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presidio habitat is an exhibition at the presidio trust. it will be in san francisco through may 2011. we hope you will come out to experience this amazing exhibition and great natural treasure. >> to learn more about the other habitats installations in the presidio, visit >> welcome to "culturewire." for the past year, the arts commission has been participating in the city's effort to revitalize the central market street corridor. in addition to the thursday arts market and are in store front, the art commission recently launched the artery project. for the next year, the artery project will bring energy and excitement to market street, recalling the st.'s heyday as san francisco's vibrant and bustling theater district. >> un.n plaza during business hours seize hundreds of passing office workers and students, but the activity winds down at 5:00 every day. theater productions bring some but traffic, but central market is more of a thoroughfare than a destination after the sun goes down. on december 9, the artery project's launch brought a p

today i'm at the presidio trust, a treasure within san francisco, because the presidio trust is reallynal park in the center of an urban setting. it dates to the very founding of the city. national park. toting me today to talk about this amazing exhibition at presidio habitat is cheryl hanes. can you tell me a little bit about the idea of the presidio habitat? >> succinctly, i have been long involved in the presidio. i was here when it was still a military base in the 1980's. i remember driving down walmart to the golden gate bridge and seeing the military guard at the gate and being utterly fascinated. >> so presidio habitat is an exhibition where you have invited, how many artists to think about the habitat? >> we put together a list of possible participants, local, national, or international, of people who are concerned with environmental concerns, made some sort of contribution to the landscape and conversation we're having here. we said that broke -- proposal requests and we received 25 back. from that 25, we went through and chose tend to realize in the landscape. >> including t

we still have this stretch of park presidio boulevard shut down. we are trying to figure out exactly what portion is shut down. we know it's north of golden gate park. so we think right now the closure extends from comment and possibly all the way -- from clement possibly up to park presidio. pg&e crews are out there detouring traffic around that stretch. so use the avenues to get around it. right now they are detouring cars to the parallel streets right there around park presidio boulevard. no huge delays but avoid the area. live look at 880 through oakland, do want to let you know as well about a small fire that was reported just east of the nimitz freeway on the 1700 block actually of 48th avenue. that is near international boulevard in oakland. a small fire. the fire is now out but we want to let you know there may be road closures in that area. in the meantime, northbound and southbound 880 looks great right now as you pass the coliseum. so no issues on the main lines of the freeway. your silicon valley commute great here, as well. no problems

park presidio drive between clement is closed because of a power pole damaged. there was a power pole and also damage on the section of park presidio between california and clement. so that's shut down. now, southbound traffic coming out of that macarthur tunnel when you come into s an francisco, that's shut down. they are making the turn on lake street. it's quite a big mess for people leaving that macarthur ton. people leaving northbound are ring reboughted to a side street. so you have to make a side deter. it's park presidio between clement and california. we'll have more on the traffic in just a few. back to the desk. >> sal, thank you. >>> in other now, a landslide is swallowing up land and threatening a mobile home park community. kraig debro is live in mountain view to tell us what's going on with three families that have had to move out. good morning, kraig. >> reporter: good morning, dave. as promised, we've moved closer to the scene. you are looking at the wheels of the mobile home. had to actually saw this home in two. they are gonna take it out on t

also to reiterate, we have concluded the commercial close on the presidio parkway project, and the financial close will be on schedule to happen toward the end of the summer. and finally, i would like to introduce two people that have joined the authority team. first of all, matt lee, who joins the capital projects division as senior engineer. he is a san francisco local. he has lived in six of the 11 districts over 30 years. he is, like commissioner cohen, a grade wait locally, and he has an underdegree from the university of cal davis, and a masters in engineering from san francisco state. he has spent part of his life in the public sector and some in the private sector. he is great to work with, and i am delighted to welcome him to the authority team. i was like to introduced alex chiu. he is part of the outside counsel bureau, and we are delighted to have him as well. commissioners, that concludes my report. >> welcome, gentlemen, to the staff. commissioner mirkarimi: colleagues, any comments or questions for the executive director or myself? any public comment? seeing newspaper, public

