. -- ringgold, in terms of what is being done on improving the public realm in those alleyways. we're trying to create an application that would go to the committee challenge grant program that would look at actual, let's say, artistic sort of elements in those alleyways that would be part of the public realm.. the second speaker that of like to introduce is professor gail ruben, an associate professor of anthropology and a women's studies at the university of michigan, and she is currently a visiting fellow at the center for advanced study -- study in behavioral sciences at stanford university. gail has been extraordinarily helpful in looking at the rich array of lgbt yosources in the committee in the south of market. she is an extraordinary scholar in many respects, and she has perhaps one of the most comprehensive, outside of perhaps the formal museum for that community and a library. she has an incredible collection of materials associated with the long and rich community for lgbt in the south of market, and it is a marvel to see. is on an alley in the south of market where

up here behind the capital where a maze of little alleyways. they were narrow and dark and dirty and they bred crime and disease and they were full of dilapidated little houses. at that time the federal government was running the district and she wanted federal legislation to teardown those houses and build modern hygienic new houses at low cost for the presidents. she got a white house car and she began to take members of congress around those alleys to show them the squalor that existed right behind the marble halls of the capitol building. as far as i know she was the first first lady to lobby outside of the white house for cause that was not on her husband's agenda. in the second year of woodrow wilson's term her health began to decline and by june of 1914 she could no longer get out of bed. her doctor was in denial. he thought she was suffering from nervous. woodrow was distracted because at the end of june the archduke franz ferdinand of austria had been assassinated and the international situation was going to pieces. but by august 6th i

do you from the alleyway. the view from the street and the new cathedral a very strong street presence. you can see this right here to the north. by now, there is a found mayor, and this is the existing building. and you can see how this completes the scheme. the view from the alley way, we may be, at some time, asking for permission to do a mural on the wall. otherwise, this will have graffiti. we will do some murals that show street art and -- >> as long as the artist as local and they don't kill dogs. >> the view of the inside, this is nice, see? and this is the view from the other side, this is looking down to the east. this goes outside of the courtyard. that is the basic scheme and i am happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> we may have some after public comment. and is there general public comments >> this is wonderful. i will get your number, mr. goldman and make certain that i refer people to you, because a lot of what comes fourth is not designed nearly as well. the underground parking i

going to be the first test site of the home program that will work to make all of the streets and alleyways along marshall elementary school safer for you to walk to. so i'm really excited about that. last night in our board meeting to be voted on this roughly around 9:00 p.m. last night. all 11 board of supervisors voted to make today officially october 5, 2011, walk-to-school today for the city and county of san francisco. and i'm going to quickly read accommodation, where as hundreds of children to be safe each year nationally by taking steps to make safety a priority. driving students to school by private vehicles worsens traffic, and that's due to safety and climate change. and protect children from health and environmental risk. shape-up san francisco, who's here today, including department of public health, san francisco municipal transportation agency, presidio ymca, san francisco bike coalition, have secured funding to implement stay safe at school and has declared october 5th as walk to school day for the city and county of san francisco. thank you to all of the family members and

there also has been violations of the san francisco health code, there have been dead pigeons on the alleyway, there is pigeon droppings. you can see them maintenance of the walls of the building, the back entrance of the building. [bell] we're talking about putting in a ton of equipment on the second floor of the building and on the steeple of the building. none of this has been maintained with any signatures from city inspectors. this is the residential neighborhood. president olague: there were two bills. >> sorry, i heard the first one. thapresident olague: that was the second. >> there is another permit request for another macro side -- site. that is within 450 feet of this site. president olague: thank you. there are two bills that go off. the first one and then that is the 32nd warning and a second bill. -- there are two bells that go off. the first one and then that is the second warning and a second bell. >> there is a clock and you can look there. sometimes it gets confusing even appear -- up here. president olague: the next speaker. >> good afternoon. president and commissioners of

