i am with so can, and a resident of soma.ring the planning and even before the plan was thought of, some had been advocating between 30-90%. to ensure we would be able to house the most vulnerable populations in addition a few years ago, our youth program conducted documentation of how they are not children, youth or senior friendly. reflecting how popos could be friendly and useful for these demographics. we have been sharing these insights with your planning staff and private developers. we have shared our feedback with alexandria to see more neighborhoods serving benefits included in this project such as on-site affordable housing with 30-90% ami that would be marketed and available to families, and workers living in the south market. a community center and no cost to low-cost accessibility to the pool for low income families, and seniors. our design guidelines and real community participation on the linear park on bluxome and popos. community stewarts will engage neighborhood workers, residents and programming of the publ

i am the community organizer for soma philippinea. i want to thank you for your continued support of our district. so as you know, the community's really rich history and culture has been part of the soma for more than a hundred years and we continue to thrive in resilience and protect our neighbor in spite of rounds of displacements throughout the 70s, late 80s and through both tech booms that have compromised our safety and homes. as many plans come online, we ask that this commission as stewards of the city's built environment seek in these developments concrete ways to mitigate all and any negative impacts and also advocate for elements that would be beneficial to the community. so that being said, we wanted to acknowledge that 755 brannan development has agreed to support our efforts to increase the visibility of our community and the cultural district to go through new public art, signage, way finding, special crosswalks, and street furniture. specifically, they've committed to include also special bike rack designs as part of t

it's undiscovered sf, a market festival designed to showcase soma pilipinas, the soma pilipinas culturalistrict at folsom street between 6th and 7th street in san francisco. and we wrap up with a special reunion. the original san francisco dakila band was a hot band in the '70s playing all the big venues, including the fillmore and winterland. the band has now reformed, led by legend david bustamante and we are proud to have this band of rock, latin, jazz, pop, and funk here in our studio to play live. all of that on our show today. well, we have an interesting partnership on our first event. we're gonna talk about covering bone dancing and the world buddhist women's convention. joining us now is first our friend who has taught us a lot on our show, reiko iwanaga, the head teacher and choreographer for the san jose obon odori. and also we're glad to have yumi hatta, the publicity chair for the world buddhist women's convention, all happening september 1 in san francisco. welcome to the show. reiko iwanaga: thank you. yumi hatta: thank you. robert: that is some synergy going on here, isn'

the one that was adopted for central soma was the first in the state.es on a bill that was put forward by -- in three years ago now, that basically says if you have a recently adopted 2018-015774coa and plan, that establishes mitigations that does what it is supposed to do in that eir. the city can designate housing sustainability, or housing projects are not completely ministerial. no separate review, no ceqa so we can approve them. i think we have a very limited timeframe like four months to approve them. we just established the first one in central soma. the city can establish its own parameters. only a project up to 16 defeat, i think, can but, the hope is to do the same thing here in the hub. projects a certain size, or whatever can be approved ministerial e. in which case, we would still have the mitigation measures to rely on. otherwise if we didn't have the mitigation measures for historic resources in their we would not be able to consider historic resources in this hsd process. it's a little bit unusual, it's a new animal, but that is our appr

. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos.that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find

there are 4 federal buildings right here within the tenderloin and soma area so that is one of the reasons why the u.s. attorney is launching a federal initiative. separate cisco's newly appointed u.s. attorney, david anderson announced a new initiative aimed at making the tenderloin more livable. >> it is my belief that those persons living and working and visiting the tenderloin neighborhood should not be required to run a gauntlet too long, parts of the tenderloin south of market have functioned as open air drug markets. he has dedicated a team to focus on the tenderloin and is bringing together agencies from the fbi, dea, secret service and even the u.s. forest service working with local law enforcement to crack down on drug dealers . >> i would say that as federal law enforcement, we have a wide array of tools that we can use. >> as many of you know, parts of this great city are now known for what appeared to be open air drug markets. >> the drug enforcement agency said the work is already underway. federal authorities today unsealed nearly 300 -- 3000 and edmonds following a two year

