a rolling game imported from the old country. >> reporter: a new population invaded north beach.y were writers, poets, artists, impoverished and proud of it. thaerp called the beat generation or beat necks. you can still find a few beats around the area. odenten myers, remembers the excitement of being young and creative in north beach. >> someone that immediately helped you find your place. where you could eat and take the left over home. or the plates were inexpensive. everyone when people could not pay the rent there was a rent party. people helped each other. someone would sell something. it worked. >> reporter: ed moose who sold the washington square bar and who know owns the upscale restaurant mooses says the creative spirit that bubbled in north beach is gone. >> we're getting another kind of humor, genre of an attempt to entertain, shock value or you know even wonderful old pinnochios had to close because they weren't shocking enough. >> reporter: not that moose is not in the neighborhood, he lives around the corner from his restaurant. we entered a historic accomplishmen

i would >> and the community in north beach benefits greatly from this club and the expansion club. it is very important that our kids have a place to go to, the kids allowed to get into this club when they are 8 years old. they have north beach library, fortunately for large -- a kind of change, but the neighborhood group is very much in favor of doing things for the parts and for the club and for the library and we have been working very hard for the last few years to succeed and will have the north beach playground. the theater program is currently -- they don't have a place to were hearse -- rehearse. and there are currently 45 kids signed up for the play of bye- bye birdie, there are almost 60 kids signed up for midsummer night's dream. we would like to see people come out and support it because the benefit for us this on much greater than one person that's been $10 to support the project. >> and good evening, my name is madison shorts. i have been a boys and girls club member since the third grade and i am honored to share with you what that means to me. it is not just a summe

i retired from the police department after 32 years, 27 years of which are was detailed in north beach. i was recently called in to the mayor's office to assist the city in the planning for america's cup in 2012. i am only telling you this because i am proud of and what i have done. there are many of us. it runs the gamut. there are many very successful people, all products of the boys club and girls club. i think the issue of the new building, which i am very much in support of reminds me, and i hate to date myself, but with the exception of women in law enforcement, and the facilities they ended up working at, the 10 district stations, at the time when women were accepted, it was 1975. as an eye witness, our law enforcement women were relegated to the basement of every station. a janitor closets were now makeshift showers and storage rooms. i know the boys club. the new building was built in 1971 or 1972. with the exception of the girls club, very much the same issues with law-enforcement women. we now have issues with these young women members. their club was the old boys' club, a c

whether it is our friends at north beach or people here in chinatown. in talking with the merchants all over china town, chinese chamber, the stockton street merchants, the chinatown merchants association -- we wanted to capture a little bit more improvement this year on pedestrian safety. there was an idea that was created and talked about for several weeks where it began by a few years ago when i was public works director, that we expanded some of the sidewalks for the benefit of pedestrian safety. we worked very closely with the traffic division of mta. we worked with our health department. we worked with chinatown neighborhood groups and the businesses to expand those sidewalks, and it has actually become quite a positive thing. then, we had sunday streets this past year in the summer where we literally took over grant ave. that became a very positive thing. in fact, we started the first ping-pong tournament in chinatown as a result. more and more, there has been an interest that more of the sidewalks and potentially maybe even a strip of the parkin

artspan, and the youth commission, north beach merchants association and community patrol, usa. >> i feel this is the academy awards, you just think everybody. >> that is the idea of a holistic approach, right? president newlin: thank you for taking them on. is there any questions from the commission? >> this is all new to me. it sounds like you did -- everybody weighed in which is good. how much of the night club venue owners were participating? >> i went to a lot of voice of broadway. i started there because they highlighted the their is

more food down in north beach. monalisa, how would you ever know? another big guy standing and blocking the door way usually they have cute somethings there, enticing you in, but the big guys-- >> it just depends on what you are looking for. >> on 6th avenue at judda street and if you drive by, she is not looking, but she will hit you with that water. dumping out of old flower water. >> classic, classic corner entry from two posts. >> this storefront is a little unusual to the degree it has not been changed from the original window frames, the transom windows. >> the posts not being encased. sometimes there is a post and sometimes there isn't, dependinging on how inventive the structure designer was. >> yeah, i have seen people just take the post out if it's in the way. >> yeah, just pull it out. >> these transom windows are beautiful and it's a san francisco architectal tradition to have these. >> what almost all hall of fame these places had when built was a retractable awning between the two tiers of windows. so that the awning would come out and

