the eir does analyze long-term development and the conceptual level, not at a project-specific level, and it provides a broad sweep of mitigation levels. the analysis is insufficient detail to support the discretionary as envisioned in the host and then you -- and venue agreement. the analysis will be required for all development projects, whether they be eir or other. and we do not know what kind of an apartment to a document that would be until we know what the project would be. spectator boats, eir does not support a reduced number of spectator boats. the draft eir numbers for the spectator boats were based on preliminary informal estimates from race organizers but not on actual counts. we do have people here who could speak to that specific report. a final eir revise the numbers based on actual numbers ortega during the 2011 fleet week and weekend. it was provided lockman and update the analysis. the impacts are reduced, and by the way, the total number of people have not been reduced. it was just the boat counts that were revised based on empirical data. funding. funding sources

so i think this idea of conceptual level is reflecting something even beyond that in terms of lack of specificity and the core essence of sequa as you can only analyze at the level of detail of what is being proposed. and what is being proposed here long-term is nothing specific. so the level of coverage is appropriate for that level. in terms of somebody saying and making a commitment. it will be an e.i.r. i think as she said in her presentation, what kind of coverage will be dependent on what it will specifically cover, propose. but in terms of what kind of coverage you'll get in a long-term sense for a project that hasn't been defined, you're getting it at a very problematic conceptualized level. >> the question i have is the apelllan's contention is depending on how we charactize it there's a different standard of evidence that's required how we review that. do you agree with that statement? or do you agree that the more stringent level of review is required -- >> again, unambiguously we have program level coverage and all i was trying to illustrate even within the program level c

conceptual falls are the program. in the context of the chart, maybe you could hold it up again. >> of the court took it away again. >> i think you had you had conceptual on that line. the closest approximation is that line. president chiu: any follow-up questions to anyone involved? supervisor campos: a quick question for the city attorney's office, we heard from the event authority that they were taking out the jumbotron, in terms of the actions of the board, the out, was to certify it, how'd you make sure that piece of the project is taken out of what is before it? >> the city attorney's office, under the administrative code, section 3116, the board has to keep your options. it can uphold the certification or it can return it to planning for further review. the board does not have the ability to amend the project. that would come later on when the board was reviewing the project documents. supervisor campos: that is what -- that what happened subsequently? >> can we close the public hearing? ok. president chiu: i w

>> well, it's a conceptual frame work and would be phil graham who ran for president or steve forbes and we know where they went and to refer to romney, which i'm glad was, he in fact, has said, should bring him on the show, said that the flat tax would be a tax on the middle class, so i'm florida that romney was raised so he could put that point there. >> toby, let's talk about the flat tax itselfment does it it bring jobs? what does it mean for jobs? >> it has, in every country used. it's worked for two reasons, number one, because it simplifies things. if you look at the money that we spend in the united states, they make 90 billion dollars a year to comply with this. so, it unleashes that and creates capital. when you create more capital, you create investment and unlike the democratic party, more capital equals more jobs, and actually one-to-one correlated and this is exactly the type of outcome you get when you go to a flat tax. the only people that are out of jobs, tax attorneys and not good for taxes. >> brenda: jonas, where do you stand on this? >> conceptually, yes, if it's

a complete conceptual design, final design, and if appropriate, support during bidding construction. staff has done requests for proposals. after a competitive selection process, recommending a joint venture for the design engineering contract, which was authorized by the commission on december 9. -- december 9, 2008. the initial amount was not to exceed $1,539,000 with contingencies for unanticipated services. phase three services were noted as dependent on the outcome of phases one and two and, if appropriate, we would come back to receive authorization to add phase three service contracts. the final design project was the recipient of federal funding for the removal look pure 36. restrictions on funding required removal to be a separate project and is designed to be completed by the ports for review. there was a crack in the seawall that uncovered unanticipated engineering analysis and design necessities. raising the contract amount. approximately 110% of the original contract amount. happy to report that the pier 26 removal project and the war project is complete -- wharf project

conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. >> that has really expanded the program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. why would an artist when to come here? >> mainly, access to the materials. we also give them a lot of support. when they start, it is an empty studio. they go out to the public area and -- we call it the big store. they go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. it is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. >> when you are talking about recology, do you have the only sculpture garden at the top? >> it is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. it is the only kind of structured, artist program. weit is beautiful. a lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. the pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. we talk about recycling and conservation. they can meet the artists. >> f

