, this is polk, that`s polk.and, do we really need another book on polk?" c-span: what did you say? >> guest: so i said, "i hope so, jack. we`ll find out." c-span: does he know the book is dedicated to him? >> guest: he does know the book is dedicated to him, he`s proud of it and he took a copy of it to school with him. and so he`s -- it`s interesting to me that 6-year-old children one, are interested in removing their grandparents from the computer so that they can get at it, and beyond that, are able to read and comprehend. the last time i was there, i read a little polk to him before he went to bed, and he asked an awful lot of questions, because there are words there that are beyond, obviously, a 6-year-old. c-span: go back to the war. the mexican war started when? >> guest: the mexican war starts in 1846. he sends zachary taylor down to -- the conflict was started over the mexican border. eight years -- eight years earlier, we had the alamo and goliad, and then sam houston tennesseean, friend of polk, then s

i know well about polk. lower polk , every person in polk, most of those areas, they feel the business treasure, the way they conduct business. lower polk cannot be extended to a movie theater, 20 years ago, there was actually a [inaudible]. a movie theater. so we extend the cafÉ of entertainment [inaudible]. planning for this [inaudible]. >> any other public comments on this item? >> morning, supervised. my name is chris charming. i'm the chair and president of the local cbd board of directors. very briefly, i'm only here to think some folks. i'd like to thank those who were fortunate of all three supervisors in our district here. i like to thank supervisor christiansen brawlers support, especially for curing this resolution. our staff has been great. supervisor kim thank you for your support as we get we met with your staff recently and we appreciate it. supervisor read, we appreciate your continued support. i guess there are no questions, then that's all i have. i also like to thank -- for their support.

of that and we're doing everything we can to make that increase that's the second pig in the poeng polk and third asked to agree request so many urban answered questions especially the one raised by supervisor kim and supervisor mar you're asked to agree to go ahead with this project with all of those unanswered questions that's the third pig in the polk you'll hear a lot of testimony here today that will look at this and essentially let the cat out of the bag i'm asking you to remember this bid of tried and true folk wisdom with the negative comments about this resolution (clapping.) thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> hi, i'm mohammed with the critical resistance a part of california invited for a responsible budget i want to start off with two quotes jails have become the largest psychiatric institutes in all the states this is a horrible statement and the second quote when you think about a jail environment that is the worst possible place to hours or attempt to treat the mentally ill one statement made by the sheriff in kent county in chicago and the sheriff of los

shulman i was at the polk meeting i have witnesses ms.urner same thing for the lower pong that was what ms. ab bet was trying to say she was there i'm disappeared to see politics in this but the idea of housing in district 3 is a conversation since i've been a supervisor the crisis is challenging to meet the crisis in district 3 we've been looking for ways to do that since the first day this is an ongoing conversation and a long list of people i've had the conversation i appreciate the comments i encourage the people reading the legislation is boring but that is a fairly short one and easy to read so some of the concerns that you have are probably addressed in the legislation itself but for those let me go over a few of the items people brought of liability concerns i'll try to do this quickly rent control first of all i support rent control and anyone that told you different not 10th i think what is exciting is that this will add rent control units this will do that all the adu units will be rent controlled units concern about permanent

. >> hi madeline founder of folks for polk i am an architect go around the polk street initiative that we're is not only about creating the best practice for transit and office of the city administrator other infrastructure in polk street but alternate and making more reasonable the bylaws that happens around it as such question got to know our neighborhood people we understand their interests and demographics i want to speak in support of adu's it is a reasonable effective and quick solution to some of our worst problems most importantly the affordability in the city district 3, of course, enincumbrance a lot of possibles polk street 19 and is home to the city's vulnerable populations that are negatively impacted by the affordable problem and adu's can help to ease the stress in addition one the most densely populated areas in the city and 11th hour objections to the adu's that we have learned about are really kind of spurus given the car over is low in the region and the needs for parking is not urgent as the need for housing see but also sorry i'm losing my yep and okay. back track

next speaker. >> good afternoon don i'm the chair the middle polk association in district 3. >> and if you would have asked me who days ago i would have said absolutely not but over the weekend i got several phone calls in the polk association has taken a position on this we didn't know much about that i think that people want to be heard on this and i respectfully request some additional outreach to neighbors that i think it would be my goal i don't have pie particular problem with the plan it seems like a lot of people have not heard about it that's the phone calls were indicating over the weekends thank you. >> next speaker >> good afternoon i'm the policy director at chinatown new development center i'm here to present a letter on behalf of the fixed housing council organizations asian law caucus has the san francisco tenant union as the you know we historically and particular the case law caucus has worked long and hard in support of adu's your organization supports the development expansion of the alleged heirs in general we're concerned about specifics with respect to to the leg

