another significant improvement has been the establishment of the excelsior community benefit district so this is about 15 years in the making. we have been doing this work in the community and now through the legislative process, and six years later the vacancy rate is starting to go down. many of the businesses are starting to thrive with this type of opportunity so i want to thank assemblyman ting for thinking of our neighborhoods and other districts in fran and oewd for the investment and partnership and focusing on revitalizing our businesses, and the rest i submitted. thank you. >> thank you supervisor safai. supervisor stefani. >> thank you madam clerk. colleagues as chair of the public safety neighborhood services committee i am calling for regular hearings for the san francisco police department and the g human resources to recruit and retain personnel. president peskin and i were at the safety meeting at the roadwaying club after a horrible incident occurred in the morning as a swimmer was on the morning swim and beauten up badly and we got questions how many police officers

urban out doors we are in the excelsior.pickleball! pickleball is an incredited low popular sport growing nationwide. pickleball combines tennis, bad mitton and ping pong. playod a bad mitton sized court with paddle and i plasticic ball. starting out is easy. you can pick up paddle and balls for 20 buck and it is suitable for everyone in all skill levels you see here. the gim is played by 2 or 4 players. the ball must be served diagnoty and other rules theory easy to pick up. the game ends when i player or team reaches a set score 11 or 21 point bunkham win bright 2 pickleball courts are available across the city some are and others require booking ahead and a fee. information about the courts found at sf recpark. org if you are interested in playing. now i know why people are playing pickleball. it is so much fun you play all ages. all skill levels and pop on a court and you are red to g. a lot of fun i'm glad i did it. all right. let's go! time for a hike! there is i ton of hike nothing excelsior. 312 acres mc clarin the s

urban out doors we are in the excelsior. pickleball. let's play pickleball! pickleball is an incredited low popular sport growing nationwide. pickleball combines tennis, bad mitton and ping pong. playod a bad mitton sized court with paddle and i plasticic ball. starting out is easy. you can pick up paddle and balls for 20 buck and it is suitable for everyone in all skill levels you see here. the gim is played by 2 or 4 players. the ball must be served diagnoty and other rules theory easy to pick up. the game ends when i player or team reaches a set score 11 or 21 point bunkham win bright 2 pickleball courts are available across the city some are and others require booking ahead and a fee. information about the courts found at sf recpark. org if you are interested in playing. now i know why people are playing pickleball. it is so much fun you play all ages. all skill levels and pop on a court and you are red to g. a lot of fun i'm glad i did it. all right. let's go! time for a hike! there is i ton of hike nothing excelsior. 3

like james baldwin win and richard writing taught the racism often found themselves forced into excelsiors and what james baldwin called the fire next time resonated today as ever and the same poisons like w b and others august wilson and so many others used the art to advance justice and change hearts and mind their perspective was a threat for the profound impact had we celebrates the contributions of african-americans that made the music and film and dance we must do so with the knowledge this requires perseverance and we as we carry this artist forward we must continue to foster the truth telling and celebrate and cultivate a new adjudications of black artists our stories are critical to moving america forward today. (clapping.) we currently live in dark and troubled time in a country that wants to deny owe our inexperience and actions like black americans are a culture of taxers when nothing could be further from the truth we have consistently given to this country in time of war or fighting for the civil rights through the movement and women liberation and lgbtq+ or during the covid

particular and i know he does a lot of work in the mission but a tremendous amount of work in the excelsior. i tink is good for xhishzers to adopt certain parts of the city as well. we have commissioner zouzounis who does a lot of work with corner grocers in soma and tenderloin, but that ist nowhere she is limited, she is working in all corners and commissioner ortiz-cartagena working in the mission and [indiscernible] i'm excited to reappoint both of these folks. >> great. easy day for once in our lives. i will note for the record that applicant michael hinckley did withdraw his application today. with that, if we can open this item up for public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. there does not appear to be any public commenters for this matter. >> public comment is now closed. i would like to make a motion to recommend the reappointment of miriam zouzounis to seat 1. dimitri thierry cornet to seat 2 and william ortiz-cartagena to seat 3. >> on the motion, safai, aye. chair ronan, aye. vice ch

