>> no further envelope expansion, period. iraq's again, the limit to -- >> again, the limit to single family dwelling and no further envelope expansion. >> that means height as well. reaction we are seeing an indication that is cracked. -- >> we are seeing an indication that is cracked -- correct. >> on this appeal with those conditions. commissioner fung: no. >> thank you. the vote is 4-1. the appeal is granted. the variances are granted, and we will schedule findings to be adopted at a later time. >> there are no further items to come before the board.

informational presentation on the preliminary design concept for the expansion of the downtown ferry terminal. >> good afternoon, commissioners. dan hood. we are here to provide an informational update on the expansion of the downtown ferry terminal and to present ideas for your review for the upcoming public discussion. of how to improve public in circulation spaces around the ferry building. last fall, the port has been working in close partnership with a water bird is the transportation authority, weta, to develop a design for the expansion of three facilities and related passenger improvements. the ports partnership with weta is formalized through a memorandum of understanding authorized by this commission that provides a framework for our joint planning efforts. under a contract with weta, we will provide an update to you and then present new ideas for the public spaces surrounding the ferry building. to develop the concept show today, we consulted with the forepaws primary users of the area, and for the office partners, fplp, who controls the bac plaza, golden gate ferries, and

>> no further envelope expansion, period. iraq's again, the limit to -- >> again, the limit to single family dwelling and no further envelope expansion. >> that means height as well. reaction we are seeing an indication that is cracked. -- >> we are seeing an indication that is cracked -- correct. >> on this appeal with those conditions. commissioner fung: no. >> thank you. the vote is 4-1. the appeal is granted. the variances are granted, and we will schedule findings to be adopted at a later time. >> there are no further items to come before the board. >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gall

the expansion of the community programs. in this scenario, we would be able to push the capacity issue, among the population to the latest of september, 2012. to the end of the next calendar year. assume that would not have anyone coming out of the state prison system that we have the house in the county jail. the impact of this will happen sooner. it will happen and the adult probation -- they will have to be more impacted by this. what we see occurring, if we do not expand the community programs, we will see them early on, maybe as early as january. as soon as this may be happening. there are nimble -- a number of people in the county jail sentence to this, with the community program because of certain factors, the may have orders to stay away. these are people we are inclined not to let out. we have to have the full operation of the little jail. this would take us through july of 2012. this is the 77 people, -- >> i did not hear a gender breakdown. i do not know if we have any more details. >> this is 11% women. this is p

. >> how would you limit it in terms of building expansion? >> the board could place a condition that there be no further expansion. they could still apply for a variance, but ultimately, the matter would have to come back to the sword to change any conditions. good -- to this board to change any conditions. >> hair is the matter submitted. >> i will start. i know we are often opposed to variants, but i think there is a striking reason to grant it. i know one of the findings was extraordinary circumstances she modified, but i think the ownership is essentially the american dream, and we would be a entangling these folks forever. i think we have heard from members of the public that this could fit within the neighborhood, so i would very much support this application for the very and superior -- for the variants. >> i have a couple of disclosures. one is that i have known him for many years and did hear from him before the case, and he asked, can i talk to you? i said, no, and so he wrote a letter we all received in our pocket. the other thing

we do a lot of expansion. people start small through the credit union and then want to go to the bank. we know we are limited. we cannot afford to give out a big loan. starting from the credit union, we educate them about filing taxes properly and then moving on to the bank, a small one, expansion, and we work with the bank. the bank and credit union are similar. we do allow tax returns, projections. credit unions do not charge an additional loan or processing fee. processing time, on a small loan, -- consumer loans probably a few days. because we require a business plan, sometimes it takes longer. business plans take a while. especially bank statements. we need to see consistent income coming in. so far, a credit union delinquent rate is quite low because we are working with a client. we want to keep that low and as part of our mission. there is no application fee. if you are interested in an application or information, i have brochures, or you can give us a call. >> thank you. next is marked with wells fargo

. >> the rate of expansion increased over the past 4-5 billion years? >> exactly. increasing just about during that period. it was slowing down and now it's speeding up. >> did it slow down because the universe was creating galaxies and stars? do we have a billion galax snes. >> no. about 100 billion. >> can we talk about a galaxee? we have the solar system. it consists of 8 planets now? pluto has been demoted. >> correct. >> if you were over voting on pluto and whether it belonged in with the 3 others they were going to put in because pluto's size was comparable to the 3 others and they ought to get into this union too, how would you have voted? >> i would have voted the way the international astronomical delicacy voted. it was a wise decision. >> how would you have voted? >> the same way. it's bad to be tied up by historical artifacts so science can't progress into the future. >> so if -- that means we have 12 plan snets. >> no. >> you would voted against it. >> i would have voted there are 8 planets that are real planets. >> we can change -- we are really changi

