we hear you talking about providing more parking, more parking, more parking. we have yet to implement this policy. this commission has not made any mention of public transit. sadly, not even the residents have mentioned transit. they recommend that we drive around until we find parking. what does that do to our air? rich or poor, we are all going to go down together. here and there and in the park, this will be wreck-reation. i wish you would consider those things. it is devastating considering what we are headed for. thank you. >> yvonne. hashim is here also. if you could come forward, please. you have two minutes. >> have done have a prepared speech. -- i do not have a prepared speech. i have three young children and i feel that this project -- we have a space across the street that has been ignored, abandoned. we have planted seeds and tried to create a really pretty spot. we don't need more traffic. i have kids i need to watch out i have kids i need to watch out for.

the parking that is there has been considered public parking and has been used as public parking for a number of years. supervisor mar: let me hold you up for a second. to the newest commissioners, jump in if you have any questions at all. hit the speaker button if you have any questions. at any time. thank you. >> there we go. once this parking lot is closed, the area that exists now that has parking will mostly not be available for the three years of construction of the project. what is shown in red is the portion that will not be available. as part of the plan available today, parts of it will be constructed as part of the project with portions immediately to the left of the palace of fine arts itself, sort of in the middle in green. off to the upper left you can see another horizontal rectangles with green. those areas are designated as lots c and d. temporary parking seems to be constructed by the doyle temporary public parking project, for presidio, contractors, and patrons visiting the palace. supervisor cohen: is that going to be demolition of existing buildings? >> no, but d

i live in park merced. i would like to you remember you to -- the commissioners to listen to the residents, that want to change and move forward with the project. so i -- i fully support the project. i have a -- a young daughter, she's required to go to another community to play as this are little family with children left in the community. instead, a bunch of people -- that have been there, things -- since 40's and 50's, well -- this is not just their -- their community, it is ours too. so we have the right to enjoy our home as much as they are over the past 60's. so i urge you to please, please, let this company to make our home a better one. thank you so much. >> thank you. good evening. my name is carol koppel. i lived at park merced going on 21 years. i always enjoyed my home and i say i understand why people have a fear and discourage the vision. however, these apartments are quite old and quite frankly have been very unsafe. i can only imagine what park merced management spends in a year on my apartm

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

, not park, rec and recycling. and i think the homelessness issue, which needs to be addressed by the city and recycling issue, i thought it was terrible the woman who said she couldn't recycle from her apartment the board of supervisors should change that and require that. we shouldn't require parks and rec to fix the recycling program and fix the homeless problem. thank you very much. >> good evening. happy holidays. patrick ryan, immediate past present, former board member. who are the most important visitor tots park? it's the children. it's our city's children. and that's who i'm speaking on behalf of tonight. yes, hanc does not cause homelessness. what hanc causes is a caravan of homeless people, some of them very dangerous, to cross paths every day with our city's children. i know firsthand because i bring my children to the biggest playground in the city and i have seen the fear in my children's eyes when they have run across belligerent, drunk clients of hanc with unleashed pit bulls. so i don't bring them

cars are parked is not deep enough to accommodate the parked cars on the parking pad and regularly projects on the property line and sidewalk. the curb cut is not wide enough to accommodate an area needed by two cars that consistently are parked in the parking pad. put ago parking pad in front of the house that used to be a landscaped area is out of character for the neighborhood and diminishes its aesthetic appeal and value. the parking impediment were originally constructed as a permit signed by by the department of building and inspection. they never saved final inspection and permit expired. as a result complaints about the project and expire permit, the department issued notices of violation and director held in 2008. an order of abatement was issued requiring an owner to obtain the work or remove the parking pad or restore the curb. in 2009, a building permit was submitted for review to reauthorize the curb cut and parking pass and authorize a new gate and fence to screen the parking. this is the subject of today's hearing. at this time the department is recommending the commission ta

inevitably, if you don't want to pay the parking tickets, don't park illegally. i know these are some, tickly people who can't find the limited parking space, that they don't have to pay for it. i am at a point where we need -- i agree with you director. i would like to see the fines go down. i have noticed people are being more careful. i have seen less and less cars sitting at the parking meters. where do we get the revenue with people now behaving themselves? we have reduced the revenue there. we have to find a way. i think the transit rider has been put upon more than the automobile driver, and i think we need to balance that out, but we do need to be fair to the people who need their cars to get from place to place. there are places that they need to use their car, and we understand that. >> thank you, derek detect yr -- director. we look forward to a lot of time with you. >> we are hoping not to open up the 2012 budget. we are hoping to keep the bottom line of the budget the way it is. >> very good. thank you. >> chairman, no member of the public has indica

