thank you. >> sean madison, north beach, in north beach resident and also a new father. i just wanted to comment publicly on the many friends and families i know in the north beach area that has struggled to stay in the city, and this plan is an extraordinary, extraordinary step fort in making another neighborhood a very family friendly place. thank you. >> supervisors, i have lived for over half of my years in north beach, and i think that the present plan is excellent, and as previous speakers have said, the fact that they want to place the library on the trying " and protect and create a much better playground for young children is extremely important, and also, we should remember that the computer has changed a way of the library is being used, so the existing library is totally obsolete, and i think the original man would have agreed if he were alive today. they would be extremely unhappy if we installed -- that is very expensive. thank you. >> hi, my name is kim. i have lived on telegraph hill for 19 years on montgomery street and would really like to see this new

why do we now not preside back to our north beach items? as i stated before, we will first hear presentations from various city staff, and then we will proceed to the eir as well as the public comment part of the hearing to hear from members of the public vis a vis the items today. why do we not hear first from the city librarian? >> good afternoon, president chiu, supervisors. my colleague and i are going to do a bit of a dog and pony show to highlight each library in the jodi maggio -- joseph maggio -- the playground. let me begin with the outcomes. the north beach library are nonetheless to be renovated for our improvement program. the branch, which was built in 1959 is no longer effective or adequate in meeting the needs of a very diverse neighborhood. it does not meet current building codes. it is seismically unsafe. it is not accessible and does not provide the space to meet community needs. north beach neighborhood is one of the most dense neighborhoods in the city and is also identified as a high needs area with the needs of additio

i am a resident of north beach.i run a landscape architecture and studio design shop and am also a former art commissioner who sat on the civic design review which unanimously approved the north beach library. i reviewed over one dozen libraries while i sat on the civic design review. they all had their merits, and, yes, some of them had small things which were not ideal, but i can say without question that the north beach library net demerits already spoken to, specifically by mr. hartman. please approve the eir. let's get this library built in the neighborhood. >> good afternoon. my name is donna. i am the executive director of the san francisco friends of the public library. i want to thank you for your deliberations on this matter. staff as you may know, the library is building or renovating 24 libraries, and we have been going to each of these neighborhoods and listening as those neighbors provide a vision for the library in their community and how it is going to serve them, and there has been no richer convers

i have lived in north beach for 49 years. this is inadequate and should be revised and it will include new space on the triangle. this is well illustrated. i hope that you can understand this. it was pretty bleary on the back. i have sent most of you seven documents. this would be consistent with the intent with a park or garden which will celebrate this parcel of land which is one in a series of historic bonds that are created along the diagonal line. i believe it was financed privately which shows what can be done. there's also the trial which has a pond and giant magnolias. there is a tunnel -- tiny triangle. other cities choose to celebrate not erase their parks. this is enhancing rather than obliterated by merging. >> the sunset casts a beautiful glow on telegraph hill, "tower, st. peter and paul church. seizing land by eminent domain to buy a private owner who wanted to build a condominium is extreme. as a resident, i fully supported that. i see tourists stopping all the time that this intersections and taking pictures,

for seven years, the library and was planning on renovating and expanding the north beach branch. until the money came and they had all this extra money to burn, i come from fresno, we were working and can the same for the governor's budget. we don't have money to burn. we don't need to pay off a building twice or three times more expensive. we need to be putting that into books, computers, things for kids in the school. i urge you to reject this plan. they're moving the tennis courts from where they are into the left out field and it will only be 141 feet and that is nowhere near any recognized ball field. this dishonors joe the maggio. there is no getting around these figures. this is 28% of the building taking that open space. this is only discussed as -- and there is nothing about the view corridor. this is a falsification and really if you look at some of the drawings in that report, they are falsified. this is designed perjury and should be consequences. this looks like this building does not project into the streets as far as the duds. this is an outrage. this is an outrage

the telegraph hill and north beach residential special use district. the proposed ordinance would also remove 2000 the mason street from the residential use district. the planning commission fund the project would benefit the people of san francisco in that it would provide a new north beach library commensurate with other libraries. increased open space, providing a high quality integrated cultural space, made his uncontrolled consistent across the entirety of the project area under the jurisdiction of the recreation and parks department and would be consistent with a general plan and policy planning to go. for these reasons, we urge your support of the proposed rezoning. president chiu: at this time, why don't we proceed to the eir? we will first hear from the appellant, we will hear public comment from anyone opposed to any of the hearing items or believe that it should be rejected, and to hear from planning followed by public comment of any supporters. at this time, hot and ask for representatives of the appellant? >> good afternoon. i have been a

