commissioner fong? commissioner fong: very interesting comments. when we go to at 10:30 and beyond, everyone is weary. commissioner olague: yes. what do you do with that? commissioner fong: i think that contributes to attention. even if we did not go to 10:30 start, currently we generally have a 1:30 start. there is a 4.5 hour difference between those two, allowing the regular items on the calendar to work its way out in 4.5 hours. if we did go to for what 30, that is a five-hour window to the rope bridge -- 4:30, that is a five-hour window to get regular items considered. and i agree with commissioner borden's comment about all of us working. we are volunteering our time here. i do not want to push my personal thing too much, but i do mind -- i do not mind volunteering. it is a little tough for those who have families. commissioner olague: we could always start at noon. we could try that for a while. commissioner moore? commissioner moore: commissioner fong says we forget that all of us start our own workday at 8:00 or 8:30 respectively. we are he

commissioner fong? commissioner fong: very interesting comments. when we go to at 10:30 and beyond, everyone is weary. commissioner olague: yes. what do you do with that? commissioner fong: i think that contributes to attention. even if we did not go to 10:30 start, currently we generally have a 1:30 start. there is a 4.5 hour difference between those two, allowing the regular items on the calendar to work its way out in 4.5 hours. if we did go to for what 30, that is a five-hour window

fong? it says it should be 12 feet back. they are making an exception. the building up the street built every -- that broke every building will in the book got another exception. what is your plan for the city and county of san francisco and for our neighborhood? are we going to make exceptions to every single building that goes up? are we going to start sticking to the code? i am not saying one way or another how i go on this. i am just pulling out the questions on this. is that interesting? president olague: we are actively looking up the plans over here. if it appears we're looking down -- >> if it is 4 feet here, 8 feet here, 10 feet here, do we have a code? what should we follow? breaking these codes and making these exceptions at times causes drs. if you follow the code, it is more likely you will not have them. >> commissioners, ipod -- commissioner sugaya: commissioners, i am going to ask to recused myself. in has bearing to the property i own. -- commissioner fong:. >> on the motion? commissioner fong is reduced -- recused. president olague: pro

commissioner fong was absent. commissioner antonini was recused. they will consider the variances. >> i was able to review the meeting. >> the case before you is a conditional use authorization on a lot greater than that in a zoning district. it is located on the corner of california street. the property currently contains two buildings with a commercial space and two residential units. the proposal will result in a two-story mixed use building. and a four-story unit. they are seeking a rear-yard variance. the commission voted to continue to find the proposed designs. it was brought towards the seventeenth street facade. it will allow bigger when does an create proportion in relation to the building below. the architect revised the three- unit residential building so that the materials are reduced. have been changed to punched openings. and the active use on frontage was replaced on a space for art. it was also increased in size and bicycle parking was added. the revised proposal is acceptable and recommend that they approve the project with the ad

commissioner fong: -- commissioner olague: commissioner fong? commissioner fong: i think we all want to hear more. we do not want to create a situation that would be abusive. i agree with the tenants and the direction we are going for complex cases. consistent materials -- i do not know if there is a design standard to get a package together. that is beyond my expertise. what has come up are shadow studies and noise-related studies. we had a meeting last week and they were quoting two different organizations. so pick one of the standards or come up with a standard. i would very much like training sessions. my feeling is that the more informed neighborhood groups can be on their streets, hopefully we will have less contention and the more educated they are, i think we would be better off. and the last item, is so it shore in opening up a can of worms -- i am sure i am opening up a can of worms. i am not afraid of the hours we are putting into it. but maybe in the past, we talked about a subcommittee being formed where it is the four of us and we

commissioner fong: just very quickly, mr. sanchez, are there any installed on mission street? >> i am unaware of any markets on mission street. the closest i am aware of is between mission and valencia. i believe it is 22nd, the october revolution cafe. commissioner fong: i am following up on the idea of bringing some of the energy to the front of the space with a park. there might be an opportunity for the solution to pick up the five or 10 seats you may lose in the backyard and bring it up front. president olague: is that something that is doable? commissioner antonini: you could not require it because the city would have to approve that, but you could require them make applications for a parklet. i would consider that part of the motion. that could work. >> if i may, i think it is important that the condition on the monitoring read something to the effect that the commission could impose additional conditions in the future, or modify your conditions of approval if the conditions warrant it. commissioner borden: that is a question i wanted to ask and did not ask. maybe we sh

