approved 2 loans one for phase one and one for phase 2 to cover the base subsubsidy and a portion toover the cost over runs and also lenare funds to cover their portion of the cost over runs. while the dda require that all the subsubsidy doesn't explicitly state when it be delivered. in the cases of phases 1 and 2 won't be needed until construction is complete, lenare requested they provide the funds provided closer to the time they are needed and as a substitute for that cash a letter of credit from a bank. so at this time staff is recommending the commission approve to allow the cost over run portion of lenare's contribution as long as we're in receipt of an an irrevocable letter of credit and we are recommending that so long as phases 1 and 2 maintain their current schedule to meet the funding deadlines and there's no additional cost to phases 1 and 2 for acquiring the letter of credit and it minimizes risk toal to alice grifth griffith and ocii and maintain consistent see with the development agreement and you approved that in october of this year so with that i'm going to turn i

for those two phases and so what this slide represents is the location of the phase

oo -- 2016, i'm sorry. >> 2016 for phase i and phase ii? >> for phase i and 2, they are under the same schedule, they are being constructed concurrently. >> you mentioned no one is being displaced, unlike past hope 6 projects of the city every single resident of alice griffith has been relocated into another unit until they can move into the new unit. >> we likely don't even need to do the temporary relocation. we are doing the construction on adjacent parcels so folks can stay in their current units until new units are built, then move into the new units, which is a real benefit to the site that we have and the parcels that we have. >> excellent. thank you. any other comments? then let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone that would like to speak from the public? seeing none, public comment is closed and we have an amendment for item no. 12. is that right? so there's a small minor nonsensitive amendment for item 12. is that right? >> correct, the correction to the address and to the date of the sid block application. >> can w

you will see that in the parks coming in phase the as -- 2 as well. this is an angle of a ship's captains net and the shipyard. with that i want to invite mr. spige to say a few words. >> good afternoon, thank for having me, my name is anye spooige the manager for the block 56 project. there is a number of slides that are forthcoming to sort of give you a comparison of where we were and where we are now. i will try to be as brief as possible. as mentioned as we approach construction start which was initially scheduled for late summer this year, we found that after the bids came back in construction cost really soared. and we were victims to escalating prices that projects are facing nowadays. we went back and had to make sure this project was economically feasible. the first of three things first being the simplification of some of the construction details and second the way we are using some of the materials and lastly we noticed that we had an opportunity to increase the height of the building which ultimately led to adding a fourth floor to one bui

improvements over time and so we have identified and we have called potential initial construction phase improvements. these are elements that are placed early and that means in the environmental process is completed in selecting the improvements and we are working for a few factors in having a subset of the projects of what we put in place and the improvements that we want in place later. and we are also looking for a pedestrian safety high priority locations, and the opportunities to coordinate with other agency efforts. and we first discussed the improvements in place or on the way, earlier this year, the sfmta colorized the bus lanes and now we are bright red and also this year, the sfmta has put in place the agreement to provide the transit signal priority, and on along the intersections of the corridor as well as the pedestrian equipment at some locations. and in 2015, we are expecting to see some rapid branding so that the improvements to the branding for the buses and this station. and along the corridor. and as well as the buses that we are expect to be coming and new or buses t

transportation agency for geary bus rapid transit (brt) environmental review and initial construction phase improvements planning, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule and amendment of the relevant 5-year prioritization program. this is an action item. >> kim? >> good morning, commissioners. this is for the summary of the request i just wanted to make a note that the number is different from what you have on the memo in the enclosure and we have received a request to pull the prop k request for the east (inaudible) and so that it can have a little more time to review the scope to make sure that it is covered or also, considered the amendment that has been proved, and so excluding that, it is not, and we have received the requests combined over the four agencies for the -- (inaudible) and trying to be, and the one day, and the progress and the bicycle and -- and things to lease, for giving the up date on this program, and on this top request, is just simply, that this is the good year and the annual membership of san francisco for the improvement. and mta is re

san francisco planning product environmental review phase. department for the geary bus san francisco planning department rapid transit (brt) project for the geary bus environmental review phase, in an amount not to exceed $139,276, and to negotiate agreement payment terms and non-material agreement terms and conditions; and assigning the professional services contract with jacobs engineering group to circlepoint, increasing the amount of the contract by t not to exceed $4,409,489, for environmental analysis services for the geary brt project environmental impact report/statement, and authorizing the executive rapid transit (brt) project environmental review phase, in an amount not to exceed $139,276, and to negotiate agreement payment terms and non-material agreement terms an conditions; and assigning the professional services contract with jacobs engineering group t circlepoint, increasing the amount of the contract by $225,000, to a total amount not to exceed $4,409,489, for environmental analysis services for the geary brt project environ

