access to jobs, shops, culture, transit, and other amenities is certainly among the best anywhere in the bay area. second, development commissions within the study area have changed fundamentally since the last major development, the golden gate way, as was built. the freeway has come down. the beltway has ceased to operate, and light industrial area to the north of washington street turned primarily to its use -- office and residential. the port has made tremendous strides in the past decade. the embarcadero, not, the ferry building, appears 1 through 5 are all moving toward an area we can be proud. the land side, however, has lagged behind. despite a number of very attractive buildings, streets, spaces, special areas in the neighborhood, the area does remain disconnected, and the public realm is visibly for for it. the northeast embarcadero study does address these conditions. we strive to create a unique waterfront experience to enter new development respects the content established by historic buildings. to establish opprobrious feet skied guidelines to provide safe, attractive,

there are a lot of people excited about having the amenities in dolores park. there are others with concerns about it. we will have a community meeting on the 27th and see how that goes. we will come back to the commission to let you know how that meeting went. we will also come back to you with an update on where we would be located and blue bottle. >commissioner lee: you are not going to reopen the selection of the vendors? >> we have a roaming rflp for amenities in our parks. we have 225 properties. we heard the presentation from the mayor's office of economic development. based on some of our own feedback, we hear from park users all the time a desire for amenities in our parks. we also understand the need to work with our communities and neighborhoods in terms of how, when, and where. this is not the only opportunity to actually submit a bid to participate in this program. we work with the vendor and we work with the neighborhood and the community on the details. commissioner lee: my concern was that since we have gone through this process we have already

amen, amen, amen. the mayor and maxwell have said what needs to be said. on behalf of the board of supervisors, i want to help you. we were able to get it over the finish line, and thank you to supervisor maxwell. i think that she could be a poster child. what do you think, extending term limits? [laughter] all lot to think the mayor for shepherding this. [applause] michael's hair has gotten wider at this time. i wonder about his cigarette habit. as supervisor maxwell mentioned, it takes a village. today obviously is the end of one chapter but the beginning of another. what we're looking for to is the 21st century hunters point, bayview, and san francisco. on behalf of the board, we are 1000% committed to going over this line. we're going to get it done. thank you. >> we want to make this a mecca for green technology. we need to talk about how to redevelop it. i say this with admiration to every single person who has participated. no one has put more time and energy into the nuances and technical aspects. as i understand it, better than the person she just

amen is referring to.lve things in a novel way never thought of before. >> larry: would you go nuts with 20% memory? >> we would have to do a lot of stress management. it would melt our circuits. >> larry: would it be genius though? >> genius is made up of so many different elements. to be optimally functioning you want to utilize all of the tools that you have and that means making sure that you are taking proper care of yourself, your hard drive is clear and again trauma is so powerful in effecting and disrupting memory and most people have a lot of untreated and even unrecognized trauma. >> this is an important point. in my world i noticed increasingly that trauma is the problem of our time. trauma not meaning physical trauma but interpersonal trauma is emotional abuse at the hands of important caretakers has dramatic effects on the brain and has lots of information about how the brain disregulates and disassociates and now the left brain manages these things versus the right. >> they have determined if

it's a nice amenity in an underutilized part of the plaza. the space is currently managed and maintained by boston properties in partnership with park and rec. they will be required to, under the existing m.o.u., to make sure those courts are kept in pristine conditions. they will store all of the materials, all of the tools, and provide all of the labor. benji tozy who i have learned it our great bocce ball ambassador and player has agreed to help be our technical expert and he will make sure on a regular basis those courts are kept up to conditions that will allow folks to have a good time. it's an incredible accessible sport. kids as young as 4 and 5 and folks as old as 95, 100 can go out and play. they can have a good time together. that area has a daytime population, just counting the office buildings over 50,000 people. it's a very popular area on the weekends during the farmers markets. that one corner of the park continues to go underutilized. this is a great chance to activate that space. if it doesn't work, if they're not perfect, f

plus significant neighborhood serving amenities. interestingly, in doing this we were able to achieve a 60% reduction for home using energy, potable water, and production of wastewater. likewise the use of the automobile based on current technology. we are producing more rental units in the project for a current total of 89 when complete. importantly, we will be introducing these neighborhood amenities, which will allow us to begin to use pedestrian movement and reduce reliance upon the automobile. here is a plan to view of the project, the boulevard being on the left, with 19th avenue above. the plan is to introduce a retail corridor, day care center, a community center, and so forth, with a majority of the neighbors in a 400 block. with this will be a series of small core elements that will contain business centers for work at home, car sharing and bicycle available to residents for weekly use. a huge part of this is the introduction of green space systems that will link the community and provide recreation for sports, including o

second, this is a voting venue, not with food offered as an additional amenity. the big you are creating creates a food give shop operation with boating as an amenity. we proposed 85 new boats, practical caring capacity for the lake and size of the current fleet. the staff has recommended a proposed fleet of 50 books, which would not be sufficient to meet the public need. even if the concessionaire were to increase the fleet, which they can do at their option is my understanding, there's not enough room to service these boats in the basement area, which is roughly 1/3 the size of the shop we're using. 3, the staff right up does not include any kind of financial comparative analysis for the competing bids and potential benefits of the city. how can a decision be made regarding the 20-year contract without looking at the financial benefits to the department? that is a big missing piece of the component. by the one -- by the way, i would like to -- i have a petition for the preservation of the historical nature of the boat house that we want entered into the record.

