i am a resident in noe valley on sanchez street. i'm calling to voice my strong support for keeping sanchez as a slow street permanent. as a neighbor on an adjacent street who drive bikes and walks the slow street has been hugely positive and beneficial to my life and that of my neighbors. even though i have a car, i have not been the all detrimented by the slow street. we have not seen increased traffic on our adjacent street. we had a huge positive impact of being able to walk safely and gather safely throughout this pandemic and hope to see sanchez continue as a gathering point and support local businesses and cafes and great outdoor seatings and venues and has really improved our mental and physical health throughout this time. we're so excited we might be one of the first streets considered for permanent. i want to support for slow sanchez and other she streets around the city. thank you so much. >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> caller: hello. i'm an organizer of the central mission neighbors. we're a group of about 140

i'm a resident of noe valley. i live off sanchez street about a half block. i'm calling to voice my strong support to keep sanchez slow. i think it's great and way to foster community. i organized a group walk every week. it allow us -- [indiscernible]. it fosters community. i'm also excited about what keeping this permanent what will do in the future and experiences san franciscans can enjoy once they adapt to the permanent. i'm also a driver and i haven't experienced congestion and parking. >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> caller: i wanted to say that i was in strong opposition of the slow street. sounded difficult traffic for essential workers and first responders and amount of deaths and fatalities just from people walking through intersections and checked out, being hit by cars. thank you for your time. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker please. >> caller: i'm rebecca, i'm a resident who lives on sanchez. i want to voice my strong opposition. we are the most affected. it's unsafe when you put these many kids in the way of local traffic. for

i am a resident in noe valley on sanchez street. i'm calling to voice my strong support for keeping sanchez as a slow street permanent. as a neighbor on an adjacent street who drive bikes and walks the slow street has been hugely positive and beneficial to my life and that of my neighbors. even though i have a car, i have not been the all detrimented by the slow street. we have not seen increased traffic on our adjacent street. we had a huge positive impact of being able to walk safely and gather safely throughout this pandemic and hope to see sanchez continue as a gathering point and support local businesses and cafes and great outdoor seatings and venues and has really improved our mental and physical health throughout this time. we're so excited we might be one of the first streets considered for permanent. i want to support for slow sanchez and other she streets around the city. thank you so much. >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> caller: hello. i'm an organizer of the central mission neighbors. we're a group of about 140

lake street in the richmond district, golden gate avenue north of the pandemic, sanchez treat in noe valley the pandemic to give people more space outdoors while social distancing. >>> next a quick look at the top stories that we're following including a back-to-school covid outbreak in east contra costa county as it expands, plus on the fast track, new overnight, when the fda may grant final approval for one covid vaccine and our raj mathai live in tokyo with all things olympics this morning. >> how about reason to smile on this wednesday. a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old girl are in the olympic spotlight. also what sport would you compete in if you were an olympian. role playing to do for you and some ideas. we're live in tokyo. . >>> 6:54. welcome back before you head out the door we are moving forward with our top stories. new covid concerns in contra costa county classrooms. >> want to go live to brentwood and "today in the bay's" bob redell. infected students now in several schools there in two cities. >> we have several students in three districts, marcus and laura. the liberty union

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are more local now, not driven by this front 86 for fairfield. 78 for napa in 84 for santa rosa noe valley comes in at 69. here's the bump up with temperatures happens about the middle of the week about 97 getting up to 99 when they have to amend up to 100, though with later forecast runs getting to around 80 for the east bay shoreline. that will be the latter portion of the week ahead. and at the coast. let's keep in the 60's and around 70 right now traffic. how we doing traffic. that's great. we are start of the bay bridge where we had an earlier accident that it's since been cleared. >> and now you see looks like they turn the meteor lights office traffic is flowing into the city. a little under 13 minutes. the san mateo bridge. also no major issues or delays are hazards a little under 13 is your head in a cross towards the peninsula. the richmond sandra fell commute that although a little sluggish not too bad. a little under 14 minutes. we make a cross word. sandra fell and the golden gate bridge into the city. we go little pockets of fog. nothing to worry about too much. there. about

i am a resident in noe valley on sanchez street. i'm calling to voice my strong support for keeping sanchez as a slow street permanent. as a neighbor on an adjacent street who drive bikes and walks the slow street has been hugely positive and beneficial to my life and that of my neighbors. even though i have a car, i have not been the all detrimented by the slow street. we have not seen increased traffic on our adjacent street. we had a huge positive impact of being able to walk safely and gather safely throughout this pandemic and hope to see sanchez continue as a gathering point and support local businesses and cafes and great outdoor seatings and venues and has really improved our mental and physical health throughout this time. we're so excited we might be one of the first streets considered for permanent. i want to support for slow sanchez and other she streets around the city. thank you so much. >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> caller: hello. i'm an organizer of the central mission neighbors. we're a group of about 140

