housing unit. we're very encouraged and concurrently the planning unit of rpd is working with our community partners on the details of a partner ship that would follow the acquisition to work on the planning and design and outreach that will yield a concept plan and a vision for this open space expansion. and then some other very good news is we're being recommended to receive a grant -- it's the priority conservation grant from the coastal agency for $5,000 which will fund the design and community outreach. the next acquisition project that we're working on is the san francisco street reservoir project located in russian hill. it's a reservoir owned by the public utility community and adjacent to the russian hill open space and it's a stunning location for a park. it's on top of a hill and has

beautiful views of the bay. on this acquisition project, we've also completed environmental assessment and appraisal and rec and park staff is in discussion with the puc and the city attorney's office and mark farrells k - farrell's office and the details. there's a community group supporting this and advocating for this to become permanent open space and they have been doing fundraising work over the last couple of years. our newest acquisition project is the park sites in the lock development project. it's a large 20 acre site in visitation valley just east of bay shore boulevard and north of the san francisco san mateo line and this was a former redevelopment

plan area, currently the mayor's office of economic and work force development is working with the project sponsor of the developer, universal incorporation for moving it forward for implementation. and there are two park sites in this development that we're currently considering for potential acquisition. and currently the planning and unit staff are working with the mayor's office staff to discuss potential terms for this acquisition and in particular, the idea is that the developer would construct the parks and deliver parks to the developer and we would purchase the site. although they had community process through the overall project planning and they have concept designs, rdp want to be involved in the design of the site such that we can guarantee that they meet our needs that may

meet or program needs and our analysis of what sores of amenities and park facilities would be appropriate for the population of that area and the design would generally meet rec park standards for park facilities. so there's -- we had a land appraisal for the sites in progress and we're working on the materials with the mayor's office. and this is another different type of acquisition project and the district 6 open space planning process, that the rec park planning unit has been working on with jan kim's office and district includes the tinder loin and mission bay and south beach neighborhoods and a large portion of this district is designates as high needs and it's one of the areas of the

city that's he can suspected to have the most growth over the coming decades. the district 6 open space started during the process for developing the 2012 development bond and we recognize those are few rp parks that are present. it really highlighted the need for additional open space in this part of the city. so in the fall of 2012, we and supervisor kim's office initiated a task force with 20 members from district 6 and we met six times between october of 2012 and june of 2013 and the primary objective was to identify new open space opportunities and the task force was in a report. they

identified the priority locations in the district for new parks as the western market area which has no open space at all, and secondly the tenderloin. in terms of the size of new parks, almost unanimously the task force thought they would rather have smaller parks throughout the district of neighborhood central open spaces if you will, as opposed to one very large park or large park that could accommodate larger uses like athletic fields and that sort of thing. so when this report was completed, we decided to -- the city should engage a real-estate broker to help about sites based on these recommends. we hired colleagues international and they have been doing a very search of

properties in district 6. these next couple of slides show their primary search areas which are the high needs and open space portions, the shades area there, within the tenderloin and the central and western side of market. so these are the areas of focus for this search. they had a list of over 100 properties and through discussion with colleagues -- based on our feedback, they narrowed it down to 15 sites and park and rec has done a study on these parks and narrowed the list of ten. we have a list of ten sites. i believe it's three in the tenderloin and seven in the south of market. the real-estate market is doing additional

research on these site. some are multiple parcels, continuous parcels. so we expect to have very detailed information on those sites back to report to the rec park staff and supervisor kim's staff by the end of this month. lastly just an over view of capital projects in our district 6 park. there are 6 capital projects that are in various stages or pre-plans. five renovations and one new park construction. the boat park renovation is currently under construction. it's a $5.3 million full flight renovation and the project between rpd. the construction expected to be completed by the end of the summer with a ground breaking in the fall -- i'm sorry, a park opening.

next, the south park renovation, of course the commission approves the concept plan and the funding plan for this renovation last month, so you're familiar with the project. it's another full site renovation funding with a combination of bond dollars and development impact fees from the eastern neighborhood area plan. and construction is currently expected to begin june 2015. next die place park. it's funded by development impact fees, both the land purchases and the park construction. and it's a smaller sort of pocket park in ring con hill. and the capital division project manager for this site anticipates bringing the concept plan and the funding package to the commission for consideration in may. you can look forward to that soon. next, the height and

turk committee. there's $1 million allocated. this is the last phase of bond project, so planning has not started but currently we're looking at a construction date starting in -- towards end of 2017. the sylmar recreation center has received fees for park rehabilitation. and they're developing options from sight improvements to take to the community advisory committee in april. and the family of gene fran is interested in this building and the park site and working with the department and the trust for public land on a potential funding a study looking at improvement options. the civic center play ground, this is a

rec and park effort to replace the children's play ground and it will be funded by a private donor and we're hoping to start work late this year, early next year. that concludes my report and i welcome questions or comments from the public or commission. >> let's have public comment. be have jan, steve hendrick and john and jean and rachel martin. >> good afternoon. >> good morning commissioners and general manager, my name is jan and i'm a member of the four neighborhood associations on or around russian hill collaborating on

