completion of the museum expansion in 2015. like to as representatives from planning, real estate, and the fire department to discuss this and we'll be available for questions. >> i'm john from the planning department, and i am excited to be here today. kevin will go over the specific actions that the planning commission tuck. i want to make three points about this project that we agree as a pretty exciting one. it is quite consistent with the vision put forward many years ago for the yerba buena area to create a cultural district and the expansion of the museum, it's very consistent with that vision. we always like it when plans are carried forward to the future. that is exciting. and secondly, the transit center district plan, we are completing trans bay terminal. when you look at these plans together, it makes for a vastly increased and vastly improved public environment. unexciting part of the city for the downtown plan that suggests the downtown grow. thirdly, i want to make a comment about the design. the final design of

ordinance amending hunt street as part of the modern art museum expansion project.ce of amending the 40 -as part of the san francisco museum of modern art expansion. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am happy to say that we are in a position to bring approval before you before the region for the expansion of the sf moma. this project is the result of an innovative plan to swap between the city and the sf moma > . they continue the certification under a number of approval actions. we are here to ask this committee to approve the action and forward them on to the board. sf moma plans to build and expand the museum to house the fischer collection and generally expand its collection. sf moma has already acquired the old college building and acquire fire station number one. sf moma will demolish both structures and construct a new wing. in return, the museum will build at no cost to the city, a new fire station and a superior location at 935 fulsom. this proposal is win-win for t he city. it allows them to provide for the fire department, a brand new fire station that is

looking from your balbuena -- yerba buena east, would be appropriate if we look at the museum of modern art expansion. that will be too close to each other, looking at it together. in one image, that would be useful to me. this is in the spirit of cumulative, that particular project. these things interact with each other. we might as well know what we are looking at. i am not saying what my thoughts are, because i do not have it, but i would like to see it. again, the issue of prop m continues to puzzle me. i think it puts an unusual burden on this commission to continue to grapple with an issue i do not think we fully understand. there are all the right reasons to look at proposition and, benefits we have to judge on, and i think we need an independent, clear discussion on what it is we are doing. that is a legal issue. that is a historic planning issue. president olague: is that prop m or prop ? -- k? commissioner moore: prop k. and i personally am troubled by it, because i do not have a clear idea of what i am doing. >> all right, commissioners. that will place us under public comment. members of

museum of modern art. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is greg johnson. i will let him know i was acting on his behalf today. i serve as the expansion project director and on behalf of the museum i am grateful to have the opportunity to speak to you today. we are a great deal -- a great deal of information has been presented and we're thrilled by the process and the ability to reach this milestone. we would not be here if it were not for the tremendous about overwork. this has been a fantastic partnership. we're extremely grateful for the efforts that have been put forth. you are familiar with the proposal so i will touch on a few highlights to present to you today. natalee, sfmoma has on average 650,000 visitors a year. a unique factor about that is almost 100,000 of those visitors come to the museum free. we offer free programs, free education programs and access for children from schools and so forth. the ability to expand our facility and grow and increase our programming for the education programs antelope more children and other groups to come in and attend the museum for free is important to our mission and the goal. not only

my request is for several actions regarding the expansion a note the existing san francisco museum of modern art. the existing sfmoma is at. this would demolish the two buildings. it would construct a new addition of approximately 230,000 square feet, reaching a height of approximately 200 feet. it would accommodate extended gallery space, including the collection and some free a publicly accessible art display areas and administrative and support functions for sfmoma. also as part of the project, an existing building located at 935 folsom street would be demolished and the new fire station would be construction on the northerly portion. the construction of the new fire station would be faced with the overall project to minimize the disruption in fire protection services and the functions fire station number one shifting locations. a resident of project would be construction in the future on the southerly portion of 935 folsom street site that is not occupied by the new fire station the other four factions for your consideration. first is the adoption of findings for the project under

might not be easy to house in the new structure that they would form sort of an area expansion of that part of the museum's collection and enhance the city in that way. and it is just a little thought out there, if you will. commissioner borden. commissioner borden: it is very enthusiastic to support this project and i remember when i was living in cal hallow and the issue came up in the presidio and a lot of people thought that was not the location for the world class ard art opportunity and we have developed a flourishing art district with the moma and the upcoming mexican maw second degreeium and -- museum and there are a lot of great cultural resources and seems like it is a logical response and thing to do. i am so excited to be part of making that happen. i think it's also amazing that we get to build a brand-new fire station, one much better positioned for the clients and i work downtown sometimes and the fire truck is trying to come out of the fire house and it is lock down in the neighborhood with a taxi from city hall during the one of the big conferences and it took 30 minutes. i was cursing mys

. >> but fischer collection and the additional expansion over the next 50 years, what in the next 25 years will the museume doing? >> we are very committed to expanding the museum, expanding the collection, the overall growth of the museum. that is one of the things that is very important to us. we are about to enter a strategic planning process. the fundamental question we want to address is, how wil sfmoma growth and enhanced its engagement with the community? it is not enough that the museum has great works in its collection, has great exhibitions, wonderful education programs, it is how does the institution grow and enhance its relationship with the community. it is very important to us. >> on behalf of the residents of san francisco, we thank you for shepherding this institution through this incredible growth phase, and thank you for being part of "culture wire." >> my pleasure, thank you. >> the museum has exciting anni governor welcome to culturewire. on march 18 the san francisco arts commission hosted the 2010 mayor's artwork. the mayor's arts award was established to honor an individual artist w