i want to point out historically, of the nine parcels of -- if san francisco has a thousand parcels, we have about 150. of the nine parcel that we declared surplus in 2007, sick of them have now since been reopened as public schools, administrative offices. our needs are unbelievably fluid, as you know he in the educational world, that the classic example of that would be the de avila elementary school on 8 which was reopened a few years ago as the chinese american school and is completely and totally thriving. the san francisco montesori school on jackson street, old pacific heights school was closed when newcomer school moved out. it is now reopened and is thriving. so, our needs come and they go. they are incredibly fluid. so, our response at the time was not to be implemented, not warranted because it's not reasonable. the educational programs and the administrative facility requirements of the district are fluid and must remain flexible and we need to have that flexibility in order to do our business. so, therefore, and in relatively quick conclusion, our sick-month update is in

i want to point out historically, of the nine parcels of -- if san francisco has a thousand parcels,

so as well as reevaluating the adjacent are parcels of the parcels that will be available for the other components and understanding new revenue and value capture. i wanted to point out that everybody is looking for revenue stream for caltrain and some of the other important infrastructure into the area and this potentially could provide that. as mentioned the first two benefits previously but the other four benefits and various other benefits associated but the 4 on here the generating of revenue and other capital ongoing revenues and generating additional ridership and helping with the san francisco housing need allocations and other priority areas and helping to provide for the sea level rise. the anticipated scope of work is quite simple for the component 5 it's understanding the potential land use scenarios and specific to the zoning work. this work allows the land opportunity in the areas. as with good studies there's public involvement we're looking at the potential of 8 focus meetings we'll have an advisory committees so we'll have a technical advisory committee and they'll obey

this since this legislation is a limited scope and only applies to one parcel, we think it is prudent to make it clear in the legislation itself which is why we recommended the block and lot in the affected property be referenced in the ordinance itself. this amendment will help planners or members of the public review this ordinance in the future understand its applicability without expanding amount of time system through the data. at the february 6 planning commission hearing, a motion was made to recommend approval of the proposed ordinance. the commission voted 3 to 3 on that motion which constitutes a failed motion. since the motion to recommend approval of the proposed ordinance failed, it constitutes a recommendation of disapproval. however, it's worth noting that after the failed motion, the planning commission approved the apple retail store project itself throughout downtown project authorization and approval that is contingent on the approval the proposed legislation. and that includes the necessary findings which are outlined in this legislation. that concludes my presenta

some are multiple parcels, continuous parcels. so we expect to have very detailed information on those sites back to report to the rec park staff and supervisor kim's staff by the end of this month. lastly just an over view of capital projects in our district 6 park. there are 6 capital projects that are in various stages or pre-plans. five renovations and one new park construction. the boat park renovation is currently under construction. it's a $5.3 million full flight renovation and the project between rpd. the construction expected to be completed by the end of the summer with a ground breaking in the fall -- i'm sorry, a park opening. next, the south park renovation, of course the commission approves the concept plan and the funding plan for this renovation last month, so you're familiar with the project. it's another full site renovation funding with a combination of bond dollars and development impact fees from the eastern neighborhood area plan. and construction is currently expected to begin june 2015. next die place park

it is has two different parcels there's a 4.4 acre and 4.8 in dpw jurisdiction were we you wanted thiso reflect the shadow that impacts the land. since prop k analyze that on rp d property and not dpw property how have they were included in our packet and the recommendation to shift it but didn't alter the overall recommendations. i have my colleague here to talk about the details. good morning. i'm are the planning department staff. very briefly the katrero has many dwelling unit and commercial spates within a 9 story this located on 16 and 17 street between it's mid block. the project lies east of franklin square. give the difference in grade alone along katrero boulevard franklin square is thirty degrees above the sidewalk level of the project. the next steps would be going before the planning commission in the coming months once the recommendations have been made. that concludes my presentation >> thank you. >> on the analysis and show you some images of the showed from the proposed project. first we have the qualify active analyze it the shadow occurs between 10 o'clock and after

