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all in january about access to the site and i think that the port and the port commission is going to have to help with that. because right now, the access is very, very limited. and so, i think that is a subject that should be brought in very early. and i think that the other thing is that as you go through this and i am hoping that the commission will stay very closely in touch with the project as it moves forward and because it is an important one. that you will continue to use the goals that were set out and master plan for pier 70 to evaluate the progress but right now i think that we will try to continue the love fest and let's endorse the term sheet. >> any further comment? >> commissioners?
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>> thank you. >> sort of want to echo toby's words that this really was a model. and how to reach out to the community and bring a project forward and so i want to thank forest city for all of the effort that they put into that and the port staff for working hand in hand with forest city to review the project and then shepherd it along and i know that there is no easy fete do anything project in san francisco is not for the faint of heart. but i think that this is really an opportunity and one that we will not see again to have a significant impact on the face of san francisco. this is one of the last large sites and i think that it is important that we get it right. and that we make sure that it is uniquely san francisco. and that is why i appreciate the focus on the making of the place making. and i also want to thank forest city for reaching out to the nunan building and that became
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an issue and probably more of an every sight than anything because i had heard the plans to keep the artist there but i do traoesht *f appreciate the reaching out to the artists and again it is an example of government working properly where an issue was brought before the body and it takes place and we get good results. so i want to thank you for that. also, toby and corine, a huge debt of gratitude for you and your colleagues for shepherding this through and creating ai play on to allow us to choose a developer that had the same vision for the site and i think that it was again, it was one of those lucky situations, where we had a developer that came forward that understood what is important about san francisco and the san francisco values, making sure that we employ people locally that we create union jobs. and so far, that is what we are hearing. we are looking at some of the
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numbers, and president woo ho was commenting that some of us will not see this in our life times but i really do think that it is something exciting as this really evolves. and i know that this is going to be a long time before we hit some of the milestones that we need to and get through the sequa process and i really do want to thank everyone involved and brad, and i don't know how to begin to start with everything that you have done and susan, and die and i think that kathleen, and tremendous, tremendous, work on the part of port staff. and byron, i know what it takes to create the rfp that went out and to continue the negotiation and come to the term sheet where i think that it is really going to be a significant benefit for all of san francisco. so, this is a project that i am excited about. i think that it definitely is going to be one that will be
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representative of san francisco, and be in keeping with the dog patch neighborhood and the feel and the community, that is spring up there and this is the way that i think that i speak for my colleagues as well and keeping an eye on the project and things will be addressed but i am excited about this and the revenues that will be brought eventually to the city and the port but also about the open space and the parks and some of the other less tangible public benefits that we will be seeing from this. just thank you for all of the hard work that you have put into getting us to this point and now the process begins. >> thanks. >> any other comments? >> first of all i want to say to the port staff. brad and jack and jack you know leslie came out to the facility and we walked through the facility for two or three hours and we were out there and it was clear to me right there
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just as a labor of love. and this is a monumental task but i appreciate your patience your due diligence and i think that what sets san francisco above any other city in the united states is this city is built on character that is why people keep coming to this city and that is why you and your team and brad and everybody took on this task. and i really appreciate about the local hires mike and the guys that came out and we are going to be working with them and they are very supportive and i just want to feel that this is something that is good for san francisco and this is something that is different and i think that it is very, very you need like us to say that we may not live to see a lot of it but i think that this is something that has raised the quota and i know that at the last meeting i appreciate that you listen to the good, the bad and the ugly but we always had the commissioners and i think that i speak to all of them and we felt that this was a win/win
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situation and clearly this is a blueprint of a business should proceed is bringing everybody along and a point where we can all agree because sometimes we are all on the same page and sometimes we are just might be opponents on an issue and so clearly on behalf of the commission you have our support thank you. >> any other comments? >> yeah. >> i want to thank brad and jack. and i am just for the commission and jack was kind enough to meet me on two occasions. and fill me in and i have a real understanding of what is going on now. and also, brad has been very eloquent in his presentation, and the project is just awesome project. i'm so excited about it. i am so excited to be part of
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it. you know, it is what we need in san francisco, jobs, you know, construction jobs, permanent jobs. and that whole area down there has been neglected for so many years. and it is just going to be incredible andthat, you know, thanks to the forest city for stepping up with the initial money for the infrastructure. that is incredible. and yeah, i did have some questions about the last meeting about you know what we were taking back to the community and stuff and one of the questions that i had was will we have space there for some kind of a training center for youth in that area? >> you get them ready for possibly the construction jobs that will be out there eventually and he was kind
