ability, bike-ability, and faxes. what if we as agencies working together all sat around a table and said knowing what we know, what could we do to make this corridor better than it is now and suddenly better than what it will be in 30 years? i will give you some examples of what we found out. let's say that is the project proposal with the rail alignment. here are some of the key features. you see the transit plaza at the top. that is a pedestrian entrances improvement. people can get on and off the train without having to cross. that also has the felix of a new rail extension, which allows them to cross back over. here is a tier 5 concept that seems to be hitting the target for everybody interested, including the community, and g- 8, and transit provided by

caltrans and bart. if we took that streetcar, and it came along the west side of 19th avenue, all the way through parkmerced, which is part of the master plan, if we took the crossings, and it was no longer happening at 19th avenue, all of those, which our religion is of figuring out could be feasible with a certain cost estimate and schedule and design process, we then could build much faster, much reliable, and still serve the heart of parkmerced and benefit everybody on the southwest side of sentences appeared here is an idea that helped make this not just an idea, but a potential funding reality here the project sponsor looking to pay for the rail alignment. capturing those segments that you see in orange and the cost

equivalent of those, and asking the project sponsor to work with us beyond the approval, help us get to tier 5, is to say let's bank that amount of money and called that a local match and make tier 5 the bigger better picture that we know we need because we know how bad it will be if we do nothing. this is one indication, but there is so much more than the rail. there are regional bike paths, which it helped make real. because we separate the line, we could make it a rail, but, pedestrian corridor that gets directly to daly city. we can look at pedestrian safety projects. we can be technologically smart communicate signals up and down the corridor. we are working on that now. there are other friday as we are open to because we're just now kicking off the tier 5 planning process. you saw this breakdown of tears one through four.

here are the presentations of the presentation i am giving. where we have been with this 19th avenue corridor planning process is as i said, and in 2008, we launched the study. we establish something call priority development areas, which means that by designating this area, as we found with some other areas of sand and cisco, we are now eligible for regional money that non-designated areas are not. in 2009 and 2010, we convened our first traffic study working group to make sure that we brought caltrans, bart, mta together to figure out the best way to go forward. we published our study in 2010. that gave us the analysis and data we needed. we then convened our interagency planning group to start mapping out what projects, bicycle,

transit, pedestrian make a lot of sense here we had 25 community meetings specifically focused on tier 5 between 2008 and now, and a lot of the ideas you have seen reflect the neighborhoods. even st. stephen's paris gave us a strong recommendations about what they see pierre whatever but it lacks is the idea that they did not have to upset 19th avenue the way it is going to go, this is our opportunity to hit it that and turn it into a livable quarter. we submitted an application for $300,000 to actually do a few multi-level deliver voice, to get us in here. these are what we are proposing with that study. it will be led by the transportation authority, but we

will be sponsoring it. we submitted the application in 2011. the outcomes would be extensive community meetings reviewing the project and making sure that everyone understands that is clear and transparent. we would define the project. you saw the short list, but there are many more, and they definitely need to be refined and well-defined. we came up with a cost estimate using engineers to make sure that these are feasible, indebted proposals. we would model results to make sure that the data and the outcomes are in the direction we want to be, and ultimately what we get at the end is a psr-ready implementation project. at the conclusion of the study, we would be able to give them a set of drawings that they could less and would suddenly open the door to making it a reality. supervisor mar: how many of

those community meetings to review the proposals have been held so far? >> the 25 have been held. between 2008 -- when we started talking about tier 5 and started launching a whole section on community meetings about what it would take, i created a matrix with all the interests of different community members as well. supervisor mar: so those meetings have been pretty much all held between 2010 and 2011? >> between 2009 and 2011. supervisor cohen: were all these community meetings held in english? >> yes. supervisor cohen: was their translation available? >> no, there were no translation services requested, but i am excited about the idea of using the planning money to help us supplement because we know there is a definite language -- especially in the western reaches, the north part of the

project area, there is a very high population asian demographic. the planning money allows us to avoid the transit services that we could not manage up until this point. supervisor mar: i would support the suggestion that multilingual services and good out rich, so that it is engaging different populations, especially limited english speakers as well. >> i do want to emphasize how excited we are about that. to have the planning grant also helps us qualify for environmental justice. this is an environmental justice community. there is a strong population of filipino and asian people who have not really been actively involved in community meetings because of language barriers. we hope to break that down with this planning process. caltrans has an environmental justice planning grant program. supervisor cohen: congratulations on getting that

