you own lake merced. i have submitted megan opus last week, with a proposed mou i don't expect you to adopt them but if you want to, surprise me. they are ugly. quickly, the solution at lake merced is for puc to take charge. bring back the concessionaire bailout in 1999, a company called urban park concessionaire. i stayed in touch with them, and they would consider coming back on two conditions. one they don't start off with a traditional percentage of the profit. they know there ain't going to be any gross. number two, is highly unlikely that urban park come back unless only one san francisco agency they have to deal with. and finally 12 months ago, november, 2011, i suggested that you folks have a workshop. two hours. three hours. four hours. and learn about your lake. and i remember commissioner moran at least, you didn't sniff it, you said you may want to consider that down the road. i implore you to spend time and learn about lake merced. and look at what my

i advocated strongly for lake merced money. nothing happened. 2010, again advocacy, and i think largely because i banging them that there is $2 million. and assurances at that time, that you, the owners of the property about that $2 million. the regional water quality board asked this commission for a work plan for the site, meaning the gun club and characterization and implementation. that was 21 years ago. 21 years ago. there is still no plan and schedule. talking about a year-and-a-half from now. staff has said it will be eight to 10 years for a gun club site remediation and boat house. that's too much time for me. i have made a personal decision i will only focus now on the remaining water issues. judge cahill mediation, and i encourage you to get a full-time manager out there. there are too many issues at that lake. that steve ritchie can't deal with. i am not interested any more in the mou. i am not interested in the $2 million i helped get for the bond. i am not interested in the watershed report. i am not interested in

the park merced merchant as the associations, the neighborhood association agree that 33 cambon would be an ideal location. my clients and i appreciate the law. we understand the importance of this type of structure to keep the inadvertent interaction of these two things from coming into each other. but more important than feet, is the way that the collective is operated. first and foremost of you have to have a professional and non-discrete location, storefront and what that is what they have. the second most important thing is to maintain impeccable security. i represent collectives regularly all throughout the state and the way you get into trouble is by having a minor get into your collective. having a minor end up with your medicine, and we agree that is a huge problem. that problem is not made any less safe by this arbitrary 1,000' requirement. so in closing, i humbling request that you grant -- that you find that mr. sanchez abused his discretion by issuing the determination that 33 cambon site is not a suitable site for a collective. nowadays the biggest problem i encounter is

. >> thank you. what i said i was at the merced playground and unable to walk on my own and find cambon. it's not -- it's not an easy path to walk, although some computer systems it's .5 miles to walk. i guess i'm going to lean on what you said is that the parcel containing the mcd, the parcel could be -- the leasehold, the space that we leased for this project is a parcel of land. and if you measure from the parcel of land where the mcd is to be located, and you measure to the merced heights playground, it's over a thousand feet. it would be unfair to tether the entire stripmall. it just doesn't make sense to attribute the space to the mcd for the entire parcel, the parcel we leased is where the mcd will be and as a result we are outside lient you went the route of a dr request? >> that is correct. >> okay. i don't have any further questions for now. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> before we hear from the zoning administrator, i just want to see if there is anyone representing the subject property owner, who is also considered a party to this appeal? that person is not in the room. mr.

quickly on the lake merced item. i will ask staff, because commissioner caen is our expert on this assets. and the nature with our commission and the recreation and park's commission warrants refreshing our recollection and making transparent how we deal with real estate when we have those unique relationships. i hope we get a chance to see that policy again. and obviously we did discuss the mou but that was prior to i guess roughly $200 million bond that just passed. it's good to get back on the agenda. i have a speaker card here but i see mr. brooks. >> i did want to speak to had item, eric brooks for the san francisco green party. i would reiterate what the other speakers said and dovetail off of commissioner. that the utilities commission has in its possession, real estate, but not just real estate but something that is part of the watershed ecosystem in the bay area. that's how this property should be treated. just like all parts of hetch hetchy in the mountains. we need to treat it the same way. and along those

