every time i go back to a beautiful city like paris, i see the sidewalks more and more beautiful. one thing we used to find it useful was the [ unintelligible] this needs to stop being a clustered city, as paris has become, to the detriment of that beautiful city. president chiu: are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on behalf of the appellant? if so, please step up to the microphone. any other members of the public wish to speak on behalf of those who are appealing what at&t wants to do? if not, why don't we proceed to a presentation by planning. >> good afternoon, members of the board. i am lisa gibson, a senior environmental planner with the planning department. joining me is john lewis, who prepared the categorical exemption that is the subject of today's appeal. also, we have guests from the department of public works. we sent to two appeal response memos. one of them arrived today because we were responding to an appeal letter we received late friday. if you need extra copies, we have them available for you now. after careful consideration of the issues

this is further identification of our beautiful city -- further densification of our beautiful city. we really need an underground tunnel before any densification is considered. if parkmerced became a limited scope, we could become the affordable housing receptacle for 3000 people. this proposal is not right for the city in any way, shape, or form. thank you. >> i wanted to just speak about -- i support the comments on the whole issue of the housing element, and hopefully, you will send this back. the reason i submitted, as was in regards to rental units, and i think that is the sincerest issue not addressed by a lot of neighborhood organizations. you kind of get what you ask for, and by allowing parkmerced to be proposed as a teardown, why should you not be looking at other districts and other neighborhoods? if we are talking about equity density, there you go. so where and how do we build, and where do we find this and the site? that is key to the provision. building the infrastructure is key to the provision of doing anything. looking at section 8.1, it was gutted in essence by th

this is further identification of our beautiful city -- further densification of our beautiful city. we really need an underground tunnel before any densification is considered. if parkmerced became a limited scope, we could become the affordable housing receptacle for 3000 people. this proposal is not right for the city in any way, shape, or form. thank you. >> i wanted to just speak about -- i support the comments on the whole issue of e

san francisco is not only known as the most beautiful city in the most beautiful state, in the most extraordinary country in the world, but now it is also the home of the world champion baseball team. so congratulations to the giants for this great performance for showing that the impossible can be made possible, for showing the fire in your belly. thank you also to everyone who got you here in the first place, your family members and so on. that may also say congratulations to the beard. now every team in baseball knows how to feear the beard. there is a machine in this team. congratulations. thank you very much. [applause] >> again, many thanks to governor schwarzenegger. there is much pressing business in the state government to be done today. he took his time out to his good will -- from his good will to be with us. governor schwarzenegger, many thanks. [applause] >> this next gentleman grew up a giants fan in the days of maize, covey, anti is now the giants chief presiding officer, larry baer. >> the man sitting over here, the beloved 2010 giants, honor not just our city, our remarkable 2010

san francisco is a beautiful city, a world class city and i enjoy it and am very much looking forward to this project to help beautify the neighborhood and help the neighborhood flourish and have some new neighbors and excited about going to have some new businesses and the new residents and the new businesses will support the local economy. and i think that the project is beautiful and as someone in direct proximity, i am in full support of the project. and i hope we get more projects like this in the area to help make our city better and more beautiful. and to help our neighborhood grow and be that much more wonderful and we continue being world class city. thank you. president olague: thank you. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: thank you. i am supportive of the project and as was mentioned, there's lots of support with the 30 letters from liberty hill and also in terms of the issue with the shadow, we have already d discussed that all things considered, it is still below the .1% annual incre

i would respectfully ask that when president obama comes to our beautiful city that there be a request put before him that we look at the city and county, which is the city and the municipality, ok? we got some showers here that need no where else. to -- we got some powers here that ain't nowhere else. we are a city and county. we are a consolidated neighborhood. we may have missed our opportunity to be a model for the redevelopment agency. one second, ma'am. 50% of the money has gone to affordable housing. we are not doing ballparks. this is the fact. we need that affordable housing. it need that for black people and people -- we need that for black people and people of color and so third-generation immigrants can live here. so, i am thinking that one of the things that we did do to deal with public safety, to deal with land use issues is to now start a commitment for jobs, housing. supervisor cohen: sharon -- >> lets make sure the twitter people are connected to creating affordable housing so people can afford to live and work here and give us their taxes. i want to thank you for tol

we're going to lose this beautiful city without proper planning. it is the plan, the housing element, also does not take into consideration middle income people. it was planned by the previous mayoral office for high-end. it was put together by developers. the advisory committee almost made me sick. i really think that this thing should be sent back. i think it should be reworked and i think it should have a across-the-board committee and not just predominantly builders. this particular plan was tried to be put through in 1976, just under another auspices and that's how we got prop m. the citizens are going to speak up and they're going to speak up loud and clearly that they're being left out and this is why i am so much on my bandwagon because right now people are being denied their rights of the codes as it is with this planning department. they're being denied the rights of light and air and what they say, build wall to wall. we're not there yet. this plan is bad. it's bad for the economics of the city, the quality of life of the citizens and it