artspan, and the youth commission, north beach merchants association and community patrol, usa. >> i feel this is the academy awards, you just think everybody. >> that is the idea of a holistic approach, right? president newlin: thank you for taking them on. is there any questions from the commission? >> this is all new to me. it sounds like you did -- everybody weighed in which is good. how much of the night club venue owners were participating? >> i went to a lot of voice of broadway. i started there because they highlighted the their issues and they definitely mirrored the neighborhood issues. it was good because the voice of broadway had already started talking about scanners and instant communication between venues and stuff like that. it opened up a better dialogue to take that to the neighbors and say, i have heard your -- i have heard your concerns and i understand there is a lot of violence and issues on the street. this is what the venues are doing. president newlin: the voice of broadway is a group of broadway clubs. quex also restaurants and hotel owners. president newlin

francis -- they became famous because they started to say, "if you have not visited north beach, you." later on, more italians came. in 1924, they opened st. peter and paul. the thing is, mexicans, they love their church. in the year 1950, there was a tornado right in front of the church that destroyed the neighborhood. at the moment, this church is for sale, and we are going to lose part of the history. do not allow this, and do not allow the 66% because it is not good for you people who do not know your history to make decisions for us. president miguel: thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, commissioners. i am tony kelly from the neighborhood association. i believe we were the last ones to actually create a historic district. i am speaking in support of san francisco architectural heritage and the amended compromise coming from the historical preservation commission. three points in particular -- first, about owners and occupants. we are definitely in support of that. we are doing research in our neighborhood association about soft sites after finding in the aftermath of the eastern n

i live in north beach. i am a retired city employee. i have been involved in the present -- preservation movement for several years now. i am a third-generation san franciscan, born here. my mother was born here. her parents met here. my father was born in northern california. his grandmother is buried in the mission. i think i have a responsibility to try to keep san francisco the way it is, and i think you people do, too. this is probably the most popular tourist destination in america. there is a reason for that. obviously, people come here because they think they know what to expect. it is important to keep it that way. i am opposed to supervisor wiener's attempt to emasculate the historic preservation commission. there was a good reason for the city to vote for proposition j several years ago. it was resoundingly approved, if you will recall. i think that the historic preservation commission proved itself to be more effective than many expected, and since that occurred, there has been a kind of concerted effort -- shall i say, dest

hopefully, we saw it yesterday in chinatown and north beach. we saw it in a western addition area. i think it reference a 60% inease in the last four years in the number of bicycle trips. most of them are saying i want to bike more. there's our opportunity. there's where we can grow and we can learn. some folks are coming out for special events like sunday streets. more and more are riding every day. more and more are riding because we're making it easier and more convenient and more comfortable for them to ride. i want to thank the city family that helped deliver the separated green on market street. we've seen huge increases here on market street and we know this is what it will take. when we build it, they will come. we know we need to start at a younger and younger age. i'm proud of the safe roots program we're part of along with the city. we know that the appetite for bike suggest there when we're young. how do we cultivate that and keep it going and how do we make sure that our traffic jams in the future are bike parking log jams. we know we need to invest. the important bike

on into southern maryland, the north beach area that is where i.t. is pushing off. this rain is widespread through the afternoon and tapering off later on this evening, probably after the rush hour. this pressure system and the front stretching all away to the south. we will clear on out and all focus shifts to this potential nor'easter for the coming weekend. this is not even organized yet and we're trying to predict its outcome. a little bit of difficulty here. still path of uncertainty in this red shaded area. the storm could go anywhere in that read as hundred -- that red zone. these other computer models we look at, shown in blue and showing various tracks. it should be one of these more northerly track, then we could bef in for moderates now. it takes a little more southerly track, then we could just a glancing blow and a slight chance of not seeing anything at all. it is one of those situations where we increase the chance of precipitation, we just cannot tell you what, when, where, and how much. today, partly cloudy not too bad, mainly above freezing. mild t

one of my favorite buildings in north beach area is the sheet metal shop and the shop -- this entire building, facade is made of sheet metal. as we get closur

