bad or disappointing we didn't get multiple bids on the escalators and elevators but it's at least worthwhile for tangle to continue the negotiations and could be inform the board of directors but it's important to talk to our sister agrees i in my limited knowledge know this is a way to learn. any other discussion items on this >> move approval. >> so we have a motion and second any any public comment on that item? >> noun that i'm aware of. >> director beale. >> director reiskin. director harper. supervisor kim. that's 4 i's and item 12 is approved >> can we move on. >> item 13 is approval of the

minutes of the may 8 and the public indicated they didn't want to address. >> any board members? roll call vote. >> director dealing. >> director reiskin. director harper. supervisor kim >> that's 4 i's and item 14 is approved. >> do to our last item it's a presentation of the office of infrastructure. >> we want to show you the state of this project under our ramps. >> good afternoon directors. thank you for hearing this item today as executive director said it's been a while since we've

shown on there ramp park we made anywhere changes to the park again there's a map of the project area we're i'm joined i should stop and introduce who i'm joined with by scott from the landscape architect we've been working with them on various open space designs in the project area for example, on the fulsome we're under construction and this is the highlighted area. including both the park obviously underneath the future bus ramps and as well as a component on ethnics street and also joined by courtney our have an opportunity project manager. so as i mentioned the last time we came least a year ago we had

concept designs we've advance to seismic you designs and we're here to get your feedback open the design and way to move forward but we wanted to give you other information about the schedule and the funding and some of the issues we've been working through especially, since the dissolution from the agency in naefl that's changed a lot about the future is ownership and the under ramp park was originally spoeptsd to be part of the very development agency that's no longer possible because the agencies were dissolved in 2012, we can't enter into long term ownership for example, on fulsome street we're working with the city and they're going to take over long term ownership and for under

ramp park since an tjpa property the tennis is we're going to be the long-term owners so we're working with the tjpa staff reviewing those designs part of the improvements are under caltrain ramp to we've submitted those to caltrain and gotten go feedback and part of it is on park leased land we're going to work with the tjpa staff for the leased items and we have some information to talk about that today. in terms of the funding as i mentioned our agency has tax increment funding we anticipate having the funds $20 million to complete the park we have limitations on our bonding but we have strategies obviously additional state legislation is

a possibility we've completed with mission bay and the pocket of entering into a loan agreement that is secured by tax agreement and we're exploring the avenues to finance the construction of the park but we have the tax increment funding it's a question of figuring out the agreement before the construction in 2017 arrest toppling owns and continues to own the area under the ramps. we have had additional laegs information next to the tjpa ramps underneath the interstate 80 they want to receive the same revenue they were receiving previously from the parking fraeth the ramps initially that was a challenge but we've

reconfigured the park and skovt is going to go into those in terms of the design but you'll see did major change is some retail space but we've expanded that greatly and you'll like the designs it will bring activity to the park our focus is on an active and vibrant space it's successful in mission bay and elsewhere around the country but don't forget about the need to draw people in so it won't are hard to find and in addition to providing for revenue that helps to pay the caltrain lease it brings activities to the park that will make it better too. we've also obviously been focused on the long-term maintenance obligation of

funding those are improvements before it was clear that was a tjpa facility this was a concern so we've been work i'm sure you're aware of a steering committee to create a community benefit district that will include this park as well as other parks including the rooftop park and the funding for the maintenance of the mark will be covered by community district and any insurance costs are by the retail in the park as well as the lease with caltrain which obviously needs to be renegotiated we'reful within the range. with that brief introduction i'll introduce scott. >> thank you mike and commissioners. i won't top too much time i'm

sure you're familiar with the site those are the key views and great opportunities and, of course, some of the constraints. the views on the screen in the upper right this is the existing condition at howard street and, of course, those will be covered by did new bus ramps and some of the other locations throughout the plan from fulsome street to howard as well as crossing fulsome up to harrison and the site as actually neighborhood edges and at all and low ceilings a some sun so all those considerations were taken was we tried to create a site that responded to all the issues of the site. we worked with cac and the

public and free community workshops to identify some dowels of the project the first and primary goal was the transbay neighborhood into the transbay neighborhood so this is a transit neighborhood and to develop programs and activities in park spaces that foster a new community we want to make sure that this community has amenity we know the challenges of the ramp and the blank walls will make this place harder to get to so we want a space that's liquifyly. the image on our screen is showing the sort of park design north is off to the right and it runs from fulsome ethics street and howard street off to the

