the noe valley harvest festival, we do that in partnership with the noe valley farmer's market. this year, we have done a holiday celebration on 24th street. with the cbd did was enable us to create an infrastructure that was clean and beautiful and green. in doing so, it brought people together locally as well as organizations in the neighborhood together. so you have merchants working with the farmers' market, friends with noe valley, in ways that they did not six years ago. but because we have a beautiful space, we can do all of these things, and businesses also contribute to these events, and it has become very successful. thank you for your time. supervisor mar: supervisor chu. supervisor chu: the benches with the planter boxes, they look great. the question on logistics. was that on the property owner's property, did it require encroachment? >> no, nick from dpw to care of it. it did not encroach on their property at all, but we asked. supervisor chu: in terms of annual cost, are you paying an encroachment feet? >> sure. are you kidding? nick is very good. who is the perso

we proposed a cbd for noe valley two years ago. there are a good idea. they gathered very disparate neighborhood groups to form me -- the noe valley cbd. the egos are different, but the goal is the same. how the major community a better place -- safe, lively, prosperous, and interesting? city center has more to offer the citizens of san francisco, but it needs improvements at street level, making it more accessible and simple to use, to really make it come alive. cbd has offered the best format for public and private partnerships which work and have tangible results to show for it. think of the five neighborhoods from five years ago and how well those neighborhoods look. each has a unique sense of place, which makes them interesting and brings people from all over the city to explore them. there is a continuity of place which creating a cbd for civic center can do, which can enliven and make the center of our city a center to be proud of, which will bring new kinds of people to the area and foster new types of businesses. one of the best benefits is how

noe valley. twin peek. diamond heights, glen park and the san jose gererro area.ecause it's such a large area we can only scratch the surface in our half-hour program. we will will introduce you to the beautiful attractions, vexing issues and unique plans for the future that make district 8 a special place to live, work and visit. >> i view district 8 as being a little like maybury in the castro it's gaybury. our neighborhoodses are tightly woven. there is a lot of connection of people and awareness of what's going on in the world and the state and locally. >> there are so many things about it. its beautiful. got great views. of the 3 places i have lived 2 had spectacular vistas of san francisco which we appreciate. >> initially when i came here it felt very warm and friendly and welcoming to all kinds of people. >> close to transportation. >> not just the castro. the most of the district is not the castro. >> the neighborhood goes up to the hill the. fancy houses in the hills down to delores park and the mission. >> noe valley is where the kids and families are.

i have spent a lot of time on 24th and have seen the impact of the whole food store on noe valley. i must go to the street three or four times a week, sometimes on my car and sometimes to shop at the whole foods. i want to assure everyone in our experience whole foods has been a model never and has very effectively and assiduously -- and modeled neighbor and has very effectively and assiduously in force -- has been a model neighbor and havs very effectively and assiduously enforced their parking policy. thank you. i am andrea -- >> i am andrea inquist and represent the hoa of market street next to the project. while we are in favor of some development going into the space, our building is strongly opposed to this particular project on environmental and safety grounds we do not feel have been addressed adequately for us to feel comfortable with it. i know we are obviously a little more biased than most people because the project literally wraps around empowers over our building. we have huge concerns other people may not feel are worth addressing. our main concerns at this point are

are going to cross again somewhere down the road i know that part of yours will come to see that noe valley takes the lead supervisor mar: very nice. 9q5t< to be packaged. we found over a third of the on the clubs had either not been sealed properly with tape or were not signed off on by two officers, as is required. the envelops book like this. on the back, they have stance that say initial, verify officer, currency. we also found the property evidence tracking system itself is an older mainframe system with some limitations, the biggest of which is the system does not allow the police to update the dollar value field. if part of the evidence gets removed properly, they cannot update that. so as a result, if you look at their system and look at how much total money they have been evidence, you will not have the right number. some system security measures are outdated. for instance, access of a tracking system. in some cases, it depends on the terminal you are using. and you do not have to identify who is using the terminal. that is a week is we identified. there are no job description to

