i think what we are looking at -- we are looking at a lot of strategies and how treasure island could be activated. right now, it has not been one era called out for specific plans by the event authority, but they have been in discussions with us asking, what could happen out there? it is more so we try to describe the potential impact of having something in that location. some sort a spectator than you, mitigation that we need to make to make that work. how can we bring that forward and realize that shuttle service? it is those kinds of

coordination issues -- >> or making sure that people from the east bay co to treasure island vs coming into the city. >> there is an eastern dock on treasure island at the scene to allow docks to be put in there. we are trying to speak with officials to see how that might work. then that might determine how the side make. >> i just wanted to be more specific -- in terms of -- you do not control where people will be disbursed to. weather is a system where you can come up with a plan -- and it may be free -- maybe you have to pay for the viewing area. you have so many people in the blue area, green area. so you plan the dispersion, rather than letting it happen

and not knowing what the congestion will be. it seems to me, if there is any thinking along the lines, make sure that people go online or whatever -- you get a ticket. it is free, but you go to this area. so you know how many people to expect, so you have some control at least rather than having everyone go to the same spot and be congested. >> that kind of thinking needs to be big into the environmental review. we need to figure out how to mitigate those impacts. that thinking is in process. you brought up using the internet. one of the things we are excited about is time to get a different pieces of data so that people can go from one place to say christie field has this, but it is crowded, so i would rather go to appear 29 and walked up to fisherman's wharf. -- pier 29 and walked up to

fisherman's wharf. i think there are a lot of opportunities, but it requires us figure out what those strategies are and getting them in place in time. >> any other questions or comments? on average, how many people are we expecting per day? >> right now, we have some refined production that really range from the 300,000's on a peak day, 50,000 for a non-peak week day. we are continuing to refine those in the environmental review process, but that is the ballpark we are seeing >> great. -- seeing. >> great. just to put that in perspective, the x games, we had about

300,000 people coming in and day, and that was through art. of course, for the giants parade we saw multiples of that. >> thank you. it looks like a lot of work have gone into this plan and i look forward to the next version. to promote support a little bit more. also, in the people plan, we do really want to see the water taxi program take up as well. we did not talk about it much today. it is still in its infancy. but if there was ever a motivating factor for that, it would be now. of course, we would need to interlay that with all of these vessels coming in, but it does speak to mike's opening point. an opportunity put into place, things that are long lasting. >> am i correct that we will have another water taxi landing

open by then? >> i think it is a little later. the exploritorium opens in 2013, but i believe the landing is trailing that. they are ahead of schedule, though, so anything could happen. >> item 10. new business. is there any public comment on new business? no public comment? >> item 11. public comment. >> is there any public comment on public comment? seeing none.

corrine? you have to say something. >> yee haw. >> i do not think there is a commission in the country that begs for public comment. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is corrine woods. i would highly recommend that you not only read the people plan, if you have not already, but on the oewd web site, you can click on --what is it called? the status update is very useful. it actually shows what written -- people have written in about. it would be very helpful for you to add, between now and the end

of may. they have covered a lot of bases. but i think you will find, given your experience and knowledge of the city, as commissioner lazarus has, when she needs to get home from work across the green line, we really need everything written down, at this point. as they move forward, there is a check mark next to something that maybe they had not thought about. i know you guys will be able to add tremendous value to that. thank you. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? >> my name is toby levine.

i am the co-chair of the central waterfront advisory group. this all is fascinating, of course. but i think one of the things that this young man -- that his staff does -- really provide an outline for the public. the public is often very unhappy about this and that. the tremendous benefits that are going to occur in the long run because of this. everyone knows we are right to have a cruise ship terminal, this and that. but these changes in public transportation can have a huge impact. think about the changes for fort mason. this is actually a decent transportation coming in there. think about if the hospital gets built on van ness ave. right now, van ness transportation, although they

have nice buses, they did not come very often. maybe there will be changes to support the hospital. it would be created to have these kinds of lists, and it would help to answer some of the people that complain all the time, are naysayers in the project. i do believe we will benefit enormously. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? >> if i could just make a comment before we conclude. i just want to throw a in mywelcome to commissioner ho >> second. >> all in favor? move not to disclose any of the items discussed in executive

session. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> item six, please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or similar sound- producing electronic device. be advised that a member of the public has a to 3 minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter time on any item. 7a, executive directors report. >> good afternoon, president brandon, vice-president lazarus. welcome to the port. welcome to staff and probably many others i have forgotten. it is, as was said earlier today, a joy to see all five of

