the north beach library are nonetheless to be renovated for our improvement program. the branch, which was built in 1959 is no longer effective or adequate in meeting the needs of a very diverse neighborhood. it does not meet current building codes. it is seismically unsafe. it is not accessible and does not provide the space to meet community needs. north beach neighborhood is one of the most dense neighborhoods in the city and is also identified as a high needs area with the needs of additional open space in the city's general plan. recognizing both the library and the park are essential service amenities to the north beach neighborhood, the library and the recreation and park department entered into a master planning process in 2008 in order to achieve a set of goals to improve the site for the entire community. the master plan will provide for a new library to meet the needs of a diverse north beach community for generations to come, provides enough space to accommodate an adequate shelving for books and media, ample computers and seating with separate distinct are

many friends and families i know in the north beach area that has struggled to stay in the city, and this plan is an extraordinary, extraordinary step fort in making another neighborhood a very family friendly place. thank you. >> supervisors, i have lived for over half of my years in north beach, and i think that the present plan is excellent, and as previous speakers have said, the fact that they want to place the library on the trying " and protect and create a much better playground for young children is extremely important, and also, we should remember that the computer has changed a way of the library is being used, so the existing library is totally obsolete, and i think the original man would have agreed if he were alive today. they would be extremely unhappy if we installed -- that is very expensive. thank you. >> hi, my name is kim. i have lived on telegraph hill for 19 years on montgomery street and would really like to see this new library done saying. nobody i know who is opposed to this -- this is a great billing by any stretch. it

creating a unified, usable, and a memorable place for the north beach community. thank you for your consideration. president chiu: let me ask if the project architect has something to say. it will come up in two seconds. >> my name is marcia. i am architect. the site is located at the heart of north beach across roads of the neighborhood. to clarify the location, the playground is located between lombard and greenwich, powell and mason streets, and the site also includes 701 lombard street along columbus avenue, which is currently a parking lot. there is a long history of recreation use at the site. it was established in 1909, just after the earthquake in 1906. this is a photograph prior to the current library been built on top of one of the tennis courts at the sixth and playground -- at the existing playground. this is a photograph of the existing library, which as was mentioned, does not meet the needs of the community, is not accessible, and does not meet requirements of the ada. furthermore, it is not seismically safe. the interior of the library is currently

for seven years, the library and was planning on renovating and expanding the north beach branch. until the money came and they had all this extra money to burn, i come from fresno, we were working and can the same for the governor's budget. we don't have money to burn. we don't need to pay off a building twice or three times more expensive. we need to be putting that into books, computers, things for kids in the school. i urge you to reject this plan. they're moving the tennis courts from where they are into the left out field and it will only be 141 feet and that is nowhere near any recognized ball field. this dishonors joe the maggio. there is no getting around these figures. this is 28% of the building taking that open space. this is only discussed as -- and there is nothing about the view corridor. this is a falsification and really if you look at some of the drawings in that report, they are falsified. this is designed perjury and should be consequences. this looks like this building does not project into the streets as far as the duds. this is an outrage. this is an outrage

that includes the items with regard to the north beach library. e will in three weeks consider the final item regarding authorization of use of real property located there. and we will begin to mean that until july 28. what we not now go, collins, to the first 3:00 special order? . colleagues? -- colleagues? if we can go to the first 3:00 special order, items 43 and 44, and if i can ask the representative from dpw if you can please step up. >> good evening, president shoe, -- chiu, board members. the department is working with those properties on the case by case basis. president chiu: why do we not pause for a moment until we have given everyone the opportunity to clear out? ok, why you not proceed? >> kenny bruce. dpw is working with all those property owners on the case-by- case basis. president chiu: ok, so at this time, there is nothing for us to amend? and you recommend that the board can adopt the report today? >> that is correct. president chiu: ok. supervisor mar? supervisor mar: ok, i did want to ask about a number of people said that the

