that language, for both the paving and streetscape improvements in the bond, is included in york mets come before you in a few weeks. something that this bond will not do is increase property tax rates for san francisco property taxpayers. we will be issuing new bonds only if all the bonds are repaid, only to ensure we do not have any property tax rate increases. the size of the bond in the capital plan, because the capital plan has made this commitment, the size of the bond was designed to meet this policy set forth in the capital plan. i have mostly been talking about street repaving, and that is where the majority of the funds in the proposed bond measure will go, about $148 million. but we will also be spending $22 million on sidewalk excess ability improvements, which include 1900 new curb ramps citywide, 125,000 square feet of new sidewalk that is the responsibility of the city. these are sidewalks that front public property or have been damaged by the city's street trees. we will be putting $7.3 million toward needed rehabilitation and repair of our street structures, such as b

>> this is phase one of the project, sewers system improvement. phase two would be streetscape improvements. the street scape goats from hampshire to burrow. supervisor avalos: it is not all being done concurrently? >> basically they are doing the plumbing first before the service improvement. the streetscape will start at hampshire and we will keep ahead of them so that they can fix this or first before the street improvements. supervisor avalos: the timeline that we are talking about? >> for this project we are expecting to break ground in june or july but about nine months behind us. supervisor avalos: the experience with the length, partially funded by mtc and the funding sources, transportation authority, we had major sewer improvements that were done along their. i saw destruction along that line as a psychologist for two years. i was wondering what we should do to make it concise, so that there were not too many gaps in the length, so that people did not experience a lengthy disruptions. >> the two projects are consolidated into 24 months. we are working closely with dtw

then i think the streetscape and infrastructure design guidelines remain as presented. >> last week in the revisions, we added an additional amendments the reorganized as sort of the work we are working on, so that is what that would do a. >> that is my understanding, and that is more in my proper understanding in no. 5, which is the design guidelines. >> is there a second? comissioner moore: i would like to share with the commissioners of brief interlude of the last couple months, but i want to first express my full support of the project, which i have voiced all along, particularly because this is one place where we are basically realizing a server and business park in its old configuration does not work any more 3. it is too isolated. and many developers walk away, and they have to underutilized site sitting around. staff is rising to the occasion, taking that extra step transforming it into something suburban. i have looked at this project for quite a few years. i started looking at if one guy came into the commission. -- looking at it when i came into the commission. are realized

the public health department, we conducted a community transportation plan to make sure that the streetscape on the island is at a maximum of pedestrian and bicycle friend is, and we are pleased with the outcome of that. we also have been very involved with planning for access to the island through congestion pricing and worked with assembly member leno's office to bring forward legislation to create the first congestion pricing district in the state. this, we think, is a very real and very meaningful way to control the access you have heard other speakers talk about. the constraints of access would vehicles to the island. it is a real concern, but we believe that with congestion pricing beginning at $5 as a told to leave the island, but ratcheting up as necessary, did $7, $8, $9, $10, is a very real way to a meter that access on and off the island. again, we bring you our support. we cannot speak to other larger financial issues. we really limit our comments to the transportation aspects, but we are very confident and comfortable moving this project forward. thank you. supervisor chu: thank

they have helped to transform the public realm with projects all over the city, in particularly, the streetscape project. there is a tremendous amount that the workers of the department of public works to every day. i know that every single one of us gets constituent calls every single day related to what we need to do. on behalf of the board of supervisors, i want to thank you and the entire team for the work that you do to make certain that this city is one of the most amazing cities in the world. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. members of the board, this is very humbling for me to be able to be up here, on behalf of the hard-working men and women of the department, and all the departments that do public works. it is also very meaningful to be recognized by you, the people who were elected by the people that we serve. 24 hours a day. one thing i found out in my years with the department is that the women and the man are very passionately, sometimes excessively committed to the infrastructure of the city, the buildings and streets and sidewalks. this is a labor of love for a lot o

. >> the project the speaker was referring to is the streetscape renovation project for cesar chavez. this project came out of the neighborhood planning process. it was many years of planning. this is something that came from the community as a priority to make cesar travis -- chavez safer and more attractive. there are a lot of people that use it. it was built more for cars. it acts like a freeway. it is not very inviting or safe. this is the result of a community effort that has gone for many years. the funding source for the st. improvement comes from a program of the federal government. it is transportation dollars available specifically for this kind of purpose. they are not dollars that we could take and move to social services. it is a project that i think will have a great impact on knitting back together the city that is cleaved by the freeway. it will be safer for the schoolchildren. it will help the economic development of the area by making it in more viable and attractive place. we have seen that on valencia. it seems difficult to invest as much in infrastructure as we ha

