now, our public plans say that the presence of the historic city fabric is not to be interrupted if possible. new york, the library there is celebrating the bicentennial of the city plan. here are libraries participating in destroying the plan. what's with that? here's a line that shows how the crooked street -- how do they deal with -- there's nothing about the corridor. talk about orwell, goodness, here he is. here's a going, going, gone. on the sidewalk, the view of angel island will be gone. there it is, it's blocked out. you move back a little bit, from the west side of mason street, there, it's gone. people that love this city will not stand for this. president olague: thank you. >> and we will see a new planning commission that represents -- because you are working class issues. president olague: we're going to call for a recess at this point. >> i am now done. thank you very much. president olague: we're going to have to have a -- we're calling for a recess at this time, ms. avery. >> the planning commission is in recess. commissioner moore: i hope that we have a button to do the sam

city. we own about 25,000 of them. i have our project manager who oversees the work of our field staff. there has been historic ambiguity about who is responsible here in the city for pedestrian lighting. we have some pedestrian-scale lighting, so does recreation and parks. the city code provides that the public utilities commission will determine the intensity of elimination, number, and size of lighting. the puc has been deemed to have responsibility. the ambiguity around pedestrian lighting has come to ahead for us. pedestrian lighting is expected to increase in the coming years as more attention is paid to the streetscape. with the treatment by dpw, the definition of streets also bears on responsibility for pedestrians lighting. sometimes pictures help. here is a photo that shows rincon hill area. you can see a street light and to the left, a pedestrian light. this is an example of pedestrian lighting that was installed by the developer for and improve to the area. -- and then prove to the area. this is another light that is pedestrian scale. you can see the top of the light. this is a redevelopment- spons

this is a historical city. brick ware. you don't want to paint your brick to just deter the graffiti. if you have a porous etching and the paint soaks in, a lot of times it's just not practical to use that paint to preserve all of the environment. and the real solution has to come from stopping the graffiti, not just the preventative measures. because it's just so expensive. that's how big the problem is. >> want to get someone in the back? >> i just want to understand -- you guys saying we should -- i want to know why you -- what do you think about -- [inaudible] -- helping him become president with the graffiti writers that got convicted 12 times. also he's from the city -- using this city for years. i just wanted to know your opinion on obama hiring a graffiti artist. >> i'm not sure -- >> i would say one word is permission. >> there was no permission granted by them. >> that's the only difference to me. >> just permission. cool. >> where's the microphone? there in the middle, the man standing up. >> a graffiti watch in

city? historically known as the industrial part of the city, how can you help me understand that? o>> i am not aware of any limitations of the placement of the cabinet's. with regard to historical resources and historical district. your question of how my your concerns regarding and over proliferation of these within your area how best to be addressed, i don't know that i can answer that question. perhaps they can respond to how those concerns might be taken into consideration. it focuses on if there is a significant environmental effects. if there are concerns about that specifically, it could be something that we could take into account. supervisor cohen: in seems to me that it will have a factor into cumulative impact. >> in terms of cumulative impact, i think just to clarify some terminology, concerns about cumulative effects, the 726, the impact of the project as a whole, a think that might be what you're referring to here. there is also discussion of the proposed cabinet together with any other similar type project. i'm answering your question with regard to the 726 cabinets.

getting inventories of sign companies and doing surveys. >> i understand that we are doing a city wide historical building inventory. are they linked together? >> no just for preservation and we will work together where we can. >> while you are out there i need some stuff i need to know. seriously once we are around looking stuff and we can populate the data base with other good information. that's great. we're glad to hav to yo we have a couple folks also here from sign america. thank you very much and i invited them to talk about the sign process. we have a lot of people here that know about signs. signs are such a big issue here in san francisco. i divided up the pictures and topics into four basic parts of the first is signs that advertise the commercial property for which they are located and here are the 500 club of the i think it's at 17th and valencia and somewhere in the planning department said and visible signs of represent and one of the things we really want to see and some people don't agree. i can share my point of view and you as well. another sien sign we're going tk at are the g

city very special. if i have seen anything the first 30 days of this inaugural apartment that was historic redone by our board of supervisors, it allowed me this special privilege to serve as your mayor. i know that it has been a deepening of my love for the city because of all the different groups that our city has, that it encompasses, that it represents. so it has given me that much more energy, even though i have thousands of meetings, it feels like, every week, every handshake, every praise, acknowledgment about how important the office of the mayor is is reflected in all of the people that have given the good wishes. we want everyone else included in this celebration. we want to make sure that everything that we do represents an opportunity for everyone to share. when i talk about our chinese families, the celebrations we have, i often mention, our strong values of family. in this city, we want to redefine that as a larger family of the rest of the city. so that is our contribution. i want you to celebrate with me this joyous week. actually, it has already started, as you know. it culminates in a

