the community, and that it's going to meet a need that's particularly important. just to give you kind of a recap of construction of below market rate housing, i won't go over this table in detail, but i do have this. if you'd like to look at it yourself, you can see how much of the alice griffith replacement units have been constructed. i mentioned again the senior housing and of course the workforce and inclusionary housing, more of which will be coming. shipyard, so in 2010, this is gsh gsh i know this is a -- i know this is kind of an interesting slide because it shows in 2010, we had a contract with the city that

would include approximately 3 million square feet of r and d, but we also had cleared, through ceqa, and received approval for a total of 5 million square feet of r and d. what we've chosen to do now is to pursue the 5 million square feet but with some reductions to allow for a greater mix of uses. i mentioned before how important the site's heritage is, and i'm wanting you to know that there are a number of buildings that are on the national register for historic places that of course will be retained, and i invite you all to come out and take a look at some of these buildings. some of these buildings date from the 1900's, pump houses with water flowing in and out of the dry docks, and we have world war ii vintage buildings, too, that we are studying for possible retention. of course building 101 is going

to remain, and so the overall focus of this project has been let's look back on that history, take what's best from that and advance it to a new future. this is just one example of how that could be materialized. building 411 is one of these examples of grease massive volume buildings, and it provides then an opportunity for creating a new type of work space. and these are hugely popular. they've been seen in other places in the country, and people like it. they like the authenticity of these original buildings, and yet with modern convenience. the project is going to include retail spaces as i noted earlier, and what i call major spaces which is really a way of creating a space that's been

kind of pushed out of san francisco. so the maker's space is going to be for artisans, as you can imagine someone doing woodworking or ceramics or any kind of incubator type business that wants to be a part of this maker space, we are reserving 75,000 square feet just for these types of uses. and i won't belabor, we've already noted the institutional community and artists. one of the documents that we're going to be updating is the d for d, and the design for development document, it effectively establishes both the extent and the design standards for which to develop, to realize this vision. so we have a vision for our different kind of building in

san francisco, and we've been working closely with ocii design staff, as well as city planning department design staff to now create standards that relate to this vision for the shipyard. you'll note as one component of that vision, the focus on maximum building height, we have made some adjustments to height to ensure that views are protected from important public spaces. so views, for example, from the hilltop open space witare protects, as well as views along the entirety of the waterfront. the next part of our project is a concept plan for parks and open space.

one of my colleagues has worked ex-tense civilly on parks and open space, and he'll talk to you for a moment about that. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i do want to talk for a moment about the update to the parks and open space concept plan. the plan from 2010 to 2018 has increased. we have about 18 additional acres of publicly accessible parks and open space, and i'll run through a few of the highlights? the changes are considering at the shipyard side of the project. i'll skbrust run through those. changes we've made including incorporating additional dog runs and children's play areas, placing a new emphasis on the historically registered dry dock four and creating a public plaza around that. through the shifting of the grid that allows us to retaining herd aj buildings, we're also able to consolidate

three small parks into one larger park that we're calling the green room. it'll be privately owned but fully publicly accessible, and we've incorporated centralized stormwater gardens to treat stormwater run off. what we're calling the water room is an enhanced plaza around the end of dry dock four which is right in the middle of the new development, and we wanted to create more of a public presence and a public place in this important meeting point of the parts of the development. what's proposed here, in addition to what was already there, is amphitheater seating around the dry dock, one, potentially two pedestrian bridges over the dry dock, so it doesn't serve to separate the two sides of the development. large public plaza with shade trees, cafe, and sculptural art component. this is just a rendering of

sort of an aerial looking out at the development, and you can note, even at this scale, looking out at the bay, you see dry dock four, the central component that we wanted to celebrate. this is another rendering closer to the ground, where you can see the amphitheater seating and landscaping curbing around, and then, some of the that mixed use development integrating with the park plaza here. as i mentioned, another area that we've looked at is the green room. so in consolidating the three smaller parks, we've ended up with a larger central green that we think will have a lot of activity, a lot of interest, and will really be a center piece to the neighborhood. it's envisioned as a lush, green, outdoor room. a lot of rolling lawns, active

