seawall 332 does not provide that scale. the question comes up what do we do about our moderate or middle income housing needs in san francisco and we advocate for them tremendously. you heard the programs and this mayor has made a very strong commitment to increase flexibility for those needs. again, the one thing we need most often is first time home ownership, how do i get into first time home ownership. we already two years ago doubled the down payment assistance program, we have a $30 million down payment assistance program including special assistance for teachers and first responders. down payment assistance is a core programmatic goal. we also heard staff talking about increasing incentives from market rate developers private developers, who can build at that middle income scale. the community has to advocate for those things to happen in the same way we advocate for low income housing needs, the community has to advocate for these kind of resources for middle income housing needs and that's where we think you should

> seawall 322-1 is a lot that is across the embarcadero from the water side. it was once upon a time subsequently there was a proposal to build a hotel on it that has failed and the port has offered the seawall lot 322-1 as an affordable housing site as part of the overall need of the city but because it is a use that makes good sense within the existing neighborhood. did you want me to say something different? is that what you had in mind? >> yes thank you. >> you can phrase it more eloquently than i might. >> i doubt that. >> but i do want the public to know this is something the port cares deeply about and the port wants to be an active participant in the city in terms of creating more affordable housing in the city as the need has certainly been eloquently expressed. commissioner brandon do you have any comments or questions? >> thank you, i want to thank ricky, sophia for a great presentation. we need to focus on the mayor's goal of affordable housing. i want to go back to the geographical distribution of sites. what percentage of this is overall rehab co

it allows did signage based on the linear side it is a one-size-fits-all that works well with the seawall shortly after the guidelines the port adapted the waterfront and in 2004 the embarcadero historic district and in 2014 the land works historic district we've found that the current sign guidelines are not responsive to how you place signage on historic structures and don't allow full visibility with the one-size-fits-all approach as you go down the pier protons the building inspection buildings go don't meet the needs how signage goes on historic structures the attempt to look at those and come up with solutions the good news throughout the last 10 to 15 years since the adaptation of the waterfront plan we've had success in the development world we've worked with the state historic officer as to how to put signage on buildings we've heard again, a great concern on how to put signage on those buildings in the embarcadero praumd how to place signs on buildings in a manner it's consistent with the secretary standards for historic renovation we've also heard concerns about placing the soo

two quick things to report, commissioners, one is that the pop up, the public space at seawall lot 337 across from the ballpark is rapidly rising from the pavement and there was some happened to catch an interview on kcbs today and i happened to get a good look at it and it's looking great. so that is under construction and should be open in time for opening day, which is fast approaching. also sunday, march the 8th, which is coming up before our next meeting, is the kick off of the city sunday streets program. it kicks off, as you know, at the embarcadero so that will be sunday, march the 8th along the length of the embarcadero. and then lastly i wanted to mention some news about one of our long, long-term tenants, frank sabella: frank sabella was born in 1912, one of 12 children born on francisco street right across from the port, to his parents and he had long been the owner of sabella and latora restaurant on fisherman's wharf. they serve lunch and dinner and also has a crab stand that sells calimari, among other things. he was born in 1927 right in the roaring 20's period and fran

and the seawall study would be $1 million. you previously approved $500,000 for this project. we are currently underway with it in fiscal year 14-15. this funding will get it through the full initial stage of assessing the seawall and marginal works. finally, there's an environmental investigation currently underway at pier 39. this additional funding would enable a follow-up study that we expect to need to do through the request of the regional water quality control board. so these charts are being revisited from the 5 year financial plan because i want you to be able to see that the proposed projects help support the port's financial position. it was in the high scenario that we included the additional revenue that would be generated from the back lands project and some pier 23 leasing, and this chart helps show the additional revenue from those projects in the 5 year window would be just over 7 million dollars. so i'm requesting today to increase the port's capital budget for fiscal year 15-16 by 19.4 million dollars for a total of 32.2 million, which is really quite a larg

efforts but we have them scheduled to come back at the second meeting in march specifically on the seawall at 322-1 agenda, but i am assuming you are asking more about similar to what we deal with the director of city planning, you would like to see them once a year. >> i'd like that. >> i doubt by the march meeting they will have something new to report, so we will just put them on the calendar annually. is that sufficient, commissioner adams? >> yeah. >> commissioner woo ho you had some items. >> having experienced a little of what the experience is for the public and our cruise ship passengers as well, a combination of both, i was going to ask if we could have some more formal study and recommendations on how to improve the movement of traffic and people when we have very heavy cruise ship days. and i think that i believe that there's got to be some steps that we can take that we shouldn't just accept the situation as is. i am not sure that the traffic was being directed as well i'm not sure that if we had better signage to tell people who are going to fisherman's wharf, don't take emba

public private partnerships and are also looking for a regional city-wide strategy to address our seawall and deal with the significant challenges that sea level rise will bring. and of course we will continue to look for voter approval in the form of go bonds in terms of our parks and open space network. so i will turn it over to megan wallace who is our budget manager, and daly dunham, but i would like to thank lawrence brown and he managed the capital review this year. 25 projects came in and we are submitting 7 to you for approval. we had an internal review work who did a lot of work on these projects and finally i want to thank brad benson, not only for guiding the development of the capital plan but for negotiating the pg&e settlement which is generating the big one-time source of funds that we're recommending for investment today. with that, i'll turn it over to megan . >> good afternoon, i'm megan wallace from port finance. in 2009 voters approved a charter amendment that required the city to begin a two-year budget process that had an alternating 5 year financial plan update on a

powerful wind caused some flooding and a lot of road closures around parts of massachusetts because the seawallhad already been breached from prior storms. so a lot of problems that storm brought us. it's moving out but here is the new one we have to be worried about crossing st. louis missouri five to eight inches of snow, arkansas, new jersey, further north there is snow coming down and in between icy roads from little rock to charlotte, early afternoon snow above that and washington, d.c. is going to get six to 12 inches of snow across the city. including snow drifts. >> lot of problems we'll be following had one rebecca stevenson thank you. >> the faa today proposed the highly anticipated rules for drones. officials believe it could take up to 18 months or more to finalize them. the agency's proposal would allow is drones bofer above 55 pounds. users would also have to pass a tsa screening. today the president also ordered federal agencies to publish policies on how they plan to use those drones. al jazeera america's todd curtis joined us earlier. >> there are rules and regulations, and alt

tourists found out they got too close with huge waves crashing into the seawall at the embarcadero.ounded pier 14 near the ferly building and brought visitors streaming on the sidewalk to watch mother nature's fury near the ferry building. mike left sunny southern california for this, this weekend. and he got a surprise when he and his girlfriend tried to take a selfie. >> we are trying to take a couple of photos and the wind got the best of us. it took us back a few steps and we almost lost control. >> reporter: a neighbor walking down there told me he has never seen the waterfront like that and he lived there for 25 years. ryan takeo kpix 5. >> yeah. christin ayers is in south city with damage from the storm, as well. -- christian hartnett is in south city with damage from the storm, as well. last time we saw you it was howling. >> reporter: it's still ripping through here for hours. trees are swaying and bending in directions they shouldn't be. our truck is swaying back and forth and it's even put some clean-up crews to work today. in brisbane a tree fell over into power lines ne