san francisco. this is going to give us the opportunity to add to the housing stock. there are not many sites for this is possible in western san francisco, but this is one. this housing development of 1939, whenever it was started, was always a complex of apartments, multi-family housing. but it brings diversity into western san francisco. most of the rest of the area is single-family homes. i think that is important. we are not changing anything there. we are just adding more opportunities. the concerns of the renters are legitimate, but i think they are safer with the development agreement than without. the development agreement supersedes law change, as far as i am concerned. what i am hearing is that if the law were to change in the future and rent control provisions were not as inclusive as they are now, and there were fewer protections, the development agreement in place would be a protection. that is basically what you have indefinitely. the units continue indefinitely. that was not brought up. i was happy to see a lot of people i knew were testifying. some people spoke about the fact it would not be affordable. i t

san francisco tomorrow? will you want to live in western san francisco tomorrow? i love the planning commission and i love the idea that people come before you on a regular basis week after week and that they are heard case by case. and that you listen so well. i think you make great decisions. you have to balance everything. but you're giving to a developer, cart blanche. he might come to you and ask you to modify conditions. but when will you be able to evaluate this process as it goes on through the years? you do not have a way to do that. maybe they have to make a report to you once in awhile. i am suspicious of developer agreements, and i trust the planning cut, the administrative cuts, the way that everybody knows the business is done in san francisco. you have a height limit, you have conditional uses for certain things. you are permitting a developer that is not really developing the property. he is developing his entitlement in order to sell the property. you're giving him that cart blanche. you're getting nothing but assurances. he will not divided down.

me is that a number of the people who testified tonight are people who i know have lived in western san francisco for generations, and favor the program. a lot of people who are contemporaries of my children spoke in favor of it. i think there is an important point. this is going to allow us to have families have the opportunity to purchase new units that do not exist, 5600 new ones. we are not good to have more stories like the puentes family who testified earlier. they had to move to find enough space for their family. at a rate they could afford, there was nothing here in san francisco. that has been a theme we hear a lot of. we had a lot of testimony to that effect. there are other reasons i favor this project. it is a private redevelopment project. we have heard what may be happening with three development. this is an opportunity for a project that will produce housing and produce retell, and produced transit, which i will deal with in a minute, that is not predicated upon a precarious situation that now exists in our state. it is privately funded. the benefit to those of us who are neighbor

. >>> in san francisco's western edition, high winds knocked down this tree closing part of the roadnd keeping cleanup crews busy for sometime. downed trees also caused power outages throughout the bay area. >> looks like a busy weekend for muni construction crews who are supposed to repair the light rail lines in san francisco. the work which started today follows a blistering report issued by the california public utilities commission yesterday which claims muni has failed to respond to several fix it orders, including one issued in 2009 for the church street tracks. work on the tracks will cause delays in service on the j and n lines this weekend. >>> president obama signed a three-month extension todays of key provisions of the patriot act which would otherwise have expired on money. it allows law enforcement to set roving wire taps on communications devices understood the second, the government can petition the court for a person's business and library records. the third provision gives the fbi the right to carry out surveillance of non-american suspects if granted permission by

. >>> in san francisco's western edition, high winds knocked down this tree closing part of the road and keeping cleanup crews busy for sometime. downed trees also caused power outages throughout the bay area. >> looks like a busy weekend for muni construction crews who are supposed to repair the light rail lines in san francisco. the work which started today follows a blistering report issued by the california public utilities commission yesterday which claims muni has failed to respond to several fix it orders, including one issued in 2009 for the church street tracks. work on the tracks will cause delays in service on the j and n lines this weekend. >>> president obama signed a three-month extension todays of key provisions of the patriot act which would otherwise have expired on money. it allows law enforcement to set roving wire taps on communications devices understood the second, the government can petition the court for a person's business and library records. the third provision gives the fbi the right to carry out surveillance of non-american suspects if granted permission