and golden gate park and marina green park where we have traditionally had the bike rental concession. but we also said if there are other appropriate locations, we would be willing to consider evaluating the appropriateness of those locations. when the response from park wide came in, they did suggest operating in union square. the department evaluating the appropriateness of operating in union square and had conversations with the m.t.a., conversations with the san francisco bike coalition, extensive conversations with our partner park wide in this endeavor about their safety record. and their plan to operate in dense, urban space safely. and the department determined in consultation with all of those people that because the transformation the city has seen the last 10 years, where we are starting to see bike lines in downtown and the bike line has been approved and there's more bike lanes that will be coming online shortly in the downtown area, that we comfortable moving forward at union square. it's obviously a question for the commission, and you've been debating it, whether the

parking spaces for the project. the project sponsor has altered that proposal to include staffers to accommodate the parking, and as a result, save for the voluntary inclusion of six spaces, are being reduced to two spaces. the code requires one. and the request to modify the project satisfaction of the affordable housing requirements from providing 17 units on site to providing 23 units offsite, and it would have to comply with section 415, by providing those offsite units within a one-mile radius of the product site. the market the units could not be sold until the offsite in its are filled and ready to go as well. that concludes my presentation. the planning department recommends approval with conditions. commissioner miguel: thank you. project sponsor? >> good morning, commissioners. thanks for considering this amendment to my conditional use approval. basically, -- >> excuse me, could you state your name? >> my name is brian spears, project sponsor. basically, the parking minimum and maximum exchange quite a bi

-- rec and park. it is a disgrace. now the they do not go down there very often, i am astounded -- now that i do not go down there very often, i am astounded. on the subject of the breakwater, i do not understand why sheet pile breakwater that is this -- that is precisely within the footprint of the harbor cannot satisfy the requirements of keeping the 100 boats or whatever it is that will be in the outer was safe. as the project moves along, i hope somebody will again look it that. it is really important. my boat was pretty much destroyed. i did not want to spend three times what the boat was worth to get it back together. >> is there any other public comment on this item? >> yes. i totally agree with the comments of courtney clarkson. together with her and many others that spent many meetings down at the marina, trying to get this straightened out -- as it had been delayed more and more and more, the trouble goes on. it does not change in a timely manner. i would urge you to go ahead with it and mak

this would save one parking space for the general neighborhood. we have also look at the possibility of doing the extension and there was considerable debate on which way to go. the final consensus is eyehole -- is from everyone. no one would need to step off of the curd to get on the streetcar. there was some concern about the remaining street. is it possible to accommodate two passing buses during our services? we looked at that pretty closely. on the inbound direction, and you still have to pay 10 flit change and on the north side, it is 19 feet and 6 inches which allows for parking. the chances of the two passing buses creates small and the north side is what enough to allow them some flexibility in maneuvering and positioning themselves with in the westbound direction. this is our final proposal. i have mentioned it already. the next step is that we are before you on the board and want to review the screen so that we can go to bid on the project and we look forward to the construction starting in said uri of 2012. as i mentioned, there is som

we would lose about 2158 parking spaces. -- 258 parking spaces. in order to redress the lawson parking, we have been meeting with the affected parties, the export-oriented, the theater. we have the community to help address some of the strategies. we have met with the association for the executive board leadership. in terms of the strategies that we came up with, this is broken into three distinct items. hong as we said, creating a lot. trees will vote to hide some of the existent traffic. we're proposing creating additional parking spaces and this will yield about 18 spaces. we're proposing cynosure which is part of the proposal that we made today. -- signs which is part of the proposal that we made it today. these are part of the actions that we looked at. this has been removed as a compromise. we feel that this is a good solution for very difficult circumstance stances -- circumstances. >> 23 spaces, this is a triangular lot. how long would that exist? >> this would exist for the duration of the project. >> even though you get back some spaces

and our parks partner is the parks trust. and i was wondering if you're going to -- we've been talking about maybe getting a report about how they've been doing in terms of fundraising. and then -- and they've done an audit recently. could we schedule -- can we schedule a presentation about how much they're bringing in and how that's helping us meet this gap, if we can show, you know, it's a little hard to tell what impact they're -- their giving is making on our budget and the numbers that we have here. so i would like to see that perhaps scheduled for future meeting. >> commissioner, they are actually coming in. they are already scheduled for our february meeting to give an overview of their prior year. which i think you're going to be very pleased with. >> and i would like to see that prior versus prior so we could get a gauge of a trend. just not the first -- just not last year but the year before so we can see where -- are they increasing giving, is increasing in what areas and so forth. the other -- >> i might add to th

all of the parking is dedicated parking for residents were shoppers. there is a full street grid. all of these will have on street parking, on both sides of the streets. it is concentrated with perpendicular parking, but it is a very important component of the transportation program and there are existing, just under 1600 on street parking spaces, and this would increase by about 6%, 90 spaces, close to 1700 on street parking spaces. we have small parcels, that tend to displace one street parking. because this is a master plan, each block will have centralized parking facilities. there is probably on a per block basis more on street parking available in most neighborhoods in the city. i think we will jump straight through to a couple notable aspects of the sustainability program. we have talked at length about the transportation and land use component and how it very much supports the overall goals of sustainability for this project and for the city in terms of reducing per capita vehicle miles traveled. a couple of the more notable components of the sustainability program relate

