the character in north beach. and so please do keep that in mind when you are considering this. now, as to the proposal itself, i would like to address just two issues. one, the number. and two, the so-called spin off. with respect to the number, according to the representatives here today from the city, the increasing the number does not make much difference. if that is true, why change it? what is to be gained by putting at risk the possibility of some very good but very small businesses having to compete with others who perhaps are larger and more aggressive? and if it, ain't broke don't fix it and it doesn't seem to be a compelling reason to do so. secondly, with respect to subsidiary and frankly that is a lot of nonsense that they can't be tracked of course they can, and the city is not in a position to draft something, i would be happy to help them. so, to just basically write off all subsidiaries of what is a major corporation in the retail business, whether it is through electronic means or brick and mar t

the north beach library >> (repeated.) >> thank you daddy. he's young enough to be my son.hank you very much. our next supervisor i think has a record for attending more than all ribbon cutting supervisor yee he's got 3 libraries in his district he believes in the libraries so supervisor wiener i'm representing district 8 lewis is right when i in the 3 and a half years in office i've supported the renovations and part of the reason is under the influence of alcohol when i took office the libraries in my district were renovated so i lived very categorical so people want to know why we need libraries in this angle we know that libraries is not about the books those are community centers and the hearts of our community and so many ways. our library system our staff and lewis and our library commission all the investigators in every community that are supporting or spovrt our library system is important but north beach has a special place i've taken every opportunity to move this forward i'm going to be more blunt than supervisor david chiu or mayor ed lee it was a poster child

. >> north beach this is your day. i can't believe we're lessor. 14 years after we passed this bond measure the last of 24 libraries and hundreds of meeting and thousands even if residents coming together we have a north beach library. this is personal for me because lewis said i made a caption promise in 2008, this library would be done and thank you for helping me keep the promise. the first meeting i had after 2 weeks of november 2008 i had a meeting in 90 my predecessors office with julie whether i we looked at the new designs and said chiu go get it done i told them i think we can move this forward in 6 months 6 years later after appeals and lawsuits it will remind people will be still folks who are fighting to build the joe deimagine lagged and still trying to build soccer fields the village of san francisco we came together and our citizens and disabled awe our parent and kids we represent the diversity of the world in north beach and we got it done thank you for that (clapping) but let me close with the second

neighborhoods he got things done and in particular telephones a huge advocate for the north beach and broadway neighborhoods as a stave for our office of economic workforce development. i can spend a long time but i'll highlight he organized our lower porlg a polk street and the farmer's market and spearheaded efforts on the alley. he organized the rural festivals between chinatown and north beach he led the in which business association of lower polk neighbors and did much of the work to form the broadway cv d and he also assisted with other festivals shell was a 25 veteran of the restaurant bar and nightclub industries i think we're in shock over the loss of a leader and friend. this past weekend i spoke to shells parent and shared with them how we all appreciated and loved their son today in our audience we shall joined by shells brother and sister and on behalf of the neighborhoods and friends we want to thank you for sharing our family webb member with our city. potentially one of his lasting legacies is the lower polk district i saw an e-mail at the end of last week before he pa

, however, it seems to me that north beach has recently been discovered by the powers that be in the city hall and it has become yours and others favorite neighborhood also. however, this proposal seems directly aimed at us, and it was definitely change the character of north beach, i see no virtue in it whatsoever, except including formula retail in the proposal, just directly aimed at in the independent businesses or mr. macarini said something kind of obvious he thinks that you are here to help small businesses. i really have not thought about it that way. but i hope that he is right and i hope that you will listen to people like me. we have lost our hardware stores and we have lost shoe repair and that does not sound related to this proposal but i am getting at the changes that are happening to north beach for reasons like the proliferation of formula retail and also high rents and other agencies that besides planning, mr. ron

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.) >> and wonder bless this new north beach library (clapping) so so much reverend functioning and what glories day welcome ladies and gentlemen, i'm louis us the city librarian (clapping.) i've had the honor and privilege of doing ribbon cuttings for the 24 libraries it never gets old it's fantastic is we're here to celebrate the grand opening of a new icon in the north beach neighborhood it represents the end of the largest capital improvement program in the history of the city 24 libraries every library is seismic safe we have ada access and staiks libraries for every neighborhood in our city (clapping) isn't that fantastic really a testament to all of you we're here to celebrate the last one and best one of the lot (clapping) absolutely. >> how appropriate is it this is mother's day weekend abused happy mother's day but beyond that this is the mother of all projects (laughter). >> (clapping) literally this is the capital to all the amazing projects you have a special library i know we're going to have a program it's important to acknowledge folks i can he can recall wait for you to

