and build the park and maintain the park. it is not simple stuff. >> mr. [inaudible] in terms of the issues, how do you think about in-termoffs funding-last year we talked about park parole and-we is seen stuff around [inaudible] supervisor wieners district. i see my distict which is federal land, but just 420 one off incident but the pictures amazing and it impacts the experience for the rest of san francisco. how do you think about that in terms of needs in a growing population? >> we are going to get to that in the presentation mp we motorcycle profound investments in the green space through the public investment and capital plan and philanthropy. you are about to see the most spectacular play ground within the next 3-5 years. there is great stuff happening but we need to protect these investments. particularly with more people using our parks, more intensely that creates more use conflicts and we need staff a thmanage park use. it is that simple. it is a weakness in our organization. >> thanks >> we are going to focus on a

quality of the park and what it met. what it meant is 9.3 million investment and the sources are the state parks that invested and our own recreation park bonds, it was grants philanthropic foundation all amassed in this investment and it come out with one of the best designed urban parks where i you have the 25/7 club house, a basket ball court and home grown flowers and reuse of water treatment and artificial tougher so more and more use can be had. thats a great investment and invite you to take a look at that park as our most reebt example of this collaboration. these kinds of investments in the park help the city become more successful, more inviting and more inclusive. parks are just like transportation and just like education, they are the great equalizers in citys that sometimes become more reflection of inequality. our parks have become at the center, the effort to equalize things and with the philanthropy we are proposing along with city investments, we can fake care of a lot of low income families to participat

requirement for the parking ratio of one by one and we believe that the evaluate parking for the twoub telethon blarg or parking garage there notice reduction area that maximize the use if the planning commission believes it fulfills a code requirement we ask why we would liquor to inform the commissions that they effect future decisions i'd like to provide you a copy of that code sections for you reference that concludes my presentation. if you have any further questions please lemon know. >> thank you project sponsor please please. >> good afternoon michelle with the architect the project was described well, i'll be brief it is 59 residential unit and 8 of which are onsite below market rate with the dog patch association there's a bunch of 5, 3 bedroom unit and 19, 23 bedroom units the rest are one bedroom - we've been working with the neighborhood and the planning department since 2013 and the resulting project has gone through any stages along the dog patch neighborhood association from the letter that you received from the association their pleased with the end result after a ye

the entire park sitest which is 220 park properties that cover said 15 percent of the land mass. am i right on that? >> going back a couple years >> last year we provided 7 or 800 thousand theres to hire more park parole. can you update-not so much the number on staff, but how many rangers are on duty >> 2this happened last year, one is investment in park parole and the mayor allowedtuse absorb the park patrol at candle stick that is 4 or 5 so we have a total of 3 fifen fte's in the park rageer division. we do not have 35 boots on the ground. that is important to rrm that the hiring process is lengthy, there is attrition and wash out so we probably have somewhere around right now 27 or 28 boots on the ground and that gets us to about 3 sometimes 4 because we have overlapping shifts. we have a new park patrol manager who has had a career in law enforcement and is a good manager and have overlapping shifts and design thing tooz screez more resources out of the bodies so we are probably at 3 to 4 at any time >> i know that there is a additional hch people going to through a class cur

but at the same time not an excessive amount of parking we don't need, our goal is to manage the parking resource so we have two spaces, on game days we can manage different ways, we can price things differently with our lot, we have computer parking on lot a for game days the vehicle has to be out by six or they get charged for the game rate as well. people don't want to incur the additional charge and move their car by six, we have the 2,000 spaces now for the ballpark -- will create the number of spaces for the ballpark and manage the need that is on-site development, and the parking structure you can remind me but dozens of meeting with mta and parking design firms talking about how the structure can operate opt matly, right now on lot a, we have two entrances and exits where you can get into the lot, we have five in the structure, so we think the structure will operate as efficiently as the street system will allow as we leave events, we think the new development itself, when people leave ballpark events will serve as a distraction in a good way so we don't have as much crunch for t

there is about 20 acres in the park t. is a lush guardsen and what you don't see and do see people and they enjoy it all the time, it is the center piece, but what you don't also see in the picture just a few yards from main street is wep spent 13 million on the park and within a year and a half we had 180 million dollars invested 1 plauck from the park. hotel, condoes, retail, office. we also had launched from this section is 18 mileoffs bike and walking paths from the water fall. 18 miles up river and 5 miles the other direction. we have tourism now. huge tourism trade. people from the greater at lanlta area come to? joy the rest jaunts down town and the park. the iminties are coming all the time. economic development, tourism, governor school for the arts located, but most of all it is something of tremendous pride for people in the community t. is the identity of the city now and the scepter piece of the city as it was 100 years ago. not bad for a park. thank you very much. >> i want you to know that wasn't too bad for

