currently the park has two funded projects both of which are funded 0 through the 2008 park fund and that project the existing restroom will be renovated primarily the interior and the exterior will remain to preserve it's historic character. as part of the project we'll have to provide accessibility from the playground to the room so as you saw earlier on a slide the playground is on a different level so we have to provide cheer access. the next it coming from the community opportunity fund. this is a project that was applied for befriends of nov i didn't park to the tune of $11,000 the purpose is to improve the drainage of the lawn and beverages to create a gather area and the refurnish time of the park. with those two funded projects the rec and park department initiated a park improvement plan to coordinate those two projects but to coordinate future projects this is a wonderful opportunity for the community to reimagine the 90 write park for the next generation of yourselves. in the development of the park plan we've held community meetings those meetings were scheduled in such a

different needs of the park from the mraurgdz to the folks with dogs and people who want to have green space await dogs or without kids to having landscape. one of the challenges in this park a full half of the park is basketball court and a tennis court that is progressively to be one the challenges from the beginning we're supportive of the basketball courts and tennis court and moving forward to renovate the two courts on flint street that are broke down we need to i think show a commitment but here doing the multi use court for tennis my basketball is a good accumulation. i want to really call and a out and thank laura and jessie i don't think he's here oh, lauren and they came together years ago when i was not in office to organize the conditions of the park it's no a family friendly park when you get outside of the playground area and, you know, they've done numerous and amazing work over the years and i really want to thank them for that. you know, i know there's criticism of the community i don't agree i

i'll disagree with the park mrs. no one despite the cracks of the park it's used year round the concept is for activities. and then especially commissioner low said it's an untested concept if it's two small for the activities only one other multi use in a park and that's another park that's hard to point out the comparisons. there's no alternative space that's walkable been within the area for kids we need to have the community needs met so drawing on commissioner president buells comments the process has been corrupt and there's been comments and surveys they've rooepdz offer to share the stakeholder comments that repelled from the meetings 3 and 4 i presented something i've not received the letters related to the meetings i respectfully say that i have ten seconds rest i want to concede them to laura >> laura and 10 another person. >> i'm laura norman i lived 20 two blocks from the bowie carts for years. i've been involved with trying to make improvements 90 to the parks for 10 years. it's a tiny park not servicing

the park is absolutely beautiful. the placement of the no mow grass allocations great they've done that to reduce the time spent mow the grass that's a saving the improvements are great. the changes are amazing. when i first worked out there in 1968 the improvements are marvelous. they've built a huge underground tank to hold reclaimed water to hold for irrigation savings hundreds of thousands of fresh water it's amazing. the equipment is just since i worked out there pits amazing they do a great job and is cooperation within t pc lead by director tom smith and kevin are just great this makes this thing click this cooperation within the two-piece two seektsdz out there is this huge improvement over what it used to be. i congratulate them and the staff for putting that together it's marvelous out there. thank you >> thank you tom. i'm going to ask we've got quite a few of the people attending rather than having people to stand staff please give up their seats for people in the back and once a couple of those items are o

the bicycle parking with when a owner is changed for the bicyclist parking spaces and 6 bicycle spaces were required and have been provided today we've received two 0 containments and they inspected and found no issues in order for the procedure to continue it must meet the planning code to permit the modification under motion 10 plus case to reduce the minimum number of parking spaces with the planned development at the stated address and it allows the change-up to 24 spaces and for your information what triggered this is the police code requires any rental of spaces boo above 10 spaces the calculation it be changed in community to private garage and the applicant it getting the permit for the space with that, that concludes my presentation if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> project sponsor. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and commissioners i'm susan the president of the board of directors and the project sponsor i've lived at the association for 15 years and been on the board for the last 9 and we have the four directors in the back row and support

it suffers from the shortage of neighborhood parks and playgrounds so a park on the site is needed. people in the vicinity have is shown their commitment, this intensity by raising the money needed to create and operate the park. i think future residents of this city will look back and commend with gratitude the great and wise foresight of those who helped create the park. thank you very much. >> thank you very much for being here today. >> hello. >> hello. >> good afternoon commissioners and general manager. i live across town in the hillside above noe valley. i'm the president of the norwegian church. we're also impacted like helen mentioned by people needing a restroom we have never complained and we take care of the restrooms and they are clean and welcome to all. since we're open we get heavily impacted whenever there's a major event happening on the northern waterfront such as fleet week and last week when we had the america's cup and not to mention 4th of july our balcony is open and we have to close the door usually at 7 o'clock on the 4th of july and there's kids with tears

