i live on the corner of polk and sacramento. i have lived there for almost six years. the blight of the community has been that church, unfortunately. i have seen it only get worse over the years. like other people have said, my car, because i have a couple roommates and we only have one parking space, i have the luxury of having to park in front of that church a few times, quite a few times. two times my car has been broken into. the neighborhood is interesting. it's kind of at the crossroads of a couple neighborhoods coming together and fortunately a lot of things have improved. the store is turning into what i think is going to be a much better supermarket. bob's burgers which was kind of a rundown diner has turned into a nice eatery. another store has come in. a lot of things have cleaned up around the property, around the neighborhood, and it looks great. the church being the blight of the neighborhood, that transforming into a living community for people to move into i think would be a great benefit for everybody. it's unfortunate that church has been the way it i

i live 300 feet away. i think we can all agree that we have a planning code which represents some sort of consensus on what san francisco should feel like and look like. we can also agree that this project exceeds this planning code considerably. i think we can also agree that we have a variance mechanism and a conditional use mechanism which in some ways tie to some notion of public benefit. we give exceptions when there is a public benefit to the planning code. when we want to put in more affordable housing, when we want to trade maybe a little extra height for some more open space, when there are special circumstances. i wonder what the public benefit here is in violating the consensus of the planning code? and what the planning code really means anymore. i don't see a public benefit in luxury housing, 800, 900,000 a square foot. i don't see any open space created here. i see a 4,800 square foot hinthouse, presumably inhabited by a man who has made many friends in the neighborhood and i wonder what the t

i live on 1635 clay street, which is about 30 yards from the church and i have lived there about two years now. i consider myself a humanitarian. i'm all about equal opportunities and ritesdz. homeless people need a place to stay at night. this church has turned into a magnet and inviting mentally unstable people to just occupy the clay and larkin corner. i have seen it all. i have left for work in the morning and i have seen someone consuming drugs, relieving themselves on the church steps, which is not a great way to start the day. you know, my main concern is there is no lighting. it's very dark on that corner, especially at night, you know, when people are out and leaving the bars coming home late at night. my main concern is curveball people by themselves walking around. so that's why i'm for converting this church into an apartment complex. thank you. >> good evening, again, susan brandt thole here for the middle polk neighborhood association. again, i think we all agree something should happen on this site and, of course, a lot of what you're hearing about are concerns about th

i live a half a block. i can observe that the soccer fields has grown and having had personal conversations with a will the of the neighbors, i can tell you it's through this information much of what you've heard this evening. i recall an earlier meeting where there was a map of san francisco showing the original master plan. a time in the late 19th century when the western side of the city was considered uninhabitable. so master plan said leave it alone. if you were to do that, 200,000 residents on the western side of the city would need to leave. it's a ridiculous argument then. they've improved your argument but their rational is still flawed. the hybrid option is red herring. it is not meant to give you an alternative. it is meant to ofisca trve e the issue. it is disingenuous. our city is lucky who has a police chief who knows the city. his testimony should carry tremendous weight. the issues are clear. the evidence is overwhelming. this is not an issue. this is not an issue that's health. it's not an i

that is all. >> i live around the mission area. i am very worried if they're going to have the marijuana shop open there. if people passing by like going to school, i am very concerned. that is all. >> next speaker. >> i lived in geneva have located outside mission. -- live in geneva located outside mission. if they are going to open and marijuana shop, i am very concerned some of the kids will eventually get addicted to this marijuana. marijuana is a drug. if people get addicted, they can have like a mental illusion. when i was waiting on the bus in the area, i have seen people after they took its, they are wobbling around and they do not know what is going on and they fall onto the ground. i have seen that they hurt themselves, bleeding from the head, then nose, i was extremely scared and frightened. let's say if marijuana can treat people, they are going to go to the hospital. they could go to a place to get the medicine. why would they have to open it in another area? i wish and marijuana shop owner, not because of the financial

