these properties and use the proceeds to pay for the construction of octavia boulevard, as well as several other purposes related to the new boulevard. before completion of market octavia plan the city sold a number of these parcels, mainly to redevelopment agency for affordable housing. of the seven parcels sold in early days to the redevelopment agency, four have already been developed and have received recognition for their innovative design. it is also worth noting when all is said and done and all parcels developed, about 50% of all residential units developed on the formal central parcel also be affordable units. while market octavia plan was developed, our office sponsored a design competition to stimulate ideas on excellence in design along the boulevard. once the plan was adopted and gave guidance on standards in the area the city went about disposing other remaining 11 parcels. four of these, including the one before you today, were the subject of an rfp issued in the year 2007, which sought innovative design proposals. the others included parcel p on former on-ramp parcel, approved by you a couple months ago and

the gateway is important, where 101 terminates at market and where the new octavia boulevard ends in the really beautiful new park. which has become this sitting community spot in the neighborhood. here we have the situation and our project. the intention of creating these these book-ends which defines the gateway, by maintaining the same height along each of the streets. we also want to give recognition to the significance of the church, by allowing its dome to exceed the height but making the corner lines sort of parallel gateway elements. the corner itself is articulated with this commercial space, two-storeys in height, which as i mentioned was created by removing a unit in this evolution of the project. on market street this is the entry to both the commercial space and the residential lobby of the project. with a little triangular green space, which is also a bench and provides a kind of respite along that piece of land. also acts to collect storm water, which we intend to do on the entire sort of sidewalks around, using this permeable surface. kind of an interesting evolution

remind everyone that not only was the central freeway replaced and opened in 2005 with the new facility, octavia boulevardin addition the board of supervisors approved the market plan which called for several thousand units of new housing. if you have been on upper market you have been seeing that, now that project financing has returned, as well as several thousand new jobs through construction of new office space in the community. given the role of the study, the focus looked at needs in hayes valley, upper market and other parts of octavia area as well as connections to the rest of the city and the region. taking a look at what we know about the needs in the area, as we conducted the needs assessment and developed the articulation of key challenges, the boulevard project brought a lot of benefits from an urban design and land use perspective to the immediate area. we know there's a lot of issues that remain. these center around the high level of traffic that seeks to access the facility via primarily the open cell and franklin gof couplet pairs. this brings concerns about vehicle complex and motorist b

authority built a brand-new senior disabled development along this corridor * years ago at the haight valley. and people depend on -- people from haight valley dee pend on the octavia boulevard to get them safely to and from where they have to go. also remember there have been a lot of standing -- a lot of accidents at market and octavia regarding bicycle sort of thing. you have to have someone look into that. and -- so they can cut down on the number of fatalities along market and octavia. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. and we again thank the citizens advisory committee for the work that they do and their insight to the authority. any other member of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. and the house has changed, so, if we can take a roll call. >> roll call. on item number 9, commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> commissioner campos? >> aye. >> commissioner david chiu? >> aye. >> commissioner carmen chu? [speaker not understood]? elsbernd absent. commissioner [speaker not understood]. aye. kim absent. olague? >> aye. >> item passes. >> that item passes. if you can please call item number 10. >> item 10, approve the one bay area grant program funding fr