changes on pages 265 and 267. with respect to the alternative analysis, the eir analyzed at an equal level of detail both of the housing elements. the eir also includes three alternatives. one is a continuation of the 1990 resident policy. the second is a reduced alternative, which is the 2004 housing element without the court computed policies, and a third is the 2009 housing element with additional policies that are towards achieving a higher percentage. as it says in the comments and responses document, the alternatives are not required under because they it -- under ceqa does not apply. there is a housing element that complies with housing element law, or three. the eir includes a reasonable budget of alternatives, and none of the alternatives or those suggested by the appellant would reduce the trade the impact identified in the eir. they specifically involve issues two and six. these were fully evaluated by the san francisco public utilities commission, which found that the slow release requirements would no

these changes, they are not going to change the dynamics of this project. those dynamics are what they are. i believe that we should proceed today and we do not need to continue the matter. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. >> i just wanted to direct a couple of question to the city attorney's office. to the city attorney and to mr. sullivan the intents of the changes i made were to strengthen rent-controlled for the attendants. if you could summarize for everyone, what those protections are that are laid out currently in the development agreement that would insure in force -- enforcability. i want you to give an idea of how strong you think the enforcement is and what protections exist in case this happens. >> thank you, president chiu. i spoke this morning. i am going to summarize some of my words. i will first talk about what is in the development agreements. we will have to answer additional questions about any specifics. he generally does not allow cities to impose rent control. there are three exceptions to that rule. one of them is when rent contr

in terms of the changes mentioned, all of the changes reduce the impact. there are less tall buildings and less parking spaces. that is a reduction in the impact. that is exactly what ceqa is trying to achieve. the whole purpose is to mitigate impacts. but i wanted to point out a few things. public resources code section 2109 2.1 -- -- 2109.21 says that significant new information is what determines whether an eir needs to be recirculated. in a supreme court decision related to laurel heights, it says if we are caught buying significant new language, the legislature reaffirms the goal of meaningful public participation in the review process. it is also clear that by doing so the legislation -- was a slider did not intend to create endless revisions. we circulation was created to be an exception rather than the general rule. it is this issue of substantive evidence of significant new information. in the case of sector sensible planning versus the board of supervisors, the supreme court explicitly rejected the proposition that any new regulation triggers for

that was changed. that was changed not by neighbors, that is for sure. they did not know what is going on. do not approve this eir. thank you. president chiu: best buy next speaker. >> we represent over 40 neighborhoods. we urge the eir ratification. send it back to planning for revisions since it in adequately analyzes the impact it fails to consider a reasonable range of alternatives. directs planning to provide for only that amount of increase capacity needs to satisfy from 2007 to 2014, which is all that is needed for these grants. this document, this interation is anti-middle class. nothing that you see before you today was discussed at that time. neither i nor any organization to which i belong was a member of the appellants group before the 2004 housing element, eir. if this goes on, if this goes past today, i do not think anyone in this room. do not let it go to litigation. we urge you, in order to avoid years of litigation, we urge you to reverse this document and the appeal. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> thank you. hello. i am kar

in height, no changes to rh1 and rh2 density, the changes to open space, no changes to parking, but unfortunately, we do not have good success of getting that across. supervisor wiener: can you talk briefly about how the housing element does interact with changes in density? them strictly through community planning processes. it is ironic. it was best said by mr. wedding on the previous item, which we were here listening to, where he said parkmerced went through a community planning process which changes were discussed, vetted, etc. -- >> [inaudible] supervisor mar: please do not yell out from the audience. >> we basically mandated that the zoning changes occur through the planning process as we have had such success with prior to this. thank you. supervisor cohen: could you briefly describe what the community planning process looks like? >> yes. absolutely. this is straight out of the housing element, the policy that exists. it is policy 1.4, and it says "ensure community-based planning processes are used to generate changes in planning controls, which means changes to density, par

couple of the changes are just changing the word "plan" to "agreement." >> those are some of the technical changes that were made to reference the correct documents. to drop the references to redevelopment plan and instead use "project." the other change to the special use district that i wanted to bring to your attention is on line 49. beginning on line 10, he used by the planning commission, the legislation before you have to show the the both of them and the applicant could appeal the decision. this change in the light knowledge merely indicates that they could do that independently without having to go through the ownership secure requirements that would apply for other conditional use elsewhere in the city. it was just to clarify the intent. that is page 49, 11 and 12. >> the other amendments are for the subdivision code item. one of them is primarily along the lines that you had just mentioned. beginning on page 11, there is a reference here indeed hot definitional to plan documents, but now that there is not a redeveloped plan, will modify that definition to refer to the project had

