for our buildings local code. we need clarification on what is local code is. i will give you a specific example. usually the municipalities have a limit on the height of the buildings. with the house they look at the top of the roof, the mean height of the roof. they say a maximum 32 feet. the mat comes and says now he will go 8 feet higher because the previous storm was fine, but i want you to be higher. then it is 39 feet. your over the code. who wins? the owner does not. we do not know what to build. that needs to be finalized before they know what to build. on the municipal side, to resolve these issues, that is where most of our businesses have been stopped. other than the insurance companies and through the mat trickling down of the funds that they need, they may have the money, they do not have the code to build four. two items of a result. the money funding down and zoning building codes. >> in new orleans after katrina, there were a lot of issues about building codes, in particular with resistance. part was developing a national building code for modu

the city ask county of san francisco adopted the universal business code and changed some of the local code requirements. >> i could not definitely say. however, i am concerned that the element adds something they am not comfortable. i have a question -- i have a question for mr. [inaudible]. would you please confirm that the applicant owns both 1587 and 1589. >> thank you for asking that question. i didn't have a chance to speak to that. ms. woo doesn't own the building to the north. her folks own that now. the idea is get them under one roof. her sister's family will move to the building to the north. in considering how to get the family into one building they face the same issue and ms. woo and her husband and children and parents under one roof. they couldn't fit in two stories adequately for their health purposes for the parents. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner antonini. >> well, i certainly am sympathetic to the neighbors and their arguments. there seems to be a lot of conformity to the heights. however, i think looking at one of the pictures there is a building on the sam

marrakech that smoking and smoking tobacco products inside a restaurant was prohibited by the local health code, as well as the california labor law. and, in fact, we have issued -- the department of environmental health has issued five violations in letter in 2009, a notice to comply letter in 2010 and after i did an inspection in 2011 they received a notice of violation and in 2011 there was an abatement conference held at environmental health. and a decision letter was issued to the owners as well. so all five notices including the decision letter stated the same messages over and over. smoking is prohibited in all restaurants. and it's a violation of the san francisco health code and those notices stated that smoking tobacco products is pro[h-eubts/]ed in all restaurants and a violation of the carriage labor code. and the continued violation of the san francisco health code and california labor code would jeopardize the dph permits that they held for their facility. in the 2011 decision, the decision letter ordered the owners to immediately cease and desist smoking within the enclosed areas

five, 16 violations of california code section 1 4104 as incorporated into local law by san francisco campaign and governmental conduct code section 1.1 06 for faying to maintain detailed records that document the days on which his committee made 15 expenditures, the amounts of the expenditures, the names and addresses of the payees or description of the goods or services. 6,15 violations of san francisco campaign and governmentality conduct code subdivision a1 for failing to make 15 campaign expenditures from the candidate committee's bank account. each commissioner who participated in a decision to find probable cause must certify on the record that he or she personally heard or read the testimony, reviewed the evidence or otherwise reviewed the entire record of the proceedings. >> each commissioner must so certify. >> you want individuals. >> one at a time? >> commissioner renne? >> i will so certify. >> i so certify. >> i so sort if i certify. >> i so certify. >> i so certify. >> the respondents are presumed to be innocent unless such time they are proved in the merits. the execut

the latest local area code running out, and the proposals for new area codes. >> back here in just ten minutes, we're tracking the warm up around here. it will be cold tomorrow. temperatures are on the increase, we're headed for the weekend. i'll have the forecast highs >>> in news of the world tonight, in algeria, islamic militants are holding 41 hostages, including seven americans in a remote area of the sahara. the militants stormed the natural gas complex, two people died. the militants say the hostage taking is in retaliation for france's military intervention in neighboring mali. the white house is calling this a terrorist attack. >>> in london, a helicopter flew right into a crane, and crashed onto a street in flames during this morning's rush hour. the pilot, and one person on the ground were killed. it was foggy at the time, and the pilot may have not been able to see the crane in the central part of london. >>> in germany, the country's central bank says it is bringing gold bars back from paris and new york. germany moved most of its gold reserves during the cold war, since t

