this will be the new central subway station for chinatown, which is also transformational for chinatown. not only will it bring visitors, workers, shoppers to chinatown. it will provide much-needed transportation connections for chinatown residents to go elsewhere in the city. it is transformational because it will transform this corner. this building was built after the earthquake and will become a new gateway for chinatown. really positive things for the future of chinatown. we are not a stagnant community. history is not stagnant. we are really proud to be part of this transformational project. thank you. >> thank you. i could not have said that better. we really appreciate and acknowledged and respect and honor the history of chinatown, of our city, and by celebrating the installation of this wrap today, a big step forward in the progress of this project. we are honoring that. we are keeping the site looking good in the process. we're doing our part to keep chinatown as strong and vibrant as it has been for 100 years. this is a transformational historic project. we are honored to be

this will be the new central subway station for chinatown, which is also transformational for chinatownit bring visitors, workers, shoppers to chinatown. it will provide much-needed transportation connections for chinatown residents to go elsewhere in the city. it is transformational because it will transform this corner. this building was built after the earthquake and will become a new gateway for chinatown. really positive things for the future of chinatown. we are not a stagnant community. history is not stagnant. we are really proud to be part of this transformational project. thank you. >> thank you. i could not have

i will say that chinatown as chinatown gets a surprising amount of coverage, not just in, you know, new york city, but in cities all over the united states, in part because of this exotic factor, for better or for worse. so if there's a crime or there is some kind of movement or there is some kind of building or there's a conflict, in certain kind of things they'll cover pretty well, compared to other immigrant groups, like, let's say, koreans or... korean americans or certain kinds of... like, maybe even south asian americans, i think partially because almost every major city has a chinatown or something thereof, right? and so in sort of the intellectual mind share of any given city, there's always a fascination with chinatown and chinese immigrants. >> hinojosa: you said that part of why you wanted to write this book was because you wanted to understand your own americanness, and you wanted americans, all of us, to understand who we are. >> right. >> hinojosa: so what don't we understand, and what did you come away understanding better about who you are as an american? and you have th

it would not actually going to chinatown. -- go into chinatown. >> so right now, the existing conditions, there is a [inaudible] sud one and two? and so one is clearly in chinatown, right? it is a proposal they are not -- under the proposal, they're not combined? >> it is getting rid of the sud in chinatown. >> i am sorry, i do not understand. >> if you look at the proposed map, if you draw a line -- all that area here on this side of columbus would not be in the sud anymore. >> essentially you are getting rid of what is existing at washington-broadway sud 1. >> correct. >> i feel like that is a substantial change. i do not know what the controls are on washington-broadway. i feel like it would be hard to make it determination on that without knowing what the current controls are. it is a different proposal. it is the proposal to get rid of the sud. and i think the last thing i wanted to say is i would ask planning to work with a representative from japantown on the lccu issue. >> we have someone in planning that works with japantown and they are available to discuss legislation with the

in the fall of 2010, and i was upside to the southwest quadrant of chinatown. his restaurant was already on probation for severe and ongoing rat, cockroach, and sanitation violations. at an abatement conference, the department came to an agreement that if any of the violations returned, he would immediately be sent to the director of public health for permanent revocation. in april of 2011, i began my series of inspections. the condition i found was negligent, not only of violation of the prior year, but the intensity had increased. there were more rodent species in more places, more debris on the floors and walls and on the equipment. at that point, i have the authority to close them and send them to the previously mentioned director. i chose not to. we chose to give another chance to our restaurant that had just used up its last chance. typically, when i go there, we went back and i told them what they had to do. typically, he tells me that it is because of the decline in business. i've always had great sympathy for that. i expressed to him that the cause and

