. >> if you frequently travel before i van ness i might be surprised van ness will goodwill go the firstnsit corridor to have brt as more frequently known the goal to get conveniently van ness and geary boulevard one of the most reliable transit systems in the country van ness avenue is a major connecter between potrero hill and mission on the south side of san francisco correcting connecting us to the marina and state highway in the financial with the western edition neighborhood it is mostly residential a lot of the geography of van ness the rain that is wide it was uses is a firebreak in the 1906 san francisco earthquake a lot of building occasion that helped of hoped to stop the fire from jumping van ness had a light rail or sprash separating and along geary 0 when we came to the question of how to address the needs on haven because of its cost effectiveness we have found in the brt system with the new vehicles. >> the new mr. secretary is a change we will actually have transit in the middle ♪ the far legal unit and a broadly prom >> one of the reasons it is in the center a was it is

core of which is the van ness bus rapid transit project which will feature san francisco's first busapid transit system. globally proven solution to i a dress traffic congestion and improve public transit. wrapped around the core is an extensive amount of utility work and other civic improvements along the corridor. when last presented an update on this project, directorruskin was here in september and we started the utility trenching and potholing to identify utility conflicts moving forward. now the work is well and truly underway and the water line work has begun in earnest. identifying and managing abandoned utilities requires a great deal of care and the extense of the utility complex with the planning is unfortunately increasing the days necessary to complete this phase of the construction. in addition, night noise and vibration have been tentative and the team is taking measures wherever possible to reduce the impact of night noise to the community. as much of the project work as possible is being moved to being completed during daytime hours and we are working and we are look

the van ness improvement project to redo the street with new bus rapid transit hit a five-month delays is a very old street and unfortunately, we're finding a lot of things we didn't know were there and when we do find things we have to stop. >> reporter: workers uncovered utility lines. nobody knows if they are still being used. >> we don't know if it's safe to remove them or live gas or electric. >> reporter: so they have to dig around them by hand. >> our team will be working hard to limit annoyances from dust, dirt and noise. >> reporter: noise that will keep shaking the neighborhood. >> access to your favorite businesses will be maintained. >> reporter: as soon as they closed down the streets on van ness, our business dropped. >> tommy joint is a lunch-time favorite for 70 years but now. >> got it all blocked off and gates up, fences. >> reporter: even if you brave the chaos of traffic. >> the biggest complaint people said is they can't park here. they love tommy's joint and want to come and come more often but they don't do it anymore. >> patience is running thin up and down the

why would they not locate on van ness to serve the area? amazons and whole foods is predatory and practices a business model that destroys it's competition. makes no sense for them to be right next to a multitude of small businesses. the city the in dire need of housing. why would whole foods be pre mitted to take the space of a parking lot. how fair is it that businesses all over the city have seen the removal of their parking with the b babehemouth being able toe that over. let's keep small business wrong and avoid congestion and traffic for our neighborhood and ask them to find a more appropriate place for their neighborhoods >> thank you. >> hello, i am julie besolo. i don't own a car like most of my nob hill neighbors and russian hill friends, we walk and take the bus. i am so in favor of this store because it will help me that gt groceries that i can't get at trader joe. i buy cheeses on saturday at the cheese store and i like to spread my money around to the merchant. i walk to my office every day at california an van ness where i am

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my name is leslie, and i am the program director at the south van ness navigation center.ri is our executive director at st. vincent de paul. i want to commend you for the initiative and your passion for working for those who are disenfranchised in your neighborhood. it is an honor for me to come back to that area. i actually grew up like two blocks away from mitchell's ice cream. it's really great to be back in that neighborhood, really proud to also work with a staff that's primarily from san francisco. i would be remiss not to one of the biggest successes of working in the navigation center has to have amazing partnerships with brilliant corners and

