in the mid 70's they began to envision the land as an office park and start to be called executive park in 76 as an office park and 800,000 square feet. through the years and is established as part of the general plan and to memorialize the area's vision. and the subarea plan included a very specific site plan characterized by self-contained and somewhat insular office development. while calling for a mix of uses the subarea plan maintains being anchored in office and commercial uses. and then here is a 3d rendering of the previous vision. through the 80's and 90's and with the subarea plan and were generally small changes to the phasing and implementation and re-upping any needed entitlement visions such as performance and environmental work. and the first phase were issued during the 1990's. and the owners of the most northern portion of executive park decided to pursue residential office and approached the city to pursue residential development and the department was in the midst of the efforts and market octavia and the downtown residential districts and to encourage the mixed use o

and we're not for the executive park, we would not have the state park out there. one of the corporations that was originally invested out there put up the first million dollars. and that we needed to get that park started. and following that, my work with others to pass the legislation and to get that project funneleded. last year we had to go back to the negotiations with the states to help of the senator to come up with a new funding scheme for candlestick because the risk that allstate park had. and it was the executive park once again that stepped forward and worked with us to organize the co

and we're not for the executive park, we would not have the state park out there. one of the corporations that was originally invested out there put up the first million dollars. and that we needed to get that park started. and following that, my work with others to pass the legislation and to get that project funneleded. last year we had to go back to the negotiations with the states to help of the senator to come up with a new funding scheme for candlestick because the risk that allstate park had. and it was the executive park once again that stepped forward and worked with us to organize the community needed to map tanitan i -- to maintaining candlestick park. george irving and the advisory committee have stood with us and for a long time and planned with us. and the plan before you is the result of five years of hard work in the community and i would ask you how many times have you had private xexecutive come before the commission with the kind of community support that this project has and there were a number of people who thought this was going to happen at 1

executive park amended subarea plan. this is an informational presentation. >> good afternoon, commissioners. >> hold on. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am matt synder of department staff. we are here to give you an informational presentation on executive park and very quickly, sorry. just a quick orientation. executive park is at the southern gateway of san francisco just west of candlestick park. and here it is closer up context looking at several larger development mixed use developments that you have recently adopted including candlestick hunters point shipyard and visitation valley. and then here it is zoomed in again. and as you see, one of the biggest characteristics of executive park is that it is boxed in essentially on three sides by highway 101 and the bay. >> executive park project as it's being referred to now essentially has three components. the first is a general plan and zoning amendments to set the framework for development and then there are also two development proposals on the table from the two

i met with neighbors on the project as well as to a tour of the executive park. going out and seeing the proposed project has been beneficial. commissioner miguel: i have met with people regarding heights street as well as a coalition of groups. basically a chinatown haughty- line extension -- t-line extension and social equity projects. it was very enlightening. commissioner antonini: you tweaked my memory. i met with groups on lansing in the last week. thank you. >> commissioners, we can move forward to the directors' report. and a review of the past week's events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals, and historic preservation commission. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i want to a knowledge of the staff on the better streets plan award for urban assembly. he is a very prestigious award. i want to thank staff and the project manager on that and congratulate them on the award. i wanted to spend a couple of minutes updating the commission on the status of the governor's proposed legislation regarding development agencies. this is information as of yest

. >> i want to encourage you, to think about the deep south and visitation valley, executive park area. both of which are project areas. in need of transportation and often just left and unconsidered. but there are many high-density projects that will be coming. you are scoping and i am just planting the seeds to take root and bear fruit. >> i can do that for you. >> any other questions? >> thank you. >> i just wanted to reinforce the signifigance of this investment, that will make the electric car more viable in the eyes of the regular consumer. the beauty of the combination of the short-term rental of the city car share, so that, to the user, who will be taking the car a few hours, there is no risk. it is a trip to ikea or the trip to wherever, you need something you can't cary ory on muni. you are not making any investment, but you want to experience how reliable it is. you can get -- with the best charges, we will recharge to 80% in a half-hour. it is a great way to chip away at the myths of how viable this technology is. we have a history of being early adapters and pushing techno

you have treasure island -- which is your evening meeting -- you still have the executive park proposal for that day. you have a legislation for the fairmont hotel proposed for that day. commissioner antonini: i thought that was on the 14th? >> it is on the seventh. you have waiting items currently on the seventh. and i do not have any indication other than at treasure island that might come off. unless that happens, i just did not want to chance that. so, i want you to be informed. commissioner antonini: my understanding is treasure island would still like to have a hearing that day. >> said that is still on. commissioner miguel: i guess my thinking is there is still an opportunity. if everything stays, and this will continue to the next week probably. that would be the way i would try to propose it. >> i do have an item that could come off of april 14, which makes it a viable. commissioner olague: commissioner miguel -- commissioner moore? commissioner moore: i do not understand why we are not taking this as a recommendation. it is in the interests to keep us tightly employed here, bu

