roger he is a veterinarian and owner the marina pet hospital on lombard street he's been there since990 the hospital was founded by doctor carol the marina pet hospital is one of the oldest small businesses in san francisco providing the same services for the neighborhood the same location however, there are somewhere between one and 50 to 2 had had small businesses along with a hundred thousand cars over 10 thousand local residents service providers, employees, and tourists all doing business and ash seeking services on loovmd every single day but as of today, the sfmta has not done one study to evaluate the impact of their decisions that on the lombard corridor the small businesses in the let alone the impact of the people that shop or seek services from those businesses they have not yielded notified any small business of the changes they're proposing and i did not believe they intend to do so that's all he had to say. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> marseille alexander and (calling names) hello, again directors allison park marseille alexander the president of the board

that i didn't see the video ass things are not subject to the same kind of sunshine rules. >> the lombard street axiliary is a textbook thought how we can help local businesses and if we had had the opportunity if we had given the opportunity for those people to come and express themselves and draw the attendance of sfmta we could have made an impact early on i think that is a very effective way of bringing the parties before this commission. >> yeah. >> it should be a process like we have to be educated and be aware of what is going on to be able to contradict and trick the attendance. >> we had a cha retina dog patch i can tell you you can't do it in one meeting we're looking at parking and all of dog patch so the mta came in and they put down sheets of paper and said for the next thirty minutes we'll breakdown into groups and look at the that concludes my remarks and streets you can't talk about the places in front of our building in thirty minutes neither the times what do the residents and the business owners think they're important but if they go off and make a plan on that one desi

there is 3 blocks left on van ness the first block continue lombard and chest newly nut we're proposing other buses move over to the side running lane and the last two blocks from the north point has a transit only lane that supports the 49 and 47 and, of course, the hocking no parking removal but the delay is next to the parking lane and a if you bulbs a number of outreach for the proposals held our own open houses as well as a number of community oriented and developed meetings including the presentations to the community and the citizens were called total with several meetings to hear about the proposals and listen to what we're coming up with i have another publicly meeting the middle of december a thousand postcards the corridor and over 6 hundred people take the survey asking for feedback along the proposal to get input and what did we hear a couple of message lourtd one the community someone said the transit riders if so a need for the a.m. peak transit only lane they also were strong option to the traffic signals along the corridor what they supported was at spaez and the thirty

that i didn't see the video ass things are not subject to the same kind of sunshine rules. >> the lombard street axiliary is a textbook thought how we can help local businesses and if we had had the opportunity if we had given the opportunity for those people to come and express themselves and draw the attendance of sfmta we could have made an impact early on i think that is a very effective way of bringing the parties before this commission. >> yeah. >> it should be a process like we have to be educated and be aware of what is going on to be able to contradict and trick the attendance. >> we had a cha retina dog patch i can tell you you can't do it in one meeting we're looking at parking and all of dog patch so the mta came in and they put down sheets of paper and said for the next thirty minutes we'll breakdown into groups and look at the that concludes my remarks and streets you can't talk about the places in front of our building in thirty minutes neither the times what do the residents and the business owners think they're important but if they go off and make a plan on that one desi

improvement program is facing a fiscal year cliff funding and one of the projects on the list is lombard street on the 2016 list because of the inability to close $750 million gap statewide we're not able to - we'll have to move forward with local money to continue to deliver the lombard corridor project with similar fund with sfmta fund to keep to advance the project at the state level so the state funding picture thinks it be in limbo with the legislation and the funding bill and state level to meet the needs as well as other transportation infrastructure needs meantime we're working locally particularly this many o month with the transit center upper market to a conclusion in terms of the financing for the mtc provided to the city a regional partner to help us to so we can finish and move towards building the transbay train project has made progress caltrain has entered into negotiation with the value the design build electrification contract and be able to announce the winner of the rail they have a worldwide manufacture of vehicles those contracts will be coming to the caltrain boar

