greg. >>> [speaker not understood]. >> [speaker not understood]. >>> all right. david [speaker not understood]. i'm here with the western soma plan as part of thumb tack, this is a private citizen. one of the reasons i really like this plan is that the plan that helps build complete neighborhoods that really serve a lot of needs. part of complete neighborhoods is putting affordable housing in the mix. this plan amends the eastern neighborhood plan which had provisions for housing and the impact fees that were determined kind of were derived from that eastern neighborhood plan. it was kind of a [speaker not understood] behind those impact fees. i'm here to challenge supervisor wiener's amendment that would take that money and give it to transportation. not that i'm against transportation, but to do it at the backs of affordable housing i think is wrong. i think transportation should be funded, but through other sources or through greater total residential impact fees that cover both transportation and affordable housing. so, i beg you, don't undermine this eight-y

and if you [speaker not understood], you will see that [speaker not understood]. so, the time is more than ripe. stop all the talking. stop all the bickering among yourselves and get up and do some work for seniors who have [speaker not understood] in this chambers. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. i appreciate the opportunity to address you this afternoon. my name is dr. connor [speaker not understood]. i'm here to speak about the ordinance that supervisor campos has introduced today regarding planned parenthood. i've been present on the sidewalk in front of planned parenthood for the last 39 days, from 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m., and i'm very shocked to hear all of the harsh words that supervisor campos has given you today. the sidewalk in front of planned parenthood is very peaceful. we've been praying there and we help the women. and i'm afraid that this ordinance will have some unintended consequences which may be very dire and you should be aware of. i have here a statement of peace, i'd like to put it on the projector. every one o

[speaker not understood]. next speaker. >> correspond i lam followed by [speaker not understood] and mark gruberg. >> hello. >>> good afternoon, directors. i've spoken previously and other meetingsing, i was a ramp taxi driver. i do work at night, so, the majority of my rides are usually not folks in wheelchairs. they're people who are out drinking and whatnot. my concern with the ramp program has to do with people using the medallion just to go to the airport and take what doesn't fit in a prius or an escape. i've had that concern for sometime now. i've addressed that with sfo people on how to handle that. what's happening is now that we have the 8,000 series and these other vehicles that are being added and i believe you're probably going to see another spike in hybrid medallions, but you do need incentivized drivers who don't have a medallion down the road for them to still service that very important community. i've given a suggestion previously, and i'm going to bring it again to you. you need to work wit

[speaker not understood]. thank you. >> thank you, ms. [speaker not understood]. >>> supervisors, i'm john goldman of goldman architects, and i am here to speak about 340 11th street which is the only project in western soma which is grandfathered in by the planning commission that needed to be grandfathered in as a pipeline project. it was proposed to be housing above commercial for the block of 11th between folsom and harrison. we had a very illuminating meeting at supervisor kim's office with members of the nighttime entertainment industry. we learned much more about their concerns. i have been meeting with my client for the past couple weeks since the meeting and with encouragement on my part convincing them there is a need for office on that block of 11th. they have now decided to change the housing use to office. and, so, i just wanted to let you know this. you know that we are behind your proposed amendment which actually eliminates the ground traffic clause. the wmuo zoning for that block of 11th being

[speaker not understood]. recreational maritime, america's cup has set the course. the city that knows how has a new wing and needs to take -- learn how to get up and foil into the future of maritime history. just last month maserati broke the record for going around the horn in new york city. what does this mean to our residents? aside from being a san franciscan, it has brought an exciting challenge for our youth, the ac 45 program. the ac has broadened the awareness of our population. there is access for water events. the last two months generated interests from sailing here on the base. attendance of events baffled local retailers. coming retailers across the golden gate bridge. [speaker not understood]. many customers are from around the world. when they say america's cup ha been here, i don't swap to back. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jamie, i'm a small business owner, [speaker not understood] special valet parking in san francisco. america's cup has bee

my name is mellie [speaker not understood]. i'm with [speaker not understood]. please prioritize affordable housing for low-income residents of soma. who will benefit public transportation if we are being thrown out of our own community? disclose our community, this location could be a huge impact for our family. i can see that housing is the number one problem in our city more than the public transportation. the city is conducive for walking and it's more beneficial for help. we are going to work, church, and store. my plea to you, my dear supervisors, please attend to our needs for affordable housing for low-income family like me. thank you. >> thank you, ms. [speaker not understood]. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jesus. i'm also [speaker not understood]. i work at south of market. and the city needs more affordable housing. we need -- we should be pending against the different needs of the city. and say why? because i work with a lot of families that live in soma and we need affordable housing. so, i wish you put in more housing. thank you. >> t

