to include northern waterfront spelled out, north beach, telegraph hill, financial district, and union square. mr. mcdonnell: additions. you made some deletions. let's start with additions first. mr. pilpel: i would take no. waterfront, spelled out, north beach, telegraph hill, and add those. mr. mcdonnell: any other proposed additions? ok. here is the proposed list of additions. any objection to this list of additions? all right. we will add north waterfront, north beach, telegraph hill, financial district, and union square. you good? ms. tidwell: yes. sorry. thank you. mr. pilpel: thank you. mr. mcdonnell: any deletions from district 3 description? mr. schreiber: russian hill community association. mr. mcdonnell: ok. proposal to eliminate. any objection? ok. ok.

they can go in and around union square.pace is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that us

the need to create is going to happen, and you are going to have to fulfill it because that is your life. >> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideratio

and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is becausetheir core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30% of the pieces that i made. something happens to them. they cracked, the break during the process. it is very complex. they fall apart. but it is worth it to me.

and members of the board. it gets better video continues to get recognition on the senate floor. on monday, the participants -- i was at union square and could not be up there. she also announced her retirement effective the week from friday. june 10, we did a girl's contract law against him and trafficking. the street -- against him and trafficking. the street fair was also that week. the u.s. open went unbelievably. i did not think that they area could have ordered the better weather. it went largely without incident. the usda does not want to proceed against the chicken man. last weekend was juneteenth. it also saw the retirement of the captain on father's day. the san francisco police department one the city workers children benefit softball tournament. we raised approximately $6,500 for special olympics. pretty much the entire command staff participated in the pride flag raising. it has been a very busy week. we also kicked off our future graduates jobs summer programs this afternoon. there ceo is formally of the san francisco unified school district. as time goes on, we will get more kids to that program. it is all good stuff

, july 11, the southbound bayshore service will be routed to accommodate the construction in union square and going south. we had already rerouted the 30 and the 45. the rest of the buses will be rerouted. we are doing all the outreach for that. we got our bids for the chinatown station this past week. we got four bids. this is our biggest and most complex of the station contracts. the engineer's estimate was $235 million. we had bids ranging from some of the above that to quite a bit above that. we are still processing and reviewing the bids, but should be able to announce the results of that sand. -- of that soon. the other end of the tunnel is in north beach. as a result of their announcing some of the preliminary work, a little bit of utility relocation, and work on building the retrieval shack. there has been a lot of concern expressed by folks in north beach. we have been working with supervisor chiu's office to make sure we are addressing any of those concerns. they are concerned about impacts on columbus avenue that might affect the commercial activity. we did get $48.4 million right

you know, one reason tourists go to union square, and they go to a public place where they can belong without knowing anybody. every city needs space like that. we realized at our scale, we needed a civic plaza. we thought about bands, but as soon as you put them up on stage, you have these consuming crowds listening to the band. the longer they stood there the more beer bottle they drop on the ground. that did not seem attractive at all. we do not leave a trace after the event. we do not want a stage. if you want your own, build it, which people did. so we turned to copy. it affords you a social place. you can stay there all day, we do not care. we are not doing it to make money. we lose money. we do it for the sake of public interaction. to create a civic environment that led to communal feelings. that seems like an exception to the dogma, but what did emerson say? a speech of consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. >> i was just thinking that. [laughter] going the other direction, as fast as possible, one of the things -- a pattern that has arisen over the years -- a lot of t

and the park above. this is all the 2001 renovation of union square was completed. the mta is in the process of refinancing a lot of their long- term debt, taking advantage of the current lower interest rates. and they are moving forward with a proposal that i believe this commission approved that would allow the mta to issue $30 million in bonds for various garages on park property. to repaid the existing debt on those properties and also undertake limited improvement at each of those properties. as the existing lease requires 90 days are after the bonds are repaid, the lease would automatically terminate. we are moving an amendment that extended that to allow uptown to continue to operate after the bonds are repaid each month. they are working to renegotiate an amendment that would allow them to stay until the end of their term and still perform a valuable services they do for us. refinancing on union square alone would save us $50,000 a year on interest payments, which is a tremendous help to the department. are there any questions you might have? i've slept see i

and have these trees. it is also going to have a majestic equality. standing next to the tower, you need something in the park you can remember. it should not look like union square and the other major space is in town. it should be its own thing. most importantly, we think it should be part of the park. thank you. president fong: thank you. my nam>> my name is fred clark. we are the designers of the transit center and the tower. i echo the comments about how fortunate we are to be at the place we are in the project today. i have some visuals as well. we have just crossed mission street, gone through the grove of redwoods into the front door of the transit center, and in the transit center itself you are greeted by a very beautiful light-filled environment. you are very aware of your surroundings and transparent, open room. you see the park above in the grove of redwoods to the left of this, and on the floor is an extraordinary art piece. at the outside, if you pass through the transit center lobby, you will see the glass exterior wall of the transit center and have a sense of the park above. it will have a two levels of extraordinary food-based detail of very li

