we are a unique city. this is a unique area. if you come out and see this area, you will see what i am talking about. i love my home. i grew up there since i was 11 or 12. i am a san francisco resident, native. this means a lot to me. i do not want to see parkmerced become like the fillmore. it will. many of my fellow natives in the city had to move to other cities. i talked to them all the time about how they cannot afford to be in this city. the reason i am able to stay in the city is because i have a place that is affordable for me. i would not leave parkmerced even if i made a lot more money. it means a lot to me. i continue to want to live there, no matter how much money i make. i am not living there because of the money. but that is a real relevant issue in san francisco. we are pushing out a lot more people every year who cannot live in the city they grew up in. i would like to see this project not take place. there are numerous reasons why people talk about the eir. i was there in '89 and i saw how it was. >> good aftern

of home visit the city each year as tourists will help subsidize the cost of basic services for the people who live here. the budget challenges that they san francisco are not unique to the city nor is the devastating impact on the urban park systems. in houston, budget cuts will force the city to close half of its recreation centers. the los angeles park department expects hundreds of layoffs. seattle has curtailed ball field maintenance, and restroom maintenance. baltimore shut half of its recreation centers. the city of detroit closed 77 of its parks. every urban parks system around the country is scrambling to offset service cuts and inadequately -- and inadequate city funding with revenue. denver is increasing its mission in its parks. seattle has nonprofits operating in its recreation centers.

city. i think what is unique year -- and that is where we have to always look at all of these business plans, regardless of who they are coming from, on their own merits, exactly where they are going. we all know that what works in one block, two blocks away, just will not work, for whatever reason. we are keenly sensitive to that, and i think this one was unique. it is my understanding, cvs did do some outreach to the community and the community is not opposed. for these reasons, i think we are on track to proceed very cautiously. supervisor avalos: ok. and my comment about willy-nilly was not about your work. i know we are going to see more and more of the pharmacies coming forward, and walgreen's and cvs as they want to increase business in san francisco, will probably come forward. >> there's no question that every segment of our industry is looking for potential revenue streams. i can tell you that absolutely, we will be seeing cbs -- cvs tried to emulate walgreen's, not only with the number of locations in the city, but hoping to get licenses. we are seeing it every day where people ar

and expected future arrival of bart extension would make a unique destination hub. city staff is moving forward with an environmental impact report on a plan expected to be released next spring. >> the royal wedding has broken a new record on the web for viewing. according to the national website it has set a record on live stream. it confirms 300,000 viewers were watching this morning. the previous record was set by the world cup in june last year with 1.6 million viewers last year. >> and the tweets were big. >> it was big. no denying it. we had a lot of coverage this morning. >> here is something that will come in every once in a while. disney cruise ship. let me throw out kgo greeting. beautiful disney cruise ship wonder there and i wanted to show you the winds and how fast they are blowing. not only here but down in santa cruz. it doesn't seem to bother these folks. great time to be at the beaches. thanks a lot guys for getting that shot. i know it's a little difficult at times. you see the fast moving nature of the clouds but most of those are over our ocean. let's

and expected future arrival of bart extension would make a unique destination hub. cityward with an environmental impact report on a plan expected to be released next spring. >> the royal wedding has broken a new record on the web for viewing. according to the national website it has set a record on live stream. it confirms 300,000 viewers were watching this morning. the previous record was set by the world cup in june last year with 1.6 million viewers last year. >> and the tweets were big. >> it was big. no denying it. we had a lot of coverage this morning. >> here is something that will come in every once in a while. disney cruise ship. let me throw out kgo greeting. beautiful disney cruise ship wonder there and i wanted to show you the winds and how fast they are blowing. not only here but down in santa cruz. it doesn't seem to bother these folks. great time to be at the beaches. thanks a lot guys for getting that shot. i know it's a little difficult at times. you see the fast moving nature of the clouds but most of those are over our ocean. let's talk about our beac

because these are outside elevators -- these are unique to the city. >> and this is going away with the upgrade. >> that is right. none of these will be here. we have retrofitted three elevators so far and now we're doing the outside cars. >> so this is what will be replacing -- >> this will be replacing the generator controller and control system. we are down to about 15 or 20 relays, down from about 100, which means much less maintenance. this thing had been running for about six months now, but we still have eight cars here to do. >> great job. >> we have looked at past the elevators and present. now let's look at the future. we are taking a look at some of the most exciting technologies in elevators. george, tell us about destination elevators. >> this is the technology of the future. probably the biggest single investment in elevators. san francisco has embraced the technology more than any other city in the country. a big advantage with us is passengers get to their floors sooner and there is more opportunity of customization of features for individual service. four issues of secu

