that would happen? >> one of our commenters described it well hen he was talking about native plants now they function on land in terms. ash absorbing water and deep ratted and helping get water trapped into underground where it's filtered. but that process works the same way in the water and on the shoreline where shoreline plants absorb contaminates and release oxygen back in the water. >> commissioner makras: it's is natural process versus a filtration? it's to get a different result. >> programs that was an awkward choice of words. that's a process that healthy ecosystems provide naturally. >> commissioner makras: thank you. >> commissioner gilman: thank

you for the report. i'm in the same line. you like to see whether or not we could incorporate these goals in the future. we will have some sort of development to see if this could be either bonus point or added to applications if folks choose to opt in these. the board of supervisors did not pass regulatory. for us and ecosystems and we're charged with the public trust and maritime and recreation, this is even more important to us as an entity within the city ecosystems. i like it see mandatory as we can. >> you wanted to clarify one point as it relates to policy

versus regulations. it's not regulatory. it's not required to get a permit. because it's your policy, we will say at any point if we are recommending a diversion from it or can't comply and you will see that upon approval. it is always our intent that everyone complies with the policy. it's not that it's optional. it's a policy statement once adopted from the commission. >> i wanted to thank you for that suggestion about making this policy explicit in r.f.p.s. you wanted let you know our development partners are really on board with this idea. the two biggest projects that we have going forward right now, pier 70 through development and seawall 337 with the giant, both teams are well-informed about

ecological design in landscaping. i've been in communication with the landscape architect with both project. they're already embracing making these policy decisions that support biodiversity in their planning. >> commissioner woo ho: thank you carol for a great report. i didn't realize we had so many different species in san francisco. i learned a lot. it's a good term in terms of wholistic, ecological. the questions have been asked. as a policy, i think it's a good idea to people know that we are serious about it and we hope that we can see it and become executed in terms of how people go forward doing their business and not necessarily a regulation per se. i think it adds to the richness

what we're doing. thank you. >> vice president adams: you like to acknowledge original owners of the atlanta, past -- land and past and present. you're awesome. your passion, you've laid so much out. you know more me i went to antarctica, you didn't realize what was happening in my own backyard. i like you bringing the next generation along. you had younger people and you're taking the time and it's so nice they get to understand this property and the stuff that we have higher and different species. it will be up to them to preserve this legacy. i appreciate your hard work and everything -- every time you lay

something out, i look at it more and more. i really like it. i always look forward to your presentations. do you take your presentation out to the schools? >> no. >> vice president adams: it will be great to take it out or put a video together. it's so informative. more people really need to know about this. madam brandon and her two grandkids are here today. this is the next generation have to take care of this. this should be an education for the whole public. just like we talk about sea level rise, this biodiversity is so important about san francisco moving to the future and maintaining what we have and preserving this legacy for generations to come. thank you very much. >> thank you for your kind words.

i want to thank you because you commissioners, have been voting every time you vote on the port's budget to support the environmental education and community engagement programs that we're doing. so thanks. that's why. >> president brandon: thank you so much for your report and this is definitely a significant issue. thank you for bringing it to our attention. thank you for keeping us up to date on the total environmental front. you are the store of the water front when it comes to that area. can you give us an example of how these goals will be incorporated in crane cove park? >> it's designed with ecological value in mind. all that you've heard today about the value of native plants is going to be incorporated in into the landscaping at crane

cove park. crane cove park is going to have storm water gardens that are planted about native plants but that have design specifically to do that. water purification step that commissioner makras was asking about. those will be places are form water is funneled in certain locations and filtered into ground rather than being discharged to the bay where it would carry sediments. those are probably the two biggest things that an urban park like cran cove park can do. i think also we've her learned w important they are. they are very impactful. >> president brandon: commissior comments? all if favor? >> aye. >> president brandon: resolution has been approved. [agenda item read]

