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.

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

the russian hill neighborhood association -- we had to do a lot of due diligence. a lot of the clans are somewhat disturbing, if true. -- it claims are somewhat disturbing, if true. the board spent a lot of time determining if they are. there was a full support of the neighborhood association and a unanimous vote of the planning commission to demolish the building. i remind you there was a unanimous vote of the historic preservation commission to approve this, and of the board of appeals to approve the variance for this project. although the decision is not based on popularity, my client is proud of the fact that all of the property owners who are adjacent are in full support of this, along with the 900-person- strong neighborhood association. of the person speaking in opposition today -- none who spoke today live on adjacent properties. those who spoke live uphill from the property. we believe concerns about light, air, and you are properly dealt with at the board of appeals and the planning commission. when you appeal the historic preservation argument, you will f

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

filers are the adjacent neighbors and the neighborhood association and the delores neighborhood association. and the concern is that the project impacts the mid block open space on the block. and that sets presence dent for encroachment with the mid block open space and that it would cause adverse impact on the adjacent building to the west. this project came before you on the 20th of january and at that time you continued it to today at the request of the d.r. requesters, for staff, and for everyone involved to take a look at the renderings that were produced at that time as they were said to be inaccurate. and last week you should have received information from the requester do to that respect from the d.r. and more recently an email from the project sponsors. the most glaring difference that i could see in evaluating the renderings that were produced by the d.r. requester and by the project sponsor side is that on the d.r. requester's property which is the adjacent property to the west on the renderings, there is a fence that has vegetation on it on the west side of that property so the

as the inspector point out, before i present the plan, i presented this to the neighborhood association and have overwhelming approval and support, i should say, of the neighborhood. one of my goals is to bring just a very nice little neighborhood wine shop to the dog patch area. by doing this, i have already attracted another business. the neighborhood, as you know, needs more retail. mac clothing, which has been a stalwart of the neighborhood, will be moving into the same building. i appreciate your consideration and just wanted to introduce myself. supervisor avalos: great. thank you. thank you for coming in today as well. looking at the process and the neighborhood outreach you have done and support the neighborhood, it is well noted. thank you. >> thank you. any other questions for me? ok. supervisor avalos: if there are no other members of the public who would like to comment -- oh. >> i'm from the dog that neighborhood association, and i just wanted to reiterate the out reach that mr. garcia did. our organization has about 250 people. it is a wonderful thing to see pioneer's want

i am president of the triangle neighborhood association. we are just across the street from the brotherhood. the project needs to be scaled back. all reports and studies show that the impact of having 8900 units, 16,200 bedrooms, and a population between 25,000 people and 30,000 people is not in the best interest of the residents. it is in the interest of san francisco for one reason. a larger tax base. instead of moving to 8900 units, we should look at a moderate growth for this area. also, the transit proposals need to be implemented. and development funding should be secured and guaranteed before it moves forward. not during or after. this would require modifications to the development agreement. but it can be done. the surrounding neighborhood associations would like to have input about the size and scope of the projects. however, they are firm that there is no room for compromise. it is all or nothing. frankly, neither is a desirable alternative. i would like to hear one commission member and probably one of the four who vated in fav --

this was important to the neighborhood association and others. the goal of the legislation is to enhance the vitality of the district. supervisor farrel has reached out, including a meeting with the supervisor, representatives of both organizations, and a member of the planning department staff, ms. rogers. during the meeting, several suggestions were made to craft legislation as it is now. the ban on formula retail came out of our discussions with the merchants association and others and is intended to preserve the unique character of the upper fillmore area. the supervisor also checked in with the former executive director of the golden gate restaurant association, who expressed his support of the legislation. our office continues to receive feedback and will continue to listen before this is heard at the land use committee. this is on the agenda for march 2011 at that committee. we look for to hearing any conditions and consideration gma's. thank you for your consideration. president o'brien: commissioner adams. vice president adams: i totally

half having a number of different community meetings, workshops, and working closely with the neighborhood association and other groups. and in the fall we released the draft -- working draft of the glen park community plan, the first new draft since the 2003. and i have extra copies. it's within your packet but if anyone would like one, i can have -- i have those. so in 2011 we're really looking forward to refining this draft we put together and having a number of community meetings to prioritize different transportation projects and we're looking forward to the e.i.r. coming out and moving towards adoption in the fall. so just a little bit about the plan area. this is a much smaller plan than i think some of the areas that you guys have been dealing with. this is not the eastern neighborhoods, this is a 12-block area basically and it's kind of a portion of glen park. it features the bart station and the neighborhood commercial area as the core part of our planning area and it does include some of the residential areas, kind of climbing towards glen canyon park but this is a small area that's kind of

when neither the project sponsor nor the prospective buyer, unknown, will meet with the local neighborhood association to discuss the proposed plan." any comment? >> i talked with mr. wermer myself and offered to attend one of the pacific heights neighborhood association meetings. he did not call me back. i did tell him that the plans were only preliminary and that the buyer is waiting for the rezoning. they want that before they go through the planning process for their project. our broker met with them. we have all talked with him on the phone. i am willing to meet with the neighbors. vice president miguel: i know he is on the east coast right now and is not here. thank you. commissioner antonini: the key issue here, and i might have to ask staff some questions in a moment, is the zoning as to what will be allowed by zoning. it is clear that as redevelopment has mentioned, what they need to do is sell this excess land to be able to make necessary improvements to their other properties. they apparently had a tenants' meeting and met with many of the tenants in the building. the buyers' plans are less

