number two is looking at uses, particularly within a storefront. there's a lot of enthusiasm, i think, at the planning commission because they've had a lot of these come up where it's been really challenging for an existing business to add a use that was not eligible as an accessory use, and they had to almost start a new business within their businesses, and so there's changes that we need to look at to allow a single business more flexiblity within their storefront. the third one is potentially looking at office and professional services controls that exist in certain ncd's. and as i mentioned in the bulk of the presentation, you know, starting to be more open to some of these professional service uses on the ground floor, at least in certain areas. again, this isn't necessarily things that will be looked at citywide. another one that i didn't mention before, but if we were to become more flexible about what goes in the ground floor, there are things we can do around storefront design guidelines to increase or maximize activation, if you put in s

so we have a storefront door, and then we have -- [ inaudible ] -- so overall, looks like a storefrontsystem in the front now. okay? and talking about a -- the rear two buildings, those are small building. only two story building. the total height is only 23'6". we don't even have a parapet wall on the roof. we have tried to minimize the roof of the between. and between the new wall and their neighbor's building, we have 66 feet, you know, distance between the two rear walls building, okay? and so we -- we spent lots of time working with the planning department come up with solution, the building design, to try to blend into the neighborhood, and so i think it's a good project to improve the community and and improve the neighborhood, and creating more housing for the city and more revenue to the city, and i hope the commission will approve the project, keep it going. thank you. >> president hillis: all right. thank you. mr. marine. two minute rebuttal. >> two minutes? already. thank you again for your time and being patient. again, this -- this is really pretty simple. it's urban desi

high rents is a constant exactly for small businesses and storefronts.and use and mer mying requirements. in some place they are put in use with the intention to prevent something, but in other cases, it wasn't put in place with the intention of preventing it or slowing it down, but they do slow it down. the demographic shift in san francisco have been a challenge for certain kinds of businesses, and the public realm challenges, like, cleanliness, safety, the presence of homeless encampments. so what are businesses doing? the consultants found, you know, a lot of evidence that businesses are already adjusting, that businesses are working really hard to adjust to those changes, and they're doing a lot of things that you've seen to decrease labor, fast, casual, sort of over the counter. they're doing a lot of things to increase revenue streams. they're doing a lot of delivery. you can see more examples when you get into the report, but there's a lot of effort. that said, not everybody business is going to be able to adjust or is able to adjust fast enough.

there will always be storefronts but will it be a diminishing thing?e competing on price but on experience. amazon beats the guys that compete on price but stores that offer experience offer something different. amazon can't give you the pampered experience of walking in, talking to a knowledgeable sales rep. >> people get the information they need and go to amazon. >> we are going to have our own shop and cordon off our products but this is how the marketplace evils. people of amazon enough to volunteer, we have to reckon with the fact that we made amazon who it is, nobody else. >> the evolution of the beast. happy friday. 38 minutes after the hour. working to make america safe again the trump administration cracking down on anybody entering the us. extreme vetting is a tactic to roll out. a controversial curriculum, school assignments that require students to write to lawmakers asking for stricter gun control. forget the cream and sugar. how about a side of cancer with your morning cup of coffee? is coffee good for you or bad? a new warning to millio

there are four empty storefronts in a row right here on columbus avenue.hutdown sunday, the popcorn store is empty and next door to that a gelato shop is no more. >> this is the worst i have ever seen it in 45 years.>> it is frustrating. there is a reason people shop at some places and not others. the owner of cafi roma tells me the increase in minimum wage combined with health insurance was too much. scares parking and a lack of direct public transportation are also to blame. >> north beach became a tougher area to get to.>> another problem says this owner is her restaurant as well as her neighbors may have grown too old-fashioned for the tech crowd.>> the italian genre is aging and it is not the new hip ethnic cuisine that a lot of younger diners are looking for. >> each of these has a story. >> he says city surveys show the vacancy rate is actually lower than the rest of the city. some businesses are thriving and other new businesses are moving in including a theater turned into a condo complex that has been vacant since the 1990s.>> i think when people

