i am very much in support of the legislation as it stand, but i would like to encourage all of us to look at it more as policy and legislation rather than applying it to a particular project, which we don't know anything about. >> director ram. >> thank you. i just wanted to remind the commissioners and the public in particular there might be some confusion, this doesn't change any height limit. it doesn't change any setback requirements or anything. it's only the size of the use within the building. so, this does not allow any user on that street to build a taller building or bigger building. it's simply the size of the use within that building. >> thank you. commissioner sugaya. >> yes. within that context, then, would nonprofits be allowed on the first floor in the first place if they are under 4,000 square feet? i don't know what the base zoning allows or doesn't -- >> in terms of nonprofit there is nothing in the planning code that would prohibit a nonprofit on the ground. there would have to be an active use that would meet the relevant requirements of the planning code. i believe t

we started working on this project in 2010 when the goyals asked us to look at this aging station. it was under performing in a financial sense [speaker not understood]. my charge was to relocate the building, add a car wash and modern convenience store and to design a building that would stand out adds an example of green design on this prominent corner. it's important that you consider the owners are not planning on selling alcohol here. what we've come up with, and if i can show a graphic -- is there anything i need to do besides wave my arms? i'll just hope it comes up. but at any rate, what we've come up with is an attractive building that takes advantage of the site, allows circulation, tuck a car wash into the corner and creates a green buffer for the neighboring properties. it's a good deal more pleasant to look at than the existing station. we planted the roof with native grasses which you can see here, that will screen the corner and provide both a visual and inclusive buffer. what they look at right now is roofs. what they will look at in the future is native grasses. i'l

and san francisco is a financial strength with oakland at the -- which, is they see us as a region and they come to look at investing in our area, they pretty much make a round and they don't just go to oakland they look at us and see us as a region. so healthcare, main strength of the kaiser is [inaudible/incomprehensible] to be an ensator in healthcare and that is one of the characteristic traits in oakland and we have had this year, after a decade, finally you launched the oakland -- in the worth of oakland by a point over there and our interim director debra allen is here all right -- and that is a major economic engine for the whole region how many you have are involved in transportation lodgestics? not that many here, okay but that is if you look, into commercial real estate and they use economic engine for the entire region and so i look at the jobs that are for the worth port oakland which, is the first port that met the call to export more than we imported and that, that, is very important and that the expansion of the army base after ten years and my deputy there on swan son, over here for pla

to say we conducted this audit based on the motion of the full board of supervisors who wanted us to look at the housing authority. it was declared to be a troubled /aeu yen /seu in december of 2012. as we began the audit the housing authority was going through major changes. there was a new commission that came into being of february 2013. there was a new interim executive director so as we were doing this audit the new housing authority director and the commission were beginning to make many changes that address some of the issues and concerns we saw in the audit. i wan to thank miss smith and he staff and [inaudible] and his commission members for the assistance they gave us in conducting this audit. i will now have amanda give her presentation. >> good morning supervisors. my name is amanda and i'll be presenting some highlights from the budget analyst performance audit of the san francisco housing authority. our audit had five focus areas, compliance, government, financial management, program management and operational management with a particular focus on staffing. we looked at how

this in the primary people are going to point to moments like this and say he doesn't play ball with us, he's not going to represent us, he's going to be looking out for himself. and people like rubio are going to be much more attractive candidates for that reason. >> let's take a short break. coming back i want to talk about this newtown photo story. also the person from mississippi, the governor who thinks that women at the office are the real problem for modern america. i'm sure margaret has an opinion about that. and not a very good one, i would think.

this is a great opportunity for all of us to look at this as a pilot for how we may want to expand bicycling lanes or restripe them to encourage the use along the embarcadero. >> thank you so much for the presentation. a lot of work has gone into this. i have one question. that is, as far as the local community, and how people who live and owrk in this area are going to get around the city during this time, and if they will be enhanced local transit along with this, and how will people know when this is happening? >> several questions there. first, will there be local enhanced transit? the transit services that we have designed our intended to build on our existing transit lines, and so if somebody is waiting for a 47x and our special shuttle comes, bringing them where they want, all the better. for them it is just a bus that comes, instead of in 10 minutes, it comes earlier. the local san francisco population does not feel a drain in transit service. if you are nowhere near the waterfront your bus is still coming when you expect them to. we have not refocused all of the transit service for

i want to mention that i would like us to look into our camera system and our inventy. i know we have dealt with crime because you have our camera we have be able to prosecutor people for violent crime in some cases. i'm not looking to put cameras up all over the place but we do have a number of cameras all over the camera and there's some uncertainty whether those cameras with working or not. having a clear understanding and schedule as to checking on those cameras making sure their maintained and working is something it's important to me as well. i want to let you know my concerns and hopefully, your department will lead the way to take care of this. >> it means you know what works and what doesn't work. >> thank you. supervisor mar >> thank you and i'm sorry if i mispronounce your name. i know you've been brought in to advance our technology. i'm in agreement with supervisor bred on a lot of issues on the digital divides. i'm really glad that a lot of the senior centers are being excepted. at any time a good training of many seniors who are using technology for the fi

