what is so exciting about today is that we are creating a new urban experience. the things that we can smell when we are out in the city of the food and the greenery that we can touch, they are of course the things that we can eat. the reason that this is so wonderful is that san francisco has always done the cutting edge of being on the forefront of what it means for the environment. what we are doing in san francisco hopefully will be on the cutting edge of the urban agriculture movement. and on the cutting edge of what it means to have some of the best food in the country. >> as you mentioned, he was the chairman of the land use committee. they see more legislation than any other on the board. thank you, everyone. >> i was watching, and if i could, i would be doing the same thing. i would have to be digging in the dirt as well. i know your hands are much more dirt and fingernails than mine. i wish i could do that today. linked to the little city farm, but also the other farms are represented. we are proud to be supportive of the san francisco urban alliance ac

varying circulation needs of different parts of the community, in keeping with smart growth and new urbanism and sustainability growth for st. design. the proposed street plan suggest your and neyra were moving lines and then what has been dictated in the past. standards which have proved not to compromise either safety for pedestrians or vehicular movement, but support operational standards. this has reduced the total number of proposed streets sections 23 generic street types. that is the transportation plan of 2011, pageis may turn out toe less. some may turn out to be more significant. some may add to the already exhaustive list of unavoidable impacts identified in this eir. i conclude in support of commissioner sugaya that without any revised project description, this is inaccurate and incomplete. i will pick up after i hear from my fellow commissioners. commissioner delcarlo: good evening. thank you to all the members of the public that spoke to mike. it is very helpful to hear the views from our diverse community. we heard from labor and business tonight, and a number of residents and

varying circulation needs of different parts of the community, in keeping with smart growth and new urbanism and sustainability growth for st. design. the proposed street plan suggest your and neyra were moving lines and then what has been dictated in the past. standards which have proved not to compromise either safety for pedestrians or vehicular movement, but support operational standards. this has reduced the total number of proposed streets sections 23 generic street types. that is the transportation plan of 2011, page 25, figure 3.3, which does not consider the outline of residential neighborhoods which would likely not have the same amount of vehicular traffic as those further south. the 2006 plan proposes street sections with more emphasis on creating a pedestrian foyer then on vehicular movement. proposed streets would be more sustainable and in keeping with the overall plan goals of neighborhood development. the 2011 plan proposes a wider streets. these wider streets increase the amount of land dedicated to roadways and pavement. the 2006 plan proposes wide sidewalks and prominence

all the new urban water master plans are due july 1. in addition to that, we have our required 20% reduction prior to 2020 for water conservation, and that is something that all of the agencies are considering and we will continue to monitor and report back as we have more information. what it means for the balancing account is another policy decision. what we have assumed is the gradual repayment in earnest, we have three years in particular, and so asking only to build into the rates, only half the repayment next year, and then $15 million in the 15-year and $5 million in the final year that is equal still water rates -- in the final year. that is the wholesale water rates. the country you're what -- the untreated water rates is a new one. it was basically to set our rates for customers that are benefiting from treatments, and those who do not benefit from treatment at a discount back. we only have one, and it reflects that we would provide a 23 cents discount, and that seems fair and is consistent with the contract we signed. >> i th

what is so exciting about today is that we are creating a new urban experience. the things that we can smell when we are out in the city of the food and the greenery that we can touch, they are of course the things that we can eat. the reason that this is so wonderful is that san francisco has always done the cutting edge of being on the forefront of what it means for the environment. what we are doing in san francisco hopefully will be on the cutting edge of the urban agriculture movement. and on the cutting edge of what it means to have some of the best food in the country.