he tells nbc he is heading to union square and wants people to do the bird call with him. how easy it is to get exposure. >> 4:56. let's turn to the morning commute out there. >> people crow about this. it's moving this smoothly. we do have construction, but it is eastbound, it's closed right there at love ridge. the same connector so no big slowing. another 15 extra seconds. a few minutes ago that registered 50 so speeds are jumping around. not enough to cause considerable slowing. we have construction still san ramon valley, 680 both directions between alcosta, we have the construction off of the roadway, we're looking at also isabelle with construction crew there is through livermore for a few minutes and the south bay, 85, construction but no slowing. back to you. >> 4:57. ashton kutcher's production company is suing the dmv for breach of contract. it says the dmv pulled out of a reality show that kutcher was producing t show was picked up for at least four episodes by true tv. it was going to be a look at what life is like on the other side of the dvm counter. the dmv

that is something that we did and debated over, and we don't necessarily have to talk about union square. do you know what i'm saying? >> i do. and i was trying to get us to having a list to review and decide what is in or not. >> can i make a suggestion? do you have the public, and later of neighborhoods, a public submissions. so it is probably worth them generating a list of of, within the current context of our draft map, whether what recognized neighborhoods based on public submissions are found within the current draft map. >> is that doable? >> by when? >> saturday. >> 6 a.m.? by end of day friday? >> yeah. >> ok. >> mr. pilpel and mr. alonso. >> i would not want to limit it to public submissions because i do not think we got to missions for the entire city. and there may be instances where there are disputes between different organizations and difference of metals. i would say in general if the consultant believes, and this is a judgment call. i do not think this section of the report is as objective as one might want it to be carried i think it actually comes back to us and our s

and election campaigns. i have noticed that at union square, there is a police presence -- they protected the -- when the giants had the playoff game, a deal was made about getting a police presence, and i read that the twitter people, part of the contract included 12-18 hour foot patrolsin the block area. those people are protected. what about san francisco citizens in the tnederloin. friends of mine from out of town have been attacked. there is intimidation, violence, threats. people are afraid to go out at night. i am a person who was out in the morning and i am a night person. i do not see any or most any police presence in the worst areas of the tenderloin. i hear from the police station ad jones and eddy. people get in their cars and go somewhere else other than the tenderloin. one thing; two or three business owners ahvehave been attacked. teresa sparks told me the police substation was supposed to open a few years ago, and is still not open. my question is, we know the situation. uit will be claimed to be a budget issue. we need san francisco citizens -- they need the same protections of other neighborh

and women who died in the iraq war on a wall in san francisco. it's part of a mural in veteran's alley. this is right here in union square. powerful stuff. >> creative and very, very nice to be there. >>> the winds of change seem to be blowing in the weather outside. christina loren says brace yourself. >> yeah. just don't get comfortable because then they're going to blow in the opposite direction. we're going to continue the wild ride in the weather department. this morning, though, you just can't ask for better conditions than this, especially when you think of june gloom. we haven't seen all that much low cloud cover this month. in fact, it's been rather spectacular each and every morning. and we are getting spoiled yet again today at 11:18. temperatures are mild in san jose. we're at 73 degrees. san francisco, you're at 67. 82 in sun vail. starting to get a little on the warm side in places like sunnyvale. if the you have an outdoor activity to take care of, the sooner you do so, the better off you'll be. through this afternoon, we have a big game coming. 12:45, sthird game in the series against the dodgers. yes, we'r

that station is designed to use the same materials and blend into the current design of the square. union square is rated as a category one significant space in the downtown plan. they took that action as well. commissioner moore: be you have any quick answer to what happened to pier 29? could it be in the time for i am of repairing the overall buildings along the embarcadero? >> i was looking at a press release issued by the court this afternoon. i will summarize. they brought a construction company on board demobilize cranes and remove the damaged area on top of the building and on the road and -- on the roof to reduce the hazard of debris falling. and they had architects and city staff to consult with the port engineers to make sure that we can maintain as much of the building as possible. they say that it will not impact the america's cup event. the peir itself -- pier itself was not affected, it was just the shed. >> the preservation consultant or architect, it is carrying a company. they had staff there at 9:00 in the morning. the engineers also there, things are going to move fairl

