the coalition i am working in this predominantly based in the richmond district, and i have been able to be here with a number of small-business owners but also the two main merchant associations that are in support of the merchants associations, as well. the ordinance that to have before you is item number nine. it would help to support the small businesses along this greater court or, and it is impacting these businesses, like jane pet stores like pepco, -- ptetco, -- petco, and there are those along lombard street and also california street, and the board of supervisors allowed with a divided vote the conditional use permit for a pet food express last year. i know that that was a contentious issue that divided a number of communities and especially the small-business owners, the pet store owners. this is narrowly tailored to impact supply stores in that area. on january 20, petco had a meeting that i attended, and for my reid, we were near unanimously opposed to date -- the petco on geary. there are vacant storefronts, and the small merchants are really hurting, and i hope that the

there's a question from the senior activist from the richmond district. how can you save senior meals? i will give this to ann hinton. >> thank you, vera sofment we are in the process -- many people know here that it's part of our budget reduction plan, we're needing to reduce some of the service areas and we presented tpwhalmt to our -- can you hear now? i saw somebody signaling. ok. we presented that budget to our commission and it's now with the mayor and his staff. we're just talking the other day about what that looks like and what the detail of it and what we might do with it. i would say that nutrition is a big negotiate our community. it's become bigger in the last couple of years because of the downturn and more people's s.s.i. checks being smaller and people not having the income. so should we determine that we can fund the meal program again, we may need to look at other ways in addition to that, those funds, to feed people. because the need is greater than we as a city are able to -- toe we provide at this point but those conversations are stil

i want to welcome you to the richmond center. it is one of the most vibrant recreational facilities we have around the city. we are misplacing some dodge ball tonight. we have fabulous programming here for seniors and kids. we a lot of wonderful recreational opportunities in the richmond. the question about park safety and fees at the botanical garden. the recreation and parks department budget story is that we have been announce -- asked d cuts to the money we get from the city general fund in the last seven years. we are sensitive to the need that people have to be able to enjoy clean, safe parks' and a lot of recreational programming. our strategy and approach has been to offset rather than cut services to try to increase revenue. that is a principal that we feel strongly about. we want to continue to deliver for you the product that we deliver. i do not have experience in international travel. here in san francisco, we often have different the structures -- fee structures for residents and non-residence. we would rather priori

our coalition, we have nine centers and two here in the richmond district and we are concerned because we don't know what this conversion process is going to look like. they're still gathering information for that. part of the concern is we anticipate that 50% of the participants that are enroll made not qualify and they're going to need continuity of care of services in the city. so there potentially could be a surge of extra costs coming our way to the city. what we have if appropriate for you mayor and your staff, we have a letter that summarizes our concerns, some of our proactive meetings and we would like to ask a direct meeting with you and staff to talk about some of the things we would like to do to protect what's going to be coming down. >> we only have ten minutes to go. please come forward and be succinct for our department heads, please be succinct in answering as well. >> thank you very much, supervisor. mayor and members of the department. four blocks from here is the jackie chan senior center. 4,500 are dedicated for those who come for nutrition, case management, commun

we call the richmond district the new chinatown in the 1980's at that time. just being around the tremendous unique neighborhood, and discovering san francisco in the 1980's as i grew up, but i also have been very active as a community organizer. i worked in chinatown, and some first jobs also at the mental health center in the richmond area multi services in the 1980's, and i was also a staff are at the chinatown youth center -- i was also a staffer. a lot of my work has been supporting community empowerment, especially in an immigrant and people of color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures and people from different par

i am eric mar, supervisor for the richmond district. this is the eighth of nine budget hearings that the mayor and department heads have been too. we will do our best to have maximum participation from the audience. the mayor will be giving some remarks. the department heads are here to respond to questions as well. the important part of it is you speaking out and talking about the needs of our community. we have translation services in spanish and cantonese and maybe other languages. i want to ask the translators to make an announcement in case people need the translation services. [speaking foreign language] [speaking spanish] a wanted to thank them for being here. i want to quickly announce who is up here and who we are expecting later. besides mayor lee, we have greg wagner, the director of the mayor's budget office will give us a short presentation. we also have the head of the department of public works and ann from the department of aging services. we also have someone from the wrecked apartment. we also have the director of small

we have a lot of volunteers from the richmond district center. grew up in the california area, ended up at uc-davis. i made my way out to san francisco in 1984 when i was a college student. i remember growing up on clement street. i have always lived around in richmond area, just being around a unique area of the richmond, discovering san francisco in the 1980's. >> i am hoping we can not support small businesses like this because they are the unique character that makes neighborhoods like this so rich and lively to live in. >> i have also been active as a community organizer. i worked at the chinese progressive association. i also worked at the mental health center in the richmond district. i have always been passionate about civil rights, equality for everyone. i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality issues. i guess i have always been vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, i have to listen to other perspectives and making decisions. >> very soon there will be of much more seniors

