the activity, given the strong people and the active sidewalk on fillmore, that should be on fillmore, not california, which is primarily a bus corridor. do you have a question for me? >> that are proposed by, typically, the merchants organization or an adjacent property owner. commissioner moore: you do not have a plan of where you believe -- >> we look at them individually. we typically want them their places that have food and drink, where they are activated and maintained. commissioner moore: this is a question. i am not trying to dig in the bank on a parklet. a park in front of atms is not want to make the streetlight more active. >> this is across the street, not in front of the bank, near a restaurant. >> there is a bus stop there. commissioner moore: it is right beyond the intersection. >> it is being resound. -- rezoned. president olague: there is no bus stop there. commissioner moore: he is talking about the parklet being on the north side. the bus coming down california, going westbound, stops right beyond the intersection of fillmore and california. president olague: there

i have talked to the lush life gallery, which is right next to the fillmore.his is a very important project to us, too, yet it seems to remain separate from an area that we banged on so that it brings a certain level of prosperity and theme to the fillmore community. >> ok, well, during public comment, the chief operating officer of sfjazz can probably come in and talk about their efforts to reach out to the fillmore committee, to give you more insight. supervisor mirkarimi: just so you know, i am moralizing this agreement before me. i cannot do that. i cannot do that. and made it very clear that, you know, they need to -- they need to do the due diligence, and it was not done. i even went to the ground breaking, albeit late, but i went to the ground breaking for this thing. so i have been shadowing this thing from beginning, middle, and to the point where it is now. so has my office on this. >> ok. supervisor chu: thank you. amy, do have something to add? >> if i may, technically, to be perfectly clear, it is only the indemnification agreement that we're seek

i was fortunate to find the fillmore house. my wife and i have fond memories of our time of the house. the level of housekeeping and upkeep is what i have come to expect at hotels. david was quick to reply and was sufficient and helpful. when there were two-month leases, we chose to rent a storage space at a house, where we left our belongings while we went on vacation. i am back in the bay area, and if i am on able to attend it is because of my duty to my customers. i wish i kayhan be there. i was deeply saddened -- i wish i could be there. i was deeply saddened. this place offers an alternative to cold and impersonal hotels or binding contracts. i have met a large number of other occupants and had no problem with any of them. we have become friends and have dinner together. they were gracious to offer to throw a party for our anniversary. i have never felt there was anything wrong with the house, the attendance, or the venice next -- or the management and recommend it to anyone who is considering visiting san francisco. my na

and in that area, period, and in that fillmore. and trying to get my neighborhood there. and given the use of the retail nature of the area. and mr. wormer mentioned things like the active groun

and also we are proposing to the target sponsor about 2,500 customers within the fillmore street that do not have a bank that's close enough and that they can walk to. the closest chase for this area is about a mile away. this concludes my summary of the project. and if you have any questions, i am happy to answer. president olague: thank you. project sponsor? >> president olague, commissioners, i am excited to present our project to you today. it represents over a year of working with staff and local community leaders and the neighborhood residents to bring what we think is a positive addition to the neighborhood and create jobs and investment in the city. here with me today to apps any of your questions is our project architect. he has worked with staff extensively to address the historical issues associated with the project and also the coordinator for the community outreach efforts. chase is reviewed and supports the staff report and the recommendations. i just like to keep my commentses short and be prepared for any questions you may have. as mary indicated, we are proposing to o

we can increase this down fillmore street. in terms of the community land trust, i asked you to look into market creek partners in san diego. this is a unique situation because they had a gentleman who bought the land and gave this back to the community, so this was a unique situation. but the first in the built here was 10 acres of commercial. they have several different communities in this part of san diego. what they were able to do was a similar process where people came to the table to decide what they wanted on the commercial aspect and part of this included a banquet hall facility that was a way to make money for the community and also multi- purpose with different stores and retail that represent the cultural heritage of the neighborhood. they had an absolutely spectacular project, but what was phenomenal is that they created the first initial public offering for a community center. basically, you had to buy at least $10 each and at this allowed everyone in the community to have ownership in the project. i thought this

western addition fillmore community. i also want to be sensitive to that, acknowledging that the sfjazz center will be blocks away from the fillmore jazz district. so if we could -- if redevelopment could work with his office to ensure that the appropriate committee groups and schools and housing committees in the western addition maybe could be included as places of initial outrage for some of the matinees and the educational programs. i think that would be appropriate. i know in the meeting, i guess it is now six middle school programs that would be included. i believe that marina is on that list and francisco. the two schools. we can look back at that. we can look at zip codes of enrollment at each of the middle schools. i think it is important to ensure that the students coming from the western addition community, that those get priority. because there's not a middle school in the western addition. although gateway middle school, i believe, is opening this year. but that is a charter middle school. and i believe the