the latest local area code running out, and the proposals for new area codes. >> back here in just tenutes, we're tracking the warm up around here. it will be cold tomorrow. temperatures are on the increase, we're headed for the weekend. i'll have the forecast highs you can expect this saturday and sunday. >> up first, a standoff in the sahara. the attack had a has left dozens held hostage, including americans. >>> in news of the world tonight, in algeria, islamic militants are holding 41 hostages, including seven americans in a remote area of the sahara. the militants stormed the natural gas complex, two people died. the militants say the hostage taking is in retaliation for france's military intervention in neighboring mali. the white house is calling this a terrorist attack. >>> in london, a helicopter flew right into a crane, and crashed onto a street in flames during this morning's rush hour. the pilot, and one person on the ground were killed. it was foggy at the time, and the pilot may have not been able to see the crane in the central part of london. >>> in germany, the country

code? how is that going to work? >> yeah, what we've done in events of this kind, we have worked with another planet to track their own employees and local 16 who are paid through their payroll by zip code. we can work with them to try to obtain that data for the vendors. it should be noted that this is a relatively large endeavor putting on this festival and there are a number -- in fact, dozens of contractors and subcontractors who work on this project compiling all the data might be a little difficult. >> thank you. and finally, there were a few questions that have been raised by residents, i think. this is a persistent issue about the timing of [speaker not understood] going up that restricts park access. * fencing going up whether we have done everything we can to minimize that amount of disruption and lack of access to the open space. and, so, could you speak a little bit about rec/park's policy towards that and what you are doing to minimize, to minimize that impact? >> absolutely, supervisor. the fencing is put up for a number of reasons. it's put up obviously to keep [speaker not understood] out of the premises. it's also put up

even local calls in area codes would require you to dial 1 plus the 10 digit number.me san franciscans want to keep 415 and would prefer to hang up on the idea of hanging up on their number or dialing more. >> no one wants to dial more numbers they want it the same. if you make a mistake and have to dial the first number and then the next and so forth then you have so many numbers you have to dial it is confusing. >> reporter: santa clara county has already gone through its 669 overlay in the 408 region. california puc said it won't make a final decision on the area codes until later on this year. meantime you have a chance to tell them what you think. there are two meetings at san raphael city chambers tomorrow at 2 and 7:00 p.m. live in the 415. >> a lot of people are opposed to change but at least we have our cell phones to remember the numbers. >>> supposed to be the plane of the future. right now all of boeings 787 dream liners are grounded in the u.s. until further notice after a string of problems. we have been talking about this. the faa says they cannot fly u

but it's up to local governments to implement and enforce those codes and the effort to get tax breaks to businesses to upgrade sprinkler systems has stalled. what's the lesson? >> the lesson is we all need to get smart. this isn't going to be the last fire in a club. the next one is going to be even bigger because no one's paying attention. >> reporter: the national fire protection association told us the codes written after the station fire have been largely adopted for new nightclubs. but, scott, the group also estimates that fewer than 12 states have actually implemented those new rules for existing clubs. >> pelley: when you go in the club, know where the exists are. michelle, thank you very much. those protests in egypt are now growing more violent by the day. more than 50 people have died since friday. president mohamed morsi has declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew in three cities, but that hasn't stopped the protesters who accuse him of monopolizing power and putting islamic fundamentalists in charge. there have been five days of protests sparked by the second an

the overlay would mean local calls in both area codes would require you to dial 1 plus the 10-digit number. some san franciscos say they want to keep -- san franciscans say they want to keep the old 415. >> nobody wants to dial more numbers. nobody wants to -- they want to keep their number the same. and if you have -- if you make a mistake, you have to dial the first number, and then the next number, and you have so many numbers that you have to dial, it's confusing. >> reporter: santa clara just went through an overlay of 66 nine. the puc is expected to make its final decision by the end of the year. there's still more time to speak out about it. there are two meetings at the san raphael council which i am bers tomorrow. >>> look like kind of a breeze tonight. >> it's chilly. we're not going to be 25 or 30, but it's not warm the at night. it is january! the nights are long, and it's going to be chilly once again tonight. we are trending upward though, temperature-wise. and many. you will spend next week in the low to mid-60s. of concord right now, 36. santa rosa, 36, but the humidity lev