entrance to a spectacular beautiful city. it will be the entry to golden gate that san francisco deserves. aye been in san francisco 20 years. i'm homeless. i got a good cup of coffee. i got a number. today i'm 359. >> you try to do the right thing and make a point to do what you have to to be at one place. they have all the services at one building. i can spend 4 hours touching each table ask and getting the information i need to get back on my feet. they are providing the services under one roof. you don't have to go here or there or wait until next week. >> at the time we opened we have folks waiting outside to come in. >> good morning. >> what we are doing is trying to find out what they want and need and getting them to their services as fast as possible. >> i came to the eye glasses program. making a couple of phone calls to my family at home. >> some housing, i'm here for employment. may be see about -- i've never been to one of these. i have not been homeless before. >> the scareiest are the people who are recently ho

entrance to a spectacular beautiful city. it will be the entry to golden gate that san francisco deserves. >> hello. welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance subcommittee meeting. my name is karimen chu. joined by ross mirkairmi and supervisor jane kim. our clerk is victor young. do we have announcements today? >> if you wish to speak during public comment, submit the card and present them to myself. please provide a copy to the clerk. items not appearing today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we will lose quorum if we don't take a quick recess. the mayor will be announcing the police chief and i believe a number of folks will be on hand for that announcement. so what i'd like to do before i call our agenda items is to take a brief recess. we'll say that we will return roughly around 10:20 or so. that probably will be enough time, i imagine. , before we are -- we return. so if we can we'll just take a brief recess, roughly about 10, 20

i was born in shanghai and came to this beautiful city of san francisco over 30 years ago with very little english language skills. and then i met my husband, who was born in jakarta, indonesia, over 30 years ago, and we got a great indication from uc berkeley, and built from the ground up, hard work and dedication, passion, and that is how, 16 years later, why we are proud to have such a high-tech company. we created over 3000 jobs in the u.s.. the rest total about 6000 people globally. we are very proud for the u.s. leadership in the high-tech industries and we believe the u.s. is the best innovating country, center of the world. let's continue to support and make sure we maintain that leadership. we greatly value of our existing policy within the apec economies, and hope to continue to foster these relationships through meetings and minutes summit. i hope that i can also share my experiences to encourage women around the world on this effort. at this summit, we will be focusing on the high-tech industry. on my side, perhaps i can share some experience regarding high tech, and we can col

entrance to a spectacular beautiful city. it will be the entry to golden gate that san francisco deserves. supervisor mar: good morning, everyone. good morning, everyone. this is the tuesday, may 24, 2011 meeting of the land use and economic development committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. to my right is supervisors cohen. to my left is supervisors wiener. we're also joined by a sponsor of the number of the measures, supervisor elsbernd. >> please make sure to turn off all cellphones and pages. items will be on the agenda, unless otherwise stated. supervisor mar: thank you to the staff of sfgtv for broadcasting this today. we have nine items. there's an overflow room. we plan to be recessing this meeting shortly at a little bit before 10:00 a.m. for about 10 minutes to 15 minutes. 4for the five items on our agenda, we should call the first item first and the next items altogether. could you please call item 1? >> item 1. supervisor mar: do we have a representative from the mayor's office? >> good morning. good

she referred to the beautiful city of parkmerced as zion. bellperson talk about replacing tone hole -- developers talk about replacing town halls. muni can be done now without destroying apartments. the civil grand jury has come out with their findings. the title of their findings -- the developers of parkmerced have lied to you 10 times. i'm going to read the two allies i think are so important. no. 5, the project will provide new open space. the truth, the project would eliminate 7 acres of open space. number 8, the project will make parkmerced green. the truth, it will cut down over 1000 trees. the phrase the developers used to describe parkmerced is that it is a design from the past. the true one, the manhattan ization of parkmerced. greedy, maniacal developers should not destroy this city. thank you very much. supervisor mar: can you repeat the grand jury civil -- the civil grand jury findings again? the major ones you talked about. >> the project will make parkmerced green. the truth, the project will cut down over 1000 trees. the proj

fourteen olympics is starting today right almost thousand here years and therefore it is only it's a beautiful city it's a good opportunity to do some of the first results of your work it's been reported that seventy percent of the infrastructure has already been tracked and is it true and there and there are you running. to still to show your schedule is right well on track with our ambition plan. to deliver infrastructure which will serve for the olympic games at least two seasons prior to the games to be able to run through the fall festival and program let me remind that we're having seven and seven international and domestic level events and played to nine of them are world cup and higher which will be hosted by sochi prior to the game it will be a great opportunity for us to test our. purpose built state of our great games well when are you starting the so-called tough testing of the events is it true that you are going to to hold a leg of the alpine skiing world cup and such isn't true or wrongly we have already done first international test of. european. cup was held on this february with a

