we work with various city agencies to make sure our infrastructure is up to date and to make sure that our roads are on the smooth surface and that construction activities do not impact safe cycling. we're pleased to be working with all the different community groups that will be part of the concession system as well as operate is to get their voice into the ears of the various city agencies. it is our belief that the number one thing that makes biking safer is more people biking. we're seeing recent improvements to market street in particular, attract more people biking, and i hear almost every day from mothers or women or people that maybe never bite before or did in other parts of the city, now choosing to do so here because it is safer -- maybe never biked before. supervisor chu: thank you. >> hello, good morning. i am the program director for san francisco's sunday streets program. i'm here today to speak in favor of parkwide llc's concession to rent bicycles in various locations in san francisco. my experience working with these three companies has really demonstrated -- they hav

all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retrieval and analysis. >> the department of public works they maintain what goes on in the right-of-way, looking to dig up the streets to put in a pipe. with the permit. with mapping you click on the map, click on the street and up will come up the nchgz that will help them make a decision. currently available is sf parcel the assessor's application. you can go to the assessor's website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francisco. you can search by address and find incidents of crime in san francisco in the last 90 days. we have [inaudible] which allows you to click on a map and get nchldz like your supervisor or who your supervisor is. the nearest public facility. and through the sf applicatio

the stakeholders include multiple city agencies as well as residents and to the various ngo's. what we really need is a city- wide vision for the watershed and using it as a device, a framing device so that multiple decisions -- when we talk about the seven-foot by that is going in, what that pike has done is it is predicated a planning effort for the western sections of chavez such that we have a low drought tolerance landscaped going on on top of a flood plain. that does not compute. there is this function in that we are not actually speaking to the various entities, the various city agencies within this number frame of this particular watershed. i think that this planning framework needs to be a really robust. i think that the robust matrix that can be created needs a very transparent software so that we can track simultaneously the modeling, the technical information, the input, multiple elements. i think that we are moving towards that and i want to be working with staff because i think that we are missing some opportunities here. this is major. this is really major work. t

hearing today, commissioners, is to understand and become educated on how the process works in various city agencies that can we, the b.i.c. and s.b.c. do to make life easier for everyone. it is hard to think of anything more important for small business and the business community and to include, i want to include the homeowners who are waiting to remodel a bathroom, kitchen, the smaller contractor who does horizontal additions and the list on this evening's agenda. the items are environmental exemption review process, appeals that come before the board of supervisors, d.p.w. permit applications and the online tracking system and a.d.a. i would like this evening to be about discovery and education. we are all members of san francisco community. let us make it a productive evening. in conclusion, i hope to have another meeting sometime soon with the planning department. they were unable to get ready for this one, so we hope to have a meeting with them in the near future. some of the people from a.d.a. approached me in the last few days and they were wondering why we had the a.d.a. so far dow

we were talking last night in oakland about various cities and the congestion issues and congestion pricingversus perhaps parking pricing. i was wondering if he could tell us the politics of pricing automobile parking versus congestion parking. in at san francisco, one of the biggest challenges is car is going past you at 40 m.p.h. and getting cars to go slower and not be in the city as we were looking at on market street. a lot of it is about reducing cars. i know in copenhagen, we look at what has been done with diminishing car parking, but maybe speak to car parking as part of this. >> in copenhagen, the cars cost double price because of taxes. not so many people have a car. copenhagen is like new york, i guess, people do not need cars as much. many people want to commute into the center from the suburbs. that is what we want to prevent. that is why we have such high costs, high taxes on parking your car. the closer that you get to the center, the more expensive. but there is a limit how much we can turn away. that is why we also want to have some systems. i think if we're going to read

fy2010-2011 budget, in the amount of $44,000,000 to fund the salaries and fringe benefits for various city departments. supervisor chu: thank you very much. this is a request to release $44 million that was placed on reserve in last year's budget committee deliberations. mayor's office, would you like to make

fy2010-2011 budget, in the amount of $44,000,000 to fund the salaries and fringe benefits for various city departments. supervisor chu: thank you very much. this is a request to release $44 million that was placed on reserve in last year's budget committee deliberations. mayor's office, would you like to make any comments on this item? >> madam chairman, chair members of the committee, i am the mayor's budget director. we have submitted a letter requesting the release of these reserves. they were placed during the budget process for a couple of reasons. the main one being that at the time we were still awaiting significant information about the contents of the final state budget. at that point the committee and the board decided that they wanted to place some funding on reserve until we saw the outcome of the state budget decisions. so that the board would retain the options given the uncertain revenue. it did not come in and we had to make major adjustments. you have had the three month updates and six months updates from the comptroller's office that indicate uncertain revenues that have