fillmore is in transition period because a lot of people don't understand that in the fillmore and japan town, for 45 years, this area of our city known as redevelopment e-2 project area was governed by a different agency than by city hall, a redevelopment agency. their land use and zoning code did not comport and did not reflect our own san francisco planning codes. operated by a very different government system in fillmore and japan town for 45 years. that period expired in january 2009. previous to that period, created some of the most significant upheaval in transformation in the fillmore and in japan town. we're now dealing with the after effects of that, where i'm proving legislation that help deal with i think some of the missteps of urban renewal this took place between the 1960's and 1980's. so that's a hodgepodge of things. >> you mentioned key issues with your district and things going on at the city. how will you balance the needs of your district with the needs of the city as a whole? >> i think my district as a microcosm in the city. if you look at the diversity of the popu

i want to respond to the comments regarding the outreach to the western addition, fillmore, and the jazz heritage area. we have been listening to and have been taking action on the request to reach out further and more closely to those areas. we held a community organization roundtable in may of this year. we invited members of community organizations in to talk about what they might want and what they might seek from the sfjazz and to see how we could benefit in partnerships. representation that that committee -- commended the session that we had, there were members of the jazz heritage center there in the jazz heritage district. and they all thank us for having that open forum, because they felt it was a good step to building the bridges across all the different organizations involved in jazz in music education. and we all promised together to continue that collaboration going forward. since then, we have established in committed to, with the jazz heritage center, a discover jazz series on women. that is going to be held in the spring. it is part of our spring catalog and part of the j

we have been having some really good -- the fillmore member association. we would like to have you come out and hear from the community about the cdb. we are in support of it but we don't know exactly what it means. is a community benefit or district benefit. a lot of the businesses and owners have came out and talked about the benefits of the community, but overall, the cleaning and safety of the whole community has not benefited. it might look nice on filmmore street, the businesses are not thriving, so i don't think the community overall has adapted to the cdb, but we're willing to come together as a community and see what we can do. we originally had day cac through the redevelopment -- we originally had a cac through the redevelopment agency. hopefully in the next come -- the next upcoming meeting, if you can book it on your schedule, i know you have a busy one, but we hope to get you out there and maybe some of the other supervisors that have cdb's in their district and speak also. >> for the record, mr. chair, supervisors, real quick, i want to than

my name is chris, and while i presently reside in germany, i have lived in fillmore house. as a young professional product manager with a job taking need between germany and san francisco, without professional responsibilities requiring me to settle down, this currently provides safety and convenience housing while in san francisco. >> thank you. >> my name is william, and i am a current resident of the fillmore house. i am recent graduate from the engineering program, and i am getting going with my career. the fillmore house has provided a good starting place and more than that as i plan to stay there at least a year. it is a month-to-month lease in the contract. david has always been helpful to me. he has always been accessible. the house is very comfortable and peaceful. it is not a bunch of people causing mayhem, which i enjoy. the neighborhood is peaceful and enjoyable. one other thing i would add is that coming from an environmental background, i heard the transportation sustainability stuff, and all these people if they were to live separately, they would have separa

in this vacuum in japan town, there was the fillmore district with african americans and a variety of other people and they moved into the community. and then japanese americans get out of camp and they come back to their neighborhood that has been populated and made into a different life and different world and what happens when those two communities overlap and intersect? whose place is it, whose home is it? who is an american? how do we sort of coexist in this post war period where the people from that community are by and large marginalized, yet you have this whole kind of other thing happening where it's -- the war has been won, this is like new things, television is happening, advertising, this whole advertising thing is happening. so you have these marginalized peoples and what happens, is it possible to develop a kind of at that moment a cross-cultural community? is it possible to have kind of a multi cultural community that emerged from that moment? and so, in particular, that's what i wanted to explore. and part of the back drop is there was this extraordinary jazz scene hap

