and will keep the economy in the western soma rather than having it go to where the other sports bar are outside of our district. so, if there is any questions, i am happy to answer those. and thank you i appreciate that and just for the record we have been joined by supervisor norman yee and his night, bright yellow tie and i think that the main question is always the community out reach. and i appreciate very creative way of doing that and i hear that supervisor kim is supporting this item as well and so thank you very much unless there are any questions, supervisor mar? >> yeah, i wanted to thank you for the amazing out reach that you have done just documenting it easily and it is a great marketing concept that man cave on steroids as you call it and not competing with the existing businesses but integrating with the 11th street corridor, where the places are and you your use of the buzz kind of very creatively and visually as well, and i think that creation of a hang out, social tavern spot is needed on a street like that and i wanted to thank you especially for the hard work wit

zoning district, and the sali, the sally zoning district which is developed as part of the western soma and again it is permitted but the neighborhood notice is required and that is what the suspension was to allow the neighborhood notice to occur and given the information presented by the appellant tonight and i have concern that the use is allowed in the zoning district. and so we will want to get the new information that we want to review that further but certainly, this suspension is to allow the time to all of this to happen and the proper review to happen and regrettablely they did approve this over the counter in error and we don't know all of the information that is not documented by the appellant and it does not appear that the permit was validpy issued under the planning code. i am available for any questions. >> mr. sanchez, the permit holder stated that they do have a another facility in san francisco, are you aware that have? >> i have not, in regards to your question, and how that was obtained i have not done any research on that to insure the proper permits were attained

we're seeing a lot of soma residents, which is close to downtown that are going throughout buy outs, displacements and evictions and we're seeing, mainly [inaudible] has also been displaced, first in [inaudible] and throughout that time that [inaudible] community has been reducing during these times. i have -- here is our -- it's a soma resident [inaudible] >> good afternoon, my name is caramelita perez. until now are still searching for a new home. >> in what i've been hearing about building and units for sale none of it are from sew that. i see the fear from those who receive notice that their building is going to be sold and those that are already sold. those who are displaced [inaudible] their own vehicles and very expensive and dirty sros. i hope that everyone will support this anti speck tax, especially for those who are struggling to have a new home just like me. thank you. >> good afternoon, my name is christina dang, i'm on behalf of the advancing justice asian law caucus. our organization is the first [inaudible] civil rights organization representing the asian american [in

. >> my name is michael ruiz and i go to west bay in soma. i'm here to support the act for affordable housing. everyone has a personal story. everyone knows someone who capital afford to creator maintain a life here. we need a long term commitment to improve urban planning that doesn't just make money, but built to create sustainable communities in my neighborhood. >> good afternoon supervisors. thank you for having us. district 9 resident. i'm here today to add my support in favor of the housing balance measure. i think it's very important. it goes hand in hand with the $15 minimum wage. we are facing inequity problem and even personally myself, i haven't lived in this city without a roommate. right now i'm living with three people and that's the lowest amount of people i have lived with in san francisco. i have had up to six roommates. you know, honestly, i'm lucky when i think about it. when i think about there are people 7 people living in a room at any given day. i think about that and i think that's really really sad. so supporting some

i'm a resident of soma. i'm going to talk about not having enough housing affects the entire city including the low, middle and high income strata. first of all san francisco as we all know is the tourist industry is very important to us. but people come to san francisco not just to see the cable cars and golden bridge, but bands play and the kind of things that aren't going to be here if artist have to move out because they can't afford to live here. another thing, everybody depends on people who can't live here because their jobs at a barista aren't enough to live on. if a company that's running a place like this has to keep firing and retraining new workers because they can't afford to live and they have to leave, that's going to make lines longer and everyone grumpier and grouchier. >> good afternoon. i'm trish a wilson. i live in south of market on mission. i have been there about eight 8 years and i have been trying to move out of the sro there. a couple years ago i did have a section 8 voucher. i went

he's now in soma. a man who applied to represent district 6 in our citizen's advisory committee, he's now at eva in a bmr unit. it is true that so many folks don't get in, but there are some that get in. i know people on the street that get into affordable housing. the answer is not to not build affordable housing. that's why we want to set 30 percent. the last thing i want to say, this is not an either or, this is not about housing and building. i never want to fight against rehabbing public housing. that is a really important part of our housing portfolio and we have to get those vacant units. if we make it an either or, it will be an either or. we make choices everyday, every month and we have to make it a choice that this is a priority. that's why revenue is so important. so thank you again. mr. chair. >> can we have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. >> this item is a hearing item. next week we'll be hearing the ordinance that can get amended. >> can we have a motion to conti