in the residential scale, it makes sense for a potentially the verse streetscape. it allows for the life of the sidewalk to course right into the institution. this is in the tradition of the gardens of san and it is. as a seven siskin that is proud of the street life and public realm, our ability to support the public life, i believe this proposal passes that test. >> the evening, members of the planning commission. i am here today to support the design proposal. as you might know, they have been involved in several stages of this process and actively advocating to reinforce facilities for a seismic event. it was made a fairly clear by their presentation, they have had an extremely hot location sensitive approach to have these facilities interact with the city and how people interact with them. they're taking steps to not only improve the viability, but they're taking an honest approach and an honest interest out they can improve capacity and quality of care as well

there are elements of the project that is very attractive, some of the streetscapes. i think there's a lot more work still to be done on this project. the biggest concern is the issue of traffic. we are not discussing traffic today, but it is a big concern. we couldn't help but notice the lack of cars. with that be the bus rapid transit lane? that is within the realm of what we looked at today. we looked at examining this further, but the comment would be to let's look at how we are scaling and massing these buildings. in trying to create a more safe corridor for people even though it is more than one. that is the heart of where the challenges are in the design. i think saint luke's can be done really well. there are some relief thoughtful things. the major design issues are around the venice project. commissioner sugaya: just to echo support for some of the other commissioners or all of them, and the medical office building, i think commissioner moore isn't thinking about designing it as a historic building, but just thinking about the building next door. to me, it ki

they have helped to transform the public realm with projects all over the city, in particularly, the streetscape project.

but from my viewpoint, looking at the streetscape, some of the diversity is created by bad buildings and so i agree with commissioner moore and commissioner antonini that there needs to be some work done here. you know, the ones that create the diversity i don't think are really good pieces of architecture at all and if that's what you're trying to refer to, you know, i personally would have to disagree with that viewpoint. that said, i don't want to leave the project sponsor out there hanging about redesigning something and i think one of the issues -- the main issue i think apart from some of the things commissioner moore was talking about and antonini with respect to the design has to do with the height. and i'm not really sure that that is resolvable. i do believe, however, that you can excavate and have a lower unit that is quite livable and -- but on the other hand, i don't know what the cost is, there's testimony by a gentleman who said that's going to be a really expensive venture. i can see depending on the soil situation and the ground situation that it could be extremely e

that has recently been adopted in the mission streetscape plan. the octavia boulevard circulation study -- i think two or three very specific infrastructure projects will come out of that, and that helps us when we are looking at grants, to have a very specific proposal we can show. you approved an in kind agreement for a new park and reestablished in new financing tool, the infrastructure financing district, which is a way to improve incremental property tax to fund infrastructure improvements. in the coming years, we will be able to work on developing additional isb's in different parts of the city. market octavia cac is a little bit further along. they have a list of what projects they see as their priorities we are in the middle of figuring out what the process is that we have. that is the high level summary of the ipic report. this report is a new report. this is the first time we have done it. we also tried to clean up how we administer the city, how we administer all the various impact fees. if you recall, we put them all in one section and

and i just wanted to also thank commissioner miguel for his comments about the mission streetscape plan. you're right, that that plan would not have been possible without grant, because those types of projects are no longer funneleded through the city's general fund. and so i appreciate your comments and i want to congratulate staff for winning the third award in the last month on our project. we're really pleased about that. thank you. president olague: commissioner miguel. vice-president miguel: yes, i forgot to mention i was in attendance at the hotel for market street. it was extremely well attended. much more than i thought it would be. there was a good 100 people there. and they all participated heavily in a very interactive workshop. one of the lead people from d.p.w., mindy luwinski, who i worked with before, had been in charge of all the b.p.t.'s work for the rebuild and redo of all the branch library. so she's very, very attuned to public interaction, working with neighborhoods and really is extremely efficient in getting jobs done. i was very pleased to see her and the entire

the st. luke's campus, a new office and medical building at van ness and geary. this include campus and streetscape improvements that are contiguous to the respective site. the principal architect will lead tonight's presentation on the architecture, urban design and public realm improvements proposed for these three campuses. the staff planned to include a brief overview, we will be postponing this discussion until the next informational hearing which is scheduled for june 9. at the june 9 hearing, city staff will present the development agreement and some of the key topics. we hope to cover most, if not all of those topics during that hearing. the fourth presentation will be on july 14. at that hearing, staff will provide updates on the development agreement and will seek to initiate the notification process for the planning code and general plan amendments that are required for the st. luke's and van he is and geary campuses. certification of the final e.i.r. and action on the entitlements are scheduled for august 11. the department has created a web page dedicated to the project which includes

