i live two blocks from the old location and half a block from the new location. a few years ago, there was a cafe, and they tried to put streets on -- i tried to put seats on the street. we appeal the decision and one to keep the tables and chairs of our street. -- we appealed the decision and won to keep the tables and chairs of our street, so our street was quiet. that changed after ike's opened. on weekends, we had people sprawled on the sidewalk eating food. i have had people sit on my window sill. it is ridiculous. now they will be a half block from where i live. i do not know if they realize how much business comes there. it is not from the neighborhood. there is no parking. our street is just an alleyway. there will be double parking constantly. it is a great business, but this neighborhood is too small for such a huge volume of people coming there. there is no parking. it is going to be a repeat of what happened before with people sitting on the sidewalk at all hours. it is just too much for the small neighborhood. we are not market street. we are a few b

i live one block away from the current location and proposed location as well. i have been living there for approximately a year. i have a great experiences at ike's. i have had many friends come in from out of the city. also, many friends from the neighborhood go to the restaurant on a regular basis. it feels like there has been a holder. i am looking forward to it coming back into the neighborhood. coming back into san francisco from a different city, it represents something special about san francisco. it is a small business, a small restaurant. it is unique, just like our little neighborhood within san francisco. i think that's sort of thing should be supported. i think turning this down since the wrong message to businesses and people in the neighborhood. that is all i would like to say. thank you. president miguel: thank you. is there additional public comment on this item? >> i am a resident of 35 sharron st, half a block up from the old location and half a block across the street from the new location. i have been going to ike's since day one. i was one

or any other location? >> with the san francisco state location, it is a smaller area. it is about 700 square feet. we may do preparation in the morning time, 8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m., in this location, and transfer them to as a state. -- sf state. commissioner sugaya: does that change the nature of the use of this establishment? >> possibly. that was not part of the original proposal or part of the application when it was submitted. i think the sf state development was quite recent. at least i was not aware of it until today. typically, under the definition for self-service specialty food use, you are limited to preparing food for on-site sale. if you're preparing food for off site sales, that may be considered a manufacturing use. correct me if i'm wrong. we will have to review that if that is part of the proposal. commissioner sugaya: the direction i think we should go that at the moment since he said he is not going to do that, we should use it for storage and refrigeration of things that will be consumed during the rest of the week. then i think the cu is probably ok.

and they are available at the new location where they were not in other location -- the other location. we also do not sell the alcoholic beverages. we are a strict food and soft- drink restaurant. we previously anchored the block there, allowing other businesses to fill comfortable doing business on the block well before we got there. people said the bloc was cursed. people said the space was cursed. another sandwich shop opened up down the street. they felt that they would be able to run their businesses there as well. our customers come from all over the bay area, all over california, as far as australia and siberia. we have had people come in saying that they have come in -- we are bringing in additional foot traffic to the castro area. when they come in, they do come and buy chocolate from the chocolate shop we will be in having or one of the coffee shops close by. currently, the space is now on market, now, he gets the benefit of all the additional coffee sales instead of the local coffee shops that are just down the street from where i guess was and where the proposed new place

that was not in the old location. location. the new equipment triples the

this is the perfect location. new ideas, new art and new organizations are born from the mission every day. we look forward to being part of this creative mix. we are also a part of the medical block full of doctors and dentists. one of our long-term goals is to include a center in the area for our members that provide acupuncture, herbs, massage and other holistic health practices. our other goal is to become a neighborhood institution that benefits the nonprofit center. there was recently a "the new york times" article about a medical grove in santa rosa created specifically to provide much-needed resources for artists and art activities. later we will testify more on this concept. we feel our dispensary would bring new businesses to the neighborhood and help fill in the high vacancy rates in our block between 19th and 21st street. for our members, it is strategically located between the 16th and 24th street bart station with the parking garage a block away on barlet and on the 14 and 44 bus lines. we do not ant