the expansion of the available labor force creates opportunities that did not exist before. you have innovation and entrepreneurialism that increases the actual size of small and medium-sized businesses. they consume and that expands the demand curve. you have a dynamic economy for 90% of u.s. born workers that enhances their wages. the other 9% got whacked up side the head with globalization and immigration and everything you can list and they need help. getting rid of immigrants doesn't really help them. the final point is if you look at the last 15 years, 25% of publicly traded companies in the united states are essentially from the bay area region and one out of four was started by an immigrant. we have great data on this because it's all transparent. you can look it up. you can tabulate it. it's all a list of companies that we own, from google to intel, we know these companies. here is what you don't know but you kind of know if you just look around. in the next two years, we'll have much better data on. that is at the small and medium sized, it turns out that same disp

knowledge towards the tail end of us discovering that there had been plans set in motion to drive expansion away from san francisco, when we said, "weight, is there not an opportunity for san francisco also to get a piece of the pie?" so we could be a limit our for or be able to afford business back within the municipality itself, while at the same time supporting, i think, the business plan that recology may have geared our way to make sure that the presentation you would forward with is also attached to the notion that we're trying to look at the future and where the dollars are going to come from. >> i agree with you and we have been sympathetic to the interest in ensuring that the city and county of san francisco gets the best deal. i know that you will be hearing from recology soon, but looking at this in the big picture, even if the facility is consolidated and there may be a tax cut on the ballot, the reality is with the upgrade in service and the upgrade in facility, how will that still benefit our ratepayers and long- term service in san francisco? so i think it is a macro picture,

>> no further envelope expansion, period. iraq's again, the limit to -- >> again, the limit to single family dwelling and no further envelope expansion. >> that means height as well. reaction we are seeing an indication that is cracked. -- >> we are seeing an indication that is cracked -- correct. >> on this appeal with those conditions. commissioner fung: no. >> thank you. the vote is 4-1. the appeal is granted. the variances are granted, and we will schedule findings to be adopted at a later time. >> there are no further items to come before the board. you are so lost. no, i'not, man. dude! i dropped my phone. oh, the road! whoa. yeah. you know what i'm saying. how would you like to save your life from an ugly reckless driving death? don't answer yet, there's more! act now by slowing down and we'll guarantee you complete satisfaction! kids: that's awesome! announcer: in the real world... passenger: whoa, andy, slow down! >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refin

wsip expansion for the next two to three years in a primary care. -- we see expansion. as far as it picking your budget, we allocate the administrative tasks, and we should take it off line publicly and talk about your particular issue. >> thank you. supervisor cohen: peggy -- perry lang. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. first, and when to make sure we are promoting programs that promote social capital. we are talking about synergy between programs and connectedness, because we should have programs that deal with health, that deal with houses. it does not have to be in one place. we can do this virtually. we have to make sure things are connected. secondly, we need a comprehensive policy that deals with those disparities. we talk about disparities, but let's think about a policy that the city can truly embrace that looks at health disparities in district 10 and district 5. we cannot let these artificial barriers separating us. i am dealing with the african- american population. it does not matter if ibm in district 10 or the fillmore. i am still sicker than other parts o

on the property that would preclude the future establishment of a bar at that location should the expansion plans changed to not include that parcel. it should also be noted there are no bars currently operating in the 1400 block of polk street. the storefront is currently vacant and the project would not displace a current tenant. staff has received over five cover letters and petitions in support of the project. a sampling are included in the packet, and i am asked to include additional letters of support. supporters cite the reasonable -- i am sorry, the responsible management of the existing bar as well as community involvement of the business owners. the project has received written support as well as verbal support from the police department. the staff has also received seven communications in opposition to the business, including several letters received following publication of the report. opponents expressed concern about noise, parking impact, overconcentration of bars, and increased crime. in conclusion, stafford and support of the proposed project because it would continue the o

moving on from the basic functional improvements that are needed for ferry terminal expansion, from the water and land side, are a number of concepts for how we can enhance the area further. the ferry plaza area directly to the east of the building has become a very active and great gathering space for the city as a whole, in fact, for the region. but there are some issues. there are issues that the necessity for servicing this area, which has to continue, needs to be better organized so that we can create a better definition of those areas that will be pedestrian only, those areas that, at times, can be vehicular to provide service requirements. as we have grown in terms of the number of activities in this area, the use of the area for public access, a better definition in some cases may be needed. one suggestion is, just as we expanded in phase one, the east promenade, and enhanced it for public access along the bay side of the ferry building, and as the ferry terminal is expanding to the south, there are some improvements that may be needed in the directly adjacent area by dividing w

here we have an expansion that happened and became a hide and seek issue of expansion and staff is saying that is ok, we are going to look at it as though it was the facts on the ground. what didn't ever go out to anybody in the neighborhood as a set of plans that said this is what is legal. they sent a section 311 notice and in the pre-application meeting the same set of plans, which is the existing conditions and how the department thinks they want to change it. no one ever had a measuring stick of here is what is legally allowed there. you have those plans in your packet. nobody has seen them except myself mr. grevey and anyone else obsessive enough to go on line and read they want the neighbors are very confused about this. they thought they had to accept what was presented to them because it was the only alternative because they are stuck with a fairly obnoxious building. this is an extremely visible site. this is a scenic street because it is where you come out of the presidio and hit sea cliff. so you have no summary history of the d.b.i. an hour before this hearing started i got t

