and hopefully, you'll use that model going forward with 20th and van ness. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello my name is david representing the valencia corridor association we strongly oppose the program after reviewing the latest revision is just not in keeping with what the space was designed for that and conditionally approved from f for we oppose it thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is nick i'm with liberty hill we believe that this we disapprove of the change in the permitted do not grant the conditional use space should be used for multiple businesses consistent with character of the neighborhood there is a vibrant business community on that street and this will change that by making the first floor to be operated by a single business instead of the multiple businesses throughout valencia street i wish you would keep in mind prop m and enforce the consistency of the neighborhood

approval the van ness bus rapid project and authorizing the director to execute the contract van ness improvement project with the walling son construction project so for a duration of 3 hundred calendars in the amount of not to exceed $800000. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon director nolan and directors and ed reiskin arrest my name is presbyterian the project manager on the van ness corridor improvement project here to give you an update on the project and what you're voting on today van ness transit corridor project began as the bus rapid project and still in its core of course, as long as we're rebuilding a major thoroughfare in san francisco there's there is still a lot more work to do and we've bundled it into a larger project for the efficiency of the construction and the cost savings been realized by putting smaller projects into a larger one it is still the same project but in addition, we're thank you for the opportunity to rebuild the overall trolley buses and replace the traffic lights with the modern traffic lights and other our sf go program your sister agency is th

ness and math the current city owned and current city utilized property a one hundred and 80 square feet building built in too phases the first in 1908 and 3 stories on top of 4 stories a fascinating structure we have the opportunity here for a number of potential great things to happen the transit oriented development the market octavia area plan death penalty some years ago about the market crashed which provides entitlement to 4 hundred feet development and a revision this building has reached nearing the end of its i'll have life with significant capital improvements if we continue to occupy the building in 2012 this give us a sense of the dynamics 43 and a half million dollars we'll speak about the numbers we're talking about today it gives an indicator of the rapid acceleration of the marketplace our objectives are manyfold we heard loud and clear in the hearing not too long ago regarding in property the desire to maximize wherever possible the hours yield we have an overarching goal related to a strategy to find alternatives office locations it is affordable housing issue we've be

confusion for the proposed project on the ground floor of an existing 5 mixed use building on van ness street the mixed use has 18 dwelling units above the vacant and a below grade parking garage with 18 parking spaces the project site is locate open 79sdz northeast corner of valencia and 20th street within the van ness transit zoning district and a 55 height and bulk it is psyching conditional use authorization in the van ness street zoning district per planning code additionally the project is eco conditional use authorization to allow the modifications of the planning code for non-residents use to occupy more than san francisco use of linear street in the van ness street m t c zoning district on may 21st the committee look at the medical use occupying 71 hundred square feet on the subject site on may 21st the project sponsor also proposed a smaller relative component within the lobby waiting area upon review the planning commission requested the project sponsor put in retail spaces and also to conduct further negotiation and outreach with the community stakeholders in response to th

that asset elsewhere without that replacement asset and the funds to secure that we can't vacant van ness that's why i maintain that in terms of if we don't have a place to go and not funds to provide that replacement facility which needs to be generated from the sale of the property we don't have a sale we'll remain where we are and pit additional capital into that project with that said we've creatively constructed this translation to facilitate as much affordable housing as we can possibly yield out of the site and meet our fiscal needs to have a replacement site. >> mr. updyke i'm not following that logic i know the site well, i used to eat there often you're saying it is not surplus property not residential i'm not understanding why not surplus property. >> it is not because we're using it fully utilizing it there is no vacancy in the building 5 stories with retail on the increasing and above 4 levels all city occupancy work hard as we speak that is not a classic asset that is vacant it is an improved active facility without a replacement we can't leave the facility department of pub

to create better connections with the van ness station and the proposers recognize that we see great potential. >> it's a chance to maximize the value of this asset we're at the peak of the marketed we feel that and this is the time to sell this proposed if ever a time and as i mentioned we've got a building that is really at a critical juncture with critical money that is invest here or elsewhere this is a long term strategy we're deploying so i want to speak briefly about a way why way to compare that property with the my name is articulated the fact we'll not building hundred percent affordable units project not in their portfolio or brings the efficiency, however, we've asked users if it was an affordable housing project sole hundred percent what would be that's roughly 2 hundred units in the project that is a high-rise but not to the extend o stent so we want to provide you that comparison what does it project bring to the table before you today. >> what could that alternative the choices the city is making as you can see the costs involved we have debt onion the property we hav

