there is not a lot of opportunity for landscaping. a lot -- the opportunities that are there, we're going to take advantage of. they happen along the perimeter. along farrell. and those retaining walls. we will have a graphic and landscape treatment of those. also that large retaining wall that becomes this steep element which will be nicer with landscaping and soften it. our -- we're not finalized on the colors of the material. we want to do with color scheme that works in the character of this midcentury modern building but introduced through color panels some color and interest and a laittl-- a little bit of vibrancy that will make it fit into the neighborhood. that is the presentation. thank you. >> president olague: opening up for comment. we have some speaker cards. eric holmgren, jennifer, and eric holmgren, jennifer, and jennifer deve

it may be that it's not a landscape that makes you feel small, it's a landscape that gets rid of your sense of scale entirely because there have been so many times out there in the deep of winter camping for week after week in the open desert where at night it gets down to 10 below or 15 below zero and there's nothing in your life but the sky and the stars. and you are looking up into the sky and you think, i could just stand and walk into stars. i could become a giant. there are times in the desert when you are not small but you are infinite. you take up everything. there is no boundary between you and it. when i look at the artifacts that the anastazi made, especially the painted black and white, i see that landscape. i see the colorado plateau. this bowl is from american museum of natural history and that's where it is now. that's the storage place. where it was from before is pueblo bonito in chaco canyon where there were rooms filled to the ceiling with bowls stacked within each other, bowls like this. all their designs, you can kind of get a glimpse around this. they have this f

you use the landscape. you use vegetation. do not use sewage. we need some inexpensive solutions, workable solutions >> the water is a big issue in china, too little and some areas and too much and others. in eastern and southern china, at the floods are calling mass destruction while the same time, surrounding the river, almost a million people are without safe drinking water. china has a monsoon climate with torrential rains giving way to severe drought. poor planning is partly to blame for the water woes. >> we made some big mistakes in the 30 years of urbanization. this is to dim the river. we have virtually destroyed the water system. >> i read something from you and your point was that if the environment fails, the burn it fails. if the environment fails, the economy fails. i get that. in a place like china, where everything is about making money. everyone sees chinese people as consumer. how do you get traction on this idea? where is the attraction of -- where is the money in this project? >> of course. the environment itself. the environ

this landscape is all about water. and on the last trip you can see the sea of cortez out there on the horizon. we walked to the edge of the dunes and even out there, just past the edge of the dunes, you would find places where there's -- there were piles of pottery, pottery scattered in the sand, and then the desert pan extended out and then you reach the sea of cortez that lies beyond. you know, i should -- i want to show you guys these next slides. i'm kind of running out of time here but i've got to show you this place. i'm not going to go into heavy detail, i want to take you down here into the sierra madre. i was following routes all over for the house of rain, trying to figure out where the anastazi went when they left house of rain. many of them made the modern pueblos but other groups continued south. i followed pottery trails down into the sierra madre where my wife and two others went out and we came to these cliff dwellings. it seemed like every single cave we looked into had cliff dwellings. and this wasn'

. >> tree landscapes, the way the ordinance phrases it, you have to maintain it in good condition. it is a little vague, so long as it is not a blighted area. it doesn't have to be a manicured lawn, but we don't want it to be overgrown weeds. >> there are recent aamendments that say you can't pave over the required landscape area, in the front setback, particularly, planning says you have to maintain a certain portion of that ads landscape area, people have been paving that for more parking and we're starting to tighten up on that, in the city as well. >> okay, let's walk up the street here. okay. we're going to stop up here. and look at this. look at this cute little thing, what kind of tree is this? what are we looking at? >> that's the fruit of the strawberry tree. you can see the fruit t actually looks like a little strawberry and they are are edible, pe but they don't taste like strawberries, they don't taste like much at all actually. >> there's a difference between edible and good. >> that's right. it does not taste like a strawberry, but looks like a strawberry. it is reall

in my neighborhood, there won't be any landscaping of any boxes. i live in one of the densest neighborhoods of the city. there is no additional cuts area that could be landscaped. 311 will not work for at&t. we will have to call them if there is a graffiti problem. with respect, i would like to ask your help on this, that when there is a notification to the public only neighborhood associations are contacted. with 70% renters, we need to do a better job of contacting all the people. supervisor weiner: thank you. but i do believe 311 is supposed to report to utility companies when there is a utility issue. they are supposed to relate those reports. if they are not, please let me know. >> good afternoon. on behalf of the community, i would like to thank you for having this hearing this afternoon. i would like to urge you to keep our cities clean. i would like to keep it that way. while it is clear technology has bought marbles to this world, but this is a detriment to the beauty of san francisco. i have read that at&t is constructing all of these box

it may be that it's not a landscape that makes you feel small, it's a landscape that gets rid of your sense of scale entirely because there have been so many times out there in the deep of winter camping for week after week in the open desert where at night it gets down to 10 below or 15 below zero and there's nothing in your life but the sky and the stars. and you are looking up into the sky and you think, i could just stand and walk into stars. i could become a giant. there are times in the desert when you are not small but you are infinite. you take up everything. there is no boundary between you and

the experience still haunts the landscape. the old route west, route 66, has been replaced by interstate 40. 66 is still there, just at the side. in steinbeck, the jones make this journey into a world of conflict, ruthlessness, prejudiced. there is plenty of that today. what there is not today and was then was the general agreement about the direction of the economy. the government is set to shrink. the journey through texas and new mexico takes you into a whole different landscape. today, it is normal out for people to move for work. the hopelessness that shock steinbeck is almost a way of life. as a result, and it did does it come up boom towns and boom suburbs that have now turned to bust. -- as a result, boom towns and boom suburbs that have now turned to bust. >> there's a right to privacy in the tent. the right to talk and listen. >> that is how steinbeck describes the camp for migrants. this is a homeless shelter for homeless immigrants. now there is a new kind of customer, the american middle- class. this man was once

