with all the crazy legislation we nasz and amazon hugs, is that what we're doing? >> we're going to put this down. i want to make this a priority. thank you. >> and one last thing. what do i have to do seriously, and i am getting really upset about the paper thing. >> speaking of environmental waste. do i have to get a supervisor to legislate us to do it? or can't we do it ourselfs? >> there is some -- i will get back to you because there is some sort of criteria that it's not just as easy for us just to buy tablets. let me just put it that way. so we may have to legislate it. but we'll get back to you on that because and i have had some discussion with the finance section of the office. >> i think we should be the first commission in san francisco to ban paper from our meetings. >> an i love it. >> a commissioner zouzounis. >> self-imposed. >> i want to echo what the fell hoe commissioner here said and also what -- fellow commissioner has said and commissioner dwight said we can't just fight the technology innovation that is happening, but we need to hold them acc

i work with amazon and i've been the point of contact with the neighborhood. i appreciate you taking the time to hear from us today. i wanted to touch on our engagement with the neighborhood. we originally sat down with the group in january and since then, we have been communicating via e-mail daily. we truly appreciate their willingness to work with us and cultivate what will be a mutually beneficial partnership. we highlighted many opportunities to work with the neighbors and we made great progress to the buildings and surrounding areas. there are additional opportunities for the neighborhood beautification. we appreciate your willingness to let us continue these discussions, both with dna and the green benefit district and work oncoming to the board in the coming weeks to pass forward. >> thank you, i do not see any comments or questions from my colleagues. we still do not have the a.l.u. here. perhaps we will take public comment on this item. is there any public comment on this item? then come on up and i'll tell you about some things about public comments

why aren't we hitting up amazon for $2 every single time we place an order. not either side of the transaction, but them because they are the ones and the ubers and lyfs, causing the traffic and we don't want to go to the neighborhood and we have to call now. so i just want you to put it in perspective. but i know you probably got kind of hit up today. we don't want plastic either. trust me. even the co-commissioner dwight, probably the first one that doesn't want plastic. we're with you. we just got to work on --. >> the checkout part is fine. 25 cents we're trying to grasp. >> yeah. >> commissioner riley. >> yes. i am with my colleagues. i support the second part of the legislation. i think it's good idea. but i wanted to ask whether or not you have done recent study in terms of behavior. how many people still not bring the bags? and where do we want to be? and to determine whether or not this 15 cent increase is necessary. and do we have any plant to take a look at that to see where we are today? >> thank you, commissioner. supervisor brown that introduced

twenty-six resident for amazon a district 11. he sent a little -- letter in support of this and i neglected to send one to you clerk, so if you want for your file. my story is a little different, because it is out of the special use district. i am fully in support of this ordinance. primarily because in our district we do have a lot of people who move in and remodel their houses. for instance next door to me last year, a house sold for $1.4 million and the day after it closed, memorial day, day after memorial day of 2018 the person who was taking care of my house when i was in paris e-mailed me and told me what was going on. with the bathroom and kitchen permit he gutted the whole house after nine over the counter permits later he was fined $750,000. he reapplied for his building permit and in september of 2018, we sued them, he being represented by an attorney, i represented the neighbor, and we settled out of court. moving nine bedrooms to five bedrooms and six plus bathrooms down to four without paving over the front yard or t

in the age of amazon it is difficult to compete and be able to operate in a way that it's not going to have the neighborhood and be saddled with an two empty shell for ten years. those are my comments. >> perfect. >> if there is nothing further, commissioners. on that motion, commissioners, to approve this matter with conditions as amended to include directing the project sponsor to continue working with the community on security issue measures. [roll call] that motion passes unanimously 6-0. that puts us at item 8. >> good afternoon commissioners, kate connor, planning department staff. i'm going to provide an informational presentation on senate bill 35. a brief overview. can i get the overhead? okay, perfect. a bit of background. senate bill 35 became effective in in january it provided ministerial review of projects that provide a certain amount of affordable housing. the amount of affordable housing is dependent on a toward their housing elements, regional housing needs allocations arena. this bill is applicable statewide. with the only section being those jurisdictions that are a