phase two a little bit over 2 minutes on powell subway and the slower times are the surface ones that are roughly about twice as long if you do a one way loop in 8 minutes under the faster analysis and the advantage of the loop is the fact one the key issues in building an extension is turning the trains around and you still have to do lay over while they're in civil rights it is a cross over at the end of the line like we do on the other types of design the take away the subway is probably about twits as fast as a subway surface combo and the travel times if you look at the purple box it's the existing thirty route from at&t park or caltrain station up to fisherman's wharf areas that's roughly thirty to 40 minutes the green line which will be phase two t third and potential phase 3 the running times are 14 to 17 minutes a little bit longer than for the loop twice as fast next one i'm going to turn it over to bob at this point. >> thank you. >> we'll turn on the milking for you. >> okay. the transportation authority lead the writing with the large improvements on the travel times it a

those are different and the thin brick veneer is also new that we're introducing into phase 3 and i'm going to go ahead and let you pass that around and we're available for more materials questions if you have any at the end of of the presentation. >> it's kind of heavy. be careful. [laughter] so while you are looking at that, just a note on the color scheme. the colors are different. all of the colors for phases 1, 2 and 3 are warm but the proposed colors tend to be a little bit more on the gray and the blue and a little bit of lake a warm orange just so that you are aware of how those are different. obviously, with colors we can continue to work on the color scheme and i believe that's one of the conditions in the resolution for approval. so this slide is the ground floor level plan and i just wanted to draw your attention primarily to the upper right-hand corner which is where the office space and the entry is that i kind of briefly discussed in previous rendering slides. this corner is where carol and arelious walker meet and there's a little door kind of like an upside down u or

you will see that in the parks coming in phase the as -- 2 as well. this is an angle of a ship's captains net and the shipyard. with that i want to invite mr. spige to say a few words. >> good afternoon, thank for having me, my name is anye spooige the manager for the block 56 project. there is a number of slides that are

we have been developing what we will call an initial construction phase set of improvements.bring a better travel experience to the corridor. these are elements for early delivery. after the environmental process has completed. it is -- we looked at, at a subset, looked to identify a subset of the full project features including a bus only line from market street to spaniard avenue, and improvements including bus bulbs and other improvements, operational improvements and pedestrian enhancements. the cost of the improvements, 15 to $20 million. the idea again is to bring the benefits with travel savings, and improvement and pedestrian improvements to the corridor sooner than the full project. in terms of the schedule this project is really three seems of work. we have the steps for the environmental process we would like to complete by the fall of 1015, and we would like to get started on doing the near term construction phase improvements doing conceptual engineering this winter and moving into construction by 2015 and 2016 and '17. we do want to keep moving forward on the fu

also, phase i also, phase i was relatively uneventful. we had individuals. we did it right there. it was uneventful. it. it has been tested in a monovalent form. we did a bivalent in the uk and when we set up to test in africa. this is the new england journal of medicine paper that came out literally a couple a couple of weeks ago. we are now setting up for testing again of advanced trials using this. the other candidate candidate is the vsv. into which has been inserted the protein gene. phase i trial fully enrolled in collaboration with the department of defense. we are doing it at the nih. others are doing it from the army instituted by the department of defense, united states army now in collaboration also with merck, merck, and you will here more about that from julie. the company that is involved, it involved, it originated in the public health agency of canada. department of defense together involved. the trial was put on hold. people hold. people get confused about that. there were four individuals. that does not mean it is the end of the vaccine by any means. very common.

accessible either from the ground level or directly from the podium and this is also the same for phases one and two. i just wanted to kind of pause a little bit on this slide and show you the importance of this corner. again, i don't think it it can be over emphasized that this is the first view people will have when they approach the new development so it was very important for us we worked a lot with ocii ocii staff to really get this corner right so the main entrance into block one is on this corner -- i'll show you a little bit more when we actually get to the ground floor slide again and i'll talk about this a little bit more we do have a special material for this particular building with the introduction of bricks to kind of highlight that a little bit more. >> this rendering shows the building as if you are standing at the corner of arelious walker drive and donner avenue so on the on the left-hand side of the slide where you see kind of the buildings going away from you, objection , opposite of that that will be phase one, the block 2 building . >> and then this is a rendering o

