i could come in here and immediately start searching for applications and find the applications. i am going to log in. you will have to forgive me because i cannot type and talk of the same time. you do not need to register to log in. see the bar is going across? i do not necessarily need to register to be able to do things like looking for existing applications. let me just do it again. that was sitting there for a long time. ok, so now it has recognized who i am, and the way it is currently set up, when i logged in, i can create an application. i can also take what type of application i am interested in, put in a preliminary information, and they will tell me what the initial fees are. these are fees that are accurate and up-to-date because it has a tracking system, so some niceties. because i am logged in, it knows how many fees i owe. i have a couple of cs do, 14 $4,000 and the other for $39 -- a couple of fees due, one for $4,000 and the other for $39. there is also something called my collections. that is the way i can create folders that i can then put into various applica

applications online and their fees. we are expecting much better reporting capabilities. we will have the system fully integrated. because this is a web-based system we will have better availability. this is intended to replace planning and dbi's system. these were built with a particular purpose in mind that was not a single able to scale to the demands that we place on 8 today. we have made improvements over the years but we have always been limited in the full functionality of our system. we will be including this. we will have this to attract the status of our community efforts. this has the fee assessment. in 2005, the leadership of both departments identified that it was time to make this to include our access. both departments but was time to make this an engineering system. we commissioned a study which led directly to the action plan which we implemented over the course of 2008, and 2010. the action plan resulted in such things as the preliminary project assessment. we completed our contract. since october, we

your application is blank. roblemmoving forward with this application. commissioner perez: you are required to do a neighborhood outreach and talk to your neighbors. you said you did noto any of return on your application. that is part of the requirement. you need to talk to your neighbors to ask about what you are going to do. tell them you are going to have entertainment. >> poste a sign in front of the door more than 45days commissioner perez: that is not enough. you actually have to reach out. vice chair joseph: mr. chang, has any member of the staf hetertaicoission contacted you about this permit? >> yes. vice chairjosewhen they contact you the first time? >> october. vice chair joseph: theytoyo you could not erate unless you had a permit. did you stop operating? >>es i just want to do the restrant. iconfthat i still need an entertainment license for that. ice ai joseph: do you represent him? do you want to speak into the microphone? i tryingto clarify maybe a couple of things that were not made clear. mr.chan has an upper ridding restaurant right n

as i said, every application. increasingly, what has happened is highly specialized applications. i will give you one example of that. dealer track. they actually do loan origination software for automotive loans. today, basically 80% of all the loans in the united states are processed through their software. we will see much more of this. we want to talk about not as public companies, tons of this. all of these guys uses the original cloud service. a lot of people have asked me why we call it a cloud. what does this come from? it is pretty simple. in the old days of client-server computing -- some of us were around them -- we would draw a picture of a pc, a picture of a unix server, and then a picture of a little clout in between. mostly because none of us understood how networks work. for the old folks in the room, you may remember certain words. this is all communication technology developed for corporations to build their own networks. that sounds like crazy talk today, right? nobody does that anymore. everybody is using ip, mpls- based networks. that is the network cloud. the

-- application to the applicant, and if they choose not to operate, it was given the previous system -- it was almost no cost for renewal so the tracking was from the police department and others was more in the beginning of the process to ensure they satisfied the requirements but there was a lack of coordination with health department, fire department, the tax certificates were tracked less so by the police department. there, -- therefore, based on this and the cumbersome confusion by not only the applicant but within the city agencies that was provided, it was determined the department of public works would be a better agency to manage and oversee this program. so in these kind of specific cases, permit holders could very well stop -- cease operations so their facilities no longer operate in san francisco, we would continue to issue them based on the police department records stating that you need to come in and renew your permit, as a d.p.w. permit for you to continue to operate. they may no longer be in operation so we can't speak to that specifically. president garcia: let me r

