the units above the warner plaza are rent-controlled. for anyone who suggests this is about the of 1%, that is completely specious. when you look at who is using the plaza, i suggest spending some time there. it is not the 1% hanging out there. these are regular folks who come to this neighborhood to enjoy themselves and are trying to enjoy public space. in terms of community meetings, i don't think a week goes by that i'm not in a community meeting in my district. the castro has allowed more community meetings than any other neighborhood i represent. it is an incredibly active neighborhood and i am in community meetings a lot and have spoken many times about this legislation. i want to thank everyone who came out here today. even people who strongly, strongly disagree. i want to thank everyone for being here. just to address a couple of points -- it is duplicative of what is already in affect but it is a terrible and oppressive if you enact this. it's unclear what the objective is. i will repeat what i said at the beginning that this is

the jane warner plaza, we're responsible for taking care of both plazas. i am here today to express strong support for the proposed ordinance to establish rules for the jade warner and harvey milk plazas. the castro cbd began meeting with merchants to began brainstorming solutions to some of the challenges. some of those challenges included drug dealing in the morning hours, cellphone getting stolen, trash and debris collected at a laugh from individuals sleeping and spending at 8-12 hours in the plaza. meetings were held, and we began work supervisor wiener: in wiinr to bring the existing in standard rules in place to apply. the proposed legislation simply a sign existing park and wreck codes to both the jane warner plaza and milk plazas. posted hours will help of volunteers tremendously. protests, political campaigning, commercial endeavors and entertainment will all be allowed. it is a point to remember that both of these are a mixed use neighborhoods. people live immediately adjacent to both pluses. they identified it as keeping it clean and safe. [chim

in the case of jane warner plaza, there are 12 apartments above the sidewalk. se of harvey milk, there is a condominium group that has their entrance on the sidewalk of the plaza. what we find is that without any consideration of the folks that live there, common sense and decency are being able to have a time of day where people can have peace and quiet in their own homes as part of the consideration. also, from this month and the policethe statistics are lookint the statistics within a certain radius. more than half of the reported incidents are happening after 9:00 p.m. and the noise complaints with the exception of one complained have been taking place between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. to align in consideration for the residents of that area, some basic common sense and rules and policies seem to make sense. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a resident. the woman who spoke about living on harvey milk plaza, i am the next closest person. i live on the exit. i have a bird's eye view all the time and i walk through six or eight times a day. i am familiar with w

jane warner and harvey milk plaza is not large. those are small and they've restrain space. there is a very diverse array of people using these spaces and it is important that everyone be able to use them. most public spaces in san francisco, while freely available to the diversity of the community, they have roles. we have a very extensive parts code governing the parts system. none of these roles have undermined the freedom of the enjoyed community. rather, these rules make sure that these spaces are usable by everyone. through a quirk in the law, the jane warner and harvey milk plaza is not covered by any of the rules typically applied to public spaces. recently san francisco has added a significant number of public spaces, with jane mourner being the first such space. we have turned parking spots. it has been expanding and i know it will continue to expand in the future. now is the time to make sure that these new spaces, which are not parks or sidewalks, have basic rules in place to make sure they are expendable by everyone. this legislation is basic and limited. contra

warner. she was a good friend and a great officer. she died of cancer. the plaza is named in her honor. she did not need any laws to make peace or build consensus. i feel like the people who would be impacted by this legislation cannot be here. my car is getting a ticket because this has taken so long. i worked -- our neighborhood keeps shrinking. there is no -- there is a community park that is locked. there are lots benches, darrius 24 error -- hours a day with no problem. bagdad cafe closed. their furniture stayed on the sidewalk. these problems people are talking about like urination, make the restroom free on the corner. if you do not like taking the furniture in and out every night, put permanent furniture on that park and the spaces are primarily thoroughfares. it is primarily transit. you are opening a hole of having to legislate every part that is created. this is part of their restaurant. not a public park. this lockean everything is say that it is public space or open space. you're using this semantics in your reader each way. just leave it open. it has been that way for harv

the ban would apply to harvey milk and jane warner plazas. the legislation has the support of local businesses. opponents argt plan unfairly targets the homeless. >>> the san ramon community center at central park is closed today because of a water main break. the leak was found yesterday afternoon. the facility located on alcosta boulevard was immediately clod closed for repairs. the building and all park rebs rooms should reopen tomorrow morning. >>> the upcoming 500th episode of "the simpsons" will include a best appearance from the founder of weather ikileaks. he lent his voice to the comedy for an episode set to air in a few weeks. he will playing himself as a new neighbor to the simpsons. he recorded his lines for the episode over the phone while under house arrest in the u.k. the show will air on february 19th. >>> coming up, we'll hear how you can weigh in on facebook's plans to expand. smart phone apps are very popular. how long do they keep people's attention? you will hear a surprising survey. the stock market is mixed it. does loo

on smoking in parts of san francisco is reportedly expanding of the ban initially covered jane warner plaza and harvey milk plaza and now the restrictions could be expanded to cover parklets, the former parking spaces that have been converted into mini parks. supporters say the ban is needed to provide smoke-free areas for the public to enjoy, but opponents argue it unfairly targets homeless people. >>> and i'm willing to bet there were lots of people enjoying the parklets today. let's check in with our meteorologist mark tamayo to find out about today's weather and rest of the week. >> that is right, plenty of sunshine out. there you may have noticed high clouds moving into the bay area by late-afternoon. in fact, you can see right now on live stormtracker 2 rain showers moving into northern california. heir is a wider perspective and you can see the bay area still dry, but as we zoom in, the overnight hours up in the north bay, primarily areas north of sonoma county, we could be tracking some spotty drizzle to start out your monday morning. the look at the satellite and radar, you can see

san francisco's castro district as we reported earlier this week the proposal would cover jane warner plaza and harvey mill plaza. now the bay citizen reports it could cover park lets across san francisco. those are former parking spaces converted to mini parking. the legislation unfairly targets the homeless. >>> stanford university police are warning students to this morning to lock their doors, windows, and lower the blinds after a series of peeping tom incidents. there have been at least four reports this month about a peeping tom attacker rothers hall. officers say the individual ran off when the woman said something to her. all four incidents occur in the first floor gender neutral shower room. >>> oakland is getting ready to open the door to even more marijuana dispensaries. the chronical reports the city will issue four new permits for dispensaries next month. right now four pot clubs operate in oakland. they bring in a million dollars a year in fees and taxes. the cash trapped city needs the added revenue from the four new dispensaries. the city of oakland is getting ready to lay o

plazas. the rules would apply to the jane warner and harvey mills plaza located across the street from each other at the intersection of castro, market and 17th street. among the proposed rules, a ban on smoking, camping, cooking and shopping charts. >>> 7:35. one year after a deadly plane crashed in contra costa county, federal investigators are calling for changes to make sure it doesn't happen again t was a crop dusting plane that crashed last january and the milt poos -- and the pilot was dilled -- and the pilot was killed. >>> a suspected norovirus outbreak has sickened dozens of people in marin county. it happened at the senor care centers, two of them, as well as a preschool that's not yet been identified. coming up for you at 7:45, pam cook will bring us live reports on thive art to quarantine the businesses and also kind of source of that outbreak. >>> the city of richmond will be the future home of the lawrence berkeley national laboratory's seack campus. lab officials say it took a year but richmond beat out five other east bay cities. richmond city leaders are very excited. >> this is