Good afternoon, welcome to the stand lus and Transportation Committee for today, monday, july 6th, 2020. I am the chair of the committee joined by supervisor safai and member supervisor dean preston. Our clerk is ms. Erika major. Could you please do you have any inaudible . Clerk yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken inaudible state wide stay at home order and all local and state federal orders, declaration and directives. They will continued through participate in the meeting to the same extent if theyre physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the addenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunity to speak during the pluck comment periodd are by calli
Good afternoon. Im with the department of building inspection. We are approaching the sixth year of our Brown Bag Lunch series here at the department of building inspection where we talk about topics related to construction in San Francisco. We invite you to join us on the third thursday of every month here at the building department. We have an exciting lineup of shows this year. And one of them, today, is going to be really exciting because we have a terrific guest today. Mr. Woody labounty. Thank you. Woody is the founder of the outside lands . The western neighborhoods project. Well talk more about that. Excellent. And the author of a recently published book, which i have a copy of and its really fascinating and wonderful. Hes going to talk about carville by the sea today. Well look at slides. Hell tell us about the history of the outerlands, previously uninhabitable area of the city. We will invite your questions. So, please, you in the audience if you have questions, let us know.
Good afternoon. Im with the department of building inspection. We are approaching the sixth year of our Brown Bag Lunch series here at the department of building inspection where we talk about topics related to construction in San Francisco. We invite you to join us on the third thursday of every month here at the building department. We have an exciting lineup of shows this year. And one of them, today, is going to be really exciting because we have a terrific guest today. Mr. Woody labounty. Thank you. Woody is the founder of the outside lands . The western neighborhoods project. Well talk more about that. Excellent. And the author of a recently published book, which i have a copy of and its really fascinating and wonderful. Hes going to talk about carville by the sea today. Well look at slides. Hell tell us about the history of the outerlands, previously uninhabitable area of the city. We will invite your questions. So, please, you in the audience if you have questions, let us know.
This is a color shot. None of these photos were originally colorized. I essentially put color in there for the book just to make it pop a little bit. So dont be fooled. Before we get started id like to talk about the organization that i helped found 10 years ago, the western neighborhoods project dedicated to the history of western San Francisco. We have a very popular website, outsidelands. Org where we have old photos, stories, over 15,000 messages put up by people remembering their time in the Richmond District, the sunset district, west of twin peaks. I couldnt fit everything into a book so i decided to have a little companion website. So if theres new things that come up, if theres corrections, god forbid, it will show up on this website. Old photos that i maybe couldnt fit in so visit that you if can. Thats carvillebook. Com. How do we start with carville . Well, we start with the building material, essentially. How does carville get started . It starts with when old forms of Pub
be remembered that this museum was originally build as a memorial to all of the thousands who died in world war i. i am not sure what you have thought about having a tunnel boring machine named after her, but she had a good sense of humor. she worked with a number of mayors and often entertaining them over a martini or two. i suspect, although it is not in my script that i was one way of insuring the (inaudible) of a permit application, most pleased with this tribute. she will not stay on a job until august. however, she will have to work extra hard to keep up with mom chung. in closing, i wish to salute the engineers and contractors and thank the hundreds of men and women who arrived with their lunch pails and their hard hats each day for making this subway a reality. thank you all very much and i think that it is fitting that we honor the past, and as we are building the future last year muni celebrated the 100th anniversary and we are the first public transit in the coun