the van ness special use district, and the 130v height in both districts. while the zoning districts permit the proposed residential and ground floor uses, the districts have different requirements for rear yards, residential open space, parking, and alleys. after publication of the case report in march of this year, the department received an appeal of the preliminary mitigated negative declaration. this resulted in a continuance from the march 22nd, 2018 hearing without any introduction or discussion of the project. since that time, the appeal was withdrawn, and the preliminary declaration is unchanged. before you is the final mitigated declaration. as a result, i have a summary table of the mitigation monitoring reporting program which will be attached as conditions to the project if approved. since publication of the case report, the department has received additional letters in support of the project from the principal members and parents of the tenderloin community school, neighboring business owners and residents, the bay area women's and children's

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 an clouf right-of-way a set of pedestrians will cross from the sidewalk to the middle of the street a. >> to move the reliable along the corridor with this travel time had been signifying reduced we think the ripped will go from 16 thousand a day in t

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

. >> item 13, progress report for the van ness avenue bus rapid transit project. this is an information item. >> how are we doing there? >> ms. mccarthy. we made up for lost time yet? >> good morning, commissioner. to touch off of that, i am peter gabancho, the project manager on the van ness improvement project, the core of which is the van ness bus rapid transit project which will feature san francisco's first bus rapid 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 neces

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

>> reporter: those two drivers involved in a fender bender pulled off van ness here onto golden gate to stop and exchange information. that security camera down there captured the exchange. it also captured the moment when one driver took off, hitting the victim and stealing his phone. >> these little things are a big issue. >> reporter: jose has a big issue with the man in this video. he says the driver of the black car rear-ended him on van ness near golden gate in san francisco on may 1st. >> i was taking pictures of the driver license for the insurance company. so when i have that in my phone, i make a phone call to his company so he can be able to report the accident. >> reporter: that's when things changed. he says he handed the man his phone when the insurance agent asked to speak with him. as he's talking, watch the driver get back in his car and take off, clipping his hip. >> he hit me and he stole my phone. >> reporter: he has handed the video over to police and uber. he says an uber representative tells him they don't know who he is, but he's certain the man was working fo

tonight at 5:30 at the theater on van ness. janelle wang will be the emcee and a reception at the city hall after the event. it is sold out but you could sign up to be on the waiting list. >> and for all of the people taengd -- attending, the weather is so nice you could walk to the event. >>> definitely a good time to walk. considering how sunny and the temperatures just right. it is a good day for that and only wednesday. not the middle of the week. so we did have a bit of a trough that brought some instability in the area just a couple of days ago but now it is overpowered by a nice ridge of high pressure. and our current conditions as you head out of the door, south bay 64 degrees. not to bad. peninsula in the low 60s. and if you look at san francisco, you could see we're nicely clearing out in terms of the cloud cover. we did see some low clouds early this morning. some spots still cloudy like out in the north bay. and also near inland spots, still seeing a couple of clouds. but the 24-hour temperature change, it will brin

van ness here behind me infamous for traffic, not necessarily at 5:30 a.m.ut also you can see, there's construction going on here so plenty of hazards to get around. so san francisco wants more data to try to figure out what kind of an impact these driverless cars are going to have on the city. this all comes as state regulators consider allowing a new pilot program that puts passengers in driverless cars. san francisco transportation officials are asking the state public utilities commission to mandate driverless cars companies share data with the city to mitigate traffic. most of the companies wanting to use driverless cars are against this. among them, uber and lyft, which the city has been struggling to regulate. >> they have legions of lobbyists around sacramento and san francisco. and there's been no political will to stand up to them. >> reporter: that is supervisor aaron peskin, who has been calling on state lawmakers to turn over the reins to cities when it comes to regulating rideshare. he has also been pushing for the city to tax them to mitigate

so in sum, we have presented the probably executive to two neighborhood groups, the van ness neighborhood council as well as the neighborhood association. i'm going to turn it over to the project architect and he'll go over the design. >> good afternoon. if i could have the monitor. i'll just walk you through the project starting kind of from the basement up. we have our parking at the ground -- basement level below grade level of the project. you can see that the top part is the ramp coming down from the street. the ground floor level, the front of the building, we have at the lower right corner, we have the residential lobby for the tenants and then next to that, we have a nice kind of retail space. next to that, a minimum driveway access to get down below grade. next to that, the second means of the egress. the great thing, we've been working with pg&e and whereas before we had a vault. we were able to get that moved and out. that's really nice. we have mostly a glass front. even the garage door and i'll talk about that more. typically, the building has both flats and town homes. so on

so we will go on to the next item. >> item 13, progress report for the van ness avenue bus rapid transitroject. this is an information item. >> how are we doing there? >> ms. mccarthy. we made up for lost time yet?