she lends her guidance and support to the planning of western soma as well as helping guide us in what could be done and what would be done. i'm also having appeared before her and gotten her advice. i think it's always thoughtful, well considered, both in the scale of neighborhood regardless of any neighborhood you are going on in terms of urban texture and design. i think she brings a level of professionalism and thoroughness to the commission. thank you. >>supervisor katy tang: thank you. i'm going to ask you to lineup. if you would lineup towards the window. >> supervisors tang, campos, my name is courtney, chair of housing and zoning for the residential community association. for the last 2 decades, over two 2 decades the raca has worked with agencies throughout the city and appeared before the planning commission more times that i would like to mention in a variety of issues. the last decade of what we really appreciated is what kathrin moore brings to the commission. she has the ability to explain, she has the ability to understand issues about height, bulk, density and design.

it's called soma and those two squiggly metal pieces are neurons. >> so it's supposed to represent the cells that are in your brain. it's supposed to be a representation on a very large scale of the very, very tiny events that take place that create everything that humans experience. >> reporter: soma was first built five years ago by a collection of artists in san francisco called the flaming lotus girls famous for their fiery burning man statues. it's not flaming like most of your work. explain that to me. at burning man it was flaming. >> oh, yes, very much so. one of the things about doing public art for the masses is you do have to make a few changes from the original design so that people don't hurt themselves. it did break our heart a bit to take off some of the fire pieces, but it's still a beautiful piece. >> it's supposed to make you ask what does it do? do i like it? do i not like it? what about it do i like? >> reporter: they better like it. >> yeah, they better like it. >> reporter: they better like it. all right. so the fire is gone and what you have instead are these pow

. >> catherine: a man says he was attacked by skateboarders using the just-opened soma west skate park right near his home. >> catherine: it's a park that's already seen plenty of problems. the exclusive interview with kron 4's stanley roberts. how's this for a real estate perk? >> catherine: the haunted house. now on the market in the south bay. >> catherine: and no summer swimming here.the health hazards that have closed local lakes. >> jacqueline: today we are in the '80s and '90s but tomorrow we are in the triple the triple digits! >> catherine: on our web >> catherine: on our web site kron4 that come. television announcer: mattress discounters' $197 mattress sale $197 mattress sale is ending soon. bulldog: mattress discounters' $197 mattress sale! television announcer: right now, you can get a serta mattress, any size, for just $197 each piece when you buy the complete set. bulldog: any size mattress - twin, full, queen, or king - for one low price! and they'll deliver it free. television announcer: the $197 mattress sale... bulldog: oh boy! television announcer: ...is ending soon

the neighborhood outreach knew paper of the city and county for the potrero hill, dogpatch, bayview, soma, mission bay neighborhoods to provide outreach advertising for fiscal year 2014-2015. >> okay, thanks. we have our office of contract administration here. thank you. >> good afternoon, chairman farrell and supervisor mar. thank you for hearing me. my name is deirdre darling. i'm representing the office of contract administration and i'm here requesting your recommendation and approval for a resolution designating certain periodicals of the city's outreach periodical for the upcoming fiscal year. outreach advertising is intended to meet the public information needs of those communities and neighborhoods which may not be adequately served by the official newspapers. the contract term would start august 1 and go through june 30 of 2015. the estimated contract value is $18,000 to be divided between the awarded periodicals. the admin code requires the purchaser each year to invite bids for outreach advertising for the next fiscal year. the code specifies certain minimum requirement periodi

neighborhood base subgroups to help identify sites for acquisition for the stabilization fund and the soma area plan will enable 43 percent of new housing will be affordable which might include an isd to help meet that goal. finally we'll be looking to perform an economic placement study for redevelopment and recommend practical solutions to move forward. i'm looking at development in sensitive areas, these ground floor space to community non-profits, looking handout you to require new developments to provide low cost space to pdr, non-profits and arts and finally looking to require new development for stabilization fees to address the impact and non-profit displacement. it's an exciting list of ideas to picture -- pursue collectively to achieve the goal of 43 percent of affordable housing to the vast majority of our residents in san francisco and look forward to this work in the next year 1/2. >> okay. any comments or questions? supervisor campos in >>supervisor david campos: you know, i'm still trying to understand the revisions and i certainly think it's a good thing that we can find co