it's situated at the parcel's perimeter which means that it connects the shipyard development to the existing neighborhood along donahue. phase 1 of the shipyard will be mostly residential neighborhood with market rate housing and opportunities for low and moderate income families consisting of phase 1 affordable housing program. [speaker not understood] 18 affordable rental units on designated site as you can see on this map in orange and the map also shows the location for block 49. in addition to the agency units, lennar is required to provide 15% of all developer units which is a total of more than 1100 units as affordable units. the original pda contemplated the toe at of these developer affordable units will be provided as inclusionary units throughout the market rate development. 70% of such units or 134 units at 80% ami and remaining 30% at 50% ami. together with the 218 units that will be provided by ocai we'll be talking about 410 affordable units on phase 1 of the shipyard. the sixth amendment to the phase 1dda modified affordable housing program allowing lennar to shift t

we want to further our parcel boxes at home places.ested our own drone recently and successfully. that will remain a niche market but overall there is no doubt that innovation is important. it is driven by simplification for the consumer, better access to the parcels and we will heavily invest into it as we have in the past. that is one of the drivers. that is what we have gained market share in germany and that is definitely a focus on us. we will come up with new ideas on a continuous basis. >> how long until a drone delivers a parcel to my door? >> to your door, it might take some time. drones will probably be used in places -- remote areas or situations of natural disasters. impactthat as a massive for the society. it will take some time. revelation -- of recollection necessary for that. we have not decided if it will be used more for it emergency situations or etc.. >> thank you for joining us today. from germany.ve >> i hope my drone will not drop the parcel like that drone did. i ordered my china in the post. >> you will not be

we followed a truck full of dirt from parcel "c" taken to this landfall in pittsburg.a class two landfill only authorized to accept chemically impacted soil and not radiological soil. workers on site also provided us these photos they've taken to document tons of potentially contaminated soil, soil that they say has not undergone testing. >> i'm concerned about that. i would be surprised that if that was the case. >> reporter: he leads arcecology, he has been following cleanup of radioactive sites nationwide, and unlike previous cleanups he believes hunters point has followed protocol. >> a long history of these kind of situations where materials that people knew to be in a location were either not found, deliberately not found, but i would be surprised at this particular location given the amount of community concern about radiation. >> in a statement the navy reiterated the soil currently being offhauled is not radiologically impacted. the navy's full statement is on our website. meanwhile, state health inspectors say they're researching the complaint to determine wh

. >> reporter: we're talking about parcel c at hunter's point. and radiation contamination to make way for a neighborhood to house 25,000 people by 2017. the workers on the ground say corners are being cut and their health and safety are at risk. trucks full of dirt have just begun moving tons of soil from parcel c at hunter's point. the navy has said any contaminated dirt has been screened and cleaned for radioactive material. but workers say they're worried recent shipments have been sent out without proper testing. >> they would go dig it up and load the trucks and take it out. it's not being tested. >> reporter: kevin johnson is i truck driver who's worked at the sight for three years. last night jackson brought his concerns to navy officials. >> they were taking dirt out of parcel c without a rad test. is that fsapossible? >> that would be accurate in that not all of parcel c has been impacted. lots of it is. but there's areas where we're digging specifically that are not. so that's correct. >> reporter: but the investigative unit has obtain

i think the church is a perfect example of the type of parcel we would like to support through the tdr program. it is both contiguous to the zone area and is also a nonprofit institution that serves such an important need in the tenderloin community. and i just want to note something that i really [speaker not understood] over christmas, the students actually do a free concert for any homeless residents to come to watch them sing and carol. and i think that's such a wonderful way for young people to learn how to give back at an early age. and again, it could be a project could be an amazing place. i wish more of our churches were able to did that. we have a limited amount of daytime drop-in centers for homeless residents in our city, the good will project is really one of the few churches i know of that opens its doors to everyone in the city. it's just really just an amazing resource and i want to appreciate all the work that you do and really fulfilling your mission through your church. so, again, want to move this forward with positive recommendation. >> okay. supervisor kim has mad

