commissioner moore? commissioner moore: could they answer the questions of the neighborhood? >> sure. mr. milne mention the legal workshop. dbi filed a notice on the project, because apparently the previous owner had started work based on an interior model permits and it was demolished. that was back in 2004. we had an extensive discussion with dbi and received documentation that it is not illegal to proceed in alterations. since the new owners purchased the building, they decided to withdraw the alteration permit and file for a demolition permit just to be forthright about what is actually going to happen here. the building as it stands now cannot be repaired and replaced. they filed their permits and a new construction permits. i will be happy to answer any questions you may have. commissioner moore: thank you for that answer. i think it really gets to the quarter. well i normally would -- while i would normally hesitate to permit a demolition, it seems to be the best and most expedient way to get a family home in here. i do not find anything extraordinary about what is in

commissioner moore:? >> aye. >> commissioner moore:? >> aye. >> thank you, commissioners, that motion passed unanimously. commissioners, you are now on item number 12, case number 2011.0213 for 666 haight street. president olague: i don't see staff here. should we go ahead and -- they're not here. oh, ok. yes. staff is here. thank you. >> sorry about that, good afternoon, president olague and members of the commission. i'm from the department staff. item before you is for request for use authorization. the proposal is to amend conditions of the approval attached to motion 16327 to allow the addition of an outdoor activity here to an existing full-service restaurant doing business as katz, located in the rear yard of a two-storied mixed use building within the nc1 neighborhood commercial zoning district and 40x height and bulk district. they want to add tables and chairs to accommodate up to 12 restaurant patrons on approximately 380 square foot patio within the rear yard of the restaurant. the existing rear yard sursurrounding the patio

now, let's talk about howard moore, jr. who was there on the left. howard moore, jr. was snakes general counsel. he was a native son of atlanta. he had been inspired to attend law school when thurgood marshall came to atlanta and wowed the crowd at a speech. moore said to himself i can talk like that. and so he could. he was very eloquent. but howard moore just like a. t. walden before him, and other ambitious african-americans had to go out of state to law school. that was because at the time he was excluded from the university of georgia because of his race. he went up north to boston university, and when he graduated he came back to georgia. he really wanted to be a member of the georgia bar and to practice in his home state and city. he joined the bar in 1962, and when he did he was only the 10th full-time black lawyer practicing. not in atlanta, but in the entire state of georgia, which might strike you as pretty incredible. those numbers by the way didn't improve very much until the 1970s. once he joined the bar he went to work for donald hollowell who is there

although -- although hollowell told moore he was a lawyer and moore, when he said this, that's bull. i think he said something a little bit more colorful. [laughter] >> fortunately, he said it to himself and got himself a mentor. the point is black lawyers were very, very rare. it was inconceivable a black man could be a lawyer at that time. nevertheless, more went on to make a tremendous impact in the law. as sncc's general counsel he represented the three movements the civil rights movement, the antipoverty movement and then the peace movement. he filed actions that spanned substantive areas of law. so he litigated housing cases for impoverished clients who were subjected to summary evictions. he got to know these clients because sncc, these students in the atlanta movement, worked with -- in atlanta's ghettos trying to help people who were poor find a way out of those conditions. the students helped people objected social services, balanced budgets, all sorts of matters and moore handled related legal cases. he also worked on behalf of contentious objectors who were anxious to avo

seeing none, commissioner moore. commissioner moore: i move to support the department's recommendation to revoke. commissioner borden: second. secretary avery: on the motion for revocation -- [roll-call vote] secretary avery: thank you, commissioners, that motion passed unanimously. you are now on item number eight, case number 2011.0503b, 524 howard street. >> good afternoon. before you today is one additional and final item related to a previous office allocation granted to an office development project located at 524 howard street. it was approved in 1989 as a 23- story building with two of thousands were feet of office space and 45,000 square feet of retail space -- with 200,000 feet of office space and 45,000 square feet of retail space. product received a site permit, but the sponsor did not pursue any building permits or agenda and the project has been inactive since 2007. on march 24 of this year, staff presented to the commission a history of office allocations to the project. at that time, the commission re

