>> in that case we are move on to item 1 a, 5, for case, 2013.0479 cat 443 clement street. >> staff here. >> there she is. >> and look. >> good afternoon, commissioners the planning develop staff and property ject before you is a conditional use authorization request to establish a new restaurant, cba, happy sushi at 443, clement street. the subject property is located on the ground floor of a single story between 5th and 6th avenue. the department is recommending approval of this project. the site is vacant and was previously occupied by retail discount store. and the proposed change of use is desirable in that it is converting the vacant space into a compliment use in the neighborhood. the proposed japanese restaurant attempts to provide employment opportunities and operate from ten a.m. to ten p.m. and operate during the daytime and nighttime hours. >> although the existing eating and drinking establishment exceeds 25 percent of the needed area sited in section 303 p and exceeds 20 percent in the general plan policy, staff believes that the replacement of a vacant storefront with a ne

i think that is a problem on clement you are seeing more and more of one type of eating establishment at the expense of some of the other smaller businesses and even a variety *f places to go, especially when you go passed the first blocks and then there is some variety there. but, you know is there is really nothing further down and that is any different. so at least we are getting a sushi place is some what of a change and i think that it is going to be fine and put in a viable business and replacing a vacantcy which has been there quite a while and i think that i am in favor of the motion. >> commissioners there is a motion, the second to approve with conditions on that motion, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner borden >> aye. >> hillis. >> aye. >> moore. >> aye. >> sugaya. >> no. >> fong. >> aye. >> 5-1 with commissioner sugaya voting against. >> commissioners, just a general announcement that was made earlier, item 16 aand b for 2013.0574 d request to review have been withdrawn >> that will place you on the final item 17, 2012.0112 d request for a discretionary review

from clement street to second avenue to fourth avenue. it's run by the marin agricultural institute, a wonderful group that runs the stone town farmers market. it will bring healthy food choices to the richmond district. also, we have smaller farmers market street like the veterans affairs medical center one in the outer richmond and even the kaiser one on geary and an older one at usf. but this is the full-fledged farmers market with 75 boots and incredible range of different types of food and other activities that will be programmed. there is even a climbing wall and children's and family activities. so, i challenge any of you to meet me up the climbing wall this coming sunday morning. it's going to also run from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and we're working closely with our -- the residents in the area and the small merchants to make sure it's successful. my office through my staffer peter has done a lot of work on this with a number of residents has worked closely with the clement street merchants and argon community gardens and again, th

sugaya brought it up and, i don't think that this whole transit issue makes any difference because clement street is impossible to park on and i think that if there is anybody from the other outside the neighborhood that is coming, to visit this place, it is going to be a challenge. and so i think that is something that we should consider, although as i said i am always in favor of businesses where there seems to be a possibility of filling a vacantcy and it seems to bring a lot of good things in and even though it might increase, the concentration a little bit, i'm willing to overlook that. >> commissioner borden? >> i feel the same way there is not an over concentration of sushi restaurants in that area and just having set that through the gentleman's presentation where 70 percent of americans make their decisions for what to eat for dinner after 4:00 p.m. and for their research that vital streets should have a balance of 60 to 65 pepser percent of eating and drinking establishments that is what they found when they looked through all of the streets i feel differently about our concentra

also, i wanted to alert you, too, we had a successful launch of our clement street farmers market. the first major farmers market in the richmond district. this past sunday, it's going to go on forerv sunday from 9:00 to 2:00 p.m. so please join us in the inner richmond [speaker not understood]. rock climbling wall. unfortunately i didn't have any of my colleagues to join me, but it sure was a thrill. also, i wanted to say there's a lot of creativity on this 11-member board. we have our district 11 haiku poet. we have a bass-playing, classical violinist in our president. matt gonzalez [speaker not understood]. he has an exhibit opening up called things i didn't know i loved at park gallery which is clement and third avenue. it will be opening friday. join me and matt and others from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. it is a new body of work of his collages and sculptures. he uses debris found on city streets for his collages and sculptures. he gives a strong commentary on consumerism and capitalism and how paper is used in presentation for articles for sale. he also dialogues on the themes of cog

i remember growing up on clement street. i have always lived around in richmond area, just being around a unique area of the richmond, discovering san francisco in the 1980's. >> i am hoping we can not support small businesses like this because they are the unique character that makes neighborhoods like this so city and county of san francisco testing for budget and finance testing captioning.

