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and currently you have plus peak traffic. we're looking at a basis line - the way we're proposing a scope i'll be happy to talk about that. what happens if there were no projects what if growth were going to happen with the projects like central subways and we layer on toup top of that the recommended projects that we're hearing and we get to see whether their is value added or not. even before the eir kicks in. just imagine how much smarter that is. and see then seth a date for which these relatives come in.
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i think i'd be more than happy to do that. >> i think a lot of folks will be looking at the baseline we're looking at and what will be looking at like how many additional light rail vehicles and parking spots and how much bicycle valet is incredible important. and looking at those upward conflicts at the warriors and the other park >> we want to start with the worst-case scenario and everything else go will be
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easier and a thank you very m h much. >> at this point we'll open it up to public comment. >> i'll call the first 10 names on the pack. (calling names) >> yes jeffrey. we worked for 4 years with the san francisco giants and the at&t park.
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i want to thank scott wiener for bringing up the transportation points but it's about drivers and others. supervisor chu don't take this as a personal attack but the chair of the b cdc. i find it challenging your supporting this project but yet you're against the project in my district apparently i called your office for this clarification on that. you know, the pictures look terrific but when we get down to the fine-grain what is this thing all about. if we start seeing things like
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financially feasible is this what we're going to get? this is eye candy. their gorgeous but right now the press realize says this is a privately financed project but it's not privately functions. the press continues to reap the lies over and over again. but when we get to the fine-grain you guys have a duty to give us what we're seeing in those negotiations pictures. if we don't get this it's going to be a disastrous.
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>> i'm not here to complain about losing a viewing. i think the design is gorgeous i'm here to thank you supervisor wiener for bringing up to many things. i've lived in this neighborhood before the giants were there. the giant are wonderful neighbors we have issues with those folks. we have crime and grime issues after every game. we took two dp w folks around after a game to show them what happens with the combriem, the track etc. and mohammed is great.
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if i want to go home i can't get on a train and because i don't have they bus service i have to walk or take a cab. i'm so concerned about crime and grime. we're going currently overtaxed. but it is really possible to make transportation work there? we are overtaxed the transportation is a problem. i don't think we can take two arrest republicans within the same neighborhood. thank you very much. >> matt reagan from the bay area council that were there's a issue with a world-class arena.
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thatill be home to a worrying activity but it will allow critic activities and allow the restaurants and retailer describe to improve. the water front design is in a dpaptd pier. currently pier thirty and 32 are a little bit more than for nothing but the seagulls. i've worked for the giant fourteen or 15 years ago. i think the giants have done a wonderful j and it's a
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wonderful project to the city of san francisco and the warriors project will be a good one too. but i think supervisor wiener is exactly right we need to draft those concerns but not let them kill beneficial projects. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm pat. i'm a neighbor of the proposed warriors site. we live in the second more dense city. we have a mixed neighborhood i don't think it was meant to be a quiet residential neighborhood
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we've got restaurants residents and an arena. that was just mentioned the current site blocks the bay and this will open up the area and the warriors is not just for basketball but for the public use as well. i live there the dodgers were just in town it was difficult and we have the challenges of traffic. with 42 thousand approximately coming to the giants games 18 thousands are less coming to the warriors or arena related games it can't handle that in the
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area. hopefully in transit areas we'll see leadership and public support for it. so thank you >> thank you supervisors i'm dennis. it's - i've been teaching in the public high schools for the last 20 years. i've had a proposal for the warriors to conclude in the orange design a high school, college pathway classroom that i've provided in the last year different updates. today, i'm here to speak to the rejection generate of leaders.
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it's very clear in my dealing with city hall and projects our high school and college students never get the chance to have the real world activities this area provides. this can help our students understand what the media is all about and a journalism and agricultur agriculture. when i speak to high school students all day long my prospective has been studying education reform all year long. when i talk to them about our leaders they have no idea what you're responsibility is.
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it's our responsibility that we tell students about the responsible positions you have. i hope this continues to move forward in a positive way. thank you >> hi. i'm the president of the south beach district club. i'm here to speak about the residential issues that katie covered. first of all, there's a report from the planning commission that identifies district 6 as having the largest number of constituents? san francisco. we have as the last consensus almost a one hundred thousand constituents? district 6.
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>> that was redistrict. >> but since then there's towers going up and we still hold the number of big the largest district? the city. that's a residential issue. it's? not just office buildings it's a lot of people and a lot of people are effected by those stadiums p and the city has can baldz the parking and now we have the event meeting. my visitors have to pay $7 an hour. there's no reason to assume consideration will be applied. i'm maple i broughtp the
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issues. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm representing the hotel folks. both organizations fully support the warriors arena and the development of thirty, 31. obviously it will bring new jobs to san francisco but the long-term jobs related to the arena itself from hotel. but i want to remind you when people spend time at the hotel they spend twice as much money outside the hotel in taxis and so forth and it's well beyond
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the tour system itself. 16 million tourists visit us every year. the folks are interested in using public transportations. this paroled project would revitalize the piers and an arena that will provide a world-class water front for a world-class city. we think this will benefit those who work and live in san francisco and we thank you for your support >> before i ask the next speaker to come up i'm going to call the next 10 names. (calling names)
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>> good afternoon supervisors. i'm michael i'm with local 6 in san francisco. i want to let you know i started my career in the ship industry in piers 38 and 37 and spent a lot of time refurbishing those condominiums in south beach. at piers thirty and 32 needs to be rehabilitated. and a space that needs to be revitalized. we have a space that needs the piers 32 that will commencement
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that. is worst-case scenario is from traffic and this is when that we have two sold-out games. we have asking for twice the capacitate with people coming in on the same amount herself we don't talk about what happens in oakland there's nobody walking to oracle arena right now. the ability to get to the san francisco district to walk over to the warriors game and catch that commuter ferry across the by the way, or take the transit out of town it's more than manageable. other than maybe 5 events a year that might conflict twice.
