they must also contribute to public transit for the new residents and we are a transit-first city. so you have heard this comment before. this must be included. low-cost housing, must always be included in any consideration of policy for new buildings. because otherwise you are going to get sprawl. so, thanks. >> good afternoon, supervisors, corey smith on behalf of the san francisco housing coalition, also in support. i won't really repeat my comments from the last time we gave comments on this but just one added component of the development economics, as you all know it's incredibly expensive to build housing -- or sorry, parking spots, it's expensive to build housing too, but that's a different conversation. we are talking about $75,000 per underground stall. this is a huge, huge cost for home builders to include it. often times we always try to encourage to do bike parking and as many transit options as possible. no-brainer, i think is the word i used last time and reiterating that today. please support it and move it forward. thank you. >> hello, supervisors, my name is scott

southeastern part of the city is neglected in the conversation and transit first is no exception. i want to acknowledge, although there has been outreach, the meetings have been held inside city hall and we know how challenging it is not only to get down to city hall but to take time to be a part of the conversations. i much prefer to see community meetings inside the communities that they're looking to garner feedback from. and i think that the legislation is presented as a nonchalant legislation. it's inocculative. that is how it happens. that's how it starts. it starts little by little, inch by inch, eating around the edges. i would ask that if people want this legislation, they should be able to opt in. i'm asking for a carve-out. i'm asking that you take out district 10, so we can study it more and understand the impacts. parking cars, vehicles, is a reality. and it feels very prescriptive that a very vocal, well-organized, very -- vocal and organized group of people have a vision of what san francisco should be going and the direction and forcing that decision on all parts of

want to be the first major city in the united states and lead the way for the environmental smart policy. it's important as you heard from what we ed -- experienced last week. it's a transit-first city and transit love first policy are and resonates with walk san francisco. i feel as an organization we do need to support this because we do need to start putting our chips in with the transit, walking and biking for us to be a real transit-first city and a vision zero city to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024. we heard from you all at the last committee meeting you wanted us to do further outreach so walk san francisco with our allies and community partners, some you've seen here today, did additional outreach through our constituents and you should have [record scratch] received 50 support signatures and sure you received more from other advocacy groups. in closing i hope you support this and pass this out of committee today. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. howard stressan for the sierra club. i'm happy to be here to urge you to correct the mistake that is over 50 years old. in the '50s we passed minimum parking requirement and they say we need more

its been a transit-first city since the '70s, the '70s. it has not been working and serving people. yes, you're right. you listed off a bunch of policies that are already in existence and that's my point -- how we're slowly eroding, chipping away around the edges when it comes to parking and consideration. it really speaks to a larger issue of who is determining the policies of san francisco when it comes to parking, when it comes to transportation. in your remarks, supervisor kim, you talked about your district, peskin's and supervisor brown's district, the most transit-rich districts and slow in district 8. the rest of us are at your mercy. and i'm asking for some consideration. we're at your mercy because you guys -- quite frankly, the planning department is also complicite in this in coming up with policies that continue to move forward and be first and be a leader, but at the expense of whom? so i have a motion. why don't we just continue the item and we can continue to talk about it instead of doing -- >> supervisor kim: i would like to take a roll call. >> president cohen: to

people's opinion about public transportation, and also it just makes it true that we are a transit first city. in your opinion, if we were to allow public buses to serve a public entity, that would include entire transit because it is part of public infrastructure, and taxis, do you think that we might see more efficiency and reliability, or do you not have an opinion on that? [laughter] >> let me say this. i definitely think there is an impact if they are stopping at our stops or even one stop on the corridor. if they are using that to travel through, there is less impact. >> his or any regulation prohibiting them from making stops on a red carpet lane? >> yes. they're not allowed -- private shuttles are not allowed to stop at muni stops unless we give them permission to do so. and if you are a converted jewish commuter shuttle program, we place most of those stops off of major corridors so they are not getting in the way for the most part of muni stops. that said, it all comes down to enforcement. we can say don't do that until we are blue in the face, but we have to enforce it. the piece i