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you submit an application. if your area is not the worst in the city, we have to deal with the most severe problems first. it may take awhile for your problem to rise to the top. many times it may take years before your project its in the queue. once that happens, it takes about 16-18 months. it may take two-five years' time. this is to give you an idea of the various area-wide projects around the city. total cost implement all of the measures as $27 million. more demand than resources of this particular moment. this is a visual. you feel like there has been such a late in demand or current demand even for traffic calming, that given various limited resources, that those requests are piling up. we are completing projects that we think our quality projects. we want to make sure those are focusing on where we have the most needs. that was mentioned as good and it is for seeing if we are completing projects in the area of most need. so in this allocation we are requesting there are various areas we want to address

like the department of interior, the application came from the applicant. >> okay. did blm provide views on the permit application? answer yes or no. >> provide what, sir? >> did blm provide views on the permit application? please answer yes or no. >> we were part of the environmental impact process that was led by the state department and so the mandates that we're, we have obligations with in terms of issuing right of way grant in montana, then we did review the application, in the context of the overall product. >> ms. gaffney-smith, did the court provide views on the permit application? >> in three core districts in galveston, fort worth, received for permit 12, initialled coordination with other agencies and we did provide a response to the applicant in accordance with our nationwide permit rules based on comments received from the department of state. >> so the answer is, yes? >> yes. >> under hl 3548 environmental review process would need to be completed within 30 day, even though blm would no longer be involved in the permit review process under this bill,

you're looking at an amended application. the applicant has owned and managed a place of entertainment located in the mission for a long time. i know him personally. at this time -- the, not like that. i am married. the capacity of the venue is 49. the intent to up that capacity with the fire department in the future because it is a fairly large space. this is a permitted use and the police department has recommended approval with conditions. staff recommends conditional approval. >> what is with the police department and these conditions? >> we need to talk to the permit officers again and get them on board. president newlin: that can come u in new -- up in new business or future items. anybody? >> on your application, it says in prague -- progress. could you elaborate what that means? >> i will elaborate. i want to show you how this venue is. ok. there is 19th avenue. this is park merced. this building here is there in the middle of that. they are not adjoining. they're not adjoining any residential units whatsoever. there

i did appreciate your application and background and expertise. you can speak to your interest on serving on the pedestrian safety advisory committee. >> thank you for having me. i am currently a research associate at san francisco general hospital. we are one of 13 injury centers funded by the cdc. currently i managed and direct a handful of projects aimed at reducing the incidence or recurrence of injuries among people of all ages in san francisco. many experience this -- experiences says that this leads to a sustainable results. we executed an economic analysis as a cost of auto verses pedestrian industries. -- entry. the cost is $80 million each year. we found 74% of those involved in a collision were san francisco residents and 75% of the cost was charged to public funds. that is medicare or mettetal. in 2010, 36% of art, patients were struck by cars, including people on bikes. in our cdc renewal submitted in the late fall, one of our proposals will aim to study pedestrian perceptions of violence. the goal is to establish a comprehensive data

again, super impressed by our applicants. glad to see so that it -- so many of our small business owners who want to be involved in the decisionmaking process. i know how little time you walk out with families and businesses. it is an incredible amount of work, so thank you for making san francisco what it is and hiring people and creating jobs. you have this motion, and we can do that without opposition. congratulations. unfortunately, our meeting has gone kind of long and we do have a schedule conflict. supervisor farrell does neatly. it is a cake, it we could move up items 6. madam clerk, can you please call item 6? >> item 6, ordinance amenities and francisco administrative code by adding chapter 79a to expand upon the minimum notice requirements prior to approval of a city project that are mandated by the citizens' right to know act of 1998. >> thank you, supervisor. in june of 1998, the voters passed the citizen's right to know act of 1998. it is codified s chapter 79 in our administrative code establishes some minimum

>> caniaskuestioth applicant? >> shoot. ki us, the good neighbor re policy, you guys understand that, right? >> yes. >> here it says that you hoer sllrovide cel one number to all interested neighbors that will be answered at all times by a manager or other responsible person who vome rpotootheity toadjus cola wheneve entertainment is provided. >> actually, i have given them my business card with my phone number to any neighbor that asked for it and that is not a problem. >> including the folks here today? >> exactly. >> i would offer -- i mean, mr. mohammed has been in the bar and talked with the owners previously as well. >> ok. thank you. >> excuse me, commissioners, i don't have a -- i want to make sure you have the right facts while you decide. while you have the applicants up there, you might want to ask them about your questioning and about outreach because i think the first speaker might have misspoke about saying there was no outreach. >> there was outreach. >> was that on your part or his part? >> what i'm saying i

