for example in front of the moscone center and they close the streets. >> sure. >> it's just difficult to get around. is this what is going to happy new year with the warriors special events arena because the neighborhood is there? in an extent the traffic jams -- not just the games but the special events? >> it's a very good question and actually i can give you a multi-part answer. in consistent with how we think about the building and how others perform in this market it's a satellite and other events at moscone. we don't have a large floor. we can't accommodate trade shows and things like that. we're not designed for that. we heard from the folks at moscone that could be helpful and attract other events they couldn't otherwise secure we could provide a tiered seating environment for events associated with a broader convention where the ceo might want to address the sales force and moscone isn't equipped for that type of event. that might be one of 40 things that happy new year in a convention and we could be of service potentially offering that. if you look at other buildings in bus

we have john from our moscone and from the mayor's office of disabilities is here you're going to hear from them but we have our incredible sponsor keeping up and iga gay from kaiser and other person is from the other company here let's talk about the tree this tree behind us 85 years ago you don't think mclaren who was our one of our key fourpd in golden gate park our park superintendent started a tradition of lighting this tree and mile-long of trees that end here in mclaren lodge this is san francisco's official holiday tree and the cypress are over one hundred and thirty years old and despite losing some of its limitations it's standing at all and supporting over 5 hundred and 50 lights let's give a big round of applause for uncle john's tree (clapping.) so this is the night that offers up the time to get together one of the most important aspects of parks it's sense of place; right? an opportunity to get together to create community and think about our tasks and to see our past, present, and future and people that are going to help us light the trees and brought kids this is somet

with the growth slate to occur in the ed of the city and the t line connecting fisherman's wharf to moscone center makes sense and it will remove transit from the congested streets and will help with the connectivity. >> thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon. >> i'm steven tobacco eerie have a couple of 3 capacities for the last 8 years i've been spurs spokeswoman in favor of the phase two of this project i'm currently the chairman of

years ago when i was at moscone the head of real out of seattle they're a company in the for ray ofll the broadband of technology before everybody knew the word broadband as we go on and the warriors stadium is about to be built i had a conversation guess what, a gentleman that worked for city hall and now with the warriors he told me to my face i'm going to stop our company and other black owned companies if doing business with the warriors yes this is an article and going to follow up i'd like to get your cards to get a meeting so when you talk about inclusion it should be from the top reverend brown said we're not at the table at the beginning of those conversations which puts austin us at a gift and to be economic inclusion our companies have to be at a level where we can actually hire people in san francisco across the board i've been talking about the christen and other media for the biggest in the world most of their >> sir unfortunately, your time - >> if you don't have a lot of money in the big media you don't get our slant in there i think you know what i'm talking about t

part of the city this could be a god sent for fisherman's wharf our 6 hundred thousand hotels to moscone center but for the people coming in work with dialog right now with the matt with the short term swugsz we see the tooift as the best solution thank you for your time. >> at the. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and commissioners my name is bruce aim a member of the central extension sf next stop.org a rep for the south beach beacon hill association i want to thank the team from the mta and the planning department for the excellent job on the study and supportive of their fthsd in addition to the ridership cost and benefits data highlighted in the presentation the central subway station with fisherman's wharf provides a connection on the eastern itself from visitacion valley to fisherman's wharf assess of progress periodic job applicant to jobs and resident to medical facilities to fisherman's wharf hotel rooms to the moscone center and provides capacity to meet latent traffic and reduce the congestion and improving the bike safety i - as the study indicate

and we know that will help to attract the visitors by help make our public-private partnering in moscone more valuable. >> as the next speaker comes up i'll call one more name. >> thank you, commissioners i'm dennis with the diamond consulting and education it's my educational work i've been enjoying for 45 years i'm also for the last 13 years teaching in the public high schools i gave a multi media pamphlet one the programs since i have 3 minutes i'll introduce to summarize the information i e-mailed you sent 29 letter a couple of months ago and over the last 57 years i've been providing the warriors and all city officials my proposals i want to remind you the classroom is the heart and soul of my proposal based on this arena professional sports i'm sure you're aware of is a powerful influence for our kids after working in the classrooms for years it is observe the power that sports plays in our kids lives this classroom could be an incredible incentive inspiration not only for the warriors and basketball games but multi media and journalism and advertising business even the architectur