it was a state building code rather than just the local requirements. >> as you recall, this was called the edge hill ordinance. >> is this the same kind of condition? >> this is more of the rock, all on one side and on the other side -- >> this is a combination. >> a lot of sand hills were scrapes down and deposited to other places without being engineered or consolidated and people build on top of that. we have a whole change as the city surfaced. what is the deal with sand, is this a good place to build on? >> if you want to understand the properties and if you designed to mitigate any adverse effects of the settlement, this is the strongest. i live in the sunset, i have been doing this right on the other side of this hill. i see the same conditions exist here where we have the earthquakes and the sand shakes and it gets more dense. we see differential settlement of are on. >> they might have filled in a low land or a wet land and build on top of it. this is a fully grated sand. seeing difficult to distinguish what was natural. you could be growing like we do and as difficult to dist

board of supervisors on board of supervisors file no. 121105, administrative code expanding the public utilities commission local business enterprise contracting ordinance. in your binder is the board file number and the legislative digest and we have representatives from the puc here to speak to the issue. >> great. welcome. >> good afternoon commissioners. i am from the puc and here to talk about the proposed legislation. currently within the admin code 14b we have a program to certify small businesses. the admin code currently recognizes this is the informally the hrc program which is now under contract division. in 2006 that program was expanded to also include firms that are also outside of the city of san francisco to support the contractors working on the puc and water system improvements programs. as that program comes to an end, which we are in the latter phases of the water system improvement program, we have currently certified 200 plus firms over the last several years. if we don't expand that program, all of those firms that were certified over the last five years or so, those firms won't have any f

the housing code has the authority under local law and under state and [speaker not understood] statutes to be able to be retroactive. and indeed there is a whole list of retroactive provisions and this code section is one. they're listed in chapter 2 of the housing code. and indeed the inaugural structural engineer on this commission had, when we were going through changes, had each of those descriptions of what those sections are listed. so, this is on there. it is retroactive. all other buildings built at this time also were required to put this in and there may be a handful of properties out there that for some reason we haven't seen that they're not in compliance in this particular instance. our code enforcement outreach program, one of our vendors, ben ing, actually brought this to our attention. we went out, took a look at it, saw they were in violation, wrote a notice of violation. we have done the typical process here that is required by code, the notice of violation goes to the property owner. and on-site we're dealing with the lessee. as far as trying to work with them it see

local fire officials are using the tragedy to issue warnings that similar tragedies could still happen here despite toughen forcement of fire codes. i talked with fire chief mark bashora. >> what did you think? >> horrific. one more incident where i know the local fire chief has to be despondent over the number of families that are involved in this. what all of his firefighters have to deal with, with picking up the pieces. >> but given all your experience, this is clearly something that calf been prevented. >> well, typically in these situations, they are in occupancies that have not been appropriately designed for the event that's going on there. they don't have the number of exits. they don't have the alarm systems. i don't know enough specifics about this particular one, but in every other one that you do research on, this looks -- this could be any one of those. >> let's talk about the situation here. you've closed down places, i think 19 in the past two years, for violations. are there still a lot of these places in prince george's county throughout the area? >> there are a lot of different clubs that operate, whether they'

we cannot license bicyclists at the local level without making changes to the state code. and aside from that, i like i said, i will make sure that the staff report finds it. there are a number of other challenges, but that is primarily the main one that legally it can't be done. >> is portland still doing it? >> to my knowledge nobody in the country has a program whereby bicyclists are licensed. with the san francisco bicycle coalition and we get funding from the county transportation authority and we offer these classes free. so there is lots of education going on out there. >> thank you. commissioner borden, following up on commissioner sugaya's tangent, because i have had my bike stolen in last year and in the business below me, someone broke the window and took the bicycle out in the middle of the nightist would recommend -- obviously not licensing, but some sort of registry process because every person i know pretty much who owns a bike has had it in their building in the proper bicycle storage, in the garage and has had their bicycle stolen. i know it's different th

