i look at rag on street and look at the fashioned. i think we have a quarter of people walking by me is wearing rag on bone already. we need a competent company that has the describe to stick around. it's known for being consistent in quality and craftsmanship. and i also think it's plenty affordable for people living in the neighborhood. in my experience several of both technologies on fillmore street are out of touch. i think there will be also people that resistant to change and threatened by a businesslike rag on. thank you >> thank you. >> how i'm heather. i'm in support of rag on bone i'll keep to short and sweet. i live a block from the proposed store location and would love to see rag on bone and walk in there and shop. i shop at a lot of the stores in the neighborhood and it's an added venue i know i want to go there and my neighbors. from the community i listens to the folks i know this would like to enrich the community it makes me like the brand even more. but to the side the work they do speaks to this business. thank you

my name is james clamerty, i live at 45 219th street. i am one of 7dr filers who believe the sign of this design is just too large for this location. i will show how the design will be out of scale for the lot, it will cause a walling in effect of lampson lane and it will forever block one of the nicest public views along our block, that of rocky mountain, now called corona heights and the historic landmark no. 80 on douglas street just one-half block away. let me tell you i know this neighborhood. i was born at children's hospital in 52 and i grew up in this house and attended college from this house, so i know this neighborhood. in 77 i moved back with my wife, also a native. my parents moved in, we raised our two kids here, they went to neighborhood public schools so i know this neighborhood and i know there have been 6 or 8 recent remodel projects along our block that have helped the neighborhood by upgrading older properties, adding additional living space and modernizing these homes. this has undoubtedly benefited the neighborhood b

i did sympathize with people who spoke particularly the owner of both technical on fillmore street i hope she continues to do well, i feel if you have a good product they'll come to you or accessibility of a plan doesn't mean you won't sell it they'll drive to you. we're hanging our san francisco companies if they get to successful i wouldn't want a place in san francisco turn people away because your successful. so i'm in favor of this and those are the reasons why. they're doing everything they're supposed to be doing and a good asset to the community. thank you commissioner hillis. >> so those are interesting i think we have to be vigilant and make sure our corridors remain and not cookie cutters we've denied formula retailer and denied them and this process is unique. i'm sure i don't go through this in other jury instructions. and we heard about corporate we're trying to avoid that corporate cookie cutter appeal but it's hard to equate that i've not heard of rag on bony go to cost could it's $30 but you know, i think it would be a different commission of if we talked about banan

i like the way you addressed the side with the window on the stockton street side. i like the building and obviously a one hundred times better than the levy building. we're in this legislation issue we're responding to whatever legislation to build that building a large building behind a retail store and this is all one lot. i don't have a problem with the legislation and it being sporadic for this site whether it's an su d. the plazas is being redesigned. i hear commissioner moore's comments i don't agree with her on this one. it looks good from a design standpoint when you're looking at it up close it doesn't work it's a bad plaza you don't feel liquor you should linger there the only good thing is the fountain but you want to move on because theirs nothing to do. i like the fountain on the back that will draw people in. realistically people will be using that it's a mid block plaza that's hard to use. getting at the elements i think people would rather go to union square theirs more things to look at it rather than across the street with the nike building whateve

and you know by the time i got on to wall street i was actually sober from drugs and alcohol and i started to really realize that you know i'm not an expert but the the way that i was using money and power and success had a lot of similarities to the way that i use drugs and alcohol for example. how so. sam can you hear me. now i can hear great how what were those similarities how did that work. ok so the thing about being an addict right is like you have all these great stories about why drugs are great but in the end after a while it's sort of a miserable experience and on wall street it sort of quickly became the same thing so i'd be on wall street and i'd be making more money than i ever had thought was possible and you know there's all these sort of accoutrements of being a successful wall street trader which is like you know i'm twenty five and i can go to any restaurant in manhattan and i can go to any ballgame that i want to go to and whenever i fly in from the airport there's a black car waiting for me with my name on it and it was this sort of tremendous feeling of

