as we all know, the beach is a narrow strip of lands. when you look to the rest there's the whole rest of the world. when you look at the east you look at the homes of 800,000 people crammed into 49 square miles. yet we heard today in the first presentation that relative to national park policy, there's no real difference between yosemite and playland at the beach. if the presence of 800,000 people next to a beach is of no consequence, then i'm not surprised that we have a problem. my major use of the golden gate recreational area is to run our dog at fort funston. before we had a dog, we had a small child who is now grown up and we used to go to the beach. and my son would get sticks with his friends and run up and down the dunes swinging his swords and yelling and hooting and hollering and having a generally good time. i know now that that was probably more damaging to the habitat than anything my dog would ever do. but if we're not going to leash the children and we're not going to leash the dogs, then probably a better solution is to

residential special use district on the north beach special use district. on the three actions before the commission, the department makes the following recommendations -- the department recommends adoption of the ceqa findings, including the statement of overriding considerations, mitigation, monitoring and reporting program and recommended improvement measures. the department recommends adoption of the general plan findings and that the project is consistent with the objectives and policies of the general plan and meets the criteria set forth in section 101.1 of the planning code. accordingly, the department recommends that planning commission find the project to be in conformity on balance with the general plan, along with the proposed conditions. and finally, the department recommends that the commission recommends approval with modification to the proposed re-zoning ordinance. the requested modification is to amend the ordinance to remove the 2000 mason street property, the currents joe dimaggio playground, from the telegraph hill-north beach residentia

i would much rather have an experience walking along the beach. i don't necessarily -- right now we go down to the legal end of the beach down by sloat. there's an area less than a block long. when it's high tide, you can't even walk there, and that's what they've given us. they've given us this little tiny area to walk in, and i'm disgusted. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi, i'm john keating. thank you, supervisors. i've been following the ggnra issues for about a decade now, since i arrived at the coastal bluffs, to find that the park service has closed the only real good disabled access trail in the bay area without any concern or contact with the public beforehand and subsequently watched as they closed down the only large sand dune that children could play on in the bay area, while completely ignoring the last public comment you received on that. i want to thank the ggnra, superintendent dean, howard leaf itch, smith, and whoever is behind us in this process for being here. i want to thank them for their public service, a

the north beach library is on the joe dimaggio playground, a heavily used urban park. despite its heavy use, the part is constricted by numerous elements -- by buildings that are on the site, by fencing throughout the site, but a very steep grade change, and by the streets the border it. this shows the park prior to the installation of the library. recognizing that both sets of amenities are essential to the north beach neighborhood, the library and recreation and parks department instituted a planning process to achieve a set of goals that would improve the community. the goals were to expand the library, providing adequate shelving for books and materials, separate spaces for children and adults, public computers and seating, a room for community use, and ergonomics staff workspaces. to ensure the key library service elements are on one floor so the building is cost- effective to operate. to ensure that both the library and parks are safe and accessible, meeting seismic safety and ada requirements, and to provide a safe and welcoming playground and building, with vis

however, what it did have is a steamtrain line that ran out lincoln way to the beach. it was basically built to bring picnicers, who wanted to get away for the weekend, to go to the beach for a sunday. right here at the end of the sunset district, at the northwest corner, is where carville gets its start, on a little strip of land, a little block that the mayor at the time owned. and that's where colonel daley put up his little coffee sal yoon -- saloon, using that old car. that's where carville takes off. so who's responsible for carville? we said the mayor of san francisco at the time. very wealthy land owner. owned at one point i think they say 1/12 of san francisco in land. most of it was in the west side of the city. robert fitzgerald was called the king of carville. he was an early settler to carville. jacob heyman that realtor, started being called the father of carville. we'll see why in a second. and this guy on the left, colonel daley, was often called the pioneer father of carville. he really gets a lot of the credit. here's colonel daley in his little shed.

