commissioner hyland? >> i have some questions for mr. conover. this is one in a series of renovations throughout the city and many other parks. have there been any other evaluation of lessons learned? and were any of the other park reservations phaseed? >> yes. i can't speak to all of them. i know alta plaza and alamo were both phased. and a big part of that was due to their scale and they are quite a bit larger sites. and there were some real lessons learned that we are trying to apply on that project. so the full removal of the drainage system is one. and we've had others where that was not fully incorporated into the scope. and it ends up being a big change orders later. i think that is the best example i can think of. also with the pathways, while we don't have funding yet, we are really working and we would prefer to not go into this project and not address the pathways because, one, the community really wants it, it will mean a closure, and if we had to do the pathways in five year, it would mean another closure, and nobody wants to do that

. >> commissioner hyland? >> if we hear it today, we might be able to ask some questions and figure out why it takes a year to do this and what is being -- and what other options have been explored. >> okay. >> all right. >> any other comments or questions? >> i will withdraw my motion. >> so we will actually hear this item today. so i think why don't we have a presentation on the project. and then we can take public comment on the actual project. >> good afternoon, commissioners. elizabeth johntier of planning staff. the project before you is a certificate of appropriateness for work at washington square park. the park is under the jurisdiction of the san francisco recreation and park department. the site is bounded by columbus avenue, fillbert, stockton, union, and powell street in the north beach neighborhood. in a p zoning and open space height involved district. washington square was locally designated as landmark number 226 in 1999. the square was established in 1850 and redesigned in 1958 according to t

as a new member of arc, commission hyland was there that day and commission pearlman, we were doing a great job of reviewing the adequacy of the presentation alternatives for the project. and they were good. they were great. and we were looking at the value of the historic -- not only historic buildings, but the historic landscape and the integration of that as significant in the integration of those elements. and we asked the owner and the project sponsor to go back and do a better job on that and give us a little more attention to particularly, i was interested in the landscape. and the relationship to the building. so i think we've already got a wonderful process going on. and i did not hear anything that -- of convincing to lend this to national register status. i mean, if anything, we should be looking at something local first or even eligibility, so to me, this is shock value. it's too shocking to -- i didn't hear anything really convincing to enable me to support a national register. nomination. so that's my initial thought. >> commissioner black: yes, hi. when i moved to san f

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. >> commissioner hyland: i'm a little confused. i think that the impetus behind this was because of the applicants who have violations or evictions and that sort of thing. and i have a specific issue with number 2, and that is the scope of work may not be completed prior to approval. i think that the spirit of the mills act is not by financial need. it's an incentive to restore these historic structures. and the irony is is that the majority of the current contracts were done in the triangle historic district which was a reward or incentive to make that a historic district and basically a reward for those who had already restored their properties. and if we have to go through this long process, it could take a couple of years just to get it through the process. the coa and the approvals before us. it would not be incentive. so i would propose, i don't know, i know this came from the goa, right? >> i mean, again, the comment is -- i feel like it was very clear, if we show up with an application for a fully rehabilitated building, th

. >> commissioner hyland. >> yes, that was a comment on the stairs. my proposal, and we get to a motion, i was asked the commission to consider the wood treads as a compromise. i do have a question on the railing. is the public -- does the public have access to this level where the railing is or is it all -- ok. so what is driving the raising? first of all, i do a lot -- i have done a lot of these and i would not have come up with this solution. this is a good solution. i wouldn't have considered this, so i think it's creative. but we're not -- we're not accommodating the four-inch -- we're not preventing anything further than just raising the railing. so my question is, is this necessary? does this top rail need to be replaced because it's in bad condition and can it stay at its existing -- >> so to answer that is we're trying to meet requirements as closely as possible but still trying to maintain the framework of a historical structure. the problem we had on the handrail is we had the cap dome and sale stocks being reconstructed in the netherlands

hylands was as political ties back to one he counts donington disdain said standing stock poor. because of a viral all dolled up a lot to me on the wall street of all folks so please talk to me it was a that's a lot of stuff just want us out of the i'm going to simply go get out of the local let's see. the story with all me out for you up close to a swath of where crews could all go no they go for a pretty poor on you so. let's throw out the call course plus we'll turn our back to the target. ok lynn she sees her dad he could fall in the routine. and you can become a scene. in time for venting. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten like colored timestamping each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first check in and get cornrows to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbe

hyland list was not an increasingly autocratic government that have less and less tolerance for transparency if you take those that intolerance out on the press as you mentioned southeast asia has seen a decline in press freedom but missed the dial while the hostility that we're talking about too with the media is not restricted to these authoritarian regimes as most as a walk you mentioned the us has fallen again and next under president donald trump two places to one hundred forty fifth i mean this is a president who is openly hostile to the media and calls that. enemies of the people now is the united states are wrong forty fifth. out of one of the nato countries in the world press an index because that's a country where as you said the president uses the words that even at the births like it. used in moscow dozens of years ago and that's really worrying that's the word such insults against on the use by the president of the united states because for many people in the world this country set up an example for press freedom. it does does being a pervert the of gravity to to expand press fr

events of our history and you read a quote from going in francis hyland who was the mayor of new york city and you get about three quarters of the way through and you think oh this is a guy that's talking about today you know this is he's talking about the problems that we're facing today but that quote was from one nine hundred twenty two that was and it's identical to the same problems we're having now so. these events that are happening they're not accidental they're not it's not a haphazard there's a very very big plan that has been set forth. well over a hundred years and they're running it to this day and i'd say probably the most. dangerous tentacles is one that you might not think that's the banking so the banking people don't understand about the federal reserve not being an actual government agency i was taught it was a quasi government agency whatever that means it's not that either it's only it's a privately owned bank that prints our money and then loaned it to us with interest and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a it's a. it's a scheme it's a trap if you cann

. >> commissioner hyland. >> commissioner wolfram. that passes unanimously 6-0.nd that places us on item five, commission comments and questions. >> seeing no comments or questions, we can move on. >> a very good. we will take up the matter of continuance and we will take up item nine as there is a request from the public for under the regular calendar. there is no consent calendar. so we will move to the regular calendar, and i understand the chair will ache take item nine out of order. >> we were going to make sure we have representatives from rec and park here. do we have those? >> we are going to take item nine with the request for continuance for this item. i think what we will do is speak to the continuance and if rec and park can come forward and respond to that request for continuance. >> we should probably have the requester speak first. >> actually -- >> okay. >> a member of the public has requested item nine be continued. if you could please come forward and explain your request. you will have three minutes. >> good afternoon. i haven't been to city ha

commissioner hyland. >> congratulations to the family. i'm supportive of this. i have one question that i'll ask staff, but having you come out and actually just speak helps us really understand what's important, and it's really hard to capture that in writing. we're -- with our cultural heritage assets committee, we're trying to figure out a better way to capture the living histories. so thank you for coming out. the question i have for staff is, this is the first legacy business that isn't really associated with a building that has much significance. is that correct? i think there was one on ocean. >> we've had other ones. >> most of the them have been in pretty -- okay. >> no. there have definitely been others. >> yes. i believe there have been a couple of others, although my colleague desiree and tim may have more institutional memory. there have been several, i think. >> this is exactly the type of business that we want to support with this program. >> thank you. >> commissioner. >> well, i was a customer in 1968 until 1971, when i graduated from hastings.