i have lived in the city since 1968. uch has been said, but i can't think of any good reason that would justify putting artificial turf and extreme lighting anywhere in our beautiful and a magnificent golden gate park. william m. hall, the famous surveyor the plant apart design would roll over in his grave and cry. do the right thing. >> my name is susie, i am from district 9. i am here as a soccer mom, a soccer player, a soccer trainer that is watching in trading on these fields every single day. with all of the talking points. my son who is 13 and plays every single day, he has played at franklin square, garfield, crocker, balboa, sacred heart, her and now we desperately need 14 more acres of synthetic turf? what we have played on is a small sampling of the artificial surfaces that we have in the city already. i was hot and beautiful practice on grass and i want kids to play all the time, it is part of my business in training them. most of the fields were empty and i got to hear birds and snodgrass, it was a wonderful e

i have been living in sro since i have lived in this city. i am in support of the recommendations the you are enforcing. i have been complaining [unintelligible] animal, who happens to be a rat. anyway, i do not need to digress. i also have less problems in my room. spraying for eggs and whatnot. i am very supportive of the recommendation. supervisor mar: thank you. mr. [unintelligible] >> thank you for calling this hearing. i have seen just about every kind of horror story that you can imagine in these hotels. i know you have not lived in one. i can assume that. the level of disrespect on a human level that goes on on a daily basis is atrocious. there was a woman at the press conference, or a gentleman, i believe, talking about working phone jacks. two people in his building were not able to call out in the time of the health episode, so now these individuals are living in the assisted living. the better enforcement of code, that is very basic and important. the collaborative, the tenant in the hotel who had a mobility issue, there were no ac

i live at 1468 francisco street. it is a four units right next to 49 defense discuss street. -- 1490 francisco street. i have lived in the marina for 24 years. some more pictures. what you can seek is these are pretty much all of the bedroom windows. this is my bedroom window. it is a glass. it could easily be broken into. i am very concerned about security issues. these other windows have line of sight directly to the? deck. all of our bedrooms and kitchen windows have access to that deck as well. the open bedroom windows are the only open -- source of light and air from those units. you can see my security concern with anybody ought not -- on that deck. it also affects five other unitst. he deck is going there. they will be affected the same way. they have direct line of sight, privacy issues. this is also a very narrow at neuss tunnel. it is very narrow and everything that goes in this area. -- echoes in this area. we would like to argue that this deck is not legal. only if there is no increase in discrepancy. the

i live in it excelsior district. senior student at balboa high speed -- the ball high school. i am concerned about the issues the proposed hospital will bring. my family and i use the road on many different occasions. we all agree that it is busy all hours of the day. when it is not rush-hour, there is always a constant stream of people using the road for their personal needs. the hospital would only worsen the traffic which is already horrendous. the size of the hospital, its clients and staff parking, the operations that will undertake bailey, those kind of factors -- it will create even more chaos on this already-busy road. instead of me being able to get somewhere in 10yq#ñ minutes, iy take me three times as long. this also applies to cathedral hill hospital, if it was to be built. why would i want to go to a hospital that is 45 minutes away, when i have st. luke's 10 minutes away from me? i hope cpmc sticks with its promise to keep st. luke's open. knowing the cathedral hill hospital will be a longer commute for

next speaker, please. >> a 45th. -- i live at 45th. i have the kids to help me because there is 300 pages of reasons why it turns out many of our innovations have unintended consequences. sf ocean edge has filed 300 pages of those consequences. what could go wrong? this is because of in the interest of time. i will read it and the kids can get their two minutes. this is very low tech. there are nine times the amount of abrasions on synthetic turf. that is the mrsa staph resistant bacteria. and it does get really hot, it can get up to one headed 71 degrees because it is tires. they cannot put out the fires for a while and it will cost toxins and these are children's feet that have been burned on tires. i just went to cocker amazon. if you look at the west sunset fields, there was all this debris. we're treating our grass, it is the astroturf. psychologically, we have not made a transition. so there is tons and tons of cigarette butts, food and all the things -- fireworks, everything that will be harmful to all of us. it could catch on fi

