city clerk: [environment code - revising the urban forestry council composition and meeting requirements] sponsor: wiener ordinance amending the environment code to revise the composition and meeting schedule requirements for the urban city clerk: sf 31234 >>supervisor norman yee: okay, mr. franklin, do you want to come up and say a few words. >> i will just mention, for scott wiener the sponsor of this ordinance. the supervisor is carrying the ordinance as a request for council after they deliberated on this topic and passed the resolution looking at changing their enact their bylaws and guidelines to be able to function. mayling from the department of the environment provides staff support for the council and a little bit of background on the orbs >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm mayling wei from the department. i think this is in your packet, the resolution to council? good. i brought copies in case. the council pass aid resolution earlier this year requesting some amends and also a meeting schedule to lineup with their bylaws and some longstanding vacancies they have had on the co

maintenance so establishing and funding a citywide street tree program so the city can take over the maintenance we conducted an urban financing study to look at what other cities are doing and the options for san francisco we looked at different cities santa anyone can and portland and the case studies with the routine maintenance decreases costs like carla mentioned the block maintenance reduce the cost by 50 percent per tree given the dpws response to emergencies is this is not allowed to happen landowners pay for sewer repair for the tree roots that's a policy that changed and the final note that the municipal program provide a higher standard of care and something we're excited but we're going to be kicking off the citywide street tree consensus we've received money from the capital committee and public works to develop a canopy of street trees we'll be going out and connecting information on all street trees in san francisco this is a highlight of the work-related to planning. >> thank you, mr. sway i know the plan will be coming to the board in the future supervisor chiu. >> mr. sway you mentioned our goal in

the diversity of nature that exists in such an urban city, concrete streets, cars, we have this oasis of the natural environment. it reminds us of what the history was. >> there is a section for dogs and plenty of parking. transit is available on the 28 bus to get you very easily. the part is ada -- park is ada accessible. it is also a natural lake. this is your chance to stroll around the lake and let the kids run free. it also has many birds to watch. it is a place to find and appreciate what you -- a wonderful breath of fresh air. come and experience in this park and enjoy the people, picnics, and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take a stroll with your loved ones. in the middle of pacific heights, on top of these hills, it offers a great square, a peaceful beauty, large trees and grass and greenery. it features tables and benches, a playground, restaurants, and tennis courts. there are plenty of areas for football and picnics. it is very much a couple's park. there are many activities you can experience together. stroll on the pathways, bring your dog, or just picnic at one of

san francisco through our budget priorities or lack thereof has the city has really reduced what it spend in taking care of our urban forestry and as a result san francisco has one of the lowest coop coverages of any major city in the u.s. the city as green of san francisco we don't have enough trees and isn't it a fact because of the trees in the second degree that coop is shrinking we're losing the number of overall trees in the city it is gradually shrinking so this needs to be a priority currently, the city maintenance approximately, one third of the strrts in san francisco the riermd have been the robert responsibility of the adjacent property owners when the city doesn't take care of the trees maintenance becomes consistent inconsistent so property owners do a phenomenal job or many owners do know their supposed to take care of the trees or refuse to do it or hire the cheapest service that end up mutilating the trees about three years ago, the public works after a number which budget cuts relating to try maintenance began the program with the goal of turning offer pretty much the remainder of the streetcars st

we just opened an urban city.have speakers on a wide array of topics. >> we have about 400,000 people who rly on public transportation daily. >> about 10% of people are taking public transit to work each day. it equates to 1.5 million trips. it is a critical and crucial part of how people get around in the bay area. imagine the freeways without that level of transit service. >> like during the bart strike. >> and the fires and a little before that. transit is critical to moving people around. it is also critical whenou think about increasing where we are going in our economy. people want close connections to eacother. innovati and more. you need transit to move people in and out o the dense job centers. >> how is it working right now? >> it's working well. we have a very good transit system. but there are a couple of big probles. one is we need more money to really operate this system. and a lot of that is about reliality and speed. a lot -- it goes well and has great service but don't go quite fast enough. we nee

