ms. rogers is here from the planning department. andrea baker is here from the planning department, and there are several speakers to speak during public comment about the legislation. supervisor mar: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. as you have heard, this is a very specific and targeted piece of legislation that affects only a portion of fillmore street. the planning commission did review this legislation, and the commission unanimously recommended approval with a couple of modifications. the commission requested that the definition of active users be slightly expanded to include a new restaurant definition called self service specialty food as well as include outdoor activity areas, as both of these uses could help enliven the stretch of fillmore street. on behalf of the commission, i would like to thank the supervisors for sponsoring the legislation and incorporating the recommended modifications of the commission in the legislation that is before you. supervisor mar: colleagues, if you do not have any questions, ms. r

ms. rogers, from the planning department. they heard this and recommended approval.hout further modifications. supervisor mar: thank you. colleagues, are there questions? and thank you, mr. yarne for addressing the clean-up language. is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. so, colleagues, on the amendments, without objection? i have a motion on the item? supervisor wiener: i move forward with a positive recommendation. supervisor mar: madam clerk, anything else? clerk: no, mr. chairman. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. meeting is adjourned. >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. oil from cust

ms. rogers, from the planning department. they heard this and recommended approval. without further modifications. supervisor mar: thank you. colleagues, are there questions? and thank you, mr. yarne for addressing the clean-up language. is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. so, colleagues, on the amendments, without objection? i have a motion on the item? supervisor wiener: i move forward with a positive recommendation. supervisor mar: madam clerk, anything else? clerk: no, mr. chairman. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. meeting is adjourned. [horns honking] [siren wails] announcer: big dreams and goodrades aren't enough to get into college. there are actual steps you need to take. finding someone who can help is the first and most important. for the next steps, go to knowhow2go.org. impossible. announcer: when you open a book, you can explore new lands... [bird screeches] meet new friends, and discover new adventures. there are amazing possibilities when you open your mind to reading. [roar] you can log o

ms. rogers, from the planning department. they heard this and recommended approval.ut further modifications. supervisor mar: thank you. colleagues, are there questions? and thank you, mr. yarne for addressing the clean-up language. is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. so, colleagues, on the amendments, without objection? i have a motion on the item? supervisor wiener: i move forward with a positive recommendation. supervisor mar: madam clerk, anything else? clerk: no, mr. chairman. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. meeting is adjourned.

ms. rogers, from the planning department. they heard this and recommended approval. without further modifications. supervisor mar: thank you. colleagues, are there questions? and thank you, mr. yarne for addressing the clean-up language. is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. so, colleagues, on the amendments, without objection? i have a motion on the item? supervisor wiener: i move forward with a positive recommendation. supervisor mar: madam clerk, anything else? clerk: no, mr. chairman. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. meeting is adjourned. ul, for that enlightening outlook. now, we are going to invite our mayor to the stage and also our managing editor, jim gardner, who is going to moderate a conversation with the mayor. first, we will hear from each of them. they will tell us about their priorities and their outlook and vision for the city, and jim has prepared a number of questions. after that, we will also ask if any of you would like to send up some questions for gin to ask the mayor. there are some

ms. rogers. during the meeting, several suggestions were made to craft legislation as it is now. the ban on formula retail came out of our discussions with the merchants association and others and is intended to preserve the unique character of the upper fillmore area. the supervisor also checked in with the former executive director of the golden gate restaurant association, who expressed his support of the legislation. our office continues to receive feedback and will continue to listen before this is heard at the land use committee. this is on the agenda for march 2011 at that committee. we look for to hearing any conditions and consideration gma's. thank you for your consideration. president o'brien: commissioner adams. vice president adams: i totally support this legislation. i have seen this in other areas, particularly union street, castro street, elsewhere, where this has gone forward, and in these economic times, there are vacant storefronts, in union street in particular has been revitalized, so i would totally support this legislation. president o'brien: ok, thank you.

ms. rogers, from the planning department. they heard this and recommended approval.ut further modifications. supervisor mar: thank you. colleagues, are there questions? and thank you, mr. yarne for addressing the clean-up

ms. rogers from the planning department. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm here to represent the position of the planning commission. this is an ordinance that they initiated in response to hearing from people who lived in the area, so probably over a year they lobbied the planning commission. the proposed amendment is not an extension of the full market and octavia plan. in large part, it extends a number of specific controls. the intent of the ordinance is to insure the development is consistent with the existing development patterns. the supervisor from parking requirements encourage more transit-oriented development in this upper market -- maybe i will put a little map on of the area. this map shows market street. here is castro. this middle color here is the upper market with the two parcels going down 16th street. it would ensure that development was in this area and also contributed to the community benefits program and impacts of new private development through infrastructure fees. specifically, the ordinance would amend the following controls --