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enough for say that we do have a lot of... we would have a lot of square footage that will not be an issue. so i'm totally in support of this. and congratulations everybody for getting this far, especially the commissioners that have been here before me. >> thank you, i don't know if there is anybody left to thank, but. >> i do want to commend director moyer in leading this effort with all of the port staff. and having worked with the community, with the advisory committee with everyone to actually put a plan in smrais and get legislation passed and be prepared for the rfp that was used and thank for stepping up to the rfp and this is the making of a new community that will be wonderful but it was just so wonderful to see everyone working together port
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staff, the community, and the mayor's office and forest city and everyone coming together to develop this wonderful and amazing project and the construction jobs and the permanent jobs that are going to come out of this is amazing and the open sfais along with the cranco park and there are so many benefits to this project and i think that it is wonderful but i did want to ask regarding the agreements with the cbo and labor, could you describe those agreements that have been put in place? >> or what to expect? >> sure. we where we got to was an agreement on principles that actually looks much the same as what was incorporated in the lot 337 project which is 25 percent mandatory requirement for san francisco residents in the construction jobs. both for the horizontal, the infrastructure development as
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well as the buildings. which i imagine i don't know actually the timing of that relative to when that came through the port commission, but it is the first time in san francisco, both of these projects are the first time in san francisco history where there has been a mandatory commitment that went into the actual construction of the building. so it is something that we are very excited to be part of and obviously there is a lot of details to work out in the project labor agreement and flushing out the ultimate terms of that local hire agreement. but we had and we had a good start to that process that we think will be a win/win for everybody. >> and i am going to have you work that out with the community based organization in the agreements. >> we have not. that is something that we are very excited to do in the next phase of the project. i think that we are... that actually if there was a concern on our part about the local
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hire was that we wanted to know that that was going to be able to work in a way that we could be able to dove tail whether it is local, contractors, whether it is a training organization, that is in the south east part of the community. and so, that is something that we are excited to be part of this next phase that... >> and i think that along with the southern water front beautifiation policy, we would hope that you would try to recruit people from trail hill, and bay view hunter's point and those areas of the city to try to be involved in the project because it would be a great boost to the economy out there and it would be wonderful and one other question about the lbe goals. do you know how they came up with that number? it just seems a little... small to me. >> just a great, huge, project. >> that number, the ten percent
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number, is equivalent to what the 3317 negotiated with the contractor monitoring division they had actually started higher in that entitlement phase of 13 percent and they realized that was too aggressive and so they lowered it, the contract monitoring division lowered it to 15 percent and that is what it is here for the next entitlement phase. there will be another goal set for the construction phase of the pro-yekt and i think that was 20 percent in the 337 deal and we will be negotiating with the contract monitoring and the consideration before the dea. >> okay. and the one last thing is that i agree with toby and that i think that it will be two to three years out. it will be too much time for you guys to come back and tell us what is going on. so it will be great to get the
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semiannual updates or updates on the progress of the project. i think that it is wonderful and thank everyone so much. >> let me just to thank a couple of things, i think, number one impersonally extremely excited about this, i think that this is a historic here and we are reached here today and since we have been on this commission we seem to have hit quite a few home runs lately and this is another one that we are excited and it is like a triple crown. we have 337, 70 and hopefully we will get to the arena and the cruise ship terminal and i do want to come mend month anybodying and the staff for all of the hard work that they have put in and it seems like we have projects that are coming before the commission that are not passed in the past. and now it seems like this time we have learn our lessons and figured out how to make property jects work and this is another example as you mentioned earlier that we had another proposal in the past
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and it seems like we have got everything pulled together and i think that the process that obviously forest city and i have to say that the first time that i heard that was a developer from outside of the city and you have been passed by the commission before i came on and i was on wo*n dering an outside developer but i have to say that you have become part of the community and that is extremely impressive. you have used people local like jack and others to make sure that you do it and that is harm warming to see that and to be coming in there from the cowboy running into town and so there is a process and i think that has been excellent. and i think that i see this as the beginning, it is just the beginning of a great what we hope to see in that whole area of san francisco is obviously seeing how the neighborhoods have changed and only seen the park and area and expect that over time, this is the case of pier 70 and i did mention that
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unfortunately i think that it is my grandchildren that will see this thing through. >> i don't think that i can live forever and i think that they will see the full benefits. and it is exciting because i think that this is not just a project, this is a whole brand new neighborhood and another community and it is everything that san francisco stands for and tries to accomplish in the city and i think that you have all of the elements and it is out there and little bit on the edge and that is excitement and i think that you have done well and i think that we can do to all of the police and the stake holders and everybody that has participated along the way have helped to enrich this and i know that when i have spoken to jack in the past he has heard my feedback. and so i think that this is a model of how to go about doing it right in san francisco. and i think that we are very pleased to have gotten him and we hope that it goes to the board of supervisors just as easily as our other term sheets.