. >> i see maria lombard coming up. >> one vote one seat. >> thank you. >> okay commissioner peskin thank you, madam chair colleagues ms. brown has appeared before this body when she was originally appoint the fact she's not here and seeking reappointment is kind of business as normal if someone wants to continue that seat and have the experience why change that out i know that the way this commission and this body has conducted itself over many, many years to keep the desires of the district supervisor with the brt with various district and appointees the pattern and practice of that committee as i said over a a long time to honor the wishes of the district supervisor i will vote to keep that seat vacant actually commissioner mar has a say. >> thank you commissioner farrell. >> just to be clear i agree with that sentiment did richmond seat we should respect the wishes of commissioner mar and i got the comments of someone that showed up i will be willing to give people a chance to come back but support someone from today that rolls through district 5 and i'm sure district 3 that's my incl

. >> i see maria lombard coming up. >> one vote one seat. >> thank you. >> okay commissioner peskin thank you, madam chair colleagues ms. brown has appeared before this body when she was originally appoint the fact she's not here and seeking reappointment is kind of business as normal if someone wants to continue that seat and have the experience why change that out i know that the way this commission and this body has conducted itself over many, many years to keep the desires of the district supervisor with the brt with various district and appointees the pattern and practice of that committee as i said over a a long time to honor the wishes of the distric supervisor i will vote to keep that seat vacant actually commissioner mar has a say. >> thank you commissioner farrell. >> just to be clear i agree with that sentiment did richmond seat we should respect the wishes of commissioner mar and i got the comments of someone that showed up i will be willing to give people a chance to come back but support someone from today that rolls through district 5 and i'm sure district 3 that's my incli

. >> i see maria lombard coming up. >> one vote one seat. >> thank you. >> okay commissioner peskin thank you, madam chair colleagues ms. brown has appeared before this body when she was originally appoint the fact she's not here and seeking reappointment is kind of business as normal if someone wants to continue that seat and have the experience why change that out i know that the way this commission and this body has conducted itself over many, many years to keep the desires of the district supervisor with the brt with various district and appointees the pattern and practice of that committee as i said over a a long time to honor the wishes of the district supervisor i will vote to keep that seat vacant actually commissioner mar has a say. >> thank you commissioner farrell. >> just to be clear i agree with that sentiment did richmond seat we should respect the wishes of commissioner mar and i got the comments of someone that showed up i will be willing to give people a chance to come back but support someone from today that rolls through district 5 and i'm sure district 3 that's my incl

methodist episcopal church was incorporated 200 years ago, richard allen found in the church at sixth and lombard. today there is re-enact many of the church's first general conference, with historical perspective. moran verse are you events planned throughout the year. >> well, still ahead. a hiker rescued from a cliff. but this is no rock climbing mission. why he was there and who was watching him when he got stuck. >>> also, ahead, a wild fire burning in florida has destroyed acres of brush and spread to homes. but it didn't destroy a special discovery found in the flames. we'll explain when "eyewitness news" continues. katie mcginty for u.s. senate, calling her "a champion for working families." the 9th of 10 kids, her dad's union pension and social security made all the difference. in pennsylvania, mcginty helped implement obamacare and expand coverage. trump and toomey have attacked obamacare and social security. to fight back, president obama wants mcginty in the senate to protect women, families and seniors. vote in the democratic primary, april 26th. mcginty: i'm katie mcginty and i appr

to manage wanted to extend that you know again, the knowledge of the christmas has put it out with lombard street and willing to support our business is getting out there so. >> let the record reflect i don't remember because i was sick (laughter). >> i think those are probably the essential things i want to just report out on for today. >> if you have any questions. >> nope. >> great. >> we will move on to item number ten which is president's report. >> president's report oh, so as you maishtd i'm on the board of the chamber of commerce it was with sadness we he had accepted bobs resignation a ascertain is about to begin for a new want for the chamber of commerce bob has done a great job in his 3 years we are sad is a to see him go it is for personal reasons we had our board meeting so say our good bias to him i'm also the co-chair the small business week we have a meeting work hard regarding that things are great adam and his team do a fantastic job and exhausted their minimum goals and everything is on track for that week and the flavors event is well, almost through all the planning st

