think of the the marina and that's the best case for your neighborhood. >> okay. come on over and have a seat an we'll talk about buildings, you house and what kind of problems you might have and what you can do to help solve your problems at home. i have on our screen some typical san francisco buildings most of the buildings in san francisco are wood frame, over 90 percent. typically they're light weight and relatively strong, generall strong. in most cases, wood buildings are strong because they have lo of interior partitions as well. >> there's a lot of flexibility when i'm pushing you, the building the flexible, he's moving around. >> right. >> so this type of building is great as long as there isn't critical flaws. >> which is the good thing to see what is a g. >> gravity. you weigh 100 percent of gravity. >> that's me. >> if lawrence weighs 100 pounds, one gravity down means he weighs 100 down. an earthquake is creating horizonal acceleration this way at the ep pi center, the ground was shaking the buildings at roughly 50 percent. so that would be pushing l

the marina is in this area here. u can correlate the advancement of the shoreline of san francisco with the potential for liquefaction. >> it is a perfect example. it is all sold and liquefaction. >> treasure island is unique. it was originally developed to be the location of the world fair with the understanding that once it was finished, that would become the location of san francisco international airport. it is 11,000 feet long. in those days, the thought that was more than enough to land any conceivable airplane. they thought it was ideal. they said that we have all kinds of sand out in the bay from the sacramento river. we will take the stand out of the bay and create this island. the sand is loose and below the water. it liquefied in 1957. it liquefied in 1989 during the loma prieta. it was similar to what happened in the marina. >> as they move along and developed treasure island, the developer also has to provide stabilization programs. >> the sand has to be strengthened so that it will not liquefy. the build

pick up your radio, tell the marina residents shelter in place. don't go to your staging area out in the marina green. shelter in place. that may be one of your options. choose a room with no windows, as few as possible. pick a room with toilet, water, phone, have it large enough for family members. precut plastic with duct tape. there should be a law. have your disaster kit in that room, have snacks available for kids. turn off the hvac, heating, ventilation air conditioning units because you don't want to be blowing in or sucking in the vapor cloud outside. fireplace, close the dampers and seal off your shelter in place room by using duct tape and terms of the emergency alert system. listen to the radio. that's it. do not try to call the school, try to pick up your children because do you want to leave the area? no, you want to shelter in place. people own pets. do not risk your safety for pets. in summary, it is likely you are at an incident that may be involved with bnice, your safety is the most important. limit your time, get your distance a

may be for the marina may be you are referring to the required fixes for damaged houses, which we are not talking about that. we are talking about today we are talking about somebody who wants to do voluntary strengthening to a house. >> california building code states 5 eighth inch minimum. you don't go smaller but if you want to go to 3 quarter, that's fine much the california building code says you must have 5 eighth minimum and 7 ifrn embedment into the foundation. >> that was the only reason i asked. i thought i remembered the marina districtly quarter of an inch and can 12 inches long. >> in sheer wall system sometimes an engineer will call out for a decker bolt and may be as close as 12 inches together. the simple strengthening they are 4 feet apart. in a sheer wall that engineer could call for the bolts to be spaced 12 or 9 inches. >> if you visited us tomorrow with a permit for voluntary strengthening it wouldn't matter if you were in the marina or another neighborhood in the city. >> you always mentioned that you could possibly use if you want the plywood to be no less than

this is webster at filbert street in the marina. around san francisco odd buildings abound and this thing is in somebody's backyard and all over we see the incremental development and they have a porch and rail and walls up and here we have in somebody's backyard a fence that has become a wall and now fully occupied. >> it's a green house. >> and next year living quarters and pretty soon a manufacturing facility. lam bar lombard strd this building has contentious past and the owners want to lift it up and put a story underneath and the reason they want to lift it up throughout the city street elevations have been adjusted and as the streets get improved and the city heights don't get adjusted and many driveways go down into the garage. >> or windows below the street that makes no sense. >> and the streets of elevated and graded and of course the building settles but not that must have and the original flow of the thi-- floor of the build. >> i of in the building. >> me too. >> you are looking at the second floor now. >> the first flo