>> i am a 32 year resident of the city of san francisco and i do not live in north beach. it is extremely important what happens on this site. i am here to represent the rest of this city. the analysis of alternatives is defective because it fails to consider a feasible alternative that would meet the fundamental project objectives and avoid the demolition of the library. what you have seen of here shows the existing library to the north. these illustrations were submitted by san francisco karadzic to the planning commission and were attached to the supplemental brief provided you yesterday. this is an obvious solution and the eir is inadequate for failing to consider its feasibility. written comments requesting consideration received inadequate response. strange objectives relating to the program division and the more level functions are easily solve the design details or unrelated to project objectives. it will level the floors of the existing library and make an elevator to make it accessible. this option would meet the stated objectives and avoid the significant adverse

of persons of interest about the vacation of a one-block portion of a street for purposes of the north beachlic library and the playground. item 52 is an ordinance for ordering the vacation of one block of mason street for the purposes of the north beach public library and the playground master plan. item 53 is a public hearing about the property located on lombard street. this is consistent with the playground-library master plan project, and i did 54 is a resolution authorizing the use of real property located at 701 lombard street. -- item 54. president chiu: ok, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, here is my suggestion. we will hear on the project and other items from various city staff, including our chief librarian, the general manager of the recreation and park department, and the project architect, as well as from the director of the department of public works. after that, we will then hear from the planning department about the rezoning. we will then turn to the eir portion as well as the public comment portion with regards to the eir. the appellate represents two different organizati

this is the same drawing as before. i have lived in north beach for 49 years. this is inadequate and should be revised and it will include new space on the triangle. this is well illustrated. i hope that you can understand this. it was pretty bleary on the back. i have sent most of you seven documents. this would be consistent with the intent with a park or garden which will celebrate this parcel of land which is one in a series of historic bonds that are created along the diagonal line. i believe it was financed privately which shows what can be done. there's also the trial which has a pond and giant magnolias. there is a tunnel -- tiny triangle. other cities choose to celebrate not erase their parks. this is enhancing rather than obliterated by merging. >> the sunset casts a beautiful glow on telegraph hill, "tower, st. peter and paul church. seizing land by eminent domain to buy a private owner who wanted to build a condominium is extreme. as a resident, i fully supported that. i see tourists stopping all the time that this intersections and taking pictures,

and unified civic space, a gathering place for the residents of north beach, including open space and a brand new library. this is an example of the city working effectively with all of the important checks and balances for the good of the community. the north beach library is the last of 24 branches to be renovated to the improvement program. with the expanded playground -- this would be wonderful aspect for the community. thank you for your consideration. >> unless there are any questions for the city staff, we should proceed to hear from the former owners of this site. we would ask you to please step up and you will have 10 minutes to make a presentation. >> good afternoon, supervisors and people watching at home. i am the rightful owner and in spite of what you have just heard, the project is an example of the worst of san francisco, the worst excesses of government and the power of eminent domain. i don't think any of you were there when we went back to the history of what took place. we spend 10 years with a plan for a small residential project. there were countless public heari

the telegraph hill and north beach residential special use district. the proposed ordinance would also remove 2000 the mason street from the residential use district. the planning commission fund the project would benefit the people of san francisco in that it would provide a new north beach library commensurate with other libraries. increased open space, providing a high quality integrated cultural space, made his uncontrolled consistent across the entirety of the project area under the jurisdiction of the recreation and parks department and would be consistent with a general plan and policy planning to go. for these reasons, we urge your support of the proposed rezoning. president chiu: at this time, why don't we proceed to the eir? we will first hear from the appellant, we will hear public comment from anyone opposed to any of the hearing items or believe that it should be rejected, and to hear from planning followed by public comment of any supporters. at this time, hot and ask for representatives of the appellant? >> good afternoon. i have been a r

neighbors, the north beach merchants association, the north beach chamber of commerce, neighborhood veterans group, the telegraph hill dwellers -- it should be in the back of this. i cannot remember all the names. the broadway entertainment and cultural association. also, all of the people who live upstairs. there are 13 residents in sro's upstairs. we sent a letter in chinese and english and make sure they knew, and nobody objected at all. also a condominium association in the area. commissioner perez: thank you. commissioner meko: perfect. don't need to say anything more about your neighborhood a rich. as a result, where are the angry neighbors? they are not here. it is a first. vice chair joseph: do you have a liquor license? >> no. they wanted to wait a year. vice chair joseph: this is definitely 21 and over no matter what? >> right, just because they felt it would be an easier demographic. president newlin: thank you. any public comment on that proposal? seeing none, do we have a motion? vice chair joseph: i move to approve, with the police conditions striking the indoor camera