i don't believe that when the planning department embarked a number of years ago in chinatown, north beach, on their program of the valley, that they necessarily have a project such as this in mind. this is sort of pushing it over the top. i am very impressed with the progress that was made regarding the building, it is coming along beautifully. the way they have been working, i am sure they will continue to push those designs. i have expressed to the museum, i had a problem with the design because when i walked into the building, i had no idea i was in the museum. there is no part in their or no flow in my mind, walking into the building. this creates a ground floor with an absolute flow init also crear where there is art. it creates are in non ticketed public space, which we have not had the four. it does a lot of things in addition true expanding in creating for the city. i only wish sacramento and understood what can happen with redevelopment. does it blow your mind when you think about 1995 and what it is now. it is crews positives. -- is proof positive. >> i think it is a wonderful d

the course runs through chinatown and north beach neighborhoods as well. >>> san francisco wants youo think green when you visit golden gate park. the recreation and park department is offering free shuttle bus rides on weekends and holidays for many locations throughout the park. you can get a free ride between 9:00 in the morning until the early evening hours. park officials are hoping visitors will ditch their cars in favor of mass transit. >>> one time or another you probably owned something made by janz sport, but did you know the products that seemed to be everywhere started with a small town kansas boy who has climbed to the top of the world and become a giant in the sport industry. more now with the co-founder of janz sport about the company's unusual story. >> reporter: not many towns pass the town of st. peter, even fewer bother to stop, but among its eight residents resides skip yowell, one of the state's most successful sons. >> my roots are from kansas, and i've always had a real fondness for the wide open plains. >> reporter: a graduate of great ben high, could you say

i was able to work mission, north beach, a it was great. a lot of agencies were out. there were some warnings for new year's and other times. sound is one thing we are trying to work with other venues and also crowd control up front. there were some minor incidences', but it was very good. we have been seeing a steady decrease in violence. it is leveling off, but we are continuing to see that drop. more recently, the woman who spoke about "treet common -- about polk street, and we have been working to get trols in thatrea. they were cited last week for crowd control. it can be a slow processbefore we see real change. we are working on those few blocks,so hopefully we will see more change and it will come more rapidly. we would give -- we are getting some more blunood as far as club owners. as far as incidents, i know officer mathias is here to talk about the central district. and one i will mention is 463 broadway. and we had a space above a legitimate venue on broadway. somebody was operating in an illegitimate venue, hoping they would slip under the radar whi they o

we can have the planning department in response in terms of what that is going to look like for north beach under the old restaurant limited. >> i appreciate that when i am writing on page 4. what it says retain existing restaurant cap. i did not know of that was limited to restaurant definition or also to a restaurant limited. >> that should be clarified. >> that is silly thing and wanted to bring up. >> any other comments? >> i am prepared to support this. president adams: we have a any public comment? we have a motion? >> i move that we recommend approval of this legislation with the request to planning that in certain districts, commercial ncd's, if a restaurant limited had been included in their cap, that should be examined and allowed to continue under the restaurant cap. >> second. >> can we do that with the specifics? >> any ncd that had any cap on what will now be called restaurant limited. >> that was seconded by clyde. >> on that motion, will call. >> commissioner clyde, aye, commissioner dooley, aye, commissioner dwight, aye, commissioner raley, aye, president adams, aye, commis

i know it is a great public amenity, not only just north beach, but it is exactly the kind of necessary and desirable project we would want to move forward, and i know that they meet the upper grades. it is a very crowded environment and they're definitely needs to be improvements. i move to approve. >> second. >> the motion on the floor for -- commissioner sugaya: i just -- the testimony that was given and the drawings that were shown that with the shadows i believe were from people that live at 1856 powell, is that correct? we're talking about a backyard situation, not any public rally. given the location of that back yard, whether this building variants moved back and forth east west has no bearing on the shadows that would take place at the rear of 1856. in order to affect the shadows, you would have to narrow the building north-south and in essence, bring the building back from the north elevation. i think it ends up being an extremely difficult design issue if not impossible. i wanted to make that observation. commissioner moore: i think the setback is really what matters, and as

i am a north beach resident. i have seen a lot of changes in this neighborhood. it has the highest level of the evictions in the city. when the owners purchased the building, are resided with all of my neighbors and i. the veterans who served our community and country in the beach. i often wonder what happened to the senior, disabled, and long- term residents that might cause -- call neighbors. proponents have identified this as a win-win. condo units can pay into the trust fund. i and many san franciscans support affordable housing for all. it concerns me. property developers are able to bypass a condo lottery system by paying into the trust fund. i can only imagine the number of tenants in control units. the city would use an immense member of controlled units, many with house some of the city's most adorable residents. i ask supervisors and sentences against to perk -- san francis cans to create a long-term housing strategy where diversity is upheld. i am translating for her. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i am a memory -- member of the united collaborative

