i guess i was thinking too about how soma has changed in many ways, yet in many ways it hasn't changed because you still have at risk populations. you still have a significant primarily filipino population. many of the families live in the area, the filipino receiving center there in south park that burned down, the school -- st. pats changed from spanish to new languages. you have a unique culture there with many families at risk and you have a large filipino veteran association active near your folks so the fact you're expanding services and providing services to the outward areas and va programs both in soma and [inaudible] and latino and others who are a lot of the health and feeding programs are working together with the vets and their families so i think it's really an excellent work of documenting what has been done and what you propose to do and we look forward to voting on it september 2. >> thank you. >> were there any public comments? >> i didn't receive any requests for public comment. >> okay. so commissioners what we did was follow a prop q process to allow for public com

and seems like it's tucked up closer to the tenderloin area which is not yet quite as vibrant as the soma area. i was wondering if i remember colleen's slide correctly there were high 38 or 37% of your clients are from those two zip codes. >> right. >> that we had all of the comparative data from. where are the rest from? >> tenderloin. a large percentage of clients come from the tenderloin so i would say tenderloin, the two zip codes you saw, the western edition and bay view hunter's point so that's where we draw the client base from typically. i would say after the two listed is the tenderloin. a lot of the clients live in the sros in the tenderloin. >> so 94102 isn't the tenderloin? >> it is the tenderloin so the mission -- because we're in the mission so the mission which i didn't list that one. sorry. i thought thats of was mission. mission district and the western edition and nine two one 04. >> thanks. >> we do feel pretty lucky to get the building there. there are big fancy condos going up around us. >> commissioner sanchez -- i too congratulate you and your colleagues and providi

ever since the disaster in soma, the turkish government has promised higher safety standards, but hereat the border with iraq, not much has changed. working conditions are turn-of-the-century. the miners have nothing more than shovels, pickaxes, and flashlights. there are no gas masks, and there's no emergency alarm. the mine itself has no supports, no emergency exits. >> we take a big risk every day, but some of us have to feed five or six kids. what else can we do? >> the work lasts at least eight hours, while the hourly rate is a mere two euros, and of course, they are not insured. human rights activists claim that even children under 16 have to work the mines, but at least for today, it seems that none are around. turkey is using less and less coal as cities are now heated by natural gas. consequently, the coal prices are in free fall. around the quarries, the landscape is ruined. stripmining has left a huge crater in the valley. this family are kurds like nearly everyone in this region. the decades-long civil war between the army and the pkk is over, but the southeastern region of

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.

ever since the disaster in soma, the turkish government has promised higher safety standards, but hereat the border with iraq, not much has changed. working conditions are turn-of-the-century. the miners have nothing more than shovels, pickaxes, and flashlights. there are no gas masks, and there's no emergency alarm. the mine itself has no supports, no emergency exits. >> we take a big risk every day, but some of us have to feed five or six kids. what else can we do? >> the work lasts at least eight hours, while the hourly rate is a mere two euros, and of course, they are not insured. human rights activists claim that even children under 16 have to work the mines, but at least for today, it seems that none are around. turkey is using less and less coal as cities are now heated by natural gas. consequently, the coal prices are in free fall. around the quarries, the landscape is ruined. stripmining has left a huge crater in the valley. this family are kurds like nearly everyone in this region. the decades-long civil war between the army and the pkk is over, but the southeastern region of

we're not quite in triple- digits yet, but soma, 4% vacancy rate. why is that?sically means in the entire soma neighborhood )rñoffice spac valuable. with low inventory comes high demands and we're sigh sieg spaces in $85 per square foot in soma. i⌝úx,apw because people are able to poach developers and other employees. you and whatever latah. . >> soma has 50% of tech and they are looking for r5 and bart. >> if you are actually on a budget, what about the mid- market area? 18% vacancy rate and mission bay at 5%. are those desirable areas or be looking at? >> big markets twitter, adobe, dog patch we're seeing a lot of owner-user investors guying warehouse space and trying to convert into office use. >> so they are rezoning there. they are able to lobby the city to rezone in the area. ;n¤ó patch soon. patch soon. >> & in san francisco that people are even looking at the bayview district. candlestick park which we have seen a lot of violence there this summer and protests there yesterday and people lobbying the city to help with the poverty and the violence there.