western part of the city. >> the uninhabitable part of san francisco. >> they were different surveys and blocks in those. mission block 38 and then in the 19 teens or 20s everything was consolidated into the big block and lot list. so mission block 32 became block 3927 or something like that. >> this is a good time to put a plug in on the san francisco public library history room. on page 38 you will find a document how to research your san francisco building. they have lots of references to other agencies but quite frankly the san francisco history room in the san francisco library is a fantastic resource and people there are extraordinarily knowledgeable. and page 14 talks about when the photo collection is open. you have to wear white gloves and can look at a couple at a time and they will often have photos of your block or neighborhood or the ones that are fascinating and part of your collection as well. >> my experience with that resource has been really excellent over the years. they really take a lot of pride in the collection and get excited when somebody wants to use it. i encourage you to use t

he's in san francisco's western addition. what's going on there? >> reporter: i was talking to the department of public works. drivers trying to navigate around between pine and bush. it's closed because of this tree. now the remnants of the trough fell and -- tree fell and brought down a phone line. we've got video of it. you can see crews came out here. what they did, they chopped off limbs and they shoved the limbs into the wood chipper. the chipper chopped up everything. as far as we know nobody was hurt. we're not sure how many people lost phone service. there is an alternative there. this happened about 40 minutes ago. the department of public works as well as police and fire said they're on high alert because of the weather. they were ready with the wood chipper. they got out quickly. looks like this could hope in the next 10 or 15 minutes. if you come back out live, you can see the tree has been pruned. they have a couple branches to put in the chipper, and this should be done. pine street is shut down. there's one less lane than there norm

western mission district. the people that make enough money, they go to their jobs in south san francisco. and all of those people live in the area. until there are better commute opportunities for them, they use their vehicles. i am concerned of the traffic backups home that are dealt with by eliminating a left turn lane. the lane in the morning is all green, and the afternoon, the outbound is all green. we need to think about making a longer life. maybe need to make it longer. we are dealing with environmental issues. i think is important to not ignore those. >> the last two people that turned in a speaker card. >> i just learned about this meeting last night. the changes i think will be tremendously valuable. i am one of many people that use a bicycle to commute every day. it is really nasty. i have lived without a car. after my first year, when it rains, it is really hairy. sometimes i drive, and i think have a more beautiful street there will be really wonderful. the left-hand turn improvements are really important. whenever you make a left-hand turn, it is really dangerous. i worry o

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i am so honored to be an asian american representative here in san francisco and to have the largest art collection in the western world in our cities across the street from where i work is truly special. to have the 6000-year history, as depicted in the 17,000 artifacts that are here, i do not think any of us can question our fortune. the work that was done to pull together this complicated negotiation and to get to where we are today, i want to thank the mayor, city attorney, then rosenfield, nadia, my colleagues on the board. i commit to you as the president of the board of supervisors along with my colleagues, that we will do what we need to do to get this done. hopefully, in short order, we can write the financial situation here and get us back on a footing we need to hopefully be an institution that will be around for another 6000 years. thank you for being here. [applause] >> our next speaker will be the president of the foundation of the asian art museum and the vice chair of the asian arts commission. >> on behalf of the asian art museum foundation, i express our deep gratitude to mayor newsom, mayer bro

. >> and san francisco supervisor was elected supervisor in 2004 by voters in district five including the western edition. he graduated from the police academy in 1996 and worked as an investigator before becoming a city supervisor. he announced he'll not run for reelection. >> a judge is expected to decide tomorrow whether city of oakland can use a court ordered injunction to fight the violent street gang. the injunction was banned 40 accused gang members from associate anywhere in the fruit veil district. that is where opponents met today. the city attorney estimates the city spend $760,000 pushing for injunctions in court. >> and we believe they're criminalizing our youth, profiling our youth, leading to harassment of the communities. >> we cull come people to revisit what they've done, go to skoochl we have a program allowing them to get out of this injunction. >> and a lawyer for the men named says many are wrongly accused and that 15 of them have not been arrested within the past two years. >> there is more at 5:00. coming up, brain wave activity in babies. >> and dry tomorrow, then... a co

