although i love in san francisco, i live in park merced. the period i lived in, i spent a lot of time and i understand the problems that this shares. i think that the new plan is a visionary, and i think that this is exciting. here are few things the transpoo improve the quality of life and the environment, leading to zero carbon, with amazing sabin's -- savings in water with additional housing units to guarantee social equity. planning that leads to real neighborhoods, not the misguided landscape of the 1950's. enhancing the existing landscape with the order of magnitude in beauty, this is a design for a humane and socially responsible life, valued in san francisco. this is an important part of the future for others to learn. we can be a leader. this is san francisco and there are those who will not like any change, whatsoever, despite how beneficial it may be. let's do the right thing and not be bullied by the naysayers. let's be a leader in the city as an example. >> thank you very much. >> i live in district 7. there was once a market t

i'm a 25-year resident of park merced in a garden apartment. i'm here to ask you to not vote to destroy the garden apartments and especially the common areas. i have lived here for many years and i've raised my two children. the common areas, which we share with our neighbors -- we have a common history -- are very important to our quality of life. being able to walk outside and walk and the grass, we will not have that in a high-rise. i'm also concerned with losing rent control. i know it has been discussed that it will be protected. you know, it is our home and our lives. we really cannot afford to lose it. thank you. >> good morning, supervisor mar. i am an attorney for san francisco tomorrow. i want to echo the comments about the fact that you really should not be voting on this because there's not a certified e.i.r. i noticed that the findings for the development agreement approval say that the board of supervisors has adopted the findings as its own and incorporated them by reference. course, that has not happened yet. the planning commis

i had a chance to visit park merced. i want to thank the supporters and opponents of this project for educating me on this project. i think and i think many of us agree that park merced has the potential to be the kind of project that exemplifies 21st century san francisco. it's about smart growth, transit oriented development, building a huge number of new housing, creating a new school, shopping, restaurants, and open space. that said, as someone who is a tenant, i've been extremely concerned about the issues raised by tenants, especially around rent control. i spent a lot of time with a number of you understanding these issues. i want to see them addressed in this annulment agreement. to that effect, today, colleagues, i'm offering 14 pages of amendments to park merced development agreement to address that. i would like to take a few moments to summarize what these with intel. they come under three categories in my mind. first of all, protections related to the transition. colleagues, i'm asking for development agreem

item 21 is an ordinance amending the height map with respect to park merced. >> thank you. supervisor chiu: colleagues, i wanted to let you know that in the two weeks since the first vote on this project, i did sit down with several tenant leaders. as a result of the meetings, we negotiated, and the developer has agreed to a number of technical amendments as well as several additional tenant protections. first, that there not be any operation or maintenance pass-throughs for the relocating tenants for the rest of the life of park merced. and then secondly we have added additional restrictions on the city's existing prohibition on converting the rental units in the tower units into condominiums. i fully appreciate the concerns raised by some tenant leaders. i before never support thd project if i did not feel comfortable that tenant rights have been protected. i say this as one of the few tenants on this board of supervisors, as someone who has been a staunch advocate for tenants before i was elect and with my vote on this board. if there anything else we could have put into

i have been in a vault on every lake merced plan since the mid- 1980's. i understand the problem with dumping potable water. i was happy to see it be project, and that water will go into the west side basin, as well as directly into lake merced. however, it also provides habitat. they do have wildlife in parkmerced. the bird count took place at christmas time there. the storm water project proposed landscaping -- it will really connect lake merced to parkmerced, and i find that really wonderful and i plan to live there forever. >> thank you. >> hello, commissioners. my name is barneys' larsen -- arnie larsen. i have lived in parkmerced for 15 years now. i can give you the perspective of someone who moved into a neighborhood that had a few shops way off at one end of the neighborhood, and most of them were empty, and that necessitated leaving the neighborhood for other neighborhoods to do almost any of the business of daily living. one of the things i thought about then was who can support neighborhood businesses?

i have been in a vault on every lake merced plan since the mid- 1980's. i understand the problem with dumping potable water. i was happy to see it be project, and that water will go into the west side basin, as well as directly into lake merced. however, it also provides habitat. they do have wildlife in parkmerced. the bird count took place at christmas time there. the storm water project proposed landscaping -- it will really connect lake merced to parkmerced, and i find that really wonderful and i plan to live there forever. >> thank you. >> hello, commissioners. my name is barneys' larsen -- arnie larsen.