commissioner fong: aye. commissioner moore: no. president olague: aye. >> that motion passed six to one. commissioners, you are now on item 16, case 3438 mission street. mission street. >> diego sanchez with the planning department's staff. at present the request for a conditional use authorization to install a wireless transmission facility, five panel antennas and associated equipment by t- mobile within the nc-3 zoning district. the project is on mission between kingston and brokok. this complies with the planning code and is consistent with setting guidelines -- sightinti guidelines. it is a mixed-use structure in a high-density district. they have held community outreach meetings for residents within 500 feet of the proposed meeting in december 2010. the objective is to maintain a comprehensive wireless network in san francisco and provide service that serves the public good. the staff is aware of one telephone call in opposition to the project, and one request for further information, citing health concerns. stepper commence

president olague: commissioner fong? commissioner fong: thank you. i had the opportunity of going out and visiting the site and have driven by it thousands of times and i want to point out the significant of being the gateway into pedestrian as you enter the city and am overall supportive and has seen the use and is very ready for an update in change and i know we are not quite there, but when we are there i will push for some architecture significance and we are a little down the road there. i am hoping it is one more piece. avery secretary avery thank you. >> if i could, i think we are scheduled to hear about this again on april 7. just to confirm that. april 7 we will be bringing more details to you on the plan. i want to make sure that you were aware that the acts that you are taking in the coming months are on the plan, not the individual projects. you will see individual projects in the coming months. thanks to staff and to everyone who came today. secretary avery: thank you. commissioners, our item 10, 2010.1080c for 311 divisadero street. >>

commissioner fong: mr. flores, doesn't the local hiring taken this week? >> it is going to be kicking in in a couple of weeks. yes, it is, to answer your question. president olague: is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you. commissioners, you are now on item 8, case # 2,009.0378c. president olague: commissioner antonini has to recused himself. >> it is a request for a 224 town ands -- townsend street conditional use. commissioner antonini: i have a small property that may be within 500 feet of the site.fors from the commission on this hearing. -- for recusion from the commission on this hearing. >> commissioner antonini is recused. commissioner borden: to talk about this -- can we talk about the recusal when we review our rules next week? we have to vote on it, but we do not really have a choice. president olague: we will talk to the attorney. >> i am from department stuff. before you is a request for a conditional use. the project is to establish a public parking garage for up to five years at 224 townsen

commissioner fong: i have a couple questions related to financing. i guess the first one -- is there a cap on the tif funding? i would like evaluation. the deeper question -- is that funding went to happen in different phases, or it is all of it going to be called upon at the beginning? are their faces were they are calling 1/3, 1/3, 1/3? >> the developer will have to put in the early money. it will not be available until there is value created on the island. most of the value will come from construction and practical improvements. it tends to come later in the project. the cap on tif is basically qualified project spots, which we define as the infrastructure, parks, transportation costs, etc.. commissioner moore: i want to start with a question. and as we are initiating, there will be a number of changes in part of the document. i know that different groups are asking different phases and you sit here and take notes. what is going to be approved? there still needs to be a lot of work done in order for those questions to be properly answered or incor

commissioner fong: i am also in support of the motion. i want to remind you that it has been a decade park has been built. part of the magic of that part is that people arrive by transit, but some are not able to do that and need to arrive by car. i think this serves that purpose and it is important to keep that inventory specifically for the ballpark. in addition, it already is a great restaurant corridor on which street. hopefully, it becomes a more vibrant nightlife area. commissioner sugaya: project sponsor's testimony indicated car share space and bicycle parking, yet they are not indicated on the plans. >> i have the building permit application plans on file and they do show at the front portion of the property that they are providing bicycle parking. that portion is title bicycle parking here. -- is titled bicycle parking here. i will take a close look to make sure that what they are promising, we get. on the architectural plan, it is clearly shown. vice president miguel: it is on there. commissioner borden: it is on this page. vic

president olague: commissioner fong? >> commissioner fong: clearly it's been a rough week and curveball has been thrown at this stage of the game. i want to acknowledge other work on the public and private side of this thing. my encouragement is don't give up, keep going and let creativity flow and maybe i will be able to find a way out of this one. president olague: commissioner moore? commickser moore: i don't know the answer to the question. i just want to raise it, how does the public trust get interpreted or reinterpreted under this new arrangement because it is very different from what it was before. in addition to that when you make tighter -- don't want to use the word development because that, of course, doesn't apply. to become semi-public arm of the public to work with private development, those are all equal questions, structural questions about how do they represent public interest? don't answer me, doesn't matter. i'm just going to let you know that will be a question loosely asked and probably more concise

