and it's extremely aromatic. it feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. it's edible. you can make tea out of it. it's a great digestive plant for settling your stomach. it has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. this plant is called dutchman's pipe. when in bloom, the flower looks like a dutchman's pipe. and another thing that's unique about this plant is, it's the whole specific plant for the pipeline swallow tail butterfly. so some butterflies are able to adapt to other species and can use larva and food from different species.

in the county of san francisco, there's only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. these particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the green infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to demolish all water tanks and build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. one day one of my nursery managers was down here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant. and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows

it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. so the plants we're looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that area, it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old. recently, the state of california just did special legislation to protect this plant. i think in its intact population on the island, there's less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of

the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in 1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is extremely important to me because that will help all the animals come back to the island and make this place even a better place to live. >> i want to be here because these are people i know, so that was my first thing is just, like, i wanted to come here to help out and be with (indiscernible) and to actually put my hands in dirt. i feel

like we as people don't work in army -- we don't see the benefits of plants, like, but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough, it turns into soap. that's cool. and we need those things. we need to know about those things. >> one really unique thing about this project is the scale. to use 50,000 native plants over 7 acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is planned for treasure island, it sets the stage for what is possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change, sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and

create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of the main focus on triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors, public transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrian-friendly, retaining an open space sent and providing an eco system that reducing carbon emission >> we need the transit to be successful because if we had 8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the system. new on and off-ramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented.

triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so there's a focus on using both bus and ferry service to get from the island to san francisco in the east bay. there will be a number of transit demand management tools that will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the -- to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the bridge and there will be a management toll to encourage the use of transit. >> all the market rate housing on the island, the price for residential unit whether that's a rental apartment or a for sale condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the parking spot. so people can buy a condominium without paying for a parking spot. they choose to have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each

month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. that transit pass will function as a muni fast pass allowing people to take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac transit system and it will also provide unlimited access to the treasure island ferry. >> treasure island is going to take decades to be fully build out. it's going to take some time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. we don't know what is going to happen in 50 years but

i'm confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way it's sustainable, it addresses sea level rise, but also gives the public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill treasure island. there's economic, certainly, challenges and whether we're going to be able to build out all of what was desired in the master plan, it will -- time will tell, but i think that the last ten years, we've been coming to this point. we are seeing incredible progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. market rate housing is being finished. affordable housing is

being finished. and so, we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to fruition.television.

>> the sprinkler director for san francisco and want to welcome you all to our launch of new pilot program to help commercial property owners and neighborhood district areas and other districts address graffiti to open their property that's an exciting new program and we're delighted to launch that today and with that, introduce our mayor. >> good morning (clapping) it is great to be back in the inner sunset i miss the folks in

the family market the community is especially now in good hands because of new supervisor who (clapping.) i want to age acknowledge as is person th

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working together to support businesses in the city and no longer continuing to be a financial grain draining on those businesses especially, when they didn't anticipate it in the first place so thank the public works and carla and the whole team theirs a lot of graffiti challenges and explain the department of administrative services we see public art and public art is without getting permission in order to put that artwork on someone's property and the difference is oftentimes can't do that without the permission of property owners and the department of public works ask called and they take this rocket seriously we're expanding their capability and kudos to them for being responsive and making the city more beautiful with the work they do and doing a great job oozed best they can i know a lot

of work goes into what they do and take pride and this city and making sure the city is beautiful we predator all the folks from the department of public works and going to hear from one of the business owners in a moment but at this time, i want to i'm going to turn it over to did supervisor who represents this neighborhood and district 7 in general supervisor melgar (clapping.) thank you, london and thank you for aging and adult services this is a game changer as a shopping season that is for that our neighbors and people coming to this city are welcomed and feel like the commercial corridors are not neglected but clean and they're safe and our city and tagging specifically the it is cosmetic really colors

the protection of the folks coming and feeling like there is notebook or 0 blight in the commercial corridors we i don't not that i'm grateful and how important but also for folks in the community to help us in writing this legislation specific folks our president of small business administration in hawaii and all the folks that helped us reedit the legislation and to get it through and colleagues saw the importance of this so thank you, so much and specifically want to say this woman carla was our interim across for the department of public works has been amazing buildings and quickly getting it up and running and make sure we

