we should have anticipated the burdens proposed by the bcdc. thank you for not laying on us the terraces, which came out of nowhere. that is something we can all agree to agree on. there is no way we could have anticipated that. but the other aspects, as i mentioned, that only could have been assessed after the award of the contract to the design build entity. it is not as though those things -- it is not as if we had some crystal ball to know ahead of time that we could have avoided those costs after the fact. those costs were going to occur by virtual of the project that we were delivering. on the matter of pg&e, yes, the lesson learned will is the design build entity should have engaged with pg&e much sooner. that pg&e is a troublesome entity is no secret to anyone who has been paying attention to recent months or years. beyond that, we know they can be difficult. the extent to which they can difficult after the fact, which is to say the engagement with them by the design build entity, could not have been known or understood with any precisi

we should have anticipated the burdens proposed by the bcdc.nk you for not laying on us the terraces, which came out of nowhere. that is something we can all agree to agree on. there is no way we could have anticipated that. but the other aspects, as i mentioned, that only could have been assessed after the award of the contract to the design build entity. it is not as though those things -- it is not as if we had some crystal ball to know ahead of time that we could have avoided those costs after the fact. those costs were going to occur by virtual of the project that we were delivering. on the matter of pg&e, yes, the lesson learned will is the design build entity should have engaged with pg&e much sooner. that pg&e is a troublesome entity is no secret to anyone who has been paying attention to recent months or years. beyond that, we know they can be difficult. the extent to which they can difficult after the fact, which is to say the engagement with them by the design build entity, could not have been known or understood with any precision,

unless it's bcdc, we're not going into the bay. why don't we bring in the city of san jose see what they think about san francisco port sidewalks. you're going through a study that's -- [indiscernible] i specifically asked, i can't think of the guy now, he said, i agree. there shouldn't be bikes there. what's the hang-up? >> the allowance of bikes on the promenade, that's been there for a very long time. we'll check to see when it first started. it may have been back when the state handed over the promenade to the city. >> commissioner burton: nobody of thinking when people were riding bikes on a nice outing as opposed now. >> i think you're hearing senator burton. i agree with him that there's no reason to wait to decide whether we should have restrictions regardless of how many conflicts occur. one of the issues i have with your presentation, most of it's good, the one issue i have with your presentation is on the survey. the survey is talking to people that live in the neighborhood or city. people who use the embarcadero, whethe

in addition, over time, bcdc has become an agency that has been very involved on sea level rise issues on a regional basis, and it has been an honor to serve for most of the last 20 years. with that, i will get onto four pieces of local san francisco business. first, and thank you to the chair of the land use and transportation committee, supervisor melgar, for my hearing on short-term rentals yesterday, and in the wake of that hearing, while there was plenty of good news about the office of short-term rentals and their programs and supervisor campos, as the chief author, and myself as a cosponsor, made some significant changes to the short-term rental legislation with regard to airbnb and the settlement, there were some discrepancies that the office of short-term rentals presented in october 2018 and what they presented yesterday both as to fines and fees that were collected as well as the number of applications applied for year by year, cancelled, withdrawn, or denied or what have you, so i've asked ben rosenfield to conduct an audit in the wake of yesterday's discrepancies, and we w