. >> i'm not sure of the japantown it was one in existence. >> you're correct japantown and some efforts around chinatown through the district zoning changes. >> all right. thank you. the board of appeals didn't meet last time but next in june convene >> commissioners you've heard the historic commission met yesterday and conducted a training on this standard. commissioners that places you under jane kim not to not to exceed 15 minutes. to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. i there are no speaker cards >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners regular calendar item 819th avenue presentation. >> good afternoon. i'm alex with the planning department. i'm here to introduce liz brison in the county transportation authority speaking on the 19 avenue and realignment that's a project that the to has been working in partnership with several community partners it's just finished that's it it's first phase to the plans committee and again an informa

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discover the joy of so i on the fourth toy food festive in japantown that free festive as so i education and audience games and live entertainment and the highlight the soy and 80 food competition. get ready to swing that sunday at lindy in the park with a museum with the streets of golden gate park are closed and the dancers take over take a free lesson at noon. and that's the weekly buzz. for more information on any of those events visit us >> hello, i'm nona along with the legacy of voters in san francisco i'm here to discuss 19th street only june 3rd the city and county of san francisco through it's port commission mfrtsz 3 and a half miles of waterfront along the bay and it currently regulates the maximum allowed heights they run from 40 to 84 feet they usually need approval by the planning commission and the board of supervisors those changes don't currently require the voters to approve it prop b has height limits in effect unless the city voters approve the height limit any ballot question to there those must specific the proposed height limits in you vote yes. you want to preven

i've been active in the community here, chinatown, japantown, city-wide to be part of movements for change, for social justice. and in the city of san francisco, we have the opportunity to be better. we have to be better. and we must root out all elements of complacency. race matters today. and in particular, its was very apparent in the whole issue of donald sterling and the los angeles clippers and we must take action to clear our plate of continued inequity in the arts funding in this city. thank you very much. (applause) >>> good morning, supervisors. my name is john jang. since 1988 i have lived in san francisco as a composer, performer, and artistic director of music ensembles. when the sacramento fill harmonic orchestra and the oakland east bay symphony performed my work, the chinese american symphony, i became the first american-born chinese composer to compose a shim phone i can work that pays tribute to the chinese immigrant worker that built the first transcontinental railroad in the united states. during the past ~ 25 years in the san francisco bay area, i have performed and ha

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japantown that free festive as so i education and audience games and live entertainment and the highlight the soy and 80 food competition. get ready to swing that sunday at lindy in the park with a museum with the streets of golden gate park are closed and the dancers take over take a free lesson at noon. and that's the weekly buzz. for more information on any of those events visit us a >> thursday, june 5, 2014, i'd like to remind members of the audience to silence my devices and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll at this point. commissioner president wu. commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissions fong and sxhifgs are expected to arrive commissioners, first on your calendar is the items from the evidence for continuance item one u and t the form retail is for continuance and an amendment to the planning code section 303 formula retail uses ordinance introduced by supervisor mar that proposed for continuance until july 17, 2014. i have no other matters for c

discover the joy of so i on the fourth toy food festive in japantown that free festive as so i education and audience games and live entertainment and the highlight the soy and 80 food competition. get ready to swing that sunday at lindy in the park with a museum with the streets of golden gate park are closed and the dancers take over take a free lesson at noon. and that's the weekly buzz. for more information on any of those events visit us a good a gentlemen, let me first a call this san francisco public utilities commission to order at the 2:00 p.m. mrrtd read the roll >> commissioner courtney. kwaen. commissioner torres. commissioner moran is expected in a moment and commissioner torres is excused >> thank you please call the roll. >> the next it the minutes for may 13, 2014. >> commissioners. >> i'd like to move the approval. >> it's been m

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discover the joy of so i on the fourth toy food festive in japantown that free festive as so i education and audience games and live entertainment and the highlight the soy and 80 food competition. get ready to swing that sunday at lindy in the park with a museum with the streets of golden gate park are closed and the dancers take over take a free lesson at noon. and that's the weekly buzz. for more information on any of those events visit us a (clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i think we have more companies anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. the most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think he's a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think we're not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contempor

that includes the japantown task force [speaker not understood] geary as well as the bayview opera house's [speaker not understood] event. this year we launched our a-d-a perm which provides des ~ desperately needed assistance to help them understand a-d-a issues. in 13-14 we completed [speaker not understood] projects for small businesses. with the support of supervisor mar we've launched healthy s.f. -- healthy retail s.f. which encourages small businesses in areas under served by healthy food to help most small businesses carry and stock and provide fresh produce in those neighborhoods. the tenderloin, bayview and the omi. we launched a small business program [speaker not understood] for 20 small businesses and six neighborhoods across the city. it is a key nowctiontion us for us in the upcoming year. i'll talk about that more in a moment. access to capital and land use issue for small businesses. that's why we continue to do loans through our through loan programs that includes 139 loans totaling $4 million through our loan program. s.f. shines provides facade and ten amount improve pr

and i go into more details, but even japantown that i've been working with, the guidelines, every single district that i meet people in, they are all consumed with neighborhood character. and i think it is something that the constituents are looking for and we want, you know, this body to make sure that you are listening to your constituents. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, my name is [speaker not understood] and i'm the chair for the san francisco coalition for san francisco neighborhoods, land use and housing committee. i would like to strongly support catherine [speaker not understood] and her testimony. first of all, she said [speaker not understood]. that in itself should make you think twice on this appeal. now, another point is that 25,000 excess units above the 31,000 that was allocated by the -- by abag, that's a large number of excess units. and the reason why that's important, because all these units have removed opportunity sites and why is that important? what we build now is 80% market rate housing. and the most -- the housing that we develop more

. >> next i go to japantown. into this store jay town video.se language video store. they have many titles. the store manager listens... then weighs in. >> uh, i don't think it works. >> it didn't say it? >> yes. like 70% of the words. >> next, i find enya from sweden she speaks several languages including norwegian. >> sounded cool, whatever you said. >> simple. >> okay. >> that was perfect. >> really? >> yes. >> the app is free for 20 translations per day if you want more, there is a paid version which offers unlimited translations and a lot more. >> so for 1.99 you can do dictation, translation. you can also do chat with facebook. video calls. with realtime translation. and we're soon adding flight tracking so it will be the swiss army knife of travel apps. >> if you need a live interpreter, for a fee that, can be provided, too. sometimes it did not go well. yan says that is often because speech recognition is having trouble with an americanized accent. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. >> that is cool. >> yes. >> we mentioned spencer is n

. >> next i go to japantown. into this store jay town video.deo store. they have many titles. the store manager listens... then weighs in. >> uh, i don't think it works. >> it didn't say it? >> yes. like 70% of the words. >> next, i find enya from sweden she speaks several languages including norwegian. >> sounded cool, whatever you said. >> simple. >> okay. >> that was perfect. >> really? >> yes. >> the app is free for 20 translations per day if you want more, there is a paid version which offers unlimited translations and a lot more. >> so for 1.99 you can do dictation, translation. you can also do chat with facebook. video calls. with realtime translation. and we're soon adding flight tracking so it will be the swiss army knife of travel apps. >> if you need a live interpreter, for a fee that, can be provided, too. sometimes it did not go well. yan says that is often because speech recognition is having trouble with an americanized accent. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. >> that is cool. >> yes. >> we mentioned spencer is not here becaus