>> yes, and after looking at all of the locations, we decided that none of the locations was suitable, so we decided to locate the compressor unit in the existing garage, in the corner, and that is the corner that is furthest from any of the neighbors. that is at the corner of benton and andover. vice president goh: -- commissioner garcia: how is that different? >> it was the ground window. it was to the opposite side of the building. and, again, it is going to be enclosed in the closets, acoustically insulated, and hopefully reduce to 60 decibels or less, which is about the december reading without the compressor reading, and as far as the schedule, originally, we have the schedule for the weekdays to be between 9:00 a.m. and -- we would like to propose that she be allowed to do her work. commissioner hwang: can you put the picture of the site of again, please? >> sure. the original location was back here in the rear yard. the rear property line is here, and we have decided that the best location in the existing garage, -- commissioner hwang: who lives above the garage? tenants one?

i would like to just show you the locations of the kiosks. for jfk drive in golden gate park, this is the north side of john f. kennedy drive. you can see where the hours are. on saturdays, the left side, and on sundays, the right side, giving road closure. behind the band shell, you will see where the arrow is. that is where the kiosk will be, and storage will be off to the right in the right hand corner, where there are storage containers already for rpd use. at union square plaza, you will see the errors in the upper left-hand corner of the picture, and the kiosk will be underneath, tucked behind the elevator. stores will be inside the garage. in marina green, storage will be where there is a bicycle rental kiosks already, and storage will be exactly where there are storage containers already on the right hand side. in justin herman plaza, you will see that -- down in the bottom in the middle, and storage will be off site. i would like to address safety parkwide concerns safety -- address safety concerns. parkwide has 30 years experience.

issues at each location. in all locations, staff have made the necessary arrangements to the kiosks and storage. in the event that parkwide wants to open additional cases, we will work with them to determine the appropriateness of the location and meet with the neighborhood's regarding the proposed concession, and prior to operating an additional location, the b.c. shall be required to obtain approval of the commission. i would like to just show you the locations of the kiosks. for jfk drive in golden gate park, this is the north side of john f. kennedy drive. you can see where the hours are. on saturdays, the left side, and on sundays, the right side, giving road closure. behind the band shell, you will see where the arrow is. that is where the kiosk will be, and storage will be off to the right in the right hand corner, where there are storage containers already for rpd use. at union square plaza, you will see the errors in the upper left-hand corner of the picture, and the kiosk will be underneath, tucked

as far as the location, i thought you just asked for alternate locations. i did speak to the owner of the property and to his brother, who was doing the installation of the compressor. because of the neighbors, the proximity of the building, the neighbor has their interests on the north side of their building. it would be almost impossible to want to locate that compressor on the south side of the existing building, because it would probably cause quite a bit of noise to the up. commissioner hwang: so, basically, commissioner garcia, it would be getting the sound study from the perspective of the appellants, correct? commissioner garcia: exactly how it is going to be installed, the permits. >> that is something you did not ask before. if you have, i would have tried to -- commissioner garcia: i understand that you are not an attorney and are not used to an adversarial situation such as this, but it is not to present information when they have the right to rebel that they do not see until tonight. that is not a reasonable way to proceed, and so the more info

the community garden is a bad location. bad soil, that sun -- bad sun, it is a bad location for a garden center. you knew that to begin with. it has been a very divisive issue for us in the neighborhood. if you wanted to divide the neighborhood, you have been very successful. this myth about a community garden being a great thing to replace the recycling center is wrong and it has divided us. president buell: thank you. >> good afternoon. my name and sean. i have lived in the area for 24 years. i live 100 yards from the recycling center. i am here to speak against the proposed change. i would like to address one of the negative comments that was made earlier about homeless people being attracted to the recycling center. that whole issue was actually created by a previous mayor of san francisco, who ordered a police sweep of downtown san francisco in the late 1990's. he took a homeless problem that was downtown and moved it into the park and into the neighborhoods. i think the positives of the recycling center far outweigh a

