on wednesday, 47 students from 24 countries visited soma city in fukushima where survivors are still suffering from the effects of the nuclear accident. we have a report from fukushima. >> reporter: we hope you keep supporting us. thank you for coming from so far away. >> students gave the survivors presents from their home countries and offered words of encouragement. >> reporter: soma city lost 458 people in the disaster and continues to suffer from the accident of the nearby nuclear plant. about 500 people are living in the temporary complex because their homes were swept away or are within an evacuation area. the visiting students learned that mothers with small children are worried about health issues and farmers are anxious about the future of the industry because of the negative image the nuclear accident has created. >> we should think of how we can change that. i mean, we have to find other ways of generating energy because there are so many dangers linked between us. >> reporter: a student from a developing country had a different view. >> i think the nuclear energy plan ne

i am on the western soma planning task force. i represent business. i have -- there is the development going on on eighth and harris. i want to see -- we can up businesses there. so does not become a planned community. i want to see people out in the street. that is what makes san francisco special. i would like to see -- [unintelligible] there is the vietnamese part out there. i never noticed it before. we have a portion of the city. i would like to help out people. it would be lovely to see if that community could move in and have the shops and businesses and hardware stores and coffee shops, a shoe repair and all that sort of stuff. that is where i am matt. out would like to see san francisco become a place that is attractive for everybody. a place people love to come to. it is but we can go much further. i do with the small business community. i am supported by the council of district merchants and the small business network. i've been to the bayview merchants association meeting a number of times and to the haight-ashbury. i am a dedicated person

it ends up in a very strange place in the western -- and the western soma folks would have issues. haute there is a balance to be had. >> i think we have some targeted areas for next week cosy discussion. similar to raising that i think the task force should be prepared and will have some link the mapping sessions, a solar want to encourage members to be ready for the endurance that will be required. next week, we will have the task force present. at this time, if there are no additional inquiries, we will move on to the agenda item, community outreach. >> thank you. i forwarded to -- or i asked madam clerk to forward to task members the ads that came out for community outreach. we have five. and there were two, one in english and one in japanese. we have reporters that came out with a half page and i think they were supposed to come out today or two days ago, a full- page ad. i don't know if you want me to pass this around -- >> those are the same onees. s. >> not all of them, i think there were only three that provided -- these are the actual ones. i just want to point out that t

place of entertainment permit downtown for a medium sized lounge near the financial district on the soma side. this is the replacement of the old beake street 0-- beal street bar and grill. mr. somers has been before you. he was involved in a club on broadway. this includes live entertainment and corporate events. planning is indicating this is an approval of these. it looks like the other conditions. staff recommends it reckoned--- recommends a conditional grant. -- the staff recommends a conditional grant. >> i am here representing the. we have with us, i apologize. gloria is the majority owner and is under the weather and is not with us tonight. george somers and tim carlos are owners and managers of the premises. from 1988 until a couple of years ago, the beale street bar and grill was ordered an institution in the southern financial district. is basically an american girl, a sports bar, and a live music venue. survey honkey tonk band -- soared of hockey top bands. -- sort of honky tonk bands. they forced her to move. they wanted her to go away. she put up a fight and got of money. t

$20 million in programmed projects including pedestrian transit improvements on market and haight, soma, streetscape improvements on second street, broadway avenue, bike trail projects, and safe routes to school education program, projects at sunset elementary. commissioner campos: before you move forward, we have a question from commissioner carmen chu. commissioner chu: in terms of the safe route to school program, i know this is one thing that the area had applied for multiple times, unsuccessful in getting. has been a huge party, given the fact that there is a middle school, elementary school, another school behind its, a public library, a recreation center in the area. heavily trafficked area. i just wanted to get a sense from you about progress on that project. >> a very timely question. we have an issue we are trying to resolve on the grant for that project. it is almost $600,000. there is a deadline that the project sponsor missed on that grant that we just became aware of and they're trying to resolve them with the mtc. that is the best at intermission and in the right now. i e

