others should there be follow-up questions i'm going to turn it over to with s o m to walk you through the latest design. thank you >> thanks alice in wonderland a and denise. and march with the architect. this view on the screen shows from above what exemplifies currently on the site and the south block st. is the eye ring and the gardens in the center and two above grade building on the moscone center there's a large ballroom and o1 on howard street the moscone main lobby on the left side of howard street.

cross the street there's another lobby and, of course, the metron and the theatre and the lawn of bin . current there's been 4 hundred and 40 square feet if it's configured for the exhibition space. there's connected by connecticut course that's the blue bar there. our prime goal with the project is to connect those two sides into one space. that includes excavating portions on howard street and moving falls and constructing in

that exhibition space. so in plan the drawing on the left is what exists and than on the right is our proposed plan. so to achieve that one hundred thousand sxreet of space we have to move a loading dock and rich and some chunks of dirt under howard street. that displaced about 3 of thought square feet of meeting rooms that need to be replaced and increased we need for meeting space. so that's above grade. looking at at the plan above grade on the left the orange dash line that is hopefully easier to see on your screen than mine.

shows the footprint where we expand the low-grade it's basically, the area that has the south lobby that has a high one story space and the north end of the ballroom building. so it runs along howard street from third to forget. it's the focus and a small piece on howard street. we felt what is really important and we're excited about everywhere this touches a gown we want to counterfeit the public realm and the way the public interacts with the building so all the blue areas are the portions of the public realm that we hope to improve

through this project. the plan on the right is the proposed plan showing the ground floor. i'll walk through the plans briefly. this is the 1 plan howard street is left to right there's a big lobby on howard street that be with divided into two. and it has a large set of escalators and stairs that go detain and up. we've brought in the vertical circulation down to the third corner of howard street that will be a lively corner with escalators reaching up to hire levels. and then on the north side we're doing a modest expansion this is

a parking lot currently and those lobbies will bring the buildings much closer together and right now they're far apart by 3 hundred feet and it's monthly asphalt. so we're proposing when we bring those buildings closer together that the space between them will be reconstructed as a kind of improved mix mode space so there will be a very, very would i do sidewalk on the south that can be used for bus drop off and a very wide contraction over one hundred feet wide and it will be flush so if you walked from the south to north you'll not go down on the ground floor.

this level serves to connect different parts of the building with the ballroom and it's actually more or less at the level of the garden about 13 feet up. above this we have two meeting rooms the ball rooms that displace the new space and memos the needs of the moscone customers and tourists. the second level is a large ballroom and can be divided into smaller spaces and the third level is a series of meeting rooms that are smaller. bringing both of those levels we've pulled the building into from the registration everything and created outside terraces. those terses we think are interesting are their captured between portions of the building

that we can imagination people occupying those spaces and rather than a terrace out in a corner their terraces next to rooms and we want to bring the activity of the this out to the he knows. this is the view today looking south of howard. you see on the right it the ballroom building. in the distance is museum park and this the plazas office building. this is today and this is the proposed building. and it fits on the corner we hope is a prominent business we've opened the corner with one large gesture which the the opening of clear glass which you

can see the escalators. the ground floor is open and transparent. at the revolver we're proposing a large-scale sort of roof claude cloud that will be made of light and water and energy gathering elements that softens the building and gives it a civic presence. so from the other side within the children's garden it is the view from the southern corner of that below the restaurants and looking back towards the city this is currently an open view leaking over the one story lobby and here's with the building we've done such as we can to mitigate the building by

introducing vertical elements and making it light and transparent and luminous. and then the view from the other corner the play circle just to the est of the playground looking back towards the west with the building there the plum trees shown flowering in this view. we have a lot of goals for the performance of this project. it's an important project for the city and can convert a lot of waters more than 5 million gallons a year we're target workplace that high benchmark a much lower energy ice than other buildings. we mentioned the public realm and for all the amazing things on those two blocks sometimes they're hard to find