i think this is a way bigger problem than wall street. i got is something cultural, about the red carpets on hollywood, the pro football players that make all this money, the crazy focus on the mega millions lottery all the time. lex what do you say to the folks that are watching right now saying to themselves what a jerk? we had such a good and going. note the financial crisis so good anymore. two to the degree the pr department and boards of directors are looking at sam polk will only get worse right now. what do you say to them? >> you mean to the wall street people? >> yes. >> my story is just the story of one guy. usedi was on wall street i to believe the issue of whether i was going to get paid one million or 2 million was the most critical thing in a world. one of the things i came to see, and not because i am a moral hero or the most honorable guy in the world but became -- but because i came to a teacher who started teaching me different things and i came to the world from a different perspective to say whether or not we are gett

i just have a brief question for mr. reedstrom. we're talking about new funding for streethts, [speaker not understood] fiscal year after. what is the source for funding? i didn't catch that. >> the proposed sources for those right now are primarily revenues and reserves. and, so, we'll be looking at that over the next several months. we are having some conditions and some concerns about precipitation as we read in the press. but at this point we feel confident that those numbers mentioned by supervisor look good. the needs are greater than that, though. and, so, it will be a balancing act as it always is with that proposed budget. and you'll hear more about that in the may hearing as well. >> great, thank you. could you speak just quickly about what the trade-offs would be in terms of what you perhaps will not be doing? because you mentioned reserves, the reserve would be less. other things you might be doing because we're looking at capitalizing our street lights which i find important. >> over the next couple of years it will be a matter of how much we invest our reserve

i was really - they were, no, man, it's a neighbourhood, five streets. it's interesting to see how it gets transformed by the media and the people, and the people basically, which is natural. and i thought why don't i take your portraits. if you see they are trying to steel the portraits, i'll take them from there. if you have nothing to report, i'll write your name, age and building number. i'll be on the other side. this way if someone talks to you you can knock at the door. and everything is accepted. >> we'll take a break. when we come back i'll ask you about your art and whether you believe it's changing the world. let's take a break. this is "talk to al jazeera". >> heavily armed, combat tactics >> every little podunk wants their tank and their bazooka... >> with s.w.a.t. raids on the rise... >> when it goes wrong, it goes extremely wrong... >> what's the price for militarizing our police >> they killed evan dead >> faul lines, al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> there blocking the door... >> ground breaking... >> we have to get out of here... >

street. and neighborhood by neighborhood. and i think that it is unacceptable. and but now on webster street we are being told to organize like the alamo square association did and to your point, the low income housing people i have tried to talk to the people and they are not interested and they don't want to create the problems and so i think that this is ab absolutely unfair situation. to ask the tax payers to manage this problem. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> welch, neighborhood council and another aspect of the issue of tour buses, haight ash bury has been the recipient of tour buss for 40 years, our usual way of dealing with it is to gere at the people on the buses. but there is a conflict that was not mentioned today and that is between the muni stops and tour buses and at haven masonic and on the 43 line and a very con jected intersection and the transit first intersection, routinely the tour buses stop at the muni bus. there is a 71 and a 33 stop in which the tour buses routinely off load and on load folks there. and also, on sh

fong and commissioner, i have reviewed the proposed addition at 4546 19th street. i use thorpe lane daily. appropriate for the site and the neighborhood. the neighborhood has an incredibly broad mix of architectural styles and this proposal, which is tasteful and attractive, is quite similar in style to at least two remodels recently completed. it appears to me the only neighbors who are requesting discretionary review of the project and are frankly agitating many others not really in the neighborhood are those who are concerned with how it will impact their view. while they may claim the proposed structure is inconsistent with others in the neighborhood or that it is too large, their real concern is their view. walk 19th street and you will see the diversity of styles and sizes and the similar structures recently completed. despite the thin veil over their real concerns, carolyn has gone out of her way to work with the neighbors and spent over a year modifying the design. frankly, many other property owners would not have demonstrated carolyn's patience although i

i like you've opened it up on the stockton street with the air and the virtual connection. i was going to say about accessibility >> right. >> that hyatt hotel access remains. we've included a list to get accessibility. i think incorporate a ramp from street level into that plaza it's an leveling to the change it takes up - and a i mean on the backside at grade or making it so it's a ramp >> we've looked at the slouksz and have been it's a balance of how much you want the plazas to lose with the ramp. we put the list next to the staircase is so a clear user can go next to the staircase so we can look at ramps implicit but definitely from stockton street >> i didn't think from stomping intoxicate. there's two issues obviously what you're doing in your space and i don't know if the hyatt is planning on doing anything with your space >> it's the whole public plaza. the alley we haven't it's been outside of our boundary and our boundary line and work that's a separate issue for us. we've talked with the hyatt. i think in the changes need to be made with the designing i think we

