is working with a park plan to have it from a paid parking lot to a farc. meeting with all the local businesses and the various community groups involved will continue this fall. i wanted to show you an image of some of you -- at the full commission meeting when we brought this before you, a lot of the members were able to attend. a lot of those kids are in school today and couldn't ble here again today. i wanted to mention that they came and represented their support for this project. again, the m.t.a., the planning department, community organizations, supervisors kim and camp oasto s's office. we have -- canpos'office. so currently the site is a paid parking lot owned by the san francisco public utilities commission. it's surrounded by residentses, businesses, community organizations and a high-density, low-income, culturally diversed neighborhood diefficient of open space. -- deficient of open space. what happened there? so this is the portion of the site that would be occupied by the park. the other portion would be -- at the same project being sold to

i live a couple blocks away from this park, from this proposed park. i walk by this site all the time. you know, since i live a couple blocks away. and this is close to 16th street and mission where there is a lot of activity, you know, but there is a lot of, like, drugs going on. at night i'd seen prostitution walking around. what it would benefit is for the community, for the children, for the moms that walk by. it should be better for these families to walk by inside the park rather than walk by 16th and mission. but, yeah, this -- i think this park can benefit the community and the people and even for the city. you know. so i think it will be great to build this park on this site. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> fannie. teresa olmigare. jamie chavaria. miguel. >> buenos tardes. >> good afternoon. my name is fannie. [speaking spanish] >> i'm a mother, a single mother of kids and i'm here to ask for your support to develop constructive site because this is important for families like mine. i have a child that's 2 years old and it's difficul

support of the park. to bring to you all as commissioners. i just wanted to read this letter for the record. "dear commissioners, i'm writing to express my strong support at 17th and fulsom in my district. district six a vibrant mixed use district which lacks open space for our residents, young and old, to safely engage with neighbors. this park will support an underserved area of the mission district and identified as an opportunity suit in the eastern rezoning process. this is an exciting opportunity to transfer surplus property for affordable housing and open space. i want to commend the staff, the planning department and recreation and park commission for their work in conjunction with the community to develop preliminary design concepts. by engaging community members, supervisors and other city agencies to get honest feedback from honest stakeholders involved. this shows community involvement such as encouraging multicultural uses of the park, including the use of solar, energy and creating space for

a proposed state pakate park atn gate park. with respect to our recreational choices, we've talked a lot about this. we put a lot of focus and energy into our recreational activity and is paying off. we've increased the number of registered hours by 13%, providing more than 76,000 hours of programming to the public. we also had a significant increase of 20% in the total number of program registrations, meaning we have gone -- this year we were at 48,851. 16,000 alone in our summer camps this year. we've also gotten off the one- size-fits-all programming and we created new and creative programs to the public with significant input. recreation is not one size fits all. we have skateboarding, fishing, serving, kayaking, rock climbing, and biking. we have increased our aquatics programs. we provided programming for l gbtq youth and young adults. we have talked a little bit about our scholarship program. to ensure the program's remain accessible to everyone, we expanded our youth scholarship program by granting over $500 ,000 in pro

very low on parks. i was also -- i was also living in a one-bedroom studio with five brothers and sisters and my two parents. so i personally know how difficult it is to not have space, to not have a place to let everything out. and you do see people yearning for that. you see people walking around the block so they can have a little time for themselves. or like someone said, play in the street with your little brothers and sisters or in the hallways or anything like that of your apartment studios and i really am asking for the support for the park because i know that it would help -- it would have helped my family a lot. now that we're all grown. but i know that this district has a lot of families exactly like that, and it would be a really big help for the youth there. also with so many schools around that neighborhood. my elementary school, my middle school and high school were in the same neighborhood. it wld

