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last nine years we have been phenomenally successful with the program on treasure island and have re-unified many women with their children and additionally have gotten them employment and housing. many of the women would love to live on treasure island, however, have not been able to have that opportunity, and they tend to do quite well when they do. it also would be a great thing to be able to have them not leave the island to get employment and do a variety of activities with their families. so this is just a tremendous opportunity for homeless women and children and for all of the homeless population that tie-dye serves, and i encourage you, this is the time. thank you. >> good evening. my name is jeff, the executive director of catholic charities, c.y.o., a member of tie-dye. and since about 20 pioneer families moved out of homelessness and into permanent support of housing in 1989, we have been there with them, supporting them. today we are supporting almost 200 formerly homeless families on the island. in addition, we run the child development center, where we have abo
last nine years we have been phenomenally successful with the program on treasure island and have re-unified many women with their children and additionally have gotten them employment and housing. many of the women would love to live on treasure island, however, have not been able to have that opportunity, and they tend to do quite well when they do. it also would be a great thing to be able to have them not leave the island to get employment and do a variety of activities with their families....
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item 2e is question for approval for the treasure island yerba buena island design for development document. 2f is request for amendments to the san francisco zoning maps by adding new sectional ma zn14 to show the zoning designations of treasure island and yerba buena island, adding new sectional map ht14 to establish the height and bulk district for treasure island and yerba buena island, adding new sectional use map su14 to establish thek treasure island yerba buena island special use district. 2g, making office allocation findings pursuant to the planning code sections 320-325 for the prioritization of 100,000 square feet of office space for the treasure island yerba buena island project. and 2h is the request for approval of a development agreement between the city and county of san francisco and treasure island yerba buena island llc for certain real property, 1939-001 and 1939-002 all together consisting of approximately 450 acres for a term of 30 years. thank you. the staff presentations? >> rich ellis from the economic offs on and workforce development. we planned to do a presentat
item 2e is question for approval for the treasure island yerba buena island design for development document. 2f is request for amendments to the san francisco zoning maps by adding new sectional ma zn14 to show the zoning designations of treasure island and yerba buena island, adding new sectional map ht14 to establish the height and bulk district for treasure island and yerba buena island, adding new sectional use map su14 to establish thek treasure island yerba buena island special use...
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treasure island is a 400-acre man-made island. the navy built the island in increments, so the infrastructure is tied together -- what is the best word? not the most rational layout. entirely new infrastructure systems will need to be provided before any development takes place. in addition to the wet/dry utility, there is approximately $140 million retrofit program and the possibility -- to guard against the possibility of tsunami. we will touch on that in the presentation. of the 450 acres, the treasure island development authority will receive all of treasure island, with the exception of -- this is not working right now, but -- let's see. this shaded area here outlined in red is outlined by the department of labor as the job corps vocational training program. that would remain under federal jurisdiction. on the south side of your blenheim islands -- your but when i went -- yerba buena island. basically all the structures that are out there would be constructed as new facilities, new infrastructure systems being put in place, new r
treasure island is a 400-acre man-made island. the navy built the island in increments, so the infrastructure is tied together -- what is the best word? not the most rational layout. entirely new infrastructure systems will need to be provided before any development takes place. in addition to the wet/dry utility, there is approximately $140 million retrofit program and the possibility -- to guard against the possibility of tsunami. we will touch on that in the presentation. of the 450 acres,...
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the treasure island redevelopment project informational presentation. no commission action at this time. this is an informational presentation by the mayor's office of work force and economic development. >> mr. garland. >> good afternoon, commissioners. we are giving you an overview of the treasure island project. the question that arises in my mind is why do you care? you care because he will have to approve numerous documents associated with the development. they include the interagency cooperation agreements. what we will be presenting today is an overview of the project. imbedded in that, are decisions that you as the puc will make, mainly on the water and waste water side. there is also an analysis we will be performing on whether we become the power provider for treasure island. that is also in the presentation -- how power gets to the island and how it will be distributed. we will be doing the presentation today. april 26, we will come back with the documents for you to approve to move this project forward to the board of supervisors. april 25, i
the treasure island redevelopment project informational presentation. no commission action at this time. this is an informational presentation by the mayor's office of work force and economic development. >> mr. garland. >> good afternoon, commissioners. we are giving you an overview of the treasure island project. the question that arises in my mind is why do you care? you care because he will have to approve numerous documents associated with the development. they include the...