provided they do not use the alleyway of the r.e.d. frack says. those are things to consider. in your consideration of the case. i have some letters, three letters of support and four letters in opposition for your review. i also have some information about bay area air quality management district if your interested to know about that. thank you very much. that is my presentation. president olague: thank you. dr requestor. >> madame president and members of the commission, thank you for time. i am a 15-year resident of san francisco and a six year resident and first-time homeowner living at 27 rogers street. my building at 2329 roger street is a 100 year-old building adjacent to another 100-year- old residence that is adjacent to the property located at 1116 -- 1161 folsom street. i filed a discretionary review due to my feeling that do process was not upheld during the opening of this business and also, based on my awareness of the western soma plan and the rezoning, i filed this discretionary review to elevate the conversation to beyond just the existing zoning, which histor

. >> one thing they did say is fulsome straight is to alleyways, this business is not residential. also, living next to a body shop, we're not the only body shop. around the other side of brash streak, there is a huge body shop with four spray booths and they are doing 10 cars a day where we are doing one car a day if we do that. this is, you can see it from a building across the street. please take that into consideration that they are there. president olague: thank you. the public hearing is closed. i am going to go ahead and start out here today. i think this is something that is very frustrating. most discretionary reviews are very frustrating even though we insist on hearing them, at least i do and maybe one other commissioner does. >> good luck. president olague: i wanted to say that sometimes we hear cases like that, it is a service like an industrial-mixed use district. and it is pretty well known when you look at the considerations as the staff person perhaps them here, the use as a major auto repair garages permitted in the zoning district perception 8 16.60. -- 816.60. i

as we have mentioned before, there is another total different character for our alleyways.hey were developed for the more low scale residential use. many are turn-of-the-century but they do have the traditional bay. notice we lack decks south of market, because it was not part of our architectural vocabulary. but there was a lot of street life happening in the alleys that is not according to normal urban design guidelines that tell you to maintain the street frontage, that tells you to match everything that is next to it. what we have tried to do in our design guidelines is actually break them down towards district. acknowledge that there's a different architectural vocabulary for our major streets than our alleys. in our alleys, we have a mix of uses. we have resident or character. but we also have our small scale industrial buildings. i entered south of market style, they often include greenery and their own setbacks. would you will be seeing before you -- i want to say that we have this booklet that says it, but we have had some developers bring preliminary projects to u

neighborhood support, and in exhibit c of your packet, you'll find letters from neighbors on this alleyway and the surrounding blocks. thank you for your time. president olague: are there speakers in support of the d.r. requester? i mean of the project sponsor. >> my name is anne hughes and i'm a san francisco unified public schoolteacher. my husband sam ball is the director at the non-profit citizen film. we purchased the building together with my inlaws because we wanted to live together as an extended family. we chose the location of our house so we can be deeply involved in the community we serve. our kids ava and jacob attend our neighborhood spanish school. we purchased a severely dilapidated home because that was the kind of building we could afford. before beginning the renovation, we let the city and our neighbors know our intention for our house. three unanimous decisions on the same project. yet despite all the support, our project to rehabilitate a severely dilapidated house and make it livable for our family has already been delayed for many months as a result of the previous

i'm also a volunteer at adopt an alleyway. i'm currently a freshman at san francisco state university. and i just graduated from galileo high school last year. >> congratulations. >> when i was in high school i used to take the 19 bus to get to school and i also took the 30 stockton to get from school to chinatown where most of my friends went to volunteer. the economic recession has made a lot of my friends' parents, have their hours cut from their jobs making it hard to find the money for their bus passes. this is a bad time because the price for youth passes has gone up 110% in the last two years. i know some people who aren't buying bus passes because it costs too much for their families. free muni would make sense because it -- because youth already using munis to get to school. this is why we need to have free muni for youth now. because it would help young people get to school. and get to parks and get to places to volunteer. this won't help me personally because i'm already 18. but i know it impacts the younger generat

