the defrost eir was published on miracle 13. a public hearing was held before this body on april 14th. the comment period closed on april 30th and the comments to respond to the document was published and distributed on october 30th, 2013. the elevations didn't find that the mremths of the project would directly result in visible effects but because this is part of the improvement water system the project would contribute to the invaluable program impact and it can't be - this significant level impact is related to growth emancipation proclamation document. due to the projects contribution to this un plaza valuable program impact the puc would have to adapt a statement pursuant to the california poly actress. should the puc choose to approve the project. the staff remedies that the consent of the report a adequate and accurate and the procures for which the eir comply with the sequa and the sequa guidelines and chapter 31 of the administrator code. that concludes my presentation. unless we have questions >> thank you. we may hav

the comment period for our draft eir, we released the draft eir in july and the comment period for that is closing or has closed -- excuse me, closed september 17th and the planning department is no longer accepting further comments on the eir. and the final process for this eir should be coming to a head in the spring, early spring. but even before that process concludes, we're really eager to get out and start talking with the public about these possibilities. you know, vetting with the community. what projects we are ready to go forward with? what solutions to the reliability problems that we're facing? can we go forward with now? where do we need to go back to the drawing board and how do we balance the needs of all the stakeholders within the framework of improving reliability and improving the customer experience? so just to illustrate kind of how our outreach process is, i want to go back to the 5l for another minute. the 5l is a corridor that runs on fulton to the beach down to transbay. and it's about 20,000 riders a day, a little less. very crowded line, especially in the midd

notable just yesterday the n organization p was published that kicks off from the public prospective the eir we nor a comment period there's a scoping that closes at the end of the january to help us figure out what to study for the environmental review. the project design similarly we're working with the city audio tape design. the document is called the development controlled and guidelines. basically that document helps to guide the project it will explain what it looks like. we're working is consolute and veefblly with the public we'll be bringing that to you early in 200 fingerprinting. the project continues to evolve those meetings help us to figure out what mains federal reserve a market prospective and to create the value from the site arrest the project infrastructure touched on briefly it will have loads of infrastructure to build the most sustainableables structure and to figure out how to pay for it. we're working with my agencies from p puc and the mayor's office of disability to coordinate those activities both on and off site to make sure that matches up with new infrastructur

and what eir are you talking about? >> we know that the eir for the warriors is post up and well we don't know when, because they keep designing the project new and the date keeps receding. and but, what we have along the water front, is no outlet, there is embarcadero and there is the bay on one side and there are hills and bay bridge on the other side it is not like you have a lot of choices unless you are a shurpa and you want to go over the bridge. but we don't have transit worth crap in this area. and no one seems to care about it except for the district six supervisor. but if we don't resolve this problem, in conjunction with this study, we are not addressing the problem. >> we have arena that is not basketball, it is a 252 day arena and on the other side there is a hotel and up scale housing, right converging at the same intersection and we have to solve what exist nows and you have heard about the congestion and apart from that, all of the letters from the editor and oh, the warriors are not going to have that i

work that the authority is doing, that would have happened concurrently with the ier now proceeds the eir. >> i want to note for the record that we have been joined by the former mayor who is here and i guess that i do still have a concern that we are not binding ourselves to a scope that may be too narrow and so would i like to know if there is an opportunity, to get additional feedback. i think that we should talk to people on both sides of this project. and to make sure that was whatever you think about the project and at least you are taking into consideration all of the issues that have been raised. and i have to say that i think that the objectivity, obviously should be to do it expidiciously and do it right. and this project and the scope of it is too important to not do it right. i want to be the opportunity for us to take into account expanding the scope, if people on either side of this project have additional suggestions because it is better to get the scope right now, than to change it down the road >> just to sure, as far as the water front assessment and i am looking at this

