his name came up with in the last year or the respondent denied the application for two reasons. he was 2 points shy of the examination which was not required to pass. there is no rule that they pass the examination, only that they take it. to the issue of being locating places within san francisco, now that there's gps, there is no reason to know exactly where every place in san francisco. many of the responses that were marked as incorrect or subjective and confusing questions, especially in light of the fact that his first language is not english. i was confused to many of the questions and i have a law degree. also one of the question was when the driver should produce a safety check. he marked his second answer which it is important, when i hear a noise while driving. as a passenger, i hope that he would perform a safety check. both answers are correct. if they go into the questions. the hearing officer consider that some of the bills were fraudulent. the decision was based on an overly critical analysis which has been abandoned. instead, the respondent sole cause for the den

it is unreasonable to face a denial on the application. he has been driving full time. he continues to settle this. the has more than satisfied the requirement and he has been misplaced bills. there was at least one letter and in support of his application of for medallion holders. one of the letters is a gentleman that is here today. it says here that if mr. omar said that this is not the only original bill, he has and i will respect his honesty and request that the mta and the officer understand the possibility of losing labels and conducting our business. he also at the hearing presented a list of 200 other drivers who attested to his driving and had many in the audience. thank god they did not bring them tonight because he would not have any room for them. he would like to say a few words so i will conclude when i get my rebuttal. >> good evening. i have driven a cab for 15 years. have to wonder witnesses and -- i have 200 witnesses. i am a full-time driver. call any of the witnesses. they say that i am not a first- time driver. if i make a mistake with a the time, s

at some point, the applicant came to my staff and provided a handwritten note. my staff as i waited this and noted that there could be some discrepancies and they contacted the home office and talked to one of my permit staff. per discussion, they were authorized a four-month permit. this is not answer the question that was posed that how what an individual was given this, it would somehow change from how it would change possession. based upon this information, some have a document and we have to revoke the permit based on what appears to be fraud. had this to build a building permit or a planning document, someone would make the change. deep building believes that we acted appropriately -- the building department believes we acted appropriately. but appears that someone had manipulated information. >> it is that your handwriting? >> that is my handwriting except for number 5. >> what are the word spread of four of the line at the bottom. >> that lists 30 linear feet. >> i just want to make sure. >> when you put to that, you had written it the number four. there

the subject application, the bill to permit application was submitted at the end of december of last year. they submitted through the review process and the planning commission heard this item on may 20 and voted 5-1-1, with a commissioner absent, to approve the project as proposed. with that, there are probably some questions of what the powers of this board are. i would defer to the expert, the deputy city attorney and the deputy director, but it is my understanding of the discretionary powers of this board are broad. the discretionary powers of the planning commission are derived from powers given to this board. you can consider the impact of development applications on the adjacent property. i think that is important to know so that everybody in the stands with the roles and responsibilities of this board are. also, we're starting all over again. these to novo hearings will cure a lot of the minor here it -- all of the minor issues, whether the testimony went to 3:00 a.m., whether or not a child care center was or was not completed and the analysis. this hearing will correct all

>> at this time, yes. >> i want to address a couple of things in the application. as far as grandfathered, there's no such thing as an entertainment permit that is grandfather. they must be applied for by every person and we are the entertainment commission. the conditions on his lease, this is not our problem. this is something that you take up with your landlord, what ever you were due diligence should have been. i have a couple of things that i wanted to say. i believe that you have to have food available as long as you search of a halt, is that correct? >> yes. >> if you are serving alcohol after midnight, you have to have food. this is not something that we can deal with here. i'd do disagree with no line outside. i waited for a seat at the chinese restaurant. you cannot have a cooper of people waiting to take that table. that is not friendly to business. >> i am wondering what happens at 11:30. it seems that most people are most likely to be there until 9:00 or 10:00 tonight. >> the code says that you need one security guard for every 100 people tend to know i