commissioner fong: it seems we had a similar week. i met with neighbors on the project as well as to a tour of the executive park. going out and seeing the proposed project has been beneficial. commissioner miguel: i have met with people regarding heights street as well as a coalition of groups. basically a chinatown haughty- line extension -- t-line extension and social equity projects. it was very enlightening. commissioner antonini: you tweaked my memory. i met with groups on lansing in the last week. thank you. >> commissioners, we can move forward to the directors' report. and a review of the past week's events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals, and historic preservation commission. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i want to a knowledge of the staff on the better streets plan award for urban assembly. he is a very prestigious award. i want to thank staff and the project manager on that and congratulate them on the award. i wanted to spend a couple of minutes updating the commission on the status of the governor's pro

commissioner fong or commissioner sugaya or anybody else can decide to go along. that is the review team that the department. -- at the department. >> thank you, commissioners. letter d, a director's report. under review of the events. >> i wanted to remind you if you have any final comments on the housing element to try to get those two staff in the next few days. we would like to get you the final edit the diversion of about two weeks in advance of the hearing. -- the final version about two weeks in advance of the hearing. we have tentatively scheduled a morning hearing march 17. the calendar shows that to be an informational hearing. there will be a morning hearing that day on that item. there was no board of appeals meeting this week, so there is no report. >> i will share with you the activities of the board of supervisors. the land use committee heard an ordinance that would amend the area plan labor criteria for affordable housing. one of the conditions is if it has affordable housing. on december 9, 2010, as part of the proposed ordinance to amend the vis

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host: paul fong, state representative joining us from california. thank you for giving us your perspective. we are talking about the 2012 primary calendars. and >> geraldine ferraro passed away saturday at the age of 75. she was the first female vice president nominee on a major party ticket and served as u.s. representative of new york's ninth district. now, here is a look at her vice- presidential acceptance speech at the 1984 democratic national convention in said francisco. this is about 30 minutes. ♪ ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] [cheering] >> ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my name is geraldine ferraro. i stand before you to proclaim tonight, america is the land where dreams can come true for all of us. as i stand before the american people and think of the honor this great convention has bestowed upon me, i recall the words of dr. martin luther king jr., who made america stronger by making america more free. he said, "occasionally in life there are moments which cannot be completely explained by words. their meaning can only be articulate

commissioner fong: aye. commissioner antonini: aye. president olague: aye. vice president miguel: aye. vice president miguel: aye. >> those motions pass. >> thank you all. thanks very much. >> now we are on public comment for items not on the agenda. president olague: is there any general public comment? seeing none, general public, it is closed and the meeting is adjourned. >> commission president, you have a quorum. we're joined by joysticks from the occ. >> welcome to the wednesday, march 2nd, san francisco police commission meeting. tonight is our regularly scheduled meeting. let's start with the consent calendar >> this is a request to accept a certificate for a polls tell stay -- the lima start with in the consent calendar. >> this is a request to accept a certificate for a hotel stay and a $300 certificate from the road rico's san francisco as their sentences the police officer of the recipient. >> is a any comment regarding this? hearing none, item two. >> item numbertwo is general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission regar

. >> i am cynthia fong, with more on our financial position. as for the first six months, we have $115.1 million in cash and investments. 90% in the treasury poo. -- pool. this is a liability equal to $230 million. for the first six months we collected sales tax revenue, $3.5 more than anticipated, and we spent $26 million. the next six months is when we recieve the bulk of this. we will bring this up to the committee for approval. according to the government code, we are in compliance and we also have enough liquidity for the expendatures. let me remind you, this is an information item and i can answer any questions. >> thank you so much. we open for public comment. does anyone wish to speak? thank you for that informational item. ms. cheng? >> introduction of new items. >> open for public comment? it is closed. ms. cheng? >> this is public comment. >> does anyone wish to speak? public comment is closed. >> 9 is adjournment. >> thank you for the meeting. meeting adjourned. commissioner mirkarimi: good morning. welcome to the san francisco coun