technically not fairfield at 9787 for now rosa noe valley might get some better clearing in southernan here in terms of that fog will meandering around to convert over to hazy skies. so reflecting all of this slight drop on monday, but a bigger drop into tuesday. she can see a sprinkle south possible at the coast as well. and we'll keep those lower 90's in place the rest the week. sarah. >> thanks, dave. time to talk. the latest from samsung includes new foldable phones, new watches and more rich demuro explains in today's tech smart. >> samsung updated its foldable phones. the samsung galaxy z flip 3 and the galaxy z-fold-three both phones have foldable screens that samsung says are more durable than ever before. >> samsung's latest unpacked event brings upgrades to their foldable phones. the galaxy z-fold-three and the flip 3. >> the bay to the 5 videos and make lives better for the first time. both phones are now water resistant. the inside screen on the flagship fold. 3 isn't any bigger, but it is more durable. plus the phone has a thinner hinge and its overall lighter. samsung h

the late host 6378 for fairfield 71 1 on for napa. 77 santa rosa noe valley still about 64 as we dealh fog through much of the day today. here's your seven-day forecast. temperatures start to blossom by the middle of the week and latter portion of the week to 100 or so come friday, maybe even as early as thursday. will look at the east bay shoreline into the 80's noel. >> well, we have been traveling to some pretty unique places during our destination. california series this summer. but as melanie townsend shows us this next historic location has some real sentimental value to japanese americans. some don't even know it's there were top or taking you now to walk a mile to farm in plaster ville. >> escaping civil war and hardship in japan, a brave group of workers in oppression, arms dealer by the name of john henry schnell embarked on a journey to america's pacific coast in 1869 their travels led them to the lush rolling hills of present-day plaster ville for the established 18 so called wakamatsu. a kin to plymouth rock wakamatsu farm is the site of the first japanese colony in the u

it's in noe valley. the house that was there was knocked down, and then, the last four slides are a project on the 400 block of duncan street, and already, 300 -- excuse me, 30 dump trucks have come and gone already, and they're not even halfway dug out, and they're digging out because they're going to excavate and put a unit below ground, below the garage, subterranean unit, and i think, is this really necessary? halfway done, and actually had seven trucks in the picture this week come like that. it's a unit that's got bad exposure, mediocre egress, and questionable availability. so these are all issues that you're facing in the residential neighborhood, and we're all facing in the neighborhood. have a great break, enjoy your august, and see you in september, like the song. bye. >> clerk: okay. members of the public, last call for general public comment. you need to press star then three. all right. commissioners, seeing no additional requests to speak from members of the public, public comment is close

if you look at two of them which you mentioned to me the one in noe valley and the one in the missionws that happened to date, on two out of the 70. so i know that tows are not the only way we're going to abate this, but you take someone's car for two weeks and they get thousands of dollars of fines, they're going to think about this, they're going to second-guess if i'm coming back to san francisco. they will for sure. and that would be the other thing we want to look at. of the people that were towed, do we know if any of them going forward -- i would be shocked if we had any repeat offenders, but sometimes, you know, people push the envelope and maybe they will. and so maybe that's something to look at. i doubt that we do so far. but again i know there is a lot of coordination with c.h.p., sfmta and i'm not trying to oversimplify it. i appreciate the hard work your officers have done and your department has done. but i just want to tighten it up a little bit. and i think we're going to have a more positive result going forward. >> i appreciate that. and that's on me for pulling dow

it's in noe valley. the house that was there was knocked down, and then, the last four slides are a project on the 400 block of duncan street, and already, 300 -- excuse me, 30 dump trucks have come and gone already, and they're not even halfway dug out, and they're digging out because they're going to excavate and put a unit below ground, below the garage, subterranean unit, and i think, is this really necessary? halfway done, and actually had seven trucks in the picture this week come like that. it's a unit that's got bad exposure, mediocre egress, and questionable availability. so these are all issues that you're facing in the residential neighborhood, and we're all facing in the neighborhood. have a great break, enjoy your august, and see you in september, like the song. bye. >> clerk: okay. members of the public, last call for general public comment. you need to press star then three. all right. commissioners, seeing no additional requests to speak from members of the public, public comment is close

different in august or will it feel different by 85% in -- i mean, when will people commuting from noe valley to downtown, if that's what they're doing, because some people are still going downtown. when will those people's experience be as good with that or better than the old way? >> i think that we're going to see much better commutes starting in august. the subway repairs have allowed the subway to be more reliable. we're going to be increasing the service in the subway when we reintroduce the m, but the -- we're going to continue to train rail operators, and we're going to continue to be investing in the system. >> right, and we also want to acknowledge one of the great weaknesses of the subway, which is the prediction system, which is from the 90s. for all of you who take the subway, you know the prediction systems have been terrible since the start of the pandemic. we are working on updating the system, which was loaded onto 5 1/4" floppy disks and taking advantage of those who understand that code, and working on that, so it'll be much more reliable and frequent for folks boarding in