three of the eight locations are around the chinatown area. we also have a large workforce to benefits from the services of the chinese hospital. the value of having a community hospital in the heart of where people live and work is a measurable. supporting the rebuild of the new hospital helps insure our committee will culturally sensitive, modern and local health care services for the future. thank you. vice president wu: thank you. any further public comment on items that have been closed? >> commissioners, you are now at consideration of final action, where the public hearing is closed. the item under this category is item number 8. 834-835 jackson street. this is for the certification of the environmental impact report. vice president wu: my staff that work at the organization have participated in advocacy on this project. but i have refrained from attending any of those meetings. >> commissioners, this item is before you for your consideration. the public hearing for this is closed. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am planning departme

>> i am with the chinatown development center. i want to say from a regional standpoint, the san francisco adoption of the dashboard will be a great step forward for the region. we really need this. overall and in many cities, there is no way of measuring per development what the impact is and how it relates to the achievement of the arena. i think san francisco taking the lead is a great thing. some of the conversations on a regional level is looking to san francisco to set the standard for all of us. thank you. >> any additional public comment? >> if you do not mind, i will jump on and on this. the director and i attended a little bit of a workshop related to the collection of this data, and who we are in the base of silicon valley where we can start to take data, utilize it, use it to make decisions, create maps about where areas might be deficient, not only for housing, but for senior housing, retail as well. i look forward to anything that brings us closer to that. some folks over at uc berkeley really created a sort of a sens

chinatown. the importance of the culture on the street is the life of chinatown. we want to reinforce this basis -- the spaces on jackson street. keeping it as a unified streets, creating a pedestrian feeling. refining the paving pattern, providing street trees and other amenities along the sidewalk. the entry, we reinforce it with landscaping. again, incorporating james alley as well as stone street as part of the campus plan. eliminating curbs and gutters and creating more of a pedestrian field. -- feel. making useful spaces on the terraces. getting feedback from the community and working with staff, we developed a plan to create two courtyards, which reflect upon how the areas have been used before. gathering places for a lot of the social activities of the people in chinatown. the first plaza has a level entry in the central portion of the space. we expanded the amount of seating and enhance it with landscaping. the second courtyard steps down and addresses the secondary entry to the emergency r

the broadway project in chinatown is an extension of the project but with a real focus in chinatown where we see the highest concentration of pedestrians. as david mentioned, this was a collaborative effort between other city departments as well as our community partners. for this project, we applied to the grant with chinatown community development center. we started from the beginning developing and out reach strategy for how we would engage the community, working a lot with the senior population that does not speak english. having that partnership was key in terms of getting the ball to come to the meetings and participate as well as helping to facilitate translation. all of our materials and presentations were conducted in both english and cantonese. we heard readings in the early evening at times that were most convenient for the community members. education was a key piece of the project in terms of learning about different aspects of the street, the width of lanes, the function of a ball about, what a scramble means to help the community be more informed in the design process. we h

the chinatown community is not just anywhere. i would absolutely support the project today, but emphasize the continuing work with the department so that the building really appears to be part of the community that it serves. commissioner sugaya: yes, going on that note. i think the issue is that we have an historic district, as we have been reminded, and a part of that historic district has the kind of chinese motifs and what knots and other parts to not. i am not saying there is a uniform kind of architecture. the district is not just architecture. it is also the history of the area and other aspects, events that took place, etc., that make up the district. what the other commissioners, -- like the other commissioners, at this building does not speak to me as being sympathetic to that district. i wrote a letter to wayne during the week in which i said the old building -- i really liked the old building. i am sorry it is going to be demolished. it has a certain way of holding together. the injury itself -- the entry itself -- i c

first of all, let me start with the dean of the chinatown northeast campus, and then i will go next to vice chancellor of academic affairs for the community colleges of san francisco. august 15, i believe, it is the day that a shining new chinatown campus will be unveiled, and 7000 students will hopefully go through the doors to celebrate a decades-long fight for a modern, magnificent campus in the chinatown-north beach area. let me first say, with city college in chinatown, she has shaped the lives of hundreds of students. the dean of instruction, the director of the asian success center, and with the gop yes -- the e.o.p.s. as she has been a tremendous not only faculty member and counselor but also an administrator as well. she has helped to really give a voice to immigrant

for the residents of chinatown, the opening was especially significant, considering the population and amount of open space in the area. i want to thank my planning director and project manager and everyone who had a hand in making that opening such a big success. some good recognition. next friday, july 27, san francisco beautiful hosts its annual event in which they recognize individuals and programs and activities that have contributed to the beautification of san francisco. happy to report that our department is receiving 3 awards at the event. the new is for the -- the first one is for the new helen diller playground which opened up this spring. and then we are honoring george wong, who has made sure that our parks are beautiful. the third thing which we are a part of it is the ocean beach planning process. we participated with spur and the national parks service, puc, and numerous other stakeholders and community organizations, to create a long-term vision and plan for ocean beach. helen miller played run was also featured in this month's issue of "sunset magazine." some addition