. >> reporter: and still ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news," the urban horse farm helping to put inner city kid on the right track. the right track. metropolitan >> mitchell: finally this saturday evening young people in one california city trying to escape a life of violence have found an unlikely haven of safety and calm-- a horse ranch in their own backyard. here's bill whitaker. >> reporter: in cities across the country, gang violence has become an unfortunate part of everyday life, especially for young people. compton, california, has been troubled by gangs more than most american cities. but tucked away within its city limits there is a ranch where youngsters can escape their problems, forget about their fears. so you have this horse paddock right in the middle of gang territory in compton? >> right in the middle and we're still doing it, we're still cowboying up. >> reporter: 19-year-old kenny atkins is not part a gang, he's part of a posse, the compton jr. posse. the free program teaches kids to ride horses and trains them for competition. kenny has been coming here for three y

new sidewalk. what can you tell us about this? >> as i said earlier, spikas a hearty urban tree. they have aggressive roots and sometimes they daniel the infrastructure, with the fica tree, we can repair the sidewalk around it, it doesn't mean we str to remove the tree. but sometimes if the roots are everywhere, the numb of roots to cut or shave, would render the tree unstable, in this case, we were able to keep the tree, a nice upright ficas tree. we expanded the base. and we keep the necessary path of travel for pedestrians but if we open this up so we don't cut a big root. we try to preserve as many roots as we can. >> the path of travel, the city has a minimum travel standard, i believe it is 48 inches. >> it is. >> we easily maintained thap about we see where trees encroach on that or are tripping hazards. >> we never want to go less than 48 inches in the path of travel, ideally, it is more than that, but if it is scrult of losing or keeping a tree we'll shrink down to whatever we need to. >> let's move around the corner, to this. see if we can get in the shade over here. he

when this hits the newspapers in that town and regional news with urban shot you can imagine in the town was shocked. they were beloved, a well-known, admired, cynthia was a school bus driver. norah was a gifted and bright and lovely child and everyone was completely stunned. my son was eight years old and a good friend of norah so there was a personal connection to a mother who alleged to do something so terrific yet the mother of my son's close friend. the book is written in three parts. the first part lays out the arrest getting to know the family. the second-largest children's services case because they did show up. not for another month after the arrest. so a social worker find they showed up at norah at -- norris goal october 20th. the police have had the photographs three months. they do an interview with norah at the school. and decide not to take emergency temporary custody but to file charges she is abused based on those photographs that i described. she is abused and agencies should have protected supervision or temporary custody they should be able to monitor her within the f

new model of development. >> we call it flexible urbanism. i can respond to the pace of con tell terry culture. >> six new businesses will share space on this lot. this lot will one day host a beer garden. there will be nine pop up retail businesses all in containers that are as easy to down to put them on up. take them down is exactly that what the city expected them to do. >> it's an interesting compromise. it's what the retail environment looks like and feels like. >> it takes about two months to take an old shipping container and install plumbing and electrical systems. you saw her getting ready to open. it's been operating a couple of weeks now. >> great timing for her with the warm weather coming. >> it will melt fast. where was she located indicated? >> hayes valley. >> cool conditions and other parts of the bay but as you head inland, find a way to keep cool. we're looking down on san francisco, beautiful picture there, it shows how clear the sky is once again. let's go back to yesterday. i actually got the question wrong, i gave a rec

government responded, the federal government takes a lot of blame by being ready to subsidize new structures versus urban renewal and spending on transportation for shark shirt creating nonsensical investments like detroit's monorail, the people mover. the problem is that a city like detroit, declining city already has an offensive structures and infrastructure relative to people. the last thing you need where more structure in a place like to try detroit and yet the politicians were they are ready to across the entire rust belt ready to build villages because it looks great. .. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. up next on book tv, myra gutin recounts the four years of barbara bush as first lady. she says she was more politically astute and successful than her husband. details of the former first ladies understanding a public relations. this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you. thank you. good afternoon, everyone. thank you for being here. i was listening to something that someone said as i was coming in. i have been teaching about first ladies for 30 years. i occasionally will

