so, in terms of the actual planning, process, the park plan, and had to address the challenges of how do you, convert an industrial site into a park and accommodate the new functions? >> it also had to deal with balancing the history and preservation and historic interpretation of the site with this open space programming and recreation. it also had to look at the various uses of the district of the slip way and also, it looked at the charactered and defining features of the slip way which includes the cranes 1430 and the runway and the utility racks and the slip ways one through three. it also looked at physical elements and researched the evolution to world war ii and the eras identified the elements that remain on the site and determined that the design should rehab tait the world war ii, slip way and really the only extent resource, and the only extent and the slip way in the larger pier 70, historic district. and but it would also look at those remnant traces of physical elements that have been altered or no longer there in part of the interpretation of the site and just shows so

the meetings. and we hope that you can now go forward with that as it stands and not to remove sharp park from the plan. to do so and rechoirv a separate e-i-r for sharp park would be to obstruct the excellent work that's going on right now and would just needlessly endanger what we consider a municipal masterpiece. thank you. >> thank you. >> richard. >>> commissioners, i'm richard harris, the san francisco public park alliance. we have 6,000 members. i'm also a san francisco resident and have been a golfer in sharp park for most of my life. we support funding for the completion of the e-i-r which is what is good for you on agenda number 9 of the sun ramp. this is 18-year process. you hear the controversy here. there were two or three hearings here by the planning commission on the e-i-r. there was the extra hearing. i don't know how many thousands of comments there were, but there are a lot of comments which has engendered the meeting. to spend more money to finish the e-i-r. some of the comments you've had today go to the ultimate merits. there will be time for discussing that. right now the iss

construction of the park is finished. the original plan for emerald park called for cities to buy the land and all the improvements as well as pay for the ongoing matesv. in these times of great stress on the city's budget, this solution proved difficult and we are so pleased to say today, let me reiterate alastair's words, that our arrangement with the wonderful parks alliance, allows us to make a donation so that the people of san francisco, particularly those in rincon hill, will be able to enjoy emerald park 7 days a week forever with absolutely no cost to the city or to the people of san francisco. speaking for me as well as peter who couldn't make it today, this gift gives us an enormous amount of pleasure. i am also speaking as i rarely do for my wonderful wife, dr. rio, who is an equal donor with me. over the last 38 years, san francisco has been incredible to us and it is truly marvelous to pay back a little bit of our debt. we love the city and are so honored to be able to help in this small way. thank you. (appl

park and trees in the park. creen, please. trees need the roots. trees cannot survive without roots. they breathe through their roots and absorb nutrition through their roots. they cannot thrive if their roots are continually damaged and they cannot thrive in compacted soil. what compacts soil? heavy equipment, constant pressure. next, please. this is a drawing from the arbor day foundation and just very quickly tree roots, people think they go down, but they actually go out. top 18 inches of soil. two to three times the roots of the height of the tree. so, when you go out and see a large tree, their roots fall through that area. next, please. trees and trunks are not a good mix. ~ trucks an entire grove of trees is used for a parking lot of trucks. the same location we talked about last year. there is a lot of paving in golden gate park. let's see if we can get the trucks off the tree roots and onto the paving. next, please. trucks should not drive under tree canopies. we have trucks driving right by them. there

humbling experience for us at the parks alliance. let's have another round of applause for carina and lynn and all of the volunteers who have made such an incredible contribution to this effort. (applause) >> and now i think phil, ready to go ahead and do the ribbon cutting. >> thank you, matt. all right, we're getting there. so, a couple things. i want to give a big shout out, ron davis is here, the founder of the lafayette park or san francisco mime troop, right, ron? give a big shout out for ron. [cheering and applauding] >> that's for you. >> i have the honor of being arrested in this park in 1965. [laughter] cheer cheers >> under different management, i can say, had we performed for this guy we would not have been arrested. >> i'd be in it. >> he'd be in it, right. he's almost as good as we were. 1965, it was a very different commission and they took away our permit. we had done three shows. they didn't like the play. it was an aclu issue, it was called free speech. so, we've declared that the little park over there where i was a

