money to move to sunset. they wanted to live in a better environment. >> [speaking chinese] >> she says the mcd will affect her a lot. >> [speaking chinese] >> a lot of -- they do not like the smell. they smell, those kind of plants. >> [speaking chinese] >> she has been planning to live in sunset for 25 years. she has been diabetic for 27 years. >> [speaking chinese] >> she would be scared to walk out after night time if it opens. >> [speaking chinese] >> she said it will affect and help people as well. for their next generation and their own health, she does not want the mcd. president peterson: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> my name is edward alb. i live in the sunset district almost 29 years. all the things that have been mentioned, like the children, the shops, and the church nearby -- but one thing i wanted to tell you that taraval street, it is very dangerous. especially for wheelchair places. when you go down, it is very dangerous. i am not against medical marijuana use, but i am agains

i played ball all the time at sunset. there are fights everywhere. i live in sunset. it is the park by vincente, there are all kinds of parks. ithey're fighting for it, gangs, everybody. i cannot go there anymore because there are fights. there are a whole bunch of drug dealers and everything. i just mind my own thing. i just mind my own business, but there are a lot of things going on. thank you, commissioners. president peterson: thank you. ext. speaker, please? >> my name is daniel smith. i'm here to read a letter on behalf of the edgewood center, located just 50 feet outside of the perimeter. we are for educational purposes. on behalf of the center for children and families located on vincente street, i urge you to consider revoking the permit for medicinal cannabis dispensary at 2139 taraval street at 38 avenue. many schools are situated very close to the proposed site. it serves as a thoroughfare for students on their way to and from students and is also a popular destination for students for lunch. surely a site not in such close proximity could be found as a d

>> hello, i have been living in sunset my whole life. i have graduated from the public schools and am currently a junior at sf state. i have worked at the beacon center and with park and wreck, both egms to -- both gems to our district. i live with my mother and two brothers. i love this neighborhood with a great passion. i have come here to ask that you did not discriminate against sunset residents who want to stay in their own districts without having to drive. i find it " cannot allow medicine within a decent destination. not allowing this disparity open because of fear of crime increase is not only false by proven data but gives crack power -- but gives power to the criminals by allowing them to dictate how we function. president peterson: 90. next speaker, please? -- thank you. >> good evening. my name is susan. i conducted out reache. residents shared literally hundreds of personal stories with me. >> are you a paid representative? >> i am no longer affiliated with that center and i hope that you allow me to continue. as a cancer s

the idea that we need another in a sunset district -- in the sunset district is a canard. the people who claim they need the drugs are already getting them. before discussing any substantial issues of would like to bring up a couple of procedural matters. one was mentioned by mr. moody. the permit was initially approved under a non-existent law. declarations that were attached , whatever you wish to call it, were not attested to properly and should therefore be annoyed -- be ignored. the proposition fails to regard our argument on the spirit of the law. therefore, my view is they have waived their argument. furthermore, the transcripts that were provided were edited. therefore, they are not true and accurate representation of the hearing. therefore, they should be ignored. with regard to some of the cases that we cited, i do not want to beat this to death, but the cases stand for the proposition that it makes sense to restrict businesses that are intrinsic draws for children. that would certainly include by clients. segregating adult businesses from residential areas and s

carville wasn't only out there in the outer sunset. other little communities came up here and there all across the united states, actually. but after the earthquake and fire, 1906 earthquake and fire, there was a little sister community, you might call, called carzonia. and this was a dr. charles cross set up 10 old cable cars on california street. between california and cornwall street, fifth avenue and fourth avenue in the richmond district. he assured the neighbors who were very agast at the idea of these old cable cars being set up that they would be very tasteful and artistic. and essentially, yeah, it was like one room with a little bathroom attached made up of old cable cars. dr. cross thought he was hitting on something. there were hundreds of thousands of people who were homeless, looking for new places to live in the aftermath of the earthquake and fire. so he thought why not use these old cable cars. it only lasted about 10, 12 years. guess it wasn't a big hit. he built a more conventional apartment building after that to re

i primarily work in the sunset my nonprofit is sunset beacon center. elharris is sitting back there. let me talk about the safety network program. safety network program is a city wide program. we have a community organizer based in each san francisco neighborhood. there are 4 main components of each organizer's work. one is to build community capacity. another is sometimes we act as advocates for your communities and we try to use community based strategies to improve public safety and another roll we assume is we community to city departments to increase access to social services. i have brochures here if you want to learn more about the safety network program you can take a brochure. how my work relates to a neighborhood association is that a lot of times we would go to various neighborhood associations to try to collect community input on public safety issues and we would relate that back to mayor's office of criminal justice. some of the projects that are involved with that relates to community building is sunset community festival. fundraising ca