soma is home to the leather lgbtq and filipino cultural heritage districts. there will be a dog fashion show, a live petting zoo, music and games. it runs from 11:00 until 4:00 on follow some between he is section and tenth street. it won't be hot when you are out enjoying that. >> that's right. we will have nice weather. already some sun here in the city. it has been mild, in the 60s in most neighborhoods. n ar tocean.59 right now in the. it is 67 in oakland. we have got our coolest day of the week upon us right now. then we will talk about a warmup. it is going to be limited, though. and it also will allow for numbers to be above average. i will tell where you coming up. >>> also coming up next, the giants bats say hot in the desert with brandon belt smashing a career high for rbis. we have the highlights coming up in sport >>>? sports, this afternoon stanford is holding an open house for fans and open practice at 3:00 p.m. at elliot field with clinics and autographs for kids afterwards. the cardinal kicks off their season on august 31st against northwester

and last but not least our soma groups. [applause] we know that you all clean up all you're long and daily around your hotels and businesses. and it really is a 24/7 job. we want to thank you for everything that you are doing. we also want to thank wreckology. they sponsored our t-shirts so thank you for working with us. [applause] >> a special thank you as we look out on the hyatt region see for sponsoring us with breakfast as well. thank you very much. if that was designed to bring us to work together and partner with the city and our mayor has announced in the last, since she took office, an incredible amount of programs, new funding and new resources all to help clean this city and help make this city safer. so i want to thank the mayor from our hospitality and tourism industries for making sure she's doing everything that she is doing. let's give her a big round of applause. [applause] and last but not least our partners at sf travel who have come together to work with us on this event as well. it's my pleasure to intr

the rainy season has started and the soma garden is read joisting this way says is the newest addition to cultural spaces and the creation of mess graham and her friend. here architecture in nature are celebrated together these ecological huts turned into works of art were built using an ancient construction technique. process where you actually get the subsoil you have to dig about half a metre before you get the soil the only thing you add is water and straw for about a month and it lasts for hundreds and hundreds of years and so there will control so in so many ways it's one of the best i think sustainable houses surrounded by a labyrinth of plants most of which are endemic a dream come true for mask room. the danger is underneath but this is what it looks like. tenet is often dipped into coffee and this plant has strong medicinal virtues. in a city where concrete highrises are growing like mushrooms the zouma museum is a space for humans to breathe and for nature to grow in cities going fast i think. in the right direction many of the trees are. dying out. of the air is polluted or

to focus on high- level operations that are meant to disrupt the massive flow of deadly drugs into soma and the tenderloin. but he says it needs to be part of a more comprehensive strategy. for decades these areas have been neglected and it should be the city's goal to make all of the neighborhoods safe for everyone. in san francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> in vallejo, police are looking for a man who say they tried to loot or a teenage girl out of an apartment. police say this man followed the girl around the store on saturday around 6:00 p.m., they say he tried to lure her with money. when he was confronted, he left the store, got in a minivan and left. if you have any information about who he is, call the vallejo police department. >>> fire crews in contra costa county put out a fast-moving vegetation fire this afternoon that prompted evacuations. the fire broke out just after noon on co-sellers avenue near delta road. it burned about 60 acres and destroyed three outbuildings. pg&e decided to shut down power to 5600 customers as a precaution. the power was restored to

he's documented similar scenes in other squalor on his twitter feed under the handle better soma forme most of them have turned far more graphic over the years. >>but this is something that i've been spouting about for about 5 or 6 years now. >>in fact earlier on the day we took this tour, he stumbled into what turned into the site of a fatal overdose at 17 mission, some of it is so alarming in some of that is so graphic. >>and it's really it's a sad fee. there's no question about it. >>he feels the main issues are drug abuse and mental illness driving this crisis in his small par of the city, it's sad to watch people. >>deteriorate really the drugs on the street, harder than they've ever been coming through borough when he encounters things like needles or feces kill tweeted the mayor his district supervisor. >>and 3, 1, 1, he's not alone. there are several others documenting these gritty streets, including one called fed up as seth. as nick says he's seen some changes a result of their tweets there's definitely a. >>you know clean is down here. i think that san francisco amaz the h