. >> hi madeline founder of folks for polk i am an architect go around the polk street initiative that we're is not only about creating the best practice for transit and office of the city administrator other infrastructure in polk street but alternate and making more reasonable the bylaws that happens aro

polk. nothing against president polk, who actually did have a very consequential presidency.e have him to thank for the smithsonian, the washington monument, the states of texas, new mexico, and california, james k. polk was just fine as a president. but he does hold the ominous distinction of being the only person in american history to win the presidency while also losing the state where he was born, north carolina, and the state where he lived, tennessee. he lost them both. if your home state or both your home states hate you, it's not impossible to be elected president. just ask james k. polk. but the historical odds are heavily stacked against you. and the james k. polk problem looms right now over today's big politics news, and that story is next. stay with us. after brushing listerine® total care strengthens teeth, helps prevent cavities and restores tooth enamel. it's an easy way to give listerine® total care to the total family. listerine® total care. one bottle, six benefits. power to your mouth™. >>> the polls in new jersey right now say, by a 65 to 29% margin, the

polk. nothing against president polk, who actually did have a very consequential presidency.o thank for the smithsonian, the washington monument, the states of texas, new mexico, and california, james k. polk was just fine as a president. but he does hold the ominous distinction of being the only person in american history to win the presidency while also losing the state where he was born, north carolina, and the state where he lived, tennessee. he lost them both. if your home state or both your home states hate you, it's not impossible to be elected president. just ask james k. polk. but the historical odds are heavily stacked against you. and the james k. polk problem looms right now over today's big politics news, and that story is next. stay with us. ♪ roundup ♪ ♪ i'm a loving husband and a real good dad ♪ ♪ but weeds just make me rattlesnake mad ♪ ♪ well roundup has a sharp-shootin' wand ♪ ♪ i'm sendin' them weeds to the great beyond ♪ ♪ roundup ♪ yeha! [ whip cracks ] ♪ ♪ ♪ no need to pump just point and shoot ♪ ♪ hit 'em in the leaves and it kills to the root ♪ ♪ 'rou

polk. nothing against president polk who actually did have a very consequential presidency.the smithsonian, the washington monument, the states of texas, new mexico and california james k. polk was just fine as a president. but he does hold the ominous distinction of being the only person in american history to win the presidency while also losing the state where he was born, north carolina and the state where he lived, tennessee. he lost them both. if your home state or both your home states hate you, it's not impossible to be elected president. just ask james k. polk. but the historical odds are heavily stacked against you. and the james k. polk problem looms right now over today's big politics news, and that story is next. stay with us. ♪ every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. ♪ those who have served our nation have earned the very best service in return. ♪ usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. why pause a spontaneous moment

>> i haven't had the chance -- i didn't see the card, again madeline from folks for polk. would i like to introduce the idea that we have an agenda item in the future that deals with the polk street plan. there were some changes to it at the last-minute after any public input -- and the reasons for that change are unclear i would like to request that the mta reveal the reasoning, the particular change backpedals from safety on one block, where the pedestrian and cyclist crashes would point to the fact that, in fact, that amenity, meaning that way cycle way should be in place and further, it's a section of the road wide enough to accommodate it. which is why the team had originally planned to put it there. having said that i would like to have it treated as not just for one block on one street in our city. but again, as emblematic of the process. we care very much about transparency, logic and data driving the process. having said that, too, if it is an agenda item, and i would prepare more material, i will not be here for the next meeting. so the deadline then for the bids

where the back might be great lower polk and bush where the larger buildings we thought that would take place we've talked with merchant associations and pertains tenants and so the response we received our first negative comments yesterday evening i think the first couple of letters from non-residents from people that live outside the city a few more came in this morning this is relatively to us new in terms of the impact we're talking about adding units within will existing building envelopes that are subject to other types of reviews and things like that so the assumption was the relative impact on the communities would be anywhere i would imagine a lot of people are unaware this is take place so little notices we got from telegraph hill and this is an area we didn't anticipate that will likely happen in huge numbers if we got if one or two we'd be thrived but the epidemic loss of housing anything we feel might make a difference we've got a come up of pertains they're adding bedrooms or units so a sense of urgentcy in trying to move ahead. >> commissioner moore. >> supervisor christe