. >> we have the north beach community, and we have worked closely with the north beach community. we have the partnership within the library, we are increasing the accessibility and the playground to move these sports. we are excited about the future of this site. we have been working as creatively with the partners as we possibly can to offer programming in these facilities. this is part of the ballot measure that was just introduced. >> thank you, supervisor? >> in the conversation that you had, i wanted to make certain that the skateboard park is a pilot project. >> thank you very much. i was focused on an event, with the community outreach. we had to do a lot of work with organizing this, getting out to skateboard on the 21st. we're interested in the pilot project. and as you know, supervisor, we have worked very closely with you. we have the farmers' market on that street. this is a very challenged corner of golden gate park in terms of public safety and we strongly believe that having more kids in that space engaged in healthy recreational opportunities, this will keep the p

the next speaker? once i live in north beach, and i have lived here for 46 years, continuously. i have written to use several times about the legal aspects of eminent domain, and all of the situations -- with the purpose of taking a lot for open space. eminent domain is a serious matter. i have not spoken about this before. they were talking about how much that they would pay him and his partner. i have 17 pages of this, and this is california law. i offer this to you if you wanted. i am waiting for what was promised in 2004. i understand that because of improper notice on this lot, no decision has been very inadequate. these are on polls and that the library, and only four of them have dates on them, and this is not really a notice at all. two of them talk about april 23, two of them talk about june 7. that is everything, when it comes to the public. most of the north beach public does not know that mason street is being closed, and the businesses are very against the closing. they have not been properly notified. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i have lived one block from the

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libraries completed, and we will be beginning construction of the bay view library next month, and the north beach will be moving forward. the eir was recently accepted an completed, so thank you for your support. the library proposed budget is placed at about $86.8 million, and that includes the payment of our debt service. it also includes a healthy $9.1 million for our books and materials budget. it does maintain our current service level in terms of branch hours, and we continue to do strong out -- to our schools and students -- strong outreach to our schools and students. we have about 140 computers available to the public. this last year, that represented about 500,000 library hours of use by patrons. we are expanding access to our laptop lending program. we have about 50 libraries that currently have the laptop lending program in operation, and we expect to expand that to an additional 12 in the next couple of years, completing the project. as each new library opens, we have the laptop lending program. workforce development is also really important. our lab is open for folks either i need a

. >> we will be reviewing the north beach rezoning legislation. there are changes that come out of the plan commission. this is substantive. we could adopt this amendment, we cannot act until our next hearing which is to in the seventh. with that, howard clark to first ask that we adopt the amendment as a whole. >> can we take this without adoption? if we can continue this to june 7th. corks on behalf of supervisor farrell, for the late elizabeth -- >> on behalf of supervisor farrell, for the late elizabeth -- for the late o>> that concludesr business for today. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned.

>> generally the clutter is not allowed. we had cases in north beach and had to remove them and could be advertising cell phone companies and had the banners and that could be considered a general advertising sign depending how much they have and we have to look at that and the zoning and whether it's allowed. >> but that seems to add to the character of the neighborhood? what do you think? is it part of the character? >> yeah, i think about that a little bit, and it is like art to the degree that it asks you to think what the city values and there was a time when the city really valued entrepreneurial energy and with these type of stores and immigrant entrepreneurial energy and you come to the new world, and going to make a go of it, and you're going to do everything you can to make your business work. there is a lovely graphic artist cater and i think some of his work is in u.s. weekly and he has a series about a real estate photographer and this character wanders through the city that is kind of like new york and not and a really important part of t

