the ceqa part needs work. the planning department is regulatory, captured by developers, ammed they could change the way they do e.i.r.'s to do it in-house, but it's all a consulting operation. that's why it takes 24 months. they could have a project together like the champ model and figure out what the transit delay was, but we need to know on complex systems what minor changes would have major impacts on, because no one can know that going into it, and a fee cannot predict it, thank you. >> thank up. no more public comment? thank you very much. that was a very good presentation. we look forward to hearing more about this. i think this is going to be a really positive change. i believe our closed session has been removed. >> madam chairman, closed session has been cancelled. so you've completed the business before you today. >> thanks, we are adjourned. thank you. >> do you have a sister in the audience? >> no, my parents. [meeting adjourned at 7:15 p.m. eastern standard time.]

this was a ceqa lawsuit. and the way we do ceqa transportation study, again, is often category to the goals of let's say bike mobility or transit. this was recognized a long time ago out of this 2003 directive, the transportation authority generated a report that recommended replacing l.o.s. with a more nuanced metric that focused on transit and bikes and people. based on that work, this committee that i mentioned, the four agencies got together to initial a nexus study to understand what sort of fee we could generate to fund those improvements that i mentioned. there was an opportunity in 2009, the state revised its ceqa guidelines. these are the regulatory guidelines that tells cities how to use seekway to do everything including a transportation study. we were able to sit down with their attorney and get language specifically in the state guidelines that allows this project to move forward in san francisco. 2010, we spent the entire year modelling what package of transit and bike and ped and street improve

one is directly to your point about ceqa reform. a little history real quickly. last session there was focus on legislation to facilitate farmers field, the nfl project in southern california. what they came up with was a host of a modest improvements in the timing and guarantees of how to process ceqa documents. assembly member fuehr but that might be a way to approach reform for transit. i attended a meeting at his request this week, and he wants to take a little bit different approach. he wants to look at actual administrative processing elements that could be speeded up or eliminated without waiving or doing any damage at all to the underlying premise of ceqa. he is looking at the administrative elements, and we will also take a close look at some of the judicial release elements. commissioner wiener: i think there are major process issues, but also the broader issue of public transportation projects in pedestrian projects -- and pedestrian projects are inherently beneficial to the environment. i think there is a unique perspective that we're trying to improv

commissioner wiener: one thing i do not see is ceqa the form of the state level. i know ceqa and some of the issues are rounded top pretty dramatic impact on transportation projects, and i am very much of the view that transportation agencies should be taking a lead in that conversation on how to take a lead on that without necessarily delaying and increasing cost. i am sure at some point you been involved in those conversations, but i would encourage the agency to be at the table. >> we are not as involved, but we have been a leader in that topic as well. -- not just involved, but we've been a leader in that topic as well. the most important topic has been the main metric for the valuation of impacts on the transportation system. that is a topic where the highre have already been statewe repercussions from it. we have a great deal of interest in sacramento on how this effort is going to turn out. yes, absolutely. in addition to that, we are involved with the group that brings together the transportation authorities, the sales tax authorities around the state, in

the staff is responsible for setting ceqa guidelines, and inserted language into the ceqa guidelines allowing for an alternative measure. in 2010, we spent a great deal of time modeling a variety of potential improvements to the transportation system, what their impact would be relative to offsetting the impact we expect from growth over 20 years. we booked able -- we were able through the comprehensive modeling process to determine which projects would have the highest impact for the least cost and coupled the results with our nexis study, which should be publicly available in the next couple of weeks to establish a feed program and corresponding expenditure program. we are currently addressing an ordinance which would enable the changes i am describing now. coming back to the purpose of the program, it is worth emphasizing. by making a change to the way we look at transportation impact under environmental review, coupling that with in a citywide impact fee, we can have a full systematic program that allows us to comprehensively offset the impact of development on the transportation

staff would be amenable to that not only from a design guidelines but from the ceqa review. it does not necessarily have to be a box with the parapet on it. there can be some kind of feature but it could not -- should not be replicating the existing parapet at that slope. commissioner antonini: i would hope there is flexibility in our motion and staff they could work with project sponsor to finishe the upper addition in such a way that it has more compatibility with the rest of the houses in the neighborhood and whether it be an issue of -- eave tile roof, there are a couple of houses that were built before the secretary's standards were carried out. they are beautiful and they put on additions on the top their seamless with the bottom and that is what i would like to be able to do on my house and i ever did in addition to the top of it. people should have the ability to make something look appropriate if they feel that way. commissioner moore: the only thing is that if you would change from flat to pitched, it would add significant height. i assume that you cannot have it b

. -- ceqa implementation measurement years ago to try to better align the city kids petition with the city in merman to review policies. today we're pleased to bring you this update in proposal for a programmatic approach called the transportation sustainability program. it will have reflected a truly collaborative effort on the part of four agencies. we're extremely grateful to the planning department staff for their partnership to sfmta staff, including their leafbiad on this effort, who are here today. i would be remiss if i did not appreciate reach a heigachel hyd others. i will turn this presentation over to alicia, and you should have some slides at your desk. >> good morning, commissioners. felicialicia jonbaptist. this is been a long-plant effort between the four offices. the program itself is innovative in that it relates to the develop a process, which are currently distinct and separate from the environmental review process and the impact fees in such a way to allow for the city to comprehensively fund assets of systematic transportation network improvements that better mee