chinatown communities and i know from i know the park would be very critical and would be an appeal to many families to have one in the city and in addition to that as a mom of two kids we're also very excited and very much welcome this park in this neighborhood. it will put the statement -- if friends come to visit from all around the world as well as our daily life. >> thank you. i have one last speaker card. if anyone cares to speak please submit a card. >> good afternoon. >> i'm a student here at san francisco state university and i'm a big supporter of parks and public spaces especially in this city and i believe the south side, the area where the area is we have lombard street and 2 major tourist attractions and i think it's a really beautiful and scene ic place and

your time >> thank you. >> hi i'm going to be brief i live within 5 minutes walking dissents of the park. and i fully am in favor of the current plan. i think it serves the did you go owners, it serves the active sport people and the parents and the little kids and bigger kids we are lacking at the moment a green space. i think, you know, on a sunny day i walk to delores a 20 minute walk to get somewhere for a picnic blanket down. i think this is really one of the reasons i'm not using the park as much as is would there's no green grass area. that's to me the biggest and most important thing about the implement plan separating the people and the having the green space >> thank you. >> any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner low. i think this process really demonstrates the need for small property owner in san francisco. i mean particularly we're going to add thirty thousand households by 2020 everyone is rights but it demonstrates our need for more small property owner and redemption that's for a later discussion and like the general manage

the tenants will have access to parking. the affordable housing will not have parking parking costs for block 6 are typically more expensive duce to the underground parking garage. project costs exposed available sources as the affordable units was maintained. this is not considered a change or the approved design because the number of parking spaces overall is not changing neither will block 6 or 7 precede the parking space. many places have little to no parking and doesn't consider parking to be important to the residents in this area. transbay exceeds those in other housing developments and the mercy expects the households will have a wide elevator of car sharing services there will be car sharing spaces in the garage. the transbay garage will have a large bike space for 48 bikes for the affordable units they've requested a totals loan of $48 million and this loan amount was approved by the loan committee on november 15th of last year this will be opportunity by affordable housing fee paid by goggling open and they paid f

and parks department in consultation with the rec and park commission. commissioners [tpro-ebgts/] is on balance and consistent with the objective and policies of the general plan. lastly since the publication of the case report, i have received apadditional seven letters of support for the proposed project. i am submitting these letters to you right now for your review. this concludes my presentation and i'm available form for questions. thank you. >> thank you, project sponsor. >> good afternoon commissioners, and director rahaim, [pr*-eupbs/] pal at a local developer, i am here tonight as well with our design team, who are valuable if you have questions. in addition to what diego shared, i wanted to point out that you will see there is also a public plaza proposed as part of the project. i wanted to clarify that item will actually be come bag before you in two weeks when the in-kind fee agreement will be before the commission the we went ahead and included versions of the plaza and both site plans with and without the plaza, i might say. but this appro

lot in the area and doing parking space studies. there are several places it's not cheap $200 a month but in the neighborhood if you really wanted to lease a parking space you could but we don't expect the residents to do that there's on site car sharing and public transit and bike parking >> yeah. the reason i asked the question that area is particularly tiding with other options and i was trying to gets a feeling i understand the financial part the mandated developer islogically the cost-share for the developer and taking the parking spaces i'm trying to gets to the options what people have. to me it's not out of the ream go to go down to 8 spots but people will want to own a car and drive 2 times a month and b will have to put their car somewhere >> they will have options to represent a space in a private parking lot but the car sharing options are really good in addition to the car sharing in the building there's car sharing it's pretty easy to get, you know, a city car share car or others services, you know, within a block of th

have none. >> ill not aware of any on any parks with the exception of near the park merced but those mostly stayed on the property. and the mono poles. >> commissioner sugaya? >> one of the difficulties that we run into, and especially i hate to say this with at&t is the amount of coverage that at&t is much less i can characterize it that way, mess less than verizon or sprint or the other carriers and so there are a lot more, if you will, at&t around the city than the other carriers but that is a technical issue. and i don't know in the future, you know, whether they will be new technology, or whether they will be taking them down, or whether we are going to go even further the other direction, but i just wanted to say that for the members of the public as to why you might see these popping up in areas where the carriers don't seem to have antennas. >> >> commissioner moore. >> the yes question that i would like to ask, is have you worked with at&t on exploring in that location, less intrusive placement or volume configuration of how the antennas could be placed more in the

the cars there. it's very, very limited parking. amount of traffic, it doesn't matter if you are out there at 10 o'clock in the morning or 4 o'clock in the afternoon. they always -- i wonder where these cars have come from, whether scotty has beamed them down or other galaxies have come down. but there always, always, always is this traffic that's going on. i read that this area is adequately serviced by muni, even though i am an mta person and on the mad committee for muni which addresses access and disabled issues. muni doesn't adequately service anyplace and the only bus we have nearby is the 12 which runs when it wants to. otherwise people have to walk down from mission street and take the 14 which run when it wants to and has seats available when it wants to. i agree with this gentleman. we didn't even talk before this meeting that the city really does need to take a long hard look at the reatv of transit first. i cannot envision anyone being able to afford to live in this building and walk. thank you. >> thank you very much. co