the eir is now underway to analyze the never and yet just yesterday the notice of preparation was issued that he planning department. we're having substantive conversation with the planning department about many, many important issues it concludes the mayor's office staff and other staff we're talking about height and massing and set back and the retail and other strategies to make that moot it's potential. we're on schedule and we've developed a great rapport with the staff. we have a great working group meet every thursday morning and many wednesday averages and that's been a again experience. just a little bit of a refresher as you know this site is 37 acres it's the northern boulevard and channel plaza between pare 48 and 50 pr mixed ice development approximately, 6.3 acres of we want it to be a hang out like 24th street. features as you can see a grand 23r7b9 park and upper square and this channel plaza very significantly in the site so all the believes are aminity by park use. it has an intimacy and specialized to it. commercial office space $3 million i won't tell and residential

the eir, this that is a big problem and the three trees are just a image of the whole problem going on, when a project has the potential to degrade the quality of the environment or eliminate the important examples of history and the prehistory and the park is a important example of the history and because there are only two such iconic gardens west of the mississippi it needs to be protect and preserved, when it has the potential to achieve the goals, to the disadvantage of long term environmental goals, this is seriously damaging our quality of life at park merced to take down those beautiful houses and put up a project that has no place there, there is no room, the transportation is not ready for that, there is not water to go around for everybody, and this is just too many and i have not seen the eir but i am sure that there is a lot of conflict theres and we cannot this less, when a project has possible environmental effects, which are individually limited but considerable that will effect us all and this will take 30 years and basically we are going to are surrounded by huge amou

are really looking forward to 2014 i think we're going to hit our milestones with the draft of the eir our design guidelines and multiple transaction guidelines all completed over the course of next year. so thank you. >> that concludes my presentation. thank you very much. >> okay. is there any public comment? okay. please state your name >> mr. burnett. your plans went public about 1 o'clock i thought it was interesting about some of the comments that were made aside i guess from side f some people got excited about the height but more people seem to be critical of is where terry freelance what boulevard comes north it doesn't/a nice by the end as you have now as you go over to the street. one last to make a shatter left hand turn. that's a flaw in the design and something that should be looked at. thank you. >> any further public comment. okay. we can ask phil or anyone else to address the design >> thank you madam president i think jack bear would recycle to discuss that issue. >> interesting comment when we started this when two folks were taking care of this one of the issues was

and in today's conflict of interest, i want to know about the environmental impact report and eir shall be repaired when there is serious public controversy and this is not just about trees, but it is about everything going on in the park, including the project to tear it down, this iconic, only two of a kind, in the west of the mississippi garden of apartment complex, where the environment is foremost to be preserved and protected in these days. this is not something that we take for granted it is a prize to be protected. last time someone was discussing park merced as available land. this land is just as available as his own backyard. we live there, we love it there. and we want to protect it and there is too much unethical controversy surrounding this. the eir, this that is a big problem and the three trees are just a image of the whole problem going on, when a project has the potential to degrade the quality of the environment or eliminate the important examples of history and the prehistory and the park is a important example of the history and because there are only two such iconi

i think it's more in terms of an eir. >> an eir has to be planned by the plan ning commission, and i not the four votes it would not be denied. >> there are cases where recirculation was not called for. even though the original document was not certified. >> that's certainly true. recirculation isn't mentioned though in your rules. >> yeah, so we don't have to get into that? >> no, would recommend not getting into that detail. there are different circumstances. if you have an eir in front of you, you can send it back to staff about what sections need to be changed. and that may or may not trigger recirculation. and if that does trigger recirculation is a decision that ero would make. i wouldn't recommend going into that detail in your rules. i don't think it's necessary. and it may be contrary to what you want to do in the specific instance. >> great. >> commissioner board rdeborden. >> i have a procedural question. for this document it will be put on the website. when we have it put on the website, hyper linked and when you reference submittals and someone click to other parts of th

in some of the water front assessment categories of strategies, we want to analyze even before the eir. >> and i guess that my bigger certain is the fact that it is not that i don't want these events to happen, i think that they are great for san francisco. i just deal with the back lash in my district where the resources are taken away and so when we talk about, for example, there is the eir that will have to be done for the warrior's stadium, i want to understand the impacts as it relates to just the area, but also, how we are going to impact the rest of the city and our resources because we are not doing it what i believe the right way now, so what is going to convince me that we have a different strategy to do it the right way in the future? so that the neighborhoods are not significantly impacted as in some cases they have been as a result of some of these events. and so i just wanted to make sure that i put that on your radar. >> if this is the beginning of many conversations like that, the very first is a big eir and we talk with the studio wall 330, and the giant mission ro jec

