they know this is not about just chinatown.hey know that the larger challenge is affordable housing for all san franciscans and all californians. >> mr. james k chan. come on up. >> thank you, supervisor peskin for this incredible honor and thank you to your fellow board for validating and pulling focus on your individual community members and my fellow api honorees. regardless of our individual and collective political priorities, i think we can agree that we have one common thread out of many and that is a deep, deep love for this city. my family and i are refugees to this country. sponsored over to minnesota. and in the mid 80s we relocated to san francisco and lived in the tenderloin district. >> and it is also about the beloved neighbourhood of chinatown. and it pulls focused back on my neighbours and those are the human pillars of the community. and i could not do it alone. and i have two cat two of my team here who i proudly stand next to you. [applause] i have my researcher and our outreach coordinator. this recognition

chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to

still that serves 2000 district in the chinatown in the past it was the tradition and my family was the royal chef in the pot pals that's why we learned this stuff and moved from here to have dragon candy i want people to know that is art we will explain a walk and they can't walk in and out it is different techniques from stir frying to smoking to steaming and they do show of. >> beer a royalty for the age berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest they think this is - i really appreciate they love this art. >> from the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you don't have to go far. >> small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. >> you don't have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. >> san francisco has to all. >> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about

village and it was a chinatown of what looked like before the earthquake and it included every negative thing could you think of about chinese gamblers, opium dense, an essentially viewers were supposed to go in and supposedly chinatown, as you can imagine, chinese not very happy about this. so some local chinese residents, white sympathizers, who community,he chinese launched a letter writing campaign to officials and with the help of the chinese commissioner to the that they eventually got attraction closed. wasn't idn't mean there any anti-chinese sentiment anymore but they got that shut down. 1939, china was already at war with japan, japan invaded deeply i am a is meshed in this war with japan so the government of china did not send a delegation to the fair. they did not erect their own building but the local chinese a munity actually raised great deal of money to erect their own chinese village, which placed on -- also on the midway of the 1939 fair, which and hen called the gayway, a huge chineseed village with chinese acrobats, producing tsy tans, traditional craft, in that way,

i am a chinatown community planner at c.d.c. in 1940, my dad was a teen achbager who worked on a ship in san francisco, and because war broke how the in the pacific, i had to find a way to stay in the city. during that time, the exclusion act was in full effect thanks to julius kahn. he actually called the chinese the most debasing people on the face of the earth. my dad's outlet was tai chi, and he would go to local playgrounds to practice it, as a way to feel he belonged in a city, in a country where he was constantly told he didn't belong and was not welcome. and so if it wasn't for the repeal of the act, he wouldn't have become a citizen, and i wouldn't be standing here today. i believe that there's power in history in place and names, and renaming this park is a critical step for our city to work towards one which our public spaces are safe spaces where all feel welcome. so -- so the next time i bring my kids to this park, i sincerely hope that it would be way more than a teachable moment where i have to force them to -- fo

a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the war most of the street-car lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. in 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. and it appeared that san francisco's iconic cable cars had seen their final days. entered mrs. cluskin, the leader to save the cable cars. arguing that the cable cars were a symbol of the city, and she entered a charter placed on the november ballot. it passed overwhelmly. the california street cable railway was purchased by the city in 1952. there were cut backs on the cable car system and in 1957 only thr

chinatown is very walkable. as you know they have very fresh fruits and vegetables in addition to all the small markets and services in the area. and i'm afraid that after working for whole foods what a new store does to a neighborhood, it brings tons of traffic, tons of people, and it's already crowded over there, you know? we're already looking for parking, we're already looking for safe bike riding, safe walking, things like that. so again, i would surgery you to -- surgery you to vote no and definitely yes for better housing. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you, mr. rios. >> my name is nick, and i'm speaking in support of whole foods 365. unlike most opposing the project, i live in the neighborhood. i live in the same intersection as the proposed development and i've lived there for 20 years. if you have any doubt if the vast majority of residents are in favor of a neighborhood store, go to my building, buzz them, and ask them. i'd like to thank the planning department for its common sense recommendati

when you go into chinatown and you walk through that gate, you know immediately you are in chinatown. i would love for that to be the case in the castro, and the bayview. sorry if i'm all over the place. >> supervisor cohen: i guess this is a discussion that we'll have over the next month or so is seed money for cultural districts. if you are in a part of the county where there is very little development happening, there would need to be seed money. i know we're connecting the legislation to hotel tax, so we can begin to have a conversation about what that seed money is and what is the appropriate level. thank you. colleagues, any questions? if not, we can keep on moving. supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: i'm sorry if i missed this -- how are the development costs absorbed at all? we mentioned that it's all these departments that are collaborated. do they absorb it in the budgets? >> at this point, the existing departmenteds have been absorbing some of the costs but it's not at an expanded level. we've been limited to being a grant organization if we need to work with existing co

