(speaking foreign language). >> therefore chinatown is chinatown and chinatown belongs only to chinatownand does not belong to rose pak. therefore i object to name the chinatown subway station after rose pak because chinatown is a monument of more than 100 years and it is the rule of overseas chinese people. you can often see in chinatown people hold parades in chinatown chinatown. so our route is chinatown. so chinatown station should not have the name of rose pak, no matter how much credit she had for chinatown. actually, i don't know what she really did for chinatown. this is what the media and politicians say. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> increasenext speaker, please. (speaking foreign language). >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm an attorney in human rights in china. china and now i'm a permanent resident of the united states. (speaking foreign language). >> i love the kind-hearted of san francisco. >> i don't want the beautiful name of san francisco to be tainted. >> my son is a u.s. military person. he's giving his share to the freedom and democracy of this count

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this shows that the business owners in chinatown want to have the name of chinatown station. this is the voice of people of chinatown. i would like to ask the supervisor of chinatown, would you please leave the business owners in chinatown and listen to their worries, and respect their choices. as a voter of six districts, i would like to also ask the board board, especially my district supervisor, to support the chinatown merchants and residents choice and not name rose pack for any public structure. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: good afternoon for the president and board of supervisors. >> voice of translator: i have been in the district for nearly five years. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: during these five years, our family members go through -- [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: i heard the subway station would be named after rose pack. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: we want to know what the opinion is of chinese merchants in chinatown. [speakin

at least have the station named after chinatown if you're going to kick out chinatown residents. it is like watching how chinatown used to be like ten years ago, and having it progress more into the american culture, stuff like that. i think it is only fair to name the station after this location. >> board of supervisors, please listen to your people. respect our views, and be a true representative for them. please, especially mr. peskin, drop the resolution to name after rose peck. one of my friends told me a story -- >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. next speaker, please. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: good afternoon, supervisors. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: i'm 72 years old. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: when i was in china, i suffered from severe illnesses and that's why i was introduced by a friend to this. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: under the ruling of the communist party of china, there were a lot of lies and deceit. it was difficult to believe in others. [speaking forei

chinatown is our chinatown. this is not a political gift. so i really want you to think it over. i won't use up my two minutes but the message is important and that's why so many people take time off work and come over here. don't clap. see, i am doing my job. >> thank you so much. next speaker, please. (speaking foreign language). >> good afternoon ily in district 4 and i thunderbay this is morally problematic. today i'm voicing my strong objection about naming the station after rose pack. i was also curious how chinatown citizens about this issue. so last week, i volunteered to visit different chinatown businesses to talk about 100 chinatown residents collecting signatures who oppose to name the central station after rose pack. (speaking foreign language). >> rose pack is a two-says the person. all of the things she did was for her own profits. she used to threaten other people if they refused to support her. she said she didn't have any savings but owned at least three real estate properties. the rest of the people, some said they strongly opposed to name the station after ros

wong with the church in chinatown. >> everybody knows chinatown station. it comes from someplace else. when they say chinatown station, you know where it's at, but nobody knows rose pack. if you don't live in san francisco, you won't know it. >> the second, the gentleman is called henry. >> yeah, chinatown station. they told me that most -- >> the third, she's the owner of hair salon. >> the reason why i think that the new station should be chinatown station is that mostly newcomers don't know who rosa park is and so i leave that, you know, as merchants in chinatown, i think the city should promote it as a chinatown station, not rosa park. not any individual, because we all, you know, contribute our taxes for the city. >> as you can hear from the last lady, who is a chinese-american, she already got confused about joe pack with rosa park. please do not name the subway station after jo pack. thank you. >> president yee: we're going to pause the public comments until we get through our special order of business. that starts at 4:00. it's now 4:01. let's go t

chinatown is chinatown, it's not rose pak-land.axi drivers got shafted by the liberal mayor's office that just let them die on the vine. inaction, isn't that the new way to go about doing things? a break and don't worry about it? well, we need help from this office right here. sales force tower. let's cut it up into four pieces. let's leave one piece here in san francisco. let's put another piece in davis. let's put another piece in sacramento. let's put another piece in tracy. what would that do? it would alleviate some of the traffic problems that have turned our freeways into rivers of poison. it could help bark be a less little crowded. it could alleviate the demand for lyft and Über and help clear our streets out, but there is -- we could also move it the ends of the bullet train. i mean that land is ready for a great markup. we could build a new city there. or two cities there. but there is a problem. fire is what it's called. it's the real estate industry, the insurance industry and the financial industry, they get more buck

so this code, which many chinatowns still envy our code today, has been vital in preserving the chinatown neighborhood character by keeping downtown development, a high-rise development from displacing residents, small business and creating shadows in limited parks. so there is definitely an important process and we're happy to really be a part of this review process. i want to recap the rationale for the two substancity custodye amendments. the first one responds to feedback from chinatown business entrepreneurs who feel a bit coconstrained by the entertainmt use to be tied to a restaurant and the proposed change in the ordinance would remove this requirement and instead make entertainment use conditional. with that said, to ensure large nightclubs from moving into chinatown, the other amendment is proposed to chose an existing loophole in the code that allows projects to go behind the 5,000 square foot limit when there's a change of use in a nonconforming structure. so together, these two amendments are intended to encourage nighttime activity while at the same time honouring the origin