sports programming, including basketball courts, bacci courts, children's play areas. also more passive and interpretive uses, such as interpretive component recalling the historic shoreline that occurs here, and additional gardens and paflivin seating areas. one other item we looked at when we changes the grid on the south side of the project, we've reconsolidated the community sports fields. there is no change to the programming except in response to community comment, trying to make sure there's still flexibility in some of the programming, so we've changed one sport court into a flex space, acknowledging that as the design goes forward, we'll be soliciting input on getting just the right mix of sports courts, but as this diagram shows, there are a number of

types of courts in the fields located throughout the development, not just this central sports court. additionally, i wanted to highlight the outdoor international african marketplace set to be located in north side park. this is in addition to the indoor international african marketplace planned for development at candlestick. i wanted to mention project phasing briefly. our project has six phases, and these phases, and the ordering of them is tied to the expected transfer of land from the navy so that we're able to take land as it's available and develop it. phase one beginning construction in 2018 with the artist as we mentioned and then moving throughout the rest of the development as land becomes available, targeting out through 2030 for infrastructure

construction. now i'd like to introduce chris mitchell from faron pierce to talk more about transportation. >> thanks, martin. i'm a consultant working with five point, and we worked very closely with sf mta to talk about the transportation that we've developed here today. i know you've seen this plan many times before, so i won't spend a lot of time, but i'll give you a brief refresher of what the plan entails. first of all, the plan continues to provide a transit center at this hunters point shipyard, so that's a total of three transit lines from the north, in the north side of the shipyard, and two additional transit lines coming from the south for a combination much five lines all come together at one block. that's a point where everybody can transfer.

you can get from one point to another anywhere in the city with just one transfer, and it ensures people can get back and forth between sites. it'll also include some amenities for drivers as they take their beats, and the five point's also providing space for some of the electric infrastructure that might be needs as the fleet turns over to electric vehicles. we anticipate a new bus transit line all the way from the shipyard transit center all the way to balboa park b.a.r.t. station, and new express bus service between hunters point shipyard to downtown san francisco making limited stops in this part of town and then going directly downtown, giving you a very quick, efficient ride. one of the new features of the plan is water taxis. we're still working on all of the infrastructure and all of the agreements that would be required to make that happen, but that's something that we're actively looking at to provide

yet another option. and then, finally, one element that remains a key part of the project is the transportation and manned management plan. that is a series of programs, including bicycle parking, amenities for bicycle -- things like showers and lockers, everything from that all the way to transit passes for residents -- residents living in this, to provide transit passes to provide revenue stream for mta. this wi there will be a full-time coordinate i don't remember to staff this program, both to market the services to ensure that they're working properly and also to coordinate with sf mat, if there's something that needs to be tweaked, they can work with mta to get thattic at thatten care of. it's not enough that the project just has a really robust transit system and whole

build out of the project. we need to make sure that we strike a balance between making sure that there's enough tlan s -- transit serve so that when people move into the neighborhood, they feel they can get anywhere. we've morked with mta very closely to identify the right levels of transit service that correspond to each phase of development. it's a little hard to see on these screens, but what we've done here is we've ensured all the transit lines that extend into the transit center itself, in the interim phase, all of the transit lines will continue to overlap so that there's still that opportunity for connection between all of the transit routes. so this is the phase one program, you can almost see it here. i'm sure your screen is a little larger, but the hunters point express -- hunters point shipyard express point will

come into the southern part of the site to ensure that connectivity. basically, we've just rhea lined some of the routes to match where the roads are being constructed, so it'll still continue to provide that over y&p, and then, a final phase build out, which includes the construction of the transit center. another feature of the site that you've probably seen before is that it includes a robust bicycle network to ensure that bicycling is another high priority mode of transportation within the site. previously, i'm not sure if this mouse will actually work here -- it does. previously, you've seen that we included a two day dedicated cycle track, so they can ride both directions, and it's off of the street. the original plan was to priech it along wrich road here. you can see this is the actual green line down here, and we've relocated it. one of the things is the ability to bring that route

outline the way through and cut across through the green room, across the dry dock, directly to the heart of the project site rather than skirt around the edges, and that would continue north along robinson and donahue streets. this just gives you a little bit of context where that would basically connect to. it will be connecting from the candlestick point site all the way across to the bridge to the shipyard, and then, the blue-greenway is the proposal to construct a bicycle facility all the way along the eastern waterfront, to embarcadero, and you can continue all along the entire san francisco waterfront. this is a major connection piece for that. with that, i'll turn it back over to therese breckie.