>> right, so that's chinatown, mission, and ocean view. we started off with feasibility study in a partnership with public works, and once we concluded that, the library commission determined that at this juncture, we would proceed with the renovation of the mission library first based on its most immediate needs. so the proposed budget adds another $14.9 million to prior allocations which would allow us to fully fund the mission branch renovation at $19.8 million. we will also continue to do evaluations of the chinatown and ocean view library locations to further did he ev out some scoping allocations. we are funding them on a pay as you go basis. other investments in the future have to do with creating facilities master planning, so really figuring how where we want to invest and how do be responsive to the community needs. so you see some small investments there and then a pay as you go approach in the second year. we're also looking at efficiencies by refreshing our automated materials handling system but that also includes an enhancem

my dad and my grandparents were born and raised in chinatown. i'm a resident of district 3. supervisor peskin, i called your office yesterday and asked if you were supporting this resolution, city proposal 22 and i was told you have no public opinion. i hope you vote yes on it. i want to urge all of you to support this resolution. i have deep roots in san francisco and i have been out to rallies where we have been supporting the families of people who have been killed by police, like mario woods, alex, lopez, i have seen the pain of the friends and family of these people and i really believe if the police had been implementing these reforms that these young men would not have been killed. i've been to police commission meetings with the p.o.a. is clearly against the reforms. it really breaks my heart to see that. so i hope you support this resolution. sorry, this is the first time i've been to a board of supervisors meeting. i'm just learning to use my voice. so i want to know that i could be heard. i also wanted to speak out against the sweeps of the tent encampments. sorry

i always try to work with the chinatown merchants to get them involved in some of these programs. >> president adams: they've got a good merchant district there now. i like the woman who is 's run it. >> she's been attending the monthly council of merchants meeting, so it's great to have that connection. >> president adams: any other commissioner comments before we open it up to public comment? okay. do we have anybody -- anybody have any public comment on item number five? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion to approve? >> commissioner riley: i move to approve. >> commissioner dooley: second. >> clerk: okay. there's a motion by commissioner yee riley, seconded by commissioner dooley? roll call. commissioner adams? commissioner dooley? commissioner dwight? commissioner or t commissioner ortose cara hehn a? commissioner zouzounis? item passes, 6-0. >> president adams: next item, please. >> clerk: item six, approval of meeting minutes, in your packet are the meeting minutes from april 9, 2018. >> president adams: do we have any commissioner comments on this? if n

in the older parts of the city where you have multiple forms of transportation and north beach, chinatown. we installed -- yes, photos in there -- we have a stop sign where individual neighbors had been asking for three years for an area that was significantly in need of a stop sign. i have no idea why it was denied but i have appreciated the sfmta responding and i appreciated being out there installing it. you can ask mr. maguire, people were coming out of their house -- multiple people came out of their house -- at least 10 neighbors at 10:00 on a friday or 11:00 on a friday, they came out to really tell their stories. one woman said i was the person that personally put in the petition and was denied multiple times and she came out. she had no idea that we were even installing it that day. so she was ecstatic. so i can tell you that i have no intention of wanting to review every single stop sign or speed bump or traffic calming measure. but what i will say is that is one of the goals of what we intended to put forward is that there can't always be this burden put on residents to say you

most of the residents in chinatown are seniors. if you guys have ever been to stockton street, you know how crowded it is, and it's like a football field. you can't get through. there have been instances where we've seen grandmas and grandpas holding groceries, and there is a scooter in the middle of the sidewalk, and they just stare at it, what is this? and they have to walk around it with their heavy groceries. they're just trying to get home to make dinner. so it's really important to us that community stakeholders should have a say of where scooters could be parked, and we hope that these electric scooter companies will work with the community to make sure that this program fits san francisco's needs. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. welcome. thank you for coming. >> thank you. i'm nancy mcnally chl i. i'm representing four generations of natives, and i was run over by a scooter rider april 18th, and i was coming around the muni overhang protection thing to avoid the scooters on this side -- on the sidew

the company doing -- union square and chinatown. the company doing the work installed track from a lower grade steel. the city paid extra. the builder got it wrong. >> as the letter states the rail that was installed was the standard grade rail. in the contract, higher grade rail to be installed meant to ensure it lasts as long as it possibly can. >> reporter: the contractor says the track of all purchased with their approval. they changed their mind of what grade of steel they wanted in certain places. if the track has to be replaced it will not effect the project timetable. >>> after a decade of planning, work is under way tonight on the massive waterfront development as san francisco's pier 70. it will transform the world war ii ship building site into 28 acres of housing, retail office and art space. as part of the deal they agreed to save and refurbish some of the old buildings to reserve the industrial feel. >>> facebook is moving into the new headquarters. one of the biggest leasing deals in the city in years. the addresses a