this became before us at the operations committee commissioner burny and buell sunched with me and heard many same arguments on both sides and didn't have queeus robust turnout in public comnlt but that added a lot to what our position was that day. and that is that our job as a recreation department is provide recreational opportunities. you have seen the public comment this morning about the demand on our fields and obviously the demand is great, but one the charges is bring people to a sport and to increase peoples interest in a sport and if that means we can do that by facilitating a professional team in a park facility and make that affordable i see that as much of our responsibilities as anything we do. that isn't to say we don't have great sensitivity to the concerns of the neighborhood. i know we kbet numerous requests for kezar stadium and the department is sensitive to what some of the requests are and many of the requests have been turned down because they are not compatible with the neighborhood. we have taken into the consideration of the impact on the neighborhood and feel

. >> commissioner buell, here. commissioner low, here. commissioner bonilla, here. commissioner harrison, here. commissioner mcdonald, here. commissioner levitan is on the way. we have a couple announcements. we are-the order we are going in today we are going to start with the presidents report which is extremely short. we are then going to item number 4, which is general public comment. after that we are going to item 8 which is ceez arstadium and then the other things on the agenda. if you have sound producing devices please turn them off. in regards to public comment if you fill out a blue card we'll call those first and then open up to everyone on each item. how many minutes do you want? general public comment. because we have 15 minutes in the first period let's give 3 minutes and we'll look at other items. >> 3 minutes on general public comment and then he will- >> see how many people want to testify. >> during public comments the commission nor staff will respond to public comment while it is going on. commissioners may ask staff to respond when comment is c

an unlicensed 23-year-old driver, duke buell, convicted of drunk driving. the driver of that cab is from elmont. >>> a church van carrying children flipped over after a speeding car hit it. and new surveillance video is showing just how close of a call this really was. news4's brian thompson has the latest tonight from jamaica, queens. >> reporter: the video shows the man holding the right-of-way, and then the impact. a car running the stop sign, slam sbug ming into the church sign. >> we had a five-month-old baby. she's pregnant right now so we focused on getting her out and on the baby. >> it was actually a nine-month-old baby along with a three-year-old and a pregnant mother in the car, part of the family of the youth pastor who was driving a teenage girl home nearby church. >> i see the neighborhood people. everybody tried to get the kids out. they were kicking the windows out. they were trying to get everything out. >> reporter: at the time no one knew the seriousness of the injuries. it was a desperate rescue effort. >> they could not get out. the sea

he stayed in the vest buell -- vestibule area. when the man left the station, he did not comply with his orders to stop moving, take his hand out of his pocket and allow himself to be approached by officers. three different officers fired on the man. he was hit multiple times. he was fired on by counter s.w.a.t. team officers. these were actual rounds. at the time police didn't know the device was not a bomb. they had to take it seriously, something that the baltimore police spokesperson explained a few minutes ago. >> hindsight now being 20/20 there were candy bars in that bomb, that device, that replica outfit he had on. when he walked out on the street he posed a threat to the community and officers and they were forced to use real guns to shoot the suspect. the entire staff of that fox 45 news station has been evacuated. they are not being allowed back in the bu to put on a newscast out on the street after being out of their building about five hours. we are expecting one more update tonight potentially from police off camera

commissioner mcdonnell. >> >> thank you, president buell. my questions are broad about the shadow items that come before us on a regular basis and my concern and i recognize and acknowledge there is a fine line between the mitigation of the impacts, and the reality that what is under the jurisdiction as i understand it of the commission is to determine whether or not the shadows will have a negative impact on park/open space, and community? not evaluation of the level of community benefit investment. and we dance that fine line all the time and often the case for the benefits of the investments, which are significant and very commendable for project sponsors to make. it often feels a little like -- forgive the pun, but it's sort of intended shade thrown over the fact of shadows by virtue we're investing x amount of dollars in community. that makes me uncomfortable, and raise the question frankly that shouldn't be raised. if the shadows are insignificant, they are insignificant on their own and stand alone when you juxtapose them next to each

it was a buell factory. but he didn't meet that many people because in the factory the things doing the jobs were robots, not people. >> it's the robots that are stealing our jobs, not the mexicans. we can have the robots build a wall around themselves. >> they're mexican robots. >> the economy is growing slower, slow. but with camouflaging this, is the innovation and the capitalism that's flooding our country with cheap goods, quality, affordable electronics, who people who aren't as well off as they were before, are living better than most anybody around the world. the poor in the united states have better living standards, because we have all this stuff and it's getting cheaper and cheaper. sooner or later, we have to address that problem. what do you do with a workforce that's no longer working? >> i problem is where you see the 99% saying why can't you help us? >> look to the white house and say why hasn't this president done more to improve the u.s. economy. instead of putting a pox on the house of the

. >> commissioner buell. >> here. >> commissioner low. >> here. >> commissioner bonilla >> here. >> commissionern. >> here. >> commissioner levitan here. >> and commissioner mcdonnell. >> here. >> a new few announcements this is the april 21st of the recreation and park commission and we welcome everyone here today, but ask that you turn off any sound-producing devices that could go off during the meeting. we also ask that you take any secondary conversations outside, in order for the meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. if you would like to speak on an item today, please

by applying the standard practices that we would do in our business by looking at national register buell tin 32, for instance, and much of the review that we ended up doing and what we're looking at is this is what's in your packet at the jrp report and i aom going to summarize it a bit here is much of that review ended up looking at sort of making comparisons to assess the potential for the significance of the subject property and each of those comparisons or many of the comparisons i should say presented issues that challenged the relative historic importance of the subject property. and i do note that some of the comparisons are perhaps more important than others but i'll go briefly through them. the first major issue that kind of came up on this topic was how important motorcycle sub culture is within the history of san francisco, particularly in the mid 20th century, and i didn't find compelling evidence that it seemed anymore important to the general history of san francisco than it would to any large urban sent ner the mid 20th sentbacker sfrj ri, partly what we did was looked for

by applying the standard practices that we would do in our business by looking at national register buell tin 32, for instance, and much of the review that we ended up doing and what we're looking at is this is what's in your packet at the jrp report and i aom going to summarize it a bit here is much of that review ended up looking at sort of making comparisons to assess the potential for the significance of the subject property and each of those comparisons or many of the comparisons i should say presented issues that challenged the relative historic importance of the subject property. and i do note that some of the comparisons are perhaps more important than others but i'll go briefly through them. the first major issue that kind of came up on this topic was how important motorcycle sub culture is within the history of san francisco, particularly in the mid 20th century, and i didn't find compelling evidence that it seemed anymore important to the general history of san francisco than it would to any large urban sent ner the mid 20th sentbacker sfrj ri, partly what we did was looked for

. >> commissioner buell. >> here. >> commissioner low. >> here. >> commissioner bonilla >> here. >> commissioner harrison. >> here. >> commissioner levitan here. >> and commissioner mcdonnell. >> here. >> a new few announcements this is the april 21st of the recreation and park commission and we welcome everyone here today, but ask that you turn off any sound-producing devices that could go off during the meeting. we also ask that you take any secondary conversations outside, in order for the meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. if you would like to speak on an item today, please complete a blue card,