the park is rich with eucalyptus trees. ng 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 to stroll around the lake and let the kids run free. it also has many birds to watch. it is a place to find and appreciate what you -- a wonderful breath of fresh air. come and experience in this park and enjoy the people, picnics, and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take a stroll with your loved ones. in the middle of pacific heights, on top of these hills, it offers a great square, a peaceful beauty, large trees and grass and greenery. it features tables and benches, a playground, restaurants, and tennis courts

i think we recognize the parking lot need, parking need, for the ballpark. so we would probably come back to you for an extension of that lease or renewal of that lease at that point in time. if the project itself were on its scheduled performance, making all its benchmarks, the larger project, that, as you may recall from some prior presentations, that project envisioned a master lease scenario where the whole parking lot becomes a master lease and then as the larger project is developed by parcels the parking lot kind of shrinks down. i think the beauty of this temporary installation is that it can move if it's successful and doing well and the port is finally participating in the upside it can be relocated on the site to continue operating into the future assuming again that it's successful. does that answer your question? >> sort of. phil, so one way or the other we would hope that -- because it sounds like in the first 3 years the chances of any participation on our side is truly a question mark, but we would have to look in the outer years. i'm just sa

the 12 parking is for the city rent a car use they park in tandem because one or two people move the cars >> i understand that but the staff report says 3. sir >> the draft motion in our packet is from september 19th hearing it if reflect all the technologically technical changes that's been handled at the staff level in the update level those changes will be made into the final motion in the condition is approved. >> the second question the community space room is if we take it for what it is a community room that will be available to the public? >> primarily that's available to the residents but. >> oh, okay. >> but the cc&r if the public can use it and that's an internal room. >> right. >> you pride the only assess through the residential lobby and i don't think the resident will like the public going through to go to a meeting they might be perfectly fine but it could cause problems. >> i'm supportive of the motion there's been a calory desire for the staff to work with the project design. i'm curious about i don't know if it's forearm by design or size i believe that argument wa

as part of the das flexible strategy we decide which park to build first, the first park has to be builtirst and the second before the rate of occupancy human resources, however, wherever the developer blts parcel that three and four they have to build leeland in in conjunction with the housing even if the parcel didn't include the 9 hundred and 76 units. we heard from the community that protecting the historic office building from decay and vandalism is important it's a phase one requirement for the developer to stabilize that building then during the latter stages of the development the developer will have to get it up to historic standards. the development of housing on parcels 11 and 12 in the bottom south eastern corner of the map that will be the trigger for the full implementation requirement those parcels are to be built last night in the phase after the groceries is built. the development agreement has an affordable housing plan the project must have inclusionary housing. the first and probably most scared ways to put the affordable housing within those buildings but provide a h

another key changing the parks there were a couple of alternatives in the original but in order to jump start this in order to attract a good retail tenant having sufficient parking for the grocery store we worked with the community to look at where should the grocery store stay there was a part in the south site they wanted it in the middle of the site. this is what we ended up with we use two blocks to accommodate parking and swapped the parks to make that happen. this also related in the revisiting with the community that park configuration whether the configuration and shape still worked so we heard a slight preference for leeland to be a 2-way street that might be safer so we went ahead with reconfiguring that park. the retail square footage was reduced again. we looked at the feasibility of attracting that the plan was a little bit over baby boomer and when we started the restrictions this was realistic that's been reduced to maximum of retail that's primary on the red i wish i had a pointer. primarily concentrated here and initially that was all along bayshore as well as leeland.

this is the parking lot and there is a furniture store. e is aden tal building. ~ there is a dental building. as you can see, there are a number of businesses already vying for the extremely limited parking, some of them creating their own parking if you under what i'm saying. and it's amazing that they haven't been ticketed yet. i haven't made my phone calls. across the street there are even vibrant businesses, but we don't have pictures of them. there is a mattress

he told me there are can have yeasts but the rec and park was open to the consideration of having balboa pool being a site. so that's one of the things i'd like to is at&t represents it as well, we couldn't do it in the past therefore not seeking it out i'd like to see that as an opportunity. there are false trees that can go up near 280. this is an opportunity to i recall add conditions or continue this for further conversation i'd like to ask you to consider >> thank >> there are questions about whether the site that they have chosen is that, and we feel that they have chosen a site that is good for them and economical for them and does not balancele needs of the community, and the question that i would like you to ask is this the only site possible that meets their needs? we don't think so. at&t is required to submit a four year plan of all of the wireless facilities every year and they recently submitted one in april, and they listed the name of the search circle, associated with this particular location, as russia and edonberg,, it is located 14 blocks away. and so

