and capacity to build over the rail site and this property in the center of the city holds financial value to help tap aisle all the infrastructure and create more funds to support cal train. there was several number one reasons including to connect the south of market and the bay front altogether. and to provide for spaces for off a and public amenity and a very transient area. this started and stopped because of the highly speed rail but we have now put the development on the rail yard for o of over $24 million. we want to evaluate some of the consolidation of the rail

functions to move this idea along. at the same time we were grappling and face physical and financial issues related to the introduction of high rail services and the construction is planned they made us to come to the realization. each of those cal train promises are to build a part of the infrastructure within the landscape of the city. we're in a major turning point inside the city and have to take a step back to figure out how to build a good project in a holistic way not just to build some tracks to get from point a to b but seeks to improve the path which is the future of the

city and a right now from the tangle of the infrastructure we're seeing through this cooperated look there are better ways to build the infrastructure while findings the funds. we want to rethink how we look at ervin space. in the current case we don't have earthquake damage but we have earth shaking of major infrastructure at one location in the enter face of mission bay is the new center of the city and we need to do this right. i want t introduce dee dee who we hovered to do the feasibility

study and we've released that and susan will also talk about the rail projects and is implementing the projects so i'm going to turn it over to over to susan >> good afternoon. i'm susan from the planning department. i'm here with the staff to provide you with an overview of the feasibility study. before beginning i want to thank those who have helped with the project including the staff with the agencies and include it's relatively lengthy cal train and m t c and the high-speed rail authority and others. modifying and the planning department are continuing to engage with those agrees to

insure the best outcome. as josh stated i believe your ware u aware of the downtown infrastructure and the rail expansion the cal train trek indication and bringing high-speed rail into san francisco. as it's infrastructure sustains to progress those will create a spider web once you touch one it radiates throughout the web and effects everything within the area. to date understanding the spider web facts has been minimal and the city is looking towards the future to improvement for the environment within the fourth and king rail yard. additionally some of the future improvements are for the

intrusions that the city wants to minimize. you're seeing the anticipated grade separation of the how speed rail on 167th street and the i 82 barrier and the rail yard barrier. i want to point out that the goal of the project is to understand the decision 0 points and determine the interaction between the projects. i've come up with a platoon to solidify and it's a lot of decision points. one of the other goals that's important love of those projects have funding gaps and it gets

deeper and deeper we want to raise the money for the infrastructure for special taxes for new income property. josh walked you through the work in this area this slide elaborates on some of the infrastructure we've looked at anticipated growth in the area and we've had significant progress in the fourth and king rail yard. so what does the proposed projectile set out to complete. first of all, this contract is the first to manufacture the transportation and land use planning efforts that have go on gun on in the area there are 5 components liquor the i 20 two 80 and doing the study and looking at the potential for the

transbay loop track and looking to relocate a portion of the rail king yard and because of those four components that 5th component is to help us understand the area impacts as a whole. we look to further have the assessment finding and prepare for high-speed rail and a determine the best to approach for san francisco. it will help us to support the effort of our partners which is the caltrans and t gpa. looking at each of the components specifically. the first exponent to be the i to boulevard currently, i two 80

presents a separation of mission bay from the other areas of the city. currently there are only be 0 two across at the 16th and mission bay. we've been successful in taking down the embarcadero and the octavia boulevards and the value that has come to the area has been immense. i stated before we'll be this on existing concepts. and once you start to see the possibility of interconnecting the neighborhoods which is what this slide shows how to commit those communities you can look

at the possibility of taking down i two 80 pr the specific work to the component number one which the the boulevard at 2 to looked at the elevated freeway with a surface boulevard. that will help to determine the impacts. i want to make a point to state we're not only looking at this area we're going to make sure by boulevard two 80 we're going to be looking at the u.s. 101 what we the bay bridge and the extension over to octaviao and we want to make sure we're not just pushing the impacts we want to make the best effect for the