i live in the richmond district. the reason i tell you what i do for a living is that i care about human needs. especially children. however, as a humanitarian and a nature lover, i am appalled about what is about to happen at golden gate park. i attended the meeting with supervisor mar. i attended a planning meeting. and i had to endure five hours. the soccer fields, the big stadium, the parent drop-off and pick-up points, what this would be better. i waited five hours until i could speak my piece. what i had to listen to is just pure manipulation, and it was just really sad. it was from children were coached to do this and adults that should know better. the big question is why, why when there is an alternative, why this insistence on golden gate park. and do you know what? hi found out the answer. there is the fischer family, the owners of the gap and others, they said they were going to fund it, but they were not going to find it unless it was at golden gate park. i guess it means one thing to have a placard even

i have enjoyed living on francisco street for over 14 years. i am not in favor of the additional deck on the garage. noise will be an issue. i think sfpd has a better use of a time when responding to complaints. this sets a bad precedent, please do not permit it. thank you. and >> good afternoon. i am a resident of san francisco and then lived in the marina for about half of the time. i am here to speak for some of the neighbors who could not come today. the first person is maria, who lives across the street. a family of four. i am a resident of the 1400 block of francisco street. i have been a resident for 20 years. it is a beautiful walk and we wanted to remain that way. without loud people partying, and garbage clutter. the deck on the roof is a huge concern as well. imagine what a real deck will introduce. it is unsafe to have people eating and drinking up in an exposed area with note safety bars. it is also annoying hearing be sound travel down the block. please stop the planning of the deck. many neighbors are disputing the request. i also

my name is carolyn johnson, and i live in district 7. i have supported every local bond measure cents a move to san francisco in 1985. i send my children to public schools. i know how important it is to maintain these important services and resources. we should spare no expense in making them a great. i chose san francisco largely because of the open spaces, and i chose to live in district 7 because i like hiking in the woods. i used to live in chicago and new york. you cannot hide in the woods in the middle of chicago or newove. the proposal to remove healthy trees in spray herbicides calls to my nature of do no harm. while i would ever pay grudge them a penny to maintain or improve the parks, i cannot support a bond measure that would harm the parks, and that does. i am not a minority in this. i think some have regarded as as a fringe group and not taken as seriously. i would hope the vote of the unanimous vote of the twin peaks council strongly opposing that -- and i think that it has led you all to stop ignoring us and maybe start tak

i have lived in russian hill for 30 years. when playing soccer, i had to go to beach chalet, coalfield, etc.. i am speaking on behalf of adult men and women playing soccer in the city. they are as much a concern as the children are. most of the play is on weekends. the fields have always been a problem with is a number available, allocation, and condition. the growth of adults and children playing soccer has been phenomenal. it has outpaced baseball and football. when i started playing at 40 years and a half, the golden gate women soccer league which i have belonged to and been in the community since 1985, 26 years ago, had 16 teams. it has 48 teams and the highest is 54. there is an adult men and women's soccer league. they have a combined average total of about 3600 players. that does not include the san francisco co it leak or recreation pick a bleak and practices in the evening. these fields are not only used for soccer but rugby and gaelic football. this was an initiative of creating turf field spread we were forced to pla

that i lived long enough. to find out that 98% of my personal life was [ bleep ] i don't think anybody else would have to ever face that. they're different than me. i constructed a life. i constructed a marriage. i constructed friends. i constructed business associates. but it was all about what i could do for them. my hand was open to them, and their hand was in my pocket. i paid for love, like it says in the book. what i did for love. >> where do you live 1992. >> i live in an apartment. i told you. i couldn't buy space for a hummingbird. but i'm broke. i get a little pension. i get a little social security. >> do you have any women in your life? >> well, like i told you, i've been on [ bleep ] for quite a long time now. i would like to eventually learn some girl's first name, but i'm scared. there's no question that i'm very thin-skinned and i'm frightened. and there's no question -- [ bleep ] wait a minute. there's no question that i take things that you say too seriously and too much to heart. and i do mis

i have lived in the city since 1968. uch has been said, but i can't think of any good reason that would justify putting artificial turf and extreme lighting anywhere in our beautiful and a magnificent golden gate park. william m. hall, the famous surveyor the plant apart design would roll over in his grave and cry. do the right thing. >> my name is