trees -- so these trees, particularly in the amazon rain forest have been cut down to create pasture land. they've been cut down to grow animal feed, soybeans. and so these are the methods that animal agriculture is devastating our climate. and most recently, and lest you think we're just part of the lunatic fringe here, corey booker says the tragic reality is -- cannot -- [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> as we've already heard from others today, we cannot ignore the part animal ag plays in the global emergency. my name is laurie green and i'm a researcher in ucsf's microbiology lab. i'm also a california native and have lived in san francisco for 15 years. for this reason, i would like to see s.f. ban meat in all of its city funded hospitals. meat today is the new asbestos, more deadly than tobacco. i would like to mention some of the other automatic benefits of such a policy. it takes 50,000 liters of drinking water to produce one kiloof beef. one billion people go hungry on this planet and 20 million will die from mal knnutrition. eliminating meat a

this is the same argument we made two weeks ago, your committee against amazon prime for the same type of abc license, to prevent them to make unrestricted liquor deliveries throughout the city. in affect, taking the business away from our brick and mortar stores, which make up the fabric of our neighborhoods. thankful on that occasion, the committee unanimously voted to deny that application. this license would permit cloud kitchens to deliver alcohol to every corner in san francisco from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. every day. they are backed by $150 million in venture capital funding, and supports uber clinic as a major owner and driver of this business. please deny this application. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item? come on up. >> we had this problem before, this type of controversy, pertaining to a liquor license. and i demonstrated that i got 50% of me favors it, and the other 50% doesn't favor it. the part that doesn't favor it is if you're the contributing to out of control alcoholics, and don't know how

on monday, along with bay resistance, and other labor allies, we helped organize a protest at amazon headquarters to hold them accountable to the ways that they are impacting communities here, particularly immigrant communities and working with and collaborating with i.c.e. we are here today with similar values in mind, and making sure that these large companies and corporations are really investing and accountable to the residents of san francisco. for that reason, we support and i.p.o. tax on companies such as pinterest, and uber and others to make sure that the vulnerable residents of this city are able to gain some of the benefits of having these large corporations in such close proximity to them. we recognize that as these companies i.p.o., their c.e.o.s and executives are expected to become overnight millionaires, many of them already have, and we are expecting an increase of about 6,000 millionaires to san francisco alone, driving at the cost of housing and disproportionately impacting low income and communities of color in the city. so we have talked to many city voters and a

in the age of amazon it is difficult to compete and be able to operate in a way that it's not going to have the neighborhood and be saddled with an two empty shell for ten years. those are my comments.

if you got an e-mail from me asking you to purchase amazon cards or whatever, it wasn't from me and i apologize. >> if there's nothing further, we can move onto department matters. item four, director's announcement. >> no new announcements today. >> item five his review of past events of the board of supervisors, board of appeals in the historic preservation commission. are they not here? okay. yes, there is. the board of appeals did meet last night and take action on two items that maybe of interest to the commission. they held their election of officers, though they can never public -- replaced the previous president. they elected rick swig to the office of president and and lazarus to the office of vice president. they heard an appeal of determination and the issuance of the appeal is the appropriate fee methodology for the project. last year, the mohcd and planning work together to modify the methodology for payment of the in lieu fee for the inclusionary affordable housing program and for a per unit fee to a person where for fee. this change became effective on january 1st of th

there's always been a sort of interesting dynamic with investors and amazon amazon was really it really wasn't profitable and told around 2015 and it only started posting real like above $1000000000.00 profits in 2017 and investors are really willing to just sort of look aside and focus on the revenue growth and that sort of helped it become one of the biggest companies in the world despite only having small revenues but what's sort of shifted over the past few years is that amazon's revenue growth has started to slow it's sort of face saying new competition and it's facing just you know the problems that come with being such a massive company and i think that's been really concerning for investors so people really want to see amazon make a big investment and you know the future of growth for this company is so i think they're generally was you know i think investors are looking for amazon to make these investments and they're willing to sort of discount the profits and we did see that and the stock reaction yesterday there was general concern about about the cost of this and we saw the