all the parks belong to all the people. to the families in the bay view sdrishth as it does to the gentlemen that lives across the street. i'm happy and proud to be the caretaker for them. i wake up every day and thank that i have >> ever wonder about programs the city it working think to make san francisco the best place to work and will we bring shine to the programs and the people making them happen join us inside that edition of what's next sf sprech of market street between 6th is having a cinderella movement with the office of economic workforce development is it's fairy godmother telegraph hill engaged in the program and providing the reason to pass through the corridor and better reason to stay office of economic workforce development work to support the economic vital of all of san francisco we have 3 distinctions workforce and neighborhood investment i work in the tenderloin that has been the focus resulting in tax chgsz and 9 arts group totally around 2 hundred thousand square feet of office space as fits great a

one of the biggest bras is parks. we had a 50 year old historic swimming pool they closed 5 years ago before i was elected and one of the campaign promiseicize to get that reopened and one of our big familiesm came to me and said, i grew up swimming there and i'll help you reopen that if you agree the operating expenses and we put it in the budget in perpetuity because he gave 500 thousand dollars to redo the pool and quee matched it with 350 thousand. wree a focused on the inner city parks. the developers are taking care of the new parks, but we have foogrow are inside the city >> put in a certain amount of open space as part of the plan, do they also aplije themselves to perpeteral maintenance to theope nl space? >> many do. probably 50 percent of them take up the maintenance of the open space. the other 25 percent the home owners association do it and the other 25 percent the-donated to the city and more often than that the developers will donate if we take it on >> there is a greater greenville fund in your tear or

and transfer the space you'll eliminate the more parking spaces from the stackers into more bicycle parking because this areas exists putting stackers didn't solve the problem you put stackers in and gain the additional parking up to the 50 or whatever it is and put an overflow police vehicle make that storage. >> they could come in and put in stark elders the same amount of space so what's the point to make them do stackers if they could put in 6 spaces i am not i get it we're not froeg up a useful we're freeing up stournl or storage space. >> the same amount of marshes with whether their requiring a stacker or valet or efficient use of space the reality if we're required to put a stacker in this particular design the stacker requires 11 and a half feet high our garages are lower we'll cut out part of the garage to fit the stacker to go up and down so we actually - >> you may not do that. >> we'll have less parking but that's not beneficial to the building or the community so what would you do in this case, the recommendations passes what will you do you and actually haven't

ball park has a simultaneous event all they're parking will be used up and the available parking in the neighborhood that is really critical to all of us we will be reviewing the internal revenue when it comes out and we'll be coming back thank you very much. >> thank you. >> mr. washington. >> i've been called a lot of things but don't call me late for diner it gives me great honor to be here giving the final announcement i'll be retiring but transforming into an entrepreneur communications what i've been doing the best preserving the black african-american negroes in san francisco this particular project i understand the owner but back in the day with when we got the motorbike starts the african-american black man, i called my mentor mr. jim jefferson i mentioned in some of the documents i said he put the committee together to put him up and down the motorbike so people know there was a black man that started off and willie spearheaded the mission bay we know as mission bay today well, i'm here to preserve that and to let my african-americans who's coming in the next 20 years o

most of the parks are permeable so there are no fences. some of the neighborhood parks have fences, but think we need to keep more eyes on them like we would any other investment like a museum. like this building. we keep eyes on the things that we care about at night and we are not resourceed to do that >> i think we should be resorsed to do that. we need to get that done. >> if i just >> supers visor yee >> thanks for your presentation so far. i did pass out-i did ask for the report for the park rangers that are passed out to the rest of the colleagues. i realized when i looked more clously the numbers were reflective of past fiscal year so when i asked about the additional supplemental funding to have more park rangers i don't think it is reflected in this particular report you gave in march. >> i don't have that in front of me. i think the report asks for a date. it was for a fixed date so i think we said you will get another report from us in septwith updated numbers and when you asked for that we were still going through had hiring pr

now taking out parking on the 2 hundred block of eddy i have a problem all the surface parking lot in the tenderloin that are curling in existence right now are being utilized for parking but they also have plans to be built on and so where are all the cars going to go we have one millions people in san francisco and most of the jobs are downtown if e you keep on taking away the parking spaces the police department has the jurisdiction over the parking lots by the way, yes, they do i know i don't know if you know that i have concerned about the displacement and here an employee of safe an entity of kind of mixed up with the police department and so on and so forth telling us how to take away our parking i don't like that and one of the things when i was in the neighborhood my visitors wouldn't come because they can't find parking this is a concern i moved out of the neighborhood last bylaw last year because people don't feel safe parking in my neighborhood the city makes money off the parking how will they get that money back this is a disservice to the neighborhood when you start tak

