there is the captain, and we have worked together almost day-by-day the last year, dealing with the soma area, our largest nightclub area. i want to highlight a few things. we had new years. a multitude of events that went on. what we really had to address was the emergency closing of a club. club 181. i know there was a lot of press given this, some negative and some positive, but it required emergency action by us because we thought there was an immediate threat to public safety. it was really the first time we have had to take such serious action. audrey and another did an outstanding job. we would not normally have pursued that venue in the normal course of business, but we thought it was dealing with public safety, and that is why we took that action. dave will carry on everything that we hopefully established along with a collaborative work in the future. hopefully, i would like to see another summit, may be springtime of possible. -- maybe springtime. president newlin: i just wanted to thank you for everything. vice chair joseph: i have to thank you. i think the way the we have es

the executive direct of community benefits in soma. that's a really another great idea where property owners have elect to the tax themselves to create their own pool of funding to have a discussion about more expensive permanent improve. s they want in their neighborhood. they agreed to tax themselves for 15 years. >> right. >> so they can have this on going conversation for 15 years by creating their own source of funding that's taking the ccg idea and running with it and creating your own thing on an on going basis. i would like to try to figure out a way for you to start. >> ccg. community challenge grant. [inaudible]. >> her question, she's really overwhelmed how big it is the question is one of tyiming and phasing. how do you look at the scope of the project and the timing and apply for one or 2 grants and how do you break it up for your community to chew. >> there are 3 things our project had fit. it was limited in scale. as far as need to meet neighbor a -- create and meet with a core group of neighbors. the other was autoaccur

the executive direct of community benefits in soma. that's a really another great idea where property owners have elect to the tax themselves to create their own pool of funding to have a discussion about more expensive permanent improve. s they want in their neighborhood. they agreed to tax themselves for 15 years. >> right. >> so they can have this on going conversation for 15 years by creating their own source of funding that's taking the ccg idea and running with it and creating your own thing on an on going basis. i would like to try to figure out a way for you to start. >> ccg. community challenge grant. [inaudible]. >> her

encompassed that generally and some adjoining parcels and blocks, and it would not necessarily penalize east soma for a separate decision that was made in, let's say, central waterfront. that is the reason for that study, but again, what we do within the area is we look at the zoning before and after. we do projections 30 years out and say this is the development we would expect compared to the development we would expect without the rezoning, with the original zoning, and they would net out all the associated costs. if there is a fiscal surplus, if the rezoning results in more money for the general fund, the area would be eligible for an ifd. in addition to the restriction, we are proposing a maximum limit of 50% of available increments, and again, this is a cautionary policy. this board can alter these policies in the future if you feel you need more flexibility, but the desire here was to not give away the store. we would say no more than did the% of the available anchorman over 30 years -- that is cumulatively over the 30-year life. remember, this builds up over time. that does not prevent us

if you go to youtube, do a search for soma traffic congestion. i have a video of what a fire engine had to go through to get to a building in my neighborhood. emergency response is important to those that live there, of course. once they get to the building, they have another 400 or 500 feet to go up the building to get to someone having a heart attack or other problem. please keep this going. thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. i'm going to read some more names. [reading names] >> i'm representing environmental defense fund's. it is a national environmental organization with california headquarters in san francisco. both research and experience in other countries have shown that the type of congestion pricing and allies in this study has the great potential to lead to improving traffic, reducing emissions, and supporting improvements to other mass- transit options. we encourage the board to accept this pricing steady and direct sfcta to go on to the next step in the process and go on to environmental review. thank you. >> i work on wor

. >> reporter: soma filmed her housekeeper in bali, making prayer offerings on the full moon.rt of this project, which is really worldwide? >> in the beginning, you just upload your footage, you don't know where it's going. you just know that there's thousands of people doing the same thing. >> reporter: so many lives, so many angles. but just one direction. forward. john berman, abc news, new york. >> so many different people, loving the same thing, their families. hope you have a good night with your family and that we see you right back tomorrow night. until then, good night.ab >>> pipeline safety and the new public utilities commission p.u.c. how the california p.u.c. is wining and dining companies that it regulates. >> and there is a demand for neighborhood jobs and a new pledge that should help ease their concerns. >> and oakland police threatening a lawsuit over high mileage cars and radios that don't work. >> and there are budget cuts that could shut down half of the san francisco court system due, perhaps to a bureaucratic mistake. >> pipeline safety is a new priority