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>> in these cases, the applicant would come to us with a request. obviously, the work inside the property line, we suggest certain things, but we have no authority to specifically direct an applicant to take specific actions. >> who would be out and work with to try to come up with better solutions? i would like to figure out if there are alternative solutions to work? are people walking down the sidewalk going to encounter a fence? it is less crowded, but it is not a residential area. it is still a pretty vibrant commercial area. >> one of the things, just thinking about it, it can be done. for the applicant to lower the finished hot properties by three or 5 inches that can result, obviously, a lower threshold at the property line. the railing requirements be required to be on the big end of the ramp. ultimately, something could potentially be done. i don't know specifically how it is established. it is reinforced concrete? i don't know the costs associated. i have to rely upon a professional response to that question. >> we will take public commen

again, not to take anything away from any of the other applicants. it is for that reason that for me, the three people who stand out in terms of what they bring to the table, even though i had a great deal of respect for respectmulvihill, for mr. ventura, for mr. gray, and for mr. henry karnilowicz, the people to stand out are mario west, william ortiz-cartagena, and monetta white. i think the three of them bring a perspective that is needed in terms of how we make the commission relevant, and it is not only the representation of people of color, more women, but also, with respect to mr. west and mr. ortiz- cartagena, the ability to be relevant to language minorities in the city. my hope is that we can all come to a consensus around some of these candidates, but i wanted to share my thinking for the rest of the committee. those are the three that i'm leaning towards. again, i want to thank all the other candidates because they also bring something to the table. supervisor kim: thank you. i think we will probably have several rounds of conversation be

a while back spp applications for february 2011, tsa denied applications for six, indicated they would not allow expansion for the program. later in 2011 we walked it back a little bit and said there had to be a clear and substantial advantage to the tsa airport like you said. how did the tsa determine threshold for airport participating in the spp and the airport must demonstrate there's a clear and substantial advantage in order to create that determination. >> thank you. thank you for your comments about precheck. the men and women of tsa are excited by that because of the service they are able to provide which frankly they had been hampered on previously. thank you for that. obviously the process is an airport applies. thus far in the 10 years plus the tsa has been in existence, we've only had 30 or so airports actually apply for the spp status. some of those a couple of times because they were denied. so only 30 out of 450 plus airports. so when they applied, then we evaluate that. under this new criteria, is there substantial advantage to the taxpayer for the one. is there a cost

extending it for six months would allow three full months for property owners to submit their applications for this program. the second change which are proposing is to codify the process after the letter is issued. currently, once a letter of legitimization is offered, there is no time limit that the property owners need to submit the required applications. while it is important to extend this program, it is also necessary to conclude this process in a reasonable time. we believe this is within the public interest to clearly articulate the cities of expectations on bringing these properties into compliance with planning laws. for this reason, the department proposes adding a 90-day time limit between when the legislation letter is issued until all the required application materials need to be submitted for this program. finally, i want to talk a little bit about our public outreach for this program. the department has provided a great deal of public notice. we are also committed to pursuing further out reach, should the commission recommend approval of this ordinance today. previously, we

it should have the ability to save the application. the other thing is that it should be fairly easy to determine -- if i can tell what boxes they need to go through, i need to be able to look at the application and stevee what ever the steps are, so hough they are environmental, they have to go through these steps? of a lot of people and the general public do not know the process, that will be evident. also, the ability to query and we were talking about this with the entertainment permit. not just a particular site, but an entire block or a geographic region would be good if we can pull up permits and that sort of way. if we can make sure that correspondence related projects can be attached in some sort of way to the project file so some people can see correspondence related to the project, may be even at their own correspondence for comments on our project. i hope that it has the reporting capabilities that you can run reports on different things. i also want to make sure, how far back are we going to automate records? how many year

