and that included all demolition permits. and now with the passage of prop j, the historic preservation commission, first of all, issued certificates of appropriateness and in addition, the historic preservation commission has delegated to the department the specific approval and these are administrative certificates of appropriateness that do not require notification nor are they publicly heard. this is new and this is a function that is currently or was not allowed under the existing article 10 and the historic preservation commission has already taken steps to move that forward. this next section deals with notification for c. of a. in the past it was only required if it was heard by the planning commission and when it did require notice the a 20-day newspaper ad and mailed to owners 10 days prior to hearing. the revised article 10 eliminates the requirement that the certificate of appropriateness and the requirements are different for landmarks and historic district. for individual landmarks there is a 20-day notice to 15

that is the kind of demolition, this is a demolition of historical value. and much more recently, the oldest branch in the system, a little bit over 100 years, was considered by the historic preservation commission by landmarking. we did not do this at the time the library wanted renovations. this was changed for concessions to improve certain aspects of the renovation. in the last few months it appeared that there were blazingly bright pieces of metal that had been screwed into the facades. the apparent explanation is that what looks like triangular metal pieces are on the front -- they were there to deny homeless people and others the small ledge that they supposedly were walking across from the entrance to the library, and up and over the fence into the back. this involves drilling holes into what is a historical facade and damaging not only this, but the appearance of the building as well. large, rectangular-looking pieces, and they have painted this over. but this is a form of discussion that is -- destruction of this unconscionable. without. -- protec

i don't see any reason why we shouldn't approve the demolition and to the new construction. of what move cannot take -- i would move to not take d.r. and approve. >> second. >> thank you. the motion on the floor is to not take the discretionary review and approve the demolition of the new constructions. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner fong: aye. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner miguel: aye. >> that motion passes unanimously. thank you, commissioners. is there any general public comment? commissioner miguel: this commission is closed. >> good evening, everyone. my name is filled in the third, the director of your parks department. my job can be challenging at times, but on and that light tonight, i feel like the luckiest guy in the world to be here, to support families in the event like this is truly fantastic. this is the greatest city in the world, the greatest parks department. thank you for joining us. 82 years ago, uncle john mclaren, our first park superintendent started the tradition of minding a mile- long of live trees at, to w

i don't see any reason why we shouldn't approve the demolition and to the new construction. of what move cannot take -- i would move to not take d.r. and approve. >> second. >> thank you. the motion on the floor is to not take the discretionary review and approve the demolition of the new constructions. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner fong: aye. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner miguel: aye. >> that motion passes unanimously. thank you, commissioners. is there any general public comment? commissioner miguel: this commission is closed. >> sanrio famous for the designs for hello kitty. i thought i would try to make it as cute as possible. that way people might want to read the stories. then people might be open to learn about the deities and the culture. ♪ they reached out to make about five or six years ago because of the book published. they appreciated that my work was clearly driven from my research and investigation. after i contributed my artwork, the museum was really beside themselves. they really took to it. the museum reached ou

we fought demolitions at a time when there were no demolition controls. when it came to a conditional use appeals, it was extremely difficult in a district like that, a historically district to get 20%, may be almost impossible. first of the cathedral had to be neutral. there are many buildings like that, properties where they are never going to go for an appeal. then there were the absentee owners, most of the properties. many of them overseas and many of them had never even seen their properties and were not very concerned about historic preservation. on the other hand, 90% of the population is renters. we lived there a long time. those were the people because of a small number of honors that really fought to save the historic district. who votes? in the common interest a development that i eventually bought into, there was a board of directors. when the apartment hotel register district first proposed, the board said there was a request, this isn't for us. nothing to do with whether it had any cost or tax advantages. it is the board of directors, we ar

