is mething that is going to work in the neighbourhood. the only example of an r.p.p. area that was rescinded was through a petition. folks that were in the old area gathered up signatures and said this isn't working for us and said they didn't want to be part of an r.p.p. area. we rescinded the area. that was almost certainly how it would work in the future. the idea is not to sort of -- again that his the power that the m.t.a. already has. it is not something we would use lately. >> right. ok. i think that's a concern. that this is incremental. again, i'm not saying its valid, this is the concern that i am picking up. this is incrementalism, that existing r.p.p. zones which people bought their homes, ordered their lives upon, are going to be sacrificed, i won't say the altar, but at the very good, you know, policy of overall transportation. we've seen this debate happen everywhere. in a red zone, removing -- it's every time. if there is a local community against the greater transportation good. but it's a little bit different when youtak

neighbourhood input is critical to create better decisions. how many examples do we all know if that? we think this ordinance needs further work. we request and urge that you refer back to planning staff or further development. first of all with the kind of public outreach to community and neighbourhood organizations and others who we would have hoped it would have been involved prior to this point. and with clear metrics that provide supporting evidence to demonstrate any of the efficiency improvements that are to be achieved by the provisions of these amendments. thank you very much. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am an architect in san francisco. i will try to refrain from making snarky comments about the neighborhood organizations you think it is it ok to make snarky comments about the architects who worked very, very hard to make this a very livable city. often times, doing it without pay. i had to put stamps on 156 envelopes last weekend to mail out for a notification process, and i did it duri

to helping neighbourhood small businesses and so much more. these issues can and will be addressed by my thre re values of accountability, law and order and uplifting our city's quality of life. the under -- other candidates for mayor think a solution to our financial woes is to continue to tax hard-working residents and add more and more burdens on small business owners and property owners and in a robin hood style. other candidates fundamentally change or want to change, or might i say, destroy our city's west side, a pe just a pending single family homes and changing the neighbourhood character and turn -- turn san francisco into manhattan or hong kong. clearly, i'm against this. don't mess with the west side. overall, our city needs those families and we need our children and we need great education and great teachers to actually prepare students for the best shot at opportunities for the future, whether they are heading to college or to vocational training. we need parking. we need to build housing beyond micro- apartments. we need one, t

needed to pick up the trash tot make that neighbourhood better. in addition i'll be funding new pitstopss, which are safe toilets and aic provenn model to reduce human waste and litter on our streets. no one should be confronted with feces or the smell of urine walking the streets of san francisco. th be adding five new pitstops in a high-volume corridor is at expanding the hours at multiple other pitstops. they are a win-win solution for communities. they offer struggling residents the dignity and safety to keep our sidewalks see -- safe and clean. these additional investments will be paired with ongoing programs ,-guessedpr including r dedicated street medicine team, specifically a team that was created for needle pickups based onp resident complaints and our fix-it team that does great work onk our neighbourhoods. we'll be expanding for 25-35 zones throughout the city of san francisco. weou all know that a clean and vibrant city is an economically successfulnd and healthy city. just as our city needs to be cleaned to thrive, it also must be saf

neighbourhood. location is important, of course. and looking at the impact of pricing for properties with abuse and properties without abuse. i also took into account size differential. table one is a smaller size properties. table two, to medium size properties, and table three, the large size properties. i concluded that the impact on the value of 789 castro street is a negative $325,000. thank you. >> thank you. mr tunney? >> thank you. i would like to refer to the overhead for this portion. it shows the property again in its current condition. at the front the castro street building. the rear is the 21st street building. you can see the very narrow open area between the two buildings. it is 8 feet 6 inches. with the proposed project which would be increased to 20 feet. you can see here, the reason i show this image, is because visually, it reinforces all of the facts that support the variance findings made by the zoning administrator. you can see with this image, the buildings to the east are en

i want to help to create the restorative justice approach of neighbourhood courts, to a neighbourhoodprosecutor where i worked with many of you here today to make sure it community involvement happens and social justice. i have stood with integrity in front of chiefs, supervisors, officers and the community, and made decisions that mattered for the safety of that community. i am the only candidate here today who has it direct and specific oversight of sfpdm. of sfpdm's work. the only candidate who hasn't hahas hadto go through the workn justice required. while i am here today, i have countered them in defence of the accused and i'm the only candidate who has worked with a critical eye upon their work and made decisions that officers haven't. i believe it is essential that they continue in their efforts to become the most diverse and progressive police department in the united states. always striving to reflect the values and nature of all san franciscans. i will fight to ensure all these objectives are met and i work for -- look forward to working with each of you to achieve your goal