>> and i want to wrap it up with one of the key aspects of the project. one of these is the sustainable development, the eco drift. so we are proposing solar panels on every building in the hunters point shipyard. we are looking at recycled water, that treatment, doing recycled water treatment for the site is going to save over 400,000 gallons perday of domestic water. and we're also looking at something very innovative, the idea of geothermal heating and coaling. it's a system of bore holes that are drilled into the earth. water is circulated through those holes in enclosed tubes, and as they come up, natural heating has helped to facilitate the heating and coaling that was then spread out across the site.

so it's very exciting and it's very innovative, and our team in land development has worked closely with puc on this. community benefits, i've already noted some of the community benefits, but just to give you a quick recap on some of the things we are doing and will of course continue to do is we are doing making contributions to scholarship and education funds totaling over $1 million to date. we have provides moneys to the southeast health center as well as moneys for wellness, totaling over 350,000, and we have been contributing towards job training in an amount that exceeds $2 million. so we -- we're very proud of this rather robust community benefits program.

it's an $82 million program that is now becoming a model for others. building a-13 is just one element of the project. i had mentioned earlier 813 is under ownership by ocii. we have then worked together with ocii to determine how the best use of that space, and part of that space had been contemplated for some incubator kinds of spaces. and what we are looking at now is to try and spread that incubator space and other maker spaces throughout the project site and mix it in and integrate it in with other developments so that certain synergies can be created and relationships created just through working side by side with your neighbor.

let me conclude around discussion of the economics. i had mentioned economics just earlier today. i mean, i told you that when you do a comparison to the project as defined in 2010 and the project we are presenting to you now, there are approximately 50% more jobs, permanent jobs, approximately 49% more construction jobs, and and what has really become a big benefit for the city is the fact that we will now have approximately 47 million in net general fund revenues for the city. couple other aspects of just the fiscal and economic impacts of the project. one is there's going to be over

20 million available for affordable housing through the tax increment and the 20% set aside. we will be funding the parks through a community finance district, so that will be an additional burden to the residents, the totality of san francisco, but rather, it will be a responsibility of those who live in the imminent area of the -- of the site: let's talk for a moment, then, about next steps. so as i had mentioned earlier, we need to amend some of the documents that were originally approved in 2010. we have a redevelopment plan that we're going to amend to allow for this new development program that i described to you earlier. we are amending our contract with the city, our disposition and development agreement to embrace this new development program, and then, all the

documents that go along with that, which is the transportation plan, the parks and open space plan, and others, financing, infrastructure, all of those are under amendment right now, will be presented again for approval as we come forward to meet with you in april and ask you to take some action. so there's been a lot of community outreach. we've been presenting since last summer to the cac, and more recently, we presented some elements of this project to the housing sub committees of the cac, as well as the business and economic sub committee, the cac just last week. we will be presenting to the full cac, and we will also be coming back to see you next month because at that time, we will be seeking approval for the amendments i just described to you throughout this presentation, and we'll also be

seeking approvals from other -- other agencies such as the planning commission for both the d four d as well as a determination from them on general plan, consistency findings, and ultimately, this'll be going to the board for its approval in june. >> so there's a lot of work. >> there's a lot of work. there's been a lot of work, and i have to say, there's this whole contingency of folks back here. we have consultants from the ginsler team who have worked with us on d for d. there's counsel here. we have all of our staff here. you know, we have our executive vice presidents, and we have our -- all of our chiefs and community affairs directors,

and there's doctor honeycutt, and frank marcowitz, it takes a village, as they say, and we've been lucky to have such great, thoughtful, intelligent people with whom to work, so i thank you. >> thank you. >> i just want to know how many people are there on this project? >> everybody's here. >> everybody. >> yeah. >> if you could standup if you're a part of the consulting team on this project. >> don't worry. i don't have any camera on. >> oh, great. thank you. thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. before i hand it back to lila to wrap up, just a few things i wanted to highlight. i know this is a lot of information, but a couple things that are of note, and one is with regards to housing and certificate of preference holders in working with five point in discussions about the

