that extends the park code on to the new park portions of the two parcels. but, not on the real estate managed parking area. and just to recap as supervisor kim mentioned, parts of the products are a ten-year community planning process which i would just like to take a moment to recognize as so many of the folks in the community have helped us and as you know the voters have passed proposition i which approved the freeway north of market street in 2000, and the city opened up into a agreement. in exchange for this land we are obligated to sell the parcel to construct the boulevard as well as create other projects to mitigate the impact of the freeway on the surrounding neighborhood and just quickly to date, the projects that have been complete are in front of you in this chart, and these projects were performed and prioritized by the transportation khor which conducted a process with the central freeway committee which began in 2004, and in 2006, they prioritized these projects in front of you and the cal transright-of-way improvements. which are the dog pla

has been redundant to the golden gate park activities. under separate permits we gunning began locating bicycle at the eastern entrance of the golden gate park we found it to be very successful we are be looking for a way to positively activate that space. the pilot program lasted two months in denomination but received omittance support from law enforcement and other merry shall not in the community. the proposed leased amendment would add a location at ocean beach and a location at the end of 8th street. and working with the supervisors office we have outreach to the local merchant groups and we have a compromise. we originally proposed that the lake location would be operable 7 days a week but we found if we were out there 5 days a week then the tuesday, wednesday days it would not effect others businesses. we are proposing some slight modifications to the hours of operations. and then for the ocean beach location it would be operational june through september 4th p.m. on saturday and sunday and then we would have less hours for discret

and dog park as a park within the meaning of the park code and to authorize the recreation and parks department to control these portions. >> ten, resolution approving the execution of air space lease known as block number 3513, lot number 071, and located along doboce street between otis and stevenson street and by and between the city and county of san francisco and the state of california, acting by and through the department of transportation for the initial term of 20 years and rent of $10,000. number eleven resolution approving for the execution of the air poser lease known as 3513 lot number 074 and located under the highway 101 here duboce street and between valencia street and stevenson street by and between the city and county of san francisco actleing through the department of transportation for term of 20 years and $2,335,343. >> thank you, mr. clerk, and these items are sponsored by supervisor kim. >> thank you, chair farrell. >> today really a combination of 13 years of organizing work that has been occurring in this part of district six. we are calling it the

in other words, reducing the easy to find a parking space to reduce the amount of circling and double parking that we see, there are two main strategies and one is simply providing better information, and there is high, and low tech ways to do that, and you can see it on the street and trying to get the people, guide them to the available spaces in our city, garages and lots and as well as high-tech, and real time information, the first city in the world to have an app of real time information where the parking is available. and the whole idea is to get the people matched up and off the road as quickly as possible. >> we also have been testing the pricing via the park pile projects and in those areas, to cover the metered space and 14 of the garages we are obligated to find the lowest rate possible so that you experience as drivers that there are almost always a parking space available on every block that is the goal. and meter parking and for our garages never to feel that there is always space for the next shopper who wants to come to the commercial areas and on the whole, we have b

and the forerunner of the park alliance played a large role in that as well. it's my view that with the 220 parks that we have in the system, that the best way, because of the competing uses of dogs on leash, dogs off-leash, playgrounds, seniors, families that want to use the park, that the best way to resolve these issues is to have the community work on their own dream for what their park ought to be and resolve those issues and bring them to us. having said that, the huntington park has been starting a process, and i wanted greg chang, who is the nob hill association president to make a brief statement on where they are. i first met greg because as a parent he was very interested in upgrading the playground there and you has moved to another role and if you could be brief and tell us where we are, i would appreciate that greg. >> thank you, president buell and commissioners for all you do for our community. a couple of quick stories that are happy endings to some land use issues. probably aware of the masonic and live nation intensification of that location

on the garage and surface of the park. there was a diagram in our packet that shows a section lower terrace of union square plaza along market and geary will be fenced for the duration of the project, which mta is currently estimating to be 66 months. mta anticipates that they will issue a notice to proceed to their contractor for the union square station at the beginning of june. construction as i said will have a direction impact on the parking garage, with approximately 21,500-square-feet of parking spaces to be fenced during the project. under the mou, mta has 12 months to complete the construction in the parking garage. work in the garage will include installation of a temporary construction wall, demolition of an existing circulation ramp in the garage, and the temporary loss of 129 parking spaces. at the end of construction in the garage, mta will replace the ramp and they are going to restripe a portion of the garage to restore approximately 20 spaces. but all told, union square garage will permanently lose 109 park

the fact as our park system as a whole the rec park doesn't raise funds they try their best but ultimately it's a decision for the board and the mayor how we fund our parks department. over the last decade we have moved in the direction of less support where the hospital receives more sports. that speaks vacuumed about the lack of support in this building for operating our parks. we've had a significant number of influxes our personnel for the parks. i asked to add back several park patrol positions. i hope to be able to do that again, this year. i will say with respect to this particular property i don't see the lack of park patrol being an issue because this is a small area integrated into the valley commercial coordinated so i think in terms of maintenance the one real benefit we have two extremely strong and engaged folk and the community benefit district there's a ton of work that have a huge incentive to make sure this is maintained properly. i think we will be able to maintain it but we need to focus that in the budget definitely. if the grant does not come through keep in mind the