celebrations across the city whether in the san francisco chinatown, in visitacion valley, sunset, excelsior, or ocean avenue and we see celebrations and thank all the committee members for the help, claudine cheng in particular for all of the work, some of the folks at city hall and rob and others who did an amazing job to support this event. we're going to have our final performance today and this is a real treat. this is a dance from you know no nishia and will be performed by monali varaiya and this is performed for celebratory occasions in the temple. (performance) [applause] >> i want to take a name to thank all the wonderful performers today. let's give them another big round of applause. [applause] >> thank you mayor breed for your tireless support of events like this that celebrate the richness of our community. i know events like this couldn't happen without your support and strong advocacy and thank you for your support. i to thank all the community partners to make this event possible and of course think claudine cheng and the people that do this on a yearly basis. a big round of

one tree crashed down onto a car in the excelsior district, city officials said. the power lines it pulled down were still energized and crews working through the night to remove trees that posed a hazard. >> i think that the people of san francisco, as well as our city workforce, really stepped up and responded to the occasion in, yes, this was all hands on deck. >> we had crews working around the clock as the mayor noted. we also had two contractors working with us. >> dpw says last year's harsh weather knocked down a lot of the weaker trees, so they didn't see as many trees come down this time around. the storm, though, did cause major power outages and a lot of damage at a number of schools around the bay area. class was canceled at the yerba buena high school in san jose. toppled trees littered that campus. two power poles out front were also damaged from the storm. seven schools with the east side union high school district were also closed due to the loss of power and storm damage. pg and e says it's working closely with school districts, which are consider

urban out doors we are in the excelsior. pickleball. let's play pickleball! pickleball is an incredited low popular sport growing nationwide. pickleball combines tennis, bad mitton and ping pong. playod a bad mitton sized court with paddle and i plasticic ball. starting out is easy. you can pick up paddle and balls for 20 buck and it is suitable for everyone in all skill levels you see here. the gim is played by 2 or 4 players. the ball must be served diagnoty and other rules theory easy to pick up. the game ends when i player or team reaches a set score 11 or 21 point bunkham win bright 2 pickleball courts are available across the city some are and others require booking ahead and a fee. information about the courts found at sf recpark. org if you are interested in playing. now i know why people are playing pickleball. it is so much fun you play all ages. all skill levels and pop on a court and you are red to g. a lot of fun i'm glad i did it. all right. let's go! time for a hike! there is i ton of hike nothing excelsior. 3

another significant improvement has been the establishment of the excelsior community benefit district so this is about 15 years in the making. we have been doing this work in the community and now through the legislative process, and six years later the vacancy rate is starting to go down. many of the businesses are starting to thrive with this type of opportunity so i want to thank assemblyman ting for thinking of our neighborhoods and other districts in fran and oewd for the investment and partnership and focusing on revitalizing our businesses, and the rest i submitted. thank you. >> thank you supervisor safai. supervisor stefani. >> thank you madam clerk. colleagues as chair of the public safety neighborhood services committee i am calling for regular hearings for the san francisco police department and the g human resources to recruit and retain personnel. president peskin and i were at the safety meeting at the roadwaying club after a horrible incident occurred in the morning as a swimmer was on the morning swim and beauten up badly and we got questions how many police officers

her mom posted, fliers, reported the calico missing to animal care and control and searched this excelsiork. >> we are looking every single day. >> the fliers worked. leanne and her mom got a tip on blackie's whereabouts and were able to connect with a young woman who had. >> i was really happy that happiness was short lived, mom, jana says. >> the person was living with refused to give her back, even after offering a $2,000 reward and suggesting shared custody. >> we miss her so much. >> san francisco animal care and control confirmed they scanned the cat and it indeed was. but that's all they could do. all we can tell you is the chip matches. >> we have no idea if somebody and family one gave somebody and family two. the cat. >> animals are considered personal property in california, animal law attorney bruce wagman says he gets a lot of pet custody cases. >> and even though leanne and jana are technically in the right, if i left my computer on the beach and you picked it up, it doesn't become your computer. >> if you picked up my cat, it's still my cat. >> it's proof of ownership that m

i will say, the fact you were comborn raised in excelsior. how could i not support you. [laughter]. thank you. chair >> thanks for what you do it is amazing i wanted give you the opportunity to say more of when you had in your humble, i appreciate. 250 events annualet different small businesses that is when we need the backbone. gi appreciate that. >> and to add we hosted and supported 4 watch parties yesterday. and probably had 6,000 people between the 4 or 5. the outcome was not when we wanted but the community came together there were all in san francisco and different districts all the small businesses made money. it was safe and makes me proud and happy. >> thank you. >> hold on a second. supervisor walton. >> thank you, i was going to wait seems the right time to jump in and let the record show you mentioned d10 as his favorite. i was trying to push him. >> but. i wanted take the time to say twhoon i appreciate you stepping and up willing to serve someone with your talents i think we need on the entertainment commission. fact you worked with so many businesses here in the city

