the transportation and land use component and how it very much supports the overall goals of sustainability for this project and for the city in terms of reducing per capita vehicle miles traveled. a couple of the more notable components of the sustainability program relate to the water program and the energy program. there is a sustainability plan which you have received in your packet some time ago, and that document goes to great lengths laying out the quantitative metrics and implementation of the sustainability program, from waste and trash to construction, habitat, wildlife habitat, as well as things like water and energy production.

this sustainability plan is very much tied to the ongoing monitoring bill out of the plants. each has to report on how well the bill doubt is living up to the metrics. -- each has to report on how well the bill that out -- build out is living up to the metrics. you are familiar with the storm water programs, and returning flows to lake merced and reducing the overall flow into the source system. one thing we discussed briefly is the non potable recycled water program. this part of the city is in the city's recycled water ordinance area. there are very few parts of

this, and that means that all billings have to be dual plumbed for the valuable water recycling. this project in addition to living up to the legal obligation will be building not a distribution infrastructure for recycled water. that means when the streets are torn up, there will be putting in all the piping to eventually connect to the eventual water supply system which the puc is considering a the west side of the city on lake merced boulevard and tap into that and the future. the result is a very substantial reduction of potable water use, such that once this is fully built out, it will use barely any more potable water then is used today, because a very substantial amount of households and district water will be

serviced by this non potable water. as a very substantial ecological benefit to the project. the last component is the renewable energy program. i will let michael discuss the landmark agreement that has been reached regarding that. >> i want to emphasize that we are moving fast because of the lightness of the hour. in addition, we have negotiated a separate ancillary agreement that will govern energy use at the site. the sustainability plan set some goals that we have formalized in this agreement, specifically the baseline requirements of the project, that 10% of the

project's energy at build out be generated from renewable sources, new renewable sources, and assisting to existing sfpuc and pg&e mix. this would be a substantial improvement over the existing renewable energy mix. in addition the project has committed to and we will enforce and the development agreement that 10% of the project cost total energy consumption be generated through cogeneration, which is a way of utilizing waste heat and things like that from building operations to generate excess energy that can be recycled and provided back to the residence or documents of the buildings. finally, the sustainability plan speaks of the project's goal of achieving that zero non renewable energy consumption. the target here was to take the existing and she consumption, --

the existing energy consumption and attempt to hold that constant. we are working on an innovative accounting system that would attract each development phase and allow us to keep tabs on whether the product is meeting its targets and then would have an incentive structure for the project to meet those targets. finally i would like to remind you of the sustainability plan sets ambitious conservation goals because we are aiming net zero. it is not just about producing energy but saving energy. this project has committed to exceeding existing title 24 standards, minimum 50% more efficiency for residential building envelopes, minimum 10% greater efficiency for all other nonresidential buildings,

commitment to meet or exceed the title 24 standards for any renovations, commit to exceed by 10% on new infrastructure performance. and then some other rather innovative commitments that are not code required, including installation of what are called vampire outlets which cut energy drain when people are out of buildings and ensure that the project uses the top tier of energy efficiency, energy efficient appliances, exceeding state requirements. these are all things this particular project sponsor a voluntarily proposed, and i think that deserves some recognition, although we have not focused on the component of the projects a much. with that, i believe we are open for questions. >> very good.

-- president miguel: very good. due to the fact that this is the report and informational hearing, and the lightness of the hour and the number of, cards, -- and the number c ofomment cards, there will be one minute per person. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is julien. i speak to you tonight in protest of the park merced development plan and the developers tenuous position. they have a history of dubious

ventures that we're not sure of their ability to finance this project. most recently it was reported that left the city of vancouver literally holding the bag at the 2010 winter olympics project. vancouver had to borrow the money to complete the construction of the public. i have the article here. i will attach it to my presentation. fortress is being sued for over 500 trillion dollars for mortgage fraud and its role in the subprime crisis. president miguel: thank you. >> is that it? president miguel: yes. >> i have my remarks here. >> we're having some technical difficulties with the land -- with the main microphone at the podium.

if you could please use the shorter microphone on your left. thank you very much. >> the evening, commissioners. my name is john. i am managing partner of the park merced shopping center, the only retail outlet that exists today. today i'm going to talk about being a merchant. even though we're also property owners. there are 12 merchants there. we are doing fine, but now with a new shopping center coming, we need your help to make sure that we can coexist and survive. that includes the road at park merced, that they want to build from 19th avenue, but we need more help than that as possible. they're going to take a bus stop in front of our shopping center that brings a lot of people, use that boston out -- use that bus stop.

