that would pay a lot of money to do this. a number of these were developed on sunday. we did a total for 66 years based on the average. the comes to a significant amount of money. you have the built-in support of all the groups that spoke here today. they show where the development of to go in their neighborhood. this was the attempt of octavia and the ballot proposal. >> thank you.

>> i want to follow up his comments. when we have the chinatown residents and seniors, we ask them how you get down to the waterfront. we say that you take the 15 with a 30 bus. chinatown, you never go east. they have the buses to go to fisherman's wharf. it is so boring to go. i practically cry listening to the seniors who had no concept of walking down washington because this was so dead. and an old man who takes his kids to fisherman's wharf talks about how there is no place to set and there is a long walk.

it is easy going down but going up may be a problem. and you listen to people saying that there is nothing for them. we need to have something that is not boring so we can sit down as we are walking down from senior housing on broadway. it is like we have this enormous water from resource and this is cut off from the people who live close to it, who have no access to this. the freeway ramps really cut people off. they're good at moving a lot of people in cars. if we do not use time in the next year to change this right now, we are blowing an opportunity.

we have to take seriously the improvements that we are talking about on broadway, and on washington in particular. there is no excuse for having this everywhere except this area. we also need to get the parking solutions now. the farmers' market cannot function with a dysfunctional parking system where there are nine different garages close to the farmers' market. they need a uniform validation system from last year that allows people to go to the farmers' market, and park in three and four. these are both very close. using this and not having people use the parking meters on the street.

this is an abomination. thank you. >> and is there additional public comment? this is closed. commissioner? >> i appreciate all of the input from the group, and i remember the discussions before the approval of the northeast waterfront plan, and it contains a lot of the same elements. there was talk about opening the streets, specifically to the waterfront which is a good point. and also, the idea that the heights godown as you move north and then step up as you move away from the water. there was mention of a situation similar to south beach. the heights are high until you get south of bryant, and then

they will step down. you can replicate on the north side what you did on the south side. these of the discussions that we had a year ago, when we spoke about the plan for the northeast neighborhood. a couple of other reflections, the idea about parking is important because a lot of people will not walk very far, if they can't park closely. this is something where we have to figure out what to do, and noticing this is a good thing, because if we have new parking in, having as visible and accessible for people, people visiting from elsewhere and asking them to use transportation -- and a lot of people have new experiences and they won't go somewhere, and

there will patronize the business if they cannot be nearby. i have noticed these are jammed up a lot of the time. and if we exercise the plan to extend through the tunnel, we will have even more demand. we'll have to find out a way to run more cars. maybe some supplemental transit may have to be put in. this is an efficient way to move from downtown to the fisherman's wharf area. this is a good one. it is interesting that there is discussion about a hotel coming up. there was a hotel that was not approved and this was not appropriate for whatever reason. there was a plan on broadway and the embarcadero.

maybe there is more interest in this. i appreciate all the input. >> commissioner fong? >> it is nice to see thoseç0nf you i have not seen in a while. and is important for this area, in the area of san francisco. and we're talking about circulation and this was done back in the day. this is an important part of the series. we have the potential opportunity before us.

this is not that easy. this is the exploratory and, they started to come to this -- these uses start to have more of a fabric. >> the but the study together and i appreciate them, and they noticed the difference between the department study, and this was before us right now.

they do follow one into the other. i was amused by the former commissioner and his comments, because i had an office just on the other side of market street. the changes are unbelievably enormous. there are times and we have had before this commission comments on the bay trail, on the continuation of recreation areas, or use our with a major development. and these are spaced out. if anything can be spaced out, this is along the waterfront. you have fisherman's wharf at one end, and south beach at the

other end of the area. we are talking about the ferry building in the center. hopefully we will get the new cruise ship terminals -- terminals, but unfortunately, we had to visit the old cruise ship terminals because of my business for many years. i was ashamed that this is how the visitors are introduced to san francisco. i appreciate the comments on the financial feasibility. these kinds of studies often did not take this into consideration. i still have a lot of questions regarding this. the comparisons to the city, such as the central freeway octavia boulevard, study and