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the next chapter of the island's life. we look forward to working with the developers and citizen groups in making treasure island a wonderful new neighborhood and resource for all of us. we hope that this project will move forward, in spite of the existing conflicts, which we hope can be resolved fairly. thank you very much. >> good evening, i'm andy thornly with the bicycle coalition. i'll limit my comments to the transportation issues of the ceqa analysis. we're concerned and skeptical. the parking ratios are probably too great. but as previous speakers have said, we are evolving towards unaffordable driving, and the peels of this project that compels us to afford -- piece of this project that compels us is the pricing. this product has the state's first roadway pricing strategy in place. it is legislated as ready to go. and we have faith and will work to make that the control. if you own a car and live on treasure island, i will have to pay to drive off of the island. we will be able to turn up that number until it is not appealing for you to drive off the island. that's an important planning aspect of this project and i
the next chapter of the island's life. we look forward to working with the developers and citizen groups in making treasure island a wonderful new neighborhood and resource for all of us. we hope that this project will move forward, in spite of the existing conflicts, which we hope can be resolved fairly. thank you very much. >> good evening, i'm andy thornly with the bicycle coalition. i'll limit my comments to the transportation issues of the ceqa analysis. we're concerned and...
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thank you. >> the treasure island development authority board of directors. item three. public hearing closed. 3 a resolution certifying the report, the treasure island, buena island project. good evening presidents olague and cheng, commissioners in and directors. as rick mentioned, the item before you is a resolution to certify the final environmental impact report for the treasure island, buena island development project by adopting this resolution, you will be certifying that the final e.i.r. is accurate and adequate and that the procedures by which it was prepared are consistent with the ceqa guidelines and the city's code. i defer my remarks to rick cooper to and staff is here to answer any questions that you may have or address any of the issues that were raised earlier during public comment. >> thank you. commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: i agree that it is quat and consistent. i would like to answer -- is adequate and consistent. i think mr. cooper spoke to a lot of those but comments were made to the effect that you know, a lot of this is landfill as
thank you. >> the treasure island development authority board of directors. item three. public hearing closed. 3 a resolution certifying the report, the treasure island, buena island project. good evening presidents olague and cheng, commissioners in and directors. as rick mentioned, the item before you is a resolution to certify the final environmental impact report for the treasure island, buena island development project by adopting this resolution, you will be certifying that the...
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the sierra club urges the san francisco planning commission to recirculate the treasure island -- the e.i.r. for the following reasons -- the project has changed substantially since it was initially approved by the treasure island development authority and the san francisco board of supervisors in 2006 and then updated in 2010, and then changed also earlier this year. to the sierra club finds that the amount of allowable parking is far too high. residential parking should be no more than one space for every two units. and in fact, caltrans wrote a letter to the planning department yesterday noting that the san francisco-oakland bay bridge is already at capacity and no funds have been identified to undertake the multi-use project that would say lao people coming and going from the -- allow people coming and going to and from the island. the transit agency to the planning department dated august 20, 2010, notes that the project will create significant and unavoidable queuing at the approach to the bay bridge in san francisco. and the sierra club also poses a governance structure which g
the sierra club urges the san francisco planning commission to recirculate the treasure island -- the e.i.r. for the following reasons -- the project has changed substantially since it was initially approved by the treasure island development authority and the san francisco board of supervisors in 2006 and then updated in 2010, and then changed also earlier this year. to the sierra club finds that the amount of allowable parking is far too high. residential parking should be no more than one...
