. >> reporter: soma noodles have a long history and so do some of the companies that make them. somin producer has been in business for 380 years. soman usually comes in one color, white. but makers in this area offer customers other options. soman consumption is declining, as people's eating habits change. and being a seasonal business creates another problem. >> translator: demand for soma peaks in summer, but slows in winter. so we hope to develop products that appeal to consumers in winter, too. >> reporter: looking for new product ideas, a company official has come to talk to a group of homemakers. these women run a consulting business focusing on a mother's point of view. >> translator: we want to create dishes that help people enjoy their meals. and spur their appetite with colors. >> reporter: the mothers are not short of ideas on reworking the humble noodle. the first relates to their size and shape. >> translator: we chop up noodles we give to babies, so they won't choke on them. the preparation is a little tiresome. >> reporter: the team has a child-friendly solution.

i have carlos with soma street food park.t happening today. >> yeah, so today at the soma street food park from 11 to 6 we're doing an event called hops on fire. it's going to be 12 delicious food trucks doing all kinds of spicy food specials and all these ip, brewers out there. we'll have a live salsa band, a spicy wing competition. should be a nice summertime fun event there. >> lets get through and sample some of this stuff. to help me out i have sammy issue our assignment editor. some of this stuff might be so spicy i want to be able to still talk to you guys afterwards. he is going to be my official taste tester. you're with kokio. >> yes, kokio republic, and it's crispy finger licking addictive fried chicken. >> this is our combo number 1, this is fried chicken and a like a special dish, and it is made out of like of course it's made out of chicken and it's based -- a korean pepper paste that's pretty good. >> dig in sammy. >> we'll just go for it. starts off sweet, oh, my goodness it is spicy. >> let's figure out a sca

rapidly losing spaces for working wage jobs and this deserved a complete pause during the central soma planning process. i think there are arguments for both and what i see today on calle 24th is more kin to what i have seen in central soma; where we're rapidly losing space and we absolutely should put a pause on it while we study it. is it doesn't mean that after the study, a prohibition will be in place and at that time a conditional use could be more appropriate and at that time we'll have a set of criteria to ask the planning department to apply the conditional use. they will have studied it and know what we want to see. it's temporarily and an interim control and not a complete prohibition in the long-term. we have heard a lot from the residents in terms of why supporting small businesss is incredibly important. in fact,, it's really, you know it's part of our priority policy to look at controls that preserve and enhance existing neighborhoods-serving retail. and enhance future opportunities for employment and ownership. large footprints make it very challenging for residents to s

it's soma.ma. >> reporter: keep it up kiddo, you look great out there. >> hanks. >> reporter: what are these kids teaching you. >> what its like to be human. how strong motivated dedicated they are and how much they enjoy life. you can see in their faces. >> they are so good under pressure. so many people can learn from that. >> that's such a great event. check it out on >> ♪♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪♪ >> hello everyone. here's what's happening on this tuesday july 28th. a suspect is in custody following a dramatic end to a police chase that weaved through south jersey and philadelphia. >> breaking tragic developments in the search for a missing eight-year-old girl in california. >> and hail damages an american airlines plane in mid flight. >> good morning out there. it's 4:30 now on this tuesday july 28th. let's get right over to meteorologist, david murphy who is putting us

soma neighborhood. as the plan moveded forward our residents asked that we move forward with limited light permit to this neighborhood to give it some time, a, for the plan to move forward and b, to see how it worked in other neighborhoods. over the last years, the entertainment commission has seen little complaints and in the few cases there were dispute, they were fairly easily resolved. due to, i think the success of this program and of course because some of our small businesses would like to permit in lighted light permit, including dj, open mic, comedy night, we're moving forward to implement this within the western soma plan. so colleagues, i ask for your support. >> thank you. supervisor wiener. >> thank you. i want to thank supervisor kim for bringing this forward. i know we had a discussion when western soma was passed and i think it's great that the program is moving forward successfully. it's a wonderful, wonderful program that allows more music in our city and for us to be more flexible abo

we know governor collins mentioned soma. -- mentioned soma. less than half the economy had -- in mississippi this percentage went up to 76 out of 82 counties. this new voting bill that is just going into effect will remedy the long hard-core established deprivation. i look for great progress on the local level toward correcting some of these problems and now we must engage national organizations or the federal government. i look for problems with sheriffs and judges and local elected officials to decline. >> on the steps of the lincoln memorial in 1963, when you said many congressmen sat in front of you, that we want to get the civil rights act passed because we are going to help free some of our congressmen. they wanted to vote right but politically it would be suicidal to vote their conviction. speaking in the lecture here recently, they asked what will happen to many southern congressman when the negro gets his right to vote? i expect some of these congressmen to become the greatest liberals in the united states senate. some of them will re

