our side of masonic. and second i want to commend mta for recommending the most comprehensive outreach undertaken. it was almost like someone would have to decide not to

and nine times out of 10, i park on masonic. whether across the street or a block away or five blocks away. i park on masonic because there is no other place to park. is there no paid parking. the buildings in my area aren't single family homes. they are apartment

and nine times out of 10, i park on masonic. whether across the street or a block away or five blocks away. i park on masonic because there is no other place to park. is there no paid parking. the buildings in my area aren't single family homes. they are apartment buildings. which means even more cars in the area. the thought of having my neighbor's parking taken away scares me to death. and i think if you were faced with the same prospect you would be concerned too. so i think while changes do need to be made. and i wanted to say the statistics about parking. i think those are way off. and had i known of the other meetings going on, i would be at those too to voice my concern as well. i think that parking needs to be factored into this. and a lot of reports i have been reading, a lot of articles i have seen. seem to gloss over the fact that parking will be gone. and not just one spot [bell] not just five, but hundreds of parking spots. thank you. >> thank you. next. >> andrew narvag -- no, catherine orgman. followed by catherin

our side of masonic. and second i want to commend mta for recommending the most comprehensive outreach undertaken. it was almost like someone would have to decide not to hear about this to avoid the mailings and post cards and e-mails and door-to-door contact. and i want to mention about the north panhandle neighborhood group. with they took a survey of the residents, 80% of the people supported. >> elias sumari. the last person that submitted a card. >> i am elias and i bike on masonic going to trader joes and places north of presidio. it's crazy and scary and i try to avoid it. but most of the time i try to avoid it. sometimes i ride on the sidewalk because i am afraid. someone said she is scared to death to lose the parking. and i am scared to ride on it, anyone with a parking as a fundamental right, shouldn't be living in san francisco. i am excited to see the changes after all of these years. i guess that's it. >> thank you. >> any other member of the public wishes to address the board that has not s

and every now and then i take the 43 masonic bus. i think i avail myself of all transportation options. and i think this is an excellent plan. i will speak first as a bicyclist. i have been living in the neighborhood 15 years. and during that time bicycle transportation has definitely improved a lot. and i thank you for your part in that. i now have great ways to go east, south and west. unfortunately north the only real way to go is masonic. and as others have mentioned, it's unsafe and scary. i too ride on the sidewalk at night. i don't like riding on the sidewalk, but i do not want to take my life into my hands. so you will probably hear from plenty of people telling you it's necessary for cyclists. that's a no-brainer. as a car driver i have to go that way sometimes. and as was mentioned in the presentation [bell] it's a very short stretch. if traffic slows down it's not going to significantly reduce people's travel time. and frankly, i would rather be on a pleasant street when i am in my car. i sometimes go out of my way to driv

our address is 1450 masonic avenue. -- photographed our home from masonic and buena vista park.now the view from buena vista park is not obstructed. that would change considerably with the proposed addition. we frequently travel around the world and are constantly shocked to see cities filled with cubed that look awful and makes one wonder how one finds the courage of living in such ugly environments. we believe in a beautiful city which is quite unique. clearly it is only protected by citizens and a planning process that ought to prevent every piece officerland turning into a cubic tower. we live intersection to the a beautiful park where we, our visitors and neighbors can walk and have a nice view of the city and out to the ocean. walking on the path in the park it is obvious 611 buena vista west is a giant but suggested additional construction would make it obnoxiously so. butting next to the the beautiful homes on either side. for us personally it will change the feel and privacy of our backyard. the proposed construction represents an unacceptable foreign tower in the local

