, improvements, and maintenance of public realm areas, including parks, parklets, sidewalks, landscaped areas, plazas, and gardens; to authorize the purchase of real property with assessment funds, where property will be a public realm area and the district will provide landscaping, improvements and/or >> item number 1 is ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code, by adding article 15a "public realm landscaping, improvement and maintenance assessment districts," to provide for establishment of assessment districts to finance landscaping, improvements, and maintenance of public realm areas, including parks, parklets, sidewalks, landscaped areas, plazas, and gardens; to authorize the purchase of real property with assessment funds, where property will be a public realm area and the district will provide landscaping, improvements and/or maintenance; and making environmental findings. >> thank you. i'll turn this over supervisor cohen. >> thank you for your interest and today's agenda. i want to thank you for hearing this item today. i have been working on this ordinance for

so i helped to revitalize the landscaping that's still there. a lot of my concerts or experience was there developing the landscaping. i went on to study the is there any additional public comment? in environmental education. i feel strongly that the education i got in peggy's class was the foundation i went to that to study at uc berkley. i'm here to support the bayview project >> (calling names). >> good afternoon port commissioners. my name is is wendy kwoung i'm a lifelong resident i went to city college of san francisco. i'm currently a interim at eco center and have been helping with the maintenance and the curriculum at the egging could center. i want to depress my support for the eco center in collaboration with the city college of san francisco. i'm here to read a statement from one of the port elders of the proposal who couldn't come. katherine the teacher and board president the statement is the arts and literacy or walk for short is an educational facility for public and that's in east san francisco. they've served the at risk studen

that landscaping assembly we have to address. we have to change. what we are talking about the top of the roof structure now. >> well then you have me confused because your dimensions point to the same thing on both drawings. >> i'm just going off the revised section drawing that we've given you that's measuring the top of the concrete structure of the roof. that piece was just a trim piece on the edge of the built up -- landscape roof on top of the concrete structure. >> okay. so your original drawing showed it to the top of the fasha and now to the top of the roof? >> yes. that's correct. >> okay. thank you. mr. duffy, anything? no. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, the rehearing request is submitted. >> any comments, commissioners? >> i almost thought it was, i'm still not 100 percent sure because it's a little bit slight of hand changing the dimensions by saying you are changing the detail. >> i see no reason. i think that the point that santos, the engineer that the permit holder had

a view from the southwest looking at the building between the future family house this will be a landscape view of mid block passage. i have a few diagrams this one she's how transit rich this site is. you'll see the third street and mission shuttle and the diagram shows the stocks and the 22 is going to be relocated and it's turn around will be in front of our building. we're about a 5 minute block from trans station. it's a good access to get around the neighborhood and down to the peninsula. the next diagram shows the bicycle lanes in front of the building. 5 and 10 minute block you can access the new bike share program and bicycle to a meeting or do your errands. the next slide shows the various open spaces around the site. in the near future i believe children's park is going to be constructed about a block away from our building. you can see the successor fields and the dog park at the at the end of the mission creek so there's plenty in open spaces around the site. so some of the strategies we used to design the building as i mentioned it's around a large court yard and we've activa

we're on mission bay boulevard and you see the stair tower that has a landscape of bamboo and there's a gap between the 5 story and the other portion there. we have a glazed fence to look into the court yard and people what look at the street. there you can look at outside the building. this location is the main entry into the building. we've warmed-up each entry with a signature door to see into the main court yard. so the court yard i'll take you inside that is a step court yard part of it occurs above the garage and there's the common room kitchen and exercise room. so this is a view of that common building it's two levels and we have stairs it take you that to the upper level behind the railing and planter. this is some of the tree sprees in this image and this image shows the upper level court yard that is had a synthetic surface and the laundry room is in the distance and kids can be out there kicking a ball and running around. behind the building there's more outdoor spaces for having our lunch or dining. and then a quick image of the landscape materials the planters with bench

the port wants someone to operate and maintain the surrounding landscape. the staff we're going to hire from city college has been going that and the standard operating progresses is the same to maintain the landscaping. the port wants to engage the local community. again we've started to engage the community in a variety of different ways i've that shown and to coordinate with the staff and we have a long history. in closing, i want to stress this an amazing site and the aquarium foundation and city college welcomes the opportunity to have that. i know first off, i want to thank you for your time i know we have loot supporter in the audience and i want to notify you guys to stand and sigh it up for supporting us. thank you >> okay. all right. >> here we go. okay. thank you very much to both of our proposers for gracio graciously vrpt our timeline. i plan to come back to you with a recommendation at the january 14th meeting and that that concludes my presentation >> thank you. thank you. we do have expensive public comment and as you know we're loltd 3 minu