. >> i see maria lombard coming up. >> one vote one seat. >> thank you. >> okay commissioner peskin thank you, madam chair colleagues ms. brown has appeared before this body when she was originally appoint the fact she's not here and seeking reappointment is kind of business as normal if someone wants to continue that seat and have the experience why change that out i know that the way this commission and this body has conducted itself over many, many years to keep the desires of the district supervisor with the brt with various district and appointees the pattern and practice of that committee as i said over a a long time to honor the wishes of the district supervisor i will vote to keep that seat vacant actually commissioner mar has a say. >> thank you commissioner farrell. >> just to be clear i agree with that sentiment did richmond seat we should respect the wishes of commissioner mar and i got the comments of someone that showed up i will be willing to give people a chance to come back but support someone from today that rolls through district 5 and i'm sure district 3 that's my incl

congestion are preying concerns that came out of our agreement with the tour bus industry our own lombard our capital improvement plan eldest street has a street ambassador program go managed by fisherman's wharf community benefits district that will go into effect april 27th of this year i know that will create a positive safe experience for the visitors and residents of o this popper attraction it doesn't stop there we're moving on the extra to improve the quality of life for the residents and businesses as well as enhances the experience for millions of visitors the new san francisco museum of modern art that will open on may 14th aren't we are excited about that (clapping) already already people are understandinging the new exhibits and the credible space they'll be able to do it in i understand that greg with the international architecture firms will be talking today to discuss the design a triples sf momma's and you know i'm excited by moscone expansion and, of course, the goirgz arraign in and it is go and just think once all that is completed they'll all be connected by the centra

people walking down lombard street had their umbrellas up trying to stay dry. and the rain could keep up, at least for a while tomorrow. meteorologist drew tuma here with the forecast. >> live doppler 7 hd tracking a wide swath of rain. live doppler 7 hd into the south bay around santa clara, san jose. notice the light greens. light rain around the peninsula. we head towards union city, fremont, live doppler 7hd showing you're seeing steady showers heading north into the east bay. berkeley seeing light rain. as you head into san francisco and south san francisco, pops of yellow here, more moderate rainfall. widely scattered showers in the north way. novato, some light rain. inland around concord, alamo and danville, light rain showers overnight. on the storm impact scale, this is a 1, a light storm. and it will continue into sunday. live doppler 7 hd. here's the culprit. an area of low pressure south of l.a. is bringing warm moisture. we'll go hour by hour in future weather to show you when you'll need that umbrella and for how long in the full accuweather fore

and the civic center on the left and from novato, across the golden gate bridge into san francisco, lombardeet is 22 minutes. green is looking good. we have slow traffic from the central valley and a couple of accidents. >> the personal belongings of jameses whitey bolger will be auctioned off with the machine going -- the machine -- the money going to victims' families there will be gold and diamonds, and electronics and personal items. >> remember when the incontinues came out in the summer of 2007? analysts predict apple will sell the billionth iphone this summer by july. the cupertino baseed again sold 896 million phones. they have changed the game with the flips and blackberries. >> we have four iphones on the is the right now. >> four ipads. >> four iphones. four ipads. >> major upgrade is underway to best the brightest laser, a laboratory in menlo park will add a second billion that is 10 ,000 times brighter and fires 8,000 times faster to improve our understanding of how thing work. >> a company is building a possible miracle for those paralyzed: a chance to walk. the f.d.a. gave th

