unfortunately, they had access issues, visibility access issues. we have been working closely with many of our partners year today to educate about these -- many of our partners year today to educate about these issues. also in terms of board guidance. i want to thank all of you for coming. many of you may have assistance. i know many merchants could not be here. please do it share this information with other merchants in the area. we have virginia from the office of small business. we have roger from the bar association. no carla johnson from the office of disability. -- we have carla johnson from the office of disability. i want to especially it acknowledge my colleague to help us get the resources and brought legal expertise to the table. i do not want to take too much of your time. thank you for coming. >> thank you, supervisor chu. i want to express my admiration for a supervisor chu's commitment to you. so, from our office, what we heard, many small businesses were receiving lawsuits regarding it the ada. tonight we will hear about the legal

or some combination of public access and phil removal. with the remainder of that pier, the uses would be constrained to adjust water-oriented uses, which do not allow for the mix of activities that were called for under the waterfront plan. there were a number of proposals that failed under those rules. pierre 39 was really, i think, the only project that was a bird -- able to take those rules and put them into a real project. bcdc recognize that there was another way we had to work at to develop water for an improvement and a revitalization. this map is a little bit difficult to see. basically, what we did in the special area plan that is on the books now is a look at the waterfront from china basin of three fisherman's wharf and really identified where are those best places for public open space to be located. are there places where fill could be removed that enabled those open spaces and open water areas to be created? in taking that approach, there was a recognition that that was a better system than trying to achieve the fill remova

to getting access to general access obligation bonds. the 34th america's cup bid. it will continue to evolve as needs demand. i am happy to answer any questions you have got. >> is there any public comment? >> i think i went along. i am sorry. >> commissioners? president woo ho: i just want to compliment the staff on of the work. getting your arms around all of this and presenting it in a logical, understandable fashion, slicing and dicing it the way you have, makes it very useful. maybe one of these years if you stick with it long enough, you'll come back and the total number will drop some how. [laughter] i have not seen that happen since i have been here and you started the project, which is a little discouraging. i commend you for going out and continuing to find new sources. very well done. >> thank you, commissioner. >> concur. >> ok, thank you. >> item 9b, informational presentation on proposed ports policy, it designating annual operating funds for 10-year capital plan expenses. >> good afternoon. deputy director of administration and finance. i am going to

those are the public access areas off site,

that young lady has access to contraception. what the question is, is should a religious affiliated institution be required to provide abortion pills or stashlization. remember, the obama rule was more than just contraception. by the way, mitt romney was on the wrong side of the issue in massachusetts where he instructed the catholic hospitals would be required to issue abortion pills against their religious beliefs. this is a very serious fundamental right against religious freedom. >> fair enough. let's go to the state of your campaign. if you don't win georgia can you keep going? >> look, i thought it was vital to the campaign and we focused on it and as a result despite a lot of money spent against me, we are doing very well and i think we will windy i decisivel. i thought frankly, as i said it earlier about romney in michigan and santorum in pennsylvania, very hard for one of the major candidates to not carry their home state and continue to move forward. so we thought it was very important. we feel very good about it. i wi

trouble accessible. restaurants only have to be accessible if they are available to your customers and clients. and actually does not cover employee access to the restrooms. we have other priorities that come into play. [inaudible] you want that inspected to come out before you get a that letter. it is not only your obligation, but it is the right thing to do. you want to be disability accessible. you want more customers. the best way to do that is to start planning. when you are choosing, ideally, your inspector would have a background in inspection, design, and construction. that means we have some excellent general contractors out there that could be excellent task inspectors or building inspectors as well. in order to get the legal benefits, the protections that are important, you want your inspection to be under that theory that is how you can get that 90-day [inaudible] as you start to interview your inspectors, i would ask them to a lot of questions. do not rely on just the resume. what you're rea

i have to ask you about access to contraception. i know it's not at the core of your stump speech, but it's a debate highly charged in washington and congress -- >> no, no. >> but, it s. mr. speaker. let me take you through the conversation with rush limbaugh, and something he now apologized for. let me play it. >> what does it say about the college coed, susan fluke that goes before the congressional committee and says she must be paid to have sex. what does that make her? it makes her a slut, right? a prostitute? she wants to be paid to have sex. >> limbaugh issued an apology yesterday which many may not know about, and he said in this instance i choes the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. i did not mean a personal attack on ms. fluke. how much damage has this done? >> david, i am astonished at the desperation of the elite media, to avoid gast rising gas prices, and to avoid a trillion-dollar deficit and to avoid the longest period of unemployment since the great depression, and suddenly decide that rush limbaugh is the

