Good afternoon. I want to thank you for that very kind introduction. A lot of Research Went into that. You can go to the parishes we came from and that is good, that is real good. It is an honor for me to speak to an organization we need now more than ever and a point of personal privilege, we have with us someone whose name was mentioned before, the head of our civil rights division, mister gupta. [applause], head of the leadership conference, chiefly when i was attorney general, the prison continues into lead in the civil rights arena. Today i would like to discuss with you at that we all owe and an issue that threatens the integrity of this great nation and puts in peril the future welfare of our country. 50 years after the passage of the most significant civil rights legislation in our nations history the Voting Rights act in 1965, the most basic of american rights, the right to vote is under siege. President johnson said when he signed the Voting Rights act, the right to vote is t
Legal assistant im im Cynthia Goldstein the boards executive director. Were going to be joined as by were joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. Sitting in the front right now is amanda representing the bureau of mapping and shes joined by her colleague raul shaw i believe chris buck is here in the front right now with the bureau of urban forestry and Scott Sanchez will be here shortly and representing his office and the Planning Department and Planning Commission Electronic Devices are prohibited. Please carry on conversations out in the hallway. Permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. Have up to 3 minutes no rebuttal. To assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speaker card or Business Card to the clerk. Speaker cards and pens are available on the left side of the podium. If you have a question about the
Hon. Commissioners director forbes and port seven thank you for allowing me the opportunity to tell you about pier 39 birthday celebration. In the late 1970s savvy San Francisco businessman Warren Simmons dreams of building an urban park along the citys underdeveloped waterfront. October 4, 1978 simmons dream became a reality. When he transformed his dilapidated cargo pier into pier 39 and eclectic collection of Specialty Shops restaurants and attractions. The First Public Private Partnership project built along the embarcadero since world war ii pier 30 on pave the way for future development on alongside the bait. In the beginning the property was built in controversy and various legal battles. After opening to the public it was evident that tenant sales were much lower than anticipated. Due to these issues and only three years after opening to the public pier 30 or so to warren souths forte was to take undervalued and underperforming Retail Properties and bring them to their full pot
Report good afternoon members of the commission. Members of the public and port simon lake forbes or director. The first item is to congratulate pier 30 on august 30 ninth birthday. It was october of 1978 that pier 39 opened on schedule i here to here in San Francisco. At its opening pier 39 had 50 stores, 23 restaurants, a diving pool and street performers. Today it is a twolevel open air festival marketplace which owes 60 Specialty Retail shops 20 attractions 14 restaurants including the rock cafe and bubblegum shrimp cold pier 30 on offers breathtaking views of the bait out because Golden Gate Bay bridge and the 300 berth marina and live daily entertainment. One in three visitors to San Francisco goes to pier 39. Today we have kept the paper here. Shes the Senior Vice President of marketing for pier 39 and shes come here to talk to us about the yearlong celebration that pier 39 is kicking off an Senior Vice President she is responsible for the continued development and implementatio
High clouds than yesterday but still a Beautiful Day going to unfold. Lets take a look at it. Well start with live doppler 7 where its going to be a little slower unfolding around santa rosa and napa, half mile and quarter mile visibility. Ill show you street level data there. You can see right around San Francisco, so look from sutro tower, patchy fog trying to form. 59 to 68, look at that spring spread, 56 at the coast, 71 inland and 54 to 60 at 7 00. Pretty quiet here. How about with the commute . Yeah, it is quiet. So were definitely enjoying that while it lasts anyway. I did have one issue pop up in the south area of San Francisco. Southbound 280 just before you get to alemany boulevard, twocar crash, pushed that off to the shoulder very quickly and got that totally cleared so that was just no major injuries, no major damage there either and a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, just a slight stackup in those cash lanes but thats pretty much it so far. Well look at drive times