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with a transportation plan when my wife and i went to a giants game [inaudible] my wife is disabled and had to call a taxi so we could make our ball game. that is the only way we could get there. 6.2 [inaudible] traffic and unavoidable impact. today without a game the traffic is backed up every night and all most every morning at the 280. i have learned ways around the neighborhood to do that. the transit doesn't work today. we need better plans in that area if the warriors are going to come to mission day. i agree with the nurses. it is going to be a serious problem and you are trying to route traffic i believe through the minnesota street area and dogpatch neighborhood to get emergency vehicle tooz the hospital or people in trouble that need to get to the hospital . that is
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not a acceptable alternative. thank you >> thank you >> good afternoon commissioners my name is oscar james and i'm a native resident of bay view hunters point and a former city commissioner which this area covered. the area that you have today, you are talking about during development, we have a memerandum understanding that coming into this area hires 50 percent community residence and 35 percent contractors and minority tractors as a whole. i want to thank the warriors for doing what they have done prior to coming into our community. they hired people in the community. we hope and really believe they will hire minority contractors, 50 percent of the bay view hunters point, 100
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percent city wide. [inaudible] which has grand father [inaudible] in the community. our support them 100 percent and would like the uc since the nurses are talking about traffic is come up with scholar ships they should have done getting that free property for scholarships in the community trootrain people in the community. the same thing the warriors are doing. i went to cezar puvivian and say welcome back to san francisco, the warriors and support this 100 percent. thank you very much >> thank you. >> good afternoon chair and
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commissioners executive director. depy city attorney. my name is paul ozmanson and i'm a partner in the e street venture rest recent located at 295 [inaudible] with john cane. i'm also a former director of planning and development for the port of san francisco. i worked with the san francisco giants and the mayors office on the att ball park and the transportation plan. i reviewed the eir and can tell you when the city and mta made commitments to manage the traffic to and from the water front, the special event venues, the giants system works the way they said it would, the way the giants said it would and the city said it would. that system worked day in and out all 81 home games and the play off games, it works. the
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project is a perfect fit for this neighborhood, mission bay was inventioned as a mix use development project. when the port worked hch we worked on it for many years in the late 80's and early 90's. it is a mixed use so this use fits into the cities plan for this area. there is definitely impacts that have to be mitigated or can't be dealt with, unavoidability impacts, that is always the situation. this is a great use for this location. urge you to approve the project, certify the eir and move forward. we are very lucky to have a organization like the warriors willing to come and invest in our city. thank you >> thank you >> i have mrs. susan von
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>> good afternoon commissioners. my name is susan von and i'm a current chair of the san francisco group of the sierra club. we will be submitting more detailed comnlt later and now i'll speak for myself. i'm very concerned that a piece of state legislation, ab 900 was extended purely for the reason just to get this project and apparently one in la through this fast track process so that there are fewer hearings maybe fl public and i'm very concerned about that. we don't know additionally in terms of the green house gas emissions. my understanding is that the project sponsor intend to purchase carbon off set. we dont know what those off sets are and need to see that in the eir. to my knowledge, no green
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house gras comparison has been done between this project and keeping the project in oakland. i think that probel most of the people that work at that venue in oakland don't live in san francisco so i wonder about the impact to bart and wonder about increase green house gas emission because employees may be taking the bridge across the bay. and, i would add that i don't think a lot of public transit enhancements are happening in the project and that really does need to hap chb. we are not interested in seeing more parking. if we are serious about do dealing with climeant change it has to be transportation. thank you >> thank you >> good afternoon my name is
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ausha [inaudible] and represent the mission bay alliance. the alliance believed the nrt tainment center will not work frafr the site. in particular we are concerned about the compatibility of the center with the existing health and research facilities in mission bay and while health and related biosciences was planned to expand under the mission bay redevelopment plan, this project takes this area in a new and incompatible direction. in our review of the draft eir we found the traffic, parking and associated health impact of the facility we be more devastating and there is inadequate mitigation. the project is being misadvertised as green house [inaudible] from a broker for 4 thousand tons per year of carb chb dioxide isn't mitigation and doesn't do anything to help the air
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pollution that will become so much worse. with analysis scattered flout the eir and other documents prepared over the course of 25 years thrks fast track of the environmental review plauss is precluding a meaningful public par tisitation and the document is not-because it not thorough in that people said it is thorough about there are important issued relegate #d to the 1998 documents the public must review to understand the project. land use, geology, soil-we requested a extension of the public review period to better match the complexity of the project and look forward to informing the commissions review of this project. thank you. >> thank you >> are there any others that want to speak?
