and quite frankly we are running out of parking lots in san francisco to build housing in the city. e start looking at under utilized properties as opportunities for housing. we're trying to set a different narrative here in san francisco that we can all work to build housing for all, prechbs displacement and enhance our neighborhood simultaneously. we can't build housing on-sites like 1600 jackson where no residents or businesses are being displaced if we're going to have a very difficult time in trying to fight back against sacramento in playing a larger role in our land use decisions. and lastly, our organization has spoken with several experienced san francisco developers we have worked with in the past who have all said that this is a great site for mixed use housing and given the economics, the zoning and the potential density snenstives, they would buy the site and hold housing there -- build housing there until it would come on the market, so i urge you to deny this c.u. >> hello. my name is carter austin. this is my son archer. i'm here representing the polk district merchan

could you put housing -- could you build a floor of housing or put housing on the second floor of this building and build an additional floor of housing to get some mixed use on this project? >> on the existing structure, are you saying. >> president hillis: well, there's a nice loft style second floor that they're not utilizing very well. could you build housing on that site or even go up another floor with the existing structure and foundation and build kind of penthouse style above? >> i think it would be extremely difficult to add an additional story to the structure because it's an older building and the -- this compa formula retail. i have a memory of a couple years back in july during the pride parade, i walked into the whole foods on market and delores. i was absolutely blown away by the colorfulness, the rainbows. they had the la croix canned waters, all in an arrangement saying pride. the magazine rack was there, the flowers were right in front. i thoroughly enjoyed just walking into that store. the same store now is filled with metal shelves and check out counters. there's n

housing. this is a beautiful building. it is perfectly suited for a grocery store. it's ready to go now. it would take years and years and years to put new housing on that site, and i don't want to wait that long. i don't want to be in a wheelchair before i have a grocery store close to me. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you, miss taber. mr. holms. >> hi. i've been doing retail in san francisco for about 26 years. san francisco short on office buildings, short on transit solutions, short on affordable housing. the only thing we're not short on is divergent opinions, which this has come to light tonight. 365 is not amazon. 365's not whole foods. it's a completely different store, and i'd really like to bring up other neighborhood areas -- noe valley's a perfect example. 24th street cheese company has been thriving for many years, before and after whole foods' existence. there are three liquor and wine and spirits stores that are so closely attached to whole foods, i think they're about to tackle whole foods. noe valley wine and spirits, and others all exist in a healthy ecosystems.

buildings. acquire new development sights for 100 % affordable housing. and a moratorium on the sale of existing rent-controlled buildings and also the sale of public land for private or for-profit development, and on nenewmarket housing construction for projects not included in the existing kilroy realty -- central soma plan. thank you. >> good evening commissioners. on behalf of my family, the project sponsors of the 6,361st street project, it is a 250-foot residential tower. half a block from the transit baibay terminal on the subway station. we've been working with supervisor kim's office to explore means to increase the number of units in the project. within the parameters of a ir and in the proposed height limits. at the same time, we've been cognizant of the tower separation issue that this sight shares with the project next door. to that end we've been working with supervisor kim's office to propose few amendments that i wanted to draw to your attention. first, the amendment would reduce the power setback from fourth street to both increase the uni

mission housing has been building affordable housing with service-based model for four decades. we can point to years and years of data proving that housing people and providing them services where they live is better than literally sweeping the problem away. this city can and must do better. as representatives of each district in this city, you must do better. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is jack. i work at the coalition on homelessness, again, speaking out against the sweeps. it's weird to speak to this reprehensible silence that one would hope the city was better than and the supervisors could move beyond. there so is much wrong with how we're addressing homelessness and cities all over the world that disprove the frankly illegal and inhumane way that san francisco is treating homeless people. it's absurd. i hope today is a day that at least one member of the board of supervisors speaks out and maybe tomorrow another will and maybe we'll move to acknowledgement of what we know is wrong. thank you. >> thank you for your comments.