i have been in a vault on every lake merced plan since the mid- 1980's. i understand the problem with dumping potable water. i was happy to see it be project, and that water will go into the west side basin, as well as directly into lake merced. however, it also provides habitat. they do have wildlife in they do have wildlife in parkmerced.

you're going to see the merced river pretty good. >> what happened to roughing it. i thought you were going to spark a fire. >> we stayed at the yosemite valley lodge. >> we didn't have s'mores. we should have brought the s'mores. >> thanks a lot. it is beautiful up there. we'll check back with you, marla. 6:05. i don't know if mike is a camper. >> i love camping, if it's like marla does, beautiful yosemite lodge and s'mores. definitely not the roughing it type. roughing it without the hair drier. the slowdown continues out of the altamont pass. typical pattern building 580 to the dublin interchange. bay bridge toll plaza the last few minutes we've seen the sun change positions, of course means sun in your eyes off the lower deck. some debris in lanes three and four, some over the bridge, watch to see if it disturbs the flow. okay in the oakland side. >> sounds good. thank you very much. 6:05 right now. right now following an overnight attack where a gunman targeted an east bay couple walking home from the b.a.r.t. station. now this morning the search is on for the

there were some comparisons on the amount of the ask and they were trying to compare it to park merced and we're dealing with entirely different entities and park merced, if you get more actions from park merced, they raise the price of the condos they're going to sell or raise the rental amount and someone will buy them. if we make the ask higher and higher for cal pacific, somebody has to pay it, and it's the private individual with private insurance. the rates get higher and the money doesn't come from nowhere. so i think we have to make these asks realistic. and we have to address what's appropriate. remember, this is a different hospital than is a different situation with ucfs or chinese or even to some degree with some of the catholic health care west hospitals, though a lot more analogous to them. so that's a summation of my feelings. one other point here, and this is the continuing argument for increasing the enrollment, or the size of st. luke's. everybody says there's only one other hospital south of market general which is undergoing extensive addition right now. there also

>> biggest issue right now and for potentially decades to come is parker said -- park merced. the owners have proposed demolishing half of the units and building 8000 new ones over the course of the next 25 to 30 years. that is a significant change for the district and the region. it is right there on the corner of california highway one. whether or not the project moves forward and if it does, how the city and region grapple with the growth is probably the biggest challenge of the district. >> how will you balance the needs of the city against the needs of your district? >> that is the biggest challenge for any representative, whether it is a local supervisor, assemblyperson, or congressional representative. it is important that i keep in the back of my head that i sit on the city and county board of supervisors. there is a responsibility to the city as a whole. there is no easy way to balance it. you deal with those issued by issue. >> the city is faced with tough budget decisions, including where to make cuts and whether to raise taxes and fees. how will you approach the di

we represent the maintenance on park merced. we're asking you to support this, and we also have members living there. we ask you to approve this project going forward. >> and this is from local -- think you >> good morning. i represent a small group people in the shopping center. we support the redevelopment plan, and we believe this project will provide much to the house and to the neighborhood, and i asked for you to be supportive. thank you. >> good morning. i am of 35 you're president of the west side of san francisco. i have never had a financial interest in this project. i have spoken to you in various meetings, with the transportation changes that will take place. today, i wanted to help you see what would happen if this project failed at this time. imagine what would happen? it would be like the helmsley era. $150 million to bring this up, and if you look at this -- we will go into selling off property and in the long term, it will mean less to everybody. another aspect we have to take a look at, the history of the west

