. >> item 10 is removed from the agenda we're on item 11 the urban agricultural program. >> great good afternoon, commissioners nice to see you i'm here as ordinance of the city of chicago presenting the urban agricultural? a great first year and happy to show you what we've been up to this year the interagency supports and supplies the community members to grow food on public and private land it encompass animals and vegetation and people are happy about that we believe that the growing of animals and vegetation educates people will the eco system and connects people to nature and engages people in our spaces you can find that in the annual report and this members of the public it is available on sf rec and park.org to helping to a lot of pro bono work on this report. >> the urban agricultural program from all walks of life and volunteer almost entirely driven effort we'll r really, really work in participating thank them for their partnership as well this is a brief map of the urban cultural over hundred and 23 of them you can find this as sf park website a quarter are on the propert

i would just say that unfortunately when you look at the urban forest and the urban infrastructure every tree and every sewer line has the same issue lurking. that's a challenge for everyone so if you address that issue you've got a working sewer line again. the idea is that there's not going to be an issue again with a sewer line again. no one -- our staff or at urban forestry we're not sewer system experts we can't vouch and say for a fact how long the property owner is going to have a free and clear sewer line, free of tree roots but it is our job to uphold the ordinance and try to advocate as much as we can for retaining larger trees. this is not a one for one replacement. i think it may seem boilerplate but we have to talk about the benefits of trees in an urban environment because there are economics, soesh yol logical and environmental benefits but i understand that in this particular case, the property owners understandably is frustrated with the amount of money and time and also like you said, public health issues. >> mr. buck, looking at the [inaudible] of the property wouldn't

can ask i know who to tangle to this is fantastic there were many agencies and still are working on urban and working on a way we didn't see previously because this work and this annual report is the first time the city laid anti metrics with budget and resources that's helpful for our prospective and looking forward to seeing that in the future years building on what is going on there are a few things we can see in the years to serve the gardeners with an is the availability of the resource centers there is 2 inches of compose an alamo's square i'd like to side two maybe increasing the frequency so the centers are open seeing that once a week and seeing how their utilized it will not take much to have people there a few times a weekly over 7 hundred people on the waiting list for community garden that under represents the garden to create new sites that could included reaching out to people upon the waiting list we have sites we think could work are you interested in doing fundraising for that and lastly with the community garden hat i have on the community project manager there are far

very spread out suburban areas and some intensz urban ears and some a combination of urban areas and for those who are urban water supervisors that don't have that many connections they have a to save a flat 25 percent it was hard to jew just those with each other but everyone that files with the hetch hetchy plant it ranges from the upper areas like ourselves to ourselves to the suburban areas. >> is that the same audience as the post 1914. >> those are those who filed after 1914 they're regulated differently but a mixture of urban uses and agricultural uses so the water rights from the san joaquin they get letters you can't divert any more water. >> thank you. >> okay. >> moving on to the next slide i'd like to about what we do in san francisco take action think may five or six we can come to the commission with a variety of proposals first establish a goal for retail consumers to recess. >> 10 percent not mandated but trying to achieve san francisco last year, we reduced residential used by 8 percent theoretically if we did nothing we'll comply, however we goals to account for and

and urban outfitters. urban had been experiencing a huge turn around. one or two of its divisions always seemed to be sputtering. late last neither stars aligned. the whole company began to deliver terrific growth firing on all three major cylinders. that is until the last few weeks of the quarter. when anthropology simply hit a wall. it was a huge shock both to wall street and to the company itself which expressed ex strooems stream disappointment and surprise about anthropology's performance. with the stock down 15% today, it's obvious investors have totally turned on urban and given up on it. but anytime a stock's down that much in one session with a good balance sheet and long term equality management you do have to stop everything. you have to listen to the call do the work and figure out whether you might be looking at an opportunity when the smoke clears. first you need to ask yourself is the problem something that can be fixed or is it a longer-term structural issue that could last for more than just days weeks, months or even years. i am tempte

