if you look at the shadows, that the transbay has created, 9 parts are affected. here we are talking about 0.06. i think as a latino being born and raised here in san francisco, this is shadow. our people have been in the shadow. and we have been the farm workers, we have been the waiters. and you know, all of the work that we do. for this city, and the rest of this country. so today, i ask you look in your conscious and do what is right, thank you. >> next speaker please? >> president lazarus, and commissioners. my name is rick smith and i live at 680 mission which is across the street from the project site and i am against the appeal and i am grateful for the potential of the coming of the mexican museum in the neighborhood and for the negotiated and the pedestrian open space benefits that were done as part of the purchase agreement and both president chiu who has expressed serious concern about the dancing shadow in union square and the enforcement of prop k in parks throughout the city and the concern for this project i heard expressed with the land use commis

corridor and in the future the transbay transportation corridor. the access by pedestrian is both by the street and also by the presidio that runs on the east side of this project. this is the rendering that jim showed you with the building as it is designed today at 24 stories. and this shows the increase of the up to six floors. again, just a bird's eye view of the same. today we're at about 375 feet and the adjacent structures are all taller. 350 beale is slightly lower. and here we have the up to 6-floor version at 455 feet. again, nominally slight change in the height of the building. this is the existing elevation of the building. this is the extended elevation. a rendering back to the building down fremont. and a view of the building down mission. in each case it shows the existing condition on the left and the proposed extrusion on the right. the building is unique in the sense that it sits directly across from the transbay center and we've looked at creating a really unique and public space at the lobby level, a 52-foot lobby, which is foc

the new transbay fees -- >> that is what i said. that was our assumption. we've learned today that they are deferable. and being a developer, we'd like to defer them. [laughter] >> right. but if the economics of the deal were based on the fact you weren't going to defer them, i mean, we were going to get them -- will you continue on with the deferral or are you willing to nonapply for the deferral for the remaining six floors? >> it's not something that i'm free to simply say. i need to talk to the clients at kill roy and make that decision. they certainly don't want to create ill will with the planning commission, but it's an economic decision. >> right, it's economic, although you're basing whatever pro forma you did in the economic space of not deferring the fees. you know, that's the report we got. i didn't want to continue this. you want to get the project entitled and built and i think you have support on this commission to get it built. we all came into this hearing with the understanding you weren't going to defer fees or they weren't deferable. why

but with the transbay and the elevated park and who is responsible for it and not responsible for it. it seems to be in public's eye so to speak. >> and i appreciate with increased property comes the increased maintenance burden and frankly more money for us to be able to do our jobs. and it would appreciate the acknowledgment of that. >> i wanted to thank sarah to coming in and we were trying to establish an earlier involvement for planning in the parks and there have been issues that come up under the parks that are historying resources and so we are trying to improve that process. and i think that we are doing a better job of kind of flagging the issues earlier, than we did in the past. and i think that the point about new open space with new development and growing areas is one of those things that we are very much aware of. the transbay plan besides the roof top park has five or six acres of new park land that is proposed. it is not clear yet if rec park will be the owner or the operator of any of those parks but it is still a possibility and i think that is something that we wan

a san francisco train stalled in the transbay tube for about half an hour. the lead car lost power plunging that car into darkness. here is a viewer's cell phone video. some passengers said they smelled chemicals during this ordeal. they were smelling brake fuels. >> this whole experience was an anonmy. it's not something that we expected. we expect good, on-time service from b.a.r.t. we regret we had this problem this morning. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. officials are still trying to determine what caused the lead car to lose power. they add the delays were compounded by medical emergencies with a medical emergency. john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a deadly accident in san francisco after a big rig and bicyclist collided. it happened just after 7:00 near 6th and folsom streets. brian flores is there and tells us whether the driver is -- is facing charges. >> reporter: good afternoon, tori. you have cars, bicyclists and trucks in close vicinity of each other in this accident. this is the latest accident. i just got off the phone with the san francisco police

the transbay terminal will be the grand central station of the west of. linking high-speed rail, caltrain, and eight bus lines from all over the bay area, all under one roof. a four-block long public park will top it off. this animation provided by the terminal planners shows what the center will look like when it's completed in 2017. >> the idea for the transbay transit center was to create a national model for transit-oriented development to make transit more accessible and available and to surround that transit access with high density development. >> in the 1980s, san francisco saw a backlash against high density projects. critics worried the new high rises would threaten views and shade parks and lead to the man at anization of the city. but since the 1980s the demographics have shifted in the city and so has public opinion. >> next they will build the centerpiece of the new development. the transbay tower will rise more than 1,000 feet, making it the tallest, most visible building in the city. >> development around the site is beginning to move forw

