mr. fong we have let me look at my cheat sheet we have 11 brt c ac seats and there's 6 incumbents or 5 that point to be reappointed and bruce does not seek reappointment is that right . can you make it easy >> this has this large table to break the c mc into a structure so on the first page is told them one the richmond set of seats there are 3 all the members seats are expired and the first two members listed are seeking reappointment. so i know that john an contacted our office but did jeff send any message >> she communicated she wanted to seek reappointment and we suggested they print herself today. >> so do you have any sense why she's not here today. >> i did not. so there's the 3 richmond seats and fillmore and western addition >> yes. i'm sorry the second package of your attachment that shows you the japan side of fillmore and there's two seats there and both seats the members are seeking reappointment james and the other gentleman. then if we want to move on to the tenderloin downtown

mr. fong >> and this lady has a case in sacramento so she sent her apologizes but expressed an interest to continue to serve. colleagues. >> colleagues, i want to speak in support of mr. goldberg he represents a demographic somebody brought that needs a voice and he's done a good job. my office has been looking at the c ac members and looking at the boarder transportation authority c ac and with the transit riders union and it's been a wonderful process by i'd like to thank him for praert in that process and i'd urge his support as an incumbent. any other questions about those seats and a supervisor kim >> i want to make sure we have a good balance of a lot of different factors we want to see. so far we've appointed 5 men and one woman. so i certainly would hope that with the at large seats we consider trying to do some balancing out. of the gender and looking at the city as well. i know how challenging it is our office did a lot of diverse background. but i certainly would like to see that >>

thank you >> thank you very much mr. fong for making that as painless as possible and for all the people presenting. so ms. chang call the next item >> 8 recommend 8 members to the advisory committee this is an action item. >> so my understanding is that oh, wow. we have a lady here - commissioner yee. >> i think this discussion in wanting to appoint more females on here i was a little lost in our discussion. i heard john a female and wants to be reappointed why did we skip over her. i will make a motion for her >> she's a south asian rep and i can't remember did they communicate an interest. >> she sent on e-mail saying she was an attorney and her work required her to be in sacramento today. >> i recall that supervisor kim discussion to hold-off but do you want a motion. >> i want to have a female and here's one who's been on the committee and expressed that she wants to continue. i don't know her personally and john i don't have any objection so i would feel comfortable to nominate her. so i guess to reopen >> let me just t

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mr. chester you fong >> thank you committee members i'm the principle of the transportation with the authority. i i know there's a lot of appointments on your calendar this is for the gary citizen advisory committee. it begins on page 57 on your packet and the attachment is a summary of the application. i've give a few remarks and close up. this item is a remindeder it's from an action to a two term gary dedicated c ac the results is 8 members have expired terms. now the board can reappoint those folks or appointment someone else. it's been meeting bio monthly but in relation to this item the staff said we're recruiting in august we're got many languages russian and chinese and we did an e-mail in multiple languages and also tasered it on facebook and we also previous applicants from the spring >> just to remind i staff doesn't make any recommendations but i'll note we welcome new members in any prospective they bring. we help keep the project moving quickly by - i'll walk through the structure and vacancies quickly before i enclose my remarks so i'll turn now to the attachments to the memo. t

mr. ionin. >> thank you. >>> president fong, commissioners, good afternoon. for the record my name is mary gallagher and i'm an urban planner working for both d-r applicants, pam and darren, [speaker not understood]. as mr. cabrera just told you, the project proposal is for an addition in three different directions. the first floor expansion to the front, a multi-story expansion and acquired rear yard which triggers a variance, large four-story expansion into a currently open 8-foot side yard. i'd like to start our presentation today with a little history about the site and the neighborhood. because in this case, the historical context is really key to help understand the importance of the issues that we've raised. as you know, the marina was the site of the pan pacific international exposition of 1915, east of baker street was torn down at the end of the exposition and streets were laid out to foster development. civic discussions ensued, how should this land that is down here be developed. well, the principal concepts that emerged from that debate was that s