continued cost growth and. benefits. the answer any of the state budget situation and the upcoming labor negotiations for any of the opening of 27 labor negotiation contracts and to the upcoming fiscal year. there are many uncertainties still imbedded into these projections. for the department, we're required to submit a budget that shows a 5% reduction, the target of our general fund support each year in fiscal 12-13. this is $95,000. in addition, 5% in the following year as well. on top of that we are to submit a budget with a 2.5 contingency target. that is $40,000. on top of that as well, we are to reduce our general fund full time equivalent of possession count by 1% each year. that is approximately $10,000 worth of positions, 0.12 per position. it is rather minor.

we of -- will submit a budget that meets these targets for the upcoming budget years but i wanted to mention, the mayor has issued his 17. jobs plan. and i wanted to say that the department will consider the strategy that is included in the plan and our budget submission. it includes things such as attracting a growing jobs, reforming the payroll tax, hiring san franciscans, things of that sort. we direct the departments to consider those strategies in their budget submission. moving on to the department's base draft work program for the upcoming to budget cycles, this graph shows a resource allocation across the five divisions within the department. there ft count and the percentage of the total resources within the department. the discount in 12-13 is over 152 full-time equivalent positions. the department is still exploring whether additional

positions may be required to meet additional priorities and needs in the upcoming tv zero fiscal years and we will be communicating that information to you during the upcoming budget briefings. i will go into more detail for each of the divisions. what the major work program activities are for the upcoming two budget years. first the current planning division. it will experience a slight decline in its full time equivalent count. from the current fiscal year to the upcoming budget year by approximately 1.84 fte's due to the reassignment of staff from planning to other divisions which are will talk about in a little bit. also removing some one time funding for work related to the america's cup. that is similar to what is going on in environmental planning as well. a majority of current planning resources are dedicated to application review and processing. it represents more than 40% of the staffing in its division.

at this time, we're expecting application volume to hold pretty steady and consistent as we're experiencing right now. we will continue to look at those projections throughout the coming weeks to revise those projections as well. as the director mentioned, a significant staff resources dedicated to the permit and project tracking system implementation. planning has over three dedicated staff to this implementation effort. moving on to historic preservation, there is a slight decline in resources. some of the major activities will be documentation of the social heritage resources in japantown and wes soma. work on the central corridor serving in the civic center. -- resources in japantown and west soma. this is showing a slight decrease in dedicated resources. that is mainly due to more

dedicated resources at the public information counter. it is assuming there are not a lot of public inquiries coming into other staff which has made for more efficient process. graeme planet continues to control its overhead expenses and -- current planning continues to control its overhead expenses and they have increased the amount of time billed to fee based application were. we can build our time to the project. the department has completed a two-year effort to create a new paraprofessional classification called the planner technician. planning has two planning positions that are recently filled in fall 2011 and these positions should result in better efficiencies and consistency in perma-press is in reviewing. we want to make sure you were aware of that. moving on to the of long-range planning or the city wide

planning division. the city wide planning division will experience a pretty insignificant reduction in its fte count due to one time or on the america's cup project. with the conclusion of the planning efforts that the director had mentioned earlier, the division will be able to focus many resources on updates to the city's general plan. the health care services master plan, and the urban forest master plan. the group will strengthen the city's neighborhoods as the director mentioned as well. on to the community planning program, showing a slight reduction of resources dedicated to this program. they will be focusing on two major community efforts. one being the central subway downtown corridor plan and to being the center for services district. on to the plan implementation function. they will be focusing on public realm needs in other areas such as the interface between south of market and mission bay.

in the analysis and reporting, information analysis program, they have that capacity to expand its analysis. [no audio] without expanding its overall staffing levels. changes that are related to management and administration line item include moving some of the managers in the division to activities reflect more of their actual time on some of the work they're doing on a variety of pratt -- projects we mentioned earlier. in the environmental planning division, a majority of resources are dedicated to preparing the documents. they're experiencing over one full time equivalent reduction in their account due to work on the america's cup project. many of the projects that are currently under way is with the

director mentioned. two important eir's that are expected to feed and is the better market street plan. environmental planning has been playing a role in the intervention concerning high- speed rail. the director provided you an update on the transit sustainability program which there will be also involved in. moving on to the zoning administration and compliance division. this is the newly created division this current fiscal year and the code enforcement staff and the general advertising sign program. there is a 0.5 of an fte. due to reassignment for more support work. the general advertising sign program turning its focus on to maintenance and the upkeep of

the annual required filing by advertising signs. -- sign owners. the administration division. there is about one fte account of a year-over-year change and that is due to the reassignment of the graphic artist position in the current planning division which will be reassigned to the administration division to support the new communications manager which will be starting next week. and the administration division does have quite a few dedicated resources to the implementation of the tracking system as well. i would like to mention that the finance division -- finance office will be focusing on a comprehensive fee study this fiscal year. we have contracted to comprehensively review the fee structure for the department and we have also ended take -- undertaken an effort to review and update performance measures to focus more on efficiency and outcomes in customer service.

