this is all the 2001 renovation of union square was completed. the mta is in the process of refinancing a lot of their long- term debt, taking advantage of the current lower interest rates. and they are moving forward with a proposal that i believe this commission approved that would allow the mta to issue $30 million in bonds for various garages on park property. to repaid the existing debt on those properties and also undertake limited improvement at each of those properties. as the existing lease requires 90 days are after the bonds are repaid, the lease would automatically terminate. we are moving an amendment that extended that to allow uptown to continue to operate after the bonds are repaid each month. they are working to renegotiate an amendment that would allow them to stay until the end of their term and still perform a valuable services they do for us. refinancing on union square alone would save us $50,000 a year on interest payments, which is a tremendous help to the department. are there any questions you might have? i've slept see

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

we will add north waterfront, north beach, telegraph hill, financial district, and union square. you good? ms. tidwell: yes. sorry. thank you. mr. pilpel: thank you. mr. mcdonnell: any deletions from district 3 description? mr. schreiber: russian hill community association. mr. mcdonnell: ok. proposal to eliminate. any objection? ok. ok.

we will add north waterfront, north beach, telegraph hill, financial district, and union square. you good? ms. tidwell: yes. sorry. thank you. mr. pilpel: thank you. mr. mcdonnell: any deletions from district 3 description? mr. schreiber: russian hill community association. mr. mcdonnell: ok. proposal to eliminate. any objection? ok. mr. pilpel: proposed to eliminate middle polk. mr. mcdonnell: any objection to elimination? ok. we will eliminate middle polk. the elementary school, a proposal to eliminate. any objection? ok. thank you. district 4. any additions to district 4 description? >> for those districts that are less than the deviation, are we treating it in the same way? we are referencing it, but it is not the same? we will include the same language? >> yes, sir. i would suggest adding parkside and outer parkside. mr. mcdonnell: any objection? are those real or fictitious? no. i see discussion happening. >> there is a comment that it might be in both district 4 and the district 7. park side? >> we don't have a submission. erring on the conservative side, we will not inclu

they can go in and around union square.pace 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 products that us

it should not look like union square and the other major space is in town. it should be its own thing. most importantly, we think it should be part of the park. thank you. president fong: thank you. my nam>> my name is fred clark. we are the designers of the transit center and the tower. i echo the comments about how fortunate we are to be at the place we are in the project today. i have some visuals as well. we have just crossed mission street, gone through the grove of redwoods into the front door of the transit center, and in the transit center itself you are greeted by a very beautiful light-filled environment. you are very aware of your surroundings and transparent, open room. you see the park above in the grove of redwoods to the left of this, and on the floor is an extraordinary art piece. at the outside, if you pass through the transit center lobby, you will see the glass exterior wall of the transit center and have a sense of the park above. it will have a two levels of extraordinary food-based detail of very lively public realm. the point i am maki

she filmed "union square." about two sisters, one on the verge of a marriage and the other on the verge of a massive nervous breakdown. >> lucy shows up unannounced and unwelcomed to her sister jenna's apartment. >> i wish we could show a clip of this where you rip into one another. welcome. congratulations on the new baby. >> thank you. >> there are four now? >> four, yes. >> between the ages of? >> 7 and 0. >> two boys, two girls, all done? >> i think all done. definitely all done. >> good. this is such a great movie. your character -- describe your character lucy. >> lucy is bipolar. she's zany and swings from tree to tree emotionally. she's also really smart. she actually understands people and people don't give her credit for being as smart as she is because her emotions are so wild. >> she is really out of control. >> everybody in the film is lying about something. even her calm, calm sister is underneath this roiling sea of emotions. it's about how you can't leave with your family, but you love them and