and to hear and maybe the target and focus is lake merced. it's an opportunity for a site visit but an opportunity to be in that neighborhood and have a puc meeting out in the city somewhere, besides city hall. i would support that and hope that maybe we could calendar that in the not too distance future. and i would like to hear the response from steve and the comments of mou. >> i won't respond to all comments because so many. but i will make one comment about the schedule for the john muir property. when in the public meeting and talked about the possibility of a new boat house. and i said that may take eight years, and it was responded that no three times than that. it takes time in san francisco. and it's hard to do something. what happens to the john muir property we expect an idea what have the clean-up will be in a year or year-and-a-half. and as that starts to become clear, the commission can look at what do with the property. we won't wait eight years to decide what to do with the property. as far as the mou, in may when we talked a

if park merced had undergone this -- if this legislation had been in place when park merced was first a twinkle in the eye, everybody weighed in on it with approval because it was all two stories and it fit in the good earn apartments that are there now. however, at the end its was power buildings and now is undergoing litigation. * fit in with the garden apartments there is one instance, a very clear example what would change had this been in place or had it not been in place. i also find this ironic that this legislation is purported by its author to be open and extended in its notice when, as others have noted, its notice was buried at the end of november. it wasn't even noted that it was going to be c-e-q-a or had to do with any of the other kind of changes that are in it. so, we urge you again to strongly disapprove this proposal when you send your recommendation to the board of supervisors. thank you so much. >> let me call a couple more names. lynn gavin. matt reagan. joan wood. brent platter. tim colin. and shannon gallagher. >>> commissioners, i'm arthur feinstein. i'm chair

for medical cannabis dispensary and found that the property was located within a thousand fee of merced playground that contains a recreation center serving people underage 18 years of age. on march 8th, 2012 mr. girardi requested the possibility of locating a mcd. and we issued a letter of determination stating it was within a thousand feet. i would note that there was a discretionary review filed that was filed after the letter of determination was submitted. it was filed march 16th, 2012, canceled the same day that the letter of determination was issued. the letter of determination as standard boil plate language saying that if you found this is an abuse of discretion -- so the letter of determination was requested on june 15th we received another letter of determination request that had slightly different argument so i think that is not in dispute, what is in student is the appellant would like or finds there is an error or abuse in discretion in terming section 790-14 1 and i would argue that the language and it states that the parcel containing an mcd cannot be located within a th

i bring in question park merced which i represent [speaker not understood], where 8900 people are at risk because of a lack of proper c-e-q-a analysis, a lack of assessment of affordability. and because supervisor wiener was called to account by the supervisors sunshine ordinance task force for a lack of allowing public comment after, in effect, supervisorial amendments were processed. he is repeatedly aware of abridging law and he's doing it again. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >>> my name is michael russem, i'm a member of the park merced action coalition and a resident in the garden apartments there. i am totally opposed to supervisor wiener's attempt to curtail the rights of citizens such as myself and my family to be adequately notified of threats to our well-being, to be heard about our objections [speaker not understood], and to be franchised in a democratic process. c-e-q-a has assisted that would allow us to have some say about developments that would harm us. the demolition of my home in park merced, the loss of our open space, trees, and safe play areas for our child

and the funding for lake merced. and a little about the future. first on the hardening boat house, we are engaged in a project to restore the first floor of the boat house, we are providing $1 million for rudimentary clean up. we are substantially complete as of last friday. we have a few doors to install. but we have a presentable facility. and phase 2 with rec and park and for supervisor elsbernd to get additional funds for $1 million to make that space ultimately usable. that would include space for displays and exercise room and facility for coffee and fishing tackle. we expect that to be complete by may 1 of the coming year. i want to show the progress. this is the way that the boat house looked about a year-and-a-half ago. kind of dinghy, run down. not something to be proud of. nor the bathrooms there. it was kind of a wreck. here is a third photo of the top of the roof. and i will direct your attention to the corner of the lake, where there is a piece of wood floating. but the boat house was in sad shape. we have put a new roof on it. addit

and the funding for lake merced. and a little about the future. first on the hardening boat house, we are engaged in a project to restore the first floor of the boat house, we are providing $1 million for rudimentary clean up. we are substantially complete as of last friday. we have a few doors to install. but we have a presentable facility. and phase 2 with rec and park and for supervisor elsbernd to get additional funds for $1 million to me

