welcome to beautiful delores park. this is a long time coming. back in 2008, voters approved a clean and safe neighborhood parks bond which allocated about $14 million to improve this incredible park. our goal together we are going to build the new dolores park that is going to be built to last. it is going to retain all of it's important features, all of it's historic qualities, all of it's essential beauty. but yet be built with the idea that this is whenever people come. >> we are going to be renovating all six tennis court's, replacing the basketball court with operations underneath so the staff has the ability to maintain the park. we are completely renovating the irrigation system and in addition to the operations we are building two new restroom buildings. this fund was part of the park renovation fund. we knew community was very supportive of a renovation fund. we engaged in a community process which we began with the park to do a detailed assessment of the condition of the park and very details conversation about what we can do in the par

we know them in delores park, lafayette park and [inaudible] and dog patch neighborhood and there is more on the way. last year party in the parks helped fund some of the renovations. policy. you know our report card. it's one example that we bring data to the decision making processes. we are proud to co-chair thursday task force that bring this is recommendation to you today. it has members from every district in the city. represents various neighborhoods and interest groups. it brings to the table expertise in education parenting and childhood development. this task force went through a thorough and objective consideration of the data to help prioritize the playgrounds with the greatest need and dawn has outlined all of that for you. this task force came to a unanimous recommendation after five months of analysis and discussion. this task force has demonstrated a solid process that we can rely on this decision before you today and also a process to rely on future projects. i want to ask you to pause for a moment and reflect. what would it have been like if there was no task force?

impact of the 20-year cost depends upon whether is that hundred to $750 million the city allows delores park and the repaving street bond to lapse there's maintenance funding for a parcel tax this is the federal government's discretionary money i can say that most of goods for defense but at the bottom is the two or three percent that's available i will especially is the tree from the city and move to michigander and live on the property to pay for the tax and let my neighborhood deteriorate as a result of this as a citizen i've seen nor citizens not been able to maintain their situations bauks the debris around the trees this is a serious concern in now neighborhood at least for the people i'm ready to move from mar ran and bailout. >> is there any additional public comment seeing none, public comment is closed commissioner hayon. >> i appreciate all the work it seems like a lee lo a lot better one question the depiction of tree in one of these things we had here under 15 feet they call it a sapling and looking at the defines in the glossary it didn't mention height any tree with trunk bran

authored and this board elective last day last year the historic district immediately north of delores park the all of a sudden dead end street pierce carmelita it's a behalf historic district and the earth is remarkable and those 3 contract were all recommended for approval by the historic preservation commission and in addition the 3 contracts have the support of the san francisco architecture heritage and we've described a letter from the executive director of the heritage strongly supporting those krikts contracts so colleagues, i ask firing support and any questions about the process for the miles act the planning department is here to answer our questions. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you president chiu so clooepgz colleagues which of those in committee last week, i was not ready to support it i'm kind of on the fence i actually feel the miles act works pest when it's looking at preserving the property in blighted areas of the city and this part of san francisco is definitely not an area that is blighted perhaps in 25 to thirty years ago it could have been but 40 years ago it was in

. >> reporter: these fires have been gathered around delores park all in the early morning hours leading some to believe there is a serial arsonist running around. a metal frame where a seat should be. splintered windows. the result of five more vehicle fires in san francisco. this man's toyota was torched in his driveway. >> the person rang the bell, texted me your car is on fire. >> reporter: the burned cars have been clustered around church street and the mo of all the fires is nearly identical. one car gets lit on fire, then 30 minutes later, another one. and another. so on. >> they break the window. set the fire inside. then when we call the police and the firefighters arrive, everything was gone. >> reporter: once the flames are extinguished, the job of piecing together the evidence of what remains is up to firefighters. >> four fires within an hour or so is suspicious. >> reporter: his car was easily replaced. he worries about the firebug getting bolder and causing greater harm. >> the fire, the gas tank, you know, it could be much, much worse. so, you can replace the car. but i h

four fires within blocks of mission delores park. among the questions is a link to a similar set of car fires last month. nannette miranda is in san francisco with the latest. >> reporter: raj, eight vehicle fires now in less than a month. they could all be possibly connected, according to police investigators. now police say that they're stepping up patrols just in case this fire bug does something more serious. >> but they are being investigated as arson. >> reporter: residents got a rude awakening as four vehicles within blocks of each other were set on fire between 4:00 and 6:00 a.m. >> it's very alarming. i was here this morning and was awakened at a quarter to 5:00. it was just frightening. >> reporter: this jeep suffered a lot of damage and it's definitely not usable. >> quite unnecessary. >> reporter: thewner now is stuck without a car to go to work and has to rethink his upcoming road trip. >> unless i can take muni, but i was going to tahoe in a few days. >> reporter: arson investigators are going door to door now to see if