so it's allowing us to look neighborhood by neighborhood to look at the community enforcement officers woork they are doing there so next year when we go to do a hire, our bylaw officers are working with revitalization, i'll be sharing this information with them to say these are the key neighborhoods you need to be in touch with as well as the different constables and beat officers to say, look, this is a problem and this is what's trending in your neighborhood. so it's been very beneficial to us in terms of how we deploy our resources. five neighborhoods accounted for 46 percent of the graffiti vandalism observed in 2012. even though i showed you in that last slide that downtown is decreasing, it still is one of our most significant neighborhoods as far as graffiti. queen mary park. those 5 neighborhoods within the exception of one, have remained fairly consistent from the beginning of the program. although the percentage of how much graffiti they have has gone down. what we're finding, too, is that while the reduction in the graffiti over all was very minimal this year, we saw huge s

there were always people who thought they might be harmful to serbia i think that those who want us to look in only one direction don't have the interests of serbia at heart. so that those are just part of the let's go back to the course of the talks in brussels what i do know poison is said to have talked to you during this talks what did he tell you did he back the agreement. that. we spent a lot of time discussing the current situation possible scenarios and steps that serbia might take president putin has never interfered in our internal affairs both he and the russian government are ready to help serbia but serbia is alone in this battle unfortunately when the talks started serbia decided to talk with bush deano within the e.u. framework and never asked for someone to stand up for its interests that's why quite often these days serbia has to face several opponents alone the representatives from the e.u. and prishtina often share the same stance sometimes they will bring documents to the table which they clearly drafted together so we're left in the minority but if anyone thought that t

and it's important for us to look at the possibility of skipping your due date in court. think part of the validity and credibility of the court system is based on people agreeing to show up. and again there are many factors and many based on evidence that is proven by people that are likely to come back court and show up and people who are not. clearly service is the kind of service that could take somebody right on the edge and they could make all the difference in the world. and we should focus and put those people in the services. again we can create a risk assessment tool that would place to have pretrial service and ensure that person will return. i don't believe that risk assessment is exclusive with fairness, but i fully understand your concern. clearly the system is not one that gives a lot of comfort. but i don't think we should be precluded moving forward, especially in a community like ours we have a tremendous opportunity for inspiration and the will to do so and do it right. and to continue to set the trail and show this can be done and done thoughtfully. >>

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>> the answer is yes but we would like to look at the tools we have available to us how we might be able to do that and look at the tools to come up with a menu. >> the original proposal included a total band; is that correct. >> no, it didn't address it at all. >> how did it come in. >> it was introduced in february. >> the comment was you felt

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>> the answer is yes but we would like to look at the tools we have available to us how we might be able to do that and look at the tools to come up with a menu. >> the original proposal included a total band; is that correct. >> no, it didn't address it at all. >> how did it come in. >> it was introduced in february. >> the comment was you felt the total ban was not consecutive. >> it was too restrictive. we can take the supermarket friends in hate valley he there's a large retail space that was sitting vacant. sometimes, the formula retail there's a neighborhood that likes it whole foods people seems to be okay with that going in at florence and market but there's a formula that staff can't make the commission can take a look. >> it would be easier if it was a total ban; right? and a yes. very effective. >> ms. rogers. >> thank you. i appreciate the fact that the commission is wrestling with this issue and some of the members of the public. i think it's a weight i didn't needy thing. i want to add a little bit of a discussion about objective activity vs. discretionary decisions. i thin

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there'll be a lot of discussion about this that will have to be digested. >> the only approved use of phone records is to look for terrorist links. it now could become ineffective now that it does become exposed. >> now that it is out, a lot of organizations may say, we got to stop talking on the phone. of the major phone carriers may since peaking in fall. some nsa workers has said this has been going on for years and does involve all of the major phone carriers. >> thank you. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. do you think the government should be able to collect phone and internet records to monitor for suspicious activity? you can share your response on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> the wait is almost over for the ravens. they have will get their super bowl rings tonight. last fight was a celebrity waiter night. they help serve some fine cuisine. proceeds support at risk families in baltimore. >> 6:37. rain today and right into the weekend. >> these fans were almost hoping for rain >> weddings are not cheap these days. madenot consider a dress o

so it's allowing us to look neighborhood by neighborhood to look at the community enforcement officers woork they are doing there so next year when we go to do a hire, our bylaw officers are