commissioner moore: i have one question. i have one question with respect to page 3, second bullet point. you are saying that several individual properties were incorrectly zoned and stand out from the properties that surround them. there is no map for us to see that. were those properties which were initial -- which were originally holding back? i do recall we had several properties who had issue with rezoning as we did it. there were lots of discussions on the type of new zoning categories. i would just like for my own edification like to know which parcel, if you know by any chance. we do have a map. it is pretty sketchy, the parcels we are talking about resuming. -- rezoning. that is because there were turned into condos. it is divided into how many condos are created and the original block number disappears, in effect. we had rezoned the block, and when the -- we had rezoned the lot and when the condos were created, the owners did not get the information. when the underlying parcel disappeared, we lost the rezoning, in

president olague: commissioner moore? commissioner moore: my questions are very much along the lines of commissioner sugaya, that we really want to move away from glass as kind of a context chull friendly material. glass is really not a substitute for properly designed balcony railing. i think whatever the department already commented on is what i would support and that is anything from flats to property spaceed -- pickets, whatever, rails, pickets, whatever, would be the recommendation here. so glass is really something we do not want to do. had the department specifically recommended a choice of alternatives? >> for this particular project, new york city because it's an abbreviated d.r. and it's not considered exceptional or extraordinary. however, if you wish to propose an option, we would -- president olague: take d.r. and propose additional materials if you would like. commissioner moore: then we would do that and make a recommendation on the proper teement of the balcony railing. >> would you propose, i believe slab

commissioner moore? commissioner moore: we have a letter written by the historic preservation commission dated march 23, 2011, regarding the draft eir. could you comment on your response? >> yes, you can see and the response to comment number 7 through 14, and then additionally in, it 21 through 22, they range from cultural resources and alternatives. i could go through every one of those, or if you have a specific one? commissioner moore: no, i just wanted to make sure that since this is an end historic district, it takes special knowledge to pick out the issues, that this has been done and a satisfactory way. president olague: commissioners? commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: i know about five years ago we dealt with a project in this area that was never realized. i assume since this is a different project, in case the public has a different questions, we need a different environmental impact report is that. it was never finalized? >> yes, that was the project at pier 32. commissioner antoni

. >> commissioner moore. commissioner moore: thank you, commissioners, miguel, borden, fong and sugaya. i think we're all building on the similar line of arguments. i look at cmpc really more like a development transaction, i have to be really plain about that. because if cmpc would indeed not eliminate three additional or four additional institutions, but would build a hospital just on their own for the very purpose which they seem to be postulatting would be fine for me. but since they're choosing to somewhat turn the existing health care system in this city upside down, i think we have all the right for every possible scrutiny and every possible ability to ask what normally a developer would have to do is build a large, oversized building for all the reasons which ms. hester and all of you have pretty much outlined. so i feel we're in a strong position, not at all intimidated by making it clear that the expectation of the minimum of what they should be asking for. the transformational impact of the distric

commissioner moore? don't know? commissioner moore: [inaudible] commissioner borden: aye. commissioner moore:. commissioner sugaya:. commissioner miguel:. commissioner olague: thank you, commissioners. that item has been continued. you are now on general public comment. is there any general public, items on today's agenda? seeing none, general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned. thank you. 6:14 please tell me somebody didn't just drop th there? ...it's like a foot away from the trash can. man, i'm like this close to throwing it away myself. i don't blame you. i mean who would... don't just take a stand, act. >> welcome, everybody. to the 2011 justice summit by the book. i'm so excited to be here. you know, we've been doing these summits now for seven years, but this by far is the most exciting summit. i cannot wait to hear the panelists that we have today. we're going to be delving in to some of the most critical issues affecting the criminal justice system at this time. and we're going to talk about, what is justice and what it means. you know, plateo s