the world is always changing. san francisco is changing. treasure island will change some more. we can never put something into place and keep recirculate and because of changes. the economy changed. there were changes under the economy. it moved from redevelopment to the ifd. we have heard there is no impact on the development because of that change. we do not have the luxury of more delays. we have heard from labor, from all kinds of folks here tonight, that they need jobs. we have been doing this process for 12 years. we can't keep revisiting and having more hearings. the have been hundreds of meetings, hearings. staff has worked thousands of hours on this. the developers have spent $35 million to date. enough is enough. we need to start moving forward. we need to build a new community. i think this is a great document. it covers all that we have heard before and then some. we have heard from a lot of great people here tonight, from the bicycle coalition, who are my friends. i am a cyclist. a think we have creative, innovative ways that we are quick to mitigate the traffic on

we are changing regulation regarding that. supervisor kim: thank you. just a quick question. i saw that -- sorry. i'm looking. do you have the file, the travel gift prior to going on the trip or prior to accepting the trip? >> local law requires that officials report travel in advance. supervisor kim: in advance. thank you. those are the clarifying questions. any other questions or comments? thank you very much for being here. at this time we will open up for public comment. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. to we have a motion to move this forward? >> motion to move forward with recommendation. supervisor kim: without objection. madam clerk, please call item number six. >> charter amendment to amend the chart every of the city and county of san francisco by amending sex 14 .101. supervisor kim: and thank you. and supervisor wiener the -- wiener the here to speak on this item. supervisor wiener: thank you. today the rules academy committee is considering an overdue good government measure. a charter amendment that will create

we did not find any of those light changes to change the analysis or conclusions of the eir. commissioner mazzola: thank you. i am in favor of approving this. as far as affordable housing goes, and there has been some questions about this -- in the case of redevelopment and in the case of ifd's, in both cases we are well above the minimum required. i think that is important for everybody to understand. 25% is above the minimum. the affordable housing advocates on treasure island, tihdi, are asking you to approve this. so is the citizen's advisory board. i feel that this horse has been beat to death. i am also a new commissioner, but this has been going on for 10 to 15 years. we cannot afford as a city to let this project go. we cannot delay it and delay it and the late it. it makes the sense. it is time. it is ready. like my colleague just said, and some building trade members in the audience have said, the trades have been hit in a way where we have never seen it before, unprecedented. we have 30% to 50% unemployment across the board in the building trades for over two years

now we are considering another change. that is exactly what planning does. it a effectuates change. this is an evolution. this is the way things happen. i do not find it unusual at all that we are contemplating these massive acres of recreation and open space land of a community of up to 8000 units where we complained that we are supposed to come up for san francisco, absorber population. we complain that we have no place to put them. here is a place to put it. and to be able to design, rather than struggle with a little infill here, a little infill there. to design something and have control of it. this is in the long run. with that, i am satisfied with the work that has been done. i am particularly pleased with the work of the department. i would like to move items two a-h. >> second. >> i would like to have a couple of or comments to the fact that we develop the plan. today, we are looking at the the infrastructure of financing the district plan with the caveat that this is supposed to be an area plan. i would also like to say that the development agreements were written for proj

i mean you could say a change in policy did anything change on the ground mubarak was still there which is still to be still there and wait there were. to give you one example hamas won in the past in authority. many many effects in iraq here in the us is not democracy a lot about the perceive it was not ahead and democracy brought the people we don't want to know you don't want the second point to be that i'm not so sure i don't want. most westerners don't want most muslims don't want. but the. the second point is i don't know if we have to have a consistent policy i mean in theory yes mostly this have a policy that works everywhere but i think will be very hard to thread this. through various different countries i think it's somewhat controversial to any of the not only doesn't it look at it's a very interesting point so the u.s. should just say in the in the european union should say in nato should just say we're just there for a national interest and nothing more we're not going to we're not to talk about democracy when you talk about we are also here for you know i mean exactly why