where we're beating our metric to have a pro forma be released for the project at mission and van ness and the eventually sale that will happen later this year at 1680 mission we are dictating to go i don't do the affordability f this the clautsdz with the office of economic workforce development >> thank you. i wanted to say i'm appreciative of the responses i still feel that we need a legal analysis regarding the legal risk of this land sale and also my feelings similar to many from the community that as we face our cities housing crisis we're looking at every opportunity for a hundred percent affordable so i know for transit oriented development not only for those who can afford luxury laura's housing ambassador for everyone that needs to be housed in hundred percent affordable housing developments our city needs i feel uncomfortable about waving our city's policies for surplus property use for affordable housing but i'm appreciative of all the analysis you've done i still think that more analysis of this complex project is critical i'll wait for the budget analyst report and the pu

boulevard i avoid it and definitely avoid that corridor on van ness avenue skoord those are some of the concerns i have i realize you're making it more aesthetic but going to create more of a problem i then should be a pilot project so you can see the results before you commit yourselves fully once it is capped in concrete like the bulb outs it will take a lot of work to undo it those are o those are my concerns thank you. >> barry toronto the last person to submit a speaking on this matter. >> mr. toronto. >> i want to say as a car driver and cab driver eliminating most of the lots off van ness avenue will not only create a traffic mess on the vinny streets but a gridlock it on the perpendicular streets people trying to get to those other streets i use van ness avenue when golf street a mess and golf street is a mess going up the hill is gridlock and another streets to go to with van ness becoming gridlock after eliminating the left turns some people can't go out because people effectively don't get out of there by taking left turns on bush street today i made a left turn from grov

approval the van ness bus rapid project and authorizing the director to execute the contract van ness improvement project with the walling son construction project so for a duration of 3 hundred calendars in the amount of not to exceed $800000. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon director nolan and directors and ed reiskin arrest my name is presbyterian the project manager on the van ness corridor improvement project here to give you an update on the project and what you're voting on today van ness transit

approval the van ness bus rapid project and authorizing the director to execute the contract van ness improvement project with the walling son construction project so for a duration of 3 hundred calendars in the amount of not to exceed $800000. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon director nolan and directors and ed reiskin arrest my name is presbyterian the project manager on the van ness corridor improvement project here to give you an update on the project and what you're voting on today van ness transit corridor project began as the bus rapid project and still in its core of course, as long as we're rebuilding a major thoroughfare in san francisco there's there is still a lot more work to do and we've bundled it into a larger project for the efficiency of the construction and the cost savings been realized by putting smaller projects into a larger one it is still the same project but in addition, we're thank you for the opportunity to rebuild the overall trolley buses and replace the traffic lights with the modern traffic lights and other our sf go program your sister agency is th

ness limited partnership benicia lake llc and maurice casey collectively referred as the seller for the agreed amount of $18,500,000 and the resolution ask that you adopt ceqa findings and consistent with the general plan under the code. there will be a deduction of transfer tax credited to the city upon closing as noted in the report and the final amount paid as listed and creates 255,000 buildable units for the acquisition of this parcel in the heart of the mission neighborhood. 490 south van ness is currently vacant site zoned urban mix use. its former use was a gas station and now environmentally remediated and ready for development of the site is titled for a 72 unit multi-family development containing over 90,000 square feet of condition space with ground floor commercial and vehicular parking and ample high school parking. this represents the best efforts of the city and chunt community and recognizeing sites inlet the community and to the mission and if sites are identified and are available they will move with maximum dexterity and urgency to take title of the project as so

ness limited partnership benicia lake llc and maurice casey collectively referred as the seller for the agreed amount of $18,500,000 and the resolution ask that you adopt ceqa findings and consistent with the general plan under the code. there will be a deduction of transfer tax credited to the city upon closing as noted in the report and the final amount paid as listed and creates 255,000 buildable units for the acquisition of this parcel in the heart of the mission neighborhood. 490 south van ness is currently vacant site zoned urban mix use. its former use was a gas station and now environmentally remediated and ready for development of the site is titled for a 72 unit multi-family development containing over 90,000 square feet of condition space with ground floor commercial and vehicular parking and ample high school parking. this represents the best efforts of the city and chunt community and recognizeing sites inlet the community and to the mission and if sites are identified and are available they will move with maximum dexterity and urgency to take title of the project as so