health center in the richmond area multi services in the 1980's, and i was also a staff are at the chinatown youth center -- i was also a staffer. a lot of my work has been supporting community empowerment, especially in an immigrant and people of color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures and people from different parts of the world, like a gateway neighborhood. not just for the new chinatown, as it was called in the 1980's, but for russian-speaking immigrants, people from the caribbean. there are so many different mixtures of people, and i guess my district, like many other neighborhoods in the city, is kind of what draws me to it. and just the politic

i am a longtime resident of the richmond district. i moved there over 50 years ago. i am also the co-founder and coordinated to local neighborhood beautification organizations. one works on graffiti in the richmond and another one called the grain and the geary planted over 30 trees on the geary boulevard median. i am here to ask you to please reconsider this issue of ending on the maintenance of trees to individuals from dpw. my work with dpw -- [inaudible] especially as president's initial anticipate they have to take care of. the present dpw president said they must monitor trees that are currently owned by home owners. now they are proposing to increase the responsibility another 50%. i suspect if he did a cost- benefit analysis, it might be more expensive for dpw to start monitoring another 50% of the trees in the city as opposed to maintaining them. this is also a protective trust. when dpw planted many of these city trees -- and i know that this was the agreement reached on the above. they asked property owners for their permission to plan on their property on

. >> it looks like it is the richmond district, but a kind of shows what was on the west side town. a great deal of it was sam, and for that reason, people thought that the weather and the san -- it was really not a place that people wanted to live, and it was going to be very typical for san francisco -- very difficult for san francisco to expand west. >> if you look at the early maps, it was 3 miles wide by about 6 miles long, this huge sand dunes that just moved around. >> here is an 1875 map of the laguna. says along the side of the map, high sand hills between the pacific ocean and the like. by the way, this had actually opened directly into the ocean. >> lake merced had a high water level. since we paid over much of the city, the water levels have dropped, but at one time, the late actually trade out into the ocean approximately where the dog diner is that now. somewhere in the 1870's, they saw the damage at the water in the late so it did not exit out uncontrolled, and for 10 years, people were drinking lake merced water as drinking water. it is much bigger, too. if you go to

it is supported by the major merchants association of the richmond district. it amends the planning code to reflect much needed changes. these changes will relax zoning control to permit a greater variety of uses. this will make it easier to rent some of the currently vacant storefronts. they will replace the numerical cap on eating and drinking establishments with the percentage which will benefit property owners. this is giving them more flexibility. along with my already existing proposal, i am prohibiting substituting be ban on fast-food establishments. these controls are meant to foster, promote, and retain small, locally owned businesses and enhance the vibrant corridors that serve the richmond district. this is a five-foot height difference all along the corridor from scott streaet to 24th avenue which will create an incentive for underutilized parcels. i am also submitting a resolution recognizing our beautiful library which is reopening this saturday. the reopening is coming up on saturday at 1:00 p.m. it is on 37th ave. i would like to commend the san

the city. we face this not just in richmond but the whole city. the first challenge is the lack of land for development. the second challenge is the shortage of public funding to help pay for affordable housing. when the opportunity is available, the mayor's office of housing is willing to buy more expensive land or property in neighborhoods that lack affordable housing. but it is difficult for affordable housing developers to compete with market rate developers for those properties. over the past 15 years, the city has afforded much of the affordable housing in areas like mission bay, bayview, south of market. in other cases, the mayor's office of housing and redevelopment has worked with other public agencies to acquire surplus sites, such as the former freeway parcells in chinatown and at ocean avenue. in our current climate, the mayor's office of housing and redevelopment agency are also challenged with significantly less funds from the local, state, and federal levels, and we will not be able to pay for as many new construction projects per y

. >> i am a resident of the richmond district. i live about eight blocks from where the proposed store would come in. i want to point out a couple different things. it is disingenuous for petco to say they reached out to the neighborhood. dignified people within 300 feet of the proposed location. if you wanted a genuine dialogue with the community, you would notify the neighborhood. there are many people in our neighborhood who are opposed. we want our small businesses supported. petco has a right to exist. san franciscans also have the right to tell you what we want. 01 stores that will support the city and keep the money in the city, and will care about the neighborhood that are located in. to say your corporate profits are going to san diego and you are a citizen of the neighborhood is to be somewhat disingenuous. i urge you to support this legislation. thank you. president o'brien: thank you. further public comment? seeing none, i will hand it back to the commissioners. vice president adams: i just want to say i do support this

