. >> i think that this isn't underutilization of the land and an opportunity for -- >i kind of wish that that what could be better utilize than just a single story cvs. if the motion that this is continued, maybe that was something that could be considered, how would we utilize that lot. this is something to think about if you owned a lot and you have that opportunity. >> >> i understand what your talking about, maybe to do something. i am not in favor of continuing the item. if the motion was similar to what commissioner sugaya was asking for where some attention was given to the exteriors of the building, i could support that. i find it inconsistent that we are proving one and then asking for a more significant look back. >> we don't have jurisdiction over a lot of areas in the city. there are many areas where these types of businesses are. if you notice, you will see one pharmacy on one block and many go to the next one and you see five more. there is an extreme situation that is created by the competitive market. i am not sure that san francisco needs all of these pharmacies. i know

the bad news is that it is underutilized and poorly distributed. there are properties for exercising dogs, and these of the underutilized and sometimes empty. we are going to show some slides, because we took photographs, and as he continues to talk, i will show slides, and we did not find many dogs. supervisor mar: could you say when you were there? >> we were there from 2:00 until 4:00. supervisor wiener: if so is the refrain from conversation, thank you. >> we wanted to see what was available, so we wanted to see for ourselves. according to my count, there is 120 acres of off leash areas. seattle, boston, and another combined, a lot of acres. we found acres of park land that were empty. we believe the best were the ones that were fenced with a double gate. they respect the fact the only inside were dogs allowed off leash. many people about their dogs to run off leash, because, as they told me, everyone does it come and it is not in force. we also noticed that other areas were always against and defined. we think the dpa's should also be fenced i

there is an underutilized building. we are perfectly happy with a building going in next door. we think the planning code is therefore a reason. we think that the setbacks are therefore a reason. if you are going to grant an exception. this is not a ministerial act. this is not by right. this is a discretionary process. there has to be a reason why this is an animating force behind why a property owner needs the exception and then you can analyze whether or not that is proper. what the developer has offered is that they said that we need this for a -- system. you can design this without the encroachment and still maintain a certification and the objectives of the project development. well, the project developers come back and in their submission, the only reason why they gave, this is referenced as a building designed. the only reason they have given why they does not work is that the current plans approved to not contain a dedicated -- which is required. well, putting aside the fact that the building is not conform to the planning code, that is not a reason. i would submit tha

said, this process has been going on for far too long, a lot of years, and we have a tremendously underutilizedets at executive park. by moving this board and allowing these good developers to put this asset to a better use, it will bring some tremendously need amenities to this sector of the city, to the southeast sector. just mincing that the jobs would be there -- just mentioning those. he mentioned that his hair could turn gray. he might lose it, too. koran i think this project will also help to integrate that with the city. i urge you to move this forward. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you, supervisor sohen. -- cohen. i am on the bayview hunters point committee. we work with the redevelopment agency. i am here to speak in favor of the moving of this project. we have had several presentations. i would like to say it is a great neighborhood for all of us. this is quality homes for families, new neighborhoods serving retail shops, new restaurants, new streets, improvements, including upgrading hunters way. sustainable, environmental, friendly planning. this is for benefits in san fran

but that huge space is underutilized. we just have to come to grips with the cost of doing this. right now, our administration facilities are spread throughout the compound. the idea of consolidating them in here, where we have built structural supports around the edge of the building, it might be like the ferry building. it is a good possibility. we have a number of modular buildings there, some of which are 30 years old. they have issues where they are in the middle of starting to have some structural problems. the idea of consolidation is very attractive here. we have some different things we can do. here it shows red text and black text. the first option is building a new administration building. the existing at fenestration building is like a slightly converted old hotel. the offices there are very small. it is kind of a rabbit warren. one option is to build a new administration building with a worker support facilities. the other option is to do something in the old power house, where it would consolidate administration functions and workers support facility to make sure th

some of their dog parks are underutilized. i don't know if that is true, but it seems like there is flexibility there. it seems that the city has rules in place that we are trying to do ourselves. it seems awkward that we are being asked not to enforce rules that we have in other national parks and the city has the same rules. supervisor cohen: thank you. supervisor wiener: in terms of the issues that have been discussed, are they in agreement with those or is it an ongoing discussion? >> hi would say it is an ongoing discussion. the idea of the commercial dog walkers, the number of permits and the dogs that we might have, it makes sense that they will do something jointly. they continue to maintain that if this plan is implemented, there will be impacts on city parks. supervisor mar: i was going to ask you, that looks likel the ggnra plan would eliminate off- leash dog areas in land's end and baker beach. it impacts a small partof my dist -- part of my district and the presidio. i am looking at the recreation and park off-lea