secondly, i think that a crime situation would be helped if we could get some help from ex- chief heather fong. i'm surprised she has not had any presence since her retirement, and i think that helps the criminal because we are not using her vast experience and knowledge that she acquired. second, i would like to thank the sfpd juvenile unit for conducting investigation into pornography allegations on san francisco general hospital. i think that pornography is banned under reported crime in san francisco, and i have a feeling that it is abuse other illegal activities. my final comment is the open court examiner" has an article on today's crops. -- the "examiner" has an article on today's cops. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you, captain, for the updated information, and we look forward to seeing you again soon. want to remind the audience that next week, there will be a special meeting on the ninth regarding community policing and legislation being advanced to discuss what the legislative definition of community policing

of a suguitan continues to back up, but begin to officer fong and mr. johnson in the doorway.they aware of it at this moment that their lives were in danger. officer suguitan, fearing for his life and that of his partner, and for ms. johnson, discharged at least two rounds of his firearms that mr. smith and his willful attempt to stop the threat posed by mr. smith. noticing that mr. smith was still advancing, officer suguitan discharged more rounds, mortally wounding him. mr. smith collapsed in the doorway of his residence. officer suguitan and his partner quickly responded to a residence in response to a citizen needing assistance in meeting with your roommate. officer suguitan was in the of the confronted with a life- threatening soup -- a circumstance and his attempt to offer the suspect assistance in dealing with his mental issues. with practically no time to react to the threat to his life, that does his partner, and a citizen requesting assistance, officer suguitan reacted under tremendous circumstances by discharging his department's firearms and ending on stopping the

commissioner moore: commissioner fong says we forget that all of us start our own workday at 8:00 or 8:30 respectively. we are here at midnight, we have already been set at whatever on our own professional part for several hours. i am looking at members of the public being affected. i believe our own physical abilities -- and i would say for all of us -- start to diminish. for that reason, i believe we should put more realistic parameters around what we do, and if we once or twice a month gave you a separate meeting in order to give specific hearing to a project, then let's do that. the public should be involved in those as well. this is where lots of staff time is. we should be giving them as much as we give to the public. i strongly encourage us to create a slightly different, more regiment organizing structure -- more regimented organizing structure so we can work on the big things and quickly moved to the small things. commissioner olague: i do not want to be rude. i have to say yet though. as commissioners, we also need to watch the clock. if we want to get out at a certain time

i was on the advisory board in 2006 under heather fong. we spent a year talking about community policing and what it is in creating the definition. some of the things that came up tonight we did discuss and some of the things are not on there. what is important is implementation. a lot of things we talked about over the years i have not been addressed. what happened to us -- we were kind of lucky because we did have a beat officer for seven years, which created a lot of trust. we had a very good experience with the officers. it is more than just a beat officer. it is not just one thing. there are a lot of different pieces that have come together to create the community things. the most important thing is communication. i think seeing our beat officer and the communication he had with everyone created that trust, which led to collaboration. i think the cab is very important. i think we need to empower it. i also think we need the legislation to be able to continue community policing to make it work in the long term. >> my name is david delp

mcrae and reverend norman fong. [laughter] we have got the mayor here. we have got the family here. bless the family. this is a very special occasion that we want to start off right with the rev. dr. mcrae. >> made the spirit of peace, joy, collaboration, inspire the building of mary helen rogers senior community housing. made the spirit of life, commitment, and tenacity demonstrated by the life and love of mary helen rogers bless all that will dwell in this new development. they all of the workers, the contractors, developers, funders, architects, be filled with a spirit of harmony, creativity, as they build not only a new facility, but a new community. >> as we anticipate the building of the mary helen rogers senior community center and housing, maybe we -- may be be inspired to do justice and demonstrate love and compassion as we continue the good fight in the city of st. francis. >> made a piece of the gods blessed mary helen rogers, the love of it -- loving mother of the western addition. made that same got of peace bless this community as it moves it forward. may god bless the

commissioner fong: i just wanted to comment, as i have been watching this for a while, and i am supportive of it and realize we are just opening it up, but for everyone who sees the waterfront, sees the port, sees the dilapidated pier, and asked why we cannot put a parked there, this is it. a lot of work has gone into this. this is hopefully the fruits of that labor. commissioner moore: this project is one part of a much larger open space strategy, which i'm quite familiar with, so it just complements and fills out everything, which ties the waterfront together as one solitary development project. i do believe that the historic preservation commission's concerns are something which need to be considered, and i support their input. i am generally quite supportive about where this is going. commissioner miguel: i am also very supportive of the project. what we have created in this area is the change from the former use of the port to what we have there now, which is a residential and mixed use community, and that type of community as well as the city itself could well make use of recreationa

commissioner fong: i will make this very quick. i am familiar with this block. i have three friends that live there. there. it is one of our