>> i am the parks service manager for rec and park. dolores park is our major facility. but there are other devotions in a number of facilities. briefly i wanted to talk about the impact on the park itself and the operational impact of maintaining the abandoned station. so, i am going to wing it in terms of overall, this station, which has close to follow, is really the definition of an attractive nuisance. not only is it the graffiti that you have seen, it is illegal encampments, public latrines, shooting galleries, you name it. the maintenance burden put on us in the past has been quite high. so, overall in the scope of -- ok. you will see, as this comes up on the overhead, briefly, dolores park has become a cultural phenomenon the amount of users are arriving have increased steadily and it has strained of the maintenance budget and the burden. the budget is approximately 400,000. the major aspects are that a lot of our deferred maintenance problems, including graffiti and the vandalism, we are doing a lot with just a little bit of pickup. in the interest of brevity, w

we are committed to being stored of our parks -- being stewards of our parks in many ways. we implemented and they are being installed as we speak, dual recycling in golden gate park. we have continued efforts to reintroduce the mission blue butterfly to twin peaks. also, a dedicated by calling in golden gate park. our department was recently the recipient of an award from the department of the environment for these efforts. the department has recognized the water resources conservation pre in partnering with th. we have partnered with the puc to reduce water at 12 of the most water-consuming parks. leed silver certification. we've begun using a variety of alternative fuel, including electric power and compressed natural gas in our vehicles three we have a green. machine -- we have a green steam machine. we have talked a little bit about our efforts with respect to green wheat. the department excels in green waste diversion at a rate of 96%. we have partnered to denigrate compost giveaway program. san francisco was recently named the most sustainable city in north america a

park users. as in years past, there was a community out line for presidepeople to call in commen. we did see a decrease in some complaints. notably, responding to community complaints, sound technicians made real changes to the sound system. the results are best seen in the reduction of complaints on sunday, where there were only 47 calls, compared to 143 the day before. this, despite the fact that sunday was the night before the first day of school -- a schedule that was unfortunate, but created after outsidelands had been scheduled. lastly, commissioners, before i bring up alan scott from another planet to offer his perspective on the event, i want to share with you what perhaps is the best news of the festival, certainly if you are the recreation and parks department. this year marks the first occasion that it will pay the department outside rent and the department will be receiving over $1 million this year. it's over $400,000 more than the minimal rent. additionally, another planet dedicated

stewards of aquatic park. and instead of completely ignoring us and therefore probably limiting our use of the cove and alienating us, they could actually benefit from us being ambassadors to san francisco. in addition to that, the images that will be broadcast all over the world about san francisco, i think they would be enhanced by seeing the kinds of things that go on at the club every day, rowing and boating, not something that happens every place. so it is a unique cultural asset that the people that are putting this event on should exploit and not try to squash. thank you for listening. >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is mike savage. i am a stroo teenagic planning and the lead for the national park soferse america's cup. i am speaking to you today on behalf of the two national park units that have been identified, golden gate and san francisco national historic -- san francisco national maritime historic park. more than simply spectator venues they provide over 16 million visitors

the park is really special. it has both a natural beauty of glen canyon and the creek located in the heart of the city, array of amenities including hiking trails, children's play area, tennis courts, athletic fields, and a wreck center, which attracts a variety of users. we are trying to balance both preserving and maximizing those things with the constraints of having limited funding at this time. we wanted to make sure whatever we spend money on now we don't rip out. we want to do something better in the future. and also trying to balance both the natural area's needs and recreational amenities needs. i have a slide here, can i show you, the canyon itself is special in a sense because it is in fact a canyon and it has limited flat area. flataire is areas usually used for ball fields and athletic fields and other facilities that serve active recreation, and most of the canyon is quite steep and offers natural environmental resource that is we want to make sure we don't harm. i want to talk about the outreach.

