pier 23, all these pier, historic piers, pier 21, five projects we just saw are all included within this district that goes from fisherman's wharf down to pier 48 which is just on the other side of mc covy cove from the ballpark. >> ta-atra (speaker not understood), have you been there? >> it's -- >> it's a european tent made -- so you go up there? >> yes. it's really amazing to go in there and just to be in this building that is a temporary tent building. >> it's a great show. >> it's a great show, yes. >> that's where i send my out of town visitors. i say, you've got to go. it's really good. there are a few places you have to send an out of town visitor. this is one of them. you had a question? >>> the pier, is it under any historic pro teches? >> well, i mean chris can speak to it even more broadly because he knows probably every single building in the central waterfront. but for the port, the machine shop we saw in the slide is on port property and essentially all of the historic structures there are potentially eligible for the national register, either as individual buildings or th

that is likely to the improvements to piers 30, 32, no. waterfront, public assets -- access benefits. in addition, the port must identify 2.3 acres ofbay shoreline property that can be entrusted with the trust that is not currently encumbered by the trust. we would have to do that prior to the transfer of title of seawall lot 330. this is a fairly significant to. it fills one of the major city obligations, and we are hopeful that the legislature approves it and the governor signs it. that is my presentation. bill and myself are available for questions that you may have. >> thank you. we do have public comment. maryland's men's -- marilyn smith. i am sorry. is there any public comment on this item? commissioners? brad, in your first slide, it says the bill was introduced february 2010. you said february 2011. >> i am sorry, 2011. it is not a two-year bill. that is me rushing after vacation. >> understood. you said it is in suspense but was hoping it would be passed. i do not remember all of my legislative history, so -- >> senate or assembl

pier 1 is doc at the moment, and we have also designated pier 50 a critical facility. when something happens, port needs to help start helping with inspections and removing debris and other items as needed. so, we have limited qualified staff to do these inspections. " we will be doing first, if something happens, we will be inspecting all of the critical facilities first. once we're done with the critical facilities, will be moving onto priority to facilities -- priority two facilities, which are in densely populated areas. priority three facilities, which are not as much high importance, not in densely populated areas. we have only maybe 10 qualified staff to do these inspections, and we have 3 koehler coatings. one means it is green, which is safe to occupy. the other means it has restrictions. red means the facility is not suitable for occupancy. so only people with certain qualifications and certifications are allowed to do the stabbings. -- are allowed to do these taggings. ewe have 39 piers, but if you include all the substructures and buildings, we have close t

the history of pier 70 is quite interesting. i will not get into many details, but i will walk through days maps that brad has prepared to give you a flavor of why we have this opportunity in the first place. as you know, most of the land that the ford owns in the portfolio is subject to the trust. virtually all of it came to the stadium the burton act. most of the land owned by the state in the city was subject to the trust. pier 70 is a major exception, and it has given us this rare our opportunity to do an internal trust swap without having to look outside of the port's own holdings to effectuate the trade. so let us look at one of the earliest conveyances of property, here at the site, in the light green area at the bottom of the matp. the time the land portion of that rectangle down there was owned by the state. they were conveyed to the pacific mills co. back in the 1960's, one of the first industries in this part of san francisco. they had a major iron mill that was operating on the up land portion. they have perhaps alre

at pier 70 and turning public trust restrictions on sea wall lot 330. >> good morning, commissioners. special projects manager for the port. dianne is passing out to you some maps of pier 70, which will be used in the presentation. just bear with me while i get this launched. i am here representing the port team that has been working on pure 70 for many years, the master planning process. many others in the planning development group. there was a key component of the master plan that looked at realigning the public trust designation at pir 70 in a way that will help promote the master plan. the core of the master plan is to have revenue-generating uses on the waterfront development site. commission has awarded an exclusive negotiating rights to the force city development team for that right. that will be the economic engine to save a lot of historic buildings, build the parks, do the other thing that we all hope peer 70 can be. assemblymember ammiano has come to the port's aid again this year. h

as part of the grant street pier project, part of the redevelopment of pier 30-32, you can see the water mark condominiums that we were talking about earlier. at that time, we thought we had a good understanding of what the historic resources had been. but it was not identified as a historic resources and was not analyzed in that fashion. subsequent to that, when we were actually doing the detailed analysis for the embarcadero historic district, that is when our historian at the time identified of the source, triggering the need for subsequent environmental review. it was only through the patience of the community of partners that we were able to pull together funding from alternate sources that ultimately led us to our partnership. producing this environmental impact report before you today. in coordination with the environmental national policy act document, the army corps needs to prepare to do their portion of the work for the demolition of pier 36. the combination of federal, local, and state approval, coalesced to be able for the project to move forward. in that context, this has b