behind me are representatives from the district neighbourhood centre. i'm here to advocate for that to $.3 million continuing funding for the security task force which is food insecurity in san francisco. i am bilingual and in doing so i am able to deliver food for 15 years in the richmond district. already nc with the richmond senior centre provides services for homebound seniors who are physically and mentally disabled and would not be able to have the luxury of fresh produce and deliver to them weekly. i urge you to continue funding for our food services, and that is very imperative for the seniors, because they really look forward to it, and the contact that we give them. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hi there i am a formerly homeless youth. i was homeless for six years at a native of san francisco. my ask is i believe the city budget, or the city supervisors, and the mayor should cut the police budget drastically to fund housing, homeless youth services, at homeless services, education, healthcare, and food services to

is something that is going to work in the neighbourhood. the only example of an r.p.p. area that was rescinded was through a petition. folks that were in the old area gathered up signatures and said this isn't working for us and said they didn't want to be part of an r.p.p. area. we rescinded the area. that was almost certainly how it would work in the future. the idea is not to sort of -- again that his

i'm speaking to urge you to restore youth organizing home and neighbourhood action. the youth program, as part of the 100,000-dollar ask for youth organizing was formed in 2013. formed by district six youth you wanted to create positive change in their community. since then, they have provided a safe and brave space for youth to build leadership skills from public speaking, to building campaigns, to organizing critical thinking. do not strip the services away. last year, the commission presented a budget priority to prioritize youth organizing. please listen to them on the budget justice coalition and reallocate that $100,000 towards youth organizing. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am from the south of market community action network and i'm here to reiterate and restore the funding for united families and youth organizing for home and neighbourhood action. members of this program are already leaders in the community. they let young people have a stake in the community. they can create an advocate for positive change. su

we think it's important to reconnect these neighbourhoods, it as you can see from this image, this is the type of condition we would have if the proposal, as currently proposed, would move forward with moving the streets under the trains. this is actually less impactful than the actual reality, because there's a large piece, the outfall in this area, we would have to dive down as much as 50 feet in some locations in order to transport the streets under the trains, which we do not think his away with that we want our city to go in the future. so we looked at these three majoojec. these three projects alone, just in this quadrant of the city, while probably -- probably in the range of 6-$8 billion of public investment in the city. it is so important for us to get this right and make sure these are coordinated. as we look at the various alternatives, we wanted to make sure we were looking at a range of issues ranging from equity to transportation issues and our transportation planning. looking at operational issues, looking at existing plans and policies, of which, of course,, there are

she takes us on a tour of the deceptively peaceful looking neighbourhood where ashley grew up.now, but they sell their wares from the safety of their vans. this is a potato chips lorry and he's got an armed guard with him. in areas like this, where the state's so often absent, the pressures on young people to get involved with gangs are immense. her own personal history made her acutely aware of the choices facing ashley. after the fire, more than 200 children living at the virgen de la asuncion children's home were sent back to their parents, many in marginalised neighbourhoods. in this brigt sunlight, the red zones, the zona rojas, the quite dangerous parts of guatemala city feel quite benign. but we have been told story after story of killings in these streets. we know that at least three adolescents who were returned to their families after the fire were assassinated in their own communities. it's grim. insecure at home with their families, often unsafe in children's homes, the safety net for people in guatemala is practically non—existent. we tracked down a teenager who es

these were young men in poor neighbourhoods that got no kind of warrant to enter their homes. due process and they were often arrested or killed. witnesses said the security forces would often tamper with the scene to have an exchange of gunfire. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. agencies delivering aid to the yemeni city of hodeida say civilians are fleeing the embattled port town, as pro—government forces try to drive out houthi rebels. a un statement said there had been a large—scale displacement of residents in the past two days. the government and saudi—led coalition allies launched the offensive to capture hodeida earlier this month. tens of thousands of people across spain have protested at the provisional release of five men convicted of sexually assaulting an eighteen—year—old woman in pamplona two years ago. the self—styled wolf pack, posted bail of around seven thousand dollars each pending an appeal against conviction and a nine—year jail sentence. a police report has revealed the so—called "safety operator" of a self—driving uber car

