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Housing and new office space in the plan area would affect not just the downtown and south of market by china town. What is before you today is affirming and supporting what the Planning Commission did on october 18th. To prioritize spending those impact fees in the china town neighborhood. I want to note quickly the ipic committee on which the Rec Department has a seat is body charged with the actually allocation of those fees. I believe we talked a little about that in the september hearing bu...

Going on in our city. Will like some of you to come out with us on that day, to the rally. Maybe somebody representing the council should speak. Testify before the Land Use Committee that they. Will be in touch with the mayors office; presumably they will pass on to all of you when those things are happening. Chair jessica, i think the idea of including the Mayors Disability Council and the Technical Assistance guidelines is excellent. My colleagues are interested in that. Before i have you been...

Change these devices to vibrate mode. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment. You may complete a speakers card available in the front of the room. The Mayors Disability Council meeting are generally the third friday of each month. Our next regular meeting will not be until january 18, 2013, from 1 oclock to four oclock here, San Francisco city hall, room 400. Call the Mayors Office on disability for further information or to request accommodat...

The reality is that, based on the way rent control is in san francisco, when the tenant moves out, the landlord can put the rental at any price they can get, it moves closer to market rate. When people first year about the kind of work that i do and talk about sros, they say its great that you work with affordable housing. The first thing i say is, is not affordable. Its available housing stock. 700 900 a month is not affordable housing. Not what you get for an 8x10. You get Better Benefits in j...

Disabilities and whereas Municipal Transportation Agency in the past engaged in efforts to make the surface light rail system accessible to passengers with mobility disabilities and key stops. And whereas the existing surface light rail system has sizable gaps between accessible key stops in certain areas making travel for people with mobility disabilities more challenging and whereas, currently wait side platforms at accessible key stops lack lighting, signals for transit operators and passenge...

Acknowledge, not to say everything is great in San Francisco because there is obviously problems but we are ahead of the game in comparison to other counties. One of the things is prior to becoming 65. They are going to notify them in advance. Thats pretty important. I wanted to acknowledge thats a success. Its a positive step in the right direction and also at the statewide level something that is kind of really big. When i first found out about it, i thought wait, am i the only one that thinks...

2,000 asset limit to continue to get medical and support. Thats really a problem. We are calling that the gift of the maji. You have to give away all your money. There is loopholes but there is a lot of positive things in it too. I want to thank you all for having this hearing and thanks to presenters for coming. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . All right. We will move to item no. 9. Updates from the department of aging Adult Services. Jason adamek. Intake manager at do...

On given there are many bart stations in San Francisco. But every person who ive experienced with has come to take a look at it who uses a wheelchair, everyone has walked away saying the same thing. Wow, i knew that there was a problem because everyone was upset about it. I had no idea how bad it was until i actually tried to use it using my wheelchair. So, weve got to keep up the fight and weve got to let bart know this is important to us. Okay. Roland, do you mind if i give out your phone numb...

Federal buildings that were either occupied or people protested in front of them across the country. Everywhere else, they were starved out. New york, washington, whatever, the police came in or the people in the community refused to help them. In the bay area, what was amazing is you had this coalition of community groups, of politicians, of people that really cared about disability rights. Or if they didnt care, they learned to care. And this was partly because of activism of the disability ri...

And, girl, your city so all alone well, you got the skills to make it you got the chance, go out and take it love is all around no need to waste it and i know that youre gonna wake up you might just make it after all oh, city hall you might just make it after all city hall applause okay. Hello, my name is larry juicy edmonds, and i would like to say to lrc i hope that maybe we can advertise in the central city newspaper because this i know the work theyve done and i love what she talked. I feel ...