i live at 1349 -- across the street from this project. we have had meetings and seen the plans of these buildings and the only thing i have -- is basically a consideration to redesign the front of the facade so it will blend in with the street. >> thank you. >> i am joshua macdonald, and i am concern about the footprint of this building. there is a ground level building depth of 80 feet, over 25 feet in setbacks. as the owner of the property on the same block -- which stands to the north of the subject profited, i have been granting building permit 2018 -- which will reduce my building depth and i am doing this not because this is a requirement of because i appreciate open space. if these plans are approved, this will be lost and there is little on the block. this will be traded on my project begins demolition next month. i would not like to see this diminished. i am able to stand on the roof of my existing building, 1340 natoma. plants grow there. i suggest maintaining a setback. this is a transit-friendly location, and perhaps they'd lik

i live at 1468 francisco street. it is a four units right next to 49 defense discuss street. -- 1490 francisco street. i have lived in the marina for 24 years. some more pictures

but i live in oakland, california. i am also the charter -- treasurer and i am, and the called saint patrick. -- commonly called saint patrick. our mission is to deliver justice and dignity and equality to our union members. the workers are wall-to-wall local 5. the workers there that are in preparation in opening work under a collective bargaining agreement provide what referred to as a thriving wage, adequate family health-care benefits, they receive a pension contribution, and more importantly, there is a joint labor committee that serves with the workers and the management of the company for the collective that focuses on safety, community outreach, community benefits, and continuing education, a daycare and other things that are of service to the community. we are very proud of this company. from the unions perspective we are here to urge you to allow this company with a very mindful approach to the community, with immigrant workers that are working there that are earning a living wage, an adequate wage, and that w

i have lived my life in front of people. from the time i was 2 years old, i was in front of people, never with them. and i've always been kind of alone that way. but as long as there was a camera within 10 feet of me that i could get in front of, or if i could get in front of an audience, i feel comfortable. i feel at home. but i've never been a successful person in terms of relationships. you know, i -- i'll give you one line. >> are you scapable of love? >> absolutely. i love my life. i love god. i can't tell you -- love spills out of my ears at night when i'm lying alone. the gratitude that i have for my life. how doucould you not love a godo kept you alive in a cement box for a year? how could you not love a god who kept you alive in a womb when you were supposed to be dead out of the womb. >> let's talk about events of 2001. clearly your life was very, very different after that. >> take that to the bank, brother. >> more of my exclusive interview with robert blake. the high point of his movie career without a doubt, 1967

i was born lonely and will live lonely and die lonely. the audience has always given me a life ever since i was 2 years old. i danced for them on the streets and they threw money and i said, i'm home. it's nice to be back. >> what do you think your public reputation is now? >> my public reputation? i've been traveling around the country a long time because i was kind of -- after the trial, i was a nervous breakdown. if anybody in my life, i didn't have anybody in my life, but if anybody had loved me, they would have taken me to hawaii and laid me down in the sand. there wasn't anybody so i just got in the car and drove around living on twinkies and weber's bread and walk into a poolroom and shoot some nine ball and stuff like that. but the fans have never ever ever left me. >> you communicate with them through facebook and stuff like that? >> i had a facebook. don't know what the hell a facebook is. i don't even type. a friend of mine said you need a facebook. i thought they were going to cut my face or something. here it is, you talk to t

i lived in san francisco 10 years. before i learned about nap, i never paid attention to politics, and have never been involved in my neighborhood, mount davidson. i am concerned by the plan for cutting down healthy trees, closing trails, and wasting money that is desperately needed for part infrastructure and programs. it appears some of these activities were carried out under the trails and forestry portion of previous bonds. i would like to see responsible management of our parks and forested areas, which includes removing truly has industries. nap goes too far, and there is no demonstrated necessity. the approach of preferring native plants for the sole purpose of introducing species into areas where they do not currently exist is an experiment that is totally inappropriate in urban parks. nap is not accountable to anyone. the most affected residents were never asked for their input, and never told about what would happen in their parks. everyone i talked to is called the same thing. they know nothing, and are very