proposal for retail shops on the street level and a significant improvement over the existing cathedral hill streetscape which involves the entrances to the former parking lot of the hotel. the plan provides for continuity of street scape that will allow for movement of pedestrian traffic and residents down van ness and throughout the neighborhood in a way that will be enhanced and most importantly cpmc has made serious efforts to listen to the concerns of concordia argonaut and the surrounding neighbors as far as our concerns. we are looking forward to having cpmc as our neighbor and i at this -- thank you very much. president olague: thank you. >> thank you, president olague and members of the planning commission, for the opportunity to speak here tonight. my name is jason and i'm the director be manning and development for the department be veterans affairs, the v.a. palo alto health system. we encompass 10 sites of care including three inpatient facilities and seven outpatient facilities. one of our highest priorities is to provide a safe and modern environment to care for america's veterans. we pla

the second component has to do with the public realm, and much of what we will be talking about is that. streetscape improvements, traffic calming, dealing with flooding issues, and things like that. the third component really is a kind of bread that runs through everything. that is that we are using kind of a community organizing approach to accomplish the two things i mentioned earlier. everything you see here is happening because of the hard work of the people who live on this block, which is a very important thing. [applause] just a word in terms of process -- one of the things that we established in this block is we had a competitive process, and so they apply to be the model block, and the group stepped up and put a good group forward, and we ended up selecting them. in addition to what i talked about in terms of residence being in the lead, there was a lot of city collaboration on this project. there were financial contributions made by the epa, dpw, the redevelopment agency, and puc, but beyond those financial commitments, much staff time has been put into coordination and people from the pl

the key to achieving that goal. so is our storefront improvement and streetscape beautification programs as well as the safety and marketing efforts. the vision is to connect fillmore as a destination for business. we moved one step closer to renewal for the next seven years and the continuation of the economic revitalization efforts. and the legacy of urban renewal. the reverend will now help to provide an overview of the outreach to the district property owners and the community at large. >> good morning, welcome. >> thank you. these are just work clothes. i wanted to give you with the outreach. this is not difficult. i know a young man who sells these. this was really twofold. i have been here for about 40 years. and this is sadly not even all of my life. this is about two-thirds of the spent there. we are excited about what is going on, and one reason we are excited is because we can live in the past or try to make something out of the future. it would be a long presentation if i tried to talk about this, to not let the legacy with a history died. we have to get behind these programs. they may not be ideal, but when th

so that at&t will be forced to find them and we will not be stuck with the first inning long line of degradations of our streetscape. thank you. >> my name is karen croney. i want to address one small item. i want to refute at&t's position that they cannot place these boxes on private property. just think of the number of apartment buildings in san francisco where longtime tenants are causing a loss of revenue for apartment owners who can only raise their aunts -- their rents 0.5% annually. a lot of these people would jump at the chance to earn an extra $500 a month to put one of these boxes on the property. why won't at&t do that? i won't pay that kind of money. they say they can't afford it. i just wanted to read from the new york times one week ago, at&t profit rises 39%. and then hear from six months ago -- at&t uverse archives' first $1 billion revenue quarter. we are not talking about people who do not have the money to pay the private people to put the boxes on their property. thank you. >> i am the president of corporate heights -- corbet heights neighbors. at&t uses two colors to paint their boxes -- light

we are having them here in this community, and by the end of the project, we will probably have some aspects of our streetscape that are enviable to other people in more privileged areas and areas that have not had to protest. because we are getting semi- permeable pavement. i do not know too many places in the city that are getting that. we are getting trees. we will have air and better lighting, but our work is not over. we still have to try to drive down the crime in this area, to stop the dumping, public dumping which goes on every day on the corners of newcomb and newhall. we hope that because of the attention we are getting and because the weather in the cap that we can give to the mayor by realizing this plan, that it is a model for a resident-driven program. because we have worked really hard. our seniors have worked hard. our neighbors have worked hard to realize the dreams that are beyond many people's imaginations. many people thought they would not do anything. that we were troublemakers having these meetings. this is where we live. this is the ghetto. we are reclaiming our streets and the initiati

the director of walk sf, elizabeth stanton. >> every year, we see 800 people in san francisco could hit by cars. that is not taxable. this bond will be a great investment. it includes $50 million for streetscape improvements, to improve safety for pedestrians, and for cycling, all throughout the city. we really need this investment in making our streets safer. walk san francisco is supporting this on because we need safer streets for everyone to be able to walk. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, elisabeth. the executive director of the large and growing -- she would tell you how many members -- the san francisco bicycle coalition. >> i just want to thank the leadership for bringing this very important, by health, and timely topic to the forefront. it is not often that we actually see leadership passionate about this. it is true, it is not sexy, but there is a different from past years. people understand and are getting behind this issue. it does affect every walk of life, every neighborhood, every person who moves around the city. and it is not just for the residents. the huge number of tourists from other areas, regional visitors who come to work or play in san francisco. so representing t

the key to achieving that goal. so is our storefront improvement and streetscape beautification programs as well as thesa