and because of the visibility of this mission street for the most part you can't see it but mission street you'll see the defining light edge it this is an important architecture piece and stepping down to the playground this is the test stepping down and making that side of the building a crafting to howard street to make that part of the park setting it has extremely high metrics is it will have is the lowest carbon in the united states and it will safe 15 million 0 of gallons of waters and this is to the treatment plant and into the bay

this will be used not only for flushing toilets in our building but watering ybdz and the street trees around the site and providing water for the cleaning of trucks for this neighborhood. we take very, very seriously the architecture of that building it's important to our civic realm and we've taken pains sorry about that this stressed proportion but to make that a building of upper engagement and looking at from third street roughly from the corner of third and slightly above howard street there's a vertical light you see in the details. through this way we call a light cloud the cornice the drastic cornice line that stretches from

howard street and capping it. under this is a series of small living rooms to create intimacy and opening on the west corner between the light bridge and the new park bridge a place of urban activity we've opened this up to reveal the comments and raised the wide part to favor pedestrians with a stoplight at the bridge to make this an unconfirmed north and setting this is looking back you can see what we think is a very your honor, and active building connection between those. so just to end with other issues about the public realm as i mentioned beyond the fundamental issues of the building itself we're very interested in trying to use what we have we can of our resources in the project to

take steps to improve anything that needs to be improved in this adjacent edges so this includes the bridges and streetscape and howard we're going to widened this to share the lane of 45 feet width that will be shared with the occasional buses for the pedestrians and you can see in yellow the connections through and around the building. i know there say, i understand there's conversations about the possibly of the howard street becoming too way that would be a wonderful thing and make that a neighborhood street so i certainly hope that will happen and make that bettered you see along the sidewalk a can weaver that provides rainwater protection and it does

occasional rain in the winter and those color pieces are video pieces our local media in creating a building we use video imagery and also when is it called dark days to bring visual life to the building this will look back across the netsdz and bring that north lobby creating a electrically list or public safety listen or the test on the right those provide the access to the restaurant and finally turning ybdz towards howard street and creating a great light beyond the park bridge in conflict it is designed to be a landscaped piece this is

outlined in red and the judge to look at the existing conditions there's a bridge currently a narrow bridge that it goes up and keeps going up and lands on the second level of the playground providing a prospective views with a confusing approach and resulting in multiple crossing to get back and forth to the playground and the carrousel cutting the carrousel off from the public realm to the east we want to remove the bridge and create an open plaza to the carrousel close to moscone opening up the upper plaza and to further serve those by retail and public that are not part of the program by the lower blue piece on howard street will be open for the

public and a small blue area that's a community room and cafe to serve the carrousel as well as the playground itself so this is at the level of the playground as opposed to back up this is intuitively clear with an open access finally to conclude we have this on the south side.org a smaller episodes here's a view where we have this exit ramp for a transacts and this is a service by the cafe on the corner for sale we're working on a rain cover to make this usable throughout the year and rain as well as the summer so in concluding that here's views of the sale we're happy we'll be

adding over 10 thousand square feet and working with the playground and finally the south side is a very important garden wail thanks to our community involvement to make this a great space we're delighted to have a place to work with this with our colleagues in the city and with the san franciscans thank you. >> thank you. we'll take public comment first. andrew robinson and other >> thank you, commissioners. director ram. i'm andrew rob robinson from the yerba buena district i'm here to speak in support we see a vital

moscone project to bring activation it supports the culture institutions and we think the project t is heading in the right direction i'm going to touch on things there's an opportunity for significant realm improvements and integration of the building and more external facade and opening the facade up to make it less and having it back to what it has become a residential neighborhood. also, we advocate for improved pedestrian safety measures so did widower crosswalk on howard offering maybe police officers to work the intersections during the conferences and improvements along third street so that you're more connected to the neighborhood. and last couple of points we are

really supporting an iconic art piece this grounds the heart of the yerba buena neighborhood and we support the blocks in the neighborhood it offices an opportunity to get into the children's area and the last thing we advocate for the moscone center to continue to contribute to the operation and management we see them as the integral of the visitors as well as the residents and the city as a whole thank you very much >> thank you. >> next speaker >> hello, i'm sonya i'm a community advocate with todd could my concerned are regarding pedestrian safety. and the capitalization of the moscone without a complete