housing program. we saw an opportunity -- our housing staff saw an opportunity to approve the likelihood of certificate of preference holders to get parking in areas where there is less than 1:1, because i know that is a concern of yours. as it stands now, the way the project works, when you have less than 1:1 parking, the spots are offered to the bmr households, so the largest, the three bedrooms, etcetera would go first, then two bedrooms, and one bedrooms, etcetera. so we're proposing a change to the dda, to put the certificate of preference holders at that largest size preference level, so that will increase our odds, since we found from our survey that they tend to be in smaller households, but a bigger need for parking. another thing just to highlight, therese went over some of the benefits. on the community space benefits, what we're proposing is the developer will now go

through a process to create a marketing plan for those spaces, bring that to the cac for their condition, with specific outreach and targeting to the bayview-hunters point area. and then, we'll provide a short list of candidates for these spaces for the cac to review and make recommendations on. and so they would go through that process to tenant those spaces, recognizing sometimes that there cannot be a perfect match between tenant and the market before you are able to move forward. they could do to a five year incident leasing period. after that, they would go back to their bayview-hunters point marketing plan. so i just wanted to highlight that for you in all the

community benefits that are being provided to you, and i'll hand it back to lila to wrap up. >> as theres e mentioned, there is a team behind me and they worked to vet every single element that is before you today. we really look forward to hearing your feedback. in addition, we are doing informational presentations to other boards, sfmta, rec park and so forth, because everyone participated, and we also want to get their feedback, as well, because the city is very supportive, because as you know, these items will be going to the board of supervisors, with that, there's a team behind me ready to answer questions. thank you. >> great. thank you. madam secretary, do you have any speakers for this item. >> yes, mr. chair, there are

three speaker cards. members of the public please come to the podium this this -- in this order. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i was listening to what was being said about the jobs, and i think through the course of this plan, it totals over about i'd say about 26,000 jobs. it warms my heart to see the shipyard and the candlestick development which emerging as an economic engine for the construction and permanent jobs for the community. i support the plan. thank you. >> thank you. mr. washington? >> oh, joyce. >> oh, yes. excuse me. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is joyce armstrong, and

i'm the president of public housing tenant association citywide and also a member of the hunters point shipyard cac. when i voted yes on prop o, so did the most of the people in san francisco that don't even live in the bayview. everything i've heard is an improvement on the existing plan while bringing the dda into alignment with the redevelopment plan. i really like the bmr housing for seniors. i really like that since i'm one, and i encourage the commissioners to join me in supporting the amendments to the dda. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> ace washington. [ inaudible ] >> it's okay. i'm here -- i've been here most longer than you all. i don't -- what you all get, stipends?

i don't even get that. >> neither do we. >> this has been taking up most of my time. i went to three different commissions, and i still have to stop before i go out. i've always supported healthy. see, i can speak because i know kofi on the board and all of them years ago. avenue he came off of the redevelopment agency. see, ace is always with the origin from the beginning. i don't know how i got involved with all this politics stuff here now that i'm 64, and i'm still ready to go. any way, i was told the status -- i'm impressed with phase two because it sounds good. knock on wood, like i say, it sounds good. i'm going to hold my comments back until i sit down because there's a lot of things you're going to have to point out to me. it's a lot more than five points, because i do a lot of pointing, too, case in point. i'm not going to do that today,

because we've got things to do. we're going to talk later. all these afo's, cao's, i know them all, but i'm still little a-c-e. i'm 64, i've got kids in their 40's and 30's, and i've got grand kids, and i've got great grand kids. a lot of people get up here and speak, and they don't even have kids. they're not going to be around, but that's okay. but here's the thing. when everybody starts they thipg, they better stay in their lane, because ace is on the patrol. i know how it goes. my name is ace, and i'm on this case. >> thank you, mr. washington. next speaker. >> mr. honeycutt, in addition

i can't. >> good afternoon. i'm not going to take a lot of your time today, but i am going to say thank you very much for approving block 2-a, a truly beautiful piece of architecture. and i want you to know that we on the cac are looking at hps two, this project that was just chaired with you, and in fact, we will be having two special meetings in april so we can have even more details prior to deciding the approval process with which you are familiar. i just want to thank you for taking the time to work on moving these projects forward. very important. there's so much at stake. jobs, affordable housing. you heard, you saw all of the amenities in the hps two project.