track the movement of parcels. if one gets back to basics, it is stretching the imagination to say the parcel movement company is an i.t. company. >> all companies crossed the border and the content provider. ofit is an example reinventing itself and it has moved from what was the old utility company into what is now a media content company. the market has responded to that positively. when you say that you do not like it, the market does. >> bob parker. the head of strategic advisory at credit suisse. and what, alibaba could be a record-setting ipo. that is next. ♪ >> welcome back. when the things that we are watching is ali baba. u.s. over hongn kong. let's go to hans nichols. hans, they are not listing in hong kong because of hurdles. yes, it is hard to have the government structure they wanted and still be in hong kong. they try to work it out and could not come to an agreement. a clear loss for hong kong and new york is the big winner. will it be ons, the nasdaq or the new york stock exchange? facebook what wi

numbers into the legislation for those parcel that may qualify and meet the requirements for the new construction program. just to be abundantly clear which types of sites we were talking about at that point, as well as clarifying potential other uses under the institutional uses definition that could be located in the zone to make it abundantly clear we were not permitting any residential uses he in the new pdr airs i can'txthv. and then there are a sear i of additional changes that we have agreed to make that are contained in the modification section that we're asking for you guys to recommend to the board of supervisors which was the result of a number of conversationses with community activists and eastern neighborhoods folks and they include doing the new construction as a three-year pilot program. we heard a lot of potential concerns around just wanting to make sure we were getting good projects who were providing affordable permanent good quality pdr space in these areas. and one of the ways to do that was given the limitations we have on thing related to commercial rent contr

the number of land parcels is 112 land parcels of those 49 have a structure which could include homess backing up. confirming seven homes are flooded and more in regarding is expected and the water is stricking through the slide and a creation of a new river channel is observed in the area. there are five down stream refers to watch for debris. to know that so many different land parcels are affected and the question of those missing. >> in the early going, they heard the voices of those trapped. those voices have all gone silent and they are asking the local respond ors asking for folks to call in if they are unaccounted for. they have no firm grasp on how many were affected. >> the mud was like quicksand and rescuers had a hard time getting there. >> much of the mountain side slid down and on the structures belong. what a tragedy. >> thank you, so you tomorrow. >> thank you, gena and john. malaysia officials said no one survived and the flight 370 ended in the indian ocean. >>im bill hemmer. >> they spotted debris near australia, capping an unprecedented two- week search involving 2

the district supports new in fill parcels like the 80 front site that will provide that development partner with access to the rehabilitation tax credits for their work on buildings 2 and 12. in conclusion, i want to point out this is a quick overview and for more detailed history you can go to the sf port.com the the nomination posted on the website and also our central visa cards group ralph has prepared his own website and it's helpful pier 70 sf.com and last week the nomination is currently under review and we hope to hear back from them to hear if it's qualified for a listing by may first that concludes my presentation thank you >> we now have public comment corrin woods. >> corp. win woods from the central viruses group since the beginning of time. this is a very exciting momentum to have this nomination. mark has deny an absolutely phenomenal job of shepherding this through. i know affidavit has also helped out on this and many other port staff. it is so critically important to funding the pier 70 rehabilitation. to be able to have those several tax credits and we're just transmittal

second-hand vapor contains fine and ultra fine parcels of heavy metals. they are small and having they can penetrate into the lungs and blood and into the central never been system and it contains nicotine. research shows if you're standing next to someone breathing the aerosol your level of nicotine in one study were comparable to the level of second-hand smoke and neck 10 is not harmless on its own it's particularly harmful for pregnant women. so e sethsd emit in the environment and in the clean indoor air is harmful. research is emerging and we're seeing the youth uptake where we see mixed results in terms of whether or not it helps people quit and it's not a harmless vapor. thanks >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm with the youth leadership institute we work with youth people throughout the city and e cigarettes came up as one of the issues that our youth cares about in the bayview and tenderloin etc. a few status tobacco companies actually control the vast majority of the e cigarette market. last year the city was vabld as a $2 billion industry and

