color was not a great choice. we have a project website. we have a general e-mail for the project and a general phone number. 593-1655. that provides translation services. supervisor kim: i would like to say this is the perfect example of why color matters, going back to another presentation. [laughter] very important. supervisor kim: i was wondering if you schedule the dates when you will present to the pedestrian safety advisory committee and the bicycle advisory committee? >> for pedestrian, i believe that is in september. and also the bicycle advisory will also probably be in early

september. supervisor kim: could you give us the dates? >> yes. >> it has been a long meeting, but the agenda and complement each other. i wantedm" created this as a block grant, there were a lot of strings attached. one of the bonuses is it gives you the flexibility to decide what you want to fund with these projects. the policies and prioritization criteria are up on our website. but if you have a particular type of project that you want to fund, please let us know or let your offices know. the time to do that is now. it could fit in obag or could be prop k or prop aa, it is all the same to us. we have got to get that out. supervisor avalos: thank you. ok, thank you for your presentation. we can open it up for public comment. any member of the public? seeing none, we will close

public comment. this is an information item, so we can go on and to our next item. >> item 12, introduction of new items, information item. conversation around how the city is looking at expanding its accessible traffic stops with audible traffic signals, so i think that will be great to have as a presentation in september. that is a discussion we had earlier today. colleagues, in the other items for introduction? ok. public comment on this item? supervisor olague: i just have an item i would like to maybe request. yesterday, some of u3

island coming on board, a central corridor, and also with the transit center, so there is a lot of development being proposed, really an intense level of development being proposed in that area. seems to me that there would be some extreme impacts on all of the above. multi-modal or whatever we want to -- however we want to refer to it as did not want to look at parking and parking requirements, you know, that sort of thing. it seems that is obvious to me that there would be cumulative impacts. >> if i may, commissioner olague, there has been, of course, environmental work done on each of those to address those issues. supervisor olague: everything has been looked at separately? i sort of looked at them as

separate projects. >> as you know, there is a requirement that the cumulative impacts are considered as well. some of these things are on similar timelines. others are not. i think that what we may be able to do to highlight the issues that you're talking about -- supervisor olague: how are these issues being mitigated, i guess that is my question. >> we will give a presentation at the next meeting in september or october about the current effort we're doing on the countywide transportation plan, which is a 30-year look precisely. it starts with a fairly close ending target year, and it has a much longer target year. so we can look at those other issues. there are no secrets there. the information is there, but it is probably good to put it in

context. the other thing i would add to that is that in the case of the transbay transit center, for example, the redeveloper area around it or whatever we call it now, post-redevelopment, is still a key to the financing of the project. you know, there is a significant amount of affordable housing that went into the approval of that plan. obviously, it feeds into the viability of the center. so the two things come together. it does not mean there are no consequences or impacts on the ground, they are part of the package. so we should definitely bring that i into context, and we can also talk about treasure island and the other things. supervisor olague: so is this practically speaking? what are the impacts, and what are some of the mitigations#mc proposed? >> let's try does something together for you.

september or october. supervisor avalos: thank you. we will open this item up for public comment, new information items. public comment. we will close this item. general public comment. >> item 13, general public comment. >> good morning again, commissioners. like i told you last month, with van ness brt going forward and the central subway going forward, you have to remember that they are building a station at union square÷/&dy with spur t union square for a light rail system. we should also read the final report that was published back

in 1989, 1990. it is about the final report of the kerry transit task force that i happened to serve on -- the geary transit task force that i happened to serve on. also, the final report that was published in 1995. i know these items -- of these documents are many years old, but they tell you about a light rail system on geary boulevard that the voters voted for back in 1989. you also have to remember, during the short term transit plan during the period, the puc was quoted as saying the only way to alleviate traffic congestion on geary boulevard is an "light railk not a bus rapid transit. before you consider brt on

geary, read those three documents. remember about the central subway at the union square station, and do your homework. you have two months to do it. i do not know when we will be coming before you again for discussion and passage, but you have plenty of time to do it. enjoy the two months off, enjoy the reading. it was good reading for me. commissioner avalos: thank you very much. any other member of the public that would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item please. >> item 14 is adjournment. commissioner avalos: we are adjourned. thank you very much.

>> we all sound very excited because we have some special guests. we have nearly -- mayor lee. [applause] and we also have our very own superintendent coranza. i am sure you want to hear a few words from the superintendent, correct? from mayor lee? the spring them a warm harvey milk will come. -- let us give them a warm harvey milk will come. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back to harvey milk academy.

it is my pleasure to join all of you, the students, parents, faculty, and school administration, to kick off a wonderful year. how many students want to be mayor of san francisco? how about a mayor from the civil rights academy of harvey milk? we would be proud of that. i want to welcome everybody back. i know you had a great summer. i want you to approach this school like a sponge, soak up everything that you can learn. it is great to have knowledge about everything going on in the world, what is going on in the city. by the way, i will be supporting your parents and teachers and faculty to make this the best school in san francisco. how about that? [applause] and you are starting out fantastic. this is what san francisco is

about. all the parents involved children and faculty to make this the best school. you have a mayor that will pay attention to our school, education, make sure you get the best education, because i want you to have my job some day. how about that? welcome back, welcome to the great school of harvey milk. you have a wonderful faculty who is going to teach you and expose you to a lot of different things to keep you active. we are going to help the city make sure your after-school programs are solid. thank you and have a great year. welcome back. [applause] >> thank you, mayor lee. superintendent coranza. [applause] >> good morning, boys and girls.

