Im derek, im hyungry, and ready to eat. These vendors offer a variety of the streets near you. These mobile restaurants are serving up original, creative and unusual combinations. You can grab something simple like a Grilled Cheese sandwich or something unique like curry. We areher here in the average eight upper haight. You will be competing in the Quick Buy Food challenge. An appetizer and if you are the winner you will get the title of the quitck bite chompion. I am here with matt cohen, from off the grid. We assembled trucks and put them into a really unique heurban settings. What inspired you to start off the grid . I was helping people lodge mobile food trucks. The work asking for what can we get part together . We started our first location and then from there we expanded locations. Why do think food trucks have grown . I have gotten popular because the high cost of starting a brick and mortar or strong, the rise of social media, trucks can be easily located, and food trucks to
Advance . Hes sleeping during those earthquakes . Have you noticed him take any special . No. He sleeps right through them. There is no truth that im aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. You hear the myth all the time. Suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something i hear they are aware of small vibrations. But yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. Today is a spectacular day in San Francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. Is this earthquake weather . No. Not that i have heard of. No such thing. There is no such thing. We are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. There is no relationship. I have heard its hot or cold weather or rain. Im not sure which is the myth. How about time of day . Yes. It happens when its least convenient. When it happens people say we were lucky and when they dont. Its terrible timing. Its never a good time for an earthquake. But we are goi
On a policy level i have not opposed height in general throughout the city and especially in our district. We have very Tall Buildings in our district and just east of these buildings we have, you know, increased entitlements up to 600 feet for the paless hotel, a thousand tarot for transbay tower, 700 feet for 181 fremont. I think what is hardest for me is we didnt have any opposition to those increases in height which had significant shadow impacts throughout the city. ~ in chinatown and union square. ~ palace its hard, then, to say not this building. Why the Transit Center [speaker not understood], really across the street from the plan itself. I think given the fact that we are working on mitigation for open space type safety, it doesnt take care of everything, but i think it is certainly significant contribution to the neighborhood. It would be very hard for me to oppose the height increase for this project, but not for any other. And i think it is it important because theres so M
applause good morning, everyone. Were going to get started now. Thank you for attending todays announcement. My name is adrian, im with immigrant affairs. Let me first start by introducing the other partners for todays initiative lunch. First of all, the San Francisco foundation, dr. Sandra hernandez and tessa rivera, [speaker not understood], Senior Program officer for immigrant rights and integration, walter and alise fund, also known as the haase senior fund. Pam david, the Wallace Alexander gabode foundation, stacey ma and thomas, concerned with immigrants and refugees represented today by felicia barto, deputy director. Also present today are commissioner canali vicechair of the San Francisco immigrant rights commission, city librarian, luis herrera, [speaker not understood], and clementine of the african advocacy network. So, let me provide first of all just a little bit of background on the initiative. In 2008 while serving as city administrator, mayor ed lee created the office