and through neighborhood watch, on a block by block, you got to get to the block by block level. this is where safe plays a huge role. i understand how vital it could be for us. you basically find a block captain, somebody willing to organize people and get a meeting together at their home or a place that's close where 5-10 people could meet. you talk about the particular issues you have on that block. you know in your case it may be the seniors living on that block. or you know in other cases it may be people want to do garage sale. a block garage sale another great community building tool. or block party or something like thachlt neighborhood watch is a great tool to organize at a block by block level to address the specific concerns and the seniors is it's a big concern. we are doing that on a we have a particular a couple of blocks where we identified seniors. we identified homes with pets. so in the case of an emergency there are other people on the block that know that are assigned to go check so you do the phone tree. and safe has a great process for helping you get that s

i live two blocks from the old location and half a block from the new location. a few years ago, there was a cafe, and they tried to put streets on -- i tried to put seats on the street. we appeal the decision and one to keep the tables and chairs of our street. -- we appealed the decision and won to keep the tables and chairs of our street, so our street was quiet. that changed after ike's opened. on weekends, we had people sprawled on the sidewalk eating food. i have had people sit on my window sill. it is ridiculous. now they will be a half block from where i live. i do not know if they realize how much business comes there. it is not from the neighborhood. there is no parking. our street is just an alleyway. there will be double parking constantly. it is a great business, but this neighborhood is too small for such a huge volume of people coming there. there is no parking. it is going to be a repeat of what happened before with people sitting on the sidewalk at all hours. it is just too much for the small neighborhood. we are not market street. we are a few b

also up not half a block from here, we don't need this use. there is this taylor streets art district the city is heavily invested in. how can you have a successful taylor streets art district when 90 turk almost at the corner of taylor you have this giant crowd in front of the tiptop market? this is the problem we face. and it is time -- i know the commission has been supportive of the efforts in the tenderloin and the fact i keep coming down and you keep showing us that the community is being organized and we're trying to improve things and we need to take a step forward, not a step backward by adding more liquor uses. thank you. vice president olague: thank you. >> good evening. i am the head of the association and i am here to speak on behalf of mr. rantsi. he lost a business of about $200,000 and invested another $150,000 on the new location and is conducting a very good and clean operation over there. unfortunately, the tenderloin is the tenderloin. there are problems everywhere in the tenderloin. but mr. rantsi has been punished for no

one had failed at the top of the block. we evaluated all the trees on the block. we identified that 14 chinese elm trees should be removed due to significant interaction with tanker, which kills the tissue of the trees. there is very poor structural form and canopy deployment as well. the tanker is still growing, but it is advanced in these trees are ready. it has been growing for a long time. two certified arborist did the initial evaluation. to address the notion, we looked at whether we thought phasing was possible. the indication that was recommended may have been a misunderstanding. we wanted to look at whether we thought phasing made sense in this case. we always do. i will emphasize that we always consider whether pruning and other actions can mitigate before removal. we never jump to removal under any circumstances. our policy and our ordinance is very preservationist of mature trees. we take that very seriously. i just want to emphasize that. a third of certified arborist evaluated the trees before the hour hearing, and then after the hearing at the reque

i have lived on the 1300 block since 1978. when i first lived there, the trees were probably already 30 years old, i believe. there was a time about 10 years ago when they did appear to be in very bad condition. but progressively since that time they have flourished. they look a lot better than they did 10 years ago. i may be wrong, but i have never observed the tree is having a very good pruning. i think some of the problems people have mentioned could have been overcome with great care of those trees. there are three trees to the right of my house that lost limbs within the last two or three years. again, i think that reason was because they have not been cared for properly. i do think that most of the trees should be kept, because of the historic nature of the neighborhood men and the beautiful foliage they give and the beautiful look a gift to the street. there would be perhaps three trees that could be replaced, and perhaps that could be an experiment to start with the three worst trees and then see what is done to replac

it retains the pattern along the laterally spoke -- laterally sloping blocke three. -- sloping block. the rear addition extends 6 feet beyond the neighbor to the west at a two-story white with a setback. the addition extends 14 feet beyond the thdr requesting or's property, but it is stepped interest. we find is appropriate with the use of setbacks on the upper floors. some loss of privacy to existing neighbors is acceptable for an addition in a dense urban environment. it will not have unusual impact on neighbors. the department has not received any additional comments regarding the project. under pending dr reform legislation, it would not be referred to you. the department recommends you do not take dr and approve the project as proposed. this concludes the presentation. vice president olague: thank you. dr requestors -- whatever order you want to go in. my name is leonard pond -- >> mining is leonard pond -- >> my name is leonard pond. i had two concerns with this proposal. one is to do with the setback. the project plan currently reflects a front setback 10 inches, based on the s