develop the form and how matching the paint and hiring the folks we needed to hire because sometimes, you know, the city government comes up with ideas and write the legislation but without the partners in the department recognizes the need and importance it is get done thank you, carla and the carman chiu, i had conversations who also was right there to put elbow egresses into it thank you all for the wonderful partnering and the merchant and all did folks that are recognized and get it done and thank you for being here. >> (clapping). >> thank you so much supervisor i want to note thank you for the could i words the public works team is here and really are the ones that made

this happen quickly (clapping) thank you to our team. and i'll say the supervisor was pushing us let's get it done and make that happen quickly and the mayor never has to say anything about the graffiti when will you get it down it takes a village i want to advise the chair of the small business administration to say a few words. >> (clapping). >> we love this legislation absolutely love it and very grateful to supervisor melgar for interesting that and as previously mentioned director short is incredible and corresponding and organizing the team let me briefly tell you any love though legislation at the end of 2020 our commission got an e-mail and the windows kept

getting broken so often the insurance will not insure them. okay. board up the windows the windows get tagged and then a in relation from the city you're going to get fined if you don't clean up and e-mailed us and said where's the support i thought a very good request and i think this legislation is an excellent we are to that question it is something we do in other cities and one other thing just to be clear, technically the business owners legally liable for the graffiti under most contracts it is the small business under those that ultimate have to pay for it even though the owners responsible falls on small business owner this is something that is helpful to small

business owners and the small businesses have been asking for i can't say enough for making this happen it is wonderful. thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. >> we had our city administer carman chu a great supporter of our department of and working hard when the supervisor said can we get it done more quickly what can we do thank you for your support and pushing us to get it down quickly and say a few words to kind of the work. >> it is cool i want to thank the mayor for your leadership not a single day what we're doing better to support our city in the recovery thank you for her instant leadership and thank supervisor melgar and pushing us to move as quickly as we can and

i think the expectation of the supervisor and the mayor wruns those ideas are funded it is our job to make them happen as soon as possible and want to thank our public works team carla for your amazing leadership and for the entire crew for recognizing how important they workday in and out and out in the cold and shout out to them for their hard work in helping our city shine with that, we're going to paint graffiti (clapping.) yes, we have fresh brushes [off mic.] >> how many people are going to [off mic.] >> yes. >> sure. >> also the lead time so

[off mic.] thank you for those questions woe employing 6 additional general labors to work on this program and we are goal to be able to address graffiti one 72 hours having said that, this is a brand new program we don't know how many people 800 san francisco folks asking to opt in we may not be able to reach that goal but a great camera e team their experienced and do everything in 72 hours. [off mic.] >> i think that is mainly [off mic.] >> well for the necessarily (laughter.) [off mic.]

>> i can't speak for someone as a people that worked with a number of graffiti artists to express themselves it is important we provide a platform for artists to do that and provide a system to work within but this is basically vandalism and in fact, remember the legislation we got passed to go over people civilly and charged people developed cases when we continue to do with the photos and, you know, video and other things that are used to develop a case that even though we're to the going after people criminally we are seeking financial damages for what a lot of of the vandals are doing to

public and private property in the city i can't speak for why we do it is unfortunate but important we provide alternatives and as a city i feel with many of the great arts program we've been to do that but will not solve the problem complete but ways to abate that but ways to hold people accountability that costs people

>> it was an outdoor stadium for track and field, motorcycle and auto and rugby and cricket located in golden gate park, home to professional football,

lacross and soccer. adjacent to the indoor arena. built in the 1920s. the san francisco park commission accepted a $100,000 gift from the estate to build a memorial in honor of pioneers in the area. the city and county of san francisco contributed an additional $200,000 and the stadium was built in a year. in the 1930s it was home to several colleges such as usf, santa clara and st. mary's for competition and sporting. in 1946 it became home to the san francisco 49ers where they played nearly 25 years. the stayed de yam sat 60,000 fans. many caught game the rooftops and houses. the niners played the last game against the dallas cowboys january 3, 1971 before moving to candlestick park. the stadium hosted other events

before demolition in 1989. it suffered damages from the earthquake. it was reconstructed to seat 10,000 fans with an all weather track, soccer field and scoreboards. it hosts many northern california football championship games. local high schools sacred heart and mission high school used the field for home games. the rivalry football games are sometimes played here. today it is a huge free standing element, similar to the original featuring tall pink columns at the entrance. the field is surrounded by the track and used by high school and college football and soccer. it is open for public use as well.

>> okay, good evening and welcome to the december 14, 2022 san francisco board of appeals. president rick swig will be the presiding officered and joined by