but both of those things really are about implementing the city 's transit first policy. the transit first policy was a drop -- adopted in 1973. as you can see on this picture, transit only lanes have been a mainstay of how the city has implemented those policies since then. this is an older picture on the left of gary in 1978. and how we used to designate transit lanes was just with paint. or white lines in writing on the lane itself and signs. and then in 2013, we tried a pilot on church street between sixth street, a three block stretch to paint the lane it read to improve compliance and improve the lane itself. we reduced -- we were able to reduce violations in half by putting those red lanes on church street. this map depicts now where we hold out a red lanes around the city. this is a representation of the division chart. the vehicle code. essentially, it shows where transit lanes are, and what type of lanes they are. we have about 30 miles total of transit only lanes in the city. there is about 13 miles of red transit lanes, and a transit lane must be 24-hour lane b

flexibility moving forward and it's a testament to our commitment to carbon-neutral city and transit-first city. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. i want to take a moment to acknowledge the planning staff for their work and their time. i appreciate it. i will be voting no on this. colleagues, you heard me at length last week going into great detail. i believe that the city sometimes makes decisions trying to be the first and trying to catch headlines and i think they do it at the expense of those of us in the southeast or just grasping trying to catch up with some of the other policies that are already in existence. so i will be voting no on item 15 today. seeing there are no other names on the roster, madam clerk, please call roll call. [roll call vote] >> clerk: there are 7 ayes and 4 nos with safai, stefani, yee and cohen in the dissent. >> president cohen: this ordinance is finally passed. next item. >> clerk: item 16 ordinance to amend the police code to prohibit private post secondary institutions from using an application form to ask applicants about criminal history for the purp

i mean, he believes with his heart of hearts we're transit first city and i believe we have more work that needs to be done in that area, but we agree to work together to implement policies that are fair across the entire city. so, ed riskin, it's a pleasure to serve with you. marie, so many people at dcyf. phil ginsburg, i love to get into a fight with that man, because he is good. i want him to have my back. and it's also interesting when edisagree, you remember the video, that phil and i, he was trying to get a vote, i was like, no. go back, it's very funny. but, phil, i want you to know you and your team has done a phenomenal job with parks and open space. supervisor kim's district has the least amount and my district was a close second. we're correcting that. public works, thank you. mohamm mohammed and his team have kept the city working 24-7. and i am grateful for his vision, his tenacity and most importantly his unparalleled commitment to making sure that every corner of this city is clean. and that is one department head that you can send a picture, take it to him and give hi

we pride ourselves on being a transit first city against associate we see sfmta bending over backwards to use and take up our public lanes. these buses get to coast along the red lane for as little as eight dollars per bus stop. the employees get to ride them for free while we pay the increased fares for the same late and crowded bus service. one hundred dollars a month for a bus pass is on top of the grilling amounts that it cost to live in the city. it is so backwards that the richest people of the city get to take their best for free while we working-class folks have to bear the fare increases. we work really hard and we bear the brunt at gentrification. we need to be reassured and affirmed that the city are committed in investing enough in our communities. you can do that by saying no to public transit. sfmta can do that by regulating. the only thing they just stated that they can regulate and by building with us rather than on top of communities. >> thank you very much good afternoon. i am a tenant councillor. i utilize the 14 our daily between selma and daly city and allowing pri

think it was the early seventies, there was legislation was passed to make san francisco a transit first city. as you can imagine, we have spent hundreds of millions, if not a few billions on trying to get there. quite frankly, almost 40 years later, we are still not quite there, at least on the outer extremity. i use this as an example. people who are thinking into the future, forward thinking and big thinking, we are not so much limited to the costs associated with big picture thinking. so -- thank you. [laughter] thank you. i want to say that i want us to be very thoughtful in our approach, but i want to make sure we are not stifling ourselves because of costs. this is a budget that has been expanding. the budget that we have now today, at the end of 2018 as $11 billion. as you know, we had a 15 million-dollar windfall that may or may not continue in years to come. the state of california is the fifth largest economy in the world his. to say that money -- i don't know. i'm just not buying the arguments that we can't do it because it is too expensive. so i just want to put the idea out that

