the national park conflict with. emmanuel demo trying to negotiate with the people he's rangers have to protect the park but they must also understand that we. are. leaving some animals come out of the forest and destroy our fields so what about our interests. without. harvest if only there were at least development projects here if only areas were cleared for roads and fields and schools built for children . or. for the locals the national park means less income a congolese family can make one thousand dollars a year with one hectic of arable land there one million hectares of protected land in there is a. the park administration is aware of the problem. don't put it to the many t.v. pretty easy to go for us to continue having these to relisten elephants the local population loses out on more than a billion dollars a year. that's a high price and it's not fair. it's a city nation piece you know what we have to find a solution of the park is to survive that's because in the end it's up to the locals and their point of

he was killed in the park working to protect the gorillas. while my husband died on january twenty second twenty sixteen. he was on duty and kabaddi hunting poachers. i did hear my husband was killed on patrol in for i'm going to park. to help the widows of the rangers who lost their lives the park set up a sewing business last september the women make seventy s. were tourists. come up to. the park built this little workshop for us because our men were killed in a service. i think. if. him anywhere to move out and his coworkers collect donations abroad in order to pay these families thirty dollars a month. each of these stars stands for a ranger who was killed you know every day every star belongs to a ranger who died for the park. but i think he did last of my husband died i was completely destitute so the park or storage is offered me help. but now the park provides a livelihood for me and my family. my children can even go to the park so no school for you charge what i'ma parking lots. if it's the past seed corn black city we must accept th

mcconnel from the national park is very rare in the past f.t.l. our militia so just supplied us with charcoal from virunga park. but if we get caught selling them accounted today we get to jail for years. but the fact is the illegal charcoal trade is impossible to control and it's destroying the park if it goes unchecked there will be no forests left in the eastern congo in less than ten years. that's why park to erect a money way to move all its top priority is to develop alternative energy sources. he wants to use the large rivers in the room to supply the province of north kivu with electricity a first hydroelectric power plant was completed last year in. much of it up pretty much temp is just the beginning so far the power plant has been producing thirteen megawatts but with a bit of luck we'll reach one hundred megawatts in five years what's far one hundred megawatts is twice when the total energy production and twenty five times the amount of electricity currently supplying the city of goma. thanks again the park could make an enormous contri

he''s the former head of c conservation n and planning at the park's administration. agrees with ndimande that the mine could not only threaten the animals, but could make poaching worse. >> the whole securitity issue has not been addressed. mines tend to be a magnet, drawing in people froom surroundining areas because of the potential opportunity of jobs. universally, it's well known that levels of crime increase around mines. so, poaching is a crime. >> according to dr. player, if the mine and the poaching are not stopped, the whole web of life that has been protected here for over a century will fail. >> there's no doubtbt in my m md that if thahat mine went ahead, it would d destroy y the wildld. >> in a press statement, ibutho coal, who declined to comment on this story,y, tououted jobs as a major benenet to thehe local economy when the mine comes in. but according to the community, the mine has not consulted them, or even told them where they will be forced to relocate to. for more than 100 years, the hluhluwe-imfolozi park has been a sanctuary for rhinos and ma

and one is the parking lot, which is the surface parking lot between buildings 2 and 3. we've always been inspired by these buildings. they're grand gestures. and so we need some surface parking around the area, but we should design it to a level that corresponds to the grandeur of the buildings. there will be opportunities to block off the parking lot and have events and festivals like the flea market. and so we really were inspired by this relationship with the hang hangar buildings to the china clipper. it was an opportunity to do something interesting on the surface of this parking lot so people can see when there's special events. so we celebrated the connection between buildings 2 and 3, making sure we have a clear, safe pedestrian path to travel between the two buildings. and we would like to have a life-size stencil of one of the china clippers in the parking lot, the airplane form that you can see here. there will be large shade trees to bring down the scale of that space. th this gives you a look at what that may look like. about the treasure island shuttle sto

in the park some of these. us and osprey species will definitely not the controlled so the line pollution is very very critical variable importance that we. have this lions. after the meeting the team heads out to look the law is the ranges are armed because they're frequently clashes with the illegal grazes hunters and sometimes with mine is that they limited resources the ranges struggle to face their ads. this is where we can get a shootout it. is. just you know or suspect. in the. heat suddenly the group comes across cattle in the middle of the national park the rangers immediately search for the you know the cows but the headsman is nowhere to be found. the region fall so he has. livestock can bring new diseases into the park that represents a serious threat to wildlife that is one reason why it is crucial for the rangers to work together with the villages nearby. metallica's negri way has come to command to tell the people why they should help protect the park. we're. here now more than all of your ego. on