the transit center in phase one will have 110,000 square feet and in phase two about 60,000 square feet so total when the station is fully built out it will have more square feet than grand street terminal. just a context of that our opportunities affords. now we spent quite a few years looking at this program and working with fred and the experts and the goal is two fold. one, to have a vibrant, active and safe center when it opens with retail and food courts and restaurants that reflect and represent the diversity of the bay area and second to generate revenues for the maintenance and operations of the transit center so those are the things we have had in mind as we put together the program for the retail and a combination of a master leaser's management team we are looking for to have the majority of the retail in place when the station opens at the end of 2017 we're looking to issue a rfq pretty soon, this month so we have time to execute the agreement and have them start bridging people in, so without further adieu i would introduce fred who will begin the presentation. >> i am fre

two t third and potential phase 3 the running times are 14 to 17 minutes a little bit longer than for the loop twice as fast next one i'm going to turn it over to bob at this point. >> thank you. >> we'll turn on the milking for you. >> okay. the transportation authority lead the writing with the large improvements on the travel times it attracts a lot of rear view mirrors over 40 thousand additional trips on the t line that's is a 50 percent increase new riders to the muni system so folks taking cars or not making the trips the remaining trips are from the tooift to the slower transit that existing e exists today it is a balance out of the overcrowded like the cable car and the bus one concern we had are ridership this slide shows the peak hourly load that explicit increase with the daily ridership that's due to the all day ridership that is attracted to the extension you see that the 3 minute head ways the upper red line on the graph is sufficient to support the capacity and the midline is running every five minutes by 20 thirty as part of the partner we looked at the stationary so

barbara didn't mention the report starts with an option the greener than pg&e and don't have the phased out in the project one of the comments we talk about jobs as the as we 0 roll out the second phase where people start investing in the build out when you get the initial prices you're basing it on a price less than pg&e point gets rid of the opt out. >> so if we could get a clear understanding. >> this was just to give you comments. >> yeah. yeah. >> i wasn't planning on going into detail we need to talk with the consultant we have other questions and taken a number and running with it we have a lot you know at the end we have to implement it so that's why we provided that information and i'm thankful that the consultants took it under consideration and we'll be able to tease that out at the meeting with the timeline and the real numbers are and all that would be great. >> thank you yes. >> let me get back to my request on the information that is provided to us a red line can be an awkward way to figure out what the issues with and the pros and cons it doesn't do that let me ask that

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our plan is to move through the design phase at a quick phase and move into construction in approximately 2017, concurrent with construction of the bio solids project which is already under contract and design with a contract you approved with brown and caldwell so we ask your permission to move forward. >> you were speaking there on item 7. you want to speak on item 6 as well? >> i had a staff person who was supposed to talk about item 6. i will tell you the city attorney tells me i have a conflict of interest with urs because my wife works with urs. i will state that out front and say i had nothing to do with the decision to bring this original contract to the puc, but this is a contract to extend the contract for services on the new irvington be tunnel. that tunnel is moving, we have completed construction of the tunnel, we plan on disinfectious in 2015 consistent with our overall operations plan. we did run into very challenging conditions while tunneling which extended the contract so this is an extension of of services to be concurrent with the contractor's xwepx -- extension of ser

we're working on phase two as we have been rolled out, but phase two is a full overhaul of the content and organization of the site. in addition, the civil grand jury report provided detail about our database of affordable housing listing information and applications. that's what we call dal ya and it's a sales force web based application database that will focus on first or inclusionary units and will reduce barriers to entry, most significantly a simplified application process, forms, and include language access and more unified presentation across our portfolio. that is in its testing phase and will roll out in early 2015 so we're close. related to intreesing transparency and increasing our data we're working hard to improve data and how it's reported. we hope to incorporate much of that reporting on our web side and on a housing portal housed at the mayor's website. we are finalizing the draft of an annual report which will be released this month so just in a couple weeks so we'll make sure to circulate that to you with all our specific production data and our community development

ahead and don't go take the machines out and what we found early on the vial that was done for the phase one and 2 wouldn't i couldn't be stretched to make it september to build a station like north beach it needs a new environment there are tradeoffs for construction through the information a method that is less disruptive to the method and costs more another method slightly less but more disruptive the yellow t open the side that has another spur those are areas under the most disruptive design method you'll have to open up the street called cut and cover construction to put a station and tunnel and continual north the less disruptive will produce that by half the more disruptive is $400,000 and the less is still not cheap at $350 million that is - i have issues this station is build by itself you'll need the turn around facility and at the end of columbus avenue you'll have a turn around facility the cost estimates is a turn around and plus you have to fully utility i utilize the tunnel they have no track to mta still holds an active lease on the property to remove. the t and the owne

the station mrafrmd were cut it will never carry full capacity of the market street corridors the phase two eliminates all the bart and metro station that carries hundreds of thousands of riders r will nonetheless have the assessing access connecting market street so the warriors arena is lows trains than it does now because telegraph hill goes to embarcadero all the metro stations gos through that t line connection what is needed a study of hottest trend in the united states free shuttle bus loops looking at the every other city in this country. >> thank you >> next speaker. >> thank you commissioner president wu and my name is joe butler an architect and thirty year resident he formerly vice president of formerly of the russian hill neighbors i'd like to make a few points the ramp to surface to subway to surface trains is distinct advantage to fill the fillmore geary intersection and the two report is the shortest distance but it he said at kicking land yard it moves the ramp and like sidney australia they're built above a business terminal you can do exude kirkland at the time sfmta

