poopal people that come up and want to wreck your ideas. that happen today eme when i went to candle stick part and wanted to [inaudible] people told me no left and right. whether you go out for something you are passionate about our something you want to grow in and feel people will say no. go out and get it done. i can be the strong leader female and i love that.

>> this is a meeting of the recreation and park commission. would the clerk please call the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: commissioner bonilla has an excused absence. today is august 16. if you could please turnoff any sound producing devices during the meet being. if you would like to have a secondary conversation, we would ask that you go outside in order to proceed as efficiently as possible. if you would like to speak on any item today, we request but do not require that you complete a blue card. commissioner, will each person have three minutes on each

item? >> yes. >> okay. you will have three minutes for each item on public comment today. if there is an item of interest to you that is not on calendar but falls under the jurisdiction of the recreation and park commission, that is item four, and then, continued again on item 12. please address your comments to the commission during public comment on items. in order to allow equal time for all, neither commission nor staff will respond to questions during public comment. the commission may ask questions to staff after public comment is closed. if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building using an orderly fashion in any exit. if you do need assistance getting out of the building, please make your way to the

closest area of refuge, which is across the haul in the men's rest room. if you go into the men's rest room, press the button, announce your name, and security will assist you. i need to announce two changes on the calendar. the first is item 5-e on the consent calendar will be taken off of consent and will be heard on the general calendar. the second is item nine, margaret hayward playground renovation has been taken off calendar and will not be heard today. with that, we will get started on the president's report. >> there is no president's report. >> approved. >> okay. is there any public comments? seeing none, public comment is cles. we're on item three, the general manager's report. >> that's pressure, and i'm not going to live up to it, but be relatively brief.

this past weekend, i wanted to offer an outside lands wrap up. this past weekend was the annual outside lands concert. the three day festival featured 83 local restaurants, 41 local wienerys, 31 local brewerys, and a series of local artists, comedian, and speakers, including our former mayor, gavin newsom spoke. he was not the headliner, however. those were the weekend, florence and the machine, and miss jackson herself, janet jackson. this incident has become woven into the fabric and culture of our city. it also generates enormous economic activity, according to a 2017 economic impact report, in 2017 numbers, the festival pumped $67.8 million into the

san francisco economy and 75 million into the entire bay area. it created the equivalent of 75 full-time local jobs. over the past decade, the festival's contributed over 20 million to san francisco's parks. it pays the salary of a full-time gardener for the department and also contributes approximately 15 to $20,000 in material and supplies to repair and upgrade all of the areas in which the event is held. we do want to thank another planet entertainment, super fly presents, all of the staff for hosting this uniquely san francisco event each year. we know that this can be an inconvenience, we know that there's sound, that there's people, that there's congestion, and we work very hard with our neighborhood

organizations and the festival itself each year to minimize the neighborhood impacts. so we appreciate everybody for coming. we had over 200,000 people visiting the park this weekend. i wanted to give an update about camp mather. earlier this week, we made a decision to cancel the rest of the camp season at mather. the decision does affect the scheduled annual senior week -- [no audio] >> -- and our employee weekend for rec park staff and retirees. i do want to state with respect to our outdoor teen experience,

we're pivoting on that and we've partnered with juvenile probation and dcyf and mayor breed and her administration were planning a really lovely day for about 60 kids with a variety of outdoor activities including some lake time and a barbecue over in the east bay, some kayaking and canoeing for kids that won't be up at camp mather. through the past three weeks, we've been in contact with the tuolomne county public management and safety agencies, cal forest, our own department of emergency management, fire department, department of public health and of course our mayor's office, and we've all coordinated very well together on all of the impacts caused by the fires up in the sierras, both tuolomne county and san francisco health officials released health advisories on

july 30 due to hazardous air quality, and while the air quality is very recently improved in the area, power and phone service remains unreliable because of some infrastructure damaged by the wildfires. given that, we thought it best given the nature of the upcoming visits to postpone them. it's always difficult to cut people's vacation short, but mather is very resilient, and we're looking forward to another great season next year. hopefully, as you were walking in, you'll notice the civic center cafe talking shape. that is poepg in early october, so i'll be back in november with an announcement with that. we continued with our third thursday event. this is a civic center commons hosted initiative. every third thursday of the month through october, from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m., and i guess