this calculation we have done, it reflects through calculations allowed by the state code that we have a 3.77% local income growth and an 0.4% -- 0.47% population growth and this allows for combined growth in the gam limit from the amount that you established last year of 2.53 billion to a new level of 2.63 billion for fiscal year 12-13. under the allowable calculations, we have shown that the budget for appropriations that are covered by this is at currently 2.47 billion, so this reflects a level still 168 million below the gam limit. if the city were to collect so much revenue that it was above the gam limit, the law would require us to either change the rates to return or some other way return that excess revenue to tax payers or go to voters to ask voters to approve an increase in the limit, but we have not reached that point yet. a couple of other points you might be interested in, we did look back at fiscal year 11-12 with the initial budget we expected to be well over 200 million below the gam limit, but 11-12 was a year of very strong revenue growth above our budget. but still, we still den

code. they've brought in a local nonprofit but now, they say the city, they've had enough.these repairs and project done right now. >> what would you like to see happen here? what is the solution? >> the solution is let me keep going and finish the house. >> mark says he just needs a little more time. to clean up and finish up construction on his two story san mateo home. >> this stuff goes into session when you build a house it started more than 10 years ago. >> i've had health issues and stuff like that. we did what they asked. and they're not happen yes with that. they for some reason feel like it should be done immediately. if not sooner. >> a contractor by trade, he took out permits for extensive remodel in twun. since that time he made progress, but not norly enough according to the city. >> it's a public nuisance involving potential fire hazards and potential rode dent infestation. >> in 2006 the city attorney asked for a detailed time line for completion. the clean up of the debris on the property. this year, the city red tagged the house as uninhabitable. his wife

it's broken down into local and state recommendations and for local recommendation the small business commission recommends that the planning code or environment code be amended to require that as part of the process that new or suburbly remodeled supermarkets meet one of following criteria. one would be to provide for an on-site qualified convenience zone recycler or require that the superior market provide the resources to open one within the half mile radius of the store and consideration should be given to expand this to all supermarkets whether existing or new. to commissioner dooley's point, additional use authorization or other public hearing should be required prior to the closing of a certified recycling center located on-site of the supermarket. >> so can we just sort of stop there and commissioner dooley's point and i would like to open it up for discussion with the commissioners. >> as along as -- i think we have to make it more than just a consideration. :i would be encouraging to say basically all supermarkets. and also, if they are preexisting or now, they just cannot abandon that use. and i am just thinking that

. >> finding the piece of code itself did not provide any peace. we would like to change the local population from the victim or the assault to the positive asian to change the society. >> reporter: the jc cp now >> reporter: the jc cp now handles post-war rebuilding in east africa. this includes increasing security, vocational training, psychological counseling and ethnic reconciliation. how do you bring peace to two parties who were taught to hate each other for generations and generations? >> in kenya, we started an agricultural project by inviting people from different sectors. that became a place whereby these former conflicting parties could be united and to communicate with each other. >> seya never thought destiny would take her to the world's conflict zones. but it was this photo of the rwandan genocide that changed her life at 17. >> if i was taking this photo, i would have to give whatever food i had to them, but ultimately it is not the solution, so what could we do? i did not have the answer. >> reporter: so she began searching, and for 15 years she hasn't stopped. she

codes together. we currently are still -- we're reporting these 19 ethnicities locally in san francisco. we're not reporting them to the doj, so that was -- you know, we planned to do that at some point but we're not doing it yet. >> because they're not equipped to take it? >> well, truly this is a whole process. right now the arrest reporting process in san francisco has 11 different systems. it has seven different departments and it has about 14 different agencies so it's a very complex process, and it's not a simple matter. everyone is reporting something different so i can only talk about what we're reporting and currently our first step is we need to get on the same system as the sheriff and then we will report our race and ethnicity data directly to the doj. >> but this report is available for all of 2013 forever? >> absolutely, yes. >> so if this commission ever wants this report it would be ready at request? >> thank you. that's help. . and what i am interested is see when the next set of data comes out from cal doj and how we compare and our hispanic numbers are proportional to