map shows the concentration as a percentage of total rail across the city you see the underlying parcels are for formula retail it's moss much less concentrated in districts that have controls. formula it is 24 percent of retail square footage in retail districts with control vs. 53 percent of retail in districts out control. on average formula retail establishments occupy more space than invent retails. there's been 3 and 10 thousand square feet. the planning code requires a separate cu in the c-3 district and 50 square feet in other other retail districts. this is an important understanding for two reans one formula retail fill different inches in the retail environment and two the c u controls may not be that meaningful since few complete the threshold. this table is designed to illustrate the mix of retailers. in commercial districts with formula retails in place the most common types of stores a pharmacy stores and apparel and assessor stores and other grocery stores. it includes pet stores and others to name a few. the most common types of the specialize retail stores are grocery s

one such area is a district of damascus where the delivery of food parcells and other aid has been abruptlycause the rebel forces are said to have moved back into that district. lyse doucet is with me here. lyse just back from syria. wheel talk about your experiences in just a moment. also with us, par low pinera, the chairman of the u.n.'s independent commission of inquiry on alleged human rights. thank you very much for joining us. obviously the report speaks for itself. it's a desperately awful picture, but it seems nothing changes. >> the changes in the aggravation of the practice of human rights violations and war crimes. for instance, we mentioned the sieges around villages. this has been practiced for the last two years. but they have been intensified, and i have had horrific testimonies by people who escaped from these areas. >> you have obviously recommendations about how civilians should be protected. the bottom line is no one is listening to you. >> no. precisely. no party is respecting a rules of engagement. we think one of the reasons for that is because all these perpetrators

so about 10 years ago my brother and i worked for the parcel we dug up icing plant and worked hard and we were under the impression this would bring back wildlife and improve the quality of this area. when i went back there i found out nothing. it's just there's trash and no wildlife there at all. when i learned recently that millions of dollars were spent on this project i was dumb founded and shocked that so many money was spent on a project that seems to be based on some ill founded reasons and don't get me wrong i love i love the nature areas in san francisco. i love market street davidson which is where i live and golden gate park and i really, really appreciate all the work that's been done to create trails there and things like that and make the place liveable but i don't think that millions of and hundreds of thousands of dollars should be spent to cut down trees to establish plants that don't appear to be well, that don't appear to dramatically improve the quality of the landscape thank you >> thank you. >> next speaker >> i'm carolyn johnson. the president of san francisco ef

lo and behold, the study came back and said the parcells that should be developed are the ones that wererockefeller development company, which is a client of david samson at his big private practice. the overlap is just very, very blatant. >> it's blatant and when you look again at the kind of money on the table, it's remarkable that you have a state here that allows people to basically keep their full-time job doing all this other stuff when it represents both specific and kind of just an entire situational conflict of interest. let me ask you, why don't you think more people in new jersey, in politics, separate from these investigations have made reforming this a central part of their pressure on chris christie right now. >> that's a very good question. i mean, so much of this really does revofl around the port authority. it's the port authority that closed those lanes to begin with. i think part of it is just that we -- it's such a vast body that's gotten -- that has so little transparency, it overlaps between the two states. you don't focus on it. you don't vote for people on it. one

but spot developing on one parcel. i might add in history doing this kind of spot developing has not been very successful on seawall lots. at this point, i'd like to change gears and thank diane for doing a fine report on the development of the waterfront. it seems like she's possibly been reading the community vision for san francisco's northeast waterfront that we proposed back on november 13th once again to the port commissioners which was developed by agent design group for many community organizations. the a n d provisions plan is a serious in-depth effort to provide the corridor with revenue benefits to the port and many benefits to not only the embarcadero neighborhoods with you opens the waterfront to the entire city that doesn't know it exist. it helps with the needed income and maintenance open space, housing and transportation, parking, recreation and visitor designations within the height illicit's. it will enhance the visitors experience to the waterfront and compliments the west side to the bay side. i on

