future of the marina district. ost of the buildings have been retrofitted. but the soil is still the same. frank eves for a second look. >>> bob mckinzie asks the question is landfill good or bad? >>> a bit later the decision in the past century that's still bearing consequences on san francisco's telegraph hill. >>> a month after the loma prieta earthquake, bob mackenzie set out to answer the question is landfill a good or bad thing. the answer he found is its depend. >> reporter: when san francisco decided to stage a great exposition in 1915 a piece of shoreline was filled and leveled and the glorious but temporary buildings of the world's fair erected. that piece of filled land became the neighborhood we now call the marina. last night's earthquake struck the marina suffered greater damage by far than other parts of the city. partly because the marina's landfill is largely sand and subject to a phenomenon called liquid faction. the sand supports the brick just fine until it's shaken. the water rises, the t fragil

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 adjacent buildings. i do not understand them and the requirement to have this open railing. we do not see that on top floors. we do not see open a railing. we see solid railing. these open railing decks, it is an intrusion to the block face. you will be able to see the contents of the deck from the street. that is very disruptive to the block face. if this is approved, these types of situations are all over the marina. it is very disruptive to the architectural features of our neighborhood. secondly, this deck is situated inside -- there are walls all around it. that is a noise chamber. it is not like a roof deck where the noise can filter off. it bounces off the buildings. it affects the people around the vicinity. it would affect us, for

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

he did it a rate analysis to estimate the rental values for marinas located in the day -- bay. they compared 12 marinas in four counties. the praise of verified the 2010 opinion that rates were significantly below market. the appraisal concluded that south beach harbor is "one of san francisco's premier harbors and is significantly underpriced." the details are in the commission packet. this slide shows you a lot of numbers and details, but essentially, the white barn is the current south beach harbor rate. the orange pabar is post- construction rates at the san francisco marina. they are doing renovations. those were the new rates approved by the court supervises most recently. the green bar is the market high for like arenas in the bay, going forward. we met last week with the south beach harbor community at the south beach harbor yacht club. we appreciate your hospitality. a number of the members were surprised at this data, quite frankly, and were concerned at the speed it was coming to them. we were surprised at the speed that it was coming to us. the meeting was frank and

i have lived in the marina for 24 years. some more pictures. what you can seek is these are pretty much all of the bedroom windows. this is my bedroom window. it is a glass. it could easily be broken into. i am very concerned about security issues. these other windows have line of sight directly to the? deck. all of our bedrooms and kitchen windows have access to that deck as well. the open bedroom windows are the only open -- source of light and air from those units. you can see my security concern with anybody ought not -- on that deck. it also affects five other unitst. he deck is going there. they will be affected the same way. they have direct line of sight, privacy issues. this is also a very narrow at neuss tunnel. it is very narrow and everything that goes in this area. -- echoes in this area. we would like to argue that this deck is not legal. only if there is no increase in discrepancy. the current code says that a structure in a rear yard cannot occupy any space within 15 feet of the death of a lot or the property line. -- depth of th

in the marina, there are a lot of full lot coverage buildings. you would like to have open space in your own building. we know that many of the buildings of stairs that tick to directly to the roof, and you are allegedly not supposed to go on to the roof. we know that everyone goes on to the roof. we also know it is windy in san francisco and not very warm. so we can predict the times. fourth of july, new year's eve, weekend -- we can predict it. there are not many opportunities when people want to be on a deck, because it is windy. your usually up there to look at something specifically. those open spaces provide, usually, the only common open space in the building. i rarely see those spaces occupied. what is more common is that people do not have real roof decks, and they go onto the roofs, and they are dangerous. i have been to more than one party on a not-real roof deck, and climbed through all kinds of weird dynamics. i know it happens. it is better to be safe and appropriate, and this looks like it is set back enough that it should not be vi