[speaker not understood]. it seem like that hasn't been the case. >> okay. what we've done is that the [speaker not understood] participation, we provided them with paperwork, what we call the form 2a, the participation form. all the forms of these proposals have gone out already. we have provided them with those forms, so they have a great staff to provide information to all contractors with whom they have contracted already. so, we go to [speaker not understood] and we can come up with an independent report of our participation of local business participation a compared with the reports. so, we don't have that information from [speaker not understood]. but we met with them and the mayor's office of workforce development, they are willing to provide the information and the procurement plan. that is very crucial for us to measure, you know, to measure the lbe participation and to an advertise the work that is going to come out so we can help them outreach to local business enterprises. >> so, in looking back a

my name is salomay [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood] participation 30%. we have been with the event authority for 30% of our local participation. and part of that agreement was that the event authority by may 31st -- may 1st, 2004, give us what we call a procurement plan and that procurement plan would strategize how we were going to meet the 30% goal by the end of the event. [speaker not understood] we see the procurement plan. we have contacted them and they are willing to provide it. the mayor's office offer work for economic and workforce development is working with them to provide the procurement plan. also, one of the requirements of the agreement was that they advertise their rfp [speaker not understood]. and in those advertisement, the cmd required -- the event authority lists the percentage of lbs that would be participating, the goal they have on each subtrait, the rfps and the [speaker not understood] advertise. as of now we have not seen any of the advertisements that have got local participation on the individual trades. also, we require that

josephine [speaker not understood] and alex [speaker not understood]. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is tom [speaker not understood], department of building inspection. [speaker not understood] we are totally supporting it's ready to take over and then to get [speaker not understood] and also to plan check this legislation. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker [speaker not understood]. >>> i would say let's try to keep the 100% pass through because many of the small property owners will have to mortgage that retrofit fee and the mortgage of that is probably 2 to 3 times over the lifetime -- i mean, the interest accrued to mortgage the pass through -- i mean, the retrofit cost will be probably 2 to 3 times the cost itself. so, we are paying a lot of interest to help the retrofit to be finished. and that is just, you know, 100,000 or $200,000 on a $100,000 retrofit. so, that's a lot of money [speaker not understood]. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> my name is alex coo. i just want to explain about the difficulties [speak

. >>> [speaker not understood] san francisco. [speaker not understood]. our supervisor, good afternoon. my name abdullah [speaker not understood]. i thank god who give me the time to be here today with you. at least i can be and i can deal with you to make it nice and warm welcome to our new supervisor katy tang. katy, [speaker not understood] over china. i have here the list you can see. we have 12 people, chinese people has been involved in this room in the city hall, such as mayor ed lee, senator leland yee, assembly woman fiona ma, supervisor [speaker not understood], supervisor mabel tang, carmen chu, [speaker not understood], eric mar, john k. jenkins, david chiu, ed chiu, and katy tang, she come in at number 12. i think chinatown has moved into the city hall. i am not against that. i am with them because in this moment i rise to support my chinese sister fiona ma to be the next congress. i wish she have take it [speaker not understood] office. she deserve that. and i like to support the chinese people. yes, they are going to make it good future. su

[speaker not understood] and great community. >> [speaker not understood]. tell them, we love you. >> so, i want bring up mimi yee up here. i don't know if don, a member, would like to come up as well. mimi, i'm not going to make you speak. i'm really touched that you came today. i have been trying to honor mimi for months. she is an institution in the tenderloin neighborhood and she is a woman who is one of my heroes and someone who i really respect for what she does. she has maintained the small business and restaurant in the tenderloin for 17 years and she just retired three weeks ago to the chagrin and sadness and tears of many of our constituents and residents. as the video showcased, she is a place where our residents feel comfortable going to where they can afford to come and sit down and have coffee, a breakfast, or lunch. and really grateful also to tenderloin development corporation for encouraging these types of small businesses by subsidizing them so they can be there for our residents. people believe these types of businesses can't exist in san

a staff attorney [speaker not understood]. i'd like to speak on the antimuslim and antiarab advertisements on muni buses in the city. in particular i'd like to thank this body and [speaker not understood] and others who worked to craft the resolution that is going up to the vote. standing against the [speaker not understood] ads and standing with the arab and muslim communities. since 9/11 the arab middle eastern and south asian community in the city has been subject today pervasive racism and discrimination such as those seen in the muni ads. then i think vulnerable communities in this way in such a public way especially, to never ever be harmless. [speaker not understood] such as those seen on these ads condone and even encourage violence against these communities that are already under a take by so many different sectors of society. [speaker not understood] so heart ened to see the creative approach that the city has taken to confronting these ads by meeting racist speech with subtle speech. and by standing with these vulne