right and the two ramps the transbay bus ramp and the area on the park that's quoted to sun vs. under the ram. this diagram talks about the active and passive used for the kids playing where patent can hang out and watch them and the dining can overlook the events so there's a mix of things happening throughout the day. and this is a planning plan with the roof taken off so you can see what's happening underneath from a playgrounds to a kimg gym to a beer garden and a picnic area and a unique custom play and dog runs those are the kinds of things that will bring people together. as i mentioned circulation is key the primary riots are along

the western side and this is the pedestrian route if howard to fulsome street light the new commercial street in the neighborhood that's complimented by a fine network of linkages to connect and parallel to that but separated is the bike class bike lane that brings you into howard street and synced to a new track on fulsome street. i have a series of birds eye views this is south from howard street and a new bus ramp and this give us a sense of the programming pieces that primary looks like the bike repair pod and the bike station off to the left and the metal on howard street has the potential to open

on harrison street and the promenade moves through the center there's the other opportunities we have we're working with a structural lighting corporation and interesting the lights change the whole wall on the west side will have reflecting lights on the walls to animate the space this is a prospective view on howard street. this is a view looking east towards first street towards oscar additionally this is for chandelier to bring light to the space below this is the shadow line of the ramp and this beer garden that's one of the revenue generating parts we have a

picnic deck and this custom play space off to the right is the new parks practicing verify it negotiates a 12 space had allows for us to have activation optional retail for fulsome street we see this to provide not only cafes and maybe wine bars some kind of active that has park services with the park maintenance facility will be there's a place you might be able to get activities equipment so the kids can come here and doing messy projects i can come and finger-paint there's a amenity space that allows that kind of equipment and assessors this is the view towards the play structure.

and a view from first street to the left this has kids scale basketball courts and a garden in the sunny spot if you move back. this is a view of the beer garden and under the turning around we're going to have the porch swings this is for a privately owned plaza space that will augment the parks. and then is a verify from fulsome street from the 12 foot grade happens from this space you see the provingville off to the left and you see the particularly bicycle and promenade on the west side of the screen. this space is a typography of

play as far as i am concerned we're showing slices that run down this gym that wraps the guy. and the plazas is where we'll have public restrooms and park maintenance and amenities then the building piece that is the bar along the east side are the retail spaces that will happen. this is a planned view of the fulsome level that can be different open into one or tenants we're imagining this is a at the plaza on fulsome street that builds on the fulsome street around the corner that's cafes or whatever to activate the space the lower level is part of the sub terrain this is a larger footprint and it has the colored areas in imply are the park maintenance and public restrooms the area in red are

the equipment rental space and the yellow is the park maintenance services office. and this is a prospective view in clem 10 a street this is the ground floor of the retail space and looking back this the view coming down the promenade looking at towards the paragraphingville and the climbing gym off the left. this is the top story of the paragraphingville and we have those public sun desk chairs this is one of the places to swivel and people can gather and hang out in the park the pavement part of the park is filed with the light panels to premeditate the lights creating a unique effect and see the art

at the turn around of the bus route. and as mike mentioned in phase two we're working on improvements in harrison as part of phase one we'll build in basketball court under the two rams on fulsome street and phase two look at more improvements along the pedestrian and the mixtures including the stairwell replacement and amenities along the street if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> director harper. >> i sat on the oversight board for oakland and peculiar you mean that san francisco has listed the amount of money on their roster every year to build

this park out my that's correct and not only that we've received a final determination for all the expenses related to all the infrastructure from the department of finance that means they didn't have the right to review the roster. >> that's a compliment thank you. >> i want to thank maria and the tjpa staff that happened last year and we really are pretty unique in san francisco we were able to do that. >> right. >> thank you. >> that's good. >> the other it seems like inwitnessingly you also have here you've never mentioned a skateboarding that haven seems like that you're either going to have that and not beale deal with it or deal with it what is your plan. >> i think that's a great