the film, chinatown rising, is a portrait of the iconic neighborhood as seen through the eyes of twouck and his son josh, both born and raised in chinatown and have experienced is resolution or evolution. >> grew up in a time where no one moved out of chinatown and they just lived there and i used to say that you were born the, you worked there and you died there. >> is clearly not the same and i do not think it be the same ever again and so i'm pretty concerned.>> this from an intimate look the role chinatown plays in the history of san francisco, black and white footage was largely shot by the 83-year-old when he was a graduate film student at san francisco state back in the 1970s and he captured the unrest of his vener ange because they felt that the traditional way of doing things was no longer effective. >> there were protests highlighting the struggles that chinese immigrant families faced. >> people were living in very poor conditions. >> families lived in cramped quarters and old buildings, snapshots about life in chinatown was stored away as he raised a family, worked as a h

knew about chinatown. were born there , you work there and you die there. >> i don't think it will ever be the same again. >> reporter: this that china town plays in the history of san francisco. the black and white footage was largely shot by the 83-year-old when he was he was a graduate film student back in the 1970s. he captured the unrest of the generation. >> many people growing up, they were calling up for change. because they felt that the traditional way of doing things was no longer effective. >> reporter: there were protests, highlighting the struggles that chinese immigrant families based. >> people were living very poor conditions. >> reporter: of families lived in cramped quarters and old buildings. he raised a family, worked as a high school teacher and then administer in chinatown. >> i never got close to finishing. >> reporter: more than four decades later, with the encouragement of his son, he decided it was time to finish what he started. a story that spans generations. >> i have always b

i grew up in chinatown, a chinatown that seemed never to change. [ ♪ ] >> life was simple and predictablebut you know things around the company, cold war was going on and in 1965 because of the immigrant and nationality act there was a huge influx of chinese immigrants. chinatown wasn't ready. we didn't have enough housing, jobs or educational programmes. the chinese six companies announced to the world that chinatown did not have problems. i got ahold of a camera and off i went. i began documenting the substandard conditions in chinatown. it was something exciting that i really enjoyed. but quickly, i became aware of how important seiz these events. my friends weren't just fighting for themselves. they were fighting for something much bigger. something within me told me that i needed to capture it. there was the san francisco state student strike. the law versus nicho alsls, supe court court and the beginning of school integration and busing. there was the gang violence, the international hotel eviction and many of my friends and myself found ourselves completely engaged. this period in

robert: we have the opening night film, a clip from "chinatown rising."et's take a look at it, and then we'll talk about it. masahi: great. male narrator: in 1965, because of the immigrant and nationality act, there was a huge influx of chinese immigrants. chinatown wasn't ready. we did not have enough housing, jobs, and educational programs. locali got hold of as, the c16-millimeter camera, the same kind of camera that war correspondents used, and off i went. robert: you know, we did a special on chinatown before, as you know, and i was always surprised a little bit how much younger generations don't know all the history about it, and yet they are anxious to find out. so this kinda festival really works in that way, huh? masahi: yeah, absolutely, and, you know, for myself, i have grown up here in the bay area, and there's stuff in "chinatown rising," our opening night film, that i haven't seen yet myself. you know, the filmmakers, josh and harry chuck, harry has been chronicling not only chinatown but san francisco for decades. and there's so much unseen

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. all have their own uniqueness. >> san francisco has to all - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic c

wong with the church in chinatown. >> everybody knows chinatown station. it comes from someplace else. when they say chinatown station, you know where it's at, but nobody knows rose pack. if you don't live in san francisco, you won't know it. >> the second, the gentleman is called henry. >> yeah, chinatown station. they told me that most -- >> the third, she's the owner of hair salon. >> the reason why i think that the new station should be chinatown station is that mostly newcomers don't know who rosa park is and so i leave that, you

my bet would be it would be the rose pak chinatown station. >> they all get their way. >> and so does rose. >> thank you. >>> from golf the greatest comeback to the nations highest civilian honor, president trump's pays tribute to the highs and lows of tiger woods career. >>> fighting back against an astoria kentucky derby disqualification. the owner of the horse is planning to do something nice for the >>> the community of asian americans outraged of what they call is a racist lunar new year card. tonight the push for percussions repercussions for the alameda county firefighters and. , the owner of the racehorse who was disqualified from the kentucky derby has lost his appeal. maximum security crossed the finish line 1st on saturday that the words determined the horse committed a foul by moving out of his lane. then country house was named the winner instead. today the horses owner filed an appeal with the kentucky horse racing commission but it has just rejected the appeal. the owner said maximum security will not be running in the preakness stakes horse race next saturday. >>> in w

it is considered the fourth chinatown in san francisco.esidents are of chinese ancestry. the second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. there is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. not only for san francisco but for the region. and of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the city's second biggest park after golden gate. many people don't know the neighborhood in the first place if they haven't been there. we call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. where we are right now is the mission district. the mission district is a very special part of our city. you smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. and then you walk further down and you have sunrise cafÉ. it is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhoo

it is an exciting thing for chinatown, for local chinatown san francisco.e will also, that day, of representatives from the mayor's office come to issue a proclamation for the day. the reason why we need to go past the 10:00 p.m. time is because it is an outdoor screening, so we can start it until the sun sets at 8:30 p.m., which means it will end at 10:5. it will go 50 minutes past. there will be remarks that have been before, so some of the cast members and other people in attendance will make some remarks starting at 8:00 p.m., and then the film itself will start at 8:30 p.m. >> i see on your form, by the way, it is a great idea because we need more of those kind of movies, but you have two speakers obviously at the screen do you have anything behind like were all your plastic chairs are >> we don't. we were told that that should be enough, that that would be sufficient enough for everyone to be able to here, it's not going to be too loud in the neighborhood, but it will be loud enough for everyone attending. >> the reason why i'm recommending it or sugg

we walked in chinatown and market street an in san francis. he worked there more than 10 years before he ran. there was a primary. he won the primary more than 50%. he got the job. he don't have to run again in the november election. wwe have the best public defenders office in the whole country. he really helped the underdog, the immigrants, the without the proper paperworks. we have eyes. he had a strong section of his office that held all these underdogs. naming gilbert street to jeff adachi way is the way. i hope that whole city will support it. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. seeing no other members of the public for public comment, public comment is closed. for the second time. i want to thank the folks here who came for some powerful and moving testimony and i'm going to turn it back over to supervisor haney. i knew jeff for long time. i don't know how many decades. we got along really well except when it came to budget time when he was asking for more money. i miss him terribly. i'm more than happy to be co-sponsor. i do ha

so the final map now that we agreed to was, one, we made an adjustment for chinatown. supervisor peskin, as you recall, we put the boundary around there. we also have, it looks like a missing tooth on the south side of market. that's the federal reserve building because we knew it would be difficult for them to pay into the district and we want didn't to -- didn't want to provide services if they weren't paying in the district. this does not include the embarcadero center. there is interest in having it expand to the ferry building and other places in the portside, however, we figured that could be phase two and possible expansion in the future. on the west side it runs parallel to union scare. on the south side, it's a jagged edge, which is where the rincon is. we tried to fill in all the gaps. the budget, as helen mentioned, we call them civic sidewalks and mobility management and that's where we would be working with mta to facilitate the traffic flow north and south of market street. it's about $3 million. it's over 77% of the budget. district identity which is pro

. >>> there's a push to name the central subway for a woman who helped shape chinatown.ome leaders say that's a mistake. will be handed out today. >> there is a spaciaex capsule its way to the international space station. >>> first, it is 4:36. you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. >>> we'll go about three hours back and here is a look at live doppler seven. put it in motion and you can see it rotated off the coast and around monterey and up in the north bay where we're going to have our best chance the next couple hours of wet weather. as you head down 680 and on 24. we'll say fair for everything this morning because of the damp ness that is out there. let's take a look at our 12-hour planner for the north bay. by 7:00 for the most part the drizzle is over. it will be patchy. you can see the clouds opening at 9:00 and then a mixture of more clouds than sunshine with temperatures trying to get into the mid-60s this afternoon. the east bay, cloudy and we'll break out in a little sunshine. wel we'll be cloudy and will have a mixture of c

the theft happened last weekend at seventh and harrison in oakland chinatown neighborhood but it's a low priority for police. >> reporter: the woman tells me she is shaken up by what happens to her, she wants to help prevent this from happening to anyone else. she hopes the surveillance videos will lead police to the thieves. a greeting welcome to chinatown printed in bold letters, but this native says she no longer finds this area welcoming.>> i walk around and i don't feel safe at all doing that by myself anymore.>> reporter: she shared with us this surveillance video outside her friends home around 6 pm saturday. she was texting her friends to open the gate, 2 teenagers and the other in a navy buddy walking by, less than 30 seconds later they returned and one of them snatches the iphone from her.>> i chased them but i probably should not have, knowing what they could be capable of.>> reporter: the one with her phone hid behind a car. >> he was hiding behind a car parked in this lot.>> reporter: soon after she lost sight of him and his accomplice she said she called 911 but was tol

out of chinatown.ork there, and you died there. >> i have always been struck by the risk that people took and the sacrifices that people made. over long time, to try to make some positive change. >> the documentary is an intimate look at the role chinatown played in the history of san francisco. the black and white footage was but shot by the 83-year-old when he was a graduate student in the 1970s. >>> the multimillion dollar educational expansion is now open, the family center for ocean education and leadership will start hosting programs this summer. it houses the aquariums free education program, allowing hands-on experiences and ecosystem-based learning. the $42 million center also doubles the number of teachers the aquarium conserve. >>> let's go back to the traffic, and take a look at the highways. >> things are getting a little better out there on this friday sometimes it takes a while for things to improve. it really hasn't been that bad of a drive from the bridge to the macarthur maze, and whe