the block between 16th and market completely blocked and congested. hours of time with crowds milling about. you could not walk up and down that street. i had to start crossing to the other side of the street going the long way around the block just to get where i was going. we had people loitering in doorways, people sitting on people's front steps eating lunch, throwing things around, leaning up against my garage. forgive me if for being blunt, but a few times we have people vomit before my front door, and we had to clean it up. this is not what is being advertised to you. this is not a self-contained operation. in terms of anchoring a neighborhood, tangerine has been in operation there for 10 years. there has been continuous operation westar belly as. this is not about ike's. what he does is terrorized the neighborhood, and i strongly urge you not to approve the resolution. thank you. commissioner miguel: thank you. >> jack detail. i'm here as a private citizen on my own time. i'm here as a neighbor with the same concern that most neighbors would h

the backyard on that block has a bunch of trees and gardens. it is a wonderful block. the threats to its card developers who found it economically advantageous to build out to the four corners of the lot. they did that to all four corners and they did not spend enough money. they came up with a sack of money and import it into the houses. i have a steep driveway underneath my house. it works just fine. i do not think i could get a ferrari into my garage. my car works well. the green space behind my house is quite extraordinary. >> any additional speakers? >> good evening, commissioner president and members of the commission. i am an excepted expert by the secretary of the interior qualification accepted by the evaluation of historic buildings. it is an exceptional that for the third time in five years that the historic preservation office chimed in to change the determination on the something issued by the planning department. very little happened to the design of the building in the change of the status in terms of how it was treated. we have a building which was bein

we are also a part of the medical block full of doctors and dentists. one of our long-term goals is to include a center in the area for our members that provide acupuncture, herbs, massage and other holistic health practices. our other goal is to become a neighborhood institution that benefits the nonprofit center. there was recently a "the new york times" article about a medical grove in santa rosa created specifically to provide much-needed resources for artists and art activities. later we will testify more on this concept. we feel our dispensary would bring new businesses to the neighborhood and help fill in the high vacancy rates in our block between 19th and 21st street. for our members, it is strategically located between the 16th and 24th street bart station with the parking garage a block away on barlet and on the 14 and 44 bus lines. we do not anticipate parking problems. we have already employed many businesses and residents in the area and have talked for lots of people searching for employment. we see our entire operation of medical cannabi

as they arrived on 1800 block, unbeknownst to them, two men with violent criminal histories or having an argument inside one of the restaurants. these men were career criminals with asian gang affiliations. their arrest histories include robbery, carjacking, trafficking, assault weapons. this argument escalated and moved out onto the street, growing heated, just as sergeant gordon pulled the car to the curb approximately 10 feet from the restaurant. the string of four parking spaces next to his vehicle were empty, so he had a clear, unobstructed view of the two men as they came out of the restaurant arguing. sergeant gordon saw one man pushed the other backwards and told lt. parra there was a fight in progress and both police began to exit their car. in that instant, sergeant gordon saw that one man now have a revolving in his hands and was shooting in down irving street in the direction of the other man. surgeon court and chatted to lt. parra that they now had an argument that had escalated to a shooting. both officers sprang into action without hesitation. sergeant gordon, while dri

. >> i have actually lived on the block on chestnut about half a block help it enters. if he is sane that the guests will be mainly her riding through the bus or through the bike, this is pretty much a hill like this. this is right in the middle. you will not really be coming from the top this year. you will probably be coming in from ohio -- from columbus. above it is the residential. in terms of forming a line, a lot of it will be on the walls of their property. this will be lined up. >> this would be people's neighborhoods. >> the way it is and done, as you come up in chess not. -- chestnut. if he were to go around jones, they have that entire block. this is all contained within the one block. >> that is excellent. >> do you know any students -- how many students attend the artist to to to? we have a representative now. >> we were told -- the line could you repeat? >> 5 under 57 is the current enrollment but on the weekend we were told that the use is minimal. there are people who come in and work on certain photography projects. this is no where near five under 57.

on our block, on powell street, this is our windows. a restaurant, pancake house, around -- they have lines around the corner in the morning hours. the congestion of having trees on the street is also -- going to be a really bad thing. there's no trees to track litter and dogs. it is going to be a really sad thing. the idea of blocking the storefront windows, these valuable storefront windows, would be a very sad thing to see happen. on union square. i hope you -- you let us not have to do that. i appreciate your consideration very much. i think that -- other than that, i'm very appreciative. if you have any questions. >> great. thank you. >> is there any public comment on this matter? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner moore. >> this is a very funny store, i'm going to have to tell it. for the last 20 years, each time i go to the dentist, which i do every three months, i look at upper floors of the building. it is actually -- i ask everybody, why is this beautiful building empty? because obviously we all know we don't