. >> you will not see the transbay express bus here starting on thursday morning as riders bypass the bay bridge if five days. car. truck. moisture. bus. the closure will not discriminate even if you car pool or take public transportation. >> i will stay at home. >> you are not going to work? >> i don't think so. >> a.c. transit buses stop running across the bay bridge at 7:10 wednesday evening until it opens back up next tuesday morning. the buses will run back and forth 0 to the bart stations. riders are ready. >> i take transbay to the city and sometime action transit to bart, same time, just expect more of a crowd. >> car poolers already dropped the formality and now they are dropping their cars. >> nothing i can do. i will try an hour earlier, happen on bart. >> bart will run 24 hours a day during the closure with overnight trains on an hourly scheduled serving 14 stations. do not underestimate the desire by many to avoid it all. >> what are you going to do when the bay bridge is closed? >> call in sick. >> you really are going to call in sick? >> no. >> what are you going to do?

the transbay terminal will be the grand central station of the west. linking high-speed rail, caltrain, and eight bus lines from all over the bay area, all under one roof. a four-block long public park will top it off. this animation provided by the terminal planners shows what the center will look like when it's completed in 2017. >> the idea for the transbay transit center was to create a national model for transit-oriented development to make transit more accessible and available and to surround that transit access with high density development. >> in the 1980s, san francisco saw a backlash against high density projects. critics worried the new high rises would threaten views and shade parks and lead to the man manhattenization of the city. but since the 1980s the demographics have shifted in the city and so has public opinion. >> next to the terminal the builders will build the centerpiece of the new development. the transbay tower will rise more than 1,000 feet, making it the tallest, most visible building in the city. >> development around the si

today the market street transit corridor and in the future the transbay transportation corridor.he access by pedestrian is both by the street and also by the presidio that runs on the east side of this project. this is the rendering that jim showed you with the building as it is designed today at 24 stories. and this shows the increase of the up to six floors. again, just a bird's eye view of the same. today we're at about 375 feet and the adjacent structures are all taller. 350 beale is slightly lower. and here we have the up to

. >>> bart riders were stranded this morning when it stalled inside the transbay tube. thousands of other commuters had to deal with train delays. a viewer sent us this photo from inside the train as it sat. john sasaki talked with a passenger who was in the car about what the experience was like. >> reporter: imagine being on bart in the transbay tube and not moving for 30 minutes. and it is dark. you can see from the photo, riders went through october andly that this morning. -- through exactly that this morning. the lead car lost power. here is a cell phone video of the station where the crowds were lined up. officials say the other 8 cars still had power and there was also smoke in the car. it caused the breaks to lock up so the breaks were smoking. she was in that car. it delayed her for an hour but they faced more immediate problems. >> you get a sense that you are stopped, your under the bay. you don't know what is going on and you could hear other trains and while you knew -- know there is more than one track, there is always the anxiety that maybe you are going

we're not talking about the transbay plan or something like that. so i'm -- i don't accept this process as being the way we should be doing transportation in san francisco and i -- i can't support this item. >> you touched on [inaudible] mull symposiums and it's a big problem, not just here but in a lot of places. i want to recap some of these issues [inaudible] large scale with brt represents in the transbay type projects but things should go faster. clearly seqa is a huge area of this. i do wanna note in the prior presentation mark indicated that does seem to be growing momentum. i think it's critical to push upon that as well as making sure that california implements but there are a number of things we can do and i think what underscores this is the project delivery pipeline is weak in san francisco. being able to push forward at an effective pace multiple projects at the same time instead of doing here's the central subway, we should be able to do with la and other places do is they have a whole self of projects that i've moving forward in tande

about 400,000 daily bart riders are going to be jock using for seat with car poolers and ac transit transbay passengers. the bay bridge is also economic life line for a lot of businesses who expect to lose money during those 5 days. >> modern express courier company expects to lose up to continue,000 dollars when the bay bridge closes for 5 days. >> drivers will go on the san m te'o brim or san rafael, catching ferry catching a cab once we get them that san francisco so we are going to have a hit on this. >>reporter: oakland gay pride festival could take a hit because bridge officials cancel the big celebration for opening of the new spaichbility folk plan big celebration on the bridge. so we are expecting boost in numbers and now we have the hope the numbers there. >> bart trains run but competition for seats. >> labor day weekend, people will take time off. in the me i'll be working until friday. >> because 2 of the 5 closure days are workday. thousands of car poolers and ac transit transbay passengers plan to join the 400,000 daily bart passengers. >> it's packed. going to be like sardine