while but i think it is unfortunate in a way that there is not more that we could do with these underutilized space is at this time. i am hoping that we have a conversation where we can start to look at the different types of uses for these sites that are vacant. >> i would like to ask the project sponsor or the staff, who is the developer of the property? >> this is landmark and they are exclusively available for cvs. >> i don't know what the continuances for. working with staff to do what? do you want to add another story or two? what is it, if i could get some clarification -- >> the one thing i would be asking, if what is the city's position on this land becoming a parking lot? corks this is public property. this is currently needed for parking and once the curved cuts exist, i suppose that the department of public works could leavehis and not to anything. the sponsor intends to work to have meters put in those locations to extend the existing parking. the full intent is that it would be used as on street parking. >> could you please address that this parking will continue to be public pa

this infill project will allow 12 new family-sized units on an underutilized surface parking lot on a relatively short block. although the proposal is a pipeline project, we believe this application meets the intent and the spirit of the new zoning district and the controls set forth for the residential unit size, mix, off street parking and usable open space. this building will act as a buffer between residential districts in an area surrounded bay vibrant mix of uses. as mr. sanchez stated on april 6, the historic preservation commission concurred with staff that the project is compatible and appropriate in size, matching skill, pattern, and material. with the adjacent surrounding buildings and adopted that motion. and finally, i'm extremely happy to inform you that we have the support of the adjacent property owner, mr. sam haskins, who owned the building with the mural artwork. after several meetings with mr. haskins, his wife mary lou and the mural artist, we were able to reach a positive agreement with her neighbors. on behalf of my client and the project sponsor, i respectfully

there have been a real underutilization of workforce development strategies city- wide, citybuild, academies. if you could say bit about that. >> hello, everyone. i am from poder. i am also part of smac, students making a change. that is also in district 11. at poder, we're working with immigrant families. many times, these communities are left out of the conversation, conversations that includes affordable housing and jobs. as many of you know, driving in the state of california, you need a driver's license. in order to bget a driver's license, you have to prove that you are a legal resident of california. we are left out. we depend on cars and vehicles to make a living. it would greatly benefit our community, the immigrant community, if the city of san francisco extended that great theory that when you are stopped by a police you can call someone with a driver's license to pick up your car and take it to your destination. it would benefit us if they extend and that time period from 20 minutes to 45 minutes. sometimes that is not enough time to get to where we are at. i know times are tough

but i know we depend on sfpd for a lot of enforcement but perhaps the sheriff's department is underutilized in this area. they have the ability to cite as well and i am not sure what we can do to share the load better -- >> actually, we are sharing the load with the sheriff's department because they are part of our dui program, participating on the enforcement city-wide. you asked about the freeways. we did have a checkpoint. one of them was on eighth street going to the freeway. this year, it was successful, done during the holiday season. we have had several other checkpoints south of market on dui because that is also a contributing factor. so in foresman on the dui program is included. currently, we have eight departments participating. supervisor mirkarimi: relative to what supervisor kim just ask, if there is nothing that prohibits the sheriff's department from being enlisted to assist in these particular endeavors, is that correct? >> in fact, the top dui person was a u.s. park police person this year of operating in the richmond district on 19th avenue, park city corridor, along wit

so in my view, those provisions have been underutilized without going in today with all the reasons that i'd be so. so i suggested that congress before it gets to a comprehensive rewrite of the communications act that it might rather surgically amend those two provisions by bleeping the criteria the same but just establishing an evidentiary presumption more or less in favor of deregulation. i don't want to put you on the spot. you have a reaction to this type of way to achieve some reform? >> randy, those are two great provisions in the telecom act. be prepared fact with community banks across this country and the fdic and i think other federal agencies would have the cause and particularly one with oversight and regulation than to make amends if it turns out it's highly regulatory that would influence the development of jobs. i.d. hearing with cat sensed danger was bizarre that josaphat regulation in this country. and i asked him about his criteria for regulation and all the criteria and not one thing was all dealing with distributive income, which is distribution of income, self-esteem