we would like to see that relocated. we would like directions to our shopping center on this big property. and we just really need your help. our future is in your hands. thank you. president miguel: thank you. the other one, bernie. >> ok, thank you. thank you for your endurance. there are two points to the performance analysis that need to be revised. one is we have made alternative proposals which have not been responded to for resident ownership of the project, second, there is the general plan compliance that protect social equity, which is your duty to conserve, such as cumulative impact of capital budgets that have not been

properly done in terms of sustainability of our infrastructure, citywide, at to which they have made a partial move. there is a housing element to protect the long-term and permit below market residents compliance for the 90% of our residents who cannot afford to either rat at market value to begin with. thank you. president miguel: elizabeth, vivian. >> good evening. my name is elizabeth. i am a small business under and san francisco, and i'm here to speak in favor of the project. i would urge the commission to move ahead with the initiation

process for planning approval. the plan is both visionary and rigorous in its thoughtful approach to sustainable design and would be a model not only for california but the nation. that is a new neighborhood, and we have the opportunity here to move ahead and provide for their services to the entire city. thank you. president miguel: thank you. >> good evening. my name is david. i am the director of research and planning at the california college of the arts in san francisco. testifying using my expertise and architecture and urban design. the plan and the design standards and guidelines provide a comprehensive and complete design framework for developments, and they provided care for the considered model for creating a vibrant,

sustainable there. at park merced. the amount of housing post and its density is appropriate. the plan provides advisory of housing types to support a divorce population of future residents, including young professionals, families, seniors, and students. the design standards and guidelines contained intelligent urban design line controls that will ensure the buildings are constructed and are of high quality and comparable with buildings of earlier phases. president miguel: thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. i have been a resident of park merced for 20 years, single- parent, raised three children, and it is a wonderful place for kids to grow up. i live in a garden apartment and i have no problems with the

neighbors. my kids were allowed. we had no people above or below us and it was really nice. i just hope that you oppose this development because it will affect 9000 human beings will be traumatized by this, and i hope you really think about it and put people first and money last. thank you. president miguel: thank you. nellie, christy, melanie. >> i am nellie. i have lived in park merced for 40 years with my son. i strongly oppose3 thank you.

>> thank you. [applause] >> i'm crystal, i've been a resident of park merced for 20 years. my mother raised me single and my sisters have their kids and raising their families there. a lot of families living on a fixed income. i'm wondering what is going to happen to the elderly if they get put in a high-rise. god forbid an earthquake happens and they can't escape, or if any -- what happens with all of the trees and the animals that -- that walk around. i don't want to see a tree replaced by a meter. it is ridiculous. i totally oppose this. i like misses hiss stark merced the way it is about a lot of history for my family and san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. >> excuse me, i need to ask all of you to refrain from clapping

and so on during the proceedings. >> my name is nelly delgado. my whole family has two apartments in park merced. you know, i completely disagree in the demolition of park merced. i have my children there. my mom lives there, we all happy the way it is right thousand. and they -- i can't imagine feel -- filling it up with tourists, more people. you know. park merced and also the streets around it. i completely oppose this -- the development. and -- with all of the tenants with what they have to say. thank you. >> michael, kathy lynn, ben.

>> good evening. thank you for hearing us. i read -- my name is mike, i'm a long-term park merced resident and fourth generation born franian. i read the analysis report. i'm not a lawyer but it is clear the city stands to benefit from the project and and city and the developers stand to make big money on this. that's probably why it is enormous scale. but also enormous, the economic impact -- that this community doesn't fit in a consultant's report and the economic diversity that is vital to this part of the city, last affordable area that -- by beautiful city, becoming an island of nhl theirs. we need -- millionaires. we need economic diversity and ethnic diversity in san francisco. i teach high school in the city.

i can't afford what these condos and rents will be should this development go through. thank you for your time. can i submit somebody else's comments? >> yes. if you leave them, the secretary will take them. >> thank you. >> my name is kathy wince. i lived in park merced 50 years. i cub mitted a comment on the c.r.b. report that physically this is not a good investment for the community. i have also submitted comments and proposition m that the zoning changes should not be implemented. it is truly sad and irresponsible that the city considers partnershipping with the project. it is a project that is detrimental to 1% of the population in san francisco who live here. thank you.

>> hello, commissioners. thank you for your time. >> my name is ben. i'm an eight, to nine-year resident of the outer richmond district. i don't live in park merced but i'm here to support my neighbors who appear on the brink of losing their community. i want to speak on the housing element of the gem plan. objectives and policies of housing supply. two main tenants of the plan state at the top of the housing element, that the city supply below-market housing be preeverybodied is and enhanced. that the existing housing be conserved and protected in order -- to preve the cultural and economic diversity of our preserve our cultural and economic diversity. i appreciate the reference to the well-being of the potentially displaced residents. it is specified in the housing

element that these emotional and psychological needs be addressed and since they haven't, be done with the plan and start over. >> thank you. >> tin, karen, faulkner. >> good evening commissioners, i know it is almost morgue. my name is diva -- almost morning. >> my name is diva lynn. i'm opposed to demolition of housing for fam loys in san francisco. i don't believe -- familys in san francisco. i don't believe this is a safe man. regardless of everything i heard tonight, there's nothing that can convince me this will be a safe plan. i think about what happened in haiti nearly a year ago when nearly 200,000 people were lost. i think about the heartbreak of