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>> my name is david pan and i'm here on behalf of a lot of people that really do not have a voice. i live in a sro. i live on ssi disability and 6th market street. there are a lot of people in hard sp in the city. fl is devise ive line in the economics of the wealthy and the poor. i have a dream of working on creating a non profit that can create paid jobs for people coming out of hardship. the idea is open a caf aeatary and meeting spaces. community spaiss were people can use for meet up groups, conferences, study groups and have it joining acafe so it is
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free. making it a non profit would allow people to have a reintegration into the work force, would allow the community a place to gather and the idea of doing something like this would be hugely tremendous because there are not a lot of 9 or 10 thousand square foot plates that are available to be custom built out in san francisco. we all know the retail space isn't available. i'm working on trying to propose this with the warriors and i've had very good feedback from members of the community from urban solutions to [inaudible] some of the non profits that have [inaudible] similar to this and others. i've spoken with supervisor kim and would like to say thank you
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very much for your time and very much support the warriors coming to san francisco and think it would help a lot of people in a lot of different ways. thank you. i would like to leave this with you, if i may. >> are there any others that would like to speak? >> nope. okay, thank you everyone for giving us your comments. this is note a action item but the commissioners are allowed to also provide comment. do i is comment from my fellow commissioners? no. the only comment i would thrike make is consistent with the comments i made in prior workshops regarding this project and it deals with 2 things , the traffic and neighborhoods impacts which are related and
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we heard a lot of concern and i will continue to read the document, but i want to make sure that the comments here regarding those impacts and the mitigation measures are looked at in depth. to the extent of exploring funding mechanisms or recommended or suggested mechanisms and if they don't go into the document the commission be told of potential funding mechanisms we may be able to recommend to insure those mitigations are essentially guaranteed and those impact said are mitigated. i think i can't say more on the record than just a comment. this matter will return to the commission later this fall. should we repeat
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the opportunity for folks to submit written comments? >> thank you chair i'll repeat if people would like to submit comment they can submit to warriors at sf.gov dot org or the planning department is on page 2-9 of the scr >> i think commissioner mondejar would like to make a comment >> sally can you explain what the process is after the office is received from the comment and also the public comment we received this afternoon >> yes all the comments provided today as well as the comment in writing will be gathered and responded to in the respontaneous to comments
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which will be brought back before the commission later this fall so we'll review those and work with the various members of the team to provide the responses and look at any adjustments that need to be made to had draft if appropriate >> and all these will be made public? >> yes >> i just want to say i hope all the comments are taken into consideration and careally examined. i reviewed the document presented to us as commissioners and the one other thing just occurred to me is the purchase of carbon offset is something that was new to me this afternoon. i didn't get-i need a little more understanding of that, but i'm sure that you could respond to that. i don't know if you are respond now since this is simply informational this afternoon, but something that i think we should be communicating all these issues and concerns and the responses
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of the issues and kern concerns of the public. >> thank you >> thank you >> thank you aerfb wn, with that i think that closes this item. we will have this item again before us later in the year. the commissioners would like to take a short break? and that report from is also included in your pacts. that concludes my report >> i need to see if there are members of the public that would like to comment >> seeing none >> are we going to get a briefing on the legislation? >> yes commissioner we would like to review and analyze the legislation ourselves. review
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app lickability with fair housing. there a number of fair preferences that exist in the plans, how does it fit in with certificate of preference, rent burden-there is a lot list of preferences so we want to understand how it will ham synchronize and impact and go into effect. >> do you know when this is going to be heard by the board of supervisors? >> it will not be heard until the fall. there is a 90 day review process so we want to understand the comments of other city agencies and would like to present the totolty of that information or can break it up into one or more presentations. >> next item please >> do you still want to call
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item 9 >> yes, and next is item 9, commissioners matters [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> thank you. >> that isn't a question, that is a statement. >> thank you. >> i do have a question and i don't-since we have some time, i'm a little confused, i know we received business cards. i forgot oo bring the business cards. i know it is the ccsf, the city of san francisco's logo was removed, what does it mean? i know you e-mailed me something but it was still confusing for me so i thought i would ask >> commissioners as you know the successor agency and redevelopment agency of city and counto y of san francisco is a separate legal entity from the city and county of san francisco. the commission has
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its own policy and procedures. for a veer brief period from february 2012 to august-about august 2012 were ab 1484 it clarified the separate legal entity status. all your liabilities and debts so you are legally separate from the sate and county of san francisco so it is not appropriate for this agency to use the city and county of san francisco seal. you are a separate legal entity with local guv rjs and control >> we are neither state or city? >> you are a state authorized entity, and you are a special district like bart >> okay. >> but not elected. we are
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appointed, okay. thank you for clarifying that because it was a little confusing to me when we received our new business cards. and by the way, great logo >> i was going to say the logo is-- >> who ever did that >> no more questions or matters we have the [inaudible] item 11. there is no closed session >> innext order of business is item 11, adjournment, madam chair >> commissioner singh moved and i'll second z 3rd it. we are adjourned at 3:20.
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>> i have 2 job titles. i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of
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1913. in december 1915 the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's
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place in the world. he decided to have the tallest dome built in the united states. it's now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the united states capital. >> you could spend days going around the building and finding something new. the embellishment the carvings it represents commerce navigation all of the things that san francisco is famous for. >> the wood you see in the board of supervisor's chambers is oak and all hand carved on
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site. interesting thing about the oak is there isn't anymore in the entire world. the floors in china was cleard and never replanted. if you look up at the sealceiling you would believe that's hand kofsh carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. there are no records about how many people worked on this building. the workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. and what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have
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this masterpiece to show the world today.
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