welcome, everybody, to balboa park. and i know we have a couple of hosts and i want to meet and recognize of course our recreation and park department. phil is here. he'll speak in a minute. also recognizing john avalos, our supervisor for this district. but often a voice at the board in this city about issues of equity, and that is why i think it's important that we announced it at a place like balboa park. i live here just literally two minutes away, so, i often see this park completely crowded with so many families, especially with all the great improvements that rec and park has put in, in collaboration with the supervisor, because i know that some of his discretionary funding has often gone in to support efforts here and, of course, across the street with the challenges of the -- both the bart and the muni station. but it is all about our neighborhoods. and i go back to what supervisor farrell said, and i want to again thank and appreciate supervisor farrell, his staff margo kelly, another great effort. this is wha

i've come up i've lived thirty years on balboa park. >> my other comment i said it earlier was the sense on top of the wall i'm fine with the curb. historically it should have been that house should have had a cast iron fence >> with a rounded curb. >> yeah. >> okay. >> well, i'd like to see the picture and the problem is we don't have enough information. i know there's a lot of work put into this but we've spent a lot of time reviewing this this weekend and there's not enough information to review this >> well, i think the council is starting to put something up. this is really different >> so i'm showing you the condition of how it's resolved.

thank you >> the renovation of balboa park, the oldest in the city of san francisco, and now it is the newest part in the city of san francisco. through our partnership, and because of public investment from the two thousand eight fund, we are celebrating a renewal and an awakening of this park. we have it safer, happier, more joyous. >> 3, 2, 1, [laughter] =--[applause] >> it is a great resource for families, to have fun in the city, recreation. >> this is an amazing park. we have not revitalized it without public and private investment. the critical piece of the process of this renovation was that it was all about the community. we reached out to everyone in this community. we love this park dearly and they all had thoughts and ideas and they wanted to bring their own creativity and their personality to bear on the design. what you see is what the community wanted. these ideas all came from the residents of this community. as a result, there is a sense of ownership, pride and responsibility that goes along with what is going to be an exciting park.

this is the general balboa park area and those two projects are for the eir stationary plan. of those projects that are in the ordinance contemplated in the ordinance. first is thi easement area for brighten avenue and it's the are the sidewalks area deptednd lee avenuehi i i'm here from the mayor's office house of representatives authority here that's it. >> colleagues, any questions on item 8 or comments. nicole we'll open this up for public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. >> colleagues, can i have a motion to move the amendments first. so the gentleman has described the amendments and distributed copies and those don't require a continuance that's right >> first can we accept the amendments without observation. >> so moved and forward item 8 as amended with recommendations okay can we take those without objection? . madam clerk, please call item 4 >> item 4 is an ordinance to amend the planning code including tenants evicted under the ellis act. >> thank you, colleagues i appreciate our consideration of legislation we have in front of us to hopefully provide

the park is a change. in the corridor in the proximity of balboa park. planning staff can, one of the reasons why a lot of people are here, because this legislation is looking at the clustering issue that happens around the medical cannabis industry in san francisco. around the regulation established in san francisco was a thousand foot limit that they have with the situations from existing schools and organizations that sit primarily children. i'm supportive of access to medical cannabis for patients. last year they were approved in the longest corridor and i did not work to counteract any permitting process for those units for those mcd's because i really believed that we had to be doing our part to access for patients. there is a great deal of heat that came toward me when i actually did not and tried to prevent cd's present we now have great access in district 11 and i do not believe that it makes sense that when most of i would say 95 percent of my district is not supportive of mcd's coming in that we create more access for patients that don't creat

we'll go getting a report on the status of the balboa park. she'll be taking over the housing inventory that will come out in mark of next year. and i'll be presenting to you - we have a bay area native he left additional spent his years in tokyo. he got degrees from cal berkley. he'll be giving the presentation today and we'll be working on others projects including the update of the housing element data that needs analysis. thank you >> thank you. and welcome to all 3. >> so good afternoon, commissioners. i'm the information and analysis person. today, we're going to present a few highlights from the inventory which we just complete and released. the commerce intensity is produced annually this is our 19th edition and contains data through 2012. it is from a variety of sources. the main goals of the inventory are in a shoirm to compile and make the data available to the public. the time series we can use as background u background data to update our general plan. so take you through the highlights. first looking at employment. we see that jo