one location would be at the airport. we are just kicking off a new space which could be shared by the city. this is about half of the capacity that we need. the other is where we establish additional space to start to relocate to other servers that are currently underutilized or expensive space around the city and moved them to a consolidated space. in this lease is consistent and in line with expectations from long-term savings and how to consolidate and bring these systems and operations to the locations. but as my final slide. or will welcome any questions. >> thank you. why don't go to the budget analyst and the report there? >> i point out on the report is that the proposed legislation, the department of technology has issued a request for qualifications and that is in the computer store and that is to contain project management services for this specific relocation. incidently, supervisors, as you know the department has been leasing space at one market losses since 1993. on top of page 6 of our report, we point ou

the two locations are about 4.2 mi. apart. a driver would only have to come out of the neighborhood, take a couple of turns to be out in the middle of farmland. it's about 4.2 mi. from the neighborhood it to this is an area where the car police say drove off the road into this canal. the water in the canal flows from north to south and the dive team is currently on this side of the delta mendota canal looking for the car in one of the siphons. the canal was about 20 ft. deep at most spots, in this spot the canal is actually about 100 ft. deep. the reason is the canal huxley goes under the natural creek bed. they had to dig the canal under ground, under the creek bed and the car was pushed by the flow of the water if through this westernmost- here which is a 15 by 15 concrete tunnel. this is a scale model of the toyota corolla. it's about 16 ft. from corner to corner just long enough to can't make it through. it got stuck in this is where dive teams are staged diving in to try and hook a harness on to the car pulled up with a t

we have to confirm that location and make sure the location is available tomorrow in order to make the 15 days. commissioner hammer: just briefly, the think you were reading of my notes. i agree with everything you have said in terms of the number of meetings and the locations. i am open to accepting them if others are as well. i think it provides access to people from different parts of the city. i think the most important stakeholders are police officers, 2000 folks about to be led by somebody else. i want to hear their opinions about what they think they need to do to move the apartment -- department for work. i think we have to move very quickly. if we are going to have meaningful interviews with these candidates, i think we need to hear from the community first, and from the stakeholders. i do not know how we start interviews without having a meaningful discussion with the people of san francisco. i would suggest we have our first forum soon. i think if we are going to try to keep to a fast schedule, perhaps we ought to set some of these up for three commissioners to volunteer to

the appropriateness of those locations. when the response from park wide came in, they did suggest operating in union square. the department evaluating the appropriateness of operating in union square and had conversations with the m.t.a., conversations with the san francisco bike coalition, extensive conversations with our partner park wide in this endeavor about their safety record. and their plan to operate in dense, urban space safely. and the department determined in consultation with all of those people that because the transformation the city has seen the last 10 years, where we are starting to see bike lines in downtown and the bike line has been approved and there's more bike lanes that will be coming online shortly in the downtown area, that we comfortable moving forward at union square. it's obviously a question for the commission, and you've been debating it, whether the commission feels that the safety issues have been adequately addressed with the proposed amendment. i wouldn't presume to suggest that one of y

you have to selectively pick the proper locations to put these on site. justin herman plaza is too busy and to small, and also, union square. please, have a little thought about calming in the city. accommodate, you have spikes, you name it, and they go whizzing by. i blow my whistle to direct them to the bike lanes. some of them listen. the bike rental people are very polite. but some of them do not. it is just heroine, so you have to have some sense on the subject. thank you. -- it is just harrowing. >> hello. i just want to put in a few words for the people that run these businesses. i've been walking by them for years. i've been very impressed by the way they corral their customers. they really explain what is going on. they tried to sell them a helmet. they cannot force it on them, but they do their best to keep everybody safe. so i'm familiar with the fisherman's wharf area, and there are cable cars and the tourist buses and the people wandering around going like this, and i have never seen any problems for the bike customers. the problems with that

