have to be made about

shopping carts crowded the meat and poultry -- >> this shopper told us she's added one extra item to her table. >> all that's different for us is we have a baby. brick appetizers. [ laughter ] >> reporter: the owners of this store say the thanksgiving meal shopping rush seemed to start a little earlier this year than last year. they said things started getting busy since start. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >> that's good news for the stores. thank you, allie. >>> it may be cold outside but the shoppers don't mind. they still want to be first in line for black friday. this line started yesterday outside the best buy. shoppers are passing the time playing basketball, riding their skateboards and doing other sports. steve paulson said temperatures were in the upper 30s on the peninsula this morning. it's sunny outside but still chilly? >> that's right. there were a few areas in the upper 20s. i know woodside was in there and palo alto was done to about 31. frost advisory still posted for tonight. finally, somebody eeked out a 50. it's crystal clear, beautiful visibility out there.

item 41 is a public hearing on the conditional use appeal for 10 bernal heights boulevard. item 42 is a motion approvalling planning commission's decision on property at 10 bernal heights boulevard. item -- excuse me, item 44 is a motion directing the clerk to prepare finding. president chiu: colleagues, at this time, we have appeals of both the environmental impact review exemption and conditional use application for the project at 10 bernal heights boulevard. it is required that we take up items 37 through 40. this is an appeal that challenges the planning department's determination that the proposed project is exempt from environmental review under the seekwa guidelines section 15331, 15333 and 15 311. the project must consist of the operation, repair, maintenance or minor alteration to an existing facility involving negigible or no expansion of an existing use. to qualify for a class three exemption, the project must consist of the construction of a eliminated number of new, small structures or conversion of an existing small structure to a new use with minor alterations

jurisdiction of the board, including those items on the adoption without committee reference portion and excluding those items that have already been considered. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time. a member of the public would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such and remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. supervisor chiu: each speaker shall have up to two minutes unless you are translating in a different language in which case he will have equal time for that other language -- you will have equal time for the other language. >> [speaking foreign language] mr. president, david chiu, our supervisor, i am here to ask our president -- are you strong enough to present to me and my city [inaudible] mr. david chiu, do not worry. i will be beside you. i do not blame you for my health problems. i am going to give your office help. you can come to me any time you want. i wish you could work together. a lot of people in the city, including myself, i do not like what it is to cut the budget, here, there, school, whatever, but [inaudible

using. if you vote no on it, it does not stop construction. it simply says we came up with the money as opposed to using the revolving fund. item 12, if you look at the attachment of what you're being asked to approve today -- if you look at it, five pages long, and what it says, the city will continue to own and maintain the water treatment facility. north coast will operate the project facility. the recreation and park department will be responsible for irrigation. it goes on to talk about what your requirements. it talks about a lot of site access for construction. it talks about a project-related mitigation measures and who is responsible and takes that responsibility and gives it to recreation and parks department. it talks about the retrofits to the irrigation center to be able to use recycled water, and it makes a recreation and park responsibility. it makes recreation and parks responsible for training their staff, and it has the requirement there be a site supervisor who knows what they are doing and routine inspections. there is nothing in item 12 that approves or disapproves the project. it simply says if you have th

it will help us to purchase software for data analysis that will reduce the time that the analysts spent on analysis and review. we plan on using it in addition to those items for some overtime, for analysis that will result in a reduction of our cases that are awaiting testing. backlog. as well as over time for the administrative technical review of the analysis that is quite comprehensive and time- consuming. also resulting in a reduction of the overall case for a turnaround time for the work. supervisor chiu: any questions? supervisor mirkarimi: yes, thank you. are we currently out sourcing these cases now? >> we are doing some outsourcing, yes. supervisor mirkarimi: how many would you estimate? in the report i see about 175 cases backlogged. is that the totality of clay -- of cases in class one crimes? >> that figure would be outsourced, at least 100 cases at this point to help with the backlog. the current backlog stands at 20 cases with our property crimes and recent cases coming in, depending on what happened over the weekend, it could be a few more. supervisor mirkarimi: what about homicides? and the case is related to homicide before 2010? >> no, w

on the next item. >> oh, my. oh, my. you are now on item number 14, .0257c. >> good evening, president miguel. the item before you is a request for a conditional use authorization for tenant space. it is currently an exercise studio on the ground floor of a three story mixed use building. the vacant commercial space was previously occupied a buy at architectural office. the proposal will not [unintelligible] they have occupied the space since march of 2010. the department has been contacted by neighborhood residents that have expressed opposition to the proposal. because the project sponsor has been operating without the benefit of a permit and that there is an overconcentration of personal service establishments. the project sponsor [unintelligible] based on the survey, the project sponsor indicated that the businesses within this portion of sacramento street appeared to be self service establishments. we have received three letters in support of the businesses. the preliminary recommendation is approval with conditions since the field is consistent with an excuse and commercial character of this portion of sacramento st. which includes -- i conc

us to find the funding for their work. there were other items having to do with the -- who decides on the consistency determination between the proposed medical use and the plan. the supervisor felt that could not go to the public health department but would stay with the planning department to make that decision. but that will go to the board, i believe, next week on further final lead. other items at land use -- the better streets use was there, the pieces of legislation you heard. that was recommended for approval to the full board unanimously. supervisor alioto-pier's legislation regarding ceqa review was continued and will be heard in the next week or two at land use. tuesday at the full board there was discussion of 1818 california st. regarding a mills act contract. the board continued it one week to slightly modify the contract, specifically to tap the annual refund in taxes to about $23,000. the legislation you heard on mobile food facilities was heard at the full board, to modify both the planning code and the public works code. that was also passed at the board at first reading. there was a resolution by supervi

