polk street is one of the highest double parking areas. now to change polk street we've added as supervisor chu said we've had many meetings by when the plan come out there was no provision for yellow zones on the side of the street we permitted bike lanes no yellow zones. and the mta said oh, we'll put them up the side street and i don't think they're planning on that. most of us think about deliveries of ups trucks. a store like mine i make deliveries we have to go to a street like knob hill and double park. i do have a commercial vehicle and to make a delivery you have to go up 3 stories it's hard to tell you're doing active delivery but you are. it's a complex issue. this seem like we have to go berg at the time and we're not considered as part of the raising the fines are making it harder for us to do we get fined more and it costs more and our merchandise goes up and who pays for it but the customer >> thank you very much. reverend. i just want to hope in front of you that knowing san francisco what i see is a hostility toward the fa

good afternoon commissioners and wanting fong representing the lower polk neighbors. we met with the sponsor and since then we've not been contacted by e the developer. we were notified by the posting of today's hearing by the posting on the building and we requested a continuous to on october meeting. since then we've had back and forth e-mails. leadership of the lp n is not opposed to the project but we've been unable to meet with our membership. we do support the auto as a local business but we are not supportive of the new use but thought retention. we strongly request the ride share. we do want to mention we're concerned with thirty now comedies in the vicinity and it's to require some form of disclosure to the neighborhood for night life >> any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. opening up to commissioners. commissioner moore >> i just time to jump to the chase and support my continuous and the reasons are: while i think the project meets the planning code except for the vanes it more me presents a bad design seclusion and i'd like

thank you >> representing the lower be polk neighborhood. cvs and their berg associates have long been excellent so them for their organization. in our letter we articulated we're adamantly against alcohol sales because of the independent retailer that are near by and it would create a district in our neighborhood that includes the general area and there's general support not to have alcohol. i want to commend cvs for keeping their commitments they retired an alcohol license but we didn't come to an agreement. the twenty-four hours operation the lisp of the organization has concerns with the 24 operations including safety and issues of prostitution and have homelessness. so the leadership of the organization is officially opposed to the 24 operation but we understand why the 24 operations would benefit the boarder city but we ask it be mandated that a security guard be there between 6 and 8:00 a.m. and you may want to consider having a hearing to follow up to make sure the 24 operation has been successful. and i can point to a case where the

we don't effect that portion of polk and turk. but, we have several instances where the situations look a little bit differently, if they are reevaluated and i try not to come here and be defensive because i don't think that is going to be pro-active in addressing the situation. but the most recent incident is the reason why, there was a focusing event that brought us all here today that dealt with the last incident involving gunfire and one of the i think that it is important facts that was omitted from the story is that the person who had fired the shots came from up the block and he is a merchant that runs a liquor store. and from the report that i gave you, with the neighborhood, a crime mapping, that liquor store has several, aggravated assaults and robberies and various other crimes. >> from our perspective, we look at the person that came in, and the merchant that came in as creating a situation in our club and disturbing our business because he had patrons in there that were well kept and you know, i know that it is descri

and the doors are also facing turk street not polk street where she lives, but the difficult is that the federal building, and that might, echo the sound upwards. >> how can you describe the indents that are happening in and around your club so frequently? >> when you say in and around? >> in and around your clubs? >> a fight starts in your club and someone is pushing that is an incident in your club. >> yes. >> it is not just a gun shot that we are interested in, we are interested in patron safety. so, how do you explain the increase of incidents in and around your club? >> when it is happening inside of the club, i think that it has a lot to do with the nature of the club. and we have not had any, i mean, we have... >> what does that mean? >> the nature of the club? >> the nature of the business, i am sorry. and it is a nightclub and people are consuming alcohol and from from the interpretation of what that means to me. is that the judgment of the clientele is impaired every time that they have a drink. when we look at incidents that do occur inside of the club, sometimes it is dif

from those dorms tend to frequent polk street. and i was wondering if they were going to look at in your study, are these people coming within the city? >> that's exactly, and i am going to caution us not to talk much about this, it's not on the agenda per se. but that's the first step. to do a very short three-minute interview to find out. and different nights of the week. it's our impression they are coming from different places different nights. >> are you putting a street team out? >> mta. >> awesome. that's what i wanted to know. >> any other comments or questions from commissioners? if not, move into public comment for the director's report. any public comment? seeing none. we will move right on to the next agenda item, police department comment and questions. so officer mathius or someone. >> hello, commissioners and staff, steve mathius from the central station. over the last weeks probably had four incidents i will talk about tonight. we had on august 11, 2 a.m. a victim was at a nearby bar and walked to beach and columbu