transit. his first bill would require cities to allow housing developments of 4-8 stories to be built near bart stations or major bus stops but various leaders complained about it and said they were being taken out of the planning process and the bill died in committee. weiner says he reached out to the krit ibs of the original bill and ryed to include their feedback in a new bill accord to go the chronicle, state senator weiner also plans to introduce another new bill focusing on increasing the number of beds and shelters for the homeless in california. his goal is provide a guarantee to the homeless who want to sleep in a shelter that there will be a bed for them. the details on how to provide more beds have to be worked out next year. >>> we would like to take you back now live to washington d.c. where the departure ceremony for former president george h.w. bush is underway. we can see here that crews are set up and ready. there's a motorcade that's going to take the former president from the capitol building and move it to the national cathedral in washington d.c. gray skies and thankfully

first time you came up to the city? >> first time. >> stephen: what was the transig like for you? >> the transition, it was mind blowing. and batiste you would know about this as well. it's a crazy, crazy time. you're living in the city where there are stars all over the place and you're coming in as a fresh. and i'm moving in to my juilliard building, and i remember going on one of the elevators, and i was trying to rush to go get it and i stopped the elevator, and a guy was like, "hey, come on in, come on in." i said, "thank you so much." he said, "how is it go is everything going well?" i said, "yes, it's great." he gets off the floor, and two ladies get on and they're like, "oh, my god!" and i'm like what happened? it was paul mccartney that was in the elevator. and i remember being like, "who's that? i don't know." i'm sorry, i guys, i did not-- and i know it's a testament to me. i did not grow up listening to the beatles. i apologize. since i i have listened to the albums, saw the documentary. it was great. >> stephen: did you hear that one big song they had? >> the one they did on the rooftop. >> stephen: oh, yea

inside san jose city hall, a packed house inside council chambers as residents await to the first phase of the google transit village. >> please reconsider your plan to sell to google. >> reporter: abc 7 news spoke to project supporters ahead of tonight's vote that will allow the city to sell several parcells of land to google. >> cities are changing every day. let's embrace the change in a way we can shape it. google has actually been very open to the process, the public engagement process. they've listened to the community. >> reporter: google would spend more than $100 million on the land itself, with the goal of developing more than 50 acres into a mixed-use community with commercial, retail, restaurants and open space. up to 25,000 jobs would be added downtown. >> in terms of jobs and taxes, that would be extraordinarily valuable i think and important for our schools, our roads, city services more generally. things are vital for us. >> reporter: critics say the city hasn't done its due diligence. >> we have a right to know what's going on in our city. i think that's why there's so many people gathered h

city hall, a public debate months in the making. >> please reconsider your plan to sell to google. >> reporter: residents await the council's decision on the first phase of the proposed google transit village. the vote would allow the city to sell several parcels of land near the station west of highway 87 to the company. some say it will push more residents out of the city. >> they might end up in the streets or they will be forced out into the central valley or surrounding areas, away from their families and their support. it makes it difficult. >> reporter: critics believe san jose hasn't done its due diligence. >> there is back-room deals going on and that's not right. we have a right to know what is going on in our city, and i think that's why there are so many people gathered here right now. >> reporter: city officials call it one of the most transparent land deals the city has ever done. google would spend more than $100 million just on the land itself, with the goal of developing nearly 50 acres into a mixed-use community with commercial, retail, restaurants and open space. up to 25,000 jobs would be added downtown. >> google coming to san jose is a great thing because when

taxation of recreational marijuana in new york could provide enough funds to fix the city's transit system. it would be the firste anyone has used weed to make something go faster. [ laughter and applause ] former new york mayor and possible 2020 presidential candidate michael bloomberg held a premiere of his documentary about climate change in des moines, iowa last night. and all of iowa's biggest stars came out. [ laughter ] according to reports, netflix paid warner media $100 million to keep the show "friends" through 2019. also paying for "friends," donald trump. [ audience ohs ] [ laughter and applause ] "will you be my friend?" [ laughter ] according to a new poll, rudolph the "red nosed reindeer" is the most beloved christmas movie in america, while the least popular is still "santa's unfortunate medical news." [ laughter ] "yeah, you have insane diabetes. how many cookies are you eating?" "like a plate at every house." [ laughter ] and finally, yesterday, peta, the people for the ethical treatment of animals tweeted they that think it's time to get rid of common phrases that mention cruelty to animals, l

