. >> commission vice president wu? >> here. >> >> commissioner hillis? >> here. >> commissioner moore? >> here. >> and commissioner sugaya? >> here. >> commissioner borden is expected to be absent and commissioner antonini is here somewhere. first up, commissioners, are consideration of items proposed for continuance. item 1, case no. 2013.0020ce - 6333 geary boulevard is proposed for continuance to june 6, 2013. item 2, case no. 2010.1034c - 4216 california street is proposed for continuance to june 6, 2013. items 3a and b for case nos. 2009.0753cv - 3155 cesar chavez street is proposed for continuance to july 11, 2013. i have no other items proposed for continuance and i have no speaker cards. >> is there any public comment on the items proposed for continuance? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner moore. >> move to continue items 1 through 3 as noticed. >> second. >> on that motion to continue, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner wu

doug wu, department staff. the case before you is a request for conditional use authorization to establish a new formula retail limited restaurant doing business as star bucks at the ground floor of the existing commercial building located at 2201 market street. the building is currently occupied by the industrialists, a local independent business that sells salvaged case goods, glassware, and custom made steel furnishings. the proposed project would include interior tenant improvements, the installation of a new store front, and structural upgrades to the building's apron where proposed outdoor seating would be located. the existing commercial space would not be enlarged and is approximately 3,000 square feet in size including 2600 square feet of interior space that would provide seating for 50 persons and 400 square feet of exterior space that would provide outdoor seating for 28 person. the proposed hours of business would be from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily. star bucks coffee company is based in seattle,

>> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> commissioner fong? >> no. >> that motion fails 3 to 3 with commissioners antonini, hillis and fong voting against. >> commissioner antonini. >> i want to clarify with staff one more time. would seem to me that although there was the instance that was bort up by mr. vettle about the property on king street, which is perhaps -- began the discussion, isn't it true that, you know, this is much broader and this motion has to do with the very large area. [speaker not understood]. it seems to me this is just allowing us to open the dialogue about the possibility of allowing a larger room count. >> that is correct. our understanding is that -- and the process of copying and pasting the sfo tables into the newly created muo zoning district ~ sso there was not specific consideration given to the -- the hard limit on hotel rooms of 75. therefore, there doesn't seem to be a land use rationale to keep that hard limit at 75. there does, however, exist -- strongly induced rationale to closer review each proposal throu

. >> commission vice president wu? >> here. >> commissioner antonini? >> present. >> commissioner moore? >> here. >> and commissioner sugaya? >> here. >> commissioner borden is expected to be absent, although commissioner hillis is expected to be in. commissioners, first up on your calendar are consideration of items proposed for continuance. item 1, case no. 2013.0402t - ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the bayview hunters point citizens advisory committee is proposed for continuance to may 9, 2013. item 2, case no. 2010.0222e - 248-252 9th street, appeal of preliminary mitigated negative declaration is proposed for continuance to june 6, 2013. item 3, case no. 2012.0211d - 2764 greenwich street, request for discretionary review has been withdrawn. i have no other continuances. commissioners, and i have no speaker cards. >> is there any public comment on the three items proposed for continuance? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini. >> move to continue items 1 and 2 to the dates indicated. >> second. >> on

my name is eric wu. i am a member of the san francisco youth commission. the youth commission is a body of 17 young people ages 12 to 23, that advises the mayor and the board of supervisors on issues that affect the young people in san francisco. one of our priorities is actually the summer job plus program and supporting that and expanding that. currently there's still a significant population of job-seeking young people in our city that are currently unemployed and we hope that the city will collaborate with our -- with the nonprofit organizations and the private sectors in bringing more jobs to young people this summer. last summer, s.f. summer job plus program was extremely successful. we brought over 5,000 jobs to our young population. and this summer we hope to bring 6,000 jobs to our young pe.

