[applause] >> commissioners, the next item is also related to america's cup here and i guess where beginning to see some of the benefits of having the race here in san francisco. the america's cup event authority has selected aquarium by the bay as well as other leaders in the estuary and ocean conservation research and sustainability as partners in their healthy oceans project. there was a kickoff for that on october 17. this is part of the america's cup effort to indicate that this is more than a sport. they want to build on the reputation the san francisco has

as a model of sustainability by putting this program together, and they have the ambitious goal of a multifaceted outreach program related to it. that would involve public service announcements, identification on all america's cup votes, and also, multiple out -- events -- multiple outreach events. it relates to clean regatta standards as it relates to the base as well as environmental stewardship. the program will be part of all america's cup events and will be prominently -- the paraphernalia will be prominently displayed with the world series in san diego that will be held later this month between the 16th and the 20s. sad news -- we have lost another

of the icons along the waterfront, and i did want to speak to that. captain richard frost died on october 29. he was born in arizona, lived on a cattle ranch until he joined the navy in 1939 at the age of 18. in the navy, he was given the nickname jack frost and used that name for the rest of his life. he was aboard the battleship tennessee when it was bombed at pearl harbor. he also served on aircraft carrier and salvage tugs in the south pacific during world war ii. after the war, jack was a tugboat captain as well as a docking pilot on san francisco bay. he was a partner in the american

navigation tugboat company and eventually started his own company which we know now as they dealt a marine. to this day, they are a poor tenant. he retired in 1993. -- bay delta marine. to this day, they are a port tenant. he was one of the most respected pilots on san francisco bay, always demanded by agents and owners for the most difficult and challenging jobs on the day. he is survived by his wife, magdalena, and his daughter. our last item is related to bicycle improvements along the waterfront. i think you remember a few weeks ago, the staff made a presentation on bicycles share

and other buy programs. we have planning development staff here to talk specifically about bicycle safety along with one of our partners, the san francisco bicycle coalition. >> thank you. afternoon, commissioners. today, we wanted a chance to address the concerns raised by the port commission regarding bicycle safety in the ferry building area and along the embarcadero. we have been working with the municipal transportation agency, who are the city traffic engineers and by planners for the city, on measures to address safety in the ferry building area appear these measures include repainting area crosswalks, installing signs on the promenade that say you should share the path, and optimizing traffic signal timing along the length of the embarcadero to approve crossing time and give trends a priority. staff are also considering

options for improving the bike lane right in front of the ferry building area, such as adding green paint or other alternatives. in addition, staff have been discussing ways to add additional safety warnings, education, and enforcement in the area appear as part of the effort, we have invited the executive director of the bicycle coalition here to present the persistent and growing demand for bicycling in the area and sfpuc's safety and outreach program. we also invited peter albert to respond to questions about the proposed america's cup transportation improvements should they arise. if you have questions about the mentioned measures, i am available for questions now or after the presentation. there you go.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. thanks so much for the opportunity to share with a little bit about our work in partnership with the port and other city agencies. i am the executive director of the fact -- of the san francisco bicycle coalition. we are a 12,000-member nonprofit in the city. we are the largest bicycle advocacy organization in the country at either the local or state level. that may not surprise you since bicycling is such a growing topic in san francisco. i appreciate the opportunity to share with you our work and our partnership with the port in making sure the waterfront and all your resources and services that you all offer are as safe and accessible as possible. a large part of our everyday work at the coalition is making our streets safer for the growing number of people walking, biking, taking transit, and getting around our beautiful city. i am going to share about eight or so slides with you very

briefly. you may be seeing more people biking. you are not making that up. seven of 10 san franciscans bike in the city. it may be a family on sunday streets. you remember the picture from last year, folks coming out to ride recreational or to explore the city and waterfront by bike every now and then. there has been an increase here official counts showed a 58% increase in the number of people biking just in the last four years, and we are really noticing that. our bike lanes are more crowded, and we're working with the city on that. if you do not mind going back a couple. thank you. and just a little bit about what