now, we can talk with the city attorney about all of the legal aspects of it, but conceptually, i think you will get more accountability that way. maybe more transparency. supervisor mirkarimi: next speaker, please. >> the overhead, please. i am with san francisco tomorrow, and i thank you for your forbearance. the most important thing is to enable the benefits community to occur and be sustained, and i can first of all say it must be done by necessity by state law regarding ceqa. that has not been mentioned here. we must have the resources to mitigate the impact. i have several suggestions. the first is to ask for a performance bond from cpmc. i know that is heresy from the city attorney's office, but why not? two, in exchange, cpmc turns over the right to the land, and we get equity title. 3, we form a public-private partnership. for all of the developers in the tenderloin area. twitter, the high tech people, and cpmc with the urban development corp. together in partnership with a non- governmental agency, and the effective public participation. we develop the area. we enveloped this

we received input regarding conceptual design options. based on the information we receive, including meetings held at the california academy of sciences, information received by recreation and parks staff and other groups, other interested individuals stakeholders. we received unanimous approval, and these efforts were supported by the pedestrian safety advisory committee. what we are planning to do would be a first, to feature by claims physically separated from moving traffic by parked cars. other cities currently used bicycle road works like new york city, washington d.c.. we want 20% of trips by bicycle in 2020. this will enable folks to be comfortable riding alongside cars since there will be a physical barrier protecting them. will to increase bicycle trips, reduce cycle and on sidewalks, and reducing collision. the next item i would like to provide an update on -- >> have we addressed the concerns that may have come from this and the community leaders and the disability community? >> yes, sir. it has indicated in the report, we ha

if i can, we can talk a little bit more conceptually about the idea as opposed to the specific line by line. we are moving away from the exact wording of what is in the packets. but just to take a step back, the idea here that the mayor made clear in his inaugural address yesterday morning, the number one priority is jobs for all people in san francisco. to that extent, having a smart economic development policy, and innovation corridor through the day and through central market, we have tremendous amount of investments that we are making a citywide. simply put, city government should be a partner in this to create these jobs. jobs of all strata of them, and all skills for all types of keble. city government should be a participant and a partner, certainly never get in the way of what the private sector is doing to move forward on job creation. we have strong ordnances for minimum wage and prevailing wage. we are a city with responsible of employment rules. to the extent you want to keep creating those jobs, city government should be a partner in that. even well-intention the legislati

. >> part of that is that it is very conceptual in nature. we are not sure of the efficacy and finance ability of the financial component. mandating it, we felt that it might overload their requirements we're placing on the nonprofit. their plan is first and foremost the community service element. >> i want to maximize. we have land and we want to be will too maximize its value to the city. >> you are correct. this is not require that residential is construction on the side. it does it require that should be constructed, not only does the city participate but we try to negotiate. i do think that there is some openness into including a provision. there would be sensitivity to allowing this to be sensitive enough for them to find what they're looking for. your concern is a valid one. >> it is my understanding that this is zoned residential so other uses are not allowable. >> commercial on the bottom, residential above. if another use will be built, that would have to come back to the board? >> any type of sony change would have to come back to

in costs, we are talking about returns in the order of five years to 10 years, which seems to conceptually be where we are. that also put this on the cusp of being in a master developer situation. i think we need to look at it more closely. that being said, the determination of funding sources will be a part of that. different developers will have different capital sources, generally. there are ongoing issues in which we will talk about the complexity and resolving the ongoing litigation resolution to the claims or concerns that the department of boating waterways has. things that be will come back at a later date to do the analysis on. especially these later two. it has been in litigation for three or four years. we will obviously come back to the commission as soon as possible. with a final analysis. >> is there any public comment? ok, commissioners. comments? questions? >> i wonder if we are looking at using the entire pyramid. are we analyzing that option also? >> planning in a development perspective first, the direction that we discussed in october and memorialized in the report toda

we are obviously still in the conceptual stage, so there will be a long detailed review time before the project is ultimately reviewed by the redevelopment commission, but we're excited about this put in a lot of work to their proposals. these were giant documents that required a lot of time and investment, and we're very thankful to the teams that submitted. the call-up team proposal ended up getting the most points. -- gollup team proposal ended up getting the most points. these are on several podium buildings, as well as the buildings on block 7 north of where the tower is. the agency will be subsidizing those units, in part with the housing set aside from the tax increment that is generated by the parcels that are also generating revenue. mercy housing is developing that. and they came in with also a very excellent plan, and the goal was to minimize the affordable housing subsidy the agency would have to provide. in this case they requested a subsidy of $186,000 per unit. just wrapping up, the team for the proposal is to local firms. solomon, court well, and santos press thought. me