tostaff, rificatioof the nile -- when can the applicant apply again? after nine ice ai joseph: 9 months? not a year? >>ithink it is a year. ice aijose ok. commissioners, i am pelexed. if we continue this, we have to hear it at e next meeting. if the applicant conti it would come back to us when the applicanthadurll the defect i am not sure what the address oel if we had akaraok bar on arel i do not know if it is e same place. i amnot inclin to ask, because we're doing with this location. i entertain a motion on this permit. somebody? >> i make a motion to deny. do you want to continue this or go forward with the motion? do you want to go forward? vice chair joseph: do you understand what he is asking you completely? >> i am a business. i need help. >> i am asking you if youwant to do your application and come back or want us to vote now. vice chair joseph: do you want to continue? >> which one would you like? >> i want to continue. vice chair joseph: you are asking us to continue it. is that right? >> would you like to come back with a new application,

rather it gave proper defrns to the administrator's judgment by stating he may approve an applicant application. i know have this very hearing we'll see the potential amendments coming in. mr. administrator trying to demand and saying that you shall just as we have seen in the language of the faa bill. that's unfortunate. i'm sorry we're having this hearing after the fact. but i'll live to rise again. and i'll find a way just like others did to undo that. i think it's wrong. unf unfortunately, the committee of jurisdiction and no members being appointed, conferrees, the controlling statue was amended in the re-authorization act which will soon become law. that is called midnight legislating. in the dark, no transparency and a add hearing to the voices of one tune. that limits the flexibility to deny or approve an application to opt out. places a time limitation of 120 day onz tsa to term whether to approve an application and provides a waiver for the requirement that a private contractive screening company be owned and controlled by a united states citizen. now just a few years ago, everyone wa

we are launching the new lexus form application suite that is application suitein tune with facebook and yelp. down the road we have more surprises coming. >> can a driver post on facebook while driving? >> in our application there is a facebook check in. if you arrive somewhere you can hit a soft key and tell it to post to your wall are tacked to your friends were you are. it is almost like a safety think in the way. i know i would like my young daughter to uses so i know or she is checking in. >> what about the issue of privacy and tracking of cars? is that something you have incorporated into the technology. >> we do not track the vehicles. we have a service provider in our safety connect products that can locate a stolen vehicle and recover it. the only way that can be executed is if a police report is filed because of the reasons of privacy. we respect privacy and we are cautious about a data security. we have a third party firm looking at our entire architecture to identify any links that may be of any concern. customer privacy and data security is paramount for us. >> "the com

standards and -- to this because it meets all the applicable standards, including the new ones for adaand it has a safeguard with the planning department and other voices in the community. >> the motion? >> that is the motion. that is the report in but not anythingç regarding the camera. but is not within our purview. >> i have a couple of thoughts. i want to thank everyone who çshowed up tonight. i say it is difficult for mono legal folks -- lingual folks to testify, so i appreciate that. that leads me to talk about being a good neighbor, and there is a lot of testimony for how mr. reed has beenç a good neighbor. i would encourage you thinking about who the community is, and i want to echo the thought about how the dispensary does meet all done planning codesç, but also there is a place that needs to consider clusteringç. it may be the way that the city regulates five soon. -- fast food. to think about howç to cluster and thinking about how close locations are to one another. comissioner sugaya: mr. reed and i go back even further. he was with us of the board of appeals fairly e

they approve any sbp application that would not return -- they're concerned if an application is dnd. i'm pleased language similar in the bill recently passed the house. in addition the huge number of tsa personnel working in airports with private screeners troubles me. recent data provided reveal that is certainly airports where contractors do screening and tsa is there to oversee the screen process, there are upwards of 50 tsa employees on the payroll. while we can agree that strong oversight in this area is important, having 50-plus tsa officials in a single airport where they're not responsible for conducting screening is plain overkill and costing huge amounts of money. we will look at this issue and other contracting and management issues throughout the hearing. i look forward to all the witnesses and now recognize the ranking member the subcommittee, my friend, the gentlelady from texas for any opening statement she may have. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. we worked on this committee because we have an unabiding commitment to the security of this nation. i'm delighted to

