i am caroline kennedy from the improvement club.i oppose the up zoning of the hub plan area as it standing today owing to the impact on the already over burdened muni transit system. the environmental impact report is ex as ustive. they have missed the impacts of transit underground. we need to dig into the market street tunnel before this goes forward. when the current state of muni. i commuted to work until 2017 and still regularly ride muni. i experienced delays and lack of on time performance. i am sure everyone has been delayed by traffic in the tunnel. >> at rush hour i expect when i leave here i will be on the platform playing sardines or not able to get on a train at all. i often walk back from this area of town. no surprise. sf m.t.a. shows the streetcars running through the tunnel have an average weekday ridership of 173,500 people, up 16% from 2015. in the past year the streetcars had an on time performance of 41%. that is less than half of the muni official on time target of 85%. the chart attached to the hand out shows

of times after her husband's assassination and these were to be locked up for about 50 years, caroline kennedy, nearly 10 years ago decided that they should be opened and published though she asked me to annotate and explain them. >> the most surprising thing that you got out of that was? >> the most surprising thing was throughout the book i have little influence on my husband, all the credit goes to jack. and if you read the book care fully people that she discourages, disappear from the entourage, people who she praise s and one thing that came across he really understood that she had a very accurate ability to look into people and i think he too k that very seriously. >> one of the other things commented upon was that she knew a lot of what was going on in the government than what people thought at the time. >> that's what we find with most first ladies, in my experience, by the way, at the time the husband served, they'll always say, you know, it was always the president who did it, i had very little influence and as you get into the inner records of the administration you find that the f

i am caroline kennedy from the demlower resheights improvement club. thank you for the current state of 49 hopkins. my neighborhood has significant homes as well. this is important to us. back to basics. we all know. the san francisco general plan has -- san francisco general plan has priority one existing housing and neighborhood character be preserved and protected. two the city' city's supply of affordable housing be enhanced. that landmarks be preserved. illegal demolition of 49 hopkins violates all of these. the contractor was ordered to reconstruct the building. i urge you to uphold the decision. to do otherwise would damage the integrity and trust as citizens of the city. the general plan and housing priorities are core values and principals to guide how we evolve our city. thank you so much for your time today. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am bruce bowen from the san francisco land use coalition. with great surprise and distress i heard this project was coming forward to the commission last week in the comment fo

. >> good afternoon, president melgar and planning commissioners, my name is caroline kennedy from the delores heights improvement club. i couldn't agree with you more, president melgar, on the backdrop and need for a really strong new planning director. so thank you for asking us to give input before you begin to elect. i worked with leaders over 20 years on selecting and developing leaders. a clear and agreed upon set of criteria are key to recruitment and the selection process. more importantly, they're critical to the city of san francisco as you already said, president melgar. i cannot think of a moment of time in our city's recent history. to me, i'm going to go back and the last speaker went sidewalk level, which is also important, but to me sb50 is one of the things that epitomizes the importance of the decisions, choices and tradeoff that will shape -- or the important decisions that will shape the future of our city's built environment. what i hear from neighbors in the street, they're frustrated with homelessness, the lack of affordable housing for your young people, teacher

duncan kennedy, bbc news. let‘sjoin carolinee seen people joining has had schoolchildren. we‘ve seen peoplejoining from has had schoolchildren. we‘ve seen people joining from trade unions too. but many people left and decided to walk out of school today. we have two sixth form is today, we have rosie and boo. i thought it was important not to be passive but take action and provoke the government to do something. it's an immediate and pressing issue. and boo, do you feel it is irresponsible to leave to come ona it is irresponsible to leave to come on a protest? it's not irresponsible, we should show that this is one day of school and today we have made a change that is so we re we have made a change that is so were third. and how do you feel about the fact that they have been images around the world protesting. what is it like to see and be part of it? it is lovely, this is a really scary time but it is nice to know that you are not alone and so many people are striving to make a difference. especially in australia, thatis differ