the department is pushing on the formal potrero plans are like larger envisioning ideas for the city and if you have any lever of discussions i'd like to have you sketch out ideas about the speeding to come common terminals and on and on and on as far as the open space design is concerned it is very much in what supports the port in the nexus referrals and the entire waterfront open space design i myself was involved for years and years doing the roifrlg park i couldn't be more delighted to see this as you've brought to this i'll leave it at that

any more commissioners commission comments and questions. >> thank you for the presentation we'll see you in may. >> that's a place holder if there are sometime before then specific issues the commission not us to bring up in may or you don't feel you need the hearing it is schedule for action in just like if you specifically want us to followup we'll do that. >> let's keep that as a whole commissioner moore seeing this is an interesting topic affordable housing we wanted to dig into a little bit more. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further, we'll move on to move on to item 13 sea level rise action plan presentation.

>> good afternoon, commissioners my name is diana patching thank you for the opportunity for hearing about the proclamations of the city's sea level rise action plan i was here about a year ago today and wanted to come back and talk about implementations what we've done to move forward and some of the partners we're working with right now this is the the members of the sea level corresponding committee the co-chairs the port and the director of planning at the port will talk about some of the work that the port is doing as well as later on in the presentation and all the city

departments that touched sea level rise are involved in the planning and represent on the coalition of folks collaboratively and working closely on this important problem again we published the sea level rise action plan about a year ago this map on the right hand shows a 1r50u7b9 zone the area that could be covered by sea level rise with hundred and 8 inches of sea level rise this is 66 inches of sea level rise plus storm seizures and king tides a reminder the cost of doing nothing that is when you get to one and 8 inches the total exposure to the city is up to $75 billion an important figure to know that if we do nothing

that is the replacement costs of buildings that will be possibly damaged electrical, etc. it didn't include loss of prosperity or eco system or other things that happen when you experience a slow moving disaster but a general understanding what we're talking about this is the action plan implementation right now we are in the process of advertenting all the assets close to sea level rise looking at very levels of sea level rise all the way through 21 hundred and beyond and developing an expensive geocoded database all the city departments can understand what assets are exposed and who is imposed exposes in the assets are commodity and interrelated

private and public land that information will be studied for a risk assessment that looks at the values in the city what do we value and how much money are we willing to spend and ultimately going to be developing an adoption plan with different scenarios for sea level rise protection along the shoreline all 3 borderlines of the shoreline that could consist of near term and long term action and policy and code assessments and design guidelines and potential fudging strategies many are permanent in the long term. >> this give us a sense of some of the scenarios different scales of adoption where asset scales in terms of the muni tunnel or treatment plant or

street or highway when the neighborhood level perhaps some of the developments maybe considered along those lines of sea level and across the region we're looking at levers are whether adoption scenarios that could be helpful advance sea level rise technology at different scales across the city i wanted to mention you know as we're part of the large bay it is important we recognize that we're part avenue region we have regional assets recognized as important not just for economical reasons but environmental reasons and social reasons we're looking at shared network infrastructure our muni tunnel and airport we definitely want to work across boundary and

city boundary and look at their regionally significant areas is in line with a what is proposed around the bay to that end one of the programs we helped to spearhead in san francisco the resilient challenge so this is one of the main ways to develop really initiative and implementable adoption solution for the challenge of sea level rise around the bay to unite the best mind in the region and all over the world we hope to inspire the collaborative framework for the future of bay and, of course, bringing incredible talent and resources to the bay area to have tangible solutions and uniting

philanthropy and governments and think tanks a credible coalition of folks hoping to launch this spring we're fund and about a yearlong process i'll talk about that later and to capture the imagination of public and push forward to look at a comprehensive and collaborative and forward thinking way that developing really bold urban solutions for those kinds of problems i'm going to turn it over to byron with the port will talk about some of the work the port is doing. >> commissioners byron planning developer for the port thank you for the opportunity to be here i want to start off by thanking director rahaim for the - so

the support we've being able to get to compartment of sea level rise coordinating committee chairing that's been important i want to talk about why and also want to thank the folks who have been leading the work of the action plan that is important for a couple of reasons you see an example of that in the slide in front of you this is flooding and the seawall flooding we're dealing with flooding already and the seawall because it presents an opportunity to partner with your staff and what the city family to address sea level rise so as you can see from this slide that with only lovingly

into 12 inches of sea level rise you begin to see the impact of the embarcadero it increases the flooding that already exists when you combine that with for the one hundred year storm the next slide shows 66 inches as you can see that flooding potentially impacts the entire financial district as well as mission bay and other parts of waterfront the significance of that for us is we're beginning to deal with solutions now and we think that only in partnering with the other city departments and partnering with 9 and working with the sea level rise team will we'll be able to get a our development partners like for the city the development you heard before the discussion to

come up with solutions we thought since in the case of development and some of the other projects we're working on we're working with leading district attorney the transportation authority to rebuild the expanded the downtown ferry terminal and addressing those issues a key element we can bring to the coordinating committee and the overall work that the city is doing i think the other area that is important for us we think presents an opportunity to deal with sea level rise solution is the work we're beginning to do on the seawall the port manages 7 and a half mile of waterfront from the india basin and 3 miles of that is an extensive seawall

that is preliminary in light you northern waterfront if fisherman's wharf to the chinatown basin to the ball park when it was built from this the original shoreline so this is a project that we are embarking on bringing on a team to come up with a design with the hope of going to the voters in 2018 for $350 million general obligation bond to fund a first project this included this slide as you can see the creation of the original seawall as you can see the water at the right turn cornerstone cornering back to montgomery and then filled in and eventually created the financial district

just a slide to show what a seawall is it is a rock dike under partially the pier one under the ferry building and lastly we've been working with the folks in seattle on the seawall their rebuilding go in the bay this is an example of what we could develop and as part of that we could increase the height of the existing wall to address sea level rise and there are other solutions related to building the seawall that would be key in the work of your staff and the work of sea level rise coordinating committee again, we appreciate the port of director and our staff adding the port to as

co-chairs of the committee we look forward to continue to work with staff on some of the challenges and we're hoping that if we're able to move forward with the rebuild of the seawall that will be opportunities to address sea level rise as part of that. >> that's all we have to present to you i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> we may let you after public comment first any public comment on this item? ms. hester. >> sue hester i appreciate the comments about things along the waterfront that's very easy for people to

figure out we have problems along the embarcadero parking lots get floated and seawall lots i'm aware of that but the thing that is often missing in the discussion is the projects on phil and the south of market and in the mission we had a wake-up call with millennium tower tilted people didn't understand that the entire area of the transit center was filed. many loma prieta people died but the attention about the bay area and the bridge in oakland low income people died in the south of market the land is saturated water back

in the 90s the commission dealt with that because it came up on the construction of the project but you have two items on the calendar here and i actually went through the eir for your office building at 15 hundred and the fill comes up close to the 15 hundred mission it comes up because there was an inlet in the mission in the year 2070 mission district land failures collapsed people and the planning department and the planning commission and the staff have got to turn on the light bulb on the areas they're not along the

embarcadero because land saturation is part of a sea level rise when the waters push in from the bay on the land which is traditionally filled it destabilize the buildings that are built there what you're going to go through in central soma romans an area 8 percent is fill i haven't seen the planning commission grappling with how what the trade offs are building will frame housing as opposed to steal framework high-rises in terms of both the housing it can produce and who is served sea level rise and saturated sources those are complicated issues but as the planning