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i think that we have the commission have challenged the staff on many occasion to come up with ideas and olieusings to understand that i think that met that challenge work with the city and responded well and i think that we have a great deal in front of you. thank you very much. >> i think that i can ask for a vote >> all in favor. >> aye, 1320 as passed >> item 10 b. request approval to the amendments of the port harbor traffic code to include parking and loading restrictions contemplated in the jefferson street public realm project for the jefferson street between powell and hyde streets in fisherman's wharf. >> good afternoon.
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>> yeah. >> i was going to say that we appreciate that you actually brought kevin out to this presentation today. as well. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. good afternoon commissioners, my name is canya dorlan and i am with the san francisco sxim here to seek the approvement to the proposed amendment and i will cover the amendment and second i will provide background for the public notification and third i will give an update on the area that this amendment will effect. the port of san francisco, has a harbor traffic code that regulates the parking and loading activity on the parking and the proposed amendment is for the jefferson street public
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realm project. the jefferson street public realm project is a multimodel to change the current commercial loading time frame from the street for a frame that is consistent with the project objectives. jefferson street public realm project covers the sidewalk in jefferson's street in fisherman's wharf from powell to hyde street and it is used for pedestrians. >> this is a view of jefferson street with all and as you can see the pedestrians all over the sidewalk and given the activity on the street, the project seeks to balance the roadway activity to include the quality of the pedestrian experience and professioncy of the transportation access as well as enhance the business environment and to this end the project will remove the existing parking lanes and meters and narrow the roadway in order to widen the sidewalks and this project was approved by the port commission on
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september 25th, 2012 and is under way. >> laoer is a view of the redesign of jefferson street, and this is photoshop and this does show all of the elements that i just described and the narrow roadway and the widened sidewalks and to accommodate the ten operations and improve traffic circulation, commercial loading and towing will be created and signed at the curb. the current time frame is 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., this time frame competes with the pedestrian activity on the street thus the proposed commercial time frame for jefferson street will start at 12 a.m. which is midnight and end at 11 a.m. and here is a view of the redesign with loading activity. >> this proposed code amendment change would apply to just jefferson street. and it would not offer the commercial loading time on other streets which will remain 7:00 a.m. to 6 peter corroon and when i say commercial
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loading i mean the yellow zones. i am transitioning to the second topic, the area stake holders have been informed of this project and the proposed circulation changes through a manned project that started in 2008 and updated monthly since the project started construction this january, on these proposed traffic changes through the public meetings and facilitated by the city planning department and the fisherman's wharf advisory group and the fisherman's wharf community district and this is a five million dollar city investment and port property and the city investment comes from the general fund and the department of public works resource its will be evaluated for community review and to determine if other possible adjustments are needed and the port and the chance powertation agency will be entering into a memorandum of understanding to implement and maintain the
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circulation changes. the jefferson street update, phase one covers jefferson street between hyde and jones, street is under construction now. and as mentioned and it will be completed next month. there are some pictures of the construction, so you can see that we started a new, rebuilding the roadway. once this project is completed and the roadway is reopened to traffic, the discussed new loading, parking, restrictions will be implemented to enable enforcement. >> to show you where we are today, here are a few photos of jefferson street this weekend and it was really sunny. and also, a lot of people using this sidewalk, even though it is not clear where you can be and it is just a really great place already. and given this project's progress and appearance, the stake holders along the
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remaining jefferson are anxious to start implement phase two of the project which will improve their blocks, the fisherman's wharf district has funded the design work for this phase and here is a few of this design work a little small and so i have blown it up. but to explain the existing roadway between taylor and powell is a parking lane and two traffic lanes and one traffic lane is shared with the fline, the redesign, would give the fline an exclusive right-of-way and then move the traffic lanes south and remove the parking lane, this way will give the fline free movement and better transit service for our visitors and the project will also match the phase one decrative paving and apply a trement to the tracks to keep them free of all moving vehicles to improve public transit as mentioned including