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supervisor kim: not when they are vacated, but at demolition. >> yes. president chiu: in the 2009 housing element that we passed, i know that in the draft eir, was that housing demand taken into account as you thought about what the city's ask would be? >> supervisor kim mentioned this earlier. the numbers are assuming that those are an accurate projection of the housing demands in the long-range development plan that would create and would be housing demand that would be distributed across the income levels of the employees being brought in. in our situation, what we're really focusing on where the housing demands of low and come and very low income, although the housing demands of the work force category. in terms of that, what we really looked at as we concentrated on the peace and the relationship between the office space and housing demand, that specific piece is really captured again in the linkage fee. if we went back to the jobs housing linkage fee, determining this obligation, that $12 million, that figure would be quite below the package that

the demolition will begin early next year. >>> it is final exam time at the university of maryland oneunique file is taking place for engineers on the college park campus. students or asked to design a two-foot remote-controlled craft that could move across the track. if you want to check out the competition, it is taking place until 5:00 at the engineering building current. >> we will ♪ >>> san francisco will have the next highest minimum wage in the entire country next year. it will top $10 per hour about will be more than $2 higher than the state of california's minimum wage. it is nearly $3 more than the federal minimum wage. voters passed proposition in 2003 which raised the minimum wage each year using a formula tied to inflation and the cost of living. still >> i had, adam caskey will be back. [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable and enjoying it less and less? stop paying for second best. upgrade to verizon fios and get tv, internet and phone for our best price online -- just $79.99 a month for two years with a 2 year agreement. it's an amazing holiday deal.

will also make a payment to the mayor's office on housing affordable housing fund to offset the demolition of the five units. roughly one-third of these demolished units were occupied by residents at the time they were acquired, and these residents were low or very low income households. i am very happy that they have entered into a generous move out package, and it includes roughly 10 years of rent subsidy, relocation assistance, and up to six months of time to locate a new unit. this has been memorialized in an agreement between them, and most households have already relocated, and these agreements will not be part of the development agreement, because they are designed to be privately enforced by the parties. cpmc will make a payment to the mayor's office on housing that will assist ed least 325 low and moderate-income san francisco households. the spending that is designed to address two impacts. this is a specific slide here. the housing panel will lead to the construction of at least 190 permanently affordable rental units. this was offset the vast majority of inclusionary units that

contingencies to fund the phase 1 project construction trade subcontractor packages, including shed demolition, and the design and build shoreside power relocation. >> so moved. >> directors? >> happy holidays, commissioners. i am deputy director maritime at the port of san francisco. i thought that was going to work, but i guess it does not. that is okay. there we go. this is a great day for the history of the port of san francisco, and it is great that it is in these chambers. what amy just read into the record are a lot of words and a lot of numbers, but what is before you today for your consideration are a series of items this passage will secure the port's rich maritime legacy and begins a new chapter for san francisco as a port city. the pier 27 cruise terminal is one of the largest maritime infrastructure programs that the port has ever undertaken. for nearly three decades, the port has look for ways to develop a new passenger terminal the fitting a city like san francisco. passenger ships are getting bigger, and our current facilities are being taxed by today's passenger volumes. while

the areas in green, which were done to the demolition of the old terminal in construction of the new terminal. the areas of the bottom left in green, the southwest and of the terminal, those are areas use in the exhibit and will be featured in the second part of this. those are areas where we know we had a good chance of finding evidence of san francisco's past. in the future we still have the bus storage facility and the bus ramps and a storage facility down here. we're working on the testing plans for that right now and about to start working on the plan for the ramps. methods. basically we use mechanical excavation to remove overlaying areas to find features of interest for prehistoric archaeology. for deep down we use scorincori foresight's bettefor areas deep when we find something, we find a team of excavators that can reveal the features and recover artifacts. we record everything, photograph of a drop its and recall the locations. from the locations we can go back to the historic maps and identified whose backyard we're digging in. then we can start to put together the story

we have completed demolition. those free ways that were referred to that are being torn down in san francisco, we have torn some of those down the old bus ramps, and the transbay terminal itself is gone. in its place we have a four-block long active construction site. right now the shoring and excavation package is under way . julie, who has been highlighted by others, she is on our project, too. we are glad to have her. the next major contract that we are going to be issuing that you will want to keep your eye out for is the below grade superstructure. the way our project is being managed, we have a construction manager. so all of the construction packages for the transit center and bus ramp are being put out by web core. the next couple of weeks they will be putting out a request for qualifications. what they are doing is prequalifying ow all the subcontractors. this has an overall value of $70 million. if you are interested in being a smaller sub on that package, you don't need to prequalify. you need to keep y

