serving an anchor to the oldest japantown in the nation. while paul be the first to credit the community, and other community leaders and the staff; i want to specific low rescue noise paul's leadership of the center and thank him for always leading with courage and intel rit and he commitment to the jeopardy an town community, the entire japanese-american community and the city of san francisco. no question this the center would not be where it is today without your vision and leadership. on behalf of the board of supervisors i want to congratulate the japanese community center of northern california. again on the 50th anniversary. and wish the center men more years of success as a thrive and crucial community institution. and for those who are entered well is a celebration this saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. i will be about and hope to see you there congratulations and the floor is yours >> thank you. supervisor preston. [applause]. well deserved work you said thank you very much. birch begin like to all pirespects to all of you at the passing

serving an anchor to the oldest japantown in the nation. while paul be the first to credit the community, and other community leaders and the staff; i want to specific low rescue noise paul's leadership of the center and thank him for always leading with courage and intel rit and he commitment to the jeopardy an town community, the entire japanese-american community and the city of san francisco. no question this the center would not be where it is today without your vision and leadership. on behalf of the board of supervisors i want to congratulate the japanese community center of northern california. again on the 50th anniversary. and wish the center men more years of success as a thrive and crucial community institution. and for those who are entered well is a celebration this saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. i will be about and hope to see you there congratulations and the floor is yours >> thank you. supervisor preston. [applause]. well deserved work you said thank you very much. birch begin like to all pirespects to all of you at the passing

serving an anchor to the oldest japantown in the nation. while paul be the first to credit the community, and other community leaders and the staff; i want to specific low rescue noise paul's leadership of the center and thank him for always leading with courage and intel rit and he commitment to the jeopardy an town community, the entire japanese-american community and the city of san francisco. no question this the center would not be where it is today without your vision and leadership. on behalf of the board of supervisors i want to congratulate the japanese community center of northern california. again on the 50th anniversary. and wish the center men more years of success as a thrive and crucial community institution. and for those who are entered well is a celebration this saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. i will be about and hope to see you there congratulations and the floor is yours >> thank you. supervisor preston. [applause]. well deserved work you said thank you very much. birch begin like to all pirespects to all of you at the passing

this is near laguna and geary in japantown. still no word on whether that driver is alive.e have blocked off the area. you see it there. this is a possible crime scene. witnesses say that driver intentionally rammed into the chinese consulate, then began yelling and fighting with the security guards before being shot. the entrance he breached was the visa office for the chinese consulate. no response yet from the consulate itself. our terry mcsweeney is there on the scene for us and will give us updates as soon as we get them in. >>> also tonight, robbed and assaulted while leaving work. two restaurant employees are recovering after an overnight robbery ended in gunfire. this happened in the fruitvale district of oakland right on foothill boulevard. employees at la per la del pacifico say the owner was walking from the restaurant to her car when she was robbed and attacked just after midnight. police say two men drove up and grabbed her purse. according to family members, one of the men hit her in the head with a gun, then shot a restaurant employee in the face as he tried

this was the visa office on geary in japantown. today we spoke with that man, nick cowlouski who was at the embassy to pick up visa. he saw the man holding two knives and at one point tried to get a crossbow out of the back seat of his car. he says at that point two security guards kept that man from hurting anyone else inside that consulate. >> i've never seen anything like that in my life. the first security guard like 5 foot nothing. the guy was at least 5'10", armed with two knives, and he went at it. i got this. >> sfpd not releasing any further information, including the identity of that driver or any possible motive. the u.s. state department is now involved and has not responded to our repeated requests for comments. >>> let's move on now. by all accounts, it appears the bloodshed will continue, even intensify in the middle east. the war between israel and hamas is now in its fifth day. we are getting a clear picture of the devastating impact. at least 1200 israelis have been killed and 1100 people in gaza are also dead. th

adjacent to several of the health clinics in chinatown, as well as an area that used to be oakland's japantowne japanese americans were wrongly incarcerated during world war two. this is abc 724 live in san francisco, live in the south bay in san jose in concord. >> live in oakland. yes, you're watching abc seven news live anytime anywhere. >> we are. >> we are. we are. we are. we are. we are where you are. >> never miss a moment of the news that matters to you. download our abc7 bay area streaming app join us and start watching is it possible my network could take my business to the next level? it is with comcast business. powering all your devices with gig-speed wifi. and you get fast downloads and uploads. pick it up! pick it up! oh we got this! because it's powered by the next generation 10g network. more speed for your business? it's not just possible. it's happening. get started for $59.99 a month for 12 months. plus, ask how to get an $800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. comcast business, powering possibilities. google tv fire tv and roku. just search abc seven bay area