in san francisco, we do a pretty good job of building affordable housing. argue, we build more affordable housing per capita than any other city in the state. we need a regional volition. when they say no to 4400 units of housing, that's a problem. when the wealthy suburbs say, we do not want to build affordable housing, that is a problem. that contributes to it. the only way we're going to get out of this, is every region has to build housing and agree. i think it is important to find affordable housing so the term is confusing to a lot of people. when we talk about affordable housing, where talk about subsidized affordable housing. people are making like 60% of ami or lower. that's the difference housing affordability. anyone can afford to live there. we are specifically talking now, about subsidized affordable housing. teachers make too much money. >> right. >> we have a big middle income housing problem. >> there are segments that do not qualify when you look at requirements. talk about the lottery system. how does that change you would spin the barrel,

social housing but the revenue to build social housing has to come from somewhere where we're in the state of washington which has the most regressive tax system in the entire nation what that means is that working families are already overburdened with taxation small businesses are overburdened with taxation the only entities that have not paid anything close to their fair share in terms of addressing the social needs of our society are big businesses so the proposal is our demand the movements demand is that the city tax the largest three percent of businesses businesses like amazon starbucks facebook and so on and then we use that revenue to build one hundred of units of social housing every year and we also augment the funding for our homeless services. we've seen a pushback councilwoman there are a letter as you know but for our viewers with one hundred thirty local employers sending an opposition to the proposal but amazon notably did not sign what your response on the merits and how do you plan to convince or overcome the the opponents. well first of all let's tal

as mayor, my plan to reduce our housing shortage includes building at least 5,000 units every year. creasing funding for affordable housing, building affordable housing on underutilized sites around the city, like we will do at the mcdonald's sight. and reforming our city, -- archaic approval process for 100 %, compliant projects. the public safety challenges facing our city are personal for me. i know what it's like to have your car broken -- cart window broken not once but repeatedly even when you have nothing to steal. i boat legislation to curb heartbreak ends and tourist hotspots and commercial corridors through collaboration with a rental car companies stopping property crime and making sure people feel safe and protected in their own neighbourhood as a top priority of mine. as supervisor, i helped but 400 new police officers on the street including bilingual officers and as mayor i will add 200 more officers to our streets by the end of 2019. our city needs a mayor who will represent all san franciscans. we have a responsibility to everyone. people are depending on asked to wo

housing. and i think they should be the ones building the housing for their employees. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. every thursday the most frequently flown words in this chamber is what? housing crisis. ok. but nobody talks about how to address the affordability issue, that portion of the housing crisis. here's a project before you. people are asking for a fair share of the -- what the developer is going to be gaining. what is the fair share? is it fair for the developer to just fee-out from giving into the low-income housing? not really. not when week after week, every thursday, they stand up here before you, invariably, every single one of them that is dr'ed or cu'ed, we have a housing crisis. it's not only the houses crisis, it's the affordability crisis. we have a huge project by all standards and they're not giving in to the community. they are not paying the fair share. if we do not address the affordability aspect of the housing crisis we're not going to get anywhere. here's a basic example of

building. regardless if there's a crisis where we don't have enough housing, there's no excuse for building on top of that. i would support a moratorium. >> thank you. the next question goes angela alioto, mark leno, and amy farah weiss. what about treasure island? all of the toxins that have been left behind by the navy, which bases do that all the time. what are we going to do about treasure island? >> so i represent the district that represents treasure island, and we are watching what's happening there very closely. tetra tech watches it very closely, but we do meet with the residents on a regular basis, ensuring the cleanup process is happening as it should be with full oversight by the navy. we -- none of the land gets conveyed from the federal government to san francisco until it is fully cleaned, and we are also working with the state california department of public health to ensure that there is an additional layer of oversight on the work that the federal government is doing on that land. when that land is conveyed to san francisco, it will be 100% toxin free before we build any hous

salesforce has more than 60,000 employees in san francisco in this new building will house many of them. employees started arriving in january. the move-in process continues. this new building starts where the old transworld building used to be. the city has grown to be the center of the technology world. >> all i can remember is that i use to be at san francisco state in the way i would get over was to write the key system. >> the tower is going to define our skyline for decades to come. it is an amazing event for the city and it highlights the success we are having. our unemployment rate is 2.1%. we need to be thankful where we are in terms of our economy. >> reporter: today's media event continues throughout the day with unofficial lighting of the artwork in the top stories of the building which features 11,000 lights and cameras placed all over san francisco. you can see that this event is going on and a lot of people have something to say. this is a big event in san francisco. just a lot of people are down here south of market. reporting live in san francisco. >>> as part of the gr

but then we have to look at how we build houses and where we build them.ore with brownfield sites first. the race so much land being locked up that nobody is prepared, inland banks as well. yes, they are sitting, some people are sitting on, waiting for their prices to go up. again, even further. what happened in the arch is. everything happens in the arch is. everything happens in the arch is. i watch the radio. this is rarely exciting. page seven of the express. i had to do a doubletake of this story, tell us, what is the warning? haven't we all, i am sure we have all had, particularly a mum, stopping the car and saying all of you, out! and you all trot out and then he pretends to driveaway. the threat looms. it is looming at the moment. this is parents to be told to use them motorway hard shoulder is asa to use them motorway hard shoulder is as a naughty step could highway in the upper four because highway england has seen a child walking along the ma in bristol because they we re along the ma in bristol because they were on a timeout because of bad beha