of concerns from the neighborhoods including marshall elementary school and the project coalition somasas asked for a continuance of the item 14 the supervisor has arnold agreed and we're requesting a continuance until august many community members feel they've not been aware of the project if the mrargs sees it's fit to hold this in september, however, we'll be willing to have it on august 15th the day that the project sponsor has requested. thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker. please. >> i'm david thomas i'm here regarding the planning code for short time rentals i'm a landlord hydrathat happens to have a tenant that pays room only because he sub let's rooms in the back - >> excuse me. we're speaking whether or not you want the item to be continued or not continued. >> i'm sorry, i it was to speak on the substance it doorstep if it is continued or not i was misinformed sorry. >> go ahead other microphone. >> i'm marshall in my maim was called i'm here to talk about home sharing i'm not sure this is right. >> there's a request to continue the short rentals until august so pu

from various neighborhoods with cultural heritage conservation efforts under way such as japantown, soma, the bay view, and chinatown to make presentations on challenges they're facing to retain their cultural heritage resources and tools that have been proposed or utilized in those communities to help stem the displacement of social heritage resources. in that -- during that summit attendees and our panelists suggested a range oftives, whether financial, regulatory, or process driven incentives that could be incorporated into the implementation measures when this particular objective is flushed out in the future. i believe we're on your -- heritage is on the calendar for the august 20 meeting to present a report that is really an outcome from the community summit that not only summarizes the incentives discussed during that session but provides a number of case studies from all over the world to illustrate what other cities of doing to grapple with the displacement of traditional and cultural uses, so hopefully that will be instructive and can be informative are are for development of t

not everyone is safely getting up and about in the neighborhood in soma.t know the cause of the power outage. >>> recreational marijuana is on sale in washington but in berkeley you can get it for free for in people. they must give away 2 percent of product to low-income parents, berkeley residents and a member of a city dispensary and make less than $32,000 a year and has to be the same quality as the other marijuana sold. >>> a young mother suddenly collapsed from an aneurysm and without wanting a blood vessel burst in the mother's head on friday and she has undergone surgery at stanford but tough times ahead. she has two young children and her husband works with the sunnyvale department of public safety and her friends wanted to do something to help the family so she decided to launch a fund me page and $76,000 has been donated in five days. >> i was in the waiting room thinking, what can i do? what can i do can i hot this is what i can do, try and raise money and help cover some of the spends they will incur. >> messages have come in from as far away a

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igh 81 at santa rosa to 80 at soma 82 nap a.low mid 70's and 82 oakland and 73 hayward and 77 at union city and the inland east bay where todaye had triple digit tomorrow we see onl upper dwroys low 90's. 86 coord 87 walnut creek. 91 in livermo. 93 at antioch. accu-weather 7 day forecast and cooling trend i should say will continue right on into fourth o july which is friday. we'll see high thursday friday only in the upper 80's inland upper 70's around the bay. low 60's on the coast then over fourth of july weekend high pressure gradually inching back up to low 90's inland low 80's around the bay. >> july 4 we have some independence from the extreme heat. sfichlt he's fire cracker. >> oh, boy. >> larry off and mike is here. >> tough tough day. >> talk about fireworks. they ok the 4 game win streak. full of confidence. davis knock the cow hide off and and slam and details coming and slam and details coming up in sports. >> well nothing takes the wind out of the sails like a walk off home run especially a grand slam. taking on the tigers in detroit. it was a former athletic doing the da

actually i helped work with jim with the western soma plan and we talked about improving the code. i'm glad that the planning code will help with more affordable housing. i also want to say what patrick valentino said about the bond that will pay for affordable housing. making a provision in the code is one thing but to make the money, to finance it is to really make it a reality. while this is not about the housing bond. i hope in the future that there will be thought given to having to pay for this. thanks for your time. >> thank you. i would like to call up the remaining speakers. james ward, marian and los atonya jones. if you haven't filled out a speaker card. please feel free to lineup. >> hello. i'm a member -- i come here to support the housing balance. this has already been mentioned already. i would like to say we ended up on affordable housing for everybody. >> thank you. >> my name is james ward. i have lived in sixth district where i also served on the council for a while. my fixed income is 55 percent of that income. it's hard to live with that. it's over half of what

it's called soma and those two squiggly metal pieces, well those are neurons. >> so it's supposed toepresent the cells that are in your brain. it's supposed to be a representation on a very large scale of the very very tiny, tiny events that take place that create everything that humans experience. >> reporter: soma was first built five years ago by the artists in san francisco called the flaming lotus girls famous for their fiery burning man statues. it's not flaming like most of your work. explain that to me. at burning man it was flaming. >> oh, yeah. very much so. part of the thing about doing public art for the masses is that you know you have to make a few changes from the original design so that people don't hurt themselves. it did break our heart a little bit to take off the fire pieces but it's still a beautiful piece. it's supposed to -- make you and what does it do? do i like it? do i not like it? >> like -- what about it do i like? >> reporter: they better like it. >> they better like it. >> well, what do you think? >> what the heck? they've got so much room there. what t

