ann: this is ann clark, our commonwealth club program tonight is "reimagining infrastructure." i want to thank our panel tonight for the wonderful information and suggestions and the conversation that we had. the head of office of planning at hud, ginger is a writer and historian, and benjamin grant who is right here in san francisco is the urban design policy director at spare -- spur and has led many of the processes to develop programs in spur for thecy at city. i would like to actually ask the person who has been our moderator tonight, h. emerson blake, editor and magazine of the "orion" magazine and the executive director of the orion society, emerson, what stands out for you in terms of reimagining our infrastructure, america's infrastructure? chip: i think a lot of us, certainly a lot of us at orion, like so many people, when we think of infrastructure, we think of bridges and roads and you hit on your way to work in the morning and the words that you said when you hit those potholes. and pretty quickly, you begin to realize that the way that our lives play out, they are

ann: this is ann clark of the commonwealth club of california, "reimagining infrastructure." we have the principal deputy and assistant secretary from the office of community planning and development at hud. ginger is a journalist and historian and you just heard from benjamin grant, who is an urban design policy advocate here in san francisco. our next speaker will be ginger. ginger? ginger: thank you, so i am a writer, not a planner, so i don't have the same deep level of expertise as my fellow panelists. i did write a book about niagara falls, which i sometimes described as a giant piece of infrastructure disguised as a natural wonder. then i subsequently wrote a book about the interstate highway system, which i came to see as a giant natural wonder disguised as a piece of infrastructure. [laughter] ginger: which i suppose that is why "orion" suggested i write a piece on community power and reimagining infrastructure, the series of sparked tonight's panel. reporting kind of gives you a sense of the big picture, so i thought i would just share the big picture ideas and also

ann: business an -- this is ann clark. i want to thank our panel tonight who has been with us, and the wonderful information, suggestions, and discussion we have had. harriet, who is principal deputy for the office of community planning and development at huf. ginger, who i an environmentalist, historian, and writer, and benjamin grant -- >> we will break away from the last few minutes of this with a reminder that you can find it on c-span.org. we will go over to washington for a discussion on the 14th amendment and birthright andzenship with james ho john eastman talking about birthright citizenship. just getting underway now at the heritage foundation. >> i would ask you in-house to check that cell phones have been silence, as we prepare to begin. of course, we will post the program on the heritage home page for everyone's future reference. fault, is anthis opportunity to announce the heritage of the foundation reference. we have copies available if you would be interested. for those on the twitter world, we of course ha

. >> thank you the next speaker is ann clark. >> good afternoon, everyone i'm ann clark vice president of the friends of camp mather i'm here to invite you to our september family tent it is going to be on september 22nd saturday that's a saturday at lake merced boathouse from one to 5 activities free a climbing wall and bouncing house and kayak in the lake there's lots of activities we really appreciate all the help and for the support from the commission and staff we've had to later than a lot about the events and truthfully you've been wonderful guidance for us we really appreciate they're listening to us and helping us so don't forget us come on september 26th try to be there we'll look forward to seeing you on a personal note harlan kelly was a volunteer others camp mather and he and his family was there it was wonderful i i have to tell you truthfully when you know the boss is in town we have to behave my family said i by a preponderance of the evidence the best that week so harlan kelly you thank you and looking at to seeing. >> and my appreciation for the board for all you've d

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carries at this point, i'm calling for public comment on any item not on the agenda i see a card from ann clark. >> hello ann she also has good news. >> i do have good news i am here on behalf of the friends at camp mather for the staff for the support and advise you gave to us for a family friend day on september 2nd of we really had a terrific family fun day a lot of people there i want to also comment that sfpuc was next to the fire truck and sfpuc notch of them what is a bounce ball next to the bounce house was a table and they brought pictures for kids to color that table with all the kids around it and the bounce i didn't house that table was full of kids all day long they loved it they loved the coloring and the pictures and they behaved wonderfully that was really exciting to see the little ones with such fun in a good way was nice thank you to harlan and others that came and supported us and let you, you know that was really, really, really a fun family day thank you very much for your help. >> good i'm glad it here it i'm sure the parents were happy they were involved that the fun any

carries at this point, i'm calling for public comment on any item not on the agenda i see a card from ann clark. >> hello ann she also has good news. >> i do have good news i am here on behalf of the friends at camp mather for the staff for the support and advise you gave to us for a family friend day on september 2nd of we really had a terrific family fun day a lot of people there i want to also comment that sfpuc was next to the fire truck and sfpuc notch of them what is a bounce ball next to the bounce house was a table and they brought pictures for kids to color that table with all the kids around it and the bounce i didn't house that table was full of kids all day long they loved it they loved the coloring and the pictures and they behaved wonderfully that was really exciting to see the little ones with such fun in a good way was nice thank you to harlan and others that came and supported us and let you, you know that was really, really, really a fun family day thank you very much for your help. >> good i'm glad it here it i'm sure the parents were happy they were involved that the fun any