this code section provided an exemption from the requirement for moving signs for the union square and we felt that that was unclear. so, the commission asked for that reference to union square to be deleted. in retrospect, in looking at it in more detail, the zoning add more is concerned that that might lead individual to believe that moving signs are allowed in that area. on this item in particular there are many older referenceses in the planning code that prohibit moving signs. so, this is just a technical clarification we hope will make it clear moving signs are not permitted in that area. and on the backside of this chart, i just kind of walk through a couple other issues to describe the type of changes you see in the ordinance. and i can go in great detail. it would be best to hear from you if there are any particular concerns or interests as a committee. >> thank you very much. yes, president chiu. >> just a quick question. the description of the legislation refers to amendments of the zoning map to remove the [speaker not understood] special use district designation that is in

i think and heard and believe that many of you have heard from the leadership of the union square community about the impact that this organization has had in union square within a part of town that sees some of the most densely traveled and densely parking situations that we have in the city. so, with that, colleagues, ask for your support for this and we will proceed. >> great. i assume, colleagues, that we need a roll call on this. we can have a roll call, madam chair. >> on item 16, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos no. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president chiu? chiu aye. supervisor chu? chu no. there are 9 ayes and 2 no's. >> the resolution is adopted. item 17. >> item 17 is a resolution retroactively approving the boarding area "f" specialty store lease between avila retail development and management, llc, and the city and county of san francisco, acting by and through its airport commission wit

the sutter stockton garage as well as the union square garage. so, they're able to spread those costs differently. that's the main difference between the two leases. >> and, so, the 154,000 is almost the 50% between the two garages because it's one management company? >> that's correct. >> that makes sense. and i just hope that as we continue this long-term discussion around our garages, i know that this initially came forward because we needed other entities to bond on behalf of sfmta. i'm happy to support this, this ten-year lease for both of the garages, but i hope we can keep having a continual discussion with our off-site operators to ensure they're running efficiently. i certainly know the benefits of the j town garage offers to its community and supervisor breed really articulated those needs very well. >> supervisor chu. >> thank you very much. colleagues, i think this is one where we all appreciate how hard some time our votes are here at the board of supervisors, especially in light of all the relationships that we have built over time.

its galleries are housed in one of the very rare single family residences around union square. the 100th anniversary of the mansion, meridian hosted a series of special events, including a world premiere reading by lawrence ferlinghetti. >> the birth of an american corporate fascism, the next to last free states radio, the next-to-last independent newspaper raising hell, the next-to-last independent bookstore with a mind of its own, the next to last leftie looking for obama nirvana. [laughter] the first day of the wall street occupation set forth upon this continent a new revolutionary nation. [applause] >> in addition to its own programming as -- of artist talks, meridian has been a downtown host for san francisco states well-known port trees center. recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. >> you can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace, and shoot us, as we know very well, you will, but this time we're not turning back. we know you are finished. desperate, near the end. hysterical in your flabbergastlyness. amen.

the mayor along with the workers and union leaders gathered at the hilton san francisco union square hotel. the contract was set to expire in august. it is a effort with healthen hotels -- with hilton hotels in six cities. >> they will have health benefits, they will have a pension that they can rely on for years and years to come. >> it lasts till 2018. the union said today they plan to work on securing better contracts with other hotel groups. >>> the administrator has a life time guarantee on her salary. susan muranishi is the highest paid county administrator in california, $423,000 a year. she also has a guarantee she makes 10% more than anyone else in the county. one critic likens her salary to lewding the public. others say she is worth the money. >>> new tonight at 6:00 p.m. a plan to use clean energy sources in san francisco. ktvu's cara liu explains how it would work and why some people are against the move. >> reporter: ken, the meeting wrapped up a hour ago here at city hall. it was a local agency and the public utilities commission. a vote was tabled till april. >> report

