other cities are doing better than we are. that is an important issue we have the highest rate in the city, and you're probably higher than any other city. " we have spent on pedestrian safety over the last four years is close to $13 million. >> how to balance the needs of the district compared to the city? supervisor kim: it is interesting representing a district and a collection of neighborhoods. for me, it is interesting because i represent the city of san francisco. i mean you represent those who live in the district. i care very deeply about what is going on in terms of racial tension between asian and african american communities in the bayview or whether we're talking about muni were talking about public safety issues in other neighborhoods -- i think it is important for me to support the issue's going around the neighborhood. i think most san francisco residents do not identify themselves by their district. >> once again, the city is faced with tough budget decisions, including whether to raise taxes and fees or whether

and then he moves to boston and then take some of the persona but detour it was a better city and theture of the time but then he goes to prison and given to the members that were taken end to him from slavery then when he left the nation of islam he went to make the pilgrimage the arabic name at was publicly known. -- are several stages of a evolutionary development to grow and evolve and even answer the reinventions that he undergoes, there is some characteristics and some who are incredibly define and challenging all forms of authority to the present authority of malcolm x then coming out in the nation of islam challenging the authority structure and certainly wanting to bring the united states before the world court and the united nations for human rights violations someone who was always challenging authority someone who was deeply disciplined and had incredible integrity for much of his life. so although they can have spiritual identification there are certain core characteristics that i think are consistent o -- zero. >> host: april 2011 dr. marable had died when? >> guest: sad

we want to have a better city. an earthquake should not have to come before we all come together. it is time that everyone in this city that brings money to the city and loves this city is a fear it will want to know what is going on at city hall. we need to let people know what is going on. people do not know what is going on. we want people to know that is not free shelter. thank you. >> thank you, everyone, for coming out. i want to thank all the speakers. i want to thank everybody who is here. i am a district 6 residents. i am a parent in this neighborhood. i am a service provider, and it is beautiful to me to see our community here. district 6 is a lot of times the overlooked community in this city. people forget that families live here, people live here, so it is beautiful to see you all he appeared on april 16, the department of public works is doing a community clean-up in the south of market, so look into that. come out and support, and remember, this is just the beginning of the process. this is just the beginning of the budget process. if you were not able to speak, writ

inspire other project sponsors and architects to do great work that will make our city and even better city. thank you. president olague: thank you. are there additional speakers in support of project sponsor? please line up. >> good afternoon. i want to tell you that i personally approved plans on the design for the new home. as a friend of david, i have witnessed the development and the improvements of the design over the last three years. i have discussed the progress and final renderings with david. i approved the plans to open up the land next door for public use. the stairways of san francisco are a treasure for us to enjoy each day. his visions of opening up the land is very generous. it is an overgrown public space. for him to improve and agreed to maintain it for the public good is very generous. i encourage you to support this project. >> good afternoon. i am a friend of david's. i want to keep the short and simple. in the 15 years i have known david, he has oftentimes put the concerns of others before his own. i think that in this project that is put before you, he has been willi

creating a better city environment is up to everyone. yutaka yano, nhk world, wuhan. >> back to the basics there. >>> in other news, italy's u.n. ambassador dashed hopes that a japan supported resolution to expand the security council will be passed this year. japan, germany, india and brazil are hoping to join the council and plan to submit the resolution by september to increase the number of permanent and non-permanent members. in an interview with nhk, italy's u.n. ambassador criticized the draft resolution. the four s only aim is to get nations and said ratification would be difficult. >> the bad aspect which is the only one frankly, because the only point which characterized the proposition is to have new permanent members and they think about themselves as new permanent members. >> he also said the proposal is supported by only 0% of u.n. member nations. he added japan must have already realized how difficult it would be to adopt, changing the number of u.n. security council members requires a revision to the u.n. charter. it must

