full c folsom street events supports this very much. >> we are speaking in support of the legislation introduced by supervisor mandelman. our members feel this is a step in the right direction regarding consumption practices in san francisco and that tourism is going to ab strong and profitable element of the larger san francisco cannabis landscape. echoing supervisor fewer's comments earlier, we feel that equity must be an important part of that conversation and it must be a criteria for evaluating these licenses as it has been, so the equity group would like to say we are in strong support of this motion and we make ourselves available for any questions, comments, information we can provide on that issue. thank you. >> chair fewer: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. conor johnston. i am one of the owners of a soon-to-open cannabis retailers in san francisco. california -- you may have seen in the news recently, when it legalized adult use cannabis sales in 2018, the year for year sales actually went down. we sold less legal cannabis in 2018 than 2017, and a big r

meetings and friends of eagle plaza meetings spreading the word about the project at up your alley, folsom street fair and doyle alley for the past years. eagle plaza will spearhead the coordination and permitting process from the city. thank you for your support. >> commissioner: thank you. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. sorry, come forward. public comment is open. >> hello, everybody, thank you for having us and for the mayor supporting this initiate. i'm from san francisco eagle, alex motijo and we've worked with members of the community trying to make the space available for everybody. we have a lot of plans for the activation and commemoration of the leather community. it would be great to have your support. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you, next speaker, please. >> i'm john taylor. i worked on the project from the beginning and i am one of the landlords of the next street over. we don't have an area in our area to go quietly. we have two playgrounds five or six blocks away so it hit would be -- this would be the only area in the vicinit

you may recognize this is folsom street and it happens regularly there as well as bryant street and the busses will get out and go around traffic which is a time consuming process. as a result we're seeing average travel times of 10 minutes from caltrain to market. that's about a mile. that's about 6 or 7 miles an hour and the proposal is focussed where the bus 40% slower than after 7:00 p.m. so i don't know if you can squint and see this. i apologize the map is a little bit small. the source of the problem we have in the afternoon with transit is third street is a route to the bay bridge. you see the opportunities going to the one-way street at this point. there's opportunities to turn right towards the bridge at bryant and then again at harrison and folsom. we see high volumes of right-turn vehicles at all those elections. at bryant, about 20% of the 2,000 vehicles heading north in the busiest hour are trying to turn right. if you do quick math that's about 400 vehicles in an hour that say high -- is a high volume of right-turning vehicles. in addition to transit, it's been equally im

you know, it's possible today to walk from 6th street to van ness on folsom and encounter two public trash cans. if you walk down 9th street in mission to bryant, you'll encounter one. these are the sort of issues we hope to address. this is not an intensive cbd. we took pains to educate ourselves and some of the -- [bell ringing] -- cbds had erred in their ways. and you know, we're at pains to have a minimally intrusive, you know, cleaning oriented cbd. and be happy to share. >> please direct your remarks into the microphone. >> anyone can approach me after the session for further details. we are genuine in that intent. thank you. >> hello, president yee, members of the board. i work in soma west. i'm joined here today to ask for your support of the soma west and thank supervisor haney for his help on this. my name is harold. i operate flowers and have for the last 20 years in south of market. i own a piece of property there and i have a vacant lot next to my piece of property, so i have a good sense of the base level of what is happening in the neighborhood. i cannot wait to spend t

rehabilitation and maintenance plan for historic resources which take advantage of expanded uses within the folsom street n.c.t. and the r.c.d. district. this is a reasonable request in exchange for allowing otherwise prohibited uses and enables the project sponsor to demonstrate how a new use will extend the life of the building through preservation. this concludes our preservation and we're available for questions. thank you. >> president melgar: thank you very much. we will now take public comment on this item. i have peter zablatt, and anyone else who wants to speak to this item, please come up. >> good afternoon, commissioners. peter zablatt with the pelosi law group. i'm here on behalf of the church at 10th and howard that would be substance to this legislation. first and foremost we're here to support this legislation. we think it's important to substantiate historic properties and give them as much flexibility as possible and give them economic incentive to renovate the historic structures. we also believe it helps existing renovated historic structures, because it gives incentives where existing

i am active for the local community engagement committee, as well as upper folsom street neighbors in the community. i would like to speak to two different things. one is a rendering, which i don't want to pass around, because it is too big, and i have the p.d.f. on the rendering too late, but there is an architect, a local architect and neighbor who did that drawing to address many of the concerns that have been brought by the neighbors who are concerned about various issues on this project, which aren't addressed by the current architect. all lee is saying is there are ways to address that concern, and if there was enough time, in the process was different, he could have done that. i want to put my ore in the water for my neighbor. the other or i want to put in the water is for planning. what has happened here is that bernal hill and cortlandt street specifically does not have a design review board such as we have at the east slope where i live, and that review board is functioning because it brings together, as all the stakeholders in the community, to look at various concerns. and

the cu and environmental appeals for 1052 folsom street were all continued to april 9th, and that concludes my report, and i would also like to share my thanks to supervisor -- maybe some day, commissioner fong, for his time on the committee. thanks. >> secretary: i have no -- wait a minute, maybe last minute. nope, no hearing last night for the board of appeals. placing us under general public comment. at this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the committee, except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. when the number of speakers exceed the 15-minute limit, general public comment may be moved to the end of the agenda. i have no speaker cards. >> president melgar: we have no speaker cards, but if you can come up for general public comment. go ahead, come on up. okay, anyone else for general public comment