. >> underutilized -- under utilized vaccine. >> thank you. >> welcome back from a successful marathon in paris. >> thank you. i brought the medal. >> a barf gold. stunning. >> it was very hard for you, wasn't it? >> it was the paris marathon. it was on sunday. they had record heat. between 75 and 80 degrees which is way too hot to be running a marathon but it was definitely spring in paris. they are having all the warm weather while we have got this. increasing cloud cover right now over the city by the bay. today's high was 59 degrees. the warm spot 67 degrees in gilroy and also in santa cruz if you are out and about in the next 60 minutes we are into the 50s and 60s with increasing cloud cover. we will bottom out tonight between 40 in santa rosa and 48 degrees in san francisco. imagine this jet stream acting like a conveyor belt. what it will do is usher in one weak storm after another towards the northern portion of the state of california. so that's why we have to say a daily chant of rain here locally because all the activity will be to the north. your friday pinpoint forecast fo

with store traffic patterns took managers hours yet still stores were understaffed or partners underutilized and then later on in the book you actually talk about, well, the toppings for the oatmeal weren't being delivered. that there were shortages in different stores. it really was a return to basics that needed to be addressed at starbucks to restore the credibility and the expectations of your -- of your customers. that must have been an herculean effort to undertake that. >> what you just outlined was, in essence, what i said earlier. when you are growing at the rate we are growing at and every new store met expectations and every new country opened with great fanfare and revenue and profit as a corporation exceeded expectations it just showed the underbelly of the company was not healthy and we did not address these things because succeed overpowered all of this. and the music at some point was going to stop playing. and it did. and i think the crisis in many ways, not that anyone would want to manage through this but it gave us an opportunity to address all these things and in a sense

our broadest measure of labor underutilization, that includes both marginally attached and people working part-time, remains high at 16.7%, although it did go down to test the% this month. labor force participation remains at a low level. it is still 64.2%. we have not seen big movement in the labor force. it has been fairly flat. what i would expect is that if we start to get strong job growth and a little more confidence, we probably should start to see the labor force participation rate go up. >> is the labor force perdition rate critical -- labor force participation rat critical f the recovery? >> yes. >> internally, had you done any work of what we might see when people start to re-enter the work force? >> we are looking for signs that they are rather than projecting. we really do not think that way so much. >> i understand. construction -- we loss ojobs last month. we have about 30,000 additional in manufacturing and construction. manufacturing did update -- 17,000 new jobs. any reasons for that in the data? >> construction has remained pretty flat. just historic plea, what you prob

our broadest measure of labor underutilization, that includes both marginally attached and people working part-time, remains high at 16.7%, although it did go down to test the% this month. labor force participation remains at a low level. it is still 64.2%. we have not seen big movement in the labor force. it has been fairly flat. what i would expect is that if we start to get strong job growth and a little more confidence, we probably should start to see the labor force participation rate go up. >> is the labor force perdition rate critical -- labor force participation rate critical for the recovery? >> yes. >> internally, had you done any work of what we might see when people start to re-enter the work force? >> we are looking for signs that they are rather than projecting. we really do not think that way so much. >> i understand. construction -- we loss of jobs last month. we have about 30,000 additional in manufacturing and construction. manufacturing did update -- 17,000 new jobs. any reasons for that in the data? >> construction has remained pretty flat. just historic plea, what you

our broadest measure of labor underutilization, that includes both marginally attached and people working part-time, remains high at 16.7%, although it did go down to test the% this month. labor force participation remains at a low level. it is still 64.2%. we have not seen big movement in the labor force. it has been fairly flat. what i would expect is that if we start to get strong job growth and a little more confidence, we probably should start to see the labor force participation rate go up. >> is the labor force perdition rate critical -- labor force participation rate critical for the recovery? >> yes. >> internally, had you done any work of what we might see when people start to re-enter the work force? >> we are looking for signs that they are rather than projecting. we really do not think that way so much. >> i understand. construction -- we loss of jobs last month. we have about 30,000 additional in manufacturing and construction. manufacturing did update -- 17,000 new jobs. any reasons for that in the data? >> construction has remained pretty flat. just historic plea, what you