don't you love scott brothers in the city of slovyansk on books in soldiers historical photos of escape capturing the city salutes and kills more militia major as a good of a child from a stroke or less to tropicana hutto. welcome back here with r.t.d. and let's now take a look at the top stories memorial events are underway to mark twenty five years since the world's worst nuclear accident explosions have a churned up power plant sent radiation across many parts of europe and is being remembered in some of the most affected areas in ukraine russia and. nato nations are being accused of arming libya's rebels even before the uprising began meanwhile fightings region deadlocked as it often forces continue to lay siege to the city of misrata while nato airstrikes target the colonel's town in tripoli. russian security forces say they've prevented a suicide attack and have killed several militants in a terrible down in the north caucasus some of those killed are believed to be a link to russia's most wanted terrorist del kumar. so the top stories now more on the university of the turn novel

historical data. right now we can do that for a very short timeframe so if you go to,sfgov dot org. the cities website you can go to the beldings department link, hi alice, and go to permits. it says check on-line permit status and it's a permit tracking function and you can enter your address and i think all the permits since the mid 80's now will come up with their disposition and what happens, who reviewed them and all of that. that's the first step. that's as we were rushing headlong into the 90's and we're trying to move into the next decade and right now negotiating some vendor to scan these and put them all underseparate addresses. okay where do we go from here. >> right now you can do that yes. >> but it's not on going? >> we're going to increase it. we've initiated that about three to five months back. if you have a permit in for review you can check the status and see who has it and who is the next plan station and if it's prepared for issuing and you feel free to jump in. >> what's on-line is the same we have in our lobby the permit tracking system. applications from about mid 80's

not in a unique position of other government agencies we see around the country, large cities, states. historically, i.t. has been treated as expenses simply buried in department's budgets. over the past few years, the help the conversation we have been having at coit and at the board is what does it really mean, what are we getting for our money's worth from technology? that has raised the visibility of i.t. spending in the city. to supervisor chiu's point, we have more data. i think now you are in a better position as you enter a new discussion about the budget. you know what we are spending across the department's city- wide on i.t. you will have the baseline data to make better policy decisions about the level and where money is being spent, the level of reductions that can be achieved. i would just like to point out, i guess, really we are dealing with a complex problem of -- we are looking at a budget as a single number. to supervisor david chiu's point, i think he said we spend $200 million a year on i.t. that is not in one pot of money. so it makes it a complex challenge to save that money.

historical . culture in the city. may do as a good up until close is struck for this to become the photo. denied russia's leading man don't rule out taking part in the next presidential election. elation. president and prime minister to be the coming of the plates of club great but. also better of the suspects linked to monday's terrorist attack on the capital's metro system of confessed it comes as the country mourns the twelve people killed in a tragedy. on the global power structure could be shifting with political experts mourning europe from the u.s. to watch their backs as the world's fastest growing economies gain ground. brazil russia india china and south africa are pretty much a right as they strive to take an even greater slice of the world's economy so any further details in the people. is eight pm wednesday night here in moscow welcome if you just joined us this is the r.t. news channel my name is kevin owen and first with the russian presidential election less than a year away now public interest in who will be running for the top seat is harder than ever become true to most

cities. the german historical it's cheap is an organization in moscow supported by the ministry of education and science in germany such institutes also exist in the entire species in one of the cities worldwide one of the main aims of the establishment in moscow is further research into russian german history it also specializes in cooperation between young scientists from the two countries and the whole story projects in various studies and publishing given the field critic we have a library here which opens in two thousand and five another of her writing thirty thousand groups in its archive we don't have any fiction books most of our visitors are people who study history and signs properly and we can provide material of a need for the research and work. the people of various constructions have places to gather and worship the first new friends came to the russian capital in the sixteenth century and many of them with german crossman and russians they started a church shaped by the beginning of the twentieth century the congregation of evangelically sort of cathedral same piece i'm cool co

have received a really excellent letter from the national trust for historic preservation and other preservation organizations in the city, state, and nationally, which lays out the importance of the historic importance of parker said -- of parkmerced. the supervisor elsbernd: -- the eir has not done a good analysis of the preservation alternative. i live in the outer sunset. i am very concerned about the traffic impact this project will produce, and that i will not be able to easily go to the airport. it will be very congested. also, there is a lot of foot traffic going over the great highway down the peninsula that will bunch up. the third point i would like to make is that i cannot understand how san francisco is considering to demolish the affordable housing in favor of market-rate housing. this is so religious. thank you. >> i am a new resident. sorry. i am not used to public speaking. i am a new president. i am part of parkmerced action coalition. i want you to stop this eir. it is a scam. protect and serve. this is the both peace officers take, and hopefully keep with them throughout their lives. protect and serve

no but still should image even if look then it will scan runs through the city of slovyansk i looked in soldier historical who tells of its skin cancer in the city so it's in sky cool smiles. mid-jan as it could have until he struck for mr tropicana hutto. six thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines activists in syria holding a day of nationwide protest against the government with reports demonstrators have been fired upon the u.s. is threatening action slamming syria's allies with iran experts say washington may have its sights set on both countries. russian security forces killed ten are and militants in the caucasus region including the leader of a terrorist cell responsible for a number of attacks it's the latest in a series of successful counter terror operations in the region. and a russian pilot faces prison after a new york court finds him guilty of conspiring to smuggle drugs into the u.s. but constantine arash uncles defense team says he committed no crime against america he was arrested by u.s. agents last year in west africa. coming out martin enders explores moscow in the many ways you can