>> aye. >> commissioner hillis. >> aye. >> moore. >> aye. >> sugaya. >> aye. >> and wu? >> aye. >> that passes 5-0. >> thank you. it places you on item 17 a. and b for case numbers 2011.0702 cand x. for 101 polk street request to determination and compliance. >> good evening, members of the commission, coner, the planning department staff, and i just notice that had aaron was the original case planner but sadly he has left for another career opportunity. you have before you a request for two actions regarding the proposed 162 unit residential project at 101 polk street. it is located at the northwest corner of polk and haze streets in the downtown civic neighborhood and the zoning district. >> the proposed building is 13 stories and 120 feet tall and will provide 19 on site affordable units that will be located on the site currently used by a surface parking lot. the building contains 51 subgrade parking spaces including one space and 52 bicycle parking spaces. the project sponsor will give a presentation regarding the design, but i would like to focus on the regular and

. >> per conversations with officer wu and sergeant from park station which began in 2012. it will be brightly lit and utilizing security cameras. we are working with the station and intend on taking on any and all recommendations that the sfpd may have for us. if one of the managers is not on site, there is a manager on duty who is specifically dedicated to handling the property at all hours of operation. >> when the time of closure approaches, that there are no crowds gathering in front of our business as they exit and we will have a point person at the door who will be monitoring patrons as they exit at the time. and inside and outside to remind them as they exit and, and remind the patrons to keep the noise levels and not to disturb anyone otherwise of course we would not be able to they are approve and committed to doing as we say. >> the bar manager in the audience has a decade of experience previously managing the bar program. she has a record of having had no abc violations are issues of any kind under her watch and she plans to participate in lead training from the

. >> wu in >> aye. >> fong? >> aye. >> that motion passes 5-1 with commissioner antonini ag commissioners, do you want to call the next item. >> yes. >> could we take a quick break? >> we will take a little five-minute break, thank y [break] >> speaking before the commission, please do state your name for the record. >> commissioners, we left off on item 16, case number 2013.0158 c. question for the conditional use authorization. >> good evening, members of the planning commission, sharon young, the item is a request for a conditional use for extended hours of operation of a restaurant doing business as barrel state. the restaurant will have a capacity to of 149 persons, currently the permitted hours of operation of the restaurant use is are 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. the proposal is to extend the permitted hours of the operation to 2:00 a.m.. >> the use will provide a limited amount of beer, brewing on the premises with an alcohol type of 75, the proposal will provide the commercial space and no ex-expansion of the buil

>> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0. and places you under -- excuse me, on item 11, case no. 2012.0718e - event center and mixed use development at piers 30-32 and seawall lot 330, informational item updated project design. >> good afternoon, president fong and commissioners. i'm joy navarrete of planning staff. the item before you is an informational item. on the event center and mixed use development at piers 30-32 and seawall lot 330. we did come before you on february 28th with the earlier design, and today we are going to be looking at design 2.0. i have with me here people from the office of economic and work force development, gen matts and tam drew. also [speaker not understood] craig deckers and [speaker not understood], and they are accompanied by their team also from a com and star. other folks that are here if you have any questions, peter albert from mta, clark miller and jessie bout from strada and we have ellen warner and rick welch

dmv investigator calvin wu. >> what we are seeing is a lot of the employees that work in this area are using the placards illegally to park all day while at work. >> do you work at caser? >> i'm not interested. >> this kaiser ph.d was using his mother's placard to park for free. she passed away months ago. >> he's over at 24-hour fitness. >> he didn't want to drive door far to get to the dmv. >> this man was using his sis r sister's placard and officers ticketed him after finding out his sister walked to work after working up a sweat. >> if she can walk half a mile and workout at the gym then we'll be questioning the validity of the disability, too. >> each ticket comes with a $500 fine from the city of oakland. >> have you ever gotten a ticket before? >> no. >> followed by another 500 from the county. >> why were you using someone else's placard? >> didn't i just say i didn't want to be on the news. >> it was a misdemeanor conviction. >> you act like i'm a criminal. >> you may be asking why people with placards get free parking at meters in the first place. the dmv says it's because t

