>> this is the regular -- for tuesday january 6, 2015. welcome to the public. madam secretary please call the first item. >> thank you madam chair. the first item is roll call. commissioner members please respond when i call your name. commissioner mondejar. >> mere. >> commissioner singh is absent. commissioner bustos. >> here. >> madam chair rosales. >> present.

>> commissioner singh is absent and all other members of the commission are present. the next item of business is announcements. a, the next regularly scheduled meeting for on tuesday january 20, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at city hall room 416. announcements of prohibition of electronic devices during the meeting. please be advised that ringing of use of cell phones, pagers and similiar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be veasessed that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room from any persons respond for the ringing of or use of cell phone or pager or other similar sound producing electronic device. c, announcement for allotment for public comments. please be advised that a member of the public has three minutes to make

pertinent comments on each agenda item unless the commission adopts a short ofly period on any item. it is strongly recommended that members of the public that wish to address the commission fill out a "speaker card" provided by the commission secretary and provide that card to the commission secretary. the next order of business is item 3. report on actions taken at a previously closed session if any. there are no reportable actions. the next order of business is item four, matters of unfinished business. we have no items. the next order of business is item number 5, matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. first the consent agenda, 5a, approval of minutes. minutes of december 2, 2014. madam chair. >> do we have any speaker cards? no speaker cards?

okay. we have the approval of the minutes before the commission. are there any questions, comments, edits? motions? >> so moved. >> moved by commissioner bustos. seconded by commissioner mondejar. please call the roll. >> commissioner members please announce yours when i call your name. commissioner mondejar. >> yes. >> commissioner singh is absent. commissioner bustos. madam chair rosales. >> yes. >> i have three aye's and one absent. >> thank you. the minutes are approved. please call the next item and please speak a little more directly into the microphone. thank you. >> okay. the next order of business is regular agenda. 5b, workshop on the major says for the golden state warriors enter and development on blocks 29 to

32 in the mission bay redevelopment area. discussion. madam director. >> thank you madam secretary. good afternoon commissioners and to the members of public. thank you very much for joiningings us. injury commissioners as you're aware the golden state warriors are looking for a site in mission bay for the new event center for the team as well as a mixed use development composing of office and retail on blocks 13-32. the warriors' representatives came back to you in 2013 in april and introduced themselves. this is simply an informational hearing on the proposed major phase or massing land use and design document. there will be a series of steps you will take over the course of the next six months including certification of an eir, other schematic design and documents this. is one of many public hear tionz that the staff and the warrior's team have

presented over the course the last six to eight months. they were recently at the planning commission and have continued to have diligent meetings in the community throughout the city so with they would like to ask catherine riley who is the project manager for mission bay to walk you through the presentation. >> great. thank you director tiffany bohee. yes, i have a frog in my throat. i apologize. i have water urtd wa. i am the product manager for mission bay. i am excited about this item and the most exciting thing in mission bay since it was created. this is the first step in the design process for the proposed arena. i will go quickly through this today. i will

apologize we have i lot of information to cover so it will be a long presentation but we want to be thorough and go over everything. i will go over the regulatory setting and turn over the presentation to the warriors to introduce the team and the project and come back to introduce the project. the project is at blocks 29-32 south and in the existing parking garage of the uber headquarters will be there as well and a business on illinois that heads the biotech company as well as other biotech and office facilities. surrounding the site to the east, to the southeast and to the south as well are uccf and the campus familiarities and the hospitals and the other blocks that we

purchased from [inaudible]. since this project is a city wide important project we wanted to recognize since day one we have been working closely with our city partners and this really has been a amazing collaborative process. i have been proud how everyone from the departments have worked together. i wanted to recognize the office of economic and work force development, planning department and sfmta have done on the process. we have representatives from all of the members in the audience tues.. -- today . i want to recognize we have adam and peter and ben from sm ta and planning and i probably left out other people behind me. i want to take a minute to recognize as director ho he

