a new mid block crossing where their hazardous and the mere installation of red light arrows at the intersections where navigated no turns are commented on read and finally implementing the plan for all kinds of things on the sidewalks logically so that the open through way is optimized unlike today. we want that to be done as a mitigation required at the moscone expansion project and built at the same time that project is built. the letter goes into the legal issues how the city is low balling tenants blatantly in the draft eir. there's a simple point if the

mitigations we need and identified are not part of the relocating project we'll litigate i regret doing that we've worked hard for thirty years. but this is the end of the pedestrian they litigate or we litigate >> i'm sonya with the todd could group. john kind of stole my thundered i may have had but i'm here for pedestrian safety for our buildings right across from moscone center. the seniors use the gardens and need to be considered what's

done during construction how pedestrians are to client around the buildings and the moscone developer or project sponsors need to see how we walk along those areas remember what you've been given in writing >> thank you >> next speaker. >> hi thank you. commissioners i'm alice light director of community planning at the taco group yerba buena gardeners is special it's the result of the grand compromise that's been mentioned before there was a commitment at the

time of the convention activity stay blow grounded and cult activities above ground the result of the commitment no one would dominate the space. this expansion moscone project has impacts on the public space one of those the 95 foot ballroom and meeting room structure casts shadows on the bay play area another is it conventional center circulations take some of the space that's currently, the children's play area and third is that the wonderful view from the play area you get of the city skyline will be blocked from the structure. so in order to might those negative impacts we would like

to see the project team commit to making improvements at the time of the construction. we would like to see the new design that was mentioned in the introduction adapted this is something we saw recently in may and it incorporates a lot of changes from the community, the massachusetts is set back and it's very important to us that this be the project move forward and my improvements to the playground areas must be funded and included in this project. in order to do that the environmental analysis of the changes need to be considered we need those the new top light and the expanding learning gardener the removal of the concern most

ban of the bridge the how are you street pedestrian bridge as well as the expansion and improvement of the carrousel cafe area and finally there's the wall that is faces the gleaned area is a green wall proposal we need that to be wonderful landscaping green wall it can't be the rat infested in moscone south currently so we want that required thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'd like to remind the members of the public and those commenters is on the adequatey of the admiring not the project itself. >> thank you. commissioner president wu and commissioners i live on mission street at the corner of third and mission a block away.

living near the conventions shapes the neighborhood i've followed this and regularly attending the moscone board meetings and participate in the moscone examinations participatory group i heard support the project but i support the expressed concerns of my colleagues in a balanced neighborhood. so one of my comments i'll limit to item eir four relating to pedestrian impacts that's deemed to be less than significant it doesn't match my experience i realize if so an incredulously it's in need of mitigation with nothing going on. i didn't see my analysis any

points talking about the conventional days that were also on giants days. it is significantly impacting the pedestrian load on third and fourth on the days of giants baseball games. to the sidewalk that should be the continual passing lane exuding restaurant and trees some of the sidewalks which were talked about being 15 feet are more like 5 feet and the traffic the number of cars turning at peak pedestrian times so what happens is pedestrians use up all the time for turners and only one or two cars can go and the resulted in drivers that enter the sidewalks when the pedestrians are there the rest of my comments are in writing

>> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm kevin carol the executive director of the hotel council of san francisco we support the draft eir sufficiently xhamdz the impacts to the program. i want to remind the commission the number of jobs related and the hotels employ 24 thousand individuals and our workforce is 57 percent of san franciscans so this project helps san francisco not only from the employment but also the economic benefits coming out this as well additional our employees are 77 percent identify themselves as asian or african-american so the project as it grows will help a vital part of san francisco's industry that is tourism obviously when workers at the hotel when the hotels ultimately will be hiring more and working

with the citizens of san francisco. we fully believe this draft eir adds the issues that are related and thank you for your support. >> thank you is there any further public comment. >> good afternoon jim lazarus chamber of commerce we strongly support of the project and building the draft eir inadequate and inaccurate addresses the environmental impacts from the project. san francisco's economy is robust because we've toward a knowledge based and visitor industry it's key to the growth of jobs san francisco's went from 10 percent to over 4 percent unemployment the enar very of the country part because of the fine work of the city and