our latest earthquake was in 1989 it hit the marina district hard. this photo was taken in the marina. if you look closely at the garage door. it's not showing up too well but it's not too square. this building is probably leaning permanently against in building. if you look at this building it doesn't look too straight up and down this building is leaning, too. over there, something is not there anymore. >> another reminder from the 1989 earthquake, this used to be a 4 story apartment house. my guess is that this is the type of apartment house which has lots of garage door openings and other openings at the street level a soft story. it's likely that the soft story condition lead to contributed to this building collapsing much notice this gentlemen on the balcony. i wonder if he's getting out or trying to do some rescue. the 1989 earthquake was a magnitude 6.7 earthquake. the 1906 earthquake was magnitude 7.8. between 7.8 and 6.7 that's 10 times bigger. the latest projections indicate that there is a greater than 30 percent no greater than 60 percen

we're not talk about the marina district. if i were in the marina district i wouldn't be here. there's high density housing. we're talking about a 2 1/2 block commercial district with no high density housing. there's already an established wine bar in the neighborhood. you made a great decision last year. you allowed them to do what they wanted to do. i'm asking you to verify and agree with your decision last year and not approve this conditional use permit. we're the last business standing on that second block. we drive business to that second block. thank you. president miguel: thank you. >> good evening. i've been a resident of west portal for over 35 years. i'm very familiar with west portal area. i'm also past president, the greater west portal neighborhood association, although i'm not here representing them. i have to tell you that i resent people putting words in our association's mouth. mr. mccartle from what i understand runs a great business. they have good wines there, he's good to his customers and everything. and he's done well the whole time he's been in his posi

in the marina people said it felt like a minute. if you are covering yourself under the table and it's shaking what will happen in 30 seconds? you look up, where's the table. hold on to the table. if you are inside, stay in don't go from the known to the unknown. if you are downtown in an office building or shopping at macy's, do you run in the middle of the street? no. you stay where you are. how much time do you have? seconds. you have to make a decision within seconds. if you run to the street what will happen? >> get hit by a car. you have windows, glass to fall on you. high rise. if you know where you are, stay there than to go somewhere you don't know what's there. once it's shaking between 30 seconds to a minute and once it's over, things will fall and tip over. give it time to move around. of course, if there is danger coming to you, you want to move. so, picture these buildings. against the wall. will i go behind this wall? lean against it, cover my head? no. the pictures frames. if they come off and hit me on the top of the

out put the fires out in the marina. you want to stop, look, listen and think. you size up the situation this is what we do in the fire department. you look at it. is it a little fire. a candle burning. do i get the fire extinguisher. is it a big fire can i put it out. >> it would cover the area the size of a table. anything bigger or high are than your head it's too big for you to put out with an extinguisher. wait until everybody is out. it's best to work in pairs. make sure you are the last one out of the room. do not lock it. avoid smoke and gases. cover your mouth and nose with a towel or sheet or dry cloth. if you have a jacket, if there is a flame on the way out put clothes on or wrap yourself in a blanket the layer of clothing will give you protection. have an emergency plan for earthquakes and fires. elevators, a safe place to be? always take it is stairs. when you go down the stairs hang on to the hand rails you will have people bump into you. pay attention to the floors, you have fourth floor, third floor, in c

the summer. ... it's a real challenge each day to manage these berths. >>milns: antibes marina is one of the biggest and most popular and whilst it is possible, just about, to rent a berth space on a short-term basis, if you are looking for a long-term solution, the preferred option, albeit an extremely expensive one, is to buy a lease. >>murray kerr: all the phone calls i get are for the south of france, they simply are not enough berths. everybody wants to be here, permanently preferably, but the waiting lists are huge. you could wait for a decade to get a berth annually and you're not sure to get one. the best way to short-circuit the waiting list is to buy a berth. you buy a berth then you can expel the tenant and you can use the berth yourself... >>reporter: however, most of the leases are due to run out in 10-15 years when the marinas return to state ownership. the plan is that current owners will get priority to rent their old berth, for a similar rate to their current service charge but there's no guarantee that this will be the case. >>murray kerr: you never know who's

there was a march 2010 article in the "marina times." as well as there have been posting on the sf citizen blog. as well on sfgate on their -- i think it is a "inside scoop," their dining blog. moving forward, staff is committed to continuing this community outreach process. we viewed today as an important but preliminary step in moving forward with securing a long- term contract with ortega family enterprises. should the commission a full selection, we would immediately convene community meetings to present the proposal, as well as to receive feedback from the community that could be incorporated during the lease negotiations process. we would meet individually with all interested community associations and stakeholders, including particularly the zero house coalition and sf nature, who have been the most watchful community organizations following this project. then, upon successful negotiation of a lease, they would again convene community meetings and meet with the community leaders to discuss the proposed lease before taking said leas