union square is rated as a category one significant space in the downtown plan. they took that action as well. commissioner moore: be you have any quick answer to what happened to pier 29? could it be in the time for i am of repairing the overall buildings along the embarcadero? >> i was looking at a press release issued by the court this afternoon. i will summarize. they brought a construction company on board demobilize cranes and remove the damaged area on top of the building and on the road and -- on the roof to reduce the hazard of debris falling. and they had architects and city staff to consult with the port engineers to make sure that we can maintain as much of the building as possible. they say that it will not impact the america's cup event. the peir itself -- pier itself was not affected, it was just the shed. >> the preservation consultant or architect, it is carrying a company. they had staff there at 9:00 in the morning. the engineers also there, things are going to move fairly quickly to get restoration plans and the place. >> on those lines, i thi

i do think that the holiday plaza on both sides is the gateway to the union square business improvement district. you cannot divide institution i f the parmkk is on both side, you unite it. i would ask that you put the hilton, which according to the census has four people, one city block, put it in so you can improve the business improvement district all together. i agree with the statement about the financial district. the financial district in 1985, it was mr. macrhis did the downtown plan. so the new growth of the financial district of the south of market. market would be coming in 10 years nothing more than a mall. it has no traffic now. they divert traffic at 10th street. it would be a unifying factor not a dividing factor. and i believe if you have 8 those00 people you can reunite the tenderloin to a large extent. thank you. >> thank you, sir. that concludes item 6. moving to cut the number7, future agenda. items i'm sorry. we were required to post are february 14 for care and post, that agenda is already prepared. so there are no future agenda items. any public comment on future

they also reviewed the design to alter union square. it is part of the subway. after candid comments, they ultimately recommended approval. those were the highlights of that hearing. which will put us under general public comment. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items except for agenda items. with respect to the agenda items, i your opportunity to address the commission will correspond with the agenda. i have one speaker card. president fong: great. i have one speaker card. linda chapman. >> at a recent hearing, i told you about the history, and i just wanted to talk a little bit more about some of those buildings we were trying to save. at the time on jones street, there was a big move to demolish rental housing to create condo's. there were lessons learned from that. 1300 sacramento and jones, which is still there, was proposed for demolition. the battle went on for seven years. at the time, it was considered sensitive. it was a curated building. it was landmarked. all the sudden, the developer decided it would be a good thing

you said you were at union square with a small camera.'t acting. >> some people knew, some didn't. they would offer comments to me as i went along. >> did you a little hand-held. >> canon 5-d. amazing camera. picture quality is amazing and you can light it with a candle. >> is there something that frees up when you do it that way. did you like it more than the three month production? >> it was nice we shot it sequentially. we shot it in order. things changed. nancy rewrote things as the story progressed because the story evolved in a different way once she saw it play. that's a luxury you never have in a movie. also she was very lovely with me, allowing me to improv a lot. the camera is good for catching, it's very flew ud and like another person watching. >> you just had your fourth baby. i guess it might be easier if you do a 15 shoot rather than moving somewhere for a three month shoot. how do you make that work? i'm taking notes. i want to know. >> i don't work on as long jobs as i used to. i spend a lot more time with my kids. i'm ve

wednesday, july 11, the southbound bayshore service will be routed to accommodate the construction in union square and going south. we had already rerouted the 30 and the 45. the rest of the buses will be rerouted. we are doing all the outreach for that. we got our bids for the chinatown station this past week. we got four bids. this is our biggest and most complex of the station contracts. the engineer's estimate was $235 million. we had bids ranging from some of the above that to quite a bit above that. we are still processing and reviewing the bids, but should be able to announce the results of that sand. -- of that soon. the other end of the tunnel is in north beach. as a result of their announcing some of the preliminary work, a little bit of utility relocation, and work on building the retrieval shack. there has been a lot of concern expressed by folks in north beach. we have been working with supervisor chiu's office to make sure we are addressing any of those concerns. they are concerned about impacts on columbus avenue that might affect the commercial activity. we did get $48.4 million ri

