as you know, on march 5, 2019, the board adopted a resolution to establish the soma west district. on june 25, 209, the board adopted to renew and expand north of tenderloin benefit district and on july 9, 2019, the board adopted a decision to renew and expand the improvement district allowing levies to be levied on partials within the proposed brow districts. each district must enter into a management agreement with the city and county of san francisco. this document is a template used for all cbds in the city and adjusted for each cbd. for this contract, the following language has been added and amended and added in all future cbd agreements. the first is to code section 12g protects using assessment funds or any other funds provided by the city to participate in support or attempt to influence a political campaign for any candidate or ballot measure. it should be noted the cbb is abided by this but the city attorney would like this added in there. it adds language related to campaign and government conduct code, section 1.126 which was amended to state board members of a city co

des see is a soma resident and entrepreneur. he has 15 years of experience creating, funding, branding unique business concepts that span the food, music and technology spaces. he helps people grow businesses he is helping filipinos thrive and grow. his expertise was key and he has used the skills to transform a parking lot to the amazing undiscovered basketball court that positively activates not just the parking lot but the alley as well inspiring others to get involved to make the street a better place to live and work. that is still open. he is working on republic sf, retail space and business incubator omission street with the goal of a commercial strip of filipino owned businesses by 2020. he is an events enthusiasts and founder of the events. prior to the founding he spent 10 years doing corporate annan profit events including seven years working for google and google x. last year he found the entrepreneur summit, annual event for filipino nap entrepreneurs. he amplifies the voices of color through the summit. he continue

with a very large projects we are seeing opposed in central soma -- soma, there some rent and elastics. google and facebook is not going to run away because the rent goes up five or $10. our concern is what happens down the line with smaller companies and smaller buildings. in addition, the controller recently did a fixed study that looks at this. what they found is that an two increase as proposed in the jobs housing linkage fee up to $16 would result in hundred 45,000 fewer office square foot in the city. but this is an average number. both of these numbers would probably be higher in the next two years. we have a pent up timeline of office. we both see a bigger hit to the supply, and a bigger confusion into the job housing linkage fee. over years as into the future, the estimate is that it was sort of smooth out to these numbers. but they did not look at, but wait we have asked them to is what the impact would be on the general fund with a slightly smaller amount of office built year by year because we have property taxes on business taxes and other things. while you're increasing t

cada vez se renueva, yo creo que la ocde o soma sede creativas y vale la pena participar y no perderse en las sÉ si se quiere ver todas las imÁgenes. ingresa tambiÉn a nuestra aplicaciÓn pasion excelente fin de semana nos vemos el lunes serÁ seas feliz, fin de >> mÁs de 500 bomberos han tratado de apagar las llamas en santa paula, cerca de los Ángeles. el gobierno del presidente donald trump extiende por un aÑo a la protecciÓn migratoria para los migrantes de hondura. una demanda colectiva ante una corte federal, trata de impedir que una barrera antiinmigrante vuelva este lunes. ya comienza la " ediciÓn nocturna ". >> las prÓximas 24 horas son cruciales, primero para detener el nÚmero de incendios en el estado de california, la generaciÓn de nuevos focos de fuego y segundo para tratar de controlar el avance de el fuego de marÍa.han obligado la evacuaciÓn de 8000 personas y la mayorÍa son de familias hispanas.en las Últimas semanas vamos a tener esta combinaciÓn de vientos muy intensos y de clima seco. dulce: la escuadrilla de bombero no se ha dado abasto por una semana que ha tenido de

this week supervisor brown and peskin's 2031 bush street passed second read and the soma advisory community ordinance passed the second read. supervisor peskin amended the planning code to add residential use characteristic called immediate length occupancy for corporate rentals we will bring it to you. thank you. >> did board of appeals met last night. 1794 filbert street was considered earlier this year where you denied the building permit for the vertical addition to the subject property. zoning administrator denied the variance. the board heard this item on september 11, 2019 and continued to allow additional time for the planning department to reduce the size of the addition such that the variance would no longer be required and add one adu on the ground floor during this time the project sponsor addressed design comments and issued the adu waivers. they will approve as reviewed. 471 jessie street. the bedder hear board heard it d the appeal which led to disapproval because the mdu was not authorized for on site smoking. the original application indicated on site consumption would not

. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos.t 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 from filipino food vendors, l

