the neighborhood association was formed in 1991 in response to drug and violence activities that started. we have an montra, respect the neighborhoods the neighbors post in their windows. that was the start we have e involved since them. i will tell you about the tools we use in the next round of questions. i'm a working mother have 2 kids, 2 boys 2 and 6 year old. i also my husband is a social worker and worked in san francisco with inner city youths for a long time much the neighborhood association is -- our neighborhood association is a nonprofit organization. we are all volunteers. we all are work other full time. and so we do this on the side as something we enjoy and hopes to build community. >> hi my name is carol mo. i'm a safety network program community organizer. i primarily work in the sunset my nonprofit is sunset beacon center. elharris is sitting back there. let me talk about the safety network program. safety network program is a city wide program. we have a community organizer based in each san francisco neighborhood. there are 4 main components of each organizer's work.

my name is pat trura and i am a member of the triangle neighborhood association and board member as well as a resident on 16th street directly behind trigger. the neighborhood made numerous attempts to work with trigger. we supported their original business plan and continually this owner has failed to adhere to their conditions of use. one of their conditions, number 13, was entertainment would be contained within the building. this is not happening. the noise pours out from all sections of the building. the vibration from that building can be felt on the street behind on 16th street at times. and another condition was number 14, number 14, that the nuisance would be controlled. there has been a continual pattern of nuisance over time. lack of response to complaints, there were originally meetings that were set up with the neighborhood and the owner said we're going to have this special phone number and people can call. well, people have called repeatedly and people have basically given up. and people are fed up. and then i come to this hearing today to find out they have now made a pol

you have to repeat the question. >> the question raised is how does neighborhood association or neighborhood group come together to support the seniors as they are aging and take care of them. >> we actually have a couple senior citizen homes in our neighborhood. and we have the same exact problem. and through neighborhood watch, on a block by block, you got to get to the block by block level. this is where safe plays a huge role. i understand how vital it could be for us. you basically find a block captain, somebody willing to organize people and get a meeting together at their home or a place that's close where 5-10 people could meet. you talk about the particular issues you have on that block. you know in your case it may be the seniors living on that block. or you know in other cases it may be people want to do garage sale. a block garage sale another great community building tool. or block party or something like thachlt neighborhood watch is a great tool to organize at a block by block level to address the specific concerns and the seniors is it's a big concern. we are doing that on a

i am the president of the mission dolores neighborhood association. as you know, the 2001 market street project is a gateway to our neighborhood. within the neighborhood, which is clearly identified in our unanimously adopted historic service we have our first meeting with -- are unanimously adopted historic boundaries. we have our first meeting in 2008. it was an interesting and productive process in the last two years. in that general meeting in 2008 at dolores park church, a lot of people showed up. people did not like the original design of the building. that has been solved now. we now endorsed the design of the building. they were outraged by the fact that the project sponsor wanted to put in a 31,000 square foot all food store on the ground floor. over the years, that has not changed overwhelmingly. our membership strongly opposes a store that large. we would more likely like something like 16,000 square feet, 6000 square feet of storage area. that equals 22,000 square feet with no more than 44 parking spaces. otherwise, we would be also delight

neighborhood. if you have safety issues. strength and weaknesses they will be more pronounced the good and the bad after a disaster hits. you can't look at it as the neighborhood association is my link to the constituency to get people nert or red cross trained. they are dealing with the safety issues in the neighborhood and you want to be informed about them so you can respond and prepare for them and work with the neighborhood associations to have further management planned if you can call it that. you don't know what will happen. some response that you hope to effect after the disaster. and at the same time, too, the other thing is those resources are also the people in those neighborhood organizations community based organizations et cetera, those people are people that people in the neighborhood are already look to as leaders. and so after disasters this is back to the chaos in the comfort zone. they will look at the people for direction. you want to make sure our information and message gets across to the people so they are able to educate, lead and manage and help you and support you once you are trying to deal with an issue after it happens. so -- >> my name is ma

president miguel: thank you. >> i am the president of the castro eureka neighborhood association. many of you might be familiar with me. i am the one who wrote the 47 conditions for the cafe and worked closely with the cafe. and that has been a model relationship. it has been fabulous. there are no complaints from the cafe. there's been a couple of problems here and there, but the owner of the cafe and the manager worked quite closely with the neighborhood and is very responsive. the experience with greg started when he -- i'm not going to rehash a lot of what was said -- but my experience started with greg when he wanted to open up trigger. and he reached out to us, so i, again, wrote the conditions of use. i seem to be good at that. and we actually revised a number of conditions and felt after the success with the cafe and based on the fact that greg reached out to us, we weren't quite as stringent. i regret that now because it's been nothing but problem after problem after problem and i know the project sponsor wants to portray this as a couple of neighborhoods or neighborhood a

