we thought that was okay but wanted to regularize it and talk to stakeholders like livable city. we want to create a market for residential parking but don't want to open the neighborhoods up to commuters. that is a real change in policy. the residential spaces would no longer be residential, we are changing the use entirely. we think there's a lot of great things in this. we love the simplification and amnesty but we don't think the planning code change was vetted with anybody. i did wrote a note to commission, i wasn't able to go, a disadvantage, a lot of neighborhoods will be affected. five units or fewer is pretty much every residential parcel in this city. we are a city of one, two, lee-unit buildings, a city of small apartments. virtually every residential unit or building in district 11 or in district four would be open to commuters coming in from outside the neighborhood. district six, i think about the work with western soma, all the enclaves would be open to commuters coming into downtown. it is a big policy shift. a lot of people will be affected. policies will be unde

this is the kind of mixed in calm development that makes san francisco the kind of livable city we can all take pride in. we need to move this project forward. thank you so much. >> good evening. i'm a board member -- we are encouraged that this project will bring new residents to our neighborhood. we are pleased that 50 units will be included as well as senior housing that will add great neighbors. we do appreciate the design adjustments. our association has been and continues to work on some serious crime and other issues in this specific area. most of our feedback has been around that. we are very interested in having more active use on the haight street side. we are not able to design the appropriate kind of the sod on that building. we have made an attempt to make a few changes to fit within those constraints. that includes more windows on the mid glut interest -- mid block entrance is quite important. it is a huge improvement to be able to make that connection. we do ask for additional work to be done with the developer. we do ask the condition be added that additional work be --

i've worked with dick's masonic which includes the walk sf and livable city and the bicycle coalition and many neighborhood organizations for years that have been trying to make it a safer corridor. so i'm looking forward to solution for the street but also full funding for the different proposals supported by the community. and once kind of we have the project fully funded, working on making sure that the project moves forward so that we have safer streets for all. also, on friday, i'll be joining president chiu and many others in the celebration of the chinatown north beach campus, the city college of san francisco. i know there's the open house celebration from 5 to 7 pm at the new site at kearney street and washington. it's been a 10 year struggle and ballots. and battle. i salute the groups like chinese for affirmative action, lawrence wong from the college board and many others, just a few meetings ago we had the former dean, joanne lowe but also the current dean also here. but i'll be there to celebrate. i hope others join us as well. the rest i'll submit. >> clerk calvillo: th

richard, you say cities have become more livable, but that not all cities are booming.cessful cities do right? >> well, i think there's a few things that successful cities do right. the most important thing is they invest in their human capital. they invest in their talented people. they have great high schools and particularly colleges and universities. but also the best cits are making themselves attractive for highly skilled, ambitious and entrepreneurial people. they have brought crime rates down low. they have cleaned up their pollution and their gardens and their water fronts and they have made themselves more liverable. >> i came from that china and i was marveling at all the infrastructure growth. even state governments which are strapped for cash are pushing back on infrastructure projects which should over time return the cash to them. but we just don't think that way in america. where do you get the impetus for large scale development in america. you've talked about building more public highways, where should it come from and where does it come from? >> i thi

you say cities have become more livable but not all cities are booming.ssful cities do right? >> well, i think there's a few things that successful cities do right. the most important thing is that they invest in their human capital. they invest in their talented people. they have great high schools and particularly colleges and universities, but also the best cities are making themselves attractive for highly skilled, ambitious, and entrepreneurial people. they have brought crime rates down low. they have cleaned thenselves up, cleaned up the pollution and waterfronts and made themselves more livable. >> i came back from china and was marveling at all of the infrastructure growth going on there. we talked on the show about how washington is dysfunctional, but even state government is pushing back on infrastructure projects which should over time return the ca to them, but we don't seem to think that way effectively in america. where do you get the impetus for large scale infrastructure development in america, things like transit, you talked about buildin

livable for everyone. >> let's talk about the role of sports in the city's economic future. are you happy with the plans for the america's cup? do you think the city should try it spend money to keep the 49ers? supervisor mar: did not get me started. i could go on for a long time. i think america's cup will help the whole area. i think the organizing committee has a big task to raise a lot of private sector money so it does not impact negatively on our general fund, but i do think the deal crafted by a lot of the enforcement is a good deal will help a lot of the parts of the city that need the help. it is also a lot of gauging of community groups and the yacht club saying that they want to provide better boating opportunities and education for young people in the mission district or, hopefully, in the mission or other places. but i know that as the america's cup moves forward, there are many community-based groups that want to be part of it. we recently had communications from the parks council wanting to ensure the swimming and blue and green projects could be created with

city as a whole. in fact, the region as a whole. the challenge of developing a livable and sustainable way, managing automobile traffic, providing options for diverse travel patterns. what are programmatic and citywide strategis that can help be of -- help manage the demand in the neighborhood. this may be everything from parking management to supporting employer based measures such as shuttle services, looking at how does freeway access in the soma grid function in terms of priority for buses and high occupancy vehicles. actually improvements across the county, whether it is caltrain corridor on the eastern part. the 19th avenue corridor and the more policy based strategies such as extending the fast pass to daly city, might encourage people using this other network to make this an alternative to make their trip. we talked about street level improvements, high-level policies. i will briefly touch on some of the nearer term project opportunities the study did a little analysis on. the first is looking at the crosswalks, my commute through hayes valley, recognizes it iss

, he served four terms as mayor of burlington, vermont, during which time the city was recognized as one of the most livable in america. >> i am here to take a stand against this bill, and i am going to do everything i can to defend this bill. >> you may recall what happened two years ago when senator sanders, having finished his usual vermont breakfast of oatmeal and coffee, walked on to the floor of the senate and began speaking. >> what our job is, is to appeal to the vast majority of the american people to stand up and to say, "wait a minute. i do not want to see our national debt explode. i do not want to see my kids and grandchildren paying higher taxes in order to give tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires." >> he spoke on for eight and a half hours. >> we should be embarrassed, mr. president -- >> castigating the agreement president obama and the republicans had made to extend the bush tax cuts for the ultra-rich, lower their estate taxes, and jeopardize the future of the social security trust fund by diverting revenue away from it to other purposes. >> we have got to stand tall and draw a lin

livable, decent salary. >> they offered the teachers, 16% pay raise over four years and host of benefit proposals, allegedly. >> meanwhile, speaking of money. 84% of the city'sds qualify for free or reduced lunch. tells you the poverty they're dealing with. hardship for families to get money to find other ways to take care of their kids. for however long this goes on. >> strike of '87 lasted 19 days. let's hope they can get this one done a little more expeditiously. to presidential politics now. with 57 days to go before the vote, we learned overnight the obama campaign raised $114 million during august. far exceeds earlier monthly fund raiser totals. the president campaigned in florida telling voters there his fate rests in their hand. and the romney campaign raised more than $111 million during august, best month of fund-raising thus far. romney traveling to ohio for a rally in mansfield. during a campaign stop yesterday he said he would keep some parts of the president's health care overhaul including coverage for pre-existing conditions. the first time we have heard him say anything quite like that. >> said before, i will repeal. i'm going to repeal. day