speaking to the eastern neighborhoods specifically unlike other planning areas the eastern neighborhood didn't define a specific set of capital projects, a comprehensive -- set mainly due to the large area of the city. it did set out a general framework that sort of set out areas where we would need more additional open space, community facilities, streetscape enhance -- enhancement and specific bicycle and also capital projects but more generally a framework for on going planning and prioritization as we move through the implementation plan. we have done a number of specific follow up plans that show open face plans and mission district streetscape plan and the project. these went through a public process to find specific infrastructure upgrades and projects for their specific areas of the eastern neighborhoods and provided more definition for those projects. they also created projects that had gone through this community process as well as in some cases provided environmental review at the project level so you have much broader set of capital projects that are sort of project ready an

the streets and signals improvement would benefit the eastern neighborhoods as it would on a citywide basis and this would greatly improve the pedestrian right of ways and experience as well as bicycle and of course public transit the rehabilitation of the vehicle fleet also would enhance the eastern neighborhood requirements because the plan over the next 15 years together with the mtc lot allotment would rehabilitate in the kind of schedule stated as good repair and replace some of the smaller vehicles with larger ones. rapid network enhancements are focused in the market street as well as gary blvd and funding the transit effectiveness project improvements mentioned already here for a portion of the eastern neighborhoods. bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements as well is on citywide and many of those improvements are in the neighborhoods and accessibility similarly. a safe and complete street is a great example in some of the newest neighborhoods in san francisco where street trees and more room for pedestrians and bicycles have greatly enhanced the neighborhoods and are very w

we have a couple hours in the eastern neighborhoods streetscape. bart is in the design phase at this point. and 24th street had some minor streetscape improvement for pedestrian lighting and sidewalk replacement which was completed this past fall. that concludes my overview of the projects that we have in the eastern neighborhoods. i would be happy to answer any questions you might have. >> i have a question. are these maps different? >> it's the same map but i cut it to make it larger on the powerpoint. >> that's perfect, thank you. supervisor campos, did you have a question? >> a quick probably dumb question and maybe it's not possible to do it. i wonder if there is a way to have a map thatten incorporates the various projects in the eastern neighborhood. in other words something that maybe it's not fobl -- possible to do that but to incorporate what everybody is thinking to have something that come

i'm here this morning to speak to you about how some of those recommendations could apply to the eastern neighborhood hearing. as you know, the task force is concentrating on infrastructure and not operating expenses nor is it looking at parks and other kinds of concerns within this particular hearing. the task force has been examining the needs for capital programming across the city in light of the kinds of conditions our transportation system is in now as well as the new growth, both in terms of residents and jobs in the city. and so the scope of the task force work does not address the operating deficits nor does it solve all of the problems that have been identified. about $10 billion have been identified as a need for transportation. and this leaves a gap of 6.3 billion. the task force identified what we believe is required in terms of infrastructure and we'll be proposed some new revenue sources to fund a portion of that gap. so the three recommendations that will be brought forward from the task force is to invest in programs with the greatest impact to first maintain the current

we have been going out to getting a number of grants for the eastern neighborhood. many came out of the district streetscape plan and others come from other local and state funding sources. and finally these are projects that are moving forward that we expect program funds that are non-impact fee revenue funds but at the same time meet the goal of implementing the eastern neighborhood projects and they come from a -- variety of funding sources, outside grants and streetscape funding and street bonds. lastly i'm going to talk about other projects on how we identify and move projects forward. we work closely with cac. they meet monthly and basically advise the city on expenditures andal -- allocations of impact fee revenues and working with other agencies and cac to impact these revenues towards the representation that we see the board. we are finishing up this year's report and bringing it to the board in january, i believe. this you for your time. i believe that keith goldstein from eastern neighborhood is here to say a few words at this point. >> great. thank you s

plan is dedicated to enhancing and expanding the current system and many of these projects for the eastern neighborhood plan would fall into these two categories. and then finally projects that would benefit the eastern neighborhoods includes complete streets and street paving which are street paving in particularly is funded in it's entirety almost to provide a good transportation index. new potential revenues is important to the task force as is as well to the eastern plan to provide resources. this transportation project is foremost. we also believe the money if we are able to raise it for this plan will attract other funding sources, will be seed money or local matches for additional funds. so, in order to make a big dent in the needs and to fund them, the task force is recommending three new revenue sources, two $500 million in revenue bonds in a year and year after dedicated to improvements. and second vehicle license fee which has been set at 2 persona number of decades and early 2000s to 2.#6 5 and increased the vlf to its full 2 percent cap in reservation for the task force and a

four of the high intersection hot spots are in the eastern neighborhoods plan area. so we are looking at the measures that help us reduce the propensity for risk and injury exposure and we'll get that out. our goal is to have that priorization report ready for next spring and working to develop the funding for that which works with the plan. we highlighted about 73 measures installed in this area already. 12 are currently in planning and being designed right now and we have 56 new applications. the up and coming measures are strong and robust. the team has developed a new stream lining process which will get those prioritized and delivered as quickly as possible. bicycling in the area we have seen a tremendous growth in bicycling in the core bicycle area which is about half of the eastern neighborhood area plan has seen most of the dramatic growth in bicycling. since the 2000-2010 census, many areas in the mission and the south soma area have seen more than a hundred percent increase in cycling in the periods. there is a lot of people bicycling through this area. the

