thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you, commissioners. my name's jordan bowen. i'm a resident of aladdin terrace. there are four construction projects in various stages of preparation that will directly impact aladdin terrace and residents on union and tailor. the subject of this project and one at the eastern end of the alley at 210-12 aladdin. nearby residents have had their fill of being in a nonstop construction zone, and aladdin is in a constrained space for one project, let alone with four projects with overlapping schedules. [ inaudible ] -- course of a single project at one mccormick street. we respectfully ask the commissioners to advise us as to how we can address the need for enforceable mitigation measures to control the impacts of construction and how these measures can be successfully coordinated among relevant city agencies. our concerns are will contractors be required to provide advance notice to neighbors work that will be especially disruptive, such as excavation, and d

. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> president hillis and commissioners, my name is terry, and i reside on aladdin terrace. 46 neighbors who live on aladdin terrace, tailor street and yunion street have signed petition opposing this project. we'd like to submit the petition and a block map to you today. the block map shows the subject property, and the number of neighbors at each property who have signed the petition. quoting from the petition, approval of the project as currently signed will a intensify negative impacts resulting from the insertion of private garages in a severely restricted alley and undermine decades of professional consideration and sound reasoning which form the basis of our planning guidelines and regulations for new development. commissioners, this project disregard established neighborhood character and must be reviewed taking this context into consideration. aladdin terrace is an alley. please deny the proposed garage and the approved scope of work in light of the many a

thank you. >> president hillis: all right. thank you. is there public comment in support of the dr request? >> teresa flandrich. i support the dr. i also applaud the attempts at negotiating this, as well as the importance of maintaining all that can be done to stablize this neighborhood. these are also coffee shops where kids in the neighborhood can go and work when they start college or mothers, grandmothers -- that's such a key in community and in stablizing a particular neighborhood, and the mission district alone has suffered so much, and so anything that can be done in my mind should be done, so i, again, ask you to support this dr. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners. the hour's getting late, so i won't take up too much of your time, but i believe what peter mentioned is important, that we are having a higher concentration of office retail coming in on mission street, considering that working class families are a key and important demographic in the community that exists along that corridor

motion passes. >> president hillis: thank you. congratulations. >> clerk: so we will move onto item 13, case number 2014-003160 cua for 3314 cesar chavez request for a conditional use authorization pursuant to planning codes 121 and 3 for the demolition of an existing industrial building and building of a 20 foot commercial building. >> the project before you is a conditional use authorization for the proposed project at 3314 cesar chavez street. the project requires a conditional use -- >> clerk: excuse me. i'd like to remind the people leaving to keep quiet while we proceed with the hearing. sorry. >> no problem. -dpsh on a lot larger than 10,000 square feet. the proposed project includes demolition of a 13,000 square foot light industrial building and new construction of a 65 foot tall six to seven story mixed use building measuring 49,665 square feet with 1300 square feet of ground floor retail and service uses, and 1300 square feet for 38 residential units. it would include 62 class 1 bicycle spaces and approximately 6300 squ

commission president hillis and fellow commissioners. i'm anastasia, a remember of the neighbourhood council and i'm urging the dmoition go back to the way a standard budget work programme hearing was run that they expect in 1996. that means the way it was directed until the current director joined the planning staff. it seems only fair that they consider work programme efforts that would include all the things that the department wants to do that are up for funding consideration and right now everything the commission wants to do, plus everything the public wants to have included. and then take public comments before considering the options that will actually become funded. i'm sure the commissioners and members of the public have worthwhile ideas of work programme efforts they would like to add and i'm hoping the process can be opened up to ensure fairness and a good outcome for all of us who live and work here. there must be an effort to protect tenant protections with asking sponsors about unit occupancy when filing for a permit. how

hillis: commissioner moore? >> could you repeat what you said? >> president hillis: i'm generally amenable to the project. i think the design of it just didn't really take into account where it sat on the block in adjacent to the two smaller buildings, so i mean i'd recommend kind of sending it back and working with the residential design team, taking off the -- the -- the -- you know, the roof top penthouse and just working on the -- the front of this building so it doesn't read as bulky and large, and you know also acc t accentuate the two entries. you've got the entry to the unit as going up to -- kind of an initial internal stair. >> commissioner moore: let me take a crack at what you said. i think there were quite a few thoughts in there for that marriage to be thought about. the building raises a couple of other questions for me. it's not as much as where is the entrance to the unit. this is very european. you enter on one level. the garage level is not occupied, and you go up the vestibule to the two unit