. >> reporter: city council has to approve funds which will cost about $1.6 million. but if that happens, and the first of two transitional home village in san jose will be right here in june of 2019. in the santee section of the city jesse gary ktvu fox 2 news. >>> city leaders gathered in san francisco china town to remember ed lee who died from heart attack one year ago this wednesday. celebration of life took place at ports south square the heart of the fabhood where he worked as lawyer trying to improve living conditions early in his year. those who spoke said they miss his presence and sense of humor. >> he continued to bridge gaps, he continued to lead this city with grate grace and style and class and on occasion with a bad joke or two. >> lee's widow anita attended today's commemoration. the event was organized by the asian pacific islander council. >>> coming up up, limited entry and exit points. and questions about how people would get out during an emergency. how a drill this weekend could provide some answers. >> also ahead, a massive winter like storm cripples parts of the southeast forces schools and busine

. >> reporter: the city council has to approve funds that will cost $1.6 million and if that happens the first of two transitional san jose will be right here in june of 2019. in the santee section of the city jesse gary, ktvu, fox 2 news. >>> come up a. story hard -- coming up a. story hard to believe. two california nuns accused of embezzling 5,000 dollars from a catholic school. wait approximately you hear how they spent the money. >> a wild up and down day on wall street. where stocks ended coming up next. i am a family man. i am a techie dad. i believe the best technology should feel effortless. like magic. at comcast, it's my job to develop, apps and tools that simplify your experience. my name is mike, i'm in product development at comcast. we're working to make things simple, easy and awesome. >>> more wild swings on wall street ended on the plus size by the close. dow was down more than 500 points at one time of the they are concerned about slowing growth in chinese exports but a bump in apple shares boosted the market. dow gained 34 points and nasdaq rose 51 and s&p was up 4 points. >>> surprise decisio

transit system in the following matter. our communities from across the city demand you shift your agency's priority is to place our people and equitable outcomes first and make a renewed commitment to investing in public transit that serves those who need it most, and use it most. unrepresented and excluded from current planning processes, our vulnerable communities are left with not only an inaccessible and unreliable transit system, but forced to endure exclusionary changes to our neighborhoods that only exacerbate the current crisis of gentrification and displacement and further devastate our communities. our communities need you to make a permanent commitment to community process, that elevates the concerns and needs of existing residents and particularly those most vulnerable among us. in order to move towards an equity first direction, and ensure justice in transit, it is our fervent belief the sfmta board of directors must immediately make the following changes. and the use of private transit on red bus lanes, commit to a permanent community planning process for future, current plans, and failed existing projects that will actively engage par

network"....the city council on tuesday wll consider the first phase of a deal where google would pay roughly a hundred million dollars for about 10 acres of publcy-owned land for a transit village near diridon station. that could bring millions of square feet of office space, retail and as many as 20,000 new, mostly tech-related jobs to town. it's a good deal says the downtown association's scott knies.scott knies/san jose downtown association "....in a statement, mayor sam liccardo said.... ".....through this proposed partnership with google, we'll require at least 25 % of the new housing units built in that area be affordable rent-restricted units, and create a downtown financing district that will have all office developers, including google, pay a fee towards affordable housing and other infrastructure..."in san jose rob fladeboe kron4news lawrence lawrence kron4news lawrence karnow: clouds filled the skies today but rain is not far behind. a storm is slowly rotating off the coast. it will spin up showers from time to time the next few days. showers will generally be light but we could see a few heavier downpours. dry weather will return late on thursday and friday