it has actually been in the works before hope s.f.. in some respects, hope s.f. came about in part from what we learned in our work today. we have master planned the site. we were with you for the whole approval and the design for development plan for the 700-plus unit community that is there. we are ready to start on phase one. we have started on phase one. we're ready to start the infrastructure on phase one and we'll be doing that shortly. this is probably about as broad of a public-private partnership as i would imagine one could expect. doug mentioned seven sister city agencies that we're working with. on the human capital side, i would say we have as many on the real estate structure, including the p.u.c., planning department, department of public works, building department, m.o.d., et cetera. so a very broad-based public partnership, and then, of course, our developer, the one actual actually financing and doing the work a partnership of ridge development and a local nonprofit based in the area. they have a long history of both public housing revital zatio

s.f. made is about products made in san francisco and so we talked about what is shopping local, what can we do to work together, how to best position the city in this -- to -- how can the city best position supporting that concept? and so what we came away with that we will be devicing the details of this down the road, but that what they saw was an important role for the office, for the city, is to really drive home the economic message. so, not so much who -- dealing with the database, you know, who are the locally owned merchants, who are the s.f. made merchants, not to say we can't work to identify those, but that our role was really to drive home the economic message, to really educate and promote that. so, i'll be discussing this with the merchants and then at a future date i'll also be coming to you with what that's going it look like. the shop s.f. get more campaign is designed for the holidays. this is again another place where merchants can become engaged and help drive business

as i mentioned earlier, the s.f. youth academy hats started in march and we are working on continuing what we started in march on helping them work within their communities. with that, i will pass it back to craig briefly to -- doug briefly to talk about our neighborhoods. >> i should add one other piece. the interagency has been incredibly helpful. september and kim berly wycoff making sure the ratios are correct. being able right next to the park, and this is a mixed use senior facility for groundfloor with those basic urban communities that we have all come to know. it is where they come down from mcclaren down toward bayshore. it would be nice to have something right here that wasn't selling liquor and cigarettes but milk and eggs and the things most of us count on in our daily lives. next is the community gardening. it would get to some of the public health issues. we don't expect a public service farm that raises food for every aspect of life, but we think we could do something there. and last but not least, tr

planning codes are on-line as are most of the hand-outs at the counter and residential, or you can go to s.f. government dot org in regard/planning and you can find all of our codes and so forth on that website or go to the office itself. >> i can't see you. >> it's on? we spoke to the neighbors and most of them okayed the project for a single family home. there's one neighbor next to the lot that's apposing but she's encroaching the project where we're going to put a - not a sidewalk but a street up to two homes is that justified. what's your thoughts on that. >> there's always one. the heart of the problem is there's no threshold. there's no logical reason you need to file for a discretionary review. anyone can. for any reason. planning related or otherwise and they'll get their day in the court before the planning commission. prepare your case and argue and justify your project to the planning commission and more times than not, they'll see reasoned argument and the reasonable property and approve it. so, sit justified, probably - well subjective i mean. >> thank you. >> you know, actuall

the rec and park department and the s.f. pd will be starting an evening patrol through some of the known spots where there is illegal camping. we are continuing to do all we can to address the problem and i wanted to update you on that. nycomed thi wanted the chance tt focus as we look back over the past 12 months over some of the things we have all accomplished and that our staff, our community, and this commission has worked together in very unique and extraordinary times with the budget. despite a setting in which we remain to wonder partners short a in which the standards suggest we should be and the climate in which we are 60 custodian's short on where we need to be and where we have about 30 park patrol officers, despite a climate of about $1.7 billion and maintenance fees in our system, our parks course by the comptroller had never been higher. they reached 91% which was an all-time high. our closeout rate was at 82%. our playground report card average, we received a grade of a be up from a c plus. this year, we recei

so, unless you of any questions, i would like to invite peter from the s.f. mda. -- sfmta. >> good afternoon. i think the most important aspect i can bring to this conversation, even before we talk about parkmerced, is to talk about the corridors and to get an idea of of the transportation network works in this part of town, so to be able to do them together is an especially important resource for mta. this map on the screen shows two different colored as loans, and the pink zone represents what we call a pda that is an agreement with the city of san francisco which says if you are working with transportation planning pitch in this part of town, and you are working with the community in working with the city agencies, we will prioritize regional funding to help you solve your transportation problems in this part of town, so with the help of the supervisors and the transportation authority, we were able to get this part of san francisco on the radar screen as a pda. the pink plus the green area represents everything, and we wanted to look at transit and the pe

clark was booked into the s.f. jail on suspicion of assault on it was a deadly weapon. he is being held on $90,000 bill. live in the newsroom kron 4 news. >> a man accused of hitting and killing a german tourist while driving under the influence was charged today. this happened at the intersection of church and san francisco pureed joshua calder allegedly hit the german banker and then drove off. witnesses were able to find the car bit about just a couple blocks away he was charged with manslaughter drunken-driving and hit-and-run. he is in custody and $500,000 bond and you will be back in court to try to enter pleas. the intersection world this happened has had a lot of problems. stanley roberts went to see how bad it is in this edition of people behaving badly. you don't have to spend a lot of time at the intersection of turk and masonic in san francisco, to figure out why some people are calling this the most dangerous intersection in the city. first off let's look at the drivers. the speed limit on masonic is 25 mi. an hour, part of the reason is this blind hill. dr