[speaker not understood]. colleagues, if there are no comments or questions, we will open up to public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to comment on item number 4 relating to the market street, masonry historic district proposal? i see no members of the public so we will close public comment. [gavel] >> colleagues, are there any additional comments? seeing none, is there a motion to advance item number 4 to the board with recommendation? >> make that motion. >> can we take that without objection? that will be the order. [gavel] >> thank you. >> ms. miller, are we ready for item number 2 yet? is the overflow room set up? oh, it's not set up yet? okay. >> [inaudible]. >> okay. in that case, why don't we go to item number 5. madam clerk, can you please call item number 5? >> item number 5 is an ordinance amending the building code to establish a mandatory seismic retrofit program for wood-frame buildings of three or more stories or two stories over a basement or underfloor area that has

], [speaker not understood], [speaker not understood]. next speaker. >>> good afternoon. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is benjamin [speaker not understood] and i'm ceo of a local nonprofit called operation access. and i know the issue of charity care community benefits has been raised and evaluated. my organization receives patient referralses from the community clinics. i know john [speaker not understood] will be speaking in a little bit. i think. and then we match up these low-income monitored people that need specialty care or surgeries with volunteer surgeons. and for the last 12 years we've been working in partnership with cpmc during that time nearly $6,000 in charity care has been provided. we have 25 cpmc surgeons that volunteer to provide free surgery to what now is over 700 patients. ~ so, this sounds like a grand bargain to me. thank you all for your good work. i encourage you to move the project forward. thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. >>> dan prince, ironworkers local 377. president chiu, supervisors, i just want

stuff, [speaker not understood]. and then by the time to discuss the code, staff can go in there and listen and have objection or opinion and then try to [speaker not understood]. small project, also they sometimes come in for verification. now is substantially big deals because what they call information sheet pass out to the public. then the bigger project, 95% of the time, you know, most of the inspectors, they agreed. if they don't agree, they need to come back to discuss with the senior [speaker not understood]. once in a while some of the field inspector have a problem, go to the individual plan checker to argue. we stop that. we say they need to go through their senior -- communicate with the plan check manager [speaker not understood] individual plan checker to argue. [speaker not understood] be able to resolve it. you know, because the purification is by the senior member and then, you know, and then there is any ab requirement, it would be -- that plan checker has the senior to sign off on it. sometimes inc

[speaker not understood] douglas yip. would like to say for the record that the dead man's curse has entered into district 7. it's pretty unfortunate what happened last week. but if the supervisors continue to ignore the dedman, i guess he has his own way of sending his own message. secondly, for the record, i'd like to say that i see a pattern in district 4 and 7. ex-mayor newsome failed miserably with his triple play. most of us had to endure supervisor elsbernd and now in district 4 it's happened twice. so, we barely survived the first one. we'll see how the second one goes. >> mr. yip, if i could ask you to direct your comments to all the supervisors instead of single out supervisors, that would be appreciated. >>> all right, that's fine. >> thank you. >>> anyway, i would like to say i would like to see this pattern stop. in my opinion, it seems like it's nothing but political cronyism, and i think that the west side in general has lost a lot of influence, especially to the progressive supervisors. so, i think that in

[speaker not understood] and [speaker not understood] streets. it will produce electricity derived solely from excess hydraulic energy and the water that's already flowing in the puc's water pipelines that deliver water from crystal springs reservoir to the university mound reservoir. so, it's a very exciting project. and this project will continue in a cost-effective way to our renewable energy portfolio and i'm very excited to see this and it's consistent with prior interconnection agreements that we have passed at this board of supervisors. the next item, and this is a very personal one -- and i want to thank supervisor avalos and supervisor wiener for co-sponsoring this. you know, normally we don't introduce these kinds of resolutions, but any time we're talking about impacting national policy, which in turn impacts directly what happens in this city, i think it's important for the board of supervisors to weigh in. so, this is a resolution urging the united states congress to pass an inclusive comprehensive immigration reform bill that includ