hillis, commissioners, and your colleagues and members of the public, my name is ancia hartig, and i have the honor of being the california's historical director and ceo. i want to thank the commission for the thoughtful and meaningful development process. the meetings of billion 30 stakeholder groups, numerous public workshops and meeting held identifying the plan associated with this planning effort. chs is a nonprofit public history organization. we've been in forgiving since 1871, and we wholeheartedly endorse the plan to see neighborhood sustainablity, and the plan that strives to articulate many of the socioeconomic, socio equity factors that contribute to making vibrant communities and neighborhoods. my review of the public benefits package provides further insight on the community's priorities and the planning department's efforts in defining the components of what just is a sustainable neighborhood in giving the very real and serious concerns over housing and mobility, it is so important that over 70% of the proposed $2.18 billion in public benefits be devoted to public hous

former president obama quoted, i just -- from the election that's because he thought crooked hilly

it is really hilly here. moving tobacco was difficult. the way they did it was in these large barrels known as hogshead. we have one of those on display. the point of a hogshead is it could hold 1000 pounds of tobacco, and tobacco was pressed into these large barrels which were attached to horse or oxen and rolled through the city streets. these barrels started some of the first streets in town. at the tobacco warehouses, one of the most important things they did, was open the tobacco for inspection. above that you can see some dried tobacco. lynchburg and nearly 1800s was definitely a frontier town. wereain industry's tobacco, but also mills. that is due to the james river and the tributaries that the the river. it was the perfect location to set up mills for corn, flour. farmers took their crops to the mill and it got shipped down the river and down the canal to richmond, where things came back to lynchburg, like fancy food, wine, things they could not make in town. in the early 1800s, one of the things lynchburg is well known for, is w

. >> commission hillis. >> so moved. the motion passes unanimously, 5-0. and commissioners, item 21 for case 2017, and 1327 chestnut street. this is a conditional use authorization. >> commissioners i wanted to introduce you to another new staff member who you have not met. hired as a current planner for the flex team and a key staffer on the a.d.u. and legalization permits as well as c.p. 3p. program am and she's worked across northern california and most recently joined us from the town of atherton where she was an assistant planner and a town stability coordinator. and a bachelor of science with a business minor from cornell and we welcome her. >> good evening, commissioners. here from the planning department staff. the request before you tonight is for conditional use authorization to permit a beauty salon doing business as be radiant salon at the second story of 1327 chestnut street in and the r3 zoning district. proposal involves changing the use of this space from an office use last occupied in 2015 to a personal service use. establishing a personal

. >> good afternoon, president hillis, members of the commission. jeff horn, planning commission staff, presenting case 2017-14841 cua at 655 alvarado street. item before you is a request for conditional use authorization of a 2,737 gross square foot two story over basement single-family home, and to permit an expanded 5,096 gross square foot three story over two basement level single-family home within a residential house two family zoning district and 40-x height and bulk district. the project requires conditional use authorization because it has removed vertical and horizontal elements of the structure in an amount that exceeds the thresholds allowed in section 317 of the planning code. the property's located on the south side of alvarado street midblock between diamond and castro streets in the noe valley neighborhood. the lot is 114 feet in depth and is courage developed with an almost completely demolished single-family two story home, originally built in 1925. large amounts of excavation have occurred, and at the site new foundations and reta

multiple homes and a hilly pad. it may have come at a cost. this security coverage is from a month after they were posted online. the man in blue holding flowers is waiting in front of sobel's apartment building. sobel's husband approaches him, takes notice. then the man, sobel says, stabs her husband with a syringe filled with a powerful tranquilizer. her husband collapses on the street. he later recovered. sobel claims the attack was ordered as retribution. he denied wrongdoing. sobel says her husband's alleged attacker was never caught and today putin the spokesman says there was no evidence they were involved to sway the u.s. election. >> richard engel in moscow. >>> back ot home, flood watches are up in the middle of the country including dallas, chicago and detroit. rain already falling, and heavy rain expected to continue overnight into tomorrow from texas to ohio. and that combined with snow melt will cause rivers to rise and that's making forecasters nervous as they watch it all play out. turning now to the olympics where two american

this is a hilly orchard, we have got to pick them up by hand. 18, 19 years old. that was the big hessian bags then. years ago, i used to carry them all down on my shoulder, bloody hard work. a lot of people walk away, they don't want work do 'em? had an 0ap up there, they said, he's out there picking up those apples, i couldn't do that. but he was as happy as a sand boy up there! i would rather be up there then sat in an office on a bloody computer, isaid. the harvest takes three months, but it's not all sunshine, as roger will be working away in his noisy barn. we cut the bags of apples, we tip them into this hopper. at the top of the elevator, there is a high—speed crusher. the apple pulp comes down through this stainless steel hopper, and into these... into these nylon cloths. that is roughly 100 weight of apple pulp on each layer. when we've built up the 12 layers, we put it on the trolley, put it up under the press. the press actually presses it 3,500lb a square inch. it's called a 100 tonne press. about 20 minutes, he's pressed out dry. go