so they're probably looking at their storefront from across the country and reading everything about all the d dot-combillionaires in san francisco. i'm wondering if there isn't some way that the city could create a -- kind of a legitimate and trusted way for landlords -- for building owner to see come up to speed about the current pricing pressure, because i think there would be a little less holding out if people could see realistically how is it possible that there's downward pressure on commercial space when at the same time a single-family residence is selling for $4 million in the same neighborhood. i think people are having a hard time understanding it. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. >> great. thank you. excellent. thank you very much. any other members of the public? welcome. >> hi. thanks, martin and amy. did he observe neiman. noe valley. the biggest complaint i here from the tenants trying to rent are the city regulations and processes involved in opening a new business and how they handicap a business. i would say this beautiful purple circle -- well, maybe i i i'm re

a store on third street that was -- on a month to month lease was going to relocate to a vacant storefront, i think that was vacant for a decade, and because of laws on the books, they weren't able to, you know, transfer a certain license due to -- due to restrictions on license transfers and whatnot, so you know, we need to create an environment in which we're not fighting ourselves from both ends, you know? and i'm curious if the job squad folks can take out literature for -- with them -- for the merchant organizations and help do that outreach, and if that >> -- to try that out in terms of being able to fund some of those many improvements to help someone bump up the technical capacity that they have around pos systems or around ipads or what have you, so that's something that's developing right now. >> thank you. nice. >> thank you. >> any other commissioner questions? well, i have a couple here. first off, a few years ago, we did a small business commission and planning, worked with a fast track on cu's for certain small businesses. it was 90 days. do you know what the success rate on

why so many vacant storefronts on the street level? >> that is a lot of question, all of them good. we contract out the management of our parking garages to private sector companies that have that expertise to manage parking. we do have standards of safety and currenciness we should hold them to. it sounds like work at fifth and mission. with regard to the equipment we have done three or four garages where we are replacing that equipment and putting in more modern equipment that will be more reliable that will reduce the operating cost for some of the operators to let them redirect those costs to enhance security and cleaning. we might not be exactly where we need to be today but we are in the process of changing out that equipment as we speak. the civic center garage from here is happening right now. with regard to the storefronts that we recently brought in some retail brokerage experts to get those spaces filled. it drives me crazy to go down mission and see empty storefrontses. retail is having a bit of a challenge. people are going on line instead of going to the neighborhood r

so we will be looking to see if there are any empty storefronts that might be able to accommodate these businesses in the meantime so that we don't lose them as permanent businesses in our neighborhood. >> president adams: didn't o.e.w.d. activate -- >> o.e.w.d. did activate the disaster -- the city's disaster fund and then we should be activating based on the number of businesses, the economic relief fund. especially if there is relocation involved, the economic relief, i know license deli took advantage of the program when they had to relocate. so yes. and o.e.w.d. is working with s.p.d.c. is working with each of the individual businesses. >> president adams: great. >> commissioner dooley, just since we are on tv and record, what are the businesses? quick liquor? >> tuck-tuck thai, rogue ale. the new [inaudible] restaurant. >> president adams: el pasto primovero used to be over there. >> and michelangelo was damaged also. >> really? >> he is closed about six months, he said. >> we will be holding fundraising in the neighborhood to raise funds. >> and water damage of adjacent buildings

nonhistoric storefront along eddy street, the east frontage. neither this apartment nor previously approved permits seek to change the legal use of the property. the request for discretionary review has been filed by sue hester on behalf of san franciscans for reasonable growth, citing concerns that the project would facilitate the conversion of the residential hotel to a tourist hotel. the existing 41 legal sro units at the subject property were vacated in 2012 for renovations and have not been reoccupied due to significant construction delays. the property has been subject to a stipulated injunction filed by the san francisco city attorney's office in december of 2014, in addition to supervision under a court appointed special master. the building is currently stated -- pardon me. slated for completion at the end of april 2018, and prior tenants will be granted standard first right occupancy of units. the item was heard and approved before the historic preservation commission on november 15, 2017, with the condition that staff inform the plan

