Four inch speaker not understood . Legally probably this was 20 years ago. Denying 20 years ago. This is interesting because it has so many different kinds of retaining walls all together. A rumble wall, roth wall little concrete turf no older concrete retaining walls. There was a transition where they went from cobble retaining walls to brick retaining walls to common reinforcing. There was a transition where they said we built them out of cobble stones for thousands of years. Why do we need to build this new fangled stuff. They can settle, which doesnt happen very often. They can slide the whole thing sliding, that doesnt happen very often. They can rotate. That happens all the time. Its happening or they can just kind of fall or come apart and break and fracture apart. Here we see, we can see a detail of it. Next slide is rotating and you can see that is happening in the slide. It is not tide together. There is no rebar in it. No reinforcement bar at all. Cobble stone. This is not b
This half acre with great appreciation, but we will take care of it with our other partners for years and years to come as part of the system, maintain it as well as to receive the newness of it. Going forward, we cant maintain every gift that we get. We cant maintain all the things that we want to have for the rest of our city as we expand our park system. So, youre going to hear more and more of this model being created, but it is wonderful to announce this type of gift and to announce the figuring out of its maintenance for many generations to come. This is why i think the city of San Francisco is so pleased with so many smart minds in the business community, in our nonprofit community, of course, in the city. Congratulations to everybody. Congratulations to the supporters of the emerald park. And when the noise turns down from the construction all over this area, youre going to be blessed even more with this great park for every generation to come. Thank you and congratulations to
Everybody will glaze over. But i will say that we are picking up the program. We will have the great details about the program on our website. This is the Mayors Office of housing website which you can reach through sfgov and that will be on the website no later than august 1st, which is on thursday. Its a great opportunity for us to expand what we have done previously with the down payment assistance program, and this is indeed an expansion of what the city has, has done to serve its residents, the city and the employees. At the same time we are doing this First Responders program through the budget process led by supervisor farrell, this has been the first year of the Housing Trust fund program and theres been a variety of programs that have been funded with the Housing Trust fund passed by the voters. And this is one of the first that we are rolling out. We will continue to roll out other programs related to the Housing Trust fund as the year progresses. But again, just to summarize
And then i did want to while this we cant have the substantial discussion but the area code is theres no update at that particular point but the task force theres no particular date but the task force will be coming to some closure in the next couple of months so many recommendations will be starting to be developed and ill keep you apprised. I didnt put this into the update but the small pet stores that came up requesting a hearing of the commission. So i now know that the Planning Department is planning to have the court instructs the jury ice hearing for the lombard street location on august 8th. And so this is now put i know the commission is interested in hearing the item is august 12th. So i anyway commissioner adams has argued a special meeting so hear it so i will have conversations with you on that after the meeting. Okay. And then, of course, i did want to weve all acknowledged chris. Its his last meeting as our commissioner secretary but his official last day is august 9th s
So, good morning, everyone. My name is mark farrell. Im the supervisor from district 2 here in San Francisco. Last year, thanks to the great leadership of our mayor ed lee, his office of housing in particular, olson lee and brian chu who are here with us today and my colleagues on the board of supervisors, together and with the voters of San Francisco, we passed proposition c, the Housing Trust fund initiative, to create and approve Affordable Housing citywide and to provide loans to assist with the down payment towards the purchase of homes here in San Francisco. The passage of the Housing Trust fund was and is a huge win for all of San Francisco and our residents as one step in the right direction towards continuing to solve our citys ongoing housing needs. We are here today to announce the launch of a renewed down Payment Assistance Program for our First Responders here in San Francisco. Statistics will say that the majority of all of our First Responders live outside of our city li