one thing we have done recently because the eir process looks like it won't be completed until 2013, we looked at pilot on folsom street as a bicycle lane as part of that pilot and we are going to kick that off during this holiday season. we would like to see how it does. before putting it into the eir, we are not able to see how these informed and this will help this project. recently we did a county treatment or 8th street and a road which is basically the narrowing of the number of lanes. townsend street identified with the area went through a similar traffic exercises with bicycle lanes and walking lane put in certain segments where there are no sidewalks now on townsend street. we looked at that maybe being a more longer term opportunity for the redevelopment for potential rail yards in the area. there are additional studies that look in the west soma area and alleys and working with planning department and other partners to work on those. the planning department led a transit center district plan which really focused the northern end of the eastern neighborhood areas transit th

and we are now working on our final eir as was mentioned we are hoping to have out and certified in the early spring of this year. that does nothing for implementation. there is a lot of outreach that still needs to happen. we have to decide talking with specific people on not only residents but business owners and advocacy groups and what kind of bar the e ir propose and will help us to consider the proposed location and these are the trade offs and we need to figure out how to move forward on that proposal and to take that to do design work on that so we have design drawings. right now the current plan is to use in our cip, the mta cip we have $150 million set aside to fund these first 10 corridors with capital money. $150 million. so we want this money to go for not only going to do the outreach but to finalize the design and take advantage of that money and pursue this. >> i think wr continuing this item and also want to know what the negative impacts are for short-term so more discussion happens. i proposed this question and director chang as well. if you want to address that. >> g

>> i think they are doing a focused eir. so it could be that the timing somewhat coincides. >> would you step up to the microphone, please. thank you. >> i think it's on a parallel process, but everything that is being worked on the 2nd street is incorporated into this. so there is no difference. >> this is an informational session this afternoon, there is no action required by the board? >> there is no action. >> thank you. we can look forward to a robust gold standard community outreach as we have had with two other things that have come to the board recently, where our community members are quite pleased with notification, with meetings and timing and things like that. >> candace from communications is drafting this new public outreach process, which sounds really promising and very robust and we'll be drawing from that for this process. >> good. and we'll of course, i'm sure, we'll be shared a loop in the supervisors, the appropriate supervisors. >> yes. >> thank you very much. >> if i could just add one comment, chairma

next year i anticipate a lot of eir hearings as well as major projects. i expect your workload to increase nooeks next year >> i'm going to make a motion to advance the calendar with the expectation of april. commissioner moore. >> i'd like to ask the city attorney we have an "x" number of meets and since this commission doesn't participate in creating the calendar we can't have a meeting which i consider to be an empty container in which the staff puts the stems. intend we see the advances meetings their schedule. if the public comes because they see something they might be interested in and say okay. i want to get myself ready for february or so. i want to make sure we're following paroleely because this group didn't participate in putting together the calendar. we need the president and vice president to pit those together. we don't have the leverage to arbitrarily change changes if we have 5 thursdays in a month and i support commissioner antoninis orange county's we have 4 to attend to irrespective if they fall on the first or fourth or fifth thursda

you can only digest information and we have enough materials for the next week where there's eirs it's nice to have the extra week to work on them but you can't go two which beyond two weeks. i'm happy with that part and the changes. i will wait to hear from other commissioners and particularly commissioner moore but i'm happy as i see them >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes. to address the jazz concerns i believe the submittals don't apply to the requests. >> commissioner wu. >> thanks. so on the issue of the amendments that empowering had submitted i see the ones in the actual rules, you know, have been reflected for for the plan submittal guidelines i'm supportive of it >> commissioners, if you adapt the rules and regulars p that will become part or part of the process and the planning director can include those. i'd like to address a couple of those suggestions in her that you've - okay in any case if you choose to adapt those changes we can modify the plan for the guidelines documents >> would that be a separate process than the item we're taking today or look at the rules and instruc