the neighborhood, and to minimize additional losses to our investors. it is a difficult task to appease everyone. we would like to thank the russian hill neighbors, the neighborhood association, 900 members strong, for its support. we wish to thank all the adjacent property owners for their patience and support with what we have proposed. upon taking back the property, we hired an architect. the initial design was not liked by the neighbors, so we hired another architect with a significant preservationist background. it also hired a well-known preservation consultant to advise us on how to create a project consistent with his torrid guidelines. we were in constant touch -- with historic guidelines. we were in constant touch with the planning department and the secretary of the interior's preservation guidelines. we paid particular attention to the analysis of this block, prepared by a well-known historian mr. william pasteur, especially since mr. butler had helped commission that report. in deciding not to further renovate the existing structure, which relied on the written opinion of mr. pasteur and others that the building was not historic. president chiu: thank you. next

our office has done is part of the vision that some of the neighborhoods wanted is a clean neighborhood. we worked with the merchant's association and neighborhood associations to do cleanups. the benefit of our office being involved is we go to dpw and say we want a little extra. we want you to do a bit more. we can help leverage that. your city supervisor can help leverage things you might not be able to leverage on your own. and let me look at my points here. >> so one of the things the captain talked about the effectiveness review. and so one of the things that supervisor mirkarimi when he came to office in 2005, heard a lot about our district is primarily governed or policed by 2 different police stations northern station and park station. and the western addition is divided in the lower haight is divided between the 2 stations. people were saying it doesn't make sense to us while we have a police station 2 blocks away the station a mile and over in golden gate park is responding to our calls. and so, the supervisor took a look at it and realized the district boundaries had not been reviewed in 30 years. he pass the legisla

loss that is now the little city garden and the principles or little city garden came to the neighborhood association and asked if we would work with them towards the goal and unanimous answer was that we would accept them. and it was well worth our

loss that is now the little city garden and the principles or little city garden came to the neighborhood association and asked if we would work with them towards the goal and unanimous answer was that we would accept them. and it was well worth our benefit for having done so. a lot that was undeveloped on what historically had been vegetable gardens in the past was problematic. at best it was a dog run and frequently had weeds that had to be cut by property owners and fenced off from the sidewalk by a wooden fence that was probl problematic at times when you could walk around it, but didn't have line of site. and since the little city garden has come and a chain link sense at street side at cotter, people have not only are they engaged visually by the garden, but the adjacent 38 neighbors have security because of the activity on the lot. there are many benefits and establishing an urban garden but for the immediate community it was to be engaged by people who were serious and had a vision. they accepted the challenge and we have benefitted from it. i would like to say that the fencing requirement, i

the neighborhood. merchant associations that's a phone call i will make after the initial meeting because these are businesses in the immediate neighborhood, a lot of the people have been in the neighborhood for years and that will also if i get a meeting with them it says they are interested in talking with me. and these are great ways to get volunteer commitments. businesses will be willing to donate either anything from refreshments to soil for ga gardening program. >> i come from a slightly different -- [inaudible] >> okay. and i will share my audio visual presentation with you. my office used to be above this cafe on windam. in the garage space and became this over night success of people coming and waiting in line for this individually made coffee. through that process this is a bit of the context of the proje project. people wait indeed line on the narrow sidewalks and rubbed elbows talk to people. there is a community that developed from that use on the space. and at some point somebody pulled out a table and chair on the 6 foot wide sidewalk and a neighbor complained that was blocking the sidewalk. h

i'm the president of castro eureka valley neighborhood association. i'm not going to restate everything that has been said. really, all i wanted to say was we are fully behind this. the most important aspect of what has been talked about was the community really engaged in extensive process of looking at copper market and what we wanted in 2007. the community overwhelmingly said it wanted market octavia controls to extend up into the castro. unfortunately, that was never caught a fight, and this whole process was just to codify it. in the interim, what happened is neighborhood residents, community members have had to engage each project one by one, whereas all we are asking is control so the neighborhood does not have to be constantly vigilant and have to work with each project sponsors so that we can all work under the same rules and guidelines. it has been a lot of work, and i personally do not feel that it should be my job to make sure that these things happen. that with the community decided on, really should be planned and codified. that is really

presentations to the noe valley merchants association, the bayview merchants association, and have been invited to the petreo hill merchants association. last week, i met with the neighborhood economic development associations. if you are not familiar with the renaissance center, the small business development center, these are organizations that do entrepreneurial training. the city funds them. what we have said to them is that the supervisors and the city have an expectation now that we want you to be training the business entrepreneurs about accessibility and what they need to know, and how to access that information. the city also has a program which is called the neighborhood economic development program. we have managers on the ground in different commercial corridors. they will also be actively reaching out to businesses they have worked with, to educate them about accessibility. what are the laws? it will encourage them to also do the casp inspection. we have heard from business is a lot of frustration around this. the presentation, even though we are encouraging the casp inspection, in terms of our office -- and i think to quote arnie lerner, this is a good risk ma