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([inaudible]. >> instructor: the staff is asking for a one week continuance, the 27th of september, also further on your calendar, commissioner, item 18 on the corrected calendar, case
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number 2011 [inaudible] clay street, it's my understanding that the project sponsor has requested a one week continuance because they're trying to work out an agreement and staff is requesting a further continuance to the 27th of september, with that, commissioners, i'm not aware of any other matter on the calendar for continuance. >> are any other items on the calendar that are proposed for continuance. seeing none, commissioner borden. >> i have a question before i make a motion, why is the last item, the one item being proposed to may, that's far off. >> i'm david lindsay from the department staff, the property owners currently live in london and they're working from there
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trying to resolve this with the dr requester, it was the project sponsor that is requested this date out in may. they are looking at an option that would require a variance so i think the plan is for the project sponsor to file a variance application, go through that process and see where they are. >> okay. with that, i will move to continue items 1 to the date on the calendar, item 2 to october 18th, item 3 to october 4 and item 4 to the date on the calendar, and then continue item 12 to september 27th and item 18th also to october 27. >> second. >> commissioner, the motion on the floor is to continue 1, 3 and 4 as they are proposed on
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calendar, item 2 to october 13, item 12 to september 17 -- 27, and item 18 to september 27. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> commissioner fong. >> this was passed unanimously. >> item 5 and 6 make up the consent calendar, these items are considered to be routine, there will be no separate discussion on these items unless the public requests, in that event, the matters will be removed from consent and be considered a separate item. item number 5 is case number 2012317b, it's a request to
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establish [inaudible] of office use under the eastern [inaudible]. item 6 is case number 20070049e, san antonio backup pipeline, certification of the final environmental impact report. i believe there were corrections sent to you and i believe those corrections were sent timely and this item is for you under the consent calendar also. with that, commissioners, following any public comment on this item which would automatically remove these items for consent, they are before you for your consideration. >> is there any public comment on these items on consent? seeing none, commissioner borden. >> i move to approve item 5 and
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6 on the consent calendar >> >> second. >> the motion before you commissioners is for approval of both items on consent, commissioner antonini. >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> they are approved as they are proposed. commissioner, item number 7 is commissioner's questions and matters. >> commissioner borden. >> hi, there was this interesting spur smart city summit meeting they had the other day, there's a new company called motion law, they have sensors and it refers to sensors that tracks people and bicycles in addition to cars, and they talked about how they're work witching the union square and working with businesses to figure out the amount of traffic volume of sidewalks at different time,
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they are censored in 18 different neighborhood, they don't take pictures of people, they're able to track people and they're able to work with the businesses there so they can see when the different corners or block areas are most business and i crowded so they can adjust their hours and they were shows how maybe one hour later or earlier, shift in hours for a store that they could capture 90% more opportunity because the number of people that pass by there, and one of the examples that they use which i thought was really informative to our better market street conversation we were having last week is that they were working with show dogs that has that sausage bays on the mid terkt, they were having a lunch and dinner program and they beer -- were promoting it, they were not seeing dinner and practice how they had hoped, by counting cars and bicycles, the amount of congestion in those
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two areas was very high. what they found was even though there was a lot of car and bicycle traffic, there wasn't a lot of traffic, the best time for them was the lunch hour shift, they were losing more people because people were waiting in superlong lines and not having the patience, so now they opened up a place next door that has a grab and go food, in addition to the sausage they have, one of the things they were talking about was helping with economic development and the mid market and i thought it was fascinating because they can provide inexpensively because these son sores go over the 3g network, you stick them in the a window, don't require any special permits and they provide insight as to how or where a business should locate, where the traffic is. the owner was saying -- the
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entrepreneur was saying he has the business [inaudible] if their marketing plans were working so i thought it would be interesting if this company, since they're trying to do more and this being a helpful space, they have it censored in three different neighborhoods, they can tell you about various neighborhoods and i thought it would be interesting because whether we keep cars on market street or other neighborhood plans or when we're looking at spaces and people are wondering why they're not successful, this kind of insight and information could be useful especially when we're work -- working with the more troubled areas, that was the one thing, the other thing i was thinking of the same day when i went to -- when i was going to that forum, dream forest was taking place and there was a problem
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in the muni tunnel, the traffic was shut down, then on the street, there was grid lock, you could not move, i was on the f line, i was coming to city hall going to basically new montgomery and mission and i ended up getting out to walk and i would have walked faster than i would have taken the two points of transit, it made me think about in the america's cup conversation, how do we look at transportation planning with regards to events, we're always worried about the transportation and demand related to approving new housing but there's a bigger issues around events that take place in the city and how do we manage if our transit system can't adequately perform, how do we manage that and what type of strategies do we have around those types of events. that day was a disaster on market street, it gets me scared. >> commissioner borden, i'm
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glad you brought those two issues up because fisherman's wharf is going to implement that and do a before and after bike pedestrian, are we getting off topic? >> right. >> thank you. i'm supportive of the technology as well. commissioner antonini. >> thank you, a couple of items last week, attended the structure's luncheon at business times and i thought this was particularly informative although because of presence on the commission, i was aware of many of the things they were talking about but i thought the presentations were excellent and very informative. and then in keeping with what commissioner borden was talking about, yeah, the subway on market street was very forward thinking when it was built with the muni level on one level, the problem is there isn't redundancy in a lot of places
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and maybe there's something that can solve some of those problems because if you have a problem, there aren't a lot of places that you will be able to cross over the cars, but they have a few of those and maybe over the pretender, -- time, they'll be able to clear out disabled vehicles quicker. and then some meetings, i met with architects and sponsors, i'm not sure of the exact address, 41, thank you, well, i had the letter sort of close will, at least there was a 4 in there, and it's a project that will be before us in a couple of months from my understanding near the off ramp of freemont off ramp and it plans to be oscar park and then i have had calls from dr requester at 1491 delores and i will be meeting with them on that as well as