once completed, it will lead to other projects, including demolition of the existing to your and building a connector between the hour and temperature natural to your. we are trying to establish a post security channel. that is probably a couple of years down the road. another program we are engaging in is what we call the runway safety program. that is broken into a number of packages because it is citizen, bid, billed. it has to be taken to 100% design. that is a $200 million program. it is a lot of civil work. essentially we have having to provide safety zones at the ends of all the runways. a couple of runways are having to extend. there are a couple of runways we have no more room to extend. we are land locked by the highway and the bay. those packages and individual contracts should start going out in the next threes months. that is where those are at. a couple of other projects that are still in conceptual phase but will be coming up in a year down the road is we have to do our industrial wait project. it is too early to talk murphy about it because we are still trying to figure ou

that happened after the demolition. glass metal and debris ended up in that water.he city decided to move forward with that demolition because they were concerned it would collapse. >> they did not take what would seem to be common sense approach. >> the collapse did not cause any immediate hazards. >>> a tree from california will be it will up on the west lawn on the u.s. capitol building this week. the 65-foot fur was cut down in the forest last month. it arrived in washington, d.c. last monday and strung with lights in preparation for the lighting ceremony. john boehner is scheduled to light that tree. >>> the happiest place on earth is getting ready for the holidays. disney land is it will up now. snow white's castle has special lights to make it look like an ice castle at night. and a 60-foot christmas tree decorated with special ornaments. the lights and decorations last through january 8th. >>> tonight the stanford cardinal finds out what bowl game they will be heading to. they finished out the season with one loss. they are ranked fourth in the bcs standings

to have the exit signs working, during the courts of demolition they wanted to make sure that the workers could get out in an emergency. there is a whole system to making sure that you keep the life safety codes in place while you're doing the de demolition. >> even if a house is mountain, shs. >> that light will remain on 24/7 and the smoke detectors are on. >> the one thing we didn't talk about is the trench here. >> that's getting a little high-tech. >> is that getting a little high-tech? >> we can explain if you want. in certain classes of buildings, who have what i consider sophisticated owners, they have put in electrified floor and they can lift up the steel plate here, and there is a trench here with wire trenches going out this way. and so they can come in and say, i want an electrical outlet right there where your foot is. and they can open up this plate, run a wire down a sleeve, drill a hole where you're standing, and pop utd a wire -- up a wire, and never go down to the tenant below. they're called monuments. well, here's one. here is a monument. here they are. when they're d

>> jim rokakis: we're looking at a neighborhood that has almost as many vacant houses awaiting demolitionuses with people living in them. we have one here. one here. one here. one there. >> pelley: rokakis is leading the effort to tear down thousands of abandoned homes because they're rotting their neighborhoods from the inside out. it often starts, he told us, when a vacant house becomes an open house to thieves. it's a nice house from the roof to about here, and then down here, it's been ripped to pieces. what's going on? >> rokakis: well, this is typical because this is as high as they could reach without using ladders. they ripped off the aluminum siding, which you'll see on most of these houses. the aluminum and the vinyl siding comes off. it's getting about a buck a pound. >> pelley: essentially, foreclosure scavengers have been through here? >> rokakis: the thieves have gone high-tech. they know when evictions are occurring because they're posted online. and they will follow the sheriff. they're usually there that afternoon or that evening. so, in here, what you're going to see...

. >> firefighters participated in an unusual demolition project in alexandria today.a traditional demolition fired the crew spent the last few weeks training in the building. traders filled the house with non toxic smoke. >>> free people have to go to the hospital after an accident involving a fire truck. this happened at the intersection of l and 18th. there is no word on what caused the crash. >>> the free ride is over on the injured county connector. drivers have to pay tolls on the 18-mile roadway. it cost 25 cents per mile during peak hours. the roadway runs from gaithersburg at interstate 372 i-95. starting tonight, at interstate 66 drivers will get a little bit of relief. by 7:00, a to-mile consular airline will open on interstate 66 west between fairfax drive and sycamore street. but it took months to complete and cost $14 million. >>> let's check on some of the roads to see some improvements are needed. >> this is video, this is the serious wreck we had on southbound 95. the good news is all of your travel lanes are open. here is the delay heading south. you