where i really hung out was at the fillmore.hat was my university, checking out be the king, and james brown, a cream. finding out how they were able to penetrate people's hearts. with their music. once you do that, something happens to their eyes. they become brighter. they start crying, they do not know why. they start dancing. it is like when a woman gives birth. =mmfirst, she cries and then she laughs. later on, she dances. and that, to me, is the beauty of what san francisco is about. >> one final question, and we are going to link it to your music today. such a rich legacy that you are giving us. you mentioned to me that you are working on a new album. could you share what is coming up? >> i love to dream when i am awake. kand so i had this dream of working with india arie and yo- yo ma to do the george harrison saw; and "-- song. this is the definitive way to do this. we are all in it together, we do not leave anybody out. t conviction, i am one of the few people that you can recognize by one note. god gave me that univer

where i really hung out was at the fillmore.t was my university, checking out be the king, and james brown, a cream. finding out how they were able to penetrate people's hearts. with their music. once you do that, something happens to their eyes. they become brighter. they start

i am from the fillmore neighborhood. i came here to check in with supervisor mirkarimi about the 2011 sra enforceable operation payment schedule. this is the document and it is really hard to see. basically, over september, october, november, december, there will be $1.8 million into the fillmore neighborhood totaling $7.5 million. this ordinance is 3106a that was put out by ross. what i want to do is, according to this ordinance, the redevelopment has continued in this neighborhood around housing and to existing covenants, contrast, obligations. also, to redress the demolition of a substantial number of residential dwelling units for moderate to low income. to the greatest extent possible. i wanted to check in with supervisor mirkarimi -- we have a unique situation where the redevelopment in this city is both in the neighborhoods -- i do not see the impact in terms of african american people, people with certificate holders. i do not see the impact. i want to make sure that these funds are being utilized to the very max

the building of sf jazz, which i think was very important that it build a relationship with the fillmore jazz corridor and businesses, and the academic interest, and trying to resuscitate that corridor. if that had not been the case, that this institution that is proposed to go on franklin street be more vigorous in the establishing of the relationships with those in the fillmore area -- people should be reminded, if they have forgotten, that west of mississippi, san francisco was the jazz harlem in the united states. that is something i do not think we should undermine, and should capitalize as much as we can. this addition to this neighborhood helps do that, as long as it is well done. i put on pause the community benefits agreement, which i thought was insufficient for this particular building. i have asked both redevelopment and the architect to this proposal to come back with a better community benefits agreement. if i could through the president bring up redevelopment to speak on this? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the deputy executive director of the san francisco redevelop

where i really hung out was at the fillmore.t was my university, checking out be the king, and james brown, a cream. finding out how they were

supervisor mirkarimi: this was well reported on -- approximately 4:00 p.m., the corner of eighth and fillmore. in fact, we were engaged in closed session. we got a number of calls as many of us do. i simply jetted right over there, and it contained a three ilan that moved to a for alarm that is a bit of a rarity, considering the fact that we lost to fire fighters earlier this year. and red cross and the other service providers that came on site to lend assistance, i have to tell you that when its core to the story as to how we are here today, recognizing three particular individuals and entities. pierre megaron gustavo and the lower merchant neighbors association. this is a great example of community pulling together. in the business that he is a partner to across the street from the three-story building that burned down and displaced 24 residents was across the street. he heard a loud bang. it went to the building itself. gustavo was a painter who happens to have a key and both of them went inside the building, knocking on doors. i think people thought that they were crazy solicitors. they k

market so the j- church line will have bus shuttles in place between 18th and market and outbound 22 fillmore buses are being rerouted. we'll have more coming up. >> thank you. >>> oakland officials are telling protestors inspired by the "occupy wall street" movement that they must leave a plaza where they have been camping out. for the past 11 days, hundreds have been living in a tent city in frank ogawa plaza but now the city administrator has posted a notice to vacate on the city's website t cites several reasons for the decision and among them, fire hazards from cooking with open flames and a density of flammable material, rising frequency of assaults, denial of access to emergency personnel, poor sanitation, health hazards from the worsening of an existing rodent problem and physical damage from graffiti and vandalism. a long list there. as we were talking, it was a case of impeccable timing. on the day of a statewide earthquake preparedness drill, two minor quake shook parts of the bay area. the usgs says the first was 4.0 under the uc-berkeley campus at 2:31 yesterday afternoon and alm

there is the nc3 district between fillmore and laguna. that is an nc3 district. we have explored and gone through a very extensive process of evaluating both the applicability of the nc2 and nc3 districts and merging those into a possible named japantown neighborhood commercial district. from staff, we provided assistance in looking at density analysis, and we provided, with the help of johnny and jonathan, some exercises looking at typical sights to see what sort of density changes we can make in the area to help address the long standing needs the city has for growth, especially along a transit preferential street in the geary brt. we also began working, again with staff, shelley and michael and johnny were very instrumental in some of the very initial stages of taking social heritage resources the committee had identified and mapping those resources, and we continue that process with the cultural heritage committee, hoping to refine that list of resources and how they should be mapped. also, i was happy to get help from one of the -- a young woman who is now i

