the way back. that is an example of chinatown's night market. the next was the importance of parking issues, coordinating the parking needs, the cruise ship terminal, and the plan to be developed for fishermen's wharf. the exploratorium and planning department of the cities of the north east waterfront. on the right side, the different parking garages, almost empty on week nights and half full on weekends. the issues are how to make efficient use of those resources rather than creating more parking garages. there is technology we have begun to implement at a very rudimentary level. other cities have more advanced systems to allow people to know where parking spaces are located. right now, there are many on- street parking spaces run with four-hour limits. providing a shuttle system that allows people to get through the more distant parking garages to the other distant events and the destinations along the waterfront. some examples that we look at in the report, and back to the closest from the building is almost invisible behind the plaza. in par

we call the richmond district the new chinatown in the 1980's at that time.ghborhood, and discovering san francisco in the 1980's as i grew up, but i also have been very active as a community organizer. i worked in chinatown, and some first jobs also at the mental health center in the richmond area multi services in the 1980's, and i was also a staff are at the chinatown youth center -- i was also a staffer. a lot of my work has been supporting community empowerment, especially in an immigrant and people of color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures and people from different parts of the world, like a gateway neighborhood

it is the southern third of chinatown. the rest of chinatown is not helped, nor are all the people to the north and west. finally, according to the newspapers, the chinatown community development center is about to get about $9 million in grants and consulting fees, as a part of this project. so it is not quite right to say that they represent all of chinatown. there are a lot of people who have been working with us to oppose the project. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, same house, same call? so moved. next item. >> item 12. amend the prop k 5-year prioritization program for signals and signs maintenance and renovation. this is an action item. commissioner mirkarimi: any discussions? seeing none, discussion is closed. public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. same house, same call. so moved. next item. >> introduction of new items. this is an introduction item. commissioner mirkarimi: discussion? public comment? seeing none, public

as the freeway was being built, chinatown had no connection to the waterfront. so to me, i using the catalyst of what ever other development begins to be discussed, how to build connections is really important. it remains one of the dentist neighborhoods. our people have no place to go. we have chinese playgrounds and the recreation center that is being renovated right now. all they have to do we access -- there is no plan to build anything to connect those spaces to the residential neighborhoods. that is what it takes listening to the plan encourage adoption of proposals that will help to enhance the waterfront and make meaningful improvements. chinatown is also a tourist destination, and anything that also connects the economics of the neighborhood is really important. we don't want chinatown to remain in ethnic enclaves. -- an ethnic enclave. we need to make -- recognize the connection. that is my two cents. president olague: it is great to see you again. [reading names] >> i am a pedicab operator, and i support this plan. we need to more facilities for bicyc

the way back. that is an example of chinatown's night market. the next was the importance of parking issues, coordinating the parking needs, the cruise ship terminal, and the plan to be developed for fishermen's wharf. the exploratorium and planning department of the cities of the north east waterfront. on the right side, the different parking garages, almost empty on week nights and half full on weekends. the issues are how to make efficient use of those

aspire, district 7, a longtime democratic activist, district 8, the founding executive director of the chinatownmunity development center gordon chen, strychnine shirley chen, district 10, a community leader and visitation valley, and last but not least, the business woman and president of an iron works co., florence kong. could you join me in thanking all of their leadership? [applause] the last thing i want to say is we have been celebrating our heritage for 163 years, and i look forward to another 163 years of celebration. thank you very much for being here. >> supervisor chiu, thank you very much. this is the seventh year that san francisco has held an official celebration for asian americans. the plans are the culminated efforts of the members of the mayor's asian-pacific american heritage celebration committee. please welcome me and joining claudine cheng for her remarks on this year's celebration. >> thank you, everyone, for joining us for our celebration this year. the theme of our celebration is celebrate heritage, celebrated community voices. the community is selected this team for two

we say that you take the 15 with a 30 bus. chinatown, you never go east. they have the buses to go to fisherman's wharf. it is so boring to go. i practically cry listening to the seniors who had no concept of walking down washington because this was so dead. and an old man who takes his kids to fisherman's wharf talks about how there is no place to set and there is a long walk. it is easy going down but going up may be a problem. and you listen to people saying that there is nothing for them. we need to have something that is not boring so we can sit down as we are walking down from senior housing on broadway. it is like we have this enormous water from resource and this is cut off from the people who live close to it, who have no access to this. the freeway ramps really cut people off. they're good at moving a lot of people in cars. if we do not use time in the next year to change this right now, we are blowing an opportunity. we have to take seriously the improvements that we are talking about on broadway, and on washington in particular. there is no excu

the chinatown ymca celebrated its 100th anniversary today. in 1911, it was the first american ymca to serve the asian population. in just the past year, the y in chinatown opened up a teen center and a swimming pool as well. they all celebrated today. >>> so we're going to have weather tomorrow? >> pretty good, cool, we have

golden gateway started a scholarship program for young people, particularly in our neighbors of the chinatown area to attend a kids camp. thanks to our supporters and the nations, we were able to send out a number of young kids who can't, and this year, we were able to expand that to include not only chinatown, but young people south of market street. we feel it has been a very successful program, and the closing out of this club i would be real such programs, and it would never come back if it were done at half the size and that is planned. 700 people have been attending this camp. we are now able to provide the space for a number of young people that could not come before. no matter how many thousands of kids we have been able to support. you translate that into families. i heard a couple weeks ago that a number of you discussing why families are leaving the city. we recognize housing and education are important. very important. the recreational space and the limited space is also very important. taking away this area would be devastating not only to the community, but to the hundreds of fa