>> the way to fix urban cities urban areas, no urban -- no such thing as an urban city. >> excuse the fact i use that differently. >> your way of fixing them is more of the same. >> no. >> they want you to believe the situation is so dire. >> she likes isis. >> that's true. >> all right, guys. >> you want to talk more -- i'll tell you what i believe. >> ben, you and i talked about this on the show. you and i both agree, i think, the government idea just actually sets back the situation instead of helping. there are solutions, right, ben? >> we want people to be independent. we want there to be -- i'm sure julie disagrees -- wants there to be a spiritual solution. the churches hold them together. the churches preach about people being responsible. god bless you. >> thank you. go with god, my friend. >> i think that will work. that's the only thing that will work. >> it's not the only thing that will work. >> one last word from scott. >> all right. >> we have historical data that proves all this. it'sless government not more that works. look at the overall output of the u.s. economy. it

it would be that you're linked with a urban hospital or semi urban. you know, something such as that. so are these in the rural hospitals, what is the health of the rural hospitals and those settings in which you just described? those acos you just described. >> so you make a good point. i would remind you, though, the beneficiaries are aligned through their use of primary care, not necessarily where they get their primary care. >> preponderance of primary care. you can live in a rural area and be in an aco that has a significant urban presence because there are acos that span both times of communities. and there are those that are strictly in rural areas there is one called a national rural aco which is combining rural acos across the country. i think it's early for us to know what the relative success of rural versus urban acos. >> i'm sorry. and i have limited time. so i'm trying to focus. what is the health of the rural hospitals in those areas in which there is an aco which governs, which has responsibility, if you will, for the rural patient? be

with 45% at urban hospitals. challenge of medicare utilization, medicare cuts represent higher percent of our budget and less commercial or managed care volume to subsidize the medicare losses. third challenge is impact of medicare cuts. graph on page five compares estimates using cms data of hospital costs versus payments from 20 very much len through 2023 top line represents growth of hospital costs while bottom line estimated growth of medicare payments factoring in productivity and fixed cuts under the affordable care act and the sequestration cut under the budget control act. the difference between the line represents medicare's loss reimbursement. it grows annually exceeding 17% by 2023. cumulative impact of these cuts over this time period for my two hospitals is expected to be $120 million. beyond all the cuts we have been facing recovery audit contractor or rac program is draining our hospital resources. lake regional currently has over 500 medicare inpatient claims languishing at level of appeal worth $

it would be that you're linked with a urban hospital or semi urban. you know, something such as that. so are these in the rural hospitals, what is the health of the rural hospitals and those settings in which you just described? those acos you just described. >> so you make a good point. i would remind you though, the beneficiaries are aligned through their use of primary care, not necessarily where they get their primary care. >> preponderance of primary care. you can live in a rural area and be in an aco that has a significant urban presence because there are acos that span both times of communities. and there are those that are strictly in rural areas there is one called a national rural aco which is combining rural acos across the country. i think it's early for us to know what the relative success of rural versus urban acos. >> i'm sorry. and i have limited time. so i'm trying to focus. what is the health of the rural hospitals in those areas in which there is an aco which governs, which has responsibility, if you will, for the rural patient? bec

when you talk about urban fighting, fighting an urban area, we talked vietnam in the battle of way city, that was a huge fight. they said there is a lot going on there and to say that we will never do it again was not correct. we as soldiers do not know what the future will hold in we cannot predict it. but to say we are not going to fight in a particular way, well our enemy has a vote in that. they will determine how we fight in the future. we cannot exclude any possibilities. as an army we have to be prepared for those possibilities. as a seven the previous color, i have been called on to do a lot of things i never thought i would have to do in the military. you always think about how could you have better prepared for that with time and facilities. that is what we are trying to achieve here. provide our soldiers the best chances of not only surviving, but thriving in combat. everything we do at this location is designed to increase our soldier survivability. i have no idea what the future is going to hold and we spent a lot of time talking about what the threat could be. as soon as y