commission didn't grapple with them and the planning department puts on projects without saying hey this is landfill and every project you have in the south of market you should basically be having put a blinker on you've got to pay attention to this how are you going to deal with that and the next item >> literally the next item what is the relationship to is in fill on 1500 mission street think about that when you take a bacteria and come back there is needing to be more discipline on the complexities of sea level rise and the embarcadero and i welcome that discussion and that thought progress quite frankly from you all and you all i lived through loma prieta and know

where the land failures are. >> comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. can i you couldn't ask sir, you brought up i know did heart of that kind of where you are at $350 million figure to give you a sense of scale and scope what will that do $350 million. >> the - to deal with the entire $3 million of seawall is more than like three or four million dollars the three hundred and 50 to $500 million will be sort of a demonstration project an initial project around the ferry building if you look at the low lying areas now that are of concern might be in and around

the cruise terminal and the flooding in the fists that pier 4 south of the ferry building might be enough to repair a stretch of the seawall in and around the ferry building and demonstrate the certain teaches solutions basically the solutions or the concepts we're dealing with are 3 areas either you strengthen the soil under the embarcadero, and you stop that soil from liquor phil ginsberg as the last speaker mentioned and putting pressure on the seawall from the land side, you strengthen the seawall itself, get underneath the mud underneath the seawall it is on mud and strengthen that maybe to

stop the seawall from moving or build a new seawall that is more what you saw in the alley in the example you build a new seawall east of the existing seawall in likely build did conformation of solution depending on where you are different solution makes sense in the rincon park you're not impacting the roadway but that $350 million or $500 million project will only do. >> less than a block that is an eye opener. >> thank you commissioner vice president richards. >> i guess so the last speaker referred to understand a possibility important liquidation as far as the planning department building

what will that do from a sea level rise point of view. >> what should we do anything i'm having a hard time understanding i know that the liquidation happens is it gnaws of water underneath the land. >> it is fill and that will liquor if i in an earthquake and the structure that is sitting on top of them will cause the seawall to break and maybe the building above it sea level rise is more from the stand point if you're in the ground making those improvements and you have to build a new seawall if it is an opportunity to build a higher wall as one of

the examples if you're building out into the bay when you build that new seawall and that area can create more public space but build it higher what we're doing in the southern waterfront at mac and the city developments we're raising the level of the land forest city will be 55 feet higher but we have land to do that like in the areas of seawall embarcadero is there and the financial district is beyond that we don't have the land we'll have to raise the seawall itself so spend $500 million to build a stretch of the seawall should be working with your staff on what sea level rise improvements are the city is basketball to be added in the

future. >> so with the $4 billion problem and the three hundred 50 platform solution in 2018 hopefully, we'll vote on it and it passes and implement and the water is rising do you have a plan to come back for more money before the water - you can't build a wall and have the water come around the side a we're working with the army corp of engineers and other ways of in fact, a committee that made up of different members of the city family that is looking at all of the other ways other possible ways of bringing fund to the separate and i think that will have a list of 24 possible funding sources that are working with elaine forbes and others at the port going through that while we're

focusing the initial project on the resources that the city can bring and it will take a lot more resources than the city has we're trying to do that in tandem we're seeing this is as an emergency project as sea level rise whenever the next earthquake you hits the seawall will be damaged and have those bulk buildings will likely fail so we feel we can't wait until we have the whole $500 billion in place we should be moving forward so the do you see this person in court team we'll bring in will help us look at an approach to the entire

$3 million - this will allow us to incorporate the seawall improvements to the future developed so that we do pier 19 and pier 33 and 31 to be developed and could include if we come up with a solution could include those in a public-private partnership that mix of approaches to solve the problem. >> sounds like you're thinking about is one other question i want to know if anyone in the region not participating. >> i mean this is a reasonable problem i'll turn to diane ca a to speak about what the rest of regional is doing as part of work of the sea level rise coordinating committee.

>> i think the answer is no everyone, everyone is participating it is an incredible effort there are many organizations that are part of all of the different regional efforts going on and, of course, the bay area an umbrella organization that brings in other agencies to make sure they're participating representatives the conservatism and air quality management district and crnc he, etc. so all the agencies that need to participate are generally participating some are more reluctant than others in the in the city and statewide so also looking for leadership from the faith and sea level rise projections to make sure we have the tools and information to move forward and so it is - you know there are - it's not for lack of participation.

>> i'll draw a preacher between this crisis and housing crisis a racially effort the housing crisis can't seem to get it together to do this kind of effort from a multi agency. >> so here the differences are incredible amount of cooperation and people sitting at the table and wanting to move forward what we're ultimately suffering from is a lack of funding i know that is where we'll going to go ultimately so the design challenge for instance, is an ability for this regional to attract national and international funding for development for a coalition in the bay area. >> with the budget that was released from the federal

government a week ago is there any concerns about losing the money we thought we'd be getting. >> not for those programs but could be ripple effects in the future yeah. >> commissioner moore. >> actually my question was for yourself or director rahaim we don't have a voice to understand climatic change and the consequences would be sea level rise it will be difficult to look at the hispanic of this country where we have two very long coasts over one thousand miles but see the sea level rise and reasons to wake up and work on a strategy where we move financially to california for the bay is difficult for example, across the city the suburban community

right at the border within three or four feet to get into the water those will be the ones having a hard time see significant investments on the bay from menlo park and sunnydale are they have large tech campuses sitting on top of the former michael, etc., etc. and i know all of them as you said need to colonel together to speak because the problem it does as a city hits us the hardest with the much primary buildings together with the historic structures, etc. the problem and i appreciate the authoritativeness through the entire thing so hopefully create

the federal government wake up that the train or the water is moving we need to figure to remain on the land otherwise we'll be impacting not just bits and part like the west coast of san francisco but basically effecting the entire viability of rest of the country. >> thank you director rahaim. >> first thank you diane and byron this work is productive collaboration between the port and the planning department and with the other departments with the port and planning department co-chairing the effort a positive collaboration the thing that is important to note about the actual plan and the vulnerability analysis we're now entering into it looks like public facilities what is important to remember that large development like mission rock

they've all be islands unless we deal with the public infrastructure around them we have to what we're trying to do with this effort is actually deal what the public infrastructure the streets obviously mta and b.c. and all the factors that serve the entire city that is this 1r50u7b9 analysis is really crucial part of city understanding what its own facilities will how they will be effected with the cost of inaction as diane a pointed out and how to have a multiple process to address this so i wanted to emphasize the distinction between the public and private facilities their depending on anticipating but the city's facilities are important and thank the port and

the department and the staff for this really, really productive collaboration. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> one quick point to commissioner moore's about the u.s. i read something in commissioner comments and questions. the first place in the u.s. vacated the land the land was underwater in ireland they had to evacuate everyone it is happening. >> yeah. >> great. thank you very much for the presentation we appreciate it and the commission will take a lunch break

>> madam secretary. >> roll call. commissioner willie adams. >> here. >> kimberly brandon. >> here. >> leslie katz. >> here. >> motion for approval of the minutes for february 28. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? item 3 comment on executive session. >> is there any public comment on executive session and public comment is closed. madam secretary. >> item 4 executive session. >> move that we go into executive session. >> session. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? we are now in

executive session.session). >> madam secretary. >> all right. >> i move to revine in open session. >> second. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? >> next item madam secretary. >> pledge of allegiance. >> i would like to disclose that in close session on february 14, 2017 the port commission meeting the commission unanimously approved the appointment of cathy pouchony as the deputy director and finance and administration and i would like to disclose anything ulc discussed. >> thank you. >> second. >> second. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? next item madam secretary. >> pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag to the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