today is thursday, so i'm talking about tonight, you can go out to civic center commons and join us for live entertainment, food trucks, off the grid, we have beach volleyball, food, beverages, and they're really starting to take root. for your information, you can givest go to civiccenterorganization.com. looking ahead, on saturday, august 25, at 3:00 p.m., fans of the historic boat playground in golden gate park with literally and thank you elton

pond and ryan kelly who wrote this are literally flush with excitement as we get ready to celebrate the opening of the park's rest room. the rest room which received tremendous support from supervisor katey tang. i actually think that's an understatement. supervisor tang very much drove this initiative on behalf of her constituents, and the 45th avenue neighborhood association will now allow neighbors to stay longer and play longer at the playground, which is so named because of the park's feature, a metal dorry, otherwise known as a boat. the give way will include a ceremonial first flush, which you're all invited to participate in. and then, saturday, september 8, we want to invite everybody to golden gate park tennis

center, where we will let the games begin. please come and join the tennis coalition, and rec and park celebrating the launch of the public phase of our campaign in the new golden gate tennis center. it includes a fun day of on court activities, games for kids, food trucks, a pickle ball demonstration, and a watch party for the u.s. open women's final. the event will help kick off the final set of fund raising to rhenvate the 124-year-old tennis facility which will also include new toilets. nobody -- okay. fall registration. it's not too early to think head for fall. fall registration for classes going on now. we're offering over 1300 classes in our fall season. we already had 10,000 slots filled in less than one week of

registration for fall. already, 556 scholarships have been offered to community members valuing well over $100,000. please come out, and we have an amazing set of activities for the fall. and as we think about fall, let's take one look back, and our video today is summer, and then, i know that richard rothman, and he can come up during public comment and he wants to come up during general comment for something else, but why don't we wrap up here, ryan, with our look back and summer wrap up.

>> thank you, ryan, and a special shout out to lorraine banford and the park and recreation division. this is their hardest season, and they just deliver an outstanding, outstanding community service to san franciscans. >> hear, hear.

>> and that's the general manager's report. >> thank you very much. >> public comment on this item? this is on the general manager's report, okay, not general public report. >> i'm friends of jackson park, and a ten year enjoyment of the outside lands festivals, so i wanted to thank you for your support of this festival and thank you, phil, and your staff. it was amazing. there was a lot of moving parts. there was a lot of moving parts, and staff was on it. it was great, and i thank you guys for supporting this, and i look forward to many more years of that. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> richard rothman, vice chair,

the parks and open space advisory committee. at this last meeting, we had james wheeler, a park manager come and talk about camp mather, and it was very informative about the -- i guess the virus out break there and how they dealt with the fire. i think we all got a better understanding of the issues of camp mather. and the other item on our agenda, stephen franz, who's our chair, did an excellent presentation about how to setup a friends group and went into great detail, so if any of the public or commissioners know of a group that's interested in setting up a friends group or neating more information, i'll volunteer him. i'm sure he had -- needing more information, i'll volunteer him. i'm sure he'd be happy to come and talk about how to setup a friends group and how they can support the parks in their areas and rec and park.

and the other thing i wanted to comment on was i live right here the outside lands, and i must say after eight years, i figured out how to deal with the parking issue, and it was pretty well run, and i didn't hear many complaints. the main was with muni. i understand the vendor is going to have an outside traffic consultant, and i hope that'll be shared with the public. so, you know, every year, there's always room for improvement. so we'd like to see that community. and also, since the richmond district gets the most impact, maybe a little bit of the funds can go to help pay for a gardener, or have a party for the district one residents, since we have to put up with -- not put up, but make an

inconvenience for this one and the strictly harley and the marathon that runs through. they all seem to run within two months of each other, so thank you. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make public comment under the general manager's report? >> well, i always appreciate the general manager's report, but i'd like to make a friendly suggestion, if i may. i do enjoy the summer wrap ups, but they're mostly focused on the first part of department name, which is recreation. could i suggest that we perhaps have something similar at future meetings with park issues, and in addition to the recreation. thank you. >> thank you. >> so noted. thank you. >> is there anyone else? okay. there being no further public comment, this item is closed.