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whereas, by way of example, pier 9 we have a high occupancy rate and we charge $360. >> so pier 80, the use requires you to arrive in your vehicle? >> no public trash -- no public transportation. >> pier 9 is covered office space, right at your front door, premium parking. >> i think the rate should go higher. >> next year. did that answer your question, commissioner? >> is there any public comment on this item? ok, thank you. >> item 10 a., request authorization for award of a contract for professional services for master planning and preliminary design of the proposed pier 70 crane cove park project in an amount not to exceed $708,835, funded through the 2008 proposition a, clean and safe neighborhoods parks general obligation bond. >> the site is located, generally, between mariposa street and 19th street and is approximately 7 acres, as designed by the pier 70 master plan. funding for the design services it is through the 2008 clean and safe general obligation bond fund. on december 14, 2010, the port commission authorized the release of a request for proposals for the services. gen

for the pier 70 contract. it was a very discreet task, and to answer your question, that is based off of that experience and something similar to that. i think your point is well taken. >> my experience is there has to be some sort of went up for them to understand and maintenance, and addition to be about to respond to the special circumstances. >> it is not a large sum of money for all of the work we have between now and then. bu>> having been on both sides f this process, and that many of the contracts, many of the contractors recognize public agencies did not have the same kind of funding as the private sector, and they recognize that in their response. it does not go as far as many of the responders would recognize. >> my only point today, is this going to be sufficient funding. i think it is good to try to work these issues through. >> and it was a big stretch for us to come up with that much money. i will say for your benefit and the public's, if it proved to be too little and we are able to find other

the first, ab-418, regards pier 7-0 and the trust status out at the pier, at the other bill is regarding the cruise terminal and the sites that will be in the america's cup. just as background, the port works with legislature, in conjunction with the city legislative committee. this is the group convened by the mayor's office, and generally puts together all of the specific needs that the city looks at, what is planning to move toward it at this time, and we are part of that process. ab-418 is really an administrative trust bill. it is a trust exchange mechanism. at this map shows the report that port staff that did a number of years ago about the trust status of the area components of pier 70. many of the pieces of property were acquired with the original grant. many of them were acquired afterwards, specifically the shipyard, which support purchased for $1. each of these parcels, some of them were filled land, some of the more i planned. -- some of them are upland. they have specific stories that affects their legal status. when we are going through our normal process, we have a couple

this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. breaking news tonight the house has passed a debt deal by a vote of 269-161 and next stop is the senate and we expect a vote tomorrow at noon. but tonight, the moment that nobody expected, congresswoman gabrielle giffords casting her very first house vote after she was nearly killed in an assassination attempt in january. her colleagues giving her an arousing and emotional standing ovation, and nancy pelosi honored her, and we will talk about the debt battle next with my colleague wolf blitzer, and erin burnett. wolf, start with the uplifting there with gabrielle giffords, and nobody expected that and it was not really a dry eye in the house, right? >> it was very emotional, and understandably so, because we really haven't seen much of her and a little bit when her husband took off on the shuttle, but there she was and people could see her and come up to give her a hug and kiss and remember the days and she looks obviously different than she did, and she is coming back. i was frankly

>> well, that is the problem, piers.oing to make their lives harder, and that is why we launched with a powerful and moving story with amanda fairbanks about how many college students right now who cannot afford the pay their debts are actually resorting to prostitution, and literally selling themselves in order to pay their college debts. and the stories are so moving and powerful, and you read about the african-american student from college who takes a train to greenwich to sleep with a guy who is helping her to pay her college loan, and the reality is that the average college debt for a student graduating in 2011 is $22,000, and when you come out of college and you can't find a job, and that is a bleak future that so many of the young people are facing right now, and that is the american dream that we are betraying. as an immigrant into the country, i feel that, that's the ultimate betrayal. >> arianna, obviously, you are greek, and you were born in athens, and greece has been through a complete financial collapse, an

this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, we're covering every angle of hurricane irene tonight from north carolina, with landfalls expected in a matter of hours to new york city where unprecedented mandatory evacuations are under way. thousands of flights are cancelled on the east coast. jfk is closing to international arrivals tomorrow at noon. major highways are closing down as i speak. there are unprecedented shutdowns, transit system in new york and philadelphia. atlantic casinos and hotels are shuttered. broadway is going dark for the weekend. will this storm be the big one that millions of people now fear? i want to begin in north carolina where brian todd is in the thick of it. looks pretty rough. we seem to have lost brian there. it is rough down there. communication is hard. brian, you're back, i think. >> reporter: can you hear me, piers? can you hear okay? >> you just keep talking. >> reporter: okay. we're going to show you the storm surge here. [ inaudible ] rain, wind. [ inaudible ] pushing up agai