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we have seen a lot of support, not only from the treasure island development authority but also from the community. people are looking for reasons to come out to treasure island, if you look at what my pred -- predecessor said, people come to the gate and ask what is on treasure island. he has to tell them nothing. well, there is starting to be something. there are businesses that are bringing people out to the island. in our first six months we've had 10,000 tourists and people out to the winery and we have seen this development as being something that could be great for the city and something that we know are going to be transitioned and are going to have to work with the developers with the transition but we see it as a good thing for san francisco overall. we have ended up hiring a number of people. we have created jobs and we have created something to do on the island, so we are in support of the efforts mere here to develop the island and we see it as a challenging and realistic goal and we think it could be a great part of san francisco. thank you. >> good evening commissioners
we have seen a lot of support, not only from the treasure island development authority but also from the community. people are looking for reasons to come out to treasure island, if you look at what my pred -- predecessor said, people come to the gate and ask what is on treasure island. he has to tell them nothing. well, there is starting to be something. there are businesses that are bringing people out to the island. in our first six months we've had 10,000 tourists and people out to the...
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i mean, it is a good opportunity. >> i'm from the treasure island job corps, and the treasure island project will open up our jobs. >> good afternoon. i'm excited for the project, and i think that it would open up a lot of opportunities for jobs and housing for the younger generation. i just wanted to say thanks for the time. >> good afternoon, commissioners. we are very much in favor of this project moving forward. there are very many positive aspects of the project, from the sustainability, the affordable housing, the immediate jobs this project will create, and the open space. with regard to the affordability, the affordable housing, i think 25% is still really a very good number. i think it is a number that the city of san francisco can be very proud of. out of the 420 acres of development, 300 acres of designated open space, and out of the 300 acres, 40 acres have been set aside -- approximately 40 acres, four regional sports fields and local sports fields. i think this is so important to the city, to treasure island, the city. the city is in dire need of quality playing field a
i mean, it is a good opportunity. >> i'm from the treasure island job corps, and the treasure island project will open up our jobs. >> good afternoon. i'm excited for the project, and i think that it would open up a lot of opportunities for jobs and housing for the younger generation. i just wanted to say thanks for the time. >> good afternoon, commissioners. we are very much in favor of this project moving forward. there are very many positive aspects of the project, from the...
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there's a land pad created for the treasure island sailing center and environmental education center and retenth of existing facilities including the chapel of the existing gym and dlansy street life learning academy. finally, there's numerous jobs created between 2000 and 3,000 construction jobs annually as well as 2,000 permanent jobs on the island at build-out, i'll turn it over to josh sletski to talk about the various items before you. >> good evening. i'm going to take you through the eight actions before you this evening that are necessary to enable the treasure island/yerba buena island development project. the first action is the adoption of sequafindings and statement overriding considerations which are necessary in order to take action implementing the project including mitigation monitoring and reporting program. action two is improvements to the general plan. you initiated amendments of the general plan at your march 3 hearing, including adoption of a new treasure island yerba buena island plan into the general plan and adoption of series of maps throughout the plan to in
there's a land pad created for the treasure island sailing center and environmental education center and retenth of existing facilities including the chapel of the existing gym and dlansy street life learning academy. finally, there's numerous jobs created between 2000 and 3,000 construction jobs annually as well as 2,000 permanent jobs on the island at build-out, i'll turn it over to josh sletski to talk about the various items before you. >> good evening. i'm going to take you through...