>> please be advice the cell phones and sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. please be advised that the chair can remove anyone for the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing electronic devices. please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make public comments on each agenda item unless the commissioner adopts a shorter time. item 8 items not listed on the agenda. >> is there any public comments on items not listed on the agenda? i don't have any cards. seeing none public comment is closed. item 9 madam secretary. >> item 9 a executive

director's report. >> i am forbes with the port. i would like to give everyone an update on pier tweafnltd we started a rfp process and as you recall the developer was jamestown who we selected through a competitive solicitation process was becoming nervous because of some community opposition while they enjoyed community support also and requested that the port bring a term sheet to the board of supervisors and you forwardd that along and approved it and i am happy to report that the board unanimously passed the term sheet on first read today. before that passed the term sheet went to the finance committee on march 2 and aaron peskin, supervisor peskin who is the district supervisor in the area recommended three amendments which i think the port commission will be very

happy with. first he specified that he's requesting when the lease return to the board of supervisors that a minimum of half of the goods sold in the 20,000 square feet of retail space is reserved for sf makers. the developer said they can meet that requirement and we will talk about that. i know the commission asked for detail on the leasing program. he asked that we're clear that the lease applies only to the bulkhead building as advertised and not to any other portion of the property and not the shed of the property and finally to report to him and the full board of supervisors in a report what we're learning through the waterfront land use plan regarding active recreation and the recommendation and how we're pursuing the recommendations and they have a specific time to come back in february and i am

happy to report that the vision for use of the property, the very well run solicitation process and process has been confirmed nam by the board. i would like to announce this saturday there is san francisco public works team event from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and warm water cove. it's a family fun event and plantings of trees a lot along cargo way. recology will be there handing out 5 pounds of compost for residents' gardens and please bring your buckets. if you want to be involved in the planting and closed please wear closed shoes and goats and face painting and you can ride in a bucket truck and please come and have some fun and that concludes my report.

>> is there public comment on nine, the executive director's report. seeing none. public comment is now closed. madam secretary next item. >> 9b port commissioners report. >> i would like to ask that we adjourn in honor of kathryn dodd who retired from the city yesterday and has done amazing things on behalf of the employees and retirees of the city during her tenure. most recently as head of the health services commission where we saw rates in health care went up and we brought rates down and hold steady and save members funding. she served in the mayor's office and leader pelosi as chief of staff and aid to supervisor shell and he nancy walker and adviser to many of us and she

just retired from city service yesterday. doesn't mean she's retiring from of abouting us with her knowledge and wisdom and staying on as the chair of the national committee to preserve medicare. in a volunteer capacity but would love to adjourn in her honor today. >> i would like to thank the staff. i had the opportunity to attend the contract opportunity open house, and it was such a great event. there was such a wonderful turn out. i think almost 200 people were there in addition to the city and port staff, and everybody was just so happy and so excited that we did it and it was so successful so i want to congratulate the staff and director forbes for the foresight to do it and because

it was soful successful making it a event. >> anything else.ing none madam secretary. >> item 11. >> 10a. >> is there any public comment on 10a. >> david pilpow. i haven't been here for a while and i agree with the commissioner and appreciate you recognizing kathryn dodd and survive and doing her health circumstances which is courageous. on item 10 a i would like to support this. it seems like a minor and routine item but that will

actually make significant long overdue repairs at pier 94-96 and they're minor league flooding event when is it rains i have seen out going out to the recology facility and this dovetails with the item of 11c and i want to support the work here. i was going to ask why the resolution didn't include a whereas of the ceqa but this isn't the time action for those purposes and just the bid and back here with approval and that's the approval for the ceqa item. thank you very much. >> thanks david. is there any more comment on 10a? seeing none it is close. all in favor of 17-13? >> all in favor say aye. >> madam secretary next item.

>> 11a informational presentation by the city of san francisco office of economic and workforce development on the south beach, rincon, mission bay mission bay, central waterfront, bayview hunters point, candlestick interagency coordination to guide community and city-wide investments. >> i am here today to introduce ken rich the director for the office of economic and workforce development and make martin the project director for owed to give you an update on the south beach, rincon, mission bay coordination and framework. you may recall back in may of last year the office of economic and workforce development presented the south beach, rincon, mission bay strategy and they're here today to provide an update some of the community outreach since last may and next steps and with that i will turn it over to ken rich. >> thanks david. good

afternoon commissioners. so we were here last may to discuss the effort that owed is leading which we're calling a construction framework along the southern bay front and a couple projects and here to give you update between then and now and negotiate public benefits from these projects of affordable housing, transportation and a host of other topic areas that will go over in a moment. 2017 is an important here in this process. we expect to be in front of you later in the year for approval of two major projects, the pier 70 project which you will hear more about after me and the mission rock project. in addition there's another important project, the indian basin project that we expect to get through approvals this year. i wanted to make the

point that these large negotiated projects, both the several in this part of town as well as others around the city are going to be providing the bulk of new housing units that we will be entitling in the next years in the city and generally these large negotiated projects are able to provide a higher percentage of affordable housing than smaller projects and we place a lot of importance getting them through. we are working with staff to keep these on schedule and get through the process in the shortest time we can without skimping on outreach and vetting and we will go through the a presentation and move through it quickly as possible in the interest of time. just a little bit on housing. as you know in january 14 the mayor pledged to construct many new homes in the city by 2020 and at least 33% of low moderate income families and

the majority within financial reach of middle income san franciscans and we have a funded pipeline of projects that will enable another 4,000 to 5,000 affordable homes. we are track in general to make the 30,000 goal by the projected goal of 2020. these projects will make a strong contribution to housing for working class middle income san franciscans with a least a thousand work force units and 5,000 low and moderate income units. this is the slide you saw before. i won't dwell on it but the water front is composed of distinct zones and the first three of the zones are not places where we expect to see a lot of change. they're either in federal hands or rec park hands or possibly a lot of

course is in the port's hands and we'll see modest incremental change until you get down to the yellow zone where we do see the opportunity and sort of consensus that some change is warranted as some but not all but some of the heavy industrial lands go into a new use. this is a zoom in of that part of the city and this slide is here to make the point we're not operating on a blank slai. we have 36,000 people living near by and 23,000 people already working and it is our charge to make sure that the planning we do in the projects are adding value for the neighborhoods and residents. these are all the different projects that are involved here. a couple of them -- or at least one of them and the warrior's arena and hunters point and candlestick are approved and several others and

five major projects going through for approvals in the next years including as i mentioned two that are under port jurisdiction. i want to call your attention to the gray box in the middle and that district is intended to remain as an active industry and maritime activity center. we're engaged in active discussions with your staff on how to make the most out of the ability to house those uses there over time. and so the negotiation framework that we will talk about will generally the five projects they will list off that have yet to go through for approvals and seeking to transform those into assets of the community and a variety of public benefits. the idea we don't want to do one off negotiations but we want to understand what we're asking for from all of the projects in advance of going through and