entrance to a spectacular beautiful city. it will be the entry to golden gate that san francisco deserves. >> thank you all for being here. this first session, we wanted to have a chance in a slightly more informal setting, despite the cameras and microphones, to have a conversation with some of our leaders about what your experiences are as students. what are we doing well to help you get a college, and what can a day like today and leaders who are assembled here due to make that experience better for our students? i appreciate you all being here to share those stories. why don't we do a quick round of introductions, and i would like each of you to give us a moment about your name, what school you are from, and a little background about either if you are in college, how you got here, or if you are getting ready to go to college, how you made that decision and how we can help. >> i am kimberly. >> in chancellor here at city college. >> [inaudible] >> alright, this close enough? all right. i follow directions well, too. i'm ha

and we can't have that kind of thing at one of the most beautiful places in that beautiful city. >>> one of the very best in the business ever, is leaving his chair. jim lehrer is leaving "the news hour" on pbs after 36 years in that shop. it seemed to us like he was just getting started over there. he's been a journalist for 52 years. and despite that, it's really tough to find anybody who doesn't like jim lehrer. jim's the longest serving anchor in broadcast television today. he'll still join their friday broadcast, and keep a hand in the operation, but most of him is going to try enjoying life. and we wish him the very best. >>> when we come back here tonight "making a difference" for a little girl too young to understand the war outside her door, but badly wounded by it just the same. >>> tonight's "making a difference" report is about a girl we've met before, in iraq. now she lives in california and her story turns out to be an inspiring one because of a team of doctors here in the u.s. who made all the difference. our report from nbc's robert bazell. >> reporter: children of re

san francisco is a beautiful city. with a diversity of the people, diversity of its culture, diversity of its architecture. most of my friends who are immigrants and who have come, like my husband, to silicon valley in the bay area -- they do not want to be living in san francisco. i want to just remind you that the character of different neighborhoods in san francisco, the beauty of san francisco, the san francisco keeps different characters of its neighborhoods -- just to remind you, how many more people do you think would want to come and live in san francisco if it is not beautiful anymore? the question was where do we put more people. do you think that more people would want to live in such high density neighborhoods? supervisor mar: thank you. could the last couple of speakers please come forward?

this is a beautiful, beautiful city and d-4 and d-7 are jewels of the city. and i ask you to boldly, because i know budget cuts are hard, but it's going to be 10 times harder when you take away services from the seniors. when you cut back the nutrition program, case management program, activities, we only have one senior center thanks to mr. ginsburg. we're partners with park and rec for the past 20 years but with the budget cut i'm afraid we may have to stop paying rent. i'm here to ask mr. ginsburg to keep our partnership in tact. because as a city, the department of aging tried to cut back services for the seniors. any rent increase for south sunset center, any cut back of the nutritious meals will send a lot of our seniors out on the streets again with nowhere to go. so, mayor, thanks for your budget principle of safety, providing essential services is one of those safety principles and we ask you to please protect our population. thank you. >> i get the great pleasure of responding to that one. i want to thank you and south health for the elderly, a perf

all know we want to build a 21st century technological infrastructure and we all know we want a beautiful city and if there are things we could do in the next couple of weeks to move that forward, i would be happy to be part of that conversation. i think supervisor wiener articulated one issue around ensuring there is a neighborhood-based process that respects our neighborhoods. i also think there have been issues around ensuring that we're maintaining the existing right-of-way infrastructure and questions that have been raised about past providers and historic performance in being able to address this and i want to make sure some of those issues are dealt with but we have a couple of weeks hopefully to resolve this in a way that i do hope we'll be able to capture all of these different interests but clearly to members of the public, there is a wide diversity of opinion on i think what we think of this appeal and what we think of this broader issue and i want to thank all of the members of the public and i want to thank at&t for your tremendous patience in this very long hearing and in working

not use its veto which was indicative of it's not itchy to the issue if russia had used its beautiful cities in the east of the country could well have been destroyed it was of great help and taking the civilian population. along with the leaders of the other countries russia's president protests repeated in the work of the g eight and suggest that corporation between the international community and the could be regime it is hoped that this dialogue would sketch out a roadmap proposed could actually libya what's your view on that and what are the practical steps to be taken out or could doctors resignation. now. the steps to be made will comply with the revolution whose interests i mean requirement is that moammar gadhafi and his son should leave libya we are not against a dialogue with those who love their country of good intentions and transparency in order to secure a promising future for libya among those who served in the previous government that are many refutable people with whom we are ready to have a dialogue so that they can become members of the executive bodies of the future liby

beautiful cities both. so thankful to you for having us out here this morning. are getting people up early this morning. we appreciate it. what makes your town so unique? >> it's physically so beautiful. it's one of the most beautiful spots of the country, if not the world. look around, you can see it. it's what most residents love. the two cities work closely together. >> we do, indeed. with share the downtown and get along well. >> tell us about the importance of these cities for the sailors, visitors, the ferry service we have. >> the ferry service is unique. it's one of the few cities you can have a doughnut on the way to work and a beer on the way home. >> you have to love the bay area, too. the ferry service shuttling so many visitors to the area. >> no question about it. it helps the downtown. they need it on the weekends and the evenings as well. >> not a sleepy town here. >> it isn't. belvedere is sleepy. we don't have a downtown, we use this downtown. >> we have the business, they have the houses. it works out well. >> are the pleasure when you andfhepb