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the city and our culture. thank you. >> my name is richard hanson. i've been involved in treasure island since 1978. 1948 when i first came here on the battleship iowa and landed here at treasure island. i think the project is very exciting. i think there are many rewards and i certainly am not opposed to making opportunities for people to have low-cost housing and jobs and especially the playing fields. it is a good way to keep people out of trouble, but in the morning newspaper, the "morning examiner" there is a map of treasure island but there is not indication that there is a sea wall around it. i think the one thing that they have learned, especially in japan in the last six weeks, is that tsunamis are very serious business. the full expectation is that the normal sea level will rise six or eights or 10 feet. these are predictable that it will happen sometime in the next 100 years. and i'm really concerned about who'll pay the cost of putting that sea wall up, which i think is going to be inevitable and what responsibility will the city of san francisco have if there is a devastatin
the city and our culture. thank you. >> my name is richard hanson. i've been involved in treasure island since 1978. 1948 when i first came here on the battleship iowa and landed here at treasure island. i think the project is very exciting. i think there are many rewards and i certainly am not opposed to making opportunities for people to have low-cost housing and jobs and especially the playing fields. it is a good way to keep people out of trouble, but in the morning newspaper, the...
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i have sat through a lot of the presentations on treasure island. some of my impressions of what i have seen -- on the question of tsunami, the idea that treasure island, inside the bay, is subject to catastrophic danger to tsunami is silly. there is no evidence of tsunami is inside the bay area in the geological record. it is something very simple. there is no evidence of it. a big one would look like a high tide inside the day. it is not an issue. on the question of sea level rise, sadly, we are losing the war on this. sea levels are rising. what they have done in the design of this project is state of the art. what you are quick to see more and more in -- is that protect are going to engineer for rising sea levels. it is a sad fact now. on the question of such flexibility, a lot of very fancy engineering and building techniques are going to be employed on treasure island. maybe the only question would be have any of them gotten their calculations wrong. is there anything wrong with the engineering that are proposing here? it is state of the art, a
i have sat through a lot of the presentations on treasure island. some of my impressions of what i have seen -- on the question of tsunami, the idea that treasure island, inside the bay, is subject to catastrophic danger to tsunami is silly. there is no evidence of tsunami is inside the bay area in the geological record. it is something very simple. there is no evidence of it. a big one would look like a high tide inside the day. it is not an issue. on the question of sea level rise, sadly, we...
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it runs between the terminal at treasure island and then in the future, if we need to, we have also analyzed an additional line. two pickup plans in san francisco go to treasure island, which is of course is also in san francisco and then there is the a.c. transit service from the east bay and then the shuttle that picks you up from the transit hub and takes you that last mile or so. one going on the east side neighborhood. the crux of all of our transportation planning is around this transit hub. radiates or loops around that hub. meets the ferry terminal. the shuttle also does the same. you can just walk from one stop to the other without having to cross the street. transit priority signals to help the buses deal with -- and give them that strong get them back on the bridge. this is all premised of course with bike sharing, car sharing. the transportation demand managers right there really at the central point. radiating out from around the hub, street networks. this shows class one, two, three and whole networks of bike only path networks. also the pedestrian plan has better streets. you
it runs between the terminal at treasure island and then in the future, if we need to, we have also analyzed an additional line. two pickup plans in san francisco go to treasure island, which is of course is also in san francisco and then there is the a.c. transit service from the east bay and then the shuttle that picks you up from the transit hub and takes you that last mile or so. one going on the east side neighborhood. the crux of all of our transportation planning is around this transit...
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that was under the navy base reuse plan. 2500 of those units were to be on treasure island. the remainder were to be on ybi. this proposes 800 residential units, an increase. the 2006 plan projects a 8267 spaces, of which 7627 are considered to be off-street spaces, together with 640 cars in on-street parking. the 2011 plan increases parking by 34%, to a total of 11,155 spaces, with an increase in parking to 107. please bear with me. i am trying to determine whether or not you are seeing a change. the 2006 change and provides a detailed account of parking. that is a particular diagram shown in the transportation plan 2006, together with a summary of overall proposed parking. the 2011 plan has failed to give us any comparable detailed information on that subject, at least not in any map. the 2006 plan provides a detailed application mapping of on street and off street parking. the 2006 transportation plan shows numbers of cars in each location. this was brought up by the public. it is a shortcoming of the e.r. -- of the eir. the 2011 plan does not provide any comparable inform
that was under the navy base reuse plan. 2500 of those units were to be on treasure island. the remainder were to be on ybi. this proposes 800 residential units, an increase. the 2006 plan projects a 8267 spaces, of which 7627 are considered to be off-street spaces, together with 640 cars in on-street parking. the 2011 plan increases parking by 34%, to a total of 11,155 spaces, with an increase in parking to 107. please bear with me. i am trying to determine whether or not you are seeing a...
