people who live near parklet says the city needs to make sure that parklets get installed where they will be most beneficial. they get december street and start taking spots they don't fit in. >> city planners say they are monitoring the growth of the program, but so far they don't see to many. >> if we have four on a block that may be too many. we'll look at that. i don't think we are there yet. >>- q. i in san francisco, carolyn tyler, abc7 news. >> adding to the beauty of the palace of fine arts in san francisco, some newborn swans. they were brought out by their mom and dad branch and blue boy. they hatched just yesterday, but they already have a run of the park. they look adorable. >> it looks cute. >>> sandhya patel is here with what we can expect. >> mild to warm weather for the bay area. let me show you a time lapse from our high definition south beach camera. 8:16 and a few whispy clouds as we look to the west. the skies are pretty clear except for a couple of patches of fog forming around half moon bay. the temperature is 47 and one of the coolest locations at this hour. we

people who live near parklet says the city needs to make sure that parklets get installed where theybeneficial. they get december street and start taking spots they don't fit in. >> city planners say they are monitoring the growth of the program, but so far they don't see to many. >> if we have four on a block that may be too many. we'll look at that. i don't think we are there yet. >>- q. i in san francisco, carolyn tyler, abc7 news. >> adding to the beauty of the palace of fine arts in san francisco, some newborn swans. they were brought out by their mom and dad branch and blue boy. they hatched just yesterday, but they already have a run of the park. they look adorable. >> it looks cute. >>> sandhya patel is here with what we can expect. >> mild to warm weather for the bay area. let me show you a time lapse from our high definition south beach camera. 8:16 and a few whispy clouds as we look to the west. the skies are pretty clear except for a couple of patches of fog forming around half moon bay. the temperature is and one of the coolest locations at this hour. we have a 65-degree

the 27 parklet and there are about 40 more in the pipeline. it is really exciting. and also in terms of award, and i do not think i got to mention it at the conference in l.a. last month, the department received a national award for the hard-1 victory category. -- hard-won victory category. it was nice to get that recognition any room of about 3000 people during the awards ceremony. it was gratifying. the board of appeals did not meet this week, so there is no update on that item. >>commissioner moore: would be possible for you to give us an update, where you are supporting it, where you're holding back, what you are seen to create creative diverse solutions. >> i will put some things together for you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm here to present a summary of the board of land use. last week ran a little long, so you did not get to hear about this hearing prepared there's a hearing on the impact the furlough program and its affect on affordable housing. a presentation was made by the office of workforce and economic development.

improvements, we are changing the look and feel of our streets, we are turning parking spaces into parklets, we are opening up our streets and a lot of different ways, one of the most exciting of which is sunday streets, which is what we're here to talk about. sunday streets exists because of the leadership and partnership of the folks behind us and the person of the front of the line, facilitating that leadership and that partnership is a guy that knows the streets of san francisco better than just about anyone else, going back to his days as our public works director. he is now our mayor, edwin lee. [applause] >> thank you, everyone, for coming today. we are here to make one big announcement. we are not doing the kentucky derby on mission street this weekend. we are doing sunday streets. it is a great pilot program for the summer. for the next four months, the first sunday of each month will be testing it out all of mission street, testing out how it is weekend utilize the successful event to incur more participation and to test out how we can do it on a more regular basis. i want to than

improvements, we are changing the look and feel of our streets, we are turning parking spaces into parklets, we are opening up our streets and a lot of different ways, one of the most exciting of which is sunday streets, which is what we're here to talk about. sunday streets exists because of the leadership and partnership of the folks behind us and the person of the front of the line, facilitating that leadership and that partnership is a guy that knows the streets of san francisco better than just about anyone else, going back to his days as our public works director. he is now our mayor, edwin lee. [applause] >> thank you, everyone, for coming today.

improvements, we are changing the look and feel of our streets, we are turning parking spaces into parklets, we are opening up our streets and a lot of different ways, one of the most exciting of which is sunday streets, which is what we're here to talk about. sunday streets exists because of the leadership and partnership

this has been a huge game changer for the city, as have the parkwood -- parklets and other areas. we had a street fair in mid october last year. some of you were there, i remember. one of the reflections we had at the end of it is that once a year is not enough to build community. we need to bring people together in the streets as they become familiar with each other's faces. after that, we decided to have a go at creating an event program in the vein of sunday streets, a nonprofit event, but something that we can really own in the community. we can have staffed and volunteered by people in the community, so i am not going to take over what chris is going to say, but we basically have come up with a financial hurdle with the fees that the city has to make this happen, request that the mta look in the possibility of creating and you nimble program in the manner of sunday streets but something smaller, something for non-profit community events. our co-chair chris also has something to say after me. vice chairman brinkman: thank you. >> my name is chris, and i am also with the inner