oversight in the document. >> i actually think this is a little too restrictive at this point so i am not going to be able to support this at this time. >> can you suggest anything that gets to the same answer that is not a problem? not as restrictive? >> not right now, i cannot. is this something we can bring up at a later date? does it have to be done now? >> you are approving in the de er dap so if you wanted to make a similar amendment or an alternate amendment, you have to make it now. >> i do not have an alternative, so i will not be able to support it tonight. >> you know for the staff, again about the flexibility.

i have a concern. if we grandfather any policy in at this point that is vague and can be misinterpreted, where is the flexibility to make amendments are whenever later? can the staff help me out? because again, i am concerned about the dictating. when you have a 10-15 year plan, there are changes that are going to be evolving. my position is that the residents already have this ongoing process. they're all going to be engaged in to deciding with the developer how to make this a very viable project. i think that is already built into the plan, so what do you

have to say? >> so, the planning would actually administer allowed and permitted uses and conditional uses, which you do not have authority over, but the planning commission does. this would give you some say in the sizes and types of retail that the developer anticipates putting into the spaces. again, i do not think he would necessarily have -- it would not be dictating types of retail because the retail spaces would be built probably a couple of years after you approve this plan. you would be approving a broad retail strategy. >> now that i have heard -- >> would you except a change to just make it simply asking for an assessment, because i think

your point was basically to make sure that it is up to their residence, and whenever will be put in will be relevant to their needs. maybe it can be amended to just a request -- a requirement to conduct an needs assessment. >> well, that would be good and it is a place to start, but then they could ignore it. that is the problem. i am open -- we need some kind of way to have an needs assessment guide have results. >> so we have the needs assessment and a staff. could that be measured or what

kind of actions would be taken? i am trying to look at a friendly amendment as suggested by the commissioner. if we change this to a needs assessment, does it still serve the same purpose? >> we would then tried to reason with them. >> does it still not achieve the same purpose? >> if i could buy been a little bit on this -- pipe in a little bit on this, i think i feel a little bit better about this now that i understand it. it is a public body. we're going to have a public hearing. if the developer is submitting to us the plan, we're going to have a public hearing.

hopefully, we can bring the residents to our hearing. we can hear about it and then we can approve a retail plan. i guess my concern is about how the plan is going to be, but at least it is a public process. we will have the developer come to us, a public party, at a public hearing, have the residents come to us, and then they can tell us what they need. >> the word targeted was suggested by staff. that does not mandate something that says this is what they are going to, you know, try to achieve. that is the reason that word is in the amendment. >> again, i am trying to see if i'm going to go with this plan

or if we change the language, does it achieve the same purpose? i am leaning on the staff to guide me to that. >> we just take out the words for tie dye approval. it includes an updated assessment of the needs prior to service. that means they could ignore everybody, but that would still give a good amount of leverage to the community. they could press them for what is really needed. >> i would support that amendment. the amendment was seconded. >> weight. are we going to vote on a friendly amendment?

>> can i revised my motion and see if it is ok with your second? it is the same, but deleting the words for approval. >> i actually like the approval because that is the public process that would be missing if we did not have it. >> instead of reeve -- instead of approval, how about review. >> restate your entire motion please. >> and shall civet -- and shall submit a retail plan for public review. >> second. >> any public comments? discussions? hearing none, roll call for item #7 as amended.

6 ayes, 0 no's. moving back to the regular agenda, roll call vote for item number 11. roll call vote for item number 12. 6 ayes, 0 no's. >> i guess we are done. thank you so much everyone for

sticking in. [applause]

>> the regular meeting of the transbay joint panel is called to order. madam secretary, please call the role. secretary: i'd like to know that we're running -- conflict -- the mayor can we do the next one?

>> we continue to make good progress all around in the program. our construction documents are 100% -- 100% of them are still on schedule to be delivered by the end of the year. since the bulk behalf we're doing now is involved construction, you hear more about our construction progress in a moment, but in the meantime, i did want to report that at our last board meeting, a member of the public asked about whether or not the transport authority could work with the various city agencies regarding pedestrian safety at the crosswalks in district six. and we know that the san francisco municipal transportation agency is working with supervisor kim in assessing the pedestrian safety priorities for the entire district, and we're also working with them as well on

that. in addition, i did want to mention that, with respect to our construction and we'll have more of an update on that in a moment, but one of the things we've been removing are piles from the old transbay terminal foundation, and they've been removed what what will eventually be the buttress zone. they're made of a structure that's not commonly found anymore in the lumber market today. in keeping with our sustainability mission, one of the things that we were able to do is find entities that were willing to take the lumber and haul it off and recycle the wood, and one of the persons is taking the lumber away, is actually going to use it for a sailboat, so that's pretty interesting. you're also going to receive a presentation on the bus design with respect to our temporary terminal, everything is in good order, the temporary facility, and on the rail component, we continue meeting with cal train and high-speed rail on the design elements. and we're making good progress there.

