president fong: is it fast? let us hear the next item, a 10a. >> a request approval of the first amendment to the memorandum of understanding between the port of san francisco and the san francisco municipal transportation agency, extending for two years the ports contract for services regarding multi-based pay stations on port property. commissioner lazarus: is their emotion? in musty feel like you need a presentation, we do not need to make one. president fong: any public comments? any opposed? >> item 11, new business. i think you have heard a lot of it. [laughter] see you on august 19. president fong: keep going. >> item 12, public comment. i think he left. president fong: paul bicharte? >> hello, commissioners. i am here to speak specifically about a port aspect, which is dry dock number one. i do not know if you are familiar with that. it is a big tin cans that is currently moored at terminal 80. i consider myself a stakeholder in the harbor. i own a barge company in the harbor and also a commercial fuel b

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commissioner fong: ok. a couple of commons. i think there are two different options, and it is interesting that princess cruises is trying 2011, and hopefully, they are very successful with that, which gives us more of a reason to make that investment. i know we have some monetary things to figure out as well, so it is clearly not a done deal, or we need to figure out some other things, but it is very exciting. i had the pleasure of being in shanghai, china, and took a tour of their crude ship port of call, and it was absolute state of the art. it is a beautiful building, a landmark building for that city, and it functioned very well for an event space as well as different use. this is a non-action item, but i look forward to the next steps, and remind everyone that there is a workshop on july 21, correct? a public workshop. thank you. >> item 9c, informational presentation on the department of the city planning's nebraska embarcadero study -- nebraska -- northeast embarcadero study. commissioner fong: we're going to take a two

president fong: allan mark. >> hello. i am a resident of washington hills for 20 years and a homeowner there. i have also been a member of the telegraph club for 18 years. i am the president of the company involved in real estate consulting on the residential side. i strongly support the northeast embarcaderos study. it has been very thorough, very well thought out. this town averages about 1000 sales a year of condos. at the peak of the market, there were 3000 condominium sold in 2007. right now we have 800 left that are not in contract. there is virtually no new residential construction going on in the market. i do not see anything happening for the next year or two. i envision another shortage of housing, unfortunately. many developments take a minimum of 18 months to three years to build. i know the embarcadero very well. i think we can activate the site. i do not think it is terribly safe at night. i am a major walker. i think we should support this. it involves a lot of surface lots. i see empty lots that turn into

commissioner fong. commissioner fong: here. commissioner brandon. commissioner brandon: here. commissioner lazarus. commissioner lazarus:. approval of the meetings in june 10, 2010. commissioner fong: approve. >> public comment on executive session. executive session. commissioner fong: all those in favor? commissioner fong: good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> i move that we reconvene in open session. >> second. commissioner fong: any discussion? all those in favor? >> i move that we not discuss anything discussed in executive session. >> -- commissioner fong: any discussion? all those in favor? >> aye. >> please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and pagers and it similar electronic sound producing devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that a chairman or the removal from a meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound producing device. please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make appurtenant public comment for each agenda item unless the por

president fong: bernard meyerson? >> yes, thank you. i'm also a member of the maritime commerce advisory committee. i just want to make two points that maybe would not be made by others. point number one is that although we all recognize that the cruise industry is critical to san francisco in many ways, i want to stress also that we have an obligation to the thousands upon thousands of cruise passengers that look to make a port of call in san francisco because it has an international draw and people want to be able to come to san francisco and therefore, we have an obligation to them to make sure we have the right kind of facilities to accommodate them. the second point i want to make has to do with another part of the point -- port, which has to do with bae. the port and bae have spent time and money and effort to nurture a cruise ship repair and refurbishment business, and i feel this might be negatively impacted if san francisco were to give up being a cruise port of call, so for those two reasons, i strongly support that the city m

president fong: any more questions? we have to have a motion and a second. i believe there was a slight change? >> last whereas clause is actually the result: a. -- is actually the resolve clause. it is a typo. so with that change. president fong: resolution 10-51 is approved. >> item9b, conceptual authorizations -- conceptual design options and fiscal feasibility approval process of the james r. herman cruise terminal and nebraska work plaza public improvement project, located along the embarcadero. >> i am a port project director. i will present a brief summary of the project development since january of this year. next, the design team will present to conceptual designs of the cruise terminal and the wharf plaza. finally, john dahl will present the feasibility study and the public outreach process. in january of this year, the design team, which includes k &d architects in association with cruise terminal design consultants, committed to the design process. this began with internal workshops that led to a development of what engineers call a design basis.