frank somerville is off tonight. >> this was inside a bart train stuck in the transbay tube.tvu's john sasaki is live with the story of what it was like from a woman who spent part of the day under the bay. >> reporter: commuters are filtering back now from san francisco. a few have quite the story after this morning's ride to the city. >> reporter: you couldn't tell bart had any problem this afternoon. this morning minutes after leaving west oakland something went wrong. >> the lights went out and then very slowly we stopped. we were under the bay in the tube. >> reporter: she was in the lead car that lost power, stranding hundreds of passengers. >> i was glad that no one else -- everyone else was calm because it would have taken just one person for it to have a domino effect on everybody else. >> reporter: the trains other cars still had power. >> the operator used that car as the operator car and move it to west oakland station where the passengers were able to get off the train, safely. >> reporter: this is a cell phone video where the crowds were lined up because of the

this is not really a legal argument and more of a public relations issues that have been raised the transbay project and the transit center project had seven buildings with 0.19 percent to allocate between them which is less than 0.03 each and this is one building, 0.06 and so in terms of one building, occupying or causing shadow, on this park, it dwarfs any of the other buildings in the transit center project area plan. thank you. >> thank you. >> >> i think that the arguments are well stated so i will not go through rehashing those and i think that you have heard a lot of the additional detail that i did not have time for, for the planning staff and just in terms of the policy comparison to transbay i just wanted you to be aware that this project as a ro bust benefits package that has been negotiated both of the result of the property convey ens from the agency and as a result of the planning department process and without getting into details, there is public benefit package associated with that project is amount 120 million and includes the substantial funding for the mexican museum and

thousands of car poolers and ac transit transbay passengers plan to join the 400,000 daily bart passengers. >> it's packed. going to be like sardine in there never fu fun. >> 0a's play the rays and cal bears will take than ought northwestern wildcat that weekend. getting to those games is a challenge for some. last time bay bridge closed in 2009 traffic shot up 22 percent and bart set a ridership record for labor day closure on treasure island. this is abc news. news. >> bart plans to run limited service around the clock from august the 28th until the evening of monday september 2nd day before the bridge opened. bart not announced which stations will open around the klochblingt ac transit take passengers to bart station where they cap connect with the trains. golden gate transit and san francisco bay ferry offer special services during this closure period. >> ground broken on the original bay bridge back in 19 33 three years rater open to traffic. project finished 9 months early and came in millions under budget. now billions of dollars later we are about to drive across a new eastern span

a lot of buildings built and a lot of greater depth into soils that are also problematic, in the transbay areas and i have seen the same techniques being used at 201 fulsom which is just in the process of foundation work being done and the shore work before the foundations are doing the shoring work and so is sounds like this is addressed well and the deck, and a couple of other issues that were raised. i mean i

if there is a bart strike, some transit agencies plan to provide extra transbay service including bart, samtrans, sf bay ferry, sfo shuttle, soul trans, as well as west cat. that means in some cases, free shuttles, extra ferries as well as extra stops. bart will hire about 95 charter buses. but with many public transit options don't expect miracles. caltrain, golden gate transit and ferry will all operate regular service. in the case of ac transit, if they don't strike, expect regular service as well with some extra transbay lines if they can manage as well as extra seating. muni buses will also boost its service during peak hours. if you're going to drove, do yourself a big favor if you are going to drive. try casual carpooling. drivers and passengers can meet at designated locations. or you can create a carpool even a vanpool by signing up in advance and using 511 ride watch online. you need a lift, have a smartphone, try out an app like car-ma. it provides realtime carpool matches for departures within as little as 10 minutes. and here's one plus. in the event of a strike, the hov l

about 400,000 daily bart riders are going to be jock using for seat with car poolers and ac transit transbaysengers. the bay bridge is also economic life line for a lot of businesses who expect to lose money during those 5 days. >> modern express courier company expects to lose up to continue,000 dollars when the bay bridge closes for 5 days. >> drivers will go on the san m te'o brim or san rafael, catching ferry catching a cab once we get them that san francisco so we are going to have a hit on this. >>reporter: oakland gay pride festival could take a hit because bridge officials cancel the big celebration for opening of the new spaichbility folk plan big celebration on the bridge. so we are expecting boost in numbers and now we have the hope the numbers there. >> bart trains run but competition for seats. >> labor day weekend, people will take time off. in the me i'll be working until friday. >> because 2 of the 5 closure days are workday. thousands of car poolers and ac transit transbay passengers plan to join the 400,000 daily bart passengers. >> it's packed. going to be like sardine in