>> i live at north beach. i have been delegated to speak on behalf of some other friends of the library project. [reading names] on the seventh, we talked about nonsense and stopping the nonsense. all of the objections the you have heard in the last few minutes, again, every one of those has come up and we knocked it down. once again, supervisors, stop the nonsense. we need one more unanimous approval of this resolution and you can get the ribbon cutting you have been looking for. president chiu: any other members of the public that wish to speak on this item? the hearing has been held at the close. i would like to have a supervisor -- ask supervisor campos to take the gavel. so i can say a few words. i want to thank all of you for your patience, both supporters and opponents for having come to numerous hearings. and allowing us at the board to make sure the the previous owners did receive proper notice that they could receive a hearing today. i also want to thank the patience of city staff. we have had numero

i represent the coalition for a better north beach library and playground. of the hearings are consolidated into one. i would like to add this following statement. we object to the consolidation but state for the record bobby, the eir process having to do with the master plan, and as testify today, which you were here, we object to each of the items before you today. thank you. thank you. any other members of the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed is closed. colleagues, can we approve this motion without objection? this is approved. now, at this time colleagues, i would like to motion had to consolidate these items. could i have a motion to that effect? a motion by supervisor farrell, seconded by supervisor mar. we will take that. now, we will look at what we are doing. mr. clerk, if you could please read agenda items 45 through 54. >> and no. 45 for the proposed library and playground. item 46 is a motion affirming the certification of the feir. item 47 is a reversing of the certification for the north beach boy library an

. >> i am mark, a north beach parent and property owner. the last time i came here, i was disappointed that this continued to this day, because when this conversation started, my daughter was in preschool, and now she is a junior at lowell high school. at a certain time, this is just kind of done. maybe you don't shake hands, but this is just done. let's get this project going. >> if there are members of the public who wish to speak on this item, please line up. >> good afternoon, fellow supervisors. i thought of writing a letter on friday. i am the presence of russian hill neighbors. i was thinking of writing a letter on saturday, on behalf of the organization, but at least nine letters have been written in support of moving forward with the library, and we have a board of 27. and the land-use attorney architect, people in the know. i am an artist, and a jewelry designer, but i hear this from the heart. i was going to bring in my tap shoes and all kinds of games, things that could be used with a larger part. but then i thought my best thin

that includes the items with regard to the north beach library. we will in three weeks consider the final item regarding authorization of use of real property located there. and we will begin to mean that until july 28. what we not now go, collins, to the first 3:00 special order? . colleagues? -- colleagues? if we can go to the first 3:00 special order, items 43 and 44, and if i can ask the representative from dpw if you can please step up. >> good evening, president shoe, -- chiu, board members. the department is working with those properties on the case by case basis. president chiu: why do we not pause for a moment until we have given everyone the opportunity to clear out? ok, why you not proceed? >> kenny bruce. dpw is working with all those property owners on the case-by- case basis. president chiu: ok, so at this time, there is nothing for us to amend? and you recommend that the board can adopt the report today? >> that is correct. president chiu: ok. supervisor mar? supervisor mar: ok, i did want to ask about a number of people said that t

the north beach library is the last of 24 branches to be renovated to the improvement program. with the expanded playground -- this would be wonderful aspect for the community. thank you for your consideration. >> unless there are any questions for the city staff, we should proceed to hear from the former owners of this site. we would ask you to please step up and you will have 10 minutes to make a presentation. >> good afternoon, supervisors and people watching at home. i am the rightful owner and in spite of what you have just heard, the project is an example of the worst of san francisco, the worst excesses of government and the power of eminent domain. i don't think any of you were there when we went back to the history of what took place. we spend 10 years with a plan for a small residential project. there were countless public hearings and hoops to jump through, and the need for open space was mentioned not one time. the overwhelming need for the open space on this particular postage stamp -- postage stamp sized parcel happened after we had the improvement of the planning