100 firefighters surrounded the building and helped evacuate customers from busy restaurants and storefronts on the first floor. some bystanders grew frustrated because they did not see any hoses in place to douse the flames. some even screamed firefighters.>> throw some water on there!>> tonight was a total failure by the fire department and that starts at the top.>> reporter: aaron peskin, the supervisor for north beach says he was so angry at what he claimed was a 20 minute delay. he called on the fire chief to resign. >> i called her during this event repeatedly. her voicemail is full. even her high-ranking staff got here and realized they were not on the job. there is no excuse for a. >> with all due respect to the supervisor, he had it wrong. >> reporter: fire officials tell me the public may not have understood the firefighting strategy. they call it defensive which requires hoses to be pulled inside the building at first so they are not as visible to people watching from the outside. firefighters inside the building quickly realized they had a major problem, the apartments burning on

. >> san jose police said there were at least a dozen storefronts and cars hit between 8:30 monday night and 8:30 tuesday morning. one of them a nonprofit portuguese cultural center. >> we want this place to keep going. it's stupid what they did. it's not good. >> san jose police told us they have not yet determined if all of the incidents are related. in san jose, katie marzullo, abc news. >>> stanford university is taking steps to ensure students, faculty and employees know what to do if a gunman shows up on campus. new at 11:00, abc 7 news reporter kate larsen has new video on the stanford website. >> we want the give you some information on what to do if you're faced with violence. >> this week stanford's department of public safety posted this video on its website. >> we teach the department of homeland security of run, hide, fight. >> with the hopes of preparing their community for an active shooter. >> with others who might be around you. >> david said he watched the video today. as a biomedical researcher on campus, he sometimes worries that someone might not agree with his work

into question after this four alarm fire tore through a three-story building with restaurants and storefronts on union street about 10 days ago. as it raged on, so did san francisco supervisor aaron peskin. >> tonight was a total failure by the fire department. that starts at the top. >> reporter: peskin later apologized for slamming the fire chief on the scene. >> there was heightened tension. we have received some criticism. that's the elephant in the room but we are professional. >> reporter: gonzales says peskin created a distraction at the scene. days later, he submitted a form to the chief detailing what went down. he said he hinted peskin should step down. >> are you asking him to resign? >> as a member of the public, the way he reacted to that fire, that's what i think he should do. >> reporter: and is a member of the san francisco fire department? >> i am going to keep my professional etiquette. >> reporter: i reached out to supervisor peskin tonight. he was not available for comment. in north beach, betty yu, kpix 5 . >>> a carjacker tosses an elderly woman to the ground. the car en

notify, communicate with businesses, that there are restrictions around lot sizes and mergers for storefronts on the ground floor. i don't see any other programs doing that for small businesses. i am very concerned that sba27 does not consider all of those factors that our office, the planning department, the small business commission, oawd spent two years negotiating to get through. i just want to, you know, help you understand also how much we have moved forward because also when we passed it we had 100% affordable housing program we passed prior to that. i wanted to eliminate condition use for that program was met with resistance. to this day we don't have a true 100% affordable program under the density bonus where you don't have a cu. there is a modified cu for that. i would say what we were working on years ago was reasonable. we wanted to capture the value of the benefits we are giving to developers at that time. now here we are. i do think it is extreme for san francisco. my since this bill is in the pro since, it hasn't gone to smithty. it can be amended. i urge amendments to ensure

which was submitted to the city along with a first floor and storefront renovation pitch. gordon is not sure how the treats are connect to the company's plan. >> not often that the department gets requests to take on 40 trees. that's a lot. one tree. two trees. maybe, five, six treats. 40 trees is a lot of trees. >> now there is a san francisco consulting firm that is representing transamerica on this project. they could not provide me with any details on why the request for the tree removal, so i guess we will find out at the hearing on march 26th, city hall. reporting live, sam brock, nbc bay area news. >>> still to come. burglars hit a popular cat cafe in oakland. the break-in caught on surveillance video. plus. >> grab the brake. and, there is no brake. on either side. >> an east bay woman find herself in a dangerous situation on a rental bike. not the only time the bikes have been vandalized. >> after some rain in san jose today, right now, 54, mostly cloudy. tracking when we get a break this weekend. and, what i am seeing about heavy rain, next week. that's in 8 minu