when i run by the beach, the birds also take off. supervisor wiener: thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello, my name is natalee, and i wanted to say a few things. i am pro environment, pro dog, and permit human -- and pro- human. i cannot stress at combating dog behavioral issues that only off leash play can give. by adopting a policy, it is inevitable that the congestion will lead to a situation with all dogs. we're putting so much money, time, and effort into a proposal but seems to be based on a lack of scientific evidence. this proposal takes no account of the human impact in the area, like running, people's garbage, cigarette butts, the impact of other animals, and even just the threat to other small animals or the erosion of soil. all responsible dog owners and doc professionals are in favor of allowing this and collecting revenues and fees. we need to have a balanced and fair proposal for santa is the city parks as well f.m. -- as well best -- asd -- as the ggrna. banks. t -- hanks. >> my name is -- and i live just off of the embarcadero, and i will introduce m

the rules that let us what our dogs say that we may walk our dogs only at the beach. i don't know about the rest of you, but i have had any operation. i can't get down that sliding path to the beach. that is discrimination. there are seniors that meet every morning that can't get down to the beach. let us mingo with everybody else and enjoy a where no one else will be. they are not nesting on those blocks. i would like to suggest that the dogs have to be restrained, let's restrain children. supervisor wiener: next speaker. >> i am here representing the san francisco lead of conservation voters. it is a stellar national park, one that would be a national park whether or not this area was next to it. it contains an area more rare than any other national parks. this is unprecedented in the national park system. in its welcoming of dog activity in its welcoming of off-leash dog activity. it is already a huge compromise. one principle agreed to by all parties which i participated in was that visitors that wanted to have a dog-free experience in the park had that right. the

a mile of ocean beach, a half of the christie field airfield in the entire beach would remain open to off-leash dog is. -- dogs. and the plan provides for a variety of experiences, including visitors that prefer not to interact with the dog. and ultimately protect critical species and habitats. we have often worked with san francisco on many issues in this plan is no different. we plan to work with the city. this plan addresses impacts ha, we are willing to work with city officials and staff to see how we can address your concerns and questions about that. we are working with many fronts in san francisco right now. where do we go from here? we need to hear from the public in a very constructive been substantive way -- and a substantive way. the of the plans look the same as they did at the beginning. we are open to constructive feedback. we need to hear from all groups, and all comments will be carefully reviewed. the final plan will respond to substantive comments. we believe that this unique part can have a unique rule on dog use. this plan reflects years of hard work by hundreds of

i have a job on the beach with my various dogs. this is my most important recreation and probablymy most pleasurable activity. i would like to use the time to address the question of the commissioners as to why people go to the ggrna instead of the city parks, and my particular reason is that most city parks are small. they are little areas, at most one quarter or half a mile long, so it is difficult to get a long jogged in it in those areas unless you want to just run around in circles, whereas the ggrna has a long distance, so that is my reason for it. to continue with what i have prepared here, those of you who visit, you probably know it is really about fog and wind most of the time, and it is normally used primarily by dog walkers, people with their dogs, especially the fourth, and then a smattering of other types of walkers and joggers, surfers, people like that. my concern is that when we have to leave and go to the city parks, the force will be empty, and so we will have the opposite problem that they were describing, where

i will just read briefly from the letter. north beach neighbors supports approving the installations of micro cell antennas at these locations. we believe they will provide a necessary improvement on cellular service in the neighborhood and that the country has minimize any negative impact. it is our understanding that the proposed installation means necessary safety standards. t-mobile has worked to make sure the antennas will not normally be visible from the street. i wanted to come here this evening and the state the position of the north beach neighbors and separate from that, i will state that i do own and manage my own business in north beach. i also live here in san francisco. i actually still do have a land line. i do not actually know the number to it even though i have been there for five years. and never give up the number. but i have to call out on that number when i am at home. otherwise, on my cell phone, it drops immediately, randomly at any time. and i find it very embarrassing that in san francisco, the backyard of silic