submitting the application form and then going through the enrollment process. the application deadline is february 18. between november 13 and february 13, they will complete an application form and then all of the requests will be processed at the same time. and this will go out on march 18. at that time, the families will go to school to enroll, and this is the final stage in this process. this was a very high level overview. and i can go into more detail if the commissioners have questions. but i also wanted to direct you to the application placement and roman handbook, and just to let you know that there is a lot more detail with the student assignment system. with these documents that are required. >> if people see this, where will they be able to get copies of this document? >> copies of this document are available at the education center, 555 franklin street and the child development center is at the school. and much of this information is already on the internet for the families to refer to, to use this as a medium for getting information. and there are

the applicant applies for a permit for one video game, the buck hunter, it's called. at this neighborhood bar on divisadero pine street. they're only until 2:00 a.m. seven days a week. there is no entertainment. they serve some light food. the planning department, i attached, what indicated this is a permitted use on the ground for only and if they want to add more buck hunters they have to go to the planning commission. so they're waiting for their electrical inspection. he response from richmond station, no objections from richmond station as long as the following situations are met. no gambling, no online capability. i don't know what that means. not to be operated by minors during school hours and only the aforementioned game is to be installed. those are the recommended conditions from richmond station. what? and -- oh, this is wrong. my memo is wrong.

currently available is sf parcel the assessor's application. you can go to the assessor's website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francisco. you can search by address and find incidents of crime in san francisco in the last 90 days. we have [inaudible] which allows you to click on a map and get nchldz like your supervisor or who your supervisor is. the nearest public facility. and through the sf applications we support from the mayor's office of neighborhood services. you can drill down in the neighborhood and get where the newest hospital or police or fire station. >> wear

as far as the test is concerned, each medallion applicant is given a test. they are all given a basic texaco driving test. the get three opportunities to take the exam and mr. omar failed all three times. there are claims that test should be irrelevant, but i think that goes to the heart of whether you know what you are doing being a taxicab driver. there are only so many ways we can get to know what you know about driving on the streets. that test is one of those ways. if someone sends a location to you, you do not want to get a complete later on that drivers do not know where they are going. that is the type of complaint we tend to get regarding this issue. this is not irrelevant. it is actually an important point in order to maintain a medallion. finally, i do not want to go into details regarding the brief. i think the brief summers up everything relatively well. there was an issue regarding mr. omar's airport transaction. his bills will typically have an sfo trip, if not several. smart cars were introduced to sfo the summer of 2007, in june 2007. you can

that is the clear where application. since the appeal was filed in a timely way and through the months of august and september we worked with the appellant group, a lot of things came to light for clear wire and american power corporation -- american power corporation. working with that and working with supervisor campos, we were able to ultimately get face space with the appellants and understand some of the underlying issues of the graffiti and some of the landscaping issues at the site. since then, american tower has taken great efforts to come into those compliances, which they have three years to do, but to do it in a more timely way. that effort is ongoing right now, as we speak. the line of action has been submitted to the board for their ongoing activities. i am going to turn the microphone over to our legal counsel, who will make some other particularly relevant comments about the ceqa exception. >> good afternoon, mr. president, members of the board. i am the outside counsel for clear wire. we are focusing now o

and that after a six-month period from the date of the document the applicant may submit an application to planning to modify the conditions to allow him to have entertainment until 2:00 a.m. on thursdays additionally. northern station recommended approval with additional conditions that i've also attached. please note the conditions allowing entertainment -- the condition allowing entertainment only until 1:30 from northern station. this is a regular condition from them. it's more restrictive than the c.u. conditions and it's in front of you for your consideration. the applicant also submitted letters of report with his application, notably from the union street association and the union street enrichment association. the other thing i did want to point out was that the planning department has indicated that the applicant is in the midst of completing a building permit application that is relevant to the second and third-floor uses. i don't believe those are entertainment uses, so they're not really something you need to concern yourself with, but they are asking staff that we not issu