doing these negotiations. just a little bit on schedule as i said this is going to be an important year. we've got the mission rock project and the pier 70 project coming through for approvals by the end of the year, and also we hope to get the indian basin project by the end of this california year. a little bit further out in time because they're starting a community process are the power plants and hunters point and portroro plants and quickly and you will get a presentation on these in a minute and the pier 70 project which you will hear about, the mission rock project and another port project thousand units with affordablity and million and a half feet of space and open space. the indian basin project privately owned site and of neighborhood

scaled retail and in cooperation with park 1500 acres of open space and a little further out in time and equally important are the power plant and known as the nrg site and acquired by another group and again that's a project with the i'm sascale as pier 70. we don't know what it will provide yet but similar mixed use environment to pier 70 and hunters point also is a large site could be up to 1200 housing units and other opportunities for open space and other community assets so those are the five projects we're focusing on. i am now turn it over to my colleague mike martin who will take you through the rest of the presentation. >> good afternoon commissioners. mike martin owed. as was mentioned this is sort of our second trip around to a number of the interested commissions. in addition since

we saw you last may we've always had an opportunity to see a number of community groups along this stretch of the southern bay front and i think that outreach helped us build out a lot of the strategic elements of what we're trying to go for in the various negotiations much of which you have seen in your projects and term sheets so you're familiar with the items as we go through. this slide sort of summarize a lot of the key feedback and a lot of it has to do with obviously the current community wanting to know what are the projects going to do to augment and improve what is there? so things like affordable housing and prioritizing existing neighborhood residents and need looking for workforce training for specific training employment opportunities to get ahead of the opportunities so people looking for work from san francisco can get the opportunities in the efforts to hire local workers and firms. work force training is a key part of that. in addition

transportation and streetscape improvements, trying to keep pace with implementation so the impacts of growth are met with the things to channel the impacts. limiting the car trips and gridlock and hoping that alternative modes of transportation can be a help going forward. access to new waterfront open spaces really giving an inviting sense for the people that already live here so the projects aren't just built for the people moving in. planning for sea level rise impacts and obviously a district like this needs to look ahead and that future and designing projects with innovative and strong sustainability principles, so as part of that community feedback as well as moving forward with conversations with each of the development partners we have isolated a number of key areas and tried to identify a unified framework and project is one off and not is only doing the most

it can for community benefits but also part of a larger narrative about the revitalization of san francisco so you see in the red circles there are a number of areas we advanced on since the last time we seen you and i will summarize today. housing affordability. we're seeking to achieve 33% affordability across all of the southern bay front projects coming forward. this is meant to be sort of an area wide target so each individual project may vary from the amount. as mr. rich said i think these larger projects give us an opportunity to grow the pie of affordable housing but also to address hard to reach income levels and larger family units so trying to get that moderate and middle income family housing, the work force housing that doesn't have subsidies like lower income does and how can we build that in to make sure san francisco isn't a city of extremes? in addition

we want to build off of the aggressive local preference policy by the board of supervisors in recent transactions again to bring some of the benefits of the below market rate housing to those in san francisco that need it and keep people from being displaced that moves forward as a key issue in san francisco. transportation as i mentioned is obviously a critical issue for this part of the city. there's a number of transportation investments that are coming forward as sort and being implemented as the projects are coming forward for approval. a number are listed here including the opening of the central subway so it's a huge improvement in terms of head ways especially at northern end of tthird and limit the congestion coming that is really going to frankly exist the mission bay neighborhoods and the port projects coming

forward. there is additional improvements that are implemented also. i think one of the ones that obviously in the headlines is caltrain electrification. we are hopeful it can come forward despite the impasse and adding that frequency can alleviate the coniest john. you have other investments that add east-west capacity so we have big boned sort of capital projects coming forward and what we want to do is sort of having the individual projects that are coming forward to benefit from the investments really try to engage with them so finding ways to enhance transit reliability and capacity and fill gaps in the network so alternate modes for short trip such as walking and biking are effective so everyone is forced to pick between muni and jumping on a car and other ways to get

around local destinations and each individual project as an opportunity to address really support the city's transit demand ordinance in such a way to not only seek to encourage the use of other modes but to monitor performance and change strategies over time as they mature and the different mix uses sort of reveal themselves as to how they're affecting transportation patterns. and as i mentioned earlier i think the site design has a lot to do with people getting along the stretch of the waterfront. that's important. thank you. so obviously all those things have to connect so not only do we have the arteries of transportation but also the capillaries to get at these locations along the waterfront. moving to open space 520 acres of new and renovated open space when you aggregate the projects together and half the size of golden gate park and the vast

majority new planned open space in the city so we need to make that accessible to the new residents and also something that the current residents can see as a benefit and improvement that comes along with the growth of the city. so ultimately i think we've started a really good collaboration with the park and rec park and the developers to think how do we create a seamless user experience even though we know the ownership of each site is different between the port and private developers and their open spaces and rec park for example and indian basin so having a framework of way finding, having a unified place to go to make references for the open space so they know who owns it and we're building on that and one of the ways that a strategic framework can create benefits than the negotiations itself. sustainability is the

next item. i think you heard about your projects and forward thinking but ultimately i think the opportunity for the large projects is to use district strategies that individual buildings can't sort to mort efficiently use resources bike -- like water and energy. and transportation as a key aspect and the benefits of getting them out of the cars is not just congestion but air quality and water and implement the city's forward thinking on the water reuse amendments that were just passed that require large projects to find a way to use all of the potential resources to limit the uses of potable water and using the coastal adaptation strategies for a living coast line and as part of the sea level rise conversation we're looking at ways these parks along the waterfront while they're not inundated at all

times they're resilient with a storm or water event. as the sea level rises we would like these areas adaptable and resilient and function as open space ecosystems effectively and look at these key areas and i think the plans that have been advanced and the plans we think have been advanced can achieve interesting and forward thinking things to help san francisco meet the goals going forward and the 35% of green emissions over a san francisco development and 42,000-gallons of potable water saved every year compared to a single generic building and 25% of the area and dedicated green space and other areas there isn't much of an opportunity

and we will try to make this part of the larger narrative and have the projects contribute to that and create that story. sea level rise -- obviously the port commission needs no introduction to this topic. i think what we want to see is not only an initial build out that protects the developments themselves which as an investment of capital obviously the developers and owners will require but we want to find a way to address the city's challenges with the other areas that don't have this investment coming so the developments themselves will also include their own adaptation strategies but we would like to do something the port has done with projects and use some of the public financial tools available to us to create out year funding strategies so that the future adaptation can be paid for not only for the developments but also for the areas near them so as people request why are you building along the waterfront? and this

is the answer and not only a useful part of the city now and an area we need to revitalize for the people that live here but can create tools to protect the waterfront including the port zone seawall so ultimately this is going to be a negotiation on each project but once we have the larger frame we're able to get to that kind of an outcome. community facilities is obviously something that is challenging from a lot of directions because it's not always purely public facilities and include child care centers or grocery stores or other private health centers or things that are delivered as part of a neighborhood as it grows that we want to make sure there to serve as long as with the public services and fire and police stations and schools and libraries so we're look working with the planning department to look at resources, figure out the best practices for the incoming population of workers and residents and seeing what

are the facilities we need and whether we can negotiate space to accommodate the uses and this look can balance needs from one direction from resources from another. workforce development as i described earlier i think is critical and sort of bringing home the benefits of these developments to san francisco. i think we have opportunities to train for current trades and other potential end use jobs even that are currently going to be coming forward with projects and we would like to see residents have those opportunities and create the circle of investment and moving up the employment ladder and this is a field with construction trades but we have opportunities with mixed use developments to think about the businesses there in the future and what we can do to get residents into those jobs.