we do on bicycle safety and education, which is really the focus here. we hold popular sessions around the city, free bike education class is for adults who want to learn to ride safely and responsibly. this is a picture of one held two or three weeks ago. the portico hosted this -- the port co-hosted this. you see in the picture it was actually fall. we had to bring some chairs in theory that was wonderful. these glasses again are free. they are sponsored by the mta and the transportation authority and led by as of the bicycle coalition. this year already, we have taught more than 600 adults how to ride safely and responsibly. we've taught more than 2000 children, and this is part of our school program again in

conjunction with the mta, the police department, the school district, and department of public health. there is a real emphasis in the city on making sure people are learning to get out, get physically active, whether that be walking or biking, and to do so safely and responsibly. this is a picture from one of our family events. this is a picture of back-to- school day -- bike-to-school day. just an example of some safety information. this is from our web site. we put some information right outside, information that we give out free to the public. tens of thousands of folks are receiving safety information about how to ride safely and responsibly in the city. the darkness is coming earlier in the days here last night, we give out 400 or 500 lights for free at the corner of market and octavia. we will hold six more sessions

like that in the next two weeks. this is again giving out free front and back lights for people writing about them, which is unsafe and illegal. we want to make sure people are well lit, visible, and riding safely. and one of the most important things we are working on with the city is how to build the city out in a safer way. briefly, our vision of 100 miles across town bikeways that are safe, comfortable, and inviting for the growing number of people riding, and it helps the city its goal. a mayor and board of supervisors have set a goal of 20% of trips by bicycle by the year 2020. at our last count about terribly ill years ago, we were at 7%. we set an ambitious goal of 20% of trips by bike, so we do need to be preparing and making sure our roads are ready. part of our vision is connecting the city.

that means literally connecting neighborhoods, a regional transit, business corridors, and our threat in waterfront, of course, with safe, comfortable, inviting bikeways. pedestrians have their own save space on the sidewalk. this is one of our divisions near the stadium. one other is the embarcadero, sometimes known as the embikeadero. we are exciting -- excited about opening up the bank, making sure that the walkway is dedicated, said, uncomfortable for those walking. we see an opportunity with the america's cup coming up, trying to find opportunities to open up the waterfront more positively. this is the goal we are really working for with the city, to make sure that we do have a city that is healthy, sustainable, thriving economically, and we really are making sure that the sentence and skins of today and tomorrow of grade, healthy --

the san franciscans of today and tomorrow have great, help the options. >> i have a comment. it seems like we all, motorists, as well as pedestrians end markers -- bikers, are wondering if you can use more psa's. i often see bikers the not observe all the traffic rules. i think that is the biggest safety issue for everybody. obviously, motorists have to also respect that. if you could use more radio, tv psa's. to get the message out. >> we are very good at reaching bicyclist. we are the folks on the street handing out the fliers. we are the bike to work day sponsors. we hold the bike education classes. it is great if we have media to reach the larger population. things like psa's are usually a

procrit and popular. we would love to work with the city to find ways to reach the bicycling, walking, and driving public more effectively. we have to do this as advocates, be promoting safe and respectful behavior on the street, no hat -- no matter how you get around. sometimes i walk commentate transit, rie, and sometimes drive. we will look to be creative and put our resources together and how to reach the most people. part of that is working with the police department. they're very good and forces of that. so we need to keep doing that. >> thank you for coming. having worked with you years ago on the original 14-point bicycle plant, i am excited to see you here bank and see how far we have come. to that point, i would love your thoughts, as we look, and it has been included in the people's plan bank in terms of transit,

but how you envision -- it would be great if you can talk about how you envision working with the people coming to san francisco and encouraging them to ride their bikes for the america's cup and what steps he might take for the bridge. is this something you would envision along the ferry building as well? any other thoughts. that is also a good opportunity coming to your point about psa's, taking advantage of the various modes of transfer that will be employed during the america's cup to educate the cyclists, maybe not your usual cyclists, but motorists as well about safely to sharing our system. >> thank you, commissioner. thank you for your early leadership of the board of supervisors. we are really excited about america's cup. i want to recognize peter elbert. he is somewhere in the audience.