secretary and smith and back of his parents' car here at a single site police last will today got lombard unconquered ended up here in san francisco. abbott this freeway and slowed down the car sector get the kid i called the boys told and not to move an and the freeway cleared up and ran over and grabbed him. when to slow down again i had his hand and ran across the street brought on the other side. >> reporter: a truly amazing gridlock that alice was there all whole lot more to this story we have more on this at 8:00 and for now live. >> pam: to go get this video by police the livermore chairwoman pulling up to a home hobby oliver carr and stealing a delivered a package of will homeowners porch she likely did not realize security cameras were rolling the entire time. this all happened on blew out of will drive near livermore at about noon time when state police are hoping anyone with information will come forward. walks calmly back to as vehicles their views security footage in able to determine he stole from another nearby residents as well. anyone who can identify the suspect is also

beyond the north gay mall, 25 minutes from highway then across the golden gate bridge to van ness and lombardthat is a good ride. golden gate bridge is clear. you have four lanes in the south direction. we watched the zip are truck an hour ago come crass and change your lane. configured for the commute, slow traffic from the central valley, otherwise, green is good. one new accident to report, in the fremont area, southbound, 880, i am seeing slow traffic both in the northbound and southbound direction around here the middle lane is blocked. you see delayed building. tow truck is called. we will look at the bay bridge in a few. >> happen today, worse playoff tickets are on sale to the general public and we know how you can jump the line. fans can buy tickets for games 1, 2, and 5 the first round with the sale only happening online, here is the pro tip: subscribe to the warriors insider e-mail and you can get in on the presale. the presale starts at noon and everyone else starts buying at 2:00 p.m. at www. warriors.com. they looked like the team the rest of the n.b.a. is chasing with steph cur

. >> ♪ >> dozens filling the pews at mother bethel ame church at sixth and lombard streets today.lebrating the 200th anniversary since the first general conference of the african methodist episcopal church. it was called to session back on this day in 1816. >>> the philadelphia division of the fbi and drug enforcement administration hosting a small group today to show a documentary that shows the dangers of drug use. educators and community leaders viewing a film called chasing the dragon the life of an opiate addiction. movie was produced by the fbi in response to what it calls an unprecedented opiate epidemic in the united states. >> it's increased about 420% in 2015 and in 201547000 people died of drug overdoses in the united states. of that 47,061% were oh pee yacht and heroin overdoses. >> the film features first person accounts of those who struggle with oh pee yacht addiction and the impact it has on their loved ones. the documentary will be shown in high schools. >>> would you cross a bridge if just inches blow there were more than two dozen sharks? no, thanks. well today

i went to lombard street bay, embarcadero, made my way to pier 30. i saw the gear out.eople doing a half day. that's what i would do. >> yeah. >> and make my way to the park. >> on the giants' website, brandon crawford has written an excuse note that you can just spill out and give to your boss. it said something like baseball should be a holiday here. i am out. i am sick. >> should be a holiday. speaking of players, we saw pagan walk in five minutes ago. the first giant to make it to the ballpark. at least from what we saw from the outfield. he is now in the clubhouse. want to bring in ktvu sports anchor joe fonzi. he has been a part of many home openers for the a's and the giants. a special day for you, joe? >> yeah, i want to fill in. while you were talking, buster posey came in as well. you know, i think opening day is a time to reflect a little bit. it's always special in san francisco because people forget that the first major league baseball game played on the west coast was between these exact two teams, the giants and dodgers, at seal stadium in 1958. in the se

congestion are preying concerns that came out of our agreement with the tour bus industry our own lombard our capital improvement plan eldest street has a street ambassador program go managed by fisherman's wharf community benefits district that will go into effect april 27th of this year i know that will create a positive safe experience for the visitors and residents of o this popper attraction it doesn't stop there we're moving on the extra to improve the quality of life for the residents and businesses as well as enhances the experience for millions of visitors the new san francisco museum of modern art that will open on may 14th aren't we are excited about that (clapping) already already people are understandinging the new exhibits and the credible space they'll be able to do it in i understand that greg with the international architecture firms will be talking today to discuss the design a triples sf momma's and you know i'm excited by moscone expansion and, of course, the goirgz arraign in and it is go and just think once all that is completed they'll all be connected by the centra