in the north beach area, they have a high school and middle school involved. this is very important. i will support in the north beach area. thank you. >> good evening, supervisors. i am in the chinatown, long beach area. i am a cell phone user. i spend a lot of time in long beach and chinatown. sometimes they do not work good in the area, especially at my restaurant. the signal is even cut off. it affects our community. honorable supervisors kamala please do something about this. -- honorable supervisors, please do something about this. in the case of emergencies. so many seniors are in the chinatown area. on the hill, people do not have to look at antennas. please, no more delays. thank you for your consideration. >> good evening, supervisors. we have a specialty general contractor. we are located on third street. we are the telecommunication workers that make yourself ands -- cell phones work. we employ roughly 120 employees. we are a union contractor. we love these jobs. in the 16 years, we have never had health damage from rf exposures. for the general pub

i have a job on the beach with my various dogs. this is my most important recreation and probablymy most pleasurable activity. i would like to use the time to address the question of the commissioners as to why people go to the ggrna instead of the city parks, and my particular reason is that most city parks are small. they are little areas, at most one quarter or half a mile long, so it is difficult to get a long jogged in it in those areas unless you want to just run around in circles, whereas run around in circles, whereas the ggrna has a long distance,

. >> those guys in suits on the beach, you have to watch out for them. >> with ear pieces in their ears. >>> and the sharks, how are they doing tonight? >> they've had very impressive wins in the past few days. they work out today to get ready on what they hope will be a close out. right now they have a 3-1 lead in their series against the kings and looking to give them the kiss of death down in the tank in san jose and move on to round two. >> we had the opportunity to win that fourth game you have to take an advantage of it. we don't want to get on a plane and go there and fight for another 60 minutes. you want to get the time you can, get the extra rest. >> we have to be hard. we have to be ready to go. they are playing for their lives. you know they're going to come out strong. definitely in the past two games and we expect them to come harder. >>> looks like we have good news for sacramento kings fans of the nba. turns out they might not be moving to anaheim after all. their current owner says absolutely no decision has been made to move the team. but they want to see if the mayor

but make no mistake -- it is our library, the north beach. and i feel with a passion so strongly about this e.i.r. going through. i mean, as i was crossing the street i thought, gosh, i had turkey the past two years. i was thinking of it in terms of holidays, how many holidays. and i hope you approve this going forward, in springtime at a barbecue and eating turkey and i'm not up here taking your time again. it's just -- i officially believe and our board of directors came up with reading is the key to knowledge. knowledge is the key to success. and success makes a lifetime. and a good environment is so important for everyone. so thank you for -- and i probably took too much time, so -- >> good afternoon. howard wong, friends of apple ton woeford -- wouldford library. i ask that the e.i.r. not be certified because it's incomplete, inaccurate and misrepresents many of the facts. the city's e.i.r. consultant, who i met him of the planning staff, who i met, attorneys and city staff have devoted six months to respond to many public comments. with

boat washed up on the ocean beach. the suspect was also wanted for other outstanding felonies. ere warrant for his arrest, he was taken into custody. officials say he was intoxicated and believed he was acting alone. live in ocean beach in san francisco, kron 4 news. >>pam: a plan to make streets more friendly for pedestrians may not make them family for fire trucks. jonathan blum has more on the debate over slanted streets in san francisco treasure island. >>jonathan: the wind shear on san francisco treasure island is always blowing. that's why the people with redeveloping the island have proposed new structures. the streets are designed to let in the sun from over here while keeping out the wind from over here. the problem is the city's fire marshal said she was concerned that the new slanted streets could propose a problem fire engines trying to navigate in the event of an emergency. we caught up with a fire chief who said that the concern she doesn't share. >> i don't share that concern, very confident that studies were done this process is good to go. >> if you think in san

the 1960's. i've seen north beach change a great deal. and i would respectfully submit that you tank this proposal. it's doing nothing good to enhance the city besides the views and all the other stuff. i'll get off now, make time for president olague: i called a few speaker cards, but if there's any additional public comment on the e.i.r. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm actually a landscape architect with the city for the last eight years. but you'll here today as a neighborhood activist of 20 years in north beach and have been very active in a lot of the community projects. i just want to let you know, this has been a very long process, extremely long. i personally have been involved for over 10 years in this project. and we have studied every iteration possible. and i'm really -- i know you've gone through a lot. the e.i.r.'s this thick. everything has really been studied and change is hard, but i think this is potentially the most beneficial project to our neighborhood and for our families. so i wanted to give you an indication,