i grew up in the marina district close to the palace of fine arts. my parents still live in the same set of plants that i live in. i went to grammar school here. i went to st. ignatius here. i am a proud wild cat. i went to college at loyola- marymount university in los angeles. i had a scholarship to play baseball. i remember coming down here to christie field, when my dad was in the military, seeing how the beaches have transformed into but we have today. you cannot beat the views, of course. it just holds summoning memories and i can come here with our kids, our family. i ended up going to ireland to get a master's degree at the university college of dublin. i went back to the states and went to law school at university of pennsylvania. then i came back, and choosing to live in san francisco was natural to me. when you are a child, you do not realize what you had until you leave home. i had the opportunity to live in los angeles, abroad in ireland, and there is no place like home, when you are from san francisco. i have been a corporate attorney a

the mainline, stockton and the marina. the one california is a major bust the comes through the district, and a few other lines, of course, on the borders of our district. it is a huge deal for us, and we need to make sure we continue to provide a great service. we are transit first here, and people embrace that, but we need to make sure we have a reliable, robust public transportation system, so it is a big deal. we do have a lot of people in the district that drive cars, a lot of people that have families. i'm one of those as well. i take it was once in awhile, but frankly, the way we have arranged in our family is i spend my morning with my children, and time allowing, i take them to school in the morning, so i drive them with my car. i do not believe the way to achieve our goals is to make parking so inconvenient, so expensive, such a bad experience that people, so to speak, capitulate and take public transportation. that is not the way we are going to make it happen. we need to innovate, in my opinion, our public trans

the marina is just off the bay of " tour, unesco world heritage site.t the end of the 19th century, part of the austro-hungarian navy was stationed here. later, yugoslavian warships were left to rust in the harbor. >> but one day, the region was discovered by a billionaire, shown here in a promotional film. he is the founder of the world's largest gold mining corp. a super yacht owner himself, he flew over the naval side in 2006 and was stunned by the amount of space available. the large natural harbor has deep harbors. since then, he said to have invested well over 100 million euros in the project. >> an opportunity here that will probably never a rise again. >> now, he has stopped giving television interviews. during one of his last, he told a mt. igman reporter that he was not just interested in building a new luxury harbor with hotels. and that anybody can build a hotel. we are building a destination. >> a new five-star hotel is set to open in the summer of 2014. by then, the plan expansion of the harbour should be complete. from 250 to 600 births.

district two but one thing if you think about it everyone knows what fleet week is like here in the marina. this is fleet week on steroids. think about fort mason, these

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

if i had to go shave in the marina medal school, my cat ran away, i'd be pissed. team behavior, be calm. you don't want to be excited and crazed. be systematic, demonstrate by example. if you are calm and cool and under control, people will see you are there to help. if you act like a maniac, they are going to act like a maniac. pails yourself. you are going to reach a point where you had enough. take some time out, take the whole group, have a seat away from whatever you are doing and just take a break. that was part of the things they found in oklahoma, they blew that thing up and all the disaster service people were sitting there taking a break, you know, they worked 12 hour shifts, 12 on, 12 off, but their break area was right across the street. the whole time they were taking a break, they were sitting there thinking they ought to be helping. so were they really getting a break in no. do something else. think about something else. pace yourself. emphasize teamwork, make sure everybody on the team is aware of the plan and if you are helping somebody, make sure

we're just down the street from the marina exit of 880 here at merced and marina. the latest of the holdups was tuesday around 8:00 when a 25-year-old woman says a man pointed handgun at her and she handed over cash. sunday night a gunman second in line pulled out handgun, he and an accomplice got 200 bucks from each of the three in line. two people held a man at gunpoint and taking his wallet. they are on loose and police are warning to be extra careful. >> careful when you go to the atm. >> i don't know what intention they have. have to take care with old people watching around and everything. >> reporter: maria rodriguez there works at the denny's. she says police are often in the area but is hoping they will increase patrols especially after the manager reportedly warned of war break-ins in the parking lot. you see there is surveillance camera here at the atm, also somep at the denny's. police have been checking both we last year. the descriptions are pretty vague. but so far the good news is that none of the victims were injured and police hope to watch the peo