it is a wild, wild west t really is. >> thank you. >> next. >> i am james layton and i leave at 626 polk street and i live in the same room that she does and i have to agree with the craziness that goes up at noble. and i what been in the building two years and i lived at ellis and jones before that and it is almost, better there. and the patrons from the noble are just crazy. and they are crazy. and insane, you know? and the craziness in the shootings and i was hoping to move into a better neighborhood. but, like you said, there are a few straglers of the drunken that have come down the street but nothing compares to when noble gets out in the evenings thank you. >> thank you. >> just, is there any other speakers after this gentleman? >> my name is daniel white, i work at 626 polk street. >> could you speak into the mic, >> and the noble club does have problems and i am not foror against it, have you to look at the whole issue and so many people come down because it is new and young and you get the wild people and you have young and you have young people and when you get young people, y

something he said, noble, belongs to a larger community, than most of the residents near the corner of polk and turk but that does not change the fact that you are our neighbor and we care about what issues concern you you can contact me directly, and i contacted him and he never contacted me back. that statement that he belongs to a larger community than ours, implies his negligence and lack of concern for our community and that is all that i have to say. >> thank you. >> could i give this stuff to you guys? >> absolutely. >> just hand it to cami right there. >> other public comment. >> just line yourself up, after the next speak are. >> hi, my name is alita minton and there my card. i found this a very ironic thing for me to be here, today is my birthday. >> happy birthday. >> and i am not happy to celebrate it here, but i am here because of this issue. and the reason that i learned about this and everything that is going on i have been clubbing forever and let's say that i am 42 and i have been clubbing longer than i should have, younger than i should have. but, noble actually is... i di

that one is save polk street.com. the other thing is throughout the city, munis, mta is removing parking spaces and trying to put more and more meters. we have a friend in his 80s who is an accomplished photographer. he had a studio in the mission. he gave up his studio recently in large part because parking has become so difficult there. i should also add that he used to be able to take one bus to get from where he lives to a studio in the mission, now it requires three buses. so whether it's parking or buses, things have become too difficult for him. this is an example of what munis or mta is doing to harm people. finally i would like to, again something i have talked about many times, as a pedestrian i live on fell street. and there is bicycles zooming all the time. there is a nice paved path in the panhandle about 50 feet away. just yesterday as i was locking my door, two bicycles within about three men's zoomed by the sidewalk and i have written the mta about this and it does not seem to be a priority to protect

what we have a new urban project it's a 10 story complex situated under 20 feet between van ness and polk street on bush. we have a project combination of 33 of market rat and a affordable units one and two bedrooms and the bedrooms are coordinated around the landscape. it is coherent and we believe our floor plans are are fairly efficient and they make liveable spaces to a relatively dense community examiner the designs allow the availability of natural light. the building mass is reduced by open court yard design by 20 feet on both sides of the building. we're about 15 feet above the maximum allowable so we definitely made an effort to make sure that the building is notice massive. it would feature high ceilings with the comparisons on bush street. and located on the ground floor also on the ground floor we have a commercial slash retail area that the existing business will continue at that location. within the building we have at least 16 bike lockers for the residents and two levels of parking. the second floor levels the windows on the second floor levels should be screened in mesh l

this is an example of a proposed with the liveable streets on polk street between california and the bike lane on the west side of the street is proposed to to be a raised bike lane. our concern is are we prioritizing the vehicle use around the commercial activities and the easy and ability to the businesses getting they're deliveries or are we designing a system to dictate deliveries are going to have to double park. some of those streets may not be wide enough to handle all the needs. and so just again kind of for our concern is we don't see the need for commerce to happen. are we going to be able to facilitate those needs. what are our priorities for our buses is it a priority for businesses to be able to get is it a propriety to have bicycle paths and we may not be able to facilitate all of those. so i'm not much has been said around the deliveries but one of the things you know that comes to my mind of a tool we may use i know there's federal regulation that obviously delivery vehicles are not using the delivery zones and their you deliveries are at the top of the block and they