so next steps as described we have a couple of years of intense negotiations and approval dialogues with the various commissions and the board. we want to highlight i think every project is not going to hit the list we went through today and having the individual approvals is make efficient choices which project contributes to which goal as we reach the strategic goals outlined today and that concludes the presentation but we're happy to respond to any questions. >> thanks mike. >> is there any public comment? i don't have any cards on 11a. do you have anything to say on 11a please come up and hit the mic. seeing none. public comment is now closed. commissioner kounalakis. >> well thank you so much for this really terrific overview.

i am still the newest member so these bigger picture overviews of where the city is going with development projects relative to port property in particular are extremely helpful. i guess i am mostly wondering you have as part of your presentation the timeline on these things. are these overlapping timelines? i mean is there -- is there -- are there concerns things are delayed because other projects are moving forward? i guess my question is in terms of the pipeline is the pipeline over crowded with all of this or is there a pretty good sense it's all going to move forward at the pace it's naturally progressing? >> let me try to answer that in a couple of ways. are you referring to the pipeline to entitle them or actually build the units and the office space

or maybe both? >> mostly both. >> okay. >> but i am curious about that as well. sometimes you feel there is construction on every block and sometimes it's less so. in the scale of all of these things happening at the same time how do you think about this in terms of -- >> so first maybe to address it from getting -- our job is to get these complex projects through the regulatory process and through entitlements which means being approved by a number of commissions including you and the port and the board of supervisors and i wish i could say that they lined up perfectly so each time we ended one the other one started but life doesn't really work that way and i would say we are in the midst of three -- the three projects that i mentioned in the earlier side and pier 70 and mission rock and indian basin are coming through within six months of each other and the two port

projects being first and pier 70 the first and we just have to deal with that and get them through it. we also have some other projects of this scale in other parts of the city coming through at this point so and then then a bit of a break so our work load isn't completely under our control but we will get them done for sure. in terms of when they're entitled and the units coming online and the biggest determiner and maybe to ask forest city how they see the market in the future, but it's really going to be the market that determines how fast these things move. my understanding is forest city would like to move as quickly as possible but the market -- you know, the way that we understand the market working in san francisco and the way we have seen it work is when the market is receptive and hot you will get everything moving and when it's not you won't get anything moving and the only thing you

will see moving and it's a good thing is public finance projects which we like to see happening during down times because it evens out the jobs, construction jobs. we will probably see these projects for better or worse come together -- they are done when the market is receptive and not a lot to do about that and if other folks that present after me have a perspective on that i would like to hear it, but generally we're seeing maybe leveling off on a huge boom and saw everything happen during that boom, and you know that's kind of the way it works here. we would love to even it out more and again with affordable housing and public projects we are able to do that, but with the private projects it's subject to the market. is that -- >> that's it, yeah. thanks. >> commissioner brandon. >> thank you ken and mike for the presentation. this is wonderful and very much forward

thinking. i really appreciate it. it's a great plan and i guess i am just -- i'm not sure exactly -- well, i guess my question is we have all these projects and we have all these various commitments for the projects, and how are they prioritized? i mean how do we decide what gets done first versus what doesn't? it's like all the money goes into one pot and divide it equally or do we give preference? >> i wish you would ask easier questions. [laughter] you know it is this is a major -- you know a major challenge and i think it is one of the roles of you as decision makers

to validate and guide us whether we're prioritizing things. we could do 50% affordable housing but not afford a lot of transportation improvement focus we do that. we could do a lot more open space which takes away the revenue parts of the development but then we couldn't -- so i hesitate to talk about -- to tell you which one of the priorities is the highest. it goes without saying that the mayor has charged all of us to wake up thinking about affordable housing and go to sleep thinking about affordable housing so that rises to the top but if we don't deal with sea level rise then the housing won't be there in a few years and if we don't deal with transportation the people inviting to live here can't get around so i couldn't tell you. we just try to do the best balancing act we can and also to answer part of the question the way we approach the projects is we look at all of their economics, even the ones that

are not on city property so obviously you have been through the pro forma for pier 70. we model the pro formas of the private projects too to make sure we're asking for enough but not too much so you could come up with a total dollar amount of exactly you ask of a project and we do a version of this and total you ask for before they won't make a project and therefore don't go ahead and have to slot it it into the different categories and we do our best but they're all of the highest priority. >> thank you. then as far as community outreach i think you have done a great job but i hope to include rcas and especially the advisory committees on waterfront. thank you. >> commissioner katz. >> thank you ken and mike.

it's helpful seeing all of this and i appreciate the focus on coordination because you know that was a big concern of all of ours. as we've seen all of the projects coming along and sort of waiting to make sure that we get everything coordinated so i am pleased to see everything done and thank you for walking on water in this case and balancing all the different needs. in terms of some of the specifics -- i guess one thing and it's really in legal parlance this is a leading question. you can explain why we haven't done a larger area plan opposed to working on the different projects? >> you know we have done a lot of area plans in the eastern neighborhood plans and these projects, you know the difference -- the reason we're going in a different direction

here is those area plans, the eastern market and octavia and other ones and smaller projects and a lot of units and development but they're all the sort of projects that would go through under regular zoning so we in an area wide basis we determine what fees and community benefits and heights and all of that and none are large enough to lend themselves to this but the specific opportunities that we have with larger projects so these projects are very large and we think we can get better community benefits from them with a one off negotiation with each one and as mike mentioned and exciting to have a taxation structure and mello-roos tax to stick around and pay for sea level rise improvements and protection from sea level rise. i don't think we can negotiate that in a area

plan with a whole bunch of projects but we can go through -- we have five projects and negotiation with each and look at the finances and each pace their own rate and it's not even and the bigger projects are better to have customized negotiations and look at the finances of each project. when we figure out -- like the central soma plan going through now has to model the extractionos the medium so it can't place them so high that half of the projects will fail and not be able to go or so low that too many are getting a free lunch. here we can ask for as much we can for each project. >> i started off with a leading question and that's the answer i was looking for and thank you and i wanted to note for the public this gives us an opportunity to be strategic if you will about what happens around each project and how it

all works together. also just and thank you for the efforts in terms of addressing sea level rise and how we can work with the seawall although i am sure there are folks down there that might upon the ocean front property but don't want to have that happen. and also i want to thank you for the focus on sustainability as you move forward. they're all topics that i am pleased to see they're coming to the forefront in all of these design efforts. one question and we touched it a little bit in terms of transportation coordination. there's a lot of changes and talking how transportation has been changing and i know we're probably going to be chasing it a little bit as all the presentation projects come on but in terms of the next generation if you will in transportation how we look at some of the multimodal requirements and being more creative in -- a little like octavia boulevard and a model for the rest of the world and

have the different transportation elements in one location. are we starting to incorporate into the design here and keeping bicycle lanes separate from traffic and more public safety? >> i will give mr. rich a break on this one, so yeah. i think that -- i don't know if you all recall there was a waterfront transportation assessment that mta lead a few years ago and had interesting findings that the sort of peak hour congestion in the trans bay area of soma was rippling down to the mission bay and the mission rock area and they were blocking everyone trying to get anywhere and if we eliminate some of the trips and out of the cars and