one of the obstacles was fair housing limitations on your ability to restrict occupancy in a building that is publicly subsidized to one employment category. so we worked with then senator mark leno to get legislation passed at the state which allows us and every locality in california now to create teacher housing on publicly subsidized -- with public subsidies on school district lands. so all that put in motion what is going be, i think, a great development at 43rd and irving. so teachers, in addition to having a hard time earning -- affording market rate rents, they typically make too much to afford our housing that we build with low-income housing tax credits. so this is middle income housing for in-class room educators that this bond will be funding. in addition, we're going to have a component of this development funded with low-income housing tax credits to serve para professionals. really vital employees like, special needs aides and classroom aides and other in classroom instructors who are not teachers. their income is lower and they do qualify for tax credit housing. we pic

they've undermined three buildings, housing above. there are other things we can solve by doing these pre-start inspections. anyway, thank you. >> thank you, mr. boskaivich. >> is there any additional general comment? seeing none, item four. commissioner's questions and matters. 4a, inquiries to staff. at this time, commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies, practices, and procedures, which are of interest to the commission. >> commissioner walker, please? >> yes, we had a project brought before us at the abatement appeals. i would like to get an update on the status of that. maybe more appropriate for abatement appeals. >> make a note of it. >> do you want to give the address? >> what was the address? >> 1024 clayton street? >> yes. >> either way, in your update of next meeting, it's something that we made a decision about, and gave them time and the time has expired. thank you. >> no other further inquiries, item 4b. at this time, the commission may discuss and take action to set the date of a s

housing units. >> will have one chance to build density in places like this. once the building gets built, it is a 1500 year decision that the city is making. you have to be more forward thinking about it. port -- the bottom floor will be part of businesses and office space. >>> and the plan is in the works to transform people's park in berkeley. the park has its roots in the free speech movement and the antiwar activism of the 60s and 70s. in recent years, it has become a haven for the homeless. uc berkeley is looking to build housing for 700 students and 100 apartments for the homeless . >> i think it could be changed. a lot of homeless people, and i think building housing, it would definitely help. >> a spokesperson says the plans have not been finalized, but they could have an announcement by the end of the month. >>> they might be hiring so- called trash detectives. the mayor said that she will request funding for litter enforcement officers. she says that is a direct response to residents who are demanding the city aggressively address the dumping proble

that's definite than saying let's build a 12-story public housing project. we just saw in liberal california overriding zoning to build mid range development, voted down by the general assembly. >> i would just say it shouldn't be an either/or proposition. i think that there are multiple tactics that need to be deployed. there is a role absolutely on the local side on these local ordinances where local governments do have a particular role to play in furthering fair housing. to me, it doesn't remove the responsibility of the federal government to really seek to enforce the federal fair housing act in the way that it's meant to. some of that requires having those kinds of goals to do so. >> quick response? >> hook, you know, in 2009 secretary donovan took a group of us down to new orleans because it was the response to the hurricane. i visited ed parish after paris. those were heavily concentrated with minorities. at the end of the day you're talking about the westchester county case as an example. if you go to larchmont high school, you're going to end with a

u septemb uc berkeley plans to build housing there. takes controversial plan.ore. >> reporter: peoples park was born in the late '60s out of opposition of government policies, it was part of the free speech movement. the co-founder says it always will be. >> probably the only place in the country that you can go sign up and have a rally and say what you want. >> reporter: that is why he opposes plans to build university housing on the site. but students and neighbors say the park is more synonymous with crime and homelessness now than free speech. >> it is pretty dangerous oftentimes get a lot of alerts saying that there is armed robberies that happened. so it gets the students on their toes especially at nighttime. >> reporter: currently only a small percentage live in the few housing spots. the university says this plan would change that and more. >> we can put up student housing, we can meet the university's responsibility to work with the city and address the homeless situation, we can take a major step in terms of combatting crime and revitalizing that nei