development, we do not have 13 years. we have the america's cup coming, with billions of visitors coming to the city. but this concerns itself with certain neighborhoods, much more than they did the entire city, even though this was a major drop. this is not just a neighborhood, this is a jewel of san francisco and the city. we have to look at this a little bit differently in my mind and a little bit more seriously. it is major in that aspect. what we do with this will be around with us for the next hundred years. they have mentioned to the transportation which is

absolutely important. this is a failure, in my estimation. it does not work. i have not been an expert on transportation and i am and not about to tell them how to fix this. at the moment, transportation is not working. we are at the farmers' market 7:30 every saturday morning. they have elevated the parking but the underpinning is so bad that it has become this dangerous. that has been this way for a couple of years. validation in the parking lot and information about their availability, that is about it. the coordination is extremely poor. i do not know if the courts should take this over or the

farmers' market or the neighborhood and make a raja operator, but someone has to be able to coordinate this. with the information systems are available to us regarding the availability of parking spaces, this should not be a difficult situation to put into effect. i look forward to the continuation. this is a plan that is agreed upon in a very short time. >> you are on item number eight, the 34th america's cup. the informational hearing.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. i am joined by the planning staff. the item before you is the informational presentation on the proposed america's cup event, at the cruise terminal on the northeast whorf plaza project. joining me today representing the sponsors are michael martin, the project director from the mayor's office of economic and work-force development, diane from the port

of san francisco. and also with me is atom from the mayor's office, but the economic development office. the america's cup event authority, the aerial underwriter, and also with me, from the staff is chris kerns and peter albert. the project's sponsors will give you an overview of the project for your inflammation and answer any questions about the project and the descriptions. this is not a hearing on the sequel of argument. this will be available on monday, july 11. public comment will be heard before this commission on august 11, 2011, closing the public hearing on august 25. this will return to the

commission for certification sometime in the fall. i will hand things over to michael martin from the mayor's office. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am from the office of economic and work-force development. just getting the power poinsettia up. i am giving you an informational presentation about the america's cup, and the plans for the cruise ship terminal. generally speaking, to give you

an overview on what we are doing today, i will run through the event and the organizational structure that we have worked with under the host and the new agreement, with the cooperation with other public agencies to plan for what is coming. this is a big effort to make certain that everything comes off without a hitch. we will look into the implementation plans being developed with a different subject areas, and do a quick overview of the upcoming milestones with aspects of the project description coming out along with the environmental impact report. so first, we will start with the venue agreement, which was signed on december 21 of 2010, with san francisco as the host city. the parties to the event of the america's cup authority, who are called the project sponsor.

they have all the offshore activities. the sister agency is in charge of the portion of the water. and when you look at these sorts of -- putting on the competitive events, managing the water space. there are three pillars of the city's obligations to bring this to life. the first of them as environmental california quality, getting approval for this after this was completed earlier this year. there are also plans required to be completed, with different approaches to the subject matter as i have described. this is later in the presentation. and the federal and state -- to create a permanent infrastructure, to allow the use

of the bay and the shoreline areas. and we will work with our federal and state partners. a quick overview of the timeline, initially, what will happen is a series of events, call the america's cup world series. with the same teams. they have announced three cities for the remainder of this year. soon there will be announcing the dates for next year's locations. and we know we will have a couple of events in san francisco in this timeframe and each of them will be a one-off that is not related to the competitive ending of the america's cup itself.