planning department with the urban forestry council they're working closely in the process of creating this plan is it the perfect plan it's a darn good plan and this city spell needs needs a good pathway to address the issues phasing urban forest there are a lot of initials or issues that will be spoken about oh, my god they're talking about invitation and we decided to set a very ambitious stretch godfather goal to increase the number of street trees by 50 percent over 20 years we've done an enormous amount of work that is embedded in the plan what people are saying is that if i they're afraid by defining the urban forestry by greenery and trees and vegetation below they're saying that's a way in which to get rid of trees traditionally people talk about urban forest as an under story and how can we increase the number of street trees in san francisco and how we can afford to do it, it's a good plan i strongly recommend you folks approve it and send to the board of supervisors they desperately need a guide so thank you very much for addressing this issue. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> it was a better plan before they added other vegetation a

we will miss capitol hill, we like living on capitol hill, we are urban people. the city of detroit has always been my home back home, we have wonderful neighborhood here. we have wonderful neighbors. there is a wonderful eastern market where we love to shop. there are some things here that i will miss. i won't miss the excessive partisanship and i won't miss the business, and the unwillingness that some do not have to compromise. i will miss that, but i will miss my colleagues and it is a great job, so i am not leaving

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threatened and needs to be protected the question is the city statement to be a green city have you looked at the urban farming and providing product and shortening this from supplier to source in the city and what policy do you have regarding protecting the agricultural region as short distances from growing to consuming are part of the model. >> from urban agricultural it was created for a category to urban farming in san francisco and one of the first in the city we're a pioneer in looking at the agricultural in the city that's fantastic and helped a lot some of the other legislation passed 8551 and city level creates tax deductions for keeping land in urban farming while it sits vacant so it's been definitely one important metabolism and moving the needle forward an urban automatic and the city has a newly created agricultural added department of rec that program looks at cutting down the wait list to grow food and looking at developing resource centers to provide the composite materials and other tools the city is definitely doing the best they can to move the needle forward. >> thank you commissi

city. there is something called an urban heat effect. >> reporter: to offset that, cities will have to do double duty, generate energy and keep the city cool. >> imagine the green roofs on buildings, what if they grew food for restaurants? if we had green walls that could help produce food and cool buildings? >> reporter: as planners imag e imagine, corporate america is watching because the potential for profit is huge. >> specifically what kinds of companies would profit from the rebuilding of our cities? >> all the companies in energy systems, energy efficient, it systems, this is where people want to be. we'll have to be smarter about it and we can be. >> reporter: because there is an enormous economic opportunity a >> coming up, heading to the mall this weekend? retailers are hard at work trying to change the way they do business and how you will one day shop. >>> thanksgiving zblisn't just about family and food but getting a good deal. it seems time to examine the future of shopping because as courtney regan tells us, the trip to the mall will look nothing like today. >> reporter: the futur

urbanization. city growing, con vegestion growing. sharing services more popular and the price of autos is going up. all of that has people rethinking how many vehicles they need for their family. >> it is very expensive to own a second car and with mobility, uber and lift and all these other alternatives, we think that the two-car family over time not going down to zero but significant amount of people are going to reduce that number. >> reporter: so the percentage to expect, by 2040, according to kpmg, 43% of the american households with two or more cars. 57 right n 57% right now. that's what they're expecting. >> thank you very much. let's recap the markets are up to. bring a board of the three here. we have a nice gain going on across the board there. nasdaq up by .7%. brian, you were telling us an amazing stat. s&p 500 grossed at a record yesterday for the 42nd time. today, the 43rd time this year it looks like. >> this is a powerful rally. thank you for dragging that out. going to friday, the all-time strongest fastest stock mar

start with urban cities and the top 10 or 12 have remained constant over the last decade. do you know there hasn't been a single joint public-private sector assessment done anywhere in any of those top 10 cities? bits and fragments of pieces of sectors have been done. specific facilities have been done. specific assets have been done. you go to new york and chicago -- i was there last week on a project. there's not an integrated set of analysis yet that leads us down the rabbit hole of infrastructure dependencies and interdependencies that are commonly known guy the public and private sector sides of the relationship. we got to get better than that. because if we're not using that grant money in that kind of area, that means we're building plans on a lot of data that either doesn't exist, or that is insufficient. and we're building plans hoping they will work, as opposed to being backed up by credible data. again, lots of great work has been done in individual silos, individual pieces of the puzzle across the country, but we need some leadership to bring that all together t