safer grid and it's still challenged but do a lot for the rush hour corridors you're seeing. we're looking to is there a expanded water transportation service, want just ferries across the board but water taxis to the new population from south to the downtown and i know the port has an existing service and make sure that the projects work together and plugged into a larger service that way and opening up a new way to travel south and north along the same corridor. >> great. and then not to put you on the spot but as we're trying to figure out how to move the caltrain electrification forward how will that have an impact on some of the efforts we're doing here positively or negatively if we don't get all of the funding in on the time frame we would like to see it happen? >> the political uncertainties

aren't something i can opine on well but the electrification was seen as a benefit and move caltrain closer to bart style headways and more trains coming up through the same corridor and the mix used projects that are employment centers as well as resident centers it would be helpful to link that peninsula to san francisco. i think there's a lot of efforts not only electrification but the downtown extension and trans bay. i think all of those things are currently seeking dollars and currently trying to get done but when they're done and i do believe they will get done i think it will definitely create -- hopefully catches up with the growth and create a network that has more connectivity than now. i think we're are definitely experiencing the gaps in the network and one key piece we want to kill as soon as we can. >> maybe that might be something looking at opportunities that arise not

having a cookie cutter approach to the area and may be some things to look at from getting additional funding perhaps from some of the transportation. >> yeah, i think that's one part of the strategy and not just caltrain but aggregate. we know there are transportation and sustainability fees off of the projects. can we aggregate those to use them locally for projects that do what we're talking about? and the $700 million price tag is out of the range but the same idea and create the better connection in all directions? >> thank you very much. >> mike and den i was going to say this is really an ambitious agenda. it really is and with the state of our country it's good to know that we're moving forward because san francisco always marchs to its own beat and being a sanctuary city it's important that we move forward. this southern waterfront -- this

is the next renaissance in our city and we know how important housing is in the city, jobs. we've heard about transportation, congestion and when we really think about it -- when we think about the four most congested cities in the word. los angeles is number one. moscow is number two. los angeles is number 3 and san francisco is number 4 and you hit on something, ken and mike both. be the subway, water taxis, ferry, biking but we have to have some kind of transportation to think with success. this is great. but with success you always have problems and they're good problems to have as we work through this and i appreciate the update and i ask that you continue to reach out to the community. the community has to go along. the trnz transparency from our community has to be there because this port, this city belongs to every citizen and everybody has to feel they're a part of it. they own

it because actually we're moving to the next level and doing these things and so when you prioritize how they come out ken do you think there's going to be any problems in funding or anything or do you think we're going to be okay with the private partnerships and things that we have? so we don't have to worry about federal funding from president trump or the government. do you think we're going to do what we have to do? >> continuing the difficult questions to answer. i don't want to make commitments around federal funding. unlike affordable housing that the federal government backed off of that a decade or two ago it's important to know that the major funding source for transportation is still the federal government and we were supposed to have someone from mta today but she's ill and could have answered it better

but the funds are helpful as a match of federal fund and if that change it is significantly that will be a problem. >> >> and i'm not in that enough to understand what that landscape looks like but we do need a lot of money from the feds. well as an example now that the feds put on hold the caltrain electrification money that money is in doubt and everyone is trying to make up the funding and hope that the grl federal government will change their mind or we need that for the projects. we're more sufficient on the local bike lanes and pedestrian oriented projects but on the major ones we are going to need it. >> thank you. madam secretary next item please. >> 11b information presentation regarding the forest city proposed pier 70 special use district design for development for the area

boarderedded generally by 20th street and michigan street and 22nd street and san francisco bay. >> we have been working with the port on the pier 70 area since 2013 when the port commission endorsed the term sheet. since then forest city presented several times to the commission, has done extensive community outreach and as recently as of october 2016 presented an overview of the land use plan and design for development. this afternoon jack will walk through a more detailed overview of the design for development. that document is used. it provides direction to both the developer and city staff to make certain that there are criteria and direction for

how new horizontal and vertical development and adaptive reuse of historic facilities are constructed. this will make certain that the improvements maintain the integrity of the iron historic district and pier 70 is an attractive place to make the place comfortable place to live, work, play and visit. the design for development will be included in the proposed pier 70's special use district of the city's zoning code and i will note that the draft design for development as presented today as gone through extensive review and collaboration with the san francisco planning department, public works work, municipal transportation agency, the puv and the office of economic and workforce development and with that i will have jack present. thank you. >> thank you david. commissioners, president adams,

staff. thank you. i am very excited to be here of the every time we come it's becoming more and more real. i can almost feel the construction starting to happen, so we've committed to be efficient with your time and we will do that so just a reminder this is now ten years in the making. you could probably go back further than that but the port's master planning process started in 2007 and a three year process and a year to select forest city and we have been at it for six years working with the community and the city family and your staff to move this forward. we've had literally thousands of people have their eyes on the vision that has been put forward for pier 70 and have an opportunity to provide input which we think has made the plans stronger have more support and ultimately have a greater sense of ownership

for what is created. a little bit of a reminder for context and this is baked into the design guidelines mentioned. we're talking about a mixed use project centered around a node of historic buildings out on the sited it, buildings 12, two and 21 which i think you've all seen and we all know and love. the land use plan includes some development parcels that will be commercial office, some parcels that are residential, some parcels that could actually flex between office and residential which is very common in san francisco. you see this in most of downtown and south of market and allows us to be responsive to what ultimately is planned and implemented on the southern boundary of the site both on the

portero power plant property and the members of the public substation. one. >> >> pg&e substation and one thing we were encouraged to be thoughtful how we locate uses in the project that activate the site that create an authentic pier 70 experience, and there were examples that folks would give of development that's happened around the neighborhood where it doesn't -- certainly there is residential and office but didn't include the components that make san francisco neighborhoods great. the space for arts, pdr, for neighborhood services, for non-profits so we've actively programd that in as well as identifying key locations where there has to be retail or neighborhood services. we've

talked before the specific attention that we've paid to creating a place that is really for walking for wandering for discovering the place, a series of pedestrian pathways and the majority of the waterfront site really is a pedestrian priority zone exhibited by not having a road between the waterfront parks and most of the buildings, and this is something that to some degree you could argue has been part of the history of the place and the character of the place for decades, and as we were going through the process with our design team thinking about how do we create a new waterfront park network that honors pier 70, that feels like pier 70 and complementary to what else you find on the waterfront, so rather than recreating the marina green or

rincon green pier 70 asks to be a more urban site and so our landscape architect field operations who those of you who have been to the high line in new york and know that the way they have found to bring the history and the gritty character into something that is a modern experience looked at the site and how it was used traditionally and where there were these open areas that were adjacent to buildings. it wasn't one large open area but a series of them and that became the framework for an open space program that is like a series of room that have a distinct character, distinct design and distinct use, so that at different parts of the day, different parts of the year you actually you have a diversity of experience of who is coming and how they're using the place,

and so we talk about these rooms, and we use them -- one of the ways that we use to describe them to folks is use local references so we talk about how this park network is five or six parks or san francisco open space areas in one, so the playground that will be adjacent to irish hill is not unlike the scale and the character that we see at the dolores park playground. around building 12 is a series of platform and urban plaza not unlike what you find in front of this building here between the embarcadero and the face of the building where there's lots of events and very active use. along the southern part of the waterfront we have more of a waterfront promenade that is fronted by restaurants,