handle the double parking. so the key area we can do a better job is on the complaint. we have details and they handle containments outside of those areas you such as the do you only u downtown. so if there are containments they come through by citizens or by 311 or dispatch or a call. typically though when we get out there they're typically begun. so it's sort of a difficult challenge >> yeah. it definitely calls for focus. i i know for example, there are times when mta do so sweeps on your tires they're not angered to the curb and i know on the street it drives people cease you can't tell it's an combine and an enormous amount of people are getting tickets or your pursuing two inches onto the sidewalk and all of a sudden there's like a sweep of tickets but then you have all this double parking and it's harder to catch people for sure but it's not impossible. sometimes, it smeem there's a focus on the eyes tickets as opposed to to the harder issue tickets that are having a more impact on the traffic. that's par

one of the requests was to provide additional parking. the city - we did require a parking variance yet the commissioners exhibited some hesitancy about this sow we have checked two garages and the intent is to rent two additional spaces so we would comply with the parking lot requirement without the variance. widespread to note if we were to add the two parking spaces it would be approximately 5 hundred square feet on our property and the commercial space is 8 hundred and 82 square feet so it would did he ludicrous the commercial space it does add parking to our building. people walk blocks after they park in a neighborhood so we feel like this is a solution and to remove mechanical equipment off the roof. the furnace had about that removed from the roof to the basement which leaves the ventilation. we're also intending to use a screening fence to soften the impact. another item of contention was window information. and so the windows that are being used are you w c aluminum window and on sheet 3.4 - we've now provided a window wall secti

and then we have, the park which is between third street and illinois street. on the northern line of this creek and it is actually kind of a connector part that allows you to circulate between illinois street and third street. and our engineering department, mas come up with the unique design where you will have an over, the water walkway experience, all of the vegetation, that is out there will pretty much be removed and replaced and it will clean up the site and make it more appealing and safer for the users to walk through. and enjoy. and next, is moving north cranco park and this is 9-acre park that we have been working for about two years on the community planning process. this is the latest iteration where we were taking the site which was a site and opening it up for a park use and it is generally between the streets, and the program developed and been opened against a mixed green and where we bring up the site to the adjacent roadway and create a lawn that could be used for multiple purposes. and rehab iting slip way four and creating a hard scape and a

the park is rich with eucalyptus trees. long paths allow you to meander, perfect for a dog walking in a wooded environment. >> i enjoy the history. the diversity of nature that exists in such an urban city, concrete streets, cars, we have this oasis of the natural environment. it reminds us of what the history was. >> there is a section for dogs and plenty of parking. transit is available on the 28 bus to get you very easily. the part is ada -- park is ada accessible. it is also a natural lake. this is your chance

and actually most of the parking there is all head-in parking. so, it's not people running their exhaust into the plant. >> yes, they do. >> there is also a sidewalk that separates that edge of the park from the planting areas. but it's a good comment. and as we, as we finalize the final, final, final data, we'll certainly take a look at that and make sure that these plants will be sturdy and hearty. our main goal with the plants are to create -- and this kind of comes out of the community and from review from the park staff folks, is to create kind of broader swaths of plant material so that we have bigger impact of certain species as opposed to a very mixed planting design where we have three plants here, five plants there, six plants there. so that this will have significant visual impact on the area. but really most of the discussion has been about safety and about visibility and actually we kind of wanted to plant a lot more trees than the parks department wanted us to plant. but we're happy with the amount of trees. >> i would appreciate if