it is meant to capture parks -- if you are familiar with bryant park in new york, madison square park -- other urban parks surrounded by large buildings that create a sense of intimacy and a breakdown the mass of the buildings surrounding them. we also can see the linkages from the open spaces. one of them is what we would call the ramblas, like in barcelona, which is much larger, but a thoroughfare which connects open spaces where there are shops, retail opportunities, where people can hang out and enjoy themselves. certainly before and after games. in addition to the open space, we wanted a more refined street in mission rock. we wanted to break that mold and have a finer streets that were pedestrian oriented and buildings that were not all the same size, hite, and bulk, to create a more interesting form. that was a message that we heard from the community throughout the workshops. we also wanted to relocate a major parking resource on the south side of the site to support mission day and to eliminate parking at the other buildings. of course, interaction with the ballpark. if you have 2000 cars o

professor of urban studies and author of a new book, and david webb co-founder of the tea party 365. thank you all for joining me. it's a pleasure to have me with you 37. >> this is an interesting moment. we are beyond this historical moment where barack obama comes on television and announces that osama bin ladin has been killed. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin ladin, the leader of al qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children. >> i saw a celebration in the streets, democrats and republicans in agreement. >> obama got osama, it's a bit of a return to whatted mood of the country was after 9/11, when i think there was a unifying sense and a unifying force that the tragedy created that. there's a bit of closure, particularly for the 9/11 families being killed by the navy s.e.a.l.s in afghanistan. is the nation better off if we're unified in purpose? >> you are a conservative. >> yes. >> i haven't heard a conservative yet deny this was the right mission. are there any critiques of this? >

new york. my experience was landing by birth into an urban town land. my family, my mother is first generation i'm second generation. my grand mother lived in the apartment building with us. i had aunts upstairs. another aunt lived close by. pretty much 4 days a week my great uncle would come in and visit all of these people my uncle, my grand mother and so forth, all were from a town land called outside of robin. when i was growing up i would hear the names. and they would conjure the sense of another world i was no longer a part of but was connected to. i think the -- i came to the brink of this sort of, you know, really quest gradualy by hearing the names. the other experience i had when i was growing up is music in my grand mother's house. my grand mother live on the first floor of the apartment building the door was open. everyone in the apartment building stopped there after work. they would stop for a drink and play polka, not polka, poker. and lynched to john gibbons play an accordion on his wooden leg. you had the sense of people having come ov

new model of development. we call it flexible urbanism. thing that can respond to the pace of contemporary culture things happen quickly. >> six new businesses will share business on this lot. this lot will host a beer garden and there be nine pop-up retail businesses all in containers that are as easy to take down as put up. taking them down is exactly what the city expects them to do at the end of their four-year lease. >> it's sort of an interesting compromise being temporary and permanent. it's rethinking what a retail environment looks and feels like. >> it costs from $7,000 to $40,000 to fix up those containers, and $12,000 to $5,000 a month to lease one of. smitten is now open for business. >> don't go away. 7 on your side is next. >> promises to help save you money on gasoline. i'm michael finney, we'll put i'm michael finney, we'll put the fuel doctor to the test. go! go! completing an atm deposit in record time... that's a step forward. go! go! with deposit friendly atms, you can make ultra fast, secure deposits with no slips or e

. >> hinojosa: ...in the middle of major urban areas like in new york city, where you have 300 to 400 mostly men-- undocumented immigrant men... >> yeah. >> hinojosa: ...in detention. and you actually went. >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: what was that like for you when you found yourself there? it's not something that you see all the time. >> it's... it's really... i have to say, it's what makes me want to be an actor. because again, it's like... it makes me a better person. it like, exposes me to things that i was not aware of. i was not aware of that set up in the detention centers and what goes on with the detainees, and the fact that they can be detained there for an indefinite amount of time, not knowing what's going to happen, no legal access, have maybe family back home and they would be prosecuted if they went back... >> hinojosa: they're invisible, right? >> they're invisible. they don't have a chance to voice their sort of fears or like, concerns, or get any answers to any questions they have. and... >> hinojosa: and no one really cares, because they're like, you know, they're undo