is live in chinatown with the latest. >> his mouth as gotten him in trouble once again.e says that he is sorry if he offended anyone, but he is sticking to his original statement. believes some restaurants in chinatown and throughout the city should close. >> i apologize to those who feel that i've disrespected them because i don't do that kind of stuff. >> council member and former mayor marion barry tells abc 7 that his words were taken out of context during his election night victory speech 20 spoke against asian businesses in d.c. >> we got to do something about these asians coming in and opening up businesses and 30 shops. >> bunnies not backing down from the claim in a but some of the restaurants are dirty and unsanitary, describing this chinatown restaurant as not fit. >> those who won't do it, they're not welcome in our community, whether they're black, white european, asian or anything else. >> the shop owners we spoke with defend their businesses. >> we clean. >> it's a major disappointment. if the people did not need their services, they would not be in busine

the city has made chinatown a tourist area. the people that live there do not feel like it is a tourist town. we have people with a lot of children. i am the mother of six children, ok? what the young man was speaking about, how much the bus fare cost, it is ridiculous. we cannot afford it. people cannot afford it.

we are delighted to be here in chinatown. thank you to all of you who came out. there's going to be some noise during this event. this is a very busy street. that's one of the reasons we are doing this project. we are here today -- i am transportation director with the sfmta. thank you, boss. we're geared today to mark yet another important milestone and the steady, continued progress that we are making for the future generations of san francisco in this critically important project criticallyphase 2 of the light rail, otherwise known as the central subway. it is a project that is very important for building capacity, to move san francisco in the future. it also has benefits for current generations of san franciscans. the benefit comes in the form of jobs. you cannot mention the word jobs these days without thinking of our great mayor lee. out further ado, i want to ask mayor lee to come up and say a few words. mayor lee: thank you. thank you for your great leadership. we would be dryer if the subway was built. we would be right here. i'm looking forward to it fo

the city has made chinatown a tourist area. the people that live there do not feel like it is a tourist town. we have people with a lot of children. i am the mother of six children, ok? what the young man was speaking about, how much the bus fare cost, it is ridiculous. we cannot afford it. people cannot afford it. $5 to catch the cable car, can anyone imagine how many people is not counting the cable car that live in the area? a lot of people do not know anything about san francisco. that is all they do, they come and vote. they do not know the condition of the people live in different neighborhoods. i have lived all around san francisco. i want to be a part of that cac to keep you guys on the right track. [applause] >> [reading names] chairman brinkman: are those people here? >> we are with the families united collaborative. we are speaking as a group. we are a citywide collaborative of families who live in single room occupancies. i am a staff and one of the organizations. they will be speaking cantonese

we're doing our part to keep chinatown as strong and vibrant as it has been for 100 years. this is a transformational historic project. we are honored to be able to participate in it and bring this great change to chinatown and to san francisco. with that, and we are concluded. there's more information on our web site. i want to thank you all and are dignitaries for joining us today >> may we please all rise for the pledge of allegiance? [pledge of allegiance] mr. president, i will conduct will call. -- roll call. [roll call] president, you have a quorum. president mazzucco: ladies and the moment, welcome to the wednesday, march 28, 2012 police commission meeting. as we do the last wednesday in every month, we are out in the community. in each district station, we have gone on rotation. instead of going to city hall, we come to you. this is the most fun the commission has. we will tell you a little bit about what we do in our day jobs. and we'll tell you a little bit about ourselves, how we got to the commission, and we want to hear from you. you will hear briefly from the

. >> it has been a san fransisco vote for a century but a quirky and popular restaurant in chinatown may never open again unless they can get it up to code. lisa washington in san fransisco where supporters of the eatery have been speaking out at a health department curing all morning long. >> that hearing just wrapped up a few minutes ago. a public health hearing that says there will be able to reopen if they can bring that restaurant up to code. i spoke with the daughter of the owner and she says they certainly want to reopen and it will be working with health inspectors to correct their violations. >> on the day of closure ... >> the owner of the samo restaurants fighting to keep his business open. he explained during a public health during their efforts to bring the 106 year-old chinatown restaurant up to code. >> generations of customers coming through, it is just chinatown and very san fransisco, it is for anyone who has loved the place here. >> they are in violation of a litany of health hazards. a health inspector provided pictures of what she found during a recent trip. the