so much at stake. any delay means that somebody is not going to take advantage -- be able to take advantage of those opportunities, and i know you know that, because i feel i know where your hearts are all. thank you so much for all you do. >> thank you, doctor honeycutt. >> jackie flynn. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is jackie flynn. i'm the executive director of the brandoff institute here in san francisco, and i am very happy to see a majority of my community here speaking on behalf of folks that i work with every day, 'cause often times, we don't see our representatives here. and so i'm here -- i want to also applaud and echo all the work that has gone into the job development and career development aspects of the project because obviously that's very much in need in our community. i want to talk about the fact that healthy communities are those that exist in which people, plans and wildlife coexist and thrive. and open spaces and parks are essential in bayview-hunters

point. our community has grown significantly in the last ten years and will continue to grow exponentially, and it's been proven that green spaces with functionality have positive impacts on the overall heath of the community. so beneficial benefits include environmental mitigation when it comes to heat and resill yen see, as well as physical activity, social interaction. i mean, it's important to talk about healing spaces in bayview. so it was very pleasing to hear consideration for youth and their growth over the next couple of decades, and i think that five point has done some exceptional work for beautiful open spaces, so i want to applaud their effort. i think that their amendments are tangible, and i'm in very

much support of those amendments. and i think it's great to have nice things in bayview. i think it's okay to have nice things in bayview, so thank you for your time. >> thank you. [applause]. >> kurt grimes. >> my name is kurt gramz. i am -- grimes. i am also a native and resident of the bayview. i would like to echo the sentiments of jackie flynn and dr. honeycutt. i do believe that the plans we have seen are quite exceptional. i do believe that the bayview deserves to have nice places and go to relax and enjoy. open spaces with key. me personally, i grew up in the ingleside, ingleside terrace to be impact, where that

particular part of the city was planned as a park like setting. i do know that that life has -- that my time there has affected my life in a very positive direction, seeing that i'm also a college graduate, but also, i would like to see that sort of lifestyle on this side of the city, as well. once again, i do believe it is okay to have a nice place in the bayview. i also think the plans we have seen today is exceptional. this group has done a very nice job to make sure that this side of the city is well developed and accessible. on that note, i say thank you very much for your time, and i appreciate yourest ares. >> great. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> are there any other speaker cards. >> no more speaker cards. okay. is there anybody else? any burning questions? seeing none, i will close public comment, and i will turn to my fellow commissioners for any questions or comments. it's a workshop, so we don't have to vote. >> yeah. i have -- i have a couple of questions. the first one is on the senior

housing appropriatesal. i just want to be sure that i understand, it's on 15 of the large handouts, and my understanding that the proposal is in a -- one development to consolidate, what would be 105 inclusionary units that would be in other developments? is that the idea. >> yeah. just sort of pull it up for the audience. >> oh, sorry. >> yeah. so rather than having inclusionary bmr units sprinkled throughout the project, a typical project would have five 5 and 20% of the units as affordable bmr's. in this case, the developer is proposing to advance the bmr's from what would be in later housing developments and kol date them here as a stand-alone

affordable housing project, very similar to how ocii does stand-alone housing projects, serving households at median 60% of income and below. we're working out the deals of that pronl and anticipate that will come to you as a design level in the next few months. but it would be advancing housing, bmr housing that would otherwise come later. we're not increasing the overall number of b 34 r's project, we're just designating them earlier. >> and how can we hide tke the proposal to as close to our success on our c.o.p. goals?

>> well, that's certainly something we can explore. just like we've been doing with the ocii lots, early outreach has been proven to being the key, so there's nothing to preclude us from using all the lessons we've learned on how to maximize c.o.p. success and using them here skbl so do you think that dalia is at a point or would be at a point where that matching feature that was a trink wiwinkle in maria benj eye. >> i don't know that i know the answer to that now, but we would go back and look at that. >> because that would be a win-win, if you look at it. it's just, as with you know, the certificate of preference population is ageing, and there's a -- i think our last survey, we know that there's a