nance you has an update on funding. >> very briefly on our funding update, as we reported before, we have more than $800 million in allocations toward our phase one project of $1.6 billion. today we're going to do an action on your calendar to re-send some funding. we'll talk about that later. and then the other thing that we've been doing is continuing to look for additional sources of funds, and today on your agenda, we're going to be asking for permission to apply for some park funds for the city park. so we're continuing to do that, and we will continue to look for funding to back fill or to augment our phase two work as we go ahead. that's all i have for today. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer. >> i'd like to get our construction update. >> good morning, directors. steve rule with turner

construction, construction management oversight. there we go. we had another great month of progress. we continue the demolition work, 46,000 hours now without any accidents or injuries to the workers. we completed the turnover of zone three, which used to be the old central portion of the old terminal to the subcontractor for staging of their shoring material that they've started construction on. and we completed the main demo on the bus ramps by completing the harrison overpass in the first week of may, so that is the end of our long closures and street closures there for the demolition. now it's just a lot of clean-up and processing of that material. with utility relocation package, good progress continues to be made with those. the natomis street sewer installation between free mount and first is completed, and the tie-in to the main sewer is in

progress. water line snalmings is completed. -- installation is completed. and we anticipate that work, the natomis street utility relocation work being completed by the end of july. one of the other packages, 4.3 also good progress. we're working with sfwd on all the tie-ins and coronations of the water system there, anticipate completion at the end of august. 4.4 is water and sewer lines are in progress on natomis street between first and second. those water tie-ins will be done this week or next depending on scheduling with sfwd, and anticipated completion also in the end of august. 4.4 is natomis between first and second streets. i'm sorry, 4.5.1 is the ministry joint trench, sewer and water. and as of this last week, at&t started putting in their work into the joint trench, so we're almost off that area, and the

final completion, with all the tie-ins, will be done in august as well. or end of july. and then the potholing work, 4.6, which is the work for sewer and sledge on beale street, is just getting started. that was approved, i believe at the last board meeting. and they have an anticipated completion of august. the temporary wall at 301 mission continues. they've put up the steel support. they've now completed the framing and will start putting the north face of the wall, the side that faces millennium, they'll start putting the plaster and metal panels and stone on. hopefully we'll be able to take down the temporary barricade and finish up that north face by the end of june. and finish up the whole project there by the middle of july. the transit center that buttresses the main thing going on there, and in zone four is the main work. they've been pulling piles, the wood piles that executive director just spoke about. we're about 70% to 80% through

with that and should be completed by the end of next week. as i also said, they're staging their fabrication of their structural steel for their shoring system, shoring wall systems in the central area, and started refabbing all that. and they're starting the pretrenching this month for the shoring wall, so they'll be going around the entire perimeter of the project, removing any obstructions prior to the installation of the shoring wall, which is scheduled to begin at the end of may. again, the demolition timeline, we are scheduled to complete the original demolition by the first week in june. on your agenda today is the approval of a change order for evans brothers to do some additional building demolition, and that will add some time to the final completion of their contract, but the original contract completion or substantial completion is still scheduled for the end of june for the original demolition. we completed all that ramp work

ahead of schedule, so we're excited about that, and as i said before, that stops us from having to close streets, which was the big risk there. here's last month's and this month's view of zone four, where they're working on the wood pile extraction. and the middle and west sections are zones three, two, and one, as you head west and see the change over that, and there's balance four starting to stage their equipment in the right hand photo to start building their steel support structures for their shoring wall. picture on the left shows where we were with the ramp demolition at the end of march and now through the first week in may. we're all the way up, and by may 3, they took down the harrison street overpass, and so all that rubble starting to get cleaned up and recycled. by the way, we've repsyched about 38,000 cubic yards of concrete, which, to put it in simpler terms, is about 10 to 11 olympic-sized swimming pools full of concrete. just a little fact. the removal of the bus ramp

over folsom, there's a shot of that, and then the harrison street removal as well, they both went according to plan, and again, no injuries or incidents with the public. i mentioned utility relocation packages all winding up in july and august of this summer. with the exception of 4.2, which the pricing on that comes in tomorrow, i believe. and this is a continued sewer work on the joint trench work on minner, which is now where at&t is starting to put their portion of the joint trench work in. and the completion of it on second street. water and sewer work continues, howard first, free mount, natomis streets. and while i said the structural steel framing went up this last month, and when these pictures were taken, they were preparing for the metal framing that fills in between the white structural steel and will support the new exterior wall. it's a very heavy structure,

but, you know, part of it is to prevent any vehicles from accidentally going into the hole that will be on the other side of it. and this is a shot of the controlled wood pile extraction in zone four, as i said, we'll be completing that at the end of next week. and the archaeologists that started below the 201 mission street building where the headquarters project office is got finished up this month, and there's one archaeology pit left to do at the west end of the project. and finally, just to give you an idea behalf you'll see next, if you come down and visit at the end of may, before the next board meeting will be the start of cdsm, or concrete deep soil mixed shoring wall system, and that will start in the far east end of the project, and that's a view of what the equipment will look like there. on the local labor side, demolition contractor has completed 46,000 hours, 41,000 of those being completed by local labor.