so we can talk about conceptual plans and we can talk about international agreements, but when we go to ground zero and if you have the guts to address our issues magdalene to empirical data -- our issues by going to empirical data, particulates and more, and seeing that all of you who are supposed to be addressing quality of life issues impacting our constituents of san francisco have done very poorly. and there are some tricks that people will bring. they're called machinations. [bell rings] and you can see that whatever is going to be done on a van ness, the comment period is kind of focused during the holiday season, and and what has been extended to december 19, i think from december 12. and i spoke about this before. more time should be given. having said that, i want to wish you, jerry mirkarimi, all the best as the sheriff. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, mr. da costa. i appreciate that. any more public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item number 5, accept the audit report for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2011, action item. supervis

this is a conceptual design of a new skateboard technology.his new skate board the ability to carve, like what a ski or snowboard can do when you can pull the angle up lean back a little bit. they want the same thing to happen while on a skateboard. they shaped the wheels like these cones underneath the skateboard so you can have that ability. >> yeah. >> could reinvent the entire sport of skateboarding. >> or skateboarding purists will hate it. any time something is going to revolutionize a sport or anything, there are going to be people who have qualms with it for sure. but i'll be interested to see when they finally produce these. it's not just a computer graphic here, if they actually work. >> remember vera wang's black wedding dress collection. >> yes. >> halloween wedding dresses. >> i think we figured out where the inspiration came from. in this video by "harper's bazaar" magazine, we get an inside look into vera wang's los angeles home, which kind of gives us a clue as to how it helped inspire her black wedding dress collection. ♪ >> m

in fact, the wind impacts were studied in the eir, and there was a preliminary conceptual modeling that was done. but what we did not have were any public access or design improvements that were put into that wind impact analysis. so they sort of took a blank slate and made some general projections about what kind of wind conditions that we would have and then call the fourth that there would be cyanates or improvements would provide shelter areas. it is more in the context of the design work that we're doing now, to talk about what kinds of studies should be in our future to come up with design improvements for the public access area at the tip. >> let me just add that, independently, the mta has had at least one and possibly more hearings to look at service in the northern waterfront and beyond. so did the very much on their radar screen. >> in legal terms, we would call a lead-in question. >> yes, thank you. and the mitigation for the exploratoryium project. >> i appreciate one of the earlier speakers to abolish support staff's willingness to sit down and address concerns going forwa

many a times a conceptual plan is like a dream. he you wake up from your drink, and it could be our worst nightmare. having said that, jose, right in our backyard, we had the third street library, from a fourth and king to the middle of nowhere in visitation valley. if we had a vision to take this grand central hub that we want to build at the transbay, to do all these fancy things, we could have started right in our backyard and done the right thing. so the fast track concept looks to be a viable model or project in the interim. but we still have to figure out how are we going to fill that big hole that is a transbay? where are we going to get all the moneys? and when i travel in my various travels all over the world, there are trains and systems that are much more efficient than we have had here in california. finally, let me make a few comments about the mayor's office of economic development, trying to bring models like ifd's and tax increments, trying to figure out how land by the tracks can be zeroed in it to make money. we n

in fact, the wind impacts were studied in the eir, and there was a preliminary conceptual modeling that was done. but what we did not have were any public access or design improvements that were put into that wind

you took this model and have these three conceptual points. but i'm wondering if you've looked at the relationship between those conceptions and how you identified people's memories and when the interviews were done. because i think that has undoubtedly changed over time. so rather than just having these as three discreet models or concepts, i think it's really necessary to see for each of these people when those interviews were done. and similarly with rosie's work, i wonder if there were interviews of the students from the b.o.s. at the time of the commemoration and how they characterized their memories or what happened compared especially to if they were interviewed at the time of rebellion. >> just a comment. i agree, yeah, it would be wonderful in a way if we could have had sort of a longitudinal process by which we maybe had interviewed folks at the time and then sort of carried that forward every few years, et cetera. unfortunately, we don't have that. but you're exactly right, and that's the job we'll have to do is to think about how t

like a very easy for me last august when conceptually i just took a step back. from everything that was happening in greece in the build up to the european crisis which is here now and i said wait a minute all these trillions of dollars of bailouts which are being printed right now require growth above two thousand and seven levels and with the i don't know how many thirteen fifteen twenty trillion stupid number floating out there the physical growth required to satisfy the obligations in the infinite growth paradigm repaying with interest is not possible because of resource limitations whether it's oil energy physical goods or the raw materials used the kind of growth required to pay all this off is just not possible and i can't stop there and back off what i say i'm just going to watch these idiots shoot themselves in the foot because we know what the end game has to be because of physical law rather than press releases right that's an interesting point there the way the g.d.p. growth needed to work off the present load of debt would require a certain number o

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