there are 13 that we've talked about for a long time with the board all of last year, and we're adding s.f. public school as a city wide in the discussion. and that's because it has criteria for acceptance. and you have to have been in the prek. so that's why staff is recommending that we have that as the 14th city wide school. and in addition to having schools that are city wide, there's lots of programs that are city wide. so i'll give you an example. west portal has a chinese emersion program. it's going to have an attendance area. but the seats that are for the chinese emersion program will not be eligible for the attendance area. the same thing as collaren -- clarenden. 50% of their seats are actually reserved for that. which means that even though it has an attendance area. only 50% of the seats will be available for the attendance area tiebreaker. so the attendance areas, even though there's 58 schools with attendance areas, there are within schools programs that are city wide and that don't have a local preference. this is a distribution of all of the city wide programs. so you can

it's one of the great challenges of hope s.f. our goal through the web site, hope-sf.org and through the fiscal presence of partners is to keep the communication level up. we realize there is no way to ever sort of be done with this process, and that's again part of our goal in coming here today is to try to surface these issues so that if people don't know about it or they are getting bad information, or if there are things people need us to work on, we can spot these issues and keep moving forward. i will stop there. i think you scr been asking questions along the way. obviously, if there are members of the public. just to say, we know the work ahead of us is big. we are excited about where we're out, and we are hopeful the next year will yield quite a bit. chair maxwell: thank you. that was great. public comment on these issues. ok. this is just an informational hearing. there will be no action taken on these issues. >> supervisors, i really have enjoyed the out-reach going on with the potrero rebuild. i have been somewhat inv

i'm the pedestrian program manager the s.f. municipal agency. i'm your, mc for today. peter albert is our director of planning at the mta. [applause]>> good morning. with christina i welcome you to the 2008 pedestrian summit. i'm the deputy of director of planning at the mta and it's my honor and privilege to introduce two of the most important people in san francisco for this. wade is the mayor's point person on climate and environmental policy. wade, thank you for joining us. >> i'll be brief on behalf of mayor newsom i want to thank everyone for being here today. this is a seminal moment in our city and i want to thank the mta board. some members here today, commissioner bruce oka, commissioner knollen and others for prioritizing pedestrian safety. i think we're ready to take it to the next level in expanding and improving pedestrian environment in san francisco. as someone that walked to work down van ness most days i can attest to most recent improvements and on-going challenges where the need to have pedestrian countdown signals on high traffic intersections or i

bush spoke with the weather specialist to answer >> that question> john has been teaching neurology at s.f. state for the last 31 years he specializes in the el nino and lawn nino weather fact and says this is been a textbook lining up >> summer> the older version surface translate the colder air in the offshore flow fog bank is thicker than and the non long and the new year and it's bringing the cooler air through the bay area trade not to worried the offshore flow use the weekend after labor day. there's no correlation between aligning and temperatures in september and october. this means the weather pattern should stabilize and to what we normally see around the time of year. dole: indian summer. it >> indian summer means we start cooling off for the halt in you of a sudden return to warm conditions of the summer. we normally expressed fears that indian summer because september october a warm response. hopesz john says with a few weeks and it should start to warm up the country in oakland jeff bush kron 4 news. >> some tourists visiting the area all of this cold weather is a bit of a sh

we have s.f. moma that will expand. 149 new montgomery, which is approved right across the street for residential. we have even the palace hotel that may or may not get condominiums approved. and with all of those things, that neighborhood -- our neighborhood will be "developed." of course, there will be more changes, but we're in a transitional stage right now. as a neighborhood it's really only been 10 years with residential down there. the residential is great. you see people walking their dogs. you heard mention of kindergartens. you see life on the weekends. ironically a lot of people who work in this building will also live in the neighborhood. so to me it's part of building a neighborhood. i think the exceptions are relatively minor, and if you were to build a project strictly by code you'd have a worse building and not a better building. and that's the reason that you ask for exceptions. and ironically i think a building half the size would still have -- generate a lot of the complaints ab

we have s.f. moma that will expand. 149 new montgomery, which is approved right across the street for residential. we have even the palace hotel that may or may not get condominiums approved. and with all of those things, that neighborhood -- our neighborhood will be "developed." of course, there will be more changes, but we're in a transitional stag

i'm the director of the sfpuc's clean power s.f. program, often referred to as c.c.a. so today i'm just going to go over what progress we've made in crafting the r.f.p. you should have a new revised r.f.p. draft for your pacts, as well as a summary sheet which describes many of the changes, the notable changes, from what was made public prior to the july 9 meeting. i want to go over a few things in general at a high level here regarding a lot of the additional clarifications that we added based on feedback that was heard at the last joint meeting of the p.u.c. and lafco, again, on july 9. one big area that was changed is clarification in the scoring, specifically in making it very explicit that the oral scoring -- the oral interview, those scores will be associated with the same elements that are being scored for the written portion. and just as a reminder in terms of the process for the r.f.p., the first step is evaluating that the firms have -- that proposals meet the minimum qualifications in order to be scored. should they not meet any of those minimum qualificatio

yesterday i watched the world cup with a doctor who works at s.f. general who has come from working in columbia, now he's working at general hospital providing health care, speaks wonders of healthy san francisco, and that he's able to treat people who wouldn't ever be able to come to him without the program, people who have cancer, people who have brain injuries, people who have not been able to get preventative care and now they have. commissioner o'conmajor: i think the program is great but the way it was structurally set up was flawed. >> i can appreciate that but what you're providing for this happening is a good thing. the other thing we're looking at for this legislation, we are not interested -- we don't want to target you, small retailers, nightclubs, we're looking at corporate players here. that's who this legislation is targeting, that's what it's about. it's not about saying you're a bad player or the people who sell alcohol are bad -- in the city on the street level are bad players in the system. commissioner o'connor: i came in the mee