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. >> i can check the controls and it has its own for the north beach. there are certain a lawnessas in north beach whether you can relocate signs and if you can't reloathe a existing illuminated sign. >> we have an interesting array of signs here and signs that are both letters and become the whole store front facade and again i guess it's a challenge for the planning department and here is the sign and here is not sign. >> yeah and definitely when you have the graphics here that go along with the sign where do you draw the line? you have to look and see what is representative of the sign name and you would do that. >> the wasteland. a wonderful sign if you like that sort of thing. not everybody does. backside of portero i think. people come up with logos. this is one that i had to study for a long time before i could figure out the message here. it is such a special art and skill to have a clear message. sometimes you have these -- what is the message. >> are those flames coming out of -- >> yeah. the butler and the ship. >> and talking about commercia

north beach neighbors, the north beach merchants association, the north beach chamber of commerce, neighborhood veterans group, the telegraph hill dwellers -- it should be in the back of this. i cannot remember all the names. the broadway entertainment and cultural association. also, all of the people who live upstairs. there are 13 residents in sro's upstairs. we sent a letter in chinese and english and make sure they knew, and nobody objected at all. also a condominium association in the area. commissioner perez: thank you. commissioner meko: perfect. don't need to say anything more about your neighborhood a rich. as a result, where are the angry neighbors? they are not here. it is a first. vice chair joseph: do you have a liquor license? >> no. they wanted to wait a year. vice chair joseph: this is definitely 21 and over no matter what? >> right, just because they felt it would be an easier demographic. president newlin: thank you. any public comment on that proposal? seeing none, do we have a motion? vice chair joseph: i move to approve, with the police conditions striking the indoor camera

taking a live look at north beach in san francisco this morning. all quiet now, but things will really start cooking a little bit later on with the food festival that's happening, the 56th annual north beach festival, always fun. >>> dads can look forward to getting some pretty good gifts today, that is if national retail spending figures are any indication. the federation says father's day spending is up 13% over last year and on average people are spending a little more than $100 on dad. 20% of people surveyed say they are buying dad electronics. home improvement items, sporting good items also high on the list. the average mother's day gift costs about $140. >>> a san jose dad says that he is getting a father's day gift every day at work because he is training his daughter to take over their cherished family business. >> hi, i'm ron, the chef owner of new delhi restaurant. we are located in downtown san francisco. i'm a lucky dad to be working with my daughter, sarah. she's the second generation chef and training to be the owner one of these day

but north beach is getting a cold shoulder. >> it is like yesterday. we had maybe five tables. >> garcia has been parking car in the lot for years. the rain kept him business . he would stay in the hut. it is like the hand brakes. rain, rides don't exist and bad for business. >> we are down 90 percent today and yesterday due to the weather situation. >> one of the major street fairs is the star for the weekend. 35th year of the union street fare and ready for the rain expected this weekend. >> party. and come rain or shine cliche or not it goes on artist will bring the tarp to cover displays and music will play the classics it is the coldest may in like 12 years. they may be selling hats instead of sunscreen. don sanchez, woops. seven news. >> it is june and not january. sandhya is joining us now with the radar. >> it is quieting down in the bay area. we had thunderstorms earlier in the day around napa county and lightning strikes and numerous lightning strike san francisco valley. a funnel cloud near davis. in the sierra, nevada e. june 1st and we are