urban sea. >> reporter: now new research finds earthquakes thousands of miles away, like the catastrophic one in japan and the 8.8 quake in chile caused parts of the san andreas fault to partially slip. >> it's not generating big earthquakes and it will rupture. >> while no one knows for sure when the next big one, like the 1906 earthquake could hit again. he says learning how deep sections of the san andreas react when slammed with seismic waves takes a step closer. >> and the earthquakes were recorded in the ten-year study have a magnitude of less than one. nbc bay area news. >>> two days after pg&e began pressure testing part of the pipeline system, the utility was told it could face a more costly and time consuming program to verify the safety of its oldest pipes. an administrative judge ruled that pg&e will have to test or replace 705 miles of natural gas transmission pipelines. to complete this task, it would have to take five years to do so and cost the utility upwards of $350 million. pg&e says it is reviewing the decision and to improve safety worldwide. >>> new bill boards are going

recognizing its adjacency to open space in including small, intimate, urban spaces to complement them. there is the establishment of new zoning guidelines. there are limits to development. it will do several things. it will be at a higher density than what is currently provided in the underlying zoning. number two, it will korea a mechanism that will korea a more typical street pattern. number three, it will assure that the streets will be accessible and approved, and then you need at the site, the zoning looks to deal with the rights of way, namely the new zoning would change the height to allow a range of heights including three residential towers. the kazakhstan site is currently zoned -- the existing site is currently zoned -- zop -- zoned c-2. the proposed would change this. it would allow this at a higher density. the new zoning also proposes to establish a special use district, an "sud," for those of a unique sight better not address but underlined. as such, the sud controls of the site must be broken up for development. with accessible streets and open spaces, the provisions require things to be done as they ar

it seems to me, in new orleans, your problems have problems, that everything that can be wrong with an urbannt is wrong in new orleans. >> ricard: exactly. >> pitts: so can one mayor fix them? >> ricard: i think that... that the... you always need a catalyst to start something. you know, when god created the world, there was the big bang. somebody had to make the boom. and i think this mayor has the ability to be that bang, to be that one that will give us that start. >> pitts: many believe landrieu at least has the pedigree. his sister mary has been a u.s. senator from louisiana since 1997. and the last white mayor of new orleans was their father, "moon." he ran the city in the 1970s, when it was bitterly divided by race and class. his most important step was integrating city government, and setting the stage for a succession of four black mayors. mitch landrieu's election broke the streak. as you well know, new orleans has been dominated by white business elite, black political elite. but you're neither one of those. so, do you represent a new way, a third way of doing business in new orle

the key urban design achievement in this sighting is the reopening of san jose avenue as a major new public plaza. turn to sheet number 13, this is a view from cesar chavez. it is looking at the proposed new hospital building main entrance. you can see the beginnings of the main open space as you move to the south up along the san jose avenue right-of-way. broad themes in the placement of the hospital, a very tight site next to residential neighborhoods. there was great effort made to organize the hospital in such a way that it mitigates in a positive sense between the scale of the hospital and the scale of the residences. there is a virus of massing strategies, colors, facade treatments that will help to differentiate in this building and pieces of the building that will be of a smaller scale and character and will step as you move toward guerrero down cesar chavez. if you look at sheet 14, the view from guerrero along shaffsshaffs, you can see the stepping down toward the -- cesar chavez, you can see the stepping down toward the residences. in our metal panel and the window languag

corner of the lobby and you can see the scale of that and the ability through new pavement, planting, etc., to have a much more urbane setting as you walk up geary. the medical office entry is shown in sheet 42. that's directly at the corner and had discussions about the kind of power of the hospital lobby, the medical office lobby, the future rabid transit combining to make this one of a -- the really terrific intersections in san francisco. you're seeing to the left of this drawing looking north the ability to put real retail frontage in the medical office building. the glass wall of the office building rising directly above that. sheet number 43 is a view of the improved circumstances at cedar street. this is the main auto drop-off for the medical office building. again completely reimagined, repaved, planted, and quite a different kind of place than we see there today. finally in sheet 44, you are looking from the east up cedar street and you can see what we think will be the real positive impact of a completely rethought environment, lighting, security vastly improved. medical office building is in the fore grou