soon uc berkeley plans to build housing for homeless and students, but it is a controversial plan.. >> reporter: peoples park was born in the late '60s out of opposition of government policies, it was part of the free speechco-founder says it a will be. >> probably the only place in the country that you can go sign up and have a rally and say what you want. >> reporter: that is why he opposes plans to build university housing on the site. but students and neighbors say the park is more synonymous with crime and homelessness now than free speech. >> it is pretty dangerous oftentimes get a lot offal alerts saying that there is armed robberies that happened. so it gets the students especially at nighttime. >> reporter: currently only a small percentage live in the few housing spots. the university says this plan would change that and more. >> we can put up student housing, we can meet the university's responsibility to work with the city and address the homeless situation, we can take a major step in terms of combatting crime and revitalizing that neighborhood. >> reporter: uc berkele

but soon uc berkeley plans to build housing for both the homeless and students.iven the site's history. eric thomas has the story. >> reporter: peoples park was born in the late '60s out of opposition of government policies, it was part of the free speech movement. the co-founder says it always will be. >> probably the only place in the country that you can go sign up and have a rally and say what you want. >> reporter: that is why he opposes plans to build university housing on the site. but students and neighbors say the park is more synonymous with crime and homelessness now than free speech. >> it is pretty dangerous oftentimes get a lot offal alerts saying that there is armed robberies that happened. so it gets the students especially at nighttime. >> reporter: currently only a small percentage live in the few housing spots. the university says this plan would change that and more. >> we can put up student housing, we can meet the university's responsibility to work with the city and address the homeless situation, we can take a major step in terms of combat

uc berkeley chancellor says they will soon announce chant -- plans to build housing for 700 students that land. it would also be used to build 100 apartments for homeless and developmentally disabled people. >>> some homes are now being built in record time. just a few months instead of a year or longer. the use of modular, prefabricated homes cuts down on project time and the cost. we learn about two couples on the peninsula that are taking the prefab route when it comes to homebuilding. >> reporter: in palo alto, they are building homes the new fashioned way, connecting several sections in one day. >> it cuts down to a third of the time it would normally take. to create a plan free -- prefab and since then, they have built eight prefabricated homes. >> it takes a lot of the unknowns and the unpredictable things out of the process. >> reporter: this resident says she and her husband went the prefab route to build their dream home for three reasons, cost, time and minimal impact. there four bedroom, three bedroom home was built at the prefab facility. >> logistically, these are 15 fe

, because developers will often say they can't afford to build more affordable housing or build open space and recreational centers, and it's important for people to understand the fact financing because we know developers make a tremendous amount of money for the city. we want to make sure they know the value of what they're creating in our community. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. >> whether we're talking about the planning commission, the inspection commission or the police submissicommission, i we a play out of the play book on mayor moscone from the 80's, and mayor agnos, and you could make a recommendation to me oz to who should serve on my commission, to make sure that they are filled by neighborhood folks who have an expertise in the issue area that that commission serves. please tell me why at the department of building inspection, you need to pay an expediter to get the permit that they should be presenting to you because you live here in san francisco. these departments should be customer service, and they should be serving our needs, and that's what a c

if that is where we end up today, we want to build housing in the city and, you know, if it gets us toplace of a compromise, we are willing to put that forward to discuss. >> thank you. >> i would support a 45 foot notch over five floors. absolutely. like the director said. >> i was trying to get something that was more in keeping with -- >> that would essentially be a two building scheme that is connected. >> without having to do a separate elevator? >> that is right. i motion to do a 45-foot with over five floor. >> a second. -- i second. >> did you want to speak? >> it gets us to the same place. the additional two floors is another 5,000 square feet of space that is gone. literally, the project doesn't move forward at that level. so we are talking about seven units. the department recommended three levels and 45 feet. we can do our best to try to make that project move forward. >> commissioner johnson? >> i would like to add according to the environmental studies, the addition of five floors does not get it a significant environmental impact to the baycrest neighbours. i am just con

housing. where youeighborhoods will lose certain tax credits in towns if you do not build affordable housing. certain neighborhoods are willing to forgo the credit, take the penalty versus building affordable housing. now, you do not need to say i am being discriminatory. you say i am not building housing that is not consistent with the character of my town, but that claim is rooted in a history of racially unequal access to finance, housing, jobs, opportunities. i just want to say, the legacy of the great migration persists to the present in terms of wealth. yes? >> could you talk about how the not bill after world war ii only in the south of the north, it was more difficult for gis of color to get mortgages than white people which as you said allowed them to build their wealth is not black people. prof. baldwin: you said it better than i could. that is exactly what happened. some african american gis were able to get the g.i. bill. all whites were. people want to point to exceptions and say there were some. that means it is ok. but it is ok. but the disparity between a couple of african-amer

