s 0695/005, 0066; the cathedral hill mob site is on the east side of van ness avenue, between geary and cedar streets assessor's block/lot no.'s 0694/005, 006, 007, 008, 009, 009a, 0100. the hospital and mob, along with an underground pedestrian tunnel connecting the two buildings under van ness avenue, constitute the cathedral hill medical center consideration of a resolution of intent to initiate general plan amendments, pursuant to planning code section 340, to: aa amend map 5 bulk mapp of the urban design element to reflect the maximum bulk dimensions proposed for the cathedral hill hospital and mob; bb amend map 1 generalized land use and density plann of the van ness area plan in order to designate the cathedral hill hospital and mob sites as "the van ness medical use subdistrict" and increase the allowable far for the mob site from 7.1:1 to 7.5:1, cc amend map 2 height and bulk districtss of the van ness area plan to create a 230-v district coterminous with the hospital site, thereby increasing the permitted height to 230'-0", and dd amend the text of the van ness area plan to fa

so, you have geary and van ness in their own planning process. they already started their planning process when the cup was getting going. we just left those to be a part of different process. you know, i'm not even sure what the latest of van ness is about to release or about to be certified, i believe. and geary is still chugging along, i guess. >> van ness brt e-i-r is within three or four months i believe going to go to the board for certification of e-i-r. >> great. come here, right? >> [inaudible]. >> then in terms of -- you talk about some of the different interventions in the market street. i was wondering how the church street bus only lane is going and the pilot going on and does that help inform some of the tep changes and can you give us an update how that is working so far. >> yeah, you know, it's been working really well, especially during the peak periods which is when we really needed the help. we're seeing a big improvement, almost 20% improvement in on-time performance. it's only a three-block segment if anybody knows, it goes f

in light of the reduction and service of 38 geary and 18 line. and also finding a way to expand programs for youth after school and in the summers as many of our nonprofits and schools know here. last thing i want to emphasize the importance of providing language assistance for our immigrants and diverse populations. so, i'm really pleased that adrian and our office of engagement is here providing translation. so, if anyone needs translations, i know that that has been provided as well. now i wanted to quickly say that we have outlined at the board -- up here on the board what our agenda is today and the ground rules. the town hall begins with a brief budget overview by our budget director kate howard, and then we'll have representatives from a number of commutection organizations. i think it's five for district 1 and five for district 4, speak about specific district needs and an overview of the issues. after the district presentations are completed, we'll have 15 questions from our district 1 and 4 residents

on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the war most of the street-car lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. in 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. and it appeared that san francisco's iconic cable cars had seen their final days. entered mrs. cluskin, the leader to save the cable cars. arguing that the cable cars were a symbol of

thank you very much. >> thank you my name is david heller, the president of the geary boulevard business improvement district and i had the opportunity to work with barbara for over 20 years, when she was the permit officer in our station. i think she has got a lot to bring to the table. i have never seen her in 20 years so nervous as she was here today. [ laughter ] i guess, supervisor breed, your questions would have made me nervous too, you know? but honestly, if you look at her record, not only was she permit officer, but domestic violence and all sorts of issue that relate to this field and i really feel she will do an incredible job and i hope you guys will put her in, because we would use somebody like barbara on the commissioner. thank you so much and thank you for the opportunity. >> >> good afternoon. my name is janet leto, friend of barbara and i also in supervisor cohen's district and supervisor breed's district. >> what about my district? >> you can't live everywhere although i probably did at one point. barbara is a good, honest woman and really cares about the people of th

the masonic and /tkpwraoer /tkpwraoer target will un/tko*utedly cause more traffic to know through geary and masonic and that's inevitable given the approval of target, but my office the working with a number of your offices as well to try to make sure that will be accountable to reach out to the high school and the neighbors that are around it so we're mitigating the traffic around there. it's inevitable. it's not as connecting to this project as i think some of the testimony was given. some have mentioned the hardship of losing the loss of the parking spaces and i'm sensitive to that as driver as well, but for me the killings of [inaudible] and many others over the past five years and the /saoersz accidents, many of them not even reported, but i get them tweeted and texted to me so i know directly all the safety issues that many are bringing up. i wanted to say that i think the status quo is leading to more /stepbts and i could see them from the testimony here, but also from many of the comments that people. i think we have to leverage the money coming from the one-bay-area with other