the reservoir that waters this hilly vineyards, 1/3rd full with no relief in site.now this and now a cutting back of the crop. >> sometime it is rains everyday in march, so we can still get that. >> you know when it rains being? >> i wish. >> "abc 7 ne." >>> coming up a popular restaurant closing the door foregood. the >>> here are the winning numbers from last night $223 million power ball drawing. 13, 26, 39, 44, 62, power ball number 2. nobody got all six numbers, grows to $246 million. happeninged to, a longstanding cafe will serve customers one time. the depoe cafe saying good-bye today. on a miss store call site, the construction happening on both sides of the station has really hurt her business with the coast of raels she can't afford to reopen anywhere. customers say the neighborhood is losing a piece of history and character. up next. abc 7 mornings at 6:00. violence near a tech celebration. a man left with life threatening injuries stabbed. a fire and smock trap a man in his home. his life at risk until a good samaritan steps in. >>> this is going to be a

the reservoir that waters these hilly vineyards. it's one-third full with no relief in sight. this. and a possible cutting back of the crop. >> sometimes it rains every day in march. we're still -- we could still get that. >> reporter: do you know any rain dances? >> i wish. [ laughter ] >> reporter: drink to that, as we enter a new normal. in st. helena, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >>> this sunday is national drink wine day. and alaska airlines is making it easier to celebrate. >> the airline just expanded its wine flies free program to 18 new airports including oakland, san francisco, and san jose. the program lets members in alaska's mileage plan program check an entire case of wine, that's 12 bottles, at no cost on their flight. >> wine flies free. >>> the weather will not get in the way of your travel plans. here is a live look at sfo. we'll have the forecast. >>> and you can get the latest news any time with the upgraded abc 7 news app. >>> abc 7 mornings anchor jessica castro spoke at the kickoff luncheon for the san francisco march of dimes march for babies. the march

. >> well, i understand commissioner hillis, and back to the overhead, that we -- i beg your pardon? that we, over the course of roughly eight years, we have been back to the rdt i can't tell you how many times with different solutions, different masses, and the only way we could come up with a solution that worked was sitting with a roll of flimsy in a room with a couple of markers and coming up with a design. >> but it looks that way. it looks like we all sat around with a bunch of markers and designed a building. i'm just -- i'm not comfortable with the design. we'll leave it at that, and i'll see what the other commissioners have to say. >> i agree with commissioner moore. i'll leave it to the staff. i have to say that original modern design that came before us last time, i hated. and not because of the building, but because of the context. it just looks completely out of place. and you know, i agree that a lot of stuff that goes up that's victorian-like that's just bad, and i think if you had a little more time, you could come up with something better. you know, a gabled roof, b

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the reservoir that waters the hilly vineyards, 1/3 full with no relief in site.e bud break and now this is a cutting back of the crop possibly. >> sometimes it rains everyday in march. so we can still get back. >> dow know rain dances? >> i wish. >> drink to that as we went enter a new normal. >>> ♪ strummed guitar you can't experience the canadian rockies through a screen. you have to be here, with us. ♪ upbeat music travel through this natural wonder and get a glimpse of amazing, with a glass of wine in one hand, and a camera in the other, aboard rocky mountaineer. canada's rocky mountains await. call your travel agent or rocky mountaineer for special offers now. >>> check out the winning numbers from last night. 223 million power ball drawing. -- the power ball number 2, nobody picked all six numbers. you have another chance on wednesday when the jackpot grows to $246 million. happening today, a longstanding calf if any on the peninsula serving customers one last time. after 34 years the depot cafe is saying good-bye today. it's on a miss store call site but t