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and i have lived in 6 districts and north beach unfortunately. and i am here representing the small business network tonight and, we did send a letter out to all of the these commissioners and i am not going to read the entire letter, we do not have a stance on this particular issue, one way or another. but there are some very important one very important thing that we would like to you to consider and it is the time factor. all, was mentioned before how long some of these stuff takes to go through, and to go through a conditional use permit. and people say, well that is okay, the large formula use, permit has the money and they can do that but a lot of times you have to consider what is happening in the neighborhood, that business, is in the piece of property that might be owned by a small business. and an individual, and in san francisco. and it is an empty storefront, that is sitting around and being a blight in the neighborhood. but we would like you to consider, is asking, that there will be a time limit on the whole process. we were suggest

at the beaches, plenty of 60s. in the northay a few afternoon high clouds, maybe some of those in the east bay as well. but still on the warm side with 86 in santa rosa. you go further north, clover dale. 83 in vallejo. east bay, pleasant, upper 70s. concorde today, low 80s for hercul hercules, fremont about 80 and heading inland with numbers in the upper 80s to near 90. a warm one with all those reds and oranges, even a bit of a cooldown though on tap in the days ahead. but for the game today, looks like it's going to be a very nice afternoon. temperatures quickly climbing but then with that sea breeze quicking in, kind of stabilize into the 60s. the accuweather seven-day forecast, cooler father's day on the order of about five degrees bay and inland and then the coolest day of the week should be monday with a turn around on tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, warmer for sure inland and around the bay with still those 60s and special sea breeze at the coast to moderate sea breeze. let you know how warm it's going to be in yo

when you see the children's rooms you'll notice the beautiful artwork representing the faces of north beach. they were 2 hundred different art pieces and out of those 50 were selected to represent the local schools. i wanted to recognize the schools and the principles and taverns that help to cooperate this project so first and foremost abby who cooperated the event (clapping) mr. gene from garfield and paul school mr. allen lee and chinning elementary school and claet stephanie from the elementary school let's give them a big round of applause. we also (clapping) we've mentioned the main room is named after our first public person laurence there's a beautiful bust it was xhiktsz in our artist it here deanna there she is it's a beautiful piece of art (clapping) okay. now without further ado, you've heard repeatedly the wonderful support we've had from the friends of the library our executive director here is talk about his work director scott (clapping.) thank you lewis it's a great pleasure to be here. you you've passed the bond that built the building but you made all the furnishings and

program has removed 3,000 bags of trash from north beach park and streets.f you would like to nominate your local hero for a jefferson award, you can head to the web at kpix.com/hero. >>> a retired oakland woman is a millionaire. an east oakland corner store was where maria moreno bought the scratch ticket worth a million dollars. >> a lot of customers hoped lightning would strike twice. >> yes, no big win. coming close, you know. something like that. >> now, the store will get $5,000 for selling that ticket. lottery officials say the winner plans to pay off her house put money aside for her granddaughter's education and a trip to portugal. >> i never win. >> you can't win if you don't play. >> but paul deanno is a big winner. >> we're talking truckloads of sunshine. we can get sunny and 10 and sunny and 65 in the week and all we do is changing the wind direction. a peek outside sunshine in oakland. that's a foggy shot that layer of white in the center part of the television screen. that's the fog and low cloud cover blanketing san francisco. we can't see th

muscone and the towns and streets underneath union square and through chinatown and now here to north beach. this is a racket mile sown and i want to thank all the people working on the centralized subway project all the laborers and locals and all the labor family of san francisco. mike is here as well the construction trade unions all knocking on wood making sure that is the safety project for all the workers because it is a wonderful project and an expensive one but one that is well worthy san francisco. i can't say enough about the community leader that advocated for this they were able to convinces our leader pelosi and senator financing to get the money with the help of the president obama but it has always been the community leaders and groups working with our city planning and now i see the president of the planning commission we've got more planning to do in the city a with the leadership i'm working with the board we want you to make sure that it would think of the pronlsz the next two years is serious investments road refargz as well as pedestrian safety we've got to work on that