we worked with a lot of diverse neighborhoods, including chinatown and japantown and bayview, to reallyand the reach. and it's great because we'll have lunch options, very inexpensive lunch options, all the way up to sort of fancier dinner options. so they'll hopefully be something for everybody who's participating. >> that's fantastic. so the kickoff is tomorrow, is that right? >> the kickoff is november 3rd. so we've got the event. >> i mean, the big announcement. >> the announcement. yes. the here's the official list of exactly. and it'll be on our you know, that's our restaurant week site. and people can go there and they can actually there are there are buttons that they can click which will make it easy for them to make a reservation. we wanted to get the list out early to give people time, you know, to plan instead of we're not good with last minute. so giving a week or two to make a reservation helps people a lot, right? >> can you reveal any of the restaurants at this point? >> can i reveal any of the restaurants? >> you know what? i can really say is, you know, we've focused a

but it may be that mta is the lead japantown peace plaza. i think japantown is actually one word and i think that's a recreation and park department project. itc immunization and travel clinic relocation. i think that's a health department project. i don't know the lake merced trail improvements project if that's recreation and park or puc and then some of the and on the next page, the davies symphony hall elevator modernization. i assume that's the war memorial performing arts center department. anyway, just having the department name in there would help and then maybe for the professional services and other things that are actually public works indicating which of them are idc, bdc or bsm would help because the way it's written now, it has some information, but it sort of raises more questions. all right, i've said enough on that. on safety and street vendor enforcement. the next topic, in addition to police, i would explore the use of deputy sheriff's since they are now able to do some tnb work and other field work without getting into de

february 2nd of last year, police responded to the japantown garage for a report of an auto burglary.n sansa as the suspect, but he fled, got in his car, ran over an officer's foot and hit a parked car. less than three months later, court records show that police tried to arrest him in north beach. he was driving a stolen vehicle, reportedly used in multiple car break ins that day. >> the police sort of trapped him. this is a one way street. he they trapped him down there. neighbors watched as sansa hit the two patrol cars, drove onto the sidewalk and took out this staircase. >> and suddenly the whole house starts shaking and my wife starts yelling, someone just hit your vespa. >> his vespa was destroyed. he had to replace it. the complaint says sansa hit another patrol car a block away, injuring an officer, sideswiped another house. he made it to columbus and broadway, where he hit a civilians car, injuring them. he left the car and ran into chinatown, where officers finally arrested him. at first, prosecutors charged sansa with several counts of assault upon a peace officer with a d

on february 2nd of last year, police responded to the japantown garage for a report of an auto burglary. officers tried to detain sansa as the suspect, but he fled, got in his car, ran over an officer's foot and hit a parked car less than three months later, court records show the police tried to arrest him in north beach. he was driving a stolen vehicle reportedly used in multiple car break ins. that day. the police was sort of trapped him. >> this is a one way street. he they trapped him down there. >> neighbors watched hassan's a hit. the two patrol cars drove onto the sidewalk and took out this staircase. >> and suddenly the whole house starts shaking and my wife starts yelling. someone just hit your vespa. >> his vespa was destroyed. he had to replace it. the complaint says sansa hit another patrol car a block away, injuring an officer, sideswiped another house. he made it to columbus and broadway, where he hit a civilians car, injuring them. he left the car and ran into chinatown, where officers finally arrested him. at first, prosecutors charged sansa with several counts of assau

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keeping that part of the japanese tradition of this in that way here in japantown is pretty special. its great. television. >> in 1948 swensen's ice cream used to make ice cream in the navy and decided to open up an ice cream shop it it takes time for the parent to put money down and diane one of the managers at zen citizen in arena hills open and serve old-fashioned ice cream. >> over 20 years. >> yeah. >> had my own business i was a firefighter and came in- in 1969 her dad had ice cream and left here still the owner but shortly after um, in here became the inc. maker the manager and lead and branded the store from day to day and in the late 90s- was obvious choice he sold it to him and he called us up one night and said i'm going to sell the ice cream store what you you talking about diane came and looked at the store and something we want to do and had a history of her dad here and growing up here at the ice cream store we decided to take that business on. >> and have it in the family i didn't want to sell it. >> to keep it here in san francisco. >> and (unintelligible). >> share