incredibly you know oppressive regime as well and a lot of documented cases of police brutality i think my wall street obviously being the most recent biggest example of that you know i have people ask me all the time they're like what happened occupy wall street and i was like you should probably talk to the cops who beat up the protesters and tore down the camps you know wasn't that activist and they got lazy or bored and went home that uprising was crushed you know and we do have documents that there was federal or a nation to crush the uprisings yet it's important to remember that we should not conflate any of these issues and that really does bring you back to this hubris that i think people have to actually assert what other countries should be doing and and kind of we know what. as for other countries and it really is kind of absurd i just can't help but think what obama would have told his own administration to you know that there would be dire consequences if occupy activists were throwing molotov cocktails and burning a wall of fire and for the white house you know do you think there's any l

definitely believe me all those same symptoms here i call us the the and pats and i call the wall street the sociopath there i was at the same spectrum very high stress environments we care too much they care too little it's a big problem when you marry one. parent you know you you have ties to wall street you know you know a lot of wall street bankers what is the root to this audience a really good question i don't think it's just one thing i think it's a variety of things i think that you know bankers they go in glamorizing and cliques like wolf of wall street and boiler room and even michael lewis's liar's poker which is kind of like the gospel that let a lot of these people from these institutions to wall street they expect so much and then they get there and particularly as lowly analyst they're not getting paid what they thought and yes they're getting paid a tremendous amount of money and you should have little sympathy for that but when you when you're expecting so much and you have glamorized anything whether it be your wedding or your new puppy you're going to be let down right

i grew up on 27 valencia from 1963 to 1974 and currently live on new hampshire street. i just want to say that each neighborhood as you know is very different and unique and in the mission we have micro neighborhood that are blocks apart very unique that way. i think the city plan is too cookie cutter. one plan does not fit all. i think the eastern neighborhood plans talks about not just density, but it also talks about the sensitivity, nature of the neighborhood. we have to remember to look at all the other chapters and not just transit quarter piece. so i feel that 4 stories and truly afford able units is what best fits this neighborhood. what i mean by truly affordable units is that immigrant families can purchase or rent or any other low income folks in the neighborhood. we have seen a lot of affordable inclusionary units that are not affordable to people in the neighborhood. there is restaurants that have come into the mission are not here anymore. they are investors and not traditional mom and pops. most of the neighborhood can't afford to eat there. i hope you can

and i know that 12th avenue is an alternate street when the boulevard becomes too heavy with traffic for some of the bus drivers and i want to be sure that we endorse the rules about the double parking and installing the buses in different areas throughout the city. and to develop the clear guidelines to allow or to restrict the buses and the private tour buss that travel down those streets and i am going to encourage the residents from not only my district but other residents to work with the mta and how we can protect the public safety and keep our residential corridors as livable as possible i want to know if jerry robins can present and i know that there is a powerpoint given from his office. >> thank you >> good morning, supervisor mar and yee, and i am jerry robins with the sustainable streets division with the sfmta i have a five-minute powerpoint with an overview of the tour bus regulation issues that we deal with. thank you. >> tour buses do have complaints about the parking and the traffic conflicts as shown in these photographs. and wide turns that can cause concerns, and s

street. six policemen said that the plain sight more so when they say i can't. tell it but everything in the street civil liberties or something that belong to people who live west of main street or east of alameda and beyond little tokyo or in the south park area there are no civil liberties honored at all in the skid row area and it's known by the city attorney's office it's known by the mayor it's known by everybody at city hall but nobody cares. we say we go places but some of these people stuff i went through a whole bunch of stuff in the street because the police kept blinding me to and they're going to clean it and i think those people stuff in the street kill a we're going to clean that sidewalk i thought linking it back and right up and that was all of blankets over people's heads and they'd been killed in my fish and mean stolen they lost their blankets and on no telling what helps the places down their line i mean scent is going to clean sidewalk and they were. skid row is full of contradiction. it can be filing chaotic frightening. but it can also be