and amazon of course is working hard to increase profit and to do that it needs workers they should be flexible and not too costly in the u.s. it's now become quite a trend for workers to camp in vans close to warehouses of online giants ws all of us reports. the recreational vehicle the r.v. a symbol of freedom. home is wherever you take it and were ever work may take you. to camp grow your own the warehouse in hebrew in kentucky is home to a road that doesn't work campers it's 2 pm time to get up for robert barker he works the night shift. good morning good morning robert are you doing good hours here should. it was great ok yeah easy money man you know basically robert you have your whole life inside that man yeah i've been living in my van for 6 years now. working seasonal work for amazon and i've done some also i've worked a job in alaska salmon cannery have worked and beat harvest and. amazon's been really good to me and it's really easy money and allows me the freedom to do what i want. robert is $46.00 he has no partner no children and very few expenses amazon pace's camp side

place amazon business in the process. our financial correspondent yan's court joins us now from was street yes so ali baba taking on amazon going head to head with amazon what chance does on about the have here. well i mean overall ali baba already has some experience in the u.s. and the market to be so business to business market is huge it's estimated to serve this year a trillion dollars so there was quite some potential and if i understand correctly ali baba's going a bit of a different way than amazon specially small american companies are going to keep the customer relationships and also the data so that is something that has not been offering that easy in the past so yes there is a certain chance for ali baba to get a piece of this is a huge market. some new opportunities there then but timing is obviously clearly an issue what impact would the u.s. china trade war have on ali baba's plans to push further into the u.s. . timing certainly could be better in regards to the trade tensions between china and chinese com

in a lot of criticism about amazon and concern about the growing online tree industry would mean for work environments in the united states but one thing seems to be clear that the work campers in kentucky applied to nothing but the lifestyle they chose. it could be a unique place to explore the universe from a wide offering jobs to locals but plans to build a giant telescope of how wise tallest mountain have met with fierce resistance from protest us and they to say the place is sacred. trouble in paradise the construction of the 30 meter telescope on the u.s. state of hawaii's tallest mountain mounted care sparked outrage among locals the $1000000000.00 project is said to be a massive boost to why it's economy which is heavily dependent on blue paint tourism jobs but protesters say the mountain is sacred and they're blocking access to the construction site. we're willing to clear out if the mare and the governor and the t.m.t. promises that they will not build on monaco representatives of the 30 meter telescope remain committed to the project you know we've been working in the comm

amazon 2nd quarter profits were up 3.6 percent to $2600000000.00 amazon sales jumped by 20 percent as customers flock to its one day delivery. our markets correspondent was san luis joins us now from was st louis so 2 attack heavyweights 2 closely watched quarterly results what stood out to you. a couple of things that you know it's a case that not only did company b. done revenue on their names for sure but have even lowered costs that leads to where a spect in these represents the payments google makes it to companies like apple for example for its search engine to be the default browser all devices also welcome by its investors $25000000000.00 buyback program or no amazon no good the reaction though you know one day shipping costs seem to be helping sales but reducing deals will continue their current quarter also it's a business that disappointed with revenues growing all the 37 percent this is the 1st time over the last 5 years 10 for the most lucrative recorded world below 40 percent on all the store side despite continued promotions at whole foods new openings obama so go with

ivan 3 to our new. 80 year old ivan cantor is the oldest employ yet amazon's hebrew and warehouse he and his wife law reign work to top up their pensions and they say to have a better life personally i need a home base ah. but. that the ferment i don't like to get out travel to and this gets a free opportunity to do that. more financial security but you have to hit the road to get it perhaps not everyone's dream but it seems to work for something. a lot of criticism about amazon and concern about what the growing online troop industry will mean for work environments in the united states but one thing seems to be clear though the work tempers in kentucky one helping with the lifestyle a job. well my camper van is parked outside and that's it from the other g.w. business team thank you so much for watching. fake hair and real story. where i come from a lot of women like me have fake hair sometimes the hair style takes up to 200 that's a lot of time that needs to be filled so people at the sun long talk about what's happening in their lives. i became a journalist to be a storyteller and