that this has led to other changes. first the mayor's office has discussed new project alternatives that would reduce the loss of affordable housing by eliminating parks and other public benefits that were a pat of the description and objectedives. such alternatives must be analyzed and revised in recirculated e.i.r. second, because of the change in financial structure, a whole land use scheme has been proposed in the form of area plans and special special use district legislation but with a unique twist. all normal city planning principles will be handed over to an inexperienced body unaccountable to the public and the body politic in san francisco. in fact, that body will be a non-profit corporation and redevelopment agencies if they are abolished. part of these new land-use controls -- thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good evening. tom mccarthy. i'm a member of the carpenter's union. i have lived in the northeastern part of the city for 50 years. i have seen what has happened to that part of the city. it has bee

it is contemplated that the board might want to make changes or talk about changing. if the board and the developer agree upon those changes, it is appropriate for those changes to be made to the development agreement, as has been done in other major development deals. most importantly, the shipyard redevelopment project -- a number of changes were made before the board at the hearing. the important distinction here is we are making changes to an underlying document that is in the board file. there is a form of a delegation substantially in the form. for purposes of sunshine noticing and brown records of this and, anybody who has been following this project would be familiar, and it would be reasonable to expect that these are the kind of changes that might be asked of the board at this meeting. supervisor campos: i am not going to go back and forth. i think i get the point. i think a statement that anybody who has been following this project would know this type of changes could be made -- i think there are a number of people in the audience who would disagree with t

so i have seen all of that change. it is an attitude change. and as my sister called it, a cosmetic change. they say, dixie had a cosmetic change. they have the same mental attitude haas racists, but they cannot call you girl and gal anymore. to me, they are over-polite. in my experience in the hotel -- ms. colvin, how can i help you? it is a little over-polite, and i get tired of it sometimes. [laughter] now, you remember i live in new york, the big apple. help me to stay the word -- say the word -- i do not want to sound like sarah palin -- [laughter] what is the word for many races? multi-cultural, yes. they could not care one less if you were white or black. let mayor bloomberg tell you what their value is, the money. in new york, every night, racism raises its ugly head and you have these killings, racial profiling, like we had sean bell. anyway, we see racial profiling. one of my neighbors said, yes, they are always going to find a psychological reason why the white child is bad, but an african-american or child of color is just a badass.

only 30 words have been changed. think of what would happen if 30 or even three words were changed in the u.s. constitution. you could end up with dictatorship instead of democracy. 30 words have power. it is very important that they be reviewed and approved by a reasonable and open process. send this back to the planning department. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am not in support of the housing element has was approved by the planning commission. the last minute changes create a different housing element than was explained to the public, and the public was allowed to comment. do i have everyone's attention? on the overhead here, i have a typical street scene. this is a single family home on the left side. in the middle of the photograph is a vacant lot. under the third revision of the housing element is a developer, and i will show you what can be done there. we do not need any height additions. it can be done in the current height limit. but as the third revision allows, i use the parking kerch area for units -

russia's new education system will help youngsters adapt to changes in the country we discuss this with education and science minister andre. and they did also go minister of education it's great to have you with us we used to be very proud of the soviet educational system we inherited there with say that our sixth great school student studies things that american students on study until four years into the university of sydney got about sums it out of what is going to change not only in the system but more importantly in the mentality. first of all we indeed used to have a good educational system of law it was very adapted to the country we lived in at the time and it had its flaws and one such issue was that when the country changed completely here those who had previously received a good education fails to adopt the lesson learned here is that as we reform the educational system to teaching students to adapt to change our world and its value succeeded must be at the heart of what you do why are we doing it today our country changed back in the ninety's. because the money because at a

rather we doing it today our country changed back in the ninety's. because at any given time people take into more or less attention to things u.k. should the educational system underwent considerable reforms during the soviet era as well it is worth noting though. when needful reforms was already there the country experienced dramatic profound change and education was put on the back burner sort of still in the one nine hundred ninety s. when the need for change was acute and state lacks the necessary funds and resources to document it that's why by introducing a new law and education and giving educational institutions more freedom it is the state itself withdrew from education both in terms of support and in terms of setting requirements and goals of the education system. with work and. educational reforms are being criticized by many in. cloying state officials teachers students parents experts and their main point being that they were forms half ale what's your response to the. thing is is that we'll only get a proper impression of the reforms i