commissioner moore: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. commissioner olague: aye. >> thank you, commissioners. the item has been continued to september 15. public hearing remains open. commissioners, you are now at commissioners' questions and matters. commissioner antonini: just a few comments and some questions on some general things we struggle with all the time. i think it is very important that the public understand that we often have to differentiate between negative impacts that a business will have an positive impacts, and sometimes, a lot of attention is paid to the negative side and very little to the positive side. i interpret negative impact as impacts on light and air and traffic, perhaps causing negative effects on neighboring businesses and things like that, whereas positive impact such as adding jobs and increasing property values and, you know, less crime and fewer vacancies -- i mean, these have to be addressed. my feeling is we are not obliged to mitigate a positive impact, but our job is to mitigate negative impacts. al

commissioner moore? don't know? commissioner moore: [inaudible] commissioner borden: aye. commissioner moore:. commissioner sugaya:. commissioner miguel:. commissioner olague: thank you, commissioners. that item has been continued. you are now on general public comment. is there any general public, items on today's agenda? seeing none, general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned. thank you. 6:14 >> thank you to the san francisco giants and all of you for your support of our teachers. i want to thank the president of the california teachers association and everyone joining me tonight to honor the mayor's teachers award winners. despite the challenges, it is always important to acknowledge and honor the dedication of our s teachers. the honorees tonight were nominated by parents, teachers, peers, and community members who understand the value of excellent teachers. the people you see standing here tonight have exceeded all standards, dedicated themselves to creating a class room environment that fosters learning, diversity. these teachers are facing a gener

commissioner moore? commissioner moore: it's actually quind of heart warm -- kind of heartwarming to sit here how a successful plan creates the next successful chapter, a mutual support and engagement with each other when success flies which makes it very easy for us to really continue it in the state of basic principles particularly when it has the mature thity which this plan has. other projects where the maturity of the planning fell far short and those are projects with major consequences and i regret that they have not weathered as this plan has. i have a couple of questions for you. i'm really intrigued by your idea of affordable housing. chow you do that? -- how can you do that? are we viewed from private to public? >> there are two programs that i mentioned. one is -- is along the octavia boulevard and it used to be freeway. that property was transferred to cal tran part of it from the redevelopment agency to the affordable housing. they're required to develop affordable housing on those sights a

president olague: commissioner moore? commissioner moore: i will give you reasons as to why we will use our discretionary review power and look at this project more carefully. the first thing is the unusual use within the established a neighborhood. when you look at the development land that surrounds this garage on all sides, it is about three and a half times larger than the majority. because of its design and height, it somewhat blends in. we now take this rather extraordinarily large building, at a floor on top of it, and it becomes something which inadvertently will create impact. i do not believe that the five weeks we gave this project to find its own discussion, its own form of agreement, has done the job of achieving that. i believe what is in front of us is what it was before. i then and now totally disagree with the fact that this building comes so close to the perimeter of the existing footprint that i personally find that unacceptable. when you look closer at the unit's design, and unfortunately, the drawings

president olague: commissioner moore? commissioner moore: i think we consider the existing rules. we cannot challenge that might require reconsideration. some of the supervisors, i think they are all aware of our questions. however, this particular project, with the guidance of supervisor kim, met all of the remaining questions. i think there responded well to the challenge to for their reach out, including we are well aware that all the notification was done to the neighbors in a timely manner. many of them showed up last week. i think you for sticking with us but to elevate this to the approval project. i support commissioner miguel's motion for approval. commissioner sugaya: i think if the commission feels that clustering and other possible effects or whatever from approving these dispensaries is a huge issue, then i think we need to be more aggressive with the board of supervisors. you have to realize that one of the main reasons, i think, that clustering happens is because of the with the current legislation has been set up. and that is because it cannot be within 1,000 feet