>> good afternoon. i work if the port planning and environmental division. i'm here today to review with you the sediment investigation work and upcoming remedial action planning within this project area. as shown on the water front map in front of you, working from the bottom of the page in the yellow box, our project area starts a what we call pier 39 east and it works our way up past pier 43 and 43 1/2 and pier

45 east at the top of the page, water area. to help understand today's project, i want to briefly look at the historical development along the area of the water front we're referring to as pier 39 to 45. as shown in this 1905 map, the port seawall has been completed to mason street by 1905. the land side area has been filled. you want to point the black demarcated lines around one parcel, one block of the city, this was basically starting at the turn of the century. this is adjacent to port property along the embarcadero and out to the bay side. as shown in 1913 map, the area behind the seawall as you can

see continues to be filled in to the left moving towards fisherman's wharf. it runs along the embarcadero ending at mason street. what's important to note the black dot, they have purchased a former beach street manufactured gas plant in 1911. reportedly operated it until approximately 1931. jumping forward into this photograph from 1938, it's quite interesting working from the right to the left of the photo, this is the historic footprint of what was pier 37 to the right and then moving it left you had the original pier 39 footprint over to pier 41 and pier 43. all of these have been built by 1938 and are sitting adjacent to

and water side of the former beach street m.g.p. plant. briefly, pier 39 it's a fascinating picture. when you look at the left, the 1969 area, shows you the historic pier 39 to the right by pier 37 and to the left by pier 41. by 1976, all of these over water structures have been removed to make way for the new pier 39 facility. the 1980 aerial on the right shows now the new pier 39 which is a pile supported pier structure and to the right side is their east small craft harbor marina. on the left is the west marina

where excursions have taken place. the entire pier 39 when constructed in the late '70s is protected by rock break water and fishing pier. moving left away from pier 39, we move over towards what we call pier 41 1/2. this area was occupied starting in 1979 by blue and gold fleet who was operating pleasure cruises out of an area within the pier 39 west harbor. in the late early '90s pier 41 was taken down, the blue and gold fleet expanded operations to now serve as ferries coming out of san francisco to alameda and oakland. the area on the right the 2011 area shows the current blue and gold slate which is a key operator of s.f. bay ferries out

of pier 41 1/2. stepping just little bit to the left again from pier 41 1/2 to pier 43, what you see here in 2011, you can see pier 43 is actually being demolished and then in the 2014 aerial, you have what we have today. a historic site and the promenade, pier 43 bay trail promenade for both walking and bicyclist. lastly, i want to point out pier 43 1/2. it had very important history along this part of the water front with the red and white fleet originally moving here in the 1950. over the year as the old pier 43

1/2 pile supported parking lot was removed as the new pedestrian and bicycle promenade came in what you see in the 2014 area is the san francisco bay family red and white fleet who continue to operate the excursion company out of pier 43 1/2. coming forward why this is important, we look at this demarcated area which was the historic beach street manufactured gas plant.

over the next four or five years, 2011 to 2015, conducted investigations in this block, soil, gas ground water. ultimately in 2015 pg&e and the hotel owner did receive a no further action from the dtsc specific to the parcel in black. unfortunately, for the port, in 2011 and 2013, our tenant pier 39, was conducting sediment characterization and identified some elevated contaminated sediment in both their east marina and west marina.

it has been related to the historic manufactured gas plant site. fast forward to 2017, the california san francisco california regional water quality control board ordered pg&e and the port as property owner to further investigate sediment. what you see in this figure is a red-bounded area for now we refer to as the pier 39 to 45 investigation area. it expanded from the original west and east marina to carry all the way over to the pier 45 basin and it extended approximately thousand feet offshore. since 2017, pg&e with support from the port have completed a series of investigations and

determined the extent of p.a.c. contamination in the sediment. this figure that you see here wall the dots signifies all the boring locations. this is all in proximity to the historic beach street site. in december of 2018, the remedial investigation report with all of this data was submitted to the water board. there were number of areas identified for evaluation for remedial alternative. i want top briefly note that on the figure you see here, we have a number of areas, a is an