ellen herself was a great activist through her work for the alleyways. and she was recognized by the leading african-american newspaper at that time, the washington bee. after her death, they wrote and said, if only other white women could be as active as she is in trying to ameliorate the conditions of the african-american community in washington, we'd get ahead further. but woodrow wilson was a southerner. everybody in his, you know, large number of the people in his cabinet were southerners. it was part of the culture of his time and his administration. thank you. yes, ma'am. >> that's not on? >> yes. >> thank you for writing this book. it's very interesting. and my question is, what happened to edith after his death? was there some sort of federal support or pension for her to care for her or what happened? >> good question. she lived for 38 more years. at the time she died in 1961, she was 89. and by the way, she died on woodrow wilson's birthday which kind of gives me goose bumps. but there was no definite policy about giving pensions to the widows

>>bones are found at a work site in norridge contractors discovered the bones as they dug in an alleyway the remains were found under concrete the medical examiner's examining those bonds there said that former residents used to bury dead animals in the backyard there >>bonds are also discovered at a construction site in the river north neighborhood the bones were found in the basement a building at kinzie and court jester morning. the cook county medical examiner's office now has the bonds and will conduct tests to date to determine if their human remains. chicago police detectives are awaiting those results >>the cook county sheriff's office has received more than a dozen increase so far after exhuming the bodies of unidentified victims of serial killer john wayne gacy. the remains of eight young men were exhumed in hopes of using dna technology to finally close the book on the gacy killings. the remains of eight young men wore the sheriff's department wants to hear from the families of the boys in the and and who disappeared back in the 1970's and were never accounted for they're hopi

his body was found in an alleyway. he had been shot to death. >> police say harford county teenager put on a ski mask and invaded the home in pennsylvania. 17-year-old mason carter is being charged as an adult, picked up in connection with a home invasion in york county that happened last thursday night. police say he broke in, shot the man inside, and stole the family's car. the letter found a stolen car back in harford county. the investigation is ongoing tonight. police are on the hunt for several suspects reportedly assaulted a 14-year-old girl. >> police say she was looking for directions when she allegedly was attacked by a group of men. >> here is a picture of a vehicle similar to the one police are looking for. when the girl got inside, the men implied had a gun before sexually assaulting her. it happened a long leslie street in west baltimore. police are looking for this man, a suspect in a rape back on october 18, in which the victim was a 13-year-old girl. that have a long caroline street in east baltimore.

help >>police are looking for three suspects in each incident men approached their victims in an alleyway and pulled out handguns to get cellphones and other electronic devices >>most of the robberies occurred between 4:00 p.m. and midnight in ravenswood manor albany park as well as irving park >>the manner described as an african american over 5 ft. tall 180 lbs. wearing dark hair didn't sweatshirt's and blue jeans >>we asked our aldermen for more police protection so we can feel more safe for our children >>i have a 11 year-old son >> detectives are seeking information from the public on this case if you have information that can help them please give police a call. >> a manhunt is underway for the ex-husband of a woman found dead in her west suburban apartment. julian crews as a live report from glen ellyn. >>the search is under way for the ex-husband but very little is known about this case very few details released by police when neighbor told us off camera that the femaleúsús victim had two young children but the safety or whereabouts of those kids is unknown at this hour and as puz

. >> reporter: more than 400 bridges connect the alleyways of venice.efore they were built, gondolas were the main way of getting around. today they cater to tourists like gabe bellhorn. >> the way that these guys maneuver these boats around these canals, this shiny perfect vessel going through these crowded streets and they're just masters at it. >> reporter: are these signals you're shouting? >> i shout when there's someone coming. >> reporter: that's your horn? >> my horn. >> reporter: luigi has been putting on the signature stripes for more than 30 years. he drives the narrow canals... channels like the back street of a familiar neighborhood. >> like you, you take your car, for me i take the gondola. >> reporter: as a native, he's proud to be part of this distinctly venetian tradition where thousands of gondolas used to criss-cross these sparkling waters today there are just over 400 licensed gondola drivers. why did you want to become a gondolier. >> my family was gondolier. my family of four generations. >> reporter: at more than $110 per ride it'