my name is leslie, and i am the program director at the south van ness navigation center.ri is our executive director at st. vincent de paul. i want to commend you for the initiative and your passion for working for those who are disenfranchised in your neighborhood. it is an honor for me to come back to that area. i actually grew up like two blocks away from mitchell's ice cream. it's really great to be back in that neighborhood, really proud to also work with a staff that's primarily from san francisco. i would be remiss not to one of the biggest successes of working in the navigation center has to have amazing partnerships with brilliant corners and their staff. i also want to take an opportunity to thank the entire board for your commitment to improves the quality of life of individuals who are unhoused. supervisor kim also supports us in district 6. we operate 5th and bryant which is multi service center south, and i would like to take this opportunity to invite you to come see us there. thank you so much. [ applause ] >> thank you. that concludes our commendations fo

the ones, for example, at van ness will be incorporated into a building. either our building or the adjacent quarters. they won't be free standing on the sidewalk like the art elevators, the one in powell station is in the station. it really is very site-specific in terms of what they will look like and how they feel but we're mindful of the look and feel of some of the existing ones and taking those lessons to inform future elevator development. >> excellent. thank you. director ramos. >> yes, thank you. this is a lot of work and i've got a bunch of comments. given that it's a beautiful day out there i won't keep us there all day. burke some of the more immediate things that come to mind that i want to make sure we address. i want to thank mr. grew better and the taxi folks for advocating for the cab stands. it's important and it will be a good strategy to help the industry out. i want to thank ms. di luca for coming in and expressing her concern about vision zero, making sure that we are keeping up-to-date with the goals. she needs a little bit more conv

. >> abc 7 news was on van ness avenue as the san francisco conservatory of music detailed plans for2-story building. the bose foundation donated more than $46 million to finance the project. it will include performance spaces along with housing for the conservatory students. >> it's really special to us to be able to have a facility we can call our own. he's so grateful to everyone in this room. >> we're excited about the artists' future and giving them education for life. >> plans call for demolishing this apartment building. the building's tenants will move across the street and their rent will remain the same. >>> our south beach camera captured a dance party of sorts. tuesday night it was projecting images of people walking on the sidewalk below. i don't-ku see, the company is taking full advantage of the brand new l.e.d. board. >> cool. >> i look at that every time i cross the bay bridge. you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. here we are at 11:00 this evening. there is our area of low pressure. notice how it's slowly working its way toward the

you may well remember a substantially downsized the new hospital building in van ness. >> supervisor ronen: so it's a space and not a financial. >> i have said that all along. >> supervisor sheehy: i have not heard that before and that was one of the reasons i asked dr. garcia to do a survey of existing space in the hospitals because it would be helpful to have independent analysis of what you're saying that you don't have space. >> no comments from the crowd please. we will have public comment in a minute, but it's very impolite to interrupt a speaker and sorry dr. browner. >> i am pleased to talk about what's happened. the north tower of davy's campus is where the north tower was retrofitted and where we have acute patients and south tower is where we had a larger s.n.f. and we currently operate one on the upper floor and the other two are being converted to behavioral health, both in and outpatient and that is another important need that we have in the city. >> i hope that you would be open to working with the department to have public health to have a look at what space is variab

much needed and will only enrich the van ness corridor known for the arts. i also want to thank the housing rights committee for their assistance in reviewing the leases on behalf of the tenants and several tenant leaders who have played a key role ensuring this is a deal that could work for everyone. there was a few technical amendments that i had made at land use last monday and i think one just didn't make it into the written record. and so, i just want to again make that amendment. it is on the development agreement, which is item number 33. and it is on page four, section three, line 13. it is simply to delete this phrase "by coordinates". >> president breed: supervisor kim has made a motion to amend. is there a second? seconded by supervisor ronen. can we take the amendment without objection? without objection it passes. >> supervisor kim: thank you. i ask you for support on items 31, 32 and 33 and i want to congratulate all the parties. >> president breed: thank you. seeing no other names on the roster, colleagues can we take these items, same house,

. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're plantin

it will include a 12-story building on van ness right across from city hall.omplex will be called the bose center. it will have two concert halls, classrooms, a restaurant and a recording studio of course. the concert halls will hold hundreds of performances annually which will be mostly free and open to the public. construction will start this summer. the new building is set to open in 2020. >>> the state puc is penalizing pg&e with a fine of almost $100 million. it is the latest fine tied to the deadly san bruno pipeline explosion. the fine of $97.5 million is for pg&e's alleged improper back channel communications between pg&e executives and staff after that fatal explosion in 2010. the pg&e is not allowed to pass the cost on to its customers. the state has already find pg&e $1.6 billion for the pipeline explosion. eight people were killed, dozens of homes were destroyed. >>> the time is 6:57. in hockey, last night the san jose sharks lost 7-0 to the vegas golden knights. game one of the stanley cup playoff series. the knights had their first goal four and

items 9 through 11 are three ordinances that pertaining to music project located at 200 through 214 van ness avenue. item 9 is an amendment to the general plan to revise the height districts in the downtown area. item ten amends the planning code to authorize a height limit exception for a building to enclose or screen specified futures from view, allow increased roof height, and provide additional visual interest to the roof of the structure. item 11 approves a development agreement between the city and the conservatory of music with various public benefits and for all three items to affirm, the ceqa determination and to make the appropriate findings. >> cool egg colleagues, same house same call? they are adopted unanimously. let's go to item 12. >> that's an ordinance to order the summary street vacation for panama street and interstate highway 280 in the ocean view neighborhood to convey the interest in the street sakes area to the owner and to accept an offer for a public sidewalk for city maintenance and liability and affirm the ceqa determination. >> last week, i requested this item be

new delays repa long term project to re- design san francisco )s busy van ness avenue. >>> new delays reported for a long-term project to redesign san francisco's busy van necessary avenue. here's animated video showing what the vanness will look like. examiner reports construction is being slowed however by obstacles underground. another five-month delay to a project already a year behind schedule. 2020 is the new completion date. >>> no, this is not your average tent. this is the first mobile hospital ever put together for santa cruz county. these are photos of county workers setting up thent for th first time yesterday. it will be available in the event of a disaster or viral outbreak. >> 5:26 right now. coming up next, continuing coverage on the breaking news we're following from doconcord. >> massive fire. >> you never think it's going to happen until it does. >> a frantic scene overnight downtown as people rush to evacuate. living close to this building fire. we're live with a look at the damage we're seeing right now and certainly the impact this is having on the surrounding ar

hosted by the dignity fund coalition for seniors and people with disabilities happening at 10:30 on van ness >>> we're a month away from trains rolling. the extension adds two new stations. this is animation of the pittsburgh center station on railroad avenue above highway 4. now the antioch station. this new bart station has more than 1,000 parking spaces. they'll use different types of trains for that extension and run on diesel. you can see the train here in this animation. that extension opens may 26th. >>> developing story now, north korean leader kim jong-un is crossing the border into south korea tomorrow for a historic summit in seoul with south korean president moon jae-in and discussions to focus on the nuclear program. bill neely reports from the border. >> reporter: the next time the world sees kim jong-un he'll be making history, striding into south korea for a summit, something no north korean leader has ever done and give him an honor guard out of respect it says. he will inspect it. watching closely from afar president trump. weeks away from his own planned summit with kim. >

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more people to more places via cheaper alternatives like bus rapid transit coming to streets like van nesse is a growing consensus among city planners that the gridlock on our streets will require solutions below them. no matter what the cost. >> we have more and more people living in san francisco, more and more people working in the city, on cars and bikes and on foot, the more we can put traffic underground, the better we are going to be. >> reporter: time will tell. >>> 60 minutes is next. >> the latest is always on cbs effort -- cbssf.com, see you back here at 11:00 and have a great evening. hola amigos. for the first time ever, cholua hot sauce is teaming up with jack in the box. america's fav... whoa!! ok, a little hot sauce there... jack! i'm trying to film this commercial! oh. sorry. sorry. please continue. as i was saying... the cholula buttery jack has delicious cholula hot sauce, crispy jalapeños, and pepper jack cheese on a signature bun. you know what? this would be great on fries, too. what is wrong with you jack? oh my gosh. sorry. so sorry. the new cholula buttery jack. pa