and, so, that was the park. that was part of the park. and i wish that the parks department would work with the city and find out some way to open up those spaces so that kids can play. because there's no place to learn to ride a bike or learn to shoot hoops in that neighborhood any more. there's just no place. >> thank you. >>> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make general public comment? being none, general public comment is closed and we are on item 5, the consent calendar. is there anyone who would like 3 >>> so that the baby feels fur as we transfer her to the troop. and her name will be the result of a public naming contest and i'm happy to announce that the honorable jackie supervisor aioto-pier will be kicking that off next week as she comes to the zoo to visit. she's our congressman for the zoo. stay tuned for that name. that concludes my report. >> thank you very much. >> is there any public comment on this item? ~ jackie spear seeing none, public comment is closed. this item is discussion only. so, we are no

in the case of buena vista park. the property agreement has been in placed in fiscal year 70-71 when the city first accepted a land water preservation. i asking the board commend to the board of supervisors to approve. any questions? >> colleagues, any questions? thank you very much. we don't have the budget annual report on this item. any public comment? seeing none, public comment is close. colleagues, can we move this forward without opposition? so moved. clerk, please call no. 5. >> the clerk: item 5: 130826: [accept and expend grant - mclaren park connector trail project - $186,746]1308265.sponsor: avalosresolution retroactively authorizing the recreation and park department to accept and expend a land and water conservation fund grant from the california department of parks and recreation in the amount of $186,746 for the mclaren park connector trail project for the period of september 16, 2011, through june 30, 2014. >> the clerk: sf 512341234 >> good morning, this is the maclaren park and trail. this is an exp

and we're seeing this in several areas of the northern part of the park. rrator: since the researchers can only monitor a fraction of the willow from the ground, they must turn to the sky, using remote sensing. radar and advanced-imaging cameras mounted on airplanes and satellites provide data on many factors including tree height, soil and plant chemistry and even the health of the vegetation. dr. crabtree: the major part of remote sensing for ecologists, and the greatest utility is that they take detailed images and data sets over large areas. riparian habitats are extended over large areas through the entire ecosystem and we simply don't have the money or the labor force to go out and examine all these. but we can intensively look at representative samples of those riparian habitats and then turn to our remote-sensing data that covers the whole ecosystem and make great inference or extrapolate our results to the whole ecosystem accurately. narrator: one remote-sensing tool used by crabtree's team is nasa's aviris hyperspectral camera. dr. crabtree: you c

we invited rec park to present a short overview of the removing of the redwood trees from the mini park. we're happy to continue the defendant and i wanted to insure you we were in constant communication >> thanks i'm the director of operations of the recreation and park department. i'll be making the informational prengs presentation this afternoon. i'll be using overhead photos to illustrate my presentation. this is about cologne row mini park. it's one of our - there we go. (laughter) all right. i think we're all talking about the same thing now. the cologne row mini park is one of our 1 hundred and 20 parks within the landmark district. the park itself is a little bit over one 10th of an acre. it's a narrow alleyway that connects the bush streets for that within the mini park is has a brick walkway it front a number of historic cottages. and also contains a drinking foundation. the city's sewer line runs down the mid of this narrow parcel. i want to talk about removing the wood trees and replacing them. the history is in 1991 the landmark district was devastated and the cottage righ

why in the world are you allowing any parking garage for the gasoline vehicles, they all have basement garages take a few minutes to read the presentation of require to next thursday's meeting and we will be back to you then to show you how to apply it. >> thank you. >> any additional public comment? >> okay, public comment is closed. >> commissioners it will place you under the regular calendar. item 11,recreation and parks pipeline projects - an informational presentation from recreation and parks department staff regarding pipeline projects >> just briefly i wanted to introduce sarah ballard she is here to present you the pipeline project which you asked for a couple of weeks ago to talk about the upcoming departments at the department. >> thank you. good afternoon. president and commissioners, sarah ballard and i am going to briefly take you through the projects that we have planned and the capitol projects that we have planned, and primarily under the 2012 bond xh was passed in november with 72 percent of the vote we are proud to r

