and this is a tremendous opportunity to work in neighborhood with -- like the hayes valley and market octavia, that truly supports affordable housing. on the issue of the question of -- a portion of the fee, which is the supplemental fee based upon the zoning -- this is clearly dedicated to the neighborhood based upon the code. the inclusion in fee is a more broad feet, that is used across the city. we at the mayor's office of housing would like to be able to preserve the use of this. it is not because we are not working in the neighborhood. . we have agreed to prioritize this, with other housing fees that we received throughout the city, to help ensure that 55 laguna -- that this gets developed as the commission and the board of supervisors -- and we are also currently -- finishing up our central freeway parcel, and the development -- and we are in planning, also, to issue this for the corresponding site, to the central freeway parcel. we are clearly vested, in doing affordable housing in this community. after the central freeway parcel -- we will also have these parcels -- left to d

this project is occupied by hayes valley farm, tnhhe community garden. this would remove existing vegetation and construct a new mixed use development. 3800 square feet of retail. so while this consists of a single structure, this would be a series of different forms and dwelling units, with varying architectural impression it -- expressions. the project sponsor -- this process gives flexibility, for the strict requirements of the code to achieve the project, to exhibit outstanding design and complement the character of the surrounding area. this is the methodology for height measurement. we believe the requested modifications are relatively minor and the design of the project fulfills the code in each area. i'll be glad the challenge to answer individual modifications. even though this project, occupies a relatively large lot, the articulate with a series of points -- with an overall architectural vocabulary, the route this building we enforce the reticulation. the eastern and western parts of the project have an architectural language which is distinct

i am an urban farmer and resources toward native and part of the hayes valley farm community. i did submit a brief report to all of you via e-mail. i won't go into details because it has been covered by a lot of people. thank you for introducing the legislation. i support it and i am glad to see it included the most current draft of the legislation. i think it is a good start and i think we could dedicate a lot more. the benefits of urban agriculture to quickly some up, i support the legislation and welcome a cohesive program. recreation, education, blade reduction and the transformation of urban space. i know people have a wide range of opinions and experiences and i hope many of these community members comport to share their views and we can help to shape truly effective legislation that provides for a fully funded, fully staffed urban agriculture program for the city of san francisco. i would also point out any program created will most certainly benefit every district of the city. with job creation and job training, i would like to emphasize there are many people in this c

his family lived in hayes valley. but there was the incident where five people were murdered in the excelsior. the perpetrator lived in hayes valley. there's a lot of that and yet people who are concerned about public safety and that sort of thing so to the extent we could give some attention on site, may be on going somehow. we've been trying to work with westside and a lot of cbo's continue to work on prevention, working with families and whenever. someone mentioned witness protection. having to move people, this woman living in a three-bedroom with a son who was murdered. she wanted a smaller place. we worked to try to find her new residents. so there are those levels of cooperation that we have been successful in having with your office and i hope we continue to move in that direction. we will look for more issues as they come up and let you know, but it is deep. >> let me first say thank you. you have been instrumental in challenging us to create those opportunities and make improvements where you have asked for

john prescott, david price, -- >> i am a resident of hayes valley for almost 40 years, i have attended a couple of the meetings regarding this project. i want to know about the contaminants, and if this will cause a problem. this is probably from the overhead. another concern is from ahead of me, this will tower my building by two floors. i am concerned about the shadow on the alley and how much daylight that we will get. and i am concern about the number of parking spaces being reduced. there was a mention of 120 and now this is 91. i feel that because the building is on octavia and a street, this is a freeway ramp to the east bay, and many of the residence may be living and working on the peninsula. this puts to much pressure on the area right now for the parking spaces, and i think this should go back to 120. i am concerned about the parking and the elimination of some of the parking spaces on octavia boulevard. i am concerned about, if we will make this this way, and take the privilege away from those who want to park on the alley, these are some of my concerns. i am in agreement w

