the 701 lombard street site offers great opportunities. as was mentioned, it is at the crossroads of north beach, and from the new reading room, there will be great views of lombard street and the transamerica pyramid and others. the design take maximum advantage of the views and also of the abundant daylight and the connections to the hispanic park. the plan also takes advantage of the existing slope of the site, which is approximately 8 feet, by creating a centrally located mid block entry, with access from both mason street and columbus. the geometry of this 701 lombards sides also works very well for the requirements of a library, allowing for a clear and efficient plan, organization. the three program areas are located at each corner shown in blue on the diagram. there are an adult reading room on the southern side of the site, and the children's library room is located towards lombard street on the west side, and the teenager room is located on the east side. there is a separate community room located on the second level which can be

item 53 is a public hearing about the property located on lombard street.s is consistent with the playground-library master plan project, and i did 54 is a resolution authorizing the use of real property located at 701 lombard street. -- item 54. president chiu: ok, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, here is my suggestion. we will hear on the project and other items from various city staff, including our chief librarian, the general manager of the recreation and park department, and the project architect, as well as from the director of the department of public works. after that, we will then hear from the planning department about the rezoning. we will then turn to the eir portion as well as the public comment portion with regards to the eir. the appellate represents two different organizations, and we will give them up to 15 minutes to jointly to present, and they can choose how to break up their time. the appellate will be followed by a public comment by anyone who is opposed to any of the hearing items or believe that the eir should be rejected, and memb

time the department commenced in burma to review, which is consistent with ceqa requirements. 701 lombard, where the library plans to blame it -- build a new branch. moreover, it is not clear how the showing of the previous board meetings addresses this with respect to the eir. the eir eliminates the impacts with the association -- with the closing of the parking and a new library at 701 lombard street. a reorganization and improvement of playground features. the eir also includes six studies, north and south of the library, to evaluate impacts using the mason street corridor it, and in addition, it includes simulations show in the library and views from surrounding places. with regard to historic resources, the appellate states that the eir lacks a about a mission of the cumulative impact. the eir includes an extensive analysis of the project and cumulative impacts and finds the north beach library eligible for listing on the california registry of historic listings. the eir indicates that the master plan demolition of the existing branch will result in a significant and avoidable enviro

and at this time, can you please call the item 42-43, related to lombard street. >> this is a public hearing to consider item 43, the resolution authorizing the use of real property for purposes consistent with the joe dimaggio played crown master project. >> thank you colleagues and ladies and gentleman. we have a hearing of the resolution of necessity. this would clarify that the stated purpose of the site for the development and maintenance of the space is consistent with the uses contemplated in the joe dimaggio playground. we have the revenue it position of the park, and an expanded library within the same larger spark -- larger part. and this would ensure the adequate notice was required. as far as the hearing will go today, we have a representative from parks and recreation as well as from our library will make short introductory remarks. the city attorney is also available if you have any questions before or after hearing this item. we would hear from the former property owners -- and they will have 10 minutes to address the board with this item. mr. flynn has requested the r

these businesses, like jane pet stores like pepco, -- ptetco, -- petco, and there are those along lombard street and also california street, and the board of supervisors allowed with a divided vote the conditional use permit for a pet food express last year. i know that that was a contentious issue that divided a number of communities and especially the small-business owners, the pet store owners. this is narrowly tailored to impact supply stores in that area. on january 20, petco had a meeting that i attended, and for my reid, we were near unanimously opposed to date -- the petco on geary. there are vacant storefronts, and the small merchants are really hurting, and i hope that the small business really considers this and doesn't support of the smaller pet stores and small businesses. as you can see from the letters you have received and probably emails and causing a receipt from the richmond district and other pet owners come we need your support. we hope you will stand up with the richmond district in support of item number nine. on item number 10, i wanted to say that we are working w

so the best way to get around that is out bound to lombard. if you can avoid the area that would definitely be your best bet. as far as other accidents go in the region, if you're traveling on the east side of the outer loop we have an accident there at hawkins point road. delays continue on the west side interloop, that is to liberty road. and on the north side outer loop unfortunately no improvement there. traffic still crawling along. northbound 95 slow traffic there from 32 to 175. and some congestion to watch out for up to the harbor tunnel. you can see not too bad there, 95 just north of 24 in hartford county. and an easy drive on the tyling bridge. >> christie, thank you so much. >>> if you like today and the weekends temperatures you're going to hate this week. >> thank you, bob. >> let's just end it all right , >>> look at that, beautiful. >> beautiful. >> now that is a way to spend the afternoon. >> that's it, mary. >> that's the way to get home from work. >> yeah. come pick us up. >> it was a perfect afternoon for that. light temper