once we open the park, we can activate the food trucks and so forth. >> okay. my sense was most people using the food trucks are from the surrounding ground level neighborhood, not necessarily coming from the park. >> actually, a lot of them just took their food to the park. >> that was a pattern that we saw very early. yes, they grabbed their food and went up to the park. >> they stood in line and went up to the park and enjoyed their foods. >> it was a decision not to have the food trucks operate during this time made by the tjpa or private vendors. >> we closed it this entire time -- >> i'm just trying to decide. you said theed are stand-alone buildings, we can show tenants, and improve tenant work, this is the very southwest end of the building, so i'm just not really understanding why that area would be impacted at all by what's happening here? >> because the main interest in the transit center was the park, and we've closed the park. then, there's no other areas -- we can put back the food trucks, but we can look at that, but, you know, we decided to clos

the parking is at parity with the parking rate units. the b.m.r., consistent with what we've done, the parking provided is at the lesser of half of the market rate for parking rent at the time where the operating cost of the parking garage. which is less. the b.m.r. unit interiors will be comparable to the market rate unit. they'll be comparable high-quality but not identical finishes. and the tower rental amenities will be equally shared with both the podium residents and the tower b.m.r. residents. so this slide has got a lot of numbers on it. it's meant to point out the broad range of affordability that we're able to achieve at transbay block 4. you can see, i just want to point out, and sort of a specific a.m.i., so, as low as 50% medium income is $58,640 and then at 120% a.m.i. it's $142,100. these moderate a.m.i. ranges will provide family rental units which in san francisco, have been historically very difficult to finance and develop. of the two, block 4, 140 will be low income and 207 will be moderate income. and in a few slides

in the park some of the. bones and offspring species will definitely not be controlled so the line pollution is very very critical there were important that we. just lines. after the meeting the team heads out to look the law is the ranges are armed because they are frequently clashes with the e.q. grazes hunters and sometimes with mine is that their limited resources the rangers struggle to face their heads. and. it's. just you know or suspect. in the. suddenly the group comes across cattle in the middle of the national park the rangers immediately search for the unit or the cows but the herdsman is nowhere to be found. so. large dog can bring new diseases into the park that represents a serious threat to wildlife that is one reason why it is crucial for the rangers to work together with the villages nearby. mactire is not we way has come to command to tell the people why they should help protect the park. we're. here because of the war going on. only had enough. but don't have enough farmland of record and

>> the idea of the plaza versions parking is the way the parking lot is marc managed thes stacking and parking. sometimes when there is a big public evented with less cars they are utilizing this because they know it is that kind of event. that is not a day we lose revenue because we have more pedestrians than parking. this is the information we need to get with the parking operator and tenants. >> right now it is used as parking every day unless there is a big event. we would lose revenue if we lose these spaces. i asked at the last meet what is the impact if we use it as a plaza. >> no change. we are not proposing to add more plaza. we are proposing to use it as today primarily for parking. if we propose anything different we know through the conversation with the community and merchants and come back before we recommend any change to what exists on the ground today. >> we are building a plaza. >> not exactly a plaza. >> it is an improved area. >> how much money are we putting into this lot? >> zero. >> the city. >> we don't have a breakdown on that. >> you don't know how much is use

i'm going to focus on the park access. first, starting with -- at the main gateway to our project at aurelius walker and innes aven avenue. there'll be a transit stop here as well as bike share and other transportation amenities. and now the view into the park through the open public market that will house start-up, small, temporary or semi permanent retail to support the public parks with a focus on bayview retail businesses. here's another view of the public market and how it incident fac interfaces with the big green. this slide illustrates the cove terrace which is where 900 and 700 innes merged. this is the pinch point of the site and we worked very closely with r.p.d. to figure out how to accommodate the uses in this area. 1800 parking spaces that were referenced earlier are tucked into the hillside, emphasizing the pedestrian focus on this project. there is a rendering of one of the primary public gathering spaces within the project. again, as you go outward towards the bay, the intensity and density of development d

i guess, looking just at the parks within the city. in 2010, if you took all of the active ingredient for tier 1 herbicides, and you would have about 60 gallons of active ingredients. in 2017, that's 1.8 gallons. that's covering 3500 acres of park properties under management. that's just the tier 1s. we've used tier 2 and 3 and we're actively finding substitutes for glyphosate ever chance we can. but this is good for perspective on where we are now. you know, the over all, i guess, picture here is that you go through that first 96% but that last 4% is tough. and there are certain stubborn weed problems, this is dubata grass and there are other examples that lisa wayne may talk about, where there are some situations there's no mechanical way to deal with it. these are people digging out a clump. if this was a cliff, it would be a worse problem. that last 4% is the challenge and it's what we're chipping away at. the biggest way, i mean, one of the biggest activities we participate in are trainings around the city. i'm not going to go int