she has taken the helm of the dean of the chinatown campus and i wanted to make sure that we as the board acknowledged her years, decades of work but acknowledge her new leadership position at the chinatown campus. next is the former dean, joanne lo. not only a champion of esl, or english as a second language, many efforts at curriculum development and teaching students, she has been a tremendous administrator at the city college level. she is the vice chancellor of academic affairs overseeing not only john adams but many different departments. she has dedicated her servants -- service as the vice chancellor of city college and she was the administrator of the esl different. she has been on the board of the richmond district center and she is also a leader in our richmond district community as well. i ask you to join me in commending them for their years of work as we open and celebrate the new chinatown campus and the movement of students and community people from the educational opportunities for chinatown and different coalitions of faculty and students that fought for many years. than

we also want to maintain the beautiful fabric of what chinatown is, and i think that some of the things commissioner moore and others have identified with the actual building is really critical. i mean, we recognize from looking at other projects there's not a great lot of renovation and doesn't seem to be in hospital design but this particular hospital, this location, does need to be treated a little more sensitively. >> if i may jump in, i want to address some different aspects of i think what is in front of us today which is the chinatown area plan. i think that there's been a lot of discussion about preservation. i think one of the strongest preservation tools, both physically and as of use and of community has been the chinatown area plan. and i think there are many people in this room that were a part of that legacy and it was this department that shepherded this through. i think it really protected the residential base of the neighborhood, really protected the commercial and mixed use of the neighborhood and it's those residents every day that bring the bustle to the nabled and t

commissioner miguel: i think the work in chinatown looks good. i have not been called in it. but i did attend at least one of the meetings. i cannot remember if it was two regarding cesar chavez because it is potrero hill, and i use it all the time. it is just interesting to me that these are caltrans grants when these are probably some of the worst injuries and exits from freeways into san francisco that they ever designed. even when you know the area well, for years and years and years, you have to stop and think again -- which elaine am i supposed to be in? because that is where you are going to end up. they are very unforgiving. cesar chavez in itself is the absolute opposite of broadway. broadway is a place. cesar chavez is not a place in effect when you are talking about place making. it has virtually no pedestrians because there is nothing to go to. there is no transit to wait for to go to a bus stop. there is no retail whatsoever. you go from mission street and you keep going to third, and there is nothing. so you have very different street situations there. basically,

because it is part of the history of a hero coming from chinatown, san francisco. and i n you -- 9/11 is right around the corner. while, as tragic as that event was for the whole country, we do have our heroes. we have people who stepped up and saved thousands of more lives. these are heroes to the country. so i began this really with a very personal thanks to harry and the whole ong family. kathy and mrs. ong are here as well. thank you for letting us celebrate a wonderful life in contribution to our own american history. the name here is not only embedded on the walls here, but we have that time capsule that we did in september so that in future generations, many people will hear about this name, hear about why it is important to remember the ong family and betty and her heroic efforts to save lives. but we also have generations of children of a family that will be here that will know the reason why we need this important institution in our community after someone who sacrificed her life and was a hero to all of us. with that, if i may present to the ong family --

perhaps a fire in the chinatown area. ing on, sometimes fashion means something more important than just looking good. that is why this week's jefferson award winner is giving away the latest styles. kate kelly has her story. >> while most teenage girls are scourings stores for back-to- school clothing in the mall, the 17 year-old alison holt from is putting the finishing touches on her own store. allison was just 14 when she thought of combining her love of fashion with community service. >> that is how threads fourteens came out three and i had heard about from dress drives and i thought why not take it one step further and do all clothing. >> much as any clothing, she started the program to provide new, free stylish fashion as to teams that would not otherwise be able to afford them. >> buckle donated these genes, they are very nice brand. and then you have some of them were you look at a price tag and it is $140? >> top brands like tommy hilfiger and hot topic, they all wanted to help, so what started as allisonl schoo

we call the richmond district the new chinatown in the 1980's at that time. just being around the tremendous unique neighborhood, 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 par

the nearest parks are about half a mile away in union square and chinatown. result of the geographic facts, the shadows would only reach these in a very limited time of year, generally early in the morning and in certain months of the year when the sun and wind that is right. as a result, there are likely to be potential shadows that last 60 minutes and more commonly less than half an hour and down just a few minutes. because the buildings are so far away, the shadows are fleeting and because the buildings are far away, our empirical evidence is the shadows -- is not as if these are the media adjacent to the open spaces. the analysis in sudbury -- the analysis in the eir was very conservative and analyze relatively crude building forms and not specific designs which will come forward in the future. qw potential open spaces in the downtown area. and they might have in the shadows from these buildings and if you look at the numbers, they are very low. bÑumost of them are on the ordef 0.1% and some are much less than that. we believe that despite the findings in