we don't have red light cameras on lombard street. i have not even counted that many accidents in the past three years. we have to look at this, this is the entrance into the city and you have a major problem. we are willing to work with you as long as we are included in the process. you never asked to be a part of any of it. that is all i have to say. >> next speaker. >> could afternoon, commissioners. i am here to bring to your attention the information that came to light at a hearing before the civil service commission this past monday regarding background investigation of the non uniform potential personnel for the police department. i will suggest had to make recommendations as to the action that this commission to take in regard to this matter. in july of last year, my wife was notified on the holdover list for the 1446 secretary two position. she was told that she would have to undergo a background investigation. that was conducted on behalf of the police department by a mr. joe -- had been contacted to provide these background

without objection, the resolution -- now we will go back to the other 3:00 special order about lombard street. is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak on this item? we have the measure in front of us. please step up to the microphone. >> this remained after the boom years because of it. -- a regular shape and remained a parking lot for the same reason in the 1980's. in the 1980's, the property owner, -- the city was surprised in 1999 when they attempted to contact the owner to find out that the property had been sold. the permits for building were filed at that site. and there are 30,000 people within a half mile of joe dimaggio playground. we have urban areas that are as dense as 76,000 people for square miles -- for each square mile. there was ever a situation for the need of many over one, this is the place. preventing the destruction of the library will not give him back his property. and this will not restore the money that the city has built -- has spent on this property so far, but it will affect the quality of life in this neighborhood. the needs of the neig

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alternate routes include lombard street. the baltimore grand prix is slated for labor day weekend.n tonight's medical alert, agriculture officials in germany said they found the source of the recent e. coli outbreak. bean sprouts from an organic farm is the likely cauuse.t se. the farm has been shut down. the outbreak has killed 22 people and sickened more than 2200 others, making it the deadliest e. coli in modern history. hundreds of confiscated items from bernie madoff's mansion were put on the auction block. thousands of buyers flocked to the miami beach convention center to bid on everything from fine art to jury and even underwear from the mansion. the event brought in nearly half a million dollars, all of which will go towards compensating the victims of his ponzi scheme. bernie madoff is serving a 150 year prison sentence. former head of the imf strauss- kahn is expected back in court tomorrow. he is accused of the attempted rape of a hotel maid. he is not talking about the case, but his lawyers may be ready to drop a bombshell tomorrow. that could spell trouble for the pro

. >> here we are at the base of telegraph hill on lombard street. this is owned by the city. behind you is a large piece of something exposed. you are looking at a large class that was xextricated in a quarry about hundred years ago. this is a secretive sandstones, shales, accumulated debris. essentially it ended up piled up here. the quarry activity was so intense and they used some much at dynamite that the kind of over blasted. 10 feet of the face was left shattered. you can see the fresh colors and a pile of debris which is precariously perched on the edge of a cliff up there. it is more fresh and more recent than the rest. it stands out because there's no vegetation. there is no weathering of material. those are the kinds of things you look for. >> there are many types of slides. there is the bedrock slides which we are looking at in is a combination of a block slide and where the material is just out of balance and is falling off. rainfall pushes from the ground water and out of the cliff. as you can see, the slides artistic one of many types of landslides or slope fail

from lombard street to the bay on the north. covering all of what is now the marina district and beyond. and all of the 10 months that it ran, the pacific expo drew 18 million people. everyone though it cost 50- cents a person to go in about half a days wages. civic leaders found it a way to show the world that san francisco has recovered after the recession and was once again open for business. president woodrow wilson pushed a button that sent a message to san francisco. flipping a switch that turned on a light. the gate swung open. california governor and san francisco mayor led the throng into the grounds. what awaited them was stunning. the first thing they saw coming through the main entrance was the tower of jewels. 43 stories tall. hung with 100,000 shimmering gloss bobbles. shimmering light to the patrons. through the tower of jewels led the courtyard. it was a fairyland. there were exposition palaces. each devoted to a certain topic. and philadelphia sent the liberty bell. the real liberty bell not a replica. the first

sprite investigator christopher butler, former san ramone officer louis lombard skpismt a one-time head of the state county drug enforcement c net team, norman welsh pleaded not guilty before the judge. >> and for someone who spent his professional life in law enforcement to be on this side of a prosecution and investigation is difficult. >> difficult and growing. defense toushs confirmed a grand jury has also launched an inqirly. witnesses have been subpoenaed and indictments could come dmoun a matter of months. >> they want to see how deep this runs in this community. >> as of last month, authorities are now lead investigators and defense attorneys say that is good news. >> i welcome this investigation because i think this will be less committed to certain stories people have said and from setting up men on fake dui arrests to stealing drugs from evidence lockers and trying to sell them. charges have grown, now including a number of new allegations. like exchanges of ecstasy bill skptz sale of a half pound of marijuana no. charges yet on allegations some officers ran a brothel and wil