high percentage of c.o.p. holders that are seniors, and many of them are still in san francisco, but many of them are not. and those that have come back home have expressed, you know, that coming back to an environment as we're proposing here that's been very healthy for them, so i think that would be a win. >> that's great. commissioner singh, do you have any questions? comments? >> it's one of the biggest projects that i've ever seen in so many years. actually, the biggest ever. i just want to know when they're going to start this and when they're going to finish this. appreciate it, i would be still around. >> can someone just quickly answer that? >> i'll be happy to answer, particularly because i'm pleased that we've started. and as i'd noted earlier, there's been a lot of insfra structure investments in alice griffith and construction of

housing in alice griffith. you've seen other projects brought forward to you today for your approval, so we're advancing this, absolutely as soon as we can. and of course, as you know, everything is subject to the navy and epa on the shipyard site. >> yeah. great. >> do you know the completion date of this? ten years or 20 years? >> well, the total buildout date is imagined to be at this time out to about 2035. >> oh . okay. thank you. >> great. thank you. >> yep. >> i just want to say great work. continue to move forward on this, and we look forward to more coming our way, so thank you. and thachg the cac members for all their hard work and their involvement for all this. i want to thank the staff for the diligence in making sure that all the things we hold dear to our hearts is coupled with the work of the developer, so thank you. >> and i'm sorry.

can i ask just a question of procedure, that because this is a workshop as we go through the materials again, that we could raise questions to go along, so for the next time -- >> absolutely. >> for the next time. >> thank you very much. madam secretary. >> thank you. >> will you call the next item? >> the next order of business is item six, public comment on nonagenda items. mr. vice chair? >> okay. great. thank you. do we have any speaker cards on this. >> yes, mr. vice chair, we have one speaker card, ice washington. >> thank you, mr. washington. >> by god. i got about ten minutes in here today. it's chopped up, but two, four, six, eight, ten. you all don't got to leave. you might want to hear what i have to say. >> emp's running. >> whenever you all want to close the show, bring on old ace, huh? but any way, i do want to say, i want to commend you all. you all are doing a wonderful job, because when you all came on this ocii, i commended all of you all, because you took over an agency in my opinion --

>> if we could have everybody be quiet in the room. >> it's okay. you know, ace talks, go ahead. no, no, i appreciate your respect. i'll talk into the mic, but what i would like to do, respectfully ask this commission, your oversight board which cancelled out, and they are he not going to meet anymore until september is ridiculous. i told you, secretary, i wanted the reports of the rops. i wants the report that you sent to sacramento telling the governor everything is okay in the city by the bay. i would like to get that before i go up there and hear what he have to say. now, i know you all look at me like i'm some kind of fool. i done reached the pinnacle here in city hall. i can't go no further. ed lee, he's gone. i mean, i can't talk to mark. he's smart, but he took the part, and he's only here for a little start. so the next mayor, we've got to see if he cares -- or no, she

cares, because it's three. with the rank and project, you could vote or either one of those three. i don't know what lindo is going to do. let's stop talking politics because it makes you turn into a lunatic. i just want to sit down with you, and your lawyer, mr. morett. i just want to know what you're going to say. see, i just want to talk to you all in private. thank you, have a good day. >> thank you. >> no more speaker cards, mr. vice chair. >> is there anyone else wishing to speak on this item? seeing none, i will close public comment. madam secretary, can you call the next item. >> next item is report of the chair. >> there is no reports of the chair. >> next item. >> next item is report of the executive director, madam director? >> none at this time. thank you.

>> next item? >> the next order of business is item nine, commissioner's questions and matters. mr. vice chair? >> are there any questions or matters that we want to discuss? >> move to adjourn. >> well seeing none, next item. >> the next order of business is item ten, closed session. there are no closed session items. the next order is business is item 11, adjournment. mr. vice chair? >> thank you. commissioner singh has moved to adjourn, and commissioner rosales has seconded. >> second. >> thank you very much, and meeting ends at 3:55. thank you very much, everybody.

i want to thank everyone for coming here, all of the guests and leaders standing behind me. we're here today because history, earthquakes and climate change compel us to protect our city. history. over 100 years ago, the 'em sea wall was built and we're fortunate it lasted this long. it was built at a time when they didn't know how to stabilize against earthquake risk. we know the big one will strike us at some point over the next three decades. and if it does, we'll see flooding along the water front. climate change, despite climate deniers we know that the estimates of sea level rise by the end of the next century are 4-10 feet. we need to fix this sea wall.

