One year was different. In 2004, when our former mayor and now governor newsom, he took the bold step to say this is what we are doing in San Francisco. We are going to issue marriage license to same sex couples and you will come to the city to deal with the lawsuits that led for all of us to join in the fight of this country. This fight started in San Francisco. [cheers and applause] we have so many people joining us here today including couples that were married at the time and getting married again. We have folks who are maybe marrying for the first time. City hall is the place to be every valentines day. In 2004, during the time when we opened the doors on february 12th, that year, the person who was a county clerk issuing all of those marriage licenses, almost 5,000 marriage licenses, nancy alfaro. Thank you for being here. [cheers and applause] where did she go . Nancy . She is now in charge of the 311 center. But shes still doing great work for this city. We have a star studed l
Good afternoon, every one. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the march 11, 2024 regular meeting of the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. I am supervisor mirna melgar chair of the committee. The Committee Clerk today is john ca roll and i would like to thank sf gov. Tv for covering the meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes, please silence any phones that you may have brought into the room today. If you have any documents, submit them to me by bringing them to the rail. When your item of interest comes up please line up to a speak along your right hand of the room. Ultimately, you may submit email, you may email them to me. Items are expect today appear on the board of saoufpses agenda of march 18th, unless otherwise spaited. Thank you mr. Clerk. Please call item number 1. Clerk agenda item number 1 amending the administrative code Building Code business and tax regulations code and planning code to clarify
Franciscans are showing new signs of optimism and our city no doubt faces serious challenges from the pandemic, Public Safety concerns and negative media. But despite all that, we saw a slight increase in the voters who think that the current Economic Conditions are better than a year ago. This is a very important. Thats right. And not only that, san franciscans are more optimistic about the state of our city, but they are ready to take action. Well dive into the poll results later. A bit later on. But one thing is clear San Francisco voters are supportive of taking action at the ballot for a change in our city, especially when it comes to making it easier to do business and increasing Public Safety. Im confident that 2024 will be a year that lays the foundation for a stronger, more inclusive and even more innovative San Francisco, a foundation that is actually being built by people in this very room here today. And it feels like literally almost every day i get a call from a Member Co
Our hearts all right. My name is rick im the president of the Market Street railway an independent advocate for the history cable car and streetcars we support muni and getting the value is from those priceless civic assets we do that with no government government funding at all we depend on on documentation if people like who love light cable cars i want to recognize a whole lot of the folks with the chinatown merchant betty and carmen chiu the city administrator i hope im not im sure im missing other folks with one phrase and one song hasnt made our cable cars world families how special our city is special especially for diversity and, you know, nothing shows that better than the longstanding presence of very early days of San Francisco of our chineseamerican community the california street cable car line served chinatown since 1878 and last year, we celebrity the one hundred and fifty medical marijuana two blocks it north on clay street and the camp street line built 5 years after t
You have documents as part of the file submitted to myself the clerk and Public Comment on each item on the agenda. When your item come up and Public Comment is called lineup on the west side to your right, my left. And not necessary to provide comment we invite to you fill out a card by the doors. If you wish to be recorded for minutes you may submit comment in writing. E mail them to mis the budget and finance clerk at brent. Jalipa sfgov. Org. If you nit e mill tell be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official time send written comments by u. S. Postal service to city hall 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place room 244, San Francisco, california 94102 and items acted upon today will appear at the board agenda of march fifth unless otherwise stated. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Before we call item one remind everyone we have budget and legislative Analyst Reports for items 69, 11 and 12 on todays agendaful for those items we will have the presentation followed by the budge