both former and current on hand for the organization's annual play ball luncheon yesterday at the union squarerancisco. the players were joined by more than 1,500 fans eager to see the world champion giants back on the field for the regular season. as you would expect, the biggest ovation went to the heart of the giants organization. >> for us to kick off the season and get to see the really excited fans. >> our annual preseason function we love, you know, really helps a lot of kids and gives them a chance to, you know, play sports or any kids that don't quite have -- and players love coming here. we're overwhelmed by the support we get here. it's a great thing. >> the event benefits the giants community fund and the junior giants program. >>> 49er tight end vernon davis can add business owner to his resume. a brand-new jump ba juice opened at the river mark plaza in santa claire yesterday. not an ordinary jamba juice though. this one is called vernon davis jamba juice and maybe the first one to be named after its owner. his fans filled his facebook page. saying not only they plan to visit but

smiles all around as giants players past and present were joined by around 1,500 giants fans at the union squareton. as you would expect fans giving a huge cheer for the man of the hour bs reigning national league mvp buster posey who signed a long-term contract with the giants today. >> a nice way for us to kick off the season and get to see the really excited fans and get to play a game at at&t parng last night we were packed house for an exhibition game. it's pretty crazy. >> 0 our annual preseason, a bunch we love, really helped a lot of kids and give them a chance to play sports or any kid that a lot of us have. players love coming here and we're overwhelmed by the support we get here. it's a great thing. we're having a lot of fun. >>> yeah. and the name of the annual event says it all for giants players and fans. it's time to play ball. it's tame to get to sports. >> it's time for feldy. and there he is. >> in the comcast sports newsroom. hi, dave. >> recapping our top story in sports, the reigning national league mvp signs a deal that will likely keep him in orange and black for the rest

carolyn: new at 5:00, activists in san francisco commemorate the anniversary of the syrian revolution with a rally in union square. the first protest in march 2011 challenged the dictatorship that ruled sarah for -- rule syria for years. one million syrians have fled the country. the san francisco chapter of the syrian-american council held today's demonstration. >>> the san francisco symphony says quiet with musicians still on strike. tonight's concert is the third cancellation since musicians went on strike on wednesday. i you have tickets you can get a refund or exchange them. the musicians and symphony manage. negotiated over the past two days but have not come to a resolution. the musicians want more money. the status of sunday's can certain will be announced later tonight. >>> up next, an airline mixup of major proportions. a dog ends up traveling 5,000 miles in the wrong direction. >> and a mix of sun and clouds today. more weather changes are coming our way. meteorologist leigh glaser has the forecast after the break. >>> now, here's david muir with a look at what is ahead on abc's "world news." >> tonigh

the mayor along with the workers and union leaders gathered at the hilton san francisco union square hotel. the contract was set to expire in august. it is a effort with healthen hotels -- with hilton hotels in six cities. >> they will have health benefits, they will have a pension that they can rely on for years and years to come. >> it lasts till 2018. the union said today they plan to work on securing better contracts with other hotel groups. >>> the administrator has a life time guarantee on her salary. susan muranishi is the highest paid county administrator in california, $423,000 a year. she also has a guarantee she makes 10% more than anyone else in the county. one critic likens her salary to lewding the public. others say she is worth the money. >>> new tonight at 6:00 p.m. a plan to use clean energy sources in san francisco. ktvu's cara liu explains how it would work and why some people are against the move. >> reporter: ken, the meeting wrapped up a hour ago here at city hall. it was a local agency and the public utilities commission. a vote was tabled till april. >> report

. >> the uprising day continues with a march to union square. >>> the storm has passed but the damagestill evident in parts of the anymore. ahead, home owners pay the price for living on prime oceanfront real estate. >> heading outside, bright, sunny day across the bay area, and leigh glaser has more on our warmup heading our way. >>> here's a look at what's ahead on abc's world news at 5:30. >> good evening. tonight the cardinals spanning out in churches across rome. >> a teenage rers miraculous survival after a small plane slams into his house. and a 48-year-old boxing >> ama: the demolition process is underway along the massachusetts coast after a storm sent a number of homes tumbling into the atlantic. this is some of the damage caused by a storm surge pummeled the northeast on friday. no injuries were reported. just about eave town from new hampshire to cape cod suffered some damage. >> the taylor family foundation is best known for camp arroyo in livermore, free camp for kids with life-threatening illnesses or life altering conditions but they do so much more. >> i think the cam

