the union street association would like to go on the record as supporting this piece of legislation. president o'brien: thank you. next speaker. >> michael williams, union street neighborhood commercial district and others. having been involved in the legislation when union street first did a moratorium to get their lot -- their legislation strict about, i did a use survey. the restaurant business -- these buildups have been really strapped because of this micromanaging of our and cds -- ncd's. i attended one with the supervisor alioto-pier once, and she said we are doing this to the point of insanity. it takes restaurants a lot of money and almost a year to get to opening their doors and it is debilitating to them. anything we can do to streamline the process will help these guys, these small business owners, come in and set up camp. i support this, and so does the ncd. president o'brien: thank you. any more public speakers? public, disclosed. commissioner clyde: i would just like to go back to the two options, the one with the existing use categories and if they are moving into anot

the brickyard. i am a longtime union street residence. my building is approximately two doors away from the brickyard, and there has been previous businesses that have been worth of brickyard is located now. that business was called the bayside. i do recall the windows being open in front of this establishment, and i do not recall there being any complaints. i do not recall hearing any noise coming from dayside itself. i feel the brickyard owners are much more responsible in controlling any noise that would be coming from their establishments. i do not see 12 tables being on the patio in front of the restaurant of a nuisance or an issue. >> next speaker. >> my name is eric low, and i am a longtime resident, so definitely i am seeing the downturn of the street, and i really appreciate business owners such as susteren -- darren to bring entertainment back in a nice dining forum. i think issues of noise complaint should be put aside because of the fact that if you have a patio it is more of a dining experience and not a rowdy experience other

the brickyard has taken more measures to address noise than any other businesses in union street. we've tried to work within the existing physical structure because changing it would result in construction costs and cause further financial strain on a struggling business. noise ordinance compliance is not dependent on physical structure in place. it also requires responsible management. if it were physical structures alone, no venue would be allowed to have windows or doors that open to the street. giving the existing structure with the conditions in place, there will be no violations of the noise ordinance. we are responsible business owners and neighbors. we do not recommend additional changes. in closing, thank you, we do not recommend changes for the physical structure. we request the board denied the appeal and upheld the conditions imposed by the planning commission. vice president garcia: i have a question for your acoustical expert, mr. solomon. there seems to be some dispute about what the base ambient noise level should be. would you tell me what they are and whether -- b

drink fests, all the beer you can drink and we're ending up with the remnants, the remnants, the union street fair was much better this year. but i think we need to start worrying about the america's cup, too, in this neighborhood and the number of people that are going to be there and drinking. thank you. president mazzucco: further public comment on this item? yes, sir. >> pi want to speak on the preece priorities and specifically in the bayview, in the district 10 community, i feel like a lot of officers are dispatched to the community because of the violent crime, but we have a lot of officers giving out excessive citations every day, and i feel like this doesn't help stop the crime. it doesn't help solve violent crime. i mean, when it's three officers messing with a drunk, that gives a killer an opportunity to get away. i saw three opportunities ride up on a t train platform and at the same time they were giving somebody a citation. while they were giving somebody a citation, somebody got shot and the shooter got away. so i just feel like your priorities need to be looked into. and we're

i'm leslie landhart, i'm the executive director of the union street association. i'm really not speaking with that hat on today. my members did not send me down here to discuss this. they're pretty disgusted about everything that happens anyhow with raising taxes. with the 1% -- i'm speaking from my own business. i have a small business. i've been in business for 33 years in san francisco on the same street, on union street, and i have seen nothing but -- especially since in 10 years, especially with rates of taxes going up, sales tax in particular. i've seen my business go down, down, down. i was thrilled to see 1% come off the state. that made it 8 1/2 percent rather than 9 1/2 percent. it's subliminal when people go buying. you might own a retail type business where you have goods to sell. people say they have much lovelier shops there and it's 2% cheaper. it's cumulative. i think san francisco has a very bad image with a visitor. i'm sorry to say it. that we are expensive. you can't park. all in all, you've heard it before, i know you have. i won't belabor the

people to get excited about the friendliness of this street, but you are doing to try to change the feeling here, make sure that the experience invites even more people to enjoy union square, powell street, the cable car experience. i also want to recognize the police department. as we transition this landscape, they are going to keep everyone safe, make sure we all have the opportunity to enjoy it. i want to thank everyone for this collaboration. so happy to be part of this. and also to make sure that we are investing and renewing every part of our city, to make sure that the tourists enjoy this area, and even people like ourselves -- those of us now live in the city -- will love it even more. this will benefit everybody. i also want to introduce another champion, someone that i have worked with closely this past year, who has led a very positive dialogue. that is our board president, president david chiu. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i want to welcome everyone to what mark twain calls a classic summer day in san francisco. i am proud to be here as part of this announcement, and i am here on behalf of my colleague jane kim, who is stuck in city hall. the tw

