community and their obviously fallen over the trail unhealthy trees and many, many trees will remain on the wooded hillside and the estimated cost is hundred and $47,000 so staff believes that the elements of this sxheptd plan really address the spirit of what we said we'll do in the community meeting an december 10th we've addressed the 4 items we feel like in terms of making it more welcoming and reducing the impacts and addressing the there is no with the neighbors and minimizing the impact overall we believe that plan balances the immediate neighbors interests and community twrrz overall with that said, we intend to meet one more time with the folks that have loirng concerned about the number of steps and some of the design issues to see if we can

think think outside the box to come up with design solutions it reduce the number of steps we're in favor of as well so we will be meeting with them before we go to final design review so in summary the staff recommends you approve he did hundred and $47,000 for the open space undesignated contingency reserve i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> jean lids. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is jane i'm speaking behavior of my husband and our immediate neighbors on beacon street we own the property open the southeast end of the wooded area under the proposed plan to build a connecting trail so the

folks own the property to the northwest boundary fred couldn't be here today he ask i speak for the four of united states we want to reiterate the approval the excellent e excellent plan designed by the rec and park we voiced our past, present, and future and leslie a john have done a great job of license to the neighbors and coming up with a terrific plan that he recent meeting there were a few people that want to place the entrance inside the buffer zone it protects our home from e and give us privacy spending e extending the trail closer to our home dollars the need for 4 steps out of 70 planned for the trail

deserve for fewer steps to prefer the wilderness of the area is contra indicated by moving closer to the hours and civilization this is mreshths this makes it hazardous to cross beacon street the kids run out in the street and the elderly need to pass we have a terrific problem with speeding and turns in the road the staff has come up with a beautiful plan heavy effort good visibility in into directions and between the two trees will be minimally pruned to create a lovely welcoming arc we very concerned about safety a

few weeks ago i called 9-1-1 for people trespassing and breaking and entering our home they came from another illegal trail that is designed as the buffer zone am i out of time. >> you have thirty seconds keep going. >> we've had conversation about the plans so it will be beautiful and discourage trespassers there's is a lot of litter it is used condoms and broken glass all hazardous to the dogs and children and wildlife in the area. >> well, your speaking for fred as well i'll give you a few more sessions. >> the food attracts rats and my from the food is healthy for the are a consciousness ever or

coyotes i'm ahead of the group 25 people met with the captain at our next door neighbor's home there is concern about the night life illegal activity there is noise i didn't parties and drunken kids throwing bottles and graffiti we've having had graffiti open our house we may disagree on the stairs but we unanimously agree we need to have a budget in place to have weekly maintenance of this trail to keep the hfa hazardous litter from the trail i want to say please keep the buffers and the industry location where it is and thank you and the staff at rec and park you've done a great job. >> thank you. >> is there any additional public comment.

>> hello, i live in the area this has been my home since 1942 in the late 70s my grandmothers father and mother to home at beacon street it was purchased to raise our goats hence named billy goat hill i've built trails one 4 hundred feet with the proposed trail the major frustration only 2 and a half days to review the lay out of the trail it is on just a few dialysis on monday and an inaccurate map me and many of the on the major concern is the 70 to proposed

stairs the trades on the hillside in the canyon is an example of that beautiful trails almost all the stairs would be eliminated 10 percent this will result in an interesting naturally shaped trail with 3 straight runs the eliminations of the stairs would afford an commenced hiking experience with each steps one-on-one each one can have their own gate this concept that consistent with the steps with to 50 percent grade not degree grades

another concern the location of the start of the trail the logical place is oppose the existing path to billy goat hill and the starting point if it would give us a little bit more room to make a trail and the main objection is the house jeans house this can be having shrubs and trees removed a physical barrier in any case we need more time to reach a skwoepgs what the actual trails should look like thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any additional public comment open this item.