you sitting up there. commissioner crowley, you are one lucky dude, man. use it on the only port commission in the country to have more women than men, to have female officers, a female executive director, and a female cfo, thank you for breaking ground with all of us. we are honored to have you. most importantly, we are honored to welcome you, commissioner ho. commissioner ho comes to us with 35 years of banking experience, which is going to be terrific for us. her expertise includes a lot of things that we do, such as small businesses, commercial real estate. i love that you have experience in construction lending. i think that will be helpful for us. retail lending as well. some experience in marketing and branding, which is a never- ending challenge for all of us, and my favorite part is that you

have experience as a guest commentator at cnn bluebird radio, which is now one of our tenants, and the famous cnbc closing bell and squawk box, so we look forward to having you do some commentating for all of us -- guest commentator at cnn/bloomberg radio. it is terrific to have you as well as all of the members of the commission, so, welcome to the board. today, we have mostly happy news. the first is, as you know, n.a. is our busiest cruise month of the year, and this year is no exception. in may, we have had 16 calls between may 3 and may 30. i cannot think you will see present any of the maritime staff as we have been really busy. in among those 16 calls, we have had two ship calls. for the month of may, we expect

40,000 passengers just in a single month. that is stunning for us. it gives us a total of the anticipated cruises for 2011 on a calendar basis of 63. which is more akin to sort of our high numbers. put it in perspective, last year, we have only 41 calls. recall that that had a lot to do with some changing economics in the alaska and mexico itineraries. so far in may, we have seen eight different cruise lines, which might be a record. we have not checked yet. one call each from norwegian, arcadian, seven seas, radiance of the seas, two each from crystal and regatta, and six from princess. it has been a terrific month, and we have been pleased to welcome all these passengers. if we could have a little more sun and heat, things would be magnificent. i want to take a moment to thank, even though they are not here, the members of the

maritime division. they have been just tremendous in meeting these calls morning, noon, night, weekday, we again, and doing so in the midst of a lot of other city events, which include the terrific giants as well as now my next item, which is international how well. -- international powwow. it is a conference that meets once a year in the united states. a targeted 2000 domestic and international organizations and bookstores around the world, and the organization represents approximately 70 different countries. it is being hosted by the san francisco travel association with sponsorship from a number of entities, including the port of san francisco airport office

partners, who run the building at pier 39, or lower, number of poor tenants have participated as well as major corporations and entities throughout the city. as you may know, they counted approximately 5500 attendees, which has been a terrific thing for the city. there has been a lot of collaboration in the city to be ready to host all of these delegates. on sunday, the conference kicked off here at the ferry building. before participated in a media brunch for more than 450 international and domestic journalists, and we had a table, which included a lot of information about our peer 27 cruise terminal project but also had a very coveted america's cup trophy.

as you can imagine, ours was the most popular table. so attendees lined up to take their pictures in front of the cup all morning long and take a little bit out san francisco maritime home with them, i want to thank the golden gate yacht club and members of the america's cup event authority for their assistance. following the brunch on sunday, there was a tour on the waterfront with some of the journalism attendees, and that was led by zahn king of "the san francisco chronicle." that went very well. i will say that the attendees on the tour were more domestic and international, but we did get

some international. later sunday night, i think you went, commissioner lazarus, to the event at alcatraz followed by the party at pier 39. there were a number of events that continue tonight out in golden gate park at the california academy of sciences and, of course, the closing festivities tomorrow night at city hall, and as i'm sure mike martin can attest, city hall is looking very -- i don't know. what would you call that? again, hopefully, the weather will improve. it is looking very tropical over there at city hall. an oxymoron, but nonetheless, it looks very cool. the pow wow is expected to generate more than $250 million in tourism. it is considered the biggest tourist event possible. i know it has brought in a lot

of work for a lot of people, and we were honored and privileged to participate, so we are really happy about that. lastly, i just had a request. if we could adjourn today in memory of aurora, a port employees who recently passed at the very young age of 61. she retired after 26 years, the last 10 of which she was here at the port, and unfortunately, we lost her rather soon, so if we could, i'd love to adjourn in her honor. >> thank you. that is really exciting. i am planning on attending the closing tomorrow night, so i look forward to seeing all the international and domestic travel agents. i also want to welcome commissioner ho to the port commission. it is wonderful to have five commissioners sitting here.