how have these changes altered the racial and ethnic composition of cities and urban areas over the past 50 years? many cities and suburbs that were once home to majorities of whites are places where ethnic minorities form the majority and this trend is continually changing. it is clear cities are transforming across the nation. they started to expand beyond gateway cities, so we don't just see these trends in places like l.a. and new york, but places like georgia where the population of refugees is higher than the population to our native born and established communities. all of these things transform the social fabric of a growing number of small cities and towns across the area. this is part of the history we have to start taking into account. west, it is particularly stark. white flight and gentrification fueled by a neoliberal he does shows the complex forces at play. it's raising new questions for urban and migration scholars and provides opportunities to sharpen our understandings of urban spaces by examining them under new conditions, new policies and under different demographic

that's currently how the friends of the urban forest do it. >> the friends or the city will do the maintenance. >> under a citywide street tree program. >> yes. >> it's a mixture of the staff and contractor assistance that could be the friends of the urban forest or some project contractors as well and a couple of concerns everybody goes ballistic when you build something and there's a shadow that falls on anyone's house or park if it's a building the tree didn't matter nobody talks about trees i had a couple of big trees before they fell down and broke the house we get better light if a smaller tree so i think that it's important that this be done and also the maintenance is another thing that's important we saw kind of a comedic episode on places we put trees which you know often they didn't last they got blown down and not properly staked an odd way of warranties a truck had to come and block the lanes so i hope this is done in a manner that's nor sensible that's another thing and people mentioned about the trees street trees are going to be trees not some sort of foliage that's not is that

but my experience in high school in east l.a., i was young, growing up in the urban city, there was soul music, being sing, being harassed by the police, being pushed out of high school, being recruited by the military, becoming angry young chicanos without any direction, but the civil rights , you watch it on tv, moechldhammed ali, they told me why don't you go ahead and do it. the older chicanos, they're more about assimilation, i said why can't we do like carmichael? they said why don't you you do it. i was at east l.a. college. so i hooked up with the young chicano for community action, which became the brown berets. the big connection with the black panthers, bobby seele giving us the red book and then john huggins achkdnd bungee carter. gangfounded the slausons in south l.a., but they founded the black panther party and they came to east l.a. to say let's work together. i said who are these guys? i could relate to it because i'm from south l.a., i had already moved to east l.a. by then erp they believe to bridge that. and bungee and john were eventually assassinated at ucla, but th

citi has formed a partnership with our company so that we can take all the lessons from the revitalization of urban america to other cities so we are now working in chicago, and in washington d.c., and newark. it's amazing how important safe affordable housing is to the future of our society. >> vicki liviakis a south bay teen.in the fight of his life. he's been given just weeks to live.now he's on a mission to make the most of the time he as left. he's been battling a severe form of bone cancer since he was 15. kron 4's alecia reid sat down with him. coughing* yes please >> alecia reid 2 weeks is what doctors give him. diagnosed with osteosarcoma, 17 year old alex has already had 16 surgeries and counless sessions of chemo and radiation. >>the best way to deal with things is to stay positive. >> alecia reid two years ago the bone cancer started in his leg. it went into remission then spread to his lungs. >>i remember saying i hope it doesn't hurt. and it did. it broke me many times but i always seem to put myself back together. *coughing >> alecia reid right now there's a large tumor pressing down

right now we have urban transit in almost every major city in the country. in fact, lots of little teeny cities and minor cities have urban transit yet outside of new york urban transit plays a fairly minor role in transportation. in the new york urban area about 3 % of all commuting done by transit, about 10% or 11% of all travel is done by transit. the next highest in san francisco at about 18%. these numbers are commuting, but when you talk about all travel the numbers are about one-third of commuting share which means in most urban areas transit carries about 1% or 2% or less of all travel. it's pretty insignificant. urban transit was mostly private before 1970. since 1970 it's been nationalized or municipal palized and we've poured almost a trillion dollars of subsidies into urban transit and we've seen per capita transit trips for urbanites fall from 50 trips a year to 40 trips a year. so it's not been a high success. right now at one time urban transit was mainly for people who didn't have cars but right now only about 4.5% of workers in america live