fair on the intersection of grand streets i heard via pd and north beach teams there were scuffles at the fair but didn't witness and have net yet to receive police reports and during the fair on the club atmosphere they having had a party called the rage eerie i was there for pardon me from 7 to 9:00 p.m. and from what i witnessed there was some pretty good spill over crowds from the fair and entertainment from the stages the security teams did a good job of controlling the crowd and no issues. a couple new classrooms those past two weeks at the 695 the harbor and the rye the only thing weasel be permanent was the pool table they've gotten complaints about leaving the door open i mean, i'll investigate that. the emergency room we're current looking the temporary use permit from the planning department there are 3 franchises there we've got two complaints on presidio so i paid a vital and rock pco had complaint. viking ills are doing a monthly called a rent party. and they're working on trying to get better control over their sound system that's hooked up to a jude box. i mentioned

mazzucco i manage the group at the puc this enters into a long term agreement with pg&e for the north beach library it authorizes the pg&e inform enter other agreements without prior board approval it allows the agreement to start generating electricity for all solar projects connected to the grid it is to insure the proximately can remain connected to the grid. the puc hats several projects and the board of supervisors has approved each of the intersection agreements we currently have 13 connect agreement and stimulate 9 to 12 additional projects in the next 3 years the terms of the interaction their retained in granting the authorization will streamline the process for the city's labor projects the puc recommended the board of supervisors approving approve this to enter into the north beach library interconnection agreement and similar agreements in the future. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. colleagues questions or comments? i wanted to say this is a good step forward we finally got the north beach library open and good to debiting get it some power with that, i'll open this

thank you bringing up president chiu >> good morning north beach i've never been so happy to see a massiveour heaviest things weighing seven hundred and 50 tons welcome to the oldest and most historic neighborhoods of our city they've traveled over one and a half miles each and moving one hundred and 14 cubic yards of dirt yaefrd on time and on budget pr i want to take a moment yes give it a hand on time and budget. >> i want to join mayor ed lee and thanking the leaders who 3 decades ago talked about the density neighborhood outside of manhattan building a new ground subway thank you to the vice presidents and the men and women who are wearing the hard hats and the community from our leaders in chinatown to north beach to telegraph hill and russian hill you came together a few years ago to this site when the theatre needed to be the place where the machines came about and thank you and our colleagues for moving those projects forward i want to say i have a vision that's shared by which i want to thank our colleagues that put together the idea our work is not done we've finished phase with

. >>> and she's called an angel in san francisco's north beach neighborhood. what one woman is doing to help homeless people start over. >>> and we have a little guest in studio today. cute. who needs a home. how you can help, that's next. of her facial scars. ,,,,,,,, >>> a woman in mississippi says her granddaughter was forced to leave a kfc restaurant because of her facial scars. 3-year-old victoria willcher suffered serious injuries when she was attacked by three pit bulls in april. the girl lost her right eye and suffered a broken jaw, cracked ribs and several puncture wounds. restricted to only soft food, she was taken to the restaurant to get mashed potatoes. then a worker came over. >> she said we would have to leave, we were just starving her other customers, that victoria's face was disturbing the other customers. >> so victoria's family posted a picture on facebook saying does this face look scary to you? kfc's corporate office says it has a zero tolerance policy for disrespect towards its customers and guests. the company says they're committed to

not only owned the restaurant and opened and closed it he will be missed at the his presence of north beachfrancisco it will not be the same rest in peace he's survived by his wife and son and daughter and 3 grandchildren. thank you, mr. president. seeing no other names on the roster that concludes that >> madam clerk go to our 3:00 p.m. special order. and items 27 through thirty comprised the public hearing for the people front yard in the public works for the subdivision located on 655 fell street and to approve the public works the personal map and to disapprove the parcel map and item thirty to direct the preparation of understanding >> thank you madam clerk i understand this appeal has been with withdrawn if you know that there are my of the parties to confirm that. >> we have received notice that's the case i'll assume that being the case oh, okay. the appellant is here can you please step forward. >> i wanted to confirm isle i've been in discussion with the owner and we've reached a supplement i'd like to withdraw my appeal. >> if you could identify yourself for the record. >> i'm je