in the 1960 we had a wave of economic expansion and it produced something called the "age of aware just." and the age of aware just spawned the number of exotic religions, including zen buddhism and hindu meditation and from there into the jesus freak youth movement which swept through the ranks of the drug-depleted and sex-sated surfers of california and and from there into the jesus freak youth movement which swe . now, imam, do you detect any impact of the affluence of today on the spirituality of your -- your flock? >> indeed. i do believe that if i were to go back 20 years or see where muslims are going now, i do believe that the economic situation of muslims and the worldwide community will influence the way muslims see islam and see islam's spirituality as the way out of the dispair, out of the harmlessness, out of the -- homelessness and poverty that mums limbs have been experienced in the last 20 years. >> you serve as a muslim chaplain of georgetown university which is a roman catholic university in the sense it's run by jesuit priests, right? >> indeed, yeah. >> now, how is t

be a country more traditionally known for sipping tea, but the last few years has seen a marked expansion in coffee growing in south west china, as producers seek to satisfy the growing demand for a caffeine buzz. >>reporter: the zhou (pronounced joe) family tend a soccer field sized plot some 90 km from china's border with myanmar. they switched from growing sugar cane to coffee seven years ago, and in doing so, doubled their income. at today's commodity price, this household of four makes around two and a half thousand us dollars annually. >>erluan: it doesn't take a lot of work, even the children and oldfolk here do it. and the income, well, it's quite nice. >>reporter: of course, the word nice is relative. but for the 40,000 coffee growing families across yunnan, one of china's poorest provinces, only tending tobacco pays as well. it for export. but its output hardly registers on the world stage. the total coffee growing area covers just 280 sq km, or around one sixtieth the size of beijing. >>reporter: brazil is the world's biggest coffee producer with over 39 million bags in 2009, m

but global expansion is seen as a very necessary thing for a big national broadcaster like the bbc to be doing. the question, in strategic terms, was did we see our international role simply in the licensing of television programs for retransmission on other people's services, or could we, the bbc, build on that reputation that we have or that brand that we have internationally in taking television services internationally? it was an exploration of that idea that i think, first of all, led us to believe that in terms of a news and information service, there was both a demand and an opportunity. [narrator] bbc worldwide news is transmitted live from the bbc studios via satellite. it is simultaneously translated and dubbed into mandarin chinese and japanese. [hugh williams] we're unique in world-wide television in that we began in the east and moved back into the west, whereas most global broadcasters grew out of the western markets and moved eastwards as those markets opened up. we began in asia. we started broadcasting out of hong kong with what is now rupert murdoch's star television

the other expansion is a small expansion of the adult services in our full-service partnership to allow for emerging actually of intensive case management programs with existing full- service partnership programs and a little bit of funding to increase the capacity of those programs to provide wraparound access to funding and other supportive services for a larger number. supervisor avalos: ok, very good. would any member of the public like to comment on this item? >> good morning. i have worked in a department of public health for 20 years. iou

. >> that is right, the elevator installed in the 1913 expansion. we can go look at that. >> let's go take a look. here we are in a spectacular st. francis lobby. here is the clock. when people say "meet me at the clock in the st. francis." let's look at that elevator. >> ok, let's do it. >> here we are in the elevator installed as part of the expansion, and this is the way it was originally installed about 100 years ago. it has a manual switch just like elevators did back then, and it runs on dc power. this was from a time before elevators ran on ac power. >> when did they switch? >> decided to switch in the 1920's, so this elevator predicts that by about 19 years. the doors are also manual, so this elevator predates the use of automatic doors on elevators. >> can we take a ride? >> absolutely. going down. >> how many troops do you think this elevator has taken in its lifetime? millions. >> yes, this one probably has. certainly hundreds of thousands. >> very smooth. >> it really does run smoothly. >> there we go. take some serious operation. there

. >> item #5, a resolution for the expansion and renaming of the fillmore jazz community benefit district. supervisor campos: before we continue, i would ask you to take your conversations outside. this is an item that has been introduced by supervisor mirkarimi and we have been joined by him. the floor is yours. supervisor mirkarimi: i supported the community benefits district on the filmore approximately five years ago. i did that with great reservation. that's why when we structured the community benefits district, we structured this unlike any other cbd unlike any other in san francisco. i put this in a five-year window is a pilot to see what its efficacy would amount to. i have strong concerns because it is coming close in its coinciding existence to a post redevelopment world where redevelopment is beginning to wind up in government and land use in the folder -- in the fillmore and parts of the japan town area. that put lots of responsibility of cbd to shoulder the kinds of challenges that redevelopment had a hard time addressing for more than 40 years. in that span of time, there h