. >> the doelger building under landmark no. 10. >> thank you. i'm the sponsor of this landmark. miss brown is here. would you like to make remarks about the landmarking? >> yes. thank you. good afternoon supervisors, mary brown to present the proposed -- as individual landmark t building was added to the historic preservation in work program in june 2011 to september 19, 2012 and the october 3rd recommendation hearing. the commission voted unanimously for the building based on a historical and architectural buildings. from 1932-1950 served as a base of operations and through extra ordinarily rapid expansion and architectural art expression and extreme modern design and represents a successful merging of the two modern styles. examples of the design elements influenced by these styles includes a step backcountry way, curved walls and over hangs. features extend to the public lobby area which display art deco in spiert inspired on the door. and pattern railings. the property was recently purchased by jeff dar by and he's been contacted for preservation of the building. mr. dar bei

and the idea of preserving a landmark did not resonate anywhere as much as it does today. >> the good-- >> it did not die in vain. >> well, a bit of it is the price of its own success. you have this extraordinary railroad which is pouring people in from the suburbs and all over. of course, it makes that land the most valuable land in the world. people can just get on an escalator and go to the building. and indeed the building of the cruel irony of the pan am building. we forget that-- it was the pan-american airlines company-- stomping down in 1962, '63, on grand central, but for the very good economic reason, the old baggage room, which had been there of course not an economical use of the space and here you could build a build that would sit right on top of the railroad, so incredibly valuable, and true to a lesser degree at penn station. >> rose: what role did jackie kennedy play? >> she saved it, i think. one could make that argument. there was a landmarks law on the books but one of the things i i discovered doing this book which i didn't know, when the judge ruled against the c

), to create the market street masonry historic district, a discontiguous landmark historic district; and making findings, including environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan; and planning code, section 101.1(b). ~ district >> we have supervisor kim as the lead sponsor. supervisor kim, for item number 4, did you want to make introductory remarks? yeah. one second. to be clear, for item number 2 on tics, the item -- the intent is to continue it to april 15th at which point there will be a full hearing. people have every right to make public comment today as well before the motion to continue is considered. but if you don't, there will be a full hearing on april 15th. yeah, and we're not hearing that matter now because they're setting up an overflow room in the south light court. >>> [speaker not understood]. >> you can make it now or you can make it on april 15th or you can make it both. it's up to you, but we are very unlikely to be taking any action on this today other than to postpone it for three more weeks to april 15th. >>> [speaker not understood]

i'm currently chair of the landmark tree committee. i have been serving the community for over 20 years in the jordan park improvement association, jpia, which puts me in touch with my neighbors. jpia is also one of 48 neighborhood organizations and the coalition for a san francisco neighborhood, csfn, and it afford me a ability to work with citizens, [speaker not understood]. i am a housewife with diverse interests. i started by volunteering in the public schools and i am a product of the public schools. i wanted to work with the youth in this city because it is our future and they are our future. i would love to see more youth involved to be apprentice to even work on greening projects such as the one i am currently working on with rec and park on a very sustainable plant restoration project. rec and park's volunteer director has been wonderful in signing up folks from larkin street youth, one work, et cetera. through making contacts with people with various ethnic backgrounds, cultures and disabilities, as well as the elderly, i thi

we're at the fountain, which was a major landmark at the time of the 1906 earthquake. this is a landmark because this is where people posted notices and notes to connect with people they were looking for. families and people in their business. most of this area was -- >> pretty much burnt out. >> pretty well burned out. we have pat with us, a structural engineer who has done work to upgrade the buildings around this area. >> or researched their history. >> or researched their history. we will look mostly at buildings. we have a lot of other experts in the audience. i hope they will share with us. we have craig from the planning department. we have david bono witz, all kinds of folks here. feel free to chirp in. our plan is to take a couple-block tour and look at buildings, some of which survived the quake and some retrofitted. we will end up at 1230 at the mos connie center. we will look at them burning four model buildings. >> trying to burn. >> okay. where are we walking to. >> first let's know why we're meeting here. in 1906, this was the main drag into san francisc

to landmark the building where the aids memorial workshop was. that as it turns out was one of the first movie theaters in san francisco, the jose theater built in 1910. the building itself, i think relative to your question, is fairly indistinguished. it's a generic building of its time, but the social aspect of, you know, the importance of the aids crisis and san francisco's response to it through the quilt i think is incredibly significant to, to memorialize. now, of course, that building right now is katz restaurant. there is very little reference on the interior to the workshop and what was done there. the owner has been great. he displays quilt panels in the foyer of the restaurant at all times. but i do think we need some kind of program to identify on the building because no one would know the building, per se. but i do think we need to identify these places of culture and social interaction. so, i know there's been a lot of work on buildings in the gay community, the historical buildings of the gay community [speaker not understood] and