grant. it is very exciting, but as you can imagine, this is important, and i am concerned that the outreach you have done has been primarily done in english, thus excluding the asian speaking members of the community. but going forward -- >> i do need to clarify. there has not been an official launch of the process. we submit it for march. it would be the official beginning. we were with communities who approached us and said they wanted to your specifically what we were doing about 19th avenue, about park ridge said. we used the meeting to say, "here is the project, but here is tier 5, and we want your ideas early on. the important thing is that the process begins as soon as the planning money comes in, and i would like to make sure that we're not locked too much to what we heard in the past, that we are still open to reinventing what it looks like. supervisor cohen: i understand

that the 25 groups came to you, but generally, the folks that ask for the plan are the most educated, with the resources to engage in the system. naturally, it you do not speak english, you will not be inclined to reach out to the agency, or in this case, the city department, to ask questions. so i just want to impress upon you -- >> very good. supervisor cohen: the importance of a multilingual approach from this point forward. >> i want to call attention to the slide because you are spot on on that. this is the last slide on my presentation. he looked at the last bullet, it is about in line of justice. requirements are two major we have multilingual out reach, that you make sure you identify the communities with language as an issue, and i would say it is not just chinese or tagalog. there's also a fairly strong russian-speaking group as well.

we expect there to be community outreach that reflects the community, looks demographically as the make up and does not allow language to be a barrier to the infant. that is part of what this last flight was supposed to wrap up. i want to talk about a few things. all the projects in development that you saw, the very orientation have been pointed toward tier 5. we work with the sponsors said that it was not just about making a project work better, but about making the whole project work better, so the very shape has been free engineered to look toward tier 5. the priority development area -- i talked about that as enhancing our funding certainty. that element of putting the money into the rail alignment -- if we are smart, and hopefully we are, we are calling that overmatched, making sure that while the federal government requires a 20/80 split -- 20% local, 80% federal -- if we are gearing toward a 50/50 split, we

jump ahead of competing applications because we have a much higher local share. we also get extra credit if we are a local regional project. this is a local regional projects. we are right on the county limits. that will help our project score better. we get extra points if we are tod, which we are. we get extra points if we are managing congestion. our funding targets, in addition to environmental justice and economic development for low- income communities -- also, held the safety access to transportation. we know that there is a growing crisis with health, especially with youth. the ability to ride a bicycle is compromised by an automobile- oriented development. we think the project lens itself well to a host of grants that are not classic transportation grants, but about healthy, active living, and giving people

transportation options that are by foot or by bicycle. we also look at carbon dioxide emission reductions. this will provide that because we will see some many more people in transit. the classic transportation funding sources are the transportation grants we will get from the federal government, specifically because we are a priority development area, but also, we are working closely with the loan model at the shipyard that allows us to work with the federal government to get a loan to invest in transportation infrastructure as long as there is a strong quebec system built into the project. you will hear shortly about the infrastructure -- as long as there is a strong payback system built into the project. you will hear shortly about the infrastructure. i just wanted to show you that we are throwing our canvas as wide and clear as we can to capture all the grants that could be eligible, not just classic transportation, but transportation loans,

environmental justice, health and safety, and carbon emissions. all of these square really well with the study, and at this point, i would like michael to get up and talk more about it -- supervisor mar: i would like to say the supervisor elsbernd made great points at the supervisors hearing, and you have laid out very clearly all these great opportunities and the planning process, but back to supervisor cohen's point, i think is great that the grants will be available and we will utilize them to engage low-income communities of color and multilingual planning processes, but if we already have had 25 community meetings, there is no excuse that they should have all been in english only, and there should have been for lack of outrage, if you already knew there is a russian-speaking population. there is no excuse for english- only meetings in the southern part of the city, and that has such a multilingual population.