sales tax which supports many projects and you as towards the board enforce those dollars in the eastern neighborhood and planning and design are sources that we use to move those types of projects forward. there is the o bad grants that are released throughout the city. we are recently making improvements in that area and traffic and safety and bicycle improvements. there are funds and federal funds that will apply to this area that we are looking at now. we'll look at other grants such as highway improvement grants as it becomes necessary on data we get throughout the city, there is numerous grants that we are looking to constantly close the gap as you have noted with the eastern planning area. we use the impact fees to leverage those grants and make it more competitive for those sources and we continue to do that is an example as well as other projects. 16th street where we are going to use development impact fees currently with what we have not enough to fully fund the project but to get the design started, start the community outreach work and figure out what transit improvements ar

i have a brief presentation today on the eastern plan for the open space. some of this was covered earlier by the city planning presentation. i think there is one fundamental commitment made as part of eastern neighborhoods. we would create four new open spaces and we are very well poised to follow through on that commitment. as noted in the earlier presentation 17 and folsom is a good example of the collaboration that's gone on between the planning and the parks and recreation and the community , we are able to use those impact fees to secure that site and complete a design. that project is on hold now to make time for the puc to create storm water catch basin underneath the park. once that is complete, we should be able to move forward. i think that spirit of collaboration is what we want to continue to repeat and all the other projects that we are considering for the eastern neighborhoods. we have at this point two very successful meetings with the eastern neighborhoods with cac around outlining a process about how we can work together to identify capita

i have a brief presentation today on the eastern plan for the open space. some of this was covered earlier by the city planning presentation. i think there is one fundamental commitment made as part of eastern neighborhoods. we would create four new open spaces and we are very well poised to follow through on that commitment. as

that concludes my overview of the projects that we have in the eastern neighborhoods. i would be happy to answer any questions you might have. >> i have a question. are these maps different? >> it's the same map but i cut it to make it larger on the powerpoint. >> that's perfect, thank you. supervisor campos, did you have a question? >> a quick probably dumb question and maybe it's not possible to do it. i wonder if there is a way to have a map thatten incorporates the various projects in the eastern neighborhood. in other words something that maybe it's not fobl -- possible to do that but to incorporate what everybody is thinking to have something that come piles all the efforts the city has in this part of town. >> i think that's possible to do that. >> okay. thank you for your presentation. okay. folks, we are almost done with item no. 1. i'm going to ask brian strong to come and talk to us a little bit from the capital planning side of the house. >> sure. thank you. good morning members of the board of supervisors, brian strong with the capital planning program. ye

if you look at the pipeline in eastern neighborhoods. this gives you a quick graphic to show you where the projects are growing. it's pretty scattered across the entire neighborhood. this is showing you the status of some of these projects whether they are under review, or approved or under construction. there is a pretty broad geography of where this is happening on both the job and housing side. if there is any concentration, there is the transit corridor which is the plan to focus along the corridor where it could be accommodated on the streets that have more transit service. just to look again at the numbers, the initial projection were there the plan were to produce about 10,000 jobs and 3 million square feet of non-residential space. the current plan of what has been completed and the pipeline is 700 of those units have been completed or under way and about a million square feet

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make it compliant with all of the protections that the planning code specifies and even under the eastern neighborhood, and new in the changed scenario, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. mr. keplyn. >> we, the motion holder has 14 minutes since there are two appeals. >> good evening, commissioners my name is sufy and i was born in san francisco and raised across the street from general hospital, just blocks away from the proposed project. in the potreor hill district. i am one of the owners. along with my mom, dad and brother, and we are proud to come back and invest in our community with my family started their construction business over 30 years ago. there out an out reach project we made changes, we significantly increased the parking spaces from 38 to 49 and enlarged the bike spaces from 18 to 49 and decreased the number of residential units from 84 to 75, we agreed to install security cameras and motion lights to insure the safety of the neighborhood. we made revisions to the performer and on the comment including to but not limited to moving the main entrance south war

and where that this project falls in the mission area, plan as part of the eastern neighborhood and it was deemed to be consistent with that chapter of the area plan. by the mrning department and the commission and i will be happy to answer the questions if they come up in conclusion, the project is consistent with the planning code and the general plan and this project is very much a product of the eastern neighborhood plan. and the planning department position is that the large project authorization was appropriate granted. and i am available for any questions that you may have. >> thank you. >> we can take public comment, and i would like to see a show of hands. okay. >> if you have not done so if you come up and you are willing to have us accurately reflect your name in the minutes, it will help to fill out a card or present a business card, and if you could line up on the far side of the room. to get everybody going. and the first person can come up to speak, and we are going to go with two minutes at most. >> it is set at 7 instead of the 14, i don't know if they wanted tra time.

