as know travel and tourism is one of our big economic drivers in the city. last year we welcomed over 18 million overnight visitors that supported about 87,000 jobs, and contributed $665 million to the general fund. while the numbers are very impressive, there is more we need to do to be competitive with cities. with the renovation of moscone center and our major customers, meeting and convention planners still point out how badly we need an indoor event venue like the one being proposed here this. project will give san francisco a spectacular venue to address this need and its excellent design, we believe will make the center easily

accessible and ease crowd movement to make for safe and enjoyable events. for these reasons we believe that the new facility will create a great new venue in the city and will help us to stay very competitive with other cities around the country and around the world that we compete with. so we would ask you to please vote in favor of this. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. i will call up a few more cards. [ reading speakers' names ]. >> good afternoon, and thank you, commissioners for hosting this special meeting for the san francisco warriors' events center. my name is toni mobley and some of my friends know be as

antonette, a loud, proud warrior's fan and we're talking about the transportation improvement fund. that t-train trying to get home on the giant's is just horrendous. it's been horrendous and i know the city has been meeting with the sfmta board and community to come up with strategies to calm that traffic around at&t park and mission bay. biotech companies talk about coming in and bringing 2,000 in there and they leave in the afternoon. and we're still -- they are still not addressing the issues of residents just wanting to get home after work. so this transportation improvement fund to me is very, very personal. i really appreciate the warrior's collaboration with all of the government entities, the bicycle coalition, but primarily, with the community. i mean, they stepped really up first-class and came out and

have been talking with us over the last 18 months >> i mean they came out swinging, you know? i really, really appreciate for them. they couldn't have come with this plan at a better time, given that the central subway is in alignment with the rollout of the new events center. that will even further improve that little hub there, bringing in tracks where there is one platform, you see in that will accommodate more people. it's safer. you know, right now you have to go even if you are going to the eastside, you have to go over to that track and cross that street and cross that street and takes you five minutes, it's just kind of crazy, you know what i'm saying? so this plan makes sense. it just makes sense. and they are going to pay for it 100%, you can't ask for a better gift than that, okay? so go warriors. you all say yes to this plan.

thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon pat valentino, south bay merchant association. we support the project and our association also supports this transportation improvement fund. i also should mention that i live in the neighborhood and travel through the neighborhood quite eight a bit on public transit and as several speakers mentioned how important this is overall. specifically it's been a community-oriented and i have run into peter albert running along the waterfront several times and he said i ran to clear my head and he starts to talk how he is going to find solutions, which he has obviously worked with the city to control come up for this

project. the warriors have come to us and asked for our input and we have given it to them and they have come back with a highly strategic. a lot of us just commute in and out of the area and this will do wonders for our transit needs separate from the events center. looking at the events center itself and its use an average crowd of 9300, ranging from 5,000 up to 17,000, they are setting it up for 17,000. we're going to have an average of 9,000. america's cup arena was 9,000 and did fairly well with a very limited transit plan. i think we're going to be in really good shape to see the net benefits of this. we appreciate the strategy put into this fund. it's a strategic fund that will benefit the neighborhood and take care of the needs of both capital and operations of the

center. so please approve the fund. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. i will call out the next cards. [ reading speakers' names ] if there is anybody else aside from those speakers when want to speak, please line up on the far wall. >> supervisors, good afternoon. potrero neighborhood association. we're pleased that our amendments on the citizen representatives and the business representatives, ." representatives no. 3 and 4 has been amended and we would like to request district representative have the same controls as representatives 3 and 4 so they live in the mission bay neighborhood, potrero hills, somewhere close to the stadium and not out on treasure island or the tenderloin or someplace like that.

we're optimistic with the proposal from the warriors and in the area where it's going to cause significant issues, a number of residents of potrero hill and dog patch are still highly concerned that this -- so this needs to be sold to them. so they understand what is going to go on there. the proof will be inment implementation by the city, the mta and warriors. we need the additional cars for the t-line and to go to caltrain and not terminate. the ferry landing is critical, because the giants are telling us that a large percentage of their patrons are coming by the ferry boats. so a ferry landing would also help mission bay. the e or end line needs to be extended to 25th street and needs to be pcos and a livable street s for dog patch and

potrero. we have speeders and people running stop signs and significant problem because of applications like waves that route people on to our streets instead of keeping them on the freeways. thank you for your time and at this time the boosters are not endorsing the project, but would like to continue to work with mr. albert and the committee. >> thank you, mr. castro. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, carla tucker, native san francisco and academic enrichment program. we also have a group of wonderful supporters from various communities and organizations, which brings me to talk about our nba championship team the golden

state warriors. the warrior's project will attract over 4,000 jobs both permanent and construction. seeing that bay view has the highest unemployment rate, our families are excited about the opportunities that this will bring to our city. the warriors have already demonstrated tremendous amount of community support particularly in the bay view community, by providing tickets for kids and families to attend professional basketball games, awarding several bay view organizations grants, refurbishing our courts and neighborhoods and showing just an overall commitment to health and education. it will also trigger creation of a brand-new waterfront park along the terry a. francois boulevard, which will set a tone for better access to the waterfront and eventually add a connection point to other waterfront projects like the hunter's shipyard and candlestick point. the move will generate more than 40 million upfront funds to pay for transit improvements