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places like this new linear park in central soma neighborhood which will be planted with local native plants and gardens so folks can connect on their lunch hour. among our core goals and principles in this work, the 2018 biodiversity resolution calls out an equity and nature connection, equitiability in folks connecting to nature as one of our top priorities. everyone in san francisco should have the opportunity to connect to nature every day. and i should say that this work of equity and nature connection and of conservation, regulation -- restoration and stewardship of the city's areas has been going on. in fact, the resolution highlights this legacy and really calls upon us to expand upon this work. okay. so again, core to the resolution was the direction for these 15 different city agencies to collaborate together. so we've been doing that ever since -- we've been doing that since the resolution in 2018, but we got clear direction from the resolution for all 15 to work together and to do so on a monthly basis and to proceed through initiatives, which i'll talk about. we've built

they're in soma, out in richmond, on 19th avenue. we know there are lots of locations, and we are focused on doing more of that enforcement. all of these require resources. we're getting pulled in a lot of different directions and we have additional residential parking enforcement zones added. we have more special events with the chase center opening and a lot more activity with that. we're working diligently with our finance department to work on ways that we can increase our available resources so that we're able to continue to provide the service to the city and what the city needs. with that, if anyone has questions, i'm happy to expand. >> there are a lot of questions. relative to the cameras that are mounted on the buses that you have folks in your shop, i think two of them, who look at all of the footage and then issue citations through the mail, can you break down that universe for us how many of them are issued through to the cameras as a result of the cameras? >> i can't give you an exact number even as a percentage now. it

a real year-end field to soma discussions we've been having. how do you have a 2020 call before 2019 is even over? greg: people want to look forward just to look forward. there is such a focus on seasonality. like the calendar really matters. why there is such a focus everything is pulled forward. it is like having christmas commercials before halloween. that is how i feel. a little premature. i am trying to ignore it, actually. oksana: don't predict, prepare. predictions unfounded. we are not in the business of macro economic predictions. but we are in the business of assessing risk in the context of current pricing. that can mean the risks are great but they are reflected in the valuations, the risks are minimal but not reflected in the valuations. are significant and not reflected in the valuations, whether you look at the rates market or credit market. jonathan: george, the u.s. is back to trend growth, i have seen evidence of the global economy bottoming out, phase one is dust and dusted. is it a mistake and that is your view going into ne

now last night we spoke with boudin at his party in soma. >> i've been out all day talking to voters. everywhere i go people voted for us. i know how hard my team worked. i know we had the best ground game. we had the most social media. we had the best platform. ultimately san francisco voters are smart, they're paying attention, they'll vote for the candidate who is actually committed to reform, not a candidate who says reform but has a track record of status quo. >> he is optimistic that he will ultimately prevail in the race. suzy loftus is cautiously optimistic she'll win this race. loftus has a background in law enforcement and promises to crack down on crime. mail-in ballots still need to be counted. this race is proving to be interesting. there has not been an incumbent in more than a century for this position in san francisco. reporting live in front of san francisco's city hall, lauren martinez, abc7 news. >> thanks. >>> san francisco mayor london breed has successfully won her re-election bid but it wasn't much of a contest. with 100% of precints reporting, breed received 68

we need to start keeping moving people back into the mission into soma who can afford to live there. you have to start moving these blue collar businesses and small local businesses and artist group studios. that's what makes communities right? and we can't say let people from the outside say build taller white-out communities of small long-standing neighborhood communities that are served by transit. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i'm with the council of community housing organizations. back when mta and planned bay area were originally looking at priority development areas they also looked at what they called communities of concern. and they like to remind me it took us two years for those agencies to actually create a map that overlaid the two together. they were very resis tent to doing that. and lo and behold what happened was the priority development areas and the neighborhoods of communities of color that were facing displacement were exactly the same. and so as you look at these maps, i would ask you to ask your staff to also look at the maps

designated teterror group, based inin soma, was responsible for the september 2013 attack on the westgatemall in nairobi that killed 67 people, and for the death of over 140 in the april 2015 attack on kenya's garissa university. nir kalron i investigated the links between al shabaab and illicit ivory trade in 2012. kalron: al shabaab was controlling the ports of kismayo, marca, and big parts of mogadishu, including access to the port through its agents. evidence frorom kenya suggggests the local and regional poachers used that access. we'd seen evidence from ports in marca and kismayo of ivory, large stocks of it, and had collected evidence from individuals that testified to having profited frfrom thahat te with al shabaab b agents. knights:s: al shabaab did contnl various ports in somalia where the ivory is being shipped out of, and they would basasically charge a tax for anything being shipped out. narrator: al shabaab levies s a% to 7% tatax on ivoryry that pass through areas they control, makingng about $25250,000 a yeyr from ivoryry. insurgenent groups and armed forces units are not

