supervisor wiener: today, i am calling for a hearing on what various city departments, including the mayor's office on housing and other departments, are doing to encourage the production of moderate and middle-income housing in san francisco. inclusionary housing. how that review will addressed the connection -- that will address the city's ability to would attract and maintain private and non-profit sector jobs. we do a very good job producing market rate housing in san francisco. we do a respectable job producing low and very low- income housing in the city. we are close to meeting our targets. we do a very poor job producing moderate and middle-income housing in san francisco, moving as potentially in the direction of being a city of rich and poor without a large middle class to support the tax base and to provide the stability that any city or society needs. we need to be very aggressive in providing that housing, and i am very interested to hear with the various city departments at issue wrote to let us know what they are doing and what strategies they are proposing, and superv

the supervisors who worked on this and eventually approved it, went out of the way to work with various city agencies, and the developer to provide as many protections as legally possible. i do feel that they try to go as far as the law allowed. but ultimately, for me, i do not believe that there is enforceability. i do not believe that we can honestly look at where state law

issue, and their oversight, and frankly, some of the oversight that has failed to be provided by various city agencies. let us talk about the title of this report. government by developer. that is what we are dealing with here. there has been no daylight whatsoever in this project between the planning department, the mayor's office of economic and workforce development. , and the developers. this is, indeed, government by developer. where this is headed, the planning department's responses, you may be tempted to incorporate the planning department's response to the civil grand jury findings as your own. i would caution you to break this cycle of government by developer. and to do an independent response. for those of you who have concerns about the enforceability of rent control, for example, laid those out in your response. for those of you, including president to, who believe -- chiu, that these are ironclad promises, include your response. include your dissenting views, even if it is a minority of the board, but respond in substance. do not just adopt what is an extremely one-sided, and i

our burners are being asked to come into centers of various cities for aetna. -- right now. whehowever, as soon as things gt better, they are escorted out. but we might begin to break that cycle. it is just wonderful to walk out on the street and see the world walking by. >> are you giving the twitter deal? >> yes, we are. we just founded a new nonprofit. black rock arts foundation, which is dedicated to spreading interactive, a collaborative art throughout the world. now we have founded but we call the burning and project. -- what we call the burning man project. it eventually leads to the event itself. this is a wonderful opportunity. the thing about burning man, when you look at the variety of people that go there, when you look at this environment, where all the normal boundaries are down in every department of human knowledge and endeavor. if you ask what possible application that we have created that may be useful loud in the desert, -- what would it have an application to? education, urban planning, disaster relief. needless to say, we are ambitious than we think we c

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

it is at least to me somewhat unclear how and to what extent we have coordination among the various city departments that have some sort of jurisdiction over our sidewalks, including the planning department, the department of public works, the public utilities commission, and the mta, and i called the hearing today so that we can hear from the departments about the extent to which they are coordinating or press not coordinating on how the process works well, how it could be improved, what we as a board of supervisors may need to do to help, but and that is why we called the hearing today. before we start, one thing that i want to say and to emphasize very strongly, and i think the city attorney will concur, this is a hearing about our sidewalk, the better street plan, about the surface mounted facilities, and i encourage for my colleagues and members of the committee a full and robust discussion of this issue. we currently have pending before the board of supervisors and appeal of a categorical exemption relating to the at&t proposal relating to the placement of the utility boxes on the

city. living here 14 years and being so active, i'm very familiar with the various needs and enjoyments of the city as well. supervisor kim: some of the things you would prioritize in its use of redistricting? >> areas of inclusiveness and fairness. that is what i would bring to this process. supervisor kim: you talked about being concerned about families leading san francisco and bringing that perspective to the redistricting task force. how does that perspective apply in redistricting? >> it is a personal passion of mine to understanding how is the demographics of san francisco changing and how are we looking to really building and growing a vibrant community that is what makes a city thrived. supervisor farrell: thank you for your comments about families. i share those concerns. a question i would ask to some of the other applicants -- have you ever applied before? what sparked your interest? >> i have not applied for any commissions. my interest of why now with redistricting was i landed at ca in 2010 and within the first month of me being on staff, we were able to bring 30 organization