. >> reporter: and now this is scary, the reservoir that waters these hilly vineyards, is 1/31/3 fulln site. >> sometimes it rains every day in march, so we could still get that. >> reporter: do you know any rain dances? >> i wish. >> reporter: they might help in a new normal. above the napa valley, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >>> if this early bud break is a product of global warming it may have long-term consequences. >> yeah in the future replanting could be an expensive adjustment and might be only a few years off in some cases. >>> thank you for joining us for abc7 news at 4:00. abc7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> no one wants to talk about this, it's not an easy business. >> keeping kids safe, the importance of after shooter training, how one college is active and passionate about dealing with troubled students. >>> a huge candle light vigil, the victims of the school sho shooting are in everyone's thoughts. >>> and san jose's ambitious new goal, how it plans to achieve an environmental first. >>> therefore, mr. cruz, you're going to be held without bond until further order of

the reservoir that waters these hilly vineyards. it's one third full with no relief in sight. first the bud break, now this. and a possible cutting back of the crop. >> sometimes it rains every day in march. so we're still -- could still get that. >> you know any rain dances. >> i wish. >> they might help in a new normal. above the napa valley, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >>> if this early bud break is a product of global warming it may have long-term consequences. in the future replanning could be expensive and might be only a few years off in some cases. abc 7 news meteorologist lisa largen is here with more. >> ever a a couple of days we are going in the other direction which we see mild weather. then definitely the cooler air headed our way. we definitely are looking at some changes. but unfortunately not the ones we want in terms of rainfall. so as we get started tonight this is the way it's going to look the next several days with some very mild weather headed our way. in fact, as we look at the trends you notice that we talk about santa rosa with average highs in the lo

the reservoir that waters these hilly vineyards, it's one-third full with no relief in sight., and a possible cutting back of the crop. >> sometimes it rains every day in march. so we're still -- we could still get that. >> do you know any rain dances? >> i wish. >> reporter: drink to that, as we enter a new normal. in st. helena, win freedman, abc7 news. >>> coming up, a popular restaurant closing its doors for ♪ strummed guitar you can't experience the canadian rockies through a screen. you have to be here, with us. ♪ upbeat music travel through this natural wonder and get a glimpse of amazing, with a glass of wine in one hand, and a camera in the other, aboard rocky mountaineer. canada's rocky mountains await. call your travel agent or rocky mountaineer for special offers now. >>> happening today, a long-standing cafe on the peninsula will serve its customers one last time. after 34 years, the depot cafe in san carlos is saying goodbye. it's on a historical site, but the owner said the constructions on both sides of the cal train station has really hurt her business. and wi

the reservoir that waters these hilly vineyards. it's one-third full with no relief in sight.first the bud break, now this. and a possible cutting back of the crop. >> sometimes it rains every day in march. we're still -- we could still get that. >> reporter: do you know any rain dances? >> i wish. [ laughter ] >> reporter: drink to that, as we enter a new normal. in st. helena, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >>> this sunday is national drink wine day. and alaska airlines is making it easier to celebrate. >> the airline just expanded its wine flies free program to 18 new airports including oakland, san francisco, and san jose. the program lets members in alaska's mileage plan program check an entire case of wine, that's 12 bottles, at no cost on their flight. >> wine flies free. >>> the weather will not get in the way of your travel plans. here is a live look at sfo. we'll have the forecast. >>> and you can get the latest news any time with the upgraded abc 7 news app. at&t has a network with thousands of best-in-class security experts. which means... more of the eye balls you wa

. >> reporter: women's hockey star hilly knight got a text from her dad. >> we're really well prepared. >> reporter: doctors making sure the norovirus doesn't spread to the olympic villages where the athletes are staying in close quarters. the u.s. olympic committee telling nbc news the health of our athletes is the utmost priority. the outbreak started at a facility for guards. and now, there's cases here. at the housing facility where security guards first got ill, workers told us the sick were taken away the water turned off and rooms being sanitized. some told us they're headed back to work. the korean government says it's running tests to figure out if water or food were contaminated. with all of that also headed to pyeongchang, ivanka trump. the white house confirming she will be here to represent the administration at the end of the two weeks for the closing ceremonies. back to you. >> kate thank you. coming up in the next half hour we'll take you inside north korea, see how people there are feeling about the games. >>> meantime new questions about the safety of amtrak after ano

former president obama quoted, i just -- from the election that's because he thought crooked hilly was button to went. the russian excuse became the narrative. president trump trying to turn the democrat words on their head. let's take a look back, at the time of all this -- because we haven't heard the president's next steps in the wake of the 13 indictments. back in 2017 that was when dhs and the national intelligence said the russian government had directed a cyber attack against the u.s. then on october 10th you'll recall that candidate trump dismissed that as politically motivated. at the end of december, president-elect trump praised vladimir putin's for sanctions. president trump came out and said that putin was very smart for not retaliating. and a day later trump said the -- and of course, halle there's been a big back and forth every since then about owner the president thinks this is a hoax. he's called it a hoax a number of times. now he's trying to say, hey, i wasn't saying that, i was talking about democrats claims against me. president trump trying to muddle the message