improvement program is facing a fiscal year cliff funding and one of the projects on the list is lombard street on the 2016 list because of the inability to close $750 million gap statewide we're not able to - we'll have to move forward with local money to continue to deliver the lombard corridor project with similar fund with sfmta fund to keep to advance the project at the state level so the state funding picture thinks it be in limbo with the legislation and the funding bill and state level to meet the needs as well as other transportation infrastructure needs meantime we're working locally particularly this many o month with the transit center upper market to a conclusion in terms of the financing for the mtc provided to the city a regional partner to help us to so we can finish and move towards building the transbay train project has made progress caltrain has entered into negotiation with the value the design build electrification contract and be able to announce the winner of the rail they have a worldwide manufacture of vehicles those contracts will be coming to the caltrain boar

travel the world, these people come from the airport, they park their car they come to the top of lombard steps and they get out and come back and everything they own is gone. i cried with him as i took these reports. i see obviously since i was gone things have not gotten any better. unfortunately we can get into prop 47, we can get into all the reasons and all the white elephants that we can't talk about why this is going on. i also remember, if i'm not mistaken, i did a little testing many years ago and it takes about 8 seconds to get in and out of a car, to get in. so the one thing i will give you to take away is if you get out of your car, do not stand there and open your trunk and put your purse in your car. do not get out and put things in. go a few blocks before you stop whatever you have that you want to put in a trunk if you feel the need to, remember, it's not that hard to get in a trunk. so if you have to do it, do not do it where you are leaving your car. i sympathize with all of you who have that happen, believe me, it breaks my heart to see this happen in my city. >> thank

improvement program is facing a fiscal year cliff funding and one of the projects on the list is lombard street on the 2016 list because of the inability to close $750 million gap statewide we're not able to - we'll have to move forward with local money to continue to deliver the lombard corridor project with similar fund with sfmta fund to keep to advance the project at the state level so the state funding picture thinks it be in limbo with the legislation and the funding bill and state level to meet the needs as well as other transportation infrastructure needs meantime we're working locally particularly this many o month with the transit center upper market to a conclusion in terms of the financing for the mtc provided to the city a regional partner to help us to so we can finish and move towards building the transbay train project has made progress caltrain has entered into negotiation with the value the design build electrification contract and be able to announce the winner of the rail they have a worldwide manufacture of vehicles those contracts will be coming to the caltrain boar

bogan there's been a lot of work done by mta including caravel, geary, columbus, polk, van ness, lombard, just all over the place. this has quite an impact on small business. one thing the mta seems to have neglected to do is an economic study on how it's affecting small business. i think we need to bring them over here and listen to what they are planning to do because from what we can see from other folks here from mission will be telling you more about it, but it deficient flitly is affecting small business negatively. i think we should have somebody from small business on the mta commission, so i would urge you to please tell them that we need to have someone from small business to be on their committee. if we're going to -- small business is affected by public transport. so once again will you please ask if we can have the small business speak for us small business. thank you. >> do we have any other members of the public who wish to speak on anything that is not on our agenda today? hello. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i actually just wanted to bring up one matter. i don't beli

bogan there's been a lot of work done by mta including caravel, geary, columbus, polk, van ness, lombard, just all over the place. this has quite an impact on small business. one thing the mta seems to have neglected to do is an economic study on how it's affecting small business. i think we need to bring them over here and listen to what they are planning to do because from what we can see from other folks here from mission will be telling you more about it, but it deficient flitly is affecting small business negatively. i think we should have somebody from small business on the mta commission, so i would urge you to please tell them that we need to have someone from small business to be on their committee. if we're going to -- small business is affected by public transport. so once again will you please ask if we can have the small business speak for us small business. thank you. >> do we have any other members of the public who wish to speak on anything that is not on our agenda today? hello. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i actually just wanted to bring up one matter. i don't beli