i'm here on van ness in san francisco, which is infamous for traffic tie-ups, not necessarily at 6 a.m. but in general. and there's plenty of hazards around here to navigate, as well. you can see there's construction going on here which is going to be going on for the next, oh, couple of years. so san francisco wants more data trying to figure out exactly what the impact on city streets these drivers cars might have. and this all comes as state regulators consider allowing a new pilot program that puts passengers in driverless cars. san francisco transportation officials asking the state public utilities commission to mandate driverless cars companies share their data with the city. they say it's an effort to mitigate traffic but most of the companies wanting to use driverless cars are against this and have been lobbying hard. this comes at the same time as a new survey shows doubts about driverless cars. it was conducted in four states including california. 79% of respondents say they are very or somewhat concerned about driverless cars on our roads. 14% a little concerned. 79% say th

. >>> last week we told you the van ness construction is delayed yet again. today we'll find out why exactly and it has to do with what they are finding under the ground. this probably is not a dinosaur but you may remember back in 2012 when crews found a mammoth's tooth under the new trans bay transit center. they are explaining the history they are digging up. the road improvement project is expected to wrap up in 2020. >> a live look at or ra ka arena. the warriors taking care of business, up two games to none in the playoff series against new orleans. for warriors fans what could be better than that. >> how about the run of steph curry and happened last night, came back with serious swagger here. warriors fans went wild when steph took the court last night after being out for five weeks with the knee injury. steph wasted no time playing like a two-time mvp. that was the first couple of seconds in the game. the three-pointer right there, he finished with 28 points last night. and fans quickly realized that curry is in playoff form. >> going to be okay, is

challenge to see whether or not he could walk down market street faster than the j line got from the van ness station to the embarcadero station. for the first eight years that i was on the board of superviso supervisors, every red curb, blue curb, green curb, yellow curb, stop sign actually came to the land use and transportation committee for approval. when prop a came around in 2007, we gave all of that authority to the sfmta commission. and prop a actually, which i was the chief author of, included a provision that said that the board of supervisors, by ordnance, can create an appeal procedure so that legislative actions takingen by the sfmta commission could be appealed to this board of supervisors. and indeed, i introduced some appellate legislation and the clock ran out and i actually never got it done. ten years has passed. this is narrowly tailored and narrowly crafted. as supervisor safai says, it takes five members of this board to bring an appeal. i expect that we'll use that judicially, that this is really creating a pathway for us to have healthy, robust interactions with the mt

wheelchair access is provided at the grove, van ness and mcallister streets via ramps. wheelchair access at the polk street, dr. carlton b. goodlett entrance is provided via wheelchair lift. assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned in sign language interpreted. you are agendas are also available in large print and braille. please ask staff for any additional assistance. to prevent electronic interference with this sound room system and to respect everyone's ability to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and tdas. your cooperation is appreciated. we welcome the public's participation during public comment periods. there will be an opportunity for public comment at the beginning and end of the meeting, as well as after every item on today's agenda. each comment is limited to three minutes. and the council will respond to our -- to comments following the meeting if you provide your contact information. you may complete a speaker's card available in the front of the room. approach the microphone during public comme

however this i think we would all agree kind of goes over the top as well as in comparison to the van ness project where the owner of the property went out of their way when there was an opportunity to build, i have not met this owner, i haven't gotten a notification and haven't been reached out to as well as many of my neighbors on this, so i thought that would be a good courtesy considering the scope of this project to do that with us and that was never done, so i think there is a real divisiveness that's going to continue through the construction and the rest of this permitting process if this is continued so i will ask you to decline this. thank you. >> thank you. any other speakers in support of the dr requester? with that public comment is now closed. public sponsor please come up for rebuttal. >> my name is thomas ryan and i am the design architect. thank you for the opportunity to present our project today. this is a culmination of a long process that we have worked with britney our design planner and rdat. we have had a strong dialogue through a series of meetings and have made ch

he was obviously intimately involved in the 25 van ness story and others. when i returned to office in late 2015, one of my projects was it rewrite chapter 23 of the administrative code. boring. which sat to make the appraisal processes to the dawn of the 21st century and i appreciated his candor as our office fielded a number of concerns from impacted city departments and john said, stand up to them. you will win. and even though it was my name on the legislation, it was just as much john's work product. and with that, i know my colleagues may want to say a few words as well. thank you for your willingness to collaborate with my office and the board of supervisors in many, many departments over the past many years and for your great work to steer our department of real estate with the utmost of integrity. congratulations on your well-deserved retirement. [cheers and applause] >> supervisor cohen: ladies and gentlemen, john updike is an incredible human being. don't let this cool exterior fool you. he has spine filled with titanium and he's taken many beati

. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first ofll, 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 planting

because i do think there is distinction between primarily residential part of the city that is west of van ness and downtown and soma, i think those are very different neighborhoods. what have you seen the primary reasons that people are using the scooters? because, again, in my neighborhood, it seems like joy rides. >> well, as they're zipping down sidewalks -- i didn't know they weren't allowed on the sidewalk, i have a kid in a wheelchair, and i've got a toddler. i'm like, watch out. >> we don't know that yet. i don't think i mentioned this is pilot program. so we're definitely trying to understand that question. how are these being used? is it actually a benefit to the transportation network for just for fun? we need to figure that out, we don't have those answers, we don't have those surveys in place. >> co-chair blacksten: tatiana? >> council member kostanian: i'm out in the sunset, i see a lot of scooters around. is there a central place where people go to get the scooters? and also -- how much to rent these things? >> i'll have the companies answer renting, but it's usually a $1 per rid

diedre van ness's daughter survived the shooting. her daughter hid in a closet and called police.int, the gunman shot through the closet it and chased another student. isabella overheard him shouting, whoo-hoo shooting into another classroom. after exchanging gunfire with police, court documents show, the suspect surrendered. he told police he did not shoot students he did like, so he could have his story told. >> texas governor greg abbt who has an a-plus rating with the nra wants to start roundtable discussions next week with students, lawmakers, and teach teachers how to make schools safer. elaine. >> thank you. >>> santa fe in spanish means holy faith. and true to its name, santa fe, texas is a deeply religious town. mireya villarreal is there. >> spirit of god, fill our hearts. >> reporter: heavy hearts filled the seats at sunday morning service. >> chris stone. shana fisher. >> reporter: as the brad drake read the names of the ten victims including one of his youth parishioners, angeliqu ramirez. she was always bubbly, smiling. had a different hair style. she loved life. >>

muni ran buses between west portal and van ness to accommodate passengers. no word on what caused the train to derail. >>> coming up, a behind-the- scenes look at a normally secretive process at sfo. the incident involving an activist from the philippines that has customs and border protection agents opening their doors. >> and punches thrown in the air. up next, what led to this chaotic scene on board a miami-bound flight. i'm dianne feinstein and i approve this message. i thought after sandy hook, where 20 six and seven year olds were slain, this would never happen again. it has happened more than 200 times in 5 years. dianne feinstein and a new generation are leading the fight to pass a new assault weapons ban. say no to the nra and yes to common-sense gun laws. california values senator dianne feinstein >>> it's a process that's usually shrouded in secrecy but today we got a behind-the- scenes look at how the customs and border protection agency decides on who to admit and who to send home. christien kafton tells us the move follows allegations that the

north of market, east of van ness avenue. not anywhere near our neighbourhood correct nowhere near the other neighbourhoods in the city. on the basis of this, and they have taken pictures in this neighbourhood, of proposed verizon installations. here's one that supposedly a tickle -- typical sfmta poll. i think a lot of us will recognize this. this is the backside of the bill graham civic auditorium. there is nothing about this picture that has anything to do with my neighbourhood or any of the other hundred plus neighbourhoods in san francisco. it might have something to do with the street behind the auditorium, but the fact they have concluded that from a historical perspective, that this type of thing doesn't do any damage here, doesn't mean that they can just rubberstamp serial applications for these permits in every single neighbourhood throughout the city. and that's what's happened here. so when i'm asking you to do is insulin is that they write to the reasons why they are granting departments. because they never do. t

muni ran buses between west portal and van ness to accommodate passengers.sed the train to derail. >>> a student adviser at sonoma state university was killed in a crash today near santa rosa. the chp says the accident happened on bennett valley road near caruthers road outside the city limits shortly before 8 a.m. investigators say the woman was driving a toyota yaris heading east when she lost control and skidded sideways on the wet road. the toyota was struck by an oncoming mercedes. the driver, 37-year-old holly pruden, was killed. the woman in the mercedes was hospitalized with minor to moderate injuries. the road was closed for two hours because of the crash. >>> sonoma state university said: said: >>> extra california highway patrol officers will be out in full force this holiday weekend cracking down on people who are not wearing their seatbelts. the maximum enforcement period starts at 6 p.m. and runs through midnight on monday which is memorial day. officers will be looking for people who are not wear seatbelts, those who are distracted and drivers

they selected van ness care center incorporated to construct the residential care center. with the redevelopment agency to purchase the property. one condition was that 25 of the required 112 care units would be occupied by low-income seniors for a period of 50 years following the completion of the building. the facility also agreed to provide annual reports, including the rental rate and family size of the occupants. in 2002, san francisco care center, the current property owner was assigned to the dda. a certificate of final completion. in 2012, the redevelopment agency was dissolved by law, subsequently all the housing assets under the redevelopment agency were transferred to the city and county of san francisco with the mayor's office of housing and community development performing the functions previously assumed by the development agency. as it pertains to this property, are the dda, control of the dda and ensuring compliance with the terse of that dda. in 2015, they requested an annual report for each of the residential air units at the property. it was discovered t