we can do better than that. when i say good morning, i want to yell as loud as you can. good morning. >> good morning! >> that is beautiful. are you excited to be back in school? and one more time, good morning. >> good morning! >> we are excited to be here with the mayor who has a busy schedule. i will tell you why we wanted to be here at harvey milk. harvey milk looks like san francisco. it is the most diverse school in our district. it is a beautiful school. you know what is also great about harvey milk? we know, based on last year's assessment, we predict harvey milk will have great growth in student achievement again this year. isn't that great? [applause] that is great because we know it

does not happen without the wonderful teachers you have. so i want you to be sure to listen and pay attention to your teacher this year and do what they say. if you do, they will prepare you to be mayor one day or superintendent one day, or president one day. so listen to your teachers. you have a great principle. she fights for you every single day to make sure you have your resources to be successful. i brought some people with me that wanted to come and see harvey milk civil rights academy. these are people i work very closely with but they are so excited to be here because they heard about all the good news and all the good stuff here at harvey milk civil rights academy. first is our board member. hydra mendoza. the other person is the assistant superintendent that supervises harvey milk's above its academy, margaret chu.

[applause] i also brought with me the deputies said pete produce superintendent for so solid justice, mr. garrido. this is such a special school, i brought two deputy superintendent. the other deputy is in charge of policy and operations. myung lee. he is jumping back there. does anybody here want to be a lawyer? oh, come on, parents. this is so special, we brought the general counsel, the big lawyer in the district. his name is don davis, and he is over there. and then our director of communications is a factor as well. -- back there as well. why do i introduce the people to you?

because we are so proud of harvey milk civil-rights academy, we all wanted to be here on the first day of school. this is not the last time you will see us. we want to come back to read in the classrooms. i understand you do a school dance. maybe we get invited to do that. we want you to have a great school year. q want to thank all of you parents for all that you do. we cannot do this without you. let's have a great year. yay! [applause] >> thank you. we have traditions here at harvey milk. one of the traditions is a dance that we do. boys and girls, what do you do? tell us what we do.

>> the cuban shuffle. >> come to the middle if you are going to do the cuban shuffle. this is a dance that we do. parents, teachers, come on up. ♪

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>> good afternoon. this is a joint meeting between the planning commission and the stohr preservation commission for july 19, 2012. i would like to remind everyone to silence or so phones and any other electronic devices that may sound off. moore? here. sugaya? borden? cindy wu? i have a quorum of the planning commission, chase? haas/ ? martinez? we have a quorum of the historic preservation commission. this is on the grants. >> thank you, commissioners. i just wanted to make a few comments of introduction before i introduce her, first, thank

you for both commissioners for bearing with us. this was my responsibility for getting * mixed up. i appreciate your forbearance -- for bearing with us on that ledge. yes i have the your coming with us -- coming together with us for the special item. this is a project it that we have been working on for a while, and has offered a partnership with us on this design challenge, to come merida with innovative ways to deal with the -- come up with innovative ideas for the design problem related to the additions and the new construction in the historic districts, south of the market district and how these may be approached. we will have some interesting possibilities and approaches to this challenge.

i will introduce driscoll, who will talk to you about the program. and how the design program is organized. thank you. >> i am the executive director with the center for architecture and design. i am happy that this is something that is fine, because this will be different than a lot of the presentations that you will see. we do a variety of programs for the community as well as professionals. in 2005 we established the center for architecture and design, which was focused on working with the general public on issues of design. since 2007 we've partnered with the magazine, which is no longer with us on matching designers with design challenges to rethink the intractable urban problems. with a degree from the national

endowment for the arts, we developed five design challenges with the nonprofits and city agencies this year. the other clients include the city department of emergency services, the seven cisco bicycle coalition, the visitors bureau. results of these other challenges will be presented at the architecture and the city festival on september 27. this evening's presentation -- this year we added a focus on developing new forms of community engagement. over the last few days we were closely with twitter over the design of tonight's presentation to provide links to this presentation with their internal network, to create an opportunity for you, as a civic leaders to engage in dialogue beyond the boundaries of this room. if you tweet, use #rethink

soma. we're wanting to engage workers and visitors beyond the dialogue with those who may not normally come to this meeting. we'll be working with the planning department to figure out what you may want to do with these comments. we approach to planning and preservation department in january with a question, how can civic leaders balance the desire for sustainable architecture in san francisco? at the request of the planning director week limited as to the south market neighborhood. we would like to express our thanks to the director as well as david winslow, and tim fry for their accessibility to answer numerous questions. the presenters and night is renée shall, she is an associate

professor and the co-chair of the urban design program. she is not have a conflict with anything within the city of san francisco. she is part of the design of never does, with suburban space and the fabric of dwellings, which received a national award, and she has over 25 years of experience in architectural planning and research on projects. with that i would like to introduce you to renee chow. >> do you know -- >> sfgtv will turn it on. >> i am delighted to be here. here. i don't know if my students feel