commissioner moore: i appreciate you stating it and if there are other questions, we can continue the discussion. >> we'll continue to work on cmpc on the issues. commissioner moore: i'd like to make one more point and that is about the projected use of the newly building, seismically upgraded for st. luke's. on that building, you meant 200 years, i assume. i don't think we build a quansa hut or other building for 10 years let alone anything else and is in itself really a -- it's almost laughable. you don't build a home -- you can build a doghouse for less than 10 years, let alone building a hospital for 20 years, that just doesn't have any credibility. and i would appreciate if that number gets updated but there's a real resemblance of commitment to building a hospital which brings me to the point i am still very uncomfortable about the size of st. luke's. i think it is undersized and i believe that the general overall shifting in numbers does not have credibility. [applause] >> i want to thank staff for such an excellent presentation and also dr. garcia and her assistance for remain

commissioner moore? don't know? commissioner moore: [inaudible] commissioner borden: aye. commissioner moore:. commissioner sugaya:. commissioner miguel:. commissioner olague: thank you, commissioners. that item has been continued. you are now on general public comment. is there any general public, items on today's agenda? seeing none, general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned. thank you. 6:14

president olague: commissioner moore. commissioner moore: would we be able to schedule a separate meeting discussing both b.r.t.? they are very important discussions relative to cpmc but there are important discussions focusing on transportation and operations and i have a large number of questions but i don't believe it is the right forum. and there are a lot of people sitting here with questions. president olague: i think we will have to do that. >> we wanted to give you a brief overview. commissioner moore: we could do that in a reasonably short time ranking member -- short time frame and focus on transportation? president olague: parking was alluded to but the intensity of use will be different than what we see there currently. so maybe -- they covered some things. we will want to see all of those issues looked at more. that would be great. that's perfect. we will work on monday to try to schedule something that will elaborate on those issues more. and i have a question to miss simmons regarding the project. is this r

commissioner moore: i really do not like the word "commemorative." it is more about honoring the period or what ever the proper word is, but it is not commemorative. i am not commemorating coca- cola. it is really the role this piece plays as an expression of a particular place and time. is there a better word? >> we had a few names. we thought this was the best one. commissioner moore: would you mention the other words while you are at it? >> i think one was "memorial sign." remembrancer? [laughter] president olague: some of us are ok with commemorative. commissioner moore: supervisor campos, did anyone come up with a snappy

>>moore: in terms of consistent quality the club game has got better and better particularly with the champions league... >>scott: if you look for instance at a player like lionel messi he gets more than 50 goals in a single season for his club barcelona...his comparative performances in the world cup wer disappointing ..... >>reporter: last year the champion's league generated $1.2b from tv deals alone, and if european fans especially begin to see the world cup as second rate, fifa could be in trouble, given that over half of its tv earnings come from europe. combine that with the fact that clubs are becoming ever unhappier about releasing players for international duty, and eventually the quality of the world cup could be seriously compromised... >>moore: these players are now very expensive commodities and there's increasing resistance to letting players go away for months on end or at least weeks on end and maybe getting injured. and so yes the clubs are getting more and more powerful. >>reporter: as always...money is a key issue. last year participating clubs received around 70%

thurston moore. >> jimmy: thurston moore is here. >> i'm a huge sonic youth fan. >> jimmy: yep. >> incredibles, you are here. come on, i know you're a music nerd. you love music. >> i am. >> jimmy: you uh -- this is one of the coolest things i've ever seen in my life. you just played the king ad rock in a music video. [ cheers and applause ] >> dude, i'm boogin in that photo. look at that. >> jimmy: yeah, you are, right? look at -- that's awesome. that's seth rogen and danny mcbride as mike d. and mca. but uh -- yeah the beasties put out a new record, and had a short film on the cd. it came with a dvd and you killed it. i mean, how much fun was that? >> that, like that moment right there, getting to stand in front of a fish eye lens. we're so familiar with that imagery with that band and get to do that and rap. >> jimmy: and wear the t-shirt and the hat and you just -- you nailed it! you were so good. >> oh, thanks. >> jimmy: it was so good. >> it was so crazy. i found out about it super late. like, they had already cast it -- they got danny and seth and all those folks on board. >> jimmy: oh