says the move was prompted by a number of affordable housing projects that are in the pipeline but are waiting for official okay. the department of building inspection, public works and other agencies would be required to designate a point person for affordable housing projects. >> we needed to do something about the cost of building housing in san francisco. it is part of what we need to do long-term. we will look at the details, but it is something i've been pushing for quite some time. he met there continues to be a severe shortage of below market rate units in san francisco. according to a report in the examiner, last year there were 82 applicants for every low- income rental. >>> police in san jose will have patrols out looking for drivers and passengers who are not wearing seatbelts. the crackdown is part of the annual click it or ticket it -- ticket camping. this year the focus is from 6 pm until 6 am because the number of people who die in car crashes who are not wearing seatbelts is higher at night than during the day. >>> new security rules are in place for two big festivals in sacramento pick -- san francisco. the comedy festiv

the goal is to make it easier to build housing in the city.orary ordinance could change santa rosa forever. >>> oakland police investigating a double homicide on the east side. it happened near 89th and international outside the cash for gold store last night. police say the shooter is still on the loose now. >>> disturbing allegations against ride share company uber. a cnn investigation found at least 103 drivers in 20 major cities have been accused of sexually assaulting or abusing riders in the last four years. >>> cambridge analytica obtained users' information without their consent. mark zuckerberg testified about the issue last month. he is expected to address the issue again today during the company's f-8 developers conference in san jose. >>> robert mueller giving a list of four dozen questions to president trump's lawyers. they are part of mueller's ongoing russian probably. . >>> , you know,. we are tracking a rollover crash. this is along northbound 17 at moscatos. you can see speeds haven't started to slow just yet. but along 280,

we can't build luxury condos -- build our way out of this housing crisis that we have by building more luxury condos and destroying good intact classic nomes our community. i urge you to not push this any further and hear this today. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. it would be helpful if folks with line up on the screen side of this room if you want to speak on this item. >> my name is andrea. as our neighbors, i want to thank mr. eastwood because he was honest with us saying that he is here just for profit, that he is here just to build his house and to leave and let us deal with the repercussions of his decision. he -- i also want to thank him for bringing all of our community together. now i'm really good friends with all of my neighbors on this block who also oppose this. he is also detrimenting and putting us into another housing crisis because if you allow this to be developed, all of our neighbors on both sides of 22nd and cap street are going to be affected by them being the next victims with their housing. so please oppose this. this is not for us. it's not for

have you ever asked but the mayors housing, building affordable housing above our library? as you know, we don't own a lot of public space left in san francisco, and i love the libraries in my district, but they are low density. i am just wondering if we have ever thought about building housing above libraries. >> we would love to explore that further. we are aware of other municipalities that have colocated -- co. located library facilities and that matter. we have had preliminary conversations with hope sf with future public housing sights on libraries and having all city and county services available on the same footprints. we are very excited about that prospect for future libraries and we intend to embark on that in a meaningful way in the coming fiscal year with the public works partners. >> supervisor fewer: okay, "thanks. i want to say that rfid, i am also concerned about the privacy issues. and so i look forward to a deeper discussion about it and raising the same concerns that supervisor at sheehy did. >> we can certainly bring that next week if you would like, if

housing projects don't pencil out. my question is, when you build townhouses in the upper part of the building, there's a large amount of usable space dedicated to stairs, internal stairs, and my question is, could this site be developed at a higher unit count? just a question. when it comes to the roof, we had discussions in this part of town a number of times, and the discussion is that we do not want to privatize roofs with penthouses. i do not quite understand why the mechanical equipment is not more held to the center of the building and combined as we typically do. also, i believe that the railing leads from the street elevation should be pulled back from the building from all sides. we ask these kinds of questions systematically to virtually everybody. we should be asking those same questions here. housing on the site is fine. the devil is in the details. i'm raising the issue of how the roof is used as to whether or not townhouses on upper floors is exactly what we want, particularly they don't pencil out. we hear this all the time. it has b

