as we all know, potrero hill has traditionally been a neighborhood that was red lined. you couldn't get mortgages in the neighborhood back in the day, and in the 70s, it was just invested in city infrastructure. now we're in this development, excessive overdevelopment in this area that it's housing, etc. -- this is obsolete because it does not include bridge development, but we have massive overdevelopment of housing. and if you go back toward 2008, we were promised at least four acres of new space -- of park space, and we were also promised that existing infrastructure would be improved. i'd like to share with you what we have actually with the parks as you can see in the green, we only have three spaces that actually can have programmed recreation on it. the red spaces that are supposed to be open space cannot have recreation programmed on it. what i'm here to do is to urge your support for the parks bond to include jackson playground. we've already had some people talk about there's a little bit of improvement on the space, and -- but it's seriously lacking for the n

hill, evident in her creation of the grandparents proof of potrero hill and evident in her willingness to be a foster parent for many years in treating all children as her own she did everything with class, dignity, and independence as she -- and she did it her way. she was educated and worked hard to give her children, and those she served a better life. her mother died when she was three years old and she was the youngest of all of her siblings and raised by her grandmother, which is probably why she had such a big heart and opened her life to everyone. on a personal note, she opened her home to my mother and i i was younger and we were going through a life transition and has been a constant in my life. she gave me my first job when i returned home to san francisco at the potrero hill family resource center and played a pivotal role in me being here today. she taught me to fight for what i believe in, and showed me that healthy competition is a positive. she never judged me and didn't hesitate to put me in my place when i was out of line, and acted in a manner that was less dignified

i've been a resident of potrero hill since the 80's. i've been a director of the san francisco beautiful board of directors. i'm on the vintage street cars, and i'm also on our events and outreach committee, so i'm very tied in with transportation in san francisco with the health and future of the city, and in mobility permit harmonization, and i'm looking for ways we can continue to serve the city and bridge the gaps between different agencies and different committees, so thank you very much. >> chair ronen: supervisor walton, do you have any comments? okay. now for public comment. thank you very much. thank you very much for your willingness to serve and your knowledge on the issue. we're going to open this up for public comment now. >> okay. >> chair ronen: if any member of the public would like to speak on this item, please come forward now. seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, chair ronen, and thank you for coming in, mr. wells. i know it took a

cinco minutos manejando y 20 corriendo por el potrero hasta llegar a ellos.cuáticos, los mismos guías de diferentes compañías hacen al rescate. ricardo: los bomberos locales nunca se lanzaron al agua y es que ni siquiera están entrenados para hacerlo. juan josé: los que sabemos qué pasa en el agua somos los guías. entonces, por más socorrista o rescatista que haya llegado a la orilla, ninguno se iba a meter, ninguno. incluso ellos dicen que no se meta nadie porque pueden haber más víctimas. ricardo: juan josé cree que esta es la roca que hizo volcar a las balsas. el río estaba tan crecido que apenas se veía la parte superior del peñón. es difícil saber lo que pasó exactamente en este trágico momento, pero una cosa es segura: pudo haber sido mucho peor si la gente de aquí, de esta localidad, no hubiera ayudado. manfred delmet, un alemán que vive en la orilla del río, dice que por su propiedad sacaron a tres de los sobrevivientes. se hallaban desorientados, dice él. uno de ellos había perdido hasta los shorts. manfred: no tienen más ropas. solo--un chaleco, cha

hill, evident in her creation of the grandparents proof of potrero hill and evident in her willingness to be a foster parent for many years in treating all children as her own she did everything with class, dignity, and independence as she -- and she did it her way. she was educated and worked hard to give her children, and those she served a better life. her mother died when she was three years old and she was the youngest of all of her siblings and raised by her grandmother, which is probably why she had such a big heart and opened her life to everyone. on a personal note, she opened her home to my mother and i i was younger and we were going through a life transition and has been a constant in my life. sh >>>> good morning. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the thursday, july 18th meeting. my name is supervisor gordan mar and i'm the chair of this committee. i'm joined by supervisor aaron peskin, brown is running late and she'll be with us in a few minutes. thank you to this committee's clerk, john carole and i'd like

youer substation in order to bring the power directly into the city to replace what was then the potrero plant substation. and then in 2010, this contract was initiated and the project went on to 2012, and at that time a preliminary report was prepared by dnrus, addressing the issues or the challenges that we'll be facing in building the transmission line from warnerville into san francisco. and so -- but at the same time there was some changes happening with our relationship with pg&e and the interconnection agreement was expiring. and so it's redefining the use of the transmission line. and so there's some business decisions that needed to be made. so at that time the project was actually stalled. so from about march 2012 to january 2016, there was no work that was done on the project until we can address those business concerns. so why are we doing this, we're investing in our own distribution to serve our local communities. this is going to be the beginning of it. and we will have control to provide safe timely and reliable service to customers and i want to emphasize safety and reli