19th century in the wildness of grandparent and the coast life okay in the northeast session of the park we have to thank them you know and i'd like to say this region is well known to feature the converty flowers and the garden and the being the rehabbed now by peers is hours shoe club the historic horse shoe clubs a little known and interesting piece of infrastructure right in the middle of the okay wood lands i'd like to say that without the rec and park department natural areas program leadership and management i don't think the okay woods restoration program more the hours shoe courts would have shown such success i want 0 urge the commission and concerned citizens or involved citizens to value our natural landscapes and indignant bio diversity and support this sin wrap the management plan it guides the natural areas program and i on coming forward to the board of supervisors for official you know package and hard-wired into the rec and park culture this is important and i want to invite you all to come out to our second saturday of the month volunteer days there are lead by the sup

department when the eugene rec and park opened and last but not least our dear friends is working with us on an eye for the future if evidently can come up and get a certificate and photo (clapping.) a lot of people. >> sam why don't you get in the middle we'll give you the certificate first. >> eugene friends service. >> 1, 2, 3. >> one more 1, 2, 3 perfect (clapping) first, i want to thank 2ub8 and the rest of the phil ginsburg and i'm grateful and huge and honored to be here and as you can tell the past staff is here is a great center in a very, very tough area to work we've been fortunate thirty to have staff that really, really care for the community and kids i mean, i can't staying say enough i want to thank everyone for recognizing the anniversary and everyone is celebrating on saturday from 11 to 4 and so you're all invited and i want other people especially leah that is part of the staff and sunny thank you, thank you, thank you so much (clapping) >> my name is leah i'm one of the original 5 that was hired to open up the shop i should say we were trying to open it in 1989

the goal is to spread the word about the park. the changes are working. rk attendance is actually starting to go up. >> translator: things are definitely different from the way they were ten years ago. we have to recognize the changes and keep ahead of the curve. >> the park found success by recognizing the need to change and introducing bold reforms. it's a model that other struggling tourist attractions might be wise to follow. >>> buddhist monks in western japan are looking back centuries to the founding of their town as they plan for the future. they're celebrating the 1200th anniversary of koyasan in wakayama prefecture. as they welcome the flood of visitors, they're also trying to preserve tradition. nhk world's kimberly gale reports. >> reporter: it's a ritual that's been carried out in koyasan for centuries. monks gather by the light of temple lanterns to chant mantras. it's how swiss-born monk kurt genso spends part of his day. >> thank you for taking time for me today. >> you're welcome. >> reporter: he's also an ambassador for the town where bud

we have two entities we have the port and the park services, between two government agencies we're not trying to tilt the balance we need to find out a fair way to make the right improvements, so the visitors of san francisco one bing one of the largest attractions, can be made in a way that is attractive. and i think that i it's important for the stakeholder, the national service, the communities are heard. we in particular we see it in the press we want to hear from everybody that has anything to say, with this particular location makes sense. and reasons why other locations made sense, we should hear the arguments as well one is obviously a nonport property we're interested in retaining it, i think our friend, i'm surprised they're not here today they feel the current location is advantageous, to the tourist experience up and down the waterfront, it's integrated right now, it seemed to work, i don't hear a lot of complaints so we have to figure out a way, i'm hoping our friends from the national park service we at the port commission do feel to find a fair way to move forward, we un

in the city one parking for every 4 units. >> yeah. for when you say the city dooming is planning department. >> any other unit we have you know. >> certainly through the chair in transbay block 9 a similar ratio less than block 7 and 6 in mission bay certainly areas in high density it is immediately adjacent there's good access to transit and enhances transit in the future immediately with is trier of the facts of conflict and is city surveys for transit of the area should that transbay has the highest trips everyone is getting on and off bart and muni conflict all the trips generate from that and the worst car traffic in the area comes and probable most people experience that first hand in the transbay area the reason why this commission but certainly the planning department and other city agencies have adapted this policy to less than one to one parking in the area to the best of our ability reasonable that's why we have car characterizing in other areas certainly in existing today more outlined areas like hunters point and candle st