[speaker not understood]. >>> hello, [speaker not understood].'ve known mel for a number of years and particularly when he was on the building inspection commission. and i find mel as someone who listens, who is reasonable, who is fair and believes in teamwork. that is important for any commissioner. you have to be able to work [speaker not understood]. coming from [speaker not understood] in building is a -- it's going to be a real tragedy for the port commission. there is so much development going on, he'd be a really good person to have there to watch what's going on and as far as where the buck stops. so, i support him sincerely and i hope that you will move his appointment on. thank you. >>> good afternoon, supervisors breed, yee and cohen. my name is todd david and i am the co-founder of san francisco parent political action committee. and as an organization, we think it is so important to make sure that parents and families are represented on commissions in san francisco. and, so, it's great that mel has chosen to raise his family in san f

maybe [speaker not understood]. when code comes back from the field, i would go higher than 95%. 99.9% of the time there is never a disagreement about whether this is required or not. it's usually a field change that occurs, and now someone sees something different in the field and then that's what comes back. so, i don't want to oversimplify it, but as far as once the decision is made on the code requirement and occasionally a plan reviewer will miss something. there may be a room that didn't show a sprinkler head. it's something simple like that. we say, you need a sprinkler head. we don't look at that as a disagreement with the code interpretation. we're helping expedite and get these plans out as fast as we can. sometimes the plan reviewer argues something, the field inspector catches. we have virtually no disagreement from the contractors or designers on those issues. so, i think that, once again, the main reason something may come back in for discussion is because of a change to the field -- in the field to wh

[speaker not understood]. sorry. and david chiu, thank you again, supervisor chiu, for your leadership in this. this has been an amazing experience over the last two years a we started to adopt open data technology. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good morning, my name is [speaker not understood] and i work for the white house as a presidential innovation fellow. i'm here to share my personal perspective [speaker not understood] national data. [speaker not understood]. how this is done is admittedly not always clear. in the 1970s the national oceanic made weather data widely available. in 1980s [speaker not understood]. which were previously for military use only. these two decisions created huge effects in the live of everyday americans. ask anyone who obtained a driving report on a mobile phone. what's more, these issues generated an infrastructure of public data that anyone could tap into for free. what we see are the end use products and services that they're being delivered by massive networks,

[speaker not understood]. >>> hi, my name is troy [speaker not understood]. i'm the project architect. there has been a little confuse, i think. this is a confusing property. it's three adjacent buildings built with party walls between them. they are three separate parcels with three separate owners. i'm going to put on the screen a block book. so, the parcels are 9, 9a and 10. 9a and 10 are considered by the building department to be a single building that's clear in the records. i think dbi will probably speak on that. it is a four-unit building legally by the records. this is a, probably a [speaker not understood] thing and, you know, the cfc for this building is as a four-unit are two occupancy which is more than two dwelling units. the code requirements for an r-2 occupancy in terms of exiting are more restrictive for a -- than they are 3 occupancy. [speaker not understood]. a two-unit building is similar to a single-family residence and it's less restrictive. this is a front view of the three parcels. 12

>> [speaker not understood]. >> [speaker not understood]. basically the task force, they'll put together and try to convince the citizens something is happening, then it will go away. it's no longer a political issue. what turned the corner for us, we had a mayor go out during one of our zero tolerance on blight mayor. she went out on a clean up day. the people from the better business bureau went with they are and started dragging her through the streets and started showing her the [speaker not understood], showing her the graffiti all over and what an impact it's having on them. yeah, one person goes up, couple people go up, even the police go up and they believe it. you don't get a lot of interest from city hall on that. you get the business community and convince them the importance of dealing with graffiti and make that important to city hall, you'll be amazed. that was one of my most successful times, when the business community was appreciate you you aring city hall. that's our tax base. at a time when tax bases are diminishing income

kerr [speaker not understood]. clearly, martha karosi doesn't get it and hopefully you guys are take this into consideration. thank you. >>> good afternoon. my name is rita o'flynn. i am affiliated with san franciscans for sunshine. i have exposed [speaker not understood] in the lead hazard program. in in terms of the city's settlement proposal for dr. kerr's lawsuit, the city is really getting off cheap. dr. kerr is a well respected physician with a long history of service at laguna honda who uncovered fraud, waste, and abuse and mismanagement of funds specifically intended for the disadvantaged patients served by the city at laguna hospital. rather than thanking dr. kerr for going above and beyond in his care for patients, he was fired, was robbed of his career and more importantly the patients of laguna honda were robbed of the excellent care that dr. kerr provides. like many who hope to avoid legal action and secure swift and impartial judgment by the alternate avenues offered by the city, dr. kerr sought admin

[speaker not understood]. we are obviously a very local company and had a very [speaker not understood]. look forward to working with them, exposure in 2013. we've been working hand in hand with them to do outreach, both international media and tour groups, also national groups to get more travel trade and people to attend the events and add to the experience. in addition to working with them with groups like san francisco travel association and pier 39 to increase the outreach and awareness of the events that are going on, to increase attendance in these events to hopefully help all of these businesses have more effect by this event. we understand the importance of large events like this, that's why we're happy to be partnering with america's cup to make sure that is good and make sure of the companies that support it. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >>> good morning, supervisors. eddie [speaker not understood] defense project. nonprofit specialize workforce development and community reinvest. a lot of