seconding my colleague's motion, i want to say a week ago i was contacted by the head of the union square association karen flood. she said their association was supportive. i think that is and important vote of approval. so with that if there is nothing elsely second commissioner lowe's motion. >> commissioner bonia. >> i just wanted to thank the project sponsors for preparing the mitigation program. speaking for myself i think it would have been difficult to support it without that program in place. because i know how difficult it is for the community to deal with these types of projects. even with this -- with the program you have proposed, i know it is not going to be easy. i know it is going to cause great inconveniences and hardships for the community residing around the project. >> thank you. it's been moved and second. all in favor, opposed? it is unanimous, thank you. >> item 9, water conservation project. >> good morning commissioners. before you is discussion and possible action to approve the memorandum of understanding between recreational park department and public commission for implem

in addition, we contacted donna fikarota with the union square association and was able to give her a tour of the space and told her our plans and we feel positive with that and finally what we feel as equally as important, we went door to door and talked to all of our neighbors, we introduced ourselves, talked about our project and our plans and it seems like we have a lot of support from our neighbors and we've been able to acquire several letters of support for the project. aside from that, i'd like to answer any questions that you have. >> do we have any questions from the commission? >> just, is that a rhinoceros head in this picture? >> yes, those are pictures of inspiration, those are not the picture of the venue itself, we got together with the designer and come up with some designs we felt we kind of wanted to culminate together and bring together for the project. >> and if i may, that's a hippo. >> it's a hippo? >> that's a hippo. >> you're right, it's a hippo. >> i know you said you haven't started with construction, do you have an anticipated date of open, is it next summe

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legislation and we talked with san francisco bike coalition, boma san francisco building as the association, union square ccd and real estate department and we received comments from many of the stakeholders. staff also researched on best practices in comparable cities. we looked at portland, vancouver, new york, and also national doubt data from the association of pedestrian and bicycles. based on research, we have made some changes. i will first briefly discuss the impetus behind this legislation and next summarize the existing bicycle parking requirements in the planning code and discuss the ordinance in detail. i want to acknowledge sfmta, who is here, if you have any questions. bicycle ridership has significantly increased in san francisco over the past few years. sfmta's annual count shows ridership has more than doubled since 2006. this report also estimated over 75,000 daily bike commutes in san francisco. with all of that ridership, the city has only 3,000 bike racks on the sidewalks. it requires better infrastructure, including bicycle parking. the san francisco bike plan was adopted in 2009, a