what is it that we're trying to protect? millions of san franciscans and californians who live work and play along the waterfront. we see 24 million tourists visiting our waterfront every year. it's imperative we protect this asset not just for san francisco, but the bay and the california economy. i want to again thank everyone standing behind us, our mayor, board of supervisors. when i was on the board of supervisors, i served on the capital planning committee, where we planned for how we took care of tens of billions of dollars of assets. this is at the top of the list. i want to thank my current colleagues in the legislature. you'll hear from scott wiener. in 2005 they established the

financing district we're talking about today. she had drafted the legislation to ensure we're investing in infrastructure as well as historic resources, the bill we're discussing today is to ensure we're expanding what it is that we're protecting. protecting our shoreline, ensuring we can rebuild our seawall. before i introduce our next speaker, i want to say two things. we're here in part because we have to come together as a community. you'll hear about the efforts at the local level, as well as at the state level and what we had hoped was going to be the federal level, but despite what donald trump is saying what he is doing about infrastructure, none of us are holding our breath. so san francisco and california need to act. we're here for our kids. and our grandkids. none of us are going to be around when the next century turns. but my hope is my son and his friends and his next generations, will look to this

day as a day that our city leaders came together to care for and steward the assets of our city. our next speaker is someone who has children of his own, and i know that he cares very much about ensuring that the future of our city is in good hands. i'm delighted to help introduce the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, mayor mark farrell. >> thank you, david. i am proud to be here as the mayor to thank -- [horn honk] i'm going to start off. i want to thank mr. chu along with assembly member ting, but specifically on this issue here. leadership is critical to the future of our city. critical to the future of the waterfront and proud to be here at this announcement today. our waterfront is one of the

most iconic parts of san francisco. it always has been. subjects of pictures, it's why tourists come here. it's one of the most beautiful parts of our city. and holding up the waterfront is our seawall. these are the buildings, the waterfront, the restaurants, the small businesses, but it's been holding back the bay to make sure that our tunnels are not flooded. holding back the rising tides of our san francisco bay to make sure we can walk along the waterfront in front of us here today. it is critically important to san francisco today and to the future of our city. we need to do everything we can as a city to make sure it survives and it's strong for the next generation. this project is not cheap. i want to really thank elaine for her leadership and the entire port commission for making sure we plan for the

future. it is a $5 billion project that we have to plan for. the voters of san francisco will have a bond on the ballot going toward this effort. and the bill is going to play a huge start in kick starting the project. and let's be clear, this is about planning for the future of the city. it's about infrastructure and making sure our city is resilient when the next earthquake hits. the next earthquake will hit. it's not a matter of if, but when. we need to be strong and ready to respond and make sure our infrastructure is ready to protect the residents of our city. proud to be here today and really want to thank assembly member chu for his leadership. thank you, everyone. >> thank you, mr. mayor. some 13 years ago in 2005 when

they established the legislation to take what were known as public trust lands owned by the state to turn them over to the authority of our port department for stewardship, i want to thank elaine and her department and commissioners for bringing this to our attention for so many years. i championed the earthquake safety emergency response bonds. there were two of them over the years. unfortunately, we were not able to the bonds to develop or create the assets to protect what we have here at the port. with that i'd like to bring up elaine forbes to tell us where our seawall infrastructure needs to go. >> thank you so much, assembly member chiu. i'm representing the port staff. we have the port commission president by my side and she'd she's been a steward of the waterfront for 20 years. i can say this is a dream come true day for us.

it's remarkable to see the leadership behind me embracing and supporting the need for investment in the waterfront. as our mayor and assembly member has said, this seawall is a work horse for the city. so much economic activity. the infrastructure. and there is other things, too, that the seawall does that goes unseen. it's going to be the place of emergency response. we expect people to go out by water in the event of a major earthquake and goods to come in by water. this has to hold up. if we're preparing and preventing disaster, it will be five times less to do so proactively. this represents how we can get this done. how this daunting task of a $5 billion effort will come to fruition because the leaders behind me are making this a

priority. we start with the $500 million phase, laying out the improvements for 20-30 years and then tackling the most critical pieces first. i want to give a huge thank you to naomi kelly behind me. she pole vaulted this project along with mayor lee by identifying it as a critical piece of infrastructure for the city. so we're so -- port staff, port commission and i are so excited for the day, so thankful for the state leadership for assembly member chu, ting, getting us $250 million for the project, should this be approved, we'll work hard to get it done. we're so thankful the leadership has heard our call and is going to prioritize a safe and vibrant waterfront. thank you so much.

