completion of the museum expansion in 2015. i would like to as representatives from planning, real estate, and the fire department to discuss this and we'll be available for questions. >> i'm john from the planning department, and i am excited to be here today. kevin will go over the specific actions that the planning commission tuck. i want to make three points about this project that we agree as a pretty exciting one. it is quite consistent with the vision put forward many years ago for the yerba buena area to create a cultural district and the expansion of the museum, it's very consistent with that vision. we always like it when plans are carried forward to the future. that is exciting. and secondly, the transit center district plan, we are completing trans bay terminal. when you look at these plans together, it makes for a vastly increased and vastly improved public environment. unexciting part of the city for the downtown plan that suggests the downtown grow. thirdly, i want to make a comment about the design. the final des

i am here to represent the owner of the emerson flag building that adjoins the expansion. our family has owned the building for over 60 years, since 1950, one year before i was born. clearly, it is very old. it is the headquarters of our small family business. clearly, we value the building very highly. we are delighted to have them as our next-door neighbor. our family was among the original contributors to the building of the museum. we are proud to have our family name engraved on the donor's well, and we have maintained ongoing ownership in the museum. at the same time, we want to insure our rights. while representatives of the project have verbally assured us of many of these rights, we would like them to be formally recognized in writing. in particular that the door directly facing hunt st., the second floor fire escape, the comparable windows, and our well-known emerson flag sign will be preserved. additionally, we would like to maintain our access to the public space adjacent to our building in the event that the museum promenade takes place. we thank you for suppor

it is site -- designed to meet the expansion stations. once the station is completed, sfmoma will turn over the keys in the property will belong to us, the fire department and the city. supervisor mar: can i ask about this? >> the more fire, the more medical calls. we have had opportunities to meet our neighbors. we have been to clementine neckers, so -- cares and the south of market community. we had a chance to spend the afternoon on a fireboat with some of those -- the residences in the area of folsom street. through these meetings we learned our neighbors have some real concerns about how our operations are going to impact the day-to-day living. the fire department is committed to doing all we can to minimize our impact while providing the best level of public safety to the community. for example, this project includes a commitment to signal controllers to give our vehicles right away at fifth street and sixth street reducing the need for silence and horns enabling our engines to run silently until they reach the intersection and they'

we would like the planning commission and the board of supervisors to insure that the expansion project respects all the property rights and privileges. the only thing i would like to add to that is a reiteration of my cousin's, on having some sort of formal acknowledgment on the preservation of our rights, formal written acknowledgment. thanks. commissioner miguel: [reading names] >> hello. i am a student at san francisco state, and i wanted to say that i approve the community plan. i think that keeping glen park cozy main characteristics and that will increase the pedestrian transit and by the accessibility and it is very important issue. while i generally agree the plan will result in positive change, i also believe discussion needs to be had about the policy in a plan which states that the san francisco public utilities commission and planning department should conduct a study to assess the feasibility benefits. viable daylight extremes can exist in the long run but only if there is a connection between restoration and stewardship because the good health of an urban stream cannot su

and the zoning changes required for sfmoma's expansion. much has changed from the original year when the complex was unveiled and at that time the area was a bit rough around the edges and as such the buildings were designed in a very controlled manner. it moot not be too -- it might not be too strong to use the term with an entrance light with a blank entrance and blank walls. and many years later the neighborhood has filled with residential units and restaurants and retail and other cultural facilities. and it sits on the edge of an exciting transformation of the trans bay terminal area. all of a sudden and the back and sides of sfmoma need to be additional fronts. what good fortune it is to have the opportunity to respond to that challenge with an addition that does exactly that, transforms a fortress like trap into a porous, welcoming cultural light beacon. and of course, even in a well-designed building which this one surely will be under the guidance of the talented team of architects needs assets that will attract and enrich the audi

ordinance amending hunt street as part of the modern art museum expansion project. e of amending the 40 -as part of the san francisco museum of modern art expansion. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am happy to say that we are in a position to bring approval before you before the region for the expansion of the sf moma. this project is the result of an innovative plan to swap between the city and the sf moma > . they continue the certification under a number of approval actions. we are here to ask this committee to approve the action and forward them on to the board. sf moma plans to build and expand the museum to house the fischer collection and generally expand its collection. sf moma has already acquired the old college building and acquire fire station number one. sf moma will demolish both structures and construct a new wing. in return, the museum will build at no cost to the city, a new fire station and a superior location at 935 fulsom. this proposal is win-win for t he city. it allows them to provide for the fire department, a brand new fire station that is

you see chapman as the saint of the westward expansion, but you see crockett as the martyr of the westwardexpansion but i'm of course, i can barely get past big indicator. chapman was a tinpot on his head. crockett was a dead animal on his head. i don't know what this is about martyrs and saints, that crockett certainly is a fabulous character for what you are doing for the idea of westward expansion. >> well, crockett with a coonskin cap when he was campaigning. when he was appearing as the persona of davy crockett that he had created. i understand that most fancy dress like everybody else. it again his costume. they said he was wearing it when he left memphis coming to texas. but i found crockett a martyr almost from the beginning. if you read his autobiography and his stories, it's a story of failed your. and one of the ways he won votes for people with not only through his humor, he was a great comedian, humorist, he wrote the play that gave my book the title, "lions of the west," about colonel name water -- half alligator and have force. the beginning of that kind of frontier humor. b