the fire happened at home 136 and geary.ron4 will tran joins us live from the scene. >> here is video that we receive and you can see that the police officers are in the crotc garage. they stated tt they know some things that should not have been used. you can see that they took away hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of marijuana. they said the this is a moderate operation. they're trying to track down the owner and the fact that had a chance to talk to them. >> we have not been able to speak with their winters at this point. it is still a pending investigation. it appears that people were living in the home. >> so far there have been no arrest. i can tell you that the fire department that great job to keep the fire to one home and it did not spread to surrounding buildings. >> police in sunnyvale are investigating a homicide that happened outside of the sports bar. it was a shooting at the peacock lounge, when east fremont avenue and it happened around 1:00 p.m. sunday morning. one man was shot to death in the parking

facilitate the development of a high density medical center at the transit nexus of van ness avenue and geary boulevard and affecting various elements of use and adopting findings. item 28, ordinance amending the general plan map of the urban design element and van ness design plan for the california [speaker not understood]. item 29 is the ordinance amending the general plan maps of the urban design element for the california pacific medical center. ~ >> thank you. president chiu? >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, i am very excited that we are finally considering the final development agreement and related approvals for the cpmc project. a lot has been said about this project. i'm going to be very brief, but after years of discussion and months of negotiations this historic health care project will ensure our hospitals get their rebuilds done right and to ensure that san francisco has a health care system ready for the 21st century. in addition to ensuring that two critical cpmc hospitals are rebuilt and seismically safe, this project will not only address major health care and local hiri

27, resolution considering that the transfer of type 20 off-sale beer and wine license from 56 21 geary boulevard to 50 52 polk street will serve the public convenience. a same house same call? this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> item 28. >> item 28 is approving mayor's nomination of barbara seymour [speaker not understood] for a term ending july 21st, 2014. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you, president chiu. the rules committee i'm really please today recommend the nomination of barbara campanoli to the entertainment commission. barbara is well suited to serve as as an entertainment commissioner in the law enforcement seat. she brings with her ~ 30 years of experience in the area of law enforcement [speaker not understood], and dealt hands on with issuing permits to businesses in the entertainment industry back before they had the entertainment commission. and when the san francisco police department handled all the permitting applications ~. barbara is a delightful, smart person who cares about san francisco and has given back to san francisco through her volunteerism with various com

december 28, 1912, san francisco mayor stared into a sea of 60,000 of constituents that gathered at gearyberth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway.

avenue has contributed millions of dollars to the city and while the merchants are quiet, unlike say, geary or the potrero drive area, the city is taking advantage of it in many ways. our streets are not cleaned, potholes, millions of dollars are taken from our merchants and yet, how does >> we were wondering with that might be calendared also? i have two more questions and maybe you are aware of this, but the $2 million rec and park department and puc boathouse partnership at lake merced is behind schedule and it's $400,000 overbudget now. area and we're just wondering who is going to be paying for this $400,000 overrun? and finally, under the public utilities commission real estate division and this report was dated february 8th, 2012 and was brought here before the commission several months ago. under section 20 you land use, this caught my attention. it says and this is quoted, "through its watershed management plan the san francisco puc adopted specific land use policies for watershed lands. certain other lands, such as the lake merced tract, are the subject of specific land use police

franciscan with the fact that you have jess jeans listed as one your employers and i remember that store on geary boulevard years ago and thought it was pretty funny. one of the questions that i have has to do with the challenges that we seem to face in the nightlife community and that is adequate security within the nightclubs? so many of the nightclub owners, there are some that are very responsible when they hire professional security companies that have experience and ways in which to not only keep the participants safe, but also to manage crowd controls and things that make sure that the clubs are not over-capacity, where if there were an incident, people would not get hurt or people have the ability, i guess to exit appropriately in case of an emergency, a fire or a fight or any other situation that arises sometimes in the nightclub environment. so one of the challenges that we have are responsible club owners and they hire component security personnel, that are consistently working with the nightclub in order to keep people safe. and then is there another section of the population that doe