. >> i do respect what hilly does, but there is just not enough time in the day to dedicate all his timeuch a humongous case. >> knowing his third trial would likely be his last chance at freedom seth turned to a childhood friend for help. >> me and renee, you know, childhood friends. you were young. 15, 16. that's how we met. and i wound up finding out she was a paralegal. >> so this is the first time i've seen seth in 20 years. and i didn't find out until later on that his mom, dad and his grandmother all died while he was in prison. after that i started to go see him because i figured, you know, he is all alone, he is fighting for his life. i've seen the video, and i never thought it was him. the guy is too big to be him. >> renee read seth's trial transcripts and decided to help. >> i get a phone call from hilliard. seth wants to go through his file. will you go down and take all the boxes down and let him go through them one by one. i said, sure, no problem. >> renee, a single mom with two kids, worked on the case for free in her spare time. >> i had to clock out at 5:30 at work, an

joining me now, hilly button fortin, a freshman who heard the gunshots and head inside her classroom.ood evening. for you to the vigil? >> hi, yes i've been at the vigil since 2:30 and i went home and then i came back. >> martha: we appreciate that. tell me about the vigil, what was it like? >> i was crying the whole time, but it was really hard to take in because you hear your friends names -- i lost eight friends. >> martha: i'm sorry. it's hard for me to ask these questions because i can't imagine. you are very brave to be standing up there and you're doing something to appreciate their memory. i'm sure this hasn't sunk in for you and i know yesterday it was very, very rough and i know when you're there, you called your mom and you called your dad, right? >> it yeah, i did. >> martha: tell me about that, honey. >> do you want me to start from the beginning? >> martha: go ahead. >> i was in my creative writing class. i want to say thank you to miss lapel because she save my life. >> martha: what did she do? >> we were writing love letters because it was valentine's day and creative

. >> so commissioner hillis' suggestion that we put the ami -- >> along -- yeah, somewhere. >> prices. >> in prices? [off microphone] >> how big a report it would be -- >> sure. what's interesting is there's so many different kind of data things in my head floating around. like this whole 1.9 million is demonstrably unaffordable, but everything below that -- would the zoning administrators based on the assessors, above the numbers that are moderate and affordable, is everything underneath considered affordable? and where would the housing balance report fit into this? i think to commissioner melgar's point, we have all this data, and they're all really good things, but what do they mean when you put them all together, right? this is data. >> commissioner melgar brought up the point of the turn and the tenants and all. what does it all mean? like each thing by itself tells a story, but when they're all put together, it tells a big story. i'm not saying you have to do that, but how would you look at the housing balance report in light of what we have in this report? >> the housing balan

bank fraud, but also accuses people trying to help present trump campaign and harm the campaign of hilli

. >> good afternoon, president hillis and members of the planning commission. i'm courtney dankroger, and i'm here on behalf of planning the old u.s. minute. it is a singularly importance resource in san francisco and the u.s. west. as a central soma planning process progresses, it will be important toen shufr that at least the proposed $20 million retrofit funding committed to the old minute remains intact. much work has been done to date by many on the revitalization of the old minute, but the efforts must be supported by sufficient funding through the central soma plan process. this is the window of opportunity for the old minute, full and productive reuse. the old minute is an anchor to the area and thankfully its restoration is a goal of the plan, but without a strong commitment to needed funding, the old minute cannot serve as the catalyst that the central soma plan deserves. now is the time to clearly affirm the city's commitment to the old minute and cement its place in san francisco's history of culture and learning. thank you. >> thank you, miss dankr

in fact it was paid for by the hilly elect campaign?> if collusion with the russians in the election unwitting or otherwise is a crime that is punishable with an indictment, how do you not go after the hillary clinton team? it's a real good question. it's a real problem for them. but i do think, to your original point, it does reveal there is absolutely no end, limit to the ends i think mueller will go in investigating this. quite frankly i get a little uncomfortable about it, you get far, far afield from the collusion thing. david: right. >> or whatever, you wind up getting into all business dealings with with these people. you wind up putting president in compromised position because -- david: final question. they're giving me a wrap but is it conceivable because manafort, some of these charges not related to the trump campaign but to a time which manafort was with the trump campaign, is it conceivable that some kind of business dealings between manafort or gates will coincide with somebody else inside of the trump campaign? >> well o

commission president hillis and fellow commissioners. i'm anastasia, a remember of the neighbourhood council and i'm urging the dmoition go back to the way a standard budget work programme hearing was run that they expect in 1996. that means the way it was directed until the current director joined the planning staff. it seems only fair that they consider work programme efforts that would include all the things that the department wants to do that are up for funding consideration and right now everything the commission wants to do, plus everything the public wants to have included. and then