because in our urban environment, and i know i asked the question but in our urban environment we will run into this problem again. >> you know, i didn't bring it forth, but the appellant's case is not the only one that's been in front of us with a similar effect or what has occurred to them. we have heard not that many times but we have heard before of sewage backup and those kind of issues historically -- >> and? >> and most of the cases that involved trees here, the appeal was voted down. >> but this is a new board and this is a new board. and although my tenure is short being only three years i would say what the commissioner has said, in the past, the tree usually wins, but a new board. >> i would go along with replacement with the landscape bar as well as the 24 inch replacement. >> well, let me ask one more question to the old timers. >> that would be these guys? [laughter]. >> on the right side. >> yeah. >> what mr. buck spoke about about that we have to take into consideration the difference between having a newer tree as opposed to a fully developed tree, what does that fall

the urban individuals are taken hold. we did a open street project this past weekend on main street. we have a brand new applauseey down town that is phenomenal. 10 years ago we probably had less than 500 people living down town and now there are 8 thousand just in down town. all our inner city urban village is how to revitalize that. one of the biggest bras is parks. we had a 50 year old historic swimming pool they closed 5 years ago before i was elected and one of the campaign promiseicize to get that reopened and one of our big familiesm came to me and said, i grew up swimming there and i'll help you reopen that if you agree the operating expenses and we put it in the budget in perpetuity because he gave 500 thousand dollars to redo the pool and quee matched it with 350 thousand. wree a focused on the inner city parks. the developers are taking care of the new parks, but we have foogrow are inside the city >> put in a certain amount of open space as part of the plan, do they also aplije themselves to perpeteral mainten

my very first job was a non-urban job. actually i went on a farm when i was in junior high school, middle school grade student. i got people to connect me up with what they were doing. i thought that would be fun. i can work in restaurants, i can do all the stuff that i see everyday, but my very first job was on a farm and that's where i got to drive a truck. i destroyed about 25 cabbage heads in trying to deal with a truck. and i worked with a farmer whose every fourth word was a curse word. mr. tanaka, he was great for instructing us properly for how to get our bushels full of beans and strawberry and corn. i learned a lot. i learned discipline, i learned open farm area. i know that in san francisco we have a program and very strong policy and support for urban agriculture. we have a gardening program that reaches out to many of our transitional age youth to allow them to use the incredible farm that we have up in san bruno area and train them in skill sets and yeah, a lot of people use language that is kind of urban str

up 1%.ology sales urban outfitters comps up 5%. talk because of the west coast port shutdown that some of the home goods that come into anthropology might have been delayed. we will look for more commentary on that. the u.s. consumer is either not spending or spending on different stuff. we are still trying to put that picture together. alix: look at that. joe: getting crushed alix. was talking about why retailers have not done well considering oil prices have fallen. you have a stronger dollar. tourists coming in and not buying as much as they used to. it you had the weather. port strikes. higher taxes. maybe it doesn't turn around. another thing with urban outfitters, their stories of if they are on trend or cool at the moment -- they famously had long stretches where they are totally off of everything. you never know. it could be part of the story. the on the macro story. alix: it could be the company's specific issues. walmart and -- joe: walmart tends to be associated with low-end consumers but it will likely give us a lot mor

i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we w

host: our urban centers the new battleground? guest: when you look at what is happening in the world today there is a huge population growth. you look at the growth of the megacities all of the world where there are millions of people in very close quarters. if conflict is going to occur in regions like that, we want our soldiers to be able to understand what they have to apply in those environments. you want to do it here in virginia the first time we call on her shoulder to have to figure out how you're going to get to the top of that five-story building with no elevator, no rope. host: lenny from arizona you are next. ahead. caller: good morning, colonel. i went to alert our citizens and get an excellent nation if we could for jade helm 15 which is all over the internet. it involves 10 states and there will be civilians participating in towns like big spring, texas. could you explain the magnitude of that and what the purpose that is? apparently they have crisis actors in their enemy soldiers dressed in uniform and nonuniform.

and briefly the urban school, of san francisco, is an independent high school founded in 1966 with an enrollment of 380 students, 75 percent of whoem reside in san francisco. and the purpose of the debt is four fold and the school seeks to get a prepaid loan by first pub bank of an amount of 8 million, 26,000 to finance and refinance the obligations in 2004 by the finance authority which were used to finance the acquisition and equipment and furnishing of the education alpha celebrities known as the page street property, which are owned or leased by the school by the educational purposes as well as to pay for the cost, and the hedge agreement and in connection with the 2004 bond and second to finance and reimburse the school for expenditures for construction and improvement and equipment in the oak street property and the existing residential building, owned by the arch diocese of san francisco and leased to the school and in its place, the new, 63,000 athletic facility and the third purpose to finance additional capitol improvements to the property and to pay the transization costs,