and in the early '70s in san francisco, selling art on the street could even land you behind bars. >> there were massive arrests of artists in the union square area and down at fisherman's wharf. >> reporter: the street artists have a long history. 40 years ago they banded together to fight for the right to ply their wares on city streets. >> the artists wanted to get legitimacy through a permit from the police but the police were denying them peddlers permits. >> reporter: cries led to the city's art commission's first street artist licensing program a program that has been run by howard lazar for its entire 40 years. >> we have paintings, sculptures, i noticed a wood sculpture here today. >> reporter: the program sets aside some 350 spaces across the city where up to 200 artists toil on any given day. artist like this jewelrymaker who got his license in 1974. >> though it doesn't guarantee you a job, it gives you an outlet, a place to work. >> reporter: deborah king vividly remembers the first day she started selling her home made clothes in 1976. >> had no clue that i was going to be set up six feet from the human jukebox. with his ka zu

and fees. they also reviewed the design to alter union square. it is part of the subway. after candid comments, they ultimately recommended approval. those were the highlights of that hearing. which will put us under general public comment. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items except for agenda items. with respect to the agenda items, i your opportunity to address the commission will correspond with the agenda. i have one speaker card. president fong: great. i have one speaker card. linda chapman. >> at a recent hearing, i told you about the history, and i just wanted to talk a little bit more about some of those buildings we were trying to save. at the time on jones street, there was a big move to demolish rental housing to create condo's. there were lessons learned from that. 1300 sacramento and jones, which is still there, was proposed for demolition. the battle went on for seven years. at the time, it was considered sensitive. it was a curated building. it was landmarked. all the sudden, the developer decided it would be a good thing

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and so refreshing. is this what you want, bloomberg!, you monster, oh, drinkie, oh, oh. oh, i am so sad. i am so thirsty. we'll be right back. oh drinkie. we're going right here. right near union square park. i'm an architect because i love cities and i love buildings. this used to be a cheese factory right? whole new steel structure on this floor. coffee or no coffee? pour the footing and you give yourself two inches. technology. it really does influence how you interact with life. hey, did you get that powerpoint? that's a nice looking building! i think this is science fiction. look at that! the revolutionary galaxy note, from samsung. (cheers and applause) welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight is the author of a new book called a bunch of amateurs. a search for the american character. the search is over. i'm right here. please welcome jack hitt. (cheers and applause) jack, good to see you. how are you. >> all right. >> nice to see you again, you silver haired devil. now jack, you and i have known each other for quite a few year, both from charles tovn, south carolina. >> that's right, two south carolinas in the same room. >> charlestonians. >> dominion or something, two. >> i

and fremont at 9:30 this morning, the torch will be passed to livermore police. that's also when the flame of hope torch run will begin in san francisco's union square. then an hour later, b.a.r.t. police will start the torch on a run to the castro valley and bayfair stations. special olympics will be held at uc davis on friday. >>> hazardous material teams have capped a leak in rodeo. contra costa county officials say a 35-foot rupture in a 1.5 million tank allowed a sulfur smelling leak to spread to the areas on friday. residents in benicia, martinez could smell the gas. ten people reported nausea and breathing problems during the leak. >>> 7:54. the 26-year-old, ceremonyson, won the u.s. open. he to wait in the clubhouse to see if his score would hold up. he waited in the locker room with his wife and watched graham miss the birdie putt that would send the open to a playoff today. >> i told myself don't get too excited, don't try to win. have you to go out there and try to make pars. that's kind of what i did. >>> tiger woods was tied -- tiger woods was tied at the top of the leaderboard but ended up finishing tied. there was a strain -- there was

also contacted and their presidents were encouraged to give information to all of their members for writ we informed san francisco travel, the sentences the chamber of commerce, the union square bid, the golden gate restaurant association, the twitter feed and newsletter, current vendors with the department, and all entities registered at anlbe with the human rights commission called local catering groups, local special event providers. coffeeshops, local museum stores and vendors with the golden gate national recreation area will all contacted. community feedback thus far -- the support that has been communicated for the selection, specifically of terry grimm, has been from the selection panel. sonoma valley chamber of commerce, the mason center, golden gate restaurant association, san and cisco chamber of commerce, ken bailey, julie christensen, john franklin, john hirsch berger, ryan hubert. the opposition has been from stephen worsley and generally from john gollinger, and otehrs. -- and others. continuing public process, there will be no less than eight public meetings on this topic, including this meeting and the previous operations committee. all opportunities for the

and 1987 when the geary transit task force looked at the light rail -- there were too light rail projects. they were grandfathered into proposition k. with the central subway business -- there is a spur at union square for geary, so i suggest you do your homework and look into the archives to see if the final report of the geary task force -- 1995 -- it has been over 20 years, but 1995 was the final report of the geary light rail project. also look into what the third street light rail project wants to do. there is the possibility for light rail because that is what the voters wanted. they did not want us rapid transit. they wanted light rail. do your homework before you do anything. thank you very much. i brought the same points up at the last cac meeting. suggest you do the same thing i told the mta staff to do. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. any other member of the public want to talk about these items? seeing none, public comment is closed. if we can make the motion to movies to the next meeting. will take that without objection. item #8. >> the market streets update. this is an information item. >> i'm michael schwartz from the transportation authority. on this project, the authority i