neighborhood parks received 117.4 million. our parks, 17.5. community opportunity grants programs,5 million. park trail reconstruction, $5 million. forestry, $4 million. the citizen oversight of audit commission, $200,000. totaling $185 million. the general distribution was 18% to the port. for our project allocation, pier 43, the bay trail linked oversee $7.8 million, the street wharf, $2.9 million. the blue streak projects, $21.6 million. the secret street project, $578,000. $658,000 for bond commission other costs. about 65% of the allocation. the bond sale timing, geobond ordinance as passed in october of 2007 placed the 2008 geobonds on the ballot. it required that this commission review all, with a completion of two issued in 2008 for $3.7 million, pending environmental review and construction costs. another in march of 2010 for $10.7 million. portions of the construction budget mostly for pier 43 and baseline park. we have planned for two more sales to be timed with project readiness. the first for the spring of this year to fund constr

everyone in san francisco does not want more park land taken up with parking for parked cars. in the contract they are very obscure about the issues regarding seismic and ada. who pays for which? we want that very clear. in summary i would like to say that the heron's need protection. the children of san francisco deserve the bullet -- the boat's upstairs. this could all happen with the ortega's. thank you. [tone] supervisor chu: thank you. >> supervisors, my name is larry pain. to be frank i have a dog in the fight. by currently sell hot dogs to the cafe, enabling me to support a ranch in northern california that is seventh generation. the purchases made by ortega go directly to my branch. our hot dogs are produced by a third generation sausage making factory in fairfield. i would like to thank all of those people. my company employs five people. the ongoing support of the ortega's for local businesses. cannot be disputed. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. henry [unintelligible] i would like to take a few minutes to highlight of the most important eleme

i also agree that it is better to have less parking and more parking. people are less likely to move their cars more frequently, which is something this commission has been very supportive of.

i'm darrell lloyd, one of the principals of park. -- of park-wide.st thing, i'd like to talk about -- who was implicated. the customer stepped on him while he was sleeping. he was immediately demoated from assistant general manager to security guard across the street at my apartment. so we've solved that dilemma. i just wanted to address commissioner harrison in regards to the potential of discussing and reducing the scope of the lease. and i didn't come prepared with all the data, but i did a rough sketch on the back on our capital expenses and it looks like we cross at about the latter part of year four where we're actually turning into a profit mode for the partners. so, you know, reducing it to two years relative to the capital expense would have a significant impact on the contract. i also wanted to briefly touch on the container issue brought up by a couple of the commissioners. i also have operations in new york city. we have 11 locations under contract with various park conservancies. and today we have used the containers due to lack of space

we are in duboce parks there is a great little kids park that's part of duboce park.ts got a fence and i feel its safe. kids running on the grass, they are running with the dogs. it goes back to how do we all live together in a very open, public, urban environment? and it sounds trite to say but we have to figure out how to work together because we don't have backyards, front yards, side yards in the city. we gotta come to the parks with our families. we gotta make it work. >> the problem that a lot of folks have with dog and it is stories they hear about the violent dogs and the dogs that attack people. the problems are not the dogs that are well behaved and the ones that can be off leash. i would love to see a spay and neuter program and city wide training program for dogs. in order to get your license you have to have your dog trained to a certain level so they could be off leash e. that would be good and go towards happiness in the neighborhood and happiness between the dog will you evers and nondog lovers. >> i absolutely believe the cost of housing and quality o

and believe the park should be for park activities. recycling is great, but i do not think it is an appropriate occasion for that activity. i think you need to look at where a suitable place for this activity is. i have listened to all these people talking and it does good work in the community, but i think there are better uses on park land and having a recycling center in golden gate park. >> my name is david marcus. i am a resident of the neighborhood and have been for the last 12 years. i have three kids. they enjoyed the part and what the part is doing. across the board right now, i think that excellence is being evidenced in this decision. parks are a place for gardens, not for industrial efforts like the one we are talking about here for recycling. i think there are sound ideas on the table as to how that effort could be relocated elsewhere, and strongly encourage you to vote in favor of the plans being put forward. i think it is good for us all. thank you. >> my name is kathy bowen. i have lived in the haight ashbury for 10 yea

i give a lot of tours through the park.uring those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite pla

rec park, this is a stellar park system. it is world class and i invite you if you act world classly in opening communication space with the community. as an urban gardener here, we need more community gardens. it's not an issue. i think it's a red herring. i invite all of you to look at this as a multiagency approach. if we lose the ten green jobs, what will happen with the health care? they will not happen. they will not have it. so let's call d.p.h. why is d.p.h. here? we will need them to help take care of some of the loss of health care and not only the ten jobs, but the partial hundreds of jobs that people will lose. i think the important thing is about empowerment. if people feel empowered, they're able to have jobs and they're more likely to make positive health choices and i think we can all make positive health choices in helping support community gardens and recycling centers as well. thank you very much. i oppose the ordinance. >> my name -- >> linda, duncan cavy, carol glausening, linda stark, brian hornbeck, gi