the c.b.d. will maintain and has maintained various parks in the school district, including the new city park on the, i think -- as park and public realms have a large impact on general benefit, determined to be the most equitable way to portray the general benefit amount. identified general benefit, grant in kind donation and volunteer hours to meet these requirements, and on april 10, 2017, owners association voted to rename the c.b.d. to the east cut community benefit district. and there are no questions for staff, i would invite mr. robinson up to present on the workings of the east cut c.b.d. >> supervisor kim: thank you. and i see that andrew robinson is walking up and want to recognize lauren post, the former president of the board of directors of the east cut c.b.d. for attending today, and i know you were so integral once, and many volunteer hours so thank you for your leadership and acknowledge the current president, matt letuchy for the continuing leadership. >> great. thank you very much. good morning, supervisors, supervisor kim, supervisor brown. and thank you to lauren post for be

people sneak into the park and steal the bark branches and roots. they make a lot of money because outside the park the pepper bark trees have already disappeared it could. not be. the skip is the indigenous plant nursery in the park breeds pepper trees. meriel by lawyer and karen hunter vague have been involved in the project for several years. it's no longer possible to find seedlings growing out in nature. paper box trees don't produce fruit or seed in the wild but we managed to source some seed from an area over seven hundred kilometers away from script cruiser this group recently gross the province on and they get distributed to the communities no one knows why they don't produce seeds anymore one theory is that it has to do with the climate getting hotter and drier the nursery has already bred and distributed thirteen thousand young trees in the area around the park where louise swimmer and rosie macca baler deliver a new batch to a village they also hold a workshop with local people about a million people live in the immediate vicinity of kru

the streets. phase one removed parking on two blocks of both sides of the street plus parking on one side of a third block. so this is doing significantly less than that. so it puts more priority back to the pedestrian and there are far more pedestrians than vehicles. this is the plaza at the corner of taylor and jefferson. it's a plaza when need be. it can have market uses. it can have the christmas tree. it solved surface problems of draining. and it's a parking area, when not used. the finishes will be designed so it can accommodate either of those. and then it will be enhanced with plantings and seedings and special pavement associated with this. the project funding, it's about a $13.7 million or $13.8 million project altogether. the public works -- public works was successful in obtaining an l.p.p. grant, not l.l.p., as i put here. it requires a 50% match. that match is being distributed among various city agencies in which the port is in for $250,000. public works, $3.1 million. sfmta $2 million and transportation, c.t.a., $1.4, approximately. and that provides full funding for the project to

parking lot plaza. and how often it will be one or the other. and so just being able to make an informed decision on that piece of it. >> but it is being used as a parking lot today. >> president brandon: yes. >> 20 spaces? it's about 20 spaces we're talking about. out of 165-space lot or -- >> president brandon: that's always crowded, always closed. and so we will be losing spaces if we decide to do it, but need to know what the impact is if we make that decision. i, too, would like to see the less impact to the tenants for this project as possible. what are the next steps? >> today is an informational presentation. the next steps are -- we return to the commission with a resolution as described to approve the phase two design and to authorize the executive director to enter into the m.o.u.s with three or four different city agencies for the operation and maintenance on the streets. >> president brandon: by then, will you know what we're doing with the parking lot plaza? >> we're very interested in remaining public works schedule. if you do the

here, we got the idea that we could actually turn the roof into a park. and in copenhagen, we have absolutely no mountains. we might be a scandinavian country, but we have no mountains. we have to go six hours by car to bones in the south of swede ton alpine skiing but because our power plant is so big, we actually turned the roof of the power plant into an alpine ski slope. [ applause ] >> i mean why did you do that? how did you think of this? like what was the meeting like, where you said we designed this really clean waste to energy power plant in copenhagen, let's snowboard on it. >> but it wasn't actually something like -- we call this idea social infrastructure, that you can actually create infrastructure projects like public utility, like a power plant, or a highway, or a flood protection, and give it positive social and environmental benefits. and in this case, what is interesting about clean technology is not only that it is better for the environment, you know, it is not only good for the birds that you have no toxins coming out of this chimney,

the park is still being laid out. what we're looking at here is actually an image, but around christmas this year, we'll take the inaugural run down the ski slope. >> so if i -- i'm actually going to copenhagen in a few weeks so unfortunately a little bit too early, but if i do go again in the near future and say, you know, i am a black diamond skier, my girlfriend is a blue skier, are there ways to accommodate both of us on this copenhagen power plant? >> you have a green, a blue, and a black ski slope. also, what i hope is that denmark won zero medals in sochi. i hope we can change that. >> one waste energy power plant at a time. that's great. all right. let's cross back over the atlantic and see what else you got. >> so then this idea of social infrastructure, we've taken it to the scale of the city of new york with a project we've called the big u or the dryline, which essentially is, imagine the high line is this very popular park in copenhagen, former train tracks that have turned -- in new york. former train tra