with that, the division chiefs are here as well as myself to answer any questions you may have. thank you. president fong: thank you. is there any public comment on the presentation? seeing none, commissioners, commissioner more. vice president miguecommissione reflected in the bad -- budget allocation -- not to say significant. yoof staff means you need to transition. >> that is a good question and the answer is i do not know yet. it is not going to -- quite clear what our budget

implications will be. i do not know yet if we will be able to include it in the budget that you see. before we send it to the mayor or it will be somewhat after that. it affects some number of departments and we're working together to figure that out. my hope is we can do it in time to incorporate it into the budget before it goes to the mayor in february but it might be a separate package that comes to you at a later date. i do not know yet. >> yocommissioner moore: quite a bit of work needs to be done in applying [unintelligible] those are very big pieces. if the project will go forward their respective if they are under previous development or under your leadership. >> to reiterate, the three big project areas i mentioned will be handled the way they are now through the successor agency. what is not clear is how much

impact the department will have on projects that are in other redevelopment areas that do not have contractual obligations. that is what is the unknown right now. >> otherwise i thought the presentation was very good. it was very tight. many of the questions which we used to ask in previous years have been clearly answered and it will be very difficult to -- declining resources to have -- respond to the continued mandate to reduce your reliance on general funds. i think it is a very difficult task to meet, given what we all know has happened within the last few years. >> thank you. president fong: commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: this is following up on the redevelopment agency's devised -- demise. is there any thinking about any

departmental realignments, or combining? we have planning and we have dvi, the mairs housing office and the community development, umpteen numbers of agencies of and apartments that seem to overlap in terms of what the redevelopment agency was doing. i do not know of there is anything about perhaps reorganizing the city in any way. >> there has been some very brief discussions but i have not -- to my knowledge, i have not been involved in any discussions with mayor lee. i believe that would all be on the table. commissioner sugaya: i do not have specific ideas but just curious. >> i would like to comment on the department being nimble with the america's cup.

iand point out the long term planning things that have been great successes. there have been awards that have been given, the better streets plan and we're looking at things like what first programs. i want to give emphasis to staying nimble and keep those types of long-range programs that can affect a lot of people. the appreciation overall san francisco. -- of san francisco. >> we will be back in a couple of weeks. thank you. we will take a 10 minute recess. >> commissioners, you have a 10 minute recess.

>> the planning commission is back in session, if i can remind everyone to turn off yourself funds again. and we can get started. the commissioners, you are on item 13, casthe mission bay cam. >> before we get started, if i may, a couple of announcements. this project is being designed by the very well-known and well established a firm that has done work over the world. i am sad to report that he died at two weeks ago, the founding member of the firm. it has been that route since 1963 and has a great legacy of work over the world, including san francisco.

his son victor is here to help present the project. i would like to offer you our condolences and our excitement in working with you and continuing a father's legacy over this great project. thank you, victor. the second thing i wanted to do is introduce david wins love that has been in the department a few months, but this will be his first presentation to the commission. many of you know david from an architect has been in practice more than 20 years and had his own firm. he leads the design review functions in the department. and he participates in the urban design part of the group. he has been the primary staff working on this design. welcome, david. >> [inaudible]

good afternoon, commissioners. i am here with three development staff and the sales force design team that will be making presentations, so i will be brief. before you, there is a proposal before the major phase design master plan for the salesforce.com corporate headquarters. the major phase provide context for a view of the individual filled in -- individual buildings. the redevelopment commission approved the major phase of september 20, 2011. this is an overview of the major phase and a preview of the

separate buildings that will come back to you later in february. the staff has worked collaborative leave with salesforce.com in a series of design workshops to our drive at a shared vision for an urban campus that has keep public design goals. understanding architectural design, using public open space, and maintenance of public view corridors. the project is located in the mission bay south plan area and is zoned commercial and industrial. it is bound by third street, south street, illinois street, and the approved a major phase envisions 1.9 million square feet of offices to create a street wall with a coordinated

system of pedestrian-oriented open space connected to the area and the waterfront. the first phase consists of four buildings. bill be brought back to you for a future date for designer of your approval. and office allocation pursuant to a section code 321. i like to make a correction on the staff report, page three, paragraph three. real estate transfer regio-- alg with that, allocation was transferrred wited with these properties.