of amazon say yesterday that they are seeing some early benefits of this. they saw a slight acceleration in north american sales a little bit stronger and our national sales they always point. to this prime day where it's always a record but basically it's another record survey they are saying that they're seeing the benefits but he also said you know this is sort of a shock to the system the size of this investment is it's really it's going to take a while it's going to take us a few quarters to really see how it plays out now financial market correspondent see delay any talking to us and now to some other global business stories making the news. the u.s. economy failed to live up to donald trump's promises of 3 percent growth last year the commerce department says the world's biggest economy grew more slowly in $28000.00 than previously estimated revised official figures put growth down to 2 and a half percent he was trying to trade wars we're seeing on some. u.s. microblogging and social networking service twitter added 5000000 new uses in the 2nd quarte

in new antitrust regulators will investigate online retailer amazon to see if it uses data from 3rd party merchants to improve its own market position the oak were. from the office of the e.u. competition commissioner a stocker follows complaints from merchants who say click and purchase data on their sells through the site are being used to improve amazon's positioning of its own merchandise coincidentally germany's antitrust authority announced wednesday an agreement with amazon for the retailer to assume more liability for 3rd party order fulfillment and let's check in with our financial correspondent in new york he ends quarter ends europe once again applying pressure on a american tech giants any reaction there on wall street to these announcements well i mean we did see it takes stocks a little bit under pressure here in the wednesday session and we do not just get the regulatory oh political pressure out of europe but also within the united states there is quite a debate going on but interestingly enough wall street does not seem to be too call on certain at least at this point if

the world on these moves a threat to google and amazon in any way well what we've seen recently i mean for example yesterday facebook were fined $5000000000.00 in the us of a previously concerns nevertheless in the next breath they announce some stunning financial figures google has been fined 9000000000 by the e.u. over the past 2 years that's 3 separate fines that add up to 9000000000 and still it posts healthy results so it seems like they've proven that are able to absorb these problems that said it seems like not a week goes by where some country doesn't say we're going to crack down on tech giants the most recent as you mentioned is today australia saying they're going to look particularly at google and facebook and that dominant positions in the advertising markets but we've heard from the just it's departments in the united states they're going to look at big internet firms we expect both amazon and alphabets to be involved in that for their parts from alphabet to said we understand there is going to be more scrutiny and we will engage constructively oh right you know what's re

business news now and amazon is trying to speed up its deliveries and for that it needs and for most of us is thought unusual to move to a different city to take up a new job but in the so-called gig economy moving house to be gay or job can become necessary on a weekly basis while it is in the us the campaign vans in trade as close to the warehouses of amazon and other online giants and they have no fixed address and many actually appreciate the feeling of freedom this lifestyle gives them as did obvious all of a sudden it reports. the recreational vehicle the r.v. a symbol of freedom. home is wherever you take it and were ever work may take you. to. a campground you're on the warehouse and cheaper on kentucky is home to a round it doesn't work camp purse it's 2 pm time to get up for robert barker he works the night shift. good morning good morning robert all you do and good how is your shift it was great oh great yeah easy money man so basically robert you have your whole life inside that yeah i've been living in my van for 6 years now. working seasonal work for amazon and i've don

antitrust regulators will investigate amazon the world's largest online retailer to see if its use of other merchants data breaches the block's antitrust rules meanwhile here in germany the consumer protection agency have a victory against the e-commerce giant german authorities are making amazon change how it works with 3rd party merchants in europe both the sellers and amazon and need to take more responsibility for incomplete or inaccurate order fulfillment will also need to wait 30 days before blocking or closing selling at closing the seller account excuse me in exchange germany's federal cartel office says it will drop its investigation into amazon. now the latest figures from the international air transport association show demand for passenger aviation in the next 2 decades is going to surge and the asia pacific region with countries like china indonesia and those leading the charge but in europe so-called flight shame is increasing social pressure on travelers not to fly as they're made out to consider the environmental impact of each trip. 100000 that's how many people come