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and it can accommodate people fairly well. so here we are at pier 26, 20, 30, and 32. tent is to use 30/32 for the set up. you can see people have to again allowing public access through their. that was a clarity item to ensure that was there. then, basically, you have the behind-the-scenes things that would take place as well. again, if this was not completed in 2012 in time, this would be set up at pier 80. here is a view of what that will look like. you have two cranes that would again be lifting the votes in and out of the water for the teams to get at. all this stuff goes away after the race, of course. another perspective of that. allowing that public corridor through there would allow some
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viewing opportunities to see behind the scenes and see the excitement and preparation that takes place. here is peer 80 and what it will look like in 2012. there is also a back up for 2013 as well as there is additional need for space, it would be used for that as well. in this case, public access is not indicated on here and has been discussed, so this is really set up for the team, and we continue had discussions about that. 2013 is essentially the same. i will not spend a lot of time on this, but as i mentioned, we will be shifting from the marina green over two years 27 through 29, but most of the same activities would occur -- overture -- over to piers 27 through 29.
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nighttime temporary uses and the tent structure on the pier. everything is programmed in the center the exact same way. the same thing with christie field east and west marina green. exact same configuration plan for 2013. all temporary stuff that would be put up and taken down. the marina green would be set up essentially the same. because a number of estimated visitors that we are expecting -- then it could accommodate people here as well as at the village. they would be broadcasting obviously at both locations. again, what it would look like -- the same in 2012 as in 2013. no major changes. the one distinct change -- as you will notice in the water, going back to the plans, we do not have temporary docks and so forth. we are not looking votes in and out of the water. again, the same views you are
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going to see out. same thing for fort mason would be used. essentially the same period and aquatic park. i think the final one here would be -- yes. here is the main village now and 2013, as i mentioned. if you look at the top there, the purple hat going where number one is. those other votes would be lifted in and out of the water with a crane put in place. when the race is going on, the public and fully access that area. then we have two, which is where the cruise terminal would be eventually built. plan is to have part of the show built, and then the site can be used for the rest of the event. 14 has an amphitheater that will seek up to about 4000. if you look at 14 that is in yellow, and of the seating area that accommodates about another -- i think 1200 or something
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like that. about 5500 seating on this area. you can see the other activities here, basically educational things fear behind the scenes, you see four there. again, one of the things we have been discussing -- you can see on the right-hand side there appear 19th year the left-hand side, pier 23. hast public access, and request they made to ensure that there is public access. i will switch to what it will look like eventually. here is what it will look like in perspective. another perspective from another direction. you can see the amphitheater. we are showing the actual terminal in place if it would get done in time for the event.
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here is the perspective of showing what i to look like with the votes during a race and after the race when the votes are gone. you have this view across the bay. this is a temporary situation during the race, after the race, and across the water. a lot of open viewing, which is important, and encouraged by the agencies, allowing public access for all. here we are, showing again appears -- piers 30 and 32. there is similar to what you saw before. same perspective. again circling back to where it started, the yellow indicating again, in this case, following the event where bcdc has recommended marina green, the
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grand street wharf, and the project to occur as improvements after the event. that is it for me. thanks. >> thank you very much, david. that concludes our presentation. we look forward to coming back in mid-december, and i am available to answer any questions you may have. >> we will take some public comment. we have some cards. dave stock sale. still here? i do not think so. ernestine weiss? >> i must say, that was a very thorough report. my people and a lot of people around the city are asking me whether or not they will approve halving screens on ferry park for people to view it.
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obviously, not everybody can get to the places that are assigned for viewing along the waterfront. i would like to know if that would be able to take place. >> thank you. mike bishop here in the -- like the ship. -- mike bishop. >> good evening. i am the product manager for hanson aggregates. we move about 1 million or 1.5 million tons of sand and gravel through those terminals. generally speaking, we support the america's cup and what it will bring to the city. it does impact our business
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substantially on our sand mining operations, which happens to be where the race area is. we mine on the tides, so generally, twice a day. we see that there is substantial impact on our mining side. we bring about 500,000 tons of sand. with that, and just general notes of encroachment of non- maritime businesses into the area, especially down at the cesar chavez cargo area. temporary structures allowing events like the america's cup
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and even encroaching on pier 80. said there is a very large picture here. keeping at your maritime businesses, like mine, viable and operating as we look forward in the future with all the developments that you are now contemplating. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment on this item? questions? no? ok. thank you. ok. 9d, informational presentation and housing development on pork non-trust property. >> commissioners, special projects manager.
