there's limited resources in the urban agriculture space, but thank you for keeping that going. any other public comment or commissioner comment? so we have a resolution ready for a vote that has been amended. all those in favor? suppose? motion carries. thank you all. next item please. >> item 16, presentation and discussion to authorize the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission or his designee to execute on behalf of the city and county of sanford's his co- pilot water efficiency for community garden grant agreements with sfpuc water retail customers for a community garden, urban agriculture, and nonprofit gardens in san francisco for an amount not to exceed $100,000 for fiscal year 2011-2012. >> good afternoon again. general manager for water. one of the things that puc is interested in ideas -- interested in is making sure our goals can be achieved. it is in the pc's interest that one of the cord and jones -- the pc's interest that one of the cornerstones of the project be that those be metered. -- in the pc's interest -- in the puc's interest. ins

we have not responded in detail to the city mandate around urban agriculture opportunities, and we are excited about this opportunity for property that we both need for use, but they are not being used at this and these potentially good opportunities for us to move forward on which to these projects. commissioner vietor: commissionercaen? commissioner caen: i am in support of this, but have we decided it? my point is that we should also look at what other use these properties might hold for us, our approach to our last discussion, our, what did we call it, workshop, because i think that is important. i do not think we should specify certain land that we have without investigating all different sources of use of that land. but i am very much in favor of the concept of a pilot program. >> ok. president vietor: yes, i am very excited about this program, because we got the ok from the mayor, and we completed the audit, and there have been a lot of important steps. there is a lot of interest in urban agriculture and all we can do and all the value that provide the round of job creation and

there is a lot of interest in urban agriculture and all we can do and all the value that provide the round of job creation and life skills training and trinity benefit, and self-reliance and all of the issues that we have talked about in conjunction with an urban agriculture pilot program. you know, six months sounds like an awfully long time for me to do a feasibility study. >> we agree. and the general manager also agrees. commissioner: i would like to make a friendly amendment to shorten the time without burdening the staff, so i guess i would like to hear whether three months or 60 days would be overly burdensome, because i think there is a lot of good work going on out there where once this was done, important groups would come together to help move along, so that would be one friendly amendment that i want to do it. and then i would also like to see if this could include not just food growing but other urban agricultural activities. i do know that some are here recently launched a food policy group. i know that one of the things that they are grappling with is the definition of

let me speak to the general issues and hold my comments on the urban thesis of the next two items. this was a good discussion and maybe needs to be a longer discussion. a couple of things that come to mind on the charter provisions, the puc is somewhat unique in having not just jurisdiction over property and operations but exclusive jurisdiction, and there was a city attorney memo some years ago on what exclusions jurisdiction means -- on what exclusive jurisdiction means, and other city and it is, so they cannot say, "oh, you will do so and so with your property." you really have a lot of control over the property and this land use policy framework is very important. there may be liability issues, and if we cannot build a trail which has ada access, then what are we getting into, so maybe we do not want new parks? but we do want them, so how do you balance that? they have looked at the criteria. another thing that occurs to me is that the puc, both wastewater enterprise and water enterprise has a lot of property -- it is bifurcated, and there are issues with dpw. dpw also has thei

here representing the san francisco agricultural alliance, a group of volunteers representing both urban farmers and food policy people within the city of san francisco. we were very instrumental in working together closely, including the recent ordinance. first of all, i want to give a thumbs up on behalf of the alliance. we think this is excellent to look at the public benefit that can come from the public land. the puc has been really great about looking at what are these available land. -- lands. we are also very excited to continue working with the puc to look at more sites and more opportunities that are possible usable for urban agriculture. we also want to support the motion to look beyond just vegetables for the definition of urban agriculture, as was just alluded to, that definition varies depending on who you talk to, and some given that and given that you have to come together on a definition, i just want to state again that the urban agriculture alliance is excited and working closely with you to bring the voice of the urban farmers who are ready to start farming and to star

are very familiar with, but also to bring in an urban agriculture to where we continue staying up at the front of the movement that we have begun in the city with urban agriculture, so thank you very much, and as an alliance, we really look forward to meeting with seawall and looking forward to how we can make this the best. >> thank you. >> thank you. hi, i am jesse. you often see me here representing the 12 acre trust, but today i am wearing another hatch. i represent one of the community farms. i have been a volunteer since it started in 2010. i am here to testify to the incredible amount of energy and enthusiasm in the urban agriculture movement right now. this farm came into it existence because of the farm that we have been referencing, and right now, we are in the process of moving the farm. it is a slow process. it's sort of shows how well volunteers can work with the agencies. the property that we are on comedy team 0.2 acre lot in the valley, it was always planned to be sold to the developers, and we are in very friendly, happy negotiations with other sites, moving off of t