and on the web corps and their trade subcontractor side, about 18,000 hours a day also with no incidents or injuries, and about 16,000 of those by local labor. that's the end of my presentation f. there are any questions? director ayer di-kaplan: now we'd like to give you an update on -- i'm sorry. go ahead. >> i'd like to -- director ayerdi-kaplan: we just wanted to do a presentation on the bus storage design for transit. to do that presentation is phil sundry.

>> good morning, directors. i'm here to give an update on the bus storage project. sorry. i'm having technical difficulties with the power point here. it's been about a year since we have given an update on the bus storage project.

so my update this morning, i've got about a dozen slides. we'll talk about -- give an overview, an update, talk about the current layout. i have a scum of slides on the landscaping, lighting, and then finish up with the schedule. >> we have completed the concept design and moved into -- as well as schematic design, and move in through design development. so as part of that, we've completed the underground surveys. we have analyzed excavation requirements. we need to excavate about 2/3 of the site in order to provide adequate head room for the buses to stage and store, and weave also completed the -- and we've also completed the layout of the facility. we continue our coordination with caltrans. we have been working on a

seismic analysis for the west approach. as you know, caltrans put a lot of effort into upgrading the west approach over the last couple of years, and so we're going through a fairly lengthy effort to demonstrate our excavation in that area will not inhibit their structure that they recently upgraded. as part of that project effort, we have also submitted a p.s.r., project study report at the end of december, and now we're continuing to work with caltrans to supplement that with foundation reports, turnover analysis, and other supporting documents that will then allow caltrans to ultimately approve this project study report. slide here is a schematic layout showing what was shown

in the original feir. the key things i want to point out is the project was shown to be bounded by sound walls. in blue, you see there were noise walls called for 10 to 12 feet high. there were also calls for a ramp particularly called for over second street. we made a fairly large effort to stay true to those requirements. we're working with the community on that, too. the layout you have before you now is the layout as it stands now. the site, as i noted, is bounded by the sound walls, 10 to 12 foot high. we're working with caltrans on these, and we're basically adhering to a standard caltrans wall, but then trying to make these morass net i canly appealing to the neighbors by

providing some landscaping on the outside. i've got some slides of those. the other things i'd like to point out that have changed since my last presentation, if you look at the entrance on third street, one of the items that came up as part of our value analysis is that was identified as kind of a problem area as far as circulation for buses coming in, as well as the private vehicles that you still -- that use perry street. so we're redesigned that so segregate the bus traffic from the private vehicle traffic, and we've kept perry street as a two-way street. so we think that's a much better configuration and a lot safer. the other item that we have changed since our last presentation is we've moved the caltrans -- the a.c. transit administration offices over one bay, so they're one bay closer to second street. what that has allowed us is to provide tandem parking for the

buses in the previous spot, so that increases our bus counts a little more, and we're currently at 50 buses. this is an image of some of the items that we're thinking about in terms of the sound walls. like i mentioned, we're looking at standard caltrans walls, but then we want to put a living wall in front of it, so this would be a metal grid structure or wood structure, and have planted vines on it. it softens it up for the neighbors and also helps with maintenance. makes it more graffiti- resistant. this is a slide on landscaping. we have begun to start thinking about a landscaping, different types of bonds. we have different conditions on the site. the site facing stillman is a lot sunnier, which differs from

the side facing second and third, on the west approach, which tends to be more shaded. the other item on landscaping is we hired an arborist to look at the trees. there are trees along stillman street. our concern was when we did the excavation, it could inhibit the rootballs of existing trees. so the arborist report showed that excavation will impact the rootballs of existing trees. they have also said that most of the trees were in very poor condition. they recommended that we replace these. we have met with the community, last month, and went through theis with them, explain that it was recommended that they be

removed. they asked us to come in with some new street trees, so we will be working with dpw on that. this is an image from the arborist report. you can see in yellow, those are the trees on stillman street. the various conditions of those trees. lighting, we have done a lighting analysis. we are proposing to supplement some of the high pressure sodium lights that caltrans has under the west approach with led lights in key areas. this is the entrance from third straight -- third street. that is a critical location because buses will be coming and going, during the tiger terminal, so we need to have that well lit. on the left is the