to see liberty island reopened, there are also merchant here in new york city who depend on this landmark for their income and over the last two years. the island generated $173 million in revenue. the second 2000 jobs, just about

i am also the only person, by the way, who has a landmark tree on the council. i work with scientists, experts from state university and my arborists to plead my case, and this is really pleading my case, to get my tree landmarked. i learned much about the urban forestry council which was created by the board of supervisors in 2001 and how it is charged with many things including watching over the canopy of the city to protect community interests and let the citizens know about the full range of tree benefits. it is hoped that the urban forestry council becomes a place where everybody feels comfortable to discuss tree issues, no matter what their socioeconomic or ethnic cultural background. as you probably know from the attendance record for the council, i have a 100% attendance record for the full council and committees. this shows you that i take this volunteer role seriously. i think it is important that any candidate who wishes to apply for any position on the council actually attend various and multiple meetings before they are considered for any position.

a letter and packet of information was mailed to tenants and property owners of the proposed landmarks and the planning department staff visited each of the commercial tenants to discuss the proposed landmark designation. department also met one on one with all but one of the property owners and discussed resident and commercial tenant issues as well as the benefits and responsibilities of property owners. we also produced a self-guided walking tour of the district. department staff then proceeded with the research of the buildings and drafted the designation report. to summarize, immediately after the earthquake and fire of 1906, which incinerated the whole area out to octavia, thousands of temporary buildings were built throughout the burned areas. it took a few years, but eventually permanent buildings made of durable materials such as these were built. the general characteristics that unify these buildings in the proposed district began with the dates of construction being built between 1911 and 1925. most were designed by master architects. for each buildings, the architects used

learning the lessons, thank you, landmarks meet landmarks. the current situation at pioneer park and coit tower is really based in public and private partnership. it was the citizens who came together to buy the land to keep it from being developed. it was lily hitchcock coit to give money to the city to beautify the city she loved of the park project worked to develop this south side and still that's the basis of our future project to address the north side.

and that is not a city landmark. the guy who owns it is very aware of its significance as maybe the last and best example of a carville house. he really wants to take care of it. i don't know if he would go forward with any landmark designation just because like a lot of homeowners he doesn't want to be at all boxed in with what he can do. but that's kind of where we are. i think it is a landmark. if anything had to come up, i would definitely nominate it as one. the other examples of carville houses, there's one on 47th avenue where the cars have been basically removed and all you've really got left is perhaps the floors of a couple of cars. it was a great example until, i guess, the late 1950's. and whoever bought house decided to take out most of the woodwork. that might be the only one, the one on great highway. >> i mentioned one of the problems with plumbing with these carville homes. i was wondering at what point in history did outhouses become illegal in san francisco? >> i'm not sure of that. but outhouses w

by turn off the lights at kremlin and other landmarks. started earth hour back in 2007. >>> light were turned out tonight in london, landmarks, such as the houses of parliament, buck ham palace and the tower of london all went dark and in the bay area the bay bridge was one of the local landmarks participating. the new bay bridge lights show was turned off just before 9:00. >>> a major development in the push to keep the kings from leaving sacramento. the preliminary deal struck today by the city and a group of investors. >>> the ayes are 50, the nays are 49. >> the senate passed a budget today in washington, why there is little hope it can be reconciled with the house version. >>> oakland police work to crackdown on crime and they are not alone. the outside forces now assisting to keep the streets seattle . >>> we have new developments in the fight to keep the sacramento kings from leaving. sacramento mayor kevin johnson today tweeted that a preliminary deal had been reached to keep the team from moving to seattle. reporter tom duhain is

a landmark case is how one expert describes it. no comment from chris or his attorneys today them have been hoping to have the vehicular manslaughter charge reduced to a misdemeanor. instead, the judge ordered a trial. the 36-year-old accused of ramming his bicycle into a pedestrian in march. the victim, 71-year-old died days later, during preliminary hearing witnesses testified he was raising through red lights and stop signs. the defense argued he had the right of way. what the d.a.says there is evidence of negligence. >> he's -- selfish, motivations you snow his need for speed. and his behavior were completely horrible. >> golden gate university law professor calls this a landmark case that is putting bicycles on par with cars. >> probably if you looked 20 years ago or 10 years ago would it have been unlikely that the prosecution would have been thinking in terms of manslaughter. but the aspect of bicycle asks safety of bicycles in urban environments is so important now. >> he rye kried before walking out of the courtroom. the b