you know, one reason tourists go to union square, and they go to a public place where they can belong without knowing anybody. every city needs space like that. we realized at our scale, we needed a civic plaza. we thought about bands, but as soon as you put them up on stage, you have these consuming crowds listening to the band. the longer they stood there the more beer bottle they drop on the ground. that did not seem attractive at all. we do not leave a trace after the event. we do not want a stage. if you want your own, build it, which people did. so we turned to copy. it affords you a social place. you can stay there all day, we do not care. we are not doing it to make money. we lose money. we do it for the sake of public interaction. to create a civic environment that led to communal feelings. that seems like an exception to the dogma, but what did emerson say? a speech of consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. >> i was just thinking that. [laughter] going the other direction, as fast as possible, one of the things -- a pattern that has arisen over the years -- a lot of t

i have noticed that at union square, there is a police presence -- they protected the -- when the giants had the playoff game, a deal was made about getting a police presence, and i read that the twitter people, part of the contract included 12-18 hour foot patrolsin the block area. those people are protected. what about san francisco citizens in the tnederloin. friends of mine from out of town have been attacked. there is intimidation, violence, threats. people are afraid to go out at night. i am a person who was out in the morning and i am a night person. i do not see any or most any police presence in the worst areas of the tenderloin. i hear from the police station ad jones and eddy. people get in their cars and go somewhere else other than the tenderloin. one thing; two or three business owners ahvehave been attacked. teresa sparks told me the police substation was supposed to open a few years ago, and is still not open. my question is, we know the situation. uit will be claimed to be a budget issue. we need san francisco citizens -- they need the same protections of other neighborh

the cal train station a couple of blocks down there all the way under market street, underneath union square, out to chinatown. it will take a long time to complete and a lot of headaches. it does not matter if you ride muni or if you are a pedestrian, it will be very disruptive. the problem is that they have to move utilities and tear up streets and they have to lay down all of that stuff to get this thing built. this has been a contested project from the start and i will show you why. 1.6 mi., $1.6 billion. 5 ft. costs $1 million. that gives you some idea of what it will cost. >> for more on the plan and how to navigate around a detour code for web site and click on the story >> a basketball size chunks of ice smashed into the roof of a home in fremont last night. a homeowner said she heard the crash and then felt the house shake. nobody was hurt and authorities think the ice fell from a passing aircraft so the faa is investigating. the secretary of commerce accused of a hit and run in l.a.. new information suggesting he suffered a medical condition behind the wheel >> skipping a few extra

on monday, the participants -- i was at union square and could not be up there. she also announced her retirement effective the week from friday. june 10, we did a girl's contract law against him and trafficking. the street -- against him and trafficking. the street fair was also that week. the u.s. open went unbelievably. i did not think that they area could have ordered the better weather. it went largely without incident. the usda does not want to proceed against the chicken man. last weekend was juneteenth. it also saw the retirement of the captain on father's day. the san francisco police department one the city workers children benefit softball tournament. we raised approximately $6,500 for special olympics. pretty much the entire command staff participated in the pride flag raising. it has been a very busy week. we also kicked off our future graduates jobs summer programs this afternoon. there ceo is formally of the san francisco unified school district. as time goes on, we will get more kids to that program. it is all good stuff. of course, we have our ac

right near union square park. i'm an architect because i love cities and i love buildings. this used to be a cheese factory right? whole new steel structure on this floor. coffee or no coffee? pour the footing and you give yourself two inches. technology. it really does influence how you interact with life. hey, did you get that powerpoint? that's a nice looking building! i think this is science fiction. look at that! the revolutionary galaxy note, from samsung. (cheers and applause) welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight is the author of a new book called a bunch of amateurs. a search for the american character. the search is over. i'm right here. please welcome jack hitt. (cheers and applause) jack, good to see you. how are you. >> all right. >> nice to see you again, you silver haired devil. now jack, you and i have known each other for quite a few year, both from charles tovn, south carolina. >> that's right, two south carolinas in the same room. >> charlestonians. >> dominion or something, two. >> i mean two. >> a quorum. >> right. >> stephen: all right, now jack be