kathleen dulling i didn't president of the north beach commission today, i'm speaking on behalf of the north beach business and the telegraph hill i also participated in the planning process and the reviews i really want to thank the planning department for the hard work it's complicated and i think they did a very good job we support many of the proposed changes such adding international locations and expanding the news. we don't support increasing the numerical number to 20 we understand the deserve to allow the important chances we suggest a better way to do this is have the planning department include them in the proposed administration review process to fast track non-controversial important chains that will allow neighborhoods if at the desire to require a full cu process that will make it less on and on reduce for the local companies and increasing it to 20 is not limited to the local companies it's every company worldwide so this will possibly increase the number of businesses that are formula retail without a cu way beyond what we have now. we also feel that if a business ladd

live in north beach, mark marks marks -- mark kelly. >>> a big rig and motorcycle collided killing the driver of the motorcycle. happened just before 7:00 this morning. police are still on the scene investigating. the road should reopen shortly. no word yet on the names of the drivers or if charges will be filed. >>> ask new at noon, hall of famer tony gwynn has died of cancer. landing the nickname mr. padre. he retired in in 2001, and became a baseball coach at san diego state. diagnosed with cancer in his cheek in 2009, something he thinks was from chew tobacco all those years. >>> investigators looking cause of the blaze in the city's outerer mission. the flames broke out shortly after midnight, spread to the house next door. no one was hurt. six people are now without a place to live. >>> and a wildfire near bakersfield has grown to 2200 acres. the shirley fire, 500 homes have been evacuated. two homes were burned to the ground and a thousand more are threatened. the wildfire is only 10% contained. >>> and checking bay area headlines, just a few minutes ago, ryan chamberlain pleade

and finally, our central subway tunnel machines are arriving in north beach. we are planning an event to celebrate this really huge mile stone. this is the combination, not the finish, you really the high point of the 230 something million dollar contact to bore the contracts through market through the city and to china town and north beach. we'll be having an event with the community and the public and as many of you that can be there for the historic day at some point in the next couple of weeks but a huge mile stone for the project that continues to proceed extraordinarily well. that concludes my report. >> thank you. members of the public. >> yes. >> only one, herbert winer. >> if there's members of the public who wish to address the board to riskin. >> two things. i would like to have a report of late buses, switch backs as part of your report. i'd like to see that added and i think the public and the board should know it. the second thing i want to say in light of the last two days from my own perspective, i've just got a review of the project and what i

. >> world cup fever comes to san francisco north beach with the excitement this morning. >> warning if you play a clone of a popular "flap by birds," things on purpose? youe not a color found nature. there's nothing wrong with tha. i can hear your arteries clogging. ok. no. this is tap water. i can't let you buy this. oh. crystal geyser please. crystal geyser. bottled at the mountain source. surprise!lcome back. crystal geyser alpine spring water. crystal geyser. crystal geyser. news flash, it's bottled at the source. news flash, we sell it in cases. oh. thank you. oh no no no. crystal geyser. bottled right at the mountain source. >>> covering daly city, dublin/pleasanton, los gatos and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >>> now the world cup soccer madness continues in the bay area right now and uruguay beat italy leaving a lost fans disappointed in san francisco's north beach. >> the restaurant was packed with fans clearing on italy. it was close. but italy is going home. it was 1-0. for all thing world cup go to abc7news.com/worldcup. >> and greece and ivory coast are on espn2.

and great day to take in the north beach festival. it began today, happens all weekend long in san francisco in north beach. 67 degrees forecast for that tomorrow. high pressure is keeping us nice and warm and with that high over the west coast, finally getting shunted aside by low pressure that's dying down from the pacific northwest. the sea breeze will cool us down a little tomorrow so tomorrow is not as warm as today. monday is even cooler. then we'll rebound next week. but in the meantime, expect this to happen. mostly clear skies in the early going overnight. then watch the low clouds pack in along the shoreline. we stopped this right at daybreak so you can see the low clouds along the peninsula. that's at about sunrise tomorrow morning a little bit after sunrise and then as we run the loop you can see that this trough moves through clears us out but expect the low clouds in the morning. so cooling off tomorrow. even cooler on monday. and then a warming trend on tuesday. as far as by the numbers, tomorrow looks nice and warm inl