presidio habitat is an exhibition at the presidio trust. it will be in san francisco through may 2011. we hope you will come out to experience this amazing exhibition and great natural treasure. >> to learn more about the other habitats installations in the presidio, visit >> mayor for the city and county of san francisco. >> tonight, san francisco has a new interim mayor. >> a few minutes ago, city administrator now interim mayor ed lee, emerged happy but humble. >> in 2011, a temporary or interim mayor was selected by the board of supervisors, what is an interim mayor? why do we need one? is it the mayor's supposed to be elected by san francisco voters? how did this happen? let's rewind the story a little and look at the people and complicated process that led to this historic transition. the last time san francisco had an interim mayor was 30 years ago, when, in 1978, george mosconi, was assassinated by supervisor dan white. >> both to grow rather mosconi and harvey milk have been shot and killed. >> they needed a new mayor at the time.

of hundreds of neighbors in the richmond district bordering the presidio. i came to understand and appreciate how fiercely our city residents are about preserving their quality of life in their own neighborhood. there are no residents more interested in preserving their neighborhood and our seniors. on my block alone, of the 30 houses, single-family homes, about half are owned by residents in their 70's, 80's who have lived there for more than 40 years. san francisco village is a nonprofit community-based membership organization that empowers the adults to remain in their own homes as they age. it became a private 5013 c in 2007 and after a couple years planning, we successfully launched in 2009 and currently have 130 members with five reduced the members. we are financially sound with a balanced budget projected to 2015. we have both foundation and individual support, and if we were able to obtain city backing, it would allow us to obtain water foundation support so that we conserve more members. our members live throughout the city from the richmond distr

i was fortunate that i worked at the presidio and established an infrastructure group. prior to this meeting, i did have a small talk with him. i read some comments about union workers having some conflict, but he explained to me the issue. some creative financing that could help the united states, its prevalence in europe, in canada. some of my partners are involved in that type of creative financing. but what i am concerned is that dole will drive -- doyle drive is built on time, hopefully in two years. that should be good. i wanted to wish you all the best. i followed you on this project for a long time. you are one of the better project managers. something that has to be emulated by the rest. you can see you walk the walk. next, talk the talk. we need people that are good leaders. we have little money. we cannot waste money. every dollar counts, and i am looking forward to seeing doyle drive completed in less than three years. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, sir. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. maybe take this w

park presidio boulevard is closed. you can see southbound that's coming out of that tunnel they're making the right and left turn on lake. and then as we tilt down here also northbound park presidio is closed at clement. some are being allowed to get back on. there's a damaged power pole causing a big delay here. you should not try and use park preside owe to the golden gate bridge this morning. move to the toll plaza, there's a light delay. now to steve. >>> sunshine, not a problem today to warm up. we're already in the 60s for a few locations. livermore, mountain view and san francisco. sunny and warm record highs likely today. still nice slightly cooler friday and cool down on the weekend. looks like warmer again early next week. pam and dave. >>> thank you, steve. coming up next here on mornings on 2 the prosecution in the barry bonds trial is surprising a lot of legal experts during this second week. >>> also giants pitcher barry zito making news in dodger country. just before the giants opening game today in los

looking back from the golden gate bridge to presidio, you are more aware of the park land and less of the roads. and the viaduct will parallel the existing one and to the south and can be built while the existing one remains in operation. and the two bridges there with open space between them and your views constantly change and not aware of the traffic in the opposite direction and notice the views more. and the lanes of course are a foot wider than they are today. and they will be shoulders and if your car is disabled, you can pull off to the edge. and the next area, the tunnel portal will have a view centered on the palace of fine arts and as you come out, you can see alkatrez island and bay. and the next area is about 1,000 feet long. and when you come into one, you can see through the other end. it's almost like driving through a building than through a tunnel. and noise from the roadway will be sheltered. and the traffic will be out of view. >> when you come out of the last sort tunnel and as you look forward, you see the golden dome of the palace of fine arts and what more perf