i feel that adding any more amenities to the park without investing and fixing a lot of the issues that are already impacting the park and the neighborhood should be dealt with before any more impact is added to the park. i have been a member of the community since 1974. my family has been a member of that community since 1964. dolores park is a jewel. i feel all the neighborhoods deserve adequate communication in a process that takes place making any changes to the use of the park. >> thank you. >> larry and then chill. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is larry lynch. i have lived in 18th street for 25 years. this decision to have vendors in the park without community input i think is wrong. i think you guys should put a hold on it until more community people have been put on it. thank you. >> and jill? can we have the speaking to the microphone? you can move it. >> my name is jill. i am with dolores park and dogs. i am also hear about the vendor permits in the park. there did not seem to be any notice until it seemed to be a foregone conclusion. i agree holds should be put on

we've implemented, as we talked about today, we've implemented new amenities and concessions in our parks that help generate revenue from the department. obviously our food carts have been much discussed today. but we've also got an teak market at candlestick, a new parkwide bicycle rental which will enable our park users to rent a bike and ride it and drop the bike off there. we've got a new management agreement at the harding park golf course that is now awaiting board of supervisers disapproval and a new concession at the lake is in process. gold number four, improving -- goal number four, improving our stewardship. we want to create a cultural sustainability and implement practices that can serve our resources. rec and park has implemented recycling at all rec centers and composting has been implemented at most of our sites and that's something we're going to finish this year. rec and park and the public utilities commission which has been a terrific park for us have identified the top 12012 parks with the highest irrigation problems. $2.5 million has been allocated for repairs. our n

and what we want to do is add to this wonderful amenity and restore this coastal bluff area and respectitary history and the doyle drive project is allowing us to do that recorrection. and this area is not splintered off. >> and we can see how dramatic a change it will be when doyle drive is suppressd and you have a cover that connects the cemetery to this project. it's historic on the statewide and national basis, but you could rush the project or put thought and time to create something of lasting public benefit. >> we really want this, for everyone to feel like it's a win situation. whether you are a

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if the chair is amenable to that. commissioner mirkarimi: absolutely. just because a leading up to the twin challenges of what was on the june ballot and ask racing to deal racingcca required more -- to deal wiht cca. we would like to get back to a normal routine of scheduled meetings. why don't we make a recommendation to executive council and staff and do hat with everybody and get back to a normal friday for a month kind of schedule, and we will float that to everybody -- does that sound amenable? ok, why don't we give that a world -- whirl. i agree, it would be nice for the rest of the year that will at least know the next four or five meetings in advance. very good. any other agenda items? >> this is more of a question to staff with the potential, i think, for there to be a future agenda item, but i'm wondering if the proposed ballot measure to suspend ab 32 and the potential effect that might have on local efforts to create more -- to create more local power and more renewable power and what effect that might have, and i do not know the answer to

my growing hard on >> he seemed amenable. he got cold feet? may be he lost interest. ben shrugged. who knows. i would be with us in the second. i am serious. don't you feel abandoned. it's a three way honey, i don't think two people can feel abandoned. he might be late. i looked at the clock again. 25 minutes. only hustlers can get away with that. he's not a hustler? ben turned and looked at me. you think i bought us a hustler? how pathettic tic do you think we are? >> i sort of felt like he targeted us. i didn't get that sense. may be i'm wrong. ben smiled. you are disappointed. no , i said, no just annoyed. he pulled down the waist band. i don't need a mercy suck. he looked up. mercy suck. whatever. undeterred ben got down to business. mercy i said, there was when mr. johnson knocked on the door. you may have figured it out by now. to us, he was still the great dark man. a mythical man or object to desire. it was probably why we jumped to attention. jesus. tucking the incriminating evidence. wait. let this go down first. >> why? i don't know. seems rude. ben widened his eyes at m

we buy high and health care and have huge amenities in our health-care system. when my grandchildren were born, they were born in what i call birthing spas - two-room suites and that's the hospitals. my wife was in the labor room with other people in labour. we are -- we buy high and health care. whether it is worth that are not is another question. will disband the curve? our estimates are no. in fact health care expenditures will be bigger. part of that is because we introduced more free care. if you are introducing free care, you will not make health care expenditures lore. it appears health care expenditures will rise relative to where they were before the current legislation. what we have done in the free care is to make health care expenditures as a share of gross domestic product which is the big issue they have with the united states. i will not get involved and that argument -- in that argument. the main thing is to demographics. medicare is expanding rapidly. 2011 is the first year the baby boomers will become eligible for medicare and the medicare pop

they specifically called out the notion of of creating parks and increasing amenities and adding food and targeting recreation. this is ideal for residents and tourists, for the parks, and for the neighborhood and commercial districts. at the same time, we have noticed an incredible demand for food carts in the city. portland got a head of this curve, and it has done wonders and has really added to local neighborhoods. it is incredibly cumbersome and actually regulated by the police. we are leading projects to bring legislation forward to streamline food carts in the city and allow them to create a streamlined process for planning department to give permits on underutilized private spaces. i think they have also gotten ahead of the curve in there really exemplary way puree get our department has been involved with this initiative of footing in food carts from the outset. it was very well-publicized. -- involved with this initiative of putting in food carts from the outset. it was well-publicized. we have received inquiries from 40 businesses that are interested in responding. one impo