. >> we have the north beach community, and we have worked closely with the north beach community. we have the partnership within the library, we are increasing the accessibility and the playground to move these sports. we are excited about the future of this site. we have been working as creatively with the partners as we possibly can to offer programming in these facilities. this is part of the ballot measure that was just introduced. >> thank you, supervisor? >> in the conversation that you had, i wanted to make certain that the skateboard park is a pilot project. >> thank you very much. i was focused on an event, with the community outreach. we had to do a lot of work with organizing this, getting out to skateboard on the 21st. we're interested in the pilot project. and as you know, supervisor, we have worked very closely with you. we have the farmers' market on that street. this is a very challenged corner of golden gate park in terms of public safety and we strongly believe that having more kids in that space engaged in healthy recreational opportunities, this will keep the p

fifa womans world cup on espn north beach festival kicked off today.ths are set up around the colum >>> big bustle in little italy this week. san francisco north beach festival kicking off. booths set up around columbus. the event offers art, live bands, food and what it calls beverage gardens. you know what that is. the festival continues tomorrow. it is the 55th annual. >>> it will be a beautiful day tomorrow as it was today. >> really pretty today. it was great. >> continues are really nice right now. they are going to get warmer and warmer. we will see some high 90s in the forecast. let's take a look outside in the meantime we can see some low clouds working their way over the region. not much to deal with there. that's remnants of that low pressure energy headed towards the east and what we can expect is a nice high pressure coming through. here are those clouds working their ways towards the east. here is that high pressure building nicely. this is what we will see by tomorrow and that means temperatures are going to warm up nicely. in the meanti

you're on north beach. >> a a lot of blue skies for the festivals. we will check in with mark tamayo. nice day. >> reporter: that's right, heather. the forecast will improve into the second half of the weekend. we have fog to talk about primarily coast side and a few high clouds. the wind speeds have been cranking up, and the latest buoy report show the winds gusting to 24 miles an hour. with that, the fog will be on the increase for the bay in the overnight hours. the fog is on a bit of a breeze. tomorrow, warmer. warming up for sunday. the extended forecast, more sunshine, temperatures really heating up into early next week. first thing tomorrow morning, coolest locations in the 50s for santa rosa and napa. a few patches into the bay to start out sunday morning. the trough has been cooling off a good portion of the bay area for the last 2 to 3 days. the strong high pressure rebuilding in the pacific. with that, that will initiate the warming trend as it moves into the area. that coupleed with the offshore breeze, the warmest locations mid-80s to up

this is the 57th annual north beach festival. it continues tomorrow. >>> it has been years in the making, but today the san jose vietnam town. the outdoor mall is one of the largest in the world for the south bay's vietnamese population. the developer wanted it to be the row of east san jose. one city leader called the development long overdue. >>> well a cause near and dear to the heart of cbs 5, getting a little attention today. the first annual grad walk raised money for our students rising above program. it provides college scholarships for low income students. they get financial assistance from applications to graduation. but also much more. >> i think besides the financial help that they give and just the opportunity that they give for us to go to college, they give us mentors and the social aspect we need to build relationships and friendships that last a lifetime and have that type of support. >> 98% of the students are the first in their families to go to college and 90% of them graduate. >>> from fright to fame all seal

this was the scene at last year's north beach festival. this weekend marks the 57th year of what is one of the country's oldest outdoor festivals. there will be more than 125 arts and crafts exhibits, 20 gourmet food booths, live entertainment and much more. the north beach festival goes from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. and continues tomorrow. admission is free. >>> also this weekend, san francisco's annual commemoration of african- americans freedom from slavery. it's the juneteenth festival. there's a parade at 11:00 this morning, that begins at grove and polk streets and continues through the civic center to fillmore street. that also live music and plenty of arts and crafts. the city's juneteenth celebration is one of the oldest and largest outside of texas. >>> right now wildlife officials in boulder, colorado are keeping a close eye on one particular tree. yesterday this black bear and her three cubs were found high in the dream news quickly spread and people are started gathering to catch a glimpse of the family. officials say it's not unu

librarian, i want to thank you for all the work you have been doing on the north beach library. i mentioned before that your sort often jealous of my colleagues' wonderful new libraries in their districts, and hopefully we will be able to move forward as quickly as possible. i was happy to see in the budget book that you call out the work you had been doing around the language access ordinance and helping to translate into different languages. this is based on a piece of legislation that i passed in 2009. could you talk about the work you're doing in that area, specifically what you're doing, what you are translating. these translations have not been called out by other departments, and i want to get a sense of what your doing and whether there are things you're doing that could be done in conjunction with other departments to make sure that we have full language access across the city. >> absolutely. i appreciate the question and the opportunity to talk about what we're doing in that arena. first of all, our newly redesigned web pages in multiple languages, and that has seen a

