I think the heart reform is ensuring the largest Financial Institutions have the freedom to fail. I dads Small Business of baltimore, if he did not make payroll, nobody was going to bail him out, and that is at the ore of what doddfrank is. That is why i was so pleased just last month when moodys, the large rating agency, removed this uplift them and the Credit Ratings of the largest tank Holding Companies that had come to be the cause of perceived government backing, and that works because of title ii of doddfrank and all over the fdic and the fed did, and ben and his people in the bank relators in supporting everything and marty. And before that, sheila did. The second thing i think is making sure that there is enough capital on hand, and i know where is dan . He is sitting somewhere. Ive have been on all these International Meetings where dan has been tireless, along with toms people, and making sure theres enough capital in the system and the stress tests really work. That is reall
Allocated to urban agriculture. So, that identified that these departments were playing a leadership role. The second recommendation, the one that im here to speak a little bit more on key tail on, is that the rec and Park Department should be the lead agency for the urban ag program. And finally, that San Franciscos public spending on urban ag is significant and should be used to leverage new private investment. Were really excited to have someone on board who can help us look for private funding to leverage this position and i also want to emphasize that were hoping that this addition would be a permanent part of the city budget so that rather than it be a temporary thing obviously based on the success of the position, that this role would continue for the foreseeable future. So, just briefly, in the process during the Strategic Planning process during the fall, the rec and Park Department was asked to put together sort of presentation for substantiating why would the department want
That will be the order. [gavel] madam clerk, please call item number 2. Item number 2 is a resolution imposing interim zoning controls for an 18month period requiring conditional use authorization for limited Financial Service and business or professional service uses in the upper market neighborhood commercial Transit District; making environmental findings and findings of consistency with the general plan and with the priority policies of planning code, section 101. 1. ~ Transit District thank you. Im the author of this legislation. Colleagues, today before us are interim controls that i have that im proposing to address potential challenge relating to the significant new development occurring along the upper market corridor. We have quite a few developments happening along upper market between octavia and castro, and with a significant amount of new retail space that is going to come online. This is an exciting opportunity for the neighborhood in terms of a new retail space, more ac
Worked closely with San Francisco and Agricultural Alliance and spur for citywide Agriculture Program. Spur had previously released a report called the public harvest report that showed even though we had seen tremendous demand for urban agriculture, Community Gardening and urban farms grow across the city in recent years, there has been a notable lack of coordination among different agencies that govern urban agriculture. The legislate ition helped create the Program Designed to serve as a one stop shop for urban agriculture to assist in the formation of new garden projects, to provide resources and tools, and partnerships with various community organizations. The legislation last year required that a Strategic Planning process take place and that is something that happened in the second half of 2012. I want to thank the office of the city administrator who is the lead city agency for this planning and the city administrator released the results of the Strategic Planning late last spr
That are necessary to respond to the explosions. I am troubled by the prospect of thousands or maybe tens of thousands of these facilities operated under the radar screen in there used to be a sense of urgency on this issue at all levels. It is essential between osha and dhs and the coast guard and state regulators and there has to be enough Information Available to identify those facilities that could pose a risk. That information needs to be shared. The next challenge is to ensure that dhs analyzes the facilities that provide information and gao has told us that when it comes to assessing and assigning risk, arguably the most essential aspect of the program is neither reliable or consistent. To that point the blue rhino facility exploded scented fireballs into the night sky and it was not determined by dhs to be high risk. But i believe with a lot of work and smart people in this program, we can do better. That is why we have called on the president to bring together experts to tackl