Michael adler and i am the president of caner north constructers ink i have been part of it since 1978 not many weeks ago this developer approved by you 400 grove represents the best of and for San Francisco. The right size for the neighborhood and it is not a commodity structure. But one which has been thoughtfully and heartfully designed by ann and her team and developed and built by local folks who care about the community. This is perfect urban infill and i believe this project has shown a real commitment to providing not just housing but good design and architecture as well. Just addressing the cost of construction, 400 grove will generate approximately 10 million in labor economic benefit creating more than 125,000 person hours of work equivalent of keeping over 60 people occupied for a year. I believe that 400 grove is a necessary and welcome addition to the haze Valley Street scape and i urge you to commend this developer for the passion and commitment to the city and approve t
A bus behind. The second bus does not come up to the front. Oftentimes, it has caused me to be passed up by bosses, by trains, and again, it makes me late for appointments. It makes me late for my job. Im often anxious that im going to miss the bus that i need, simply because im not fast enough to scamper down and find out which bus is lined up behind the bus that is currently in front of me. What im going to work and i take the van ness street buses to work, sometimes, one of them will pull up right next to the other one. Not in a bus stop, but parallel to it. And i do not know it is there. I also do not feel comfortable walking out into the street. Is that my boss over there . I think that is my boss bus. Im going to miss it. I dont know how many times i have missed buses because of this. I do not double park. It is not safe for our customers, and especially the visually impaired. Anything could happen, and it is munis policy not to double park. Normally what i do, if i can safely go
[music] paratransit is specialized transportation for seniors and people with disabilities who are unable to use the muni system. in san francisco, we re proud that we ve had a paratransit program since 1978 long before it was mandated by the americans with disabilities act in 1990. san francisco is a unique city and our paratransit program reflects this. we have a network of services, including sf access van service, paratransit taxi, including wheelchair accessible ramp taxi and group van which serves groups of individuals going to a single location like a senior center. [music] i m elsa scott and i m a retired federal employee and i m a native of san francisco. i use paratransit because, i ve been using it for about six years because six years ago i had to start dialysis treatments at cpmc. so i m very dependent on paratransit three times a week, coming and going.. my current driver is brian berquist.; he s just such a friendly, sort of a teddy bear kind of a
i want to learn more about it. social networking and e-mail. i want to know how to use it. divisional divide is a divide between those with access to use digital tools and those who don t. with young people, having computers and i just don t know. they re doing it fast. so, i want to know. not knowing how to navigate the internet or at a loss of what to do. we don t have a computer. we re a nonprofit that unites organizations and volunteers to transform lies through literacy. our big problem right now is the broadband opportunity program. a federally funded project through the department of aging. so, we re working in 26 locations. our volunteers are trained to be tutors and trainers, offering everything from basic classes all the way to genealogy and job search. to me computers, knowing how to use it. i think it s really important to everybody and possibly especially seniors to get enough of these skills to stay in touch. it s been
and during the process if we award to move something out of this committee two weeks from now, i think we could have an opportunity to get continuing feedback from various commissions on this. but my inclination is we keep this process going so that we really try to understand what our, i think, the best ideas that have come out of this discussion. some of which i think are embodied in supervisor kim s legislation and move forward a piece of legislation if that makes sense. i hope that is something we can do and i ve asked all parties to work hard over the next few weeks to see if we can get there. and, again, if there are other ideas beyond that that come out of the planning hpc process what will be supervisor kim s legislation to move forward happy to kerr them. happy for that to be part of the discussion two weeks from now. but it ben, out of the spirit of really trying to move this forward and do that in a way that balances all the interests here, that is the path i think