in soma, in the tenderloin and in queer neighborhoods we see lots of new housing being built, we see new cranes in the sky and people in our community being kicked out onto the street and members of the lgbt community where this city has become being forced to the east bay, to portland, to southern california to communities outside of our own. we've had enough. we want to see some of the development happening in this city happening for all members of the queer community for low income members of the queer community for middle income of the queer community, all we get are empty promises. we don't see action. we see people on the streets and housing being built, but not being built for us. what we are asking you to do is give the people of this city the chance to talk about the kind of housing they want. to talk about the housing they want to be able to stay in our homes. on behalf of our club members, i ask you today to let the voters decide what kind of housing they want in san francisco and let the voters take the action that we haven't seen coming out of this building in november.

i know that we have also a relationship as well, not just on trans bay but the soma redevelopment area plan as well and it's been incredible to work with you and one thing i can say you are persistent in making sure that the goals of the redevelopment area plans are achieved and i certainly got to experience that on a number of projects throughout district 6, but it was really important i think to have your level of advocacy and lobbying especially with the -- [inaudible] following the disillusionment of the state agency through state action and one particular item that we worked on was the police sub station and it was quite a bit of advocacy over two years but you were a key piece of that and we worked with the director who made that happen quickly and had a tremendous impact on the neighborhood and every time i am on 6th street residents are thanking our office for the establishment of the sub station or the state hub and you were a leader making sure we were all working to make that project happen so please come up. >> well, thank you board members. this is really much appreciated.

we're in the soma area of san francisco. so you can see, there is a strong security presence here. there's also, we've got shots from the streets around the hotel where the president has been staying overnight. they've been blocked off. the president, as you mentioned, arriving at sfo around 9:30. there was tight security. president obama's visit to the bay area is to raise money specifically for the democrats who are campaigning for congress in this year's midterm elections. but this, as the israel/gaza conflict continues and aftermath of the malaysia airlines plane shot down continues to unfold. political analysts we spoke with say mr. obama has a duty to handle both roles as leader in foreign affairs and as a fund-raiser but republicans counter he should be focusing solely on critical international matters. >> i would say that right now is a particularly inopportune time weep have a war in israel and america under attack by russia. >> he's the leader of the democratic party and parties need money to buy tv time, to successfully campaign. he's helping out the congress in this cas

in soma, in the tenderloin and in queer neighborhoods we see lots of new housing being built, we see new cranes in the sky and people in our community being kicked out onto the street and members of the lgbt community where this city has become being forced to the east bay, to portland, to southern california

so as they made their way from soma up to that launch point there. that saves a lot of driving, because you would have had to drive 101 or 280, that's where we were warning people for the potential for the motorcade that hasn't happened. and they're taking the air route. they'll go down to los altos hills. there's a couple of possibilities. bob's over here off of 280, and there's a good area where they potentially could land. there's a field there. we used to play football there when i was in high school, but a nice flow of traffic through the area. watch for some activity there. if it's not there, there's another option over here at moffett field in mountain view. you can see the landing strip there. and you would have to come through the city. but either one, a very possible, just off 101 or 280. we haven't seen any closures registering just yet through this area, but we will continue to track that, and as they make their way back up towards san francisco, and 1:20, 1:30, that's about where they're going to leave from the area of sfo. south bay and

it's called soma. it sounds colicated. it's made of stainless steel and interactive lights by an art group, flaming lotus girls, and originally displayed a burning man in 2009. >> it's 28 feet high and 40 feet long. >> i saw that and i was like, whoa, what is that? >> t >>> welcome to "world news." tonight, the children caught in the crossfire. the video of the boys on the beach running for their lives caught in a huge explosion. the fighting between israel and hamas, our team right there hearing the explosion, and the president just weighing in. >>> the breaking new details, an american p.o.w. rescued from the taliban, sergeant bowe bergdahl, his first message to the president tonight and to the american people. >>> severe weather hitting tonight, the little girl wiped away, carried nearly a mile through a storm drain, how she survived. and the flash flood. this was the scene within minutes. ginger zee on where this hits next. >>> and the mid-air emergency, the turbulence, the cracked ceiling where their heads hit. tonigh