analysis of the impact on the walkways around moscone and two blocks each way is not good. there are a lot of seniors that live around moscone center and a lot of disabled people so there 0 needs to be a safety development plan provided by the developer we know that pedestrians are effected by construction and new development thank you very much >> thank you. >> hi commissioners, thank you i'm alice light the director of the community at todd could it was great to see the greatest design it's come far i thank you for that. and i don't know if it was

stated clearly we understand the improvements to the top lot and the gardens area that are the community amenities have been committed to be funded with the project so we're very happy to hear that i want to confirm that's the case and the one item of concern that i'd like to bring up. is the green wall. we would like to see it's the highest quality green materials there is already a lot of ivory ccii very around moscone and at least on the 10 to 15 feet along the area where people will be walking we want to see that be of the highest quality on the green wall and above that it

could be less water and maintenance intensive by have that area where people are walking and children playing the most care given to the landscaping thank you. thank you >> thank you. >> okay. i'll call additional names (calling names). >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm kevin i'm the executive director of the hotel council of san francisco we continue to support the moscone expansion project we believe it will make us more competitive as a city against other cities that are making dmochls to their conference centers but to benefit our employees in san francisco as well the hotel

industry employees 24 thousand employees 57 percent live and work in san francisco and the population within our industry 77 percentage or identifying as asian-american or african-american and this is critical for the tourism and the conference but also for the continued increase of jobs and the economic prosperity in san francisco we ask you continue to support this and in favor of what's been presented thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. . good afternoon, commissioners. an opportunity to speak i work for the todd could group i'm here for the residents that live directly across the street from the conference center i'm supporting the expansion of the

conference center but concerned for the seniors that live less than a block their lives are limited their mobilely impaired and severely handicapped and their day is a walk across the street their safety is uppermost important i'm a voice for this community and i ask you to please include a thorough analysis of pedestrian safety in this expansion thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm mar and i'm here in support of the moscone expansion and especially want to do speak to some of the improvements that will come from the design for the children's garden the end result will be

greater value to not only the parent and the children that use the area but more amenities for them such as a community room that we have long needed there will be a to the lot and a multiple you purpose area for games and performances i wanted to thank the expansion team and c m g and the sf travel for bringing the operators together and giving them an opportunity to work with the team and help impact the design so it will serve the purposes that are all mr. there thank you very much. >> thank you i have one more speaker card steve. >> hi commissioners i'm south

of market of the businesses association we support this expansion it's a gem of a venue for this city a big plus for the city to have some venue, and, secondly, definitely bring people coming in and we will have more people coming out to the businesses south of market so a big asset for the people south of market i urge you to support this expansion. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners and of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a jim lazarus with the chamber of commerce i've testified before and supported this in the months i've seen it get better we're pleased to a participant with the design team and neighbors in modifying this project it's critical to the economic growth

of san francisco last year you had a project on the knowledge does the rebuild of the c pmc hopeless an important component of our economy there's no more important projects than the moscone it's on a world designation since 1980 we look forward to approve all aspects of this project in moving forward thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners john from the yerba buena i apologize. i i was outside when i called my name i have good news. first, the settle time are our museum is set for final approval

this tuesday it provides the safety improvements we've requested and second since the eir hearing six or seven weeks ago we had an important discussion about exactly what the things it can be done and the city made it clear they want to move forward there's a technology cattle the biggest part is widening the east side of the effort sidewalks from howard to market there are a series bottleneck that can't be part of the moscone but picked up in the environmental clearance and should follow after that so this case we're definitely on the right track so thank you

>> thank you. >> sue hester my office has on on market since 1980 i know when a conference is in town by the pedestrians on the street right in front of my belief i submitted comments on the eir and wanted to bring them to attention right now a couple of the of the years for multiple days howard street is closed when it's closed to mission to market street and terrace street i don't think goes to fulsome it causes class. anything that doesn't improve traffic control and traffic

officers at the intersection is not a solution for the area around the conference center we need improvements beyond the mini area around the conference center which todd could has done i applaud them but no one is telling the conference that is coming to town the sales force in particular everyday multiple day the street is closed you have to post traffic control officers we have the complication of the big date you have to had effective i've suppressed that effective traffic control by people that control traffic and pedestrians don't talk on their phone they know their job and can overrule the traffic signals there's a problem getting around the