thank you for supporting the expansion. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker? >> ♪ moma, how i love yo, my dear old moma ♪ ♪ captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- ♪ iw ould give the world to see you again ♪ ♪ moma, how i love you ♪ ♪ the districts north, east, west, and south will see you some more is decline ♪ when you relocate ♪ ♪ you are the moma i always dreamed of musicaf ♪ ♪ you moved and that's the last i've seen aof my art heart ♪ ♪ it is the way you look like he smite are located there. ♪ you are the art work right brand of musical and -- artwork i have dreamed of ♪ supervisor mar: thank you. is there anyone else from the public who would like to speak? please come for. >> thank you. on behalf of the w and sf moma. her concerns are about private use. the design does include alternative pedestrian access and a substitute for the excess weight. the public pedestrian ways preserved and it is undisputed the vacation of hunt street is in the public interest because it is impossible to build without it. the w's need for access will

my request is for several actions regarding the expansion a note the existing san francisco museum of modern art. the existing sfmoma is at. this would demolish the two buildings. it would construct a new addition of approximately 230,000 square feet, reaching a height of approximately 200 feet. it would accommodate extended gallery space, including the collection and some free a publicly accessible art display areas and administrative and support functions for sfmoma. also as part of the project, an existing building located at 935 folsom street would be demolished and the new fire station would be construction on the northerly portion. the construction of the new fire station would be faced with the overall project to minimize the disruption in fire protection services and the functions fire station number one shifting locations. a resident of project would be construction in the future on the southerly portion of 935 folsom street site that is not occupied by the new fire station the other four factions for your consideration. first is the adoption of findings for the project under

please join us in supporting the expansion. >> if i could just interrupt, this category is for public hearing on closed items. commissioner miguel: this is strictly the eir we are talking about. the project will be before us at a later time, and the comments should be directed to the project itself. what we are considering now is the eir, whether it should be certified. >> if you want to speak to the project, can you wait until we finish with the eir's? we would very much appreciate that. if there's anyone else who really wants to speak to the eir, please come forward. for either of the items, 10 or 12. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am an attorney here in san francisco. i am year on behalf of the entity that owns the w hotel. my comments are on the certification and final eir. you have a letter we submitted earlier this week on the same topic. all my clients generally are in support of the project, we feel strongly that the environmental review work has not been done adequately. we object to the certification and final eir because of the deficiencies we identified in the draft t

the sfmoma the expansion will attract media and visitors from around the world and help us maintain our competitive edge with other great cultural destinations. the design is truly world-class. we expect it will garner much media coverage for san francisco, and as you can imagine, it will be great news for our hotels, other cultural institutions, restaurants, and, of course, the tax base. please join us in supporting the expansion. >> if i could just interrupt, this category is for public hearing on closed items. commissioner miguel: this is strictly the eir we are talking about. the project will be before us at a later time, and the comments should be directed to the project itself. what we are considering now is the eir, whether it should be certified. >> if you want to speak to the project, can you wait until we finish with the eir's? we would very much appreciate that. if there's anyone else who really wants to speak to the eir, please come forward. for either of the items, 10 or 12. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am an attorney here in san francisco. i am year on behalf of the

the expansion of the available labor force creates opportunities that did not exist before. you have innovation and entrepreneurialism that increases the actual size of small and medium-sized businesses. they consume and that expands the demand curve. you have a dynamic economy for 90% of u.s. born workers that enhances their wages. the other 9% got whacked up side the head with globalization and immigration and everything you can list and they need help. getting rid of immigrants doesn't really help them. the final point is if you look at the last 15 years, 25% of publicly traded companies in the united states are essentially from the bay area region and one out of four was started by an immigrant. we have great data on this because it's all transparent. you can look it up. you can tabulate it. it's all a list of companies that we own, from google to intel, we know these companies. here is what you don't know but you kind of know if you just look around. in the next two years, we'll have much better data on. that is at the small and medium sized, it turns out that same disp

the expansion will help us be able to specify within each major. >> it means a lot. a lot of things are happening here. everything is getting bigger. it feels good to me. >> the buildings will open to students and staff by the summer of 2013. brooks will move our school two sciences which has term -- expanded dramatically. we are moving into the large building. >> the school of design will also move to the new site. it is reassuring to know that a dynamic properties such as this, which was once used to manufacture of medicines to people in meaningful ways, will be transformed into a lively college campus. but some were fortunate enough to get this land. we started out with the baltimore ravens printing facility and we built adorns up on the hill. in the student union building where >> back in the day the campus was small. there were a few buildings on the campus. all of my classes were in the same building. my class graduated with 11 people in the school of education. >> stevenson was just named as one of america's up and coming colleges and universities. >> a large d

