section 186 to allow for the reactivation of limited commercials. it has been broken up into five different pieces. >> i would have a report effective from mr. frye. it was a prominent african- american businessmen and entrepreneurs that i believe is the first african-american to run for mayor. the of the bar from 1958 until 1995. staff has worked with him on the research.

it was included earlier, last year on landmark designation programs, mr. jordan's family supported designation along with several members of the public. it was quite touching and staff was really taken by support of this project. the other action that the preservation commission took was to construct a new transit station. that station is designed to use the same materials and blend into the current design of the square. union square is rated as a category one significant space in the downtown plan. they took that action as well. commissioner moore: be you have

any quick answer to what happened to pier 29? could it be in the time for i am of repairing the overall buildings along the embarcadero? >> i was looking at a press release issued by the court this afternoon. i will summarize. they brought a construction company on board demobilize cranes and remove the damaged area on top of the building and on the road and -- on the roof to reduce the hazard of debris falling. and they had architects and city staff to consult with the port engineers to make sure that we can maintain as much of the building as possible. they say that it will not impact the america's cup event. the peir itself -- pier itself

was not affected, it was just the shed. >> the preservation consultant or architect, it is carrying a company. they had staff there at 9:00 in the morning. the engineers also there, things are going to move fairly quickly to get restoration plans and the place. >> on those lines, i think we had a fire some years ago had appeared to 43 in fisherman's wharf. it was not connected. also, i believe sam jordan was known as the mayor of butcher town many years ago.

>> good evening, acting as of the administrator. your board of appeals report for last night, there were four cases of some note. they were given the hours and i'm only going to address horn interest in particular which is a proposal that you had reviewed in february, 5258 mission street. this was the first of the three medical cannabis dispensaries. the elder mission merchants and residents association had filed a third party d.r. they were the appellant last night, based on very similar grounds as a review in february. in particular, the urging was

that the board of appeals apply a similar reasoning that it had used in a previous unrelated case based on your sense of the users. the board did you -- the notion of clustering. ultimately, based on being nothing in the law to prevent clustering end of the case in question being factually different, the board had denied the appeal and the pull of the permanent, your approval of the dispensary -- did uphold the permit, your approval of the dispensary. >> you don't have to talk about them, but what were they?

>> a small, old, but not historic cottage. a drm variance in september. that permit was upheld. finally, a permit to replace spiral rear stairs with non-spiral. >> thank you. with that, we can move onto the last category for public comment. they may address to for items within your jurisdiction with the exception of agenda items. >> you all directed that there should be extensive public out reaching you may be pleased to know that the director did public outreach in the city

attorney did public outrage. other than that, nobody knows anything. one of the owners nearby, she is very alarmed because she says everybody opposes it but nobody knows how to do anything because all they know is that there is a sign there. i saw it in the planning commission calendar, so i have been trying to lead the small number of people i know know about it. my goodness, i did a petition of 150 people whenever it was. today, two people told me this. one woman said i am in the east now, but i did a petition and all of these people really oppose it. all of you, probably meaning well, directed negotiations. we want neighbors and developers

to negotiate. i was disturbed. i was trained for community action many years ago and as the players said, you should have caught us in better days. we were purists then. we were taught that you empower a community, you don't speak for them, you don't put yourself forward for them, but not everybody understands that. i happened to hear about it from a few people telling me how, why are you saying the twenty eighth? people are being led down the dark path of development, if they tweak, maybe the city attorney thinks that. people are very upset. we were told by public officials

what the developer would do, turning the place until a homeless encampment and tell people beg him to build something and i believe that is probably true. he has supporters that say just build something because nothing can be done and it is a crime scene. for the most part, people are very upset, but how do they know? we are trying to get a meeting together right now. we have been denied access to the files because the city attorney has them. i still don't have any response and i don't have a mailing list. how are we supposed to let people know what is happening so they can respond? we are trying to have a meeting and doing the best we can but it is difficult under there has beo the community where they know what is occurring. >> any other additional public comment? a reminder that we are closing

the meeting in memory of r.c. owens. the meeting is adjourned.

i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people

need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs.

joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the

jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. whatever that's going to take to make them happy, to get them there, that's the main goal. if it takes a planter with flowers and stuff like that, fine. you know, so what? people need to get away from that urban rush and noise and this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in san francisco. we have visitors who will say,

i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park, >> the question when i started

11 years ago when i started doing resolution work is can anything be presented on a really low resolution device where it is potentially a digital image? can anything be presented that way? or will it feel cold and electronic? >> the imagery will change. there will be four different sets. it is a two dimensional image. it is stretched out into three dimensions. the device is part of the experience. you cannot experience the image

without the device as being part of what you are seeing. whereas with the tv you end up ignoring it. i make gallery work more self and budget and public art work where i have to drop this of indulgence and think about how people will respond. and one of the things i was interested in the work and also a little fearful of, it is not until you get to the first and second floor were the work is recognizable as an image. it is an exploration and perception is what it is. what are you seeing when you look at this image? one of the things that happens with really low resolution images like this one is you never get the details, so it is

always kind of pulling you in kind of thing. you can keep watching it. i think this work is kind of experience in a more analytical way. in other words, we look at an image and there is an alice going on. -- and there is an analysis going on.