and i mean, that the parks and rec may say, we didn't agree that it should be disclosed but because the ethics commission found a violation of the sunshine ordinance and therefore, ordered us to disclose. >> oh, at this point, you mean, after, >> right. >> and that is what he is asking, i mean if we were to say that this should be disclosed, publicly, and the violation of the sunshine ordinance, and but, we don't want to address the issue of well, do we even have the proper party and are we vulnerable to the subsequent litigation to where the parks department says that we turn it over as to what the ethic's commission did. >> and then my follow up would be, is that active conversation that you had at parks and rec which is that we really need to talk about the privacy of our, of the people that we do business with. >> and thank you, commissioner. >> to the chair, yes, i wanted to address that and something both the president of the commission and commission keane brought up about the balancing test that we did do and it is outlined in the december 19th letter in great detail, i believe

our report includes some disturbing images. >> reporter: the krueger national park is enormous, as bigthe state of new jersey. home to the largest population of rhinos on the planet. and they are being poached here at an alarming rate. for their horns. rhino horn is composed of the same material as a fingernail, but it is prized in asia, especially vietnam. some believe it can cure cancer and boost vir illity. so it is more valuable than gold. it sells for about $50,000. a typical horn can weigh between 2 pounds and 6 pounds. in kruger park last year 606 rhino were killed. so far in 2014, the figure stands at 245. >> you're dealing with armed incursion. you're a sovereign country. you have armed thieves entering your country, armed poachers, illegally. they plunder your resources and, its illegally again. >> reporter: the rhinos are defenseless. they're shot, their horns hacked off whether they are dead or alive. a tourist captured these shocking images of one rhino suffering. >> i think the worst is when you come across an animal that's alive, that hasn't been killed humanely and is a

this includes the state parks dissolution agreement like with ocii and the california state parks and the improvement of the land there in to accommodate the development there's a trust development between ocii and is candle stick and others agencies. those trust lands to accommodate the project. there's a con vangs agreement between ocii and the navy that allows for transferring of the navy land and prop g the tiffany discussed was approved in 2008, and another one we have to consider. the rec and park transfer agreement that authorizes the process for transferring the stated if ocii to the developer and a series of state and federal armies that's for the street section >> i appreciate you walking us through that a lot of them might say that's really reading this extensive why did it matter the point really is important i'm glad you walked through it it wasn't some willie nil i didn't process but a broad based approval process as you could ever have it should have been this is the largest processing project with the shipyard happening in san francisco with the huge shift and communit

alone. >> out of the parking lot? >> yes. >> here is the reason why. highway280 southbound, the smart way to get out of the park were save victims fans has been shut down all weekend to fortify it against earthquakes. >> we have replaced the hinges. the hinges on this freeway were about 50 years old. obviously, during that time, the seismic standards changed. >> they picked the three-day holiday weekend to do the work because they figured fewer people would be using the road. we wondered, why doing the work when 40,000 giants fans would be packing the park right at the tend of the roadway. >> we reached out to the giants and they reached out to their fans. it has been very noticeable, the traffic for the friday night game and start night game was fairly normal. >> it's ridiculous. everybody know there is is a game and they are all coming to see it. it backs everybody up and delays them. >> why not a weekend when the park is dark. they needed a long weekend. despite traffic jams reported yesterday, still a lot more on e

does interest that concludes my presentation on the rec and park program. >> when a how much was raised. >> approximately half a millions i was trying to get the exact number you don't have it elaine? >> and eligible expenses up to $10 million for the ports expenses we are that hoping you recall there are an mou between the port and the america's cup committee we identified up to $10 million paid through the recognize. >> i want to say kudos to the staff and all the hard work to get such an incredible bond ratings it took a lot of effort we're lucky to have the staff and to have the kind of operation that warranted the high operation thank you all. >> i'm sorry, i hope i didn't mislead ii wasn't done with any executive director report. >> oh, sorry. >> that was my fault. the next part is to thrill about the park maintenance are doing out on the ports it you won't get to see it this but it's outstanding. so the port maintenance pile workers began to work on the thurnd system obtain april 21st consisting of one hundred and plus they support the wu could harm

the plaza has a park in the enter. the center, a scruffy little park. sed by streets and mostly modern hotels and other buildings. this is the square itself. we will get back to this. this is what -- this is the original. here is the plan that he had . r tearing down and replacing it is a theater in a mostly concrete rectangular plaza by office workers to eat lunch. tall buildings. here you see broadway. on this side trinity street. i will show you a map in a moment. maybe many of you know it. it means a few hundred people can make it look crowded and more people can watch it or watch what is happening from the sidelines and above. it was not until 2011 a site for protesters. there are hundreds of rallies and protests every year. the parks department issued 250 permits for rallies and vigils last year. st of them for the applausea near the u.n. federal the federal courts as well. protesters wanted to occupy wall street but the police prevented them. they set up camp in a park next door to the world trade center site. let me go back to this and point this