they can actually be finished. this is one of the best projects that is going to come along. its urban design impact on the public realm are going to be a huge improvement. it is going to be really good for the embarcadero, but the matter very advantageous, the term sheet. at this point, the courts that have looked at enough of these deals that you have a great staff that is really competent. i wouldz&÷ urge that you move forward with the term sheet supporting the outlines of an agreement that works for the developer, works for your staff. i understand if your view is blocked, you would be unhappy, but this project on the whole for the public is highly beneficial. i would nowú÷ like to introduce [inaudible] [laughter]

i'm here representing myself. i have?'%p"dressed you about why you should prioritize taking all the necessary steps to authorize construction of this project. the site is very underutilized. it@q is an urban design disastr in its present form. the planning department has conducted an exemplary public planning process that concluded that a design such as )x is the appropriate development of the site. the good design has only gotten better.2 there is a tremendous long-term shortage of housing in san clfrancisco, and the port is in serious needs of the revenue this project will generate, but i will not$ again today. what i would like to do instead is to address the people in this room who are afraid they are going to lose their health costs. you are> yes, there will be downtime during construction, but that i.

during that time, i invite you to walk just embarcadero why mca, where i am a member. thecv extra walk will be good exercise. membership is much cheaper, and as a you, you can shoot a cannon through that pool andiqv not hit anyone. it is a great club. i know that the common fear is that existing club/ not be welcomed at the÷cz rebuit club. i have no connection with the club, but i can say with complete confidencee@ñ that thas not true. you only have to look at every other health club in the city that is housed in the condominium project. there is no way that the condominium will in any way fill up cl the club owners and managers will be aggressively trying to keep their existing what i'm suggesting is relaxed. byou are not going to lose your

club. you will have a new, better club to come. i ask you, commissioners, to rtñproceed with this project as your staff has recommended, and endorsed the term sheet. fkthank you. 2?zçv>> goodúgz afternoon, commissioners. i'm from the san francisco housing action coalition, and it francisco become a pro-housing city. what we see here is that thñ% is fundamentally a land use question. what is the best use to san ¢jz of seawall lot 51? to date, we are not aware of any other proposed)x alternativs

for this land. windy rfp xbwent out a couple of went out a couple of years ago, there were two respondents,f- and one promptly withdrew. we think that it would be good to put this land usefç question into perspective. when the golden gateway was built in÷r the early 1960's, ths land was already in intensive use, denselí occupied, and we should be clear that residents and businesses were displaced order to accommodate the construction of the golden gateway, which conversation in san francisco about the best use of this land. does anyoneu9z think that this d was sand dunes before the golden gate was built? v washington project displaces no one. what it offers instead%b is opening of jackson street, much more public open space,íd and

unfortunately, something that has not been mentioned is construction of subsidizedbv bw market rate housing for families that would not otherwise be able to stay in saù francisco, so what we are left with is a conversation that is going to need tor crazy town, and that is -- should the city support%m a mid use development at this location or preserve a surface parking lot? ut another way, does san francisco more highly>g valued 3 below market rate subsidize affordable housing units for five6l private tennis courts? we have not heard this conversation take place yet. we jñ remember that sea wall walk 351 belongs to all the people of san-p francisco and nt to one neighborhood. it is fair to ask as a sálz franciscan that the ultimate use of this valuable land be the highest used to the most number fran a

choosing to protect a surface parking lotv who, very ironically, cannot accept any change on the s francisco waterfront compared with the benefits offered by seen would be a catastrophic civic choice. thank you. th. good afternoon, commissioners. hgcarpenter's unit local 22. i stand before you as a person who was born here i have worked all my life as a nd i represent roughly the members of the carpenters' union local 22. i will not even tryz7 to reitere any of the things that have been spoken. .,we, the carpenters who have built the places where we live, [wwork, and play here in sentences, have indoor long and

ñdeep unemployment. we care about what we build here. we are trained and professionals. we think this project is deserving of construction, so we ask the term sheet before you today, and also that you please take every step possible to move this project along to construction so we can go to work. thankq commissioner fong: thank you. >> goodp) afternoon, board members and director. my name is fred allen viceu6 -- allerdyce. láqáq'ting a group known as open space for our waterfront. too the 1960's when san francisco redevelopment took responsibility for north of broadway, will close at all, took away property rights, reduced the area original history as a founding part of san francisco, a