walker, the pastor for the executive park and also with the development of the candlestick point plan and the shipyard plan, i can see these projects koch complementing one -- actually complementing one another. one of the disturbing things that i have lived in the neighborhood for 40 years is to hear comments about the poor, crime ridden neighborhood. and i see projects like this and that will mitigate that and with the jobs and the various businesses and taking on the responsibility recently to organize the young men in that neighborhood for realistic jobs with training and all of that and making a lot of progress and as far as i am concerned, the last information is unemployment in the southeast section is around 30% and may be even more than that. and any time that there is a project like thshg and can mitigate the responsibility and i would like to see also that that is looked into to make sure that has been mitigated and taken care of and i support the project and i think it's a great project and we are definitely looking forward to work with the project and doing whatever i can

introductions, there was a hearing request this week by supervisor: on the neighborhood plan for the executive park area -- supervised cohen. commissioner moor commissioner miguel: just a complement -- the department reviewing legislation makes commence to -- makes recommendations to this commission and on all, goes along with the because you know the code paps better than the supervisors do at time -- perhaps better than supervisors do at that time. not disparaging to the supervisors, but well over 90% of the department's recommendations, probably over 95% -- 100% in this case of the department's recommendations are actually accepted and incorpora shows we are on the same page and that is good. that is very, very good. commissioner antonini: thank you for your report, as always. on the legislation, i assume we will be seeing that sometime in the future? >> only a new hearing request. commissioner antonini: hearings, but not introductions? i had questions about the part that dealt with retail on the corner and residential areas -- >> that was part of the consistent street frontage is. we did hear t

police say a gunman shot 18- year-old ruben cortez execution- style in the restaurant parking lot wednesdayfternoon. the surveillance video caught the shooter running from the scene. so far, no arrests, and police have not identified any suspects. police say the shooting may have been gang related. >>> in libya, coalition air strikes continue to pound the capital city this hour. the u.s. military says that a no-fly zone is being established and that the u.s. is gradually moving into a supportive role in that. u.s. military operations in libya are likely to, in his words, "last a while." meanwhile muammar gaddafi hasn't been seen since a missile strike destroyed part of his compound in tripoli. >>> in japan, more than a week after the devastating 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, more trouble, smoke from two of the reactors forced another evasionation and forced a stop to repair work going on. radiation in the food supply is raising concerns. female living in a veg near the plant, they have now been warned not to drink their tap water. new estimates put the number of dead at more than 18,000 event

the call who has been a significant asset to our project, in her role with iraq and park, and previously as executive director of the geneva car barn and our house project. by way of introduction, i would like to introduce myself. i grew up in visitation valley. i know the car barn and district 11 very well. oftentimes, start of classes when working with young people -- i grew up in the valley but i was not one of those kids that slapped on the corner in the valley. i was one of those kids trying to make my way past those kids that were simply standing on the corner. oftentimes, where i was trying to make my way too, was often to a place of what we envision the new geneva car barn and powerhouse to be. so with that, i want to give you some highlights on some of the programming that has been happening at the car barn in the past few years and demonstrate some of the bible models we developed and also the desire on the park with young people and communities to support the projects such as this. as some of you may know, and has been mentioned, in 2009, there was a ramping up of development for the genev

park. san mateo bridge also moving fine, more traffic coming up in just a little bit. in the meantime, back to you. >> thank you. >>> pg&e executives on the hot seat today. >> they are. 30 minutes from now, federal officials begin a public hearing on the san bruno

holly and mark gonzalez join us along with adam park, an executive directoror of the adoption institutely, i know you get emotional and you see what this woman did to you. what are your thoughts? she's basically taking this scam now to other families. it happens that it was our behind the scenes producer. >> watching her right now again she said the exact same things to us, exactly the same things. i want you to be in the room. she just really is compelling, and it's very hard to watch. hard to watch again. >> to go back and think of all those -- i can see the two of >> she's got this down pat. why did she seem so convincing? >> i think she had it practiced. i think she had it completely -- she had the routine down. she knew exactly what to say. i think she kept to the same story very often. just in that clip right there, it's basically she's saying the same thing she said to us. >> mark, what's this been like? you went through this just like holly did. for a couple to have to go through something like this when you've been trying so long to have a baby. >> it just really kind of sets y

park department said, done, and it is about time. so thank you. supervisor mar: -- supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker please. >> executive director for the environment. garden environment is sponsored by the hanc. this site is 3/4 of a mile from 780 frederick street. the proposed plan that was approved by the rec and park commission includes facilities and programs with duplicate facilities and programs of garden for the environment. it is the facilities and programs that direct impart department commission approved.