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out toward the beaches, yup, we've got 50s and 60s. and fog and sunshine. and some cool weather there. and high today worked out like this. 61 in pacifica and 73 in redwood city. and 76 the hot spot in santa rosa. and 74 in livermore. and right now, those temperatures are running in the 50s out toward the beaches and we still have some 60s and 70s in many of the valleys. still if you plan on traveling around the state, we could see a few more raindrops showing up the further north you do go and of course the high country can see a couple of showers. a slight chance for tomorrow. rain becoming lightly toward monday in the mountains and returning to sunshine as we look toward tuesday. still, the high pressure is holding on just a bit. you get the sense. you get the next storm. this one will drop over the top of the ridge. eventually we're talking about rain in the bay area late sunday night into monday. but for tomorrow, expect some partly cloudy skies. it looks like it will be pretty nice around the bay area. just the passing clouds. and of course the patchy

at the beach, partly sunny clouds and son, winds 15 to 25 m.p.h. e book of those temperatures only in the mid to upper 50s. if you're headed that way and make sure to bundle up, it's not only going to be chilly but it's going to be on the cool side. speaking of the cool, here we are in like tahoe this is my ears on u.s. 50. the snow still look there and we might actually have more snow in the sierra coming up for monday. today a dry day. for monday a chance for a little bit of some rain and snow. snow levels of around 6,000 ft.. a gradual warming trend in to mid-week. highs around the bay, low the mid-60s, 64 santa rosa, 64 fairfield average time is 70 degrees. cooler than normal readings, 50's at the beaches, san francisco i don't think your going to make it into the 60s today. the '60s for the shore, a union city, castro valley and oakland. fremont 63, clouds and sunshine mixed this afternoon. 64 livermore, concord into the mid '60s. the south bay is going to be not a bad day here just a little on the cool side 65 santa clara and san jose. here is

it says for purpose of the north beach public library and joe dimaggio master plan, can we add other public use in there? >> john mallman from the city attorney's office. technically, the street vacation legislation is not before the planning commission. you play a role in that you are getting the general plan clearance to allow the vacation to go forward. i'm sure that we could work something out with the legislative sponsors so sort of expand that finding in the street vacation legislation so it's similar to defining it in the zoning legislation. >> that would be -- i would be more comfortable, if you could keep north beach public library in there, but following the argument for the zoning change where you have wording that says or other public use would seem appropriate to me. i'm just throwing it out there as a suggestion. we don't have a motion yet. >> i don't understand the reason that your question -- commissioner sugaya: because it's a specifically targetted use and i'm uncomfortable, if this zoning is to last forever what if the library gets demolished in 50 years like the pr

a separate access path to the beach for dogs and people could easily resolved a longstanding problem area and be designed to restore native species at the same time and went into the natural environment, and people suggested areas where they could walk their dogs of liege -- often each -- leash. i often wonder why a former airfield would be, off limits. even though would be possible to protect this without compromising it. so this is not about environmental development. it is about meeting two environmental needs, and natural areas in an urban area, and the board of supervisors has not been reluctant in the past to stand up to for the needs and rights of its residents in the ggrna. some of you remember when the changes did not involve the community. we appreciate their efforts and know it is not easy. for the quality of the city, the quality of the environment, the quality of the neighborhood, and, in short, the quality of the urban life, as it says in the san francisco charter. huckabee's q2 asked -- we ask you to asked -- ask ggrna to look at this and other resources are preserved.

this is the first day that cameron beach is not with us. in honor of his memory, heat -- we have left his name plate up here. he died about two weeks ago. he really cared passionately about the work of the mta. he was interested in it, a wonderful service in his memory. oftentimes, i asked him about something. this is a huge amount of knowledge and was very wise. we have done a number of suggestions in recent weeks about this report to recognize him. one suggestion is to name the street car coach and he was very involved in this. another one that makes a lot of sense to me would be the geneva yard where the historic st. cars are stored and repaired. that would be a fitting thing to named after him. his contributions to the city was enormous and i think it would be a fitting way to remember him i understand to do this, what we need to do is to ask the city attorney to draw up some kind of resolution to do that and i would be interested in members of the board's comments. >> i will miss his wisdom, his wit, and his generosity. i think naming t