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in consideration of the late hour, they try to take the liberty of speeding through this presentation and little quicker than we might otherwise. the staff report is on the commission website. staff are available to answer questions about the subject matter. it is fairly dense in some areas, but i will try to be quick. subject matter of the presentation is affordable housing on for property. we are really at the beginning of a policy conversation with the commission and public and advisory groups and other waterfront constituents about these issues. the other issue is really related to peer 70.
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the project that we have really tried to develop a lot of flexible financing tools for, and we are looking at very substantial and important affordable housing fees that will be owed as a result of development at that site and are trying to think of some ways in which we can honor our obligations to provide affordable housing as a result of development but have more options available for you as a commission to consider. the jobs-housing linkage ordinance is the main city ordinance that applies to commercial development in the city. it establishes a requirement to pay fees per square foot that are established by a nexus analysis, depending on the type of development, and really, the principle behind the ordinance
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is that when you create new commercial development, you create new jobs in the city, and people earning a certain income level that create new demand for affordable housing in the city. these are a way to fulfill that demand. they go into the city-wide affordable housing fund. the fees range for research and development of $15 per square foot on up to $21 per square foot for office space. port projects are subject to these fees. on the residential side, the city has an inclusion very affordable housing program. it requires developers of residential housing to contribute to the affordable housing stock of the city in one of three major ways -- you can pay a fee, like is assessed on the commercial side, to contribute to the construction of affordable housing units
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equal to 20% of the total market the units in a project. you can build on site affordable units at your residential projects equal to 15% of the total market the units, or, you can develop offsite affordable units within a mile radius of the project equivalent to 20% of the total market rate units in your project. the codes established are usually relative to some percentage of area median income. the court has i think fairly well understood development challenges associated with most of port property. most is still tidelands. we have numerous structures, whether it appears listed on the
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national register or appear 70, a new national registered district consisting of some 40 or so industrial buildings. often, they require some level of environmental cleanup. then, we have bcdc and public trust as administered by state lands. both of those processes are looking at very substantial new public access to the bay. all of these factors make developing on the port very expensive. we have in the past pursued a number of flexible financing solutions, particularly at pier 70. that project has received support from the voters in the form of proposition d, a charter amendment passed some years back that allows the capture of payroll tax and any hotel tax to
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help fund public improvements at the site. proposition a was a parks fund adopted by voters in 2008 helping to fund parks at pier 70 and other parks along the port. with all of these tools still, the financial plan looks like it is not financially in balance. we hope that changes with the addition of our new private development partner for city development, but we are still looking for additional tools to make it happen. there are plans in the master plan, up to 3 million square feet of commercial space that may include research and development or office space. that would be subject to the jobs housing linkage fees we
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talked about earlier, and we expect millions of dollars to be generated from that project to the city's affordable housing fund. next, i want to segue from that discussion. staff had been thinking about different areas of property that might be appropriate for affordable housing, and one of the areas we thought of is the broadway parcells. these are mainly parking lots in the northern waterfront. they have been the subject of prior proposals. as we were looking for a potential area shall propose, affordable housing seemed like the area here, the heights here were appropriate for this investigation. current zoning for these parcels is c2.