there are no immediate plans to open a station here in north beach. but city leaders say it should be to extend the line as far north as possible. some are calling for a station at this location or nearby and hope to push this central subway all the way down to fisherman's wharf we're live, christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> firefighters in the north bay continue to comb the ground where two suspicious fires started over the weekend. the most recent one came in the neighborhood of san rafael. brian flores is there with a warning from firefighters. >> reporter: good afternoon, brian. firefighters and fire investigators warning residents to be on the lookout for anything suspicious. the latest fire happened midday on sunday afternoon. you can see the charred ground behind me. as you look into whether this was arson or not, they are urging residents to be vigilant. it remains unclear this afternoon how the fire started behind some homes on the 200 block of johnstone drive in san rafael. fire officials say the cause of the fire remai

the blue-zone request was granted for the location outside of the north beach public library. however, the request for an individual's personal use was not granted. sfmta evaluates blue zone requests using objective set of criteria for criteria to ensure the most efficient use of parking spaces. blue zones are not established for a specific individual at a specific location and instead they are located in areas with high public use that can serve large numbers of the public. these types of areas include dense commercial zones, public parks and playgrounds. this month we also conducted the last session of our ada coordinator academy training. our deputy director joanna fraguli and myself, we trained 14 ada coordinators about the ada grievance providure for procedure for the city and county of san francisco and also information about the investigative process and analysis m steps and documentation of requirements for the grievance procedure. now i'm going to pass it over to our deputy director joanna fraguli to go into more detail about about the academy training and other futur

now in its 60th year, north beach festival will feature two days of free entertainment, live music and booths offering arts, crafts, food and beverages. the national blessing of the animals he shrine will take place. it will be in the little italy district in the north beach district between ten and six today and tomorrow. it will be nice today, right? >> yes, it will be nice today. we will still keep the breeze at the coast. if you are headed there, grab the jacket. in the 60s. it will be pretty mild around the bay, upper 70s in oakland. and upper 60s returning to near 90 inland in the accuweather seven-day forecast. the cool down with a push tomorrow on father's day. that continues through the early part of the week and then we are warming up again. the warmest day today out there. >> looking good. thank you, lisa, and thank you for joining us on the abc7 saturday morning news. follow us on our new abc7 news app. we continue at 1:00 a.m. "good morning america" is next. have a great day, everyone! you can either have high-end or low-price. is split in two. or you can go to t.j.maxx an

3 ready street line, that will take passengers underground through union square, chinatown and north beachcials say it was needed. buses run nearly to capacity. >> these have to be working together so that people can live here, work here. and get to their jobs correctly i look forward to completing this project. >> stations should be up and running by 2019. this is video of a cutter head breaking through dirt and rock, reaching what will be the end of the underground line in north beach. >> these have excavated through dirt, soil, rock. >> that would be 543,000 barrels of oil. it's taken a toll on businesses near union square. mocha is a popular restaurant in stockton. new noise, and dust turned customers away. >> there are a lot of tourists going on another side now. nobody on this side, as you can see. >> it's affecting everybody's business. it's putting people out of business. >> the cost of this extension is $1.6 billion. the final phase is being studied it would reach fisherman's wharf. >> police arrested two people in a road rage shooting that left two people dead. police say they ma

3 ready street line, that will take passengers underground through union square, chinatown and north beachofficials say it was needed. buses run nearly to capacity. >> these have to be working together so that people can live here, work here. and get to their jobs correctly i look forward to completing this project. >> stations should be up and running by 2019. this is video of a cutter head breaking through dirt and rock, reaching what will be the end of the underground line in north beach. >> these have excavated through dirt, soil, rock. >> that would be 543,000 barrels of oil. it's taken a toll on businesses near union square. mocha is a popular restaurant in stockton. new noise, and dust turned customers away. >> there are a lot of tourists going on another side now. nobody on this side, as you can see. >> it's affecting everybody's business. it's putting people out of business. >> the cost of this extension is $1.6 billion. the final phase is being studied it would reach fisherman's wharf. >> police arrested two people in a road rage shooting that left two people dead. police say the