but others are less visible, working behind closed doors in upmarket neighbourhoods. of children are sent by their impoverished families to work as domestic servants in homes across pakistan. some of them are aged as young as eight or nine years old. and in most of the country, there is simply no law whatsoever preventing anyone from hiring them. ten—year—old tayyaba is learning to be a child again. he is very fat... she used to work hundreds of miles away from her family, in the home of a judge and his wife in the capital islamabad. these pictures of her taken in late 2016 caused outrage on social media. tayyaba is currently being looked after at a children's home run by a charity. sitting with her best friend and her carers, she agreed to talk to us. the couple employing her have denied mistreating tayyaba. but she told me she was beaten by the wife just for losing a broom. the children here are divided into houses, each with a specific carer, or mother, to look after them. azmat has been helping tayya ba recover from her ordeal. tayyaba's best friend in the home is

a luxury hotel in london's exclusive knightsbridge neighbourhood had to be evacuated after a fire brokearin oriential hyde park had just undergone a huge refurbishment. no—one was injured. that's all from me for now. stay with bbc news. and the top story here in the uk — the editor of the daily mail, paul dacre, is to step down after more than 25 years in the role. he is to become chairman and editor—in—chief of associated newspapers. now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. five days to go before president trump pinching jongleur media in singapore. what role economics will play in brokering a deal. holiday plans are drying up as a water shortage hits the popular indian resort destination. good morning, a shower. hello, world. it is thursday. that you could join us for another action packed addition of asian business report. president trump and kim jong—un will have many issues to iron out in here in here in singapore injust iron out in here in here in singapore in just a few days, at the biggest one is over the future of pyongyang's nuclear programme. good fi

they spoke of a pattern where officers, security forces, would go into poor neighbourhoods.st criminals, would arrest people they said fitted the profile of criminals, but these were young men in poor neighbourhoods that got no warrant to enter their homes or to arrest them and they were not given any due process any type of way, so they were often arrested or killed. witnesses said the security forces would often tamper with the scene to show that there had been an exchange of gunfire. i'mjust show that there had been an exchange of gunfire. i'm just interested in the timing of this, because a few days ago the united states withdrew itself from the un's human rights body. one of the examples it gave, nikki haley gave, was you're going soft on venezuela. here we are few days on and we have this damning report on venezuela. yeah, that was certainly one of haley's many arguments and one of the reasons she cited for the us withdrawal. this is new information in a report. the report came out last year actually, in august 2017, and that report focused on the fact that almost 50 p

most struck by this situation are the less damaged -- less advantaged neighbourhoods. i refer you to the website of the coalition to underground utilities. >> supervisor cohen: can you say that website one more time? >> sfc you you.org. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning. i am also working on the underground and of utilities project. our goal is to rid the city of overhead utility wires and unsightly telephone poles. we are asking for an ad on $500,000 a year for three years for a master plan to specify the most efficient and cost-effective way to achieve this goal. i want to address the three main concerns for safety. they say that downed telephone poles may have caused some of the devastating california fires. second, the aesthetics. the beauty and appeal of san francisco are a source of pride, it also a source of revenue to many local businesses, and tourist revenue is vital to the city and we should make every effort to increase it. and third, inequity. most of the wealthier and commercial areas of the city -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you. got it

for the eastern neighbourhoods plan. cumulative transportation impacts, and impacts of noise and dust during project construction on the adjacent school. the board's action to appeal the appeal avoids -- avoids the approval of the project. it must return back to the planning department for processing consistent with the board findings which are being drafted at the attorney's office. that concludes my remarks. >> commissioners there is nor board of appeals report and the only matter of significance yesterday was they initiated a landmark of the california buckeye on the calendar. >> commissioner richards? >> just a question for mr starr. when you said that size is 311, we sat up here and said, hey, we were going to do a commission quality, all those different things. this bizarre policy is established with the roles that could be coming. i think they haven't been communicating with us exactly what they are doing. we will know next week what they are actually going to propose. >> okay. >> we would ask. >> i think that was

you can't just do an overlay of which neighbourhoods it would affect. you have to do an overlay of which lots, in those neighbourhoods could actually be up zones. if you want to look at historically that need a lot of look low income or low income people of colour, live near transit hubs. if you are to look at the mission, it is already built out. it basically would have zero effect on the current mission because it is already built. so the point is you can't just say, let's just do an overlay here and see who lives there now. you have to do an overlay and say which buildings, which a lot actually have the ability to be up zones in those neighborhoods? i mean it's a very, very frustrating for me when we have these types of conversations and it's just like everyone cherry picks their information, rate? this is about trying to get as many people near transit as possible so we can get people out of cars. it makes sense that we don't have great public transit. do we want to up so neighborhoods that don't have transit so more people have to drive places plea