for the neighborhood, including expanded muni and t-train services. this is something that will also definitely benefit the families in the bay view community. i think that san francisco deserves a world-class sports and entertainment facility. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is tom lippe and i represent the mission bay alliance that opposed this project as you know. i will submit three letters one from my office that objects to the ceqa finds and other from cocounsel that talks about the public subsidy you are going to provide and the third one is one that you may have seen before, from bruce alberts and 20 other faculty members from uc f sf, if i can paraphrase, for this area to be health

sciences and biotechnology and this is a key legal issue and because the [pro*-ept/] project sin consistent with the redevelopment plan in a number of ways. i want to move to big-picture points of the process. i have gone to the hearings and since the time of the final eir, there hasn't been enough time to look at the serious legal issues. any development is -- it's both a political process and a legal process. and sometimes the politics can overwhelm the law, and here you have lots of strong political forces that are urging you to approve this project. but you have lots of legal reasons to stop and say, wait a minute, we have legal issues, we have legal violations. and i think a comment that was made at the planning commission last week summarized my

concern, one the planning commissioners after the public comment said there is a small restaurant on grove street that we had earlier on the agenda that got more opposition than the warrior's arena. that denigrates the written opposition that has come in. my client has submitted 40 letters that detail serious legal violations and also den grates the depth of the faculty members who signed the letter to the original vision for this area. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, chair, and supervisors. my name is barbara french. i am vice chancellor at ucsf and i'm here to represent chancellor hall good as the rest of the ucsf. werish to express our support for the golden state warriors event center and development and specifically for the ordinance that is before you today. ucsf has been studying this project for overia a year.

initially the concerns focused on the impacts to the hospital, that opened this year, cancer children and women. as we study the project, our concern quickly focused on the traffic impacts and how that might hinder the ability for emergency vehicles for patients and their families and for the more than 3,000 employees who work at the hospitals to get to work on time? we in analyzing the project, we do support an active mission bay environment, which some neighbors have testified today. our concerns quickly focused on the impacts during what we call our peak hours, the times there would be an overlap between a large event at the arena and home-game of the giants, and a situation that could bring more than 60,000 people into that neighborhood. we looked that the time, because our analysis showed that this would likely cause

the biggest traffic issues for patients and our health care workers during this time of analysis our chancellor publicly announced his qualified support pending some agreements around traffic and last month the city, the warriors and ucsf announced that we had those agreements and ucsf gave the project its endorsement. it's our firm belief that the measures that you heard of today, as well as other measures that have been implemented will provide a level of monitoring and management sufficient to ensure that people who need access tot to the hospitals and workers to provide that critical care. in conclusion, we do support the ordinance before you today. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm scott van horn and thank you for the opportunity to

speak today. i'm a dog patch resident. i live just a block from site and i can actually see the site from my deck. i'm fully in support of this project. the benefits it will bring to the entire area are immense. the warriors have worked with the residents and city and transportation plan including bus and light-rail service, almost 30 parking control officers and railcars and additional police, the possible ferry service, bypass track, et cetera. all are wonderful and needed, but the thing that really shows how this is a clear win for our neighborhood and city is the transportation improvement fund. this fund will allow the city to spend money on whatever it decides to as the project progresses and events start. i would anticipate eventually using this fund to do things like, provide even more service

from 16th street bart station, some additional officers in the dog patch area after events and hopefully building the ferry terminal. local businesses and residents desperately need the transportation improvements with or without the new arena. however, if we let the billionaires and lawyers who want the land for themselves, we will get nothing and we'll continue to have a dilapidated field and pit sitting there for many, many more years. we'll not get the new services and businesses and we'll not get the warriors next championship. thank you. we urge support for this project. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john cornwall and 20-year resident and member of

the board of rain rincon hill development association. the big 800-pound gorilla is transportation and congestion. so we can order all the extra streetcars we want and put in bus bridges and all the rest, but currently we all know there is a 2-8 p.m., even without a special event at the ballpark, 80 is already congested and the on ramp to mariposa is congested and we have reached saturation. there is some very high-level traffic studies that we did when was going to be on pier 30-32 and showed that the commute hours would be extend on each end. you have to ask yourself, there is something very unique about the sports events and the

events are synchronized. if you have offices or labs, people would adopt their schedules, but you have 18,000 people coming to a sporting event that begins and completely overlapping and synchronized in terrible hours. every single event has thousands of hours of disparate impact and i could get into the opportunity costs of an arena versus office space or what have? when these entitled projects come online, transbay terminal, the giants, it's going to be car -magedon

>> thank you, any other speakers. >> thank you, supervisors for letting us speak. my name is rudy from the united players. been serving the community in the city and county of san francisco 21 years. we just cleaned your neighborhood. that was the kid's version. kids in school. we are here in full support of the warrior's stadium built in a city built in a city that is built on champions. we have right here in -- right here behind me, people from district 6, people from treasure island, people from.tenderloin and south of market. president obama is speaking

about re-entry and we have one brother who did 35 and rick stevenson who just came home and did 36 years. when you talk about re-entry and talk about giving opportunity, this is the people from the community and the people from the hood. we are ground-zero people. we are the people who are about safety. that is our no. 1 thing that we fight for, is safety in our community. they say don't stop -- we need housing. we need jobs. we need health care and this is the opportunity that they are giving to our community and our people. so we're thankful for that and letting us speak here and letting us share. thank you. >> thank you guys for coming. much appreciated and thank you for being in district 2 over the weekend. it was fun. >> i don't know how many lead singers you have had before you, but here i am, gold records