i'm a little bit more of an optimist than that i do think not allowing people to smoke makes the city a better place and i do think making the city a safer place for cyclists makes it a better place to live it might take its little bit misguided and i don't think it makes it a better place but i think overall the effort in the city to to you know make it safer for cyclists benefits everyone so so my question is that a revenue stream ok so my question you said earlier you feel like now that this has gone such exposure there's this responsibility on your shoulders what do you think that is what is the bigger statement here do you think it's kind of ridiculous laws that hurt the people or ridiculous police it sounds like you don't think it's about the budget issue. i don't i don't the economics has much to do with it i think it's for me the goal or at least my agenda has become with this louder voice has become to make the place make new york city and maybe everywhere a little bit better for cyclists and i think if anything my message has become you know make new york city better for cyclists by

city's economic development. are we on the right track? what would you like to change about the approach to developing the economy? >> we are getting better. the city as got more proactive about attracting businesses and new industries and providing incentives for them to come and stay here. it is still a very expensive place to do business in terms of the cost of labor, land. we need to make sure that we are not taxing businesses to the point that it is not profitable and we are not attractive for them to be here. we need to reform our payroll tax. that is an incentive not to create jobs. i know the board president david chu is working on possibility this there -- possibilities there. i look forward to working with him. we've targeted efforts to revitalize areas and bring industries here with the tax holiday and proposal introduced yesterday relating to parts of the tenderloin to provide some payroll tax relief to encourage businesses like twitter and others to go there. >> the governor has proposed eliminating funding for redevelopment agencies. what is your opinion of the plan? what are your thoughts on the value of redevelopment agenc

as a city, we need to do much better at creating an environment where we have more jobs and economic velopment. we are also extremely challenge in our public transit. we talk about being a transit first city, but everyone has had the experience of sitting in gridlock, waiting for the bus, trying to hail that tab, walking on pedestrian sidewalks that are not particularly safe. as a city, we need to do more to invest in the first-class transportation system. >> what are some of the biggest issues facing your district? >> in addition to the local economy that impacts the merchant corridors, to many vacant storefronts, transit issues, in every neighborhood we're having a real conversation about how we change, whether we should preserve aspects of the important characters of our neighborhood or think about building new things. there is also a real discussion we're having in many neighborhoods about affordability. i hear from too many tenants in the process of being evicted, homeowners being foreclosed on. we need to think about how all of us can continue to live in a city where the whole w

this louder voice has become to make this place make new york city in maybe everywhere a little bit better for for cyclists and i think if anything my message is become you know make new york city better for cyclists by targeting people rather than the cyclists you know if you want to stick to the bike lanes and keep the bike lanes clean and. keep the keep the streams out of the bike lanes ticket people from parking in the bike lanes and get the n.y.p.d. to stop parking in the bike lanes there you go does probably the biggest ok there you have it making the world safer for bicyclists everywhere that would still make our case a nice dad. and that is going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to archie dot com slash usa also check out our you tube page at youtube dot com slash our teeth america all sorts of great videos on.

better. >> the city of san francisco kicked off an effort including safe spaces for children to play.ll be an increased police presence in parks in the coming weeks. more patrols will take place in golden gate park. >>> i remember yesterday at this time our chief meteorologist bill martin told us that we would see triple digits and we sure did. >> now this cooling off quickly in the oakland area. the fog is back. live stormtracker 2 shows the fog coming up the coast. that is the south tower of the golden gate bridge. you know what that means, basically fire danger goes down, air quality gets better and the heat advisory goes away. it is just that kind of day. the fog will return this whole week. the fog tomorrow morning ride along the coast. more up towards petaluma. this is the computer model. 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, fog at the coast and in pacifica. the fog will be a player right through this week. the high pressure goes away and this week, low pressure comes in. this is a mechanism that is allowing the fog to enhance itself. this is a classic summer pattern, by the way. it is c

my city is better than yours. my response to that was you have to have -- that should be the objective of any city in america. who is going to follow you if your mission is become the fourth best city in florida? [laughter] >> eighth best in america? nobody is going to follow you. people follow excellence. people are drawn to it. resources come to it. individuals start coming forward. people hear about it, i want to be part of that. out of stanford, the large research and development company, very big group. we were recruiting them to florida. curt is the head. he came and met with me. he said we're thinking about doing it here, here, here. what do you have to offer? i want to ask you what do you have to offer? how are you going to help us build the best city in america? his recent book that he's about to public, that's what got him to come. he wanted to be part of becoming the best city in america. so that has to be your mission in my opinion, everybody's. and then how do you do it? you do it by improving the qual