when it is completed the subway will link this area to chinatown, the must money- center, in union square. >> people will see use of transit, a lot of friends and underground, taking a lot of the congestion from above ground. so a lot of the motorists and people riding bicycles or walking will have a safer commute above ground. >> not to mention cutting down travel time. >> i had to walk all the way down to brennan. so it will be released and i'm excited. >> crews are cutting out a space 500 ft. long and 50 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep for commuters that means less lanes on force, rerouted buses, more traffic, but mostly it is worth the price. >> this is one of the porous, so commuting will be amazing, even people coming from the south bay or east bay. it will be good connecting points. >> we spoke to muni representatives that said that construction at the sport is expected to continue until 2014 so that means neighbors in the area will still be hearing all these loud noises and the rerouted buses. but they say that when it is done in 2019 the is expected to be the most busy out of all of the

animal rights activists chanted as people made their way to sold-out freeway party near union square.rting july 1st, it is going to be illegal in california. series of i-team reports in 2003 exposed how ducks are force-fed to fatten their lives lead together statewide ban. >> i think that this ban has completely backfired. i think there is more demand for freeway than ever. i think when -- for foie gras than ever. i think when people's rights to do or have something is taken away they want it more. >> online retailers people are stocking up, paying $150 a upon for frozen foie gras. man mall rights activists -- >>> a judge is ordering a bay area woman to stay away from a nordstrom department store. >> the advice john boehner is giving to republicans as the supreme court is prepared to issue a critical ruling on president obama's health care reform law. >>> nervousness after major credit rating firm downgrades ratings of a dozen banks. >>> sell -- cell phone video of teens abusing an elderly bus monitor. wait until you hear how much people are pitching in to give her a hey, i'm joey ara

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that is something that we did and debated over, and we don't necessarily have to talk about union square. do you know what i'm saying? >> i do. and i was trying to get us to having a list to review and decide what is in or not. >> can i make a suggestion? do you have the public, and later of neighborhoods, a public submissions. so it is probably worth them generating a list of of, within the current context of our draft map, whether what recognized neighborhoods based on public submissions are found within the current draft map. >> is that doable? >> by when? >> saturday. >> 6 a.m.? by end of day friday? >> yeah. >> ok. >> mr. pilpel and mr. alonso. >> i would not want to limit it to public submissions because i do not think we got to missions for the entire city. and there may be instances where there are disputes between different organizations and difference of metals. i would say in general if the consultant believes, and this is a judgment call. i do not think this section of the report is as objective as one might want it to be carried i think it actually comes back to us and our s

this block is a part of the tenderloin, not union square. it is a part of the district, if you look at your maps, you'll see these are the boundaries of the central market c.b.d. and, this block contains the bristol hotel at 56 mason and many social services organizations at 944 market, which is right here. which i have to be a volunteer at one of those offices. please, so please place this block back into district six where it belongs. again for the audience out there in never, neverland, here again is another map of the market c.b.d. and the block that we're talking about. and here is the actual description of the -- all this stuff is up on the screen up there. >> oh, because they moved it down stairs. >> all right, but anyway -- >> there it is. >> in closing, i would like to ask you to please keep district five in laguna. there are many reasons for this. ok, i can't multitask either. >> thank you very much, sir. >> hi, i'm lawrence lee from the lower eight. thank you so much for listening to our community. redwoast keep our immunity toget

with the central subway business -- there is a spur at union square for geary, so i suggest you do your homework and look into the archives to see if the final report of the geary task force -- 1995 -- it has been over 20 years, but 1995 was the final report of the geary light rail project. also look into what the third street light rail project wants to do. there is the possibility for light rail because that is what the voters wanted. they did not want us rapid transit. they wanted light rail. do your homework before you do anything. thank you very much. i brought the same points up at the last cac meeting. suggest you do the same thing i told the mta staff to do. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. any other member of the public want to talk about these items? seeing none, public comment is closed. if we can make the motion to movies to the next meeting. will take that without objection. item #8. >> the market streets update. this is an information item. >> i'm michael schwartz from the transportation authority. on this project, the authority is the contract manager as well as th

