the area around the park has approximately 0.45 acres of open space for 1000 residents. this is 95% below the citywide average. the master plan works to create this for our community. >> now, let me talk a little bit about the process. the environmental impact review represents the culmination of a strong partnership between city departments and the community, and working together, the library and recreation and parks department along with the department of public works pecker engaged with the public in a master planning progress -- plan with numerous meetings. just as an example, we had 15 stakeholder meetings in the neighborhood, four public meetings at the main library, meetings at city hall, two art commission meetings, and a two- month closure of mason street. we also initiated a full environmental impact review with the planning department and the major environmental analysis team in late 2008. the study of this project has been complete and very thorough, analyzing every aspect of the project and every potential part of the plan. the community has supported this pl

let's start with the representatives from parks and recreation. >> i am the supervisor for parks and recreation. in 2004 we approved acquiring the open space. at the time, the master planning process had not begun. we're not ultimately know how the site would be considered. as a result, the original resolution could not specify how the layout would fit into the final configurations. after a robust community planning process, the northeast library plan was created. this began in april -- with the hearing. the plan results in significant expansion of public space, reconfiguring the elements -- elements of the park, and the boundaries of the joe dimaggio playground include the lombard site and the portion of the street that has been vacated. residents of the northeast will get 12,000 square feet of new open space. this is an area identified in the open space plan. the parks open space is increased by 20%, for an expanded children's play area, which adds new features like games and technique tables, and provides additional landscaping and seating. there is not a lot of landscaping, curren

we have the plan say fund and the parks. we have healthy recreational choices, to provide low-cost recreational opportunities. we have the enhanced opportunities for the department. we have the dedicated funding, and we improve access and service delivery. we will prioritize the resources that we have. and we had the four budget committee meetings, and we have the recreation side. and we discussed the budget and several parts and recreation committee. we have the annual meeting with the mayor. the parks recreation -- we have the pleasure of participating with the district supervisors. we have this with the budget committee meeting. we have the director of finance and administration. >> good afternoon, we have the budget primarily through the use of additional revenues. millions of dollars in new revenue with approximately $700,000 in expenditures. and the focus of revenue has begun to reap the benefits that we will see in the current fiscal year. we have the permitting and the special events in the amount of $1 million. and w

i'm here to represent thethere s within a block of the parking garage. i need to speak to the fact that our viability as businesses in this community, where restaurants have flourished, in this economy coming in this day and age, challenges without that parking, without the hourly access to the parking. when it shut down for about six weeks two augusts ago, business dropped 25%. that is a sustained drop. we are talking probably 20 people being laid off. we are talking most of us going out of business. the hourly public parking is paramount to our survival and a thriving of the business community with and that two- block radius. it has developed a beautiful culture of restaurants and small businesses. all of them are independently owned and operated. i came running from the kitchen. i have been there since 8:00 this morning. we are living in a small, tight community that has no other public parking access. rosas lot we have is four blocks away down two steep hills. we see drops in business specifically. the community thrives with a barrage of their -- the

on the street. this parking inside this building is market rate and it does not appear to have the value they say it does. as far as the transit center, in a better world, there would be transit centers in every neighborhood. in the real world, they don't work without enormous subsidy. i am not aware of any way of subsidizing something like this. maybe some day. it appears there has been a concession made in addition to the earlier concessions on setbacks on the 10 spaces for parking. frankly, we are a little disappointed. we like the earlier project better. it is putting too much emphasis to a land use that is not appropriate or less value than it is claimed to be in this neighborhood. we thought the earlier project was a lot better. that being said, we value the community process, the give-and- take. if concessions are made, we think that is valuable. but honestly, this is a good -- what was originally proposed as a good project for this location. i hope you can find a way to move it forward. president olague:

next question. >> going off the bicycle parking to all the mobile parking, i am with the san franciscobicycle coalition. we were talking last night in oakland about various cities and the congestion issues and congestion pricing versus perhaps parking pricing. i was wondering if he could tell us the politics of pricing automobile parking versus congestion parking. in at san francisco, one of the biggest challenges is car is going past you at 40 m.p.h. and getting cars to go slower and not be in the city as we were looking at on market street. a lot of it is about reducing cars. i know in copenhagen, we look at what has been done with diminishing car parking, but maybe speak to car parking as part of this. >> in copenhagen, the cars cost double price because of taxes. not so many people have a car. copenhagen is like new york, i guess, people do not need cars as much. many people want to commute into the center from the suburbs. that is what we want to prevent. that is why we have such high costs, high taxes on parking your car. the closer that you get to the center, the more expensive.