>> good afternoon commissioners once again that's correct for your patience. >> thank you, commissioner for your hands on it is an ongoing saga as we you'll know the point i'd like to make today is to address the so-called concept and particular some important points involved the concept i act and speak on behalf of that few people in attendance on monday from 4:00 p.m. to 73, 4, 5 i acted particular on behalf of those who stated the course so to speak and actually walked

the course which took place at the tail end of that meeting without which i wouldn't be able to speak residential we were observing a proposing propose pro-prospering proposal that was submitted pie the adjoining neighbors it was new to us terms of onsite emperor when we got there several people got there the community notice we were given sheets of paper to sign our concerns no pad or pen in the wind and trying to listen most people wrote down individual comments that's not the story the story i'd like to convey is that i'm representing

the handful of people and get concrete february and good advice in terms of making that trail a much better trail than what we saw going qoc to the meeting on december 10th we felt this is in keeping with the consensus areas such as earth and path like the one that is there now the social path we didn't find that when we were there so we preceded to bring out the point we thought were recommended by the community such as the opening space to beacon street it was dramatically moved it was in keeping with phil ginsburg early

vision an earlier connector in this instance we perceived what was prepared no for thought given to that is it is now an easy cross over mr. president for example. >> thank you. >> may i say. >> others i represent. >> i understand make it brief if you know. >> i will unfortunately, it has become an issue as to the adjacent neighbors having more of a say than we do in terms of but for and so forth we've enjoyed excellent communication with the neighbors and like to ask their support in a meeting we can all get together at the site and come up with reasonable

compromises concerning the beautifies that limits the trail that was earlier envisioned thank you very much. >> thank you. >> is there any additional public comment on this item seeing none, public comment is closed. >> let me say a few words about this because first, i want to thank commissioner for going to the meeting it's been over a year this was brought to us by the neighbors on either side there was problems we had an illegal path and neighbors with problems and our primary concern as often is the case we're to try a accommodate a number of policies and make them work the neighbors wanted offends and if you ask some of the neighbors that would have had strung

barbed wire at the top that's how bad the situation but the police department and fire department that uber you'll bees batting the problems the ones that shouldn't be in there wouldn't be there and you'll have the law breakers inside and if that an accident or fire or someone slipped and broke a bumper-to-bumper you couldn't get anesthesia it with blocking that off the general manager advised us a park policy to connect folks that's probable in part why this unauthorized trail existed ever attempt to get rid of it was soon back operating in my opinion serving all the

issues i've said that before lisa should get a badge in going beyond the call of duty there's no simple solution i don't want to discourage the community from tweaking this to the point it might satisfy more of people but i'm of the firm belief that moving the location to satisfy 4 out of 70 steps didn't make sense that is a compelling argument the buffer zones mean a lot to the neighbors and they're the once or ones that have to agree to moefksz that meet trail criteria what started this was security criteria i want to keep the priorities and context in place with that i want to

commend commissioner bonilla and ask here her to say a few words. >> first of all, i voluntary to express incredible appreciation for the amount of flexibility that lisa has demonstrated or experienced in this whole process i know all along the way when more meetings have been asked for were new individuals have come in and new groups have come in to ask to be considered in the solution of this trail and where frustration has been expressed time after time in

terms of still having no trail having no project i think she's persevered and bent over backward to get additional input and last evening she said this is still a work in progress this is a concept we're voting on and to much to my amount time she came up with another idea of a meeting after this action taken today so she continuously really bend over backwards to try to accommodate as much input as possible i agree with you commissioner president buell

there is no perfect solution there are some fundamental issues that may never be addressed but the clock is ticking and we've spent a lot of time on this and this money we have allocated it is hundred and what it is. >> $347,000 if we delay this for another year or two it is going to dwindle down to having a pot of money that may not be sufficient to deal with this issue and see i think we're with what you've proposed having another meeting to finalize more of the concerns that were or some of the concerned that were combresz

expressed at our walk through i think with that i think we should be able to go forward and start getting this project completed. >> thank you seeing none, no other comments i'll entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second all in favor, say i. so moved thank you very much. >> item 10 is removed from the agenda we're on item 11 the urban agricultural program.