i'm tyrone, a resident of hayes valley. along with myself and a couple other members, we were able to come together and start a community owned and operated business. we specialize in doing recycling and composting in low- income housing units, multi- family units. i am here today to speak on the importance of having an opportunity to do some recycling in the neighborhood where, especially coming up in the projects and stuff, it was really dirty, and having the opportunity along with my neighbors and people that live with me and grew up with me to get back to our community in a different way. we have three sites are in now and are trying to expand. we started from nothing and have come together as young men and women and have business development means, developing relationships with recology, department of environment, oewd. we started with seven or eight employees. we have 17 to 18 employees now. we are in charge of the marketing process. these brochures are uniform. and we just want to be a part of the fight to help san f

we would like to have more bees. >> the move is a return to hayes valley.hey were moved because someone attacked the bees with pesticides. bee keepers might return if they can build a chain link fence around their platforms. abc7 news. >> this week the city of santa cruz takes up a measure to ban single-use plastic bags by retailers and also continues a sweeping ban on the sale of foam and styrene products. plastic bag makers plan to sue over the proposed ban, which includes the sale of foam and styrene coolers, toys, even packing materials. if the council gives its initial approval on tuesday, both proposals would come up again for a second review scheduled for july 24th. the bans on plastic bags and foam containers come as the cities struggle with how to reduce litter in waterways, landfills, streets and parks. >>> marin county supervisors are considering raising garbage rates for unincorporated neighborhoods near mill valley and tiberon. on tuesday we review a plan calling for 8.4% increase in monthly garbage fees. that brings the typical bill for a 32-g

the closing of the potential -- hayes valley, i was recently made aware of that. géi appreciate that you're opeg this dialog. thank you. >> john froy with netcycle recycling. we operate nine of those. thsoe 9 sites are overburdened. we support on exempting the exempt zones in san francisco, spanning the recycling for consumers. antying we can do to help, we're here to help. >> thank you. >> my name is rod, i am the president of replanet. we operate three recycling centers, one free-standing on bayshore. i would echo what john said, we are more than happy to entertain a conversation with all the parties that are involved. the company i work with is the largest buyback operator in the state. we have 400 locations in california, employing 700 people. it is very difficult to work in the confines of the law. satisfying the neighbors and constituents that we work with on a daily basis. it is important to remember the right and the convenience to recieve the redemption is a very important consideration. we have pushed over $40 million in redemption value back to the com

we'd like to have more bees. >> the move is actually a return to hayes valley two years ago they what moved to the farm because someone atalladega the hive with pesticides, beekeepers might return to the farm if they can build a chain-link fence around the platform. >> ama: come monday you may be wind thousand ofber net use-underrers knocked off the web. here's a look at how to protect your computer. >> we can blame a group ofes stonen hacker twoz tried to manipulate the internet advertising industry. they were caught by the fbi in what they called operation goes click. the result of that operation ends this monday. hackers infected hundreds of thousands of computers with a malware. if your competer was infected, the minute you tried to good to dummy site.ou were directed to >> there was malware designed to hijack people's can be requests and take them to web site that would steal their money or put up ads and the government shut them down. >> the operation began in 2007. originally they infected 4 million computers in 100 countries according to the fbi and made $14 million with techn

we'd like to have more bees. >> the move is actually a return to hayes valley two years ago they what moved to the farm because someone atalladega the hive with pesticides, beekeepers might return to the farm if they can build a chain-link fence around the platform. >> ama: come monday you may be wind thousand ofber net use-underrers knocked off the web. here's a look at how to protect your computer. >> we can blame a group ofes stonen hacker twoz tried to manipulate the internet advertising industry. they were caught by the fbi in what they called operation goes click. the result of that operation ends this monday. hackers infected hundreds of thousands of computers with a malware. if your competer was infected, the minute you tried to good to a web site you were directed to a dummy site. >> there was malware designed to hijack people's can be requests and take them to web site that would steal their money or put up ads and the government shut them down. >> the operation began in 2007. originally they infected 4 million computers in 100 countries according to the fbi and made $14 mil