street? >> i'm not aware of any. i know in some of our work that we've done on nonmoratorium streets where we have a trench line, we have a requirement of 13 feet from the trench, or depending on if it's -- if there are actually marked lanes during the entire lane rather than just doing 14 feet because it's a marked lane. if our trench is cut into the middle of the street, but there are additional requirements forest raytion. but as far as emergency work and the moratorium areas, i can't answer that. >> and in terms of what law governs what pg&e's obligations are in terms of patching or resurfacing, is that -- i'm sure, is it a combination of city law and state law, is it just state law? >> it's actually -- there's part of our excavation permits. if there is part of the reason that, you know, the 13 feet or potentially a full sectioned-off lane, anything beyond that, pg&e pays an annual franchise fee to the city, and that's supposed to help towards general paving as well. >> right. i know one thing i have considered, a

i thought it was a date because i work in the streets. ney and asked where can i get drugs and i sent him to the drug dealer. i mean, he gave me the money, i went to the dealer, gave him the stuff, one crack and well, you know what? they got me and him, my first felony. >> she told our producer she had worked as a prostitute the last 14 years. >> i didn't like myself doing it. i wasn't too happy about it but i had no choice. i had no money, i had no nothing. >> how many years did you do that? >> since i was 21. >> rhonda hopes the skills she has picked up in the bakery will give her a second chance as a mother. >> got a daughter? >> yes, she's 14. she's with her father's mother in florida. >> what's her name? >> roseanne. >> she writes to you? >> yeah. >> what does she write? >> saying that she loves me, she misses me. start crying right now. it's all right. are you all right? >> yeah. okay. i miss my daughter. >> i know you do. i know you do. all right. >> my heart went out to her because whenever prisoners begin to talk about their child

very good home i want to live on the street. i learned i learned i went to the horse school marks because that's what this is an issue very wise to life and people. can read right away. i mean with this bitterness where you just put everybody where the media not i just admit it you are saying. one side of my lowly outside. just paints. right here. those pillow. i was born in a trailer house over here in san pedro my father was in the service in world war two then i was raised in new mexico where my grandmother was born and from the men of client so rich and powerful clan in new mexico it and i would put four years all together in arkansas and i put the last twenty years in hail but arizona. i had my first cats when i was three years old leven that i've been feeding these for over five years now i had to pay for fifty a month or cat food i couldn't get to two. i get food but you forget that i had to pay two and three and four dollars a night for star from containers anabolic skulls like eight dollars for just a few those thing tha

first street. and i would think you're. an army corps. instrument. to be in. a breach of citizens' privacy and germany's apparently too much or even the country's leading hacker organization the chaos computer club is suing chancellor merkel and the government for failing to prevent the u.s. and britain from spying on germans r.t. spoke with one of its activists. we have strong indications that the german government. and or work together with the american spies on all of our digital lives at the moment even if the whole media blitz covering but they stayed very very passive and they it for us it looked like they were just waiting until the storm is over and that's why we want to force the federal prison prosecutor to start a real investigation on what is going on and want beyond wrong and hollow the government's not only the american all the others are injured invading our digital lives it's still not proven that any of these measures really help terrorists than all the other excuses they find and that's just a new way of power and which is fundamentally destr

i really cringe every time i see those banners on market street. these banners should never have seen the light of day. >> thank you. next speaker. i have to ask if you want to take conversations, please take them outside. thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. thank you for standing up for reproductive rights. i'll read an excerpt from a professor -- we are disturbed that ban /tpher is falsely claiming that abortion hurts women. this message is damaging and hurtful to women and men alike and the city of san francisco never should have sanctioned it, particularly across san francisco's main thorough fare. abortion is safe, abortion and access to legal abortion services is essential. access to family planning services is critical for expanding denied abortion care can per ied banners from prominent display on public display on market street, the city and understood mining public health. we call on san francisco leaders to take a stand against the statement that lies about public health to pass the resolution before you today and take immediate s

see four guys walking towards me, i am crossing the street, because i fear four guys, and they are probably pretty innocent guys, and i'm just not going to take the chance. is that a sexist or unfounded fear? well, dark streets, and single woman, and four boys being loud and boys strous, i cross the street. >> i understand where you are going, and i appreciate, and i wish that we could have this conversation all evening long, and i have to go. and remember, it is in broad daylight and happened in broad daylight in florida and not a single woman trying to cross the street, but a grown man, a grownman. and can we go back to camera one, please? i want to thank you guys for putting up with me. there are many people who disagree with some of the things that i say and many people agree, but i will always give you the truth, and it comes from my heart and from a good place. and so thank you for bearing with me, because this one, was particularly personal to me. moving on and the last time i will talk about it, and the subject at hand. i want to get now to elena machado and sunny hosti