rogers will be followed by ms. jackson lee, ms. mccaul. >> thank you, mr. chairman and secretary, thank you for being here. i always look forward to having your feedback. recently, i had chief fisher in here from my subcommittee, and was -- we had a problem in coming up with the definition that dhs is using for determining whether or not they've secured the southwest border. the term is defined in the law, operational control is defined as being the prevention of all unlawful entries into the united states, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics and other contraband. when we asked chief fisher to define operational control, he had the department's definition which was different. why don't you all use the definition that's set out in federal law? >> well, representative, i think you'll find throughout federal law different definitions of different things where security is concerned. what we are concerned about is making sure the border regions, both northern and southern are safe and secure. we have some k

rogers will be followed by ms. jackson lee, ms. mccaul. >> thank you, mr. thank you for bng here. i always look forward to having your feedback. recently, i had chief fisher in here from my subcommittee, and was -- we had a problemn coming up with the definition that dhs is using for determining whether or not they've secured the southwest border. the term is defined in the law, operational control is defined as being the prevention of all unlawful entries into the united states, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics and other contraband. when we asked chief fisher to define operational ontrol, he had the department's definition which was different. why don't you all use the definition that's set out in deral law? >> well, representative, i think you'll find troughout federal law different definitions of different things where security is concerned. what we areoncerned about is making sure the border region both northern and southern are safe and secure. we have some key concerns there. we've been making

ms. speier: you're absolutely right and so is will rogers and i think that it's important for us to communicate to the american people that while we don't want bloated government, we want to make sure that there's a government that has the cops on the street. and if you look at the savings and loan crisis and those who are criminally charged and those that are convicted and those who went to prison, the f.b.i. deputy director at the time testified before congress and said that there were 1,000 people working on the s&l crisis at its height within the f.b.i. 1,000 people. that compares to about 240 agents working on the mortgage fraud cases last year. so you see, no numbers in terms of convictions and you can see that if you don't have cops on the beat, then you are going to have people that are going to take advantage, that are not going to follow the rules, and that frankly will not be charged nor convicted for their crimes. i'm reminded, too, that during much of this review by the commission, they talked about the action that some regulators did take in 2005 where they weren't really actually

rogers will be followed by ms. jackson lee, ms. mccaul. >> thank you, mr.airman and secretary, thank you for being here. i always look forward to having your feedback. recently, i had chief fisher in here from my subcommittee, and was -- we had a problem in coming up with the definition that dhs is using for determining whether or not they've secured the southwest border. the term is defined in the law, operational control is defined as being the prevention of all unlawful entries into the united states, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics and other contraband. when we asked chief fisher to define operational control, he had the department's definition which was different. why don't you all use the definition that's set out in federal law? >> well, representative, i think you'll find throughout federal law different definitions of different things where security is concerned. what we are concerned about is making sure the border regions, both northern and southern are safe and secure. we have some key

ms. ros-lehtinen: i'm pleased to yield three minutes to a gentleman who knows a lot about the threats facing our nation, the gentleman from michigan, mr. rogers, the chairman of the house permanent select committee on intelligence. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. rogers: thank you, mr. speaker. a lot of power and emotion in this debate today. i'm glad for that. there should be. i recall the first time i had a chance to get to afghanistan in late 2003. i met a woman there who had been trained as a doctor in the united states, she went to practice medicine in her home country of afghanistan, when the taliban took over, they stripped her of her medical duties an sent her home, she was imprisoned in her own home. for six years. i met her at a children's hospital and in the days of the first conflict, the stripped off her burka and walked 10 miles to the first town to provide medical care for the first time to these children as a woman in afghanistan. with tears in her eyes she said, thank you. these children have no chance, afghanistan has no future. you know, we saw the soccer field where they took peo

rogers: they're wrong. mr. dicks: i want to yield two minutes to the delegate from the district of columbia, eleanor holmes norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: look, the majority has chosen to run the government, the federal government from c.r. to c.r., but the majority has no right to inflict this operational outrage on the local funds of a local jurisdiction, the district of columbia. it may want -- the majority may want to incur for the federal government the operational difficulties, after all the the district of columbia delivers services to federal officials including the president, federal buildings, foreign embassies and the like. but does the majority really want to risk the -- to put the district and its operations at risk or to place what wall street almost surely will do, a risk premium on the district due to the fact that we are being put from c.r. to c.r.? this is a fragile economy for every big city, the d.c. local budget was approved a year ago in the city and last summer, by the appropriations committee. yet the district of columbia is being held hostage to a federal fight, although the district of columbia can do

rogers: they're wrong. mr. dicks: i want to yield two minutes to the delegate from the district of columbia, eleanor holmes norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: look, the majority has chosen to run the government, the federal government from c.r. to c.r., but the majority has no right to inflict this operational outrage on the local funds of a local jurisdiction, the district of columbia. it may want -- the majority may want to incur for the federal government the operational difficulties, after all the the district of columbia delivers services to federal officials including the president, federal buildings, foreign embassies and the like. but does the majority really want to risk the -- to put the district and its operations at risk or to place what wall street almost surely will do, a risk premium on the district due to the fact that we are being put from c.r. to c.r.? this is a fragile economy for every big city, the d.c. local budget was approved a year ago in the city and last summer, by the appropriations committee. yet the district of columbia is being held hostage to a federal fight, although the district of columbia can do