received four request for an accommodations in june and no request in may. the request for accommodations involved a request for a blue phone parking space to be installed near an individual's place of employment. the installation of the times pedestrian signal to replace a push button, assistance with filing a reasonable accommodation request with management to accommodate an individual's environmental sensitivities. and the installation of a bus shelter and benches at many stops for an individual who isn't able to stand for an extended period of time. and joanne will discuss the policy measures related to this case and the details about the complaints. thank you. >> thank you heather. good afternoon council members. my report is actually a very brief update on the status of the lift. and the entrance of city hall. as you you have been reading in your welcome, city hall passenger lift, wheelchair lift has been october of service since -- it has been out of service since october which is longer than we anticipated. after five different repairs and service ca

we anticipate food service so we're going to accommodate egresses hoods. the brandon street court yard is seen as a way to enter the building quietly. we're creating an opportunity for the building to increase air and light from the windows. it's a nice public space there. there's no art required in the district but art is an important part of the culture so you see the type of art we imagine visually seeing. the working place is about 35 thousand square feet and we'll put the mechanic space across the street and this is the level that has the terraced. the facade is primarily brick without the windows. with a highly tuned exterior skin for thermal comfort. by having that side core building we're able to hold the mechanical system further away to the north and east. you can see from the grade it would be difficult to see the screening. we're required to screen all equipment on the roof, of course. and the other two facades of the building the upper left and the stanfo stanfo stanford. we created an "x" particular building that will produce clean energy. it

my understanding is they have to give you reasonable accommodation. >> no.i didn't file with the human rights commission because i am on one of the committees and i didn't know if that was a conflict of interest because i'm on a committee so i didn't file with the human rights commission. i made a complaint to hud, whether that is being followed up or not i don't know. >> who is "they" that you refer to? >> chinatown development company and the people at the mary helen rogers. mark lopez and the property manager and i have talked to other people and apparently i'm not the only person they tried to force in there without -- without even viewing an apartment. i couldn't see an apartment. i couldn't go into an apartment and they wanted me to move into the apartment on january 15, and i have a subsidy so i'm only allowed one residence and they wanted me to have double residence which means i would have to pay out of pocket for one of the places for 15 days plus pay movers. at the time i couldn't walk. i was using a cane or a walker and i couldn't do anything. >>

and it could be worse without accommodating more hotel space. it's a public-private partnership it's usually and the committee voted to charge an assessment on hotel guests. it's about a $500 million project and that will add up to 85 hundred square footage and plus give that special space by connecting moscone north and south to add 25 hundred squeegee. the improvements will make the building more neighborhood friendly and make the sidewalks more pedestrian friendly and make it connect in a neighborhood of south market street. the plans are underway and we should have the plans done and we're excited about what that center could mean to the city and a region. looking at how san francisco is doing in hotel occupancy. according the smith the research firm in the nation this year their forecasting our occupancy will be 31 percent. it's an increase of 1.7 percent over last year with an average daily rate of 6.5 percent. revenue for a room is a trend that hotels use it's most important in the affordable is up 2.7 percent. to give you an idea the pro

and we every week we hear from families who need a larger space to accommodate families and extended families. only 30 percent are single family homes but some multiples have many bedrooms in them and we have a rental stock of 2 thirds of the unit and so there is not a shortage of units and in fact we are building more units unfortunately we are often across purposes because we get caught between a situation with rent stabilization ordinance where there is a fear to eliminate them even with the merger of a single unit which goes against a very lotable projects such as this where a family is going to live there, and they are trying to accommodate their needs and create one functional unit. and a lot of this really has to do with the ordinance more than this particular situation. and so i would hope that we are able to look at this individually, and in the context of just this, because hopefully, some day in the future, the supervisors and the city family will be able to address that in a more equitable way so that it applies to all units not just older units and you know the ones befo