he's documented similar scenes in other squalor on his twitter feed under the handle better soma forome time for twitter feed. >>is graphic. it's remarkably sad earlier on the day we took this tour, he stumbled into what turned into the site. >>of a fatal overdose at 17 mission, the drugs on the street, harder than they've ever been. he feels the main issues are drug abuse and mental illness driving this crisis in his small part of the city, it's sad to watch people kind of. >>deteriorate really. >>coming through borough when he encounters things like needles or feces kill tweeted the mayor his district supervisor. and 3, 1, 1, he's not alone. there are several others documenting gritty streets, including one called fed up as seth. as nick says he's seen some changes a result of their tweets there's definitely a. >>you know clean is down here. i think that san francisco police department done an amazing job, they're arresting people by the hundreds. >>despite his efforts the problems still persist. >>some of the problem has been moved around. i think that the problem has evolved i do

electronics that's what we're learning was swiped from a rental car last night in san francisco's soma district. the victim, former baseball slugger alex rodriguez kron four's ken wayne live for us in the newsroom with more on this huge heist cain camp. >>i'm thinking grant to san francisco police say this happened about 10 o'clock last night and the 400 block of brandon street just a few blocks away from oracle park where the giants are playing and the phillies are also playing for a game for espn this video right here just into our newsroom from the scene. you can it's being examined by sfpd a rented suv which had busted out windows are source within the san francisco police department says these managed to get away with half a million dollars worth of jewelry and electronics. according to sfpd the items stolen included bags that camera camera equipment a laptop rolexes and electronic equipment on a rod's instagram yesterday sunday, he posted several pictures of himself. around the city. at this point he has not released a statement on exactly what happened the sfpd burglary unit is

he's accused of attacking a woman and her friend as they waited for a ride share in the soma neighborhood in february. the judge lease the vincent last week in the attack. but she says the new allegations led her to change her mind and keep him in jail. >>> in the east bay, the oakland fire department has contained a fuel spill from a boat that sank in the oakland estuary. the department tweeted out photos. they placed boon around the sunken vessel yesterday. this is near the center. fish and wildlife was contacted because of the leaking fuel. >> they are putting down absorbant pads that is soaking up all of the gasoline that is on top of the water. the gasoline is going to float to the surface. the gamewarden says no wildlife has beenaffected. >> it's president trump versus himself. the mixed messages he is sending on guns, taxes, and greenland. >> lori refused to cut a deal in the college admission scandal and now she's having second thoughts. >> they're about to unveil plans for a major campus in san jose. >> that's all ahead. first, it is 4:36. you're never more than seven minutes awa

the encounter happened on 5th and stevenson in the soma neighborhood. surveillance video shows a man striking another man in the head. the victim, tung tran, fell to the ground. he later died from his injuries. >>> well, no verdict yet and no verdict anytime soon. the jury in the ghost ship fire trial is now on a two-week break. this was a preplafrnd break approved by the judge. deliberations resume on september 3 derrick almena and max harris face up to 39 counts of involuntary manslaughter after the 2016 ghost ship warehouse fire. >>> here come the democrats. most of the candidates running for president will arrive in san francisco tomorrow for this weekend's dnc summer meeting. tonight house speaker nancy pelosi got a rude welcome in her hometown by her fellow democrats. they want speaker pelosi to impeach president trump. nbc bay area's jean elle joins us in san francisco with the confrontation at the intercontinental hotel. jean? >> reporter: raj, tonight speaker pelosi had a message for those protesters and all democrats. she says diversity is the

program, and it was recently amended in november 2018 as part of the central soma plan adding in some parks and other uses there. for the pier 70 and mission rock, there's two buckets of amendments. the first is just clarifying the existing law and clarifying any ambiguities? and then, the second is requesting that you authorize certain improvements that are not currently permitted? the three that i've highlighted here, the first is historic buildings, so paying to rehabilitate the historic buildings for future uses, market housing, and then seismic improvements, so making sure those buildings are seismically safe. and then, the last major one is entitlement costs, so the cost that went into planning the entire site of both projects. those are the main three things that will be added in, and then, clarifications. so later this year, you'll be seeing the members of the port again to continue financing these projects. there's a two-step process for the community facility district which is the special type of tax district we're looking to form here. so first, we will declare the intentio