i. basically almost slipped on every street. i am one now that i think i would never ever live in a way else you know skid row is my home. as many as eleven thousand men and women make their home on elements get round. about two thirds struggle with mental illness track addiction or both but it wasn't always this way. i came to skid row it was more like skid row's we identify old drunks old drunks on the street. it used to look terrible he told chris incarnation of drunks. and when it was really safe because they were not very aggressive now we have young strong crack addicts who are many times are willing to take a chance of rolling stone to get their money to get some more crack it's a different addition. there's always been efforts to get rid of skid row it was a war and for people who are unable to live in the world and they were given the tried to move through again and again but just moved into a different area when big money developers began to revitalize downtown the flop houses got new neighbors and penned houses and hig

and this is from harrison south, but it stops at or before 4th street? >> i believe that it stopped at 5th street, commissioner? >> is that what it is? >> what, just to throw another monkey wrench into it and i think that i put this in my application and we will request that what the city is doing right now and i have been to several community meetings on this with the planning department but they are going to take that fourth street corridor and turn it all into an entertainment zone all the way down fourth street and so from fifth. and i am not sure how far, maybe a third and we are looking at entertainment and high-rises which seems a strange mix. >> will that come, as far as this. >> and we will figure that this is, if it takes as long as the western soma and the eastern soma plans and six years from now, we will be done but things are moving quick. and they have been on that project. for about 18 months i believe so it is happening >> correct me if i am wrong. >> they went out to business because they could not do entertainment. >> pretty much. >> correc

ultimately, i do believe that would focus attention we can make a significant dent in the number of homelessness on our streets. it's a complicated issue. it is a costly issue, but i believe it's a challenge our city government should focus on and embrace. as a city we have to help those who are currently on our city streets with no roofs over their heads. today is the first hearing regarding the discussion of this issue and the coming months. although we may agree on some issues and disagree on others, i hope everyone will agree on the importance of the issue and turn a deplorable situation in our city to one of hope and promise. so, with that, would like to invite bevan dufty up to the podium to speak. thank you, bevan. >> good morning, everyone. it is great to be here. let me first start off and acknowledge my colleagues in the hope office. so, amanda freed is here who is our policy director, and then dee sheck snyder who works with people who come in the office and also christine keener. i also want to acknowledge the individuals responsible for draft thing plan 10 years ago. so, first off would be angela

i live on howard street and i rise to complete my remarks on the oral and intellectual deficits of the american two party system represented by the republitards and the democrats. we have before us members the party of slavery and the party of patrons. on one side we have gender slavers, debt slavers, security slavers, and petroleum slavers. on the other side we have the patrons, the people who say they are going to take care of us, the litigation attorneys who are going to sue the bad guys and give us most of the money. the teachers are going to ask for more money to teach us how to be a success in the world as it was two semesters ago. and the nurses are going to keep us healthy -- as healthy as we can afford and imagine. what can we do? we can seek balance. we can seek a balance in our carbon usage, by accounting for that usage and accounting for the sequestration of that carbon. we can call for a new balance of calories with sweat by providing cash rewards for individual achievement of certain health values. we can seek a new balance in the benefits and burdens of society by restor

excellent, kevin roose will be here with his book "downmoney" either about-- i believe it's other about the culture of wall street or lil wayne, i think it's-- young money, they toll me that is what they call lil wayne, i don't-- i don't really know that. (laughter) [bleep] i am old. right now i think three hip young interns are doing this. (laughter) but in honor of young money we turn to the world's youngest money, who is a new currency, you are, yes, are you. >> along with the dollar and the euro there is a new kind of currency called the bitcoin. you can't put it in your pocket, it trades only on the internet. >> jon: it only exists on-line t is the tomorrow gachi of currency. (laughter) that reminded me, i should feed mine. i got him-- (laughter) >> jon: 12 years ago so he's 12-- i wonder how he's doing, that-- no! oh! are those digital maggots? he was my best friend for the 15 seconds i played with him. but is the world really ready for unpocketable money? >> i believe it is a game changer. i think bitcoin is as big as the internet. >> i see it as the new gold, gold of the future. >> jon: gold, you say! i s