they layout where the growth should be accommodated and where it shouldn't be. we were clear we wanted to project some of the industrial areas including some of the portlands and we're very clear that growth had to help pay for growth, so part of the planning effort was to establish appropriate fees that pay for impacts such as open space, transportation fees, street improvement and so forth and all part of the work in the neighborhoods and eastern neighborhood s and the mission district, potrero hill, what we call the central waterfront or dog patch and western market and soma and some of the plans were off the waterfront but for the most part the areas where most of the growth will happen are adjacent to the eastern waterfront. in all cases the plans focused attention on connection to the water and the consistency with the plan. the port was at the table with all of the planning efforts and we felt it was very important that our planning work was consistent with the policies and direction of the waterfront plan. it's not just about connecting to the waterfront

this is beyond what is in our operating budget and the growth that it accommodates. so as some folks have mentioned the mayor did convene a transportation task force to try to look at these three buckets of need, the state of good repair, enhancements and expansion and how do we adequately resource and recognizing neither sacramento or washington dc are likely to be increasing part of the solution. this is somewhat a laundry list of ideas that have been generated through that process. none of these recommended at this point. this is just a list of ideas that are being put forward or that have been put forward to the task force and they will be using the remaining time to whittle down some of these into recommendations but you will see some of the things that we reference here. the transportation sustainability fee and other things i think director ram mentioned development pays roughly for 30% of the cost of development -- the cost of the impact to the transportation system, so it does leave a pretty significant hole for us to fill, and i will just close by saying ki

the project sponsors want it to be enlarged to accommodate large trucks. in order to accommodate playground trucks the planning commission has recommend that parking on stanford street be removed. some years ago we asked the mta to designate stanford street as neighborhood zoned parking. we have very little wide parking. that is the smallest zone in the entire city. our neighborhood has parking rates that are now public parking rates of $7 an hour. that number will increase when i suspect we covet whatever parking we need it allows us to have parking to have our children invite and this project we're being asked to approve is to remove 85 feet of that which under our analysis is almost all of the parking zoning. we are troubled but the environmental impact assessment to learn and i'll show you this. when the analysis was done - i don't know if i can project it. the analysis said there was no neighborhood zone parking. and out right false statement. now i don't know if that was intentional but it seems like when a sponsor stepped forward it ousted it to hav

he's been looking for an apartment for months, but no one wants to rent accommodation to foreigners. that's a familiar story for the people who work at the event pg eight organization. it is a major problem. >> the biggest issue in poland is that so few refugees get into public housing. there are simply too few apartments on offer. in the past 12 years, just one refugee family has received public accommodation in the city. >> this is the railway station in eastern poland. it is the first place where chechen refugees arrive when they cross the border from belarus. three trains arrive every day. the number of refugees has been steadily rising. last year, 5500 chechen refugees arrived in poland. this year has already seen twice as many. >> according to the geneva convention, they have a right to stay here if their lives are in danger or if they have been persecuted because of their religion. it's things like that that brought these people here. but it is difficult to say what the situation in russia is like today. >> all the refugees have when they arrive is what they can carry. their d

the rebuttal also states how they have altplans to accommodate us. the first alteration was to reduce expansion from 12 feet to 11 feet. and then back to 12 feet, but setback 3 feet from the property line. these are in the right direction but hardly compromises. they are relatively insignificant. the rebuttal also includes nine pages of signatures of peopling supporting their remodel. it's a big list. there is 61 signatures, 7 are on the block that concerns us. not one of the signers has a direct view. 4 live four blocks away. missing from this list are the people not affected by this remodel. >> your type is up. but you will have time on rebuttal. >> i have one more paragraph. >> we can hear from the project sponsor now. >> good evening. i'm annie kong, i'm the project sponsor. we have tried to start to remodel and move in. we have worked with our neighbors in good faith to try to come up with a resolution. unfortunately, we could not resolve this matter. we even setback, actually plan got approved by the planning department and on our own good fait

we accommodate him. we let him grow his beard. that is a religious expression.w does that make you feel, that a murderer is allowed to express his religious viewpoint and you are not? >> it's hard. the whole case is very difficult. and the military i believe has done a wonderful job. they have a whole board that is overseeing that entire case. but when the truth comes to it, they have to follow army policy. and when someone is able to grow a beard or jewish individuals can wear a head dressing for their religious belief, the military allows it. but when individuals that want to have a bible on their desk because that is their religious belief are told to take it off, that's where the double standard becomes in play. for me i believe that, you know, to serve an army who doesn't necessarily support a christian, it makes it difficult to serve. while at the same time i personally know that christians fight for this country as i believe this country was started by christians for christians and it's kind of -- it's a very difficult problem which we're facing nowadays.

