Damian boy, and the culture there is so rich. I mean, its been for decades. Rodrigo yes, yes, and its the reason why we want to preserve a lot of the beautiful assets that we hold near and dear to our hearts, and fiestas las americas is one of them. Damian i saw some images, you sent us some images, and lucha libre is part of it as well. Rodrigo i know, mexican wrestling. Its always fun. Damian well, i mean, in the mission, there are so many cultures within the culture of the mission. Tell us about the diversity within that Diverse Community there in the mission. Rodrigo of course. You know, a lot has changed, but however, the essence of the Mission District is very strong. And that essence is mexican, is nicaraguense, puerto rican, filipino, africanamerican. So, all that created this beautiful melting pot of what is the Mission District and why its so, so cherished in San Francisco and the bay area. Damian let me ask you this. Theres been kind of a tug of war with gentrification there
Damian and thats where were gonna begin todays show, comunidad del valle, with carnaval. Its back in full force and with us back also is Rodrigo Duran who spends a lot of time away from us, but hes back here on the show. Welcome back, rodrigo. Rodrigo duran thank you, damian, thank you for having me. Im always looking forward to these. Damian i appreciate you. Well, its back better than ever. Tell us about carnaval 2024. Rodrigo yeah, were celebrating our 46th anniversary at carnaval San Francisco, taking place in the Mission District on saturday, may 25th, and sunday, may 26th. Both days are for the festival, the grand parade is only on sunday, may 26th, and we have a lot of great things in store. Damian tell us about some of those great things that we have to look forward to. Rodrigo so, for our festival we have four wonderful headliners that are going to represent carnaval, because its multicultural. So, if you like corridos, you like mexican regional music, we have noel torres comi
Mr. Clerk, can you call item no. 1. Item no. 1, ordinance amending the downtown support special use district to authorize a monetary contribution to satisfy required onsite open space requirements, exclude certain features from the Floor Area Ratio and gross floor area calculations, and dedicate the monetary contribution for light and safety improvements at victoria Manalo Draves park. Thank you very much. With the request of the project sponsor, the ordinance sponsor, i should i say, were going to entertain a motion to continue this item until march 20th. But before that, colleagues, if no questions, i would open up for Public Comment. Anyone wishing for comment on item 1, seeing none, Public Comment is closed [ gavel ]. Supervisor tang. Ly make the motion to continue to march 20th. Yes. 2017. Motion by supervisor tang and seconded by supervisorpisckin taken without objection. Mr. Clerk, please call item no. 2 please. Item no. 2, ordinance amending the commerce and industry element of
All other members of the commission are present. The next order of business is item 2, announcements. The next regular scheduled meeting will be held on march 21 2017 at 1 pm room for 16 good item b announcement of prohibition of some Electronic Devices during the meeting. These, be advised the ringing and use of cell phones pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. These, be advised through chairman nehru ordered the removal from the meeting room of any sound producing Electronic Devices. C announcement of time allotment for comment. These be advised the member has up to 3 min. To make Public Comment on the agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a short period on any arrogant strongly recommended members of the public who wish to address the commission the loud speaker card so that the completed part that commission secretary. The next order of business item 3, report of actions taken on previous closed session meeting if any. Theres no rep
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