-- inter -- urban interface. sorry. so what -- where do you think we need to go in getting resources and what do you think the add vent of a biomass program might be able to do to help? >> first, with the increase in funding we received this year for hazardous fuels and where the majority of our

-- inter -- urban interface. sorry. so what -- where do you think we need to go in getting resources

-- inter -- urban interface. sorry. so what -- where do you think we need to go in getting resources and what do you think the add vent of a biomass program might be able to do to help? >> first, with the increase in funding we received this year for hazardous fuels and where the majority of our work is in the wild land urban interface, that is going to allow us to expand that and have more acres. for instance, there's 2.5 million acres as the target for this year, and out of that, 2.1 of that occurs in the highest priority areas. the second part of it is with finding more use for the biomass and whether it's through an integrated wood product that can expand markets or to be able to use it for energy conversion and institute that for other energy sources, i think those are the things we have to continue to work on. i think where we've been able to use the authorities that subsidize the transportation of biomass, it's allowed for new facilities to be -- to come online and be able to provide additional support for

so that is what you have in the urban core.who come in, who are fearful, including police officers with the proliferation of guns differences between people and different races. black men come across as being dangerous, even when they are unarmed, if they only have tea and skittles in the pocket. they are ominous looking. that is a problem we can deal with. the other problem is infinitely difficult. what we have to do it takes middle class african-americans, and americans of goodwill and the government. municipal, state and federal, to become involved. because, look we have got it. if we continue to live in the country and want a semblance of life liberty and happiness, we'll have to deal with the least of these, those that have been left out. we'll have to spend money and time to try to get people moving in a different realm. they have few examples to follow. many of the people who are gone will have to come back. i have a friend in kansas city wallace heart field the second, trying to get middle class african-americans to com

i think not unlike all the other cities, our urban parks and urban gardens are growing at a rapid pace. people want to be able to grow their own food and flowers and we have a lot of philanthopy that identifies that as the next great space if you will for investment. i don't know if you knew this, we are only 49 square miles, 15 percent of our city is open space. they of course reflect such iconic names as golden gate park, chrisy field and if tonight you visit quoit tower it will be laden in orange for a good reason. 98 percent of our city lives within a 10 minute walk of a park. 98 percent. we are going to get to 100 percent. mark, we are get toog 100 percent and commit to that in a very short space. we have over 370 million dollars in parks bond to spend just this year we'll spend 15 and a half million dollars to go toward rehabilitation and refreshing 6 play grounds in san francisco. it is true that the private, the fill philanthropic, the city government, the state and the

people need to get away from that urban rush and noise and this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in san francisco. we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park, . >> good afternoon, everyone. ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon we are going to begin thank you for your patience this good afternoon the the meeting will come to order that is the regular meeting of land use commission i am supervisor cohen i'm the chair to the right is supervisor wiener vice chair and ttd is supervisor campos who will be sitting in for supervisor kim so for today is meeting our clerk andrea ashbury also want to recognize john did i live iron and jennifer lowe as a point housekeeping is a room 263 the overflow room. >> before we oh, madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon toda

on urbanization, there's very rapid urbanization and plan, unfortunately, rapid organic growth from withinies come big migration from the countryside, very little capacity for infrastructure and services to keep up. and not enough urban-based job creation. so we are calling for urban-based development strategies really to empower the metropolitan areas to make sustainable development strategies for the next 15 just because sustainable urbanization will be one of the sdg. i am co-chairing a commission for mayor de blasio in new york city that is doing exactly that what kind of cross sector planning can be good for new york city's sustainable development, and i hope that other cities will do the same. how do we get the long-term interest? i actually think it's also not really outside of our short-term interest either. to our powerful vested interests -- there are powerful vested interest that are playing not a helpful role such as the oil interests right now. the traditional fossil fuel interest. the superrich who just want tax cuts. that's not all superrich but it's a lot of them and we had