by block. and no matter who lives in the block- but coalitions are so crucial for us to disseminate in terms of underage drinking and the prevention. give us an example, marco, of how block by block manifests itself in the latino community? so we have a coalition- actually, it's paid by the csap, the prevention, federal government in which we focus the underage drinking. so we have formed a coalition and the ecosystem becomes a part- the schools, police, community organizations, banks, everybody is involved in that and we bring together. and interesting, we hire moms to policing, if you want to say, patrol, there's a patrol, policing- so the moms are- the moms are working with us in terms of making sure that the crowds, the street, they go to school. and it's so active, involved, the community, that they are feeling like they are contributing and besides they are making a little money for their families. so i truly believe, you know, this notion of coalition and being involved in community, blo

i am blocks from places and stuff and so on my block. people walk around and do things. as far as traffic, i cannot speak to drive is being blocked. that can happen. we have star belly and frances. both of those have made it 45 minutes to find parking by my house at 7:00 at night. for different residents that live adjacent, they complain about the same thing. but we're happy to have successful businesses in the neighborhood. that is the point. someone who grew up in san francisco, went to grade school here, still lives here, choosing to open a business here, employing between 30 and 50 people -- everyone i have talked to who works there over the years has said he has been a great boss. i hear that when i talk to people who worked at trader joe's. some companies just have a gift for treating their employees right. i think it would be a plus to have him in the neighborhood. one more thing i wanted to say. there was another gentleman who mentioned this is san francisco and we have businesses and residential neighborhoods next to each other, on top of each other. it is true.

look at the middle of the block. the mid block open space is greatly enhanced by the fact there's a long row of one-story garages. there's no buildings there at all. if you look at the other side, where 36 is, you could see the buildings are all three-story garages. there isn't a four-story building on the street. just because they're talking about setting it back doesn't mean it won't be highly visible to those that live around and walk around there. especially as you come down the hill. notice the pictures of taylor street right at the bottom, all three story over-garage. i talked to the architect and they say, your neighborhood has penthouses in it. that gives you a precedent for another story. look at the precedent that is set. don't look at these tricky pictures that the architect presented with a line that makes it look as if the third story is hot. look at the picture on page five. these are penthouses that set a precedent for a fifth floor. it is a tiny unheated room that you go up the back stairs to get to i

the other buildings on the block as the presently exist -- as they presently exist. i ask you to approve a building that is in keeping with the character of the existing building and the block as a whole, which is, as you know, in line to be designated as a historic district. i request that the neighbors envelope -- that you take discretionary review. president miguel: thank you. are there additional speakers in favor of the dr? if not, project sponsor, you have a two minute rebuttal. wait, there are. >> thank you very much for your time. i want to first of all wish you a happy new year. the reason i came here is i live on 49th street, directly across the street from the building site. as i spoke to you back in october of last year, i spoke to the developers myself. they came around the neighborhood asking for support for their building. i told them i truly support a building -- a structure there. but i also need to go with what our neighbors in general want, which is a three-story building. beyond that, we really -- since they are just there to develop and sell the

we did not survey around the block. on the avenue, we are using the dpw information to calculate. ortega goes up to the third house. i do not know how 20% or 25% off. we did not survey on the avenue. that is how i would clarify the project. thank you. vice president olague: commissioner more? -- moore? commissioner moore: the project is code complying. is that correct? the rear yard setback is 15 feet, per requirement? >> could you repeat? commissioner moore: the rear yard setback is normally 15 feet? >> in this instance, no. the required rear yard should be 25%. commissioner moore: dissolution we're seeing here is 37%? -- the solution we are seeing here is 37%. this is an unusually wide lot, wider than the typical san francisco lot. the building sits comfortably in it. if one wanted to be picky, one could say the deck six -- 6 6 feet further than the projection of the house -- -- sits six feet further than the projection of the house next door. i am not sure that rises to a serious concern on my house. the house is a comfortably design house. i think there is nothing one could qu

police came here to the 1900 block of paca way just after 11:00 last night a block lined mostly with apartments. they say they found a 20-year- old man who had been shot at least once. he died at the scene a short time later. now, witnesses told police that they heard a vehicle leaving the area but they didn't see it so they didn't get a description and they are assuming what they heard was a getaway car. police say this is technically san jose's 6th homicide this year. but it will count officially as the 7th after they count in the victim a december robbery who died earlier this month. now in this case, officers hope witnesses will come forward with information and call them at either the police homicide unit or anonymously at the crimestoppers number, which is 408-947-stop. >> thank you, sharon chin. >>> an early-morning fire at an apartment building in san mateo forces five people to evacuate. it happened on south grant avenue just after 2 a.m. one person is hospitalized. investigators believe a couch caught fire. firefighters also resuscitated a cat. >> let's go back to one of ou