last month, you must have felt assaulted by the citizens of potrero hill and dogpatch, but i want amaze- i was amazed by the amount of support. [please stand by] . >> -- and they are both in the planning pipeline, 20-story towers. during the last -- in the business section during the last month in the san francisco chronicle, which is setting on my kitchen table, chase added $34 million to the project. it will a jewel in our skyline. so we want no phases. we want the construction to be done without phases. half this generation's children will be affected if it's taken many years -- excuse me. thank you very much. 2020 bond. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> clerk: okay. bob or denise? >> good morning, commissioners. today, i urge you to update rec and park policies and practices to manage all parks' trees incorporating climate change and biodiversity which are the council's top two priorities. i have a dense stand of combustible trees in glen canyon park. the other taken in 2013 when the trees were fairly green. the other, a few weeks ago, showing more brown. we want healthy parks,

seven, eight years of it was in san francisco, out at star king elementary school, which is out in potrero hill. it's always been my dream to live in the city that i serve and to eventually buy a home. and because of the down payment assistance loan program and the mayor's office of housing and community and development, i am actually living the impossible san francisco dream right now. as of last week, i closed on a property in san francisco, yeah. [applause] >> pretty exciting, and it all worked out. and as with any buying process, you face a couple of challenges. along the way, we made it happen, and -- there was low inventories when we were looking we were getting out bit. but thank you to the mayor's office of housing and community development and assistance -- down payment assistance loan program, i was able to -- i was able to buy a place, and i'm a teacher, so it's pretty amazing. so i really do thank the support for what the we can do on the low-income, middle-inco middle-income, teachers, first responders, and the labor industry. if i can do it, and i can live the impossible san

before 2014, we've seen them failing at various locations across the city, including hyde and 24 and potrero avenue. it's hard to build support for urban forestry if we have large trees blocking streets from time to time. this is how large ficus trees are failing us and splitting apart. multiple stems are fairly equal size with various levels of attachment. absolutely the first thing we ever consider when evaluating a tree if we find that it has poor structure is can we mitigate safety concerns through pruning? that's the first thing that typically crosses our mind. we've seen across the city a large number of failures in several different neighborhoods. the department of public works lowered the threshold when we could approve a tree for removal, which is essentially lessening reducing our typically high threshold, and we're saying. if these trees are large, and they have codominant stems, this is a tree we're likely to approve for removal. this picture, we have two stems on the main trunk. so what happens naturally is that in wind or not even in wind, these trees split apart at these secti

they -- they are part of ongoing work that we are doing relative to the hope sf project at potrero in phase two. they are known to this panel. are there any members of the public who would like to speak on items seven or eight? seeing none, public comment is closed, and deputy city attorney givner, you are not aware of any minor amendments that are requested on those items. so seeing -- >> clerk: mr. chair, in the resolution, we just need to specify the committee as a whole date. >> chair peskin: and that date would be -- >> clerk: september 9, 2018. >> chair peskin: so in that instrument, we will add said date, and we will take that amendment without objection, and we will send items seven and eight in the due course of bid to the full board without objection. madam clerk, can you please read item ten out of order. [agenda item read]. >> chair peskin: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, over time, the abandonment period at section 178 of the planning code and north beach neighborhood commercial district has notoriously been 18 months and three years. it hassi toggled back and fort ov

andrés: allá en unos potreros. no podemos salir a la luz porque tenemos temor.gresado luego de esta dificultad con migración, pero decidió seguir el camino. ¿tenías algún presentimiento malo? andrés: sí, lo presentí, porque ya mi corazón me avisaba. tenía un dolorcito en mi corazón, como que algo me decía que no continúe el camino. andrea: ¿y por qué continuaste el camino, andrés? andrés: porque era mi misión, porque era mi ilusión estar en estados unidos para poder ayudar a mi familia. andrea: esa tarde, todos por separado, nos subimos al tren. los retenes comenzaron de inmediato. en el trayecto, vimos gente armada y luego más retenes. nuestras esperanzas de volver a ver a andrés y al resto de los migrantes se desvanecieron. decidimos bajarnos de la bestia a las cuatro horas de habernos subido. nos fuimos con la gran incógnita de sus destinos. ya de regreso, pasaron varias semanas cuando recibimos por facebook algunos mensajes de los migrantes que habíamos conocido en chiapas. entonces, comenzó nuestra búsqueda, que culminó con un terrible hallazgo. >> amputa t

and a couple instances like on 22nd street and east of potrero avenue, staff feels the guidelines shouldross the boundary to reflect existing neighborhood development patterns. i would emphasize that the guidelines would not apply to residentially zoned districts. generally speaking, design guidelines are applied to new construction, exterior building renovations and address topics like site design and signage. given the abundance of public art on and around 24th street, we anticipate the guidelines will also address this topic. we also want to be clear about the limitations of design guidelines and notes that they do not change height limits, his own land use, or address traffic circulation or parking standards the design guidelines that we are beginning to develop have their origins in prior city policy and legislation. in 2014, the board of supervisors passed a resolution establishing the latino cultural district, which recognize the unique cultural competent -- contributions of the latino community in the mission, particularly in the blocks out the 22nd street. this is followed by th