act ofhe immigration 1960 five, nutrients have reshaped urban metropolitan america. the emergence of cities represents a fundamental democratic shift and a striking change in intergroup relations. gentrification of these urban experiences has rocked communities. this looks at two of the biggest metropolitan areas. new york city and los angeles. to understand this with relation to immigration history. immigrationging majority cities like los angeles and new york represent urban twists --ith globe with a global twists. this happens over and over in metropolitan areas. l.a. and new york reflect new patterns in urban hatchery -- in urban history. and exploring contemporary developments of that define these cities of color or majority minority urban spaces. it is the first step. we need to connect migration patters and gentrification of urban spaces to consider the forces that make these changes possible. basicallyeles, where a little south of l.a.. for those of you who understand in. history, l.a. is unique immigration history. as late as 1960 l.a. was what it had been for the 20th century. ofi

citi has formed a partnership with our company so that we can take all the lessons from the revitalization of urban america to other cities so we are now working in chicago, and in washington d.c., and newark. it's amazing how important safe affordable housing is to the future of our society. >>> new tonight at 11:00, i third victim of last week's shooting at a washington state high school has died. 14-year-old shaylee chuckulnaskit died on friday night. she and two other students were gunned down last friday in their school's cafeteria. her family released a statement saying: our hearts are broken as the passing of our beautiful daughter, shay, means everything to us. she was one of three students hospitalized. two other girls died already. they say the shooter, jaylen fryberg, took his own life. >>> tonight, it's trick-or- treat night. how authorities are working to keep children safe from predators. >> also, an east bay neighborhood shaken up after an explosion at a walnut creek apartment next. >>> get the latest by downloading the kron 4 news app. - ( helicopter whirring ) - ( roars ) ( siren w

we will miss capitol hill, we like living on capitol hill, we are urban people. the city of detroit has always been my home back home, we have wonderful neighborhood here. we have wonderful neighbors. there is a wonderful eastern market where we love to shop. there are some things here that i will miss. i won't miss the excessive partisanship and i won't miss the business, and the unwillingness that some do not have to compromise. i will miss that, but i will miss my colleagues and it is a great job, so i am not leaving because i am tired of the job. believe me, i love the job, i love every minute of it. even when there is too much bickering going on, i always look at the bright side of it. i have a fabulous job, and that is going to be hard to leave. >> legislatively, what is left undone in your mind? >> oh, a lot. i have been here for over 36 years, and i don't want to look back on that in the last couple of months and say that i haven't -- an inexorable months there are a couple of things that i want to do. one, i want my defense authorization to be passed. organizatio

questions over whether the peshmerga are ready to take on isil in militarily complicated urban environments like the citymosul where there is a large civilian population. >> translator: isil morale is low. we are ready for urban war fair. the iraqi government should take advantage of this, and get ready to take mosul back. >> reporter: the iraqi government has put aside fears that whe mons it supplies to the kurds could be used against it in a bid for kurdish independence. >> translator: is this is an international fight for humanity. we need as much help as we can get. >> reporter: this peshmerga soldier at least says he is ready. >> translator: we learned a lot from our british instructors. we are prepared for the battle. >> reporter: but it's a battle that is far from won. >>> syrian government forces have dropped more barrel bombs here aleppo, killing at least 20 people. a second bomb was dropped when residents gathers at the scene of the first attack. >>> the u.s.-lead coalition in syria has also targeted the al-qaeda linked group in air strikes. >> reporter: these areas belong to the al-qaeda affil

start with urban cities and the top 10 or 12 have remained constant over the last decade. do you know there hasn't been a single joint public-private sector assessment done anywhere in any of those top 10 cities? bits and fragments of pieces of sectors have been done. specific facilities have been done. specific assets have been done. you go to new york and chicago -- i was there last week on a project. there's not an integrated set of analysis yet that leads us down the rabbit hole of infrastructure dependencies and interdependencies that are commonly known guy the public and private sector sides of the relationship. we got to get better than that. because if we're not using that grant money in that kind of area, that means we're building plans on a lot of data that either doesn't exist, or that is insufficient. and we're building plans hoping they will work, as opposed to being backed up by credible data. again, lots of great work has been done in individual silos, individual pieces of the puzzle across the country, but we need some leadership to bring that all together t