this is april of 1861 after the confederacy fired on fort sumter, and this is where the war began, one of the mass rallies in union square that ensued in new york in april 61, and you see this outpouring of patriotism, flag-waving, enthusiasm within a few weeks 16,000 men from manhattan which was then new york city and portland had enlisted and were going south to guard washington d.c. it is a moment where many new yorkers hope that this unity will persist to allow them to fight the war, to support the work. what to me is kind of ironic and, perhaps, a harbinger of things to come in this view. this guy seems like he is not that happy. this group of militiamen dressed in roof representative -- revolutionary war are going to send take him out. new york was a city that thought its own civil war during the civil war. to understand why we have to step back a little back in history to understand antebellum , pre civil war york. new york was one center of the northern antislavery movement, the abolitionist movement. this is actually back cover sheets for the american anti slavery almanac which draws on abolitionists, periodical

and this is this block here. this block is a part of the tenderloin, not union square. it is a part of the district, if you look at your maps, you'll see these are the boundaries of the central market c.b.d. and, this block contains the bristol hotel at 56 mason and many social services organizations at 944 market, which is right here. which i have to be a volunteer at one of those offices. please, so please place this block back into district six where it belongs. again for the audience out there in never, neverland, here again is another map of the market c.b.d. and the block that we're talking about. and here is the actual description of the -- all this stuff is up on the screen up there. >> oh, because they moved it down stairs. >> all right, but anyway -- >> there it is. >> in closing, i would like to ask you to please keep district five in laguna. there are many reasons for this. ok, i can't multitask either. >> thank you very much, sir. >> hi, i'm lawrence lee from the lower eight. thank you so much for listening to our community. redwoast keep our immunity togeth

the first time -- i remember not the first time but a time i was in the soviet union and i had a room at a hotel off red square. and i walked in with my wife and i had known from past experience that you have to bring a stopper, because there were never stoppers in the sinks in the soviet union. and it had been a long time getting there. i put the stopper in, put some water in and shaved and took out the stopper and the water came down on my feet. at that moment, i thought these people aren't going to beat us at anything. and i think ronald reagan had come to that conclusion before i had. >> before you had? >> yes. he had -- >> an instinct. >> you used the word "implode." i think ronald reagan believed for 30 years that communism was unsusta unsustainable, their form of communism, and that it would eventually implode and in some ways, he was the right guy at the right time. >> ambassador mattlock, can i call you jack? >> you know, i would say first of all, that -- >> okay. you didn't hear me. >> i didn't. >> i know you didn't. i said ambassador mattlock, may i call you jack? >> yes. >> so jack, what i want to

and goose liver lovers enjoyed a final foie gras bash last night. it didn't come without protest. animal rights activists chanted as people made their way to a sold out foie gras party near union squareroducing and selling and buying foie gras will be illegal in california. a report exposed how ducks and geese are force fed to fatten livers -- livers leading to a statewide ban. >> i think the ban has backfired there is more demand for foie gras than ever. when people's rights to do something or have something that they enjoy is taken away, they want it that much more. >> online foie gras retailers say people are stocking up paying $150 a upon for frozen foie gras. animal rights active he s say people mo make and eat the -- activists say people who make and eat the delicacy are cruel. >>> the advice house speaker boehner is giving to republicans as the supreme court prepares to issue a critical ruling on president obama's health care reform law. >>> cell phone video of teenagers verbally abusing a bus monitor sparked outrage. wait until you hear how much people around the nation are pitching in to give her a well deserved vacation. she can afford more than a vacation with this money.

and they will lower down to a giant boring machines that will cut the 1.6 twin tunnels from the cal train station a couple of blocks down there all the way under market street, underneath union square, out to chinatown. it will take a long time to complete and a lot of headaches. it does not matter if you ride muni or if you are a pedestrian, it will be very disruptive. the problem is that they have to move utilities and tear up streets and they have to lay down all of that stuff to get this thing built. this has been a contested project from the start and i will show you why. 1.6 mi., $1.6 billion. 5 ft. costs $1 million. that gives you some idea of what it will cost. >> for more on the plan and how to navigate around a detour code for web site and click on the story >> a basketball size chunks of ice smashed into the roof of a home in fremont last night. a homeowner said she heard the crash and then felt the house shake. nobody was hurt and authorities think the ice fell from a passing aircraft so the faa is investigating. the secretary of commerce accused of a hit and run in l.a.. new information suggesting he suffered a medical condition behind the wheel >> skipping a few extra