laura's combination of technical expertise with landscape arc and landscape and architectural issues with community development make her an excellent advocate for the community and we look forward to working with her and the staff to help the farm. the farm is one of parks and recreation most level of violence and they distribute to a number of groups and many many school and other groups that visit the site for educational purposes. laura is a bruno heights resident and lives between holly park north of the farm. in addition to recommending laura martin, i would like to recommend' reappointment for the odd number seats. the resident reserved for housing resident, alice caruthers. she has a large historical and knowledge of the farm and a valuable member of the committee. and brett is involved with the farm and a licensed contractor. seat 5, craig heckman. he's a landscape architecture and has working in a lot of naturalized open spaces adjacent to the agricultural production, finally seat 7, bonnie, who has been working at the library and working on the living library nature walk an

this, we are altering the landscape to what we want to see there. i thank you all very much for your service. i would like to say, phil, every time i find an open bathroom in the park, i thank you. >> thank you. speaker: next speaker, please. >> good morning, commissioners and general manager. my name is richard rothman. i'm one of the city guides at the tower and i would like to thank sandra and the rest of the staff for giving us the opportunity to make tours. the people really enjoy it and really enjoy talking about coy towers and looking forward to next year. i was at the proposal for fixing the murals and i'm really happy and excited for what they are doing. they are bringing in a top team to do the survey and to do the renovation. most important, they are going to come up with a management plan. so hopefully we don't to have do this again in 30 years. this is going to be the third time that we had to renovate the murals up there. this part is really exciting and it's really exciting to see that the work is going on and they fix the water leak.

the landscape here was wonderful and sumptuous when our forefathers lived here. they lived in a sustainable way. with the arrival of colonists, people started plowing, and so all of these gorgeous things, this beautiful landscape, was increasingly destroyed. >> this stretch of land is more than 200 kilometers in size. it is an enormous semi desert, in which more than 100 50 plant species are in need of conservation. the environmentalists at conservation south africa are especially concerned about rising temperatures in the region. >> we are in the most bio diverse and arid zone in the world, and it's already a hot and very dry place. so what we are experiencing for the future is it's hotter and drier, and we already have records showing that the temperature in this area is increasing. with a combination of reduced rainfall and increased temperatures, we are expected to have some new species losses in some of the endemic vegetation types, as well as possible desertification in the summer rainfall grasslands. >> num aqua land is losing its unique abundance of veget

we've spent sent volunteers into the landscaping program and donated many hundreds of plant for the landscaping including the garden collection of rare specifications. it's my distinct pleasure to work s with peggy and crew that have demonstrated hard science is run the wastewater management system in the eco center. i was recently kekd contacted by bay natives to a give them insight to let them, you know, about how to do the maintenance. i was impressed they reached out to me and it's clear this is the candidate that you should choose for this lease and i urge according to give them their favorable consideration >> (calling names). >> good morning, commissioners islam tracy. i am here representing myself. a combrup here in san francisco have been living in hunters point. i was working for literacy for viral justice for 3 years my i did a background of education and did ugh i youth he development. i was running that building by myself. it is a tough job. i know in order to maximize it's full benefit the operation and the programming needs to be integrated and while the parentheses is not part o

i have a six $50,000 in kind grant for landscape improvements and a $19,000 cash grant for the other part. excuse me i am moving too quickly. >> it's all right. >> as was mentioned this is a wonderful improvement to golden gate park. it will include both landscape improvements and improvements of the irrigation system in kezar triangle, and that part of the project is under way and the site is actually scheduled to be open to the public early next month. then the next piece of the project will be temporary nature based art installations and those pieces have been approved by the arts commission and we're wrapping up the final details and those should be installed over the course of this year. >> okay. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. any questions? okay. we have no budget analyst reports. we will go to public comment. anyone wish to comment? okay. seeing none public comment is closed. i look forward to see you throwing your disk around. >> you said it was going to be a lengthy report. it was good and i make motion to move forward to the full board without recommendatio