. >> the owners of san clemente art supply and custom framing in san clemente, california, have about9,000 products for sale at the store and on their website. >> and everybody needs something different. so you have to have a mix of paints, brushes, and papers. those are your basic things, and canvas. >> and the challenge is it to figure out what to stock and what not to stock on their shell he was. >> we kind of do that all the time. it's kind of a rolling thing. >> it's an issue of dollars and space. >> we can't sell everything out of here all the time. we're not a huge store, so if we bring something big in, something else generally has to move and get squished or go. >> deciding to send a product on its way isn't easy. but the need to keep inventory in check has helped guide decisions. >> people walk in and if you don't have that, they're going to go some place else to get it. so we have to have it. >> before determining what goes, something has to be ready to take its place. no space is ever allowed to go to waste. >> the dividing line for me has been do i want to bring in someth

clement. >> mr. chief justice, hay it please the court, the equal protection analysis in this case should focus on two points, first, what does section three do and second, to whom does section three do it. what it does is exclude from an array of federal benefits lawfully married couples. that means the spouse of a soldier killed in line of duty cannot receive the dignity and solace of an official notify eags of next of kin. >> but congress could go the other way, congress could pass a new law today that says we will give federal benefits, when you say marriage in federal law, we mean committed same-sex couples as well, and that could fly across -- apply across the board or they couldn't do that? >> that wouldn't raise the same equal protection problem like this does. >> you don't think it would raise a federalism problem either, to you? >> i don't think it would raise a federalism problem but the key for our purposes is that in addition to denying these fundamental -- fundamentally important benefi

iceberg in terms of their spying with this prison program coming out in the horizon records tim clemente who is an ex f.b.i. agent came on c.n.n. about week or two ago and he said that the any digital data wasn't wasn't safe and that the intelligence community f.b.i. had ways of getting back to it and he was specifically talking about that phone call between one of the tomorrow of brothers and his wife. and if his wife didn't tell the f.b.i. what they talked about in that phone call that they had ways of getting back to that and transcribing and getting that information so that's telling you what they've got recorded then the extent of and the digital data means all kinds of e-mail all kinds of twitter kind of things and the thing going across the fiber optic lines as well as the public switch telephone network so we're not talking billions of pieces of information here are we are talking truly talking to my phone calls and e-mails jointly would be on the order of twenty trillion for the last twelve years how can we even manage that sort of thing they're saying with this present program

a "oh my, young samuel clements, why do you think you are an idiot?" ma'am, iactually, don't. just hate to see you standing up there all by yourself." [laughter] ivis: i told you how excited was to see the play when it opens in los angeles. you said to me, i think it is worthy of being seen, which is not always the case in this town. why is this worthy of being seen? , ii do not mean this town just mean it is rare to have really great material. mark twain is so prolific. i would even call him a profound figure. he is probably the most quoted american. as a scholar said, although he said i could use it, i love this idea, that mark twain is an honorary founding father. his sensibility is so distinctly american. he is so original. what he is so funny. and about such a wide range of subjects that are important. the most important that he conquered that is sadly still with us, race, he turned fact too art in a humorous style convey something profound about where we were at as americans after the worst thing that happened to our nation besides allowing our nation to begin with slave

clement. general verrilli? >> mr. chief justice, and may it please the court: the equal protection analysis in this case should focus on two fundamental points: first, what does section 3 do; and second, to whom does section 3 do it? what section 3 does is exclude from an array of federal benefits lawfully married couples. that means that the spouse of a soldier killed in the line of duty cannot receive the dignity and solace of an official notification of next of kin. >> suppose your -- you agree that congress could go the other way, right? congress could pass a new law today that says, we will give federal benefits. when we say "marriage" in federal law, we mean committed same-sex couples as well, and that could apply across the board. or do you think that they couldn't do that? >> we think that wouldn't raise an equal protection problem like this statute does, mr. chief justice. >> well, no, my point is: it wouldn't -- you don't think it would raise a federalism problem either, do you? >> i don't think it would rai

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conservative lawyer paul clement wants the uniform federal rule for the federal government to be gayt get married. instead the justices agreed there should be a uniform rule but that gay people can get married. these landmark gay right cases this week are not about the military specifically, but the fact we have openly gay troops it turns out is a driving force against the idea that gay people should be discriminated against anywhere in our country. that's already been seen. the military's own desire to not dis criminacriminate among its and families has helped drive us to where we have come thus far. does it help drive us the rest of the way? if you're in the military and stationed at mcdill air force base just south of tampa on tampa bay in the great state of florida, if you're one of the 15,000 service members on that base, when you are on that base, your family will not be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. every family in the military will be treated the same. but if you take one step off that base, you are a second-class citizen now? you can't own propert

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they have not opposed that change and there is no loss of clement. most importantly i think the services that we will be re-creating the behavioral health center will meet the needs of psychiatric patients and others in the community. >> thank you. >> supervisor breed: i had two questions. the position being eliminated for the psychiatric social worker position, that is vacant since july, 2011, -- is there a reason why you decided not to fill that position? >> there are many reasons. some of the reasons are that we do get our classifications frozen during the time of deficit. we have a deficit this year; so many times that is part of the process. we never try to close a position. we also have new testing exams that take a long time for dhr to develop so it is basically timing issue of trying to get all the positions in line and getting them open. at times we have an open req and positions get frozen and we have to go through the whole process all over again. >> supervisor breed: is there not a need for this position? >> yes there is that we have a ne