particularly on the south blackwell block. so this diagram she's in red all the places you can't what can from folsom to into to the childcare center. we really want to reduce that distance and increase the pedestrian friendly nensness of the city to allow folks to packing pass through i want to go to the blogged i have to walk more than a thousand feet what we want to do as this yellow line she's is make a public space between our public building and the ballroom this and kit a 35 to the open would i do space that lobbing

would be activated so people could circulate through and onto a bridge on howard street. there's a lot of activity and development in this area new things are happening and one is keep that in mind to the east particularly along filling so many student. we think this would be an excel positive thing. this is a bird's-eye view of the space activated by all kinds of interesting things. we're working with c and g architects and those are additional contents for planting in that space. and then the children's playground itself is one of the most in the course aspects of the center. we've had a really fruitful

discussion process with the users of that space of whom i'm one with my daughter. we've got a lot of interesting feedback how to make a few improvements. so at the left again, the yellow is the footprint of our new building and the blue is for improvements. the diagram on the right is for a new central or arrival place that's labeled seating. you can park our skrorlz and find a place to see the whole area where currently you come bro through the bridge it's xhefd and not the best spot for visibility. we want to create a new dedicated play area for toddlers who are mixed in with the bigger kids that's the erroneously.

the new connection from the student runs east to west. and then the learning garden and the flexibility program units are there being a relocated from other places within the block. made larger and sunnier. one of the things that we know is very important and we're working through that with all the industries is the difficulty of understanding this playground can be seen as a positive once again you're there you feel safe. we're looking at a way to balance the deserve to allow the public through this block not having to go around and upside down arrest the safety so the dining room on the right is a security line like a berm or

planterer and would have things in it so people walking through this alley would have to walk into a gate to the playground. that will allow you the comfort that your kid is not going to end up on third street. on the north side of howard street at the upper level the sister city garden just south of the fountains to the waterfall there's two restaurants there. and south of those radiance on the ground we're building our expanded lobby that's creating a new roof on top and this is the area of pink this is the area of work. we want to add that roof basically to the garden so

expand the garden south towards howard street. sth that creates a new terrace from the north side that you could walk through the sister city garden and cross tln through an area this is a currently planned but noted occupyable. if you walk towards howard's street there's benches and you can't walk through there we want to cut that so that path goes towards terrace for the seating for restaurants and it would actively have an interesting outcome over howard street. as great as the upper level terraces are you can't see the street this would make a better complexing connection that's the area in orange as we're building this lobby

we're looking for playing verbiage signs. this is struggling for availability from the street we want to improve the visibility from the street. so this is a view from you howard south side of howard street looking west. my this is the proposal the low piece on the right is the lobby. we're proposing a large canopy element above the terrace 80 is that terrace is a new space for the yerba buena gardens an open air space so it's a little bit of a transitional space from the gardens to the city. we are shoub be a large green wall and actually that green wall is on a part of the south facing wall to the restaurants.

so the final piece of this we showed that diagram we'll love to circulate through the block. the last thing we think we can impact is the bridge. as deepening mentioned there's those an existing bridge over howard street that's owned beby an an agency it kekd connects did upper level of the nestling and south blocks it's a functional bridge but if you don't know where you're going it's not obvious where you're going to end up the green line on the left is where you take the route from the north block to the south block to the

children's park. it's a pretty circuitous us bridge. we want to replace that bridge open to the public that's wider and more directly. we can move it to make it land in the right place and more gently. we like to think of this bridge as not a bridge between two parks but as part of the pack that connects the sides. the most notable is between like new york city. we think this block could offer interesting outcomes we think it could be a stronger connection between the two halves. so this is letting e electing

north from the existing bridge it has a complained barrier that reduce it's width we want to make it wider and give places to sit and different kinds of plantings and other features. this is looking back towards the city. the diagram here is a little bit confusing because what's there is a little bit confusing. if i was on howard street and wanted to get up to the mraurd i'd follow that doted line and it's confusing you walk under the bridge and up some steps and back into under the bridge. we want to take the dig san diego city council line and make it a straight shot landing at

