mr. williams asked if there were things i would like done on my building and i mind now that mr. williams is the developer's lawyer. surprise. i question these ethnics. in my day this would constitute conflict of interest. i am confident you ladies and gentlemen have noticed these points but i feel it prudent to restate them. based on the facts i trust you will support enforcement of the san francisco planning code and master plan and render justice decision. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i appreciate your consideration. >> other speakers in support of the dr requester? okay. seeing none project sponsor. >> good evening vice president wu members of the commission. i am steve williams and represent the project sponsor john strickland who is here with dave sternberg of the sternberg architect firm. in may of this year i represented the families who have owned the building to the west directly next door since 1965 and just to give you a little perspective on this very busy corner. here is a photograph. it's also in my brief at page five.

mr. williams. >> it's still $1,000. >> thank you, doctor. >> you should hire mr. williams as council next time. >> the next card i have is mr. watson. >> good afternoon. my name is watson, executive director of public glass. i got one of the grants, my organization got one of the grants in question. i just want to come and say that we from the bayview found out about it we had somebody from all organizations, i met people at the library and we sent a representative to the process. we are a very, we are a small organization, but we do a lot of work. there are about three or four of us on staff that have done -- i have done this kind of work in rhode island. i have received grants before. when we sat at the meeting, we all do great work and i don't think my organization deserves it anymore or less than anyone else. i left that meeting saying we need to get our grant together and do it in a way that it's written and get everything in order and get it in. that's grant writing. it's not creative writing. it's getting it done. this has been pretty consistent with the pro

mr. williams has already pointed out that it's factually inaccurate. how can a body consider a document if the facts of the document are inaccurate and do not describe the circumstances. this needs to go back to the drawing room. it needs to be fresh end up and made accurate. i hope you will decide. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm with 24. we are merchants in the neighborhood council with the district. we are here to support for the valencia street. we feel development should take consideration of the environmental i impact and seniors and culture. we see too many that are not benefitting around those around them. building houses is not just that. it's got to look at the whole picture. one size does not fit auchlt it should be left in the hands of the community and those that surround it. >> i want to thank our supervisors for letting us to do this. i'm a neighbor in the mission. i have a family and i'm a teacher at the marsh youth theatre. i started going there when taking my kids when they were very young and i was a parent and now i'm a member of

mrs. williams.every time they did this, they left behind some little piece of electronic evidence that was able to give agents the path to this arrest that they made last week. and what they were doing, they were looking at surveillance cameras not just inside the banks but at businesses outside the banks as well. on one of those cameras, they saw mr. williams running from the bank to a waiting vehicle. they were then able to track that vehicle and match it to photos that were taken at a tollbooth on the florida turnpike. so all these little bits finally add up to seal the deal. they were also able to look at cell phone tower records to find out that the couple had been using their cell phones in areas where these banks were also being robbed. they then put them under actual surveillance and found out that their movements and their whereabouts also were coinciding with the bank robberies. so one thing led to another here as they follow this spree that dates back to last december. >> they were able t

mrs. williams. time they did this, they left behind some little piece of electronic evidence that was able to give agents the path to this arrest that they made last week. and what they were doing, they were looking at surveillance cameras not just inside the banks but at businesses outside the banks as well. on one of those cameras, they saw mr. williams running from the bank to a waiting vehicle. they were then able to track that vehicle and match it to photos that were taken at a tollbooth on the florida turnpike. so all these little bits finally added up to seal the deal. they were also able to look at cell phone tower records to find out that the couple had been using their cell phones in areas where these banks were also being robbed. they then put them under actual surveillance and found out that their movements and their whereabouts also were coinciding with the bank robberies. so one thing led to another here as they continued with this spree that dates back to last december. >> it's pretty

mr. williams. i'm looking at your october 14th submissions that your negative should beset aside and we should have an environmental report for this project? >> just an equally alternative would be a correction, an amendment of the existing negative declaration. 92 >> in terms of a high level of review because you have asserted some factual errors but there are other i think items that you state are significant with enough impacts that it would trigger any ir, in other words not a mistake in the declaration but what you claim to be a significant impact. am i right? >> we have not gone that much in this direction that challenge this document. our challenge is that you can't know the impacts if you haven't done the analysis. you can't have done the analysis if you haven't gotten the facts straight. the facts aren't straight here. >> now, one thing that you indicated that you dispute this is a transit rich area. is that true? >> yes. in terms of transit area you pointed at 26 valencia love it or not i

mr. williams for the wonderful work he's doing. and thank you very much and happy thanksgiving to everyone. >> did you apply for this round? >> no. i will apply because i can use it. it's not about me, it's about the community. i got the track record and the work. i want to see, when we came up as kids, we had a safe pass. i have seen the city council members through the library and i worked with the history preservation project. i'm actively involved in the community. my father is the chaplain for the sheriff's department and the jails. take the kids out of jail and a keep them in school and i have been a positive influence for the young people throughout the city through my poetry and music appreciation. >> thank you. >> thank you for being here today. the next card i have is from mr. kevin williams. >> good afternoon, xhirgs. -- commissioners. i would like to thank you for having taken out the time to place this important item on the agenda. but you have been miss informed again as to the truth of what is happening with the bayv

mr. williams? >> good morning. e ric with transit workers unions. for the tep

mr. williams? >> good morning. e ric with transit workers unions. for the tep to be successful today you have to reduce service because of the lack of operators and lack of equipment. let's be honest. while i like sean, he does a lot of work at the tep program. the truth of matter is tep is based on reducing service. if we are doing everything to do with transit first, we have a lot of work to do. now, recent with john hailey, he knows what he's up against in terms of providing economic service that these citizens of san francisco defer. -- deserve. we know what we are up against. tep, it's not going to work. of course you have to put aside a project because we know it's too many holes within the tep goal -- going on right now. we have to complete the project. everybody is chasing the tail. nothing is getting done. i just ask once again, scrutinize the tep for what it is. honestly, it looks fine for the future. but if you look at what's going on now with the projects coming forthwith tep, it's not going to work. you are taking that a tunnel. >> than

