>> wertheim: the film depicts the extent of that abuse.sage. >> pope francis ( translated ): and we are all responsible! no one can say: "i have nothing to do with this." >> wertheim: francis was elevated to his position when his predecessor, pope benedict, became the first pope in 600 years to resign, citing declining health. now 81, pope francis has appealed personally to hundreds of millions in dozens of countries. he often balances gravity with levity, as he did during this trip to philadelphia, where he visited a prison, and spoke at a conference celebrating the family. >> pope francis ( translated ): families have difficulties. families, we quarrel. sometimes plates can fly. ( laughs ) and children bring headaches. ( laughs ) i won't speak about mother-in- laws. ( laughs ) >> pope francis ( translated ): we live with the accelerator down from morning to night. this ruins mental health, spiritual health, and physical health. more so: it affects and destroys the family, and therefore society. "on the seventh day, he rested." what the j

wertheim, the director, the commissioners. this must be a thankless, thankless job to sit here day in and day out. but thank you for your attention, and we hope our project brings joy and hope and happiness to the people and the community of the south of market. thank you so much for your attention. mr. ionin, jonas, i've known you for god knows how long. we're still looking good, and could you put that on the record, please, and give that to the commissioners and director. thank you so much from our family to you. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, everyone. my name is lauren burnham, and you represent the tuolomne river trust. the central soma act will early exacerbate the acute imbalance we're facing in san francisco and the bay area. this will contribute to further gentrification of our unique neighborhoods, increase traffic on our already congested roads, and increase the demand on the resources that sustain certain things, namely, the tuolomne river. as you may or may not kn

wertheim, is that all for the presentation? you want to wrap it up. >> thanks, everyone. >> president hillis: thank you. so we will take -- we'll open it up first for public comment. >> we did receive a late request for organized opposition. >> president hillis: so -- from mr. drury? [inaudible] >> clerk: okay. you get three minutes. >> president hillis: we'll just call you during public comment, because i know i've got a card for you. we'll just call names. [names read ] >> president hillis: you all can lineup on the screen side of the room and speak in any order. >> good evening. happy bike to workday, commissioners. my name is yee wan. on behalf of the san francisco bicycle coalition and our more than 10,000 members, we support the central soma plan's goals to prioritize working, biking, and transit in the central soma plan area. we believe this will help relieve the traffic in the area and make all road users, not just people biking, safer. at the same time, we are delighted to see there are planny proposed improvements for

. >> wertheim: this evening behind the scenes of an intimate, top-secret documentary.you've never seen him or heard him before. >> sense of humor. >> wertheim: in his own words, without a script, challenging catholic conventions and the world. we usually voice over foreign language speakers, but not tonight. >> pope francis ( translated ): and if today you ask me, for you, who is the poorest of the poorest of the poor, i would say: mother earth! we have plundered her!

jon wertheim is with us now.the captions white, jon, it's difficult to see over the pope's white robe. >> i'm the interviewer, not the filmmaker. >> how did it come about? i understand the pope approached wenders. >> yes, this experimental filmmaker was working on a film with james franco, 3-d movie, and he gets out of the blue this commission from the vatican, would you like to make this documentary. the vatican was going to do a documentary with pope francis's blessing. why don't we get an established filmmaker. so not the in-house pr. >> so does the pope like wim wenders work? >> yes, he'd gotten this assignment and it was carte blanche. so ask anything. make this film however you want p we wenders said at first it was flattering. then said, wait, i need some perimeters. it was intimidating. >> what does the pope want to say? what does the vatican want him to say? >> i think that's the point. the vatican -- no talking points. this was ask away -- >> the gospel? >> i think that's where he departed. this was hou

written, there was one on usa today by two prominent democrats, a former obama official and fred wertheimer at the brookings institution saying the freedom caucus and the republicans are doing the bidding of the president, trying to intimidate the special counsel's office -- it's a disgrace. if it was hot before, it's being ramped up now on both sides. >> does art go to war words, the extortion thing. people in the justice department who are unhappy with the attorney general who feel they've given too much to congress. i cannot say the justice department should hand over every single document to congress. rosenstein would have more credibility today if he had not made getting documents like pulling teeth for congress over the last year. paul ryan is not a big warrior in this kind of thing and he said the fbi was a was stonewalling congress, the house of representatives on this. they don't have a lot of room to talk now that they are complaining. >> laura: giuliani said when he was asked by hannity, other two systems of justice in this country, he said one for hillary, one for everybody else