bars, and scale wise not dissimilar from the embarcadero rincon park where water bar and epic roast house i forget the name of it. i think you guys know where that is so it's a good example. they're not many places in the bay area that you can sit on the water on a patio. there is no road between you and the water and the bay trail is right there. slip ways commons which actually connects the waterfront to the historic buildings, not unlike the scale of south park if you took the roads away and the building is fronted up on it and the northern part of the site is more of a green space that is on par with the scale of the -- not all of chrissy field but the picnic area so the design guidelines are really about

putting in place a framework for how do we make a great place at pier 70? and i think it's one of the reasons that forest city was chosen by the port. i think we've shown in other places around the country how we have done that. we have a project in dc called the yards and we encourage you all and happy to host you all and it's a magnificent project and the parallels with pier 70 are quite surprising. we have a great design team that has been working on and really appreciated working with the port staff, the planning staff, owed and everybody else that has been involved to create a framework that is really what pier 70 deserves. it's what the city deserves and ultimately will will create value for the port and for forest city, and there's no one characteristic that needs to be included in

this framework. there's a series of elements to it that all have to be treated appropriately and balanced and then bound together, and they're shown here and another way to think about it is three dimensionally so we want to create these great parks and inviting public realm, the design and the character of the streets that we create requires a lot of attention and frankly a lot of battles with ways of doing things, ways of building streets that maybe aren't the best for pedestrians and bikes providing robust public benefits throughout the buildings and in the parks through some of the programs that mike mentioned, work force programs, small business diversity programs and some of the retail spaces. the rehabilitation of the his structures, the treatment of the ground floor of the new

buildings and also importantly the design framework that we put in place to have new construction buildings and how do we do that? so i don't have it up here but there's a thick document we're proud of that is the framework and the design guidelines and referred to as design for development and it talks about this land use framework about the mix of uses, the makers market hall in building 12, the arts facility on the waterfront which will have the replacement studio space for the artists. it has priority retail zones in the buildings. it limits the amount of ground floor office so you have the active public realm. it has a specific open space section and framework where it talks about some of the things

that we must do and we can't do and we're not modifying the remnants of irish hill but have a playground and honor it and the view and where it's appropriate and what type of vegetation can be used? and given it's a his district it prioritizing programs for areas. where do you want to a waterfront for dining and appropriate for play and picnicking and design it that it's flexible enough to accommodate the food festival and 30,000 people out there and we think is a great opportunity for pier 70. i talked about the streets and not make them overly wide but still able to get all of the utilities, provide emergency vehicle service, parking. it actually is one of the most complicated peedz

pieces of the project and the design guidelines are the launching point for what is a very detailed streetscape master plan that we're working on as well. and then lastly and i'm going to let kelly talk a little bit about the -- show you what some of these design guidelines elements how they will play out through the renderings that we have to show you what that actually looks like, but we -- the framework has many of the things that are traditionally in design guidelines, how tall can the building be? how much massing? how many units? but one of the things that we think our design team has really pushed the envelope is an innovative approach to provide boundaries around the building

design that don't overly constrain the creativity of the architect. it gets into things that we've never seen before at least in design guidelines documents in san francisco about preferred materials so it's a historic district and it's got really beautiful rich materials and so there's actual discussion in there what materials are preferred and even so far as how they maybe treated so they're consistent with the historic district and this is a very high level of commitment that we are very comfortable with as we intend to build most of the buildings and we want that commitment to live with buildings the design of buildings that we also don't build and deliver to maintain the quality and integrity of the district so the slide that i have up here is one of our

favorites. we jokingly call it the rainbow diagram. what you see here the colored bars are the different treatments and guidelines and standards that apply at all of the facades in the district so there are certain facades that are adjacent to historic buildings that need a sensitive approach that may prohibit materials or require a setback but ensures we're not trying to mimic in new construction what say historic building next to it. i think one of the things that under lines the design guidelines also if you go out to the sited it what you see are buildings that are actually giet actual quite large and large facades and

don't have the traditional approach to design for that type of building which is set it back, recess entries. what they have -- they're actually more or less boxes and incredible materials and have a rich texture so what our design guidelines have incorporated almost through a lead type framework is the ability to choose do you want to spend more money on a facade and have that really rich texture or is a better treatment -- maybe you do have a bit of a recess in a certain area along the waterfront that acknowledges the shoreline so i'm going to let kelly now go through the fun pictures and show you how through the renderings some of the treatments and guidelines would play out in the design.

>> thank you jack. president adams and members of the commission i am kelly and it's my pleasure to present on the pier 70 project. i also apologize for my informal dress. at this point my wardrobe options have shrunk considerably. jack went through the frameworks that underpin the design documents and now i have the fun task of showing you pictures what it would look like in place. in order to create the renderings in the presentation as well as to test some of the approaches and concepts presented and for architects to prepare designs compliant with the standards and guideline with the document so we literally hired an architect, handed them the document and design a facade that meets all of the requirements within the draft document so what you're seeing is not finished by any

means but a facade study but gave us a chance to test the ideas and whether the document produced the type of knowledges that we're awe. >> >> buildings that were awetentic to the his heritage and pleased with the results. what you see here is of 22nd street and the building on the left and building 15 is supposed to be retained with assessment and this will run underneath. using the framework that jack walked through previously this demonstrates key requirements in the d for d. for example the building across the street is required to belt to building 12 and you can see that through the horizontal data and additional requirements and massing and modulation allowable uses within the ground floor are limited to retail and light industrial and arts and the streetscape is shaped to promote pedestrian

safety above all. but we know that great places are not defined by the physical realm and architecture and conveys some of the components how we will make pier 70 a complete neighborhood and addressing sea level rise and making transit investments and creating opportunities for all businesses and residents. we do this by committing to a 30% hire for construction jobs and to the execution of a pla for the project and lbe requirement for contracting for the project. forest city has its diversity program which we're committed to providing the port with monitoring and reports as well. this next rendering is this time at the water's edge. you can see the dry edge of the repair facility and the skyline in the distance. again the d for d prescribes controls to ensure that the buildings and public realm and spaces are successful and awses thentic to the site

and extensions of the trail and materials for the open space design and prioritization of art uses are part of the design controls and again thinking that great places are defined by more than their architecture what this is conveying is replacement studio place for tenants and the structures and making them available to get closer to the water and shoreline at pier 70. so to re-cap what jack mentioned and what we attempted to do with the document is to really bring together all of the disciplines that shape the places that we experience, not just architecture but compatibility with historic character, how the ground floor feels as a pedestrian and healthy mixes to promote a active place during the week and the weekend. this is a slide you have seen

previously and was woven into the rendering today presented but the project delivers on a host of benefits described in proposition f in 2014 and additional benefits that have been worked on through with the port and owed keeping in mind the southern bay front strategy that you saw a presentation and how pier 70 fits into the larger context and planning picture. and then last but not least i get to give you the wonky approvals process procedure, my favorite part. so some of the key documents that are under way for pier 70 of course the eir, the environmental impact report and the foundation for all are based and preparation of a special use district that david mentioned and this document incorporated intie reference into that sud. alongside development of an agreement and disposition and development