access to legal services. -- leaving hundreds of clients without access to legal services. a lot of people use the word "devastated." it would be devastating to people with hiv who rely on the legal services. they are already stressed out to the limit. having one attorney gone, and it would be devastating. the legal services help people with hiv stake in their homes, keep their jobs, help them with insurance problems. we really need -- thank you. >> i am here as the president of the harvey milk and democratic club. hiv has been deeply affected the lgbt community in san francisco. the club has long advocated for hiv funding and services to meet the needs of these people living with hiv and those at risk. san francisco has had a proud tradition of taking care of your residence and communities when the federal government would not. in light of these federal funding shortfalls, the club called on the mayor and the board of supervisors to work together to come up with general funds to replace the loss of federal do

know black people are accessing.re over represented. if we don't have anything else, black people are tweeting and facebooking? >> when we only make up 12% of the population. >> if you look at the communication patterns of african-americans on twitter, they're highly unique. if you look at the trending topics on twitter, more than likely you're going to find that there are a lot of cultural significance to what people find worthy of engaging in terms of issues, so a lot of the most popular trending topics on twitter are those created by african-americans. usually they're under the age of 35, and it speaks to sort of a code word or a code culture in which they've sort of developed around their own communication. so it's fun. it's definitely something that requires folks to want to be engaged in a viral capacity, and i think that's what makes twitter so effective for african-americans. >> you make this soubd -- i just like to talk about the devices. >> we are communicating on twitter, but not the same way we're doing i

access requirements. you may have to redo this. >> thank you for having us here. i had a master's degree in architecture, master's degree in urban and regional planning and have been practicing architecture in san francisco for the past 10 years. the top architectural firm with much talent and vast resources, but i did not believe that their skills can overcome two very problematic drivers of the plan. plain and simply, you cannot put lipstick on a pig. first, the pig. the planning department is pushing the idea of a hard edge along the west side of the embarcadero. like chicago's miracle mile, as we see here. this is, sadly, a bad idea since, in reality, it will actually create something even less generous than king street near the ball park between second and fourth street. there is a hard edge on both sides, not exactly a stellar environment, and certainly not the rear while. in actuality -- the miracle mile. in actuality, the planning concept should be the opposite, and there should be a soft edge alo

the other is mechanical access, surface access. we could do a gate. but the way we had drawn the plans, we made it expand over toward the wall of a light well. we could have jogged the deck around the light well. our railing continues straight across. it does not jogged in on the side. there is not room for a gate there. if we pulled it back, it would be unsafe to get through. at some point, you are pulling the grill further and further into the usable part of the deck. the door is the easiest of this point of access. we have windows in the penthouse already facing the other property. if there are privacy issues, it is just as viable as a point of voyeurism as any of them. they are existing on the part of the roof we are not using. commissioner fung: 2 below questions. is there gas piping going to the bedroom? -- two questions. >> yes. we planned for a gas line to come up behind it. you can barely see it. commissioner fung: is there anything magical about the location? could it not be against the wall? >> kevin robinson, owner of 2756. we would be als

i was able to afford access to recreational activities. on the secretarial southerly of under $20,000 per year. i have never been able to afford a home with an outdoor space in the city, but i have been able to afford this respite from dark in cramped city living -- living for my family. the developers' proposal is not the right solution for the residents in the roads of the city. it violates a 35 year city policy to rot -- not raise heights. it does a disservice to the community by the string outdoor recreation, access to residents who grew up with the first nation to the city. it does that keep or enhanced unique character of you take a ride or the city as a whole. it does not reconnect san francisco to the waterfront and put a wall that has all hard shaded and narrow edge along the waterfront, blocking views. why are we giving away this land? a community developer. why are we still entertaining the thought of accepting the proposal with the gateway land owners and the ports are the only ones that will truly benefit? ever since the devel

those are the public access areas off site, as well as on pier 29 and a half side. similarly, we are looking to have public access through the public connector building as part of the offsite. on pier 27-29, the public access improvements i just described are depicted here as well. with regard to funding strategy, we recognized on top of everything else going on that that is a key concern, so the staff report lays it out in more details, but either through these funding tools that exist or have been created since 2000 or we hope to be able to create in the terms of tdr right, we have a more robust range of tools available to us than we did back in 2000. those obligations constituted $30 million worth of improvements. we're looking at $20 million in new improvements that are associated with the amendments that are proposed at this time with an acceleration of the delivery of northeast work plaza. so while we do not have it all in hand, we have tried our best to integrate the costs associated with these kinds of improvements that enable the port to be able to bring ab

he really believes that, you know, foia is one tool but not accessing information. so he remains very active in his oversight role in terms of encouraging kind of proactive disclosures. so i think that's a general overview of what we're doing. i guess my general theme would be again that this is something that he has done for three decades and as tom mentioned and i'm sure you'll hear as you hear from the rest of the panel, this is a bipartisan issue, something we have worked extremely well on over many, many years, it's an area where members understand this is really truly an american value in terms of open government and so it is an area where we have been very productive, fortunately, from year to year. thank you. >> before we go on, you just had hearings earlier this week. give us a little bit of a -- for those of us who couldn't get up to capitol hill and tune in. any good ideas? any news come out of those? >> there was quite a bit of news. i think the news from our perspective was again renewing the debate about access to security issues. that is something the