[applause] [applause] -- 17, pawlenty first single occupancy sro in the chinatown development center. he also wrote a grant proposal to create a bilingual fire safety and emergency preparedness curriculum along with emergency kits for each participating sro unit. [applause] [applause] valerie clinker is a voice of community change in front and behind the camera. she was a guest youth analyst at the third anniversary women's pioneer awards ceremony and presented gina davis with the woman pioneer award. she was also named valedictorian of the changing program. [applause] last but not least, a nasalee, 18, spearheaded the 16th street bart installation about gender which infused her passion for art and activism. an asset is a second year career educator at the arid and engaging facilitator of the group trend magic rashid is committed to becoming a visible and zero allied to the transgender community. [applause] [applause] >> thank you, supervisor mirkarimi, kim, mayor. once again, we are all here to honor and the phenomenal accomplishments of these 15 new four years. it has been a blessin

i also want to acknowledge that we will of the chinatown urban institute with us today. i do not know if you want to stand up for wave or something? if you are here. [laughter] so, if you have any questions, feel free to contact us through the directors of this, if you want to elaborate more, understand more about the workings of city planning. thank you. we will spend the time with that. i wanted to knowledge former commissioner sue lee is here. sadly, three members of san francisco planning family have passed away this week, in the past two weeks actually. 1 being secretary linda avery's sister. and anthony urbina, he used to help us set up the meetings here. he does the wide. and finally robert pinder, who was very active in the park merced organization . finally, i wanted to mention i was nominated jan 21st. that had to do with local manufacturing. there's a lot of potential there. so, maybe at some point, we can engage in more conversation about that. and finally, it yes, i think that sometimes -- the articles i have read on the exodus of families tend not to be ver

mixed use districts also, mixed use in general district, residential transit oriented districts, the chinatown visitor retail district, residential commercial districts, and the japan and western selma's special use district. conditional use is required, even if the establishment already occupies the space. since november 2007, the commission answered at approximately 25 conditional use requests for formula retell. three have been disapproved and 22 approved. there are currently six pending formula retell -- retails cu 's a department of the 25 that you have heard since 2007, three have been appealed to the board of supervisors. two of the more effectively upheld and one was overturned. the rest of the information is in the report. i am happy to answer any questions if you have it. president olague: thank you. i would like to recognize jillion from supervisor wiener's office. >> commissioners, to appear to use the one that supervisor scott wiener's legislative aides. i just ran up the stairs. he asked me to read you this letter. commissioners, who is directing in connection with your hearing t

the highest being. district 3 with chinatown, and the high altitude in the southwest. whites are 48 $%, asians 33%, african-americans at 6%. the lowest i nthe city in some time. and we identify multiple races. this is a sizeable category. let's go to the next one. the racial change, we have the world distribution. we have a big variation, and we can see that the second district is 80%. green is the largest share of asians. thank you. what is below the horizontal line, this is the net loss for a particular district. the color red is african- americans, with a loss of about 12,000 people in the last decade. concentrated in districts 5 and districts stand, where we have the asians growth. and district 6 and 10 and 11. latinos, the consensus -- you can indicate if you are of any race. this shows if people indicated that they were latino. district 6 have the largest growth. the strychnine had a loss of their population, compensated -- district 9 had a loss of their population. they pretty much speak for themselves all the labels may not be readable. this was 48%, with the a

you could take the bus from city college of the way to chinatown. the third street, all this deliberation, they talk the talk, but they cannot walk the walk. there are many factors. non-and the main factors is we do not have the software. we have all trains. the second factor is. if you take a certain portion of the lines, the third light rail perform somewhat well. the other day, i was waiting, and 3 trains -- not one, not the law -- not two. we waited 50 minutes for the train. supervisor mar: where was this? >> the bay shore. it is quite a popular hub. you wait for 15 minutes. you have an algorithm. you can use the algorithm and reduced the statistics. this is the point. in the past, the fifteen and third performed well. today, the third street light rail should be given an f-minus. that is my analysis. what i heard today was an analysis of the paralysis. we do not need that. when it comes to the language, most of the chinese constituents take a different line to get to chinatown you bang -- to giant dump. many others who speak chinese. -- to china

you build it here, in glen park, the mission, chinatown. it builds up the strength of the city. it comes back to our department's opening up their resources, not protecting it like other bureaucratic agencies have historically done. we've said we can do it and be challenged with a grant program completely open to everybody. these things are worth the $1 million it looks like today. it is worth 10 times more in building camaraderie and companionship with our neighbors. i want to emphasize that. i want to represent that by giving what i can do to reflect our appreciation for the leadership. it is a certificate of honor to julian for his leadership on this project and many other projects that have kept this community working and expanding and growing. there is a design around his leadership. by voice vote as the mayor and city administrator that when you have strong communities, things like disasters, we will have strong neighborhoods to help us recover back. this is the beginning of that. i want to give you this certificate on behalf of the city, parks trust, the challenge grant p