mayor lee, president of the board of supervisors, david chiu, dtw director, director, and commissioner, for all the support for making the chinese traditional sidewalk merchandise displayed a pilot program, a reality nine days before the chinese new year. starting from january 14 to january 22, from 10 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.. we all know that the sidewalk is only 9.5 feet wide. it would be too congested for pedestrians to walk through the area, therefore, we elected mayor lee to use the parking space to display the merchandise in the parking area so that pedestrians would be able to walk through the sidewalk area. we are happy to report to you all that mayor lee accepted the stockton street merchants request. i have been saying for mandates to all my friends for many times that the people of san francisco are so lucky to be let ed lee as our mayor because he is not a politician but a public servant. he has served the people of san francisco for 22 years in five different city departments under four mayors. he understands the chinese community problems and is ready to offer his assistance. t

agreement, it titans language of love of the uses of the plaza for a major committee events, had how dtw can restrict access. it titans requirements and language around permits for merchandise to address concerns. we already have an exemption in the legislation and we are expanding that exemption to other goods. it also expands the exemption to include not just wheelchairs' but any device to include the children's toys. i have distributed those to my colleagues, there are a number of copies i would give to my clerk if anyone likes to see them. before we move to public comment, mr. chairman, i would ask if my colleagues have any comments to make. supervisor mar: i wanted to say thank you for everyone turning out, i hope that people are civil at listen to different perspectives. if people cannot speak out from the audience if others are speaking and also when the supervisor is speaking. we have a city attorney who is here that i have a number of legal questions to ask and i am appreciative that he already started to discuss some of the different issues brought up in the literature. and the

make it more cumbersome for you in the future, i believe this board has the authority, because the dtw director has the authority to modify the permits. by modifying the permits, you can improve the of the location and make conditions for it. and you cannot deny the other permits. i believe this is possible. if you need more time how to work this out, maybe continuing in the week to allow the city attorney and everybody to discuss if will be beneficial or you will create a precedent for a procedure that will be extremely cumbersome and the future with every one of these permits having five, six, seven locations. you have got to be thinking about this for the future. i think the way the ordinance is written, the dp debbie director has the authority to modify these permits and to modify them and relocating them to other locations, this board has the similar authority. that is my opinion. the city attorney may need more time to look at it for what the appropriate measure might be. commissioner funggarcia: i'm thinking this probably shouldn't even have come before us because we can't uphol

if you read the legislation or the guidelines, they allow for the dtw hearing officer to exercise discretionregards to the process. the issues that stand out are the impact on other food service businesses. the guidelines in the code were very clear that it was not just limited to the kind of designation that dpw adopted in its guidelines. there were other considerations. as we stated in our brief, there are lots and lots of a food- service businesses that have take away food and food that is not necessarily even in a sit- down situation. the economic impact that arise from that are tremendous. there are a limited number of food dollars that will be spent. if they are not going to go to the brick and mortar businesses and they're going to go to the food trucks, and the food trucks is going to have some extra impact, and there is going to be more guarded on the sidewalk because there are not a lot of containers available on my client's property. the fact that you have got within a few blocks of this location, as we show in exhibit b in our brief, there are almost 20 brick and mortar food serv

next epps, we're working feverishly to get jefferson street ready to go to document construction at dtw, and move rapidly through the implementation process including the identification of final funding. in the spring of 2012, come back and bring zoning and design guidelines for further consideration. thank you very much. president olague: thank you. i would like to open it up for public comment, and then we may have questions from staff. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: i had a question about the jefferson street plans, which i think look very good, but there is probably going to be hopefully an extension of the line that goes into fort mason and merrida green that i am sure that you are taking a dip for the consideration as to figure out which way you were going to either eliminate or direct traffic on jefferson, the fact that that line will probably continue along jefferson in the future. >> we have been in very close coordination with the national park service with the informal review for t

this muddy portion of his street near his home was flooded out after dtw officials say a 36 inch water main failed. >> it was down about 150 yards. it was all the way to the end of the street, nothing but a sheet of water. >> luckily, he did not have problems with his water, but hundreds of customers, including the hospital, did. a number of schools closed. >> suggests some low pressure complaints here and there. >> by monday and tuesday, pdpw officials said they had control of the situation and would be able to make repairs. a faulty valve is to blame at this point, but they're still assessing the situation. the main, which dates back to the 1970's, was made of the same concrete pipe, the material that used in the main line that burst in dundalk in 2009. >> we have had some problems in the count -- with the concrete steps that we have installed at that time across the country. >> officials will also be looking into the possibility that the recent cold weather played a role in the lines failure critical hall >> whenever the temperature drops, we always pick -- brace ourselves. >> pdpw