north dakota. but it is actually not. >> the weather is not good for the strawns should be the busiest time of year. but north beach is getting a cold shoulder. >> it is like yesterday. we had maybe five tables. >> garcia has been parking car in the lot for years. the rain kept him business . he would stay in the hut. it is like the hand brakes. rain, rides don't exist and bad for business. >> we are down 90 percent today and yesterday due to the weather situation. >> one of the major street fairs is the star for the weekend. 35th year of the union street fare and ready for the rain expected this weekend. >> party. and come rain or shine cliche or not it goes on artist will bring the tarp to cover displays and music will play the classics it is the coldest may in like 12 years. they may be selling hats instead of sunscreen. don sanchez, woops. seven news. >> it is june and not january. sandhya is joining us now with the radar. >> it is quieting down in the bay area. we had thunderstorms earlier in the day around napa county and lightning strikes and numerous lightning strike san francisco valley. a funnel cloud nea

the mastermind behind this amazing creation coming up. 3w4r57 . >>> good morning to you. taking a live look at north beach in san francisco this morning. all quiet now, but things will really start cooking a little bit later on with the food festival that's happening, the 56th annual north beach festival, always fun. >>> dads can look forward to getting some pretty good gifts today, that is if national retail spending figures are any indication. the federation says father's day spending is up 13% over last year and on average people are spending a little more than $100 on dad. 20% of people surveyed say they are buying dad electronics. home improvement items, sporting good items also high on the list. the average mother's day gift costs about $140. >>> a san jose dad says that he is getting a father's day gift every day at work because he is training his daughter to take over their cherished family business. >> hi, i'm ron, the chef owner of new delhi restaurant. we are located in downtown san francisco. i'm a lucky dad to be working with my daughter, sarah. she's the second generation chef and training t

we had that discussion with the north -- the north beach neighbors all the time, and i do think this area might warrant a special area study or a neighborhood sketch plan, by which we can figure out what changes are desirable and what would tip the balance. i want to keep us on the talking side of larger issues. we have agreed to continue this. instructions i have given our that we expect the applicant to reach out more to the neighbors, but we are saddled with other obligations which take this whole thing further. this is only one example out of many. commissioner antonini: i think we also cannot jump to conclusions. we have no knowledge of what exists here, and there are all kinds of leases. some are troubled that, and some require them to take care of almost everything, including in the case of bombay. there was a letter missing from the sign, and i'm not sure who was supposed to put that back in. we do not know what that contract entails. it could be neglect on the part of that person who was leasing. i'm not saying it was, but before we jump to conclusions, we have to know exact

. >> we will be reviewing the north beach rezoning legislation. there are changes that come out of the plan commission. this is substantive. we could adopt this amendment, we cannot act until our next hearing which is to in the seventh. with that, howard clark to first ask that we adopt the amendment as a whole. >> can we take this without adoption? if we can continue this to june 7th. corks on behalf of supervisor farrell, for the late elizabeth -- >> on behalf of supervisor farrell, for the late elizabeth -- for the late o>> that concludesr business for today. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commissio

. >> we will be reviewing the north beach rezoning legislation. there are changes that come out of the plan commission. this is substantive. we could adopt this amendment, we cannot act until our next hearing which is to in the seventh. with that, howard clark to first ask that we adopt the amendment as a whole. >> can we take this without adoption? if we can continue this to june 7th. corks on behalf of supervisor farrell, for the late elizabeth -- >> on behalf of supervisor farrell, for the late elizabeth -- for the late o>> that concludesr business for today. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. >> welcome to "culturewire." since december 2005, the museum of the african diaspora, known locally,moad, has presented programs that celebrate and explore the culture, history, and art of people with african descent throughout the and added states and throughout the world. the director of cultural affairs recently met with the museum director. to learn more about the current expedition, textural rhythms, constructing the jazz tradition, contempora