. >> my family got moved out of the fillmore into bayview hunters point back when redevelopment was the old redevelopment, and they were proclaiming to do all of us some justice. they were going to tear down the old houses and replace them with new houses, and everybody bought into that dream. does it surprise you that they admit that the whole reality was to get so many black folks out of the fillmore? because folks was means wanted to move in. >> they get a lot of grief for that, but the reality is we were part of a larger national federal initiative. in terms of the work that we do today and work we have done over the last 20 years, we have been the leader in terms of producing affordable housing. that is a document to the fact. >> we actually want redevelop. we want to see our house is remodel, kept up. poor people do not necessarily because they are poor want to live in dilapidated broken houses. these folks are dying to have their houses repaired and 6 so they do not have these issues. they are fighting to hold onto old, raggedy houses. you know why? because they know what rebel m

j-church line, also the 22 fillmore outbound buses will be rerouted.'ll have more on this plus we'll hit the roads coming up in traffic in a full report in a few minutes. >> we'll look forward to that. >>> americans are a little more optimistic about the future. but they remain gloomy about the economy. more than 70% believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. 23% think unemployment will decrease next year but few expect the government to help. and only 41% say the government cannot do much to create jobs at this point. >>> the pentagon is about to begin a phoenix program aimed at recycling in deep space. military researchers are looking for ways to use parts from unused satellites. nasa says there are about 100 dead satellites in orbit many with valuable parts that could be recycled. and others could be repaired and put back into service. the pentagon starts taking proposals from private contractors in december. >>> you probably know this very well. the bay area has always been a pricy place to put down roots but if some areas, rents are act

we would go down to the fillmore and see these great band, the doors, and jimi hendrix, cream, and thendown to the grove to see other music. you could go to the mission district to hear mexican. everywhere i went there was this multi dimensional color and i felt like it was on necessary for me to do just one. like baskin-robbins, i want all the flavors. you cannot just be a mexican play music. there is a lot of beauty in that, but it was not for me. i was born without arms around my heart that wants to embrace everything. palestine's, israelis. japanese, apaches. i am more concentrated with life and love than flags, nationality, religion. that stuff gets in the way. one gets in the way is me, myself, my story. for me, that is why music is liberating. when you hear "imagine" anywhere in the world, people sang the lyrics. as soon as you hear the melody -- same thing with a bob marley song. i grew up taking everything from bob dylan, curtis mayfield, the beatles, smokey robinson. mike alma mater was the streets of san francisco.

blocks of art by urban solutions, an organization that works with small businesses in the lower fillmore, they help them work on their business plan. this will showcase the amazing businesses across sixth street. this is between market and howard, and artists will be showing their work. the businesses will be open to walk in. and discover all of these vibrant businesses. i recommend for you to come out and join us. this will show what a local organization can do to revitalize the neighborhood and how we can help this organization. >> commissioner moore? >> commmissioner moore: i would like to comment on an e-mail about file 747, with improvements for small business and landscaping qualifications, a proposed ordinance by supervisor chiu. i am concerned about receiving this, even for a consider his age -- consideration. for years, all possible, reasonable codes have addressed this, and this particular draft, out this draft could fall on its face, not only in doing the burden for small business owners, unduly challenging historic preservation, occurring at a time when going full bore on thi

actually sit down and give some input, because this is like our baby in the western addition the fillmore, and for years we have been saying that community policing, the goal of community policing is not the community policing itself. at this point, it is true. a lot of things have been said in the community, and a lot of people have given up when it comes to working with the police department and city governments. but this is a good sign. going forward, i think if you look at crn, that is a clear example of what the problem is. crn was never intended to be just like security guards the to come on at the scene and stand by and sometimes do the police work. crn, from the vision of community policing, which we presented to the mayor in 2006, was to create a 18 of community people that actually knew the law -- create a team of community people that actually knew the law. so when we come to the table, one side will not be speaking over another. if i come to the table with the chief or anybody with the police department, i have to know something about the dgo. if i am trying to represent the c