has been so long. welcome. is there any public comment on the executive director's report? >> items on the consent calendar, 8a, request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract to 752. 8b, request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for contract 2723. 8c, request authorization to accept and expend $45,000 in 2008 infrastructure protection program for security grant program funds from the department of homeless security for maritime cctv system security improvements at the port of san francisco. 8d, request authorization to accept and expend $551,552 in 2010 infrastructure protection

program port security grant program funds from the department of homeland security for mass notification system security improvements at the port of san francisco near the ferry building. >> so move. commissioner crowley: second. >> is there any public comment on the consent calendar? all in favor? resolution 11-31, 11-32, 11-33, and 11-34 have been approved. >> 9a, information presentation on the port and san francisco bay conservation development commission's out reach to waterfront stakeholders regarding the waterfront special area plant and proposed amendments to the special area plan for the proposed pier 27 cruise terminal and the 34th america's cup. >> i want to welcome you to the

commission. special projects manager with the port. i want to introduce this item by introducing the senior planner with the bay conservation and development commission. we have been working with bcdc staff on this project for about nine months. i would say that we are at the midpoint in this project. i want to start my presentation by giving you some history. we're here to talk about the special area plan for the san francisco waterfront. most people are not aware, but the special area plan is really the companion document to the waterfront land use plan. without the special area plan, much of the great adoptive reuse

we're seeing on the waterfront could not go forward. i do not know how well you can see this slide, but as you all know, the waterfront land use plan was adopted in 1997 unanimously by the port commission, and conforming amendments to the waterfront land use for the nets were adopted unanimously by the board of supervisors. but the special area plan lagged adoption of the waterfront land use plan and specifically the problems that the port problemsbc portan -- and bcdc grappled with. that basically meant in shorthand that if you wanted to do a peer rehabilitation

project, that you either had to remove half of the pier or convert half of it into a park, and that frustrated most proposals to do new projects with these old piers on the waterfront. additionally, bcdc had water- oriented use restrictions, which basically meant just maritime uses or recreation passive enjoyment of the day. bcdc did not that acknowledge the broader sweep of public trust uses we have in our projects now. over a three-year process, led jointly by bcdc and eight port at the time -- and the port at the time, the resolution was adopted in 2000, essentially lifting the water-oriented use

restrictions and allowing a broader range of public trust uses and replacing the 50% phil will with a plan level approach to deliver public benefits along the waterfront. those public benefits being filled removal, major clauses for the benefit of the public to appreciate the day, adjacent open water basins where there would be limited primarily recreation-oriented maritime activities but not industrial maritime activities, and then public access. the special area plan lays all of that out in a great deal of detail, and we follow those rules whenever we do mixed use development project along the waterfront. we did not amend the special area plan for our project until

very recently with the explora torium project. there was in the special area plan a requirement to remove most of the valley. the exploratorium have proposed moving less than the entire valley area and providing for some will between public access between the piers. we address that issue relatively late in the approval process, and i think that there wasn't feeling from some of the original special area plan stakeholders who had negotiated an agreement over such a long time that the port had -- and our product sponsor had traded that as a bit of an afterthought. we agreed that it projects coming down the pike need amendments to the special area

plan, that we should engage the public early in the process and not at the end of the approval process. the project that is coming is really the pier 27 cruise terminal, and there are fairly significant is is at the site. we would love to see a series of stakeholder interviews with people who had been involved in the 2000 special area process. there were about 40 years overall, and the interview process went from about august of last year until about january of this year. we had the benefit of two very professional interviewers in the process. first, blake stephenson, who was

the former general counsel for the commission. very knowledgeable about the waterfront. had issued some of the public trust consistency findings. later in the process, a commissioner on the san francisco commission on the environment was hired, and very familiar with waterfront issues, to complete the interview process. we are really grateful. it is an honor to work with people who have a real appreciation of these plans and who could engage stakeholders in a very thoughtful discussion. we also appreciated working with lindy and joe. no one really wanted to engage this process. i was sort of a cheerleader for it. i think that the 2000 process was fairly difficult for people. it was hard to reach agreement, said the discussion about

amendments or changes tends to be difficult for people. just want to give an overview of the issues prompting outrage. i mentioned the pier 27 cruise terminal. we had been talking about a possible adaptive reuse project at pier 23, which i think is beyond staff to handle when we have so much going on right now. not something we are actively pursuing. network of parks and open space, primarily prompted by the 2008 neighborhood parks bond. we identified a range of options up and down port property. we have run and piles at pier 64. looking at how to remove those

blighted areas from the waterfront was another issue that prompted this. i am going to go over the major findings at a pretty high level. we are going to drill into these issues in further detail as we go into next steps, but we talked with the participants about how they would like to see the agency's approach planning on the waterfront. what has been done in the past is really to look at the entire stretch of waterfront. it took seven years for the land use plan and three years to approve a special area plan, so i think we walked in thinking we have that base of information, and planning could be more site- specific. that view was not necessarily shared by our stakeholders.