i found 2139 taraval street in the sunset district. as i began my due diligence, i found out about the agreement. i contacted the san francisco planning department. i started playing rent on the location. i met with supervisor chu and captain schmidt before applying for my permit to let them know why i chose the sunset district and what my purpose was, which was not to open up a pot club. this was to allow safe access to medicine for people in the sunset district. there are many disabled and sick people that cannot travel to get their medicine. the taraval location is on the streetcar line. it has been mentioned how easy it is to get on and go. i did it myself. very difficult. it was over two hours roundtrip to get downtown and back. if you are sick, that is a long time to be away from the toilet. a little about me. i have been paralyzed 20 years, in a wheelchair. i use medical cannabis myself for spasms, back pains. i am not taking oxycontin. that is how you end up becoming an addict on pain pills. this works for people. our family ha

sunset at whittier, three blocks from the famous beverly hills hotel. she takes the left and just about maybe 100 yards or less down the road, she hits a light pole. from that intersection to there, she was shot -- either at the intersection or just before she hit the light pole. i just coincidently drove that route today at lunchtime. and i saw how it would be possible that she would have been shot at that intersection, still been alive and drove herself down. there was glass found at the intersection. they don't know where she was shot. it's a very residential area and it's only about a quarter of a mile from where michael jackson died just last year. >> alan, people heard from her minutes before she died. apparently she maid made some phone calls. her window was partially rolled down which leads police to think something else. but are there any clues to the messages she left from those calls? >> they were apparently routine messages left for an assistant at her office. voice mail, she would apparently routine routinely do that when she left a to-do l

could get showers after sunset. a look at saturday, sunday, monday in ten minutes. >>> look downtown. southeast-southwest freeway, aka 395. looking pretty good. no issues. clear, dry road surfaces. inbound along interstate 66, loading up rapidly now as you begin the commute east out of hay market to manassas, fair ox towards the beltway. too early for sunshine delays. american legion bridge, looking all right. out to the rails we go, metro and vre, no delays. marc brunswick 870, 872, penn 405 all behind schedule at the moment. joe and eun. >> thank you, jerry. >> 6:12. big budget cuts are coming. >>> a local woman who gained national attention for confronting president obama loses her job. >>> find out what sarah palin has to say in her new >>> still to come, newly ected prince george's county baker ts down with jim >>> breaking news out of south korea. we're continue to go follow this story. two marines, two south korean marineare dead. 16 are injured following a series of artillery strikes from north korea on sout

can people get to chinatown but that the folks are able to connect to sunset.even though we might disagree on this, for many of the people that come today, i would hope that we would be able to meet by to eye on the benefits of this project. thank you for all of the hard work from the departments. supervisor campos: supervisor dufty? supervisor dufty: i would like to join my colleague in expressing my support for the central subway project. i think that for the people in my district that want to be able to have that connection to the northeast portion of san francisco, i would say that having worked for much of my career in the transportation industry, the federal transit administration's concern is going to be about maintenance of the rest of the system. something that this board has been very focused on. we will go to our next meeting with a management audit looking at the mta with a focus on maintaining the integrity of the system. i think that is what fta interest is going to be. we are not building a system to know where, where people do not have tradition

sunset, 4:59. overnight should be clear. down in the upper 30s by dawn tomorrow.during the day, veterans day, light and sunny. highs reaches the upper 50s. more of the same on friday and saturday. as we get into sunday, probably will have increasing clouds with afternoon highs 60. clouding up monday. perhaps monday night, into tuesday, we could get some rain. we have had quite an extended dry period. next chance of rain monday night or perhaps tuesday. highs in the 50s. both days. morning lows near 40. a couple reports of meteors in the sky this mning. those are probably not associated wh the leonids. those are ten days away. let's check traffic. jerry, how is it looking? >> good morning, tom. good morning, everyone. approach of the wilson bridge moving along well between alexandria and oxen hill. looks like ews just about wrapped up t water main break, canal road and m street. they're pulling up the cos. everything is wrapped up but the road is a little wet. let's make one more stop. 395, landmark to shirlington doing all right. >> 4:53. 50 degrees. new this morn