and pdrs citywide not just the eastern neighborhoods but we know that there small businesses think lombardhat feel threatened and chinatown that are deciphering and noah valley where i used to live has a huge number of retails they're afraid instantly changing over the main thing to brought to your attention rush to you push retail on the bottom of all the hoosiers some should be dedicated to pdr space that's what is lacking the city a lot of retail eventually empty maybe the rents are go high but a lot of the businesses are going under not a bad idea to consider others uses such pdrs thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners alison heath no secret we're slammed on potrero hill with the housing crisis with the housing crisis you've seen the displacement of pdr with potrero hill and showcase square experiencing a significant portion of the loss it is 7 short years lots of 60 percent of pdr that we've been projected to lose over 25 years at the same time that coastline and showcase square has unfortunate distinction of being the first to maximizing out on residential development the plan t

. >> i see maria lombard coming up. >> one vote one seat. >> thank you. >> okay commissioner peskin thankam chair colleagues ms. brown has appeared before this body when she was originally appoint the fact she's not here and seeking reappointment is kind of business as normal if someone wants to continue that seat and have the experience why change that out i know that the way this commission and this body has conducted itself over many, many years to keep the desires of the district supervisor with the brt with various district and appointees the pattern and practice of that committee as i said over a a long time to honor the wishes of the district supervisor i will vote to keep that seat vacant actually commissioner mar has a say. >> thank you commissioner farrell. >> just to be clear i agree with that sentiment did richmond seat we should respect the wishes of commissioner mar and i got the comments of someone that showed up i will be willing to give people a chance to come back but support someone from today that rolls through district 5 and i'm sure district 3 that's my inclination b

bogan there's been a lot of work done by mta including caravel, geary, columbus, polk, van ness, lombard, just all over the place. this has quite an impact on small business. one thing the mta seems to have neglected to do is an economic study on how it's affecting small business. i think we need to bring them over here and listen to what they are planning to do because from what we can see from other folks here from mission will be telling you more about it, but it deficient flitly is affecting small business negatively. i think we should have somebody from small business on the mta commission, so i would urge you to please tell them that we need to have someone from small business to be on their committee. if we're going to -- small business is affected by public transport. so once again will you please ask if we can have the small business speak for us small business. thank you. >> do we have any other members of the public who wish to speak on anything that is not on our agenda today? hello. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i actually just wanted to bring up one matter. i don't beli

travel the world, these people come from the airport, they park their car they come to the top of lombardps and they get out and come back and everything they own is gone. i cried with him as i took these reports. i see obviously since i was gone things have not gotten any better. unfortunately we can get into prop 47, we can get into all the reasons and all the white elephants that we can't talk about why this is going on. i also remember, if i'm not mistaken, i did a little testing many years ago takes about 8 seconds to get in and out of a car, to get in. so the one thing i will give you to take away is if you get out of your car, do not stand there and open your trunk and put your purse in your car. do not get out and put things in. go a few blocks before you stop whatever you have that you want to put in a trunk if you feel the need to, remember, it's not that hard to get in a trunk. so if you have to do it, do not do it where you are leaving your car. i sympathize with all of you who have that happen, believe me, it breaks my heart to see this happen in my city. >> thank you. any fu

. >> thank you very much this remains we had 11 lombard we had a building with a lot of work on the different levels and it was talked about a relocation and work was done the building i wanted to remind you of that i was speaking with community college but a multi unit building they were able to figure how to move people around the building that was mentioned just for . >> how did that workout. >> it worked out it worked out. >> believe it or not for everything so. >> all right. thank you. >> thank you. >> i have a question for mr. sanchez. >> is there a legal definition of a bedroom in terms of it hazard to have a closet. >> under the building code. >> oh. >> no single definition. >> no requirement of a closet. >> i don't think that is, we have lofts they're not considered bedrooms. >> commissioners joe duffy dbi luckily i anticipated this question. >> i'm sorry. >> no requirement for a closet the room can't be more than 7 feet and have to have an egress window and i checked the plans it shows a window in that room it which will be inspected by the fire and bring to your attention and the c