it's private partners in developing san francisco as a visitor designation. the impacts from the designation are minimal and the gangs really don't grow the convention business matures maintaining our business by allowing moscone to better serve customers we've attracted to san francisco. the total number of people coming to a convention is not what's at stake but making the building competitive to accommodate visitors for a modern convention center. we strongly support of the project and urge you to take the steps to approve the environmental review and the development of that project with the city and county of san francisco. thank you >> thank you is there any

further public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i have a few comments on the draft eir. my first comment when the deals with the scope of the expansion of the approximately 3 hundred thousand square feet if i'm reading it correctly i assume an analysis is done we don't need an even larger expansion we lose a lot of convention convention to las vegas and chicago not having adequate sized facilities while i've heard mr. lazarus talking about we want to keep e keep what we've got and striving to attract more conventions inform san francisco self-interest my comment in regards to the eir is the amount being analyzed big enough or

should we had an analysis that includes a larger square footage? the second part is i certainly would be in agreement with adding as part of the final ian analysis that would allow the types of things suggested by the gentleman it's a win-win situation the widening of the sidewalks and signals on the contraction even though we're building the bridges on howard street we need to allow for pedestrian crossings in various places along howard not to force everyone to force at the intersections and i thought it was very wise no turns on red and the other thing that's part of the analysis we have a lot of plays downtown where the

pedestrians move at one time the frustration of sdriefrz waiting to make a right turn is not there because when we have the ability to turn right there's no pedestrians and an area like this it's similar to our dense it downtown areas so we need the implementation the signal controls we need to make sure that the eir includes impacts from those sorts of changes to allow that to be part of the changes. so those are any main comments. and i assume the reason it takes 4 years to complete that this is the projected time we say ongoing conventions so we have to phase it over a period of time. commissioner moore >> the eir that speaks to a

desirable project is complete this is a project that's a good one and seeing it as a more recognizable building it good but i'm concerned the eir addresses the transformation of an entire district and pedestrian circulation is a major part of it, it's not just the building but the location as it becomes nor successful the pedestrian flow as it steps up to market street to yerba buena recognizes the expanded museums as part of the larger over of the district it looks the revitalized target with the new retail on market street it includes the inner testified circulation in addition to accommodate the residents need to be like promenadeing rather

than showered to shoulder trying to get across the intersection or a new light. we need to consider also that more and more people will or are already walking down to the caltrain station at 4:30 it's difficult and if there's a ball game it's worse. we want to make sure that the eir look at the xhoom active impact of the additions with an objective of creating an comfortable walkable area in the moscone center. >> i'll add that i'm looking forward to read the comments and responses those assumptions of

the number of teepdz i look forward to see the work behind the assumptions. commissioners, if there's nothing further we'll move on to the next item. emt z and w the shawl lodge project in 2007 point w. there's a request for text amendment and planning code map amendment and the general code map agreement. main we'll wait for the room to clear.

commissioners the matter is introduced supervisor cowen would like to make introductory

comments >> thank you, everyone thank you for your services in san francisco i'm grateful you're hearing this item i know many of you on the planning commission a number of years when the project was approved you have before you today has been formed by an extensive feedback, in fact, we've had over 18 public meetings to discuss the design controls to public benefits and after the enclosures of the schlage lock we partnered with universal paragon corporation to develop a plan for the reuse and revitalization of the critical site in their community. now several years of analysis and extensive community plan process concludes with the zoning changes and a detailed

master plan to guide the change. however, with the demise of the redevelopment agency in early 2000 and the loss of tens of millions of dollars dollars of tax implement funding required us to reaccess and come to the table with a fresh look at the communities goals for this proposal. and for this particular site it's been challenging to move forward without the redevelopment funds but the community especially the advisory committee have been incredibly flexible and rolled up their sleeves so you have before you today accomplishes many of the goals of the original project that cluts

