right now we can do that for a very short timeframe so if you go to,sfgov dot org. the cities website you can go to the beldings department link, hi alice, and go to permits. it says check on-line permit status and it's a permit tracking function and you can enter your address and i think all the permits since the mid 80's now will come up with their disposition and what happens, who reviewed them and all of that. that's the first step. that's as we were rushing headlong into the 90's and we're trying to move into the next decade and right now negotiating some vendor to scan these and put them all underseparate addresses. okay where do we go from here. >> right now you can do that yes. >> but it's not on going? >> we're going to increase it. we've initiated that about three to five months back. if you have a permit in for review you can check the status and see who has it and who is the next plan station and if it's prepared for issuing and you feel free to jump in. >> what's on-line is the same we have in our lobby the permit tracking system. applications from abou

it will be aired on sfgov tv. what does health care reform mean for your business? i think we forwarded that information to you. on march 24, they are doing a panel for small businesses that as a general overview. i will be speaking on the services that the city provides. and the commission retreat, you will be beginning a draft agenda very shortly. one last thing i want to make note of that in regard to steven cornell's comments. it is recognized that the nc-20 controls have made a difference maintaining unique merchant corridors. this might be something that we have a somewhat of a discussion with directory, what is not happening at the city level is doing some kind of economic consumer trend about online shopping. it seems that with the on-line shopping is happening is the daytime commercial retail. if more consumer spending is happening there, what does that mean for the daytime commercial retail in terms of being able to exist in brick-and-mortar. what happens to that space? these are just some questions. what can you not ? -- not do online? that may be a quest

colleagues -- it would be great if sfgov tv could turn the camera around to indicate that. [applause] as you can see, a huge, huge part of our community represents not just our children, not just our families, but our seniors, and many from our disabled community, who supports the current project. after the years of discussion, i think it is time for us to move forward. the items we have in front of us today are around the proposed vacating of one block of mason st., between lombard street and columbus avenue. the current plan will allow us to build a bigger library, a bigger park next to the library, and much more open space for some of the densest neighborhoods on the east coast -- certainly the densest neighborhoods in san francisco. this was developed with supporters and opponents of the project. in a meeting we had in 2009, there was a lot of discussion about whether we should close the street down. one thing that both supporters and opponents agreed upon was that we should have a trial period to close the street down to see what the impact should be on surrounding nei

so that's my hope, you know, that this book i wrote, this story gets out, we're on sfgov tv. somebody will say, i have a cable car house, nobody asked me. come take a look at it. because right now we're down to one or two maybe that are still around when we're talking about there used to be hundreds. >> essentially into a generation of tearing them down. no more construction. complete replacement. >> yeah. in the 1910, about 1913, 1914, they really started pushing to get rid of them. when that open block that sutro rented, right on the edge of the sunset, when that cleared out, it eliminated the visibility of carville. we talk about a whole block of car houses that were still there. when that gets replaced by apartment buildings, suddenly you have a car house here, one there. just where people haven't taken the time to tear it out or build a conventional home. in the 1920's or 1930's, things were booming house building wise out there. so if you have a little empty lot that has an old car house on it you'd be stupid not to build a stucco house there and make a quick buck. by t

sfgov/dpw. or, go to the table in the back after the meeting. four, reporting it. file a police report when your property is vandalized. an easy way to do it is on-line. i just search this morning and it came up. as a matter of fact, an interesting and easy form to the lot. you will be given a case number. another way to do it is to call 553-0123. that is the police non-emergency number. report the graffiti and the police will take it from there. if you want to, go to your closest police precinct station and bring your photos. after you have made sure you are prepared, that you've taken pictures, you have cleaned it up, and report it, consider the future. how do we prevent future graffiti? there were many ways to do that. a blank wall is an open invitation to a graffiti tagger. you might limit their access to your blank wall by such things as maybe planting thorny shrubs in the area. angled roof tops, those are prime targets for graffiti vandals because their tax can be seen from a distance, to give them more fame in their criminal culture. resist access to your ro