avalon bay and [inaudible] architects presented this project to the project review committee in early 2014 and our stance is all of the community benefits that the project deliver out weigh the shadow impact on the park. this will bring a lot of housing to the city's job centers and along the transit line. it's very well designed. incorporates significant amount of publicly accessible open space, enhances the pedestrian experience providing landscaping along the sidewalk and widening the sidewalk. these are all the features you want to see in good urban development and promote those principles. the dog park is a fantastic addition as well so i hope you let the project move forward as it is and thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> then we have joe kirshaugher and peter waller. are you going to do it together? are you each going to do three minutes or doing it together? >> if we could each do three minutes. thank you. we have i powerpoint on the screen. thank you very much. peter waller with [inaudible] architects. i will give a brief overview of the project. you have int

avalon bay and [inaudible] architects presented this project to the project review committee in early 2014 and our stance is all of the community benefits that the project deliver out weigh the shadow impact on the park. this will bring a lot of housing to the city's job centers and along the transit line. it's very

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 and i don't want that over looked but more than of that benefit -- secondly as peter described we going to transform the streetscape here and important connection between the ed nodes and we have the shopping district and esprit park. right now it's uninviting strip of sidewalk. we're going to increase this down the street to 15 feets and generous bulb outs in addition to the 15 at the three 34r -- plazas and it's a generous public gathering space and as mentioned not only are we going to improve the area immediately in fro

50 feet and 9 thousand square feet there closed the dog park and lighting is all maintained by avalon bay a great compliment to a streetcar and then in 3 dynamics if indiana you see the fingertips become 30 pieces of architectures which step back and open up all that carefully worked out with the neighborhood i'm going to turn it over to owen. >> thank you owen with the planning and architect the south side of the site and the building slides ranked the existing former railway it is the industrial pass when trains roll up indiana street our building gives express to this rail easement we've divided the building into two pizza piece other than the south side on the left is following the level of the easement and there it was originally planned to 5 stories we've lowered it down to 4 stories from feedback from the neighborhood it has actually a long internal property line but still a facade to the street and we've reconciled this problem with vertical bay windows that protrude i understand i said street, and, secondly, by he south setting it back from the property line it t it protects the

i think avalon bay has done a great job in providing a community benefit program to off set any potential shadow impact on esprit park. they're providing open space, additional open space on site at their expense. they're providing a dog park fortunately they will maintain and police -- it's an inside joke for us, which it was responsive to the community, and they are making a contribution to the childrens' playground so i think that shows a significant community program in addition to the affordable housing fees and impact fees they're paying that i would support this project to move forward. >> thank you. commissioner levitan. >> i could not state it anymore eloquently than my commissioner low has done -- no, i couldn't even though he went to berkeley. >> [inaudible] >> but i take this very seriously and i am increasingly having greater concerns with developments impacts in terms of the population increased to certain neighborhoods without consideration for those impacts on our parks and recreation, and in my mind there is no such thing as an acceptable shadow on the playground. just go

and had lunch in the park this project is definitely desirable and necessary we've reached out to avalon bay through the dna we're confident it will assist local businesses and contractors if san francisco we'll be urging local electricians in san francisco and spend their money in san francisco and awe prince and funding our program in if the local 6 my own hauling hall and i'm in favor of the project i courage our support in pushing it through thank you. >> thank you is there any additional public comment seen none, public comment is closed. commissioner moore. >> when we have a project of this size and everything agrees i can only say congratulations to all it is hatred to bring a big project for the record in a collaborative and supportive effort i couldn't be more happy particularly today to say this is when i'd like to add i believe this project is creative and whimsical and the reason why i'm saying that is the following we have a variety of for large projects a variety of building massing and building expression we have a whole new convenient calorie that gives us a sense of place an

the far southern end of ocean drive and inlet bridge shut down because on the avalon identify that road which runs along bayide of it already flooded out and will get deeper over there eight or 10:00 this morning when high tides hit because first high tides last night, never went back out to sea because the high wind from the northeast are keeping tides in. it the is like they are pushing them in like a wall of water. high tides doesn't leave and second just layers on top of that and that is why we have flooded situation that we have here at the the shore and you can see some of the sea foam. one of the for rent signs already blown in the street there. that is a metal sign and middle blew away. so a lot of the debris in the the street, not just water. you have to be real careful, one of those metal signs that will tear away. here's a demonstration purpose and i didn't mean to do it on camera. but i turn this way. chris, i want to show you some, townsend inlet bridge will close down for work january 5th and the the guy in charge of this project, christopher murphy is in chargey hear he is in the very good. >