looking back from the golden gate bridge to presidio, you are more aware of the park land and less of the roads. and the viaduct will parallel the existing one and to the south and can be built while the existing one remains in operation. and the two bridges there with open space between them and your views constantly change and not aware of the traffic in the opposite direction and notice the views more. and the lanes of course are a foot wider than they are today. and they will be shoulders and if your car is disabled, you can pull off to the edge. and the next area, the tunnel portal will have a view centered on the palace of fine arts and as you come out, you can see alkatrez island and bay. and the next area is about 1,000 feet long. and when you come into one, you can see through the other end. it's almost like driving through a building than through a tunnel. and noise from the roadway will be sheltered. and the traffic will be out of view. >> when you come out of the last sort tunnel and as you look forward, you see the golden dome of the palace of fine arts and what more perf

. >> secrets of building 640 in the presidio. and a man who becameeeeeeeeeeeee >>> i cannot express this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, have you to take precautions now. don't wait. don't delay. >> an urgent appeal for the president who cut short his martha's vineyard vacation to get back to washington to deal with hurricane irene. >> it's losing steam tonight but that is not slowing the unprecedented steps being taken to minimize potential damage. for the first time in history, low-lying neighborhoods in new york city being ordered evacuated. mass transit will be shut down. the storm could impact 65 million people from north carolina to new england. so far, at least 2.3 million people are under evacuation orders. >> i urged every citizen along the coastal plains to evacuate it's so much better to be safe than sorry. >> the outer banks of north carolina are expected to take the biggest hit from irene. a mandatory evacuation order is in place for the bare area island. most have boarded up and le

. -- to keep it out of the presidio. it is a wrongly concepted situation. having been on the board there, fisher being on the board of moma would have been the logical place for a highly resisted by the family and those involved with how a collection for a long time. i am pleased that it is landing where it belongs. i may have additional written comments later. commissioner moore: there is a fine grain of traffic conflict. it is partially because of traffic impacting how how you crossed the third street intersection on markets. there are like cumulative impacts in all of these blocks. there were great solutions for parking their cars -- the success of high-tech is being looked at fairly and squarely, the elements closer and further away. if we choose a corridor in the er -- yerba buena, i'm on page 139. i would ask they are moved closer right behind the marquee theater. i think they created a composition by which the layering of historic and new architecture works very well when you saw the museum of modern art composed

most of the parks are in presidio as well. i want to say that and thank you for the time. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> hello, commissioners. my name is miguel molina. i'm 16 years old. i go to school in the city. i was raised in the city for four years, but due to rising cost of housing in the city my family moved out. so i know how important the housing that's going to built on the other side of this lot. it's for all these families coming in. what i'm here for, i'm here to ask you guys to take responsibility for this lot so that we can take responsibility and really turn it into something that families in this area can use which will be a park. and as a lot of people have come up and said, the mission only has like 1% of the park in the entire city. and i find that to be rather ridiculous considering how dense the, you know, the population is there. and when i'm walking around the city with all my friends, i'm walking around seeing these kids, like, playing in the streets. you know, fausing a football in the middle of traffic -- tossing the football in the m

item 5 is the neighborhood representative for a group of the presidio. this group achieved its purpose and objectives and submitted their final report to the board in october, 2008 and wrapped up their final meeting in may, 2009. this is now obsolete and is not contain a sunset clause. item 6 is the criminal-justice council. the mayor's criminal justice council has their final meeting in 2008. add that time, they were advised by the mayor's office that the work group achieved their purpose. it is not contain a sunset clause and can only be dissolved by the board of supervisors. item number7 is the drug abuse advisory board. this group has not met for at least the last four months ended has been over a year. this is considered obsolete and is not contain a sunset clause and can only be dissolved by the board. item 8 is the children's collaborative task force which was created in 2007, it never had its initial meeting due to in court reasons. this is considered obsolete. they never had their first meeting because they could not meet a quorum. item nine is

. >> the presidio is making plans to honor 6,000 linguists in world war ii.ng's report. heather ishimaru reveals the secrets of 640. >> this warehouse across from crissy field sits empty. but building 640 has a secret history. in 1941, it housed the first class of the u.s. army's secret military intelligence language school training 60 linguists. >> the u.s. army new that japan's war was coming. they collected the few they could find that could were bilingual. >> among those were 93-year-old tomyakamoto. he found himself in desert tank maneuvers when he was approached by the head of the school. >> i said, yakamoto, i will make you a commissioned officer if you attend a secret school at presidio in san francisco. that was a hell a lot better being in that desert. >> the school was moved to minnesota after pearl harbor. when he went on to be than interpreter. his family was sent to an arkansas internment camp. now it will be a learning center telling the story of japanese-americans like sakamoto. his story of patriotism and the pain of prejudice. >> some of us

sometimes free trooe, which is great, to have parkland at 63 different sites and it is not just presidio and we have been hard at work acquiring other park lands throughout the city and over 52 acres and $9 million was spent to acquire undeveloped open spaces as they are generally natural area typesetings and 41 acres and over properties and this year the acquisition fund portion of the open space fund is $1.8 million and we have a fund balance of $9 million we are using to review and acquire appropriate properties over time. and recently i can go over a couple of things that were acquired through acquisition and the tenderloin rec center in the tenderloin, and a park in the mission that was a little over $1 million. and also the maps that were reviewed and also about capital investment and re-investment in the property. the richmond rec center received funding and the clubhouse and support the square clubhouse and a pool and the bayview neighborhood. and joe lee rec center and these are funded through the funding sources and i can answer any questions you might have later. president ola