that's the name of this marina in jonestown, texas. the falling water level has forced the owner to temporarily move his marina out to deeper water three times in six years. >> there's only so much you can take as a small business person when this is... this keeps happening over and over and over again. >> reporter: lake travis is not just for recreation, it's part of a network of reservoirs that supplies water to one million people in central texas. now it's more than half empty. nearly 30 feet below normal july levels. what are the consequences for you here as a marina owner? >> huge financial consequences. everything you can imagine from loss of customers, loss of confidence in the management of the water in lake travis, it affects not just us but affects property owners. >> reporter: this summer, 80% of the u.s. is abnormally dry. grazing pastures are barren and brown across the nation's mid- section. the national weather service estimates nearly a third of the midwest corn crop is in poor condition. today, illinois governor pat qui

the marina sea walls and great aquatic park. the palace of fine arts. we wouldn't have and a little further in, lake merit, this pier. alva rado park and then, some of you my recognize this. the berkeley rose garden. did it have to be this beautiful. finally, i'm going to wrap up. san francisco is rich in the various kinds of arts projects. we have a fabulous collection of stuff here. there were four components. there was visual arts, federal theater, federal musics and federal writers. they employed many people. this is excellent to show the work. the visual arts project. it was especially important in san francisco because of dieggo rivera and radicalizing it. this is the coit towers. this was done under cw a. 1934. the wpa wasn't in existence. this is the very first of the relieve projects. harry hopkins said, they have to eat too. the artists should dig ditches like everybody else. this is antonio brinko. millions of americans got to hear live music for the first time. this is the federal theater project. this is maxine albroro. it's been destroyed

it is so much more related to the western addition than the marina in district two. we are the immediate neighbors of that facility so we implore you to make a final tweak, no population involved to reinclude, repatriate the hospital site. >> thank you, ma'am. i'm sure i'm killing these names, my apologies. >> ok, today i've come with show and tell. i'm not going to talk for too long. again, like many of you, everybody here who has been at these meetings recognizes that this has been just a fabulous process and we're really, really pleased with it. we're so happy you helped us by putting our boreders to herman so we can have our merchants and neighbors join us in district five. this is a no population request that we're that is 55 laguna be part of district five. it is in our neighborhood, it effects us, we want for the folks who live in to it be able to be fought for by the supervisor of that district. what i'm doing today in the show and tell is just showing you the murriel we've done as a community. this was 100% done with love and talent and energy and no money by

has been a closer to find the marina so some deals have already been done for phyllis and. well so far six billion dollars worth of contracts up inside already and as you said as far as a relationship between the two countries mario monti reaffirmed his commitment to maintain that a friendly relationship that we've seen silvio berlusconi established in previous years that sort of deals on all that's what everyone wants to hear in particular we know that italian banks will lend to russia speed to be two hundred seventy million euros and that's to renovate moscow's sports infrastructure also known as nickel and so these tech in are going to run the bait as soulful plant that's located in russia as a far north we have another deal that has to do with it's of these and e.u. and of course a rolls there and basically they've ironed out all the financial details on their deal to develop to oil reserves in the black and barren seas and also we already have analysts estimated that investments into those two shelves will exceed the won a billion dollars well i know the deal with the o

no delays right now along the altamont pass. marina boulevard, there'll be some closures. you will see some traffic along embarcadero parade other fireworks extravaganzas at listed on our web sites. >>> the search is on for two men wanted for ripping off a home in cupertino. here's a sketch of one of the suspects. a woman and called the reporting two men taking into her home, the victim hid. the suspects were gone by the time officers got there. >>> and 61 year-old ronald week and aaron kennedy are charged with reckless endangerment. no one was injured, the do my ditched estimate is still being estimated. state evaluators have given city college of services go a months to prove that it should stay in a montbusiness. if it loses the the accreditation, and city college will no longer receives public funds. and the aclu once the culture kosti unified school district to relocate their school program. the school district has not commented on the lawsuit the school is facing >>> frog raw translates to fatty liver. it's been banned because he's end up our force fed to create the p