of you may be away, supervisor peskin had a pilot program to deal with the rodent situation in the north beach area the older parts of the city. he had to bring the puc. department of public works, our agent as well as the health department together to see what we could do because a congregate in other areas other than the buildings themselves. >> the health department, their number is 554-2500. we will get you the number you can call directly about rodent control. how about cockroaches the last creature standing on the earth. >> i believe they will be. >> i love they check in but they don't check out. >> the same with the rodents from the standpoint if the building will deal with a cockroach infestation they have to look at the behavior and what's happen nothing more than one unit. if you treat one area they will go next door or whatever. obviously, it also has to do with things we have not talked about yet and that's proper food preparation areas and storage areas. food needs to be put away properly so it distant attract the insects and rodents. in addition to proper debris and garbage stora

the one block portion of mason street between lombard and columbus for purposes of the north beach public library and joe dimaggio playground master plan. president chiu: can we take this item? without objection, this item is finally passed. item number 24. >> to bernadette loans from restricted sources and to modify the reporting requirements for elected officials receiving gifts of travel. president chiu: can take this item? this item is finally passed. item 25. >> item 25 is to restrictions -- restructure the parking in the south of market and mission bay districts. supervisor kim: this is legislation that establishes maximum parking limits in the south of market. the intent of this legislation is to have better consistency with adjacent districts and to require non-residential and non hotel parking in this south of market mixed used districts downtown and maintain a fee structure which discourages long-term parking. this ordinance will finally harmonize requirements across the south of market and, by eliminating the minimum and establishing a maximum and extends parking requirements f

the 57th annual north beach festival continues today. aturing live entertainment and gourmet food. >>> and you could not ask for better weather. we know there's a couple different festivals going on. >> reporter: it's going to be a gorgeous one out there. shorts, flip-flops. maybe find a water source like a dip in the pool. it's going to feel good, especially in the inland spots. sitting in the upper 50s, low and mid-60s at this hour. noontime numbers, low 60s. mid-60s by the coast. mid-60s already for the inland spots. your lunchtime is going to be quite warm. take a look at this afternoon high. 89 will be our average for some of our inland areas. definitely warmer than what we saw yesterday. this is the beginning of a big warming trends. take a look at what we are expecting around the region. 85 expected in santa rosa. 88 for concord. 76 in oakland. 70 in san francisco. if you're headed to the festival this afternoon, nice day. as we look at areas around san jose, 82 degrees expected for the second half of the day. if you like the summe

like officer mathias, permanent oiv in the north beach area. he's great, too, because they care about people and care about hearing what the concerns are. so a segue to that, i'm not going to go into the ramifications about the videos that public defender doshi presented. i'm a little alarmed by the talk show presentations that were made when he spoke there at two talk shows. i'm a little concerned, and i hope that chief sir will take this interest that if they are -- were poor behavior or violated the law, he would take swift action. i hope he would follow his word on that. at least explain his actions, at least. last but not least, they switched a lot of the taxi enforcement under the m.t.a., under deputy chief murphy. and he is not going forth trite let it publicly known what exactly was going on. they give the facts and figures to the staff at the m.t.a. and have them all sit down and figure out statistics. so i ask that lieutenant la carlo or sergeant that works with him, at least become more public. appear once every month or every other m

moving on to tuesday at the full board, they heard the north beach library appeal and associated approvals. the commission approved the library and associated approvals on april 21. i hope that is not the commission secretary's phone. >> i cannot find it. >> this week, which failed to convince the board that it was an adequate or that the entitlements that the library and that recon park were seeking should not be granted. public testimony centered on the legality of using the so-called triable parcel has a site from the library rather than open space. appellants argued that eir wrongly characterizes the tribal parcel based on its current use, rather than open space, what they think should be the intended use. the board by unanimous vote of public planning commission unanimous certification and denied the appeal. the board went on to approve the street vacation, the zoning map amendment on first reading. the board could not approve one ordinance related to authorizing the site at the playground and library due to noticing issues, so they continued. treasure island, the appeal and associate