. >> san jose police said there were at least a dozen storefronts and cars hit between 8:30 monday nightday morning. one of them a nonprofit portuguese cultural center. >> we want this place to keep going. it's stupid what they did. it's not good. >> san jose police told us they have not yet determined if all of the incidents are related. in san jose, katie marzullo, abc news. >>> stanford university is taking steps to ensure students, faculty and employees know what to do if a gunman shows up on campus. new at 11:00, abc 7 news reporter kate larsen has new video on the stanford website. >> we want the give you some information on what to do if you're faced with violence. >> this week stanford's department of public safety posted this video on its website. >> we teach the department of homeland security of run, hide, fight. >> with the hopes of preparing their community for an active shooter. >> with others who might be around you. >> david said he watched the video today. as a biomedical researcher on campus, he sometimes worries that someone might not agree with his work and launch an

meteorological office has issued red warnings throughout the country meaning a risk to life as the siberian storefront is set to collide with storm heading north from the atlantic snowstorms of this a very are highly unusual in europe at this time of the year and it affected countries all the way from the far north down to the mediterranean it may look pretty but these storms have been highly disruptive and dangerous all over the continent flights were cancelled and airports closed from switzerland to island with thousands of homes were left without electricity and people were advised to stay at home dozens of people mainly rough sleepers have been reported dead across europe even venice the city of canals didn't escape the big freeze its historic buildings and monuments blanketed in white the waterways still flowing just about. and in parts of croatia a road maintenance team even used explosives. to remove piles of snow. with more gales of blizzards expected over the next couple of days the worst may not be over yet. al-jazeera london. quick look now at the top stories on al-jazeera russian president

. >> thank you for helping to provide storefront in san francisco. >> you're welcome.. >> francis chin. where's francis? get over here francis. [applause]. >> so the businesses in chinatown, which is not easy, you've got neighborhood meetings now, and council on district merchants. so good job. somebody had to do it. thanks. congratulations. juan carlos? where's juan carlos? [applause]. >> there he is. central market-tenderloin. he's got an easy one. we should give you, like, five of these. well, good job, because midmarket is changing, and we're a member of that in my other job, midmarket cbd. midmarket is changing, and you've been a big part of that. so thank you, juan carlos. >> thank you, thank you. >> ellen mar. [applause]. >> helping with the neighborhoods, again, cbd's, jumping in there with everything. >> yes. >> congratulations. you just keep doing what we're doing, and help us get these cbd's when they come up to renew. >> thank you. >> thank you. congratulations. >> thank you. >> larry mclendon. over in the bayview. >> yep. >> that's where all the good resta

you smell wonderful unnamed things cooking, issuing from storefronts and food stalls.om speakers, the putt- putt and roar of a million tiny engines. hue's place in history, long regarded as the heart of the imperial dynasty, changed forever during the vietnam war. ♪ in 1968, hue became the site of some of the most bitter fighting of the war. during the lunar new year, the tet holidays, when usually there was a cessation of hostilities, over 100 cities all over south vietnam were attacked the north vietnamese and vc. hue quickly fell. you have seen these images. it was footage like this that turned finally a great part of the american public against the war. the u.s. marines fought house to house to retake the city. a vicious three-and-a-half-week-long battle. eventually artillery and air support were called in. the city was saved. and of course, largely destroyed in the saving. the civilian population caught in the crossfire were equally devastated. the north vietnamese, to their enduring shame, had, while controlling the city, rounded up anyone seen as a potential ene

your energy for the poor souls that have been on 24th street for years in the vacant door ways and storefront. i would work with you on programs to get them off the street. stop putting your knowledge of city hall and passion for the neighborhood to make it difficult for new business to survive on 24th. thank you. >> the clerk: thank you, next speaker, please. >> hi there, i'm ernie and i'm latino and know a lot of about latino culture. i've lived on 25th and harris for the last five and a half years. i think the way the organizations have been described is inaccurate. i think 24th street has been very dark and lot of people walk around the streets. there is no place to go. so basically what latino culture represents is being out later and sit outside and be happy. this is the opposite of that and the people i work with all agree with that. we live in a community now that is dangerous. we are afraid a lot of times of going out because there's no life outside. everything is shut down because it hasn't been allowed to be nice many years past. so i hope you all make the right decision for us. th