the city is not in a unique position of other government agencies we see around the country, large cities, states. historically, i.t. has been treated as expenses simply buried in department's budgets. over the past few years, the help the conversation we have been having at coit and at the board is what does it really mean, what are we getting for our money's worth from technology? that has raised the visibility of i.t. spending in the city. to supervisor chiu's point, we have more data. i think now you are in a better position as you enter a new discussion about the budget. you know what we are spending across the department's city- wide on i.t. you will have the baseline data to make better policy decisions about the level and where money is being spent, the level of reductions that can be achieved. i would just like to point out, i guess, really we are dealing with a complex problem of -- we are looking at a budget as a single number. to supervisor david chiu's point, i think he said we spend $200 million a year on i.t. that is not in one pot of money. so it makes it a complex challen

celebrating the value that has brought so many of you to the forefront in terms of your unique expression in sharing a city that is constantly trying to allow people to live their lives out loud and become fully expressive. celebrating every single day, not tolerating every single day. a city that appropriated, a city where carlos was able to grow up, because his parents knew that there was something special about this city. allowing him to further his education, continuing a proud tradition that was instilled in him by a -- as a young boy. that was the stewardship an example of his parents and father in particular in terms of his artistic talents that he advanced and nurtured, promoting with his children. we have all been the beneficiary of that legacy. our lives have been elevated and improved. we all talk about the end of the day and what it is all about. we all have unique stories that make up our lives. the idea is for each one of us to add value to other people's lives, helping them make their story just a little bit better. we have all had experiences where we have been elevated, our lives have been

different low carbon transportation and production measures, those key areas, it is fairly unique based on each city. they came through again and again and again. we would turn all of the car's electric tomorrow if we could, but that is not going to happen. what is in our control and what is an hour per view is to manage the demand of the transportation system and support those changes. it will really help us manage the demand for demand and pricing had trended development. and the transit improvements, they completely stray from electric vehicle support. that actually works. the first strategy that we looked at, there are many measures that associated. what it means is getting the information out to our customers on what are the muds' available. certain companies in the city having developed these projects and programs, the information isn't really coordinated. the best thing we can do as an agency is provide that data and really make it available. i think he will see the best opportunities to do that. these that you are seeing, and basically the methodology is being developed. how much could reall

cities. yes, this is a uniquely beautiful urban location in areas, in many of the cities of california have more space, more urban -- excuse me, more rural areas, even within a city that they can place these, so they may have different impacts. we also have the director from ed lee and other pieces of information in the record where this city has acknowledged that these boxes will have the potential to cause blight and for that reason have to be carefully cited. i don't know how those cities -- i truly don't know how they proceeded, what evidence they had and where the locations were or how many of the boxes were needed. we really don't have the information. what i do know is the fact that other cities didn't do it doesn't mean that the law doesn't require it here. it's not really relevant. supervisor elsbernd: ok. let's talk about the categorical exemption and the class three, two arguments here. one that you're suggesting they're applying the wrong type, that they should be applying the first type within class three, as i understand it there are three types within class three. what i heard you

we have unique dynamics in this city where a major portions of the citizens park their vehicles on a side street which makes it a great opportunity for people to come up and take property out of the cars. plus put some of these people into jail. i'm confident that david lazar is going to explain this to you. >> good even aing, president mazzucco. chief godown. i'm commander lazar. this evening i'm going to give you an overview of the property crimes. at the end, i'm going to give a lot of credit to a lot of people that attributed -- contributed to the situation. when we talk about property crimes, we are talking about property crimes as listed in the uniform crime report. the uniform crime report lists it as burglary or personal theft or other theft, arson, auto theft, and auto burglary. that's what we're going to focus on this evening. as you look at the statistics, going back to 2008, there actually has been a decline in property instances. we see in 2008, property crimes versus 2009 where we covered 30,000. in 2010 we were at about 639. so far year to date, 7,445. although we've s

proposed in the form of area plans and special special use district legislation but with a unique twist. all normal city planning principles will be handed over to an inexperienced body unaccountable to the public and the body politic in san francisco. in fact, that body will be a non-profit corporation and redevelopment agencies if they are abolished. part of these new land-use controls -- thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good evening. tom mccarthy. i'm a member of the carpenter's union. i have lived in the northeastern part of the city for 50 years. i have seen what has happened to that part of the city. it has been lost to low-income people. we have now the chance to build a new community which will embrace low-income people and i look forward to being able to see that from the part of the city that i live in now. there is no better time for the city to commit itself to a project such as this. the needs of the people of this city are -- you all know, are very great. and if we can proceed on this, you have seen from so many different groups, agencies, well-being of the cities as a whole, it is un