. >> the house is on 35th avenue near geary. police are looking for the renters. >>> the oakland police headquarters is open to the public again. a broken water pipe flooded the building a week ago and forced the city to shut it down. the damage was extensive to the first three floors. crews worked all week to dry and air the building out but this morning it was back in business. >>> jury selection is under way in florida. george zimmerman is on trial for the death of trayvon martin. molly hall joins us. >> reporter: michelle, the first day of jury selection is well under way here at the criminal justice center in sanford. people on both sides of the case are gearing up for a lengthy trial. >> reporter: moments before george simmer entered the courtroom trayvon martin made a statement. >> we ask that the community continue to stay peaceful. >> reporter: zimmerman's brother also spoke to reporters. >> as a family we are very confident in the outcome of the case. >> reporter: zimmerman a neighborhood watch volunteer claims he shot

they also assist us in presidio parkway, advice on yerba buena island's geary and and van ness brt, other projects we have occurring during the year. >> is this in addition to the city attorney's office, specialized in -- >> specialized transportation matters. this is one we seek not advice or many times there may be a conflict of interest if we were to use a city attorney. >> how often do we have a conflict of interest? >> we feel do have some at least once per year. we're working with other city departments on various projects. they may use the city attorney to represent them. the authority uses [speaker not understood] just to get a different perspective to do a cross-check on any matters

the high crime corner is geary where all the late night residences are. this is a corner where three of the buildings are apartments and they are the lower level of the apartment building. they do everything that they said they have done, they have done consistently since they've lived there and i've lived there since 1991. >> thank you. next speaker. just so folks know, we ask people not to applaud in response to public comments so that the meeting moves forward but you can always gesture to express your support please. >> i'm a father, i have lived across the the street since the turn of the century before cafe royal became such. i live well within 100. feet. i've had every birthday there since my 20s, i had my wedding reception there, we had our baby shower there. this is the best jazz venue downtown, but it is unique in a lot of other ways. it's the only venue offering -- it's an approachable, intimate environment. they couldn't do it any other way. it's something that every other owner's wanted to do. part of the reason the corner is safe is because

lives of others >> they say it happens four times alone yesterday including the last night in the geary district. it is also been happening in other buzz lines of different times of the day and different parts of the city. no on hurt so far >> we are going to put more officers on there and in the effort to try to catch whoever is doing this >> they say they'll begin to looking through surveillance videos from the busses to trying to determine who is doing it. each time it happened the bus has to be pulled from service so the doors can be checked for safety and that's expensive and inconvenience for passengers. >> if miss my stop i will wait until the next one. >> it is making impossible to pride the door open, the estimated cost was more than $1 million. in san francisco rob robert. >>> many as 300 people showed up to the home after hearing of the party through text messages and facebook. deputies cleared the crowd and they arrested the 18-year-old man, they said he stolen items from the house. >>> former nhl player chad johnson, he did something that the judge did not find amusing. >>

december 28, 1912, san francisco mayor stared into a sea of 60,000 of constituents that gathered at geary. the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. >> thank you all for coming, i would like to really briefly introduce bonnie angle with the breast cancer fund, she is going to do a presentation for you on prevention, ways to preventolin ks of chemicals in breast cancer and i'll let her talk about the rest, bonnie, thank you for coming. >> alright. thank you all so much for being here today. i'm very excited to be able to give this presentation to you, unfortunately, i was expecting to have a co-presenter who had a minor accident and visited the emergency room this morning instead of visiting us, so we have plenty of folks from the breast ca

they also assist us in presidio parkway, advice on yerba buena island's geary and and van ness brt, other projects we have occurring during the year. >> is this in addition to the city attorney's office, specialized in -- >> specialized transportation matters. this is one we seek not advice or many times there may be a conflict of interest if we were to use a city attorney. >> how often do we have a conflict of interest? >> we feel do have some at least once per year. we're working with other city departments on various projects. they may use the city attorney to represent them. the authority uses [speaker not understood] just to get a different perspective to do a cross-check on any matters that may come before them. >> can you explain to me why you're asking for a $57,000 indrapes? >> this year for fiscal 13-14, our major project will be the treasure island yerba buena island project. we've been using [speaker not understood] to help us with all the utility agreement, the contract terms, basically setting this project out. 75,000 will be funded by moa through tida and through state and