he has been a godsend for us on these issues. we know we cannot move tens of thousands of extra people around the city by car. we cannot do it only with transit. we're going to need to count on bikes as an option. i commend the mayor's office, the port, and the mta for thinking ahead on this. they're already thinking about bike-sharing program. they're thinking about secure bike parking valet. we want to make sure they're parked safely come out of the way of pedestrians, and not in the way of reviewing our commerce. we are excited about finding those locations. what is the most appropriate place for bike parking? we're going to have to think about these things. these are going to be a lot of folks who may not be used to riding. it could be some of the coming in, taking barred from the east bay, and then jumping on a bike

share. we want to make sure there said, confident, knowledgeable, and respectful. one idea that we have is an idea of creating a bike ambassador program. might we have folks out there who are trained volunteers to answer questions along the bikeways, to direct people and give good guidance, to make sure people are behaving appropriately. i think there's a lot we can do with on the ground in education, with good infrastructure, and really making sure that we're forward-thinking and prepared for this. we look forward to working with you on that. >thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i wanted to see if peter had anything to add. >> good afternoon, commissioners. yasser from mca. she did a great job summarizing

it. especially the credit safety. in the people planning, we have some pretty clear divisions for how we can approach this in this extraordinary time of managing of boards of about 350,000 people. some of the provisions in the people planning that call attention to review would be separating pedestrians and bicycles on the embarcadero sidewalks in front of the ferry building. for the peak weekend days, there would be a temporary provision for more safe places for bicyclist. there has been concerned about the full closure of the embarcadero. our plan been >> carving out space for bicycles and a right away and configuration. sidelocks then become the realm of pedestrians. if we can work closely with pco's, as you're doing now, we think we can manage that whole mix. >> thank you.

ok, public comment on the executive reports. you have two cards. vilbill butler. >> get afternoon. i am n independent consultant with clients in the maritime industry. i am speaking as a member of the port maritime commerce advisory committee. as you know, the mcac tax as an advisory group for the port of san francisco, supporting, advising, and acting as advocates for the port. and their maritime industries. our members include representatives from organized labor, marine terminal operators, cargo shipping users, and other maritime industrial users. i would like to thank the san francisco bicycle coalition for their thoughts and presentation and for their efforts to promote bicycle use and safety in the city.

as part of their build-out plan for bikeways that was talked about, i would like to comment on a proposal that is out there to install bike access facilities along caesars chavis in the southern waterfront. first, i think industry is very supportive of promoting safe and exits of a bicycle facilities in san francisco, particularly those that creates a and efficient enhanced bike access, which improves the traffic safety and conditions for all kinds of traffic. however, this promotion cannot come at the cost of safe and efficient goods movement to and from the port. they should work together. cesar chavez is a very important goods movement corridor for some of the port posing as critical industries, including peer 70 and pierre avie. pier 92, and the aggregate distributer.

and the waste management recycle facilities. the vehicle servicing these facilities obviously tend to be large trucks, which do not tend to mix very safely with smaller, slower vehicles that are difficult to see. so i would just encourage the poor and the bicycle coalition to continue to work closely with the industrial tenants and stakeholders as these bikeway build-outs continue for solutions of bicycle access while limiting the index to an existing industrial uses and traffic that exist in the city. thank you. >> thank you. karen pierce -- >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am did the chair of the southern waterfront advisory committee. i would like to echo my

colleague right before me on our support for the bicycle coalition's extraordinary effort to make bicycling not only more viable, but also safer within the city. however, i am is bidding on the same issue related to the plan being for cesar chavez, and want to make sure that commissioners are aware that if the plan bidding, as it is presently proposed, goes through, it will have grave impacts on the force ability to move goods from the ports to their final destinations. an analysis of the existing proposals includes the fact that if lanes are taken out of scissors chavez -- cesar chavez,

east of highway one no one, it will cause a back up of approximately 1,200 feet of trucks trying to get on to the freeways. not only will this cause a problem for trucks, but more importantly, and the reason why i am here bank, is because that will have as severe impact on air quality in the area. i share the southern waterfront advisory committee, which was established as a result of the concerns of community residents and public health about the impact on health and air quality in the southern part -- in the southeastern part of the city as a result of port activity. over the last 10 years, we have worked very closely together. we have built a great partnership. most of us in the neighborhoods feel that the accord is a good neighbor, and we work very hard to continue that relationship.