mentioned and we lost jennifer [inaudible] last month and a spear head on the project on the rejal site as well as the transition to mission bay and i want to acknowledge that and she is sorely missed as part of the project. we are looking today at a major phase. major phase required under the opa. this is a massing study so unlike the schematic design where you get into the picture scptsz skin and what it will look like this is the knowledge blocks, where are the entrances, the height, what is the use and how many square feet, so you will see pretty pictures about the site. this is to give you a sense of the character but we will come back in the spring with more detailed schematic designs for all of the buildings so if you don't see pretty pictures for all of the buildings we're not there yet. this is really for massing. this site has gone through

several previous planning processes. there were two major phases adopted for the site previously one for alexander real estate for an office project and biotech and the sealtses force project. this will replace both of those. at this time i would like to turn over the presentation to gail hunter from the golden state warriors and she will introduce the team as well as the project. >> hi. good afternoon madam chair rosales, director bohee and commissioners. i am with the golden state warriors and we all 35 thrilled to be here today. you. >> >> may recall we purchased there's blocks from sales force. at the time it was a difficult decision to move off the pier and invest in the site

especially after two years of investing blood, sweat and tears and a lot of money on that lotion and while many outside of san francisco questioned our sanity by buying this site and to privately finance the state when cities and states are subsidizing arenas to the tune of millions of dollars we couldn't be happier with the decision. since the pivot to mission bay we have been overwhelmed with the encouragement and support from the neighborhood, the larger san francisco political family and the city as a whole. in addition we have been quite impressed with the level of engagement with your staff here at ccii, planning staff and the mayor's office. the team has played an integral role in the plan you will see here today. we are immersioned in the community process and had a

number of meetings with groups and community groups. that dialogue has resulted in a number of improvement toss the project and while we know we certainly have a lot more work to do we feel like we're headed in the right direction. in addition, we have been work, hard to bring on a diverse array of small businesses to help with the design phase of the project. as you will hear from staff in a few minutes we're on track to achieve a 50% participation rate on the professional service part of the project and work to exceed that goal on the construction phase as well. several partners are here with us and i would like them to stand so we can acknowledge them . sbe partners. here they are. we have been tremendously happy and with all of their efforts to date and they have

already added tremendous value to our project. before i turn over the presentation to the lead architect david manca to give the plans i want to recognize the warriors that are here today. while david is focusing on the describe these individuals are related to questions such as transportation, event management, local hiring, small business engagement, or any other issues on your mind. i will like to recognize david carlack. is he here? he just stepped out, our lead executive. theo alington and director of public affairs and staff from strata and title managers and without further adieu david manca. >> thank you gail and thank you for the honor and pleasure to speak about this exciting project. i want to echo some of

the kaghts rin's points as well. this has been a very collaborative process involving a number of different people from ocii and a community the members behind me. >> >> so again as i said it's a honor and pleasure to be the voice of the project today on behalf of those people, those in the room today and those still working on the project back in offices. i will go through the bullet points and the state of the design as we are here today. certainly one of the greatest aspect of the project it will bring great benefit to the city and the neighborhood. it will be the first ever multi-purpose arena for the city hosting different sports and entertainment and cultural events. it triggers new property tax revenue for

infrastructure and affordable housing. the project will trigger open space for mission bay in p-22 in the bay front park, and tell create over 4,000 construction and permanent jobs with a strong commitment to local hiring like gail said. the key element are the 18,000 seat arena center and there is commercial leasable space and retail space. i think one of the greatest aspects of the projects is the open space on this site. we are still able to maintain 30% of the site open to the public 24 hours a day and 365 days a year so that's quite an accomplishment for the design team, and another big and significant benefit of the

project is 915 new parking spacing all located out of view, most of them under ground. some are on ground but under a covered plaza space. i will show you how that works in a little bit as well. certainly as the designer of the project and behalf of the team there are design and critical goals for us, the most important to create a vibrant aminity for the city and well integrated into the neighborhood. it needed to be part of the contributing to vitality of the street life and provide a mix of uses. i think we all agree that the projects, and sports and entertainment venues have dark days at a time and a big challenge to infuse that site with building use that create activity everyday of the year. we're committed to doing sustainable design. i won't read all these points specifically but it is targeted

to to be a lead gold campus and we're integrating a number of environmental sustainable design points. all right. so let's get to the sketches. so the principle design texture or fabric of mission bay as you might see in the diagram here is very linear, in fact a lot of the points of [inaudible] which is the planning document encourages street walls and corners and reca-linear grid and that's the feeling of mission bay when you walk around it. this diagram actually inspired the master plan. we wanted to break that up. we wanted to create a space more organic more free flowing, more inviting and allow people to circulate through the space more