on wednesday you'll recall four cars were found burning near delores park. those are being investigated as arson. >> a road rage suspect is taken to the hospital after police used a taser after him. they chased the suspect and said once he gout of the car he wouldn't comply with their orders so they tased him. >> and the largest tides of the year are bringing the threat of coastal flooding. they're called king tides. they bring higher sea levels due to gravitational pull. the king tides will stick around until tomorrow and they'll be back again in a month. >> let's bring in anthony slaughter for a final check of the weather. good morning. >> the sun is starting to come um over san bruno mountain. in san francisco it's very patchy fog, very isolated. later on you will all see the sunshine. and temperatures will be very comfortable, back in the mid 60s. >> we look comfort. the question is anybody even out? >> yes. we have a lighter volume, but here the hillside came down, so two lanes blocked southbound 101 in spencer, right near the waldo tunnel. and we look

investigator said they had not ruled out there is no connection to four other car fires wednesday near delores park. it is under investigation. car fires also occurred in the city in november. neighbors have their own ideas. >> i didn't know there was quite so many. i thought it was one incident and i found out there's been four or five. it is definitely unnerving. castro is a relatively safe neighborhood. >> a neighbor shared a picture of what he said was damage left after the fire sunday. others went back over the evening. >> never saw anyone suspicious last night. >> now i spoke briefly this evening with the owner of the car off camera who was trying to make sense of this. and told me that car was actually relatively new. meantime, a number of neighbors are saying they plan to get security cameras outside their property. reporting live in san francisco. nbc bay area news. >> thank you so much. >>> new video of grinches caught in the act of stealing christmas packages team of look. this was on thursday. watch this man who opens up the gate. there walks up and grabs those packages. the woman actin

wednesday four cars found burning near delores park. these are being investigated as arson. >> i don't know, i thought it was one incident. and then -- >> well, one investigator said they're still looking into the possibility those fires are connected. >>> well, south bay medical examiners need help solving a mystery. last friday, a caltrain baby bullet train hit and killed a man on the tracks. it happened around 6:00 p.m. and the man didn't have any personal information on him after running his fingerprints, authorities were still unable to identify him. santa clara county medical examiners say the man is between 25 and 35, he's probably hispanic or white, he has a shaved head and brown eyes. he does not have any tattoos, but they say he was carrying a black backpack. you should call the medical examiner if you can help identify him. >>> police in castro valley looking for a giant menorah stolen from a jewish organization over the weekend. on castro valley, of castro valley, rather, says their 9 foot menorah taken saturday from castro

and left wednesday, four cars were burning near delores park.ecially in the north bay. mike will have a quick check on that coming up in a little bit. but you can see the fog and clouds. yeah, it's out there, and later on this afternoon, we're going to see sunshine. finally, no rain in the forecast today. temperatures back into the mid-60s from the north bay down to the south bay. now, showers are expected to return to the forecast. we head toward wednesday night into thursday. don't think it's going to be a big storm system, but it could cause some problems especially for staying local. only expecting about 1/10 inch with the next system as it moves out by thursday morning. let's check that drive. >> all right. well, i can see over here making good progress. as good as it looks, we got updated, won't be after noon, 1:00, until they reopen the two southbound lanes at 101 coming around spencer avenue. there's a huge boulder in the hillside. they have to bust that up to reopen the lanes. look at the slowing, the fog in the area. look at the maps.

ground and renovation are included in the larger projects and learning from mission delores and start with the whole park and things go more smoothly and the task force agreed to take these as exemptions to the overall list. so again we hope with the funds that are available to us to really be able to do grade a playground renovations for each of the neighborhoods and more neighborhoods have a chance at a a plus park rather than a d or f renovated playground and this is a picture of lafayette park and great community partnership that resulted in enormously popular playground and increased utilization by park users. i think if adopted today our next steps include we're going to have a design forum that would be hosted by the san francisco parks alliance that is going to focus on playgrounds and as part of that forum we're going to solicit feedback from the public what should be the design goals, philosophy with respect to playgrounds. one idea that came up repeatedly but we found hard to quantify was the idea around play value and i think that's something we discussed it and more of a guiding set of princ

mission delores and brought that experience to his efforts with this task force and also in particular we had a unique approach in this task force and we co-hosted with it the san francisco parks alliance and i would like to thank the staff of the

mission delores and brought that experience to his efforts with this task force and also in particular we had a unique approach in this task force and we co-hosted with it the san francisco parks alliance and i would like to thank the staff of the parks alliance. we spent months in planning to make sure this was a successful experience for the public and both the committee members and i think greg moore from the conservancy says sometimes you need to go slow to go fast, and we took the time we needed to prepare and be thoughtful and focused about the issues we wanted to put in front of the committee members and i think that has paid off so i'm going to take you through today a little bit of the context within which we did our work and the process and then our ultimate recommendations and look forward to your feedback and questions. so a little bit of our context. as you are probably aware within the 2012 san francisco clean and safe neighborhoods park bond we allocated about 15.5 million dollars to focus specifically on