, such as members of a church, the neighborhood organizations such as the members of the japantown task force and workers who work in the neighborhood, and the phoebe hearst school family teachers and staff and as mentioned, we've been in discussion with the rosa parks parent advisory committee about having more cherry trees planted because their grove, where they've planted reached capacity and so we'll work to set up a memorandum of agreement to work out arrangements for that for the japanese bilingual program they have and lastly, we and many others are hopeful that you'll deny the appeal and allow us to replace the disease and dying trees with healthy trees that will thrive for decades. thank you. i have we see. i see a question from commissioner lundberg for you. thank you very much. it's obviously you've put a lot of work into this. and we on this panel certainly appreciate it. i'm remembering what mr. buck submitted in his papers and i'll ask him the same question later. but of the ten trees that are slated for removal under this permit, it did occur to me that that. of the ten,

keeping that part of the japanese tradition of this in that way here in japantown is pretty special. its great. meter. >> hello, i'm captain tom the coordinator for the san francisco fire department. this oversight is the three and 4 anniversary of loma linda earthquake i want to go over a few things to help you preparation building a supply kit and supply kit does is not have to be put together all at once take your time on the website have a list of recommendation and have enough food and water to feed your family through three to 5 days and purchase the fire extinguisher if you have an extinguisher at hand will stop a small fire from being a by fire it is simple to use check the gage make sure it is charged and then repeat the word task task stand for pull to pin aim the novel and screws the trigger and successes to the because of fire the last recommendation to look at the gas meter electrical gas lines cause fires in the loma linda earthquake and we want to show you how to turn off the gay only turn off if you hear gas or hear hissing and coordinator nathan will demonstrate how

multiple calls for service were broadcast in the japantown area regarding a vehicle matching the description from the one in the earlier robbery and that same vehicle was seen casing, leaving to be casing to burglarized vehicles in the area of japantown. our plainclothes team officers conducted an auto burglary abatement slash robbery abatement and located the vehicle at 19th. and mission surveillance was was conducted in an attempt to coordinate a safe arrest. spike strips were deployed to deescalate the situation. however, the vehicle fled. san francisco sheriff's followed basically the suspects this turned into a pursuit. that's why the spike strips were deployed. the chp became involved. the vehicle became disabled and the pursuit terminated it on south bound 101 at vermont street, three suspects fled in unto the freeway and two of them were located and taken into custody on deharo street. the third subject fled into the building at 17th and san bruno. a search was conducted and the third subject was located and taken into custody. also, a firearm was recovered from the vehicle as well a

keeping that part of the japanese tradition of this in that way here in japantown is pretty special.good morning. the meeting will come to order. this is the october 2720 mean. 2023. sorry homeless. i had my shot last night and i'm a little off because of it. homeless system behavioral health select committee. i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. i'm joined by vice chair supervisor mandelman and supervisor sherman walton. our clerk is stephanie cabrera and i would like to thank colina mendoza from sfcv tv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? yes, thank you. on october 17th, 2023, the board of supervisor approved a motion discontinuing remote public comment and particiti

our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the

learned a lot of it in the very, very detailed work that we did with community in the tenderloin in japantown town and other neighborhoods, is that for some of our lower ridership and lower frequency lines, some or portions of those lines were exceeding important to community members and that align in 2 or 3 blocks away simply didn't replace that function. so one of the reasons why i think the two sutter is a really interesting case study where we brought the line back but reconfigured it and shortened it based upon what we heard. and the two is actually getting more riders than i would have expected, given that it is significantly shorter. similarly, the 27 bryant we rearranged in interesting ways and have been tracking that significantly. it's never going to be crush loaded like the 49 vns but but it remains exceedingly important for the riders that it serves. and so that is our challenge. and one of the reasons why we're fighting so hard for additional resources. muni is this outlier buyer success story in terms of how we've made investments during covid, but our underlying financial goals