transforming the san francisco reservoir into a new public park for all san francisco. overhead, please. here's picture of san francisco reservoir taken three weeks ago on the first of march on our gray days. we were grateful for the rain. it's sitting empty and unused, and unpeopled. but it has enormous potential. russian hill improvement and russian hill neighbors and park neighbors and north beach neighbors representing thousands of people in the community know how important this abandoned reservoir will be when it becomes a park. as addressed earlier in the last presentation, there's no open space available or

certainly nothing -- this will serve the space. it would look more like this picture, dolores taken weeks ago. we know this park in this stunning location with commanding 180 degree views of the bay, would be very heavily used by people from china town, from lower poke area, aquatic park and russian hill and all those pushing strollers up the hill to use the tiny

pocket park will find it and use it. we've reached 75 percent of our goal to raise pledges for actual construction of the park which is enormous and we anticipate making our full goal really soon. so we're here today to ask for your full support in our continued effort to make this a new public park for all san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. >> steve. >> commissioners chair, i'm steve. another many of the volunteers working on this project. i want to supplement jan's remarks. early on, the various neighborhood groups formed a working group, and through a series of meetings and rec and park and the

conceptual park, k-hill project gave us a detailed sense of the cost of constructing such park and as jan mentioned, with that cost in mind and an estimate of the maintenance and staffing cost, we came up with an endowment number that would endowment the park, with that the neighborhood set a goal for ourselves, raising 100 percent of the cost constructing this park and endowing its maintenance and staff so that we could deliver this park to this city at no expense to the city and as jan mentioned, we've been working on this fundraising phase for the past year and we've reached 75 percent of that goal through the generosity of the

community, and we're confident we'll be at 100 percent of that goal by this summer. thank you. >> thank you. >> janine, john, and rachel. >> i'm janine. our family has been on francisco street for almost 40 years and we raised our children here but we were unable to utilize any open space. the francisco reservoir was disabled and fenced. it was dangerous where i could not use bay street for my kids because of the commuter cars, sorry. there was no place to play outdoors in area. we have new families moving into the area, and they ask, janine, where can i take my kids to play outdoors? unfortunately we still don't have a park, but neighbors has been working as a community for years to create

this park. i sincerely hope you will support our effort and we have a park. thank you. >> thank you. >> john. >> good morning commissioners, general manager. i think between jan and steve and janine, they've said it all. i don't want to be redone enter. it can be used by the city. and the whole city and the whole tourist can use it. the cable car runs up and down hide, the tourist are all throughout aquatic park and fisherman's warf, so it's a jewel for the city but the attraction for the tourist. thank you very much.

>> rachel. >> good morning commissioners and general managers. i wanted to speak about the acquisition today. we want to cheer you on and say, get this acquisition done. this parcel represents the last, one of the last if not the last privately owned parcel on the water front and we see this area as just a tremendous opportunity for the city to create the chrisy field over the southeast. we worked with the epa to determine the level of environmental -- we think it helped with the property. we want to commend the india base neighborhood association. i saw joan here earlier and they have been cheerleaders for this acquisition as well.

so keep moving, we're very excited for it and as always, the san francisco parks alliance is ready and willing to help you. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make public comment on this item? being none, public comment is closed on item 9. >> commissioner mcdonald. >> mrs. peer son around district six project. you referenced that the staff work were down to ten, can you say again where they - not specifically you in relationship to the map we received around the high need areas, are those ten consistent with -- >> they are. all ten are located either right in the high needs areas or adjacent to where they would serve the high needs area and in narrowing down the list, we really -- one of the things we were considering was sites that had -- we wanted to eliminate sites

that had especially active small businesses or viable commercial uses. we weren't looking at residential properties to begin with, but we're looking for either vacant sites, service properties or sites utilized. we identified the ten be thought were the best prospects. >> in terms of the process going forward, you said there's going to be a meeting with supervisor kim's staff. where does the process where community hear about being down to these ten and what's your thoughts about prioritizing that. >> that's a good question. we have not decided exactly how to end gage the task process. because the city hasn't approached the owners about any interest in these sites, we don't want to

publicly disclose what sites they are, but we're interested in community input and i believe they'll be some type of community presentation or meeting about it after supervisor kim is briefed on the short list of sites. >> last question, thank you. big picture, general timeline presuming there is a process. we land on these three other timelines, what does the timeline look like? >> it's hard. i think once we have the information back on the ten sites and work with supervisor kim and work with community, the next step is for real-estate to approach the community. it's hard to predict because it depends on whether we have willing sellers, it depends on if we don't have willing sellers, we may have to return to a longer list and go to the