>> commissioner mazzolo? >> i know it was a hard decision for camp mather. the local i operate for, we had to make the same decision and cancel everything because of the smoke and the ash. i get it. safety and health comes first. a question, just out of curiosity, did the maintenance people go up and actually close it all down or are you waiting to do that? >> not yet. >> not yet. >> i'm actually -- we're tracking -- still tracking air quality for staff very, very carefully, and air quality has improved up there. >> yeah. >> we just made a decision this past year, so we're probably going to stick, commissioner, to our normal closeout schedule, which i believe it's september 10. >> okay. and then, the other, just to comment on the new bathroom and the first flush, i don't know if you were around, but we had the royal flush when they built

at&t park, it used to be pac bell park where the giants play, and they flushed all the toilets at once to make sure that the sewers could handle it. so we had the royal flush, and hopefully, we can do that for the warriors arena. >> i had a royal flush once. >> thank you both for the interesting comments. >> down the drain. >> oh. >> may we go to item four? >> please, quickly. >> we are now on item four, general public comment, up to 15 minutes. this item will be continued to item 12 if need be. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest. -- interest to the public that are in the subject matter jurisdiction. within the agenda item, you will have the opportunity to address the commission when that item is reached in the meeting. i have three cards, i have

scott, richard, and jude. >> my name is scott brothman, and i'm back again. six months ago, i e-mailed ago the near perfect failure of rec and park staff to respond to my multiple inquiries. onnd month, beverly ng good respond to me and sent me another insignificant e-mail yesterday, you are fundamentally civil servants, starting with respect and integrity. i have also contacted several

people. responding to my e-mail to the trust for public land, he dismissed my concerns because the final product was approved by d.b.i., the mayor's office, and a certified program safety inspector. she showed no concern for the children who the playground exists. the holes in fences couldn't be as enticing as the holes in the egg shaped huts, and it goes without saying you are a bad guardian if you bring two or more children to the play. [inaudible] >> i guess the community, including those with small children in their lives. clamored for a fence that would

fail to function as a fence. i have e-mailed and spoken with mis-wilson, the executive director of the bay area children and women's center to get the original park built so the children could have a safe place to play. miss wilson's response, that's disturbing about the fence. i also called the california park and recreation society. they train playground safety inspectors. i person i spoke with assured me that my reading of california health and safety code is correct. recently i had begun circulating a petition available in ten languages to demand the fences be fixed. more than 80 people have already signed, and -- >> you have 30 seconds. >> and children's program staff as well as the principal, assistant principal and almost all of the teacher and support staff at tenderloin community school. in the meantime, i still expect

you to fix the fences and provide a full accounting of how you managed to circumvent state law and subjugate your authority. [inaudible] >> thank you. i might ask, just as a note, that to get a clarification on the state law at some point. >> commissioner, this issue has been well researched. the gentleman doesn't like our answer. we've responded to him and told him that the playground meets all of our safety standards. >> thank you. commissioner anderson, you had a question? >> i just wanted to wait till the end. >> being on. wait till the end. go ahead. >> richard. >> hi. richard rothman. i want to talk about murals, first one about coit tower. as you know, i'm a city guide and give tours up there, and

i'm not talking on behalf of city guides. supervisor peskin office setup a working group about -- talking about coit tower and the area surrounding it. and this past summer, oh, it's between memorial day and labor day, it gets very, very crowded up at coit tower. and the people who want to go up there and just see the murals cannot see the murals because of the lines inside. and last time when i gave a tour, the lines were over halfway around the building. most of the people in line were either on their iphone, talking to other people, feeding their kids, and not really paying attention to the murals. and rec and park and the vendor have been very reluctant to make changes that on summer

days, the lines could be outside and so that the people who want to enjoy the murals -- these are probably some of the most important murals, certainly, in the city and maybe in the country, and certainly, the first ones in this era and are very important, and femalpeople, yo know, come from all over to see the murals. so i just hope we can find a solution and that rec and park and the vendor are a little more flexible. this only happens between memorial day and labor day; otherwise, it's not an issue. and the other thing i want to talk about, supervisor tang gave the project $400,000, the last of the work, the masonry work has just started. there'll be some money

leftover. i just posted on the friends of the mothers building an article by this researcher in texas on the importance of the murals of the women artists and their -- and how they played in the -- in the women's movement. and we're still looking for the $6 million to do the next phase of the work. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning again, jude duckenbach, friend of the park. i'm here to advocate for increasing the 2019 parks bond so that many park projects can have the funds to do their project. we as jackson park would like to have a straight flush just to be able to get new bathrooms in there. the after school program doesn't allow them to use the men's bathroom. it's bad -- in bad condition at