the highly structured social and political framework is part and parcel of the meaning of the painting. rembrandt also portrays himself confronting the viewer and in relation to his cra, but rembrandt is entirely alone with his palette, ready to define himself in his characteristic thick impasto, the paint troweled on and worked with his fingers rather than with the brush. rembrandt, with his direct look and with h coarse, visibly applied paint, asserts his presence, his selfness, his individuality, as the matter for contemplation. in the story of western art, the 17th century, the age of baroque, began through much of europe in subjection to the ideals of the italian renaissance. by the century's end, new artistic tastes had developed-- boldly naturalistic... richly ssual... passionate and profound.... baroque artists had served a variety of masters. they had, as always, provided the images of power for absolute monarchs, whose subjects increasingly saw them as all too mortal. they provided religious images to bolster a faith shaken by the rise of modern science and religious conflict

performance they can go bid the project and we can give them a budget target to hit this is part and parcel of the destine process they have the budget to design two we want to make sure they understand what we want and they, make modifications to the system. >> so as a result of the outreach we're looking for the rebidding competition with the tennis of reattorneys in may of 2014 we'll be working to create the criteria and generate as much interest as we can with the biders to get this within budget. >> the next system was the t g82. >> this is the same images the first inlsz showed the t g one initialing it was part of the package but we changed in the middle panels there was a decision made by the a collaborative team that objective to be separate so the w-1 is at the second level sits the weighty wall that runs around the perimeter of the transit center and to describe the ironic nature of the building. this is a view of it i that you've all seen it before this is looking down north america to him street it has the prim rose perforated windows we'll should the contracts that will allow

the developer, bre properties paid 41 plus million dollars for that site on two parcels there. we are told by an employee of the developer, bre properties that they were actually 2 or 3 weeks ahead of schedule on this project as they worked to finish it and they hoped to be opening maybe in late may or june to start preleasing at the end of this month so this was a project that was well under way, again 360 units were planned for that building as it covered two major blocks on mission bay. on the ground floor they expected to have 23,000 square feet of retail space, this was a huge investment that this company made in this project, when you do the math, apparently the costs came out to $630,000 per unit that they were going to be renting out here later this year, here in 2014. the development team for this company was over in emoryville when they got word of this fire they began rushing to the scene to see what information they could gather. this is a large apartment complex project that was under way and it now appears they may be rebuilding nearly from scratch. in the news ro

lost family of nation of which ukraine was part and parcel. [ singing ] >> people like alexander and wife remembering the summer songs. the weekend referendum can bring only one result - the return of a much-loved past to mother russia. >> let's go to the deserts of west kaveh where the searing -- africa, where the searing heat of the sun meant growing crops was impossible. now the sun's energy is being handwrittenersed. we have a -- harnessed. >> growing tomato in the desert. this village is an owe ace sis powered by the sun. a 2,000 watt panel draws water from 100 metres under ground. this once arid land is fer tile. >> it's a miracle. we haven't seen rain fall since october, but we have all the water we need. we are growing onions, vegetables. >> 74% of senninga lease have no access to electricity. 13 villages had panels distributed. each one costs $4,000 to install. >> it's less costly now to organize irrigation using solar energy than others. >> as part of the green climate funds, developed countries promises to raise funds by 2020. among the international agencies, there's an e