l. >> skirl has been rafting the merced river for nearly 10 years.e has never seen it like this. this early in the season. >> 2 types of rafters those never swam and there's will. >>reporter: thanks to near record snow pack in the high sierra the merced and all northern california rivers are running high this spring. and the season is just beginning. >> coming is road rash. >>reporter: on this day we took an 11 mile run with sever whit water rafting froml portal west of yosemite. they charge 115 dollars for the half day trip. riders should be good swimmers. >> dave dump truck. what they call it when the guide has everybody fall out but himself. >>reporter: it's a stretch that include as good mix of class 3 and 4 white water. that's on a scale of 6. 6 being unrunable. it's the kind of water that occasionally cause as raft error 2 from the boat. if. >> falling out was fun the and scary at the same time. but i'm glad i'm back in the boat now. >> what were you thinking when she went in. >> the truth? i have to get it on camera. then i thought issued pull

one of these women was my grandmother, merced moynihan. in la dominica, one of the best cafes in the world, located on oreilly street, where my grandparents met. ticket to ride, i talk about my family history but after they marry -- i am reading a little from the book -- my grandparents were at the center of many fascinating things. i found myself at el centro, the literary and musical gatherings. their house on calle mercades became a cultural cross roads with the traffic of foreigners created a new inspired geography. they travel everywhere. my grandmother, merced, nina played the piano and read poems, while edward read the poems besides playing the fiddle and violin, behaved like an avant garde composer, moving around furniture. according to the journalist were a dynamic duo that rescued the famous hotel sevilla from dereliction in 1919. they also constructed the biltmore neighborhood where many irish american families have homes. when i said irish americans, i go back to the americas, irish-spanish americans and french-irish, et cetera

the park merced bridge reopened this week and after being remodeled. were you there? if there was ever an example of the joni mitchell song to put a parking lot, this is it. the politicians and gathered for this opening said it was our tax dollars at work. we should not be too hard on our politicians. at the opening, the public was told by a politician that the branch remodeling was on schedule and under budget. i do not have to tell you how egregiously wrong that is. this branch was one of the branches whose remodeling was canceled unless the public voted for revenue bonds to support the funding. as it is, the bridge was scheduled to be one of the last branches in the program and is only $1.20 million over budget and only 16 months behind schedule, but this conceals what everyone knows, which is the entire program was promised to be completed. there are only half of the bridges that have been completed, and the budget that was projected has doubled. but the librarian administration will free me tell you that. why tell them the truth? but, of course, this branch, like

develop between the city and county of san francisco and parker said investors to support the park merced project -- parkmerced project. >> i will make a brief staff introduction. the mayor's office will be making a presentation. this is another development agreement he would have to assent to. unless treasure island, there are no easy dollars in this one -- unlike treasure island, there are no easy dollars in this one. any issues we had with the development at this point in time, you still retain discretion in going back and changing things in the future. but storm water, waste water, of recycled water -- all that is on the developer. we are happy to say we are pleased we have reached this point where we can recommend that you approve the development agreement. would you like to make a comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i did prepare an overview presentation. if the commission would like, i could move quickly through it, the broad overview. this is to focus on the provisions. president vietor: great. a brief overview would be fine. thank you. >> and i brought copies as well for t

laura anthony and randy davis took us for the wild ride on the untamed merced river. >> this is the bestting season in decades. >> rafting the merced river has been doing it for ten years and he has never seen it like in this early in the season. >> thanks to near record snow pack in the high sierra the merced and all of northern california rivers are running high this spring and the season has just beginning. >> and on this day, 11-mile on white river rafting. they pay $115 for the half day trip. riders should be good swimmers. >> dump truck is when they call it the guide has everybody fall out but himself. >> but it includes a good mix. it's the kind of water that tosses a rafter or two from the boat. >> flying out was fun but scary at the same time but i'm glad i'm back in the boat now. >> dig it in nice and hard. >> the water is running high and fast and summer snow from the sierra it will get better. >> keep it going! >> with the excitement the season brings there is additional safety precautions. until the water calms a bit, young children can go along for the ride, because it's co