that is the expansion -- the universe is not only expanding, which we've known for a long time. the expansion is not slowing down as you think because gravity is pulling together, that is speeding up. and this we think can only be because of this energy. >> steven weinberg coming when the nobel prize in physics in 1979 for what? >> a theory that unified to have the basic forces of nature. we know and brad turns the four basic forces as electromagnetism, which is recently familiar to people. gravitation. we've done about that for a long time. and to forces that only act inside the nucleus of the atom. the strong nuclear force that holds the particles together and the weak nuclear force that causes them to change their nature. the theory that was honored and they share the prize with two other people with the theory that unified to have these horses. electro- mech bandit force and the weak nuclear force. and the price would not have been awarded at all except that it makes any predictions, which are then verified by experiment. >> you save most of your work from their home on lake

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that is, the universe is not only expanding, which we have known for a long time, the expansion is not slowing down as you would think because gravity pulling this together, but it is speeding up. this we think can only be because of this dark energy. >> you won the nobel prize in physics in 1979 for what? >> a theory that unified two of the basic forces of nature. we know in broad terms of for basic fortunes -- forces. electromagnetism, gravitation, known about that for a long time. and then to forces that only act inside the nucleus of the atom, the strong nuclear force that holds the particles together, and the weak nuclear force that causes them to change their nature. the theory that was honored, and i share the prize with two other people, and was a theory that unified two of the sources, the electromagnetic force in the weak nuclear force. and the prize would not have been awarded at all except that it made some new predictions which were then verified by experiment. >> you say you do most of your work from your home on lake austin. >> yes. >> do you teach, actively teaching? >>

the medicaid expansion is perfectly constitutional. that's tinal fine. so it's interesting that the supreme court will now weigh in on that. >> legacy and recusal. how does that fit into what the court may or may not do? legacy for the court itself with justice roberts -- >> yes, big legacy, no recusals. [laughter] no he's referring to the fact that there have been challenges to elena kagan, who was on top of the obama sliss torrey general. whether she would have to recules. she said she did not get involved herself in any of the litigation strategy so she should not. gwen: that was good. thank you all very much. that's all the time we have. but i assure you the conversation you're listening to here will continue online. check out our "washington week" webcast extra and read my blog, where i read a few of my provocative questions from you on my travels. catch up with us again next week on "washington week" and have a happy and a blessed thanksgiving. good night. >> download or weekly podcast and take us with you. it's the "washington week" podcast at "was

there was one alternative in the terms of expansion. i hope this strengthens and addresses a big part of the concern that we are hearing. people thought you could suddenly just build on recreational land for it we did not want that. that was something we all definitely agreed with. going back to this high- performing idea and the idea that you are in making sure that you make the most of what you have, in i think it was kind of a missed translation that if you were trying to make sure, and i hope this clarifies that and we worked for some language where we wanted to allow existing open spaces flexibility, we wanted to make sure those proposed uses are appropriate for each space. these options are the same options the were in the draft. i am making sure that this is known that this is a menu of choices and should be considered where appropriate. not every open space does not need active sports fields, food production, amenities. these are things to think about when looking at open spaces. this is this menu a. making it very clear that it

in brooklyn to financing industries that are creating jobs in boston or providing funding for the expansion of a local business serving a diverse seattle community and supporting training programs for tomorrow's workforce in los angeles. because the more we can do in local neighborhoods and communities, the more we can help make opportunity possible. >>> it's not often a player calls himself out after a game. d'angelo hall is kind of a different dude. today he took a lot of responsible for the loss in o.t. as a result, the 26-yard gain, which kept the cowboys' drive alive. three plays later, dallas kicked the game winning field goal. afterwards, d hall took responsibility for surrendering the big play. >> it's frustrating. you know it's frustrating. i can't point a finger at anybody but myself. the way i'm playing now, they need to cut me, because i'm definitely not worth what i'm getting, so you know, it's frustrating. it's frustrating. hopefully they see something in me and bring me back next year. but the way things going right now, i'm definitely not playing up to par. you know, when yo

. >> that is right, the elevator installed in the 1913 expansion. we can go look at that. >> let's go take a look. here we are in a spectacular st. francis lobby. here is the clock. when people say "meet me at the clock in the st. francis." let's look at that elevator. >> ok, let's do it. >> here we are in the elevator installed as part of the expansion, and this is the way it was originally installed about 100 years ago. it has a manual switch just like elevators did back then, and it runs on dc power. this was from a time before elevators ran on ac power. >> when did they switch? >> decided to switch in the 1920's, so this elevator predicts that by about 19 years. the doors are also manual, so this elevator predates the use of automatic doors on elevators. >> can we take a ride? >> absolutely. going down. >> how many troops do you think this elevator has taken in its lifetime? millions. >> yes, this one probably has. certainly hundreds of thousands. >> very smooth. >> it really does run smoothly. >> there we go. take some serious operation. there w