. >> we will be reviewing the north beach rezoning legislation. there are changes that come out of the plan commission. this is substantive. we could adopt this amendment, we cannot act until our next hearing which is to in the seventh. with that, howard clark to first ask that we adopt the amendment as a whole. >> can we take this without adoption? if we can continue this to june 7th. corks on behalf of supervisor farrell, for the late elizabeth -- >> on behalf of supervisor farrell, for the late elizabeth -- for the late o>> that concludesr business for today. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned.

we had that discussion with the north -- the north beach neighbors all the time, and i do think this area might warrant a special area study or a neighborhood sketch plan, by which we can figure out what changes are desirable and what would tip the balance. i want to keep us on the talking side of larger issues. we have agreed to continue this. instructions i have given our that we expect the applicant to reach out more to the neighbors, but we are saddled with other obligations which take this whole thing further. this is only one example out of many. commissioner antonini: i think we also cannot jump to conclusions. we have no knowledge of what exists here, and there are all kinds of leases. some are troubled that, and some require them to take care of almost everything, including in the case of bombay. there was a letter missing from the sign, and i'm not sure who was supposed to put that back in. we do not know what that contract entails. it could be neglect on the part of that person who was leasing. i'm not saying it was, but before we jump to conclusions, we have to know exact

the 57th annual north beach festival continues today.eaturing live entertainment and gourmet food. >>> and you could not ask for better weather. we know there's a couple different festivals going on. >> reporter: it's going to be a gorgeous one out there. shorts, flip-flops. maybe find a water source like a dip in the pool. it's going to feel good, especially in the inland spots. sitting in the upper 50s, low and mid-60s at this hour. noontime numbers, low 60s. mid-60s by the coast. mid-60s already for the inland spots. your lunchtime is going to be quite warm. take a look at this afternoon high. 89 will be our average for some of our inland areas. definitely warmer than what we saw yesterday. this is the beginning of a big warming trends. take a look at what we are expecting around the region. 85 expected in santa rosa. 88 for concord. 76 in oakland. 70 in san francisco. if you're headed to the festival this afternoon, nice day. as we look at areas around san jose, 82 degrees expected for the second half of the day. if you like the summ

we want to make sure all our neighborhoods -- chinatown, the mission, and north beach, the south east sector -- all come for this event. we are engaging transit advocates, and neighbors, and the public, beginning to ensure that we meet transportation needs of the races, as well as our residents and commuters. we are doing this, as i said, the san francisco y, in partnership with the public -- the san francisco way, in partnership with the public and our stakeholders. the transportation plan is up on the website already. we will end -- we will wait until the end of may before we published the final document. between now and then, we will have a great amount of feedback. we are leveraging resources and enthusiasms to set new standards, and we will leave a positive long-term legacy. let me reenforce the america's cup is about bringing thousands of jobs to san francisco and generating revenue for our city. we are also working on one of the hardest topics not only we are facing, not only the region is facing, but the state of california is facing. that is pension reform. i am working hard

the first one, and then the 1 and north beach. i think the first one was unanimous, but the second was not. given the current rules, we fully support, i also think there is a lot of misinformation, misunderstanding, and still a lot of fear around medical cannabis dispensary is, when really it is a medical use and people have to have certain prescriptions. they need a prescription in order to even enter that placed. in this situation, no smoking is even allowed on site, i don't believe. there are some places where it is, there are some places where it is not. i don't think we have any conclusive research that indicates there is a connection between medical cannabis dispensary and in increase -- i will be careful in saying this, medical cannabis amongst youth or anyone else who happens to occupy the dispensary or happens to be adjacent to it. i think there is still a lot of things. i am glad you are using this opportunity to educate. you met with the people in shock. they serve as a lot of younger women, i believe, and they became m