comfortably and organically compared to the regular grid geometry. this here and the pathways and inspired the site plan i that r that i will. >> through quickly here. located generally in the center of the site is the event center. the height of it which is around 135 feet above curb level, and by the way i'm going to go through this fairly quickly. if you have questions please ask later. i am happy to answer those. we created a plaza space like the front porch of the arena and allow the people entering the arena to have a gathering place before events but more importantly on non event periods of time this

will be an active and vibrant plaza for mission bay. franking the plaza are the two office buildings and meet the requirement of 20,000 square feet each and the height restriction and top podiums that meet the height restriction of 90 feet. those elements, the two buildings and the arena create that sense of outdoor room and we have a small pavilion called the gate house and protects from wind in the plaza because we studied that in the layout and design of the project and creates an atmosphere in the plaza that it be used all day and into the evening. we have the market hall here. it's a food hall and imagine you can imagine it's full of -- let's say locally inspired eateries and prepared foods and on the southeast corner is a smaller plaza which

relates to a primary entrance to the facility. now the arena is rotated to face toward treasure island and the bay bridge. on that corner there is an elevated bay front terrace and tide into the arena -- element and fantastic for the site and for the city in general so that's how the key elements come together and i am happy to answer questions on the site plan as they might come up. this explains the pedestrian access. you can see the point about an organic site and pedestrians are invited to circulate in and around the buildings to encourage the pathway, bring people on to the site and towards the open spaces

and towards the primary entrances of each of the different buildings. we carefully studied bike access. again on each of the main street facades of the project are bike access points and parking areas for the very different kinds of bike parking. this is an intent to exceed the minimum requirements for bike parking on the site again to encourage a sustainable and user friendly project. from a transit access standpoint we're excited about the number of different ways people can access the sites through mass transit. it's adjacent and near by central sub way, caltrain, trans bay terminal completion, the ferry building and the expansion and the green way and psyching tracks so there are a number of ways to access the site through public transportation and access points and finally from an auto

access standpoint we were careful where we cut the curbs and where they came in and out of the site and one on south street and one on 16th street midblock. there are no curb cuts or access points on the other ssd. to the point i made earlier all of the vehicles go down and under the project so you won't see parking, no truck loading or trash dumpsters visible from all four edges of the site. it's a big deal for projects like this all of which have large servicing and back of house requirements for us to -- and the ownership frankly to invest the energy and money in emerging this in stable soils like mission bay is a commitment to create a four sided project for the city. there's a significant public art element.

of course we will meet the 1% art requirement and there will be a public art consultant hired for the project. i think we are currently in talks with someone for that as well. i forgot her name. i apologize. all right. speaking of the open space which again i would propose is one of the most exciting aspects of the project, at least for the public and the community. the spaces are collected in a number of different areas. the northwest plaza entry which is the main entry from the muni and the mass transit and the main entrance which i told you about and working clockwise is a pedestrian pathway and 35 sloping pathway between activated retail elements to bring you to the other entrance. the southeast plaza which i mentioned before and completing the circle and the access

around full site around the arena is the atrium so you can walk around the site without going on the street and the sidewalk and access all of the buildings through public open space. speaking a little bit about the height and bulkize to walk you around each of the corners of the site and highlight the main massing and heights of the key building elements. the event center is 135 feet to the very top of the dome. the actual edges of the building are brought down lower to be more consistent with human scale and bring the mass down to the greatest extent possible. the office buildings peak out at 160 but the podiums are set at 90 as required. . the bay terrace roof is below the elevation of the event center and the food hall on the corner of the northeast there the roof is at 39 feet and we are anticipating

that roof top to be an accessible garden space as well. i'm going to rotate around the different corners of the site. you can see the same massing and building elements from different angles, and also understand how the public open space or the negative space between the buildings connects all the different elements. and catherine did mention this is the major phase submission so we will get back to you with more detailed conversation about what we expect the ekts terior to look like the materials and the distribution of each of the materials but it was important for us to put together the pretty pictures as catherine called them to explain what we're are inspired to bring to the site. we have a number of rend