. >> reporter: this is one man's twisted -- >> they're coming down lombard street, through chinatown, across the golden gate bridge. around the bay bridge. it goes by -- my grandfather had a gymnasium. >> reporter: in the hometown he adores so much. >> it has a heart i left in san francisco. >> you started when you were nine? >> what's the last tooth pick? do you know what the last tooth pick was? >> yeah, i just put it in there, it's right back there in the corner. the brown one. >> people think i made a sketch of it, and i planned everything, it's really free art. >> is there at&t park? >> through the coke bottle, around the mit. these balls will stop in each one of the drive ways of the alamo square homes. >> how many tooth picks? >> 100,000 -- >> you have no idea, do you? >> no. >> do you feel like it's finished? >> my wife wants it to be done. she's glad it's here. my wife said, you are not wearing that in public, sir. >> good thing we're not rolling. >> he is a good sport, that was bob rudell. the tooth pick stretcher will be on display through sunday. my grandfather had a cafe

the one block portion of mason street between lombard and columbus for purposes of the north beach public library and joe dimaggio playground master plan. president chiu: can we take this item? without objection, this item is finally passed. item number 24. >> to bernadette loans from restricted sources and to modify the reporting requirements for elected officials receiving gifts of travel. president chiu: can take this item? this item is finally passed. item 25. >> item 25 is to restrictions -- restructure the parking in the south of market and mission bay districts. supervisor kim: this is legislation that establishes maximum parking limits in the south of market. the intent of this legislation is to have better consistency with adjacent districts and to require non-residential and non hotel parking in this south of market mixed used districts downtown and maintain a fee structure which discourages long-term parking. this ordinance will finally harmonize requirements across the south of market and, by eliminating the minimum and establishing a maximum and extends parking requirements f

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i am -- i live three blocks away on lombard. i have three points to make. one, it is about the economy, which i think there was about 30 vacancies a few years back on union street, and we were in "the new york times" about such a downturn, and we have brought new businesses in. we have restaurants to be allowed to flourish, and i think there are maybe only 10 vacancies now, and it is definitely getting better, but i do not think we are out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination. the metropolitan area was just voted i think top-10 economy's going in the wrong direction by "forbes," and with the 10% or so and in climate rate, but i think it is about the economy and trying to generate small- business, and it is for this restaurant in this business. there are days when there is a colorado-buffalo football game, and people come in for that, but in general, i hang out there sometimes, and there are 20 people. one is about the economy. two is the opposition is very disingenuous for the most part in my opinion. it also blocked the cn which shop from coming

lam bar lombard strd this building has contentious past and the owners want to lift it up and put a story underneath and the reason they want to lift it up throughout the city street elevations have been adjusted and as the streets get improved and the city heights don't get adjusted and many driveways go down into the garage. >> or windows below the street that makes no sense. >> and the streets of elevated and graded and of course the building settles but not that must have and the original flow of the thi-- floor of the build. >> i of in the building. >> me too. >> you are looking at the second floor now. >> the first floor. i live in the sunset and my kids pointed this out to me as the ninja house and orteega street and built in 1953 at the top of a cliff. isn't that wonderful? $11,000 for mr. r hess so people have said we have a lot of narrow buildings. i went out history and measured this building. it's 9 feet ten and a half inches wide. >> the lot is a little more. there is an inch and a half on both sides. >> this is a real landmark. >> there is the dog. >> there is the required d

streets, the wide, fast streets, like the ones south of market and elsewhere in the city, including lombard, where that young man was hit. here in california, the report also found seniors, people of color, low income communities are most at risk of pedestrian injury and death. this is true in san francisco and even more so, our pedestrian fatality rate -- the rate at which pedestrians are a percentage of all traffic fatalities. it is more than half year, which puts us at no. 3 in the country among counties. for all these reasons, this is an opportunity -- this bond provides the opportunity to give funding to this issue that the report recommends and that we already know we need to create the complete and walkable streets. walk san francisco is supporting this bond. supervisor chu: thank you. >> you know those streets are older, older than the trees city roads, take me home take me home to the place i belong with those bonds, take me home city roads i hear the voice in the morning our call me the radio news reminds me the streets need to be paved writing down the road i see the feeling that