agreement and infrastructure plan outlining the obligations of forest city as far as delivery of infrastructure and site wide amenities. when new buildings come approval they're evaluating against the requirements outlined in the sud and the d for d and eir and mitigation measures and the city of san francisco and the port's building code. a vertical developer submits an application to the port. a staff report is prepared and submitted to the director. if a building is fully compliant with the sud and d for d there is planning director approval of that design review and allows for buildings what is referred as a minor modification or deviation of less than 10% of certain standards that are outlined in the d for d. in the event that a building is proposed that

includes a major modification and greater than 10% deviation in this then the building goes forward before the planning commission for hearing and approval. the process for evaluation of historic rehabilitation should look familiar it to and you similar to what happens with the port property and with all of these things the developer submits the application to the port and the director gives approval of that proposed rehabilitation. and then finally talking about open space schematic design this again being governed by the requirements of the sudd for deir and the forest city would submit design and review and comment by the committee and port staff and that design would go before the port commission before you for decision and

approval. with that i will conclude my presentation and happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> thanks kelly and jack. i wanted to take a second also to recognize that beyond the city team we have been working with to develop this and all the effort and time that forest city has put into it and their consultant team a pretty large amount of port staff have gone into it and recognition and brad benson and project management and diane and steven, wendy, mark and many other staff to develop this. thank you. >> is there any public comment on 11b? anyone that would like to speak on 11b please hit the mic. seeing none. public comment is now closed. commissioner katz. >> well thank you for the

presentations and i won't repeat the staffful individual but thank you for the dig against on the project and this is one of the most significant projects to hit the city in a long time and the impact for generations to come and excited to see the thought going into and kelly and jack thank you for your presentation. it was very thorough so i enjoyed that and i know i spoke to you about other locations in the world that have waterfront sites and i am a broke record with the line sight and have that and how a project along this size can be integrated along the waterfront and create the spaces for different uses. one question i had just another area that's a big focus of mine with respect

to you talked about some of the landscaping that is going in on the sites that require -- i forget the term used here, shrubbery, but what are the plans in terms of tree planting and creating that sort of opportunity? >> thank you for the question. so i think one of the robust discussions that we have been having across the planning department, port staff and our design team is how do you -- what is the appropriate way to build new streets and parks that are livable, attractive, thal create value when we go out and looking to attract an anchor office tenant they will feel like they're coming to a place that has a little bit of softness to it? and you know we have been trying to strike the

right balance. there have been certain recommendations about the historic district didn't have greenery so we shouldn't have that in certain areas. we would certainly like to be able to strike a balance there. >> great thank you. that's all. i will give you by bias as i look at some of the other world class cities and the fact they have a lot of trees such as paris and other places and you're able to incorporate the trees in with the communities there. could you talk a little more how you're going to address sea level rise and how it impacts -- potentially impacts the project or what is being done to minimize? >> sure. so at its simplest what we're doing is raising the grade of the site. over the course of the planning of the project the state's

recommendation for what sea level rise could be at 2100 from 55 inches to 66 inches and a range and took the high end and adjusted it up and make sure all of the buildings are set at least at that level. by the time you actually slope the site back towards illinois street you get up a little bit higher because you need the drainage for stormwater and wet utilities. what we're doing at the park store line portion of the park is the bay trail is being set to 2050 levels and recognizing that if we could build the waterfront up to accommodate 66 inches of sea level rise today but it would separate people from the bay today, the portion of the

shoreline they haven't had access to and for a condition that won't exist for decades maybe my daughter will never even be affected by that, so what the design team came up with was effectively an informal path at the level of the site today along the shoreline. those crane ways that kelly mentioned which stick out, the short piers that stick out 20, 30 feet in the water and keep them at the level they're at and a great location for fishing or sitting quietly at the bay and the treatment from the informal path will actually accommodate the rising of tides over time so that the use of the park. initially all day all year can use all of the park n20 years

there is a number of days there is a storm event and don't want to be on the informal path but the rest of the year you can be. in 60, 70 years they're the concrete steps that lead down to the path. maybe that fourth step up is now the informal path along the shoreline so it gives us the ability to give access today but have that managed for that and of course mike may have mentioned this mechanism. there will be a funding plan in place to be able to make future adaptive improvements when they're necessary in whatever that scope is that is necessary and obviously the port will have control of that, but that's obviously really important piece, not just the creativity of design but the creativity of having a finance program that is able to respond to future conditions at the point that is needed. >> great. and last question

is where are we in terms of falling under the current office cap and how that has an impact on the project? >> i feel i should let ken answer that question and did a good job answering the difficult questions and certainly something to be worked out. >> the city's got eight or 10 million square feet of office that wants to be built and right now about a million square feet in the cap and 875 is add each year and it's a challenge and we have to be sharpening our pencils. >> thank you very much. i am excited about the project with or without -- kidding. >> commissioner kounalakis. >> thank you so much for the

presentation. with every iteration the pier 70 project becomes more clear in my mind what will it look like and such a tremendous development opportunity down there. there is nothing else like it and you did such a wonderful job in connecting the old and the new and the past and the future, so really my only question for you is on timeline. you have a timeline at the beginning of your presentation that says mid-2016 project approval, and i am wondering then going to the end of your presentation when you talk about the entitlement process for eir, special use district, d for d, development infrastructure plan and disposition agreement. where are those on the timeline and what is the projection to when you think you will break ground? >> so apparently we didn't update the slide in the presentation. we are not

approved as far as we're aware, so we are hoping that the project approvals happen late this summer which is why we're saying we can already hear the cranes moving. all of the documents that you mentioned they're the project approvals documents. >> okay. >> so super tuesday at the port commission and super thursday at the planning commission and super tuesday again with the board of supervisors we would hope be happening between july, august, september. as i think we have mentioned in the past we are really -- the company is really leaning into this project. we are hoping to catch the momentum of this cycle even as it is leveled off a little bit. we feel good about where it's headed. we think that pier 70

is a good long-term investment in the early years are really the most important for the economic success of the project, so we right now on a parallel path with preparing the design guidelines and the dda, streetscape master plan we're starting to do work with the port's engineering team with dpw and puc and preparing the phase one infrastructure plan so that at the point that the project is approved we would be construction ready. there is probably maybe a one, two week permit process -- maybe a couple of months, but our hope would be that we're getting in the ground on starting the infrastructure end of this year, early 2018. we really -- you know, we're going to be spending several million dollars at risk because this is not typically what is done. typically a developer waits until the project is approved and then take it to

that level of construction drawings. we think there is an advantage of timing and certainty with the city agencies to have to sign off on the engineering drawings and see in other projects and thought they had agreement and turned out because of detail they weren't and caused delay later but we're really as i have said leaning into it in the hopes that we can be in the ground relatively quickly and implementing something that is thus far felt like it's had pretty broad support. wonderful. thanks. >> commissioner brandon. >> jack, kelly and david and grant and thank you for the presentation. it's very good. it's hard to believe it's only been ten years. it seems like so much longer but i am happy finally we're at a place we

might put the shovel in the project and exciting project and wonderful and i want to commend you on the extensive outreach and engagement in the process. i think that's wonderful. i think most of my comments have been answered regarding the sea level rise and approval process. the one thing shelly mentioned a dwrsity program that you have in place. can you tell me more about that? >> so this is an initiative that forest city is taken on as a corporate citizen to encourage diversity in forest city's contracting processes so we have kind of internal self imposed reporting mechanism whereby we prioritize a use of minority owned businesses, women owned businesses and veteran owned businesses and diverse business ownerships and one of the mechanisms that we ha