be wine festivals and anything you can imagine and events could be held there in the evening for moscone to supplement their opportunities there. the central focus of retail at the park is the restaurant. the restaurant is 10,000 square feet. >> >> and sit up to 400 people. at the terrance level you're 15 feet above the park which means you're literally 90 feet in the air and we tested this. you can get a glimpse of the bay from that level so it's going to be an extraordinarily exciting place. at the center of the park is a 1200 square foot cafe. it's being conceived as a contemporary gazebo and glass and light filled and attractive. it can serve coffee during the day and drinks in the evening. like the park it's available up to 20 hours a day and supplement the way the park and the central activities operate. it's on access of the bridge with the sales sales force tower. here is the overview at night and as you know one of the key ideas behind the design from the beginning is that the park is essentially the facade of the building and in the evening it's not just the fifth facade but th

good thing one the goals one day we're going to have to announce our board confident teachers in the moscone center but i want to invite our chief operating office to share with the board certification polls in the continuum in for the educators. >> thank you superintendant carranza and wanting more and more rose congratulations and members and commissioners of the board guests honorees my name is superintendent i'm the chief executive officer for the curriculum inclusive of the leadership the role of the division and the office of the professional learning to advance the learning in the unified school district and because of the hyper will continue to there having a high performance fault of leaders with the teaching administrator is important there are leadership that support the teachers and administers along with the interims to master teacher to cite administrator and beyond this is our strategy plan our vision 20 with 25 national board certification is a braid that allows the teachers to demonstrate the accomplished teacher and the committee for the process under the leadership of chri

towers 5 new hospitals under construction today soon to be joined by the central subway and chanted moscone center for the golden gate warriors a wastewater treatment plant and new neighborhood along the central waterfront that employees thousands of construction workers well, thank you to the hard working men and women to the construction trades the laborers and operating engineers and entertainment and electrical workers all the trade for rebuilding our city thank you (clapping) my friends those are times to be proud of our city and people those are it is time to approach our future with confidence and optimistic we must acknowledging twovp too many of our resident have not shareholders in the growing success of our city good many families and resident i understand the times of prosperity are times of anxiety they're worried about affording to stay here they are worried the children's ability to raise a family about the character of the san francisco friends this is san francisco and as long as i'm mayor we won't leave anyone behind (clapping) turning that anxiety into optimistic and turn

center, the media center at moscone west and a fan village in san francisco. details and location of which will be announced at the end of 1st quarter that will be our celebratory footprint and let's not forget this is 509th super bowl. this is the milestone ee -- this is the 50th super bowl. this is the milestone event. not taking anything away from super bowl xlix, super bowl 50 will be a little more golden, special and more interesting. >> reporter: the nfl just released the logo for super bowl 50. and there you see it. and i got to tell you, there's a lot of excitement here but a lot of work as they have a lot of planning to do, veronica, over the next few days. they will be watching everything from security to just exactly how they get people through all these long lines and how to make sure people have fun. but safe. >> all right. joe vazquez there in phoenix. joe, always with a good assignment. >>> kpix 5 is the official media partner for the super bowl 50 host committee and the tv home for super bowl 50. we'll be bringing you special reports throughout

support the planners to insure efficient progressing of application right irs that were create the moscone center project and the effectiveness program and the housing element as well as other eir documents described in the packet. >> mroefg on to the zoning administration that includes the zoning administrator and the code improvement and the sign program and saturday if february the short-term rental program division has experienced minor staff growth in order to address the backlog and the complaints coming and the 3 new ftes dedicated to the short-term rental programs that director ram mentioned earlier the administration program the directors office and it and operation the commission affairs group and special projects and the memo describes some of the core you know key programs and projects that the staff will be working on in the two fiscal years the staff level is declining because of the reassignment of specific staff to focus on more high priority projects and continues to look at the backlog applications shifting gears here starting to talk about our volume and budget expenditu

town mar mentioned this person has worked at the board of supervisors from mayor brown and george moscone and the rec and park department and we're glad she's shepherding subcontractors with the state government we have justin steal the portfolio manager for bay area and hayes he doesn't r didn't don't a great job. >> 8 years ago i volunteered with the homelessness facility i was spresz stressed by on that account is only the tip of the iceberg i'm excited to notches those 3 organizations are helping the most vulnerable people and doing that i'm super existed to support them this money will be used to advance those 3 organizations to support the homelessness folks in the city of san francisco we care and are commit to find ways to fight poverty google has is volunteered thirty thousand hours of their time and throughout the bay area including 20 obligate letters who are beyond the support of our organization financially and it is also why we've given $100 million since 2010 to improve the lives of the organizations those are our neighbors and google is trying to figure out how to macho th