union square has been rebuilt the beautifully. stuart streets. all these things have happened over the objections of many people. one thing that did not change was the building of the cable car -- rebuilding of the cable cars. gentlemen, this is not a cable car proposal. simply, the children who we have talked about, we have been told have the opportunity to go to day camp there at $100 a day right now, or you can be a member of the club for $5,000. maybe that is not true. anyway, the port will receive $100 million here. there will be a bigger and better outdoor pool and a new fed is building. >> richard. >> can we just ask that whoever's lord keeps going off that you turn it off? >> thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of the 8 washington project. i have been a member of the athletic club for quite some time. i have used the tennis courts but i'm speaking for the project. i also have a law office close to pier 31, but i am too lazy to walk. i use that parking lot that is currently open to the public. so i have a stake in the current

mean-time the flame of hope torch run starts in san francisco union square. an hour later the bart police will start the torch on the run. the special olympic starts 59uc davis on friday. watch for the torch. >>> cruising through, sal. 4:38 is the time. >> all right. that sounds exciting to me, pam. good morning, to you. it's 4:38. we are starting off the morning on a monday. doing pretty well. there is no major problems out there. looking at interstate 80 westbound that looks nice heading out to the mccarthur maze. also the morning commute looks good on interstate 80. right in front of the coliseum. it's a nice drive. northbound 280 getting up to highway 17 that is also looking good. a little bit of fog in some areas. nothing major for drivers just yet. let's go to steve. >> we have a big fog bank out there. moving local inland. sea breeze has kicked in a big way. cooling trend started yesterday coast and bay. even though inland locations were in the 90s. cooling trend begins mainly mid 50s on the temperatures. the low which was moving down the coast and gav

members for writ we informed san francisco travel, the sentences the chamber of commerce, the union square bid, the golden gate restaurant association, the twitter feed and newsletter, current vendors with the department, and all entities registered at anlbe with the human rights commission called local catering groups, local special event providers. coffeeshops, local museum stores and vendors with the golden gate national recreation area will all contacted. community feedback thus far -- the support that has been communicated for the selection, specifically of terry grimm, has been from the selection panel. sonoma valley chamber of commerce, the mason center, golden gate restaurant association, san and cisco chamber of commerce, ken bailey, julie christensen, john franklin, john hirsch berger, ryan hubert. the opposition has been from stephen worsley and generally from john gollinger, and otehrs. -- and others. continuing public process, there will be no less than eight public meetings on this topic, including this meeting and the previous operations committee. all opportunities for the

some of the video we are about to show you could be disturbing. 7 news is leif at union square where the private party took place. >>reporter: the gathering took place here on maiden lane and those who attended the party received a rather loud greeting from protestors. animal rights advocate chanted as loud as they could as people made their way to a sold out food party. >> when you this i about like what it is, its opinion kill of human arrogance if you ask me. >>reporter: it means fatty liver in french and people who attended the party save or ever bite because starting july 1st producing selling and buying this is going to be illegal in california. the series of abc 7 news eye team reports show how they are force fed and led to the passage of the bill banning the a del today situation. >> i can smoke pot openly in san francisco and hide my eating habit. >>reporter: they threw the party as way to say thank you to the customers for the business over the years. business moved from napa to nevada in anticipation of the ban. the owner says business couldn't be better. on line orders ar

he tells nbc he is heading to union square and wants people to do the bird call with him. how easy it is to get exposure. >> 4:56. let's turn to the morning commute out there. >> people crow about this. it's moving this smoothly. we do have construction, but it is eastbound, it's closed right there at love ridge. the same connector so no big slowing. another 15 extra seconds. a few minutes ago that registered 50 so speeds are jumping around. not enough to cause considerable slowing. we have construction still san ramon valley, 680 both directions between alcosta, we have the construction off of the roadway, we're looking at also isabelle with construction crew there is through livermore for a few minutes and the south bay, 85, construction but no slowing. back to you. >> 4:57. ashton kutcher's production company is suing the dmv for breach of contract. it says the dmv pulled out of a reality show that kutcher was producing t show was picked up for at least four episodes by true tv. it was going to be a look at what life is like on the other side of the dvm counter. the dmv