from the park roughly in the middle of the park on a november afternoon you see the overpass, that stand of trees and before the project. when the project is add you see a little in fill by the overpass and that area there -- next slide, thank you joe -- and again before the project and with the project essentially the view is of that project is just below the overpass modest impact as experienced from the park. thank you very much and i am here for questions and i will turn it over to joe. >> thank you commissioners. i am joe with avalon bay, the project sponsor and the owner and manager of this building when it's complete. so you heard from peter. peter showed photos of the project. what it's going to look like. you heard from staff about the the shadow impact. i want to talk about the benefits this project is going to bring to the dog patch community so to begin one of the most important benefits we will provide 326 apartments, new places to live and in fill and part of the neighborhood plan and exactly where new housing should be built in san francisco. the city needs this housing an

i want to thank again the park staff, particularly tony moran on the urban park greening grant and i hope you think it's valuable to receive and almost a million dollars to add to a transformative project in mclaren park and mansell corridor and i believe the view of the country -- that nothing has been done on the design of mclaren park and take the lanes of traffic and two lanes and take the other lanes create bike, pedestrian just walkways with trees and this grant will add all of the green features that contribute to really finalizing the project in the way that we hope it all be so i am glad you hopefully agree to the consent calendar and push it forward and again the supervisors we hope -- we're going to lobby with them and make sure that happens but thank you all for the fine work and thanks to the capital department for the good work finding grants because we were originally not going to get the additional funding and that would have been one shoe off so thanks again. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment on the consent calendar? seeing none this item is closed.

the way the park feels for many months of the year. why didn't people make a stink out of this? this is blotting out the sunshine in the premier park certainly in new york city, maybe the world. where was the outcry? >> there was an outcry in the 1980s when the park was also threatened by overbearing developers. warren st. john had just arrived in the city as a college student. >> one of the first big civic actions that i heard about was an umbrella protest in central park organized by jacqueline onassis and others. and they were protesting a building that was going up on columbus circle that was going to throw a big shadow across central park. a thousand people showed up with umbrellas to form the line that the shadow would form. >> my wife judith and i raised our umbrellas and joined the line of neighbors from all around the park. jackie o.'s stature, combined with people power, caused the developer to back off and scale down the height of his new building. still big but casting less of a monstrous shadow across the park. now, with t

or any of the tier one parks? >> yeah let me take that one because it relates to some of the things i was going to say. we have the dollars that we have and the public funding that we have, and a playground -- i think dawn you would concur between $1 million and $2 million range for a basic playground renovation but we know some of the exceptional play play plays in the city are more expensive and not the budget at lafayette and had support from others. this will depend on leveraging the dollars with philanthropic sources or grant sources and we are working on that. lisa bransten from the team is very involved in that. this is something of passion ate interest of the parks alliance and will depend on timing and the additional funding that we have. i think we should focus -- before we grab streets and acquire land and build new parks i think we should focus on delivering the public's expectation which is a

or any of the tier one parks? >> yeah let me take that one because it relates to some of the things i was going to say. we have the dollars that we have and the public funding that we have, and a playground -- i think dawn you would concur between $1 million and $2 million range for a basic playground renovation but we know some of the exceptional play play plays

this is something of passion ate interest of the parks alliance and will depend on timing and the additional funding that we have. i think we should focus -- before we grab streets and acquire land and build new parks i think we should focus on delivering the public's expectation which is a beautifully renovated playground in the sites that we have, but we do have this pot of money we're hoping to leverage so the short answer is there is more to come on that. >> yeah, my only point being i don't like doing things twice so if we mobilize the resources for say any one of the tier one parks, whether we could maybe leverage that -- think bigger and use the opportunity that we have to expand parks, improve parks beyond the scope that we originally imagined. >> again commissioner and dawn if you have thoughts you could certainly dive in. we want to do the most -- deliver the biggest bang for the bucks that we have but we do have a responsibility to try to focus on all of the playgrounds on this list at once -- over time before we talk about expanding scope at any one particular site. >> we do have

park. our goal together we are going to build the new dolores park that is going to be built to last. it is going to retain all of it's important features, all of it's historic qualities, all of it's essential beauty. but yet be built with the idea that this is whenever people come. >> we are going to be renovating all six tennis court's, replacing the basketball court with operations underneath so the staff has the ability to maintain the park. we are completely renovating the irrigation system and in addition to the operations we are building two new restroom buildings. this fund was part of the park renovation fund. we knew community was very supportive of a renovation fund. we engaged in a community process which we began with the park to do a detailed assessment of the condition of the park and very details conversation about what we can do in the park and utilize what we can. >> parks are where people can gather and where to relax and a lot of people in the city don't have back yards and this is where we come to be with our community. >> 1, 2, 3. [ applause ] [ cheers and applaus

like the park it's available up to 20 hours a day and supplement the way the park and the central activities operate. it's on access of the bridge with the sales sales force tower. here is the overview at night and as you know one of the key ideas behind the design from the beginning is that the park is essentially the facade of the building and in the evening it's not just the fifth facade but the flowing heart, the beating heart of the new transit center. >> and now karen will present the next part. >> good morning and thank you board of directors. i am karen mc shay with aifis and young and i'm going to talk about the manufacturin -- merchandising and the process for the rfq and the rfp we hope to issue in the coming days and thank you fred. as fred can never watch the video enough i can never listen to fred's presentation about the architecture and the retail concept enough. i am very excited to be working on this project. so the merchandising and programming are very important aspects of the retail component as is the operations of the transit center and we hope through this vibrant mix