occur in the southeast side of the city, but their connections to the western addition, or to hayes valley, where there is a connection either between families or some of the youths have been raised in our part of the city, and may be murdered in the southeast. the whole families and friends and all of these cultures, there is definitely a connection between all of these neighborhoods. when we talk about wine, we're really talking about the entire city because of those relationships. in this past year, with the assistance of sharon hewitt, we held a hearing early on on the impact of violence, the impact of young people growing up around violence. we had a steady to draw a nexus between performance in school ability to succeed as adults in life and the impact of living in these dramatic environments have on children. there's a lot of pst that occurs as a result of being surrounded by these traumas. also, we had a hearing recently on survivors and just the impact of living with this brief and we're learning a lot more about these issues from -- living with this brief and we're learning a lot

this project is occupied by hayes valley farm, tnhhe community garden. this would remove existing vegetation and construct a new mixed use development. 3800 square feet of

hayes valley -- this is a place to be, or the mission, because they have the fabric of the smaller streets. there is the small kind of building with a critical mass of residents close by, who want to have things that are walkable. this is the challenge of market street, there is not a lot of real residence because we did not focus on that, so there are people on a daily basis getting their coffee or looking for a dry cleaner, creating that. you don't really get that until you have enough people buy enough areas, so how do you do that without completely changing the texture or the affordability, or the complexion of the neighborhood. this is something we don't have the easy answers to. in suburban communities, you have the town houses so you help -- hope that you get the socio- economic diversity. but you hope that you can kind of create that and we are in a different position because we do not control what people choose to build. this makes it a little bit more challenging in terms of figuring out the kinds of housing or the projects people bring to us but we have an opportunity in terms o

my name is christina johnson and my son was murdered in the hayes valley apartment complex in 2011. i unfortunately had the opportunity to see my son murdered, laid out there murdered and i actually didn't get any kind of response for me and consolianses for my family, my other three children at this time that this happened. he was laid out for a couple of hours and i did not know it was him. it is really important in my experience that we get some kind of response help. i had to deal with funeral arrangements with the medical examiner's office. i didn't even get a chance to see my son until the day of his wake because of the trauma that he sustained because of the injuries that were given to him. he was shot in the head. that was very trauma advertising. i went to the medical examiner's office. i spoke with them. they turned me away. i broke down and cried. i couldn't call anybody. i didn't have anybody to talk to deal with this. for the families, it's really important us to have some kind of help in that manner. i have three other children, one is 18, he is a boy, and then i also

the surviving bees are being sheltered at the now gated hayes valley farm. coming up next, a close call. what set off a flame that came within inches. the famous bay arealan mark and why wart will soon be lifting a >> full containment is expected today an 1200-acre fire near redding. it broke out thursday afternoon in the happy valley area. it destroyed two outbuildings, damaged five homes and forced evacuations for another 80 homes. most of the evacuees have been allowed to return home. but some roads in the area remain closed. the fire is now 60% contained. firefighters are looking for the children they believe may have started a brush fire in south san francisco. it broke out near the iconic south san francisco, the industrial city sign shortly before 5:00 p.m. yesterday. there's the sign right there. it shows smoke billowing from the two-acre fire. investigators say kids may have been playing with fireworks. they knock it down before it could reach homes on sign hill. >>> bicyclists that ride bart than kay their bikes on board all day in august. they lif

the surviving bees are being sheltered at the now gated hayes valley farm. coming up next, a close call. what set off a flame that came within inches of the famous bay area landmark. and why bart will soon be lifting a ban on bikes, at least temporarily, during commute hours on some trains. here you go little man. [ humming ] [ babbling ] the cheerios bandit got you again? [ both laugh ] ♪ the one and only, cheerios ...and now... you! [ giggles ] ♪ the one and only, cheerios >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> full containment is expected today an 1200-acre fire near redding. it broke out thursday afternoon in the happy valley area. it destroyed two outbuildings, damaged five homes and forced evacuations for another 80 homes. most of the evacuees have been allowed to return home. but some roads in the area remain closed. the fire is now 60% contained. firefighters are looking for the children they believe may have started a brush fire in south san francisco. it broke out near the iconic south san francisco, the industrial city sign