barely made a presidio. they had, like, 50 or 60 people. 90% of the population was in san francisco, and everyone down the peninsula is saying if they are in the county, san francisco has this huge population, we are going to have to go along with them, so they can't get off -- they carved it off. >> it looks like it is the richmond district, but a kind of shows what was on the west side town. a great deal of it was sam, and for that reason, people thought that the weather and the san -- it was really not a place that people wanted to live, and it was going to be very typical for san francisco -- very difficult for san francisco to expand west. >> if you look at the early maps, it was 3 miles wide by about 6 miles long, this huge sand dunes that just moved around. >> here is an 1875 map of the laguna. says along the side of the map, high sand hills between the pacific ocean and the like. by the way, this had actually opened directly into the ocean. >> lake merced had a high water level. since we paid over mu

amount of the base since the 1986 element was adopted and that was primarily because we acquired presidio. but even if we contracted out the ohs and just look at open spaces and considering that we have improved or increased the amount, it is not always clear that is such a great thing because it's really over one part of the city and in our high needs areas, which i'm going to show you which those are in a minute, on the east side of the city, doesn't necessarily serve those. i have a few people and i am going to work with over the next few months to think about how do we make sure that the goal is still there and we want to increase and improve the open spaces and the standard isn't really work for us because we really want to focus on the tiny areas. let me walk you through that analysis and the kind of work we were doing right now. what i am going to show you is a series of maps on top of each other and the first map is population density. these are all using 2010 census data. here are the areas that are the densest in the city. and next you have income and areas with the lowest incom

that tells me absolutely nothing about how much is spent perez dent and are we talking about the presidio trust and the gtra spends on their land or are we talking about what the water department spends on their department? it doesn't tell me anything. i am getting a bunch of figures that lead me nowhere. i chaired the open space committee for about 6 1/2 years. during that time and it appears in other minutes that they siphoned off funds meant for acquisition into personnel use within the department. having been away since 2000, i can't say if this is still going on, but according to the finance department and i have talked to a member who for many years has been the finance person at department, and she can't tell me exactly where the funds are going and how many use it or what it costs to run the facility or anything else. so we're dealing and i know that this is a policy document and i appreciated commissioner moore's comments on the commercial use and i tend to agree maybe not to the extent with arthur feinstein and i believe there is the possibility of food service in the middle of

this is as far as i go and all the way up at the other end we have fort point -- >> presidio. >> and keep going, you go all the way around the other side. that is as far as we're going to go today. do we have any questions today about the waterfront? >>> diane, what about we saw the ships getting fixed. and i have just a simple view of what happened down there. what about hazardous materials and all the southern part of the city, hunters point, et cetera, what's happening there in terms of hazardous waste, et cetera, the lead paint? >> well, if you're talking about the operations at the shipyard or whatever, they have to meet all of the current hazardous waste management and clean up requirement if you're talking about environmental cop editions in the soil or in the water because of the historical use, then yeah, that is another huge cost. if i were monique moyer, the port's director sitting here, which i'm not, she would be able to rattle off the costs associated with the repairs, the roofs, the doors, the things that are on our list of things to do for which there are insufficient

the race began at a-t-and-t park, went along the embarcadero, through fisherman's wharf into the presidio, and back to the ballpark the race was a benefit for "project open hand", which delivers meals to seniors and people living with serious illnesses. a south bay park - that was sitting on a toxic mess. "...the whole neighborhood is going to look so much better" what it took to erase the trashy past - and turn it into a green space for kids. for kids. { jim wx tease} we're continuing to monitor hurricane irene. here are live pictures from ,,,, [ screaming ] [ zapping ] there goes dwayne's car. oh, man. there goes dwayne's house. whoa! whoa! and there goes dwayne. man, that thing does not like dwayne. [ male announcer ] state farm's got you covered. nice landing. it was. here are live pictures from north carolina. the storm's center is now along the north carolina-virginia border. earlier, irene weakened to a category-1. but she's picking up power now over the warm waters of the atlantic ocean. virginia beach got clobbered with 80-mile-an- hour winds. irene is moving up the east coast at

[unintelligible] then we have mobile trucks, then we have a warming hut just inside the presidio. it seems to be getting crowded out there. >> i would agree, if all those were operating at the same time. in our permits for the food trucks that operate out there, we have written in those permits in a way that once the marina degaussing begins, we would terminate those permits and move those uses from the site. the food trucks could be seen as an interim use until that marine and degaussing project is complete. >> exactly what i was looking for, thank you. >> so when the do you expect the degaussing station to put up a bit? >> i believe it is out to bid at the moment. proposals are due sometime next month. we will have a better sense once those proposals are received on the timeline. >> so you are looking at bringing in an operator for the balance of the year? >> for the marina degaussing station, that is a complicated project that will need capital and a number of entitlements. i am not the project manager. i would be hesitant to give an exact time line. i think we can expect that

user it also the coordinator for the presidio, and i think this is an issue of public safety for all those. get those restaurants open and this will contribute to the success of this event and it will also keep the water quality control up for the thousands of swimmers to participate in the dolphin club and the south end running clubs. i thank you out for addressing this important issue for all the people of san francisco. thank you. president olague: thank you. [reading names] >> hello. my name is robin rome, and i am also a life member of the dolphin club. in the report, a recreational and that does not really been specified. to think of us as being an aquatic life, there is a lot of an aquatic life to be concerned with. bottle nose dolphins. we are out there -- i added up over the winter, many people. they swam 5,700 miles, and that is just the people who wrote it down. so, we are taking care of our recreation. that is our main area to do it. the boats are out all the time. we build our own boats and their. we are in all of the americas got -- awe of >> we are participants and we