ceqa. we actually did not. it had to do with the number of boats on the bay, so we are still looking at 5.4 million spectators under this ceqa document. that allowed us to establish a conservative on but about what it will take us to put on this event. it is helpful for us to think about, because i think the city has a lot of experience in dealing with short-duration high-spectator events in sort of a direct, bring those services sort of way, and one is fleet week along the waterfront. there is the duration of the event, especially in 2013. it will not be just one weekend or one week, but it will be and at buffalo -- and ebb and flow. chair chu: one question. supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: the bookings, with the critical race events coming up, are we seeing a spike this coming august and hotel bookings? are we seeing a spike next year as well? >> we have not evaluated that. typically, those bookings are closer to the date. we are not officially approved, so i am not sure that people

that is a discretionary decision by ceqa and the board of supervisors. there are other approvals required as well, including the port commission, acting in a discretionary capacity. ifd, which is the next major source of revenue, is dependent on that happening. there is significant risk on the development side that does not address the general fund risk. supervisor kim: would you like to add to that, in terms of development risk? >> there are a couple of things i would like to add. the first is possibly an unknown fact. that is the office of economic development, when michael cullen was involved, during 2010, offered the bones of this deal to three developers, and they all turned it down. the reason they turned it down is no developer in their right mind spends between $50 million or $80 million in the hope they would get the entitlements down the track. there must be something in the steel which is risky for the event authority, if that is the case. the second thing i will add is this continues to be discussed as a development deal. i do not consider it

and we need to know ceqa in the case of buildings more than 50 years old. to suddenly suggest that we could no longer put sprinklers in four-story wood frame buildings because we do not like it or think it is onerous or need a financial hardship exemption -- no one is proposing that. it is ludicrous. let's not put ceqa through the same torturous process that we have been engaged in here for so long. please forward the hpc's provisions. and let's move on. >> i have renovated a number of buildings in san francisco. i also range the monthly meeting places for the victoria alliance where we meet every month in a different architecturally interesting space. one thing that i think is fairly obvious to everybody is that definitions of what is attractive in terms of architecture do change. hates victorian. i happen to like victorians very much, and i would say that most of my friends who have renovated victorians -- my friends and myself being over the age of 50 -- when we work on our buildings, we wanted to do the right thing. we wanted to make sure that what we w

it is the television rights, the long term development on the leases, and ceqa. economic development in the city of san francisco is not part of their business plan. as they prepare their brand and are not getting the corporate sponsorships they thought they would, they are going to start contacting the program may have. the things they will cut out are the unsure arts and entertainment cultural activities that would otherwise be bringing more people in and burning more spectators and tourists. what we are saying is that this needs to be a program that is city-wide, that brings benefits to all the different neighborhoods, that figures out how to get people out from the waterfront so we can avoid lawsuits of that nature, and get them to stay longer in the city. if you can imagine that out of a family of four there will be only one major sailing enthusiast, the other three will have to be convinced to come. if we can provide a comprehensive program of events, that will do that. they have called this the third largest sporting event in the world. the largest art the

i hope we will come back to the mta board of directors to adopt ceqa findings and take appropriate findings -- action. at the bottom of the slide we referenced the process under nepa. that includes the regulation for the coast guard to manage traffic along the bay as well as these permits to use park lands and that process is moving forward. it will take longer to publish their documentary different departments. you'll see that later this spring in may 2012 and hopefully a final findings in june 2012. a quick few points on the economic benefits. the economic study commission prior to signing the host agreement looked at the full range of economic potential impacts to san francisco and the bay area and called out over $1 billion of impact and over 8000 jobs created by the events. these impacts and jobs are spread across a number of sectors as listed here. construction, transportation, and general events. hospitality and that sort of thing. something we have pointed out to people as we talked about these economic impact is they are not coming from a single point. these impacts are from diffus

it adopts the ceqa findings and approves the project as described in the final eir. it approves a memorandum of agreement with the city and the event authorities and their respective responsibilities with ceqa, and it approves the agreement of the dda between the city and the america's cup authority, and there are certain determination rights provided in the host and any agreement, and because there was this discussion about the $12 million and the provisions, i want to start with the discussion about the impact of waving termination rights. so page 9 of the resolution states that the board of supervisors finds that the america's cup organizing committee has made some of the in progress towards meeting its year-1 fund-raising target of $12 million, and waves the right to terminate per the host and venue agreement. there has been a lot of discussion about whether that has been met or not. i do not think that we can say affirmatively that that goal has been met. i will say that when we look at the cost projections, we found that there would be a net benefit. certainly,

with the understanding that any specific project that came before the department may be further ceqa review. and what was before them under this review was the legislation for land use and the zoning change. supervisor mar: i know that the doctor mentioned that it is is successful area for many youths from the southeast of the city. so that location is a critical one for the clinic as well. that is in the balancing act of the potential negatives of being in an industrial area for a health clinic, but being buried sensible to families in the area. supervisor cohen: ok, we may begin public comment. the first card is ms. jackson. second speaker will be francisco da costa. and the third -- supervisor mar: we're going to limit it to two minutes per person. supervisor cohen: then it ruben santana. and then eric smith. >> thank you, supervisors piteously from bayview-interest point. too bad you have given me two minutes. this is a toxic area there. there is no bus stops there. there have been groups that want to build their across the street for many years, and we have opposed because of th

i am kind of a ceqa guy that way. i am not sure in what kind of small face -- space you are finding and what items are not getting the needed with respect to the muni and the mta, but i would hope that you would find ways to address them, and if you cannot, i am not sure i would adopt the statement of overriding considerations. i would try to mitigate those items within the america's cup effort overall, using the people plan and other reference to try to address those, as she said in her own way that we should not impact the rest of the system. those are our thought. secretary boomer: thank you. next speaker. >> i am here from the advisory committee. for many years, we have been advocating the e line. mr. albert has been to our meetings in developing the people's plan, and we are deeply disappointed that the contractor you is -- who is rehabilitating this will be unable to do this to have any kind of service using the cars that are designated for it for the america's cup, at least this year. it has been our hope for 1