it is not safe for our customers, and especially the visually impaired.icy not to double park. normally what i do, if i can safely go in behind, i pull in the zone, offload my customers, load the customers that are waiting for me. when the bus in front of the leaves, i will pull to the front for the customers that did not see me. >> sometimes, the bus pulls up, and there is stuff in my way because the boys -- bus has not pulled up right in front of me. i have to figure out how to get around or through. i have to navigate through all of that in order to get onto the bus. >> when i pick up a visually impaired customers, i like to pull up right in front of them, make sure nothing is in the way so they can walk right on the coach. >> okay, take one big step forward. >> when i drop off a visually impaired customers, make sure you do not pull up at the shelter. you want to give them a straight shot so they can go to the left or the right. you want to pull in front or behind the shelter. never around any trees or pose. i usually let them know that they have abou

the court did not accept that as a basis support a finding of visual impact. but there is another case where there was a shed in a rural watershed area where hikers observed there would be visual impact. sometimes, it is the setting that depends on the relevance. supervisor elsbernd: what i am trying to get at is the testimony received on the issue of whether or not these boxes can be placed underground. respectfully, it does not meet my standard of expert testimony. you are a great guy, but i would not call you an expert on this issue. i would think if we are going to make any findings on this we had better get some more expert testimony than what we have heard thus far. >> i might add we do have the department of public works here. they can speak to the engineering issues undergrounding the kind of facilities that are at stake here. president chiu: i think part of the issue for many of us is whether the planning department should have done a full eir in order to look at whether or not there is additional testimony on the other side of this issue. that is a q

visually, it is compelling. in terms of the subject matter, in terms of the approach to materials, it is so rich and diverse. it is a colorful show, a show that is deep in content, and we know something of the history of the "'s tradition within the african-american community. it is a tradition that came from africa, has its roots in africa, but during slavery, this was a combination of things. one was a way to be able to communicate with each other, a way to create beautiful objects, and a way to create functional, utilitarian objects for the family and community. the other part that makes it so interesting is the focus on jazz. there are two attritions being celebrated here. certainly, the tradition as we know it -- these are not traditional quilts. they have their roots in traditional aspects, but what you will find in this exhibition are works that include materials on the surface, new processes, copying, and putting photographic images on the surface. you will find packets sewn onto the surface, so the meth

fiscal year -- more of a visual graphics -- visual graphic. fire prevention is the next largest category, but like i said, all those costs are recovered in revenue, and there is a small amount of overtime -- approximately 4% -- allocated to the remaining divisions. i know supervisor chu had a question for us and probably other departments about america's cup. very exciting for the city. there will be lots of work to do. we do have a station. we are closely working with the port and other agencies in planning and preparing for the 34th america's cup. we anticipate the re-staffing at pier 22.5, and i wanted to let you know that we were awarded recently $8.75 million in port security grant funding for a variety of projects, the bulk of which is a new fire boat for the department, and we hope to have that in service by the america's cup races in 2013. these grants will be coming to the board in the near -- coming before this committee and the board in the near future. at this point, that concludes my formal presentation. i will be happy to answer

so, those are the two issues, notice and visual impact. his complaint also discusses noise. we have had three incidents of vandalism. one of his neighbors has alleged to our technician that mr. flanagan was disturbing the box. that has caused an excessive noise. we visited three times over the last few months. we have also replaced the fans with quieter fans so that it would have less noise impact. that is what we have done at this location. we are asking you -- [tone] and not grant the request. thank you. >> what is actual notice? >> actual notice -- even though there was no requirement to provide notice, he had actual notice that we submitted a permit to this location and he had actual notice when we began construction that the permit had been issued. >> i'm not clear on how he got notice that you had applied for a permit. there were some negotiations that were taking place and he had knowledge that nextg intended to put some equipment somewhere in the vicinity. did he know that a permit had actually been applied for? >> i cannot speak to his knowledge. from my standpoint,

president vietor: it would be great to get a visual chart that is simple at a glance. some conjunctive ground water use -- maybe some fancy ven diagram that shows the consumption and what the interaction is. a snapshot to be able to look at this information so we can see what we're going to need to do from a policy perspective to meet this challenge. design challenge, i guess. visual design. >> we do have one speaker card on this item. >> thank you, madame chair and members of the commission. we are following this closely, as you might imagine and we appreciate the comments about the cash flow and how that might work. i have discussed this at a time -- the staff memo says staff will return to you with their report in august and i'm wondering if the commission could return what that report and it is not lost in the french? president vietor: absolutely. could we make sure to calendar that for the august meeting? >> some wondering if that can be a calendar item as opposed to a written report? president vietor: unless there is objection. that's enough time, we don't need a

there is a visual and audible q four people on those lines. thank you. -- there is a visual and audible cue. supervisor avalos: thank you. any further comment? so, mr. hailey, we will continue this to the call of the chair, and we will have conversations in the next few weeks, and maybe for the rest of the year, we will come back with this hearing. very good. madam clerk, if you could call the next item, please? clerk johnson: items six, a hearing on the san francisco municipal transportation agency j-church street car line on reliability. -- un reliability. >> i want to thank you for talking about this debate, and we have some students sitting in the back who are also here to talk about the j-church, so thank all of you for being here. this was built in 1917, and it is one of the street car routes that actually survived world war two, when many of the routes became torn up. it became part of the metric system after the subway tunnel was built, and in 1991, it was extended from its original point of the 30th street to balboa. it has the lowest

that concerns people is having impediments' like this in the public right of way for people with visual impairment are using real tears. even i run into an impediment all the time, outside the theater. every time i come to it, i have to decide whether to walk into traffic or go under this structure where i expect to be mugged, as has happened to me in the past. there is a pedestrian public impact here which needs to be considered. last, i am going to say what are they doing in paris, london, rome, venice, and other cities? we do not have to consider doing the same thing that might work out in nevada, where they do not have a downtown center, and where they do not have the aesthetic concerns. we should look at what they are doing. president chiu: thank you. >> i am the founder of a small isp in san francisco. the u.s. is no. 30 in the world in internet speeds. we need faster internet in the city. the boxes are not the way to go. the boxes will basically provide dsl -- it will break up the central office into smaller cabinets, essentially closer to your house, but you will still have copp