high injury intersections along broadway between columbus and van ness this is part of the broadway polk and columbus straight studies and identified that there could be further enhancements to the pedestrian safety through the signaled timing adjustments to identify those particularly for polk and stockton streets and there maybe other opportunities in the future kerney street different from broadway unlike broadway not a pipeline of pedestrian safety improvements project from my prospective looking at the data for kerney is should be a top priority for pedestrian safety emergency this graph is showing really gary the pedestrian safety record on kerney with others high injury corridors in chinatown and elsewhere in the city as you can see curry is on the far right has a far worse think records than the other high injury corridors in chinatown itch higher than other high injury corridors in the city a very significant issue and priority so i'll briefly share some of the top trshtdz on curry street we saw conflicts with a number of loeshgsz locations you have double turn lane if you have

i know well about polk. lower polk , every person in polk, most of those areas, they feel the business treasure, the way they conduct business. lower polk cannot be extended to a movie theater, 20 years ago, there was actually a [inaudible]. a movie theater. so we extend the cafÉ of entertainment [inaudible]. planning for this [inaudible]. >> any other public comments on this item? >> morning, supervised. my name is chris charming. i'm the chair and president of the local cbd board of directors. very briefly, i'm only here to think some folks. i'd like to thank those who were fortunate of all three supervisors in our district here. i like to thank supervisor christiansen brawlers support, especially for curing this resolution. our staff has been great. supervisor kim thank you for your support as we get we met with your staff recently and we appreciate it. supervisor read, we appreciate your continued support. i guess there are no questions, then that's all i have. i also like to thank -- for their support.

one is construction mitigation fund, so in that will be primarily targeted i think to polk street, but to work to provide some mitigation efforts. it isn't necessarily direct reimbursement to businesses but to do marketing promotion and better coordination of city agency working with the businesses to help mitigate the impacts for the work that is being done. there is continued investment with the business portal, so that we are going to work to bring more permitting on line, working towards the e signatures, working towards credit cards being taken for all permits. those are some focuses being worked on but continued to-on line business-new business registration. and then there is the small business accelerator team and in that is actually going to-is funded a full time position to be a case manager for restaurants to help restaurants as that is the most complicated kind of permitting licensing business entity for small businesses to get through the city so there will be a case manager probably will not start until the beginning of 2016 who will be there to work with all restaurants a

reporter: lydia polk is herself a police detective.ut this case is personal. >> i won't get to see him go to school. brad: this is something they plan to attack with a domestic violence unit. >> we saw last year in prince george's for example seven of the death for 3 and under. brad: lydia polk is going to dedicate her effort to his name. >> be the voice for young women that they need to be mindful who they have watching their children. brad: in court clifton benard attorney reveal that would bernard has been diagnosed suffering from a variety of mental illnesses. he did give up and given an opportunity to speak and said through tears, "i'm sorry." in marlboro, brad bell abc7 news. jonathan: heartbreaking story. thank you. egg prices are skyrocketing across the country. it is all because of a strain of avian flu wiping out flocks in some farms. now, maryland secretary of agriculture says it won't be long until we see the cases of illness here. tom roussey joining us live from upper marlboro to explain. it would be nice if they could ke

. >> (inaudible) read giraffe have a house a place call terry tennis chicken place on polk street it is the third generation people over 50s and now in the produce market so it is all kinds of businesses i mean regina brought what about the property owners you can make a case of park merced it is a big impact on their area that's not a neighborhood i don't know if they should be included and this is the small business commission i think i've heard a number of employees i think it handbag a more equalize percentage of employees in san francisco so brownies could be competing with is it fair to say hotel 50 times for employees as well as in the city so where's the gap in all this how about breaks in our business 1906 earthquake caused a break in my business and others those are some things to conditioner. >> not to muscled that up too much i have a list of all businesses that were here at the 1906 san francisco earthquake and before. >> excellent. >> uber legacy businesses. >> all right. awesome any other any public comment. >> seeing none, public comment is closed no ghosts of legacy

