and the hayes valley area remains more vibrant. people walking along the boulevard. 's absolutely wonderful to go to the hayes green because any day where the weather is halfway decent there are not only people sitting around and doing what have you, but there are children there. >> san francisco always seems to be sfaised with a challenge of providing more housing. as with any other neighborhood, district five has to provide housing as well, while preserving historic buildings, diversity and the neighborhood character. >> what i think about gentrification? i think that it's all connected to opportunities. and i think that the shame it's not really about gentrification. the problem is that many minority people were never allowed to build the wealth and build and have the opportunities to be able to access the same properties and the same rents as other people. the way we see it at l.a. hill heights, if we take these young people right now and insure their success through the school system, and -- there's another chapter on the school system right now and we're going t

we took this best practice from on hayes will valley. we have people in our neighborhood with their support, care and love are not coming through the door of light. and getting away from their criminal activity. when there's an arrest and there are repeat offenders. we have the officers tell us the arrest number when they arrest the person. then we hand over letters they are called stay away order letters. they are letters from the community, all of us. we are the ones that have to do all of this. that's an important message. we write letters to the judges saying that we would like this person this individual to be not be able to come back in our neighborhood. just because that disconnects them their community as far as the criminal community. the da hands the letters to the judges and the judges read the letters and realize it's a real impact in the community. that way you don't see the person back on the street within 5 or 6 days. if they are doing the same thing or in the area these guys can arrest them right away without probable cau

some of the things we have done with the da's office stem from hayes valley best practices. but really or philosophy is safety for all. when we want to reach out in our neighborhood we felt like having it safe for your children to be on the streets was vital and important and if the children could be on the streets everybody else could safely. we decided to do things with community events that would involve children and all the children. like safe path day where the first day of school we tell the neighborhood come and stand on the streets while the kids go to school in the morning and wish them, have a great school year. get to know them. tell them education's important. we had the merchants and different people donate and healthy snack ands back packs and school supplies we gave to them. we involved the beat officers and they handed out the school supplies and healthy snacks. what we realized was our schools were important in the community. us with our community partners around our neighborhood went into our elementary school and started a pta. there hadn't been a pta ther

ago, we had a presentation that was brought to was for alternative uses on the parcels, and the hayes valley farm and other projects were represented. all of them were very, very enthusiastically received at the first meeting, and as you can well imagine, the first two that have come have been a great boon to the neighborhood. we stayed in touch with doug and followed his progress as well as the most complicated in some ways. it has attracted incredible of enthusiasm and interest in the neighborhood. so we're here to very, very enthusiastically support, you know, we just feel it is consistent with everything we stand for, using the land, being creative, embracing newness, so we are really excited to have this. as douglas mentioned, he has been to us three times now, and he has given us all of the updates. the timing of this is especially good. and as you know, this is finally coming to pass, as well. this is for the engagement of the alley, and in closing, we have a letter we want to read to you from the association. dear supervisors. we are offering our complete support of this project. the

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they've arrested key members of an up and coming gang responsible for a string of robberies in a hayes valley neighborhood. police tell the examiner three teenage boys have been arrested in the last week. the group preyed on pedestrians and often used guns. the group is responsible for seven street robberies. they say the arrests will hopefully curb crime in that area. >>> a very intensive time of activity is going to begin tonight. >> reporter: it is called a solar gas ejection. in compareson to what we've been seeing soon in the next two or three years it could be pretty minor. in this animation, tons of solar plasma are blasted into space, headed our way. it's nuclear and dangerous. but much of it is deflected by the earth's magnetic field. the closer to the poles someone is, the bigger the show of the lights. >> you may be able to see the northern lights from areas you may not be able to see the northern lights from. it's possible you may be able to see the northern lights from parts of california. >> reporter: astronomers were showing people the sun today with heavy filters. it's about t