i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in

we understand that the current use of the project is a parking garage. and it definitely services the community better than the seven units currently. and even though it doesn't fall within conforming zoning, but because we're changing the use, we hope that the commission will take the additional two spaces and also give the allowable option if for some unforeseeable future that they find a way to put in 25 spaces that the commission would allow them to be granted the 25 spaces if for some unlikely case that they could do such. and that is it. thank you. president olague: thank you. second d.r. requester. >> good afternoon. jamie terry, rhca. this is the third hearing for this project. why? because this project is rife with extraordinary circumstances. we are here to ask the commission to exercise its d.r. powers and consider if niece extraordinary circumstances are good planning. this project looks deceptively simple. it looks like it meets code. and that's good. but it unravels quickly when it's realized that the current planning code is insufficient fo

many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to a

a new set of objectives for the office park. our only focus are on the office parks questions. within a park subarea as originally established in 1985, memorialized as office of new development with commitments to other maps and indexes. there is a new network of streets that creates a hierarchy in the urban design character. creating a new open space and pedestrian at work that recognizes those facilities existing. the planning code amendments would create a special use district specific 2 executive park, including controls for active uses in public streets and open spaces, accommodating section changes. zoning calls for a variety of different heights and procedures for design review. limited to a conditional use, tailored more toward design and similar to what we see downtown. the special use district memorializes the policies in the sub-area plants, code of flying out of this section can be broken into smaller blocks and development. open space provisions require each phase of development space in each building. the last item before you is a map amendment that we find subjec

in terms of the conditional use for parking, it's always been my feeling that most of the congestion is people passing through an area. and so if in fact sometimes congestion is added to by people not having a garage and going around in circles looking for a place to park. so, i mean, i think where it's appropriate, and we feel it's ok, giving conditional use to one-to-one parking or higher levels of parking, might actually decrease congestion, not increase it. because it's not going to be a choice between whether you have a car or not. it's going to be what you're going to do with the car and how many trips it's going to take before it goes to rest. so fee deferral program, you know, not -- not -- i think it's a very good idea. i wish there would be more programs moving forward and projects. but because of the economy, it isn't. i think what we need to do is try to figure out as a city a way to work in some of these community improvements as part of our normal budget. whether it be through operating expenses, not really likely in today's climate. but by bond issues, maybe. you know,

and the other at the park. this is a very unusual line. i think it will be a very, very important quality of this connected library and this community. finally, for the urban design excellence, i began by saying this starts with the placement of it. as a parking lot or as others have said could exist as a park, having an architectural piece there is the right thing for this neighborhood. it will help bring it together, and very importantly, the closure of this residual piece of mason st. will eliminate eight pedestrian unfriendly and vehicular confusing part of the city and will provide a park which is not what two major streets but is protected by a library on one side and recreation on the other. in summary, in my conclusion, this is an absolute gift to the neighborhood and to the city. i would strongly urge you to have this project go forward. thank you. >> sean madison, north beach, in north beach resident and also a new father. i just wanted to comment publicly on the many friends and families i know in the north beach area that has st

all the parks belong to all the people. this park belongs just as much to the families in the bay view sdrishth as it does to the gentlemen that lives across the street. i'm happy and proud to be the caretaker for them. i wake up every day and thank that i have

i have to go home at the end of being in this park and scrub myself with a metal barbecue brush just to get all the sadness off. are you [bleep] kidding me, smoking! no matter how just the law, there will always be some reprobates who insist on breaking it. >> how are those drug addicts supposed to tweak properly with all of your secondhand smoke blowing in their faces. >> i try not to get near them when i'm smoking. >> that's kind of you. what am i supposed to call that hobo man over there who is washing his bum in the water fountain? okay, oh, oh -- >> there are just some things that nobody should be exposed to in a public park. >> i can't smoke in this park. >> no, you can't. >> . sam b, twizzlers. the twist you can't resist. this flat-out delicious -- the new $3 flatbread breakfast combo. a toasty 6-inch flatbread breakfast sandwich and a 16-ounce cup of freshly brewed seattle's best coffee. all for just $3. build your better breakfast today. >> my guest tonight, former mayor of new orleans. new published book by amazon.com is called katrina's secrets, storm after the storm. pleas

the structures. president goh: so there is no parking in front of the curb cut? >> people park their. -- there. president goh: when were these buildings built? >> i know more about my structure than the other one. mine was built in 1927. i believe the smaller structure was built before 1910. president goh: what building, if we could have that picture again -- they were out buildings to one of the victorians there. could you point it out? >> i have heard this. i have never -- i have no proof of any of this. it is neighborhood discussion. apparently, this home at 256 mullen avenue had these two lots associated with it, but i cannot speak to how those were broken off. i can explain why the lot line bisects the house -- i cannot explain why the lot line bisects the house. we are just trying to correct a wrong. president goh: thank you. >> thank you. mr. sanchez. >> thank you. scott sanchez, planning department. the subject variants is pretty straightforward. -- variance is pretty straightforward. the properties are located within a single-family zoning district within the bernal heights special use