i lived in new york city. i technically lived in brooklyn with access to new york city, and my mother brought me to shows, broadway shows. so i think living in new york was a world of opportunity that maybe is not as readily available to others who grow up in more rural communities. that is not to say that that stops them. they just have to travel farther. tavis: yeah. bob dylan was not born in new york city. >> no, he wasn't, but he showed up. tavis: yeah, so it can work even in duluth, minnesota, i guess. >> that's right. tavis: but to your point about your mother exposing you to the arts, what impact do you think that had on your i am trying to figure out beyond that piano and maybe being exposed to the arts, what allowed you to tap into this gift? what were the conditions? >> just the exposure to great music of all kinds, first classical, then broadway shows, then popular music, and then the music that alan freed brought into my teenage world, it kind of hit at the same time as me feeling the lower half of

i would like -- i live half a block down from the church. i am astonished that there are people who want to stand in the way of this. this is a 24-hour today homeless camp. what i have seen is the proposed project is a beautiful building that will add tremendous value and get rid of the blight on the street. i do not understand what people are saying about the lack

when i lived there in the 1970s. everybody was outdoors. there is a western tradition where everybody has access to guns and this guy bought his guns legally i understand. but people they respect firearms there. but it isn't difficult to get them? >> it is not difficult to get them and i think there is a respect and healthy kind of respect for firearms here. when i lived here in my early 20s i had a rifle rack in the back of my pickup and would go up in the mountains with a .22. it is common around here. this just seems to be the case of an individual who just snapped. >> bill: now, i don't know whether you can answer this question, but i haven't heard it addressed so i want to ask it. how do you get that kind of armament in a theater? i guess he had a back pack or something. he has full regalia. three weapons. two that are substantial, large, all right. he has tear gas cansters. how do you get that into a theater? >> i think i can fill you in on that. he bought a ticket and came in dressed as a civilian and sat in the very he front row and

i live in bernal, and i participate in the bernal heights neighborhood senior program. myself have been going to st. luke's hospital for many years for health care needs. i do not drive, and i take the bus. ktb(ñit is hard for me to get a, especially if they close st. luke's. where will@ú without having to travel so far away? it is already hard enoughtcuvqhs seniors to get around, and having a hospital far away from our neighborhood is not ok. keep st. luke's open, please. make sure that what cpmc promised about st. luke's thank you for your time, and have a nice day. chairperson mar: thank you. next speaker. ingoody bernal heights. i have for 39 years. i am concerned that st. luke's will close. where will we go for medical care? please, looks -- please keep st. luke's open. it is more convenient for all of us,/

i live in the city in supervisor cohen to's district. i am speaking on behalf of my soccer group which is mostly immigrants and adults remained they come -- we spend all of time planned the soccer field. this is natural turf, natural grass with israel difficult to play and without age, we got injured. i am 35. we basically tried to avoided at all costs. there is some surprise their concern about really. this is the best service i play in and near its the zero injuries or major injuries. is your brain -- the zero major injury at all. when i see all these -- this misinformation and deceptive from all the comments, i have to show support as well as i am i looked at -- i looked at the documents and share my document. where are my colleagues and have an interest with this project and he agreed and i think this is -- i have checked and re- checked because i like the environment and make sure that this present has no major impact for adults. thank you for your time. i support your decision to install turf fields. i have played baseball, not socc

i have lived in the area -- such as commissioner miguel for over 35 years. i appreciate the concept of growth in the city, and change will happen. there are -- differences that -- through the meetings with the planning commission, and the neighborhood, the hayes valley neighborhood corp. -- that we have with regard to the architects current plans, that are being presented today. the density that is allowed for is inconsistent with what is in the neighborhood. this will reflect in the increased traffic and -- the neighborhood small streets and alleys that way appreciate our quiet, and are that way because they're not offloading, they are not transit corridors. from places like oak and laguna, and octavius streets. they are quiet and walkable. we appreciate what has been happening but i will say, the concept that the street has been green -- is inconsistent with the truth, which is a this is green in the area of the architects. and the merchant areas that benefit. we would like to see and we insist on affordable housing, on-site, not of sight. this is the conse