landmarks and homes will go dark to make a statement about the concern over climate change. the bay area will participate in a big way. san francisco was named the earth hour couple this year. the golden gate bridge and the bay bridge and city hall expected to go dark from 8:30 to 9:30 tonight. >>> now here is more about the weather tonight and this wet week coming up. >> thinking about the earth hour. good thing we don't have fog moving in. that could be tricky. but mother nature is offering beautiful blue skies today. the temperatures falling from the 70s. 70 in gilroy today. up to 74 degrees. everywhere else is 50s and 60s. let's go outside and look at san francisco. from our emeriville camera. you can see the haze in the air. the air quality is suffering. we need the rain to clear out the allergens here's what we have going on in the pacific. we have a series of storms starting to pull into place. right along the jet stream hay will continue to move to the east-northeast. that will put us in the path of these storms. by midweek the first system will arrive and the next o

the man who won a landmark supreme court case went to live a normal living with a job pumping gas. >> when i read where it says equal justice under law, i'm very inspired by that. i'm very comforted by that. but i know a lot of people are treated unfairly. i see it as something encouraging but i don't see it yet. >> it's written into constitution and established into the goal for society to reach for and live up to. people will fall short, rights can be ignored or even trampled. with nothing more than a pencil and knowledge. >> if you know your rights you can protect your rights. if you don't know your rights you can't. they will always be there. you can fight for them. that was gideon's story. he knew he had a right that was taken way from him and he fought to get it back. >> if you are wondering how it is they had a televised proceeding of the gideon trial they reenacted it on television and they had gideon and the judges play themselves. now i would like to you meet chris kearney, he's of the bar association of san francisco and a litigation partner which represents lawyers and acc

and that building in the very center is actually a landmark building in this area. it's called the ramsey court. it was built in the '60s, but they need to make way for new residential buildings. so they're going to take this one down. >> some people have gathered around, watching, anticipating the moments and then you he the explosns >> there it goes. you hear a series of explosions and then the entire building just caves in on itself. apparently this was a very successful demolition by the demolition company, 300 people that lived around this area were evacuated, but of course, the locals have a little sadness, because it was a landmark building. overs were demolished a couple of years ago and this was the last remaining one. >> 300 people were evacuated, but four young children were allowed to play nearby. >>> to the sports world where things don't always go as they're planned. first up, some amateur mma action. we've got aaron britt in the red versus aaron alexander this is the galaxy fight night in yuba city, california. the guys start squaring off and just 14

additionally we are looking into the loan process and these buildings maybe historic and landmarks. it would require a vote. with the mellow roos, they effectively become the voting body so they get to decide between the group when money is build out for these i am improvements that is repaid for their property taxes and gives them the mechanism without taking a loan individually. that is an interesting feature of it. if these properties change hands. the loan actually goes with it and the person who originated the loan is relieved from the debt. >> then in terms of the actual work that's being done, there was reference made before which is issued that i have been thinking about. in terms of making sure that the process for property openers owners who are complying with the law and somehow got financing and want to do the work and have to get to the planning department and planning of building inspection. what is your competence level that will our policy intent to expedited this process to make it efficient as possible that planning and dbi are going to be able to do that and by do

compromise transparency, and the different types of signs like that signs that are not on landmark buildings and historic districts and the recommendation that we can continue to make sure there is compliance in that respect. and the signs that have architectural merit and there is ability with this definitely and when it comes to illumination that there is now in the suggestion that there is when there is a change of illumination there is not a change of copy but change in the level of illumination, the kind where it's director internal and all of these things to make sure there is really appropriate conditional use, if there is community input, that there is the full chance to have a hearing and approval by commission appeal to the board of supervisors and appropriate other appeals of structure and increasing in forcing and these are treated as the exceptions rather than grandfather erg. thank you very much for working with us on this and on behalf of the local city that we continue to have a process that's open transparent and involves everyone in the community. thank you. >>> good aftern