this is park presidio boulevard, this is north of golden gate park. it is closed from geary to california. a lot of other parallel roadways to take the slack in traffic, but it will cause an issue for california and geary boulevard as folks head through the area. the chopper is heading east to show us this road closure. 880 past the same area, you can see the volume now picking up past the coliseum. 880 and 580 were unaffected by the downed power lines or the fire, but that may affect you cutting through the area. a smooth drive on southbound 880 as we have issues going on heading down to union city. that could be an issue for folks. i'll bring you the update if it is blocking any lanes. back to you. >>> 6:10. still to come on "today in the bay," the america's cup is coming to san francisco. and we'll tell you about plans to help you get around and see the races. >>> and it is opening day. get ready for some more giants baseball. i'm marla tellez live at at&t park. i'll take you behind the scenes with the voice of the giants. how ranelle keeps her coo

the presidio park when does qualify. -- innovatively financed. commissioner campos: thank you. colleagues, any action on this item? let's open up to public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, this is an action item. can we have a motion? motion by david chiu. seconded by scott wiener. without objection. thank you. we now have item seven. >> item 7. update on the regional transportation plan/sustainable communities strategy and san francisco transportation plan call for projects. this is an information item. >> in light of the hour, we will go through the early slides and share the presentation with our policy and programming division. we have reported in previous meetings in the regional transportation plan that this time around, it is being conducted as an overall transportation project. we will be talking about the current call for projects, which is this item beginning on page 47 of your packet, describing the significance and process for submitting projects for consideration in

the presidio, the presidio large historic building rehab. that was financed in the worst of times, but a testament to force city possibility to gain financing, even in bad economies because of our 90-year history of strength. it is also an example of the local-private partnership, which is when and where the presidio had multiple goals they had to contend with. how do they achieve the highest level of sustainability, open up access to the parks to the surrounding neighborhoods, create an economically viable project for themselves that could help revive the 42 acres that this district is within, etcetera, obviously, historic issues involved. so there is an historic and revitalization component to it. the fivem project is an emerging project. hearst corp. came to us. this is where chronicle is located. it is where they used to do their printing. obviously, they have now taken a smaller footprint that things have evolved. their challenge, how do we make this the next media technology campus and involve where the markets are going? we took a dif

power pole, park presidio between geary and california. that is going to affect your golden gate bridge commute. "h" train delays, problems with the signal. train number one, 30-40 minute delays. 580 commute is affected, truck fire both directions, both ease and westbound very slow traffic approaching the scene. let's go to the toll plaza, we have minor delays and looks like metering lights and sun is coming up in the east. before you leave the houses, good idea to get your update at abc7news.com. click on bay area traffic and tell you everything you need to know. >> eric: rain is taking a break and spring is finally in the air. have you made plans yet for the weekend? here is don sanchez with what's hot. ♪ >> ashford and simpson make motown magic with classic songs. in the rrazz room. >> high stakes comedy, three actors without a net. an evening of improv at yerba buena theater. >> one of premiere dance companies in the world. native american dance theater and berkeley campus in zellerbach hall. >> i did a lot of work -- oh, blah-blah. >>

it allows you to see what driving through the presidio park we will look like.it to get a better understanding what the finished project a look like. the simulator is an for product designers and engineers though, if people can give is been for themselves and everyone staff from 12 to 5:00 p.m.. reporting live, kron 4 news. >>jacqueline: our big weather story tonight continued rain this evening especially in the north bay. we are expecting a southport progression of this rain. it's moving very slowly down to the south. it's going to make it southport progression tonight. it will break over night and showers again tomorrow morning. by tomorrow afternoon dryer conditions expected, drier conditions carry over into the thursday before the big storm in texas friday. >>now, here is gabe slate, with some tech news. >>gabe: the latest in high- tech health care to show you. moving humans at pharmacies and robots in it is the future. robotic pharmacy is a for missing been run by robots. dishing out prescriptions for patients. the future is beginning here. ucsf medical cen