if we have trucks backing up -- number one, we're going to have trucks driving through our neighborhood again. and the port has gone to the extreme measure of building an additional bridge across isleus creek to make sure the turks have been moved out of the neighborhood and can get it immediately onto the freeway. we also have the problem that if you look in the bay area air quality management district's mapping of problem areas related to air quality, you will see that the whole eastern side of san francisco is what they call a community of concern and what we activists call a hot spot. there are six in the bay area, and that whole corridor is one of those. so anything that is done that will affect their quality will have a detrimental effect not

only on our neighbors and the air we breathe, but on whether or not the city can continue to meet the standards that are required by the clean air act. i just want to ask that the commission take a serious look at this proposal and work with the city family, including mta and planning, to look good alternatives. we have testified, and we have been ignored. i think that the commission can have some effect on whether or not we look at alternatives. thank you. >> thank you. ernestine weiss. >> good afternoon, everyone. i just want to compliment the bicycle coalition on all the good work they do. however, i have to mention that we have the great problem about bicycles whizzing by on the

sidewalks without any regard to pedestrians. it is so dangers. one of my dear friends was struck and injured very seriously by a biker was disobeying the rules. however, i also live at the golden gateway, and we have a courtyard where cars come out of the garage and the ball traverse the area, tenants and visitors, and there are signs posted this in no bicycling, no state -- skateboarding, and they just whiz right through there. we do not have eyes in back of us. we cannot see what is coming at us. i would recommend that more be done about these people who do not obey the laws, and they're too many of them. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment on seven? >> items on the consent calendar. >> i have one request for staff. in light of the comments about the traffic congestion, if perhaps we can have some staff look at that and see if there

are mitigation measures we to date for trucks leaving the port. >> briefly, that is an item the staff has been working on, and we will continue and maybe come back to you with a more detailed presentation on how we're trying to address the concern. >> item 8a, approval of contract awards for professional engineering services, to establish the building occupancy assumption program for critical port facilities in an amount not to exceed $476,890, plus a 10% contingency, the amount of $47,689, a total contract authorization of $524,579 dollars. b, opposition to advertise competitive bids for contract 2755. this is 3. item c, opposition to advertise

for competitive bids for the brand in st. walk contract, contract 2726. >> i moved 8a, b, and c. >> the second. >> any public comment? all of those in favor, please signify. any opposed? resolution number 1170, 1171, and 1172 are all approved. >> item 9a, c what 351, 8 washington street project, embarcadero and washington street. >> good afternoon. i am the project manager. before you today was an update on the design and schedule for the sea wall lot 3518 washington project. this is informational only. staff is not seeking commissioner approval today for

any aspect of this. the port and san francisco waterfront partners have been working for the lease and development of seawall lot 351 on the embarcadero at washington street. in conjunction with the adjacent private property, which is on tour private athletic club. following a request for proposal process, sfwp was awarded the development opportunity for seawall what 351 in february 2009, and entered into an exclusive negotiation agreement. in september 2010, sfwp received port commission approval for project term sheet. the proposed project transformed the site from a parking lot, generating approximately $65,000 in annual rent to the court, changing it to a mixed use project generating $120,000 in annual rent, plus 15% of retail sales on port property, and $5 million in guaranteed payments to the board.

significantly, the product replaces existing surface parking lot at sea wall lot 351, with 255 public parking spaces. and a below-ground three-level garage. up to 150 spaces will be reserved for the public parking needs of the greater ferry building area. the board, as of the bp -- sfwp, and the lands commission will have an exchange agreement. this trust swap stock -- dressed swap will a lot -- in exchange for the development of public trust open space on portions of the adjacent private property next door. as a requirement requiring portions of seawall lot 351, sfwp will include the entire site and an infrastructure financing district expected to generate income tax increment of $