offshore area adjacent to the red and white fleet 43 1/2, b sits off the pier 43. c is sitting within our blue and gold 48 ferry operations. d is sitting within the blue and gold fleet excursion operation and over to e, this is sitting within pier 39 small marina harbor. these are all areas that we are now working towards remedial alternative evaluation. with the water board is requiring a series of project work to take place over the next year and a hal and a half. i wanted to show you, we got a finalize the investigation report this next spring, at the same time pg&e is embarking upon

studies to support a remedial action plan, survey work, conceptual design on what remedial concepts could work within this very diverse area. then simultaneous to this remedial action planning, the water board as the lead agency is embarking on a ceqa study. that too will be completed in its draft format early next year. once the remedial plan and the ceqa study are adopted, we anticipate that the water board will issue a cleanup order for pg&e to remediate and port is property owner to participate.

i think it's important to note that this highly visible project has included quite a bit of outreach and engagement. port staff have actively worked with pg&e project manager, program manager and staff to engage regulatory agency, stakeholders and tenants including pier 39 blue and gold, red and white over the past two-year-old. we'vtwo-- years. we've been working to facilitate river and try to limit impacts to the ongoing tenant and port operations during investigations. critically, due to the rather dense nature of the subject matter, we had a number of briefings to try to walk stakeholders agencies and tenant nats through results and through

what the agos will be raring to be in complains. future opportunities for stakeholder outreach will include the water board and we'll have public meeting at their remedial action plan and ceqa study progress. we anticipate having project preapplication meetings with

agencies to review and discuss remedial alternatives and develop a permanent strategy for this alternate red -- remediation program. that will undergo public review and comment. i anticipate the team anticipates updated information presentation to the port commission later this year, early next year as the progress on the remedial plan and the ceqa document progress. that concludes my presentation. i welcome any questions or comments you may have. >> president brandon: thank you. we do have public comment.

>> i'm here representing green action for health and environment for justice. i want to thank you commissioner adams for acknowledging the plan. i'm not sure here to talk about elephant in the room. when it comes to the other c word, which is contamination. when we talk about contamination, the shoreline and the water level rise. it's not surprise to the commission when i say that on march 13, 2019 los angeles times came out with new research stating that the most, greatest impact we'll see in california

is not going to come from wildfires or earthquakes because of climate change, but because of sea level rise. what this project really exemplifies is going to be an ongoing reality what we're going to do with the reality of contamination in relationship to the water front and the shoreline. shoreline communities. what was not mentioned in the presentation was the part of the remediation of this plan is to leave contamination at the shoreline in place and also dredging. i don't know if you noticed or paying attention, when it comets to tapping, it has proven not always to work. hurricane katrina is great example of that. lot of that capping lining broke. i do recognize this is a new type of research. there's not enough to look at that. we need to start think being that. this needs to be more ongoing

conversation and maybe incorporating a policy to take that look at that or measurement or another kind of filter to think through when we make these decisions around development. it also undermines, unfortunately, conservation efforts. contamination doesn't work well with conservation. other thing i want to say, haste makes waste, let's recognize that haste in a remediation plan of leaving hazardous waste in place can have severe impact. >> president brandon: thank you. julia alvarez.

>> i'm with action for health and environment for justice. i want toed to bring up the concern of method used for remediation. memorandum stated drudging and capping. they tend to migrate. my concern is what are the message for surveillance those contaminates once they've been capped and what the effects will be on the population when these contaminates begin to migrate. >> president brandon: thank you. any other public comment on this item? seeing none public comment is closed. commissioner gilman. >> commissioner gilman: to thank staff and the public for coming out. it seems through your presentation, there will be many points where this will come back to the commission and we can look for deeply into what the actual game plan is for all of

this. you've indicated that it has not been issued yet. the ceqa has not been done. >> the next phase of work is really to take the result of the investigation which has confirmed contamination at various depths and at levels and developed remedial alternatives and to study the pheesessability -- feasibility. as pg&e puts forward the average, -- alternative we'll be conducting our review from engineering and environmental planning standpoint. this will go through inner agency review and comment. i don't anticipate we'll know really what the remedial plans are for at least a year.