i strongly support supervisor cohen's point. and i hope that in the future, that has to be from the front end. >> i appreciate that. again, those were meetings we were invited to come to, but i certainly want to take control of the agenda. >> supervisors, thanks for weathering this long presentation. i promise to be brief and wrap up the presentation for you. i'm here to do two points. and i think they bear repeating. without tier four, without the project, this entire process cannot happen. i cannot emphasize that enough. there is two reasons. first, the infrastructure that you saw no exhaustively is the bridge to get us to tier 5, said there is the literal infrastructure package, valued

at over $60 million, the rail extension itself, and that is just the private contribution. in addition to that, with the approval of the additional infrastructure financing district, we could potentially be leveraging well over $100 of city money in the form of bond issuances. when i come back to this committee in less than a month, i will have projections of provincial bond issue capacity, and it will be interesting for this committee to see in real dollar terms with our local match could be. traditionally, local matches only 20%. when you go in for a federal state grant, you are giving 20% down. we may be able to come in with 20% -- 30% or 40% down. as a result, you might be able to get money much sooner and be

able to meet these visions into a reality. on that point, i think is worth bearing. tier 5 is entirely schematic. no commitments have been made, and that process that peter was outlining is the more thorough, targeted, and strategic outreach. what happened is we had a sort of spontaneous neighborhood group saying, "please come talk to us. tell us about what this is." we will make every effort to reach out to all affected communities as part of the strategic process, but back to the details. to let all of you know how real this possibility is. supervisor elsbernd, at the beginning of the presentation when we were talking about are selling and selling of the original site, we had an important one that bears repeating.

when those parcels were purchased, they were gone forever from our tax will -- tax roll. all of that tax base was gone forever. what is so exciting here is the ability to leverage the new tax base, again, combined with private improvements, to submit a substantial local match and to far exceed any competition we would likely have in the bay area and a track those transit dollars. the schedule for that is as follows -- i will come back here in may with some projections for binding capacity to show you what is possible. meanwhile, sfmta hope to hear back. that is a $300,000 grant. we will be able to get pricing, just thematic level, which will allow our office to actually prepare a draft infrastructure

financing plan. an identical to the plan that will sketch out the funding strategy for the next 30-plus years. if the project is approved, we will be able to move forward with actual formation in 2012, and that means that money will become a reality. peter l. but also mention the loan, something you are probably familiar with. it is possible that we could utilize that program as bridge financing to get us from the future ifd, where the increment accumulate slowly, just such a building those improvements, way ahead. with that, i would like to just close in saying that tier 5 is the next vision. parkmerced is the project before you today, obviously, but you cannot get to tier 5 without tier four.

if you have any other questions, all of us are available. supervisor mar: i really appreciate the materials. very thorough. there were a couple of sites that you said the project developer wanted to walk us through, but i was going to ask about -- there were a couple of slides of the existing amenities, and you lay of the benefits currently there. the lay of the drawbacks. could you go over a little bit more of the drawbacks -- you mentioned construction done during wartime, so the materials are perhaps inferior to the 1950's or 1960's materials used for other projects? could you go through the drawbacks and challenges? >> absolutely. i would like to actually invite the project sponsor to go into greater detail on these points if i may.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i just want to give you a quick overview of some of the issues and challenges we have been facing today. really, since our ownership in late 2005, we began meeting with residents on a regular basis, both with residents directly and with residents' organizations. we designed an amended a $135 million capital program that was intended to address a lot of the concerns that the residents were raising during these meetings, to really address and make substantial improvements to the property itself. all this work we committed early on can be done at no cost to the residence. not a single cause was passed through to residents, and a fundamental commitment to our residents in an effort to build community. the improvement work now is complete. these costs have not been passed on to the residence. i'm sure you have what the property.

i'm sure you are familiar with the property. it does look very nice, and the money invested when a long way to improving the appearance of the property itself, but the challenge was, as you address earlier, we were not able to address the long-term deficiencies and problems with the way they were constructed originally. they were constructed with a housing will happen. there were not the resources available to construct them at the time in a more substantial manner. they were built largely with wood frame and stucco, which is not to say that as a for building choice for building material choice. but intel to that, the plumbing systems that were in there, electrical systems -- there are challenges within those walls that need to be addressed and fix. there were details that were not done properly. a lot of that wants to some of the issues we have seen throughout the renovation work itself, really highlighted by a series of owners that have not maintain the property properly. supervisor mar: can you give an