. >> item 5 another rehearing on the subject property polk street the board got a letter four andrea requesting a rehearing which was decided on june 3rd at this time the board said it was appropriate and the project is horizon and vertical for the 3 bedroom addition we'll start with the requesters agent. >> good evening madam chair lady and members of the board first of all i'd like to pubically apologize to madam chair for calling you i completely i'm sorry about that it was a mistake we're here to request a rehearing and basically most of my clients are not here i only have one here they believe they can't get justice from the board but they want to move ahead before they do that we need to didn't get things on the record and basically i was coming here the old lady was asked by mr. functioning how long she's lived in the building 17 and she said she's on the ground floor level she thought i was going to take it take into consideration i've been in the dark but the dr responder i spend that time in the darkness it's my choosing but having said that, we're here for to have the for

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1st next year we want to start in august to start with this outreach effort i mean it will still be polkut mower our condensed if we do it later on. >> my comment it falls terms of staff to make sure we're going to hold folks be transparent and the folks the training is needed so they'll not find themselves running afoul of any requirements. >> i take it if we're talking about 3 thousand employees expansion of the ethics training the tremendous burden on the staff would be - >> well, i think the thing to be clear about all of those employees are file and they are obligated to file the change we're proposing observing will they'll do it electronically and part of the process as andrew said we'd be happy and pat talked about the outreach efforts and happy to talk to people we rely on the filing officers so an extent they're the one side that do the talking but a lot of times directly to the filers but certainly we have thought of the calendar in terms of felt outreach to be most effective. >> my last follow-up to my follow-up i may have miss heard during public comment it felt like the att

dana polk of presidio trust says the cougar was then seen a short tme later in the western edge of the presidio near lincoln and washington boulevards. >> : "it came out of the fog about 9:30 pm, when someone was driving through. must have been quite a surprise for the driver." >> phillipe :a day later, someone saw the puma on gough street near downtwon. then, the day before the fourth of july. a final sighting reported near lake merced. >> : "there haven't been any mountain lions this far north in san francisco in many, many years. there was one sighted about three years ago at recology out at the dump. but you know, its probably been over 100 years since any mountain lions have been sighted this far north." >> phillipe :wildlife experts say cougar sightings along the penninsula like this one captured last year in mountain view, are more common. if you come acorss one appear as big and threatening as possible. make noise and eye contact. >> : "be aggressive -- don't run." >> phillipe :the big cats are afraid of humans. >> : "some of the wildlife ecologists think it's a juvenile, so al

important slides the retail concentration as you can see farrell street as the concentration as does polk on ellis street what happens for the first thirty feet and it device off because of parking garages and not that much retail activity what that building does it will start to drive that retail activity down to eric street and be a much more activated street we've provided the - similar to other streets around o farrell and powell this image shows you that two retail floors and 9 stories of hotels with the open terrace at top the amenity planned view we contained not parking but the ground floor we have a majority of retail about 5 thousand square feet and have an indigents lobby to the hotel we've decided to do as you can see on the second-story is our main lobby for the hotel is on the second floor a more of a sky lobby and rooms above that at the very top the building hundred and thirty feet a sky terrace that has incredible views west and east and a seating area and entertainment area for the hotel guests this is a view of the elevation of the building and the sort of scale and pro

and there's a drug you court treatment program it is adjacent to the half hours a justice center on polk street those are ways that people once they're in the criminal justice system can get out to get into treatment and followed by the court jail re-entry works to get people into treatment programs i image as of a month ago there was 37 individuals that were waiting in inside the jail to get into a drug treatment program people with misdemeanors in compton to stand trial and at this time there was one individual that was waiting to get into a community program i think that felony were waiting to get a bed on the felony side of the hospital i think there were two murray converts their felonies that have been at the state hospital the state hospital said those individuals will not be competent to stand trial and if they're determined dangerous we need to get them into a safe treatment program i think there were 2 i'm looking tonya what was the current director so she said the number went up it goes up and down depending on the availability of state hospital beds how quickly the state hosp

. >> so it is a limited live performance permit only polk street a restaurant with a bar and lounge that serves italian food hoping to have piano music and jazz tripods this permit is approved by central station and here to talk about that is christine. >> good evening, commissioners. >> good evening can you speak into the microphone. >> yes. sorry we've been there for 20 years and its a very nice restaurant in the hotel it is on the second floor and we've been providing this music and have had no issues or complaints from anybody ever and had no incidents in the last 20 years. >> great. >> commissioners questions. >> none all right. seem sfraurd thank you very much any police comments don't see any fortunate that are no additional conditions based on the size recommendations to say there any public comment on this? >> good evening, commissioners i'm steve on i saw an old friend in the audience christen he was a seasoned hotel beverage director for the hyatt and fairmont it involved into a nice concept of live entertainment with the one woman diva joyce she's great he's going to offer gr