into an agreement with the contract and been that is did delivery and installation of plan while the parks alliance covered the structure itself we preceded with construction in the mid of last year and in november there we beginning gap concerns that the plain was not going to be delivered we were ref no scheduled updates or photos of progress being made and unfortunately in march of 2014 the park alliance had had to cancel with the vendor would in plane being built no plane to install we felt with orange the scope of work from the contractor and this contract amendment in the amount of is relying high compared to what we see in replacing an item we found a vendor that will provide the measures and develop a plane we're working on the details but it includes the navigation of the plane commissioners commissioner levitan and commissioner low commissioner low have requested the fund undesignated con sip reserve in addition to the fund we're holding backlight rec and park is holding back from the original plane designer and fantastic indicator we're hoping to deliver the new plane structure

the small triangle parks in the district. the park police officers who proudly and diligently patrol federal park land every day are trained to identify, report and investigate violations of law and suspicious or unusual activity. although the park police has an aviation unit that flies law enforcement, medevac and search and rescue missions within the national capitol region the park police does not have primary responsibility of airspace defense. as such the park police did you see duz not have radar detection capability nor does it have the appropriate tools to engage or defend against an aircraft in the airspace above these parks. those primary responsibilities and capabilities rest with other federal agencies. on wednesday, april 15th, 2015 at approximately 1:20 p.m. a park police officer observed and reported an aircraft later identified as a gyrocopter operated by mr. doug hughes. it was operating near the lincoln memorial and estimated it to be approximately 100 feet off the ground and traveling eastbound towards the

it was only his second night to the park & ride. oot patrol roaming the lot till dawn. >> he said he had been walking his post, had seen the mustang during the course of his duties. as early as 9:00. >> reporter: after all that bright blue car was so pretty, so attractive, it was something he would love to own himself one day. that's why he remembered so clearly seeing it, he said, during his rounds at 9:00 p.m. then he said he continued around the lot and returned to his post, which was his own car, up a slight hill overlooking the rest of the lot. it was just before 9:30, he said. he was about 350 feet from michelle's mustang and a car alarm went off. >> and he said that he recognized that as being a mustang alarm and he heard the engine racing and he walked back towards his car and heard a single gunshot. he took cover and looked up and saw the mustang rolling backwards with additional shots being fired until it came to a rest at the top of the planter. >> reporter: then what, did he rush down and see what happened? >> no, he said

in my neighborhood the city makes money off the parking how will they get that money back this is a disservice to the neighborhood when you start taking away parking spaces because they want to move crime out in front of several businesses. >> thank you. good evening any further public comment? well and good evening >> i get the double banker i'm michael nolte and i'm seek on behalf of i'm the executive director of alliance for a better district 6 and i'm going to be more specific there was an employee of san francisco safe that was advocating for the parking on the one hundred block of the street and claiming the neighbors are drawings u abusing the parking parking encroachment falls open please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other electronic devices are prohibited. i was personally offend by an employee who receives park fund the tenderloin has a lot of disabled people and has placards and when someone says we're abusing the plaques you have to find a place to park our car and if someone is business owners are trying to remove th

i am the chief of the united states park police. established in 1791 is the oldest uniformed federal law enforcement agency in the united states. the park police which is primarily responsible for safety and crime prevention in parklands administered by the national park service has enjoyed a long history of partnership and coordination with the numerous public safety protection, aviation, and defense agencies within the national capitol region. in the district of columbia the park police has primary jurisdiction over federal park -- which comprises prarbgly 22% -- approximately 22% of the district of columbia including the national mall, east and west potomac marks, rock creek park anacostia park, mcpherson square and many of the parks in the district. the park police officers proudly and diligently patrol parkland every day are trained to identify, report, and investigate violations of law and suspicious or unusual activity. although the park police has an aviation unit that flies law enforcement, med vak and rescue missions the pa

lot at the ardmore park and opened tire. the shooting happened near the back of the parking lot towards the basketball courts. bullets struck at least four people, including an older man here pitching horseshoes, who was hit in the stomach. he was able to walk to an ambulance. two other people suffered serious injuries, and one of them later died at a hospital. across the parking lot in the park's community center a large gathering of people was enjoying a crab feast with their music blaring. they had no idea i am told what happened until a young boy ran inside in tears. >> we were sitting inside eating crabs, okay? some kind of family reunion. this nine-year-old kid came in and said somebody is dead in the parking lot. he said somebody's been shot. >> reporter: now, police tell me they have been getting a lot of cooperation so far and they are hoping to get at least a suspect vehicle description out here in the not too distant future. a lot of folks in this neighborhood are made nervous by this situation today not just becau