mr. william never respond to my phone calls did you write the letter before and after the gas leaks. regarding the wind tunnel effect our window feel off during the windy times. when they talk about they're putting a slope it's incorrect. i've shown it in my picture how it blocks everybody from the story pole all our windows are blocked. the light and a air we've been enjoying it for the last 25 years in that house. regarding the other things it pg&e literally i have had a difficult time. they're the one who found the leaks but they wouldn't come i contacted our supervisor lee and requested can you possibly come more often to check up. and pg&e called me yesterday they were going to send somebody over that's it they don't do it. they're waiting for san bruno to happen people liquor us don't happen. i'm going saying their don't build bus let's continuums. i'm working with the planning department and they said do you want any to ask them to compromise and they came back and said they don't want to compromise. so again, i wanted to tell you i'm not saying don't build if you look at the

mr. williams, tell us what happened to your daughter.do you think god thinks about this case, sir? among the evidence found in the house, a variety of books and videotapes by well-known fundamentalist christian authors, michael and deborah pearl, including the book called "to train up a child," which is a best selling book which advocates corporal punishment of children from infant on up. the authors of the cook say the book is guided by the teachings in the bible. >> it says if you spare the rod, you hate your child. but if you love him, you chasten him timely. >> reporter: i interviewed the pearls because of a chillingly similar case. ken and elizabeth shotts are now in prison after convicted of killing their daughter, lydia, also from africa. taken from their evidence, also the book, "train up a child." michael ramsey is the d.a. who prosecuted the schott's. what do you think influenced the shotts to beat, terrorize and torment them? >> the book by mr. pearl, no doubt about it. >> reporter: let's say a 7-year-old slugs his sister. >>

mr. williams has already pointed out that it's factually inaccurate. how can a body consider a document if the facts of the document are inaccurate and do not describe the circumstances. this needs to go back to the drawing room. it needs to be fresh end up and made accurate. i hope you will decide. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm with 24. we are merchants in

mr. williams made reference to 26 valencia. i went online to remind myself when the 26 was eliminated, i think it was in late 2009, i wanted to get confirmation to that. i believe the negative declaration was issued in 2010. since there was discussion about that earlier i wanted to get clarification. >> liz, thanks for pointing that out and giving us an opportunity for something that we discovered the line was eliminated prior to issuing the pmd and that is why we do not identify one of the lines present in the vicinity. >> colleagues, any final comments or questions. or should i close the hearing. >> one question around the noise in the marsh and the contention that this wasn't a mention of the marsh of the analysis and i wonder what your response is? >> i believe the correct statement what was part of the response which is that md does not specifically analyze the marsh theatre but the characterization. we do regret if there was a misstatement that suggested that the analysis is specifically done perhaps due to the nervousnes

mr. williams has already pointed out that it's factually inaccurate. how can a body consider a document if the facts of the document are inaccurate and

mr. williams from the transit drivers union. >> good morning, chairman, mar, committee members. i just want to bring up the fact with the citizens advisory committee that there is a lot of things going on right now with transportation that need to be dealt with today and could be dealt with today with some correct funding. particularly this morning. we had a melt down in the station once again coming down market. i brought this up at the sf mta board and nobody wants to listen. if you want to keep this system flowing, one thing we found out that the eureka street tunnel is still working. if there is a meltdown at castro on down, you can bring these street cars out of the tunnel at eureka with an adjustment to the overhead wiring, maybe some adjustments going down market to accommodate the trains. what about today? how are we going to fix the systems problems today? none of these funds, and i respect the committees report, but there is nothing to address the issues today. there are many issues today and some funding must be allocated to this process. it has to be. everybody is ta

mr. williams was going to get a schematic of how they work. i have received nothing and again talking to the architect, talking to -- trying to reach mr. strickland i had no cooperation whatsoever trying to resolve these problems. hence i filed this and basically not going with the city code. >> thank you very much. project sponsor you have a two minute rebuttal. >> thank you. steve williams again. if you want to see the revisions that have been made to the project i attached a letter from planning as exhibit four -- actually it's a response from the architect to a letter to planning. there were numerous revisions and changes and one thing i did want to point out is that -- can i have the overhead pleads? the way these lots are set up this will be the development pattern is that the orange is the gas station, and here's the dr requester's lot. this is a separate lot, lot 33, so at some point in the future there will be a building fronting on california on that lot, and so it will look just like what is proposed now next door, and so we all know

mr. williams first. >> he asked if you guys could please leave. >> do you remember pat manning as a patient? >> i can't answer any questions. >> i can't talk to you; he's been instructed to not answer any questions and i've just been asked to ask you guys if you can leave. >> ok, let me ask you this, this says premiere performance oriented. you're a one out of five stars on the state inspection. what's happening at this nursing home? >> i'm sorry, i've been instructed to not answer any questions. sorry you guys have a good day. >> in your mind was it the stroke, the after effects of the stroke that killed mr manning. >> no, nope. >> what killed him? >> the nursing home. >> so, just to be clear, you feel that their neglect.. >> bad neglect, sir. >> led directly to his death. >> yes. with all of my heart and soul, my grandchildrens - the love of my husband, yes. >> nora will have a hard time proving her belief in court. if there's some level of care, abuse and neglect are difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. we went to georgia's emory university, one of the best medical schools in th