at the business desk while marina could it be that someone actually has an optimistic outlook at this point all of her and i wouldn't say it's a mess the eggs but it's better than there was basically we did speak to one analyst who said that what the u.s. is there right now is worth doing and that we're seeing the sly recovery in that europeans should focus and employ the same tactics and we have more of what that expert said in business about twenty minutes for in about ten minutes i should say pushed by the time they're so minutes from now washington. and also coming up in the program attacked or self-defense the u.k. could declare a cyberwar on it and it means with these calling for the aggressive use of over to protect the country's interests even though it's only. israel is now blaming has blocked the lebanese ally of iran for carrying out an attack on a bus with israeli tourists in bulgaria which has left six dead earlier israeli pm benjamin netanyahu said all signs point to iran with refuting. the accusations a

if we don't get a cab in the marina, will you invite them to work here? that is not the answer. if you don't get a cab at the airport, do you go to the peninsula? the only way to do it is lower the gate fee. it is very high in the city. they are very soon going to take over the city. you can put 1000 more cabas on the street. if people know that they can get a cab and the price is cheap, they will get a taxi cab. i think that is also wrong. i think my time is up. >> thank you very much. are there any members of the public who wish to comment? may we close public comment? i want to thank you and members of the public to testify. it is true, if you have a regulated system and an open entry system those are two different system. competition can be perceived as unfair to those in the regulated system. the only reason that uber and similar services have been able to do well and get traction is because for so many years we have so dramatically restricted cab supply in the city is that people feel like they cannot get a cab. it is more expensive. i believe if we provide more cab servic

will have the latest business news with marina very shortly but first let's have a quick look at some of the stories making headlines around the world and update this hour and first to colorado where the suspect in the massacre there has been formally charged with one of the bloodiest shootings in u.s. history james holmes is accused of killing twelve people and injuring fifty to the local premiere of the new movie if found guilty he could face the death penalty and whether his defense is expected to plead insanity if proven mentally ill his college psychiatrist could face charges for failing to prevent the tragedy before hand. nine people have been killed in poland after a train smashed into a minibus the vehicle apparently drove onto an unguarded crossing and was carried thirty meters down the track the identities of the victims haven't been released but it's thought they were ukrainian mineworkers is the latest in a series of road accidents in poland which has claimed more than two hundred lives this summer alone. u.s. republican presidential candidate mitt romney is continuing to

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stock exchange headquarters with the latest marina filthiest just closed almost a woman for five percent down to their low risk going on. well i'm sure the traders in the artists' offices right behind me are put on their hair out right about now because there are also markets with a vengeance and of course also the ocean currents it took a major beating as well but the situation isn't only bad here it's pretty much everywhere asia closed in the red europe followed suit and the e.u. was dropped over two percent in just the first four minutes of trade and of course all this begad after what it comes to russia right the flooding the oil prices and the fact that we had a capital outflow of eighty one million dollars the last number that aren't helping matters but the main problem is europe italian and spanish songs with banks taking major beating as a sovereign bond yields a star opposite in fact we know that and that's really in some major banks trading was suspended for about an hour because of softness the drops and all this comes from renewed fears about the eurozone without palencia sug

right away, we -- unfortunately, i get into the marina district. he recommendation, first one to have their engineer rebuild the building. and then, more conservatively, to make sure all the damaged buildings would be safe before they can be occupied. and then this administration bulletin appropriates the damage on the building. that is why i highly recommend you pass the administration bulletin. thank you. any questions? >> thank you, deputy director. any questions? okay, next speaker please. >> this is public comment. >> is that appropriate? the cake, thank you very much. so is speaking on behalf of the structural engineers association of northern california. we are an organization of about 1500 members here in northern california, predominantly practicing structural engineering and related fields. we have a very strong interest in these because it will be our members that will be out there working with the building department and others to implement them after the next earthquake. we also have a very long history of being collaborators with the b