schools and affordability are the selling points, and that is just fine for the builders who are building houses for people working in the bay area and silicon valley. the answers to the bay area housing crisis may be just down the road. >>> coming up, new details about a deadly plane crash in cuba that left more than 100 people dead. >>> the coast guard takes off their boat safety week and the tips to stay safe on the water. >>> some clouds this morning, but lots of sunshine this afternoon. look at what is already developing, the patchy fog is regrouping near the coast. we will tell you the timing of the next warming trend when we come back. i'm dianne feinstein and i approve this message. i thought after sandy hook, where 20 six and seven year olds were slain, this would never happen again. it has happened more than 200 times in 5 years. dianne feinstein and a new generation are leading the fight to pass a new assault weapons ban. say no to the nra and yes to common-sense gun laws. california values senator dianne feinstein say no to the nra and yes to common-sense gun laws. he's been called a

beyond it lie the two long buildings that house the korean trippy taka buddhist scriptures that are the real treasure of this world heritage site. the stone pogo to and the stone lantern are the monasteries to most ancient works of art. the main temple the whole of great stillness and brilliance. few. hours. watching. viral qana is the name of the great buddha justice and truth. the buddhist teaching has almost unlimited wisdom is preserved in these too long and too small buildings under the shelter of these roofs lies what is certainly one of humanity's greatest treasures the korean trippy taka. for asia this is a treasure as important as the library of alexandria long burnt to the ground or the pyramids of egypt or the few. other genuine wonders of the world. more than eighty one thousand printing plates were stored here they were made almost seven hundred years ago and record the knowledge and the thinking of the time along with the buddha's teachings and some sort of drugs not found another collection. eighty one thousand printing plates made in the thirteenth century almost two hun

think that it could be changed because a lot of homeless people live in the area and i think building housingould definitely help. >> reporter: uc-berkeley acquired this land in 1967 but activists declared it a park two years later and it's been one ever since. >> i have had friends who are homeless and they are, like, i don't want to stay there of all places at people's park because they feel unsafe. >> reporter: last year, uc hired a social worker to begin talking with the people who hang out here, a possible precursor to the housing plan. >> they want the city to -- >> reporter: a uc spokesman wouldn't confirm any plans for this park. but he says they could have an announcement by the end of the month. in berkeley, anne makevoc, kpix 5. >>> students across the country walked out of their classrooms again this morning to show support of the second amendment. this was the view from chopper 5 at california high school in san ramon. a few dozen students participated in the protest of stand for the 2nd. they stood outside the school waving signs and the american flag. the 16-minute pro gun rall

the third major component is the princess of wales conservatory all three buildings house endangered plant species. gardens director richard devereux old heads a staff of some three hundred scientists. but we have the millennium seed bank which is clicked in storing seeds it's like an insurance policy against extinction we have all drawing more than seven and a half million specimens we have the world's largest fun guy collection with about one point three million specimens i think he was quite unique in the combination of assets we have the science collections the living collections the landscape and the community of scientists and conservationists we have. the renovation work cost about forty seven million euros the largest scale modernization efforts undertaken in the greenhouses history nearly seventy thousand elements had to be removed and restored fifteen thousand panes of glass were replaced and over five thousand liters of paint applied the job required one hundred eighty kilometers of scaffolding andrew williams oversaw the colossal project. though it was put a risk register

i want to take you back to the earlier part of the meeting, housing, where do we build more housing? in the city, i think the answer is looking again at the candlestick portion, particularly the retail centre. they didn't show a lot of images about that, maybe they're embarrassed about it, and maybe they should be, because unlike this. there is a center, it's regional, automobile oriented retail, mostly single story that is going to occupy the candlestick portion. i look at the city's neetdz today, the retail needs in the city and think that should be housing. you need to ask the developer to say, that idea that was always dumb idea, is a lot dumber now. we have a mall on market street, and not one single tenant. maybe we're ok and we can focus on the real needs of the city which is housing. the other thing i want to talk about is 3rd street. it's been a while since the planning department has been out to talk to the bayview as a whole. but we're out there every year because we talk to the neighbors about planning and zoning. there is interest in revitalizing 3rd street. to have the

build more housing. if the cost escalate the wave they are, that's like the way they are, we will be priced out of everything. we will look at the details. -- if the cost escalates the way it has, we will be priced out of everything. we will look at the details. >> reporter: there is a severe shortage of low market rate units in san francisco, according to a report in the examiner, last year they were 82 applicants for every one low income rental. obviously the city of san francisco is struggling to meet demand. hillary ronan is hoping the legislation she introduced today can make a difference. in san francisco, ktvu , fox 2 news. >>> there was a celebration for the grand opening of salesforce tower today. community leaders attended the event. employees have also started working in the 1.4 million square-foot structure. it is the tallest building west of chicago. they invited the public to visit. they reflected on the view of the city that faces great challenges as well as prosperity. >> this tower, on t