the union square business improvement district has devoted considerable work to improving union square. we would oppose any project we felt would harm the park. in this case there are limited negative impacts. thank you for your consideration of our position. sincerely karen flood, executive director and david needle man, president. copies of this letter will be e-mailed to everyone. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is matthew and i am president of friends of yerba buena. we support growth within this city. we support bringing the mexican museum to jessie square. what we cannot support is the greed of the project sponsor which seems to dictate the process that has been taking place before us and destroying the beauty and resources of our city. we urge you to keep in mind the recent economic study that has been submitted from ucla's school -- anderson school of business, one of the most prestigious schools in our country. the report is truly an independent study and not based on a developer's own assumptions. he is only looking

the square area and union square park. we would oppose any project that would harm the park. in this case with the limited negative impact we support this project. thank you for your consideration and david, president. >> thank you very much. i just want to mention to members of the public we have a rule in our chamber of no signs because they are a bit disruptive to the proceedings. you are welcome when it is your turn to speak about what you would want. otherwise community with your sign. if i can ask you to put the signs down. that would be appreciated. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i just heard the news. i didn't know this, president chiu and congratulations. well, i'm here again to ask you to approve the changes on 706 mission on the building that we have the mexican museum. this is it. more than 20 years of work for so many people. the goodwill has been there. few people are opposed to having this museum. yet we haven't built it. everybody is in favor of it. so i'm asking you to deny the appeal and to approve the p

ame is alex [speak understood], i'm speaking on behalf of union square life which is the ultimate [speaker not understood] in union square park. we are in support of the 706 mission project and the benefits to the surrounding community. we feel the project does not simply negative impact the union square park nor affect the public enjoyment. ~ of the park. we are concerned about the project's threatening of the [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood] which is a tiny sliver of the very early hours only four weeks. year and being used as a laughable excuse for legislation that will tie up progress in the city immeasurably. [speaker not understood] based on union square shadow concerns. we urge the committee to approve this project and encourage the opposition to not move forward with threats, to sponsor an unnecessary ballot measure that could be harmful to all of san francisco. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >>> david elliott lewis here. certainly i support the mexican museum and certainly i support this project and have no problems with i

also you have to remember that it's a central sub by the way, there's a stop at the union square and there's a spur at union square for the gary light rail system and you're going to have to go before the voters to authorize and extend that. so you have to take the all that take into consideration. and also the way the gary task force final report came out we would have a service from gary and market to gary and laguna and go out the center strip to fillmore to masonic and straight out to the beach. read the final report of the gary task force and it was published in 1990 and all the other work published regarding a light rail system on gary boulevard >> thank you very much. >> any member of the public want to commit? seeing none, public comment is closed >> madam clerk if we could have a roll call vote and a (calling names) the tomes passed. >> if you get call items 18 and 20 prelim and a item 18 a two year contract in an amount not to exceed 2 had the and plus and negotiate the contract payment terms and the non payment concerns. and item 20 approve the appointment of the bus rapid

land for city employees and we know where it's leading us now but the first major thing was the union square garage. it was like a wpa project and 39 or so and the merchants realized they needed to have the consumers have a place to park and got together with the city and the first partnership to build parking in the city and under union square and people were asking how did you do this thing all over the country and we built more of these types of garages under parks and helping to pay to keep the parks in business. the next thing that happened started in oklahoma city. they found they had to put in meertds to cause turn over for the merchants and of course as san francisco as other cities did this say source of spare change while doing good and turn over with parking but we continue in san francisco doing a pretty silly thing. in 1955 the zoning codes were changed to require that if you want to build a house, an apartment, or anything you have to provide a parking place. now did people want that to park on the street? did they want that so there is no development in the neighborhood? who k

and there you go building a space in the union square and there's supposed be space for this on gary boulevard so you've got to take into account before you do minimal. i also brought up the point that the public works mentioned the only way to alleviate traffic back when prop b was passed quota light rail system but it went no where think about that. people want the light rail. by that's what the people are going for now think about all that >> thank you very much anyone else want to speak. seeing none, public comment closed >> mr. fong can you talk about the potential for light rail on gary. i know there's proposals for the beach that l have been talked about but there's no funding stream but i saw there's funding for gary light rail and i know the bus system is going to be light rail ready supposedly >> we're going to get ready for the light rail knowing at the moment we don't have the fund in a reasonable amount of time to build the light rail but not discounting in the future that the light rail would be a nice step to get to. but in this way we're trying to get the bus lanes run