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this is going in before the major masonic upgrade project. design should be completed by june of 2013, construction completed by september of 2014. again, this is an upgrade for the pedestrian signal extending [speaker not understood], things of that nature. finally new signal contract, these are brand-new traffic signals. the construction is near completion. i believe they're what we call punch list items. the signals aren't up and activated and moving forward we should be seeing a close out from this fairly soon. franklin and goff improvement, this is to install a suite of traffic signal improvements along the full extent of franklin and goff. goff is currently completed. and franklin street is about 97% complete and the design, they're looking to move forward the construction contract very soon. that will be coordinated with full repaving of franklin street and installation of pedestrian [speaker not understood] along the full franklin street corridor. final project reporting on district 5 is a market haight street transit program. [speake

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

the first convention was the anti-mason party and their whole purpose in being was the masons, still around today, they felt the masons were controlling the government and they wanted anyone that was a mason to be removed from public office so that was their single issue und they met in baltimore at a building called the athenaeum on st. paul street and nominated william wort, former attorney general of the united states and he was in baltimore and familiar with the convention. he wrote them a letter the same day and was glad to accept the nomination but he was a mason and offered them a way out. had to tell them beforehand and it was an embarrassing situation and they decided to stick with him as the nominee of their party. were women at these conventions ever? >> not certainly as active participants. they were there as observers. most of the conventions had galleries above the convention floor and special sections for the women to appear. sometimes gentlemen could have preferred seating. you could sit on the bench if you brought a woman with you so one of the conventions, stories a

george mason did not throw a multi-dimension to the works.what he did as he made it clear. >> he didn't filibuster. >> he made it absolutely clear. he thought you needed a bill of rights. he was not a politician. he was not into making a lot of friends and allies. he was going to argue this point man he was going to return home. i happen to think that this is pretty effect is. remember, he was very helpful in developing the constitution with a strong national government. but he wanted to build this wall to make it clear that that did not exist in sort of a contradiction or opposition to these individual rights. again, he wasn't cynical. he wasn't an obstructionist, but he was rightly adamant that these protections list. >> maybe will start to move forward in time with your permission. >> the people who oppose the declaration of independence come you never hear again. they're basically cast politically into the void. the people who oppose the constitution think it could be better so than anti-federalist, they are not cast out. to become presid

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so it was useful that you had a george mason critique. >> george mason, i think george mason seemed like a pretty stubborn guy. the other thing was that we know, i think that he made it clear. he did not undermine the process you go back and you look at the last days of the convention, george mason did not throw a malted -- monkey wrench into the works. made it absolutely clear. is not a politician. he has -- he was not into making a lot of friends and allies. you is calling to argue this point. he was calling to return the government. i happen to think that that was pretty effective. he wasn't against -- remember, he was very helpful in developing the constitution. a strong national government. the that he wanted to build and make it clear that that did not exist in contradiction or in a position of these individual rights. again, he was a cynical. he wasn't an obstruction, but he was, i think, adamant that these protections exist. >> here's one way of putting that. they are cast a politically into the void. people who oppose the constitution, it could be better still. on to a federalis

i don't take masons motives were bad. you could say he was it the dow were banned always upset but he contributed. washington and did not want to go. maybe he wanted to make money. but he contributed. we should look at this more not like warring factions but people who was engaged but as lincoln left us we may disagree but to their number of members of the court i on this way, way think eight remember wants to make it work. they don't agree with each other but somehow they agreed this is more important to and we are. yes. i am a link in person. of frederick douglass% and property washington%. i grew up loving these feeble and i will go to my grave. i want you to st. of a little black kid and you see pictures of the great emancipate. booker t. washington. frederick douglass. did you the be deployed. george washington. do see what i am saying? this is your life. and what you bring to the court? the sense not the ambition but obligation to fulfill what they started. is it hard? sometimes. is it disagreeable? sometimes. is it