incorporated into the ordinance such as adding a note to the p be where they might find an index to fees and what are not allowed in union square and the restrict of use -- which has expired. >> newly appointed. she signed as a legislative sponsor and with those committees recommended approval of the ordinance. >> on tuesday, the plan was made possible by years of community and city effort. the board hearing contained a robust discussion about the no amendment were proposed. the plan included too many limitations on entertainment and office uses and supervisor expressed similar concern and know the board struck a balance between many competing uses. she explained that the sally district is intended to be a pdr district and thus should not permit office and housing uses. there was discussion on the grandfathering provision for the conditional use for the academy of arts facility. board president chu and other supervisors expressed general concerns but no amendment offered to move that provision. since the planning commission adopted this, there have been following amendments made to this. removal of the b bulk. rezoning the prop

this particular location is a historic 1907 building, beautiful building, right on the edge of union square about a half a block from bart. and about a half a block from market and the new show place that is going in at market and mason. we are opening basically what we hope will be a world class beer cafe with a type 42 license and there will be 40 rotating of the world's finest beer and 500 labels of the world's finest beers from 20 countries. it will have three zones of temperatures to make sure that each of these beers is given to the customer at the exact perfect temperature to enhance the flavor. this project will create between 25 and 30 jobs. the building itself was the old polos hof brow since 1907 was a san francisco institution. that particular place closed almost 20 years ago and there was a period for about two or three years where there was a nightclub in that particular location, which failed. but, it has been basically a 75-foot black hole on mason street and this this owner is not -- he is in for the long haul. he is a partner in the building. they own the property he is no

. >>> the management of san francisco's largest hotel and union workers have reached an agreement on a new labor contract that they hope will serve as a template. the hilton at union squareeed to increase wages 4%, each year of the 5 year deal. mayor ed lee says workers need to feel secure to help support the city's overall tourism goals. >> they can take care of their families and themselves for years to come and take care of visitors, thousands of them. >> the hilton and union negotiators reached their agreement before the current contract expired this summer others in the city are still in negotiations. >>> five people in the running to fill a board of supervisors position. the former board member pleaded guilty to misusing tax payer money to fuel his gambling habit. potential candidates for district two seat must pay a $1,400 filing fee, gather petition signatures and file by wednesday. a special election is scheduled for june. >> lawyers began a fight for bankruptcy protection in federal court the four day hearing is to decide if leaders negotiated in good faith, before filing for chapter 9 bankruptcy, stockton has more than a billion dollars of debt. the crisis mad

. >>> the management of san francisco's largest hotel and union workers have reached an agreement on a new labor contract that they hope will serve as a template. the hilton at union square increase wages 4%, each year of the 5 year deal. mayor ed lee says workers need to feel secure to help support the city's overall tourism goals. >> they can take care of their families and themselves for years to come and take care of visitors, thousands of them. >> the hilton and union negotiators reached their agreement before the current contract expired this summer others in the city are still in negotiations. >>> five people in the running to fill a board of supervisors position. the former board member pleaded guilty to misusing tax payer money to fuel his gambling habit. potential candidates for district two seat must pay a $1,400 filing fee, gather petition signatures and file by wednesday. a special election is scheduled for june. >> lawyers began a fight for bankruptcy protection in federal court the four day hearing is to decide if leaders negotiated in good faith, before filing for chapter 9 bankruptcy, stockton has more than a billion dollars of debt. the crisis made wors

the fisherman's wharf area. they can go in and around union square. we have space is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of product

parking in the financial district east of union square. and walking across our neighborhood going to polk street for the bars and partying over there. and after they close, two or three or four o'clock in the morning, they are coming back. and sometimes as many as 100 in these groups. and it's very disruptive. so that's a side effect of what is happening on polk street. it never used to be that way. i have been in the area since 1955. and i left, went in the army, went to school and came back in 1965 and i have been living on the hill every since. there is a proliferation of alcohol licenses and entertainment permits that should not be happening. and we are not notified when there is conditional use operation. this needs to be corrected. so that the neighbors know what is happening in their neighborhood. also the groups that are on polk street who are supposed to be representing the neighborhood. are approval these liquor licenses. one of the organizations approved seven in four blocks. they can't speak for the neighborhood. this is a large