i would also like to add that crucial part to this resolution is that the disability community be parcels of the planning process. that residents know where the stops are needed much more so than a bureaucrat would know. okay. are there any other comments? we'll ask for public comment, then. yes, mr. lowell? >> thank you for bringing this forward. what took particularly long and why i'm asking a him and he's not here that he served on the multimodal accessible advisory committee and what has that advisory committee engaged in and were they a party in sponsoring this resolution. this is a procedural question as i have related to you, chip about people were upset and infuriated that there were not even existing way side stations and those that did have ramps sometimes did not work. much improvement needs to occur and possibilities in working with other advisory committees to roland wong who serves on both of them. >> thank you, mr. lowell. do we have any other public comment on this matter? okay. you want to move forward with this? >> yeah. >> with that in mind, i make a motion for the acce

reports say there is a developer ready to buy the parcel for around 32 million dollars. the 4 building site is where her "oprah winfrey show" taped from 19-90 until the end of the show's run in 20-11. the studio will be leased back to oprah's production company for 2 years. the cost of your morning cup of joe could soon be on the rise. arabica bean futures have surged more than 80% in two weeks -- the biggest rally since 19-94. reuters reports that several medium sized roasters are saying that it is no longer possible to absorb the hike and the companies will need to raise prices. larger roasters are insulated from commodity flucuations. starbucks says its prices will remain fixed for the rest of 20-14. still to come: in chart talk, how investors can capitalize on the turmoil in ukraine. the coolest and newest gadgets and gizmos for the home. chuck coppola reports from the international home and housewares show. but first, corporate america's big bet on foreign expansion. turns out it may not have been such a good bet as we will hear. in the past few years, foreign marke

it's not youngsters, but old people with their idea of lost feeling of nation which is part and parcel. [♪ singing ] >> reporter: people like alexander and his wife remember the summer songs from long ago. the weekend referendum can only bring one thing to them return of their much-loved past of mother russia. peter schauffler, al jazeera. >> meteorologist: a lot happening here in the midwest and this storm which is developing is pushing to the east. we have a lot of weather happening here in just a small area. warm temperatures with severe weather across the mid atlanta and northeast. it goes up to new york where it turns into snow. that's where the cold air is and that's where it will stay in place. we're talking about a lot of snow there, and a quick drop in temperatures and bitter cold wind chills. you'll wake up to that tomorrow. the storms continue to move through western pennsylvania. this is where we'll see severe weather along the line developing and moving to the east. severe storm likely with gusting damaging wind. it will be followed by cold wind chills. temperatures tomorr

this open letter, urging authorities to rethink these new rules that ban prisoners from obtaining parcelshat contain books and essentials. a petition directed to the secretary of state, chris grayling, has 18,000 signatures in just three days. the minister has responded on the government's website defending the policy and planning that prisoners will still have access to libraries within their detention facilities. appeasefelt will critics who have -10 the book thief. -- who have nicknamed him the book thief. the site instant peeping shows web users in real-time, an instagram users in five of the world's biggest cities, new york, stockholm, london, paris, and tokyo. the platform, launched recently by a team of swedish developers, also delivers an analysis of the data. so we learn for example that the louvrehium -- the museum, the eiffel tower, and -- are the three most photographed places in the capital. some web users typed in "how do how do i goe?" or " into google.g?" this features a selection of some of the oddest questions. queries such as "why did i get which comes up 40,000 times p

brooklyn basin project and it is going up between oak street and ninth avenue on a sprawling 64-acre parcel along embarcadero. officials broke lawn on the $1.5 billion development today. it will include more than 3000 housing units, 200,000 square feet of retail and more than 30 acres of parks. >> to parks, are going to be here on the waterfront and it completes a critical part of the bay channel. >> mayor jean quan helped bring in a chinese development group and is a major difference investor in the project which is been 12 years in the making. >>> the discovery of a shattered window on a high-rise in san francisco prompted emergency officials to shut down the street in the financial district for about four hours today. fire officials say they responded to a call that a window was broken on the 17th floor of 275 battery street. concerns that the glass would fall below prompted officials to shut down battery from sacramento to california street. many financial district workers came out of their offices to see what was going on. >> i just moved here in october so i've so i've dealt with fall