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the clements foundation.ark foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org." anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> coming up -- deborah potter looks at a new movement to help the country's two million prison inmates. >> we don't recognize the god in our brothers and sisters who are in prison. >> and, popular evangelical leader joni eareckson tada on her battle with breast cancer. >> start where you are. this is the new base line, now get on with living. >> plu

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our fourth, mi stefan franz, shila clement. (applause) >> our gardeners who have been here throughout helping us on our clean and green days, out on saturdays. if you're here, marianne bertacelli. supervisor farrell. phil has been here every step of the way. this started with -- this started with two organizations that have now merged into a really wonderful one organization. those two former organizations were -- brought us two great people to work with. they were isabelle wade and karen kid well. i don't know if either one of them is here today. ~ now we have matt owe grade i speaking to you from the merge park trust. i'm sorry, san francisco parks alliance. ~ we can't forget that, they're doing so much. this is our parks -- citizens parks group. okay, lizy hirsch, please come up. we want to raise hands with you. (applause) >> mary hobson. jeff miller. [cheering and applauding] >> okay. and carina bonamo who was -- this incredible playground in the most beautiful park in san francisco, we've already heard that online. it is n

the best way to get people out of poverty is to see employment growth in the northwest, and clement has risen 6000 this quarter. has risen by 50,000 -- it risen by 50,000 since the election. people dohances that not have under the lesson government. and i welcome my honorable friend to prevent the horrors of syria turning into a regional humanitarian catastrophe. could i urged him to pursue further the support for lebanon and jordan and urge him to go further to provide for the lebanese army which is the only organization in the area? thank youf all about for what he said about the g-8. we did make good progress about syria particularly on support in terms of humanitarian aid war $1.5 million was pledged. thes becoming aware of worst humanitarian crisis we have seen in recent years. he is absolutely right when he support neighboring states. .e do indeed fund activity , several times in the question time of the prime minister has said the best way of attacking poverty is to get people into work. i agree with him. when he explained that why is it that 2/3 of the children come from familie

i'm sarah clements. i'm a junior at newtown high school. it's still kind of hard for me to take tests. i started hearing more people that have said that similarly, like, every time they go into a room, they, like, look for where they would hide. even though it's, like, really hard to hear, it, like, makes me feel better because i know i'm not the only one. even teachers have said that they do that. i think being in the school environment is something that's really conducive to healing. and i think i saw that from the first week that we came back. we watched, like, "finding nemo." we cut out paper snowflakes. nobody took attendance. i think that's changed us in the long run. think we're a much kinder and more aware community. there was no drama. there's no negativity towards anybody. it was -- if you saw a person crying, you went up and hugged them even if you didn't know them. >> every time i see a shooting, every single time, basically say to myself, not again. my name is dr. william begg. i'm an emergency room physician. in medical school

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showers in the middle of the night so they have to decide between sleep and getting a little bit of clement us it's just then. back to europe now where the financial crisis has led to some of those in charge having to cut back on luxuries for president francois makes his own contribution at an auction selling vintage wine from his collection was the earnings going towards helping keep the country's budget afloat more details. supporters of private bradley manning accused of passing off classified materials to the whistle blowing website wiki leaks are set to rally over the weekend just days before his court martial more in doubt that are to dot com. this is the third. year. all right let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world at a new barrage of pure nato's has hit the outskirts of oklahoma city damaging buildings and killing at least five people disaster struck during the rush hour cutting off a major highway and leaving drivers stranded the storm system spread from nearby arkansas word twisters and flooding claimed three lives nearly two weeks ago a series of tornad

i remember growing up on clement street. i have always lived around in richmond area, just being around a unique area of the richmond, discovering san francisco in the 1980's. >> i am hoping we can not support small businesses like this because they are the unique character that makes neighborhoods like this so rich and lively to live in. >> i have also been active as a community organizer. i worked at the chinese progressive association. i also worked at the mental health center in the richmond district. i have always been passionate about civil rights, equality for everyone. i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality issues. i guess i have always been vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, i have to listen to other perspectives and making decisions. >> very soon there will be of much more seniors in that area. we are trying to focus on whether a stop sign or stoplight might help. >> tried to look at issues of senior nutrition programs, alzheimer's research, eve

showers in the middle of the night so they have to decide between sleep and getting a little bit of clement us it's just that. back to europe now where the financial crisis has led to some of those in charge having to cut back on luxuries as french come from france all along to the end contributions at an auction selling for interest wine from his collection a with the earnings going to was helping keep the country's budget flow more details at r.t. dot com. says supporters of private bradley manning make use of poncing often classified material so the whistle blowing web site we could leave a set ready over the weekend just days before his court martial more on that and out. the. protesters beseeching a gold mine in north korea to stun have promised to restore electricity at the facility that's according to the country's prime minister a state of emergency and a curfew were declared on friday after the angry mob clash with police leaving fifty five people injured details now from tom barton. around two thousand protesters attempted to storm the mine in eastern kurdistan resulting in violen