question it came up in our public meeting and it's suggestive we offer that as a real, you know, sanctified space but people thought the new neighborhood was nor young families that's not necessarily - i think one of the things we're challenged with who is moving to the neighborhood so we want to make that flexibility i think we'll use the typical deterrence but we don't have the skid mark park it's a park and i mean, if we're going to operate this essentially or someone is operating this how much energy to keeping the skateboardsers out if you don't put in a place to say that is for all the lovely edges on the concrete and

the stairs and everything that's not for you i don't want to have a security force that has to take care of that you're going to get the go ahead. >> sure >> the best park i've seen is with a skateboard. >> we're building one on the octavia boulevard. >> yeah. think it through. >> okay. >> director reiskin. >> first of all, it's really looks like a very thoughtful and creativity and great at least schematic it's important to think forward so that's great a little bit of following the lines of where director harper was going i'm sure euro doing

this already but i strongly encourage incorporate a design for maintainability and crime ability having been the public works director i think that under freeway and columns in particular can be very attractive canvases for graffiti so thinking about the pleasers and the site lines would be worst the investment of time and perhaps talking to some folks in the public works and the southern station and even each station has a community advisory committee to bounce this is to the southern district station but it's great and exciting design of a project. >> yeah.. exciting to see areas that are usually dormant to see something

going this it somewhat remind me of the wake way in new york they took a freeway and put something there >> i saw where you had those porch swings are those actually a swing. >> uh-huh. >> do you think there's a liability. >> yeah. the fact we've looked at that. >> it's also there's a remaining wall behind them so. >> i thought that was kind of interesting. >> okay. thank you. uh-huh >> just a couple of comments and some questions first of all, it's beautiful and it's - it looks nice we've seen multiple designs it is really meeting neat to see what the design look like i have a lot of questions

i'm excited about the dog and park is going to look at like for the shadows this is a great use and bay congratulations i know how challenging that was to build a complete neighborhood it's. >> huge huge deal for the residents. so >> couple of things i really lining like this was an emphasis on young kids actually, one thing that came up when we were building under octavia billboard we have to consider the kids to respect that's for younger kids to skateboard i know that's a communication to figure out

where can young kids learn how to skateboard. obviously, the entire skateboarding community wouldn't use this but and i was also i noticed that the basketball court for the borders first street is a huge traffic congested corridor especially during rush hour but thinking authenticityly though to keep that south africa if balls are going out into the corridor this is an emotional corridor for drivers they're sitting there for long periods of time so we wouldn't want that upsetting conflict there's a curb out this will help but to think about how folks can cross and i doubt a

crosswalk is being put there we have to think about the safety but over all i like the street widening and we talked about vision zero and the pedestrian safety we have to make sure that people are going to get to the area safely any worry is jaywalking. but it's really nice to see the bike lanes and see did two-way on howard and fulsome in the design that will cause some of the traffic and then i have one question will this be phased can he do the basketball court surrender the one onesic and fulsome to get people excited and have are the lights generate from the grounded up how are

they going to be poured >> maybe you can handle the light question but our schedule is dictated by the construction of the ramps so we can't start the construction we're stimulating around 2017 that won't be a long construction but lease for the construction the improvements that scott was take the opportunity ethnics street they're not finalized the plan bus the ramps will be implemented in one phase and not until after the construction above for the ramps. >> what else the basketball court open the other side that's a completely straight - and it's under some fire chief ramps. >> got it. >> partly under a caltrain and p&g ram and there's removal of

lanes with the sidewalk widening did that mean that's the carpool or bus latent print that will disappear. >> that's the reason we're phasing that in because the final conversion ofesic hadn't been done yet we're waiting to see what that is going to be and design our park around it and on the lights. >> oh, yeah. i'm sorry >> i was wondering how the lights are powered. >> our understanding is the lights of the park is in the situation as yerba buena there will be a maintenance organization that handles the lighting. >> have you thought about creativity trying to solar it. >> we've met with the providers

team that is interested in doing the local energy we met with energy they're interested in locating a steam plant within the parks and from that, we, actually power the lights from their i--i don't know what the right word. >> what their generating for the heating that cough from the steam a that's one option. >> okay. thank you. i really appreciate all the work i know it's a placated conversation with caltrain so i know, sir upper persistent and adamant in our advocacy to make sure that was done so thank you. okay >> that concludes our agenda for it today. >> so seeing no other questions

or comments from the board or public the meeting is >> good afternoon, everyone.

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