this'll be a taste of excitement of a little bit lower scale. we are looking for a helpful opportunity to test out the things that we want to do on a smaller scale before we get to the america's cup. when we get to 2013 in july, for the first of september, we will have the challengers' series where everyone faces off to see who will challenge for the final period there is the defenders' series during this time, in case they want to compete to be the defender. it is not clear if this will happen. but this will be connected to the other races during that timeframe. and in september of 2013, we will have the america's cup final, the best of nine series. and a summary of what we have done in the six months, the six months since the agreement was signed. we had a great deal of public

engagements which has helped us to understand what is important to san francisco. we have had over 35 public meetings and i would say that we are now over 40 since the last time that we presented this. the engagement in community feedback, we have been appreciative of. we also have the partners web site, -- this is unfortunately very illegible, but put this out with the breadth of the planning effort. please do not strain your eyeballs. this is basically the committed passport and the committees with the partners that are going to

different subject matter. i shows because the top box is the america's cup cord nation committee. they basically meet on a regular basis at this time, and over the prior month to talk about the next steps so people do not realize with the other pieces are doing. it would take each half of that organization -- organizational structure, showing the inter- agency task force. these are the partners at all local and state level. and also the public safety agencies. you have local governments from the bay area, with the issues that would like to see addressed. we have the federal agency coronation team, the public safety team that includes law enforcement and fire, and emergency medical planning, and the transportation team as well

as freight transportation agencies to develop a plan to move people around. part of the city that is obviously very beautiful but constricted with options for transportation. this has been a major effort to that was spearheaded. we have specific partners at the court venues, parks and recreation and the waterfront. this is a place where they can talk about the collective concerns and the approaches to challenges that they are all facing. and the water task force, the u.s. coast guard has been a partner in coordination among the different harbor safety communities, and the law enforcement agencies. we had a number of different stakeholders.

we have the permit process that would allow for these events to be managed well. the other side of the organization talks about the initiatives with the authority and the america's cup organizing committee. the america's cup organizing committee is another party for the agreement, and this is charged with fund-raising, and they are spearheading the other committee. they are really helping us to be a force multiplied to make this unique to san francisco. this is vital with the partners, and a number of other

cities to bring the america's cup world series around the world. this will be key, as the teams start to arrive. we want to make certain that they successfully relocate here as soon as possible. with the excitement of their operations to the bay. community engagement, we're looking at you if involvement, which is called for with the workforce development plan. we're working with the approach to have the authority itself is going to be able to contract with local business, and what are we going to be able to do to set them up with the local economy. the partnerships, we want to engage with them and the network to understand how we can mutually enhance each other. and then there is the inability

planning. this is what san francisco wants to see. this is an event that strives for various sustainability goals, and we are working for the conjunction with this process so that we can really put out what is that they're trying to be. the implementation plans i mentioned, it calls for nine of them. we recognize the benefits of having a few other plants with that, and i will go through those quickly. the idea is to have a place to aggregate of the performance measures and implementation strategies relevant to subject matter areas. coming out of this process but also the permits from the federal agencies and around strategies with the partners so that we can have a one-stop shop with things related to how to move people along the waterfront or was going to happen in terms of youth

involvement. the important thing is coordination, to understand where the sources of the strategies come from and where these end up with the legal documents that set forth how the event will be brought forward. this is something that is key in bringing the whole picture forward so that when the time comes after this process for the policy-makers to approve of the project, they have to understand what they are proving in a holistic sort of way. on march 31, we submitted the initial drafts, the waste management plan the ambush marketing plan. there is work force development and youth involvement, and then a couple of additional plans i mentioned earlier, as we look at the operations plan where we talk about how we safeguard the

park resources that we will be using, and the angle that is focused on their use of the port water fund, and the activities from the waterfront to be able to undertake. to further my earlier reference of coordination, we have a number of in -- of agencies we are engaged with. we have a federal permits, and this is what i mentioned earlier. we have water traffic on the bay with the national park service permit, with the land that will be used for spectator venues, primarily along the port waterfront. there also other federal issues related to the team, that could

easily be real -- relocated to the united states that we are working on. the upcoming milestones, we have the issues of the draft and we will be issuing a draft plan related to the operating issues and the people plan status report at the end of march, the initial status report affecting public comment responses up through may 19, another one which shows the discussions we have had for the next one that comes out in the next couple of days, and then we will have another update in august, leading up to the final people plan, in the end of september. we understand what we would need to do to move people through the waterfront. we will have engagement and the fr