)(q@f neighborhood, and rebuild it with the celebrated golden gateway3z center, the embarcadeo center, and golden gate way commons. itzat is a neighborhood the celebrates a pedestrian benefit. when the plan was approved, andi has won many national and international awards -- when it was approved, davis street, the close of front street, the close of pacific $ avef jackson. today, that is celebrated. you 2x walk -- ride a bike through the city of will in part. you cannot always be through åt all these things make it a neighborhood that is celebrated because of its closeness and#v t being torn apart. the neighborhood hasccñ 1200 rel apartments and over 200 condominiums with over 2500 full-time? and vote and pay taxes here, and they are about to lose, if thk

this club is coming back. the club has nine tennis courts andnhñ over 50,000 square feet f space. the new global have half the space, and anyone with at% logl mind, if they are going to buy a condominium here, knows they (r)s and get the first court that is open. the courts will be cut in half. everymñ in this room and the whole neighborhood knows that club is going away and will never be usedo by the neighborhood that has been using it for 40 years, which looks at it as their recreational center, and something very important to their lifestyle. if any oxa you walked to your part and said, "let's build e-or condominiums in your part", you would go crazy. çlthis will allow people to go across the street to his retail and shops is a crime. we have over 95% that have votet from happening, and you will find out that they will win at

neighborhood. i live at the corner of jones and union, which is the@) cost f russian hill and the down slope of north beach. i have years and then a member here for about the neighborhood and narrow vision ofñ the gentleman from the housing coalitionw% ia mistake. i also think it is a mistake$( o think about people coming in to be able to utilize this broader public in san francisco. i have no way to proveps it, bui people who will buy condominiums in that development will be from marin,v nice. átear, and they can afford it with the bush tax cuts that

probably be expanded. the people who are going to are people who are mide class, lower middle-class, condominiums, living in the km÷extended neighborhoods. the studyast word on that has been done up to date and is partq1ñ of the lawsuit -e hope that the planning department would do a decent we all know that they did not. that is because the debt has beginning. i ask myself every time i come to one z am i wasting my time? the people sitting on the planning commission at the direction of our dear mayor, who i hope becomes lieutenant gova done deal. i'm sorry.

but i think it mighth/ not be a done deal at the board of supervisors. thank you. scommissioner fong: thank you. everybody on a project+l÷ called the watermark. the water mark was another tradezi 351 was in trust for the people gsof san francisco, and the war mark was also such a projectj>. trust land was exchanged sowb t the watermark could be built, but the water marked was going to givef÷ us, give san franciso somethingrv very prize, which would be a cruise boat terminal. 6xñi walk down the embarcadero every dayí apartmentstu all the way down o

the ballpark, and the0?ñ watermk happens to be one of the ugliest buildings i have ever seen. 4;ñthat has approved with that not even put up high enough treesw i keep looking for that cruise terminal, and it doesjí not exi. where is the developer? and nothing has been done. now we are terminal at 27, but it will not be paid for by the watermark. so i would be very careful abt this parking lothr, which the pt commission wants so terribly.s the parking garage is a very expensive affair. the san franciscan government is

trying tocommissioner fong: thank you. 7.h>>bo good afternoon, commissioners. i am a resident of the2 golden gateway commons. i had not intended to speak listening to some of the remarks, i do feel compelled

to do so, w[a the neighbors are saying. to me, it is not about a health club at all. iúb think some of the points tt have been made are quite substantive. forhñ example, mr. ryan mentiod violation ofvzñ the public trust doctrine, and unless the plans have changed since i last saw them, i have to agree -- i the public trust doctrine. secondly, i have heard no discussion yet as to the cumulativep project, given itsbzáejápf the neighborhoods or even the embarcadero itself tovq ensure what we all want for the w in place to be enjoyed by many.

this project is jui and particularly when combined with other projects that have  approved or are being seriously contemplated. third, i would have to say thatñ the criticisms that have been made, thatwx these financial projections may indeed prove to f and maybe as much as pie in the sky, and not release substantiated, i7j think are serious considerations, particularly given the background of some projects in the!cpt that have been approved with grandiose promises that have not'k been kept. i think some of these concerns, as i say, are not trivial but are quite serious. [applause] a jane connep