>> there is a neighborhood organization that encomp uses that area the hayes valley neighborhood association which i am a member of. and they have been supportive. something they plugged into immediately because it's in the market/octavia plan. it's identifiable on their agenda for years. >> you would think but that's not what they do. it's about the neighborhood. all about the neighborhood it would be great if we could use their, say, we will have a work party day every third saturday of the month. >> may be the organizations are about policy and discussions and not or land use issues. you had your hand up. [inaudible]. >> right. >> i don't think you necessarily need a master plan. i would say he will give you a technical idea. >> september 21st is parking day. yes. >> take you know go to home depot and get turf on the place and show people want it would be like. >> it's establishing the conversation to figure out who the players are because typically what we see in the projects -- we do repeat funding we have done repeat fundings of street trees. some neighborhoods started small and came o

chair maxwell: that's why i was thinking about that pop-up like in hayes valley. a little pop-up here and a pop-up there. >> we would love to facility -- facilitate more retail. i want to make sure i'm not over-stepping myself. i think the housing authority and we would love to have as much retail as we can. our biggest challenge is trying to determine how much retail we can attract. one of our big efforts now is improving our partnership with the school district. we all are very aligned at the 10,000-foot level. the plan and efforts on closing the achievement gap is so deeply connected to what we are trying to do, the idea of doing joint use, the idea of trying to invest in a gym together or community garden together, the deputy superintendent, the principal, everyone, has been incredibly enthusiastic, and we have been trying to do out-reach i think the next step is trying to figure out how it occurs. again, the interagency council is one of the places we would do this because we have so much happening with clips, with the promise -- promised neighborhood applica

i went to community meetings in the mission and hayes valley and even though i couldn't get my neighborhood rolling as fast as i wanted to and i'm an impatient person i went to the other community groups that were already organized and the movers and the shakers and i got involved with them and said what can i take here? i started small like what could we do that would be positive that would get people excited. i did this event for safe pass on the streets with the kids. i thought, may be i will write a grant for mayor's office of we decide of community criminal justice. and we got it. and we were like. oh , we get to educate the community members. i thought. how about the challenge grant. we got it. you have to toss in the deep end and swim. you have to do that and set our goals then and be realistic. it hasn't been easy. we have a web server. that was a big one. when we did the neighborhood cleanups and events we got web server. now anything that happens there are one or 2 on the block part of the web server you set it up on google group. say a couple of people are on that when we have an

drinkers but the residents and the business owners and anybody else who happens to wander through hayes valley and feels there and discovers this special space that's accessible to all. the meaning with community members was you know it's one thing i never liked to do. you meet with people and faced with a hundred objections or a hundred different ways of doing something we approached a collaborative idea. we do have a preconceived notion of the desired outcome but not on how to get there. the result was just an input of good ideas from unexpected places. people that you know are not necessarily professionals or used to thinking about urban spaces in these terms. i think that was one of the keys was going into it not knowing. as a professional i didn't know how to do something like this. i had never done one before and i think that was an enabler. relying on the network of people at stages through the permitting process. and you know which is where we are now. halfway through the permitting process and we will start construction in the spring. but it has yet to be seen how the community will d

sunday that has been put on hold they wanted a richly to test a program in the marina west portal hayes valleyhe financial district also the richmond district. after research agencies decided not to go forward with the plan. the reporters say the plan was generated $2.8 million. opponents were saying it would simply drive away a lot of people who don't want a pay for parking. a possible fare increase of nearly 32 percent is coming to golden gate ferry riders. this means those who use translate or klipper transfer cards would have to pay 65¢ more. in sausalito riders would pay a $40 more. the proposed fee hike would take effect january 1st of course this is all part of the effort to close the big budget deficit. a public hearing has been scheduled for october 7th. a report just released by aaa northern california shows gas prices in the bay area are up again. the average price is $3.20 of 5¢ in july carried the average price in san francisco $3.20 oakland $3.21 san jose $3.20 and the national average $2.70. >> live look outside san francisco the low clouds the low ceiling: cutting all arriving