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most of the park is pitch dark. there is crime and vandalism, homelessness, recommended outreaches missing, with money -- with no money for this. no. 2, the benches are black, but should be green. number three, the ultimate insult, violating the jurisdiction of ordnance. the community calls it weird. this is not a part, this is a junkyard. enough of your devious antics, and the priority overseeing swans. the result is a disgusting display of dishonesty. you're conscious -- >> nancy? >> good afternoon. this is a hard act to follow. i will try to follow. i came here to discuss the change in the lease of the san francisco yacht club. i think you should consider the introduction of rent credit, as oppressive for dismantling the fund's resources. this will take public funding, to allow the private entity to spend money without public -- without public review. the commissioners will not be authorizing the projects paid for by the public money, as you are now. just because the general manager will be sitting with his privat

parking. very few places in the city you can park 16 wheeler's. it is really more of a correction in pier 80. the average tenants are about $1.25 per square foot. that is a matter of controlling the lot. we believe if you are paying $1.25 per square foot, $185 for a parking space may be part of it is to keep that business in the city. we think $40 is more in line with the market. 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

all the parks belong to all the people. this park belongs just as much to the families in the bay view sdrishth as it does to the gentlemen that lives across the street. i'm happy and proud to be the caretaker for them. i wake up every day and thank that i have >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewin

what if anything can be done by the national park service to mitigate the effects of climate change? senior editor craig miller sat down with national parks director jon jarvis to find out. >> jon jarvis, thanks for taking time with us. >> thank you. >> you and i first met last fall up in glacier national park. you were talking to a group of reporters on a creek. and you said the greatest threat to the integrity of the national park system that you've ever faced is climate change. that's a huge statement. >> i believe every bit of it. glacier national park is the perfect place to do that besides being a beautiful place. gra glacier is the poster child for climate change. based on predictive models we see, within a couple of decades, the glaciers that define glacier national park will literally be gone. glaciers store water. they provide a refrigerator service basically for free for streams that support wild trout and other species. all of that is going to change. the basic integrity for our national parks is being challenged by climate change. >> california has a huge stake in this. i

this video by the national park service shows hikers climbing those cables to the summit. 1.50 for a day hike. and hottest tickets are being snapped up within minutes when they go on sale. many park visitors they are complaining they are being shut out. >> we synchronized our watches and try to get our group up to the top. >> permits go on sale precisely 7 a.m. on the first day of each month. they are sold by phone and online to a park through a park service website. but he and his friends couldn't get out fast enough. they were sold out in 12 minutes. >> it's hard to believe 400 tickets could be gone in five to ten minutes for one day, let alone for 30 days. >> to be gone so fast, it seems like how could it happen. >> the park service directed me to call the attorney general's office. i called 7 on your side. >> what we found they have created a black market for the popular yosemite hike. >> they are buying the half dome permits and selling them on the internet on craigslist for captor but tenant prices. doctor exorbitant prices. >> they scoop up large numbers of permits before they

the neighborhood. we were united for a triangular library -- i mean, a triangular park. the reason was not only because it was strategic open space, but because of the corridors from throughout the strategic intersection. the image today is one of larger open space and the battle does not about a certain type of park, but how much park can you get? and if you were to close mason st. totally, and not build 20 feet into a, he would have the maximum open space for the neighborhood. in presentations to the many bodies in the communities, it is very misleading. the site plans do not show property line. the black area that you see is the 20 feet of construction in contradiction to the general plan. how would you like anyone building across the property line of 1 foot, 2 foot, 10 feet, 20 feet? to block access would be disgraceful. the columbus avenue urban design element as a series of open spaces. washington square have a big battle for an underground garages that would have lifted the part several feet above columbus avenue. the battle is very similar. ribbon of open space is

i want to point out that the eir is defective because it treats the current parking lot of the triangle as if it is a permanent land use. the eir and staff contend that this is the only way. more open space will be provided than the proposed project without losing the historic resources. this is not necessary to build in a triangle in under to provide additional public space. the triangle purchased to provide an open space part of the park counts as designated open space. this is a huge effect in the eir because all of the project alternatives treat this like it is a parking lot ignoring the open space designation. to make that work, you have got to revise that. >> i am a 55-year resident of north beach. i live one block from the library. i am here to urge you to reject the eir because its analysis of alternatives is deficient. the overwhelming deficiency is it is contrived treatment of project alternatives. as just explained, the designation of the triangle as open space purchased for open space and park use was not considered when looking at project alternatives at this renders it ina