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parking resources mondy through friday. seawall lot 351 will be the second5h law taken away from the most prominent landmark in the area. we ask that the:. commissioners truly anticipate the long and short-term impacts that't this project could have on the parking needs of the ferry building merchants, farmers,v?ñd businesses. thank you. commissioner fong: thank you. is therey any other public comment? ñv>>iq good afternoon. 'my name is andrew corning. i am am0 resident of san francisco and condo owner. i have lived here for four years. iód support this development and want to congratulate the developer and architect on the work they have done. a÷there havf

benefits that you have heard about today, including thebm wy this development will activate the area along the bay shore, improve the urban design of the p@÷area, and also increase the density of the city, which will mprove the overall stability of the area.e overall stability of we have also heard,m think is very important, that this development is in line with zl÷the northeast embarcadero st, which is also very important, but what i wanted to do today perspective. when i was a in sydney, there was another waterfront development going on there, whichkpç was called euphemistically "the toaster." the upper house and the downtown area of city. certainly did not agree with that development, and given the opportunity to get up and talk to people, i probably "don't do with

-- "don't do it." g was aíu significantly improved waterfront area. i would say now development significantly improved the city, and although most people at theña time in the city were probably against the development, most people would say that the city is significantly improve because of it. i think whengb we look at the e vested interest in the fairly easy to have consensus that what exists now is not a l=yuz solution. what you have in front of you is develop the site with mixed use development that has some urban desin supples intertwined with a developer that is ready to stump upqh the cash and do it right n.

you could say no, and my question would what are we actually expecting to get from this side, not want to keep it the way it is? are we expecting a museum? are we expeu> some fantastic park land? none of this is in theép northt embarcadero study. none of this is what is proposed by the city for the site. in accordance with the northeast in accordance with the designing the design of the project. for that reason, i encourage you k4to accept and move forward wh the project. pf additional public comment? >>-, thank you, mr. president, fellow commissioners. i represent the carpentersbs union local 22. i apologize for being late. i have to tip my0n hat

he is no stranger to the embarcadero. he>l knows what the community wants, what the city wants. it is a win-wi!+áion. the situation i posed to you, youlu have this group. they do not want to see it go forward. what do we get? we get nothing. nobody wins. this is- have to move forward. ñthis is a win-win for and county of san francisco how to bring the waterfront, embarcadero back. 1 i ed and approve this. thank you. .,ñ>> thank you. -;>>r

industry. i want tofárjz this project. labor and management are voicing their support this would be the best way to utilize this proposed piece of landñ from projects in the past, i can 4e8say with the waterfront partners, they are nothing but a de. we would ask that you approve. /uñ6h>> my name is tobyd? leva member of.

waterfront group. i am here to speak on my behalf personally. --6d northeast waterfront grou. i think once it is all built, we appy to have it, as we are with the ballparks. from your perspective. you have3he conflicts. you have the need for union jobs, the need and neighborhood, the residents of san francisco. k;sometimes, these matters are n conflict with one another. but in the en come up, what you feel for everyone, is the greater goodq for those persons who might be or they have a legitimate gripe, and then you have to find4 bring them in or address the problem that they have,[ given.

from my perspective, this project is the right one for spot. we cannot go around continuing to have the great green wall. c the emperor with no clothes. we need a change. you need to step0 forward and help make this change. you have a good project. b support it, the term,9ñ sheet. thank you. -- sign%" the term sheet. >>í& my name is steve rodrigue. i am from the state of washington. òñi want to commend the city of san francisco. ij am on a commitment to walk 1,000 miles across america, within1

this is one of my last. i have only two:x more to go. i left seattle, went to the northeast corridor, "t u(árr'gtd the commendation that i am giving to the city of san ó against what you're looking at for the future here today. oéi love the history, the heritage, the+ francisco has accomplished here ferry,x bulilding. i alsou# just went down montgoy street. outside eyes that i have to share with these people today

whoxbñ are debating the future s that we need progress. tbwe needed it in the great depression. yjyou needed the golden gate bridge, the oakland bridge. we needed henry , and the quality of our life today in san have retained what many cities have not. your foundation. forefathers. even the ship's buried under the sidewalks are stgksáified. i can identify that outsider. i would like to commend the people in the audience for speaking for or e0$rá. the challenges that you have to face are incredible. entrepreneurs, developers that

make a difference. they deserve some level of credibility and cree accomplishments. in san francisco of the past has made a difference. those in the audience today are tamaking a difference. 1ñ and without stepping up to this microphone, perhaps you would+ not have seen the level of appreciation that you should have for yourselves. ] for the secretary? kh>> steve rodriguez. >> any additional public comment? ijzóñ>> good afternoon, commissioners. zki live in the neighborhood. i have been here for the past 20 years.