. >>> a young man is in the hospital after a gunman shot him execution style in san jose. it happened in the parking lot of a mcdonald's during the lunchtime rush hour. len ramirez on what witnesses saw before and after the gunfire. len? >> reporter: dana, witnesses and people who were in the restaurant say they were very shocked by what they saw. basically a very bold shooting. a man walked up, shot another man in the head and then casually walked away. >> reporter: witnesses say the victim was standing under the golden arches when the gunman brazenly walked up and fired a single shot to his head. >> all of a sudden i heard a pop. >> reporter: bill had just exited the restaurant. >> then i turned back and the guy was on the ground bleeding profusely from his head and his head was hanging over the edge of the curb there on the driveway and the guy that shot him just kept walking down the sidewalk real calm and i seen him tucking the gun back away or whatever he had. i couldn't see what it was. >> reporter: the gunman got away on foot northbound and walked by several people at a bus stop leaving behi

executives are working on a plan to save the morning and evening commute. there might still be increasing parking, the fees for that and fares. they have to deal with this $30 million shortfall. >> mark: foods networks for lamborghini has been spotted. it's definitely not hard to spot. in the first solid leads lamborghini gallardo sports car stolen from a car dealership early tuesday was recorded tooling across the golden gate bridge, into tiburon and back out again. security cameras in both locations reportedly filmed the car early tuesday after it was stolen in the pre-dawn hours by a thief who rappelled with climbing ropes into a bentley, lamborghini, lotus dealership on van ness avenue in san francisco. it wasn't hard to spot for those perusing the footage, considering the bright- yellow, $200,000-plus convertible has one of the world's most distinctively sleek designs. the car belongs to celebrity chef and game show host guy fieri of santa rosa. several reports by people who believed they saw the car tuesday in different locations in san francisco, including outside the mariposa yacht club n

executive director for nonprofit on the hill. i was assistant to a wonderful person named julie middleton. the park that worked at was formally known as the hunters point community foundation. we did several programming for kids in the neighborhood. i also have a background in politics on both sides of the day here in san francisco and oakland. i have done fund-raising for different candidates. i have work experience with the federal reserve bank of san francisco. i am most proud of the work i have done for myself. i started a business called power forward, a social media and public policy consulting firm. >> why did you choose to return and live in san francisco? what motivated you to run? >> what motivated me was my love of san francisco. i see the changes that are happening. i see people picking cans out of the garbage. i see that there is no neighborhood grocery store. i see that small businesses are coming and going. they have not been able to sustain themselves. from my work experience in working for the city come in the mayor's office and in the nonprofit, i had a good sense of what the chal

executive director with wok san francisco. -- walk san francisco. we support offering a discount to developers who do not build parking. all new developments obviously depend on the transportation network to work, including residential developments, whose residents will obviously need to travel to get to work, to get to shopping, etc., and the more that residents and workers in the developers are able to get around on public transit, the more efficient and save our public streets will be, our city streets, so developers who do not build public parking and therefore do encourage public transit use should be rewarded by lightening the load on our transportation system. we believe that this is a smart step forward for connecting how we build to how we get around and also a smart step to make our city more sustainable and more safe. thank you. >> howard stroessner. good afternoon. i'm only partially in support of this. it seems to continue an old feared that muni has that to will cost too much and will not be able to provide the service. i think that is the wrong way to go about it. to count bedrooms, that is not right. pe

park. you can't miss it. so please help us spread the word. i hope you will reach out to our executive director and find out how you can distribute some materials at your schools. i don't think i need to say anything else. these guys always do an amazing job. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. before you go, i just wanted -- there may be some comments or questions from the commissioners. i wanted to see if anyone had anything they would like to say. >> i just want to suggest that folks from penn be at the student advisory council conference coming up on the 18th. you can recruit students there. >> and can i ask what the grade level is for participation? >> it is ages. the recommended ages are between 13-18. >> eli, there is a safe voices once a week or once a month, is that right? a meeting? >> the next meeting is saturday, march 19th at the san francisco friends school from 10 to 11:30 a.m. >> how often do you meet? >> generally once a month. we don't have scheduled meetings during the summer. >> so if students are interested in coming to a safe voices meeting, they could come to the

executive director of the department of the status of women. >> thank you so much, patricia. we are so lucky to have a front organization theory department parking and traffic does not have a friend's organization, so we feel privileged to partner with them. we are also very fortunate to have a mayor who really understands the value of women's power. mayor lee when he was the director of the department of public works. it was one of the first departments to undergo our gender analysis, per our 1998 ordinance reflecting the principles of the united nations women's rights treaty. to be honest, our first meeting with dpw was not very promising. we told them we wanted them to think about gender in their operations, and they gave us a blank stare. "what do you mean, gender? we provide services for the public." then, we started to talk about the impact that public works has on women, so one of the examples that we talked about was street lighting, when street lighting is very poor, who are the victims of attack? they tend to be women. we talked about the number of bathroom stalls. whether there are equal numbers of bathroom stalls, that is not really