locations would want to stay in san francisco.we also discussed a little bit, providing some of this to tenants so that everyone knew what was happening. 26 was a late entrance to the discussion. and the poor real estate division supplied a notice to all of the tenants and all of the vineyard sites explaining the board goes a consideration including which sites would be affected tomorrow. >> what kind of timeline are you talking about? >> it depends. it envisions a different kinds of occupancies for different sites. some of the sites might be made available as early as the beginning of 2012. that will be necessary if there will be construction activity at those sites. we envision 2012 being the construction time. we talked about shorter-term occupancy, as little as six months. that may provide some flexibility to both the team in the port -- under that type of occupancy, they might avoid costly upgrades to facilities where they are not needed. and of course, it would realize a lesser rent loss. i will turn this into you and make s

as the location near at&t ballpark. we have to do the engineering assessments and it came up positively. we are very confident, unless something very unanticipated comes up, we will be able to get the village built in time and have a great event in 2013. >> let me underscore this issue of confidence, it is essential. when the board expresses unanimity, environmental organizations, community groups, one of the big benefits of this kind of project is when you have more support than when you began, it gives you a degree of certainty that he may not have otherwise received. the ceqa process will begin in earnest. there is no guarantee with ceqa, but we are about as close as we can with some certainty to get that done. >> just for clarification, the least versus ownership? >> it is an issue on see what 30 -- seawall lot 30. we will be working with what the board provided us. we believe confidently that we can get that approved through the state agencies. we think it was an important thing for the event authority and advantag

just two hours ago she posted a they have on the car they still not located anyone inside. until they do she encourages people to keep looking for sun. right now kron 4 jonathan blum is here with us to show you the location that we've been talking about in patterson where the search is going on. using google earth. >> there to locations the first is the home of juliani mothers tabitha that's here in the northern part of patterson, 4.2 mi. away this is the area where the search as finally yielded that car that was apparently used in the abduction. if we go over here you could see its on vero street at the northern end of patterson. it's pretty straightforward to drive from the home to the location where searchers are now attempting to dig up the car. your driving much of the way through agricultural landed right here you could see their to waterways. it was the california aqueduct and this one is the delta mendota canal. it some 20 ft. deep in most places but at this particular spot this canal is actually about 100 ft. deep. if you see here these three read it keros this ind

i would also point out that this is located in an area of high crime. it is currently not in an era of high concentration of licenses, but i would point out, if this was approved, it would put us at our limit. currently, we are authorized for 12 of sales in the neighborhood. we are currently at 11. if approved, we would be at the max. we do not believe this will serve the convenience or necessity of the public. we would also point out the close proximity to another center on howard street. this would be inconsistent with what we're trying to do with our combination efforts with the department of public health, helping people with addictive needs. if this was an on sale where there would be food components and other opportunities, but because this is an off sale, we concur with the public that this is a transition area and is not the direction the neighborhood was to be heading in. i would leave it with that. we are recommending this application for denial. supervisor chu: a few questions. it sounds like at 1118 howard street, it is a variety store looki

the city to actually luis the site and in fact consolidate many of the other servers that might be located throughout the city and so with that recommendation, the staff did a study in a survey of all of the equipment in the city and there was a policy decision made that has been confirmed and number of times in the past that the city should begin consolidating their infrastructure. this is that one of two sites, either the paul street site or the airport site. >> thank you. i think there is a follow up question. >> i understand that it was $1 million but this is over the course of one year. what is the cost over the long term? >> what we look at was a 20-year horizon for the analysis and for the one market plaza, that is also a leased facility. the cost or estimated at $52 million. for the paul street site, the estimated costs was $43.7 million. obviously, the future-owned site, the assumption there was that over time that would be the least expensive, the $28 million. we would have needed to invest in the infrastructure and construction. >> that was roughly 11 million come like that was

the house is located -- and it is also on a different part of urbano drive, located immediately behind my home. within days of the sale of that home, i was aware that a major construction project had begun at the house, which i have a completely unobstructed view of from my house. having just completed the permit process myself, i notified my neighbors my intention to add a small deck. i wondered how this project had started so quickly after the house had sold. at the final approval of my deck, the building inspector said the permit had been obtained. winning or rick, i found out that -- on inquiry, i found out that in over-the-counter permit had been obtained. as soon as the roof came off, i knew that this was no kitchen and bathroom model. the bedroom floor was reconfigured, removing a former back door and stairway, and framing was added for huge windows across the back of the house. neighbors had not been notified. during the next several months, the building department issued several stop work order is based on the fact that it exceeded the scope of the original permit, but the con

