team and late last year, we are increasing we'll probably double our code enforcement do you have over the next couple of years and certainly in the department is in favor of the new positions we want to be more efficient would code enforcement. it's a good discussion what the city wants and expects. are there's multiply department for example, the planning department wouldn't be involved in the building scape =. so the question is also the coordination is what supervisor weiner was getting at this week and we think it's a discussion to have in the future and we appreciate more resources in code enforcement we'll have other funds to help but at this point this is our request >> there is one position added

this year and plus a second position that's dedicated to the historic preservation commission so we've added two and another two next year. i agree it's not as high as it could be but it's a balancing act >> we see the efficiencies and collaboration and reporting back and forth you might have more information i'm in support of having this department acquit well staffed. we only hear it when it's too late. back to my comments i would personally be interested to hear in detail about the grants that's a small part of the

persuasion but i would be interested to hear about this we never get the details and never hear about why you win awards. lastly as you're describing the general planning environment planning etc., i would be interested to hear a little bit more of how particularly the first 2 items currently planning and citywide planning collaborate and overlap. >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes. let's see under 8 staff positions that are authorized or whatever but noted funded directly and the new 11

positions what's itself relationship between those two are they separate or 8 part of 11 or. >> they're separate so the 8 positions we got approved their unfunded they're dedicated to reducing the backlog and the 11 ftes in the following years is a combination to reduce the backlog as well as other citywide programs and housing policies so on. >> what you say they're good for 2 1/2 years are they city employees or if they are they become civil service and isn't that another issue if we run out of money.

>> so they're to be appointed to permanent exempt because their funded for two year and a half years to work on the backlog they will be permanent exempt and normally over the course of the 2 1/2 years through attrition departments may absorb those people but their permanently exempt. >> thank you. i have one other question on the line item it's item f for the code clean up you have half a fte and retaining a third fte. is there really that much work to clean up the preservation code i thought most of that was

done >> sorry that one i'll have to get back to you commissioner. it's item f on the program going from half to a third. i'll get back to you tim proposed this and i'll get back to you with more specification >> thank you. commissioner wu >> thanks. i wanted to ask about reducing the backlog and if you could explain more of what that entails is it hiring staff and training them, shifting them around? >> so we call the backlog i shouldn't is that what we define the backlog it's projects we consider projects in the backlog have come in for applications but have no staff time put

opening on them. so because the revenues are coming in thank you rapid pass we're able to hire those folks especially on environmental and a current planning they work on projects proposals. that is what we call respectfully yours, the backlog literally working on the applications >> it's role great to see the one person for the housing plan. i think that's part of the actual plan. any sense how long that will take to hire that person >> the reason that the term keith use is the annual listing their three-quarters of 0

position it's taking 5 or 6 months to do the hiring but i'm hoping by late to mid fall. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioner moore. >> i wanted to use this moment to commend the adopting department for a great interim program we have a lot to teach the public and the environmental and social and housing etc., issues particularly san francisco has a short fuss you talking with state government and i appreciate it and some of your new inheritance will have a public face so they can really see in action what it is we do. >> okay. thank you great work.

>> commissioners move on item 13 the rail yard alternatives this too is an informational preservation. >> i'm with the planning department staff. i'm sure you're aware of we're worked with the joint powers authority with the transbay which includes the downtown extension. we've been an integral part of an agency that comments on the plans to trek, if any, the rile services our those transportation investments are closely intertwined for all of those infrastructure projects.

those projects need substantial additional fund to be fully released. you adapted this plan that delta - dealt with the project. we received funding at the urging of the mayor's office to lead a brief technical analysis of the development opportunity 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 to 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