i believe the north beach library should be redesigned. the wholesale removal destruction of it -- i see the libraries in the presidio branch and the richmond district that have not been knocked down. these are beautiful buildings that have been augmented and redesigned. also, i see tax dollars wasted. i have seen lots of different types of proposals that actually improve the original design of the building and augmented. those seem to be disregarded. what about the views of alcatraz? that would be blocked. i also work in the hotel business. granted, people are here for only five days or a week, but that iconic view will be lost forever. it looked like tennis courts for going to cover part of the baseball diamond named after the great joe dimaggio. my concern is that this project seems to be more steamrolled and thought through, as far as i have been able to observe. i encourage this project to be put on hold, at least so it can be reviewed more thoroughly, to the point where the a original building can be kept instead of being knocked down

now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the beginning. and a group of 20 businessmen decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained for the public. so they put their money down and they bought four lots at the top of the hill and they gave them to the city. lily hitchcock coit died without leaving a specific use for her bequest. she left a third of her estate for the beautify indication of the city. arthur brown, noted architect in the city, wanted for a while to build a tower. he had become very interested in persian towers. it was the 1930's. it was all about machinery and sort of this amazing architecture, very powerful architecture. he convinced the rec park commission that building a tower in her memory would be the thing to do with her money. >> it was going to be a wonderful observation place because it was one of the highest hills in the city anywhere and that that was the whole reason why it was built

main reasons why we have to close the beaches after heavy rain. narrator: but even when it's not raining, water still enters the stormwater system, carrying pollutants. here on the west coast, a lot of our storm drain systems are separate from the sanitary sewer system, so if you dump something in the storm drain, it goes right to the ocean untreated. alamillo: we haven't had a major rainstorm in the last year or so yet there's a lot of water in this creek here. i would say 20% of it is natural and the other 80% is runoff. shapiro: the purpose of the smurrf is to treat dry weather runoff, which is coming from storm drains. dry-weather runoff occurs when people waste water through washing their cars in the street, hosing down sidewalks and parking lots, their irrigation systems overspray. narrator: in a city of 12 million people, those seemingly small bits of wasted water accumulate to enormous amounts. shapiro: so all that ends up in our streets, ends up in catch basins, storm drains, into our storm drain system, and for some of the city, parts of

folks hanging out here in the beach at the bay area. it's a gorgeous day.ast as early as this afternoon. you can see our satellite beginning to pick up on a fog bank just off the coastline. that is starting to sweep closer and closer. that's going to be moving onshore later on showing signs that that onshore breeze is kicking in. and our temperatures will start to cool down. much more so as we head in through the weekend but what a day today. lots of sunshine and some beautiful weather out there. sunny skies everywhere you go. 70s and 80s. some 60s at the coastline, some cooler temperatures showing up there. but numbers now 78 in fairfield, 74 in san jose. and 74 degrees right now in san rafael. i think as we look toward the weekend this ridge finally breaking down and moving out of the way. you can see some high clouds encroaching on the bay area here showing signs, yup, that we're in for a cooler day but still above normal. 70s and 80s in most parts of the bay area. so enjoy it. big changes for the weekend ahead. expect about 81 degrees in morgan hill, 79

the ordinance for changing the zoning should not specify use for the new north beach library that is not compatible with such zoning as inappropriate to specify in the zoning ordinance. also the construction on the city street we all recognize is contrary to the san francisco general plan and probably likely, if understood clearly by the average resident, wherever they are on any street, any district if they understood clearly that a neighbor adjacent to them would be constructing into the sidewalk or street, i think one would recognize most people would oppose it for various reasons and that needs to be clearly thought out in how that is communicated rather than having many models and renderings which tend not to show property lines. the alternatives available to mitigate these issues need to be evaluated. the general master plan is a very beautifully presented drawing. as an architect, i appreciate the high quality of workmanship in the model rendering, the drawings, the computer generated drawings. but i recognize there's a certain salesmanship in any type of drawing you present in