includes a grocery store and new public parks and small property owner and affordable housing and the restoration of the historic office building and the payment of the development impact fees including the visitacion valley extra no other fee and a special transportation fee and most importantly a significant investment in the community that has historically lacked attention and t is finally getting the attention it deserves it can be controversial trust me i know about controversy in projects got several on my plate this particular project has had true community support that's been a honor to represent the southeast portion of the city that and

there's not a day going by i don't hear from the neighbors but all the projects i've worked on the rointsdz i've worked on with residents i've never seen a neighborhood like the visitacion valley it's come together in a compassionate way to shape a project that is not only good for the entire neighborhood by also good for san francisco. the resident of the valley have spent hours working with staff on every single component of the project and while the solution of the redevelopment agency thas has resulted in many, many changes and compromises the community and the developer have been with us together every step of the way. you're next going hear is planning hear. no. i'm going to bring up ms. emily

i ask for your support on this incredible project it's truly a transformative project >> thank you, supervisor. >> good afternoon, commissioners commissioner president wu. i'm emily with the office of economic workforce development. since we were hear on april 30th we've identified a few sensitive changes in the final documents. i'm going to walk through the steps for the da and then my colleague will talk about the other changes. this is for the designs we need to make you aware of a so the first change has to do with the application process that you may recall is lead by

the planning department of education and the community. the original version of the da filed out the process the developer held a preapplication process in the community and submitted the application after the application was reviewed the members on the application status held a meeting for additional feedback and only after this was completed made the phase application. specifically the da was specified that the process for the people submitting that process denial must occur within thirty days and no more than thirty days into the 60 day review period and the post operation meeting must take

place. the next change is remthd to the development permit approval if the department of building inspection receives an application and certain other agencies must review the application before the predicaments can be issued and they must complete the reviews between thirty days this requirement applies to the sfmta and dpw and emergency dpw and the rec and park department to the list is added. next the original da states that the cost canceling can't be applied to the project for affordable housing. the expectation is justified because of the act because the city contribution to the project such as the partial impact fees that are described. the update impact makes it more

specific i've added language that references the impact section of the agreement. all of the parties have agreed with the parks are open to the public regardless of who owns them and 25 percent of the historic building will be dedicated to the public for use. the updated agreement requires the developer to have the notice of restrictions on the historic this and adds to the special instructs you'll find the special restrictions in our packet along with other packets. those additional exhibits s are

exhibit g what information the developer provides to the city in its phase application and i is the reporting program that establishes part of the sequa process and updated slightly for consistency with the current project and intersection reconfiguration that sfmta has deemed to be counter productive and exhibit l received several comments from the fire department and the dwp and the puc. the original transportation demand management program which is in exhibit to the project that you received requires that each household receive clipper card credits for a period of 15 years following the housing unit.

the updated transportation management plan specifics that circulates over time to keep up with inflation that adds $4 to the clipper card every 4 years is based on the rate of the consumer index price over the last few years. it was the original agreement suggested that the project site include an adjacent parcel of land from the railroad. the project site can be project owned by the schlage lock corporation. the boundary map provides a proximate map only owned by the

schlage lock project manager. we'll have an update of the. in response to concerns recently raised by community members the expansion is for two updates for the projects first two years. those update meetings are in addition to the process around the specific development applications for building and phases. there are also several items we expect to add to the agreement. one of those item is the terms and conditions under which the rec and park department can have and those memo are in your packet but the agreement will lock in the price that rec and park department will pay the developer for the park or parks.

in exchange for rec and park department making the change the developer will agree for a price under market rate value and bear the costs of the maintenance. the exact locked in price and the construction and maintenance costs are still obeying being finalize. if rec and park department gets the design they consider the controls still apply. the next expected addition is related to the fire system the developer is required to madam clerk, provide a detailed analysis is currently underway to see the development that is protecting san francisco against an earthquake. it maybe possible to set a cost

cap for the fire suppression system and it will be in the final agreement. and finally the parties have agreed that my lenders to the project miss sign the agreement stating in the borrower defaults the lender will be subject to all the conditions of the agreement. and again, the formal agreement is still in discussion that concludes my presentation. >> thank