unless you make these changes. -- it is illegal to proceed further unless you make these changes. i have prepared most of two statewide housing elements for the state of california. i have background in this. i am also the former director of newark, new jersey, the largest model city operation in the nation. i do have official background. none of this has been acknowledged by the planning staff, neither in comments nor responsibility. we have provided materials for your perusal regarding how to do implementation and what is needed. you need to look at this. failure to do this is an abrogation of responsibility. thank you very much. supervisor mar: thank you. i'm going to call several more names. [reading names] >> good afternoon, again, supervisors. as i mentioned before, i did sit on the cab. i want to thank the planning department for hundreds and hundreds of pages of the exceptional work. the housing element is not entirely rubbish. in fact, the vast majority of it is fantastic. however, there are a couple of ve

we are proposing just minor changes for your review this year. our investment policy continues to have the same three objectives that any governmental investment policy should have. first and foremost, safety of the principal. and then liquidity, access to the funds, in order to pay the contractor is when we need to pay them, yields being a less important of the three objectives. very minor changes in this version of the policy are to remove references from a staff position that we no longer have and to remove references where we discuss what we do in practice. practices may change over time and we will report to you what our investment practices are. we do come to you on a quarterly basis with our investment report and our practice right now is to hold our cash for short-term obligations and our u.s. bank checking account and to hold the balance in the city and county equity treasurers' polol which gives us diversification and access to the funds on a very short notice basis, without having to actively manage the investment ourselves. happy to a

service, changes to prices. the ingestion price the or the price of a ferry ticket -- ingestion price fee -- congestion price fee or a price of a ferry ticket. >> why is it not possible to change parking ratios? we create areas all the time that have different ratios in san francisco. why is it not possible to make that change? >> for instance, the one: one parking ratio is part of the entitlements we are approving as part of the planning commission. i think with this amendment would allow us to do is change the transportation plan, for instance, if he wanted to increase the congest geion pricg fee. >> there would be monitoring, but it did not describe that in any more detail. i thought we need more detail that it really will be done in a, you know. >> sorry, i am confused. which item i am amending? >> this would amend the transportation and implementation plan, resolution item six. the second one -- do you want me to move the second one now? >> i had the question. your amendment is a good one, however, the plan

the other portions of the change order are made up of various unforeseen conditions and other minor changes, including building a ramp to access mission work and other minor hazardous material that needed removal, changes like that. if there any questions. >> any questions? >> no members of the public have indicated they want to address you. >> ok. motion to authorize this contract and vacation? second? all those in favor? opposed passes unanimously. >> item 9 is groups. that moves you to next item. item 10. approving an amendment to contract no. 08-04 authorizing webcor/obayashi joint venture to award a trade subcontract to pass electric as the responsible bidder submitting the lowest responsive bid in the amount of $650,000. [inaudible] >> good morning, directors. the item before you today is a contract that will be awarded as a subcontract to the contract with webcor/obayashi for construction of the transit center. this is to provide a temporary power connections. the transit center construction site spans four city blocks and we are going to have five points of service connection for te

while we have much to love about our past, our city has changed, and continues to change. in other words, all public policies, no matter how meritorious, have limits. no policy, whether economic growth or historic preservation, should trump all else -- all else. our goal is to talk about what that policy balance is, and what it should be. how do we acknowledge that a living are been, world-class city needs to serve its past while also moving forward and changing? we will be hearing a number of different perspectives today. i look forward to that. first i am going to ask if either of my colleagues have opening comments. we are going to proceed. the way we are going to do this is we are going to hear from several city departments we have asked to come and talk about the issue. i thank them for being here. we are then going to hear from the executive director of san francisco architectural heritage. then we'll enter into public comment. i think people have already given their cards in for public comment. if you have not, there will be yellow cards on the banister. we have a l