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he turned himself in six hours later to dacy city police and wu booked in the jail on vehicle manslaughter charges. friends of the victims say it's tough to take. >> it's hurtful and sad that it happened. but it definitely woke me up. i used to drive fast you know when i was a lot younger and i've actually stopped because a lot more people started getting hurt. i'm one of the fortunate ones, never happened to me. but it hurts more that it doesn't because happened to somebody that's close to me. >> reporter: we are back here live. you can see the road, hillside boulevard remains closed this evening. we are waiting for toxicology reports on the driver. again police say that they do believe alcohol and speed played a factor in this. they say there was evidence of alcohol retrieved at the scene. now also tonight there are a lot of&lple that are friends of the victims who are gathered out here. they've lit some candles. very, very sad scene. one 0 f the victims we are told was a 21-year-old mechanic from san francisco. we are told he was a very good guy. a tragic seen here. >> unfortunately it'

although he wasn't quite sure how until one rainy day last year dave wu asked to pass out a survey to his students on bullying. >> real short six, seven questions. i was pretty amaced by what i saw. bullying was a big, big problem. it's just scary and you think, wow, i can't let t happen. i got to do something. >> everybody real quick. i need tend seconds to talk. >> one thing dave did was to start a public service club at school to focus the students' energy on doing good for others. it open an idea and club that's taken off. they've made blankets for sick children, written letters to soldiers overseas and to this day aaron hern, the child injured at the boston bombings. 20% of the entire student body comes to the meetings in dave's clam. and the good vibes even extend beyond the classroom. one a week before the first bell, students head up to the road in front of the school and try and make someone's day. >> i got a lot of feedback from people that the honks really does make their morning. >> kids say the club is actually changing the culture of the school. >> there's a buzz, an exc

and eric wu. go ahead, irena. >>> good morning, mr. mayor, supervisors, department heads. my name is irena [speaker not understood]. i am a program director for san francisco safe. it's a program that stand for safety awareness for everyone, and we are a small nonprofit sponsored by the [speaker not understood] department. what we do, we are going to neighborhood watch groups. we conduct security assessments. we give safety presentations. in a nutshell, we try our hardest to make sure that everyone who lives and works in san francisco knows how to protect themselves, their houses, their businesses, and we conduct our services in five languages, only 10 of us. i'm going to give you some numbers. only in 10 months in district 4 and 1, we facilitated 30 neighborhood watch meetings. we give more than 20 safety presentations. organized five merchant walks and, of course, not to mention the new year press conference organized by safe, david chen who is in the audience. so, needless to say we are very, very passionate about what we do, but we are also very, very fortunate that we

. >> wu. >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners that motion passes by two, 0 and places you under public comment, i have no speaker cards. >> any general public comment, seeing none public comment is closed and meeting adjourned. thank you. >> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco transportation authority occurring may 6, 2013, will begin shortly. >> good morning, today is monday may 6, 2013, and welcome to the personnel committee of the san francisco transportation authority. my name is avalos, the chair of this committee and the authority. joined to my left by commissioner cohen, and david campos will be joined shortly by weiner and mar. >> and the clerk is cheng and we also broadcast today by sfgtv staff. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> there are no announce.s. >> if we could go to the second item. >> approve the minutes of the april 1, 2013, this is an action item. >> colleagues, any comments or questions on the minutes? >> we can go into public comment on item two on our minutes and seeing no member of the public to come forward we can close pub

. >> commission vice president wu? >> here. >> commissioner antonini?> present. >> commissioner moore? >> here. >> and commissioner sugaya? >> here. >> commissioner borden is

. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners, that passes 5 to 0 and puts you on item 6, commission comments and questions. >> commissioner moore. >> i just wanted to mention how pleased i was to hear that 52 union plaza is going to be occupied by gsa again about 625 federal employees will be moving back into that building which has been refurbished from what i understand, and i think they will be activating that part of the street in a very significant way. >> commissioner antonini. >> couple items. first, i just want to report that the subcommittee on secretary search has been meeting and is considering the candidate pool that we have received, and we'll be trying to narrow it down to a number that -- for which we can make a decision and that's basically what we've been doing. much of this is in closed session because it is employment issues. i did have another item. last week i went to pick up my car which had to have some work done on it at larkin and sutter street. in fact, the fellow ther

jun ju wu show boated. no. 2, edward cabrera had of the night against the orioles, huge hit in the ninth and padres beat the o's. no. 1 after scoring a touchdown in indoor football game, hay maker's coach dave knocked r. j. rollins to the ground. was suspended. i will be at the coliseum tomorrow to see if the warriors can push it to game 7 and take it back to san antonio. >> yeah. >> they can do it. >> i want to go to the river walk. >> okay no reason whoi they can't. >> well, there is. they're pretty banged up. >> well, a couple ankles preventing them from going there. >> no reason why they can't? we'll be right back. ,,,, benjaminmoore.com/bayarea. benjaminmoore.com/bayarea. our next newscast is tomorr morning at 4-30. . >>> letterman is next with ed helm. ( band playing "late show" theme ) >> from the heart of broadway, broadcasting across the nation and around the world, it's the "late show" with david letterman. tonight... plus paul shaffer and the cbs orchestra. i'm alan kalter. captioning sponsored b

. >> commissioner vice president wu. >> so moved, that motion passes 5-0. [ applause ] push >> commissioners, that will place you on your final agenda item. if the members of the audience could clear the room quietly, we would appreciate it. >> item 18, case number 2012.1294 c of 2833, 24th street and request for conditional use. >> good evening, bridty of planning department staff, you have before you application for conditional use to legalize an outdoor activity area at the rear of a existing restaurant doing buzz as latorta gorda in the 24th street mission neighborhood commercial e distr. and the subject commercial space has been occupied since 2002, independent and locally owned and is not a formula retail use. the outdoor activity will be located at the rear of the restaurant in a rear yard that is shaved for other activities. the activity area will operate from 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., monday through friday and 8 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on saturday and sunday and the proposed seating will accommodate ten patrons. at this time, the department is not aware of any opposition to the proposal. an

. >> commission vice president wu? >> here. >> >> commissioner hillis? >> here. >> commissiomo

. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0. and places you on item 13 for case no. 2013.0402u - bayview hunters point citizens advisory committee. >> good afternoon, commissioners. [speaker not understood], department staff. the item before you today is an ordinance proposed by supervisor kim and this proposed ordinance would amend administrative code to establish a bayview hunters point cac. this cac would perform as an advisory body for zone 2 of the bayview hunters point area development area and it would replace the previous project area committee at a time of the redevelopment agency. before i start my presentation, i would like to introduce andrea [speaker not understood] from [speaker not understood] office to talk about this ordinance. >> hi, thank you, commissioners. i know many of you here are familiar or were very familiar with the former bayview project area committee and i was before you a number of times and certainly submitted ample corres

. >> in '95, i was in a dorm room listening to wu tang clan. i have the reference -- >> were they in the dorm room with you or were you listening to -- >> i'll never tell. no but so for the younger viewers, and i studied this after reading your piece today, can you talk about how much -- we justed a a whole segment about sectors, how broad-based was that rally? i assume it had to be almost everyone participating. did we see the rotations month by month where people would say, oh that's not holding up anymore, this isn't holding up anymore. >> to some degree, yes. and the context, is 1994 was a blood bath in the bond market. wall street, the securities industry as a whole lost money that year. basically, surprise preemptive rate increase early '94, basically green spanspan tries to get ahead of eninflation. you had edge funds blow up. that context were, the financials were dead. in '95, financials took over. >> i'm curious what you would say to someone who says well the demographics are much different. the ownership is now a much old older crowd