it is not clear yet if rec park will be the owner or the operator of any of those parks but it is still a possibility and i think that is something that we want to engage in if we go ahead. and the good news is that the projects like that, the density and the impact fees do generate a fair amount of money to actually build those parks but the maintenance does become an issue, with respect to the roof top park and the transbay and what is discussed is the community benefit and still the business improvement district that i guess, that would pay for it and it was in the paper was this discussion about who should be which owners will be part of that district or not. and i think that we are in the middle of those discussions with the mayor's office and others on that but there is the expectation that the collection of owners will pay for the main nens of that park. but the future parks, clearly is an issue and as we add to the open spaces of the city, we really need to collectively figure out how we not only build the park but maintain them and it is a big issue and we cannot use the impact

important to see what the optimal parking issue. we had an event there or an accident there therefore we have to have so many pc these. i get frustrated when we are here from the police department oh, we had to deal with pride or pink saturday and so they've poodle in issues all over so the issues have to be address. i hope that mta will do that but beyond the optimal staffing aside it's also as i mentioned earlier it's about prioritization. at least there's a preparation that the pc os will go out for things like not curbing your wheels but you have double packers who aremanual traffic flow and nothing happens. so i think sort of a bit of frustration >> you're not going to get an agreement from me supervisor wiener. i want to think that my pc os are addressing the more important problems. and it certainly that cameron is suggesting in our comploiment strategies as well >> supervisor breed do you have a question. >> yeah. i wanted to know on the slide number 20 the number of citations that have long been issued are those only issued

let's i don't think you can do a park let on the other side but i'd encourage a park let on brandon street with the right retail ends up on there. the open space again, i like the entry open space by i mean is that designed or having is there an ability to tweak that to - does that function as an open space i i guess it's open all the time. so i would, you know, follow-up with commissioner borden's comments and agree with them >> commissioner moore. >> sure go ahead. >> dave johnson i think that jim put forward some ideas. every building has a place where the mechanical systems come together and have to vent. the explosion of getting that building closer to stan ignored is something we need to do. and there's some other things we need to incorporate as well. that corner of the building is where a lot of venting and garage exhaust have to come out. so we're going to have to work on that >> commissioner. >> i appreciate the flexibility of the architect and the owner to accommodate and listen to some of the comments made by all commissioners retail on all sides of the baby boomer lobby

they've communicated that through the recreation and park department and to the mayor. mount davidson, aside from sharp park which i don't know anything about and which is not within the boundaries of san francisco, mount davidson is the most affected by map. i mean, their proposal is to cut down 1600 trees on mount davidson and the neighborhoods surrounding mount davidson all are opposed to this plan. spending another $200,000 to make this plan possible is throwing good money after bad. i believe that mount davidson, based on the neighborhood response, should be excluded from map. apparently there is a proposal to exclude sharp park from map, too. while people are trying to get huge parts of this program excluded from it, can you please not spend precious funds on this program and instead spend it on thing that are really needed like basketball courts and tennis nets. thank you. >> thank you. >> lisa. >>> good morning. thank you for the opportunity to speak. my name is lisa villa senior. i'm an eight year resident of pacifica, sharp park ladies golf group and minimum be

lot situation because i give the young lady who parks the car open is street because one of my dental receptions has been broken into but not parking out on lombard street. >> thank you wanted to comment on the parking issue. as you know under section 1 j 0 it was variable through a conditional use authorization it wasn't a variance but a few years ago the board of supervisors made a change to reduce the number of residential parking spaces is an administrative process. there's no variance hearing on this item and that said the commission should you so choose to make that one-on-one i would note any determination if you do agree with the reduction in parking that is not appealable on the decision you're hearing today it would be to be part of another appeal >> just for the record the commission didn't request under item 7 to see the architects credentials because we can't ask about any personal information. the comment was made instead of they didn't indicate the name of originalor of the drawings and having said that my recommendation was to hire a professional architect to help with