this time. we know that it's a difficult situation, but we are working with rec park, with parks alliances, and with all the constituents to see what we can do to help increase this bond. sf planning shows that 40,000 new workers are moving into our corridor. as you know, the east side of the city is observing a lot of development, both housing and commercial developments, and so more office space, airbnb decided a huge lease four blocks from the park, and they're there every day, so they're park users also. so we thank you for your support of that, and we look forward to consideration. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make general public comment, come on up. >> thank you again, commissioners. i am here on this item to mention is that to remind you that this year is the centennial of the world war i

armistice signing in 1918. i'm organizing events and exhibits around the centennial, and i've been working very happily with the department on a monument in golden gate park. it's called the hero's grove. next year will be the centennial of the planting of the redwood grove that was a memorial that still stands, fortunately. still stands as a memorial to the nearly 1,000 bay area people who died, men and women who died in world war i. i'm here to extend an invitation that i will elect to follow up with secretary macarthur that on the 25 of this month at noon there will be a commemoration at mother's rock which was appreciated and

installed by the city in 1932. it contains the names of men and women who died in world war i, and the committee has worked close we with my volunteer and armistice. we will have at noon a memorial ceremony that will acknowledge the installation of two memorial older seating that we're having installed in the site. not many people knew or still know about hero's grove, but i think this year in addition to the john j.pershing statue, they have three monuments in the park. on november 11, with secretary of state george shulze, i'm hosting a centennial event in the green room at the memorial

building and to remind you that we have both the green opera house and the veteran's memorial building as a monument to world war i. that will be on the 11th, the actual signing of the armistice. i do want to say i appreciate the work with the department on our project for august the 25. thank you. >> is there anyone else? okay. being done, public comment is closed. >> commissioner anderson, you wanted to make a comment? >> yeah. well, the gentleman who raised the safety issue about the children's playground and the civic center has left, but i wanted to just respond generally that we are very appreciative of all of our volunteers and activists and advocates out in the community. i want to thank everybody particularly the people who come to public comment, and you're help us keep an eye on things. you are our additional eyes andeers, and we take the safety

of the park users very seriously and particularly, the safety of our children. if you see something that seems amiss, i hope that you will continue to contact us. i know that we have looked into the civic center playground issue very seriously. you know, if you have a question about it, i invite you, when you leave city hall, to go out there and take a look. you know, if you have anymore comments, let us know, but we take it very, very seriously. myself is a mother of two children, and i would never want anything to harm any of us using the parks or anywhere. >> thank you. >> okay. we are now on item five, the consent calendar. as noted at the beginning of the meeting, item 5-e has been removed from the consent calendar, so is there any public comment on the consent calendar, with the exception of item 5-e?

come on up. >> item f, i spoke at the capital committee in support of this resource evaluation project -- not project, but authorization, and i may have been not clear, and commissioner buell may have felt that i inferred that i was looking and supporting and looking forward to this being implemented as a source of funding for neighborhood groups. as the district three has two landmark parks, washington square and also at pioneer park, coit tower, having access to historical resources for the department is very important. unfortunately we didn't have those sensiblities back when we destroyed union square and portsmouth square, so i really do appreciate the fact that the department is looking forward in this way to having access when it comes up that we may

need historical resources. they've been very important to both washington square and to coit tower in the past, and so this will help stream line that. i just wanted the commissioner to know i did -- i may have misstated the way i put my support behind it. >> totally understand. thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to speak on the consent calendar? seeing none, this item is closed. commissioners? >> entertain a motion. >> so moved, with the deletion of item 5-e. >> second. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor? [voting] >> so moved. [ gavel ]. >> okay. we are now on item 5-e, 807 franklin shadow on jefferson square park. >> good morning, commissioners, and general manager. as was noted, this item was heard at capital committee with recommendation to approve and was pulled offer the consent calendar to verify two changes.

the first change is the height of the building. it hasn't really changed. the change is in the reference point from which the building height is being measured to comply with planning commission practices and terminology, so the height has been changed to 96 feet rather than 93'4", but again, this does not reflect in the actual building design or height and does not affect the shadow on the park in any way? the other change is the inclusionary housing requirement would be met by paying in lieu fees rather than providing below market rate units on-site and as was previously noted. just to remind you, the project would shadow -- i'm sorry. franklin -- sorry. jefferson square park, and it's a very, very small shadow load.