will have a radioactively think of that as a beer garden out to the bay you'll see the bridge and the park in the for grount ground we're looking incorporating some kind of restaurant or bar if you look at the curved piece directly above the wall it looks out to the old navy. >> allows you to see the skyline this is part of plans we view that as likely aspirated by third party tenant and so we'll learner more as we go forward on what kind of tenants whether that is. >> do they have to go to the stadium to get to it. >> no discrete elevators and go directly up to the platform. >> great any other comments from commissioners no all right. well i know this is a required presentation so thank you we deal with the mom and pop owners that runs a night bar this is like audry said in the venue that is throwing a inch that is needed we don't want to go to oakland colosseum so thank you for bring all that here i think this is something we'll look forward to you know you guys are going to be presenting again to get our permit i don't see any problems but get regular updates whether formally it will be

back at the park maryland national capital park police are leading the investigation. they shut down this park on a steamy hot sunday as they search for a killer. >> i'm very concerned, because i have three boys that grow up here. they will come up here to play basketball every sunday. and for this to go on is just -- it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: it certainly is. so far, police have not released a description of the car that that shooter fired from. they say they are still working on that information. when they get it they will pass it on and we will surely share it with you. erika, back to you. thanks so much darcy. as she just mentioned, today's shooting comes just hours after another deadly attack. this one in glenn arden. someone shot and killed peter edwards of d.c. yesterday evening near martin luther king jr. highway and bar low road. just a quick five-minute drive from today's scene. no word yet if the shootings are connected and police have no suspects in custody. >>> we have learned the identity of an 87-year-old woman who died in a townhouse fire in fairf

i'm rachel from the san francisco parks alliance i want to thank you for the proposed proposition to complete this work at larson i think jake did an a.d. milk job we're as disappointed as everyone the original kr5k9 didn't workout as planned but we in agreement with the staff that the new plan is a good explain that is the new vendor will deliver the planes that everyone envisioned and wanted and provides a great experience for kids and exist and harassed a climbing net so i urge you to approve the proposal in front of the you and i lord to seeing you all at grand opening of larson >> is there any additional public comment. >> good afternoon, everyone i'm ash from sxhauns office i want to support this this is 0 robust community process behind larson park i'm confident that rec and park it doing everybody to deliver a plane the community will be excited about i want to lend her support. >> we're honored to be joined by the asserts our chiu. >> thank you commissioner president buell and the commissioner thank you for having me it is a period of time since i've been at the public heari

i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in

me at the park. 's secluded. we'll exchange our valentine's. and he gave me a kiss. and said maybe makeout. >> they were dark nights. they beth knew the way intimately. >> we had ridden by that park gazillions of time. lots and lots of times. even when we were dating we would go and -- find little obscure places and make out like teenagers. >> reporter: so after dinner richard left for the park first, she said. she followed a bit later. when a night nurse arrived to look after the grandparents. >> i think i probably pulled out of the driveway at 9:20 or so. i called richard. and it went to voice mail. and i didn't know why. i didn't leave a message. and i left -- >> reporter: when she got there. >> i knew something was wrong. i saw his truck immediately. because the lights were on. and so i pulled down and i headed right towards his truck. as soon as i could see him. i could see him laying on the ground. >> reporter: oh but -- life is a complicated business as everybody knows. even lovers aren't alway

kicked off the 20th season today with a splash. >> we want to be known as the park that takes the drought seriously. >> al garcia says his water park wants to cut water waste 90% this year. and it is all thanks to this machine. >> filters. >> it sounded like the name of a new water slide. but it is not. >> fender filters. >> the defender recycles the pool water and the 1 million gallons it takes to fill the park, with a few refills along the way lasts the season. >> this is a new thing and we're one of the first to try it out. it is good that they're recycling the water. at least try to save it. >> like golf courses, water parks have been in the spotlight for waste. the city of dublin got a flood of grief for planning this aquatic park during the fourth year of drought. but at water world, they're riding a new wave. astro turf replaces grass. the plans are not getting watered and the pool water never wasted, always recycled. >> technically you can drink out of it. however, there is chlorine in our pools so we do advise not to drink the pool water. >> concord, mark kelly, kpix 5. >> water