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the softness of the arena is great as most people will see this from third street i know the next phase an office building by you'll see a sliver so just give a little bit of thought to make sure they are just as beautiful and matching in contrast how you feel about you're riding our bike or walking down third street. >> thank you commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much yeah, i'm very excited about mission bay i like the design thirty 32 but i think this will add to the fabric of the neighborhood much more than thirty 32 with the great design and the southeast is definitely the location definitely exist a lot of my questions are really for the draft eir but i'll ask a couple today a lot of times the eir is did not on whatever the project sponsor says and look at it at the environmental review but first a couple of accommodates i know that the architect mentioned he want to community meeting i don't know all the cacs in the city they're the hardest working i try to do what i can i don't see members here by the ocii staff katherine i know you guys work hard as well i go down fourth s

. >> what was brought up in the report and nobody discussed it today waltz the phase 4 this is way in the future what are we're going to do to reach the western part of the city there are phase 4 some sort of subway coming out north beach and going underneath beacon hill and educating the machinery and union street this is important as we make decisions on the station at north beach we don't preclude that option and make it flexible enough to so that it could be added on in the future that's an area it is greatly underserved my business is there i enjoy the walk to get to north beach but adversities not the easiest thing to do the busses take longer than so i think that that's something we have to consider too i want to really study this go to the sites to find a way to hold onto the project the project sponsor can build it but a way to have the land available to the future station that goes underneath columbus that's a big benefit other sites the triangle block in front of the washington square bar and grill and powell street and that site is a possibility for future entry of boring

area by not thoughts couldn't be designed in a manner to take care of that the timeline estimates the phase two data and our existing sfals run time data for a those estimates and the best we can see from going from chinatown north to the i said of the line one station one dwell and under a little over 3 minutes and 3 and a half minutes to go up columbus and the surface links are a little bit longer roughly a 2 to 3 split the ron runway loop is 8 minutes and those are permeate stechlts a quick time comparison the purport box if those alignments were built from chinatown under the construction phase two project that is roughly 14 to 20 miles an hour and the loop will roughly be in that area significantly faster i'm going to turn it over to for bob for the next several side. >> thanks paul mccartney u paul. >> with those large improvements this extension as strong ridership riders about a quarter of those riders will be new trips open metropolitan folks moving to the subway and including the f line he etc. this is a good benefit those lines are over crowded and projected to get norway crowded

. >> so on top of those improvements we are seeing potential for initial construction phase, and near the term improvements and all and extending the range from where it ends around van ness to stanley, and the other improvements to the bus routes as well as bus operational improvements and pedestrian safety improvement. the cost of these improvements is estimated to be 15 to 20 million dollars and to bring the benefits of the projects to feed them on the corridor sooner, ask including traffic time, and pedestrian safety benefits as well, as far as schedule goes, the project here and not really seeing this as three streams of work but as-needed and i wanted to complete the environmental project and we have a few steps to get there and we are aiming to get there in the fall of 2015, but we do want to advance the initial construction phase or near term project and get started by the conceptual engineering this winter and be ready to construct the elements as early as 2015 and on to 2016, 17. and at the same time, we have also want to be advancing the full project, and we believe that we

time comparison the purport box if those alignments were built from chinatown under the construction phase two project that is roughly 14 to 20 miles an hour and the loop will roughly be in that area significantly faster i'm going to turn it over to for bob for the next several side. >> thanks paul mccartney u paul. >> with those large improvements this extension as strong ridership riders about a quarter of those riders will be new trips open metropolitan folks moving to the subway and including the f line he etc. this is a good benefit those lines are over crowded and projected to get norway crowded you'll see this relieving the situation one of the concerns we have with the ridership whether the subway can handle it it doesn't includes as much of the area because of the neighborhoods the upper red line shows it is something on the order of 3 minutes train a 2 hundred 5 minute train >> our partners in this study is the planning department analyzed the geographics in the areas those neighborhoods are largely built out there are a few soft sites within a quarter of a mile radius and no off