commissioner moore. commissioner moore: i want to make a quick comment on the small car. and not that you can mandate that people have small cars. but in europe, there are parking spaces that are dedicated for two smart cars being next to each other and they pay half. in public garages there are parking spaces where two cars, two smart cars, exactly fits the size of a full car. so they pay half. so if you have a monthly thing, and you're renting half a pace, and your monthly parking space just cost you half. and that's an incentive for many people who would like to have a car and many small cars are as comfortable and fast and releeble as the bigger ones there. and that's for many urban dwellers a very good alternative. so there's nothing unral stick. it's being done and -- in europe for many years and at night, everyone is rushing to the opera and needs to get in there in time before the kur taken calls and they're coming with little cars. and nose to nose into these parking spaces. and run off to make the curtain call. and they're obviously ahead of everybody else and t

commissioner moore: second. >> thank you, commissioners. on the motion for continuance, -- commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner fong: aye. commissioner miguel: aye. commissioner olague: aye. >> thank you. those items have been continued as they have been proposed. commissioners, you are now at commission matters. are there any commission matters? commissioner olague: i wanted to mention at this time that we will close the meeting in honor of the two firemen who lost their lives. commissioner antonini: thank you. i was absent last week on a family vacation to hawaii, and aside from the usual golf and beach activities, i did spend a couple of days touring honolulu and i was pretty impressed with the changes since i had been there. it had been quite a while. like a lot of other cities i see, i think it is instructive that it was noticeably clean. there's not a lot of trash on the ground, and as you know, they have a lot of wind there, too, so i do not think we could blame that, and not much graffiti was invisible.

>> he it took somebody proto typical -- mary tyler moore had been dick van dyke's wife.y wanted her tore divorceee. >> not only is mary single but a real career gal. >> single woman and supposed to be you are going to make it after all. meaning you don't have to get married and have kids. you can have a fulfilling life on your own that was the whole message. at that time certainly there is some value to that message. i'm all for career women there was no question it was supposed to be a liberal message and supposed to be slap in the face to conservative america at the time as well. >> bill: finally the 70s show was put together by marci carse and you interviewed ms. carse who freely admitted, what? >> what she said was i asked her about the pot smoking element of that 70s show. if you watch that 70s show there is a famous sequence in every show four of the characters sitting around and the camera rolls around them smoke imunited states from the table clear smoking pot. teenagers smoking pot. never any bad consequences to it? >> she said we thought that was funny and some

we have to remain a source of excellence, and i disagree with commissioner moore with disassembly. that seems like more is being built. a new state of the york hospital and two new state of the art hospitals and the increase in davies and the increase in pacific, and possibly the california campus is converted to something else. i see more, not less. there is always a talk about the impact and the negative impact. well, van ness avenue is not the garden area of san francisco, i am sorry to say. there are a lot of vacancies, problems, it is not really vital. this will bring jobs and businesses and will do a lot for that area, deployed a lot of people who are not employed and the whole discussion about jobs as part of the hospitals is what we're talking about. that's not always look on the dark side. the impact also include the good impact this hospital will have. i think we have to look at that. the st. luke's issue, i agree, commissioner moore, a longer time would make sense to keep it that much into the hospital. it should be here hopefully in definitely, but i think it's size is

as brian moore reports, the new slump as republican con tenors going on the attack. >> this past week, brought some discouraging jobs numbers. only 54,000 jobs added in may. unemployment, up to 9.1%. now the white house is once again confronting fears of a double-dip recession. >> we have added more than 2 million jobs. there's a major difference between a jobless recovery and a very deep hole that we're climbing our way out of. >> as republicans retake their bid to retake the white house the timing couldn't be much better. >> when he took office, the economy was in recession and he made it worse. >> when barack obama became president gasoline was about 1.80 a gallon. now it is about $4 a gallon. >> the two parties are fighting over causes and cures for the nation's financial woes. >> you can take about the past all we want. the public wants to know about the future. what are you going to do to create jobs. good paying jobs. >> what are you going to do. >> as i said, what president has done is -- has improved the situation from where it may have been. >> healthy debate over an economy