out of that came the hayes valley coalition that continued to put up piece after piece and are committedto continue to bring artists into that space to show their work here in san francisco, which is really great. i'm trying to string a little bit of time out here before i introduce the mayor of san francisco, and i'm trying to get an indication of how far out he is. any indication? >> [inaudible] >> laugh i do not know any jokes, but we do have someone here who wants to do some poetry. no poetry and no jokes, but what many of you may not know is that we built this rocket ship in 1944 and launched it in 1944. we got lost, so we -- throughout our travels, we have been traveling through space and time, picking up passengers, dropping them off, upgrading our rocket ship, collecting specimens and aliens, and some of the specimens and aliens are actually amongst you. we landed in san francisco because we thought you would not notice them as much, but the problem is that the customs agent approached me, and you all forgot your cards, your id cards, so aliens, if you could please come here and

analysis and work with analysis, we were looking to do it at a density that is typical in areas like hayes valley, to the early in our health these neighborhoods. so this is just a brief illustration of what we at the outset thought about capacity and potential. craig is going to talk to more about how the community process of lettuce to understand what really is a comfortable amount of new housing to occur on these sites. this is a simplistic analysis that we are doing at the beginning. boppin this is potentially a site that would move forward in the near term. this is off of geary, and we of the developer here to talk about that if there are questions. piper there was a list of principles, how we started the topic. first and foremost on everyone's mind was insuring no loss of public housing. then go before the housing authority commission, and i think korea been very successful -- and i think we have been very successful. i think there is lots of room to improve, but the outcomes that we have to date, and the direction we feel the we're going, i think a very exciting. we will talk more about th

the lower haight and hayes valley and the western addition and the north the panhandle neighborhood, people are working together to do events. working with the cbo. volunteer i volunteering their time in activities that are not just in their block. or just within you know perhaps within their sort of immediate structure. the vision is also that all the kid are our kids. and so whether they are the good kids the trouble makers what have you we are all responsible for their health and well being. the other element that the supervisor's office does and what supervisor mirkarimi does is he chairs the public safety committee. much of what is agendaized or what he focuses are things that have germ natd and ideas that have come up as a need from the community and that have been communicated to him. the capability that we have is in pulling in the different city agencies and departments and say, here's an issue how will we solve it? how will we deal with it? so, and that things are not working in the triage mode. the other thing that our office has done is part of the vision that some of the

i'm the nert coordinator for hay hayes valley. before i start off on my rant i wanted to acknowledge most of what i will talk about was built and developed with a neighboring coordinator in the lower hate who was at the morning session but not here today. anything i say give her equal credit for what works and doesn't work. so i'm going to start from the assumption that you have some training or you will begin out reach in your neighborhood. for us where that started was at a basis of 0. there was no active coordinator in the neighborhood at the time. we decided to take it on. so our first priority was justifying a way of getting the information out. how do we connect with people in the neighborhood? where are the places we can go? what are the resources that already exist? we started with the farmers market. getting a free table from the guy who organized it and giving out information. that lead to other connections you meet people from log organizations and faith based and community groups all the different organizations whateve

today, formula retail uses came into effect around the commercial district and north beach and hayes valley and with the conditional use in the past 10 years and there was a voter reven dumb and authorizations -- and referendums and they have incorporated formula retail concerns rc3 and rc 4 and articles eight in the eastern neighborhood as well as in soma and chinatown has its own prohibitions and c.u. arguments and pointed to article 7 and the department feels that is the inappropriate place and there is a section in the the conditional use section of the code that we are proposing to consolidate and there is no change to the definitions, to change to requirement. it is literally expanding on the formula retail definition in this section and clearly lays out what sections require c.u. and what sections should not allow formula retail and everything else. that is the first major change in terms of the planning code. again, it is not a substantive change but putting everything into one location. attachment d deals with 309 of the planning code. i was asked by several staff people to look at