city? the better health care and better schools. all of that comes from redistricting. we need to hear those voices. supervis kim: you mentioned looking at the map and saying it does not make a lot of sense. could you mentioned a couple where you felt like neighborhoods were being divided up and did not make sense to you? >> i could mention the inner sunset. i never saw their being a difference between that inner sunset and our son said. we have the same neighbors and went to the same school. -- their inner sunset and elder son said. but apparently there is a difference and like someone to explain it to me. supervisor kim: i used to live in the sun said. any other questions? thank you very much. next, we have paul hogarth. >> the morning cause supervisors. i have lived in san francisco since 2004, having lived in districts 5 and 6. i have actually worked in san francisco for 11 years and i have been politically involved for the last 15 years. i was a political science major at uc-berkeley. i actually enjoyed studying maps and political demographics and a always had a pa

a use which is presumed better for the city but is highly questionable in this case. the lot -- the lot and use predates the current zoning cold. so by default of its early construction, and nonexistent planning, the parcel inherited an n.c. zoning code. a zoning designation appropriate for standard sized lot on high street but not appropriate for an acceptably large lot that intrudes halfway down russell street, which is an rh-2 zone. therefore, the lot never had any planning sense applied to it. and the result of that inadequate planning is a conflict of use. existing park transit use versus residential use. the use changed to residential violates urban design principles. as the commission knows, it can take d.r. for extraordinary circumstances. and according to planning, those circumstances occur as follows -- one, where the commonplace application or adopted design standards do not enhance or conserve neighborhood character. in this case, the existing building use and mask conflict with the surrounding residential and n.c. area. the project creates an oversized ou

city was going to maintain them. well, they have come in some cases better than others, but it is an iconic corridor that people can compare to other places in the city. like delores street. people know where it is. we would like to keep that going, and as the previous speaker mentioned, it is not going to happen if individual property owners who run a little coffee shop on the corner or rent out a couple of apartments -- how are they supposed to take care of trees like that? so i would urge you to make arrangements so that dpw actually gets more tree maintenance vehicles because the city needs them. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. another iconic street is persia street in the excelsior district. next speaker please. >> good morning. the key word for today is the iceberg. i consider my mother to be a victim of ex-mayor newsom's screening program. in 2008, this letter was received and underlined the department of public works will be responsible for the care, watering and long-term maintenance of the trees. short-term maintenance is my responsibility. as a caregiver, the letter basically said, we do not want a tree

quickly and at the time greg was working at the public utilities commission and i felt he would better serve the city in bayview. and greg and i had a very straight out conversation and i have to tell you that greg not only exceeded all of my expectations, did an incredible job in bayview. he immersed himself in the community while at the same time embracing come -- comsta tfrt an incredible level of humility and elegance, bringing crime down and working effectively with the community. i can't think of a better choice for this position today than greg suhr. i'm honored to be here and i look forward to working with you to make san francisco the safest large city in america. >> finally but most importantly, the police commission, as i said earlier, did a thorough job. it was a difficult job because it was is the out to be the highest standards possible and to have a community process, a process that reflected an openness, a transparency, yet kept the pledge to the community to find the best and highest standards for selecting a chief and presenting to me that opportunity to do so. so i want to present

i have been with friends of the urban forest for 11 years now and i have never seen better staffing with the city and working toward our shared goals for the city. this is a move backwards. i will not repeat what others have said, but we will see a lot of the legal pruning practices. the larger more significant trees we are losing at a pretty good clip these days. also, the time it would take 42 -- dpw staff to transfer ownership back to the property owner, we believe that we could are better spend the money on education programs, simple, great management. there is a question that i have related to the concrete around existing trees that will be relinquished. if there is damage to that country in taking out the tree, is also related to the cost? that is something that i would like to ask dpw. i think we will hear a lot from other speakers. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> thank you for holding this hearing. from what i gather, it sounds like you and most of the people in the room are concerned about this issue. i am a longtime resident of the richmond district. i moved there over 50 years ag