janet moyer landscaping assisted with the design. there was effort in trying to figure out the slopes the walls. they helped quite a bit. jordan kirkland, veronica brady , and the friends of bernal gardens who brought this burden to fruition. the department of public works is out there to hold hands and work with everyone. it is through their leadership that we are able to improve our neighborhoods. i would especially like to thank the staff of dpw who go out to all of these meetings and start these projects. i want to thank all of the bureau's at dpw who assisted in bringing supplies, and doing some work, or making sure that the project was built as planned. thank you very much. [applause] >> there are a lot of other people to think. you have been hearing a lot about this gentleman, julian, who is responsible for a lot of this. i used to live not far from here. i used to walk my dog upon the hill there. it is so great to see the transformation of this space. it is something i want to see in my neighborhood as well. it does not happe

further, the trees and landscaping will be installed along evans avenue and napoleon street beautifying the corners that have the parking and concrete walls and that concludes my presentation and am available for questions. president olague: thank you. project sponsor. >> thanks. 15, right? >> we'll get it done in 10. thank you. andrew genius on behalf the project sponsor restaurant depot. it's been an interesting afternoon. we heard a lot of things that make san francisco special music and now we're beginning to talk a little bit about the restaurant industry which of course is also something that makes san francisco very special. we're all i think very aware, kind of in the background all the time of how important the restaurant industry is to san francisco. a couple of facts that kind of surprise me when i took a quick look. almost 4,000 restaurants and food establishments in the city employing about 80,000 employees. pretty incredible sector of the economy. in 2005 the golden gate restaurant association did a study and told us how good those jobs were. in 2005, the average server's

as we transition this landscape, they are going to keep everyone safe, make sure we all have the opportunity to enjoy it. i want to thank everyone for this collaboration. so happy to be part of this. and also to make sure that we are investing and renewing every part of our city, to make sure that the tourists enjoy this area, and even people like ourselves -- those of us now live in the city -- will love it even more. this will benefit everybody. i also want to introduce another champion, someone that i have worked with closely this past year, who has led a very positive dialogue. that is our board president, president david chiu. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i want to welcome everyone to what mark twain calls a classic summer day in san francisco. i am proud to be here as part of this announcement, and i am here on behalf of my colleague jane kim, who is stuck in city hall. the two of us have the honor of representing the number one place in san francisco where people come to shop, and hello to everyone on the cable cars, spend time in our incredible city. this is an announcement of

that may involve street skipping, landscaping concerns, or maybe the bay windows. as an overall project, this looks really great. we do not have an issue with that. the main concern is our signage. if our business is impacted as far as our gross revenues are concerned, that translates into our equity into the building. therefore, we have a real issue with that. we would like to have that solved before anything goes further or in the approval is met at that point. that is basically our major concern. we have parking next door and all those people will be displaced with this new project, and they have parking based on the aspect ratio mandated by code. again, i cannot stress the importance of our signage. president olague: thank you. >> my name is arvin dyer. i am an architect. i live in the city and have my office in san francisco. i have been working with my clients at days in. i have done a few renovations since i've designed it 20 years ago. i like the overall project and am here to support the project. but there are concerns in terms of the impact it has on the

mountain ranges and hills roll across the landscape intricate crests and rocks tower of centuries old trainees. in the water winds and rocks constantly vive supremacy they exist in a unique calm. deep holes in the life gone the mines swift mountain streams and quiet springs flow from the ground. this is tyga night nature's peculiar creation on the border between the urals in siberia is the site is one of russia's out of the way national parks. where national park warden valentino gregorio of his own beauty he uses a customized off road vehicle with large wheels to move around for a skull things of the easiest way to the peaks of the ground tyga ny ridge you don't find roads or footpaths here. adventure enthusiastic so not put off by the hardships of the journey this group of tourists is from the city of julia and unjust real center in the urals their hobby is rock climbing today their destination is the top of a cliff and quick noisy crest waiting across this mountain stream is a dangerous task even on a quiet windy day it's flow is still too fast. during the day wouldn't take food an

stories are everywhere out in this landscape. when you walk down into the bottom of the narrow canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you can feel the shape of the last flood that came through. every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many stories that start opening up and lead you from place to place and place and soon you start picking up the patterns of wind, of rain. you pick up the patterns of people who were there before you because, out there, things seem to last forever. if you put a footprint down in certain places, that footprint will stay for 5 years, maybe even 10 years for somebody who's got a really good eye where you come walking along and you see the slightest depression in the ground and you kneel at it and you figure out that it was a person with about a size 9 foot walking across the desert 8 years before you. e

what one of the suspects are saying behind bars and the political landscape in the bay area are about to change. the announcement are leading the cities to a different district . >>> good evening, it is friday i'm gasia mikaelian this is bay area news at 7:00. 59 to forty 41, the house just passed a measure by a slim margin. the gop plan would raise it for six months and cut spending by about $900 billion. democrats promised the measure would be dead on arrival in the senate that infuriated speaker boehner it is time for them to put something on the table, tell us where you are. >> tieing it over until 2013. both houses plan to reconvene tomorrow afternoon to take a crack at breaking the stalemate. the stalemate in washington is racking up on wall street. losing 96 points. this week was the market's worst week in a year. >>> it looks as if the company, apple has more cash. it has $74 billion on hand. apple's latest earnings report says it had $76 billion in cash and securities. economists and noneconomists say that is apple makes more money than it spends, something the u.s. governmen