particularly the relationship of pedestrian safety to travel volumes on the street as part of van ness bureau project in particular we heard about concerns of the traffic volumes and you know the future of the street and we did a review which included analysis of ideas that came up with pedestrian safety and did a review of plan projects along the corridor we found for broadway street there is a robust pipeline of shovel readies pedestrian safety improvements for most of the, in fact all of the high injury intersections along broadway between columbus and van ness this is part of the broadway polk and columbus straight studies and identified that there could be further enhancements to the pedestrian safety through the signaled timing adjustments to identify those particularly for polk and stockton streets and there maybe other opportunities in the future kerney street different from broadway unlike broadway not a pipeline of pedestrian safety improvements project from my prospective looking at the data for kerney is should be a top priority for pedestrian safety emergency this graph is

of city owned paurpt located at [inaudible] van ness avenue. a portion of the proceeds of the sale up to approximately 25.87 million in outstanding amount of certificates of participation up to 5.9 million in outstanding amount of certificates of participation, build ings and multiple properties. excluding the sale and [inaudible] >> supervisor tang. >> thank you, colleagues you have been you a proposed amendment for this item on page 4 and 5. i just wanted to explain what happened in budget committee and some of the concerns raised that the potentially the board of supervisors wouldn't be able to see the final details of agreement reached between the director of real astat and the company that is purchasing in the site. what we have before us today is a amendment that would say that within 5 days after our department of real estate reaches an agreement with a purchase their report the final sale price and conditions of sale in writing to the clerk of the board sw afterwards there would be a 30 day date timeframe which fr which a resolution is

item 6 ordinance authorizing the sale by public competitive bids of city owned property on van ness avenue for not less than $87 million thank you, madam clerk. >> staff and members of the public we please leave the chambers we have mr. updyke for iteme please leave the chambers we have mr. updyke for item please leave the chambers we have mr. updyke for itemplease leave the chambers we have mr. updyke for itemlease leave the chambers we have mr. updyke for itemae leave the chambers we have mr. updyke for itemleave the chambers we have mr. updyke for item 6. >> thank you for your patience supervisor farrell while we address technical issues john updyke director for releasing we're here to present the sale of thirty van ness shot of building there at the corner of van ness and math the current city owned and current city utilized property a one hundred and 80 square feet building built in too phases the first in 1908 and 3 stories on top of 4 stories a fascinating structure we have the opportunity here for a number of potential great things to happen the transit oriented development the mar

supervisor kim. >> thank you i just want to make comments on 30 van ness project. first i want to say i do support a unified city office building. i think it is important that we insure men adepartments are in the same place and location because often i think that can make it easier for many of the residence and developers that come with a project and have to go through multiple projects. i think it also helpwise coordination and we can update the offices that exist. i did have concerns about the process by which this came to us. i think it makes sense for us to approve what is commonly called the good will project where we partner with office buildings along with residential development. before we approve the sale of 30 van ness approving will hamper our ability in 134 ways if that option isn't the best one because we will have sold the building for development. it might have made sense to couple with 1660 and 1680 mission and maybe could have gotten a stronger deal with 3 sites and a better deal around affordable housing. i do recognize the good work the departme

some of the improvements for the signal infrastructure and for transit the 3 year for the entire van ness including the brt and kwoerptd with the larger initiative and the improvements for the van ness corridor okay. the franklin upgrade requested funds to upgrade the traditional along franklin street and the divisadero street corridor for it to be upgraded like poles and larger more visible signals and the pedestrian consultant u compound signals here we have the potrero hill and traffic stop improvements project the june's project agenda included an item for the potrero hill transportation plan this request for the improvement capital funds help to fund one of the recommendations and leverages almost $500,000 in lifeline programs for the preparation and improvements that accommodates the traffic and increases the pedestrian safety is on 5 intersections shown on the screen those could be eyed to provide space for elevated complafrmd and bulb outs lombardi street corridor a request for nearly 8 hundred 50 thousands some area marked as capital funding the bulk of the request for the design

maybe we should bring it to the commission. >> that is a project for the rapid transit on van ness and mta is doing that project. the arc had a number of comments and we haven't seen whether they have taken into account our comments or not. it's a good thing to see. >> the second one is at our next hearing before on the agenda for the next hearing is the university of landmark designation and before the hearing commissioner hyland and i will be attending. we go to the hearing and meet with the residents. so they could make comments and questions and talk about the landmark reserve. >> i will do it. >> great. commissioner john's will join us. seeing no other comments we'll move on. city clerk: commissioners, that will place you on item 6. the port of san francisco water front plan update working group and/or advisory team. it just your opportunity to discuss and whether or not you would like to appoint a member to the advisory teams. >> commissioner johnck? >> thank you for putting us on the agenda and we all agreed to do that i recommend or move whatever will be appropriate that the co