entire city. the second component there's been a humane and good amount of work done by the transbay joint authority. this is the current alignment for the do you want rail extension and the reason this component is in the project not only does it effect the whole area but the current estimate is $2.3 billion so it you layer on the effects and we get to the point to take into account the construction methods and alignment of the dp x as it's laid out. in the to consider the best alignment with the financial

issues. this is the transbay loop track again, i want to say every single component has been looked at but we want to make sure we understand the interconnection. the sub extraction has the roars - previous studies have show that putting in a loop track but it's based on earlier designs of the transbay center so this will look at updating the current track study based on currently design. this shows you an opportunity to connect 9 transbay stations as well as to stepped over to the east bay. the fourth component is the that

potential to relocate or reconfigure part of rail yard. we did a study at the potential to dollars and reconfigure the study and see if it's possible to operate on a smaller footprint. this is the blue that shows the existing rail tunnel extension and the pink is the area that cal train buildings they can vacant and become available for potential redevelopment. the purple shows the areas that would be necessary for continued operation of cal train. we - this project builds on two options and insure that the

continued operation of cal train is affective within the area so the anticipated work is to understand the actual needs of fourth and king to g meet the dollars the size and a look at a phase in plan of redeveloping the area. and the fifth element comes about from the that other four elements. it's looking at the areas that are available for redevelopment and the new revenues associated with them. this slide shows a list of benefits if we were to get look at more development in the fourth and a king area that we can recorrect the neighborhood

and create revenue for cal train both capita and ongoing and we might be able to plan for the sea level rise and itself compliment changes. specific to the scope of work taking those potential land use scenarios and understanding did zoning scenarios and figuring out the new revenues and the value capture associated with it. and with any good project theirs public involvement throughout the study. we anticipate a technical advisory committee we are going to put together a sense advisory committee and outreaching to identify stakeholders and community groups. the schedule is as josh

mentioned we released an rfp on january 29th. we are looking to start the contract in the may or june area. this is for the visible development anticipating 6 to 9 months and phase two is the time between 12 and 15 months makes this project completed in 2015 or 2016. we have the 5 components to study for preferred alternative implementation. that's the study in a nutshell are there any quiz >> possibly. let me quickly open this up for public comment any public

comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm john with the take could group this is an amendment ly complicated study. we turn immediately to the place development study it's adjacent to south and market and to the summing ma plant it's between us and mission bay. and the future development here is the greatest importance to us whether the transportation reconvene formulations turnout to be. so i turn to that section the phase two ass is boiling it down to 3. i'm sure you'll anticipate the city has a housing crisis not a space crisis p just two woegz

this is the single biggest one remaining so we want to be sure that the commission is on top of that and make sure that the housing alternative gets full analysis i didn't know there would be a cac that isn't prescribed and the meg a meetings they propose get up e especially, when you have a transportation topic their overwhelming and the cac focuses on a much better approach. i hope this presentation is online. finally, some they recalled policies this commission should direct in advance and for us the

crucial one as ava's with mission bay and the transbay properties and with the market octavia and with the treasure island and the affordable housing has to be thirty percent of the housing on this site. finding sites for affordable housing for long-term is a crisis we are going to run out of acidities in the next 10 to 20 years this project is obviously 10 to 20 years down the road being built. i want to urge the commission is set that policy. you'll have the housing master plan coming to you and that's itself perfect plan to have to be sure we achieve the goal.

thank you >> good afternoon, commissioners jim from south of market. our experience with the market octavia domination should influence that project strongly. dumping freeway traffic into an existing neighborhood was a disaster for the people living in the neighborhood. you seen the existing deadlock in that stretch of eastern selling media n at 5 o'clock in the afternoon the traffic doesn't move at all. not moving and iding as well as as well as the growth anticipated by the selma plan is a great cause for concern.