the parent who is lost the children when china had a massive earthquake a few years ago. and when you put thousands of people in a situationlike that, it is going to have a disastrous outcome and here in the earthquake, even park merced left standing which should tell you something. little sun y0eu6b -- little sunnyville was left standing. one of the buildings collapsed and the mar reap that nearly collapsed. i don't believe they could rebuild a new park merced. thank you. >> allani. >> good evening commissioners. i'm a park merced resident. i'm here to oppose the man. i feel that it is -- it is terribly wrong for all of the

tenants in park merced. i think that -- i think -- much of the advertisement that park merced puts out about the urban place with a suburban space. yes, it is a very beautiful place. it is a fantastic place. and i think that tearing it down and leaving us homeless is very wrong. i lived threw the teardown of the fillmore district. my grandmother's home was torn down in hawaii for -- for tourism. a park was made. so this -- this will be the third time that i have been displaced. i think it is wrong. i think it is going to be terrible. i know what the outcome is. it is going to be homelessness. thank you so much. >> thank you. all right. i'm a fourth generation san franciscan. i want to apologize for some of our residents that had to leave. they didn't realize how late

this was going to run. we thought it was 6:00 according to the calendar. it turned out it ran late due to a lot of circumstances beyond anyone's control. i have a -- one -- one of the people that evident had, dennis norg ton had these things he like to have districted -- distributed to the commissioner. i would comment in passing, the wonderful economic projections made could be -- could turn out to be very misleading. if you have an earthquake, a major one, liquid fiction could occur as it did in the tower. you could have a -- the pipes go. maybe it is a bad element but i watch on pbs the stuff on pompey and others. surprises can happen. figure out what it means. >> bomb garner, jim cook, mora.

>> good evening. i'm a park merced resident. i'm here to support the project. i wanted to voice again my wholehearted support of the project and my confidence in the oversight process that i witnessed here in the past three hearings. as -- as a current resident of the property i'm continually amazed how much effort they put into maintaining the 60-year-old buildings, if they're going to do half as much due diligence to create a new environment, i'm supportive of that. it is a great place to live. i amaude the efforts you're making to support the project. >> thank you. good evening. my name is jim cook. i'm a long-time resident. i support the project. it is going to be -- to be able

to afford the affordable housing and the opportunity to own your home. and park merced will be a model the united states. -- as far as a safer community with improved access to better transportation, to public and private partnerships that maybe the only option in today's economic environment. you have an opportunity to make a historic and courageous vote and move this -- this project forward. there have been hundreds of meetings that the -- at -- that the residents have attended. they been put on by the project sponsor and the time -- to time to act is now. don't let an opportunity slip through that is an opportunity for san francisco and america. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. commissioners, i hope you would clearly see a rebuilding of park merced is the best thing that could happen to our little part

of the city. however, after listening to the -- the parties, i feel it is my duty as a member of the community to step up and express my thoughts and concerns. i know people are afraid, changes always scary but -- but if change keeps us from doing what we felt was right and best, then america wouldn't be -- what it is today. and people like me would not have the opportunities to have the life that i have. one -- one can clearly visit the property and see that it is one -- once -- was a beautiful project but it was -- it was a short-term one. the property -- the proper materials were not used when it was built and the space was -- wasn't well thought out. i urge the commissioners to do the right thing here and help us out -- >> thank you. >> thank you. tony zhang, carol couples, vince boredy.

good evening commissioners. my name is tony zang. i live in park merced. i would like to you remember you to -- the commissioners to listen to the residents, that want to change and move forward with the project. so i -- i fully support the project. i have a -- a young daughter, she's required to go to another community to play as this are little family with children left in the community. instead, a bunch of people -- that have been there, things -- since 40's and 50's, well -- this is not just their -- their community, it is ours too. so we have the right to enjoy our home as much as they are over the past 60's. so i urge you to please, please,

let this company to make our home a better one. thank you so much. >> thank you. good evening. my name is carol koppel. i lived at park merced going on 21 years. i always enjoyed my home and i say i understand why people have a fear and discourage the vision. however, these apartments are quite old and quite frankly have been very unsafe. i can only imagine what park merced management spends in a year on my apartment's upkeep. i do not see how they could survive longer. i'm afraid of losing a company that has been always honest and forthcoming with changes and improvements. let's be real here. something has to happen. park merced will have to be rebuilt soon. i hope the current owners are the ones that get to do this as

they're the ones and -- they're the only ones that i have seen in 20 years who have shown care for the property, care for me, care for my future and for my home. thank you very much. >> thank you. hello commissioners. i'm -- i'm a four-year resident of park merced. i believe that -- that -- like -- i have enjoyed my community. but park merced is getting old. in the past four years i lived there, i put in almost 100 work orders to have things fixed. the maintenance team has done a good job of fixing it. i feel like the time and resources to fix up the housing cob better spent and that it would -- clearly be more economically feasible if park merced was tore down and rebuilt. >> joel koppel, gene dorothy, elizabeth keith.