so far as the comments on land use the lower and upper polk for the last few years have spent a lot of time to try to restrict alcohol sales for restaurants paifshl because the neighbors in those two neighborhoods ease plus everybody you surrounding them was impacted by the dearbitrates of the commercial corridor as well as the joining neighborhood that i live next door to it 1968 i believe consistently with the supervisors very carefully look at additional places wanting to sell liquor. why so-called are we fovkt about the joipt places. i cannot support the liquor license nor the 24 operation when we have high residential above i won't want to live on on top of that. i see it walking up van ness what happens in front of the of the other formula retail pharmacy the walling green see east. the security guard optional keeps those people panhandling outside the door but can't go anything about what happens on the sidewalk. that's only going to further the noise. we all know very well there's a large threat for people who pickup prescription medication to go out at night. it doesn't add an

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. >>> plans for new bike lanes on a small stretch of polk street are moving forward. the san francisco municipal transportation agency voted today to move ahead with a project that will add bike lanes along polk from city hall. the goal of the project is to make polk street safer for everyone. >>> your high temperatures today a lot like yesterday. we had lots of mid-80s in the warmer spots and then everybody else in the 70s. i've got fog right along the coast. that fog starts to work its way inland. it's not going to be a ton of fog in the morning. but fog back in the forecast and right along the bay. temperatures tomorrow are going to warm just like they did today. what we had today, if you had 83, you're going to be right around there. the microclimates you're going to find temperatures in the warmest spots in the mid-80s. so temperatures tomorrow are much like today. it's going to get hot around here. fire danger is going to increase. i'll let you know when that's going to happen. >>> apple's unveiling about a week away. >> and pictures of a brand new device we mig

. >>> plans for new bike lanes on a small stretch of polk street are moving forward. the san francisco municipal transportation agency voted today to move ahead with a project that will add bike lanes along polk from city hall. the goal of the project is to make polk street safer for everyone. >>> your high temperatures today a lot like yesterday. we had lots of mid-80s in the warmer spots and then everybody else in the 70s. i've got fog right along the coast. that fog starts to work its way inland. it's not going to be a ton of fog in the morning. but fog back in the forecast and right along the bay. temperatures tomorrow are going to warm just like they did today. what we had today, if you had 83, you're going to be right around there. the microclimates you're going to find temperatures in the warmest spots in the mid-80s. so temperatures tomorrow are much like today. it's going to get hot around here. fire danger is going to increase. i'll let you know when that's going to happen. >>> apple's unveiling about a week away. >> and pictures of a brand new device we mig

on polk street, there are many incidences of drug dealing and prostitution. in some of the entertainment quarters, we of shootings that happened. these are perennial issues that the police department needs to continually tackle. i am a big fan of the concept of community policing. that is the idea that our local police officers need to establish a better relationship with members of the community, residents, and merchants. through that community partnership, we have seen true successes in being able to combat crime. you have eyes and ears on the street cooperating with the men and women in blue. that helps to reduce crime. i have been pushing our police department to implement that. >> your district is a well-known nightlife destination. how do you balance the needs of the residents with the needs of the restaurants and bars? >> i moved into my neighborhood in part because we have such a wonderful vibrant nightlife. san francisco is famous for our restaurant scene, are seen, club scene. -- are sbar scene. we have had too much violence around these nighttime v

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street. 2c is located half outside on polk street and half inside in the building lobby. after the final polishing, the water flows to the disinfection room of the basement of the building. there the water goes through two disinfection processes. first ultraviolet light, and second a dosing of chlorine. the treated water is stored in a 5,000 gallon reclaimed water tank where it is pumped throughout the building for toilet flushing purposes. the treatment cycle is complete and the water is reused again and again. this new building features a rainwater harvesting system. rainwater is captured from the building's roof and the children's play area along the side of the building and sent down to our disinfection room where there is a 25,000 gallon sis tern. the rainwater receives minor treatment and is used to irrigate the building's trees and landscaping. >> when we're resues using water we have on-site, we're not purchasing new water and we're also not putting sewage down into the sewer system which is costs money. this is a demonstration project of 5,000 gallons a day. it i