that is 520 mason st.. you can see it on the screen. it is also equipped with everything you need for electric vehicles, charging possibilities. you also have the drive now program there, valet service. $10 is a good price, i think, so let's consider booking mason street. here you can see, congratulations, you receive the best offer. by chance, we even have a special going on today. just by chance. if you will press the confirmed button, you will have booked the first parking spot on park now. here you can see, all you need is this qr code to enter the parking garage. the spot will be reserved for you. no more hassling with money. >> fantastic. >> thank you very much. >> congratulations. >> thank you. [applause] >> all i want to say is, if there any questions after that great explanation, we do have some speakers here for a few moments to answer any questions, so please feel free to ask questions around the cars, if you would like. thank you very much. [applause] >> hello, i am with the recreation and parks department. we are featuring

jacob kirkegaard at george mason university, thank you very much. >> my pleasure. >> woodruff: stillo come on the "newshour": the battle for young voters in ohio; the push to get ballots cast early; the syrian refugee crisis in turkey; the teacher of the year and crooner andy williams. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the unrest in europe unsettled wall street as well, and stocks struggled in vain to prevent another day of losses. the dow jones industrial average was down 44 points to close at 13,413. the nasdaq fell 24 points to close at 3,093. two massive explosions rocked syria's army command center in damascus today, killing four guards. it was a strike at a key symbol of the regime and demonstrated again, the reach of the rebels. we have a report from bill neely of "independent television news" in damascus. >> reporter: syrian troops show their loyalty and their relief. some don't bother to chant. they've just survived a direct attack on army headquarters. two bombs striking the very heart of the regime's power. one bomb exploded ins

i'm anthony mason. >>> i'm rebecca jarvis. here a few of the stories we'll be looking at on "cbs this morning" saturday. >>> 59 days until the election. and there's no talk of a convention bounce. instead, a disappointing jobs report has both candidates telling us only they can get us back to work. >>> an 85 mile an hour speed limit on a texas toll road. authorities say it's a good way to raise money. but will it cost more in lives? >>> some of the biggest names in tech race their cutting-edge product to the market. nokia, google trying to beat apple. >> the stars of tv, film and theater, take the stage together fighting back for a great cause. we'll look as barry, hanks, swichlt and paltrow stand up for cancer. >>> all that and so much more on "cbs this morning saturday." >>> all that and so much more on "cbs this morning saturday." september 8, 2012. captioning funded by cbs >>> good saturday morning to you anthony. >> welcome to the weekend. >> welcome to the weekend. it's been a couple of weeks of h

i hope you look at no turn restriction on the northbound masonic at feld. i think that will cause congestion. i want to address that and note that. >> we have a motion and second to approve the resolution as amended. >> aye. >> ayes have it. thank you. >> item 13, approving proposed policies. >> there are no speakering cards. whereas clause the word proposed has removed from the fifth, sixth, seventh language whereas clauses. inserting language for policy. the whereas clause would read, the management of policies that affirm existing parking management practices and continues as is. and deleting the word "proposed" out of sixth whereas. and on the eighth whereas and the language inserting: as a separate policy proposal. and the language is the same. mta will consider reform to better reflect the needs. and then with read to the result clause. deleting the words "approved the proposed" and inserting the affirmed parking policy for approving for parking management. >> deal with the amendment first. does a member of the board. >> motion to approve. >> second.

here today, i'm here today to talk about holiday plaza and the block from mason to market street. and this is this block here. this block is a part of the tenderloin, not union square. it is a part of the district, if you look at your maps, you'll see these are the boundaries of the central market c.b.d. and, this block contains the bristol hotel at 56 mason and many social services organizations at 944 market, which is right here. which i have to be a volunteer at one of those offices. please, so please place this block back into district six where it belongs. again for the audience out there in never, neverland, here again is another map of the market c.b.d. and the block that we're talking about. and here is the actual description of the -- all this stuff is up on the screen up there. >> oh, because they moved it down stairs. >> all right, but anyway -- >> there it is. >> in closing, i would like to ask you to please keep district five in laguna. there are many reasons for this. ok, i can't multitask either. >> thank you very much, sir. >> hi, i'm lawrence lee from the lower ei

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