while dredging and sediment capping and other methods have been put out there in the remedial investigation report as potential approaches, until the feasibility study and the various impact studies are completed, there's no decision on what that will look like. that's really where we'll come back in a year. >> commissioner gilman: i want to make sure what we heard from public comment as we move forward in this process. that's all my comments. >> commissioner woo ho: this is a pretty exhaustive study. thank you very much for doing that and educating us in terms of where all the various piers have been and some of them no longer with us today to understand this issue.

i guess you do talk about in the staff report about pg&e's role. we didn't really talk about it in the presentation. going forward and given where the state of pg&e is now, in bankruptcy, what is the role of pg&e at this point? >> joining me today is the pg&e program manager who manages their manufactured gas plant program. >> commissioner woo ho: are they taking the primary role in the remediation effort? we need to understand what's going to happen as current state of pg&e changing and timing and planning, etcetera. >> good evening commissioners. i'm with the environmental remediation program at pg&e. everybody in this room is aware on january 29th, we did file for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection due to some potential

liabilities associated with wildfires. what you probably are not aware of on that same day, we filed first-day motions as part of that procedure. that included such things as continuing with our environmental program for those projects that have recovery mechanisms in place. these projects that we're talking about fit into that bucket. >> commissioner woo ho: what's going to happen between now and the year? >> lot of engineering studies to figure out what the right way to approach the -- they come to the right remedial answer for each of those areas a through e that

you saw. >> commissioner woo ho: just to understand what what's the definition of remediation. what does it cover? does it cover full contamination? >> it will cover everything from full dredging. it will look at capping. it will look at other solidification techniques. will look at the whole range what's available that we're aware of. it loo -- it will look at the technical feasibility of those remedial options and how that fits with the port's plans and their tenant's plans. >> commissioner woo ho: just to understand exactly, what's the port's role over this coming year? >> pg&e has been leading all

investigations and reporting us to lead potentially responsible party. dtsc and water board have orders in place with pg&e as the primary. the port is named as secondary as we're the landowner. our role has been and will continue to be technical review of i'll within our property. outreach and ensuring that impacts to premises and operations are minimized. we will continue to work with the pg&e staff and the agencies and all the stakeholders as this project moves towards remedial design. >> commissioner makras: thank you. presentation was well done. since pg&e is in the primary

role position and the notice from the water quality board named them number one. have they taken full responsibility for the cleanup? is there still an outside question on who's responsible? >> i would say pg&e has been the primary responder to development of all work plans, implementation of all field work, reporting of all work. they are currently working to respond to the water board's requirement for remedial design. port legal is worrying with -- working with pg&e legal on cost sharing agreement and future contractual agreement. the footprint all those

agreements have not been finalized. >> to date, we did -- i would say pg&e has worked very cooperatively with us and responsively. continued after this pause from the bankruptcy filing. >> commissioner makras: you said water quality board will initiate ceqa? >> it's so lead agency for approving this project has taken on the role of the lead ceqa. they will be directing the consultants on the ceqa study and they expect and turn to pg&e and port to provide information to help the ceqa study progress.

in remediation project, water board has and will take the lead ceqa role. >> commissioner makras: has this been discussed at all in closed session? is this just open session item? >> it has not been discussed in closed session at it point. this is an open session item. if there was a point we were in dispute, we would immediately bring it in closed session. if there are terms of negotiation that we like to work with you on, we'll bring it in closested session. it's been a cooperative arrangement. >> commissioner makras: i'm not trying to validate it. there are clear questions on competing interests.