it would add -- it would bring the shadow loads to a total of 1.361% to the total annual available sun light, and it would shadow the southeastern area of the park affecting some paths and grassy areas. i'm available for any questions as is mary woods from the planning department who is the project manager. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> entertain a motion. commissioner low? just a quick question. so the adjustment -- the adjustment of the reference point to height doesn't otherwise change the findings in the shadow report. >> that's correct. >> okay. >> entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor? [voting] >> thank you. [ gavel ]. >> we are now on item 6, san

francisco zoo. >> good morning, tanya peterson, director of the san francisco zoo, and we have a powerpoint. and i attempted to leave my whole presentation just on this one slide. the twin snow leopard cubs. they have just made the critical two month mark, so they'll be on exhibit with their mother from noon to two-ish. she's a protective mom, first time mom, but they're doing great. i'm sure that they will be named at our next fundraiser. >> maybe mark and susie. >> mark and susie have a ring. speaking of a naming, we also have three penguin checks. they come to our penguin island, which is the largest outdoor penguin exhibit in the u.s. here, we are welcoming waddles,

foster, and sylvia to their new exhibit. they were named by members and donors, and i thank commissioner anderson for supporting and attending the event. it was a lot of fun for our members and a great day. we have over 25,000 members of the zoo, and we asked them to name our juvenile mandrill, and he was named pride in african. i told joe this is his offspring. >> similar hair. >> adorable. >> conservation at the zoo, but conservation off grounds. we are highlighting three local species in crisis, frogs, turtles, and here, the san francisco damsel fly. we've named her dahlia, after

the name sake of the san francisco zoo. the importance of the damsel fly and they actually eat mosquito larvae, and actually a beautiful insect, as well. so come see them at the zoo. we are conservation organization. we are starting to put in these refill station, six in total, with a hope that we, too, will eliminate single use plastic bottles at the san francisco zoo. right now we've asked our vendor to stop selling the small ones, only the large ones, and eventually no plastic bottles sold at san francisco zoo. we are closing our programs at the san francisco zoo. [inaudible] >> -- but also, public speaking

skills with the public. we also had over 1700 zoo campers this summer, which was a record for us. the zoo does offer scholarships and other financial aid for families who need help with transportation or other costs associated with our programs for the summer. and speaking of volunteers, the does are turning 50. some of them are retiring. i think they're pleased to hear that 50 is the new 40. they're mainly volunteers that -- retirees that volunteer their time. many of the docents are retire teachers, so we'll get a chance to celebrate them in september, so thank you to our docents. we have over 25,000 members, and on tuesday, september 18, i invite them to come speak with me, and we have a one-on-one -- it's a long day for the zoo director, but a lot of fun as

well as i get comments from our members. i invite all who are a member of the zoo to come visit us on september 18. with that, i conclude my report. >> thank you very much. >> is there any public comment on this item? >> i really appreciate the report, and i do appreciate the zoo. i was a long, long time friend of delia who often said that as a kid, she was asked, do you live in a zoo, because it was her uncle who put his name on it. i believe it's delia, not dahlia, which is a flower. if i'm mistaken, i apologize, but i believe it was del delia ehrlich. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make public comment on this item?

okay. being done, public comment is closed. we are now on item 7, india basin parks concept plan approval. >> good morning, commissioners, general manager ginsberg, i'm the project manager with the capital division. item 7 before you is discussion and possible action to adopt ceqa findings for the india basin mixed use project and approve the concept design for 900 innes and india basin shoreline park. this park is consistent with the department's strategic plan, specifically, strategies

one, two, three, and four. i'll highlight only a few. the project inspires public space by developing more open space to address population growth in high needs areas and emerging neighborhoods and strengthening the quality of existing parks and facility. the project also inspires play, stewardship, and investment. in 2014, rec and park acquired 900 innes at india basin, located in the bayview-hunters point neighborhood. the department in partnership with the bayview-hunters point community, the trust for public land and the san francisco parks alliance seeks to build a park that is essential to the health of san francisco's southeast communities. the proposed plan combines 900 innes with existing india basin shoreline park to create a cohesive ten acre waterfront park. the project also aims to close

a gap in the san francisco bay trail through the development of the 900 innes site, which serves as the midpoint of the 1.5 mil contiguous shoreline. just for a little bit of background, the india basin and bayview-hunters point community was an economically thriving industrial center between 1985 and the 1950 -- 1875 and 1950's. it included military ship building, boat building and repair. these left a history of contaminated sites and blight resulting in disproportionately high levels of environmental burden, and since the closing of the war time shipyard, the community has suffered a high set of challenges. this investment, hire rates of crime and violence and lack of access to recreational amenities and programming.