. >> lake merced had a high water level. since we paid over much of the city, the water levels have dropped, but at one time, the late actually trade out into the ocean approximately where the dog diner is that now. somewhere in the 1870's, they saw the damage at the water in the late so it did not exit out uncontrolled, and for 10 years, people were drinking lake merced water as drinking water. it is much bigger, too. if you go to san francisco state, the practice will appeal this part of the lake. i do daily city, that was part of the lake. it was huge. >> the southern area [inaudible] but there is a different area. >> there was a creek that came down basically through west portal and said that particular lake. >> that was filled in when they develop west portal, and they had the brilliant idea when they dug but,, they needed a place to put it, so they build the creek in with the tunnel muck. >> you can see in 1910, we are talking about after the earthquake, but outer richmond is still pretty sparsely settled. >> or anyone

one of these women was my grandmother, merced moynihan. in la dominica, one of the best cafes in the world, located on oreilly street, where my grandparents met. ticket to ride, i talk about my family history but after they marry -- i am reading a little from the book -- my grandparents were at the center of many fascinating things. i found myself at el centro, the literary and musical gatherings. their house on calle mercades became a cultural cross roads with the traffic of foreigners created a new inspired geography. they travel everywhere. my grandmother, merced, nina played the piano and read poems, while edward read the poems besides playing the fiddle and violin, behaved like an avant garde composer, moving around furniture. according to the journalist were a dynamic duo that rescued the famous hotel sevilla from dereliction in 1919. they also constructed the biltmore neighborhood where many irish american families have homes. when i said irish americans, i go back to the americas, irish-spanish americans and french-irish, et cetera

that applies to bayview hunters point and that applies to park merced, all three projects which i have strong objections to. and if that is an indication of what would happen is the time frame would be moved earlier, i would personally say let's not go there. >> maybe i can correct what may be a misunderstanding. in this case the c-e-q-a certification and the last minute changes, the approval that happened at the last hearing would be considered the first approval hearing because that's when you have both a valid c-e-q-a document and you have the first approval with that valid c-e-q-a document. >> the e-i-r was never adjusted to reflect those changes. and there was no way until you basically reconsidered the e-i-r from square 1 and that was never done. >> commissioner borden. >> maybe we can make a recommendation. i think that there is a lot of different details that werer we're not in a position to say approve with these modifications, but i think we can make a recommendation to the supervisor saying we like, for example, we like the streamline board processes and kind of the enumerat

as a former resident of park merced, it was not disclosed to me they wanted to demolish the apartment that i was living in. in fact, they wrongfully evicted me because i became very outspoken about my home and they should have never done that. they should have never done that. and, so, now we are in federal court. and i intend to fight park merced, [speaker not understood], seth malon, city and county of san francisco with every breath in my body and i have a very big family. you need to think about this and it needs to be -- give all the people the opportunity to participate. thank you. >> let me call some more names. justin benwan, glenn mecklin, judith holiam, ha -- hiroshi fakuda, [speaker not understood], ask espinola jackson, and eric brooks. >>> good afternoon, commissioners. star child, libertarian party in san francisco. like the representative from the sierra club, our organization was not consulted or notified about this. we would like to be considered a stakeholder included in the conversation. i was struck by, you know, a couple of the staffers who spoke. one of them said

apparently there is some sort of a rescue and you can use other roots to -- routes, you can use lake mercedaround this problem. let's move on to steve. >> our weak system is not going to do much but it will increase clouds and westerly winds and some light rain and cold rain comes in tonight and early tomorrow morning. this is not a big rain producer but there is a lot of cold air behind it. >>> time now 5:27 massive protests in michigan and the critics say it would weaken the power of unions. >>> an oakland business goes up in flames for the second time in months. >>> plus a pipe bomb investigation in pleasant hill, the message parents are hearing from the school superintendent. $ . >>> good morning, it is december 11th, i am dave clark. >> and i am pam cook, time now is 5:30, we definitely feel it getting colder, let's go to steve. >>> it's cold out there for some, upper 20s and 30s all over the bay and an increase in fog and also on the coast means 50s and 60s or low 60s, here is sal. >>> good morning, traffic is moving well as you come to the willow pass grade with no major problems and