captain of the richmond station. he is active in the committee, and then captain dan mahoney has gone to ingleside station, very strong background in administration and investigation, which will help their station investigation team. he will pick up on the experience of the station, and there has already been one great story, if i could get your indulgence. he was meeting with his district supervisor, meeting with supervisor cohen and his assistant had a $3, for dollar latte from an establishment that i will not plug here and that spilled. she was upset, and captain mahoney help her clean that up. he asked to be excused, they did not know where he went, and he came back 10 minutes later with the exact same cup of coffee for her assistance, so he is now in tremendous standing with supervisor cohen's office. none of us are surprised because he is always the gentleman. those are the captains of the stations. i am happy to bring all of the station captains, if you want, to put names to faces. >> the photographs will be on

between california and cornwall street, fifth avenue and fourth avenue in the richmond district. he assured the neighbors who were very agast at the idea of these old cable cars being set up that they would be very tasteful and artistic. and essentially, yeah, it was like one room with a little bathroom attached made up of old cable cars. dr. cross thought he was hitting on something. there were hundreds of thousands of people who were homeless, looking for new places to live in the aftermath of the earthquake and fire. so he thought why not use these old cable cars. it only lasted about 10, 12 years. guess it wasn't a big hit. he built a more conventional apartment building after that to replace it. it really was the 1906 earthquake and fire that sort of spelled the end of carville. you have these hundreds of thousands of people looking for new homes, suddenly displaced. now they might listen to these men and say, look, you were renting before. you don't want to live there. i've got this lot out here, sand dune. but it's $100. you can build a house here for cheap. suddenly, more

i attended the funeral on sunday in the richmond district. i had that mr. yen when he was at the uc-berkeley. we work together have the pacific islander organization. and the california progressive student alliance on many different campaigns in the 1980's. we studied computer technologies at uc-berkeley or he received an award for outstanding achievements. he was an it support specialist. he also worked for the san francisco unified school district as well. when he was 10 years old, dave became disabled by severe rheumatoid arthritis. he nevertheless remained a strong person. i enjoyed spending time with him at the civic center plaza. he was a great lover of all kinds of food, especially san francisco food. you live life to the fullest and never let his disability defeat him or get in his way. he has been a devoted san francisco giants fan. he left as way too early at the age of 46. i would like to express my condolences to the yen family and many close acquaintances that he has built up over the years. it is a tremendous loss and i am really sad. he was a

that's the reason we have slowing approaching the area coming off of the richmond bridge approaching the two tow truck incident. flat beds theft roadway but may be on the shoulder causing distraction. the toll plaza shows you very light volume at the bay bridge. pretty good stream of headlights for this time but relatively light. we're approaching the 5:00 hour so you'll see the volume kick up. we'll watch that. we're also watching antioch, 65 here, that's no problem. but that should be the first to show the slowing. yesterday it hit hard. so far the rest of the week has been pretty light for the last couple of weeks so we'll watch the tuesday commute and see how things shape up and bay point and livermore, slowing right around airway, speeds below 60 miles per hour. averaging over 56 through the area. that's a smooth drive. no problems so far. as the rain comes in we'll watch as it affects the commute. >> 4:56. women battling breast cancer could see the return of a potentially life saving drug. the fda will hold a hearing for the makers of avastin, to decide whether to threat manufac

when confronted with the evidence richmond phillips admitted having a relationship with wynetta wrightitted being in the park with her the morning of the murder. >> i think for everybody in our community we share this family's pain. we absolutely share their pain and we look forward to prosecuting the case. >> reporter: after leaving the park richmond phillips went to the courthouse in upper marlboro where he was scheduled to take part in a paternity hearing with a woman he's accused of killing. >> paul wagner reporting. phillips is now being held without bond. >>> coming up next steve jobs introduces the icloud and the world's largest passenger plane comes to the d.c. area. those stories and more in tonight's fox 5 top five. gary? >> get outside tomorrow and enjoy it because after tomorrow temperatures will soar, complete details, full forecast coming up. >>> later summer fashion goes hi-tech, find out what that bikini can do when we take the edge off.  >>> metro is investigating an accident in southeast d.c. involving two of its buses. officials say the buses co

i am here as a youth representing the richmond district neighborhood centers, which will be affected by cuts. i am here with my gsa members. i am the president of the alliance there. when we heard about these cuts that would affect the beacon, we were horrified. most, if not all the multicultural program there are sponsored by the beacon. so the cuts we would get from the budget would pretty much be the end of the multicultural programs. there are large schools in the richmond district that have beaten programs. there are literally thousands of students that go to these clauses that will be affected. i feel like i am screaming for help, but i have not. supervisor chu: thank you. >> hello, my name is natalie. i go to roosevelt middle school. i am involved in the beacon program. i go to the art academy three times a week. this is not an avid program that you just go in and get picked up. they let you go outside every day and teach a new things, give you books, let you go out to different monuments so that you can learn how to draw, learn the history behind burke. this is basically my on