this will start at 7:00 tonight at the soma arts cultural center. that's on brandon street. as you mentioned it includes live art auction, exhibition, live music and more. it is being held in san francisco tonight. >>> we have learned that the intelligence chief has been named vice president. this as political unrest continues this morning. >> the death toll in egypt has now reached 48. thousands of other people have been injured. protesters are back in cairo central square demanding the president be ousted. the egyptian government has ordered nearly all communication including the internet and cell phone service to be blacked out. the army has now stepped in for added security measures. >>> meantime president obama is calling for a peaceful reform. president obama called for the president to extend rightsed in the arab nation and refrain from violence against the protesters. a >>> the egyptian community here in the bay area is hoping stability will be found soon. while many have been watching the news from their televisions, others gathered in their church from hayward. fam

non, chad,east li lebanon, chad, somalia,soma congo, office malik goes chasing fo pirates.i might be forgetting a few. fe- nicaragua. here and there. boring. >> guest: right. the title's meant to be somewhat ironic but not entirely. war, the modern experience of war, low intensity warfare is a lot of sitting around. it's 99% waiting and tedium and bore dumb punctuated by 1% of sheer terror. i think that describes the experience of the typical soldier, but it's the same for reporters, too, between the red tape and the logistic and the distances you have to travel, the logistics of being a reporter, arranging interviews and negotiating languages and cultural differences. you spend a lot of time weeding and maneuvering for the golden nuggets of excitement or the tiny little gems of a good story. >> host: and this is done much like, as a comic book -- >> guest: right. >> host: in a sense, a nonfiction comic book, and you write, i love how war made you appreciate the little things. you said coming home was like popping ec that si. what do you mean by that? >> guest: i've actuall

two people in the hospital after they were stabbed in front of a bar and night club in san francisco somaistrict overnight. they were called to the temple night club to deal with a fight. when they arrived they found two people with multiple stab wounds outside the club. paramedics rushed the victims to san francisco general hospital but the extent of their injuries is unknown this morning. >>> also this morning san jose police say two are dead after a shooting outside a night club. that happened around 8:30 last night at the mention xi calley club. they found the men's bodies with a third man who was also shot. he is undergoing surgery at a hospital and expected to survive. investigators are looking for three or four suspects and are trying to figure out what motive was in this one. last night's homicides were the third and fourth for san jose in this new year. and a police officer and another man are dead and four others were injured after an overnight shooting outside a baltimore night club. police were called to a downtown night club because of reports of a fight when someone started

i spent a lot of time roaming around places like chad or soma somalia and it puts into, i perspective, what we have here in the united states and what we call problems. so one reason i enjoy my job as a freelance workhorse on it. enjoy is not the right word. one of the reasons i find ite os fulfilling his attic contextualizes the rest of my life. and i think i've come away frome my work as appreciating being af american more than before i did this kind of thing.doest >> when you read your book, does that seem like you can stay in . the states a lot you have to go back. >> that the irony. you need the contrast between home life and life in some lifea conflict zone in order to bacto appreciate the home life, then you have to keep going back to the conflict zone in order tocos maintaino that contrast so -- id don't know, that's the only way they can find peace andthestwo satisfaction was to move between these two extremes. the one made the other makes sense. >> david axe, what worked didue you do for c-span? >> i shot video and voiceover in studio interviews from and about the iraq war a

she is expected to attend the event which starts at 7:00 at the soma cultural arts center. it will include artwork done by shane bauer. >>> a troubling story in mon tar ray county. another puppy is recovering from a botched surgery by a man who posed as a licensed veterinarian. the humane society received a call. the owner said the puppy was given a faulty ear and tail cropping. he is accused of disfiguring three other puppies. a $3500 reward is being offered for information leading to his arrest no last week's death of an elephant at six flags will be the focus of a new provide project. the elephant named taj lived years beyond the life exspan tan sigh. they're saying she's giving a rare opportunity to study an elderly el fafnlt among their questions, whether elephants can develop alzheimer's disease. >> but she was a very talented artist. want to check in with sal and see what's happening on this friday morning. how's the toll plaza. >>> toll plaza is good. newark, new jersey airport is experiencing three and a half hours of delays. if you're taking a plight there -- flig

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