recognizing it is commonly understood to be an institution that is part of chinatown. >> let's take this first one. recognizing that is the potential, the next move is to the lake street corridor. >> can i ask what the percentages of district 1 are currently? >> the deviation? district 1 is under populated by 4.96%. >> folks were thinking about this move. let's go >> 4.96% 3 district to come out -4.91%. district 3, -4.01%. district 4, -0.98%. district 5, 2.73%. -- -2.37%. district 6, 0.87%. district 7, -0.83% pettitte -- . district 9, -- district 8, 3.58%. >> district 9, 4.84%. district 10, -0.91%. district 11, 4.94%. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. >> could you repeat district for? >> -4.90. chairman mcdonnell: going back up to russian hill. can you give us the population of that highlighted area and deviation? >> that is a population of 202 people, bringing the deviation for district 3 to -3.70% and the deviation for destitute to - 0.519%. commissioner alonso: no. commissioner melara: come back to me. yes. commissioner melara: could you tell me what the boundaries are? >> lombard, green

he of hoping to -- middle of twine chinatown. he was hoping to build -- chinatown.e was hoping to build some bridges today. ward 8, there are only 197 food establishments here including liquor stores, gas stations and school cafeterias. across the river in affluent ward 2 there are 1,960 places that sell or serve food. d.c. councilman marion barry created a firestorm last week when he singled out asian carry- outs calling them dirty places and declaring they had to go. what were they saying in the beginning after his words? >> we say why mayor barry say that? >> reporter: tony chang, one of the the best known asian business leaders, has had numerous cell phone conversations with barry since those remarks. >> he always liked asian people. >> reporter: the two have been friends over 40 years. chang credits barry with the thriving chinatown that we know today, for the arts, to the apartments to the thriving gallery place metro corridor. it all started with barry as mayor. >> 20 years ago nobody wanted to come to chinatown. he make it happen. >> reporter: i called chang

based on feedback from the chinatown merchants, we are eliminating the requirement for conditional use for limited restaurants, as requested by the neighborhood. there are other amendments as well, and folks will have an opportunity over the next week to review those changes. but i will say that these amendments make an already strong piece of legislation even stronger, and, colleagues, i look forward to having your support, so are there any comments, colleagues? supervisor mar: supervisor wiener, i want to thank you for your work on this along with supervisors olague and chu in your openness to amendments, and i am glad this will have a little bit more time for people to give input, and i am looking forward to those amendments. i really appreciate the hard work that you and mr. power and other separate into this, as well as supervisor olague. supervisor wiener thank you, president chu. -- mar. if there are no comments, i would like to ask for others to come out. >> good afternoon, supervisors. at the request of the supervisor, i was sure you the video that was shown. i am supposed to

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in the -- is the second phase of the third street library project, which will go all the way to chinatown. much of last year, the board approved the budget of $1.578 billion. september 2011, the mta submitted its request for the full funding grant agreement, which is the major financial milestone for the project. thus far, the board has allocated $9 million. today, the expenditure totals 173. the full agreement is expected july 2012. there has been some discussion about what happens with the allocation, but in a way that signals fda's intent, they awarded $85 million to the project in fiscal year 2011- 2012, and that is the fiscal year that ends in september. the phase in which the final design is complete, and it is happening concurrent with construction. the first two packages the tunnels and stations are complete, and the systems package will be complete in made next month. construction, as i mentioned, is under way. the first contract is complete, and the second contract in the area of union square -- i'm sure you noticed the activity there. it is 85% complete. the tunnels contract --