the third item has to do with 1727 union street, the brickyard restaurant. the board heard that appeal on june 22, and continued to allow the petition holder to me with neighbors and address of noise concerns. the permit holder did not meet with neighbors and did not submit alternatives and until august 3. the board addressed that with them, that they did not meet with them in a timely fashion. they voted to continue the item until september 21 to allow more time to meet with neighbors. that is it for my report. >> just for the record, commissioners, the board is on break. the historic preservation commission did not meet this week. commissioners, we can move to general public comment. at this time, members of the public may address you on items of interest to the public within the subject matter jurisdiction of this commission, with the exception of agenda items which may only be addressed during their time on the calendar and not during this category. each member of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. i have no speaker cards. preside

city to lay out a design for its streets and parks, including union square. the park's design was designed to be infighting, accessible, beautiful, and memorable. today, architect walter put has applied those same qualities beautifully to the powell street promenade with a contemporary landscape design with features and heard of, like solar technology and wi-fi. o'farrell may not have imagined at the time that 100,000 people would use this street every weekend, making it the busiest city corridor. now with this promenade, it will be one of the best places to enjoy the hustle and bustle of the city, out of its hustle and bustle by working with the city, audi, and union square business improvement district, we have demonstrated how partnerships can further a vision for a better sense of co that i know we all share. it is a great testament to see the public sector and private sector come together to create something so magnificent. thank you again. >> hello. welcome to "meet your district supervisor." we are here with supervisor cohen from district 10. she started h

he is in custody and now the remaining officers are going to go out and search down union street where the fourth suspect was seen right about the time they went into the commons area. >> apparently last seen there, because they don't have the fourth suspect yet. no shots were fired. no one was injured, but of course the suspect still at large and police still looking for that person. obviously tomorrow morning, they will resign this process. >> don knapp in san rafael rings thank you. >>> we want to go next to a story that has been developing in the east bay. it happened near the intersection of fruit vail avenue and foothill boulevard in oakland. there are reports of a male subject with a gun shot wound. the wound does not appear to be life threatening. cbs 5 eyewitness news at 11:00 will have the latest information on this one. >>> a statewideamber alert is in effect for a two-year-old girl taken from sacramento by her father. the alert was issued today, even though the girl was reported missing earlier this week and there's reason to believe the pair may be in the bay area. robert

he is in custody and now the remaining officer is going to go out and search down union street where the fourth suspect was seen right about the time ms. sullivan went into the commons area. >> no shots fired in the home invasion. one suspect still at large. don knapp, cbs 5. >>> yup, it was the wildest week in wall street history and it ended with another day of gains. take a look at the roller coaster week we had. the dow started monday at 11,143. swung wildly all week long. today it gained 125 points. despite the volatility, the dow lost just .5% for all that going up and down. 1.5% for the week. kit on how the week took it toll on silicon valley ipo's. >> here in sunny vail, maker of 3d motion devices was hoping to go public and raise $100 million. same goes for wage work, hoping to raise $52 million. they are part of a grown up of ten companies that they they have in the market. >> the ipo market was looking hot back in may when he went public, then came the debt ceiling crisis. investors had one of its most volatile weeks in history. rob says it could take months to regain momen

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performance, it passed with the conclusions of the south park and sli area outside of the western some area plan. union street and clement street, they have a hard cut off at 10:00 p.m. they will not be able to apply for the one hour extension after a year. it passed on hits of first reading. it will have a sector reading as soon as the board of supervisors return from recess. we hope for a late october. that is when people, businesses will start applying for their permits. prohibiting amplified sound, that is still in committee. as well as the coffee stores and video stores. you had the presentation last month. there are a couple of other pieces of legislation we heard a while back that is still being held in committee. in regards to the ata, we want to provide you with an update that july 26, we held a presentation with the glenn parker merchants association. on august 3, carmen chu's office assembled a panel for the merchants of district four, along with the sf bar association. the opportunity fund gave a presentation and carla johnson from the mayor's office talked about cash. that panel was televised and

the water along market street. the next bart station is powell street, near union scare. was all timed to coincide with rush hour. it's 5:45 now, this started at 5:00 tonight. we had dozens of protesters inside the civic center bart station and we have these pictures to show you what it looked like. you see here passengers inside the bart train. you see a protesters holding a sign, free speech. and looks like that train is not able to move. after this is when bart made the decision to close that station down to trains. we saw a number of trains coming in and speeding through the station and not stopping and quite a bit of this guy, surround by police, talking on his cell phone. lot of the people as part of the protest are calling for free speech in reference to bart's decision to shut down cell service inside some stations at previous protest last week. it is a developing situation and the newest information is the civic center bart station is not open. we saw trains speeding through. we learned bart decided to close the down escalator so people could not access the civic