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bicyclists. the community benefit district will start to facility the public meetings with the city planning department staff on this phase two design proposal soon. and change in the code will change the time frame on just jefferson street and will change this to be conist ent with the jefferson street treat realm. >> so moved. >> second. >> public comment? >> troy, campbell. >> good afternoon, try campbell with the fisherman's wharf cbd i just wanted to get up and say that the cbd supports these changes to the code. this is something that we have done extensive out reach as well as well as having a website that we launched last
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year called new jefferson street.com and we had faq sections of this, and this information was on there as well as the mitigating negative declaration was promoted through the entire process. we have also been working on the phase two, and put together a committee, of stake holders, board members, and community members. to work through some of the questions that people had about phase two. and have already started the process of getting that design approved by the committee and now our next step is to get further community input to make sure that everyone is on board so that we can start looking at funding for that phase of the project and i just wanted to say that my support, also, in the spirit of thank yous today, i want to thank publicly i have never had a chance to thank, writ maloy and edwards and (inaudible) for all of their help and work and all of the meetings that they have attended for the cvd and the
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community and so i want to say thanks. >> thank you. >> is there any further public comment? >> commissioners, any questions or comments? >> okay, ready to vote. all in favor? >> aye. >> resolution number 13-21 has passed. >> okay. >> commissioners, with your permission, item eleven b will be taken out of order and heard first. >> granted. >> thank you. >> item b, informational presentation regarding the port's real estate leasing policies process and procedures. >> commissioners, jeffrey bauer for the policing manager. here is give you a brief presentation on the ports, the real estate leasing policy and procedures. pursuant to the city charter
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the leases are approved by the port commission at its sole discretion. others that generate revenue or have a term of ten years are subject to the port commission and the board of supervisors. interlacing which we primarily concentrate in real estate, represents a significant portion of the port's leasing activity. and the port holds 550 leases approximately, and that we manage in the real estate division and this represents about 90 percent of the port's over all portfolio and represents 87 percent of the totalen annual revenues of the port. the opportunity to solicit all opportunities except where impractical and feasible, under the city charter if i lease out an office, under the charter, i am supposed to bid that.
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and we the way that we, handle that is we come and get delegated authority, under the port's leasing policy. given the volume of leases that we do, this year, i believe up to date we have done about 66 leases. and this would just be impossible and impractical to bid those lease and it can't be done. such as a typical there are leases that we have to do bid obviously if it is a retail, or if it is outside of the leasing parameters we do competitively bid those agreement and again, just on a brief overview, our standard form agreements we have a boilerplate lease and we use that lease for all types of leasing and it can be a parameter deal with no port commission approval and a board of supervisor approval and we can take that lease and we can
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adapt it for a restaurant use or something different. we maintain about 7 different boiler plates at this time. and each lease is divided into three parts. there is the bli, the basic leasing information, and there is the standard boilerplate provisions. and city, ordinances, and etc.. and in the exhibits in schedules. and i do plan on coming back, in august. to make a more detailed presentation. and to go a little more in depth in some of the other policies such as our environmental risk policy and retail policy the maritime excursion and the standing for example. and i am happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> okay. >> we have to ask for public
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comment. >> and then hearing none, commissioners. >> just curious on the 30,000 square feet or more. we have to get city approval on that and it is actually 1500 dollars. >> any lease that has a value of 1500 dollars must be publicly bid. and how long does that process take? i don't know how one would do it? i bid restaurants a bid parking lots. ats i 6 to 12-no process and typically if it is something that is a parameter deal that you delegate and we have done 66 of them and some of them have gone to the port commission of those that i have done and to the board of supervisors. we get into a bit of an arm wrestle and i can think of the last time, auto desk. the big question at the board of supervisors was why was this
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not competitively bid? and my response is that that i am not sure how you would do that, you have a tenant who wants space and they have a lot of money and want to give you and pay you a lot of rent and it just becomes impossible. one is to compromise one of the resolutions for example, a minimum parameter is the statement from the commission that we find a certain category of lease where house office, and practical for the port staff to bid. >> has it always been that way? >> it has been. >>vy been here 23, i am in my 24th year. it has been that way. >> this is a port policy or a city policy? >> it is a charter. >> we have never asked for a specific waiver or modification or clarification of how to do this? >> well, what
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