las crías tratan instintivamente de nadar, pero están a merced de las corrientes.revive y es una hembra en 20 años hará el viaje de regreso guiada por sentidos magnéticos, el olor, e inclusive la dirección de las olas en la superficie del mar. hawái es la única cadena de islas tropicales en el pacífico norte, los animales migratorios que buscan un lugar para reproducirse generalmente tienen que venir aquí: aves, tortugas y ballenas jorobadas. [ballenas cantando] uuu, uiii... esta madre ha estado alimentando a su cría ya desde hace algún tiempo, vino a estas cálidas aguas para parir y pasar los meses invernales con otras jorobadas. un macho la observa desde abajo. cánticos de cortejo llenan el océano, pueden oírse a cientos de kilómetros de distancia con sus complicados versos que cambian cada año embellecidos por los machos. [ballenas cantan] uuu, uiii... pero tan lejos de las corrientes polares hay muy poco alimento para las ballenas y cuando esta cría deje de mamar las ballenas se irán a su hogar ártico para alimentarse. con la llegada de la primavera las jorobad

they are trapping chinook salmon in this part of the river near merced in an effort to restore theseto a river that's being brought back to life. >> this is an important milestone in the san joaquin river conservation program. >> he explains this is part of a decades long effort to restore the san joaquin river, which used to be the home waters for chinook salmon. old-timers who grew up on the river say the spring salmon runs were something to see. >> you could run across their backs and not touch the water. >> he is talking about gravely ford. this is that part now. it's dried up, been like this for most of the past 60 years. ever since the dam was built in the 1940s to block up the san joaquin and to divert the river water into channels to irrigate central valley farms from bakersfield and on. the fish just weren't that big of a consideration. but in 1988 the salmon caught a break. the natural resources defense council led a coalition of environmental efforts and fishermen in a lawsuit against the government-run dam and the water district and in 2006 they reach a settlement. now th

. >> many tried their best to get through the day, crews are in full force since the merc -- early morning hours anticipating power outages. by getting ahead of the wind, power outages were capped at a minimum. >> the fact we have them ready is what is helping us to get all of the customer's back on as quickly as we can. >> many agree cold temperatures during the holiday season tend to go hand in hand. >> it is not winter without the cold. >> you should never assume they know there is a powder -- a power outage. if you lose your electricity, and give them a call. >> thank you. some good news for people who love the winter. maryland to ski resort will remain open. it has announced it is under new management. visitors will still see some familiar faces. it will now offer ski and snowboard rentals and in the coming months they hope to improve other activities including golf, fishing, and mountain biking. the three officers are being held as heroes after polling a man from a burning car. the man was driving in the area of bethlehem boulevard this morning when he lost control of his truck. when

a very foggy start from fresno through mercedin to -- merced in to modesto.he winds will be out of the northeast. offshore, 5 to 15 miles per hour. 67 degrees in santa rosa. so just a tad cooler than today. additional cooling but the offshore flow continues on tuesday. then really in and out of rain showers on wednesday all the way through sunday, which means we could see rain showers this time next week for raiders. >>>ee if the raiders can get back on track. how did the seahawks score 58 points today against the cardinals? did colin kaepernick do enough? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, with road games in new engld and seattle in the next two >> good day to watch the 9ers play and frank gordon, the record books. >> the division is going to get really interesting in the next couple weeks. the 9ers have road games in new england, seattle, in the next two weeks. the san francisco 49ers could not let today's game against miami slip away. colin kaepernick looking to keep them in control. 6-3 san francisco in the 3rd quarter. punts from the shade in to the sun. can't come

we are scanning the skies within a 132-mile radius from mount vaca all the way south and east in merced. where the rain? snow. now beginning to fall in the mount shasta area. today we saw mostly cloudy skies in the afternoon hours and peaked in the mid-50s at the coast to 64 degrees in san jose. san francisco 53 on the other side of the bridge due east at 55 in oakland. san jose bright lights, cloud cover, breezy winds out of the northwest at 17 currently 57 degrees. your weather headlines, rain, it's back in the weather picture. tomorrow, spotty showers. and then a very active 10-day forecast. wait until you see our pinpoint outlet. first, tonight, overnight, not as cold due to the blanket of clouds into the 40s but this is a cold front so we have a push of colder air all associated with it that will take a nosedive into the bay area. and we will not climb out of the 50s tomorrow. tonight the leading edge of the stadium by 8:00 in santa rosa 11:00 tonight over the central bay, and not yet reaching san jose until midnight. there's your morning commute a little sloppy with a hit-and- mis