example? i understand failing plumbing system. it says undersized electrical service. could you give an example of that? i think residents might not be able to see the, but people who do maintenance might know, but what is the electrical service issue now? >> a typical farm without a washer or dryer will run a 60 amp service for today's lifestyle, which means when you plug in your hair dryer and commute -- computer at the same time, you are likely to blow a fuse. they can -- the wires into fray and cause issues and become a fire hazard. a lot of times when we change out wires, we are pulling all the wires through. adds to the cost, davis, and the challenge of the property itself. the other issue that we have seen at the property really has

been highlighted by an aging population, is that the garden homes are not accessible. not a single one of them can roll a wheelchair through. at least every apartment itself has a single step up here the majority of the homes actually have bathrooms on the second look. all the two and three-bedrooms, bathrooms are on the second floor. if you are disabled or elderly, it is hard to get up and down the stairs. the bathrooms, the kids in some cells are undersized. you can see the diagram. we overlaid the standard ada measure and typical bathrooms of the plan itself. you can see they are very small. they were functional and utilitarian at the time, but it really does not fit the needs of our populace today. even with the $100 million we have put in a property, it does not address the major improvements that still need to be made. electrical systems have challenges. while some people may not

understand that, home improvement services certainly do. that requires a lot of work on the outside and inside of the building, making it difficult for residents to occupy the apartment while the work is done. it means replacing plumbing lines and replacing electrical systems, which is very interested and would require residents to relocate during the work itself. however, in contrast, the project really allows us an option to protect the residents, guaranteed them a new home at their current rate, and provide without a risk of the past through cost going to the residents themselves, and we also get additional benefits and amenities to the area and the region as a whole. we also do recognize that change is very difficult and scary for the existing residents. we know that residents will be fearful of what is to come, and we will continue to work with our residents to make the

transition as comfortable as possible. there is a slide missing there, but i wanted to reiterate our commitment to the residence, and it really has not changed. we rolled out our improvement program with no cost to residents. we made a commitment early on to residents to attack them from the project. it is still our intent, and it has been our content -- our intent to continue that all the way through the project itself. supervisor elsbernd: i just wanted to make sure i got a couple of numbers correct. over the last few years, the project in front of us aside, the other work you have done totals about $135 million? and not a penny of that has been passed through? >> correct. >> you said it is your intent that if the project goes forward, all the costs associated with that would not be passed through peer - standing is the development agreement is beyond your intent.

development agreement makes it clear that not a penny of this work would be passed through. >> that is correct. addresses future work in a lot of ways, and future work cannot be passed through. thank you. supervisor elsbernd: just one more. you talked about all this were. your ability, your financial ability to find that development agreement, precluding yourselves from passing through the cost, possibly, you are able to do that largely because of the increased growth and development and density and dollars that went to your bottom line. i do not want to put you on the spot of saying what would happen, but presumably, this work needs to get done one way or the other. >> that is correct. at some point, the work does need to get done, and the question is how and what is the best way to do this without really passing those costs onto residents. we recognize that. we have developed this plan with

that in mind in a lot of ways. it is not intended to be anything but a fixed and a solution and it will not protect the long-term viability of the community and neighborhood itself. supervisor mar: thank you. is that the end of the presentation? thank you so much for the great presentation. colleagues, if there are no other questions, let's open this up for public comment. we have a number of speakers. i have the cards here. if you have not filled one out, please fill one out. i will call them in the order we receive them, and we will limit people to two minutes per person. supervisor cohen has felt an earthquake. michael henderson. [reading names]

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i am managing partner of the parkmerced shopping center and also president of the parkmerced merchants association because i have a supermarket there that iphone also appeared a couple of things. first of all, when the project was on the drawing board, we were very afraid, skeptical. they were going to put a brand new shopping center. we do not have any direct access to our shopping center, so we are sort of in this little cove where unless you really know we are there, you cannot find us. our concerns were hurt by -- heard by parkmerced ownership, and they have worked with us to

make sure that first of all, we will be getting a road coming in off of 19 to our shopping center. they support the small business owners, which is 12, 13 different shops. approximately 28 to 30 different partnerships. that is going to help us tremendously to survive and to coexist with the bigger stores that are coming, and we have no problems with that. they also are going to have their shuttle stop in front of our shopping center. they have included us. that was very important. they are going to havethey wil'' directing people to the shopping center. with that in