the japan town merchants association, the garage association and in the sugar bowl the bakery, thank you for coming as well. and a big thanks to our media partners. we want to let you know that we have received reports from many individuals from the small businesses and community organizations as well. you can find their names listed on the screen and on our web site. to promote this year's team celebrating heritage, a new program was launched in partnership with one of our natures partners -- major partners. the design contest provides an opportunity for aau students a promotepa karen -- to help promote apa heritage month. to announce the first annual public-service announcement award, jack chen, general manager of sfgtv. and the executive director of day. please give them a warm welcome. >> being the first year that we're doing the apa contest, we had a total of 15 entries working with the academy of art university. the entries were very creative in promoting the apa heritage history and apa month. sonny will talk about the criteria that we use. >> it was selected based on the foll

the golden gate valley neighborhood association. golden gate valley neighborhood association request that the planning commission not legalize the existing roof deck located above the one-story garage or all-out expansion. use of this private deck will create new ways. the primary users of this deck may be dogs makes the planning department approval more distressing. in any world other than the planning department, the garage and deck would be located in the side yard. maintaining that a side yard is a rear yard is no harm was fiction. the project sponsor and the dr requestor formulated a mitigation plan that the planning commission helped torpedo. the people of san francisco are not well served by alice in wonderland logic that blocks the compromises necessary for our neighborhoods. thank you very much. >> any additional public comment? speakers in favor of the dr? >> good afternoon. i have been a homeowner in the marina for 18 years. i live right around the corner from this proposed development. i've concerns about the street facing deck. this is a precedent-setting situation and i am concerned about the impact to the block face, noise, and also the impact to the residence in the

the van ness corridor association. we support cpmc's plan to rebuild. when we moved in, there was a parking garage adjacent to our building. it would shut down, due to tax evasion and fraud. it was unsafe, and secure, and uncared-for. my family and i parked there with little complaint, because it was closest to our apartment and church. cpmc purchased the building, and overnight, new lights were installed, with motion sensors, a new paint. signs were updated. safety took a front seat. a new parking system was implemented. things were handled decently and fairly. immediately, we felt secure and safe in our parking garage. cpmc# and favor of our community just because of how they handle their garages. they brought security and carrot that was long overdue. today, we stand in a similar situation. a huge block casts an ominous cloud ofwoñ emptiness over our corridor. i have enormous respect for the due diligence supervisors have to do. i know it is a difficult task. the block under discussion is in desperate need of healing. we have waited a long time to see something come along that can bring health

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associated with the majority of cases of cancer in the united states. we began a very aggressive approach to this. we started out by having no smoking allowed anywhere in our campus, are parking garagesthat is property of the cleveland clinic. then we had smoking cessation for all of our employees free. then we decided we would make a bold step and stop hiring smokers. by the way, it is legal. i checked. [laughter] one of the smart things i have done. [laughter] and then we rolled out this program of smoking cessation into the community. it helped drive smoking cessation lost -- laws in public places in the state of ohio. the incidence of smoking in the county has gone from 28% to 15% in five years. you can make a difference. perhaps we have saved more lives by doing that than one would in a cardiac surgical career. the epidemic of obesity is terrifying. right now, 1/3 of the united states is overweight. 1/3 is obese. obesity is leading the epidemic of diabetes. right now 10% of the cost of health care in the united states is secondary to obesity. the projections are, in the next 10 years that will go to 20%. we will not control the cost of health care in the united states unless we