people to line us behind as us and commissioner avalos for affordable housing in the mission on van ness for the market street studies into affordable housing that's a milestone in the history of san francisco in saving the mission i'm deeply grateful and jane kim for making sure we have 1/3rd of affordable housing at the giants stadium in my neighborhood i appreciate you accomplishing that commissioner avalos has gotten the most votes he ran for mayor he came in a close second and become close to be the mayor ed lee he's gotten more votes of anyone in the chamber thank you very much thank you all. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> >> i am a stupid white person well in room temperature anyways my issue is the decision making that's my issue formerly president tom ammiano said there are other issues but i've not found them wasting our times perhaps for instance the decision making in the election process that is one of the big issues the possibility of a candidate getting elected without a real system but you learn as a neighborhood activist if it looks like it takes 3 y

finally we are located on the 7th floor of 25 van ness avenue near the corner of van ness and market. we are easily accessible by public transportation and receive walk in complaints regarding police conduct during week days monday-friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. we also receive complaints by telephone, e-mail, mail, on line and fax. we have a after -answering service for after hours complaints. in critical complaints after hours an investigator will meet with a complainant in very urgent situations. you can also file a complaint at the district police station or in station personal elwill forward the complaints to us. if any of you would like additional nrfgz about the occ this evening i introduce senior investigator shery fletcher in the audience and can answer questions and also have brochured available. that concludes my remarks. thank you >> colleagues any questions for director hicks? >> thank you. >> director hicks, i want to thank your and your department because know that you have had challenges with resources and you always have done a extremely good job. i want to find out

getting through right now, however, if you look on divisadero all the times on 16th street and van ness the areas get crowded especially in a drinking place quite naturally attracting attendance during sporting events events people may not even not necessarily attending the restaurant but are watching the game and getting route i didn't and contributing to the noise level both my sister and i are in school i refrain from coming home i know the noise will be bad and i have to call them muni it is you know what that is like for a young woman in san francisco i appreciate feeling safe in my neighborhood and outdoor seating in 16th street and van ness and i guess on my block i grew up at boys and girls club i know a lot of families that feel like that neighborhood is not welcoming to families tell you with their children a lot of parents don't want their children imposed to alcohol i feel like it pushes out a lot of families and other families if other neighborhoods from coming out the neighborhood that is definitely a lost opportunity and can effect the businesses in other neighbors or the

two prospective saddles that will not occur before the end of 2015 and 2016 the proceeds from van ness and others that will be difficult to mandate certainty when we don't have the sales yet so i have the same struggle how close to certain we can get on this yield of 33 percent affordability so i'm not sure we're hundred percent certain on that and the other thing i'll add of we have the funding source locked in this is a redevelopment subject to market conditions; right? we the city have to vacate the property in a timely manner we don't know what the marketed cycle looks like in 2019 when someone puts their stack in the ground so i want to be honest about there will be a level ever uncertainty give a redevelopment project we are here to deal with that first the transaction. >> okay. colleagues if not other questions open up for public comment i have a few speaker cards (calling names). >> anyone else wishes to speak line up on the side and get going. >> i'm fernando with the housing organizations i was welcomed hearing referenced back to prop k the mayor supported and we got behind i

we've been on van ness now over 25 years. but that time is coming to an end. we are moving to a new location that many of you are familiar with, at 1155 market. so i will be seeing many of you more often and many of our staff will as well. as we move, we're going continue to offer the services and programs that we have for many years, but there also be a number of changes. we are a full-service organization that provides rehabilitation services for people who are blind and visually impaired. if somebody has multiple disabilities, including a visual impairment, we'll absolutely serve them as well. and we serve people from really age 1 to age 100. we have a youth program that has a number of regular outings, educational and recreational events in the city, and around the city, which is open to any youth up to mid-20s. we don't have a hard upper limit. so we're pretty lax about that, but we like to be, because we like to help people pawn -- and make sure that folks are getting the social and vocational and educational opportunities that they need. we have an olde