it happened at the walgreens pharmacy on north main street near geary road just before two a-m. police say a suspect entered the pharmacy, said he was armed and demanded two containers of prescription drugs. after getting the drugs, the suspect ran away. no one was injured. also in walnut creek. it's since march. a man has exposes himself to women on the iron horse regional trail. police are warning trail users to be alert. to walk or run with a partner, and report any suspicious people. the suspect is described as a white man in his 20's, 5- feet 10-inches tall with a thin build and shoulder- length dirty blonde hair. sometimes witnesses have seen him wearing a baseball cap and riding a b-m-x type bike. san francisco police are asking for the public's help year old woman. authorities say margarita lopez-ramos was last seen friday morning at the san francisco international airport waiting to be picked up by a family member. she suffers from dementia and is hard of hearing. she is five-seven, 125 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. she was last seen wearing a multi-colored shi

some of the examples include talking about bus rapid transit along van ness and geary. we're going to put a 47-limited bus in service that will serve that route and give us valuable data for mta, as an approach to bus rapid transit and there are examples of the solutions that we're looking to pilot during this event. we mention the mta's special events team and sustaining the positive legacy of some of these projects. so with that, i just wanted to give you a broad overview of some of the various things we're doing and wanted to see if you had specific questions for me, and if there is anything that i don't have direct knowledge of, i am happy to follow-up with some of the disability staff throughout the city that are working on the operational details. >> you have to bear with me, i have to remember to turn on the mic. thank you very much. we're going to open it up for council member questions first, and then staff and then we'll go to the public. okay? thank you. so we open it up to the council. skip? >> i have a question. for you mr. van de water and actually i have

since our location geary [inaudible] our success has incomed and registration doubled. however, with 60% budget cut we won't be able to accept the new students, but currently registered students and also teachers who has been working with us for the last 12 years. please let us continue our program and serve our community better and also consider our proposal. thank you. >> hello i am lata and here as a parent representing the various families that came out through the reach out program. i have two girls now nine and 11 that have beenful individual in the program over a period of seven years. what i love about the program is that it brings together families and children from different parts of the city because it's open to everyone in the city and also from different social groups, so we have been able to form bonds and such with people from different groups, and we come together to make music, art, and culture together. it's a great program. the quality is really exceptional probably because it's been built as a community over the past 12 years, so it would be a real s

i used to live at hyde and geary my first four years when i moved to san francisco, now 36 years ago, and this was my neighborhood park. and i've loved it ever since. the combination of the palms and the pines and everything in between, this is a jewel of a park. and when i saw the fences go up i got a little nervous because, well, it was going to be closed for a while. and i saw on some of the signs that some trees were going to come down which always makes me a little uncomfortable. but now seeing the result, it is magnificent. and, so, i want to thank all the folks who have invested their time and their efforts to make sure that the tennis courts got their renovation and the pathways were upgraded, the a-d-a improvements, of course, this extraordinary playground for our kids, the improved lighting which will make it all safer. and i'm glad, phil, that you mentioned the fact of this epidemic of childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes. you know, one in eight of us today will experience type 2 diabetes, but a generation from now that means kids here today, if we don't change course, 1 i

my question is, can a future plan be considered to aggress the area from geary to [inaudible] pedestrian needs. this plan is already in process, please update me if this is the case and i thank you very much for allowing me to comment. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good morning, my name is david. i'm a resident of san francisco since 1970. i own a car, i drive in the city, i'm very familiar with this area and i want to lend my full support to the plan which is in place. until recently i'm a resident of the ash bury neighborhood. i ride my bike to work at mission bay everyday. that street is a horror. i've tried to ride on that street for decades. it is a really scary place for a person on a bicycle. i invite any of you to try that out northbound any day, don't wait for the commute hours. this is a project that is decades overdue. this is not a question of we don't want this. this is a question of we have needed this for a long time and the traffic pedestrian and bicycle tole tells that story. this is not just about our current inconvenience with change. this is about t