the two victims are soma hospital, tonight police are continuing to search for the archer who targeted them. good evening everyone >>> that attack happened yesterday in a marsh area along the san francisco the trail, south of central avenue it has homeless advocacy groups concerned about the safety of people who are already living on the street. leah martinez joins us from the newsroom with more on the story. lee? the mac last night we reported that the suspect was in custody, unfortunately that is not the case. there is a suspect description, police say the archer remains at large, we are told he will be facing two attempted homicide charges. along the san francisco bay trail, off i 80 in richmond, there's a few homeless encampment. on saturday around midnight, east bay regional cart park district police say archer targeted the camp, shooting arrows into it. two homeless men were shot in the abdomen, one also suffered an additional hit to his leg. news of the violence, traveled to the homeless advocates that say that homeless are particularly vulnerable. >> there facing element simila

now last night we spoke with boudin at his party in soma. >> i've been out all day talking to voters.us. i know how hard my team worked. i know we had the best ground game. we had the most social media. we had the best platform. ultimately san francisco voters are smart, they're paying attention, they'll vote for the candidate who is actually committed to reform, not a candidate who says reform but has a track record of status quo. >> he is optimistic that he will ultimately prevail in the race. suzy loftus is cautiously optimistic she'll win this race. loftus has a background in law enforcement and promises to crack down on crime. mail-in ballots still

and the bishop of the catholic diocese of most soma in tanzania was one of the 1st african church men to raise his voice against after. so i wondered if the valve which you know under am or comma known as mama regina is the women's affairs representative for the diocese. where she has spent decades campaigning for the bodily integrity of girls in the region. you can. hear the cutting that has gone into you know what. is sin yet the tally. is near the town as more than your. 5 from the town things getting tough it's tough although we have succeeded here but it's to me perhaps 75 prescient. yes to doing it. mama regina is suspicious everyone here knows that cutting girls is forbidden in tanzania that may be why the cutter says she has stopped doing it how many girls has she cut she says she doesn't know any more very many. all we use our because the cleverest the slippery she says so flower helped. you hold the cleverest with one hand and cut it with the other. and what does she cut it with a razor blade she replies when. someone diocese has set up shelters in schools and cloisters wher

through our innovative harm reduction center on sixth street and in san francisco's does san francisco soma district and other locations in the castro. we recently started our program to offer our evidence-based continued seat management that serves meth users beyond services for gay, by, and trans populations to nongay identified meth and other stimulant users. as it is called out in the task force recommendations, the san francisco aids foundation has been working to expand all easy access services. we have been expanding our program in partnership with our other behavioral health efforts and other treatment in support -- and support providers throughout the city. we offer low barrier overdose prevention and substance use counseling and support injection and noninjection drug users in the streets and other drop-in services. i am proud of these recommendations. it they recognize what our vision has known all along. at the aids foundation, the substance use programs expect all methods to get help with meth concerns and other substance use concerns. we will continue to dig deep and innovate

i really appreciate the -- i did hear a bit in here some focus on both the port and then central soma and around the freeways. my district has a lack of inadequate open space. it also has a lot of publicly owned land by us or the state or other entities. so i really do hope there is a priority in thinking about equity and the opportunity in those areas, particularly around the freeways and around the port throughout the tenderloin. two things i wanted to also flag to see if treasure island was a part of this strategy or how you're thinking about the treasure island open space. also in district space in particular and some other areas as well, there is a lot of private-public open spaces. those are ones where i think there is some opportunity if we were to bring some ways to better utilize that space and think about the biodiversity in those spaces, there is some rooftop gardens and things like that that i think are underutilized. so i wanted to flag those things and that my district is in support of this strategy. >> i would like to thank everyone for their prejtss today and thank you

first off, staff plan and responded to potential impact from the soma wildfires and outages from pg & e. we have redundant systems in place for power outages and while we were not impacted by the power outages we used this to review our systems and protocol for power outages to ensure the least impact possible in the event we have one. as for bus plaza operations, we meet with the transit operators. and we are responding to a request for minor improvements and maintenance issues and moving forward with plans to waive findings signage in collaboration with atc and sfmta. as for the park, nice weather in september and october resulted in large grounds with exciting new events such as game meet-ups. these new events joined our regular complements joined by nearby families and seniors as well as fitness and wellness sponsored by fitness sf. as of november, we have adjusting programming for the fall and winter months adding a movie night. the park hours are now 8:00 p.m. for the fall and winter months. and on the retail front, i'm happy to report that we are bringing three additional lease