ness limited partnership benicia lake llc and maurice casey collectively referred as the seller for the agreed amount of $18,500,000 and the resolution ask that you adopt ceqa findings and consistent with the general plan under the code. there will be a deduction of transfer tax credited to the city upon closing as noted in the report and the final amount paid as listed and creates 255,000 buildable units for the acquisition of this parcel in the heart of the mission neighborhood. 490 south van ness is currently vacant site zoned urban mix use. its former use was a gas station and now environmentally remediated and ready for development of the site is titled for a 72 unit multi-family development containing over 90,000 square feet of condition space with ground floor commercial and vehicular parking and ample high school parking. this represents the best efforts of the city and chunt community and recognizeing sites inlet the community and to the mission and if sites are identified and are available they will move with maximum dexterity and urgency to take title of the project as so

ness limited partnership benicia lake llc and maurice casey collectively referred as the seller for the agreed amount of $18,500,000 and the resolution ask that you adopt ceqa findings and consistent with the general plan under the code. there will be a deduction of transfer tax credited to the city upon closing as noted in the report and the final amount paid as listed and creates 255,000 buildable units for the acquisition of this parcel in the heart of the mission neighborhood. 490 south van ness is currently vacant site zoned urban mix use. its former use was a gas station and now environmentally remediated and ready for development of the site is titled for a 72 unit multi-family development containing over 90,000 square feet of condition space with ground floor commercial and vehicular parking and ample high school parking. this represents the best efforts of the city and chunt community and recognizeing sites inlet the community and to the mission and if sites are identified and are available they will move with maximum dexterity and urgency to take title of the project as so

particularly the relationship of pedestrian safety to travel volumes on the street as part of van ness bureau project in particular we heard about concerns of the traffic volumes and you know the future of the street and we did a review which included analysis of ideas that came up with pedestrian safety and did a review of plan projects along the corridor we found for broadway street there is a robust pipeline of shovel readies pedestrian safety improvements for most of the, in fact all of the high injury intersections along broadway between columbus and van ness this is part of the broadway polk and columbus straight studies and identified that there could be further enhancements to the pedestrian safety through the signaled timing adjustments to identify those particularly for polk and stockton streets and there maybe other opportunities in the future kerney street different from broadway unlike broadway not a pipeline of pedestrian safety improvements project from my prospective looking at the data for kerney is should be a top priority for pedestrian safety emergency this graph is

i mean, there's a loot of accidents happening on market and van ness that's important too and all the way to market and drum in front of like [inaudible] that whole area, so it's a good idea but it should be a little bigger because there's a lot of traffic on market everywhere, not just between 8th and 3rd. thank you. >> thank you, sir, next speaker, please. >> ( calling speaker names ). >> good afternoon. >> my name is charlie dun lap ie aem sick list ask a pedestrian, i'm fo*rnl gnat enough to live and work in san francisco i live on the mission and bike down market street, i thought it was going to be the end of me and i'm glad to say that feeling is changing and i bike more and more frequently as our city stands stronger and more with pedestrians and with cyclists, i stand with vision 0 and i stand with you if you choose to stand by that and i thank you for all the work you've already done. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> ( calling speaker names ). >> good afternoon, chairman nolan and the board i want to stand firm with our vision 0 goals as a community regardless of wheth

to opening what we call the project [inaudible] or the one stop location at mission and south van ness. i do want to thank all the departments that have been involved. as supervisor tang as talked about it. also the director that it's really with the departments engaged with the permitting process, working with the controller's office and working with jane kong and recognizing that this is a good means of helping our restaurants get open, so i too want to thank the department heads and especially todd r ruffo and the other members who were really instrumental in forming the concept of the business accelerator team and determining the need that we need to have a case manager, so thank you. >> thank you very much to everyone for their presentations. and i'm actually going to do things differently because i know we have folks in the audience that would like to speak so before i launch into questions or comments i would like to see through the chair if we can open public comment. i know we have many businesses couldn't be here and they're busy running their shops and we have someone in the

okay, thank you, this is about the transit safety you say you have to build a tower at market and van ness at the intersection, who die dpr the bicyclist and any accident puts their face so people look at every day, they will always care for, it's better than you do -- like make a change because you need a lot of tax money from us to make this happen. every day, you are talking about but you -- the traffic, all the cars on the street because -- i like muni, i take muni, muni system is so far, so good, but vision zero is impossible, anyhow people die, you have to educate more people, a lot especially asian old people, you have to find -- that's why i bring it before because i missed your public comment, so sorry about that i would like to bring my own view, but don't forget, bicyclists so easy to die. don't be coo coo even the faculty of the state, he was running with bicycle he got hurt, he can't do his job now he's an important people, how can you play the game like this, please don't ride bike anymore, i see you have a helmet mr. nolan. >> i just wanted to check -- mr. edo, are you still