. >> i'm linda i'm part owner and manager of the paper tree in japantownful i'm hope to create a destination. not only do we have our huge selection of origami paper and book but a museum everybody can enjoy that and see what can be done by folding paper >> good to see amazing origami. a selection of paper. got wonderful gifts from japan and great customer service. >> i'm holly and i am the owner of [inaudible] in san francisco. >> we offer classes. and open studio access. workshops lead by local artists that you can see here we have a [inaudible]. and people should expect to join the community and just learn about local bay area artists in the process.

our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantownmmunities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want the

keeping that part of the japanese tradition of this in that way here in japantown is pretty special. its great. october 17th, 2023. regular meeting of the municipal transportation agency board of directors and parking authority commission. good afternoon directors. staff and members of the public. we thank you for joining us. this meeting is being held in hybrid format, occurring in person at city hall room 400 broadcast live on sf tv and by phone. the phone number to use is (415)!a655-0001. acces code 26628586819. when the item is called dial star three to enter the queue, commenters will have up to two minutes to provide comment unless otherwise noted by the chair. please speak clearly and sure you're in a quiet location and turn off any tvs or computers around you. please note that a time limit of ten minutes of remote public comment on each action or discussion item has been set in notice for this meeting. we thank you for your cooperation. places you on item number two. roll call director hemminger here hemminger present director henderson

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learned a lot of it in the very, very detailed work that we did with community in the tenderloin in japantown town and other neighborhoods, is that for some of our lower ridership and lower frequency lines, some or portions of those lines were exceeding important to community members and that align in 2 or 3 blocks away simply didn't replace that function. so one of the reasons why i think the two sutter is a really interesting case study where we brought the line back but reconfigured it and shortened it based upon what we heard. and the two is actually getting more riders than i would have expected, given that it is significantly shorter. similarly, the 27 bryant we rearranged in interesting ways and have been tracking that significantly. it's never going to be crush loaded like the 49 vns but but it remains exceedingly important for the riders that it serves. and so that is our challenge. and one of the reasons why we're fighting so hard for additional resources. muni is this outlier buyer success story in terms of how we've made investments during covid, but our underlying financial goals

learned a lot of it in the very, very detailed work that we did with community in the tenderloin in japantown town and other neighborhoods, is that for some of our lower ridership and lower frequency lines, some or portions of those lines were exceeding important to community members and that align in 2 or 3 blocks away simply didn't replace that function. so one of the reasons why i think the two sutter is a really interesting case study where we brought the line back but reconfigured it and shortened it based upon what we heard. and the two is actually getting more riders than i would have expected, given that it is significantly shorter. similarly, the 27 bryant we rearranged in interesting ways and have been tracking that significantly. it's never going to be crush loaded like the 49 vns but but it remains exceedingly important for the riders that it serves. and so that is our challenge. and one of the reasons why we're fighting so hard for additional resources. muni is this outlier buyer success story in terms of how we've made investments during covid, but our underlying financial goals

. >> i'm linda i'm part owner and manager of the paper tree in japantownful i'm hope to create a destination. not only do we have our huge selection of origami paper and book but a museum everybody can enjoy that and see what can be done by folding paper >> good to see amazing origami. a selection of paper. got wonderful gifts from japan and great customer service. >> i'm holly and i am the owner of [inaudible] in san francisco. >> we offer classes. and open studio access. workshops lead by local artists that you can see here we have a [inaudible]. and people should expect to join the community and just learn about local bay area artists in the process. the recording has started and it's 204. thank you and good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the arts commission on monday, october 2nd. two. oh two three. i would like to begin the meeting by the call of the roll. alyssa ventry please present collins. present vice president shiota. present commissioner beltran is absent. commissioner benavidez present. commissioner brunzell here. commissioner kearney. present commissioner ferris is not

learned a lot of it in the very, very detailed work that we did with community in the tenderloin in japantown town and other neighborhoods, is that for some of our lower ridership and lower frequency lines, some or portions of those lines were exceeding important to community members and that align in 2 or 3 blocks away simply didn't replace that function. so one of the reasons why i think the two sutter is a really interesting case study where we brought the line back but reconfigured it and shortened it based upon what we heard. and the two is actually getting more riders than i would have expected, given that it is significantly shorter. similarly, the 27 bryant we rearranged in interesting ways and have been tracking that significantly. it's never going to be crush loaded like the 49 vns but but it remains exceedingly important for the riders that it serves. and so that is our challenge. and one of the reasons why we're fighting so hard for additional resources. muni is this outlier buyer success story in terms of how we've made investments during covid, but our underlying financial goals