. >> item 3, a hearing on the treasure island/yerba buena island redevelopment. supervisor mar: this is one of a series of hearings on the treasure island development. >> thank you. this is our second time before you, and we have a presentation as well if we could put that up on the monitor. we will be brief, but we did want to send some ongoing discussions about treasure island, mostly, that relate to the state and governor proposals to eliminate redevelopment. we wanted to kind of continue those discussions in-house, just a brief overview. you also asked for some additional information on tsunami link electronics, inc. model number: pdr-885 software version: 3.0c about a 15-minute presentation. as we talk about in our last meeting and no doubt you have heard, the governor has a proposal to eliminate redevelopment agencies. this is obviously in the context of massive budget problems at the state level. in 50% of revenue, is spent at the state level on education, and that is kind of the crux of the issue, trying to get more money going back to schools. the governo

. >> item 3, a hearing on the treasure island/yerba buena island redevelopment. supervisor mar: this is one of a series of hearings on the treasure island development. >> thank you. this is our second time before you, and we have a presentation as well if we could put that up on the monitor. we will be brief, but we did want to send some ongoing discussions about treasure island, mostly, that relate to the state and governor proposals to eliminate redevelopment. we wanted to kind of continue those discussions in-house, just a brief overview. you also asked for some additional information on

. >> item four, informational hearing on the treasure island/yerba buena redevelopment project. chairperson mar: at the urging of the mayor's office, i will make the motion we will continue this to next meeting, april 25. are there any objections to that? let me open this for public comment before we take action on it. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. continue this item until april 25, without objection. would you call our last item, a hearing on the parkmerced project? thank you. i think we have from planning -- the planning department. >> the office of economic and workforce development is actually going to be beginning this presentation. the are coming right over with the presentation, so we do not have it loaded for you. if we can possibly take a short recess, that would help with set up? chairperson mar: let a sticky several minute recess. about a five -- let us take a several minute recess. actually, good timing, mr. yearney. thank you. we are joined by the sponsor of the hearing, supervisor sean elsbernd, as

the treasure island yerba buena area plan, it's really interesting to me that staff was able to put together an area plan within the space of about three weeks, i think. we had a redevelopment plan previously which i have here which i was reading until the change came along and then all of a sudden we have an area plan for us to consider. i think it's rather unprecedented that the commission and staff has never given us a real presentation and the commission has not had informational workshops specifically on the area plan itself combined with the s.u.d., which are major items for the commission to be considering, especially since the s.u.d. is set up in such a way that it takes power away from the commission which i think is not a correct way to go. also, it would have been helpful, and i think it's because of the time element, it would have been extremely helpful for us to have some kind of matrix or some kind of comparison before us that showed what was in the old redevelopment plan and its various related documents that related to land use and what-not and the new area plan proposed before us and that way we could have seen more clearly what the implications were for ad