supervisor weiner: this really would not be applicable to the city bmr program. that is usually far less than 80%. this is for a project where an affordable housing developer moves forward to do this project, and they were a nonprofit and have all sorts of requirements. they have government funding, or not. and the housing is designated as serving certain income percentiles. that might be 0-50

the applications which includes our review of building permits and planning applications have stabilized over the past four fiscal years. this does represent a majority of the volume at over 81% of the total volume for the department. the department experienced a significant decline in permit and application volume of approximately 18% from the prior year during the economic recession. this represented the most significant decline in volume over the prior 8 fiscal years. last year, the department anticipated that volume will increase by 3% in this current year with six months of data complete during the year. volume through december is relatively flat year on year. although that a volume increase has not yet materialized, we are experiencing some rapid growth in volume in the more recent months, in november and december, particularly in the environmental cases. this is a sign of increased activity that we anticipate seeing through the remainder of the year that will hopefully flow through the remaining budget years. the premise that is anticipating a 3% volume increase in fiscal year 12-

i brought that application to the conference of mayors in washington, d.c. and was immediately surrounded by no less than five additional measures that said, that is something happening in san francisco. we can use that idea here. it is that kind of example where we have more ideas to share, where we can create more applications than create ideas, through the code of america, working with our technology entrepreneur is, working with city departments, with the leadership of our mayor's office, board of supervisors, to challenge us to come up with more ideas as to how we could solve some problems that plague us, whether at the unique, in homeless areas, or whether it might be trying to catch a taxi cab in a more efficient way. we think we could have a more to do to a partnership with a code of america. we are announcing today -- by the way, code of america will be moving into larger offices at ninth and mission in the next few months, and be right with us, both physically, and this innovative strategic partnership that i want to announce today, to really bring

we will be putting the application process on hold. we want to match the application process. we're going to communicate that through your office as appropriate, through our web site come in current applications that we have. commissioner cohen: when will you open a back up? >> probably later this year is when we will have a better idea of where we're headed. commissioner farrell: a few questions. as the representative of district two, there is not much color and no indust color in dit 3. can you talk about that a little bit more? >> it may be a blessing that we do not get many requests from your district, but we really are applicant-driven. we do not seek out the projects, they come to us. commissioner farrell: fair enough. the second question is, when i hear the word rebalancing, you're taking from peter to get to paul. that is inherently the case that someone will lose. i know one thing that i do a lot in interaction with my constituents is try to be responsive to them. as we know on the board of supervisors, parking and traffic is at the mta, we cannot dictate anything rea

there were several applications for the wireless facility. that is specific to the conditional use hearing, which was heard by the planning commission in the middle of september and that building permit application was issued on december 9. that is when it would be commencing on that. in her brief, there was reference to a different notice that goes up. that is something not regulated by the planning department or planning code, but by the building code. the building inspector can elaborate on that, when it is required and not required. i am available for any questions. president garcia: you mentioned a decision letter. who gets that? >> is sent to the progress of her and any party to have requested it in. they are usually people who have attended the hearing. president garcia: it would not go to the three people -- >> it would only go to those who requested it. >> you have the notification letters? >> i do. >> is the jurisdiction request your name within the radius -- requester's name within the radius? >> her name is on the map, that is cor

and if the commission has not acted within 30 days, the application is considered approved. this would not permit construction of an adequate record or allow fog meaningful public comment in arriving at a decision. section three could be read as giving the commission no discretion in the issuance of the permit. the section also states that permit is to be implemented in accordance with the term environmental impact statement. however, it is not clear whether the commission or any other entity would have authority to insure and enforce compliance with the measures required fwha document. section 3-b-1 allows a modification for the route or other terms of the environmental impact statement and for the commission to authorize such a modification. the bill, however, does not articulate the standard or a process for such a decision. section 3-b-2 states that commission will enter into a memorandum of understanding for an effective and timely review of any route modification, other project in the state of nebraska. upon approval of the modification by the governor of nebraska, the