[applause] president fong: any additional? >> jennifer, i just want to thank you for all you have done. you listened to the people fairly and democratically, and you did a job well beyond what we would think anyone could do here. thanks so much on behalf of the people and the residents of the area where all the activity took place. i wish you the best in smooth sailing. [applause] >> thank you, everyone, for your kind words today. it touches me. it is it's a row honor. it has been a privilege for me to work at the port. i have participated in some of the changes we have seen on the waterfront and i feel really lucky to have had such a challenging, fun, and interesting career at the port, and to work with such a great group of dedicated and bright people. i especially want to thank monique, byron, and my colleagues in planning and development for a wonderful experience. and i hope to come back for just a short period to close escrow on this moratorium if i can, because it has been a project dear to my heart for the last six yea

commissioner fong: thank you. any additional comments? ok, we are going to open this up to public comment, and there maybe some diverse opinions, so i'm going to ask there be no applause, and if you have any comments, to bring the outside. first one is dave stock fell -- stockdale >> good afternoon. i'm the executive director of the nonprofit firms market, so i'm here representing my board. our staff, our volunteers, and the 110 sellers at the ferry plaza farmer's market. we would like to commend the planning department for the extensive effort and thought that went into creating these guidelines, these principles. we fully endorse the view point they are presenting, and in particular, we would like to comment on just a few items in their plan that we find particularly important for those of us operating small businesses in the area because this is a mixed use area. residents, visitors, and it is small businesses, and we appreciate this broader view that has been taken. for instance, items such as lots should be developed and released fro

fong, who is actually hear i believe as well. luckily, he's here. i don't know what the reason was. i wasn't part of this thing at the time this happened. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> mr. sanchez. >> thank you. scott sanchez, acting zoning commissioner. i am here with ben fu. i am also here with kay connor, one of our enforcement planners, both of whom are familiar with this project. this is a notice of violation and penalty that was issued to enforce the decision of the planning commission. the planning commission required changes to the para perch et of this building, which has already been built. that was built in excess of a previous permit which was approved by this board. previously the board of appeals had approved a permit which didn't have one. i want to go through this so we have a better background of what has happened here. in june of 2005, the building permit itself was disapproved. this is prior to any notification being done on the addition. i have a photograph here of the building as it was ultimately constructed. the addition was appealed.his board. the bo

. >> reporter: to a certain extent, cnet's brian fong agrees. >> now that they are so big and mainstreamhave to answer to a lot more voices that they haven't had to before so now that apple has finally showed one of the first chinks in their armor, everybody was ready to gatt it. >> reporter: it's aching in their armor that jobs says they have known about for a while. >> we knew that if you gripped it in a certain way, the bars are going to go down a little bit just like every smart phone. >> reporter: he did provide examples of similar phones with the same issues and called it a challenge for the whole industry. but it's something he failed to mention at the iphone 4 unveiling weeks ago. >> this is part of brilliant engineering which uses the stainless steel steel band as part of antenna system. >> whoo! wahoo! [ applause and cheers ] >> reporter: so today in an effort to keep customers happy jobs announced apple will give away free iphone cases. that should alleviate the issues of dropped calls when users come in contact with the controversial external antenna, an announcement that has

[applause] president fong: any additional? >> jennifer, i just want to thank you for all you have done. you listened to the

our own controller and worked out through the police department, police chief at the time, heather fong and command staff, had shown that there was a corollary success in the foot beat programs where there was the upgraded level of attention . it was obvious i think by that level of attention it made it very difficult for when the foot beat pilot program then expired. because many in those particular areas wanted to see that continued. that is nothing, i think, but a compliment to the police department because people love to see foot beats. we know that the assistant chief and the chief will also validate that very notion, that people like foot beats. this was, in part, the giuliani strategy in new york city for reclaiming manhattan in new york city by an upgrade level of deployment. when we had designed our legislation in 2006 and 2007, we had been in close contact with the police chiefs and their command staffs, both in new york, both in chicago, both in seattle and in houston among other cities to make sure that what we were doing is not out of the orbit or stratosphere of what curre

. >> reporter: to a certain extent, cnet's brian fong agrees. >> now that they are so big and mainstreamhey have to answer to a lot more voices that they haven't had to before so now that apple has finally showed one of the first chinks in their armor, everybody was ready to go at it. >> reporter: it's aching in their armor that jobs says they -- it's a chink in their armor that jobs says they have known about for a while. >> we knew that if you gripped it in a certain way, the bars are going to go down a little bit just like every smart phone. >> reporter: he did provide examples of similar phones with the same issues and called it a challenge for the whole industry. but it's something he failed to mention at the iphone 4 unveiling weeks ago. >> it turns out this is part of some brilliant engineering which uses the stainless steel steel band as part of antenna system. >> whoo! wahoo! [ applause and cheers ] >> reporter: so today in an effort to keep customers happy jobs announced apple will give away free iphone cases. that should alleviate the issues of dropped calls when users come in