>> we'll keep a close eye when closed session might be appropriate. >> vice president adams: i think my fellow commissioners have handled every issue very well

done. very thorough. i look forward coming back and all my questions were answered. >> president brandon: thank you so much for this presentation. i learned a lot of details that i didn't know. so thank you. this is great. i want to ask during your discussions with our stakeholder that your engagement, is there anything, any opinions or comments that you feel should be brought to our attention? >> i think what's been really critical on keeping this project moving forward is tenant maintenance projects and tenant operations and i like to say that the regular communication and meetings have been collaborative and it's an ongoing back and forth between

our permit, our engineering, our team and the pg&e folks. i don't have anything that we're not addressing. >> president brandon: thank you. >> i think that will expand as the remedial plans begin to be conceptually designed and brought forward. >> president brandon: do we have any tenants with concern? >> i have a few tenants here today. [indiscernible] we're working with red and white fleet and pier 39 to make sure we understand the breadth of tenant improvement projects, maintenance project, the timing and how to work those in and around this remedial design

project.in highlighting some of the issues have been addressed. pier 39 did incur and will be incurring increase dredging costs for dredging and disposal of contamination sediment. pg&e has been working directly with that tenant on cost-sharing negotiations and payments. i think there is an active effort to address those kinds of issues. >> president brandon: thank you. i really appreciate this. commissioner makras. >> commissioner makras: your presentation, you wouldn't mind sending us a copy of it so i can

review it? do you know when first notice from the water board was? >> formal notice was august 1997. actually in 2013, the water board issued requirements of the port maintenance permit to conduct additional investigations. in august 2017, the port and pg&e received a letter. >> president brandon: any other comments? seeing none. is there any public comment on new business? >> thank you i'll be brief. i know all have heard about the

seawall a lot. i look to implore to consider the reasons not to give the seawall 330 embarcadero to the city. i want to say that the impact on the neighborhood was not considered. let alone the impact of the businesses and most didn't know about it until three weeks ago. i canvassed about 18 businesses at that time. they didn't know from safeway to 21st century amendment. the mayor is working to fast track legislation to forego the process. unlike the shelters and the dogpatch, the fifth and brian is in within district 6. one in embarcadero is densely populated. san francisco is changing. as a 2017, there's almost 14,000

people that was approximately half mile within the proposed navigation centre. this is increase 25%. you mentioned that the median age was getting younger. the number of children is increased by 49%. let's not forget the people over 60. there's lot of people that's also increased in our neighborhood. school and child care facilities in san francisco within walking distance of the proposed navigation centre. i'll be brief. the staff and experience of the homeless shelters do not support the location. the crime, the centre will allow drug addicts but not doing drugs within the facility. one of my fellow residents recounted that a child has to get hiv tested because they were predicted by discarded needle where they were playing. she stated at delancey street

community where she got successful program where residents are off drugs. studies in l.a. shows homeless shelters increasing breaking and entering by 83% and caravaned liberaliscar expense-- 21% of ts in san francisco are homeless. what does that mean for the residents and the navigation centre? neighbor quayed a -- conveyed said homeless person was pulled off her. if 50% of the 225 people at the centre have dogs, that's hundred dogs.

>> president brandon: we really appreciate your comment. any other new business? public comment? seeing none. public comment is closed. >> it's important we ask for port staff to give us the plan since we discussed two commission meetings ago in terms our plan to issue r.f.p. and seawall lot 330. it's important to point out for the public record that while we're discussing the navigation centre on that site, any development of that lot and the piers is going to take some time. it usually takes years. it's not necessarily something that we cannot consider in parallel. i'm not here to answer the questions. i think the community raise lots of question about the navigation

centre and i think that there has ha to be lot more work done. that's something that has to be done with the city. we're not in the best place to be able to answer all of the concerns about safety, location, etcetera, type of model it should be. i do think that the port -- this is not the right long-term best use of that land. the poured needs to continue to proceed in parallel to understand what the long-term future is. the interim path is something that has to get due process with the community and with the mayor's office and departments of the city. >> president brandon: any other new business? have a motion to adjourn? >> motion to adjourn. >> second. >> president brandon: thank you. meeting is adjourned.

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>> good afternoon and welcome to the march 19th, 2019 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. please have a seat. madame clerk, please call the roll. >> thank you, mr. president. [roll call]