. >> lake merced had a high water level. since we paid over much of the city, the water levels have dropped, but at one time, the late actually trade out into the ocean approximately where the dog diner is that now. somewhere in the 1870's, they saw the damage at the water in the late so it did not exit out uncontrolled, and for 10 years, people were drinking lake merced water as drinking water. it is much bigger, too. if you go to san francisco state, the practice will appeal this part of the lake. i do daily city, that was part of the lake. it was huge. >> the southern area [inaudible] but there is a different area. >> there was a creek that came down basically through west portal and said that particular lake. >> that was filled in when they develop west portal, and they had the brilliant idea when they dug but,, they needed a place to put it, so they build the creek in with the tunnel muck. >> you can see in 1910, we are talking about after the earthquake, but outer richmond is still pretty sparsely settled. >> or anyone

my last recommendation has to do with item 11 on your agenda today, the park merced issue. the c.a.c. has had a presentation about the transportation plan and development agreement of at park merced, including the realignment of the m oceanview. it is our recommendation that this board adopt the transportation plan and development agreement. at least as presented to the c.a.c. on june 2. i can't comment, obviously, on any changes that might have occurred since then. it would be very easy to just look at this and say, well, we just have more people there, so we have to find a way to ship more people around and deal with increased traffic from there. but what you have instead is a really comprehensive transportation plan for that site, something that integrates a lot of principles of good planning and urbanism, and we were very impressed with that and we think that this plan represents a very positive step forward. some of the feedback we got about the m oceanview was the people in the o.m.i. very much value the trip they have to the west portal commercial district. we were p

next speaker please. >> i am with merced extension triangle neighborhood association. why are we even considering cutting funding at all, much less buy half, for nert? i took the training offered by the fire department, and one of the first things we learned in the class, which makes perfect sense to me, is that when the big one hits, which is a certainty, emergency personnel will not be able to even come close to responding to all the catastrophic occurrences that will happen. nert is an excellent way to empower the citizens to help themselves, to be a vital link in containment of the damage, to band together as communities to do something about a harrowing experience that threatens their very existence. nert is a perfect partnership between government and citizens to provide direction to the citizens at a time of peril. guidelines on how to shut off power, help people in need, and so many other topics covered in the glasses will help people not only to deal with earthquakes but other emergency situations such as terrorist attacks, etc. at a time when the mantra seems

both the merced project will cause irrersable damage to my health, to my family's health and to the health of the entire community but the enormous amount of toxic contaminants that will will released through the airplane by such a massive demolition and construction if this plan is approved. the c.d. is going to create a nightmare for years to come and environmental disaster that will last for three decades and will affect the physical and mental health of thousands of people by the level of decontamination tall be produced by the developer. not only on the site but in the surrounding area. please help us save our community. vote know -- no to this project. thank you very much. >> thank you. supervisor? >> dean preston strongly opposed to this project and this mass demolition, this clear cutting of an entire neighborhood is unconscionable. i think you need to dig down deep and look at this not just on the technical issues that we have addressed and will address more, but on the fundamental choice, whether it is appropriate and a violation of city planning to give the go ahead on this. the

addressing it is looking at projects like the park merced project with an open mind and consider how many middle-class units it will create. there's also the transportation impact of the project. what about the dislocation of the existing tenants? we have to value these things in a different way the we have in the past. >> let's talk about transportation. let's revisit the impact of some of the housing projects on transportation. >> in my district, let's go back to the park merced project. 19th avenue is a mess. there is no easy way to get north-south on the west side. imagine putting 10,000 people right there at the corner of 19th and holloway. it will not make things easier unless there is significant transportation improvements as part of the project. we need to do what we can on the capital side. i would also point to work we were able to accomplish last year in bringing efficiencies to the way we negotiate bus driver contracts through the passage of proposition g. the great deal of savings will result from that. those dollars will go to improve operations. >> what about parking

new units of housing on the west side of the city with the approvals we did at parker said -- park merced. and with a much more comfortable 11-0 vote, we are moving forward with thousands of new units of housing on treasure island. i cannot say how proud we are of our city for coming together. we have been talking about for years how important it is to build new neighborhoods, develop new affordable housing, make sure we have transit-oriented, sustainable, green development that is worthy of the 21st centuries the san francisco. what we are doing today and this year will have impact on the city for decades to come. thank you all for being a part of this. i look forward to the ribbon cutting. [applause] >> any others? ok. chris mini, on the development team, you excited us. one of the greenest developments that you might see. the city continues to be excited because of the work you are doing, to be environmentally friendly, to have a residence that the city can be ground up route -- proud of. [applause] sf ++ my partners, we want to say thank-you to the city family. on this happy occasion,

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