in the excelsior. ocean avenue, port ola and the richmond and sunset. we can visit the dragon statutes throughout the city while you shop. whether you are in union square, lake shore. stones town. and of course here in the heart of china town. there are events throughout the month. including here on february 10th we are excited about and the lunar new year in golden gate park on february 11. you can find the celebrations and all of the places to shop at govern sfgovtv-lunar new year we are working hard with our office of small business to market and prosecute mote the great businesses you bring us here today. i want to give a thanks to mayor breed and president supervisor peskin grating legislation and preponder helping to get businesses out where than i touch more visitors and have more impacts. i want it thank our per in i know than i were mentioned already. from oewd the choin ease chamber is partner. has been critical. chinese consulate association. the community youth center. and ocea keeping streets safe. now the key partners inferenceis channel a

one tree in the excelsior district came crashing down onto a car. mayor london breed checked on some of the damage and thanked the crews for their hard work. >> i think that the people of san francisco, as well as our city workforce, really stepped up and responded to the occasion in there are no reports of deaths or injuries in san francisco from the storm. >> our time is 437. a community in the southern part of los angeles worrying about mudslides after heavy rains the past two days now saturated cliff in baldwin hills slipped away with heavy mud hitting some of the homes there. one woman says it hit her bedroom and knocked the doors right off the frame. she still worries about a swimming pool on the edge of the property over hers. >> it's moving. that's why i'm so stressed out. it's raining and it's making the mud that's there for super. so it's kind of like just a slow moving blob. >> we're diyers, and so i was like, we need to get the dirt back science degree and we need to move it away. so let's not talk about it. let's be about it . >> at the

and her mom posted, fliers, reported the cat missing to animal care and control and searched this excelsiore fliers worked. leanne and her mom got a tip on blackie's whereabouts and were able to connect with a young woman who had. i was really happy that happiness was short lived, mom, jana says. the person was living with refused to give her back, even after offering a $2,000 reward and suggesting shared custody. >> we miss her so much. >> san francisco animal care and control confirmed they scanned the cat and it indeed was. but that's all they could do. all we can tell you is the chip matches. >> we have no idea if somebody and family one gave somebody and family two. >> the cat animals are considered personal property in california, animal law attorney bruce wagman says he gets a lot of pet custody cases. >> and even though leanne and jana are technically in the right, if i left my computer on the beach and you picked it up, it doesn't become your computer. >> but if you picked up my cat, it's still my cat. >> it's proof of ownership that makes things complicated. >> sometimes animals a

denman middle school was closed monday after losing power, and this tree in the excelsior district came crashing down onto a car. crews here said the power lines it dragged down were still energized. the department of emergency management said. fortunately, there were no reports of deaths or injuries from this past weekend's storm. but in cases like this, where a tree or a tree limb poses a clear risk, call 911. >> if a human is in trouble. if it's a life safety issue, we want you to call 911. and if it's just storm related 311 is good public works says this past weekend was busy with crews working through the day and night to remove trees that blocked roads or posed a hazard. >> yes, this was all hands on deck. we had crews working around the clock as the mayor noted. we also had two contractors working with us. >> the mayor was on hand to check out the damage for herself and says this past weekend, crews worked hard and pulled together to meet the moment. >> i think that the people of san francisco, as well as our city workforce, really stepped up and responded to the occasion in. >>

one man is dead after a hit and run crash in san francisco's excelsior neighborhood.fety advocates say the street that he was crossing has been a problem for years now. ktvu tori gaines live from san francisco with more on what happened here. tori garcia we're here at the intersection of alameda and rousseau, and this is where walk san francisco tells us that a 76 year-old man was struck on sunday. >> he died monday morning. i'm going to step out of the frame so you can take a look at this intersection. it has been a little bit hairy here this morning. we have seen lots of left hand. turner's nearly getting into accidents with other cars. you can see how this would be a very tricky situation . police are still searching for the driver that hit that victim on sunday night. um, and advocacy groups including walk san francisco and san francisco bay area families for safe streets say that alameda boulevard is on what's called the high injury network. 12% of city streets are part of this network, and the group says that 68% of crashes in the city happen on those streets. a