49,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, 6000 square feet of child care space. in addition, 4 acres of publicly accessible open spaces proposed. the buildings range in height from 6 to 10 stories. each employs sustainable building strategies, they are confirmed a with the mission bay redevelopment plan and design for development agreement. this concludes my presentation. the sponsor and architecture here to make presentations. staff is available to answer any questions. thank you.

>> i haven't met all of you, but i have had the pleasure of meeting a few of you. i am the head of the real-estate group responsible for building this project, it is a wonderful project and we are delighted to be here to share it with you. the first slide in front of you should give you general information about us. the i will not go through all these things, the most important saying is the first point, that we are a san francisco founded company in 1999. this is our home. this facility is an expression of our home. if we look to the overall employee makeup, 45% of our employees live in san francisco. it seems to be a fairly steady trend for us, so we are committed to the city.

the process has been a very collaborative process. we had a great input from the redevelopment agency, the planning department, and the community. we had a total of four meetings with the community at a 51 today. the response from the community advisor a committee has been very positive. what has happened over the last 10 months, the design has evolved quite significantly and has turned into a very open and very community-oriented campus. what you see as a campus that is not a closed campus like many that you see in other technology firms. it is open to the public, we embrace the public, there is a lot of retail and activity going on that will hopefully and live in the buildings for us and for the community. i would like to turn it over to

the architect. we are delighted to have him here today to present the project and answer questions you might have about the design. >> i would like to thank the comment about my father. as you know, he loved san francisco, it was his second home here. i think now we have a double motivation to do this project better because it will be his last project in the city. we will do all our efforts to work really good. we have been working for the past 10 months in a lot of workshops with the planning department and the agency, it has been great. we are happy with the result of

these workshops. i know is not my business to tell you how to organize the city, but i think that you have very talented staff, and we have worked very happily with them. it has been a good experience for us working with the staff. going back to the site, the core of mission a mixed with a new hospital campus, the site is very unique, it has a very big front of the day. together, with of the hospital, it will change and reinforce that statement.

it will become the city center. we are planning to make the first phase four blocks, which is the central block. that will be the first phase, because it will really create a centerpiece for the campus. the bottom line is going to be the first phase, and we choose that because it creates a the central answer, and in one moment, we discussed with the side of buildings, those are the buildings. batf has always been to make an open campus. it has been the direction

afforded the, the class's will be open and there will not be a private sense. in the entrances of the buildings were we're showing the docks, it'll have a different entrance for each building, to respond also to the street. even the lobby, you can cross through the building in become public spaces. it will have some security, but we want to activate it as much as possible. we study to activate those places, the retail. together with recent consultant's and the agency department. this is third street and the main plaza.

it has retail around food, and we're talking to bring a restaurant from the city to make use of the plaza on the east side of the property. we also took care, willis' -- or we located around running the property north to south. the idea to give a very important and easy access to pedestrians have cycle parking. even the public transit, they are very important entrances. the parking is hidden behind. to emphasize that we want to encourage people arriving by a pedestrian or by bicycle. the public plaza, we are

creating a series of pavilions to activate where we are incorporating art. we have a jumbo, that we are working with an artist that will make some exhibits in video and also have the possibility of showing special events if there is a game, a special movie night on the weekends. water has been a driving element in the design. we are thinking this implies that can be flooded every day and you can drive most of it. at the pedestrian level, this is a view of the plaza. we have also studied at the wind conditions and the sound conditions. this is the area of the plaza that has exposure of the sun and

a more protected from the wind. that is the idea of putting the sitting area in this part. we want to be able to activate the space at night. we think that it is important that it is not only used in office towers, that promotes a flea market or something of that will activate during the night and during the weekend. the campus we love, it serves as a connection from the bay to the ucsf campus. it encourages people to walk through. in the first part, we have all these trees and then we have a palm trees on the promenade walking.

here we are starting to discuss -- we have been discussing the condemnation of local and international artists. the primary idea is to use local artists. going building by building, this is going 29. we're looking forward to changing the numbers of the buildings and changing them to color. the accent color, the roof of this building, this becomes the ceremonial entrance which is in the same place where you have the stuff off of public transit. we are