decades of urban renewal and redevelopment and the savage kind taught many committees that when the urbanandscape is battered, employing collective memories are obliterated. the power of ordinary urban landscapes to nurture citizens public memory to encompass shared time in the form of share it territory remains untapped for most working people's neighborhoods for most american cities and for most ethnic in most women's history. she suggests that preservation efforts, for them to be inclusive of generates from a class, and ethnicity, they must claim the entire urban cultural landscape as an important part of american history, not just its architectural monuments. this means emphasizing the building types, such as tenement, actor, you call, but -- union hall, our church. this is a wonderfully useful framework that can be extended to articulate the specific challenges of preserving the sense of sexual space in the power of sexual places. thus, our proposal has not been focused on preserving buildings as such, but rather on the preservation of usage, information, and memory. the proposal inc

the name of the movie is "urbanized." it is a phenomenal movie about cities worldwide talking about urban issues and how people in 40 cities across the world are attacking the broadest range of issues. they're talking about it every thursday, how the rest of the world addresses these issues is inspiring. i hope the entire planning department and anybody interested in city and suburbanism -- and urbanism. i encourage everybody to see this movie. it's mine glowingly wonderful and i cannot speak more glowingly about the experience of having seen it last night. commissioner antonini: one subject we frequently talk about is transportation, which is where much of what are planning revolves around. i came upon a buck, a pictorial book with a text on the muni and there are very many interesting things in that book. it was one of the nation's first man to play on transportation systems. most of the others were private until 1913. they did some really marvelous things, mostly by building tunnels in places like stockton street, 26,

forestry carrier -- urban forestry. we got an e-mail emphasizing they would take a closer look death that through the tree- planting process. they are in the loop. >> if you deal west miss short, you are in good hands. >> is there any public comment on this item? come forward. >> good afternoon. this appeal has given me the opportunity to work with partners in the city, the board of appeals, the department of building inspection, and everyone has been so kind and so helpful, and i am one have the citizens of the city of san francisco. -- one happy citizen of the city of san francisco. >> will you repeat that? >> he is just kidding. >> they requested that usf pay per year. if they are going to take nine months after we have talked about this for so long common and may i please request that $760 be pro rated, though i would prefer for it to be done by christmas or the new year. this is my idea of how trees are affected by rain. when trees are planted in the sunshine, the leaves grow, but the trees need strong roots, and t

we do wilderness, urban. you could find all four courses on the internet in a confined urban centers including the baltimore center. >> you think of a hiking experience and there's so many things you can learn. who knew you could learn it all up in a city? we will continue to follow them. scattered showers are showing up to the west. we're not done with the rain just yet. we are slowly drying out. tony, do think you could carry a 15-pound pack all daylong? >> may be higher a sherpa -- maybe hire a sherpa. that is a great program. baltimore is an interesting city. a great to see it, by walking. a big area of low pressure off new england. we could see a light shower or sprinkle today. most of you will have eight dry tuesday. i showed you the swirl in the clouds around richmond yesterday. today is around new york. it is making progress. we have the chance for a shower. one of those bands of showers from eastern pennsylvania may clip cecil counterparts of the eastern shore over the next 30 or 45 minutes. 99% of t

we're proposing better urban planning. the element of the existing approvals is a driveway that spans the site and going from washington. there is a drop off. we are looking to remove those and replace it. this has been replaced with a building to maintain the urban fabric of the street. that is something that planning suggested and that we embraced. we are proposing a different exterior design. i am trying to print my company possibly on architecture. we put forth a more interesting design. we're trying to outreach to the community. despite our efforts, we have been informed of some misinformation posted about the neighborhood. my team has tried to contact the people responsible. we will have that information available. in regards to the approval we're asking today, in addition to the recommendations of planning, we're asking for more car share spaces. we're asking for four retail spaces. i want to make two quick clarification. i am a mountain bike rider. i live in a condo. i would like to provide every unit with a bicycl

i think in terms of a kind of urban suggestion, in some ways may be preferable.in terms of the way this relates in the neighborhood, you get the existing residential scale with awful the garage entries and then our garage entry and entry to our residential building. and then the rest of the site is wrapped by exergs space. so that's just the two sort of design elements of these two different conditions. this is an overview of the sort of elements of the site. and the kind of situation of 15th, which isn't a heavily-trafficed street, and quite sensley the schools have used capp street for their entry. president olague: since we're going to be asking you this question anyway, if you could just finish. >> ok. so the one point i wanted to make is that in terms of m.t.a., they are planning on having further traffic-calming speed bumps in front of our building on 15th, which i think will help a lot with the traffic on 15th. and i just wanted to show some statistics. these are the trips that currently occur between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. on 15th street. our building adds an