in 2015, mayor lee and supervisor cohen asked over 30 bayview community leaders and regional stakeholders to guide the development of these new parks while taking into consideration previous planning efforts by the india basin neighborhood association. in 2016, an international design competition was held for the design of these parks. it resulted in the selection of renowned architectural firm, g.g.n. known for award winning projects such as the smithsonian. recently they were the recipient of the 2017 american society of landscape architects national landscape architecture firm award. led by t.p.l. and apri, more than two dozen public outreach meetings were held.

the community led process resulted in seven programming priorities which were captured in an elegant design. the preliminary design was presented to the commission in march 2017, though in response to feedback from community members, environmental groups and regulatory agencies, the designs were modified. staff most recently presented the concept design to the commission for discussion in march 2018. the input received from the community process resulted in programming priorities which include gathering areas, concessions, picnic areas, open spaces, active and passive recreation, conservation of natural resources, preserving history, and sea level rise resiliency. the design resulted in the creation of six zones. the first is the neighborhood edge, which focuses on community connectivity by creating vital connections, the design seeks to integrate surrounding public housing and residential areas on the hillside to the park.

the garden shore walk features a design of california native drought tolerant plantings lined with benches, porch swings, and areas for picnic tables and barbecues. the marine way -- the marine way is an expansive lawn which will accommodate casual recreational activities and special events and provide open space. the lawn will terminate in a gravel beach where park users can get in the water and launch kayaks, canoes and paddle boards. it will feature an out rigger building that will provide opportunities for park users and visitors to rent equipment. it features a 480 foot long pier. from the marine way park, users can access the bay trail. the sage slopes and marsh edge found throughout the site will feature native beach scrub planting, a large adventure

play area, adult fitness stations, a quarter mile recreation loop, basketball courts, walking trails and smaller hiking trails for bird watching and observation. sloping down towards the water, the sage slopes transition to a restored marsh edge that replaces the hard rip rap that provides foraging and natural habitat for birds. at the center of the india basin shoreline is the bode yard at 900 innes. at 900 innes park users are welcomed by the historic ship wright's cottage. it will be repurposed as a welcome and education center and will feature a cafe on the lower level looking out over the water. the overlook perfectlyian will provide a space for bayview

based food vendors to operate providing local concessions to the surrounding community and activating the neighborhood edge the ship wright's cottage -- which are located safely not to interfere with the sidewalk traffic and view, provide a nod to many residents' southern routes. from innes, park users can access the site using the a.d.a. accessible guard path or griffin street stairs, and both would bring guests to where the pathway and existing trail meet. lastly, very important to note that the portions of 900 innes constitute the india basin scouts men or boat yard cultural landscape. we have taken the site's history very seriously and are retaining 75% of the significant contributing

features of the cultural landscape. the project is divided into two phases. phase one includes the construction of the boat yard and the bay trail; phase two includes the remainder of the work at the india basin shoreline park. prior to developing the site into a public park, the department would remediation hazardeous building materials which contain elevated concentrations of chemicals, and the department will undertake the work under a voluntary cleanup program over seen by the regional water control board. the department and through public grants have raised and contributes close to 15 million for acquisition, preliminary planning and design, remediation, site preparation, and interim activation.

we anticipate to submit permit applications for the remediation work in the fall, which brings estimated remediation start date to early 2020. and rec and park is collaborating with hunters point family who through an e.p.a. brown field workforce development grant has trained resident of the bayview-hunters point community in things such as planting and lead and asbestos safety. the concept design has been analyzed and an environmental impact report for the india basin mixed use projects which includes the four sites, innes shoreline park, india basin open space, and 700 innes. the san francisco planning department published the draft e.i.r. in july 2017 and responded to public comments in july 2018. on july 26, 2018, the planning

commission approved the final e.i.r. enclosed in your packet. individuals and organizations have come before the rec and park and planning commission to support the project in the past, supporters included epri, hunters point family, india basin neighborhood association, parks 94124, office of supervisor malia cohen, san francisco parks alliance, and the trust for public land. there's been no organizational or institutional opposition to the overall park development, though there remains some specific opposition to specific design features such as elimination of the tool shed and office building, the inclusion of the porch swings, and the overlook pavilion. >> so to wrap up, staff will be back in september to include two india basin related item.