as the supervisor pointed out, for the last five years the neighborhood association has been working hard to complete the survey work on the neighborhood. on march 17 of this year the same company that oversaw the opening of the city hall palace of fine arts and capital building, they did our survey and it was unanimously adopted by the hpc on march 17. we are very pleased about that. by and reference to the supervisors changes in the amendment, we are still very concerned as this is a citywide issue that will create a precedent for banners and no matter what kind they are on historic lampposts. yet more than anything we are very concerned that you are considering this issue today without it being considered by the hpc first. what we would ask you to do is not to pass it on to the full board yet and let the hpc have their say. it is just two days away. i do not understand the rush. in reference to the compromise, after word perhaps we can sit down. but for reference we would but not want to have any permanent banners first off. but if there was any compromise the final statement of su

bernanke. -- thank you. >> i am a member of the neighborhood association. i'm here to raise concerns regarding the time frame of this approval to to unresolved issues regarding -- and commercial loading management. while i support the proposed solutions, the language is vague and does not call for backup measures if parking fails. the specific measures leading up to parking is not well defined and finally the circulation of traffic around this problem has not been addressed at all. in any community meeting this monday night, many of the members of our committee had questions regarding traffic and the developer was unable to bring any specific solutions. a couple of things that they did say was that they would close the garage possibly if there is not any spaces available. it is not really a solution because when you close the parking garage, then you put foot traffic out into the area. we have seen that there is a trend that people wait until someone leaves so that they can get in this was a perfect example to me of the fact that there are not well thought o

the neighborhood less boring reduce emissions by so much. >> i am a resident of park merced. this fight illegal assertions to the contrary, i remain the president of the association. we are the only community that is recognized by the board of supervisors and the neighborhood association. much has been set against the plan. for several years now i have put up with harassment and abuse nearly because i said let's give this plan a chance to develop and withhold judgment until we fully understand it. this was not to be the case. a group tried to garner support by lying to our senior population. several pieces of erroneous and inflammatory literature had been illegally distributed. this small group of dissidents is using a fear factor rather than reason to generate support. you witnessed this first and last week when it was demand was made to forgo the customary process to which you caved in. there was an attempt to discredit parker said based on a brief newspaper story on the default of $500 million. thank you. >> i have a lovely department but i would love to not be bothered with -- i have had to go 100 steps to a laundry room. i would love a new washer and dryer.

the neighborhood? and how long ago did that process start? >> we have held five-six meetings. we met with the neighborhood organizations. we met with the neighborhood associations. president buell: how long ago did the process start? >> a couple of months ago. president buell: that's fine. that's ok. i'm asking generally. it sounds consistent with what i have heard from the neighbors. from a timing standpoint, how much latitude do we have to approve or wait on this matter? >> is essential that the project moves forward. there is time that is needed to implement what we are talking about today. it has to be fully designed and implemented. the parking lot goes offline in about six weeks. president buell: do we have the rep has of the -- representative of the exploratorium? any vehicles that come from your side, do you employ any transportation systems to bring large groups to and from? >> jennifer is our facilities operations person. the field trip program is administered or you have to make a reservation. they call, a reserve a space, and of those charter buses or school buses are scheduled. the demand is managed that way. president buell: do they work for you?

we worked very closely with planning staff and with the various members of the neighborhood associations. we really felt this was critical to make sure we understood the elements necessary to make this project contextual inappropriate and a welcome part of the neighborhood. we have gained a real insight through the collaboration within -- with them. we believe the project has benefited significantly from their input. this is a gateway to the upper market street. the delores' neighborhood and mission dolores neighborhoods. the site faces three streets. market street is the historic retail and mixed use hub and backbone of san francisco. we have worked on the design of the building to create three different buildings to identify three of the different characteristics of the street. on market street, which is vibrant and cosmopolitan, the design of the building is very clean and simple. it reinforces the ground-floor retail. to input received by all of the different neighborhood communities and neighborhood groups, we have added significant detail in the way the bay windows have been handle

the neighborhood association sent a committee out to investigate what of the appellants are saying and to figure out how much true there is. the result was a 5-0 vote on the planning commission. a 7-0 vote in the historic preservation commission. that was to say that this demolition permit is defined and the new proposal is within a potential historic district. >> i am the project architect. i would like to answer three of your questions. the first is exhibit d here. this is about three above the roof of the existing building. we created a chart to study the pattern of development in the area. we used similar methods to get our numbers including examining aerial photographs, measuring the footprints of the building.

the neighborhood association sent a committee out to investigate what of the appellants are saying and to figure out how much true there is. the result was a 5-0 vote on