that would essentially provide improvements for local access. it would essentially be a separate project that would be a new, local street connection that would run parallel to the caltrans right of way, providing new connections between gerald avenue and where quint street currently does. you would still be able to get to the tracks by going under the gerald avenue bridge. so, that project would also increase usage for local land. at this level it is not yet designed, but it would be the $5 million to $8 million range, with a surplus from option #1. so, this appropriation request, for $74,000, is essentially to take a closer look at this concept. during an independent review of the cost of caltrans and design options, making sure that we are not making opportunities for a more ideal option. secondly, to do a very conceptual level of design on the connector road as workable and demonstrate that to the community before going forward potentially the closing the access on clint -- clint -- quint. we have dates for funding to be conducted once we ha

we have not gotten access.ith respect to that, we believe the hearing officer was correct in making sure an order was issued, so we could encourage the property owner to work with us. we try to give him as much information as possible. we would disagree with his clarification of the issue. commissioner lee: so this all started with a routine inspection of the apartment? >> we made a request in 2002. he did not show up them. then a subsequent request was made. the inspectors saw something at the front of the building, wrote that up, and when he was at the adjacent property, saw the peeling paint and put it together. the inspectors try not to write various notices on the same property because we are trying to work with a property owner. when he wrote that first notice, he thought he would get access at the time of death reinspection, and that he could talk with the property owner. at any time, if the property owner had a question or did not feel like his assessment was broken, they could've had a discussion. we h

please protect and defend safe access. can find out more information by going to www.safeaccessnow.org/savesf. thanks. >> good afternoon. i am also a number of americans for safe access and president of the city college of san francisco chapter. i would also request that you introduce and pass an ordinance that directs the city attorney's office to file a brief to reschedule marijuana, and also, and introduce and pass an ordinance directing the city attorney's office to join in the state petition. the first county to join this multi-state effort and send a strong signal to california that they should follow san francisco's lead. thank you for listening. please protect and defend safe access. >> good afternoon. first, give an honor to god, whom i served. trayvon martin's family in florida and all the families that have suffered from homicide and violence in this country, we stand with you. we stand with all of you. to the president of the board and the board of supervisors, i am the co-founder of the human circle for the so

this is a funded study that will look at freeway access to the area. and what ways are available to reduce the amount of freeway access ramps in the area to reduce the impact. this grant and the study does include support for the balboa area, and the advisory committee. we will be supporting that along with the staff. with brisbane in daly city -- chester fung has been leading this effort to allocate the fair share of financial contributions to a large infrastructure program. we will be bringing that report to you shortly. we anticipate initiating the feasibility study, which will look at the rail conversion options to support the future will use of that infrastructure. the freeway circulation study may not be obvious that there is a connection here as well. we will reduce the contents and reduce speed -- with increasing the bicycle and pedestrian access. restoring this to the pre- central freeway, the earthquake conditions. we will be applying for planning grant, to advance these concepts. and there is the 19th avenue transit corridor. the operations

it is important that low-income families have access to public transit. the point that i want to emphasize is the importance of making sure that it is not just free for low-income children, but all children in san francisco. when the board of supervisors passed a resolution that was approved, it was a resolution that called for public transit to be free for all city children -- all children in the city of san francisco. when we talk about being a transit first city, we want to make sure that we mean what we say. it is about changing the way that public transit is seen in the city and county of san francisco. if it is transferring to what it needs to be, it cannot just be about poor children riding public transit. it has to be something that every child, in respect of that blast. we see public transit as an integral part of their lives. the cities that have implemented this kind of a program, like new york city, have not made discrimination based on income. as an agency, we have a responsibility to make a longterm investment in the viability of this system

we don't want to roll back access for women.nd women across america want to quit being a pawn in a political debate and get congress to focus on jobs and the economy. >> senator, the right sees this a different way. i want you to listen to what the senator had to say yesterday and get your reaction on the other side. >> this amendment does not mention any procedure because i don't know what -- and nobody knows what things might be in some future date offensive who somebody's religious believes but you have no financial reason to not provide a service. so the only reason you would really have under this amendment would be a true moral objection. >> senator blunt answering criticism that the bill is too broad. how do you respond to that? >> that's absolutely the problem with the bill. it means that any of those procedures like breast cancer screening, even diabetes screening could all of a sudden be at an employer's wim not to cover. the fact that you don't have to give an explanation for it or say i have an objection based on som