one is the issue of outside lands and the park. i feel that the issue with the park is to fwofold. the goal of the park is to provide recreation for the citizens and to encourage nature -- it's a natural setting. the falcons that might nest in a tree and then be chased off by a concert. there are many places where -- what is that? the other issue with the noise. i am a little overwhelmed, but the neighborhood was affected greatly, yet they say it was not that loud at the concert. i believe it is an engineering issue. it should be engineered so that it is contained. that might mean elevating the speakers. that might mean creating a sail that you could secure that would bounce the sound in the direction that you want. in some areas, it was louder farther away than it was nearer the park. i have had a recent issue with sound. with the extreme sports encouragement that near my house i had the skateboard function. and i had a couple of complaints about that function. one is that the staff wasn't wearing helmets. i have numerous photographs of staff members without helmets on. i think we

the people who do not have space to park their by -- park their bike in the house, they can put theirplight on the lockable shelters on the streets. in the netherlands, they provide for this problem. >> the amount of space that a bicycle and needs versus the amount of space that a car needs. at the very least, we would require parking. if you think about bicycles being the mode of travel, you should require bicycle parking be more convenient. next question. >> going off the bicycle parking to all the mobile parking, i am with the san francisco bicycle coalition. we were talking last night in oakland about various cities and the congestion issues and congestion pricing versus perhaps parking pricing. i was wondering if he could tell us the politics of pricing automobile parking versus congestion parking. in at san francisco, one of the biggest challenges is car is going past you at 40 m.p.h. and getting cars to go slower and not be in the city as we were looking at on market street. a lot of it is about reducing cars. i know in copenhagen, we look at what has been done with diminishing

he done a couple masterpieces in central park and prospect park i worked on morningside park and so forth. meanwhile, circa the late 1870s, all of a sudden boston common sense to have the first to one park in another. pretty soon they announce they want him to do an entire series of parks. at that point he was thrilled. he really said furthermore, he was born in hartford connecticut to monitor returned to new england. but his father had recently died. when his father died when he got into the bruising estate battle with his mother-in-law. he couldn't go back to her. he suddenly appears in boston and they hire him to do the whole admiral necklace. so is pleased with the opportunity. go back to boston. same as saying 1881 and was there for the rest of his life. but you know, he moved to brookline, which is a suburb. he lived in the city, lived on a farm, was excited to move to the suburbs. and it was very fresh. i can live in the city and have a yard. so he bought a house that he dubbed fehr said in brookline, two acres of land surrounding it and landscaped the land just beautifully, create

park. i had a friend who became a tour guide. the move to forced hills gardens and i felt my next subject was staring me in the face. it does connect to alan greenspan and ralph nader. i like to do several things and in the case of greenspan he was a professional jazz musician and part of and rand's inner circle before he became fed chairman. ralph nader was a writer, lawyer and consumer advocate and a fly in the wind and many times presidential candidate. i like that kind of book and olmstead was the ultimate figure because he did so many things very well. >> that is the thing that comes out in your book. olmstead has always been called a nervous planner and landscaper and architect. talk a little bit about some of the great things he excelled in over those years and didn't even turn to landscape architecture until 35 or 40. >> that is so true. central park was his first land a protector project. the very profession he and his partner vox volunteered was a questionable that they didn't hav

park described them as olmstead's parks. blocks took umbrage at that. he felt was an equal partnership. olmstead was something of a dynamo. it is no accident that they twice constituted firms called olmstead, fox and company. he was always second in olmstead's estimation as well. he had to fight hard. you are a partner in olmstead, locks and company you have a sense of how olmstead feel about you and olmstead had these entrees into the journalistic world that caused him to get short shrift in again and again. vox instituted the breakup because he was the designer of dairy in central park, beautiful structure. the bonet bridge and so forth. he had a desire to instead of being olmstead, box and company designing beautiful bridges and structures in park for factories and such he would like to be one of the preeminent designers of building that landed two unbelievable commissions. metropolitan museum of art and natural history museum. he landed both commissions and he and olmstead always -- that comfortable position to say let's

more close up image of the park. here's the current entrance to the park. let me see if i can get to one of the ones. so the relocation of the tennis courts would affect this set of trees in a thin strip of two access roads between the park, between the tennis court area and upper area. there's a series of seven trees. two trees have already fallen. one on to a house across the street and one across the