locations should be in chinatown and north beach. last one, a mission. thank you. >> [speaking foreign language] good evening, everyone. my name is maggie and this is my girl and she was born on november 22, 2007. we applied to attend transitional kindergarten. we were disappointed by the transitional kindergarten this time. we feel we were deceived. when my girl saw that her other classmates received assignment letter to kindergarten, she was very upset. she asked me why i do not receive any letter? i also took the language test and my teacher said i was doing good. i was very unhappy. did i do something wrong? i really want to attend the kindergarten with other kids. when i heard my girl say that, i felt so sad. this is not her fault. but she has to pay for the result. i want the school district to use the funds for a transitional kindergarten to support these groups of kids this year. and also place them to the school of their choice. tahnhank you. >> everybody, good evening. my name is -- my son was born on november 20. my oldest son is eligible to a

to continue to make this an educational facility of the same quality that we have in the mission, chinatown, north beach, at our main campus. [applause] i have to be honest with you, our performance leading up to this over the past seven or 8 years has been more in some respects quite disappointing. quite disappointing. no argument about it. you have to give the devil his or her to. if there is change, and we believe we have made significant change, we want credit for the change that we have committed here. our board of trustees and myself have committed extra resources for this facility and when we were taking those away from other areas of the city. >> thank you, chancellor. >> i think we have to time you add three minutes to be fair to the other people that we will be speaking to. >> here is a man to my right, he spends every day in a facility now. he is not an absentee coordinator or administrator. his face is known to the people here, he has done an outstanding job since he has taken over and he has been the man on the spot. >> thank you very much. good evening, commissioners. i was as

now it is my great honor to introduce an activist who i met in a chinatown 20 years ago.vil-rights leader. now i am very proud to say he is the mayor of san francisco, california. this is our major, edwin lee. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor. thank you to supervisor mar and supervisor olague and of course supervisor chu. it is very important that we have this input from all of you tonight. tonight, those of you who have used your precious time to come out, we're here to listen to you. we made a promise that we would be a much more open government, that we would make sure in our decision making that it reflected important input from all of our communities. as you go, i've been trying very hard, and i think we have been relatively successful in making sure that our budget process really is reflective of a neighborhood priorities. tonight, i am not here alone. i am here not only with members of the board of supervisors, we're also here with a hole that the of representatives and department heads from various city departments and have dedicated their profession

oregonthe chinatown community development center arranges for the involvements who use tools and supplies by the city of san francisco. >> we get leaders to care about the community and clean up the area in chinatown, to spruce up and make it a more harmonious environment for its residents and merchants. >> this year the volunteers targeted ports mouth square and several chinatown alloys. alleys. >>> international pillow fight day sent feathers flying around the world. organizers say the pillow fight is a collaboration of a loose network of people who arranged for so-called urban playground events. here in northern california fights were scheduled in sacramento and in davis. >>> leftie is looking pretty good. phil mickelson bags an eagle at masters and where he stand as the first majority tournament of year enters its find round later in sportswrap. >>> and will the youngsters dodge raindrops hunting for easter-eggs tomorrow? mark tamayo has the complete bay area forecast. >>> >>> well, a nice start to this holiday weekend with warmer temperatures, just a few high clouds. can see behind m

it was wrapped very nicely with some images of chinatown and also of what the station will be looking like. mta has been pursuing eminent domain in parallel in case the negotiations do not happen. if they cannot be concluded in time, then they will proceed with eminent domain in order to avoid impacting the schedule of the project. there's also 3 easements. and g-8 received possession in july of last year. here, you have the schedule milestones. i will not bore you going through every single one of them, but the most significant coming up is the full funding grant agreement expected in july. as i mentioned earlier, december 2018 is the revenue service. commissioner avalos: do we anticipate any controversy in pursuing the full funding bread? >> no, basically, the mta wants to -- once they receive the application, they have been answering questions. the mta has been responding, and everything seems to indicate that it is on track. here, you have the full funding. this is something you have seen before. as far as some funding actions, there was some uncertainty, but that has passed becau