that changed the lot. the political landscape as far as how it would personalize -- >> guest: in the 1970s you have the sexual resolution which is comfortable with the rise of feminism. in kennedy's they what would have been a pass became after the 1970s a sexual harassment as we saw with paula jones and bill clinton. we had a huge change in american social mores, politics of journalism, kept secret so long and became part of the national dialogue. >> host: how did the rise of the conservative movement change things? >> guest: the conservative movement off of sexual liberation of the 1970s introduces gay-rights, abortion and social sexual issues into the political discussion. jack kennedy never had to talk publicly about gay rights. suddenly everybody has to in politics. this also leads the republicans or conservatives who are leading this charge vulnerable because if you are going to say you are against gays getting married you better make sure your own marriage is on the up and up. >> host: five minutes

process making the changes more likely. the language subjected to environmental review also stated that in rh1 and two areas, density limits should be maintained to protect neighborhood character but this was changed to say that only existing height and bulk patterns should be maintained in these areas. this change provides policy basis for eliminating the objective 1 and 2 density limits for rh1 and 2 districts and would substantially degrade the quality of hr1 and 2 districts. it is irrelevant that the zoning hasn't been changed to meet this policy because consistency in the individual projects and the zoning with the general plan must be determined based on this new language and the city recently tolds abag it could accommodate 17,000 units of small scale in fill outside the plan areas through secondary units or a house turned into a duplex. the e.i.r. used erroneous standards to minimize effects. iterates as insignificant the population growth asserting that impacts would only occur if new housing would generate more re

is that changing? >> well, certainly at election time it's not going to change. >> rose: right, exactly. >> there is going to be an election here in june. you might here a campaign bus go by with the jingles of some of the political parties while i'm talking. they seem to go by everybody five minutes from where i'm talking. the prime minister's stand on israel, the tough turn he's taken, the pro-palestinian, the pro-gaza stance he's taken, it's been very popular electorally so we're not going to see a major change in that. but at the same time you have to remember that trade between turkey and israel continues. there's a military relation, a strategic relation, things haven't eroded entirely. this is not... there have been previous low points in turkey turkish i israeli relations. the '80s when turkey was under martial law was a desperate time and that improved so this relation shipp go up and down. >> rose: steven, what about israel? >> well, i think relationship has fundamentally changed. as andrew p

it is changing, and it's real. it's not changing quickly enough. we have an enormous way to go, but we're seeing some fund mental changes happening right now. >> speaking of change, china has an important prebs at these conferences that series puts on. china is -- the china-california issue is often couched as a kind of fierce competition for the green -- or the clean technology market, and one that california is in danger of losing right now. is that how you see it? >> well, for sure the united states is losing the's, and that is a problem. i mean, climate change is about addressing the risk, but seizing the opportunity as well. the clean technology industry is going to be the fastest growing part of our economy, and in the united states we should want to be a big part of that economy. a study last week said that china is by far the leader in producing clean energy technology. solar, wind, and others. they are creating jobs. they are creating a revenue base. the united states came in at 17. now, that's not an enviable position, and that's not a pl

the falcons are glaciers are changing in size points to a change in climate sort of right now we know that since the middle or the end of the nineteenth century the majority of last years are receding it means there is a general warming over. antarctica provides a unique opportunity where scientists can get a firsthand look at how this warming trend affects the local ecosystem but some greater amount of fresh water is coming from slam into the sea which forms a freshwater layer on the surface of the sea water fresh water is lighter so there is some problems with mixing i was a water coral which could possibly influence a structural. plankton zooplankton and krill are the main source of food for the majority of life in antarctica clearly over the last thirty years in this region the amount of ice which is critical for coral survival in the wintertime has declined that means that the area may not support the amount of coral in the future that it has supported in the past penguins species i believe penguins and chinstrap the ones are declining in this region principally do that the point

that has also changed. a lot of those people have moved back into the city and the traffic patterns have changed. they're going to change ef five year. it's not going to be constant. this building is not being built in five-year increments of consideration of traffic patterns. it doesn't work that way. so as far as i'm concerned, any traffic it implications of 18 units and 18 parking spaces in consideration of the total volume of traffic and in consideration of the former use, even if it's a parking lot for that matter, let alone the service station makes this challenge virtually inconsequential. i would move to uphold the negative dec. >> second. president olague: commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: however, i think ms. hester does raise an interesting issue using this particular pmnd and that is the way that the city as we talked previously handles the traffic analysis issue in ceqa. and i am not ready to vote against this at the moment, but staff, could you answer one question? in your reply to ms.