basically, you know, there is a couple of details here, but it's basically between van ness and steurt street, there would be no private vehicles allowed. that means commercial vehicles, taxis, but private vehicles, including Über and lyft would not be allowed. accessibility in the ada clients, the access for taxis on market street and the creation of loading zones is key to maintaining accessibility for people on market street. again they accommodate para transit as well. and many of our facilities are not up to standard and we would use the project to create ada compliance and accessibility improvements for the entire street. we're reconceiving the street scape. the brick out there, the trees, we're proposing to replace all of that, mo of the trees, not all of the trees, but with a new paving, with new street scape improvements, site furnishings, benches, plantings and you'll see the vision for that. but -- there is one more. i managed the infrastructure -- mentioned the infrastructure so all of the hundreds of millions of dollars of infrastructure investment on the street, we're pai

eventually a dedicated bus lane will run down the middle of van ness. the $316 million project is slated for completion by fall, 2020. asian americans make up about 1/3 of santa clara's population, but you never know it by looking at the faces on the city council. now len ramirez reports asian american voters are taking the city to court to a make their voices heard. >> i feel ignored. i feel disenfranchised. >> reporter: he's now a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against santa clara which accuses the city of setting up a voting system that discriminates against asian americans by diluting their votes. >> i think we should have better representation. in the history of the city of santa clara which elects its council members at large, there has never been an asian american who has been successful. >> reporter: at large means all voters in the city cast ballots for all the same candidates as opposed to district elections where sections of the city vote for their own representatives. the asian law alliance which is backing the voting rights suit said the 2016

head to the meeting at van ness avenue offices. >>> california famous wine industry could be one of the biggest losers in president trump's trade war with china. that includes the bay area wineries and the hundreds of people that work there. >> it is a story only on nbc bay area. in exports to china, about 5,000 cases of wine and china put that 15% tariff on the wine. the vice president of sales said chinese importers don't want to pay the tariff. he said the winery is not going out of business but he is worried about what happens a few months from now. >> the bigger concern is the fact that if we're not shipping -- imports are running out of stocks and if they are running out of stocks, then shelf space for california wines will be open and there are many wine producing countries around the world clamoring for that shelf space that want to take that position away from california. >> they estimate that china will run out of their wine in the next 30 to 60 days. >>> comcast certainly cares. over the weekend we along with thousands of other comcast employees worked to make a difference in

we are located at 1650 mission street, room 304 between dubois and south van ness avenue. this meeting is broadcast live on sfgov tv and will be rebroet on frid -- rebroadcast on frida. dvds are available for purchase from sfgov tv. we will affirm all those who intend to testify. please note that any member of the public may speak without taking an oath pursuant to their rights under the sunshine ordinance. if you intend to testify and you wish the board to give your testimony evidentiary weight, stand and say i do after you have been sworn or affirmed. somebody is going to be talking tonight, right? [laughter] >> clerk: i assume. okay. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you. we have a few housekeeping items. president fung and members of the commission, we have two items where the parties have requested a continuance. the first item is appeal number 15-125, gorr partners versus zoning investigator. the subject property is 660 third street appealing issuance of planning code sec

. >>> new details for a long-term project to redesign the san francisco busy van ness avenue. that is what the improvement project would look like. it will include rapid bus lines and center median bus stops. the examiner reports construction is being slowed by obstacles underground and will add another five month delay to a project already one year behind the schedule. fall of 2020 is the new completion date. >>> take a look and you could see this is not your average tent. it is the first mobile hospital ever put together for santa cruz county. these are photos of county workers setting up for the first time yesterday. this is outside of watson hospital. it is available in the event of a major disaster or a vital outbreak. >>> and a health scare at a fairfield school and county officials are looking into the cause of tuberculosis at laurel creek elementary and we don't know anything because of patient privacy but parents received a letter about the infection. they are holding a news conference this afternoon and we'll keep you updated. >>> many teenagers are dealing with depr