>> this is a meet of the recreation and parks commission and will the secretary please call the roll. >> commissioner buell? >> here. >> commissioner low? >> here. >> commissioner arata? >> here. >> commissioner bonilla. >> commissioner harrison. >> here. >> and commissioner levitan is on her way. we are -- let me just make a couple of announcements. first of all, item 6 and 6a will be heard as one. and 6 is only a discussion item and 6a is to be voted on, but the two will be heard together. as a reminder, we ask that you turn off any electronic-sounding devices that may go off during the proceedings. we would also ask that you please take conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. if you would like to speak on any item, please complete a blue card unless otherwise announced by the president, each person will have three minutes for public comment on each item. if there is any item of interest to you not on the agenda, it is under the subject-matter jurisdiction of the commission. you may speak under general public comment, which is item 4, an

the parking meters - the area is like the boiling room in a ship. if you put in parking meters all are worker class monthly latino who can't afford the parking meters it will be like turning the slow down to the water to the applicants. the city created the zone to protect businesses the parking problem is imcomposing the conditions. >> next speaker please and i'm a resident and business owner at the developing investment in artists community. i'm here straight off a job and i'm glad to be here. i applaud the sprifrdz for holding this hearing thank you and the staff for coming and explaining what you're doing. i wanted to underline angelinas plan it's not her begin plan but put together by business owners. i see a problem in the believe i live in that we have a number of first floor businesses. that if they had to contend with parking meters they'd probable be out of business. and some of them it would inconvenience them. i like the last plan ed worked on because it and the the residents. i don't see anything outside of what the plan that angelina pr

it's called the park services captain. these are 34 17 gardeners who then receive an additional assignment or appointment from the general manager and they serve in an assistant supervisory capacity. and we select our park service captains from their merit-based performance record, from their demonstrated potential for supervisory duties and we check with 261 to ensure they are a member in good standing. we assign these assistant supervisory duties to build supervisory capacity in the department and also to establish supervisory experience for promotion. currently we have 24 park service captains assigned. the next step in the pipeline is our supervisory class, the park section supervisor. we have a budgeted fte of 34 of those. and this is a supervisory class working in a complex in our 22, 220 parks throughout the city. they will have a complex of anywhere from 15 to 20 parks and they will supervise the gardeners that are working with them in that area and all the duties i just described to you. importantly, i want to poin

the parking decision we make impacts the rest of the parking transportation system. and we've been hearing a lot in the public realm. about how some of the potential ideas of projects or free streets have been of great interest to a lot of people and have great certain because of parking loss that. the transit parking project we all talked about how we need to improve muni. this is a first systematic look at the muni system. to achieve some of the pedestrian sadists there will be trade offices. and some will included parking. i want to put that on the table that's how we advance this mode of transportation more attractive. it's not about covering people to get out of their cars but making the other modes of transportation attractive. so i know there's a lot of people that point to speak and a mr. reiskin a few questions. in terms of plans in different parts of san francisco again, i've called the hearing that - potential parking meters were going into rural heights areas. when are the public agencies start to notify the public about when those plans become a public or

so the parking availability and trying to get a handle on the various parking regulations we have around the city. another thing we strove to do was to try to make more consistency in the rule you could use to park near a parker meter and we removed a bunch of government parking and have eliminated parking for employees. many of those things were not importantly with the city government but we thought it was important to lead by example. we try to manage better xoernlly as well that. - we have tried to make finding parking easier. you mentioned the l s f pilot 25 percent of the meter spaces in the city where we have realtime parking availability for people i referenced 20 to thirty percent of the traffic is people circling for people but it created distracted parks. you're more inclined to make abrupt stropz so there's safety involved. there's dynamicly adjusting parking to manage demand so where demand is high in the pilot area we've been increasing the cost of the meter and where demand is low we reduce the costs of the meter to manage to throughout more geographic areas to we have les

garage would avoid the vehicle parking. and just to apologize for any confusion. the height bonus is only for that which is built higher than the 10 feet. and there's the project has to have either ground floor commercial space or the ceiling you can go up to 5 feet. i apologize for the confusion apparently it's a qualifying requirement it has to be an tuff use and pittsburgh - it's a percentage too. you were ultimately, the administrator of this amendment. in the material you were relating the windows and off the public right-of-way off the area given the other relatives you have. and i believe that leave aside your explanation about height the addition of windows is completely inappropriate. now you're telling me not accurate as the code how do you deal with the window portion >> i agree there's a difference in tuff uses that's a different part of the code. it doesn't require o pack glasses. we have the definition in another section and it listed specific issues. by the tuff word is more of a characteristic of a word. that