denman middle school was closed monday after losing power, and this tree in the excelsior district came crashing down onto a car. crews here said the power lines it dragged down were still energized. the department of emergency management said. fortunately, there were no reports of deaths or injuries from this past weekend's storm. but in cases like this, where a tree or a tree limb poses a clear risk, call 911. >> if a human is in trouble. if it's a life safety issue, we want you to call 911. and if it's just storm related 311 is good public works says this past weekend was busy with crews working through the day and night to remove trees that blocked roads or posed a hazard. >> yes, this was all hands on deck. we had crews working around the clock. as the mayor noted. we also had two contractors working with us. >> the mayor was on hand to check out the damage for herself and says this past weekend, crews worked hard and pulled together to meet the moment. >> i think that the people of san francisco, as well as our city workforce, really stepped up and responded to the occasion . >> t

denman middle school was closed today after losing power, and we also had a tree come down in excelsior district that tree came crashing down onto a car. crews there told us that the power lines that had dragged down were still energized when we were on the scene. there a public works says this past weekend was very busy with crews working through the day and night to remove trees that blocked roads or posed hazards. >> yes, this was all hands on deck. we had crews working around the clock. as the mayor noted. we also had two contractors working with us at san francisco's department of public works also tells us that last year's harsh weather knocked down a lot of the weaker trees, so we didn't see as many trees come down. >> this year as last public works also telling me that they've been working throughout the past year to prune trees to try to prevent them from coming down. now that this storm has passed, they say it could take weeks to get rid of all of the trees and branches that were knocked down as a result of this weekend's storm. guys >> okay, christian, the city also looks at

one tree and the excelsior district came crashing down onto a car.ondon breed surveyed some of the damage and thanked crews for their hard work. >> i think that the people of san francisco, as well as our city workforce, really stepped up and responded to the occasion . there were no reports of deaths or injuries in the city from the storm. >> more chp officers will be patrolling oakland streets to help crack down on crime. governor newsom is sending an additional 120 officers to areas of the city where violent crime has gone up. this will be a nine fold increase in the number of chp officers in the region, the governor says they're needed because of the amount of crime in oakland is, quote, alarming and unacceptable. early on mornings on 2 to 9, we spoke with oakland mayor shengtao. she calls the increased number of state police a, quote, game changer in helping to make oakland safer. >> it's 120 extra chp officers in the city of oakland, so that's going to be very helpful when we talk about combating crime and ensuring that not not only our communi

denman middle school was closed monday after losing power, and this tree in the excelsior district came crashing down onto a car. crews here said the power lines that dragged down were still energized, the department of emergency management said. fortunately, there were no reports of deaths or injuries from this past weekend's storm. but in cases like this, where a tree or a tree limb poses a clear risk, call 911. if a human is in trouble. >> if it's a life safety issue, we want you to call 911. and if it's just storm related 311 is good public works says this past weekend was busy with crews working through the day and night to remove trees that blocked roads or posed a hazard. >> yes, this was all hands on deck. we had crews working around the clock as the mayor noted. we also had two contractors working with us. >> the mayor was on hand to check out the damage for herself and says this past weekend, crews worked hard and pulled together to meet the moment. >> i think that the people of san francisco, as well as our city workforce, really stepped up and responded to the occasion . >>

together with his wife emma a union garment working at levi, they brought their first home in the excelsior mission neighborhood within 5 years of arriving in the united states. in his older years after the death of his wife emma, oscar appreciated the loving support of family friends and community. he enjoyed road trips to half moon bay and tahoe, visits from grandchildren [indiscernible] he loved to entertain, weekly and wine dinners common thing at his home. oscar spent the last week of his long and love filled life at kaiser hospice in south san francisco surrounded by loved ones and where the nurses called him papito. i'm moved by the way that oscar lead his life with love, with grit and resolve with time and nature community and costcoand with his beloved always by his side. i wish his family and especially his son oscar and daughter in law and children great comfort in this difficult time. losing a father is deeply painful but i hope today's tribute helps honor the live and memory of oscar fernando grande. rest ibpower. i want to give a update on the mtc i serve as a outside board. l

experience the climate change a lot worse then other communities and growing up in the bayview and excelsior and living near freeways and experiencing pollution and not able to bike in my neighborhood in fear of a car crash because of the narrow streets t is really horrible. we can't fix the issue in the weltier communities how do we help the under served communities that experience the brunt of it? i also think people are so resistant to change. especially with the slow streets program which we have been looking into as a committee on the youth commission. the housing recreation and transit committee. we (inaudible) benefited youth in the city specifically overall, but still the mayor and other elected officials are resistant to it and afraid of change because we are such a car dominated city and think it is important to be optimistic about the future and be realistic but also like slow streets are helpful. this can actually get to where we want to go in terms of the climate goals and people need to consider that. >> it is kind of like in a sense feel a chicken and egg problem because befor