my name is abby wertheim. i know this legislation has a technical name, but my job at place made was to lead the technical aspects behind 150 hooper. so it was a great collaboration between the public sector and the legislation that underlies this development? really and truly but for this legislation, 150 hooper wouldn't have come into fruition, and the affordable 56,000 square foot building that we eventually purchased and will offer at affordable rents to tenants as soon as it's completed wouldn't exist if it wasn't for this legislation. so the public sector did its part, the private sector came together, and then we leveraged new money to actually make this project possible. so let's have more of it, and we hope that we can create more space in san francisco for local manufacturing and production distribution repair users. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. indicate souffis, ceo of place made and sf made, which is place made's parent nonprofit. so four years

wertheim for all the work that they've put in over seven years. it is truly an aachievement, and finally, i have a letter for the board. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker. >> commissioners, good afternoon. joseph smook with the south of market community action network. despite many hours of meetings and hours of testimony and public hearings, we in soma feel that the plan does fail to address the very real and persistent problems and pressures that are facing the south of market community. excuse me. we keep hearing about the increase low. we of course would contend that many projects have come before you in soma already that have created significant impacts that have been far shorter than 160 feet, and we would argue that they're not being ministerial approvals. i think what's more concerning that the housing sustainability district seems to be a late but significant entry, so we would ask for your consideration of continuing this hearing to fully consider what that means for the whole plan, so thank you very much. >> presid

wertheim, good luck in sacramento. it's been a pleasure, and a pleasure in seeing this plan move forward. >> self-planning works to preserve and enhance the city what kind hispanic the environment in a variety of ways overhead plans to fwied other departments to open space and land use an urban design and a variety of other matters related to the physical urban environment planning projects include implementing code change or designing plaza or parks projects can be broad as proipd on overhead neighborhood planning effort typically include public involvement depending on the subject a new lot or effect or be active in the final process lots of people are troubled by they're moving loss of they're of what we preserve to be they're moving mid block or rear yard open space. >> one way to be involved attend a meeting to go it gives us and the neighbors to learn and participate dribble in future improvements meetings often take the form of open houses or focus groups or other stinks that allows you or your neighbors to prov

wertheim did in the middle of the presentation of central soma is take what you heard today and start to have an expa expanded discussion with targeted to what was discussed today. i think it was fair, but i think the public also indicated next week is the beginning of a very big holiday. it's the first part of summer holiday where people go away, and in order to have those people who are unavailable continue in this dialogue, hear you basically, give some really strong feedback. that is what we can do, i think that would be a strong robust standing in the dialogue, and i would personally appreciate it if that's what we would do. >> president hillis: i just want to make -- there's so much good in here, i wouldn't want to make it feel rushed. i think let's just continue it for two more weeks next week and give us a little more time to have one more community meeting at the department and hear it in a little more, you know, get answers and get them out with the commission packet which goes out tomorrow. i'd say let's give us two more weeks after next week just to get it right, 'cause i

when i lineup all the impacts and lineup all the fees to mitigate the impacts, this to m wertheim, he said we're trying to push the envelope on the edge, and it was around 67 to 70%. okay. my personal opinion is we sold central soma as a transit-rich regional job center, right? and as such, we're inducing demand for transportation in the place that we said we wanted to have transportation to build all these tall buildings, and the millions of square feet of office and 8200 housing units, etcetera. so we're adding existing burden on the transportation that we claim we need to have. so for us to short change that, i think is bad planning. the whole purpose why i voted for central soma, we were going to get what we said we were going to get. and i think if we short change the amount of money going into the transportation which is the lynch pin of central soma to me. that's why we put it where we did, then what are we doing, honestly? so i'll take the numbers as corrected that you're around 67 to 70% or whatever. that's in line with what the general fees are, so i don't think that that's