((jr stone)) the owner of an oakland adult store says she wants to open a storefront at s-f-o, but heriport's requirements.(justine) and as kron4's charles clifford reports... the reason her application was denied isn't wasn't why you might think. nenna joiner is the owner of feelmore adult gallery along telegraph ave in oakland. shes had the store here for the past 8 years. recently she learned of a program at sfo that gives small businesses a chance to open a shop in the terminals. she saw it as a good opportunity to expand.sot at 55 million departures annually at sfo it's a no brainer to try to figure out how to get into a space that has high traffic.but as nenna worked her way through the application process she discoved that the airport requires applicants to show a minimun of 250,000 dollars in annual revenue. feelmore doesnt meet reach that level meaning that nenna's application was going nowhere. she requested that the minimum amount be lowered to 150,000 but the airport responded saying that they would not change the policy. sotit was very frustrating. not only at sfo but at t

with the planning department and brought about 12 planners that toured all the buildings, all the storefronts all the way to harrison street and took pictures of the area. we were and -- >> thank you. >> the clerk: we can take rebuttal from the permit holder now. >> thank you again. i don't really have really where to start with some of the comments. it's nice to have support. we didn't think anybody would come. this is ann and i doing this so we wanted this to be us. it was nice to see that. as far as the concessions, i state before we'd work with the city and i'd it would be a good idea with dividers. the limited seats we have already done and our hours of operation go to 11:00 that was another concession. we set we wouldn't seat after 10:00. i understand. we're changing the argument every time we meet with them to corner us so they can say no but we've addressed the issues and reached out as much as we thought we could. i know people get up early and i work 8:30 to midnight, six days a week this is a chef's life. i employ the people that live there. we know because we work right next to th

someone with a bb gun is targeting storefronts and car windows.is not just happening in one neighborhood 11 locations have been hit. coming up police want to know if they are connected. >>you are also looking into an issue on one of our big thoroughfares. >>a strange traffic problem on the bay bridge, birds fire at a fire boat we will explain at five. >>> meanwhile coming up next, potentially new information on the trial of the century. i am talking about o.j. simpson. we will take a look at the new tape casting doubt on that trial next. at&t has a network with thousands of best-in-class security experts. which means... more of the eye balls you want watching the network... & less of the ones you don't... more experts preventing security issues & less security threats impacting our customers. more of a highly secure network with more security products available for further protection & less per month than comcast for business internet. switch to at&t internet for business. more & less - that's the power of &. i we worked with pg&eof to save energy

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you can have a virtual storefront. so they have to have a cryptocurrenty.done by 2019. many are skeptical. emily: so they have already had a record-breaking ico, but now they want more money. how do they do that? caroline: $850 million is not enough, it was raised in a pre-sale. and interestingly the main players in ico's, the likes of union square ventures and horowitz are not in it. they usually know their stuff. but they did a presale and now they are doing another presale, this time to big players in terms of wealthy individuals, going for investors, $850 million and then they go to the public market to raise the other $850 million. they will raise up a $2.2 billion, to grow out the blockchain protocol they want to build over all, but there is skepticism. whether they can actually drive for the efficiencies that they want. they want a more efficient protocol then bitcoin, they want to be able to get about one million transactions every second, but at the moment you are going to get 7-15 per second on the likes of a theory him and it has really outlined

in 2006, asked the supervisor to landmark as the doolen-larson residents and storefront landmark in 253, which later in 2011, he got registered on the national registry of historic places. he was a proud day guy who took me on my first day bar crawl in 2000 when i was running for supervisor, which was funny because i was a lefty, and he was a proud conservative. my condolences to cisteve, christine, amy, lucille, emma, and claire, ed olson and marilyn olson, and stay tuned for a large celebration of life honoring norm hopefully to occur during the spring. i just want to say he was an incredible historic preservationist, and donations can be made in his honor to san francisco heritage, of which he was a proud member for many decades. and i will submit the rest. >> thank you, supervisor ronen? >> the first is a resolution of the case janus versus afsme. groups supporting the antiunion side include americans for prosperity foundation, and the american legislative exchange council, known as alec. clearly, this move is part of the trump agenda's overall and part of a right wing strategy that