chinatown, hunters point, south of majority, mission, knob hill, next to tenderloin, treasure island and excelsior. next slide please. thank you and inerm it says of expenditure and i'm going to reference one of the questions that was referenced earlier on which you will get inform on. it's our intention that we've had a number of one time sources we utilized in erap. we intend that all of the one time are exhausted at the end of this fiscal year. while we've had ocoh money attached to the contracts that have been tracking it very well we returned it for use again in the next year because we wanted to expend the one time sources. to not spend them when they come to the city just because we have a fund that could is isn't good use of money. we have been tracking carefully what the cost of the program are going forward and the type of amount of money that would be needed to fund that, and have been careful to make sure we're ramping up to an infrastructure within organizations that would support the ongoing cost that we have, the money that is available to us, so we don't get into a situation again

one man is dead after a hit and run in san francisco's excelsior neighborhood. >> ktvu tori gaines is and said that area has been a problem for years. good morning, tori. >> good morning dave. we're here on alemany boulevard where a 76 year old man was struck on sunday. he actually died the following morning. the driver fled the scene and police are still looking for him. i'm going to step out of the frame so you can take a look at this intersection behind me now. advocacy groups say including walk san francisco and san francisco bay area families for safe streets say that alameda boulevard is on what's called the high injury network. 12% of city streets are part of this network, and the group say that 68% of crashes happen on those streets. take a look at this map. it shows that alemany runs close to san francisco's 280 freeway, and the groups say that 35 mile per hour speed limit and a lack of traffic lights here at the intersection has left drivers and pedestrians vulnerable to accidents. advocates also say that reducing the speed limit to 25mph can limit injuries. in case of a cra

the office worked with excelsior outer mission found form base density is desired and appropriate for the district so included in the ordinance even though it falls within the priority equity geography sud. that concludes the staff presentation and i'm available for questions. thank you. >> thank you. president peskin. >> thank you madam chair. there are a number of amendments that i am asking the city attorney to prepare that i asked for a week ago and heard not ready today but like to propose when they are ready. put simply, i'm all for increased density, but what we found out when we density decontrolled the c-2, that combined with state density bonus and now state density double bonus, even though sit in a designated city historic district that has been historic district getting on 50 years that, when you combine with form base density, you can end up, and just telling what happened, 200 foot towers in 65 foot zoning districts, so these are radical unanticipated height increases so what i want to make sure is that we do this in a way where residents and supervisors whether they ar

excelsior uh, they're like, what's going on? does anybody care about us anymore? we're so forget us. not we are coloring. we're knitting or crocheting. and again, i just want to say how much the older adults love san francisco and are hoping to get restored. trust and faith again because it has been shaken like never before. thank you. thank you. are there any other members of the public that would like to speak? uh, moderator please open the phone line for callers. are there any moderator are there any callers in the queue? there are no callers. thank you. we can move to the vote. okay. hearing no further request to speak on the item, we will close public comment. is there a motion to approve? second, um, moving second, there's a move in a second. mr. secretary, please take the roll call. vote president spears, how do you vote? yes vice president nelson lum, how do you vote? yes, commissioner martha knutson, how do you vote? yes, commissioner sasha bitner, how do you vote? yes commissioner wanda young, how do you vote? yes, commissioner barbara sklar how do you v

the subject lot is located in the excelsior outer mission neighborhood, commercial district, and withinamazon crocker neighborhood. the project is located on two corner lots, which together are approximately 7750ft!s in area. this is what the 105ft of frontage on mission street and 59ft of frontage along florentine street. the project site is currently developed with a two story trade office building. the proposed project would involve demolition of the existing two story building and construction of a new 45 foot tall, approximately 28,000 gross square foot, four storey over basement mixed use building. the building contains 29 dwelling units, including 17 one bedroom units, 11 two bedroom units and one three bedroom unit at the ground level. the mission street frontage contains three walk up units with direct access to the street and on the florentine street frontage. this contains the main lobbying residential entrance, a 646 square foot commercial space. the garage entrance, transformer room and internal spaces containing the bicycle parking room, mechanical and building services, a