the applicant will go through the regular process that i have given. and permit holders are subject to vocational requirements and they have a year to come into compliance. the permits that go back of the 1995 -- the grandfathering disability keep their current locations. the single individual or entity can receive permits for more than 7 mobile food facility. each of them can have an unlimited number of locations with a can of the more than seven under any other ship. that will not be operating in residential districts, only a neighborhood where commercial or industrial. and there is a provision that permits may be revoked after six months or nine years. and that is the public or changes on streets and sidewalks. i will turn this over to daniel, the will take you to the proposed revisions covering the local food vendors on this kind of property. i will come up with a couple of amendments with the city attorney. >> good morning. justice is slides to quickly go through, with the street from puzzle the those outside of the public right of way. before i d

org has the application the community challenge grant web page. so, let's see. it's a highly competitive grant. there are 200 officially recognized neighborhoods in the city of san francisco. check it out if you go to sfgov. org and click on agencies and the planning department on the planning department home page there is a spreadsheet they update when they have time of neighborhood organizations that want to be notified. so and many are interested in getting money to improve their neighborhoods. we usually have applications along the order of 2-1/2 times the funding that we have. like we will have 500 thousand dollars available to give out ask and we get 1.3 million dollars worth of applications. it's competitive. we are not hard and fast about breaking down the money between small, medium and large. we are pretty flexible. we like to look at good projects. we always try to fund one large project if it's a hundred thousand we may be might not fund 2 large projects. so, with that, i will quit and invite david and neil and joseph to talk about some of their proj

the commission? seeing none, item number six. hearing and possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. item a, caponi, regan, fillmore street, a place of entertainment. >> this applicant applied for a place of entertainment permit on april 24 to permit entertainment at the comet club. mr. caponi was required at his location to complete a conditional use authorization and his conditions of approval are attached to this memo dated september 16 of this year. i just highlighted some relevant conditions for your consideration. although -- not consideration, for your reference, really, as you know, all of the conditions automatically get put into our place of entertainment permit. so just for the sake of discussion, there is an allowance for entertainment from 6:00 p.m. until midnight, sunday through thursday, and 2:00 p.m. until 2:00 a.m. on fridays and saturdays. in addition there is a condition not allowing patrons access to the rear patio. there is a condition, one i've not seen before, that says that outdoor tables and chairs may not remain on the sidewalk in the front durin

the application said 50% but a legislative review committee says it is sticking by 35%. this concern that a change in the race to the top application could place maryland on the sidelines and the school superintendent is fearing the worst. >> as you know, 500 points, the maximum points you could get, but if you dipped below 440 you were no longer competitive. there are states that lost this opportunity by a few points. if we were to change something and it required a major deduction in points, that could

applications. so how do you provide the incentive to application developers? >> guest: the problem is they go application by application will be very difficult. what you need to do is get some transparency to the consumers so they can see their bucket of minutes is being used up at a more or less rate by a given application. they will see that -- >> bcg, this application is going to take up too much. it's not worth my money so to speak. let's get you might have to quickly. >> guest: we think that's one mechanism that can do it. their other mechanisms that are dynamic like that. you can use an analogy to the electric grid where you have stickers on your refrigerator that says this one is expected to use so much over this period of time. i think it would be better if there was dynamic, but maybe something more static could be done, too. >> host: this is c-span "the communicators" program. our guest is gpl of the qualcomm corporation, paul jacobs. paul kirby is with "telecommunications reports." his argus reporter. >> they announced that qualcomm has announced the

the applications will be accepted through november 15. i do think that -- i don't think there is question as to whether or not we will have a resident on the committee. because of that commitment and because of that commitment, i think we should be moving forward with the nominations that have been presented to us and the real appointments -- reappointments. i agree with what the speakers have said. this seems to be a very strong -- it is a very strong group of people that encompasses a lot of different parts of our community and a lot of the different needs. i think the appointment of larry mazzola jr. and larry del carlo are significant and needed. i think they will be great appointments to the treasure island development authority. i am ready to make a motion that would be to move forward items 6 -- i'm sorry -- items 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13, tabling items 6, 8, 10, and 12. essentially, what that does is it would move forward the appointments of claudine cheng, john elberling, linda richardson, jean-paul samaha, larry del carlo, and larry m