the center soma area plan will be coming before this commission i believe in the spring of next year. we are approaching that plan similar to the transit center area plan where we did bundle of some designations to bring forward to you for initiation. so early next year while it's not listed here at this time because that information is still in draft form because environmental study is under way. the last count is between 30 and 35 buildings at once. some of them are located in the 5m site and some throughout the plan area. but that's also something to keep in mind too. >> i want to thank staff for the high level of professionalism for the report that you have done and the landmark work that has been done and the data. it's impressive. >> thank you. >> i think that is our last item right? >> the hearing is concluded. >> commissioners, just to remind members of the committee that we'll be reconvening here momentarily. >> 2:00. >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>you. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in landing a contract with the sfoifk is pretty champ but now with the opened contracting center visitors

beer bar and for an area with so many office workers and increasing number of residents, this part of soma have a place for workers to have a drink and it would provide a neighborhood to enjoy a nice place of quality beer and wine. -- they have a great friendship and now trying to create a solution. thank you for your time. >> thank you, next speaker? >> good evening commissioners. nor a rodgers. the vice-president of the mission bay neighborhood association and cochair of the retail task force of that association. i want to confirm the outreach that these wonderful women made and enthusiastically say that we support them. we are just thrilled to have an enthusiastic creative new small business enterprises finally acknowledging our area. so, we support them. thank you. >> thank you for your letter, written letter and e-mailing it as well, ms. rodgers, thank you. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we have a motion on this item. motion to approve. we can do it without objection. >> thank you. mr. evans, please call the next item. >> there are n

. >> apple just rented about 76,000 square feet in office space in the soma nay por hood in san francisco. still no word on which apple division will be enjoying the city life. up next a late night trade right before the trading dead liven and the raiders are now in nappa. >>> the giants making a late-night trade. >> there hasn't been a lot of consistency consistency. it took a while, but the giants plugged a leak with the addition of mike leak via trade with the cincinnati red. leak will take over tim hudson else spot. >>> without a doubt, it's a move the giants needed to make. >> as we looked at our rotation we felt like he was slot right in to be a parlt of that. gave us an opportunity just to get deeper in games. he's done that for the reds in a tough ballpark. felt like the depth will really help us. >> kicking off an 11-game home stand with the indians. making his fifth start of the season. top of the first, though carlos san tan that going downtown. two-run shot 3-0 tribe. carlos perosto. he retired the final 16. he faced in this one. cleveland wins 3-1. plenty of room for improvem

item 11 is a resolution to authorize the mayor office of houseer and community development to expend soma community stabilization fund dollars with specific housing and infrastruckcheck in the amount of 2.5 million >> without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously >> item twev is a ordinance to amend the planning code to sfb the millfore street commercial transit district between bush and mcallister streets in place of the fillmore street commercial district. item 13 amend the planning code to [inaudible] along deviz dareo street in place of the deviz dareo district. [inaudible] various section thofz planning code and amend the zoning map to make changes that conform with the code amendments and aafirm the planning departments daermtation under sequa >> supervisor avalos >> these items came to my attention at the last men minutes. they are need meeting up foothe standard we proved by the voters last year. 33 percent affordability. we are giving a bonus here for these sites on deviz dareo and fillmore and yet we are nat actually increasing the iblt of affordability and think that

inaudible] those controls are outdated in in the 2007 [inaudible] including rto and several new nct, the soma, mission street, ocean avenue and glin park nct. the legislation gives people to build unit without change thg sides or appearance of buildings or the characteristic of the neighborhood. required to provide at least 40 percent 2 bedrooms or 30 percent 3 bedrooms and a existing unit can only be divided if it exceeds 2 houn square feet or more than 3 bedrooms or at least 2 bedrooms and [inaudible] this won't cause a avalanche of microunits. far from it. the sit a doesn't have more lands so must accommodate without impacting neighborhoods. divisadero and fillmore are major cor doors so it is logical to provide it here. the ordinances are small measure to address the housing affordability crisis and allow fillmore [inaudible]. i want to thank tom rudual vich the [inaudible] for all the work he did on the ordinances. we have incorporated the recommended changes including fwo clerical correction jz one minor exempention the lot merger for nct. with that i'm happy to answer questions. any qu