about the parking -- why is the parking for each unit? >> why do we not have more parking? >> uh-huh. >> we have a ratio of point 5 so every other unit has a parking spot and working with the verbal to maximize that number. we may be able to gain one or two parking spots but it's usual in san francisco for public and affordable housing projects to have parking ratios that are well below one. one is the maximum allowed in san francisco according to the planning code and what will be happening in in the candlestick area a a a massive investment in in in public transportation of more. >> so the mechanism on how to determine who gets parking spaces hasn't been determined yet. there's examples in the in the city there's a lottery that's renewed every year so some people get parking assigned by lottery and foe that they have the parking spot for 12 months and also examples first come first serve basis so whoever accesses the parking space first has the spot so we haven't had those discussions yet so it hasn't been determined how parking spaces will be allocated. >> i'd like to ha

if all of the events are held at harding park, the recreation and park department could receive up to $6.8 million. since 2002 the department has negotiated site fees from $250,000 to $1.1 million with the 2025 president's cup at $1,375,000. all of these fees are subject to cpi increases as well. since first hosting a pga tour event at harding we have grown tremendously as a staff both on course and in the clubhouse to successfully host such events and we are very excited to accept the rare opportunity to once again show off harding and san francisco to the world. the wgc cadillac match play coverage is expected to reach 800 million households in 224 countries and 31 languages outside the united states. stephanie mckneel from the pga tour is here to make a couple comments and i will be glad to answer any questions you might have. >> thank you, mr. heart. >> good morning, supervisors, i am stephanie mcneil, i am the general manager for the pga tour based here in san francisco. we are happy to extend our partnership with the city and county of san francisco through 2025. harding park is

and the arena maybe the park in the middle the gathering spates even more than the arena that will be used often but the park and the plans for the food hall and the office buildings and, of course, all the remain use that is in the area will make it a vibrant area all year long and this is very giving to me unfortunately in 1966 san francisco began to lose not only professional basketball but another concerts and thing in the past including we have two political conferences in 66 and other championships only because it was the only possible facility in the bay area it wasn't because of the stent of it once the arena of the colosseum was established in the oovldz we are eclipsed by another sites the whole bay area losses if we don't have the most concentration of jobs during the day's and people want to come for other reasons since is they're here that's why facilities are successful as witnessed by at&t park because people want to be in the city they work in the city and it's great to have sporting events and concerts and having all the parking underground is a gre

i know the biking is stacked. >> the parking for the bikes is actually accommodated in a mezzanine. it wouldn't be faes wouldn't be feasible to park cars in that space. it's actually taken right under the ramp area so we're putting a mezzanine above the ramp that services the parking so it's not really taking any car parking spaces. >> okay. >> and i also want to point out there's a minimum number of bike parking spaces required in the development controls. >> okay so everyone will have access to the community room, fitness centers? >> yes, everyone has access to everything. >> and there are no separate entrances to the affordable housing units? everyone is equal. >> no. everyone is equal. there's one entrance. on the design package it shows there's one entrance and as we transition to to the eighty 20 project there was only one entrance before but you had to split in two so this new development allowed us to consolidate that and provide even more retail along folsom street really improved the ground floor space from our perspective. and some of those units will have access to balcon

in the parking garage we have put self park stackers for the cars and the required parking spaces for the bicycles spaces as well. that's something else we've added a trash shoot for each of the buildings so people don't have to store their trash in their units. >> you can load the bike. >> that's a code compliance. >> commissioners normally can't entertain questions. i apologize for that. >> i won't be much longer. before you today this major phase, staff has review ed it and it's complete and the horizontal schedule performance and the plan. all the elements of the major phase applications were reviewed with the advisory committee and in the meeting in november they recommended we go forward to you here today. they did provide a letter of sup -- support which is in your packet. >> that is very normal. i will try to move through these quickly. there is a variety of items that we'll be working with to try to resolve. some are minor design issues. i will go through them one by one. we want them to study how to use the park behind the building to use the transition from the public realm

and the mass transit and bike parking green roofs and zero waste procurement and energy cac and other alternative sources like solar on site generation all right. so with those points out of the way let's talk about the design something i feel passionate about and hope to bring that to light today the fabric of mission bay if you know it is very wonderful tall buildings and that's part of the planning the design for development it yields texture let's say to the urban fabric we intentionally and with the help and support of katherine's group at ocii looked to do something nor organic i want to talk about that and you can certainly ask questions we had 3 large building elements the arena and the two office building we wanted to balance the location and the adjacency so it if create negative space around this instead of setting the site up we actually set it up over and over gangly allowing it to flow for having seenly would the arena located also let's say slightly to the billboard site that freed up the site on third street this was really key to us we looked at the site

system or on the streets adjacent to the parks because of the storm and i want to thank him for his leadership. one aspect of our response to the storm is we are -- our rec center's function is more than just places for fun and rec kreegz. they're community centers and in an emergency or disaster we provide shelter and so today i really want to acknowledge and commend everybody who participated in the shelter operation which housed over a hundred people for about 36 hours. >> [inaudible] >> oh it was two and a half days. it was two full nights. these folks really went above and beyond with the storm with less than five hours notice these individuals accomplished a herk layerian task of putting this in motion and did it seamlessly and in partnership with the human services agency and the red cross and many other partners. so i want to recognize who is here. tim fageris and his staff and a coordinator. steve [inaudible] and the entire park service custodial staff. bob lote and marcos is here. come on up folks. our park patrol supervisor who provided aro