just the parking is impacted and i used to rewrite across the street. you could hardly find a parking space at 5 am. so with this being used not going to be a good place to go this morning. people coming from brentwood, antioch, they all pile into the station. they recommending that people go on over to concord there is a pleasant hill station, concord nation can't use that. >> so for those in antioch, when they come into the pittsburgh area they don't have get off they can just stay on. >> right. it is an easy transfer for those people. >> but it is a matter of getting on summer else. >> and even traffic on willow pass road. and then we have the street closures in place so let's take a look at this traffic map. it's being impacted by the fire and the street closures you have suisun avenue and willow pass road. and as they are heading to work it may start to jam up the traffic. this is happening right next to willow pass which is always busy. right now, trains are running through and there is limited parking so you need to plan ahead and get ahead. the t

he's been on a loud-speaker making rounds in the parking lot. if you've been here overnight and you're an evacuee, you can move to a much more comfortable location. they'll have cots set up, coffee and food and heaters, for most of the people who have been here at the bart station parking lot, it is a been a long cold rough night. we saw a lot of people who spent the night in the cars here, some of the folks are still sleeping this morning, and people are just now starting to wake up. the red cross brought an additional trailer with blankets and supplies to hand out to folks an hour ago. 4,000 people were told to evacuate their homes in the pittsburg bay point because of a they of a gas pipeline explosion, in willow pass road in broadway. what happened is there's a fire in an underground vault in that area that house as natural gas pipeline, and pg&e power line came down that led to a gas fur, and it spread to a underground fire. sheriff's deputies were going through the neighborhood telling residents to leave because of a threat of an explosion

city in the recreation and parks departments. i left in 2015 when the concern became more public and more -- became more public concern that these meetings and others around the use of the pesticide. when i was at the recreation and parks department, i learned a lot about pesticide use and a lot of the trade-offs that lisa was just explaining and that chris was explaining around things like persistence and selectivity, when we use these products, when we are doing things like containment versus striving driving for something like eradication or control, and i am here as someone who supports all the city agencies. i participated in some of the round table around to round up and i am really impressed with the focused attention end of the policy committee and that this commission have put on the use of the pesticide within the city and the changes that have been made around things like the caveats on the list. not just the list itself but the way that we use the product on the list. and as a land management professional, i think that

he is driving a car down and decides he is going to make a right into the park where everyone is working on exercising, running and bicycling. he knocks everything down, including killing eight people. they never talk about the people who are wounded, when they lose their arms, legs and there -- their life can never be the same. they do not talk about the 12 people that lost something so important. will these are people in a park where they go to exercise, so they can be in perfect shape. i go home months later without their legs, without their arms. will this animal, going at a very fast speed makes the decision to make a right into the park and run people over. he is here. it is called a chain migration. he is here. in a his mother comes with him, his father comes, his uncle, his aunt come his brother, his nephew, his sister. 22 people. no jobs, just 22 people. no more chain migration.

park. good evening. it was a year ago that the tubs fire swept through coffee park. this neighborhood is tighter than ever now. >> it is. with the 1500 homes gone you expect people to lose touch and cater to -- scatter to new places but they have had block parties, meetings and christmas lights in the ruins. >> it is so beautiful to be together here tonight. >> residents of coffee park honor each other and their year of sadness and struggle. >> we made it this far. >> next to this crowd of 500 people newly planted cherry trees to remember five women who parished a year -- perished a year ago. >> it's wonderful. i didn't think i would get choked up and i am. >> it took four months for the first hammer to fall. life starting from scratch since people didn't take much or thought they would be cupping back. >> going to have a cup of hoffy at the shelter. >> this couple is bowled over to see their foundation poured. >> to have this happen on the day of our anniversary. >> they raised two sons, so many memories and nothing could prepare them for the loss. >> i called it the

this commission is very well aware that this park is the people's park. it belongs to the community, not the commission. it belongs to the people. we will get it done. as commissioners, we have to do our duty and we'll do that to make sure that everything gets right. we know this park will have all the bells and whistles, but we also have to make sure that things get done right. so if we seem to be looking at things, this is our responsibility. this is why we were appointed by the mayor to do our fiduciary responsibility to the community. it will get done, but we're 200% in. thank you. >> clerk: item for consent calendar. 10a, request authorizization to enter into grant agreement with successor agency to the former san francisco redevelopment agency for the port to accept and expend $9, 760,000 in successor agency for the bond proceeds for construction of mission bay ferry landing project. 10b, request authorizization to modify construction contract 2783, pier 31, utility and restroom project to extend the completion date. >> president brandon: can i have