. >> controversy on the campus of merced where student organization hosted a sex toy event. health group gets 6 66,000 dollars each year from student fee. when it sponsored the seminar promoted on facebook contradict argue it was a waste of money during a time when tuition has sky rocketed. the organizers said the event served an important purpose. >> things that students don't know about sex toy. safety measures they should take beforehand and we thought it was really vital important to know that. come to funding the uc asks for more when money spent on things like this it sound like maybe they are not really thinking. getting the party straight coming to spending. >> spokesperson says administrator oversee the group and can prevent any programs considered inappropriate. >>> apple announced ill will bring computer manufacturing back to the u.s. beginning next year. the company has been criticized for the working conditions in some of the chinese plants that make i-phone and other devices. cook says apple is investing 100 million dollars to build some of the mack computers i

then throughout sacramento and stockton, a foggy start in fresno, merced and modesto and manteca, 50rees in tahoe and dipping down to 19 degrees, cold enough to make the snow, 8 inches of snow anticipated by wednesday. 60s across the board anywhere from the coast through the avenues, 66 in sunnyvale, these temperatures all very uniform due to the northeast breeze 5 to 15 miles per hour, 67 degrees outside number, brentwood, tracy, oakley 67 degrees, danville and blackhawk mid-and high 60s and santa rosa, slightly cooler than today but still above average. here's a look at the extended forecast, albeit cooler tuesday the offshore flow continues until we caught up tuesday night. there's 3/4-inch of rain on wednesday's forecast. we begin to dry out thursday and daily chances of rain friday through sunday and as we begin to slide towards christmas it looks like we're in and out of rain. christmas looks dry during the day put rain all the days leading up -- but rain all the days leading up to it. >>> a group of women was shocked and appalled about their bill at a restaurant in the central

. >> controversy on the campus of merced where student organization hosted a sex toy event. health group gets 6 66,000 dollars each year from student fee. when it sponsored the seminar promoted on facebook contradict argue it was a waste of money during a time when tuition has sky rocketed. the organizers said the event served an important purpose. >> things that students don't know about sex toy. safety measures they should take beforehand and we thought it was really vital important to know that. come to funding the uc asks for more when money spent on things like this it sound like maybe they are not really thinking. getting the party straight coming to spending. >> spokesperson says administrator oversee the group and can prevent any programs considered inappropriate. >>> apple announced ill will bring computer manufacturing back to the u.s. beginning next year. the company has been criticized for the working conditions in some of the chinese plants that make i-phone and other devices. cook says apple is investing 100 million dollars to build some of the mack computers i

i'd like to contrast to park merced where we had an historic open space of significant importance designed by a noted landscape architect by which the arguments of preserving open space relative to changes were never discussed. so, those two projects came in mind to me as the ultimate contradiction with how we look at open space we want to maintain or open space where we discretely insert an element, but still maintain more contemporary interpretation or enhancement of open space. and the way i see it, proposed by what's in front of us. i do believe that the quality of the open space, the larger experience, as one of the applicants described, meeting nature and experiencing wildlife coming through, is not diminished or eliminated by what's proposed here. the building as an architectural expression seems to my eyes what is in front of me here quite compatible, enhancing and respectful of what is there. it is not trying to take larger building massing, different types of stepping, excessive height or any of those things. it's basically matches or interprets it in a contemporary way. so, i my

all the example was a park merced treasure island. the process that went on -- >> right, right. just in general. >> would not be changed. [multiple voices] >> so, e-i-r is prepared, it's published. there is a hearing at this body. there is comments and responses. there's a -- >> my only question to you, so, the certification process would still have to happen -- that hearing to certify or not to certify, presumably we'd have to certify the document before it could go to the board -- >> that's correct. the only thing that changes on this proposal, department staff has raised some reservations about this proposal in terms of projects where the board is the ultimate decision maker in terms of process. you know, those concerns are over the fact there isn't a briefing, if you want to call it that. someone can bring a matter of c-e-q-a to the board without having submittal of appeal process. supervisor wiener called it kind of automatic appeal right. on balance, our judgment is that given some of the procedural games that are played at the board around something being calendared and t