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the construction jobs and the permanent arena jobs for san francisco we must have an arena that's using here in san francisco. thank you >> thank you. >> first i want to thank you for the opportunity to speak i'm representing the san francisco alliance. we're a coalition of neighbors and concerned san franciscans who have joined the by the way, to protect our waterfront. we don't intend to comment on the details of this design but we ask you to scrutinize the design and the fundamental issues it proposes. are the limited and largely unfunded maritime uses you
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enough to justify this maritime structure to be built on our piers. what will say impact be on our water front and 5 hundred car parking endanger right in our by the way, were we urge you to consider the public impact and ask i join us in the following. the city should issue a new notice of preparation and the city should hold a scoping session within 45 days. it is clear in the presentation that the pier thirty and 32 has changed in any significant ways and those changes are nwithout
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consequence. so we ask you to please consider our recommendations. >> thank you. >> the city has magic. you know that it has it and suddenly it tushes into warriors gold. filling up the city with a new stadium you, you know, your be standing at all remember to give it all your city hall. and suddenly it turns into solid golden. misinforming somewhere beyond the seawall waiting for we a new stadium stands on warriors gotten state sand and straight
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to the game. we'll go sailing hello, headline yes wish. and rolling do you think i'm going to get a new stadium a new home for the warriors basketball. going to see those smiling hoops on the cover of the rolling stone. rolling doom going to see the doom and going to find a now a home. we're going to buy tickets for you. we're going to see you're smiling has the same force and effect on the cover of the home cover of the rolling stone going to see you there rolling stone. we're going to see you're smiling basketball hoops on the warriors new home. >> thank you, mr. paulson.
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>> hi i'm bob graham i'm a resident of san francisco and the bay area for thirty years. my partner and i bruce purchased a condo because it's located a block and a half from the new stadium. we - i started going to worrying games in 1962 and i'll tell you i can't wait to be able to walk over there and i hope it keeps me going another thirty years. we decided to move to san francisco in 2011. we knew with didn't want to live in a residential area we wanted
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to live in a neighborhood that was vibrant and had business and shops. residential a real mix. good transportation, public transportation a walking distance to downtown so we looked south beach and then the warriors announced the new arena and went counsel to the - now i understand this was a land use planning commission and entertainment and i want like to say i think this is tremendous land use planning. it has components that will draw
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so many people lift the city up and put us on the map. the wish from our area we could see the stadium >> thank you, mr. graham. yeah, and just for the members of the public you have two minutes by you, finish your sentence. thank you for being here mr. graham >> good afternoon. i'm a resident of the south beach area for 12 years. and i'm president of the south batch business association. i'm a very excited been the warriors coming to the water front. personally and building the new arena will create jobs and provided revenue for the city. but one of the problems that we
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do have the business community in the area we've only had - the business from the for 6 months of the year so businesses suffered for 6 months of the year. this will bring many new and very needed businesses for our community and help the exit businesses grow. so that's an important aspect. we're continuing to work with peter albert and mta who's coming out to our association and discussing the parking for our area. we were e we believe the warriors are providing tint for
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the business community as well and a good afternoon >> good afternoon and i'm here for the warriors on the waterfront that were i think this is one of the most exciting projects since 1989 when the governor suggested a wall on the waterfront. it was no more than a wall on the waterfront but this is a tremendous opportunity for the city we've been looking for for decades. like it or not there are a few sites available to build this arena. and this site at pier thirty,
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32. is it will be a public amenity for residents in the simply beach area to have that much open space to have the ability to open up that pier that's never been opened up to the public so restore a major masterminded asset for birthing & it would otherwise fall into the by the way. you only have to go to boston, los angeles, chicago know brooklyn, washington, d.c. and soon downtown sacramento and you'll see the benefits of an arena that adds to employment and activity in those
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communities. thank you very much. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm gena. i'm glad you brought up questions like transportation and your bringing it to the neighborhoods. you're making s it real. i mean, my husband and i have some season tickets to the giants and the 49ers and he struggles to get to the games. so i like seeing the transportation thing talked about. i'm in full support of this being called the cultural center. i think what it will do for san francisco with jobs i have a son in the hotel industry i mean - i hear every sportscaster see that
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at&t park - i keep forgetting what park it is - is a jewel in the crown. i look at this as the opera house. it's a designation gives jobs and please i love peter albert's analysis of the american cup and i incidentally believe ahead of time bring the warriors on and bring culture and concerts. i think it's a really good thing. thank you >> good afternoon supervisors myron lee. born and raised san franciscan and lifetime resident.
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this is pretty sure i've dreamed my entire life but, you know, i've had worrying season tickets but i live on the west side so it's been pretty - yes. i have. i went to an east side game is it took me an hour and a half to get back. we have an opportunity to put a world-class arena brown where we can go to events right in the heart of the city and i know with the 49ers kicking off there's a great opportunity to take something on the pier like there's nothing there right now and make it a world-class venue. so, yeah i'm a thousand percent behind this project just wanted to showing you