streets with conferences moscone must be told with part of the conference operator they put the burden on the conference operator sales force has billions of dollars dollars they can afford to pay for the traffic control 83 and that's when our working to have the approval for the moscone center it should be conditions imposed by this commission there's a major, major disruption to traffic flow not only to pedestrians by cars and buses and trucks every time there are an event we need this as pedestrian controls are patrol officers controls are weak that's it thank you >> is there any additional public comment seeing none,

director ram. >> thank you, commissioners. thank you. i want to thank everyone and this obviously is a fairly subsequential project and planning staff has been involved for some. i was or want to briefly talk about the pedestrian safety improvement this area can use subsequential pedestrian improvements so we've been working on this boo-boo fore the moscone expansion as well as the selma capitalization it's come down to that the plan we'll be doing for the area will include a piece that will be implemented by moscone as well as other pieces that will be implemented through the impact fees with the projects and selma. as someone pointed out mr. harmon we're looking at the eir

is looking specifically at the possibility of turning fulsome and howard into two way streets it this will prove peaceful and make that more pedestrian friendly and there's a lot of support from the community to make the traffic work, of course. there's a number of things we're collectively working on to improve pedestrian safety and commissioner antonini and i think it sounds like a wonderful improvement and since the last time we talked about this in the right direction i have questions. i understand that we're going to have an increasing a captain of the north and south see 5 hundred and 15 square feet how did that compare with other cities we're in competition with and our total expansion after

this is finished >> i know that's a better question for the sponsors to answer in terms of the conferences. >> mr. hartman and whoever else has answers. >> commissioner. thank you for your question moscone ranks 25 in the nation in terms of of the size with those improvements move forward 80 up to 17 i that's encouraging but why not in the top 5 base your competing with chicago and new york and las vegas but if we don't cap capacity they're not going to come no matter how appealing i'm

concerned is this big enough i'm not opposed to what you're doing but would have looked at something bigger perhaps having a bridge connecting moscone north and south so people don't have to get out open the street and go to west. >> understood. the purpose of mushgz is different from other larger conventions in count i and las vegas and new york moscone attracts professional conventions we're not in the business of competing with the others who have no more sales oriented car shows physically it would be nearly impossible to get it that size of las vegas or new york or chicago >> that's true i guess the other question there was a time

when we had major political conventions of 56 and 54 the republicans then the democrats used medicare's moscone in 84 and claimed half the people couldn't see the stage i'm not sure that type of setting you have to take advantage of an arena we'll have in mission bay for that type of convention is speak something we're open to. >> another great question i don't know if sf travel staff can answer that. >> good afternoon john san francisco travel you're absolutely right we're not in a position to hold a democratic or republican convention i don't know if the republicans would

come here (laughter) we need a big event space the ideal space would be an arena similar to the sports arena that would eastbound helpful particularly in light of the fact we'll be connected by light rail so to be able to pursue something like that once that's complete we have the complete portfolio of assets but it opens up to another realm of events similar to what you were saying it helps us to compete for the much larger ones we can't right now what w with the expansion of moscone. >> that's important because there's a cashing i can't that

comes with the major political convention and cleveland is happy to get the conventional in 2016 it helps to get la broken and other things didn't help either. >> the expansion itself my thought is you're working on making the underground spaces wider and is there any thought given to sub merging howard street and having that as part the convention center >> we knew we were losing $2 billion in revenue we went through a bunch of things but we were constrained by the budget and the demands and needs and sensitivity to impacting the

area so those considerations were take into account and other infrastructure issues that made it difficult to expand it as well. >> i encourage you this is encouraging and look at the connections between the west side and the north and south is very important i thank you and also dovetailing with the central subway everything fits together. >> we'd love to see the central subway into the fisherman's wharf. >> i'm supportive of seeing howard go two ways that's a good thing and perhaps you'll be able to in their u narrow it to some degree to make that more pedestrian friendly. and " of the actual area a little bit large and people -

the crosswalk side in the middle and the widower part between third i fourth makes sense and i'll speak in favor of the not to the center to fund the widening of sidewalks towards market but collective through the plan and central corridor we have to find the funding to make the sidewalks easy to get to. without a convention their narrow and oftentimes hard to get through the areas we're moving in the right direction and i'm supportive. >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes. commissioner antonini asked some questions i had you already answered and i'm going to say i thought that size wasn't completely driving engine you