the point of the orange spot. you can see the playground and the children's creativity museum and see the bridge and car sell. if you need a ramp we'll have a ramp for accessibility rather than a elevator so this eliminates that public elevator. so this is a diagram model view it shows in i'm standing on howard street looking at the children's museum the bridge is on the reporter and moscone center on the right and everything in red we're proposed to get rid of are. we'll build a plaza in its place and really open up the connection up into the gardens that's much, much more gracious and direct or at the left is a

visitors center that will be attached to the convention center and it's actually under the bridge so that avoids the problems of pedestrian bridges that's really under it so pit an encompassed place under the bridge will make it well lit. this is another view of what the proposed building might be we're still working on the details of architecture. it's very light and transparent. we're using lots of types of glass some clear and some glassed. its expressing the horizontal line with the cloud roof. and finally, a view of the open corner at the 3 and howard

street showing the circulation of the building at night. thank you very much for that and the team is here to answer any questions that you have. >> thank you many further comments from staff. >> i have - that concludes my presentation thank you. >> thank you just making sure. any public comment on this item >> i have 9 speaker cards. please come to the pompous in this order (calling names) >> good afternoon board members, chairperson johnson and

director. thank you for conducting this workshop. i want to talk about the history of this place. mike's center has had an ongoing relationship with the gardens for a long long time. you are all probably two young to recall the wars over yerba buena and it's construction where the city had approved plan for sill losses to accommodate another 9 mile square root of office space as well as the convention center. after steno years of lawsuits to stop this plan george mucking e

moos con put together a plan and licensed to people's dreams that would create a special place for families and children in the center of the city that is rare to find. after extensive planning you don't i can't tell you how many people put in their efforts the main exponents that no one would come national that the convention center could precede as long as as it was underground. it's hard to take away those imaginations that the subpoena

perish aeblths that could on that but the people who worked with the agency staff to design i mean right down to brian telling us how to nut a floor of an eye ring but people who worked with childcare helped us to design those gardens this particular piece for children to be safe away from a great deal of traffic. the moscone team and adam has worked hard to make those improvements acceptable but they've not changed their program from day one only trying to make it acceptable. the purposes of the original

design and our asking you consider the community statement the yerba buena city community statement which is the stakeholders position the users the garden users position concerning the expansion of the city and county center that finds the above ground uses unacceptable. thank you >> thank you chairperson johnson i'm andrew robinson i'm the director of the yerba buena project. i'm here to speak in favor of the project. we know that context in which the moscone expansion would take place and has expanded in the past.

we think the howard block could woman a theatre stage particularly that the breakdown of the block between folsom and howard which is fenway we've heard from our community for a street light plan that the blocks don't offer social interaction. we see the exciting stunts and want to see the benefit that moscone succeeds but the neighborhood succeeds as well. he want to see moscone reach out to the neighbors they've been responsive. if security issues can be addressed if the bridge go really opens up the children's creativity museum we support that. thank you very much.

>> (calling names). >> thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. i'm john president of todd could and it was one of the community organizations involved in the original moscone collect group that adapted the convention center below. all the moscone projects we've been involved in the north hall project the moscone west and now this completely unaccepted fourth expansion of moscone center. we very much support we're one of the stakeholder and support of the statement that was presented to you. but i want at that drawing your attention to one the negative go aspects.

as dpiblthd on the diagram is a net loss of usually open space of the children's playground. it's a net lose i have 4 hundred and 5 thousand square feet. it's unacceptable to our community and we'll fight that to the to death. i'm hoping that will not be necessary. i'm hoping i this commission will make clear to the moscone expansion there can be no net use of the children's playground on the block it's a crucial and second helen wasn't quite right the expansion of the moscone garden was smaller than the one presented to you today. what changed in october of 2013 last year, we saw the addition of a second meeting ramps the

original proposal of 2 hundred 12 or 2013 only had a one story edition but they added a one level. i can see the cross section of the existing center of the proposal of about a year ago and then at the current proposal now which is a taller building and this slide from the 2013 presentation this is how massive it is ray's 82 feet above the garners. this will round the amenity of the children's playground. as you saw in the mraurgdz the openness disappears. they can add the center meeting rooms onop