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and it has specific thresholds and only applies in the eastern neighborhood, and it only applies to large projects as the name would indicate. and that is measured by any project that is going to be greater than 75 feet in height which this project does not meet or any project that is going to be a net, new addition of 25,000 square feet or more, which is what triggered this project to a large authorization. and it functions very much like a planned unit development functions in the code and those typically apply in our residential districts in a sense that it is really a recognition that the planning code a lot of the dimensional requirements are geared to your typical 25 by 100 foot lot in the city and you often have the larger development sites that have and they need to be looked at in a larger context and these are modifications are possible to be granted by the planning commission and in each neighborhood, this process was created to allow a little bit more certainty for these projects as long as they didn't meet the code rerequirements and that is why it was developed in a way to g

it's through the eastern neighborhoods large project authorization process. so, again, this is deeper than what a traditional rear yard would have, if we had just provided a traditional rear yard of the entire depth of the lot. >> necessary space that exceeds the standard rear yard of the lot, the additional space there, would that be equal to the space that the structure itself is taking up? it's not, right? you know my question, you have that rear yard and you added space that you are not required to have. the space inaccessible that you are required to have if you put that together would that equal the space that's taken up that should be the rear yard? >> let me try to answer what i think you are getting at. this rear yard is the same area as if we provided the rear yard. >> you answered my question. thank you. >> yes. that's required that you still need to provide. >> i wanted to understand that. okay. that's it. >> any rebuttals? >> think. company #r -- thank you, corey tieg. the planning meets the code requirement. the two houses that are included is a

last month we were at the meeting for the eastern neighborhood plan and the questions i heard were the promised benefits for streetscape and infrastructure improvement. we knew there was a funding gap. we hope to begin to develop a multi-agency strategy to address the funding gaps and some of these projects implemented before we entitle hundreds of more units in the neighborhood. we have done a good job in the development community has been successful in moving the projects forward. i think we as a city have done a good enough job finding and implementing the infrastructure needed to insure these neighborhoods stay walkable and livable and transit first. i don't expect we'll have all the answers today but i think we need to have a conversations and this is a first step in that conversation. we have a series of departments here today who are going to assist us in understanding the pipeline. in some ways the city is thinking that we maybe able to close the funding gap. we are going to hear from jon ram -- john graham of the planning department. thank you. >> thank you, good morning, supe

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i'm standing on the lower deck of the old eastern span. right now, up above us, there are crews busy at work and they are tearing apart a portion of the upper deck. while there's a lot of heavy machinery busy and working up there on the upper deck, drivers coming across the new bay bridge probably won't even notice what's going on. caltrans led a tour on the old eastern span of the bay bridge, where crews have started dismantling the 14-long foot section of roadway. jack hammers, saws and excavators are removing concrete and rebar. this portion of the upper deck is between the two steel peaks. the work will take six weeks to complete. as they tear this apart, it's possible rebar and concrete could fall. but the contractors have put in place a containment system to catch all of the debris. >> obviously the bottom deck is there to catch anything that falls but also to avoid any of it could fall in the bay. >> reporter: clearing away this portion of the upper deck will allow contractors to bring in large, heavy equipment to eventually take ap

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toone who tried to escape west berlin was shot by eastern border guards on patrol.t is all in the past. here, she said, because i have so many friends. melting potown is a with eastern and western germans living alongside citizens from around the world. hastells us she encountered families of eight nationalities in her apartment house. 18 children, 22 adults, she says, and we all love each other. but this is what residents saw an august, 1961 as construction of the wall began. neighbors, friends, and whole families were divided by a concrete scar. apartment blocks on one side were in the eastern sector, directly on the border with west berlin. windows were turned into brick walls as the faÇades became part of the wall. step away, this sidewalk was in west berlin. in the mid-90s of a's, the apartment buildings were demolished as east german police state refined its security system. they planted landmines and spring gun devices, antitank barriers along with strips for jeep patrols, and every few hundred meters, the infamous watchtowers. all part of an effort to discou

chp officers will be escorting 10 families to the eastern span of the -- the old eastern span of the inspired by an east bay mom who lost her sun to a drunk driving crash in 2008, by a drunk driver going more than 100 miles per hour. she created a small memorial for him in 2010. it was a somber moment, but she told us it did help her healing process. now the chp wants to have others have the same experience. this morning, the chp will escort other people onto the eastern span of the bay bridge. we spoke to a woman whose father died in a crash on the bay bridge seven years ago. we talked to her about how she hopes today's event will help her. >> it's a great way for a lot of people to kind of make peace with losing someone, you know, on such a big, you know, visible spot. for me, i hate driving over it and i'm just hoping for me at the end, that i just don't feel as upset and as anxious driving over that spot. >> reporter: the chp estimates about 50 people representing 10 different families, 10 different crash victims will be on hand for this memorial today. chp officer in charge tell

i'm standing on the lower deck of the old eastern span. right now, up above us, there are crews busy at work and they are tearing apart a portion of the upper deck. while there's a lot of heavy machinery busy and working up there on the upper deck, drivers coming across the new