we're a small business and the port real estate staff was very accommodating and they really assisted us in our move in. we went through the environmental procedures and all the regulatory compliance and the environmental staff was a big help. we understand that they have a tough job. there's a lot of requirements and a lot of regulatory people looking down and checking their work. so, it's a tough business, but you have to -- we have to comply in order to make sure we comply. it was kind of stringent, but we understand that that's the requirement and they made it very accommodating so i'd just like to thank the port and your staff for their efforts. >> thank you. welcome to the port of san francisco.

happened any way if women wanted to play sports, universities who wanted the customers would have accommodated them. >> it would have happened very, very, very slowly. i think -- >> where wouldn't the university want to get these women? >> to provide equal opportunity in activities, in athletics, it costs money. and title nine really forced educational institutions to make

we accommodate him. we let him grow his beard. that is a religious expression.oes that make you feel, that a murderer is allowed to express his religious viewpoint and you are not? >> it's hard. the whole case is very difficult. and the military i believe has done a wonderful job. they have a whole board that is overseeing that entire case. but when the truth comes to it, they have to follow army policy. and when someone is able to grow a beard or jewish individuals can wear a head dressing for their religious belief, the military allows it. but when individuals that want to have a bible on their desk because that is their religious belief are told to take it off, that's where the double standard becomes in play. for me i believe that, you know, to serve an army who doesn't necessarily support a christian, it makes it difficult to serve. while at the same time i personally know that christians fight for this country as i believe this country was started by christians for christians and it's kind of -- it's a very difficult problem which we're facing nowadays. >>

areas like this one and there's a surprising number of residents although many are going to the accommodation centers in their hundreds there are still those who are resolutely staying with their properties and deciding not to leave now. my family has been evacuated from my home but i decided to stay today the electric power supply has resumed two humps of working and there's no water in the stairwell any more water evaporates in the pavements become visible so we're still living here those that stay on those that go basically those who have their properties ruined attention is slowly turning to the future and what happens when this water subsides when it receives and the extent of the damage is revealed when the authorities have said that they will give compensation of up to one hundred thousand rubles to people whose properties have been damaged the compensation will range from fifty to one hundred thousand rubles depending on the severity of the damage now russia's emergency services minister is also heading to this region imminently choose day to assess not only the damage but also the wo

we're a small business and the port real estate staff was very accommodating and they really assisted us in our move in. we went through the environmental procedures and all the regulatory compliance and the environmental staff was a big help. we understand that they have a tough job. there's a lot of requirements and a lot of regulatory people looking down and checking their work. so, it's a tough business, but you have to -- we have to comply in order to make sure we comply. it was kind of stringent, but we understand that that's the requirement and they made it very accommodating so i'd just like to thank the port and your staff for their efforts. >> thank you. welcome to the port of san francisco. is there any other public comment? come on up. >>> hi, good evening. i'm paul [speaker not understood] with bill group. we're a general contractor building a project across the street from crane park. and we moved in about six months ago and the process was pretty easy. i heard it was difficult to get a lease, but it really wasn't. took about 30 days and got some good land, and it helped

and also, the new infrastructure and site remediation in order to accommodate that new infill development. and we will go into more detail at the end of the presentation on some of the other project and port efforts that are under way outside of the park area. >> with regard to the national register of the historic district, we have looked at the individual resources we have prepared a national register nomination and this nomination builds on the work that was done by the planning department in the central water front plan and then later in the eastern neighborhoods plan, and so what was known as the 2001, central water front cultural resources survey. and as part of that or part of our master plan and effort we looked at all of the contributing resources and provided a ranking because there is so much variation, and to understand what were the most significant to the least significant, and so we came up with a classification of very significant resources, and on the slide, those are those, that are shown in the dark red. and as you and as the colors are light, and lighter, they were les