the e-cigarette may sell its building in soma.a skyscraper for 0 $390 million earlier this year, but now the company is looking to cut costs, possibly by already selling the building. the move comes amid heightened scrutiny surrounding vaping. several states are working to ban e-cigarettes and top retailers like walmart sayhey no longer sell vaping products. >>> the former home of robin williams is on the market. the asking price is 7$7.2 million. the single story home is on st. thomas way, it has six bedrooms, six and a half bathrooms and the outdoor patio has a pool. pool.. his widow owned this home. >>> state officials are expected to delay the start of the crab season again that means no fresh crab for thanksgiving. the season was supposed to start today, but now it probably won't open until december 15th to protect migrating whales. they get entangled in the ropes connected to fishing traps. state officials will do reconnaissance flights before the crab season is a go. >>> the bay area is getting into the christmas spirit tod

it is located at sixth and harrison in soma.nd of oak bend in 1973 as an after hours lgbtq country western nightclub at its current site. the club celebrates diversity and inclusion with support for the lgbtq community. al, the original owner died in 1989 leaving the club to his brother. the two brothers owned and operated the club, it was popular for their contests, their contest gained wider notice when it was featured in the weekly serialized newspaper column "tales by the city" and later in the book by the same name. staff wanted to note that the property is a contribute oor soh of market lgbtq historic district which is significant under criterion 1 and 2. and we're recommending the following features. their location at sixth street. the waterfall in their back patio and the interior murals and the space divided into three music rooms and the statue on the roof of >> home of shabushabu located at 1800 sutter street. it's a family-owned japanese-american restaurant on the first floor of the kemton buchanan hotel and japan to

over the grape leaves turning to rust and yellow before they hit the ground in the quiet vineyards in somao counties t in a warehouse surround by vineyards just outside of ukiah there's stilllenty of activity. chbeen cain is overseeing the production of his bourboattamar distillery. also known as american craft whiskey distillery. >>i approached a fermentation of thmash or away mang perspective. sitors stopped by for taings during last weekend's taste of redwood valley event. >>this distillery was exception to the action at the local wineries and there are surprises here such as bourbon ice creams. dean has been maing bourbon for 36 years she started by learning the process of making cognac from a frenchman. >>using old-school double still european techniques. >>and he follows e american rules of proper production, including the corrt barrels ma of american white oak and chart on the leave it undisturbed fo2 e years after which we get to call it straight urbon whiskey. >>but he's not trying to crank out mass quantities. don't let anything escape me pay attention to quality before i pay att

just because i was making this for use in one of our meetings, this is in soma, for instance, there isnot a whole lot that would be covered by this. it is that folsom street and sixth street, l-shaped, there was a question about all of these new commercial spaces with tall ceilings and huge frontage of mission bay in south beach. the way we designed this is only applied to the neighborhood commercial district. they are principally zoned and have been constructed and built to prioritize vital commercial activity on the ground floor. that is why we have chosen those zones for this commercial tax to apply. a little bit of data about the north beach commercial district. there are varying methodologies for storefront. this is three community groups in north beach put together. a survey of all of the commercial perkins -- vacancies. thirty-eight vacant storefronts in 2018 which is a big jump from what it was in 2015. the last time a survey was conducted, we have a natural disaster exemption, and it's worth noting that six were caused by a fire at the building at the corner of columbus on uni

with err in somas california, it's about 50 miles north. it's a small dmunt. thursday night between here and santa paula. more good news, evacuation order, many of those lived of lifted. some of what's going on when it comes to making sure these fires are put out and ended. we've got dry conditions. that is why you see embers heading into this area. fire you fooirts do firefighters using axes to make sure the sparks ta fly off don't set new ones. many of the trees in this area are partially charred or burned down. we are in a very important agricultural corridor. citrus, avocado, these are things that the firefighters are working to protect in addition to people's homes. three structures have burned. 2,500 remain under threat. this ghifbz you a little bit of a sense of how they're working at this trying to put this out. one more thing i should tell you, that is about a possible cause. southern california edison has said that they had right before about 13 minutes before this fire started on thursday night, they had just reenergized a 16,000 volt line. it just