>> i'm grateful to my colleagues for representing this effort. phil ting, as well as our next speaker, senator scott wiener. >> thank you, david, i want to thank assemblyman chiu for his leadership. when we served on the board of superviso supervisors together, we all care about infrastructure, but david took so much leadership on not just the sexy infrastructure, but on the infrastructure that we depend on but the people don't see. and the seawall is certainly part of that. i want to thank the port. i am really trying to work and support the port's effort to move this bond to the ballot. i want to thank elaine, my neighbor, and the entire port staff for its leadership on this critical issue. this is really about two

realities of life. sea level rise and earthquakes. and as much as we want to wish them all away, we can't. the big earthquake is going to come and unless we take radical, radical action today around reducing carbon emissions and fighting climate change, we're going to continue to see sea level rise. and sadly because of the disaster known as washington d.c., there is no bold action happeni happeni federally to address climate change, and we're doing what we can but this is a national problem we have to resolve. we're going to continue to see significant sea level rise. our downtown is so at risk of inundation, we're doing what we can to reduce carbon emissions. doing what we income the bay area. just a year ago we passed a tax

to start restoring the wetlands destroyed in the bay area 150 years ago, because that will help us to mitigate sea level rise. but with everything we're doing, we have to have the seawall. it has to be intact, has to be able to with stand an earthquake and be able to protect us from the bay. we love the bay, but the bay is going to cause us problems when it floods the muni subway tunnel and downtown areas. we need to get this bill passed. this is just one step. we need the bond. we need this bill and a lot more work to fund this project. i look forward to collaborating to get it done. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, senator wiener for reminding us we're putting the sexy back into infrastructure. i want to thank everyone for coming together. i want to invite the next

speaker, someone who has been a champion for infrastructure in our city, supervisor london breed. >> thank you, everyone for being here today. you know, it's easy to talk to residents of san francisco about the need for more housing. the need to address challenges with public safety and homelessness and things we can see. what is harder is trying to help people to understand the significance of the things that we can't see. the infrastructure needs that hold our city together. we know the consequences when we don't do what is necessary to protect our infrastructure. we only look at new orleans and what happened with the levies and how that devastated that particular city. and so we in san francisco, we must be proactive, we must take these kind of bold moves and creative solutions. i want to thank assembly member

david chiu for finding a very creative way to help us pay for it. i want to thank the voters in advance, because this fall, we're going to have a ballot measure that is going to help with $350 million to help in this effort. we know that there is so much work to do in san francisco. and as the president of the board who now serves on the unknown capital planning committee, the needs of our infrastructure are at the top of my list on a regular basis. i want to thank not only noemie kelly, but also elaine forbes. she would reach out and say, supervisor, i want to meet with you about the seawall, i say, wait a minute, i have to work with this challenge. she always brings it back to how important it is not just to

protect my district, but to protect the entire city. her leadership along with port commissioner president kimberley brandon that been outstanding. they've been in sacramento, in d.c., they've been all over the place trying to put together the money for this particular seawall and i know with their leadership and the work of all the policy behind me, we're going to get this done for the people of san francisco. thank you so much. >> thank you, president breed. our final speaker is someone who represents the district we're currently in who knows that it is her residence and businesses that could be flooded if we do not invest in the infrastructure. please join me in welcoming supervisor kim. >> thank you, assembly member chiu. as someone who represented your sister district when we both served on the board of supervisors, we understand the importance of strengthening our

seawall, shield that prerkts our residents and workers and many of the tourist attractions up and down the waterfront. mayor mark farrell, myself, supervisor cohen and peskin represent the districts that are along the boundary lines of the seawall lot that we're here about. so much of what we love about our city is just along the waterfront, our housing, offices, jobs, transportation, the giants who i see in the audience today. it is important to make prudent investments today to strengthen the seawall shield and strengthen the unbreakable bond between the city of san francisco and the waterfront we love so much. i want to thank our san francisco delegation in sacramento, for making sure we're prioritizing the very infrastructure that will keep the city beautiful and running, thank you very much. [applaus