you have to find some way to sunset some of the ridiculous tax benefits that go to everybody. we have to do something to deal with the fiscal problem. this is not a short-term problem. it's huge long term problem. if we give this up we won't have a chance to -- >> there is a compromise you could raise the definition of the 2% up to a million dollars and just tax people who are really super millionaires. and i want to counter what monica said, the eight years of the bush presidency was the weakest job growth in some time. you can't say that his tax cuts got the economy going. if that is true, why did we have the recession if all the tax cuts were so miraculous. >> the 53 consecutive months after the tax cuts were put in place you had this incredible engine of growth, not the last period of the presidency. >> clinton had eight years of economic growth, 20 million jobs. >> let's go, let's go. >> i want to address what mort said. there is a misconception when you talk about the top earners, we are talking about bill gates and warren buffett. most americans say when you look at job

there is no 13th ave. >> there is the sunset reservoir and the sand dunes. they were building houses right on the dunes. that is 28. that is the same view in 1990. >> and the park is there. much better. >> this is westwood park. it used to be called residential park. the idea was that instead of having a bar next door to your house, this would be an exclusive residential community. the street should follow the land. they had curvilinear streets. they had decorative vases, stairways. the whole idea was someone would come home from work and he should be elevated and think great thoughts. he should not be in the hustle and bustle of the urban environment. there were very restrictive. they tried to say you had to have certain setbacks and you could not use buildings for other than the residents, and you could not be a minority unless you had permission. that was a big problem. >> they are still here. you can see this place. >> i am not positive i know where this is. can you aureate me? >> that is ocean avenue on the bottom left. the center line of that is myrmar

i live in the sunset district. taraval street is not inappropriate place for this business, for this establishment. if you drive on taraval street in the afternoon, you understand there are too many youth, walking down the street, hanging out. even driving in that neighborhood in the afternoon. i just think culturally and socially this business is not compatible with the neighborhood. thank you very much. president peterson: thank you. next speaker, please? >> i am the ceo of traditional family corporation, and i am speaking for many patients in the district. i have been living in the area from 1988, and the 7-11 it is diagonally across from the mcd site. those places are parking lots where a lot of teenagers gathered. they hang around and fix their cars, and therend and fix their cars, and there are mothers bringing their kids to the laundromat. there is a parking lot. we all understand that parking lots are the places where drug dealings. the mcd, whoever purchases the marijuana and gives the resale of the parkin

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chinese] i just said, i am 70 years old -- what i am saying is, if i take the s or l car from the sunset, i must get off at powell street in order for me to go up to union square to catch the subway, right? then i have to go down to union square, take the subway and then go to chinatown, get off on washington street. if i want to go shopping, i have to go to pacific and stockton. after three or four backs, back to washington street to go to the subway, then to union square, walk up, and then to powell street to take the l car. i want carmen chu to explain to the sunset residents -- the bulk of the chinese come from the sun seset. most chinese will say, the hell with the subway, i will take the bus. commissioner campos: next speaker please. >> my name is bernard myers. i am a member of the people of task force of the board last year. our concern in that task force was to help the continued robustness of the entire public transportation system in the city. the allocation of substantial amounts of public funds, to me, to this project -- and i will let others speak about what is wrong with t

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. >> that is the inner sunset. that is where >> lawrence lives > i do. >> you can see the inner sandbank. it is a big old sand hill. they had to do a lot of grading. >> in the building department, when we go out and look to people to building development, as soon as they squared away the top 6 inches or whatever is there, it is all sand. forever. in my yard, and there is nothing you can do about it. it is what there is. it was generally developed in response to the 1890's for mid- winter there, which was held in golden gate park. would the first buildings that was built in that area was a bar called the little shamrock, and it is still there just west of lincoln, just west from ninth avenue. it was built to help service people who were working on the big winter fair. they are still hoping the neighborhood. >> it is an offshoot of the 1892-8093 columbian exposition in chicago. when they were done, san francisco said bring it here. >> that is the chicken ranch. the building to the east of that is the chicken ranch, a

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early sunset no doubt about that. sunset at 4:56 tonight. still got a little dusk light out there but the sun is down right now. 62 at the inner harbor. we've got 60 in annapolis and 61 in frederick right now. the storm is still swirling out there but won't affect us much the rest of the evening. 50s mostly clear. we'll talk much more about your veteran's day forecast a lot of parades tomorrow. details of that and the weekend straight ahead. kelly. >>> thanks, wyatt. in anticipation of veteran's day baltimore county recognized veteran from all branches of the armed services in towson. since 2005. baltimore county executive jim smith has chosen the day before the national holiday to hold such a service. with 5,000 marylanders currently serving in iraq and afghanistan. smith spoke of the debt we owe them and their families. >> we know these soldiers as mothers and fathers, sons and daughters friends and neighbors and husbands and wives. but they are so much more than that. they are individuals who have answered a higher call. >> the keynote sp