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number two, on the treasure island yerba buena area plan, it's really interesting to me that staff was able to put together an area plan within the space of about three weeks, i think. we had a redevelopment plan previously which i have here which i was reading until the change came along and then all of a sudden we have an area plan for us to consider. i think it's rather unprecedented that the commission and staff has never given us a real presentation and the commission has not had informational workshops specifically on the area plan itself combined with the s.u.d., which are major items for the commission to be considering, especially since the s.u.d. is set up in such a way that it takes power away from the commission which i think is not a correct way to go. also, it would have been helpful, and i think it's because of the time element, it would have been extremely helpful for us to have some kind of matrix or some kind of comparison before us that showed what was in the old redevelopment plan and its various related documents that related to land use and what-not and the new ar
number two, on the treasure island yerba buena area plan, it's really interesting to me that staff was able to put together an area plan within the space of about three weeks, i think. we had a redevelopment plan previously which i have here which i was reading until the change came along and then all of a sudden we have an area plan for us to consider. i think it's rather unprecedented that the commission and staff has never given us a real presentation and the commission has not had...
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is being accepted or certified for acceptance, when the property and the title of the treasure islandongs to the people of the state of california, not the u.s. navy. it was not the navy's to sell for $110 million and it's not private developers to develop. this is privatization of the public commons and i object to it. the value of one piece of property at 110 embark darrow is $6 million without any development. that's lands value alone. if you extrapolate that to treasure island, the property is worth $20 billion, that's b as in billion, 100,000 million. $6,000 million dollars. we sold this or allegedly tried to sell it to lenar for $110 million. this is a rip-off. the ownership issue has not been settled. title has not cleared. the privatization of our commons is something that is extremely serious, especially when it's for private gain. this is something that absolutely has to stop. the land belongs to the people of california and i object to the consideration of the e.i.r. at this time on behalf of the people of california. thank you. president olague: thank you. >> good evening,
is being accepted or certified for acceptance, when the property and the title of the treasure islandongs to the people of the state of california, not the u.s. navy. it was not the navy's to sell for $110 million and it's not private developers to develop. this is privatization of the public commons and i object to it. the value of one piece of property at 110 embark darrow is $6 million without any development. that's lands value alone. if you extrapolate that to treasure island, the property...
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include the retention of the chapel that exists on the island, mainly from comments we got from island residents. we upgraded by facilities and bike paths leading from the bridge to treasure island. we reduce the height of the tallest building by about 200 feet as a result of public comment. produced the commercial parking ratio. we also, as you know, were faced with the governor's budget proposal to eliminate redevelopment, and the risks associated with redevelopment. at this point, we do not know where that is going to end up. we are adopting a financing district model to finance the plan and will talk about changes associated around that, which in vote -- which travelled around housing and how the project is administered. to highlight some of the public benefits, the big one is open space. two-thirds of the island is built. the 300 acres would be new open space. maintenance would be funded by the project. it would include neighborhood parks, a city side art park, access to the water, sailing, and a fairly substantial urban form. the capital cost of the open space is about $124 million. the infrastructure is a total redo of the island. new utilities, new sidewalks. we p
include the retention of the chapel that exists on the island, mainly from comments we got from island residents. we upgraded by facilities and bike paths leading from the bridge to treasure island. we reduce the height of the tallest building by about 200 feet as a result of public comment. produced the commercial parking ratio. we also, as you know, were faced with the governor's budget proposal to eliminate redevelopment, and the risks associated with redevelopment. at this point, we do not...