. >> reporter: oakland isn't a dog-friendly city. there are only five dog parks in the city and compare that to san francisco's 17 dog parks. so dog advocates have long been trying to get a dog park especially in the citycenter. behind me here is astro park here in oakland. it is at lakeshore and mcarthur boulevard and they are proposing a half acre fenced-in dog park here. right now as you can see from the sign here, no dogs are allowed in the park and that is a similar theme throughout several city parks. they have been working on the plan for 10 years, this fenced- in dog park. the commission gave preliminary approval for it in december but a lot of neighbors got upset about it. they were concerned that this green area was going to turn sort of brown and obviously have more commotion, noise. they are concerned that it would ruin the neighborhood so those neighbors came one their own plan coming up with a dog park at the old police horse stables. that's near children's fairyland here in oakland. it's near an oak grove. it's out of

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that table to really create policies that will minimize that san francisco is not a big business-friendly city. i think we started to go in the wrong direction. the reason why we started walking down that path largely was because of political ideology. when you deal with me, you are dealing with facts, less than politics. i really want to have a positive impact on the city overall. >> good afternoon, everyone. how are you? >> good. >> it's a nice day today. thank you for coming out to our community event. please give a round of [applause] to them. we have a lot of development going on. you see how lovely leland street looks. do you like it? >> yes. >> beautiful, isn't it? we are going to continue. we have a library that is going to be opening up in june. that's right. so i will see you all there at the library. there is a lot of activity going on. it is important we remain connected and engaged. >> would you mind if we were to pull the seniors together and translate for me in a mini meeting? >> yes, sir. >> what we are going ready to do is we are going to have a quick little mini meeting to --

we all share the goal of making our city easier to move around, more accessible, more business and family friendly. these are the goals that we have at the bicycle coalition. our plan for connecting the city, to creating 100 miles of dedicated bikeways so that families can ride to school, so that folks of all ages can ride to work, to the part, anywhere they want to go in the city. i want to thank you for being part of the division. when we come back next year, i expect to see far more people bicycling. thank you. [applause]

that table to really create policies that will minimize that san francisco is not a big business-friendly cityi think we started to go in the wrong direction. the reason why we started walking down that path largely was because of political ideology. when you deal with me, you are dealing with facts, less than politics. i really want to have a positive impact on the city overall. >> goodaf

the table to create policies that will minimize the stigma that san francisco is not a business- friendly city, minimize the stigma of that san francisco prioritizes the rights of dogs over children. we started walking down that path largely because of political ideology. it is less about politics. i want to have a positive impact on the city overall, specifically district 10, connecting it to the city. people have been left to defend for themselves. i am honored to have been elected to serve to be the next advocate for the next four years, hopefully the next eight years, to really protect, defense, and serve the residents of district 10. >> we will talk more about some of the issues facing district 10. before we do, i would like to know a little bit about what you learned campaigning for supervisor. talk to me a little about that experience. >> first, i learned that a lot of the conversations we have about our neighborhood and community happens in silos. we have folks only talking with visitation valley. we have folks in bayview only talking with and a small corner of the bayview merchant qua

we urge you to join us in making san francisco a more musician friendly city where our culture can flourishnd both residents and visitors can enjoy the gifts our musicians bring to our lives. president newlin: thank you. >> i left my ukulele at home. my name's michael winger, i'm the president of the recording academy, san francisco chapter. we are responsible for the grammy awards. we are also a membership organization. we represent about 1,600 members here in the bay area and northern california. we strongly support this piece of legislation, we think it's really important to offer opportunities for performing musicians. this is the smallest of small businesses. is a performing musical artist. to be able to give these artists more places to perform is a way that we can give to some of the more disadvantaged members of our society, a place where they can actually go out and work and earn a living and support themselves and their families. this promotes, this piece of legislation promotes the ability of all types of general rass of music to be heard in ways that they are often neglected and

travels to the tourist friendly city of. hello to you. on this week's program i'll be exploring the various hotels and restaurants in the city with new venues opening every single week it's certainly an exciting time. growing the glorious summer when i'm a late evening light and it's one crew party town it's time for me to check into my hotel. depending on your budget. of her tells ranging from comfortable small hotels to. today i'm sure going into the bridge her towel when you arrive know to the hotel we'll take your passports and do your fish registration for you. to do worry. for a few hours. very popular with tourists and business people from all over the world provides excellent service wonderful furnishings and the most up to date. staying here will be an experience you will never forget. we have a very noisy mixture of course the most common throughout the summer and. their management of international companies plenty of tourists from. all over europe. if you're visiting the capital on a budget but she does hotel accommodation in st

destination and arts and entertainment and urge you to join us in restoring san francisco as a musician friendly city and where musicians and singers can prosper and rely on the flourishing cultural can benefit and where both residents and visitors can enjoy the gifts musicians bring to our lives. commissioner miguel: thank you. >> hello, commissioners. i appreciate your hearing this issue today. my name is scott kieper. i am on the business task planning force and the selma area is being considered to potentially expand allowing this permit into and i wanted to advocate on the s.l.i. districts that are not currently considered mix use and we are planning on allowing entertainment within the district and would be a natural extension of a trial with this form of permit. i think at the heart of sit a lot of fantastic and wonderful ideas and fully supportive of it. and there are some of the concerns that the first speaker brought up that are points that can be massaged before the legislation is finalized and formed. i am hoping there is still some opportunities to engage with mr. mirkarimi's office and

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suitcases in hand the moscow team travels to the tourist friendly city of st petersburg well today andrews is your guide to the top hotels and restaurants the food program is coming up in ten minutes time but here's a quick pretty. good you're a berry lemon a good thing i love about the city is all the good locations if you do your research take a look on the internet all the local guys you'll find some very credible places new restaurants popping up every week and teressa here i think has the best location in the city just look at the stunning because i could be drawn just by the down the road you can see the church of the spilt blood. at solitaire it's absolute terms like. while. the business news is up next arundhati with. hello and welcome to business here on our first soft russian a car giant has turned a profit for its french shareholder for the first time well the carmaker managed to squeeze thirty seven million euros affiliate in the first half of the year that comparison with a fifty six billion euro loss at the same time a year ago well the whole renault group reported a fifty si

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