i don't believe i heard any mention of a health impact analysis in this power point presentation. i would certainly you'll look at that in that light >> thank you. >> any additional any public comment? >> sue hester following up on john and jim. the city is a creature it announces grand programs. the mayor has press conventions and announces his undying love for a specific site for the warriors. people start big study. they have zoning and rezoned octavia and western areas. we get out of this is a

commitment to quote market rate housing specifically a lot of how end market housing. we having mandates out of various legislation that says the port is basically going to use the port for multi dollars for the port. we have press released enthusiastically announcing housing along other streets. the staff didn't knows how many years to take down central freeway is octavia and the embarcadero freeway. including a mayor that was

dumped. and it is not an easy thing to have this project thrown into the mix right now. we have done eastern neighborhoods you were doing them without environmental review and they're coming through as non-controversial projects and as high-end housing. at the same time, we recent have huge need for protecting and middle-class housing yet the housing has gun into high-end housing market octavia is an example. then this thrown into the mix. how do we have waterfront transit places that doesn't include going down surface

street on the freeway exit from any two 80. i don't understand that at all. we're going full board open this assessment and this is the project before you in a couple of months and at the end of the year. warriors are supposed to come in january. how do we handle all that. your heading to a place you're making decisions without everything in front of the you and a forget sea level rise >> thank you. any additional any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner moore and i have a question. i don't fully understand the extent of the study going south. exactly at what point does the

existing slaeld two 80 where don't it come to grade many people choose to go elevated and the interchange is 101. you don't have to answer the question i'm just adding to our future thoughts. the other thing what is the extent of the rfp is it design focused or parish technical studies because all the design ideas are greatest unless you can't execute them. i'm curious about the waiting >> how many responses your expecting the feet perimeters and so those are a couple of questions surrounding your rfp. >> there's a lot of questions.

so for each of the components it has a different study area specific to you 80 we're taking down north of i possess and we're not looking at additional ramps. so this was your first question >> yes. thank you. >> i did not write them down. the other question what's the nature of the project is it urban development or primarily engineering the answer is both. we understand this is a major components with a lot of pieces. we're looking for out of the project one or two or possibly 3 incisions of feasible alternatives of the 5 components. so for future study so this is the first of what will be at

least two contracts. that second contract to determine the preferred you alternatives and take it through the environmental clearance and implement that. and you were looking for perimeters. we've written into the rfp is that phase one the conceptual development i've asked the consultants to put together cost estimates for $550,000 and the part two is for future analysis is up to one million dollars that's what we've budgeted for the consultant part of the project >> thank you. >> commissioner wu. >> so first, i building commissioner moore has asked before online presentations to have one website open was

department planning. with regard to this plan i want to support the comments by the gentleman. as we're in this housing crisis there's a need to build on whatever invokes to come up with new creative ideas. pushing the envelope is important. i know the online sites principles are in refinement currently and will continual be discussed. the second big issue happening in the city is around pedestrian safety. there's a lot of lessons learned from octavia we've tried to fix that intersection there's been a number of accidents.

i know the sooner we start subcontracting the thinking the better >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes. i'd like to support the idea of including the housing analysis for a higher level of forgettable and thirty percent is in the traffic signal but you know that motive because this is public we modesty want to push that a bit. in any case is that part of the analysis or getting into too much detail >> i'm going to let josh speak to that. >> that will be part of the analysis we'll look at the the various land use mixes is and fouthd the land use implementation we're grapple with the affordability. >> i assume that i mean one of the components is to boulevard i

too 80 but can the rfp in n this case not structured to not boulevarding it. >> i believe ultimately we wanted a huge matrix if you do this and that what will happen. i believe a no bill alternative for each of the projects >> thank you. >> my thoughts i'm excited about this this is a very good first stem e step and what i'm most excited to look at the building of so far. i'm excited this is where transit is meeting planning and if we're going to anticipate any growth housing e commercial growth we need to takes into

account transit i know that's a difficult challenge. we brought on the right popcorn who tackle it in objected cities so i think it's good to be excited but it but not two excited we're going in the right direction hopefully, we'll explore all the option that will fencing san francisco >> commissioner moore. >> i would be triggered to see a couple of analogs a majority of the cities have the same problem perhaps not as the freeways that come close to do you only how did the plan for future i can think of a couple cities in europe but i'd like to