as i understand it the shadow impact on union square is dimin mis. we have a process around shadows and the rec and planning and park commission had the required meeting and they considered it. i don't think that the shadowing of union square is really frankly the issue here, and i believe that the trans bay tower is significantly more -- or has more shadow impact than this project. correct me if i am wrong, and i don't see that as a reason not to support this project. i agree there comes a point where a project can have pretty significant shadow impacts and that's something that we should be concerned about. i don't think that's this project. i am happy to move this project with or without recommendation. supervisor kim i am happy to defer to you whenever you would prefer given it's in your district. >> thank you. i plan on supporting this project but i'm happy to move this without recommendation so we have unanimous support for the board tomorrow. >> okay. so the motion is move it without committee without recommendation. is there is no additional d

we have a number of the our communities supporters as well, karin floods from the union square bid, very strong partner and they have been putting up with us as we have been working through her neighborhood, carlin diamond from the market street association. cathy, and andrew from the (inaudible) cvd and jim lazares that i was just talking to and he is already working on the next phase and we have the china town and many of our china ton including in the front row miss rows pack and mr. gordon chin. and we have a number of members of our community advisory group for the central subway. people who have volunteered their time as everyone else just mentioned has year after year to suffer this project through to make sure that we are doing it well and doing it right. and finally, there is a lot of leadership and support from the communities, from the federal partners and from the government and from city hall that makes all of this happen, but at the end of the day, everybody has to drive this project forward and so i want to acknowledge the subway director, john sungi, since 2006 john has b

line connected with some kind of subway that will connect you from laguna street all the way to the union square area and it would really open up the west side of san francisco a lot. so, those are just some thoughts that we can ponder as we go forward. >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes, just one last comment. we can refer in the future, if she doesn't remind we can refer to shelly as shelly purdue. [laughter] >> never mind. okay, people have been around know that part. >> any other comments, questions? okay, thank you very much and look forward to seeing you gun. ~ again. >> commissioners, going to take a short break here while we have a very long calendar. so, probably about a 20-minute break. [break]

so far demonstrators have spilled out of the union square park and are walking through . manhattan below the park and of course they are surrounded by police officers on the street let's pan over there to show us a police officers on motorcycles and police officers on foot clearly the crowd is very aggravated an incredible injustice only you can look at everyone around us like a black man. that he actually got to free the way to a date i think that just kind of voice their opinion or just a black white thing it's not just because trayvon was a little black boy it's it's it's the sickness here in america you know which you know it gets to decide who looks dangerous and who's not following three hours in the believing heat demonstrator. we're still walking through new york city demanding justice and dozens of police officers by their side are sporting reporting from new york marine up ny r.t. . the state of california has suffered some of it was divided process go to dot com to see what's been happening all the details on the best pictures from the sundress and oakland are w

line connected with some kind of subway that will connect you from laguna street all the way to the union square area and it would really open up the west side of san francisco a lot. so, those are just some thoughts that we can ponder as we go forward. >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes, just one last comment. we can refer in the future, if she doesn't remind we can refer to shelly as shelly purdue. [laughter] >> never mind. okay, people have been around know that part. >> any other comments, questions? okay, thank you very much and look forward to seeing you gun. ~ again. >> commissioners, going to take a short break here while we have a very long calendar. so, probably about a 20-minute break. [inaudible] >> procedures, appeal of exempt project modificationses ordinance. >> garv, commissioners. ann marie rodgers, planning department staff. ~ good afternoon we are here today to continue the discussion for our local processes appeals of super documents. earlier today you heard about the collaborative efforts at [speaker not understood] board meeting. resulted from a merger of supervisor kim's propo

so far the demonstrators have spilled out of the union square park and are walking through. manhattan below the park and of course they are surrounded by police officers on the street let's pan over there to show us a police officers on motorcycles and police officers on foot clearly the crowd is very aggravated an incredible injustice to only you can laugh at everyone around us like a black man thank you that he actually got to free the way to say you know i think that i just kind of voiced their opinions more in just the black and white thing it's not just because i was a little black boy it's it's it's you know the sickness here in america you know which you know it gets to decide who it's dangerous and who's not following three hours. in the policing fleet demonstrators were still walking through new york city demanding justice and dozens of police officers by their side as sporting reporting from new york marina point i r t. now george zimmerman may have walked free from court but u.s. attorney general eric holder has reaffirmed the justice department has a now determini