you should come to the haight ashbury, enjoy the beautiful weather, get a meal on haight street.district 5 feature slow and safe street that cckt our neighborhood. haight shandsads a shining example bustling with bikers and pedestrians and recognized the city most successful slow street. the golderen grate greenway and car free hayes, turned to safe welcomeic spaces for walking and biking. >> after having lived all over the city, i wanted somewhere where i never needed to use a car. and i also wanted somewhere where i am a little separation from my job downtown. i drew a 25 minute radius around downtown and hayes valley seemed to fit the bill. i found this neighborhood like kind of the most community i experienced. people tend to linger reminds me of a european city. i see a lot of people just hanging out outside and patss people and you get to know people in the naurbd. it is a pretty special environment. one of my favorite landmark is where we are standing patricia green. it was the former site of the freeway. she was part of a group of people that lead the movement to get the

the dead formed in 1965, settled in san francisco's haight-ashbury and had a profound impact on musiculture. they were known for helping members in the community and throwing benefit concerts. on hand to document the history, a legendary photographer and the only one to receive a grammy, the late jim marshall. >> when i look at these photographs that jim took of the grateful dead during that time period, there's a sense of community. there's a sense of living with each other and acceptance who you are. >> reporter: in 1984 the dead created the rex foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization that has granted $9 million to over 1,300 recipients. jerry garcia, who died 30 years ago, was especially well liked. >> he treated his employees, he treated other musicians the same way that he would like to be treated perform. >> reporter: garcia has an amphitheater named in his honor. here outdoor concerts and events are held, most notably on jerry day held every year on garcia's birthday. >> i think people gravitate towards a happy space, you know, and jerry did a lot to create that. >> rep

i came to the haight ashbury not having any friends and in the haight it is cool to be you, which isan francisco thing. we support over 175 artists, half of the shop is cut and sewn in the city and the other half made by people who work here including womens prisoner re pthe different products that we have in the store is great wall of tie dye which features t-shirts, hoodies, dresses epic coats atured in vogue magazine. we have pretty much anything tie dye-to hats to cat ears, we have it and it is tie dye and we vefree glitr too. guests and shoppers will experience love and mazic when they come into love on haight. it is one of those places that i really hope when you leave you feel better, you feel happier. rainbows make people smile, so it is hard to come in here and not get a little giddy. my name is joe halsey 30 year member of theartment and happy e your emcee for today. >> are there any fans of dean crisp in here this morning? i count myself among that group. my family has a lot of history with dean. i work with dean on rescue to in the ninety's my son sean who was nine years

the business is a restaurant in the haight-ashbury and mission neighborhoods that was established in4. they offer a caribbean tapas world famous sangria, local beers, craft cocktails, entertainment and catering and they have a great venue for events. cha cha cha cha creates a unique caribbean inspired atmosphere providing their patrons with the restaurant experience that fear feels more like a tropical escape. >> the mission location has a rich history independent of cha cha cha cha. it was an irish restaurant and pub called original mccarthys that was founded by irish immigrant dennis mccarthy. dennis was one of the first businessmen to begin legally serving alcohol after prohibition ended in 1933. to recognize the legacy of the mission location it is sometimes referred to as cha cha cha cha at original mccarthys. the core feature tradition the business must maintain to remain on legacy business registry as restaurant featuring caribbean cuisine. >> item to be is city optics the business founded by dr. jeffrey rich in 1988 is the preeminent optometrist office located in the marina a

>> also i'd like to thank director karloff for coming to my neighborhood association the hank haight ashbury neighborhood council. i love that community engagement and it sounds like it's going to be very, very important given the looming cuts this summer. so i want to really thank her and also in the past like to staff for engaging with that group which i think is a really good group for community engagement. >> the upcoming changes on february 1st there are some discussion and i think director gina and director hemminger for making some of these points around the communication of them and i think once thing could be when the announcement went out about the 43 the 38 and i think it was the 24 service reductions midday there was not a specification in there of what that change would be. it did not say i had to call and ask you know, what is the new frequency? i think it went from 12 to 15 minutes for the 43 which runs through my neighborhood and i think just that small change would have kind of alleviated some of the concerns from people. i just had extra transparency so i hope that this pro