, to really provide the best possible park system. under phil's leadership, the trust for public land has been especially productive with the city leveraging $4 million of private funds into $16.5 million that ends up benefiting city parks in the tenderloin, western addition, excelsior neighborhoods. he's also developed a partnership process that really clearly identifies where the responsibilities between nonprofits and the department so we can ensure the department, the great staff that is within the city, has meaningful roles of engagement all the way through the process. so, just want to thank you very much for the opportunity to speak to this partnership that lends the best [inaudible]. city departments. >> thank you. thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is waynn hiroshimi, i'm actually a native san franciscan. i want to share the rec and park has done such a phenomenal job with the parks. it was my backyard. it's my children's, it's my grandchildren's backyard. [inaudible]. when i re

the park system. it will have a long-term ranging impact on the park system citywide and we're honored to be of assistance for making that contribution, as well as others coming out of the event. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any other public comment on the item? being none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner levitan. >> just a comment, the reason that operations put this on the general calendar was to make sure we all had an opportunity to hear, just as mr. o'grady said, the extreme value this partnership brings us and that event brought us and we're very grateful to everybody. >> with that is there a motion. >> so moved. >> seconded. >> moved and second, all in favor? >> aye. >> so moved. >> we're on item 8, union square parking garage lease. >> good morning commissioners, property management for the department. the item before you is approval of the lease with the uptown garage association for the management of the union square parking garage. uptown parking garage association was formed to

the parks and recreation recommended that be approved. we're here with you and it's scheduled for the full board to just that 4 and if it is approved we'll be in escrow >> colleagues any questions for the colleague? >> i was hoping to hear harvey's report first, because they go hand in hand. >> sure let's go to mr. rose. >> on page 15 of our report we point out that pursuant to the purpose agreement the noah ministry is going to sell the property to the city. that's $490 million in squatter and that's a 2 percent less than the appraised on this property. on this page we talked about the accusation fund it would be used for the accusation if the proposed property is acquired for 2.24 million it would be - however, i would note there's a footnote that that open space fund is scheduled to get an additional $2 million approximately in fourteen, fourteen so that would bum up that amount to $9 million. also on page 17 we have a table 3 which shows the stemmed development costs for the 3824 street property. those costs are up to $2.3 million and

we will have the union square park issue. we will consider the action and the recreation and park commission will consider making a recommendation of the adverse shadow on union square park. we will adjourn and the planning commission b will remain in session and separately consider others actions. that places us under the following issues for the consideration of the adoption of the california quality action and possibly joint action by reeshg and park commission to raise the shadow limit for union square and discussion and possible action to recommend to the planning commission that the net shadow casts b will not be adverse to the park as code section 295. >> good morning. i'm with the planning staff that you before i get into my presentation i have my colleague here who will make a few opening remarks. thank you >> good morning commissioners i'm the director the office of the community investment and a infrastructure. we're the successor agency as you know the governor discovered the agency. and we are charged with mrement

the cars all have parking placards. why this is relevant is because we learned in our research as the committee met over six months that in san francisco there are 29,000 metered parking spaces and 60 thousand placard holders. at any given time on the street what you might find is as many as one out of four parking spaces is occupied by a placard holder and in some neighborhoods that is going up to as much as 50 percent. so who are all these people? >> i'm bob, also a member of this group. so, even though the slide isn't up and nobody can see it. it shows a placard in the window and this is showing areas for much of the day there may be cars parked there with placards. based on some of the thoughts we heard we heard 3 major challenges with this issue. we can't find parking spaces available when we need them, where we need them. secondly because so many vehicles do stay for so long, 8, 10, 12 hours or longer, there isn't turnover so nobody can go to that store, office, entertainment, shopping place. there isn't enough par

the san francisco bike plan dedicated an entire goal to assure bicycle parking for enhancing the significant use of bicycle parking over the last 5 years. and that's why i focus the rest of my presentation on bike parking our new proposal. we're excited to be here today. this come a long way since august of last year where this commission approved the planning code and to comprehensively update those requirement. since the hearing the department has reached it out out to many starmdz. we have reached out to the union square and he san francisco real estate department and the san francisco mta. we have received any meetings with the stakeholders. also, we arraigned on best practices in the comparable cities with are for example, vancouver and it's standards are laid out. based on the comment we received and the research we're here to print our final proposal for your recommendation. so the proposal would include requirements based on two classes. class one bicycle parking is secured indoor parking. it can come in forms of lockers or by bicycle rooms. class two bike targets short term use for

some of the things that we like about it are the parks and open space. and the block sizes, which are, thank god, that are the mission bay. and the connections of the bay, and the variety of heights which we would like to see will get, i am sure that we will get into a lot more detail. i am not sure that there is universal support for the kind of heights and the kind of development total square footage that the giants would like to see. but, it is an ongoing negotiation. we talked about families. one of of the things that we asked the giant its look at since they have got this park in the middle with no streets in the way, look at child care as an opportunity. because they are very few places where you don't have to cross the street. to get to a child care. >> we like the mix of uses we want to be sure that the mari time industries are protected and we look forward to moving forward. the most important thing to me is early construction of the park because i think that is a critical piece to activating the neighborhood. thank you. >> next speaker? >> good