i was asked to triple the size of this one district in my first term in union square. supervisor wiener said it's very important that he tripled the size of his districts. but in my districts i have the motorbike man's wharf and we've got make sure that our wharf is safe. i'm happy to announce we're talking about a new you community benefit i'll be proposing along broadway but there have been some serious knsz around pope street and whether the financial districts having should consider a cd v. when you have the private partnership and you have people working with our city police department it's important that all of us who are working it to make sure that san francisco has the most gem of neighborhoods for the entire word we're trying to chief that >> thank you for helping us. thank you very much >> thank you supervisor. and we know it's comfortable without our community leaders. so, please thank you so much. in our other vp thank you all for coming. i think the original reason for this conference is to tell you in terms of giving you a qualified data. we did a terrifi

i think as we talk about bayview to the ballpark and caltrain to union square and chinatown it will be exciting to have north beach as part of that line as well. and also connect north beach to many of these important areas to the city. thank you president chiu for your work and happy to support this. >> thank you, supervisor kim. i will be supporting this motion as well. one of the major challenges that we have with public transportation in the city is lack of good north-south connections. and it's a real problem when you look at just getting to north beach to chinatown, and points north. it's a real challenge and we have some bus lines that are very overcrowded, and very narrow streets that are already crowded. so the central subway, despite some of the criticism of the project as a whole, as being somehow unnecessary, i don't agree with that fundamentally. it's very important for the future of transportation in the city and i do hope at some point it gets extended further north and i think it will become more and more of a great transit asset for the city. you know, and in terms of

and, so, the amendment reflects the agreement that the community and my office have with walgreens that is going to be proposed in union square. at this time ask first that we adopt the amendment and then hopefully, colleagues, ask for your support with this liquor license. >> so, we have a motion to amend by president chiu, seconded by supervisor farrell. can we take that motion to amend without objection? without objection. colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? >> as amended, chair. >> same house same call as amended. >> next item. >> item 19 is a resolution authorizing the department of public works to retroactively accept and expend a federal grant in the amount of 797,000 fromerth federal highway administration so farth slow boulevard pedestrian safety improvements project from january 2013 to december 2016. >> supervisor yee. ~ >> yes, as you know, i made the pedestrian safety a key issue in my office and all of you know that for the tragedy that happened saturday evening when 17-year-old student was hit and killed on the slope boulevard. this tragedy really continues to strengthen my commitment to thi

i was asked to triple the size of this one district in my first term in union square. supervisor wiener said it's very important that he tripled the size of his districts. but in my districts i have the motorbike man's wharf and we've got make sure that our wharf is safe. i'm happy to announce we're talking about a new you community

the crowd chanted "free tibet" and "shame on china" -- the day will conclude at union square from 5 toists are finally finding some relief at the gas pump. the lundberg survey reports that the average price of a gallon of gas has dropped six cents over the past two weeks. it's the first decrease in gas prices since late december. lundberg says the price of a gallon of regular in california is $3 and 74 cents. midgrade costs an average of $3 and 91 cents. and premium is $4 and four cents. in california the lowest average price is $4 and two cents in sacramento. >> president obama is taking a new approach to resolve the impass in congress over the 85-billion-dollar spending cuts. down what the president is doing this time around to get a deal in place. >> "none of this is necessary. it's happening because a choice that republicans in congress have made." >> reporter: from that, to this. >> "i've been reaching out to republicans and democrats to see if we can untangle >> reporter: after a political blame game left congress with no compromise to avert 85 billion dollars in automatic spendi

really great visualizations of the busiest times and the least busiest times of people moving around san francisco. you want to go down into union square? you can see the data changes dramatically when we change the neighborhood. and just illustrates how different every neighborhood in san francisco really is. we're announcing today that we're providing some of this data to the city as a kind of public service to help the citizens here figure out how many people walk around their neighborhood. but mostly it's to help public service, like the fire department, the police department, the mta know more about how people move around. so, we're providing crowd data. so, if a thousand people pass one of our sensors in an hour, that data will be available publicly. every month. so, chris, do you want to go a little deeper? >> you can see we have a lot of blocks around union square covered. when you show this data to property owners and real estate agents and to retailers, they want to know more about how much -- how many people walk in front of their store every day, kind of the story -- the way i thought of the idea was standing in my balcony