san francisco. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am ecstatic to be here. i am so proud to support the western addition in which i was raised, i grew up in the western addition, i raised four sons. marcus garvey gave a safe housing, a safe neighborhood for me to raise my son. i can come home and i knew they were safe. every parent in marcus garvey, what looked out for the children when we were gone. it is true that they say it takes a village to raise our kids. i am so grateful to ross. i used to work with him and i always knew that he was going to go somewhere and he is still going somewhere. i worked at the d.a.'s office. when we called and told him our situation, he did not even hesitate. he got right back with us. he brought in pelosi, he brought in feinstein. it took endless fighting for the reduction of criminal activities in our neighborhood, the neighborhood watch, the criminal watch, we have gone from place to place was shares and tables. we've run you out of the neighborhood. the one thing it took was that it took that big step of landry and stepped a long way from 1967 to where we a

san francisco the great hawaiial the city western evenly was closed today because of water that floodede roadway this afternoon. not far away the zoo closed early so the animals could stay dry. spencer is here to show us what is happening right now on radar. >>reporter: start with live doppler 7 hd and lot of active weather all around the bay area. most of the most active weather is in the east bay and south bay but still in the north bay we have this area in the lake county actually from napa county up to lake county where we have some snow and mixed precipitation up near clear lake and cobb and down near calistoga we have got some snow falling on highway 29 as dan told you earlier. closure there on portion of highway 29 north of calistoga. out to the east bay where concord, morgan creek rain light to moderate rain and pocket of heavy downpour as well. south bay san jose area is getting drechblinged. now down in los gatos we have an area of really heavy downpour and continuing down through the santa cruz mountains and back towards santa cruz town of santa cruz itself. we have scattered

western addition. we oblast and daughter that she -- we are blessed and honored to be here today. the san francisco redevelopment agency, the silicon valley bank, our architects and contractors. without any further ado, let me turn it over and welcome the mayor. i was going to wear my giants hat, but since the war mayor more his hat, i think it is ok. >> good morning, everyone. thank you. i am not a big celebrators of valentine's day. but there is a great analogy in that we break ground today on this day. when i think of mary helen rogers, many years ago when i was attempting to understand what was happening in the western addition, meeting people that were introducing you to the problems and challenges of youth and why the city's families needed to get closer together, that is what i met mary ellen rogers. i remember her, as well as so many others, who had such a strong love of community. it is a -- it is appropriate that this housing development been named after her to reflect that great love that she had for her family, as well as her community. i also find it extremely significant, as this is n

western new york. >> and if you're flying today, you can expect some airport delays in seattle, san francisco, l.a.,nix and memphis. >>> we have an update, now, on that los angeles tv reporter who suddenly started spewing gibberish during a live report just after sunday's grammy awards. here's what happened. >> well, a very, very heavy -- tonight -- we had a very -- >> the speculation is that serene branson there may have suffered a stroke. >> it turns out, she was hit by a particular type of migraine that can mimic symptoms of a stroke. branson watched the tape. she said it gave her chills. >> as soon as i opened my mouth, i knew something was wrong. having trouble remembering the word for grammy. i knew what i wanted to say. but i didn't have the words to say it. to be honest with you, i started crying right away because i was scared. i was embarrassed. i was terrified and confused. confused what had just happened. i think it's clear from watching it, that i was not drunk or on drugs, as i heard that was reported out there. that's clear. it's clear i'm having a medical condition. i think what reso

community groundbreaking in the western addition for honoring one of the hardest working community advocates that fought for one of the most vulnerable advocates in san francisco to ensure economic equality for all. the board of supervisors extends its highest commendation. [applause] >> thank you. hang on. we want to present it to the family a little later. is rev. boyd or reverend walker here? i can see rev. pounds in here. million not join me in welcoming another champion for san francisco? they are on the redevelopment commission. for how long? 32 years. commissioner lee roy king. >> i have been listening. long before any of you were born, before you were around, mary rodgers came from europe and traveled throughout the world. she came here and got this housing, this school here, got this school moving. the big school over there on the park, she got that fixed. my sister-in-law made sure. teachers were teaching the kids. mary rodgers would go in and check. she change that community around. mary was a champion. that big safeway store in the western addition. mary rodgers got a job program much more integrated than any safeway in the city. she was going nigh