will make the general area safe for a very good people are walking in the financial district, in north beach, in the mission district, so these larger venues, a police district people can establish what is going on, so i am ready to support this. >> i want to support both of our public speakers. i think our nightlife is under attack for other reasons, and it is a billion dollar industry we need to enhance. you really opened up my eyes. i actually parked there. >> you you drink? as i do not drink in my car. i have actually seen people partying in their cars before going to slim's, and i have a tremendous amount of respect for and director kane. i like commissioner o'connor's idea of some kind of a food truck we can add. i know there is controversy, but i liked that idea. i like the there could been a win-win situation. >> it would come down to what is defined as a staffer. >> if you left it how it used to be with the permiting officers at each station, and there are issues, and sgt shock does deal with it. gooi like hearing from the industry, because i want to do everything i can to help your

i was able to work mission, north beach, a i was great

it was the old north beach. for years, we all worked together, including the property in question.en everybody had a problem, we would work it out. i am embarrassed to be here today. i cannot believe this. i do not believe this is an issue of safety. they brought this up at the variants, but i do not believe -- it is much cheaper than going back and doing the winding stairs. if it was really safety, they would come to talk to us. this is a unique piece of property. it is the only building on our end of the block that does not have a garage. to go down the back steps to escape the building, he would go into their back yard and you were trapped in their backyard. you go down steps in their basement, go through a very narrow path, and come up to this door with a piece of steel that weighs a great deal of weight. they have to push that door and had it holds in order to get out. as mrs. gallagher said, if they were to come to us. it is a safe way -- the safe way for people to get out is to put a gateway between the two properties. they could go out to our garage. that would be an easy w

and amber lee was in the castro and she was up in north beach and down near union square and with the bars and the nightclubs, they were posting signs have been careful. keep your cell phones in your front pocket, just warning people how to take care of yourself. as i'm watching this and as we're trying to get the story done, it's because of sergeant chuck limbert. he has come to meetings and warning people about this stuff. he is one of the few, first off, i got to thank captain suhr, police chief suhr, sorry, because you're the one who brought chuck to the mission to begin with when you were captain of mission station. it begins with the community policing. if there is a bogus $20, $100 bill, the merchants know about it. they tell chuck. chuck let's everybody else know about it. you don't get that with a lot of police officers, so you're awesome, chuck. [applause] >> so with this certificate of honor, the small business commission of the city and county of san francisco recognizes sergeant chuck limbert of the san francisco police department on this monday, february 13, 2012, the sm

and going down to brandywine, north beach and that will be it for the day. temps, cloudy and still in the 40s in annapolis. easton 46. 49 in baltimore. but sun out for the west. so culpeper at 57. but there's a sign of the cold coming in. you see oakland now, 32 degrees. so yes, it's colder out there. should be a good weekend for skiing. you'll notice the sun shining off the capitol dome. else that a good sign. cloudy skies and 53 with calm winds and dewpoints in the 40s at 47. and we'll see the dryer air move in. want to take you flying here over to denver, colorado. they're expecting a big snowstorm, even blizzard conditions in parts of northeastern colorado, going towards nebraska. it could be a foot of snow in denver, up to 20 inches east of there near the colorado- nebraska bother determine around here, this system is pushing through so we don't have too much to worry about for the next couple days. we'll put our future-cast in motion. you'll notice the skies clearing this afternoon, this evening. tonight with the clear skies we'll dip into the 30s. man

. >> i will mention, people know that original joe's is moving to north beach. but as part of the sidewalk project, there will be a plaque in front of original joe's installed in september or october to commemorate it, as well as the corner of the continent cafeteria. the famous location that started the freedom movement in san francisco. so we are in history here. i want to thank all of you for coming. i know on friday there is a mural presentation at the post office at thahyde and golden ga. 5:00. arts in the tenderloin continue to flourish. and anita just came. thank you for shepherding us through the process. without your help, we could not have done this. >> [roll call] >> item number two, approval of the minutes for the december 16, 2011 meeting. >> so moved. >> seconded. >> the minutes are approved. >> item number three, public comment on executive session. no one is here. item number four, executive session. >> seconded. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> >> please be advised that the chair may order from the road -- the removal from the room any person respons