it's titled "murder at the supreme court: lethal crimes and landmark cases."its authors are veteran journalists martin clancy and tim o'brien. the title sounds like an agatha christie mystery but you're after something quite serious. why, martin, were you... why a book on murder, the law and a supreme court? >> because the crimes intrigued us. i mean, the cases legally are very interesting and tim can speak to that. but as reporters we were both intrigued by the stories behind those crimes. i mean there are human beings, victims, perpetrators, families. we take you literally from the scene of the crime to the court. >> brown: and the stories become law at a local level and then you're telling us about how they bubble up into the supreme court. >> these are all landmark cases. we address 15 cases. ten of them split the supreme court 5-4. they raise very difficult legal questions, philosophical questions. these are initially our title would be murder at the supreme court. the crimes that made the law. because these are the crimes that went to the supreme court a

this is landmark here in berkeley. she was already talking about rebuilding and reopening. >> i'm pretty shaky right now, but i'm just glad no one was in the building. >> reporter: world famous chef alice waters got a look at the fire damage at chez panisse firsthand. >> the extent of the damage is really the front porch, which, of course was built from the very beginning by beautiful woodworkers and so it's a very historic piece that has -- that has disappeared. >> reporter: overnight smoke and flames poured from the front and side of the popular berkeley restaurant. firefighters knocked it down quickly and pointed out the good fortune of a well-placed sprinkler. >> had it not been for that single sprinkler, we probably would have had significantly greater amount of damage. >> reporter: water, known for her california cuisine, said on the advice of a builder sherks had it installed. >> i didn't want any sprinklers because it would destroy the look of the downstairs. and he said, you know, it's all wood. and i'm going

and the battle the >> in berkeley, landmark restaurant, chez panisse caught fire. our news reporter is live on the scene. kira klapper, what do you have to report? >> cease committee caught fire -- chez panisse caught fire early this morning. the world renowned chez panisse indicate fire here in berkeley this morning. we have video from two hours ago. crews arrived on the scene and found the fire starts outside and quickly spread to the second floor. the kitchen, though, is in the rear of the building so it is mysterious as to what started the fire the no one was here at the time. firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to next door businesses. they are actually touching the restaurant. crews told abc7 news this morning. >> at this point, it appears to be an exterior fire that was working its way on the interior. our fire investigators arrived on the scene and said they would do a further investigation and it will be, they will be able to determine if it was completely on the exterior or some other cause. >> many questions remain, the investigation,

here in the bay area the bay bridge was one of the local landmarks participating. bay light show was turned off. this was all before 9:00 last night. the las vegas strip lost its usual glow. 16 he toles and casinos participated by turning off their lights for an hour. the city of light also went dark. hundreds gathered to watch the eiffel tower go dark. more than 7,000 cities observed earth hour. >>> you know what is coming home this week? oakland a's, san francisco giants. they will pack their bags and leave the desert and mare they way back to the bay area. they will be playing themselves thursday, friday, and saturday. you say rain is on the way. >> yes it will be soggy. right now this morning we are looking at patchy fog. mostly clear skies around the bay. temperatures a lot like how we started yesterday. wide spread upper 30s and 40s. the north winds really relaxed until the last -- relaxed in the last 24 hours and has the fog return to the coastline. it will burn off. but by this afternoon at 4:00 we have it moving back in. and this time around it's going to

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generate the restoration of another landmark two blocks up designed by the reed brothers, all the affordable housing component will be two blocks up the street in a landmark building. >> when people do development, there is trade-off for affordable housing. it is not always within the ritz carlton itself. it can be relocated or paid into a fund and used another way. >> we will walk a block down this way down commission street. we are down here at the corner of third street and mission street. there is lots of construction going on. some old buildings. this is not necessarily a historic walking tour. this is to talk about buildings and earthquake issues. let me mention something more modern about earthquakes. i have been at this earthquake conference for a whole week. one of the big issues is what is the public expectation of the performance of a building. this is a good time to point out to you, the buildings only have to be built as well as the code that was in effect when they were built. if somebody said is my building up to code, i will say yes it is up to code. it is up to the 1909 code

supreme court takes up two landmark hearings dealing with same-sex marriage. they came out in droves this week, but no matter which way the court decides will the ruling have any impact on changing the way people feel about this issue. susan is here and is a fox news contributor and professor of law at the university of southern california. hi, susan. >> hi, art, how are you? >> i'm good, thank you. i want to talk about the people first. i wanted to ask you about the supreme court, but let's start with the folks. do you agree no matter what happens in june when the decision is handed down that the people who feel the way they do probably won't change their minds? >> you know, it is funny. on an issue like abortion it is such a matter of belief that i have never seen dramatic changes in public opinion. something is really -- has really happened on the issue of same-sex marriage. if you think back 10 or 15 years, the idea of same sex irnlg ma is appallingsame same-sex marriage is appalling to some people. i think what we have seen and it will continue is that ev