. >>> a runner san francisco's half marathon collapsed and died near the finish line. the 35-year-old man collapsed near the western edge of golden gate park yesterday. it was an unseasonably warm day that hit 80 degrees. the race announcer called for medical staff. witnesses reported a slow and confused response by officials it took 20 minutes before medics arrived. they were unable to revive the man. >> park officials in walnut creek will decide whether to inflate those bounty houses in the park. city staff say they damage lawns take up staff time with permits that are hard to enforce and make parks less enjoyable for others. they have been outlawed in parks in danville, pleasonton and clayton. >>> well, this morning the green bay packers are taking home their fourth super bowl title. >>> the green bay packers have won the super bowl. the lombardi trophy is coming home. >> very good game. winning 21-35 last night aaron rogers throwing for three touchdown passes the pride of chico the team's first title since 1997. >> those are super bowl fans not very happy. certainly not in a mood to celebrate because more than

san francisco at the time was going through a period you know, where there was redevelopment they were expanding to the westerndition. they were tearing down a lot of communities. at the same time it was a time when a lot of asian americans were becoming more aware of our heritage and the conditions of our communities. and that basically created, sort of a, sort of a back drop for the hotel struggle. >> the struggle began in 1968 and the first eviction notices were given to the elderly residents the international hotel was spiritualy healthy and a hub for filipino culture and community. the hotel sat on valuable downtown property the last remaining rock of san francisco's manila town. >> the owners wanted to tear the building down they wanted something for commercial like a parking lot. in 72 the building was put on the market and purchased in 1973. the new owner was a foreign investor with no ties to the local community. >> the only way we could stop eviction was building our base of support in the community outside of the community, we really needed the conductions with the unions and the churches, neighborh

san francisco? >> the proceeds, we use them for citywide housing. i interest and that with the expiration, we made a commitment that this could be on the western addition. >> i would like to find out what that looks like. i know that all projects have been under way or they are seen as finishing this. is there anything that is generated by the projects yet to be completed in terms of revenue that would leave the western addition and go elsewhere? >> i am not understanding the question. normally, the tax assessor is a little bit behind. sometimes the initial project is on the purchase of the property and this is on the tax rolls of a million dollars. so, there would be some available intimate based on the growth or value increase that we would be able to use, and utilize to issue bonds and raise funds. >> if this is one of the last projects and the western addition and a former redevelopment area and that project is completed in 2011 or 2012, where then with that in commit be applied? >> it would be applied for citywide housing. we are able to utilize any increments from expired areas to raise bond proceeds and issue debt and use those proceeds solely f

fillmore and the western addition, as people know it in both ways, that has struggled through decade of urban renewal and through its own chals that we're reminded here in the city of san franciscoly ones we are confronted by every day but amazing things are happening here. we have just now selected our first chinese-american, asian-american mayor in the city of san francisco. [applause] on the board of supervisors, 11 of us, eight of us, eight members of the board of supervisors are people of color. iss true representation. but what has laid the foundation of the great muscle that has made san francisco well known in its reputation as being forward thinking also obligates us to answering the other questions some of the chals that i remarked on especially as it concerns the african-american population in after. i'm not so sure that the numbers really have dropped to 3.%. that's a quick drop from 6.2 two years ago. but whatever the case is, that decline in population is a healthy reminder that even the most forward-thinking cities have incredible work to do. thank you, everybody, and happy black history month. >> thank you, supervisors cohen and mirkarimi. just want to announce a