ok marc i'll give you our security and what brought the flight into various cities or city hall the libyan people are against him as omar suggests but how is that he's managed on the entire city of tripoli how is he going to clearly are on his side in those mass demonstrations going on over the layout we don't look falsify they look as genuine as anything else i've seen coming out of libya he clearly has a huge amount of popular support as well let's not blind ourselves about omar. i didn't say the all the egyptian all the video that gets caught there for you i didn't say that i said the overwhelming majority want to change mostly want to force the country are you gentlemen we've run out of time it doesn't look like this debate just like the war in libya is going to end many thanks to my guest today in london and in barcelona and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. celiacs time and remember crossed our troops. and you can. be. a target here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

city. i currently work in the castro, but my position prior to that was in the sunset. i have worked all over. supervisor elsbernd: selling comes to knowing all of the various neighborhoods of the city -- >> i'm fairly familiar with that. on a one-to-one basis and not a community level as well. supervisor kim: i know you are very active in the community. can you talk about your ability to balance current commitments with being under districting task force? >> i am a firefighter, so i do work 24-hour shifts. i am a single game and then have a little extra time on my hands. i don't have -- i am a single gay man and have extra time on my hands. that allows me the opportunity to donate time i would need to this task force. supervisor kim: in your role on the alice toklas democratic club, which beat campaigning in the mayor's race this year? >> i am personally supporting someone and i will eventually endorse someone, but that person has yet to be determined. supervisor kim: who are you supporting for mayor? >> [unintelligible] enthusiastically, i might add. supervisor kim: hopefully he'll be later -- he will be here later to speak on your behalf. thank you for y

we can cross the various cities -- abu scientific arguments we can make in the american experiment was set up a bunch of scientists, these guys were natural science. they aren't used until the late 1800s. wasn't invented until 1845. they were philosophers, natural philosophers will be made today by science. they were running a scientific experiment. so since i am at a venue for talks a lot about politics, that's a good way to think of it. let's are an experiment try this set of laws or click the data and think of it that way. let's think of ourselves as scientists and always look for that evidence. i will end with reading the last two paragraphs of my book and then will take a few questions. here i am just kind of wrapping up about the power of science and believe and of the many mysteries we have uncovered an questions or try to answer. one in particular stands out. although rationale is come this receives that few men who carefully weighs all decision through cold, hard logic and rational analysis of the data is not only extend the probably never escape. mr. spock is science fiction.

city -- every block is different. supervisor kim: i see that you have lived in various neighborhoods in the city. thank you very much. next, we have kathleen anderson. how are you. >> good morning, supervisors. like you, i love our city and have a great passion for making sure our government is working well for the residents of san francisco. i have applied to the task force because i believe elections should be accessible to all people and through their right to the company feel empowered and have the chance to elect leaders at best represent them. i was a political science major at uc irvine and transferred to stanford and studied economics and statistics among other things. i came to san francisco in 1988 to attend do you see hastings and i have lived in five different districts in my 23 years here. as an attorney, working on employment discrimination cases, as a volunteer and board member working with some of the city's most vulnerable residents, and sensitive to the issues that face many san francisco and sue may feel disenfranchised. i have done that through my work with the homeless advoca

june and approved by the board after it made more than $20 million in adjustments to funding for various cityepartments. >>> time now is 5:14 and we will be back with more in a couple of minutes and let's get a live look from our roof. doesn't look at foggy as yesterday but it is hard to tell right now. we'll be right back. >>> britain is now officially recognizing libya's opposition group as the country's legitimate government. foreign secretary says they are unfreezing oil assets to help the transitional council. the officials say they are dispelling all diplomates from owemar ga dav fi's regime. >>> there is pro gadafi rally. malgama was convicted of the bombing that kill 250 people and most americans and he was released from a scottish prison in 2009 on humanitarian grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. >>> 5:18 is the time and i will have been thinking the roof is less foggy but looks more foggy from the golden gate bridge. do you think more foggy today. >> for those that will see fog it will be thicker. people inland won't notice any difference between today and yesterday

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