for most people, especially in urban areas, powwows are places to go to reconnect. powwows are places you go to see people you haven't seen in a long time and to make new friends, new connections, nothing different than what's going on here, nothing difrplt than what was going on at the old festival at ft. mason. with that, i wanted to play also for you a little bit of cedar flute. if you've heard cedar flute you've heard youngblood and cedar flute has become emblematic of american indian in the singular, american indian culture. i wanted to play it for you to give you an example of what might be considered traditional style because after this i'd lake to bring up two guests and play two arrangements that were created especially for this festival that bring in both the irish american and the urban indian. so this is a cedar flute song for you. (playing flute) so now that you have a little bit of powwow and a little bit of cedar flute in your ears, i would like to invite two guests up to perform for you, two arrangements which i made especially for today. first, rita

i was on the panel yesterday that talked about how urban gardens can be productive and use less water than other types of landscaping. i would like to say -- you ask a question about curtailment during drought. i think that this project go forward, as you except proposals from folks who might want to start a community garden, it would be great to see puc encouraging as part of the proposal how you will manage water, how much water you think you will need, how you're going to work with the land to keep water on site, make the most out of rainwater. i think that the urban agriculture movement in san francisco is savvy about water issues and is interested in not only teaching about gardening, but as dan was saying, in rainwater attachment, in alternate scenarios. and from a tuolome reported you, any of that is great. they can take pressure off the river, but teach people. these are often public spaces that teach people about how to manage water in their own back yard. i think there is a value there. so, yes, in ways that you can build that into the proposal process, i think that would be

schombert: the urban impacts on that watershed have been enormous. flooding flows, combined sewer overflows, gave it the nickname of "stink creek" for many, many years. hecht: before the stream restoration, when you have a rain event, the stream would just be barreling, just filled with tons and tons of water, and the water would move very quickly, eroding the stream banks further. narrator: the rushing water ran all the combined sewage straight into the monongahela river, which is a main supplier of drinking water for the region. hecht: what has happened because of the restoration is the water overflows its banks, it floods into these nice flood plains with native plants. and then slowly the water percolates back down into the stream. narrator: this allows the land to naturally filter and clean the sewer overflows before they enter the river. the restoration included extensive environmental changes to improve the stream and infrastructure changes to reduce the csos into the watershed. hecht: when i first started talking with people about stream rest

. >> and this would provide new revenue sources with the costs necessary for urban service improvements and created by the need for housing transit, child care, open space, and art. and the arts requirement is in third quarters 429 of the planning code and provides the construction or addition of any new use upgraded in 25,000 square feet within the c3 district and to 1% of the construction cost towards the provision of public art. this is showing the other areas closely related to the art requirement and primary purpose of the plan is the art and open space requirement are to over time assure that the development is guide sod that workers, residents and business wills not adversely impact the downtown and will have a nice compact, walkable core. you heard about the fine art guidelines and that count towards the costs and provisions and this is the downtown plan and what we have is we have done an inventory with that piece of art or more than a project per year required to produce this art and in the draft survey which we have provided in the packet and updated since then, there will be

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joe vazquez on the new trend in urban farming. >> reporter: in one of the bay area's most dense urban environments, behind a domino's pizza and around the corner from a kentucky fried chicken, some real chickens in the backyard of esperanza poe lana. >> people have been keeping animals as companions and food sources in oakland for over a century. >> reporter: she also raises turkeys and a rabbit. >> my grandparents knew how to process animals. i learned from them. that's in fact how we retain our knowledge about how to grow and raise our own food which i think is a basic human right. >> reporter: with this growing missouri of urban farming comes some growing pains. >> i raise my own meat. >> reporter: questions about how backyard animals should be regulated. oakland's planning department is now working on drafting some new rules. among the guidelines they are looking at, how they're hours, how they're fed and cared for and even pest control. and the subject getting the most attention? the issue of killing meat to eat. >> it's a wonderful way to connect to your food. i know what my ani

we work with a great structure in urban areas to connect all of the destinations. i will advise you to do something here and there. back to them. keep in mind were the cyclist comes from and where they want to go to. look for connections. and make shortcuts for cyclists. it was very handy. and you don't have to wait for the traffic lights. working on the system of bicycle highways, you have priorities for the rural area between urban areas. it moves wide and you can cycle as fast. a bicycle can go very fast. in needs to be social safe as well. that is sometimes difficult. for the bicycle street, some of you might have seen in as part of the cycle route. the cargo in the streets with two types. you can see them on the pictures, the car in the middle had the the car on the side. they work pretty well. they are introduced more and more all over the country. when we separate bicycles from cars, we prefer parking on the left side. you don't have the chance of enduring so much. for intersections, i have seen the traffic circle here and they start shouting, round about. t