this rail line is the physical linkage between the various cities and communities of silicon valley, and too much of that geography has not been around trains. we are trying to change that for the next generation, trying to envision a bay area much more built around our transit network. you cannot do that without caltrain. we think about the shuttle's a lot of people are taking from the city, they are taking those to the big companies. so people working smaller companies or the ones working at stanford are the ones relying on caltrain. second, we know the cuts would be devastating. san francisco obviously has to step up and put money in as well as the other agencies to find a short-term fix. third, we are very supportive of the short-term fix, but we have to devise time to develop a longer-term solution. the final point i want to make is that we are working on a white paper we will be issued shortly on those solutions, both on the governance structure and also the physical structure. we have to find a sustainable funding source, but also, this is not the way to run a train system. it

documents. >> the planning has historic files similar to what was said about the inner office between various city departments and ours have not been micro films. they're still in paper files so we have the originals. they're from about the mid 30s, um... forward. so if like the planning department approached the owners concerned something at that site, we would have our copy of that up there. >> here you go. block book has a notice in it. >> down on the bottom floor of the planning floor at 1660, we have block books that are another source of research. >> this is book number ten. volume ten and right down on the first floor you can see them. there's a huge selection. must be 75 or a hundred for covering the whole city. >> we've got them from 1935, 46, 54 and current ones that are up to 2004. i think they've been updated. in the older sets in the 1935. with a lot the owner of record. also in a color wash is the zoning that existed for that time. pasted in are zoning changes that happened various lots during the 30s and the 1940s when the next set was issued and there are little pencilled in notes,

the obligated to build to the infrastructure plan, which will be approved by the various city departments. i will bring up ori eliahu, our consultant. but you get is all completely rebuilt. >> good evening. i am going to discuss the geotechnical remediation aspects of the plan, and then turn it over to" for some other aspect of it. the island was created by placing fill in the 1930's over an existing sand shoal that was just to the north of ybi. you can see where the existing natural deposit was. it was overlain by the new dredged sand to create the island. the island was created -- i do not know if you can see the details there -- by a successive series of rock? the or placed on the bay bottom, and then upward from there. the sand was placed in sort of a liquid form behind those various dykes. once they achieve the desired elevation, protective rock was placed on the outside of that. the figure you see there is from the original construction in the 1930's, subsequently 1987. another level was placed on the outside of that. generally, what we have in the subsurface conditions is about 40

the tida board, various city agencies and public stakeholders. the plan we see today is a result of that process, and it is consistent with the zero original vision and principles that rich outlined. before we get into the land use plan today, let's look at the islands as they exist. the islands in the middle of the day with only one point of access on and off the bay bridge, there are significant challenges associated with the use of this former military sites, and peter will walk us through the transportation plan and how the land use plan has been organized in order to meet these challenges, and we think we have a plan that goes far beyond providing transit opportunities for existing residents and future visitors. so the island today -- treasure island is approximately 400 acres. it is comprised of man-made snow. yerba buena is naturally occurring. of the approximately 550 acres that make up the entirety of both islands, tida will be getting from the navy -- i do not know if you can see on the screen -- everything from yerba buena to the north

now this process is all being streamlined, that's the new part, before they had to go to various city agencies, police department, health department, now they will becoming here at dpw and get the process done right all in one day. but there are also going to be new rules, ann, when they get a location they have to send out notices to all of the surrounding businesses and residents and inform them of their intentions and they may have to go to a hearing if anybody objects. >> eh linda, let me ask you, are any of the potential food vendors concerned that there isn't going to be a limitation on the number of people competing in that kind of business? >> reporter: well there are going to be limitations, only 1 food truck per block, so if there is a like business the two food trucks can't be on the seam block. >> linda yee, san francisco, thank you. >>> no way to identify a partial body, no evidence leading to a suspect, why oakland police are re-opening a grew some murder case from 1980. between a victim and another man who hasn't been seen since. >>> and the search has intensified for a

they are a team of computer hackers who have just left various cities throughout america and they are trying to come up with the next big start up. here's the crazy part. they will be brainstorming over the next 48 hours while traveling on a bus drinking plenty of coffee. the idea actually sprang from a pub conversation. a group of tech junkies joked and said what if they came up with the next big thing riding from san francisco to austin for a conference. this is the second year they have rolled out with some of the most best and brightest faces in technology. >> a lot of like minded people. there's usually some kind of magic going on in those types of environments. >> now last year the original group came up with two start ups that were named winners by a panel of investor judges at the conference. now they are actual businesses. this year's participants have high hopes of success. one guy that we talk today this morning was fired from his job when they found out about this bus trip. >> start up is like a religion for me. it's like something i do on weekends. i release one thing a m

what i would like to do at this point is ask a couple of representatives of various city departments to make comments about the legislation, starting with the department on the environment. i would like to invite of the director of the department of environment to make a presentation. >> thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. i'm the director of the san francisco department of the environment, and the department is pleased to have the opportunity to provide the land use committee with our perspective on the yellow pages distribution pilot project ordinance before you today. we support this legislation because it will help us to forward our city's 0 with goals. san francisco, as you probably know, is the nation's top recycler. san francisco recycles over 1.6 million tons of material in 2008, which is twice the weight of the golden gate bridge. we said less than 600,000 tons to landfill, which is our lowest the disposal rate on record. san francisco's success is due in part to the comprehensive easy-to-use programs we have set up with our partner, recology, and also the enthusiastic r