it's held at the moscone center. more than 45,000 dealerships are participating. bush announced in december that he will join the 2016 presidential race. >>> billionaire tom steyer says he will not run the seat being vacated by barbara boxer. he says he could do more for the environment as a private citizen. so far state attorney general kamala harris is the front- runner for her seat. many political pundits suspect former l.a. mayor antonio villaraigosa could join the race, as well. box ever says she is not running for a fifth term so she can spend some more time at home. >>> a federal report sharply criticizes chevron regarding a refinery fire in richmond in 2012. the fire started in a corroded pipe that should have been inspected and upgraded. the report says a flawed safety culture at chevron is to blame for the rupture. the report also suggests those at the scene did not understand how dangerous the situation was. the fire put 19 workers in danger and the resulting fumes sent more than 15,000 people to the hospital for medical attention. >>> a suspected arson

outside of the moscone center where the former governor wrapped up an appearance within the last hour or so, mark. >> you're right, jessica. not a political visit. very much a political visit in sort of this secret thing that is going on behind the scenes. he said his visit yesterday with mitt romney in utah was not about politics but it certainly is here in the bay area. he told the automobile dealers that he had three suggestions for sustained economic growth in the country -- homegrown energy policy including embracing fracking and building the xl pipeline. he said the nation's educational system needs an overhaul. and on immigration, there must be a path to citizenship for those already here. >> there is no way that they're going to be deported. no one is suggesting an organized effort to do that. the cost of that would be extraordinary. we need to find a way where they pay fines, they learn english, they work and they get in the back of the line, but they come out of the shadows so that they can have the full productivity to be partners in the strategy of high economic growth. >>

turned it over to the public on the day before thanksgiving now this is a shot of the yerba buena moscone center station the walls are complete along fourth street and the panels that will complete the balance of the excavation will be installed at the gas station site and it should begin early next year finally at last surface station work has gone south of brilliant street the work has been you primary to accommodate the fourth and brandon station all of the station construction work under what we call contract 13 is on schedule and on budget i understand that a previous question regarding the palms located at 5 fourth street now the authority to remove the issue at the palms was the removal which a white zone in front of the building and the authority to remove the parking in front of the palms was approved in 2007 for the spill environmental review he and we're working with the representative at palms to temporarily relocate the palm essential this is the white zone and temporarily relocating on the i do of free long street and this is the future station now also a few months back a w

that in terms of real estate for development projects currently and plans 26 percent and those are moscone but to the maritime component how much is left after all of that this is what exists exists or is planned we're seeing 5 percent that we're clear or our mixed use opportunities the piers in the northern waterfront area and a few seawall lots and federal waterfront another 44 acres we're not sure if their development areas we're calling them economic jerry and regulatory challenges so through the public planning process the public and you and the city of at large is going to determine whether or not those will be developed sites. >> and this is the port overall you see it all added up really 10 percent to grapple with with the land use updating to our plan. >> and the two neighborhoods where that 10 percentage is you know go basically located the south beach area and the north eastern waterfronts so with that that's our presentation addressing some of the bigger policy we look forward to our feedback to make sure we are warrior he getting the information to the public. >> thank you i r

with the growth slate to occur in the ed of the city and the t line connecting fisherman's wharf to moscone center makes sense and it will remove transit from the congested streets and will help with the connectivity. >> thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon. >> i'm steven tobacco eerie have a couple of 3 capacities for the last 8 years i've been spurs spokeswoman in favor of the phase two of this project i'm currently the chairman of the transportation of the russian hill neighbors i this by far the largest neighborhood association in the service area of the phase 3 project spur support did phase two project and we're proud we had a major kroichl it/have not been designed to stop at chinatown it implicit makes sense from a prospective to have this enable stopping one stop away it from a major interchange and not serving a residential concentration in the northern part of the city so we're enthusiastic the importance of this extension extension is part of the four corridors plan it has been stated earlier our northeast residential neighborhood have

you can hold the democratic convention there in 1920 but not today and not even in bhos moscone center where he held it before so this provides opportunities for events, world class performances and world class sporting events and provides great transportation alternatives whether it's ferry, water, foot, bike, and transit. we're lucky that our public officials stood behind the central subway project when it was under attack a few years ago. my goodness it has a straigz at the front door of this site. train and rail will bring opportunities for people to come three or four blocks to the site and we look forward to the chamber and the business community working with the warriors and this agency and other departments to move this project very quickly. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> the next person is bower ag it. >> [inaudible] >> pretty good. good afternoon. commissioners. i am bruce agit it and a resident of mission bay and board member of the neighborhood association. impersonally a big supporter of the arena project and look forward to the warriors coming home for the start of