he said cameras will not be allowed inside any of the city's historic building, which is very frustratinguse snooki was really looking forward to throwing up in the duomo. i guess they are being protective. way to protect your image, country whose 74-year-old prime minister is on trial for having sex with a 17-year-old hooker. they've ruined the show. what's the point? you might as well shoot in a sbarro at the airport or something. the cast has promised their behavior will be different while they are guests in italy. instead of getting blackout drunk and going home to make a sandwich, they will get blackout sandwich and then go home to make a panini sandwich. they have to drink. [ applause ] "jersey shore" without drinking is like the source awards without shooting. it's unacceptable. this is what we have to look forward to on the next season of "jersey shore." ♪ >> everything's great. [ applause ] >> jimmy: that's an olive garden commercial. not a show. meanwhile, there's another reality star threatening to destroy a country, and that star is donald trump. donald trump continues to clai

seems like going historic in the city seems to be the way to go. >> it's true i think increasingly peoplere finding the old city neighborhood whether it's mount vernon and federal hill and canton are muchmore attractive for families. there's new development into not just playgrounds and houses and that thing but the schools are yep proving and things like that. -- are improving and things like that. there's a lot more things available. they are considering that now. >> is this a reversal trend. you heard about families moving out of a majority urban area into the suburbs and now you are saying some of the families are considering moving back. >> it was the trend for years and it is taking a slow mind shift to think of baltimore city as place to raise family. there's a group that are encouraging this. and others in the city is encouraging this especially with so much focus of improving the schools which was the barrier for a lot of people. so, yeah, a lot of the neighborhoods, we have neighborhoods we looked inside of, seven are in the city and the city ones are open because you might not

when i found the one at the new york city historical society, and that was just days and days of going through written records, and i was like, well, why am i doing this? the young man there, and i went and told him, and he said to me, he got really excited. i should give you this book. i was like, yeah, yeah, he's like you know i can't. [laughter] that's number two. the third question was about when i -- >> [inaudible] >> yes, okay. so a woman had written a book called the free negro in new york. it was a columbia dissertation from the 1970s, and she died before publishing it. her name was rhoda golden freedman. her husband published it as a book and gave the collection to the shawmberg, and i, the book is also and everybody's saying, oh, go to the recent scholarship, but she had really, really done her homework. i mean, she did everything, and i ended up just repeating what she did just for verifying everything she had panned out, so he'd given it to the schaumberg and the materials in her book i expected to find there not just as a primary source, but a footnote. i was stunned to fi

previews of the historical buildings would be done by the title board. the city has something called proposition j, which affected the charter. it would be interesting to me, not tonight, but i believe this is in the past. at some point, we could examine the relationship with proposition j and what it gives the historic preservation commission jurisdiction over. i think dsud is trying to say that all of the regulations of the city are not applicable. proposition j was a charter amendment. i would like to understand how that works. there is an interesting scenario that might happen. i believe that if this goes forward, the planning commission still has jurisdiction over some aspects of home development. if that development work to affect a historical resource, you might want to contemplate that and figure out how that scenario might be resolved. all right. i am almost through. on the development agreement, i had a question. -- that had to do with a section that had to deal with internal rates for the developer. i thought for a moment about the way it was being pre

historic resources. there is concern that the city of san francisco may be setting a disturbing precedent. given the alternatives, other office would prefer the adoption of alternative b, which is the preservation alternative. this alternative would not demolish the resources and restored them in compliance with the secretary of the interiors standards. given these facts and the fact that the developer has shown no interest or intent to work with the people in the neighborhood, we ask this commission to only approved alternative b. thank you. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on this? >> hello, commissioners. i was not going to speak on this item that because the neighborhood association board devoted to take a neutral position on the demolition of a broader -- demolition of a garage. our position, i wanted to clarify, that we would like to leave that decision up tuesday -- up to the hbc and this body. we came to two of our general meetings and gave presentations and they came to four of our board meetings and they work very closely with us in reference to addressing the

to date, heritage has given presentations of the port city to the california historical society, american institute of architects. the next presentation is may 11. it is being well received and i have people ask me all the time if they can find a book on amazon. you cannot, as far as i am aware, but you can find it in books around the city. on march 23 of this year, the san francisco business times held their annual best deals of the year award. i have not seen a time when so many poor partner recognized. i thought it deserved special recognition to call on all of them today. first and foremost, the winner of the deal was the city effort, which i include the port, for winning the bid of the america's cup 2013. we are proud of that accomplishment. the real-estate deal maker of the year was michael cohen, who you recall was the director of the office of economic and workforce development. among the many accomplishments they cited, several were here at the port, including the exploratorium, treasure island, hunters point, and his help with the america's cup bid. the exploratorium project was