high-tech and digital media. digital sister cities. on your last visit in 2006 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of our partnership, we signed an accord being digital sister cities. this accord has facilitated numerous parisian company ins establishing companies in san francisco such as parisoma which we will visit tomorrow. and we see companies based in san francisco that create branches in paris such as soef fee nova whose ceo, a member of the city sister committee is with us today. there are many other examples of successful and flourishing business and commercial relations between our two cities, an atmosphere made part in possible due to the close working relationship between our two close municipalities. finally, as each of the mayors before me, i must comment on the world of art and culture of which san francisco and paris are two world capitals. our cultural exchanges are often, live the highest quality. many san francisco cultural institutions of every size perform
thank you, louis. mayor lee, general maya, it s a pleasure once again, san francisco fire department, to welcome the men and women in uniform. and thank you for what you do to protect our lives each and every day, the service that you do. many times without seeing your family, as our port director indicated. we re very excited once again to welcome and celebrate the military here in san francisco. it is a great opportunity to for that cross training bert effort. we look forward to having some of our fire felters on board the ship to learn from the military, conversely we also look forward to your fairly sophisticated constructed scenario whereby we ll be training the men and women in uniform related to that humanitarian assistance in the event of a disaster. and how to go about structural collapse, search and rescue techniques. so, once again shall welcome. glad to be a part of it. and here s to a great fleet week. thank you. (applause) thank you, joanne. and planning, pl
somebody talks about designation areas for larger vehicles and i absolutely understand that and that is precisely the reason why we did not say this was a ban outright on the entire city of all spaces. this is simply allowing the mta to choose certain locations that have had chronic problems to enforce an oversized vehicle issue. we re not saying citywide this would be a restriction on oversized vehicle parking. so i think that is a very measured approach and we purposely did that because we could anticipate some concerns that folks had. so those with visitors from out of town and know that not all parking is off-limits. this is meant for mta to have an additional tool for areas that are chronically seeing problems in our neighborhoods. finally, someone else made a comment that talks about how we shouldn t pass this kind of legislation until we can solve the issue of homelessness. we all in an ideal world that would be the case, but we know that we re constantly working with
feel we should extend the future ability for the two parties to communicate in the future. can staff respond to that question? michael staff, planning department staff. if i understand you, commissioner moore, you would like the sponsor to have a translator? either you or somebody, there s always like okay, the department does have those services if requested, yes. but once a restaurant is realized, there should be a phone number by which any neighborhood complaints could come forward to the restaurant operator and be dealt with in a constructive manner. commissioner moore, that would be on a conditional use authorization as one of our standards. so, that would not be part of it? that would not be part of a motion. then i think we should at least encourage the future operator to provide continued outreach and sensitivity to the community should any mutually issues of mutual concern arise and they can be resolved in an amenable way. and i believe the pr
as safety for the neighborhood. it would be open for the public but we re going to also [unintelligible] private events to the neighborhood. which is upscale clientele. we re not going to accept party bosses. buses. i never did, i never liked it. we like to have that safety for neighborhoods be we already have our neighbors. [unintelligible] glendon on the church once a month. we know all our neighbors, when lord, merchants, and would like to landlord, merchants, and we would like to keep this safety on the broadway that would be a mecca for entertainment in the city. unfortunately, sometimes it is not to save and businesses are hurt. we would like to change that. president newlin: thank you. would anyone else like to comment? francesca is my partner of the building and owner of [unintelligible] studios. i am helping her do everything else. and he is our security guard. i love the fact that you referenced the [unintelligible] and you talk about music, food, art, and