i am the center manager for the chinatown one-stop career links center, operated by self help for the charity. we provide many resources for job-seekers looking for work, as well as a free assistance to small businesses looking for workers. in district four and district 7, we were wondering of supervisors and the mayor to look for resources for job-seekers who were looking for work, because there is a lack of job training programs, as well as for english learners to learn english. because we are seeing job- seekers and seniors coming into the chinatown area and using services there, and there is a need. it would be great if you could consider that. thank you for the opportunity. [applause] >> any other questions? george. i was surprised he waited this long, george. [laughter] >> thank you. george, district 7. a question for mayor lee. i wanted to ask him if he felt extending parking meter hours, increasing parking meters, adding parking on sundays, increasing traffic tickets is going to help create jobs in san francisco for small businesses? >> wow, you really waited a long time for t

across the city, we have been able to work and recreation centers like this. chinatown, as you have heard, is one of the most dense neighborhoods in our country. so facilities like this are very, very important for us to provide. most importantly, what do think the architect and design team that worked very, very closely with the community, all the community groups, to make sure that the center and the correct activities are being designed as part of this project. especially. wong, stanly, michele, and farah. a big hand to them because there were the designers. [applause] i also want to think david, the construction manager of all the dpw staff and all the contractors to came here. on a project like this on the bottom of a slope with the cable cars, there's a lot of activity. as you heard, we were able to deliver the product on time, on budget, but even better, below budget. again, we're working very hard together. lastly, you heard about all the art in the building. i want to point out this particular ceramic over here. orange, ground, and gray. those all locally-made

been since 1925, it has provided quality health care to the residents of chinatown. this is a hospital bed as a community-owned non-profit. -- this is a hospital that is a community owned non-profit. given the needed to mature at the health care of our future patients, the chinese hospital is planning to build an eight- story hospital that would help the quality and safety for patience while creating a safe and accessible work environment for staff. this effort will help ensure the continued contributions and viability of the system. there is the addition of a 22- bed skilled nursing facility to transfer patients from acute- care settings to their home. improved medical care services. and of course, future employment opportunities. with that, i would like to invite the planning department to make a brief presentation and move forward from there. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i would like to thank supervisor chiu for his introduction. the proposed general plan amendment will amend the general -- the china hospital plan regarding the height and bulk of the new hospita

of the historic center in chinatown. as part of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the center is set to reopen a new center named in honor of a san francisco native and national heroine thanks to this commission. enjoy activities for kingston and light refreshments on saturday, july 14 -- enjoy activities for kids and light refreshments on saturday. it is a pro. this opens in july, because july is national parks and recreation month. goothis is the official parks ad recreation month. join us in celebrating all the great things we love about our programs here again -- our programs. visit us at sfgtv.org. we have got a number of things plan. speaking of anniversaries, i do not think they are in the audience, but i want to congratulate glen eagles golf course. glen eagles golf course celebrates its 50th anniversary. i want to thank tom and his staff that have done a tremendous job of rejuvenating the course and making it one of the hidden gems of the city and probably the toughest nine holes anywhere. i have an

the natural areas program. >> thank you. next speaker? >> i'm representing chinatownmunity development center and also representing the committee for better park and rec in chinatown. i urge you to move forward the bond ordinance. we are very excited in our district three. the jody imagineo playground and those are included in this bond. it is the most crowded area in the city. i'd love to talk about trees but unfortunately ill be happy if we get a piece of open space. the playground in the heart of chinatown is often overused. but improving, renovating joe dimaggio and chinese playground will be of great benefit to the chinatown community and i also want to acknowledge the bond and recon park statue and are leading a very con ten shouse but interesting and productive bond process, both in the community and also throughout those meetings. it is not easy getting to where we're at at this point. we have something that should be a legacy project, if it will be before the voters in november and get passed. i think in five years' time, as we have seen now, looking back fro

the sacramento community, local and national businesses, my family at walgreen's, the san francisco-chinatown rotary club, and our partners, the san francisco parts alliance. we have received donations from individuals for large amounts and small amounts. and our foundation banks all of you in appreciation as equals. for those not able to donate money, our foundation thanks you just as much for your heart to's warm wishes and dots. also, i think all the flight crew members who are here today from near and far -- i thank all the flight crew members who were here today. [applause] i salute you. to honor and demoralize your fellow co-worker betty and to help celebrate this reopening, thank you for making our air flight safe, and you are truly first responders. and ask all of you, when you fly, please do not give the group a headache. [laughter] last but not least, i thank all of the members of the betty ann ong recreation council for their dedication in helping to plan this wonderful reopening event. in closing, my family and i thank all of you, all of you, for being here today and celebrating t