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

. >> there is an alert right here telling us there is heavy traffic in soma. >> let's walk there andn take a taxi or muni back. >> that new website gives us a lot of options. >> it sure does and we can use it again next weekend when we go to see the giants. there is a new destination section on the website that shows us how to get to at&t park. >> there is a section, and account alerts and information on parking and all kinds of stuff, it is so easy to use that even you can use it. >> that is smart. >> are you giving me a compliment. >> i think that i am. >> wow, thanks. >> now you can buy dinner. sfmta.com. access useful information, any >> ♪ ♪ we are definitely pioneers in airport concession world a world of nationally if not entirely or internationally >> everybody is cop us right now. >> the people that were in charge of the retail this is where that began. >> i didn't think we would have a location at the airport. >> we've set the bar higher with the customer commerce. >> telling me about the operator and how you go about finding them and they get from being in the city to being

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

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this incredible housing department for 60 low income families located in the heart of soma is really a testament to that shared vision. it is has been 20 years since we first acquired this site for affordable housing and through the last seven years and bridge has been our partner to build these homes to stabilize lives and improve this neighborhood by doing so. 474 that toma wouldn't have happened without the leadership and support of our mayor, mayor ed lee. the mayor set a city wide goal of 30 housing units by 2020 with the majority of the homes within reach of lower and middle income families. with this development and the other city funded developments [inaudible] also by bridge down the road and trans bay and hitler gardens in district 10 the city is well on the way to meeting that goal and this is no accident. this is due to the mayor's commitment and tireless effort that will help ensure san francisco remains a vibrant city for all san franciscans. i want to acknowledge and thank kim ki -- supervisor kim and this is backed by her vision and leadership by the district supervis

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

also incomplete efforts in soma, the lgbtq community, social heritage districts proposed but not yet adopted. those are two earlier efforts. of course this commission in 2012 passed a resolution endorsing cultural heritage designation program separate from article 10 separate designation and our own legacy bars and restaurant programs a very fun initial foree into this area but also has challenges by these types of institutions and finally most recently this year, latino cultural district sphere headed by supervise campos in collaboration with heritage with latino historical society. i will hand it over to desiree. >> i'm going to provide a recap of what heritage has done in the past two 2 years now in regard to cultural heritage conservation. as oomph you know back in 2012 we created an organizing committee to coordinate a citywide committee summit which is san francisco's living history on that committee matsuda participated and historical preservation alan martinez and staff member participated along with local neighborhood representative. we had some folks from ohp, sponsor the e

shim soma are. a, tonight, ojbriganse motivates with his voice. get ready for something great. stay humble and hungry. imagine if he still had his real voice. next, the technology that's allowing patients to save a valuable part of themselves. >> that's significant. >> before it's too late. lindsey moran is a former cia operative and analyst. tonight, from searching the galaxies for et to searching the rubble for human life, this is the space-aged machine that can detect a heart beat through tons of concrete. rachelle olmixon is a neuro scientist. tonight, the mystery in the waters of america's northwest. scientists try to figure out what's killing the oysters before it's too late. i am phil torres, an entomologist. that's our team. let's do some science. >>> welcome to tech know. i am phil torres. for most of us, communicating with the human voice is something we kind of take for granted but not so with some of meet. >> yeah. i was able to meet three patients that all have als. it's a devastating condition that degenrates the muscles in the body including those in the vocal co

san francisco police are searching for the driver from a deadly hit-and-run crash in the soma district that killed a 2-year-old girl. officers say she was 18 crosswalk with a family member last night on mission street. that's when a car on mission hit the toddler. according to police the driver of this car right here, did not even stop. officers describe the vehicle as either a camry, a honda or lexus. it had dark colored mismatched front bumper and dark rims. it happened at the parking garage there. police are asking any one with information in the area or knows that car to please give them a call. >> following up on the security breach at sfo, no charges will be filed against the san francisco man who posed as a tsa agent. deputies arrested eric slaten last month after he was caught at the security checkpoint in the international terminal. authorities were investigating claims he padded down women in a private screening area. according to investigators the victims have not yet stepped forward or been identified. >> at a fight brewing over a proposed east bay cemetery hundreds turned