this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening, i'm here in san diego where i'm doing an interview with presidential hopeful jon huntsman and that will air at monday night 9:00 p.m. eastern. but right now tonight, it's all about the scandal involving me and christine o'donnell and that interview and that walkout. we thought it'd be a good idea to bring you up to speed by getting correspondent joe john to do a wrapup of what's going on over the last 48 hours since she memorably left the studio. it would appear that the interview has just been ended. >> reporter: it's amazing what walking off the set of a national prime time tv show can do for someone who is trying to sell a book based on a losing senate campaign. >> i'm just asking you questions based on your own public statements and now what you've written in your own book. it's hardly rude to ask you that, surely. >> well, don't you think as a host, if i say this is what i want to talk about, that's what we should address? >> not really, no. you're a politician. >>

of the philippines at pier 80. this increase our revenues substantially.e negotiated a lease with the chinese province for 30,000 square feet of space at the pier 27 bulkhead. and he negotiated an agreement to serve a long and other countries, bringing in an additional 100 teu's a week. he was involved in the purchase of the bethlehem shipyard property at sea wall laot 349. he was also presented an award of distinguished service for his efforts in the success of our mandate 1987. army day was a holiday to draw attention to national defense. i just wanted to take a moment to praise him and remember him for all of his great efforts. we have probably long gone up some of the things that we are working on today started many years ago. i do not think i see any members of his family today, but our condolences and gratitude for all of them have sacrificed for the city and port. thank you. >> is there any public comment on the executive director's report? >> item 4b. informational presentation on assembly bill 418 delegating to the california state lands commissio

>> absolutely, piers. you've got one of the best on your team, chad myers, by the way, who's really good at this. i will tell you that if this storm hits as a category 2 or 3 in the carolinas, and the eye is taken off the water for any real amount of time, and if it spends even some time on lapped, you start to weaken that storm as well. even if it were to stay on the water and work into new england, the water's colder. we know it's going to lose strength. our guesstimate in the hurricane center's estimate, by the time it gets toward new york city, it is probably still a weakening category 1. but that's a very powerful storm for this kind of populated area. and maybe tropical storm strength winds for the boston area is what we're looking at. so you're right, when this storm hits the carolinas it then begins to weaken as it goes north. but it's not good news if it follows this track. >> mayor bloomberg 8:00 a.m. saturday morning a decision will be taken about evacuation. isn't that leaving it a bit late? >>

more piers morgan, in a moment. >> all sounds boring to me, anderson. >> i think piers is on the d-list you. smooches. >> thanks, anderson. >> i love that moment when he has to go from b.s.'ing with us to a serious role. that's so uncomfortable. how does this work? >> you're still live on air. what are you doing? >> i thought it would be time to take the mic off. >> do it in a more discreet manner. we're still conducting an interview, live on television. >> i thought jack nicholson was live in the parking garage. >> this is really awkward. >> are you missing tatum o'neal, right now? >> i'm not missing anybody right now. an empty chair would been improvement. >> you're making me fall properly in love with you. i mean it. >> how often do you fool properly in love? >> i don't know. several. >> how many? >> how many guys have i slept with? >> yeah. >> how many digits would make you happy? >> as many are truthful. let's keep it honest. >> what? are you stealing anderson's -- are you going from the ridiculous. >> the rest of your life, right now, with one of your exs, who would it be? >> you.

piers? >> and chad, obviously i'm not a native of these parts, so how unusual is it that the east coast would be threatened with a hurricane of this magnitude? >> we get one about every three years. we've been in a drought, honestly. people are probably not ready for this because it's been such a hurricane drought over the past five years. the biggest hurricanes we've had have all been in the gulf of mexico. katrina and rita and ike. but this, this could be a category 2 hurricane, 100 miles per hour right over, i'd say providence, rhode island. that's the potential. that's the potential. the last time that happened was 1991 with bob. >> wow. back to you, jim. when you're in the eye of these things, as you are right now, what is the best advice do you think for people who live in a place that's been hit by a hurricane? what should they really be doing? >> well, you know, as chad mentioned, when there's a hurricane drought, i think people become complacent and ignore what people say. the main