i mean i've come up i've lived thirty years on balboa park. >> my other comment i said it earlier was the sense on top of the wall i'm fine with the curb. historically it should have been that house should have had a cast iron fence >> with a rounded curb. >> yeah. >> okay. >> well, i'd like to see the picture and the problem is we don't have enough information. i know there's a lot of work put into this but we've spent a lot of time reviewing this this weekend and there's not enough information to review this >> well, i think the council is starting to put something up. this is really different >> so i'm showing you the condition of how it's resolved. if they restored the front portion there's a stair window - sorry located here. i think i don't recall this is a rankle 0 window or not but the original detailing had been preserved in this area so that might be a local area to recommend restoration of the windows and to restore the portions of the facade that had been damaged by the school additions >> potential can you go back to that the evasion you just had. yeah, that one. another

park and he has done great work and he'll be a great addition. so it makes a lot of sense that he's on here and actually if will yum is willing, we can view -- if you want to come and you weren't able to present yourself at the plans and program, if you want to give us a couple of minutes about your interest and qualifications, i would appreciate it, thank you. >> i appreciate that, thank you all. thank you for that kind introduction and i apologize for not making programs -- plans and programs. i work in the south bay which is the reasons i might be a good contribution to this committee because i used the geneva corridor everyday. when i skipped my bart job because i live a block from bart, i live on lewis street where i served as student trustee. i only way for me to get to work during the bart strike was two trains. one that left at 5:35 in the morning and one that left at 9:17 and i started to work at 8:30 so it meant getting to work at 7:30 or getting to work at 10:00 in the morning. so i'm being two hours late for work. it's important that

we are going to have to depend on. >> along balboa park station, near geneva, i have been pushing hard to get ramps for pedestrians. right now, it is dangerous to cross the street. i want to insure the department of parking and traffic is painting lines on alemany street. beyond that, we need to figure out how to calm the traffic. a lot of cars go speeding through. sidewalks are not convenient for people. >> i am the supervisor for district 11, the debt -- the best district in san francisco. this year, we get to show how great district 11 really is. >> we are in our fifth year of major budget deficits. it is inevitable that we will make painful cuts. so how do we do it in a way that will minimize the impact on every day san franciscans? >> i really appreciate what you're doing here. you are a really patient gentleman, and i appreciate that. >> our parks are often cut first. how do we maintain our safety net, public health services, security services? all of these are critical decisions that have to be made. >> i have seen many people come forward today who i know whose lives have chang

along balboa park station, geneva, san jose, pushing hard to get a ramp for pedestrians. right now, it is dangerous to cross the street, especially if you are pushing a stroller or are in a wheelchair. you have to go further than you but typically have to. there is so much more to do. we have to figure out how to calm the traffic. a lot of cars, speeding through and make it unsafe for pedestrians. sidewalks are not very convenient for people. it takes a lot of money to do that, but it is really about being vigilant and looking at the fund the come through the transportation authority. we have been extending sidewalks in some places to help with pedestrians, trying to put in islands, plantings to slow down traffic. bike lanes have helped. a bit controversial where i live is a bike lane. people do not see as many bikes, but we are seeing more and more common now that the bike lanes are coming in. that makes it safer for pedestrians. we have a bike way on a major street. you do not have as much time to cross, and you cut down one lane for the cars and a pedestrian can then w

>> all right, everyone, want to say thank you all for being here today at balboa park and want to say, first off, thanks to the trust for public land who played a key role in renovating balboa park and to put it to be where it is today. and i want to thank you all for your efforts. you know, one of the best parts about being an elected official is the ability to effect change in san francisco in a very positive way. and today i'm very proud to announce that after two years of incredibly hard work on behalf of a lot of people, we are announcing a new project in san francisco to bring free wi-fi to 31 different parks, plazas, and open spaces across our city. from areas such as the marina green to washington square park to sunset playground, all a moe square, civic center, bernal heights to right here in balboa park, this project is going to touch parks and plazas across all of san francisco in every corner of our city. san francisco has been a leader in our technology community and our technology economy across our country and now we get to continue to play a role in being a leader brin

how come you always concentrate on golden gate, for example, but not on balboa? these are the kind of things i think we're wanting to make a statement on. i think, for example, our police department a we're working on with technology, another good example. one of these days we're going to have officers be able to dot reports while they're in their vehicles in the streets rather than coming back to their stations and spending 2 or 3 hours trying to do all the reports ~. we're working on that right now. but, you know, i think any city who needs the resources at their highest performance will look towards technology to help us reduce what we're doing today that could be done faster, quicker, and more efficiently and just as thoroughly. >> mayor, i think you answered this already, but i didn't quite hear her question. google is going to provide the financial [speaker not understood], correct? >> yes. >> after that what happens? >> well, first of all, i think we will make whatever proper investments we will have because we will consider this to be part of the infrastr