we could have moved this population to treasure island, and to the presidio. when the government gave us those bases, we were supposed to use them for the homeless. no, we make the presidio into an office park, and we are going to make hotels and condos on treasure island. that was done by your predecessors at the board of supervisors. remember -- the reason that neighborhood is holy hell is because of randy shaw's business plan. the drugs, insane people, and attics that are there are his customers. that is your problem. supervisor chu: thank you. let me read a few more names. [reading names] >> good afternoon. i have been at the civic center for the last 13 years. i'm yet to top about the impact of the 1.5% tax credit. every year, when i set my roommate, one of the main decisions i based that on is based on my neighborhood. -- when i set my room rate. the value of my neighborhood is the value of my room, so i have to incentivize people to come into my area because of the neighborhood. if i take my rooms and add the three major hotels, we have 1000 rooms with

there is talk about sending us to the presidio, but imagine how difficult it will be for our disabled veterans to get out there for meetings. so this is a commission that needs your help. i wish we were also house here in city halls of this commission had more transparency. thank you very much for your time and consideration. supervisor kim: thank you. brendan culver rogers and then stephen noetzel. >> i believe we got an e-mail from mr. rogers -- supervisor kim: sorry, mr. rogers is currently deployed. there are so many applicants in front of us. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i currently serve as the recently elected secretary to the veterans affairs commission. i have been on the commission for almost two years now. i do not know if this committee recognizes that the veterans affairs commission is really currently under a renaissance. we have been operating in the past two years with new vigor, with new vision, and with a new focus on paying attention to the needs particularly of all the returning veterans coming back from deployments and coming back from our overseas commitments

the ferry building, the cruise terminal, the presidio. i said i would get here in four minutes and 30 seconds to talk about ideas. the concept we have, we call i2c, which is in innovation and invention community. it is not to expand it any further than it already is but to come up with something that is a center to attract a lot of the south bay i.t. firms and create jobs in lincoln to the mission and the enormous number of employees that want to live there and do not want to drive to the peninsula. are steps would be immediately to stabilize the historic buildings at risk. our first step would do -- would be to do an evaluation on historic buildings and make sure we do not lose them because they are a huge income and cost generator. we would do a master plan, perfect the master plan, and extend the master plan. we think it is under -- it is important to understand the larger scheme of things. we would immediately embark on building a 500,000 square foot speculative building to form an economic hub and create an attractive leasing environ

washington presidio project. i met with some of the neighborhood groups that are concerned about the project. they have both been very good meetings. representatives of united paragon and other companies involved in the executive park will be involved with us and a couple of weeks. i know there is a lot of concern, and keeping business in san francisco. i was very happy to hear that mayor lee has proposed to limit the payroll tax. they had been san francisco -- correct me if i am wrong, it is around $300 million that contributes to the budget of san francisco per year. we can find ways to eliminate that spending. it was good to hear that there is thought along those ways. commissioner fong: it seems we had a similar week. i met with neighbors on the project as well as to a tour of the executive park. going out and seeing the proposed project has been beneficial. commissioner miguel: i have met with people regarding heights street as well as a coalition of groups. basically a chinatown haughty- line extension -- t

park presidio boulevard is partially shut down.e hearing about lanes blocked in both directions between geary and california. there is a downed pole across that stretch. so again, crews are out there now. also dealing with some bad ace train delays. second straight day for delays. ace train number one is running up to 35 minutes behind schedule. dealing with signal issues for a second straight day and we are hearing that ace train number 3 might be affected by this, as well. but definite delays for ace 1. in the meantime bart, muni metro are on schedule. we had a stalled big rig on 880 towards the bay bridge toll plaza. it's cleared. we watched it being cleared by tow crews so easy commute right now into san francisco. the metering lights are off. you're cruising in all lanes, fastrak and cash lanes and it's a quick trip from the incline to the "s" curve. we are watching a possible hotspot westbound five five approaching north flynn road. that's the where we got a vehicle fire just reported, sounds like it's actually a big rig on f

we still have this closure of park presidio boulevard in san francisco.s is video taken earlier from chopper 5. we want to let you know right now still both directions of park presidio shut down between clement and lake. and southbound traffic is being diverted on lake street. we understand that it is backed up to the golden gate bridge toll plaza. northbound traffic being turned around at clement jammed to at least balboa. a mess to avoid. to the maps, ace train delays, number five running a half hour behind schedule. otherwise bart, muni metro and caltrain all reporting no delays. that' traffic. here's lawrence with the forecast. >> sunshine from the land to the sea. ocean beach a lot of sunshine. great day for the beach. right off the water's edge temperatures there into the 70s. you get inside the bay, those heat up into the 80s. records showing up around much of the bay area for highs today. then it looks like it's going to start to cool down. enjoy the sunshine today, tomorrow probably fog at the coast, to cool down the temperatures and sea breeze.