there was a complaint about an apartment building on lombard that was in the garage and storage areawas floor to ceiling with restaurant storage. we saw the storage was not indental to the use of the building it had become commercial storage. we asked the owner to remove it because the garage was required parking under the planning code. in situations like that we got a complaint. did an investigation, saw there were problems. wrote a notice of violation to have the owner clear it out. they did so. we were able to abait the complaint. >> every 5 years at least sometimes more often we inspect the common areas of every building that has 3 or more units and on complaint if we believe there is a valid complaint we will inspect it. that's not just storage. >> keep in mind the housing inspect ors are not the only city inspect ors out in the buildings. you have planning inspect ors fire and health inspectors out there as well. a comlant could come to all the agencies or 1 agency there are a lot of different inspections going on. at times it can be confusing, someone says i had an inspection

i am the owner of the republic sports baron technically our address is 2400 lombard but we do have acots street address and i'm here before you requesting a place of entertainment permit. i'm here requesting a place of entertainment permit. president newlin: the commissioners have any questions for this gentleman? >> i read through your application. it looks pretty thorough and well recommended by everybody. i have no hesitations. >> i appreciate that, thank you. >> if i could make a quick comment. you may recognize shaw as also the owner of shaw security which is probably why he looks very familiar to many of you. and his company does security at a lot of venues throughout the city so that's probably would explain the thoroughness of the permit and application is because he writes them for other people, too. >> do i have a lot of experience. >> with respect to the proposed conditions that the police set forth here, do you have any problem with these? >> i don't. the three that i remember were music ends by 1:30, security always present when there is a d.j. or entertainment and lastl

supervisors introduced an ordinance related to the project under review by the department at scott and lombard streets. this would create an affordable housing special use district at 3151 scott street to facilitate the development of an affordable housing -- affordable group housing project. this project and the accompanying legislation are tentatively scheduled to be heard by you on july 14 as well. that concludes my report, unless there are any questions. president olague: there are a couple. commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: well, i have a lot of questions. the first is clarification of this suggested eating and drinking when the street frontage is less than 30% and total. i don't understand that exactly. is it principally permitted if they are shallow or buildings, shallow water along the street? >> -- shallower along the street? >> we have not reviewed it yet, but it seems it would be linear street frontage. commissioner antonini: it seems a little strange. on the legislation proposed by supervisor cohen, could you repeat that? >> it would allow a process for rebuilding build

lombard to mlk should also worked. a bit of a delay on the north side. is the construction zone. youkilis moved on 795 -- equally smooth on 795. check the west side. not building enough to amount to much. pretty easy ride at the key bridge. take this as an alternate to your tunnels. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now let's get the latest on the buses and the trains. >> we can see to show the 61 line diverting a light and conway street. we have a diversion at madison and washington. scattered bus delays included the 36, 40, and 40 lines. rail and metro continues its run problem-free. penn, camden, and brunswick lines showing no delays. now back to tony pann. >> we have some high, thin cloud cover out there this morning, making for a beautiful sunrise. bridges in the upper 50's and low 60's in the suburbs -- temperatures in the upper 50's and low 60's. will make it into the 90's tomorrow. is the high, thin cloud cover coming down from pennsylvania. the notice the trajectory that makes this turn is down towards baltimore. we'll see a chance for showers and thunderstorms thi

. >> in san francisco women could be the blame for this tree on lombard street.ion damaged several vehicles. the department of public works has spent several hours decimating this tree limb. this wet weather certainly did not help. it was not completely to blame but a contributing factor. >> in pacifica this a part of a building owner is considering just walking away from the property. the cost of fixing this was just too expensive the city of pacifica say that if not been officially notified. they are aware that the owner could abandoned the property and a scheduling a meeting next month to talk about what to do next. maureen kelly, kron 4 news. >> in the south bay, they are rshowing the heaviest rainfall to the santa cruz mountains is not reined this time of year since 2001. it has not rained--and the past three years this time of year in this area. you can see the heavy raindrops and highway 17. the c h p is warning to watch your speed. >>pam: i cannot remember this rainfall amount! and jacqueline one was last time we have this month for the month of june? >>j

outbound traffic can also take lombard to howard. if the drivers are coming in, take i-395 to mlk. we're downtown baltimore. eyewitness news, now back to you. >>> thank you, one of the coworkers took the route today, in fact. let's check in with kristy breslin at wjz traffic control now. >>> hi, kai, hi, everyone. we'll take a live look. we have a shot at charms -- charles and conway. we can see when conway shuts down in both directions between light and charles. outbound, you'll want to take 395 to mlk to howard. it will make things difficult during rush hour. we'll look at the rest of the region here. we have delays from dulaney over to pairing parkway. also, northbound 895, that's blocking the right hand lane. that will cost you a few minutes. and another accident at route 100. in joppa town, that's a crash at clayton. essex, rossville boulevard. we'll take a live look at the beltway. that's west of york road. we'll also look -- not a bad drive 95 north of route 24. this is brought to you by the cochran firm. for you've suffered a personal injury, call or you can visit them onli