only project to come out has been the project over at -- oh, i'm so sorry, but it was at folsom and shotwell streets. in looking at it, in total, one acre is 174 square feet that should -- 174,000 square feet of open space that should have been provided by now. we're failing these children, and already there's a deficiency of open space overall in san francisco. this is a study that showed that open space totalled only 14% of san francisco. additionally, in the motion that was created, originally by planning, they did admit that the shadow cast by the proposed project has a numerically significant effect. i'm going to contest that i believe that scope was too broad. it'll be too broad, particularly taken into account that there's going to be a nine story unit constructed next to this one that is going to add to the shadow density shown on that park. the closest school that is nearby to this park is marshall elementary. marshall elementary gets out usually around 2:40, but there are 120 students there that are part of their mission graduates program. those children gets out around 5:00 or 6:00, right

over the past week, and it happened on saturday, february 2nd, at six in the evening, at folsom and 22nd streetn the richmond district. it involved a pedestrian, 38 years old, was walking outside of the crosswalk, attempting to cross the street. she was struck by a vehicle going eastbound, and unfortunately, succumbs to her injuries. so this was not a hit and run. all parties stayed at the scene and tight -- tried to render aid to, what and fortunately she did not survive her injuries. as far as major events, we have had several conventions this week, large conventions, highlighted by the ibm convention, which goes from the seventh to the tenth. we also have a tech convict -- convention that is happening right now. it ends on the seventh. and the adobe convention, also is happening this week. so it has caused some traffic back up, but we have support for those events, and no problems anticipated. the san francisco giants will have a fan festival, which is really the start of the beginning for baseball season. that will be this saturday, february 9th. from ten a.m. until three p.m. in the aftern

he is from folsom with a game- high of 23 and st. mary's wins by 11, the seventh street win over the broncos. >>> colin kaepernick invited to join the alliance american league football but reportedly at $20 million, about the average for the salary for the nfl quarterbacks. the average player salary for the start of league is $75,000. >>> trying to end the valentine's day with some public affection, 94-year-old jimmy carter and first lady, rosalynn carter, on the atlanta hot kiss cam, so hail to the chief. that is a great couple to see last night. >>> thank god it is friday as i had done this spring training. have a great weekend, everybody. >>> it is raining again in guerneville but that's not a welcome sight with businesses and homes still underwater. we will show you the damage coming up in a live report. >> reporter: we have closure on the westbound lanes of highway 37 due to the levee that has been breached in several places due to the inundating rain. we will take a look coming up next. you know when you're at ross and... wow! ...you realize you can totally eat out

street in san francisco will be reopening for the first time in 7 years. i will have the details in a live report. ( darya ) good morning i'm darya folsom..( james ) and i'm. lets start the morning with a check of weather and traffic... enjoy plenty more sunshine today with conditions again comfortably in the 50's this afternoon making for a great friday to get outside. tomorrow cloud cover will increase a but with conditions remaining dry before a chance of rain into the finish of the

folsom and geneva and poe llano. we also completely rebuilt, from the ground up two other gardens. page street, and corona heights community garden. in addition to the sites that were rebuilt, we performed site repairs at 20 of the remaining garden sites, so we have done a lot of work to improve these locations. these repairs focus primarily on safety repairs. for example, here is a family retaining wall at a community garden. we worked with the garden members to improve this space, and have a great retaining wall and to outline the gathering space. we spent a lot of time on gathering space, management over the past year. we want to ensure that people have a place where they could run programs. we invested a total of $4,400 in $404,000 in site repairs last year. in addition to the direct investments, we received a number of repairs on the operations team, in carpentry, plumbing, and electrical. these repairs were clicked -- critical. i want to say thank you to the team for all the support you gave us last year as well. we were able to amplify the direct investments that we did make by working

folsom..(james) and i'm james fletcher. that breaking news. there is major police activity around a restaurant in the south bay. (áááscandoááá) here is a streete in campbell. we have a reporter headed to the scene. for more on any traffic problems ... lets turn to robin winston. police activity in campbell had bascome ave closed in both direction from hamilton to canpbell. avoid the area. accident nb 101 south tower slow from toll of golden gate bridge

folsom..(james) and i'm james fletcher. lets start the morning with a check of weather and traffic... hot spot accident wb at central blocking. oakland a stalled reported nb 880 near 16th. traffic jammed from high street. take wb 580 instead. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. more sunshine after skies brought plenty of blue to them yesterday as well. temperatures are icy cold outside again to start with daytime highs looking comfortable this afternoon back comfortable this highs looking with daytime again to start icy cold outside temperatures are well. yesterday as blue to them brought plenty of after skies more sunshine more sunshine after skies brought plenty of blue to them yesterday as well. temperatures are icy cold outside again to start with daytime highs looking comfortable this afternoon back into the 50's. skies will remain dry today before rainfall pushes in into early friday morning. follow our big story in san francisco. the area around a gas explosion in the city's inner richmond district remains closed this morning. this is new video of the flames before fire crews arrived on scene yesterday afternoon. ( james ) the gas line erupted just before 1:30 at a constru

folsom..(james) and i'm james fletcher. lets start the morning with a check of weather and traffic... hot spot accident wb at central blocking. oakland a stalled reported nb 880 near 16th. traffic jammed from high street