we are currently engaged in a study of presidio school of management we already know access to land and use of land is one of the largest barriers. the code will go a long way to solving the issues. as noted by many people the fencing requirement could negatively affect many projects currently operating. hayes valley farm has fencing that would not meet this requirement. i suggest an alternate model for this code for projects zoned to allow their decorative fencing to be covered by plant materials. very attractive. fits with the project's overall goals and can be afforded by the projects as well. the fact that most of these gardens and projects will exist on borrowed land creates two problems in that likely they won't be able to forward large site improvement, major site changes and may not be able to gain position offering the use of the site for free to make major site improvements as well. i am also interested in working with the other departments to discover an answer for the issue on value added project. i know he currently works with certified california farmers market and they ha

they look through the former enlisted club, but in spite of the searches, presidio police chief says it is possible that christina could have been kept there for a time. >> we found a rolled up newspaper where somebody used it a torch and nobody was down there for a long time. there was a film of dust and depress footprints in the dust. >> reporter: ten years ago, when he was the watch commander the search for christina led him here, following up on information from a 4-year-old boy, whose parents were convictioned he was psychic. >> they were at the dinner table and their son was eating in his high chair and all of a sudden he stopped eating and said i know where christina is. >> reporter: his parents said he could not have none about christina, because they have no television and they drove him to the police station and on the way -- . >> he said stop right now. he said call the police now, mommy. >> reporter: stopping at the spot where search dogs lost christina's scent. the boy later told police she was at two parks road, which no one understand essentially, but as it turned out

golden gate park over to the west, the presidio, and one down to the south. when we talk about urban watershed management, it really means just that. we are constructing storm water elements that will help us control stormwater. we want to be able to capture rainwater and reduce the load on the system, so we have enough capacity to mitigate flooding, encourage potable water reuse, but it is like a project in itself. it is not just putting out one area and hoping it will work. it is engineered. it requires engineering and development. we do not know much about it. we are going to have a long way to go as we develop these projects and learn how effective they are and what the costs are. so one nice little starting point is in a natural system, if we were to get a rainstorm, most of the water is either evaporated or infiltrated. very little is running loss. however, in an urban setting, most of the water is running off -- very little is running off. however, in an urban setting, most of the water is running off. paging, steep slopes, urbanization -- paving, stee

today, as far as the action to reaffirm the commitment to the presidio park way project, you are going to be approving a swap of almost $20 million in state local partnership funds that will then move to the central subway, freeing up some of the commitment the central subway had of regional improvement funds. that has turned out to be a better fit for both projects because it vacates a few questions that were raised about the eligibility of the parkway project for the state local partnership funds, and at the same time, makes funding available to central subway sooner than otherwise we would have had. better market street -- we have an attitude under way. there is a danish firm that will be doing some surveys as part of the public space and public life study. there will be some of that activity happening on saturday. some of the schedule has been moved a little bit because of the rain. but very interesting work that i think will support creative thinking about how to make the better parts of better market street real. going to keep you posted on that. major milestone on the van ness b

accept and expend a grant administered by the san francisco county transportation authority for the presidio park would project in an amount of up to $1 million. we came before you in december, as you will recall. the strategies are temporary, to be implemented while it is under construction, and it will be restored back to its existing condition at the conclusion of the project in mid-2014. the funding was approved by the authority. the strategies developed to assist the palace of fine arts theater at exploratory m., who are our attendance, to help minimize parking overflow into adjacent neighborhoods. i will be happy to answer any questions you have. commissioner harrison: he talks about the improvements that are going to be made, the changes. as mentioned, driveway modifications i am a little confused on. what does that mean? >> the drive with modifications noted there are modifications to the driveway to the lot when it is put back on line in mid-2011. those are just curve modifications. if you recall, as part of our presentation in december, the lot will be brought back online after it