the urban search and rescue right here. and you can see families have gathered. we've got kids with signs welcome home dad. they are very excited to welcome home their loved ones. and nearly 60 members of virginia task force one had been in nepal for three weeks. they helped rescue a 14-year- old trapped in the rubble. in the second quake she rescued a woman buried in her amount. they've been partnering with l.a. fireworking around the clock. they're emotionally and physically drained. back out here live you can see some of the folks who are waiting to see their loved ones very soon. we'll have much more coming up later in the show. back to you. >>> we're also following breaking news overnight. eight bodies have been recovered from the site where a u.s. marine corps helicopter had crashed while on a relief mission in nepal. the u.s. military says the bodies are unrecognizable. the wreckage was found in a rugged area. the helicopter was carrying six u.s. marines and two nepally service members when it went down. the pilot has been identified as 31-year-old captain

item 18 unmitigated claim with the local 261 versus the city and county of san francisco and item 19 urban litigated claims for the insurance company and items 20 through 27 will not be horde. >> any public comment on the items in closed session today mr. brooks. >> can i have a motion whether to assert you move to assert. >> deputy city attorney one the slelt items involves commissioner courtneys employers local one of 1 i ask for a motion to recuse him under closed session. >> i'll move that. >> all in favor, say i. >> opposed? the motion carries and and we have another motion on the table whether to assert we moved it. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? the motion carries. >> session. >> we're now back into the open session the report open the closed session is item 18 settled and number 19 smelted. >> can i have a motion no to disclosure. >> the motion carries any new business commissioners? seeing none this meeting is adjourned at. >> good afternoon it is now, one 08 this is is regular meeting of the san francisco community investment & infrastructure commission is successor to

the vibrant do it yourself culture of urban renaissance.ne block at a time. where's that? well, that is happening. young, idealistic, true-believing, hard-working, creative people are indeed doing their best to bring light and hope and beauty to this greatest of cities. you've got to start with the deeply felt and absolute belief that detroit is indeed a great city and that it is worth saving. as utterly screwed as detroit may be, you have to be a twisted, unpatriotic freak to not believe that. behold the future. >> what, like cooking in a back alley? >> yes. >> all right. >> chef craig lightfield has done what many would call a very unwise thing. after working at gotham grill in manhattan, instead of staying where the money inarguably was, he returned to detroit. he's been working to get a brick and mortar establishment going by first doing regular popups here at guns and butter. tucked into the back room of an art gallery under an overpass in downtown detroit. do you have like a really weird attitude towards food in general? >> yeah. >> w

young people who live in our urban areas. by her decision today just a few moments ago she has given this nation and invaluable service. especially for young people. especially for african-american and other minority youth. these young people have for decades year and for justice as it relates to police misconduct, police brutality, and police murder. this new standard for justice is a standard turnout trends in baltimore. ferguson, new york city, chicago, cleveland other places all throughout this country. host: congressman bobby rush but after the announcement that six police officers being charged in the death of freddie gray while in police custody. on this day after that a rally taking place. frank thorp of nbc tweeting this picture of the freddie gray rally and national guardsmen. that taking place this afternoon. alicia and detroit on the line for democrats. caller: this has been going on forever. before trayvon martin, michael brown, freddie gray. we just had a couple of incidents in the last month where the police ac

there's is crisis in urban america and the president has to deal with it. i think it's more of a threat than isis. >> wow. >> the crisis in urban america is that the president's never going to come in to talk about the 56% graduation rate in cleveland or the 60% graduation rate in baltimore where kids really need the help. he's not going to come in to help. he's only going to come in to talk about the issues that fit the narrative of the left and promote -- >> it's sad. what happens, more young kids die because it's being ignored. >> bring backstop and frisk. >> i agree with you. i agree with that. >> both should be elevated to the same level at the same time. you cannot separate police brutality and black-on-black murders. but they both have -- >> but the president only talks about one. he doesn't talk about the other and the other thousands that are dying. >> i agree with you. both should be raised at the same level. >> all right. >> the difference between the two, at least the criminal element we're attempting to prosecute, where historically the police