out of reach to the best we can, so one key aspect is making sure the public is aware of the tools and asking them to use it. >> thank you very much. >> we are on item number eight, which is understanding for the implementation of balboa park and jefferson square park water conservation projects. >> good afternoon we have before you the approval of the park's water conservation process, and this is part of the mission of the parks and open space section in terms of being able to do management of natural resources within our parks system. this is a true collaborative initiatives which the utilities commission and also reflects implementation of strategies and recommendations from the 2009 plan, which was also with the parks and recreation department and the san francisco public utilities commission. the projects we have primarily address three critical parks. the projects primarily in retrofit the system to capture savings of 7.4 million gallons of water. the project manager is here, and i would like to recommend the project manager, who wrote this for a particular grant. we also have representatives from the public utilities commission, and if you c

so, on behalf of philip kaufman, peter kaufman, an hbo, i would like to thank the president and the commissioner here today for allowing us to be here and take this item on the agenda. i am thrilled to report that we will be feet -- shooting our feature film here. it stars nicole kidman and clive owen. we are shooting the world in san francisco. it has such distinction, not many places in the country can beat finland, key west, china. it is the whole world. our plan is to shoot entirely in seven to skill. 95% to 98% will be from san francisco in terms of casting crew. labor and residents. we have already hired many of the people in preproduction work is already in a way. speaking in terms of services, we are looking forward to partnering with the port for various promotional opportunities. some of the things i can tell you i have been working with, things that we can do, in addition to certain film credits and thank you credits in the movie, which has a very long life, hbo has a viewership of approximately 30 million. the average for a feature film is 10 million. right there you will get lots of coverage. in addition to that, we are going to work with

on either of those items, you may do so. madam clerk, first item, please. >> [clerk reads item number one] . supervisor maxwell: this has been before us any number of times and we are now in cleanup mode, so i'd like the planning staff to come up. >> good afternoon, as chair maxwell noted, you have seen this ordinance several times. it's an ordinance from supervisor chiu and the mayor dealing with the upgrade of the inclusionary housing program. when this was heard at the full board, we realized that there was an additional code section that was not included in this legislation, so we needed to include it and have it conform to the rules. i know susan cleveland knowleses here from the city attorney's office and wants to go through some of the technical amendments. i'd like to pass it over to her. >> chair maxwell, supervisors, susan cleveland knowles, deputy city attorney. the reason that this item came back to you for one additional hearing is that sectionathon 249.33 dealing with the van ness special use district was inadvertently omitted from the legislation and needed conforming changes. so those have been made to the copy. in add

one of the first tasks that we had was to focus the audit on particular areas of interest. that cost us to make these items in scope. when we had our entrancts conference, we wanted to make sure we had but central subway project included. one of the other themes that we heard in the meeting is getting value for money. finding other ways to be more efficient, other than cutting budget costs. here is our task structure. we've provided our first deliverable, which i believe came to you electronically. it was an initial assessment. that was deliverable on october 29. we are probably going to be late because of noise we had including access to mta staff. commissioner mirkarimi: what was the reason? >> because of problems in getting access to the staffs at mta. we had a window of interviews. and the reason has to do with conditions that i mentioned before about which topics we would be limited to, and also to have questions in advance that we would be asking during those interviews. we escalated this issue to supervisor campos' office and we are in the process of getting resolution. anyway, we think this will pr

on the first reading. item 28. >> item 28 is from the land use and economic committee with a recommendation of do not pass with an ordinance designating the north beach branch library located at 2000 mason street as a landmark under article 10 of the san francisco planning code. supervisor chiu: colleagues, this is an item that came out of our land use committee with a "do not pass" recommendation, and i would like to ask for your no vote on this measure. the specific issue before us is whether we should designate as a landmark the north beach branch library. the historic preservation commission debated the potential landmarking of this library at eight meetings between july 2009 and september 2010. they voted three times on it. deadlocked once. it twice passed with a one-vote margin. there has been a legitimate question if the north beach library deserves landmarking. we have received numerous feedback from prominent architects, architectural historians, neighborhood historians, and those from the preservation community against the landmarking. they point out that of the seven libraries that have been de

on the calendar being proposed for a continuance. i do have a number of speaker cards for people who want to speak to the continuance of other items. president miguel: the agenda item before us are requests for continuances. anyone speaking is requested to speak directly to the continuance, and not to the item. there will be a one minute time limit on these. >> one minute. president miguel: laura traveler, kathy linn, and mark christianson. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is laura traveler, and i am sure of the new committee called parkmerced action coalition in parkmerced. i wanted to call your attention to the item. [no audio] residents together. thank you. >> i am mark christiansen. i am speaking on this. my rationale is the following. the height and bulk amounts were put partly to minimize construction on the planned near the san andreas fault. i have given each of you a copy of the california earthquake of april 2006 report by the carnegie institution of washington in 1908. i am going to read this partial as to why it is important we have a continuance. the disturbance seems to have been violent. an old railroad trestle crosses -- the bridge was wrecked. the b

wali plan this out, one of the difficulties we have had in mandating this 20% across the board, we need to understand all the uses of these vehicles. just as we had a conversation on itemthe two vehicles that the police is looking at, with your support, adding to their fleet for undercover use. there are a number of those vehicles that are being used for undercover and engaging with the right officers on how that is best used by different districts and apartments. we still believe we focus on the right vehicles. we think it will reduce our maintenance costs if we do so. those are some of the reasons we are going department by department to understand the exact use of these vehicles, to see if there is a need, and proposing replacing these with better emission vehicles, but as you know, we have an agreement with citicorp share. we have sharing abilities that allows our department to do this at and cost-effective price. we are still in negotiations with other car companies, zipcar, and there are just about to present to us their agreement as well. we have alternatives for the departments to use. that is our update. that is what we are learning through our investigation.