the soma pac chair who is here. it is amazing to see people talking about what we can do to revitalize this area. of course, i want to thank the mayor's office of economic workforce development. as urgent as the process is, they understand we need to listen to the community and neighborhoods that have already existed here to make sure their input is included in this revitalization effort. [applause] last is that this corridor does belong to the city of san francisco, but we have two historical neighborhoods here that surround it -- the tenderloin and the south of market. it is a community that has struggled but also has made a ton of achievements in this neighborhood without the support of the city. we want to continue to make sure that the changes we are making are for the city but also the residents that have been here a long time -- the families, the seniors, the youth. i know many of the senior members of market said that are clapping in the back were there as well. i sought asian neighborhood design. central ci

management partnerships, octavius circulation studies, bay shore intermodal access the study, western soma neighborhood transportation plan, and major improvements to our forecasting models. we also obtained a trout -- caltrans grant for the bayview hunters point mobility solutions study. this is a seminal effort on how to do more with what we have and to knit the community together in the process. we're looking forward to completing the study this year. we have also made progress on the bike county study which is a multi-jurisdictional, multi- agency, multi-year study to look at the southeast corner of the city and adjacent areas in some detail county. in 2011, this effort resulted in priority projects worth over $600 million, including a geneva brt line, reconfigured candlestick interchange, and other improvements. i anticipate you will have a report on that in the next couple of months as well. the chair already mentioned the agreement on the presidio parkway second phase funding. i will not review that again. we also have underway the process for getting the van ness brt project on the

. >> the government has also decided to review the zoning of minami soma city, a part of which is inside the no entry zone. the city will likely be split into three areas including one where there will be long-term restrictions on people who want to move back to live. the mayor of the city welcomed the decision, but he also expressed concern about the slow pace of decontamination. >> translator: many residents still feel anxious, especially about decontamination. the central government needs to provide a guideline. >> the zoning of the other eight municipalities will likely be reviewed next month or later due to concerns about splitting the communities into two or more zones. residents are also concerned about differences in compensation among the different zones and are dissatisfied with the government over its rebuilding plans. >>> japan's energy policy is at a crossroads. its leaders once considered nuclear power a stable, clean supply of electricity. but more and more people say it is dangerous after last year's accidents at fukushima daiichi. reactor after reactor has gone off line

. -- soma transportation plan was born in the town hall meetings. we tried to implement a series of small, focused, incremental improvements that bring the benefits of community planning and to daily lives. affordable housing, recreation and opens base for everyone, peace and quiet, and al the improvements. these three alleys hold enormous significance to two population groups. to the lgbt community, a social heritage of caregiving born of the aids crisis. community planning works best when the community and city family work best together. the planning department and dph have made valuable contributions, but the transportation authority has gone one step further. they have listened come at a professional expertise, and there are ways to implement the changes. my thanks. >commissioner avalos: we will close public comment. i think that is really great information on how to proceed forward. the designs are something 58 should be proud of and the community should be proud of. thank you for your work. can we motion to approve this and move forward? we wi

the only soma surpassing these levels was that harry potter.t ticket in town this weekend. at least 6000 shillings sold out in advance. the lady gaga has been named outstanding music artist. >> sunny skies with highs in the upper 50s and low 60s. the wayne will return on tuesday. >>vicki: that is it for us, we will see you at 11:00 p.m.. whatcha lookin' for hon? ah, these new jeans i want. i've been looking everywhere. new blue jeans? oh, don't be crazy, i've got tons of blue jeans. frank! frank! get my jean bin, susie wants my jeans. no she doesn't. here we go. nice and loose. ohhh. those are loose, but i actually just ordered three pairs of this kind. ooooohhhh. oh. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay.