i am living in soma and i am a daily munimobile rider. when the embarcadero freeway was demolished, rose knew it was an opportunity to get central subway for the chinatown community. whether it is leading the efforts of gathering over 10,000 signatures in support of attending community meetings or city hall hearings, her presence was instrumental. without rose there, there will be no central subway. we should all support the naming of chinatown rose pak station to commemorate this female warrior in our community. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i'm sorry, i have to report a situation. the names that you called, the sheriff will not allow them to come in. >> we're working on that. thank you. >> if people's names have been called, they should be allowed in. >> hello, we are a group of four people. >> please state your name. you have a name -- you have a minute. we are a group, so we will stay continuously. we understand you are under pressure to make a decision today on the naming of the chinatown new subway stat

i prafl in the eastern soma rincon sill area a lot, and this will give me a few more options to get through that area because i generally commute across either by b.a.r.t. or by a.c. transit bus to the temporary transbay terminal. so with this, instead of trying to navigate through all that traffic on 2nd street, which i've done on a bike. it's very difficult. there's a lot of construction down there -- this will allow me to get down to embarcadero and then down to harrison street or it's a short walk for me from the transbay terminal parking lot and also from the new transbay terminal, and we can get that open. so this is something that will help me to navigate moreasily. i think it is worthy of your passage. thank you. >> thank you. >> herbert wiener. one question. i realize you are going to remove the bus stop to 2nd street, but how is that going to affect the passengers on that corridor? on the corridor that you remove this bus route, how is it going to affect them? will they be rudely inconvenienced? what will be the impact of these changes? >> any additional public comment? seeing non

adding $12 million to our existing cleaning budget to expand our street cleaning in the tenderloin and soma and chinatown. we are fund being 80 more big belly trash cans and adding new pit stops including expanding the hours so people can use the bathroom with dignity. this is on top of $74 million that we spend every year to keep our streets clean and not only are we going to invest money in keeping san francisco clean, we are all going to make sure people know we won't tolerate dirtying up our streets. we are supporting our plan to hire more police officers to get more officers out walking the beats in the neighborhoods and we are going to continue the work to reduce violent crime, property crime and auto break-ins in the city. we are committed to $9 million to support small businesses and commercial corridors which builds on the work to streamline the bureaucracy that gets in the way of growing businesses. our small business owners should focus on serving customers not navigating the bureaucracy of city hall. these are just some of the priorities we are funding in this budget. i am proud

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years before me, and when i told my sister that there was a plan to have the caltrain dead end in soma, and downtown, you should have seen her eyes light up. because for years and years, they would get to sort of 4th and king and have nowhere to go. there was definitely a conversation as well, and i've heard from my own social channels, as well, the feedback on the roof park. that's been really positive. lots of really good conversations around the park. as you know, there's definitely a draw to public spaces that people feel are accessible around the city. i think it's good to point out that 700 and 1500 people on the regular is pretty exciting. and we think that once a.c. transit is there and hopef hopefully amtrak, it will become a hub for the city. if you're like me and directionally challenged, i can't find my way anywhere. i think especially the more we can do there, the better, and the coming soon banners are a great way to get the word out. i think we definitely appreciate all of the local businesses that are sort of taking a chance, sort of always been interested in seeing the

. >>> new this morning, san francisco police are investigating after a car break-in in the city's somaborhood overnight. >> it happened near brannan and 4th street. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield is live ace headquarters with what we know so far. >> reporter: good morning. i just heard back from police. they say they were responding to the call of a car break-in and stolen. take a look at this video. this is what caught our eye. it was the huge aggressive response to this car break-in, unlike anything we had seen before for a car break-in. this happened last night. it was 11:00 last night police say. this was at 4th and brannan in front of the marlo restaurant. we saw police dusting for fingerprints and looking for surveillance video. plice say they don't have information about suspects at this time. no arrests have been made. live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> amy, thank you. happening today, el pollo loco in gilroy will donate 100% of today's sales to the families who lost their live doppler 7ed ones in the garlic festival shooting. >> those victims are 6-year-