the city hopes to have demolition completed by the end of the year. the entire park project is completed in a couple of years. roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. >>> police are looking for the man in this sketch after receiving a report that he sexually assaulted a woman in glen burnie. the woman told police she met this man at a bar on queen highway. as they were walking on hospital drive that's when she says he attacked her. she went to the medical center where officers interviewed him. they could not find the man. he is described as tattoo on his neck. if you recognize him call recount recount police right now. >>> u.s. marshals have arrest add man after linking him to a 2006 rape in our state. kendall thomas lynn is expected to be extradited back to baltimore. they believe he raped and assaulted a woman in 2012. he was charged in connection with the 2000 attack last month. >>> maryland police are trying to figure out how a person was hit and killed on 270 in german town. it happened at the exit for the german town road. the identity of the person who

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if additional improvements are made it would then cost slightly more than demolition. crew reasonable demolition. >>> the occupy movement remains a pesky one for the city of oakland. more than a dozen protesters returned to the plaza today. their protest didn't last long as police officers moved in. at least two people were arrested and several received citations. police took a table, chairs, blankets, sleeping bags and other items. those cited said the officers also took issue with the protesters having umbrellas in the park. >> i suspect there is some irritation about the action on monday and the closing of the port and this is some kind of attempt to kind of pay back or make it harder for us. >> reporter: some of them did try to set up a tent but it was removed. >>> a small but loud group of demonstrators went carrolling today in san jose. they went to various banks singing frosty the poor man instead of snowman. they then went to the east bay memorial building in japan town to protest the passing of the national theorization act of 2012. >>> a complaint has prompte

if additional improvements are made it would then cost slightly more than demolition.rew reasonable demolition. >>> the occupy movement remains a pesky one for the city of oakland. more than a dozen protesters returned to the plaza today. their protest didn't last long as police officers moved in. at least two people were arrested and several received citations. police took a table, chairs, blankets, sleeping bags and other items. those cited said the officers also took issue with the protesters having umbrellas in the park. >> i suspect there is some irritation about the action on monday and the closing of the port and this is some kind of attempt to kind of pay back or make it harder for us. >> reporter: some of them did try to set up a tent but it was removed. >>> a small but loud group of demonstrators went carrolling today in san jose. they went to various banks singing frosty the poor man instead of snowman. they then went to the east bay memorial building in japan town to protest the passing of the national theorization act of 2012. >>> a complaint has prompted

the fire last month severely damaged the building leading engineers to call for its demolition.was injured in that fire but 70 people lost their homes including several ucbergly students. >>> 6:37. we have a major commute mess near the bay bridge. often sal will say it's done. you haven't said that yet. >> yeah we are trying to be optimistic. i'm thinking that is now the case. two left lanes continue to be blocked. whenever that happens for any length of time we usually do have very bad commute for the rest of the morning. here it is. the peak of the commute and two left lanes are closed at the bay bridge. incline section because of an injury accident involving an ac transit bus and other vehicles. police and fire on the scene. traffic is backed up big time and backing unto the east shore now. you will see the east shore freeway is going to be slow. this will have a chain reaction in all the east bay commutes. let's move along and take a look at the santa clara valley which is not effected by much of this. there is a crash northbound 280 looks good. so does 85 and 17 into the sa

veterans evicted from a building due for demolition. why that is happening. and university of california offers hope to middle class families trying to beat the clock in sending kids to college. and what is in your wallet? which cards give us the best benefits. good to know this time of the year. >> and i'll be taking notes on that one. >> world news is coming up next. >> from all of

. >> a local shelter scheduled for demolition. we look what is going to happen with dozens of veterans where nowhere else to turn. >> an insurance company pays the claim but the bank won't give her the money. i'll explain why not. >> and a journey of hope to a west african country that has been scarred by years of war. carolyn johnson shares her trip for leoe are a veterans facility will close its doors at the end of the year, more than 100 residents don't want to leave. as vick leave reports, they are worried about what may happen to them down the road. >> 7,000 people have come through the homeless veterans emergency facility in menlo park since it opened a decade ago. it's a place where they can rebuild their lives, escape from addiction and find jobs. the v.a. hospital and many services are also nearby. jeremy served with the marines in iraq. >> psychiatric services, medical services, more importantly, rehabilitation services are right here.>> >> former homeless veteran irwin good win started the shelter with grant money. now,