from planning that sets out the conditions so they can expand this entertainment use in the western soma area. that is the requirement to do any expansion. we have had no issues with the dna lounge. dellwood of the better operators in the city. we bring this to you again because there is an amendment to the amendment adding a bunch of area. it is only appropriate to do that. we do not expect any of their operations to change substantially. they are here. purple hair and all. to answer any questions you might ask. >> officer chan has submitted a bunch of these recommendations. there are the same. it seems like it is a little off. >> i am not going to speak in defense of southern station. these came late today and i got them. you can abide by them or not. >> it is not within our purview to talk about staffing drinks. i think those should be eliminated. >> i do not believe the applicant has seen these again. i have read them out at southern station before this meeting. hougpresident newlin: any other commissioner questions? members of the public? nobody from the public, ok. >> i move to app

soma city lost 458 people from the disaster and continues to suffer from the accident of the nearby nuclear plant. about 500 people are living in this temporary housing complex, because their homes were swept away or are within an evacuation area. the visiting students learned that mothers with small children are especially worried about health issues and that farmers are anxious about the future of the industry because of the negative image the nuclear reaction has created. >> we should think of how we can change that. i mean, we have to find other ways of generating energy because there are so many dangers between us. >> reporter: a student from a developing country had a different view. >> i think the nuclear energy need to run, but you also need to be a good management of the waste of the nuclear safety nets. >> translator: i want the students to make use of what they have learned here today, and to be aware of how dangerous radioactivity is. i also hope they can see us after we rebuild our country and our smiles have returned. >> reporter: the visiting students will discuss methods of

with regards to tdr's, i wanted to know why the new soma district is included. >> i think that was part of previous legislation. they are maintaining the status quo. it is currently allowed. scott sanchez: that was formerly a c3 zoning district, which allowed tdr's to be taken from the properties. it was converted to a mixed use district. they made it where it still allowed you to use tdr's. you are currently allowed to take tdr from the properties. they are eligible to be transferred from the property. vice president wu: i think i want to get a sense of how many projects are coming forward, may be asking to use tdr's. do you have a general sense? scott sanchez: i do not know of the top of my head how many projects right now would be -- we were discussing tdr's earlier this morning. historically, there have not been a lot of projects. that is is based on a review of the number of cases we have received, which are cases that have you use the tdr. i do not have the numbers and could not give you an accurate count right now. vice president wu: i would be curious with the expanded areas in

of hard to make out on that screen, but there is a green area that includes more of the northwest soma and the tenderloin districts because that's an acknowledgement of the fact that we recognize that the health and economic success of central market is closely related to that of the adjacent neighborhoods and vice versa. and so some of the -- a few of the strategies in the action plan relate to those neighborhoods as well and the demographic research and other research that we conducted reflects that larger study area. and i should just point out when we say central market, we're talking about market street between 5th and 11th roughly. there was a diverse group of partners that went into creating this. u.c. berkeley research institution, community-based organizations, a planning consulting firm. i should also mention there was a steering committee of city staff and community residents, community organizations that on a regular basis reviewed our work and provided feedback to both the process and the content. so the methodology, we did quite a bit of research. we reviewed every report

and they are doing soma marketing, selling, and distributing synthetic drugs in two main categories. k-2 or spice, which are tweaked designer drugs that follow the thc that's in marijuana. and these are being sold as a mixture of herbs or other substances that many times are sprayed with these artificial thc additives that can be 200 to 500 times stronger than normal marijuana. another synthetic drug is the synthetic cathenones which mimics cocaine and meth am fit mean. these are sold as bath salts which are then ground up into powder and smoked. many times. and these also can create many problems. so these things, they're trying to get around the laws and the bans on these things. we've had some interesting experience across the nation, in hawaii we've had attacks by people who have been smoking synthetic pot. in new orleans recently some guy committed suicide after smoking bath salts. demi moore was rushed to the hospital after smoking k-2. and my favorite, of course, was in charleston, west virginia, where a man high on bath salts dressed in women's lingerie was killing the neighb

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these would dove tail with the next rebound and as the development occurs in the soma area, obviously, contributions will come forward so we can leverage those with these projects but we're looking at any opportunity we can to leverage these funds so i want to thank the city staff who have been working on this project. it's been very extensive work. redesigning one set of the city is never easy and focusing on eighth street corridor i think has been the best prioritization of our resources. so we'll come back to you periodically. i think once we develop the project descriptions for environmental analysis, this will be the commission that would approve these projects so that would be the opportunity that we would come back to you in the meantime and i'm happy to answer any questions about the report. thank you. president fong: thank you. is there any public comment? commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: thank you for your report. a couple of things. i think the idea, wherever we can go two-way on some of these streets, particularly folsom, which is envisioned as a retail street