commissioner chan: do we have to have the locations in the notice? we do? the reason i am suggesting these three thursdays, it to do not have to have locations in our notice, is it would give us flexibility. >> why don't we lock in those three dates as potential -- quorum community meetings. let us do that. 6:00 is better for the community. it gives people time to get home from work. we are going to be very flexible. thank you again for reminding me, and dr. marshall, thank you for reminding me that we do not need to have a quorum. we have a busy schedules -- we have busy schedules. we will make ourselves available. >> last time, whether it is here -- officers can come forward and express their views for the department. i think that is an important listening session for me. how does that sit on the schedule? the one another tentative date for me? >> we could. i believe applications are not until -- you have the interview by march 15. >> which could start interviews after that. >> the police officers association, been a central meeting place -- they could ma

you just need to have the location open. you are set to go. >> the mayor, the office of workforce development, kick off a new program which is to engage some of the artists in reinvigorating the streetscapes. organized in partnership with neighborhood based economic development organizations, the art in storefronts taps into the incredible creativity of the artist community to help improve the quality of life and the business climate in poor neighborhoods. the tenderloin, central market, they view, and the mission's 24 st.. at the launch party, the mayor released the first of 13 projects located on taylor and market street. we were there to capture the celebration and to get a closer look at the newly transformed storefront. >> we have an analyst at saying, you know what, we get it. if we close out and we put some plywood, we know it will have graffiti on it. we know that people will not respect this space. they are opening up their businesses, their buildings and they are saying, let's invite young artists in and let's have

by doing so, we have the opportunity to locate an emergency ventilation shaft at the location of the old elevators. this is the new configuration, the new layout. the station is deep and is connected to the concourse level which is right below the street level and from their distribution will go from between the market street area and union square. the area in question is the southwest corner of the union square and we go into more detail of the configuration. what we have identified is the location which is the back of the house of the union square where the emergency stairs from the garage are at the same location for the tunnel and for the station. with this rendering and this configuration, we cut the ventilation shaft into the steps from the stockton street side and will be met and governed by the planting which would be covering it. this would match the retaining wall which would exist. i would like to show you the view which would be from the park itself and the additional structured. what you would see is the outline. we have seen those and this is what you would see upon com

for me given the location of this lot what is the appropriate use of this lot? does this current zoning which is lesser density makes sense. it sounds like from reading through the code and the different even though housing would be permitted in the current zoning, you can actually build more housing with the nced zoning which is ironic because you think the r zoning would support more housing. given the location next to it, very tall housing development, you know, it seems to me that this lot is a challenging lot for a lot of reasons in that regard and it would make a lot of sense for there to be -- this lot to be rezoned as ncd because of the location and the fact that across the street there's a lingerie and there are also commercial as well. so given the proximity to the n.c.d. and the location it seems to fle that standpoint looking at the larger n.c.d., in general that would seem a very good use for that lot. in terms of the project, any project that would come forward would go through all this typical project approval, meaning somebody could have whatever

where they are located, where they are located, there is no room for anything. you could not get a -- location in there. it is too far up the hill, ok? -- you could not get a retail location and there. it is -- in there. it is ludicrous to make them move out and move where? i mean, do you guys have somebody want to move in there? because nobody in their right mind would move in there. there is no parking, there is no nothing. it is just a space where they have their offices. it is convenient so i can go up at any given time, and make them crazy, or anyone else can, and you know that i do. so to make them move is, i mean, it is absolutely ludicrous, ok? they own the building. they take care of the building. they take care of the people. any time, they are right there because they are right there, and god knows where, there is no other space to move them. why? it does not make sense. am i speaking to slow? too fast? do you understand what i am saying? president goh: if you are finished, i have a question for you. >> what? president goh: the restaurant next to the