. >> it landmark restaurant in san francisco's chinatown is shutting down after 106 years. >> word is getting around chinatown that sun walk will be closing and some people are coming in for their last photographs, their last meal. it is a historic landmark. the family has owned the establishment for the last half century and has said it has been having trouble with the health department which has ordered the restaurant to close. the daughter of the owner says inspectors have told them the kitchen is not up to code siting issues from fire hazard to unsafe food storage temperature. the family says it does not have the money to renovate so the restaurant that has been in a spike lee movie and welcome celebrities like the chinese president and david letterman will shut its doors tomorrow night. the family says it will not be the same. it was well known in decades past four of the world's shrewdest waiter. the restaurant is also known for the dumb waiter that chance for its food. it will close tomorrow night leaving about a half-dozen employees without jobs. >> mitt romney supporters are

. >>> what can i am standing in trouble with the hottest spot in town right middle of chinatown's sambos restaurants it's been around for over 100 years if you're used to choosing your restaurants based on internet reviews the chances are you will probably have never stumbled on the slowly of local 7 fax 1 customers says it was disgusting discussing discussing i have not yet forgiven my friends for dragging me here the dixie cups that were on the table for the water had bite marks the reviews like this actually haven't really heard business at all in fact there really added to the charm. maybe it is the food. >>> they may get like nobody else in town. >>> the hours. did we is the only ones to look in the night's or the court. >>> all tables and mismatch dishes in is really one of the best of all restaurants in san francisco when you first set foot in to samos in chinatown is clear you aren't in great fine dining experience. that is kind of the point. >>> is one of the few places and san francisco we can still buy a big plate mills for $5. it was the home of the world's richest later and

. >>> a restaurant in chinatown for decades now is actually closing down tonight. noel walker says how the interior was too much for them to digest. >> how do you measure success? some businesses it is in earnings. at some, it is measured by the plate. >> you can not get a better lunch anywhere in san francisco for 5 times the price. >> reporter: the line started early this morning outside of the narrow 3-story chinatown fixture. >> open the door. [ laughter ] >> reporter: when the owner opened his restaurant today for the last time the door closed on a piece of san francisco history. >> it is older than the golden gate bridge for crying out loud. it has seen a lot. >> reporter: she has been serving the chinese dishes for more than a century. >> pork rolls. >> yes. it is really good. >> chinese donut. it is classic in itself. >> reporter: the classic restaurant was featured in the "tales of the city" with the cramped quarters, no thrills food and snarky and rude staff. where else can you get a workout running two flights of stairs. but the run down building and agi

i am the center manager for the chinatown one-stop career links center, operated by self help for the charity. we provide many resources for job-seekers looking for work, as well as a free assistance to small businesses looking for workers. in district four and district 7, we were wondering of supervisors and the mayor to look for resources for job-seekers who were looking for work, because there is a lack of job training programs, as well as for english learners to learn english. because we are seeing job- seekers and seniors coming into the chinatown area and using services there, and there is a need. it would be great if you could consider that. thank you for the opportunity. [applause] >> any other questions? george. i was surprised he waited this long, george. [laughter] >> thank you. george, district 7. a question for mayor lee. i wanted to ask him if he felt extending parking meter hours, increasing parking meters, adding parking on sundays, increasing traffic tickets is going to help create jobs in san francisco for small businesses? >> wow, you really waited a long time for t

. >>> the first set the the exam was in chinatown is clear you aren't in for a fine dining experience but that is kind of a point. >>> is on a few places in san francisco we can still buy a plate of noodles for $5. it was the home of the world's richest waiter and sell who was famous for serving up insults along with your meal. >>> he was the reason was so busy and became fodder for late- night comedians. now after over 100 years at the local landmark will close its doors. for violating health and safety standards. >>> the restaurant is not to code and it is hazardous to our customers and its hazardous to us. to be preparing food at in such a small area. >>> is a huge blow to the family who spent most of their lives in the kitchen. >>> is a shock. it's really upsetting. hit its emotional for both my daughter and myself because be spent so much time at this restaurant. the been waiting in line for over an hour to get their food if you're the type of person that basis the restaurant choices based on interviews in the never stumbled on this little gem in 51 person on health said they cal