second tier prospects but it's -- i can't give you a very direct answer. planning director. the process is very variable. we haven't acquired something in less than a year. so i think just to set expectations that once we can go through the community process, i think the buy in at our general approach and probably around properties, they'll say, are people okay and if we can get that green light we'll initiate with the department of real-estate but i think it takes us a year to get to a place where we've gone through the steps and know where we're going. >> great. thank you. i'll

encourage a couple of things. in particular, in the spirit of managing the expectations and we can create when it happens. >> for the purposes of managing, i'm going to echo don's remarks and we've been saying this loud and clear. it's wonderful that there's a desire and such a strong need to acquire open space in district 6 or frankly for any of the other acquisition projects. this is something we cannot manage -- necessarily manage the timeframe. it involves the complex real-estate negotiations and a complex regulatory framework. there can be no timeframe imposed on us in acquiring open space. we do the best that we can, but we cannot make any

public commitment about the amount of time it will take to acquire a piece of land. >> thanks commissioner. commissioner lo. >> i just wanted to also echo my fellow commissioner mcdonald's comments and also give acknowledgement to the develop's efforts on high needs neighborhoods on the great work they're doing and capital reinvestment in existing projects would like to also encourage the department given the uncertain timeframe for creating more open space in district 6 and for high needs neighborhoods, to also work with the supervisor's office and dialoguing on how to increase accessibility for disadvantaged use. our rec and open space program so we can improve accessibility and during this time where district

6 and other high need neighborhoods are constrains on the access to recreation and open space, but holly, i was wondering if you can go come it the podium. i get the properties on the acquisition list. we're trying to identify acquisitions in high needs neighborhood, but to a certain degree, we have to be optimistic. i do understand the great opportunity for francisco reservoir. i think that's a good opportunity and i would like to see that move forward. i didn't understand it before until phil directed me out to the blue green project and i understand 900 ns. it's something new we haven't heard anything about, and i was wondering if i can comment and give us a really quick over view as to what is that? i mean, it would seem that the parks should be -- part of the community benefit

that the developer builds and donates to this city, am i -- >> that is the intention that they would build the park and improvements would be donated to the city build by the builder and donated to the city. >> we would purchase the land, so there's an expenditure to come out from the department? >> yes, for the land. the park improvements, the cost of the construction would be born by the developer and donated to the city and the land as -- the appraisal that's going on right now as i understand it is based on the assumption it would be open space, but we'll pay for the cost of the land itself. >> commissioners, let me jump in here, so i think and i think we're going to confirm, this has been a project that has been talked about for a long time in many years. this is a larger development project driven by the mayor's office and it is in an underserved

neighborhood and as the project has evolved overtime, we've known we were going to have a role in the project, but i think part of our role has evolved as negotiations with the developer and actually evolved over the acquisition. so as holly noted, we would be involved many the -- we would be involved in the land. and i'll be happy to brief you in more detail. >> i would expect that both the land and the construction would be donated but maybe i'm expecting too much. but i would think that also hopefully we could adopt some of the models that some other developers that have come before us where they have created their their homeowner's association contributions towards future maintenance pause it's well recognized that property next to a park

increases in value. and that model that was offered by true mark and millennium, i think that's a good model that should be also employed. >> i think that model is on the table but i think slag, the unique about this project is that with understanding what the developers community benefits are in association with the project, it's much larger than the acquisition and the land and maybe we can either have the commission briefed -- you can be briefed or in open session from the mayor owes office of economic on the larger project. >> that would be hopeful and what the mayor's plan is to increase resident households by 30,000, what is the impact that's going to have on our park system and what are the opportunities there that we should be exploring. one last question is what's not on the list. i

think there is all the new parks are being created and trans bay, whose parks are those particularly in china town, and the park above the china town station, they call it a park, but no one talks about is it our park or there park and i was wondering if you have thoughts about that this >> commissioner, my thoughts is i've been involved with china town incorporation as they've been talking about their strategy to advocate and coach them and how to negotiate the city bureaucracy around the question of creating a park in china town bfb the central subway stop. the question of the designing construction is still very much in flux, but i think there are some frameworks for

piece. for the central subway park which we have no better name for at this particular moment, there are fees that are being thrown off by the terminal project. $9 million advocated for the spaces in china town. and we would allocate $2 million of it to support the master plan and a develop of a capital plan with the other $7 million going into the development of a park above the central subway. i'm not aware of where our -- the current planning is. i know a concept plan was created and that part of the urgency of allocating that $7 million for the transbay terminal was to match up with mta critical path for the subways so we don't put them in the position we don't

like to be in, like hey, we like you to change $7 million in the middle of your dollars or stop it all together to wait for this to happen. the focus has been merging those funding streams and aligning them, and the question of who maintains it, what the final design is, where the construction, the construction will be funded through this funding stream at transbay terminal and the question of who is going to maintain it is an open one. that's driven in part by the final competition of uses. it has been unclear to the extent of whether it will be a park or plaza and that's an open conversation. >> i would encourage the park to be involved with mta and trans bay since there's talks of a park, but there's not really a discussion of what the park