every time i'mñr on castro street, ani live between noe valley and diamonds heights, and i pass 24th and castro and i look at that space and i know that in the center, in the center you could have a wonderful local park going three blocks long that would be -- could be every bit as promises as is hayes green. so the width. curb cuts. the incredible problems associated with curb cuts. but there are solutions to that especially in any new development and in changing what you have. the wide walks without any planting and the obliqueness ness -- bleakness that comes with that, with no trees or strange stragly asormenting. generally, though, very few trees and when they exist, they's discordens. many will not want to hear this or deal with it. i guarantee you as long as -- on the local streets as long as each property owner is allowed to put whatever tree he or she wants in front of his or her house, the streets will remain lousy. çó that's why that one isn't, because they have a simple, simple rule. at least for every block, the species is the street. that's all. then there are overhead

. >> item 24 is receiving the noe valley community that the district reports. >> same house, same call? this motion is adopted. >> we will now move to our committee reports. can we start first with item 33. >> motion approving the mayor's appointment of since courtney to the public utilities commission. >> can we do this same house, same call? without objection, approved. next item that came out of committee was 43. >> this is a resolution confirming the appointment out lenona bridges to d mta board of directors. >> can we do this same house, same call? the motion is adopted. >> item 45, the appointment of lesley katz to the port commission. >> i would like to refer this back to committee. i feel very strongly about the former supervisor's qualifications but we owe it to the public to have a more thorough discussion about this. of a move that we refer this back to committee. >> supervisor mar has made a motion to refer back to committee. this has been seconded by supervisor campos. >> the chair and a member of the rules committee were kind enough to indulge me when i wanted to sit in o

i seem to recall we had a case of a hot tub covering in noe valley that was meant to come to us and did not come to us because the department decided something about it was ok. the you have any recollection of that? >> got sanchez, planning department. i do not have any recollection of that. i did review what joe duffy had in his file. it would clearly require a variance. president goh: because of the size of the structure? >> it covered the entire rear yard and therefore would not be acceptable under the planning code. president goh: what if an individual has a hot tub and a cover over just that hot tub? >> the planning code does provide for obstructions in the form of a garden shed or something like that. that would be no more than 100 square feet no more than 10 feet in height. that would be covered. i will double check on that. they could have that, something like that, which would cover the hot tub. president goh: 100 square feet they could do? thank you. commissioner peterson: can i get some clarification -- were you finished? you said nine times a $1,000 penalty. my understanding

, such as the polka neighborhood commercial district, -- polk neighborhood commercial district, noe valley, and others. there are pockets that police south of market. the blue ones refer to the polk ncd. what you have is a splattering of zoning controls that are hard to interpret. there are also technical issues with the code. for instance, the van essess ave and a lot of the tenderloin currently refer to the polk neighborhood commercial district, and for unique reasons, all restaurants, self- service and full-service, are banned. you have a large part of the city were currently you cannot do preferred uses, or uses that would normally be compatible. the planning department has been studying methods to streamline and regularize the controls in the rc district and has been looking at a couple of different options. one of the reasons that i am here is because the other day we did not really know how -- there are three different proposals to address this issue. there are two different ordinances' sponsored by supervisors, and cleanup legislation the planning department has been working on. i

historic mission dolores neighborhood and often bypassing to neighborhoods in the south, including noe valley, would have to deal with the bottleneck there. why you're not deciding on that issue today, -- while you are not deciding on that issue today, it is part of the project and should be considered. otherwise, we do support the design of the building. as you know, in the past we have supported additional parking. in this project, we don't. we support five parking spaces per unit. that is fine with us. -- we support 2.5 parking spaces per unit. that is fine with us. thank you very much. >> my name is jason henderson. i am representing the hayes valley neighborhood association. we have distracted a hard copy letter to the planning department. first of all, i want to acknowledge the city attorney's office and the defense of the market octavia plan against the e.r. -- eir whenever that was. thank you for doing that. hate valley neighborhood association has had a cordial dealing with the prado group. we've come a long way with the parking and urban design. we're pleased with that aspect of the