this is related to build of the city, and staff will present the public trust exchange and m.o.u. between the port and rec and park whereby the california state lands -- [inaudible] >> that concludes my staff report, and i'm available for any questions. >> is there any public comment on this item? richard? richard, come on up. >> good morning, commissioners. i had a little trouble trying to get information on a lot of things, but i did have a final talk with the e.i.r. coordinator, mr. michael lee, and it went through another

person before him. i had to go through allison, and through planning and parks. i looked it over, in other words, everything that i thought i needed to look over, regarding hydro, and water, and how the sewer system would be. currently there's maybe only one central drain out from the sewer part. i'm not all that interested in the sewer, but i'm looking at the water that some of the stuff was dumped out into, and there's going to be a very complex big, big building on the similar plot of land that's -- i was talking it over with mike. he tells me they're going to either dump into the harbor after treating or they're going to connect the sewer through the main line that leads over either to north point or southeastern side. there are two water treatment places. so if the water getting all in

the ground there, i've been trying to get that entrance on the salinity content where they have pools of waste water, if they can bring it up to normal salinity. it doesn't take much more than adding sod. 'cause currently water samplings throughout the san francisco bay area do not have the normal salinity, and this is all different. this is something at a later time that might need to be brought up before state people to preserve the normal habitat. now, india basin itself, when they fi they finally had to comply with everything on the e.r. i. that i looked over, i sent an e-mail that included almost everything that i thought was very

important, and mike lee sent to me. i read it over, so that's a point in fact i want to be sure i get across. one of the things that i looked at had to do with i don't see very much dredging. you know, all that water, all that runoff into an -- and the alliance of 1849 in the current shoreline doesn't have much dredging of cleanup in there. it's going to be cleanup, it's going to be continual runoff, and i think that's an important point to bring in. another important point is the pier that goes out there. are they going to have a rock wall under it so you can have a safety code for recreational use that kids don't have to look after each other. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello. i'm jill fox, a resident of india basin since 1992, and an

advocate for the parks of india basin since at least 1999. you guys were still meeting at the lodge, and you couldn't find india basin on a map of the city. so we've come a long way, and as you can imagine, i'm very thrilled to see our park planning going forward. i am also the chair of the india basin neighborhood association, and we have generally approved this. we do have concerns. some were mentioned, but i wanted to make sure that these don't fall off the list. we are concerned about the lack of a dog area in all of these parks, and we need to confirm that. it was mentioned at herron's

head but it's a really long way to assume that that's going to to be our community dog park. for the boat launch, we really want a boat launch there, but one that really works. i open my neighborhood blinds, and that's what i see everything morning. we're not convinced that the tides are being taken into consideration. we're really worried that this beautiful pier is going to be in the mud much of the time. we understand that research has been done, but we want to make sure, you know, please do something that we can see, put flags out, watch the tide, time lapse photography something so we can be assured before all this expense goes in that that pier is really going to work for boating. and the overlook and swings

pavilion are concerns there on innes avenue is being redesigned for m.t.a. and planning commission issues, and we need to make sure that this is a coordinated design. i am not convinced that that's a good place for swings and for a pavilion. right now, we have an open view to the water for people driving by, walking by. it's a wonderful access point to the new park, and we don't want to block that. we have plenty of water walls on the waterfront. don't put one where we don't need it. [please stand by]

>> the coordination of the design of the pavilion and swi swing. >> sure. i will start with the boat launch and ramp and -- at india basin shoreline park. if i may, i may go back to some of the diagrams.

the boat launch is intended to meet elevated pier instructor. we do not believe the elevated pier would be bottomed out on the mud, given the 480-foot extension into the bay. >> vice president low: and it didn't move from one original location to another to address that? >> since the original 2017 concept design, it didn't. >> vice president low: ok. >> so we are confident and we are working with marine engineers and coastal engineers on this project. they have determined that this is the best solution. the floating dock or the platform would extend far enough into the bay that it would not bottom out. so the elevated pier structure would need a floating dock. with respect to the other question about the pavilion, i