>> great good afternoon, commissioners nice to see you i'm here as ordinance of the city of chicago presenting the urban agricultural? a great first year and happy to show you what we've been up to this year the interagency supports and supplies the community members to grow food on public and private land it encompass animals and vegetation and people are happy about that we believe that the growing of animals and vegetation educates

people will the eco system and connects people to nature and engages people in our spaces you can find that in the annual report and this members of the public it is available on sf rec and park.org to helping to a lot of pro bono work on this report. >> the urban agricultural program from all walks of life and volunteer almost entirely driven effort we'll r really, really work in participating thank them for their partnership as well this is a brief map of the urban cultural over hundred and 23 of them you can find this as sf park website a quarter are on the properties that participate that the education

out loud of the school yard a quarter on private prospered and quarter rec and park and other public properties likens the department of public works and the commission i get a question i don't want to wait for a box there are 16 gardens across the city that will let you come volunteer this week one the many requests the program was to create a one-stop shop for member of the public you been public members to see what is happening in the agriculture we've created a website that has information about getting started and city resources like water meters and access grant and other reports that are been recorded culminating my position that is one the guides inside the

one-stop shop this is the graphics one the things we do was start to pile our education classes we did 8 classes from compost and other tops a taufgz we have enthusiasm that is for this year 2014 we start the research center a place for the public to come and get compose or mulch the ecology company produced the com possess to give you a sense of how many pound and tons of compose we gave away from alamo's square we could have filled up this scare

people are about excited this of the at golden gate park and the second at a farm additional third we partnered with the puc and other organized to do a pop up in the bayer look at mobile locations trying to develop the best location for this year 2014 one of the things we did last year over 60 site visits and accommodated technical assistants from what is happening to my peach tree to what am i supposed to do with this compose we continue to work with the other city agencies that participate in the urban agricultural we point to the ab 551 the urban ordinance and the picture on the be upper right is rhode island the first site in the city of san

francisco and the staifktd e state of california to benefit from this bill a past incentive for agricultural aon private property this is the first site in the state to get it going we work closely with other agencies supporting them and starting new projects brotherhood way and the public works future project at the amazon facilities one request from the urban agriculture was to develop a wastewater for the parks program over hundred gardener on hundred part of our city properties we want to make sure that as many people are getting access and getting in quicken we developed an online place to provide for a community garden it helps us of the garden to track the numbers

and kind of peoples that are interested we worked with them and decreased the waiting list by 12 percent in conclusion we're excited about the 2014 automatic program and looking forward to doing on the 2014 skis thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> (clapping). >> can i have (calling names) step up. >> hello my name is keith the co-coordinated the agriculture alliance working to promote the growing of food throughout san francisco and the society goals

of dozen organizations tiled recognize the many individuals who turned out for the alliance and if they will stand all to call out from the support that the urban add program many of who are wearing green to support this program thank you so additional to thank the commission for providing the opportunity to comment on a program we think are violating important to san francisco we are fortunate to live in a city that supports public institutions that has a designated your honor, correspondent and we're encouraged to learn that her position is fully funded for the current year as well thank you for that from the recent released annual report it is off to a strong start and 5 suffocates we would

like to highlight from the first year the first is as you saw a very clear popularity one-stop shop on the website for information on the urban for users to assess and two the formation of those garden resource centers throughout the city and 3, community garden coordinate our meeting and the incentives on the ordinance that has i've said is the first in the state and providing a beacon for others 71 and on the other hand the dialog between our alliance and the city this is a great foundation for our first year and we look forward to building upon this work with hopefully 7 more years to come there are many key priorities we

would like to highlight going forward and hope to see one of which is is a strategic plan laying out the program priorities for hopefully, the next 5 years as at inner add program and at the least a one year work plan showing the timelines of the program we would like to see the reservoirs centers made for viable available through extended hours perhaps open longer with apartment staffing resource centers additional urban architectural and better understanding the neighborhood needs through a survey the urban participants thank you. >> eli. >> thank you

good afternoon commissioner i'm eli the food and agricultural supporter and one of the coordinators at the clipper garden in noah valley i'm going to echo a lot of things that were said i want to run through also at spur we're pleased how the program is up and running the west portal i think you can ask i know who to tangle to this is fantastic there were many agencies and still are working on urban and working on a way we didn't see previously because this work and this annual report is the first time the city laid anti metrics with budget and resources that's helpful for our prospective and looking forward to seeing that in the future years building on what is going on there are a few things