game is dave s; i have two gas stations in san francisco and belong to the board of association and soma request that you oppose this solution we have safety lack of outreach to our industry the small business commission heard this and opposes it. there is excessive regulatory burdenses and excessive punitive fines there is lack of consistency in picking on our industry and not others for example fast food grocery stores corner stores food struck trucks for the homeless population police stations hospitals none of these are required to have bathrooms for their patrons muni doesn't require they have restrooms in there and they service hundreds of thousands of people the safety issue is a big one as the previous speaker has mentioned being in business since 79 there is a tremendous drug use i have had someone die from a heroin overdose in my bathroom feceses on the wall and parts being stolen thank you i wish you oppose it. >> thank you, next speaker. >> my name is johnson i have been reading about this drug addicts and what they have been doing with the bathroom situation and what they ha

soma neighborhood. as the plan moveded forward our residents asked that we move forward with limited light permit to this neighborhood to give it some time, a, for the plan to move forward and b, to see how it worked in other neighborhoods. over the last years, the entertainment commission has seen little complaints and in the few cases there were dispute, they were fairly easily resolved. due to, i think the success of this program and of course because some of our small businesses would like to permit in lighted light permit, including dj, open mic, comedy night, we're moving forward to implement this within the western soma plan. so colleagues, i ask for your support. >> thank you. supervisor wiener. >> thank you. i want to thank supervisor kim for bringing this forward. i know we had a discussion when western soma was passed and i think it's great that the program is moving forward successfully. it's a wonderful, wonderful program that allows more music in our city and for us to be more flexible abo

the jasmine blue [inaudible] putraro hill dog patch, bay view soma mission bay neighborhood >> colleagues can we take this item same house same call? without objection these are adopted unanimously. can we go to roll call for introduction >> yes supervisor wiener is the first supervisor to introduce new business >> thank you madam clerk. colleagues i have one item today which i think is is good news and thinkarve wn should be happy about. for many many years we had a recuring issue in san francisco that we all heard about where people who have their cars stolen and dumped in san francisco often it takes a while for them to find out where their cars are. they only get a 4 hour grace period in terms of storage fees by auto return and they end having to pay significant not just tow ging fees but storage fees that are sometimes worth more than the vehicle so they end up forfitting the vehicle. it produzing huge hardship and it one of those things hanging out there for a long time and caused harm to a lot of people. auto return contract expires at the end of july and the mta issued a rfp. mta

traffic [inaudible] and street widening and of course one boulevard we have talked about, the central soma area plan is folsom street as a neighborhood corridor potentially [inaudible] the street and making it the small business neighborhood corridor that connects the south of market from the water all theway to the mission. we also are working to improve pedestrian conditions and increase parklets and parks and open space. i want to thank our residence who are living in this neighborhood as it changes and becomes a more complete neighborhood and for their input and feedback of the process ovthe past couple years and i ask for your support of the master plan before us today >> thank you madam clerk item 14 can you please call the roll >> supervisor yee, aye. avalos, aye. breed, aye. campos aye. christensen, aye. cohen, aye. farrell, aye. kim, aye. mar, aye. tang, aye. wiener, aye. there are 11 aye >> this ordinance passed unanimously. can you please call item 15&ordinance to amend subsection of the general plan known as ren conhill plan and incorporate into the streetscape master plan and

this predates crittle critical [inaudible] biceling around the city back in south of market when soma was filled with freight train tracks i had my rear bike go into the track and it made a left. i torn my rotator ruch going to bicycle to work day and had a back and knee operation so i'm not on my bicycle but besides the reasons for joining the bicycle advisory committee i also hope to get back on my bike more and lose weight. i'm really pleased at the growth of safe bike lanes or designated bike lanes in the city. the painting of them in green. i'm in contact with bert hill the chairman of the committee and put me on the monday night meeting and agenda so get to meet everyone else and hope to listen and see what the agenda is and how people take positions with my other representatives. i'm very please today represent district 10 and also want to thank lisa and summer and an dria bruce in your office for your help in getting this moving, so we can do it before the summer is out and it will start raining and won't be on my bike so much. >> we hope it starts raining. >> yes, i hear-bicy

republican presidential candidate jeb bush got out of his uber ride a toyota camry in san francisco in the soma district this morning having stayed overnight at the holiday inn. he arrived at a local startup website featuring people willing to do everything from party planning and painting. >> i don't think people want to get in line anymore. they want to customize their own dreams and have the capacity, the skills, the talent, the drive, the grit, if you will, to be able to achieve their own dreams. >> reporter: the former florida governor's support comes in the middle of a nationwide debate about the new economy in which customers are hooked up with services by companies that use more contractors than actual employees. democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton this week expressed concern. >> this on demand or so-called gig economy is creating exciting opportunities and unleashing innovation. but it's also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future. >> reporter: uber just got slapped with a $7 million fine from the state and ther

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beer bar and for an area with so many office workers and increasing number of residents, this part of soma have a place for workers to have a drink and it would provide a neighborhood to enjoy a nice place of quality beer and