we have known for a long time in order to remain competitive we've got to expand moscone we know moscone is in a neighborhood where people own and live and the people car about the community. when we start to look at the project we wanted to make sure it was done in partnership with the community over the passing past year and a half we've held over 2 dozen community meetings and one-on-one meetings with the community leaders and we've listened to the concerns and based on the feedback from those meetings the building design has been revised and it's restraining order stronger and the massing has been reduced it meets the expansion for the city and meets the demands of the community. we also wanted to use the opportunity for this project to better weave moscone into the surrounding neighborhood and cape with the destine that activates third street and introduces more widening of the sidewalks you'll see the better design flow for the people in access to the gardens. sorry i think my slides are out of order. moscone has a deep-rooted history in the development of the neighborhood people f

c pmc hopeless an important component of our economy there's no more important projects than the moscone it's on a world designation since 1980 we look forward to approve all aspects of this project in moving forward thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners john from the yerba buena i apologize. i i was outside when i called my name i have good news. first, the settle time are our museum is set for final approval this tuesday it provides the safety improvements we've requested and second since the eir hearing six or seven weeks ago we had an important discussion about exactly what the things it can be done and the city made it clear they want to move forward there's a technology cattle the biggest part is widening the east side of the effort sidewalks from howard to market there are a series bottleneck that can't be part of the moscone but picked up in the environmental clearance and should follow after that so this case we're definitely on the right track so thank you >> thank you. >> sue hester my office has on on market since 1980 i know when a conference is in town b

center by 20 percent the upgrade will be on the moscone north and south and at the ballroom. additional space will be created by expanding the blow grade that connections moscone north and soviet to create 87 thousand square feet the project will reconfigure the bus street and reconstruct the pedestrian bridge and construct a new bridge to connect moscone north and south and make the public realm open in the site. in more details we will have more information proposed for the project. in terms of the planning the eir is scheduled for august 17th if after the presentation from the sponsor today you very specific questions please let me us know and with that, i'll turn it over to the detective director with the department of public works for introductory remarks thank you. >> good evening edgar lopez good afternoon director ram i will give you a short introduction of the project and this is to your planning department and the office of economic workforce development and the bureau and our great partner santa fe san francisco travel. before i want to provide a high-level summary

there are 2 thousand people living around moscone. at the back maybe i don't notice. we live here in the more thaning we go out and come home in the afternoon you're talking about mucus thousands and thousands of young people middle-aged we live here don't forget about us it's a children's park there's singers here the young and old there are too many people you're talking about extension. we want the city to implement a sidewalk management plan. that's all we ask. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm john the chair of the beyond all doubt consortium i need to say the eir is still bad but what happens is what matters we're willing to live with the paperwork and the results are very good. i wanted to note when i first when we first started this process maybe four years ago, we asked two goals from the city one was that yerba buena gardens after all said and define be a better place today, i'm pleased to report it will be a much better place the improvements that mucking center will make are used full and have a very good outcome and second i've ex

in fact the project -- one of the projects that is a current project moscone center is performed in an office space in a separate building so i don't see what is going on in a daily to day basis so the goal is to make sure that i get to continue to serve the city and also have the city benefit from the professional services that my firm could provide. >> commissioner andrews. >> mr. chow. thank you. i wanted to talk a little bit about timeline. you have been a commissioner since 2009. is that right? >> that's correct. >> yeah. and i was just looking here on the footnote that it said commissioner chow indicates he was initially unaware of the firm's agreement and i wanted to find out -- one, is there an internal process inside of your firm that would have either a policy or practice in place where you kind of check out for conflicts of interest? and we find ourselves here so we might have well state there is a perceived conflict of interest. how long had you known about this or your firm know about this. >> sure. so a couple of i think points of clarification. first is i have been commi

. >> you're talking about moscone project. >> that we have but also the airport. >> and with moscone aren't they involved with the design review of the project? >> as part of the design review project there is a committee of five and two architects and we would be normally involved with that and i would recuse myself. typically at the arts commission for a recusal the commissioner steps out of the room completely so they're not present during the discussion. >> does another architect stand in for an architect that recuses themselves? >> no. >> does that put the arts commission at a disadvantage because of the recusal of that architect? >> well, i think part of the reason why we have five is that should a recusal is necessary we have sufficient judgment there, but yes. >> and in terms of the sfo project what role if any would you have in that? >> again because of the situation i would have recuse myself at the commission and within our firm i would have no involvement at all. >> is that under normal circumstances but simply because you're on the arts commission? >> it's actually becau

under our regular calendar and will be talking up 1213 abc and for those causatises also known as moscone center please notice the admiring ends on june 16, 2014, it public comment may not be respond to in writing case numbers 13 e k r v and x under the california quality act determination for consideration of general plan referral and request for variances >> commissioner moore. >> the city attorney has advised that i ask for recusal on o this my decade employment may invoke the impression tailors or there's a conflict of interest. >> motion inform recuse. >> on that motion to rouse commissioner moore. commissioner antonini. commissioner hillis. commissioner johnson. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes sxhoerp you are recused >> good afternoon commissioner president wu i'm elizabeth from the environmental division from the planning department's i'm joined with other and in addition elizabeth is here for the downtown general referral. evidence code lopez the city architect from the pksz is he

we can insure that by giving them a tiebreaker of the 92414 so not every fifth grader from george moscone would automatically get into willie brown with you not having enough enrollment we'll then look at the tiebreakers to insure those students from malcolm x and others have priority for students to get to their feeder school that is the new willie brown. it's our intention as the district is have feeder middle schools to have them in place in 2016-2017 or is it 17 he 18. i want like to attract a responsibility enrollment first i'd like vote b for this but i hope the superintendent has a really great kick ass plan to actually get robust enrollment that's robust to draw from this zip code. when we look at the graphics it's a diverse neighborhood that neighborhood has been without a middle school for some time it's our responsibility for those children who have chosen to go to those schools in the bayview we have them out we deliver to them a fabulous brand new middle school that's robust enrollment that actually is diverse. so i will vote for this but again superintendent to put it on rec

when commissioner chow pursued the request and a valid and not pursue this request and the moscone is with a nonprofit and we have a standard practice of grants to nonprofits and commissioners recuse themselves and step out of the room. commissioner chow identified that conflict and recused himself and left the room and managed these real and perceived with appropriate action. in the case of commissioner smith's waiver request brought forward that was a blanket waiver request and if approved he wouldn't have to resign from the commission and it was a different approach to expand his work. in this instance we would lose commissioner chow's service and have a vacancy and begin immediately as my understanding and require that vacancy until we find someone to serve in that architect's seat. i am happy to answer questions to manage the conflict of interest if it's possible to pass this waiver request but because they're narrow specific projects now heard on public record and identified before the commission and standing conflicts of interest it's on par with other conflicts of interest tha

increased their market lbe set aside a program and actually doubled it to expand the opportunity, and moscone has expanded the program and pipeline and so this is really the framework for something very, very successful. in terms of what we wanted to leave you with, suggestion and recommendations and we know that those of us who deal with the equity world, we understand the fatigue and we want to thank you the supervisors and we want to thank you for your continued attention to this issue as mr. jordan mentioned, we think that we could utilize an equity lens as we look at the transient tax goes forward and we are in conversations with the mayor's office of how we can think about a budget that was just signed, and where those dollars are going and how we are really looking at our budget through a racial equity lens and we think that there can be dedicated resource and many of these things are cost neutral to expand the type of partnerships, and it takes time and resources to share information, on a legislative approach, and we think that the small business growth is critical and that there is