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seawall lot 21 has a 60-foot height limit, so remaining parcels have a 40-foot limit, those along the embarcadero. what 322-1 is set back several blocks closer to the residential neighborhood. it has the greatest density potential for affordable housing. it is about a little less than an acre. it is in the ne waterfront historic district. the waterfront land use plan contemplates a residential use as one of its potential for array of uses at the site. it was previously contemplated as a hotel development site, and that project did not go forward. we currently earn about $50,000 a month from the site. almost $600,000 a year. so we wanted to present to you
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the following policy options for your consideration. and seek your permission to go and have this policy conversation with our advisory groups so we can talk to our neighbors about this and also the mayor's office of housing. one idea is to amend the city's jobs-housing linkage ordinance to allow the port to not just pay a fee but to provide land for affordable housing. that would be a different option and would potentially make available land for affordable housing that the mayor's office of housing could not otherwise afford. talk about these ideas at ne waterfront advisory group and other port advisory groups, and particularly talk about the idea of whether or not see what
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322-1 would be an appropriate site given the historic district and other factors. reach out to the mayor's office of housing and examine the site, do a feasibility analysis of whether or not the site can house the appropriate number of units. the mayor's office of housing like to build a certain type of project and we will need to see whether or not this site is workable. for that purpose. if an ordinance amendment is possible, and there seems to be community support for an affordable housing project, look at whether or not the site could be used to offset some of the fees that will be allowed to help the project become more financially feasible. the site is currently subject to the public trust, so in order
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for any sort of non-trust use like this for residential development to go forward, we would have to talk about potential legislation, lifting the trusties restrictions at the site. after all those consultations, we would want to come back to the port commission and talk further about what we have learned from the advisory groups, from the mayor's office of housing and from the state lands commission. that is a quick version of the presentation. i am availe them. thank you. >> is there any public comment on this item? >> good evening. i am from the mayor's office and housing. our office is very excited about the opportunity to talk with staff, primarily because it would advance our office's priorities and goals. the sea wall what is actually
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across the street from an affordable housing project would have already financed and is down the block from another development that is proposed to start construction next year, those book be an affordable family developments, so developing on 322i would be another opportunity that we would more than welcome. >> thank you. commissioners. >> quickly, any idea of roughly of how many with the 65 -- how many units we are talking? >> it thought it was about 100 or 125 units. and on how you would approach the site. there is a question about what would happen at the ground floor and whether you would want some retail use fronting broadway and what you would do with parking on the side, whether or not you would try to replace some of the parking that is currently there. but that is sort of very early thinking about it, but we would want to go through sort of a design process to truly answer
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that question. >> that will be also in partnership with a non-profit or something to develop this? >> it is actually 90 to 100 units, the estimate. tracey could answer the question better about the mayor's office of housing approach to development of these sites. i think that we've you affordable housing as not deport -- i think that we view of affordable housing is not the port's core area of expertise. i believe they work with a broad range of community-based non- profit housing developers. >> other questions or comments? >> would it be restricted to the sites under discussion? it would not mean -- not to open a can of worms, but it would not
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be a swap for any other side? >> i think this is the only site that we're thinking of right now. >> what i am getting at is we would not turn it over and then it would go to a developer and an affordable housing be built somewhere else. it would be limited to affordable housing being built on these sites? >> the proposal here is for affordable housing developments, yes. >> just did not want to have a repeat of earlier. >> ok. >> unless i am missing something, i think you can go ahead because there does not seem to be any reason not to. >> ok. thank you very much. >> item 11 -- i mean, item 10, new business. >> is there any new business? we have had a lot of business today. [laughter] which is now all open. ok. and item 11, public comment. >> ernestine weiss.
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>> i would just like to bring to your attention -- excuse me -- the fact that cars are the problem in this city. there is an article that was written in the "new york times" on december 15 that you can the google and see how europe and portland oregon discourages cars in all major cities. that is what is missing here. if we did that, we would not need a central subway for billions of dollars going no where. we would get muni on board to have their vehicles on time. i told that to the head of the muni, and he said he read that article. i said, "well, just do it." we are behind the times with all our managing here. i would ask you to engage in action to promote it because we cannot have any more congested
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-- congest gen. there are thousands of condos in the immediate area. and it is getting worse. where are we going to put all those cars? on mars? please engage yourself in that along with the other parts of the city government so we can get it going. thank you. >> any other public comment? >> before i did that, i want to thank the staff and say i know these presentations took a lot of work. sometimes there's a lack of questions on some of them appear but i think it is because of the incredible detail that was provided. i want to thank all of you because today was a really terrific group of presentations and very thorough. >> with that, madam chair, going back to the executive director's report, i would like to adjourn in a moment of silence for captain richard jack frost.
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