even in their new design, it completely blocks off our windows, which provide the only light we have to the middle of our house. in joe's design, by getting rid of the barrier and extending the light will appropriately, you can see the windows of our house. we would get a limited amount of sunlight, which would be a blessing. the second concern i have is still with the height of their building, which is still taller than our building. given the slope of the street, you can still see their building standing above our building when you are standing at the top of lloyd street. especially from the back, they have a four-story design. our house -- this is a picture of my dog -- is only 2.5 stories, at two stories with a little bit of a peak there. theirs is going to stand above all the houses at the back. we think it still does not match the rest of the houses on the street. the neighbors example design shows that two three-bedroom two-bedroom units can easily fit in a three-story structure. three-bedroom to bath was the definition at the last hearing. that was the goal of this project. o

one block to the next, the rules change, so a bus can drive down one block but not go to the next block. i think that in the effort to exclude the area from tour buses, we have not quite gotten there. also, i'm told that the mta will grant date passes or day trip passes to tour buses to come into the marina. again, it is a complicated matter. i do not have enough of an understanding about it. i do not know if sergeant martin has enough of an understanding that he could answer the questions, but we are looking to the complexities. as far as the homicide that occurred, we have worked with the old owners, and i think we have a fast track it for a new owner to come in. generally speaking, when a bar is not doing as well, if they have an entertainment license, they do what they can to make money. they were having outside promoters come in, and on one night, it was more problematic than the rest of the week. this promoter was not so responsible, and as a result, the homicide did occur, but the old owners wanted out. a new owner wanted in. i do not know if it is completed today, but in the ver

any ride with ken block is quick. block is a master of the sport known as gymkhana.obstacle course something like the equestrian steeple chase, but 100 miles an hour on four wheels. our ride lasted, well -- about 60 seconds. that can be addictive. >> was that what you expected? >> reporter: that wall was coming up pretty fast. >> yeah. i think we had about 80 miles an hour in that straight away. >> reporter: gymkhana is an obscure sport, even in the u.s. block made it a sensation with this video he posted on youtube. >> we filmed one day and, a couple weeks later i saw the footage, went holy crap this is some good looking goodage. when we put it up we expected a couple hundred thousands views or something, and within a week it had over a couple million. >> reporter: now, he's produced a series of rival videos that were in untube's top ten last year. block is the public face of d.c. shoes. he's the brand manager, and more. he was the founder of the company that started in college with printing t-shirts for skate and snowboarders. >> i wanted to be a pro buzz i was nev

we have block parties every year in may or september or something like thachlt this last one our block parties are great way for us to get everybody. we get the starving students. we get the musician and it is artists and the families we get the you know people from low income housing coming. we get the corporate america, we get everybody at the block parties. it's because we do a variety of things. we have the bounce house for the kid. the music. you at our last 1 the guy named didz hip he's great. he was riding his bike bite block party he's an hoola hoop guy. he's on his guy with 30 hoola hoops riding his bike and said, hi, can i join. he had all the kids. he had a microphone and he was a spontaneous celebration. he sdoont live in our neighborhood but we invite him back. have an event. [inaudible]. >> yeah. well, music, music brings in people. young professionals, young people like music and love free food. >> if i may comment. not only the young professionals but also people we live in a multili multilingual city make sure you involve every segment of the community in our organizat

today they began a block by block cleanup effort led by mayor jean quan. they are trying to curb some of the danger and violence in the neighborhood. >> there is a spirit of the citizens and residents of oakland that says we can make this the safest place in the country. >> reporter: right now it is far from it. this neighborhood has seen about a dozen shootings in just the past two weeks. >> at night we don't go out. we just stay home. >> this neighborhood has been down awhile and it needed a cleaning up. >> reporter: and mayor quan says this will make it safer. the broken window theory. >> neighborhoods where there is public abuse of facilities and where there is garbage, that people think they don't care. >> save a life don't take a life. >> reporter: a few blocks from the mayor a more vocal crowd. >> we are sick and tired of our young people dying in the streets. >> reporter: they do this every saturday and are glad to have the help. >> everybody who is out on the block right now telling the community we want the violence to stop, we are all needed. >>

this is not even affected by this block. >> they did not come to us. then, we were just presented with it at the beginning of november. this is not what you call good government or neighbor the relations. when you refer to the comment about the parking not being in the leases, we were told that the st. francis yacht club does not have anything for parking. why is this unusual for the export-oriented, by the way, they will not have any parking by the embarcadero. why can't they just do what the rest of us do? we can eliminate the idea of 18 spaces on our block that will affect our people. >> thank you. >> what i am here to ask is to recognize that we have passed on to you our concerns and think that maybe now. all right to build this park, but you are not there yet improving this. i am here to ask you to postpone the decision at this time and give us a chance to work with your people. i have a whole ton of questions. we have not had an opportunity to ask. my request is that you just postpone this decision until the next bead -- the next meeting. thank y