was before you in 2009 but the additional documentation this client has provided to the it causes us to look at the height measurement. >> okay. i'm confused about something the appellant say there is no horizontal addition here? >> i don't think so. there is a variance requirement because of the vertical addition in the setback but other than that, so maybe it was some of the concerns they had. i don't believe there is a horizontal. >> okay. >> any public comment? >> please step forward. >> my name is sam garfunkle. there is a big discrepancy on the height limit. they have just confused you with saying how they can have either side 32nd avenue or el camino. they have specifically requested a change of address from 10032nd avenue to designate the front of this are building on el camino del mar. to bring this up at the last minute is very contradictory. this is the height measurement from el camino del mar and i had to agree not to build my building higher than mr. lang who developed the property. i had a 40 foot height limit and i told my builder it has to be under 40 feet. the building insp

looking at. i would also like to point out who is helping us do this are two engineers, eric g and benjamin louis. they have a bright future. they both finished their sophomore years in college. one goes to usc and one goes to s f state. how we look at projects in a whole, what we have inside dbi now is we have approximately 230 projects that we are reviewing. our policy is that like for instance it's a 3-week backlog. if you are handed a set of plans, we expect you to be working on those plans within three weeks. right now, we only have 24 permits out of the 230 that we've had longer than 3-4 weeks. many of them i suspect i have already got comments and they are waiting for it to come back or they are ready to give out their comments. we stay pretty current with that. we are doing pretty well. things are picking up. we are getting more jobs and we look forward to the challenge. is there any questions that i can answer? >> commissioner walker? >> thank you very much. i do have a couple of questions. what is the exact criteria for whether something goes over the counter or something has to be? >>

our legislature tells us to look at what the locals do. when we look at that, the legislaturor are 30% to 50% what local supers make. there -- supervisors make. there really is an absence of leglike and it is interesting to note you guys voted to cut lawmaker's pay in recent years. >> the commission did. >> now you are reinstating it. there was discussion in giving them a bigger raise to bring them back to where they were a few years ago which is among the highest paid, or the highest paid, in the nation. do you think that will go through? >> well, it may. it depends on the budget, whether it is through a surplus. our suite does not say look what other states do. you are toyota says look what other -- toyota says to look at -- study tells us to -- statute say to look at what the locals do. it is hard to sort out. the commission changes every year. we serve five year terms and it is staggered and different almost every year. >> okay. i have a final question for you. i know that going into this that some of the commissioners were nudged by so

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such as a permanent location determined to be not at this location or other events that require us to look at other locations, we've built in a safety valve for us to be able to terminate this lease with fully modest payments for unamortized value of improvements made by the owner. the other item in the lease agreement is a right of first offer to purchase. we feel that's important that we secure some sort of ownership potential in any building we lease if we feel there is a chance we could be leasing up a substantial portion of that building. so, it's just smart business on behalf of the city. it is not an option, and you are not really being asked to make any decision relative to a purchase this time. also want to note that you are in receipt of a letter from the counsel to the law library wherein they do accept this interim space with certain conditions. so, i want to touch on those condition and the city's position relative to those. the space plan will be developed collaboratively. we certainly agree with that and that has been the case for the last several weeks. but given the time a

i do want us to move forward, but i do think the city as a whole needs to just really take a look and reevaluate some of these projects so that we are looking at keeping up with the demands in our public transportation system based on building significant numbers of housing developments which i don't think we had those kinds of discussions in the redevelopment agency. i mean, we did and we had transportation impacts. i don't think we put enough work into developing them better, adding more money to the transportation component because we were -- and i'll tell you from my experience, we were concerned with making sure we create this incredible neighborhood. we build this housing, housing was a big deal, economic opportunities, all of those things and transportation was at the bottom of that list. so, i do think that we need to figure out a balance so that we create this community with the kinds of resources that make it a thriving community and not necessarily wait until after we build and then we're dealing with the effects of, you know, the success of what we've been able to accompli

with that technology bottom line there is no such thing as safe nuclear technology it's time for us to look at the sun if you want to nuclear energy your nuclear reactor we have one ninety three million miles away it's called the sun and we can harvest the energy from it with solar panels and with windmills and wave power and pretty much everything else chris in trenton new jersey chris what's on your mind tonight. john now the gun i'm twenty two years old and i just wonder need your thoughts on mike my generation and you know it seems like nobody you know if you just didn't look going on in the world really and. you know it's one of the get your thoughts on not sure ok you know chris i think it's gary yeah i it is and chris your generation and frankly your generation plus about ten years people under thirty are the first generation in american history since the one nine hundred twenty s. so basically in the living memory of anybody around why to experience throughout their entire lifetimes reaganomics also known as hard enough mix the the the policies of war and of president harding when h