reiterating that it was foreign involvement behind the chaos in the demonstrations there and see in various cities around the country he said because security forces had captured a number of foreigners in a raid on a mosque you see if it came from egypt algeria ghana stench that they had in alcohol and with things we've heard the same message coming out of the country's foreign minister in this new circumstance he firmly blamed foreign elements for what was happening he also said that the country would welcome some kind of international investigation that would determine that even effect weather facts and also said that the libyan army the libyan forces had acted and continue to act well in the north saying that they had not shot industry minutely and people have a listen in an exclusive interview he gave to our. own or model of it's clear that it's a well prepared plot the proof is that this group has contacts with great powers and is supported by them first of all by britain which is a trial by the oil reserves so the u.k. has been several visits. and offered help the same situation is that fran

reiterating that it was foreign involvement behind the chaos in the demonstrations and seen in various cities around the country he said because security forces have captured a number of foreigners in a raid on a months he said that they came on egypt algeria aniston beheaded in calcutta told him with friends here the same message coming out of the country's foreign minister ahmet in which the coup said he blamed foreign elements for what is happening oh well moral it's clear it's a plot the proof is that this group has great powers and is supported by them first of all by britain which is attracted by the oil reserves the u.k. has paid several visits. and offered help the same situation as with france and the u.s. great growers compete for the right to own oil darkseid own gold resources and this rivalry is going on the pressure certainly has grown within the united states will be a panic ministration to take some kind of action on libya we call all the little minds for no china zone are reaching the mention right at the same time the european union foreign ministers are said to need tomorro

sporting zones where what passes for public policy now in public planning is putting stadiums in various cities and bats your public playing well if there's no games going on then suddenly these cities a lot of them industrial you know post industrial cities there's going to be. some real problems for those cities now how would you compare what's going on here this is a collective bargaining agreement that's expiring to what we see happening across the country in wisconsin and ohio and indiana and other states as a kind of frustrating to watch these billionaires versus billionaires like they said to battle it out when a lot of americans out there are just trying to you know keep their jobs and pay their bills and put food on the table yeah absolutely and that's why the president weighed in today and said you know people have a real goal basayev because we have a perfect clip of the president saying about let's roll it. owners most of whom are worth. close to a billion dollars you got players who are making millions of dollars. my working assumption the time when people are having to cut back co

reiterating that it was a foreign involvement behind the chaos in the demonstrations and see him in various cities around the country he said that his security forces captured a number of foreigners in a raid on a mosque he said that they came from egypt algeria. beheaded in alcohol in which things appear to say nature coming out of the country's foreign minister mr newscycle search eat. foreign elements for what was happening although not all of it's clear that it's a well prepared plot the proof is the group has contacts with great powers and is supported by them first of all by britain which is attracted by the oil reserves so the u.k. has paid several visits held negotiations an offer of help the same situation is with france and the u.s. great growers compete for the right to own oil oxide and gold resources and this rivalry is going on the question certainly is when within the united states will be a bhaumik ministration to take some kind of action on the level yet he falls in a demand for a no china zone are we can remain jim light at the same time the european union foreign ministers are s

is very common not only for officers but that we have apprentices, in turns, in various capacities, employed through the city -- in turns, in various capacities, a ploy to the city. we encourage them to become members of the city family. commissioner kingsley: thank you. i have a couple questions on other line items, if i may, please. the capital outlay summary. there is half a million being cut there, which is roughly one- third of capital outlay. what are we doing to pull that out? >> are you looking on page one? commissioner kingsley: the character summary. >> that line includes all funds. most of that will be large items that we got with special funds last year, the current year, that we will not be getting for the next fiscal year. that is not a general fund to change, that was a grant. the general fund change that is theire is not calculated by the department, it is calculated centrally for the city. then the dollar figure is put in our budget. it is about $1 million. for the financing costs. and the other amount is the difference from year to year, grants we are not getting next year. commissioner kin

does pose the disco problems of its own because the length of space if you like between the various major cities and major fighting that's been happening in urban areas. but nonetheless i think that after his forces in misrata back on the offensive tanks on the street snipers are in the buildings and it's very hard for me to see what tactical air power is going to actually deliver against that in an urban environment you know with many civilians around without creating at least the impression of an ngo if not in fact causing casualties among civilians amongst the rebels and selves so this is this is the really awkward aspect for me is you know where it goes how you actually deliver on that without making the controversy an objection that exists already worsens you know horace i mean just in really pointed out some very important points here i mean no matter how you cut it this is a slippery slope isn't it it's a slippery slope and if you want you can be a cynic and say yes no fly zones really don't work you have to go to the next step in maybe this was the rationale behind it in the first place.