resolution, authoritying the executive director to execute a ballot in favor of the city transbay, transit center and ocii currently owns a parcel of land, known as transbay block one which is planned to be sold to private ownership and will be subject to the tax. >> before going to the specifics of the cfd, i wanted to give you an over all time line for the adoption of this proposed district. and the board of supervisors has already taken several legislative actions in september, to approve the resolution of formation, and the resolution of determining the necessity to incur the debt and the resolution for calling for the landowner election, and then, the final hearings are schedule for december of this year. >> also, a little more background, just in general about transbay and the key plan dates. and there has been a long standing goal, to expand downtown south of market to the area around the transbay transit center. and the city has been engaged in planning these efforts including significant public out reach and engagement for the area surrounding the center for ten years and our focus for t

vote in favor of city and county of san francisco community facilities district no. 2014-1 (transbay transit center) (cfd), and take such other actions as may be necessary or expedient to the formation of the cfd. >> any questions. >> and i appreciate this resolution in favor of rcfd form nation and the action that was taken by board of supervisors two weeks ago and to support that approval and i also want to recognize the mayor's office because i know that the mayor particularly a very strong position and we were able to stick to the original formation and the city will be made whole by the district and so it remains to be seen what will occur in the next couple of months and i want to recognize the leadership for standing strong on making sure that we will be able to receive the funds from our private developers to fund this important work. and are there any other comments or questions? >> seeing none, we will open it up for public comment on this item? >> seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. do we have a motion on this item? >> do we have a motion? >> second. >> and a second. >> s

. >>> new details about mysterious human remains found at the site of the new transbay transit center in san francisco. the san francisco chronicle reports the remains are native- american and appear to be 7500 years old. that makes them the oldest discovered in san francisco's city limits. investigators are working to identify tribal members who may wish to claim the remains which buried at another site. yesterday, we told but a man who rescued someone from a burning home. we now know the identity of that hero. cell phone video shows a man in a blue hat calmly walking into a burning home and walking out with another man on his back. according to a tv station in fres know, that hero, thomas, finally met the man he rescued. the pair hopes their story their inspire others to help someone in need. >>> the biggest news from this morning was how cool it was. we also have a breezy pattern out there. it's mostly sunny. temperatures rebounded from yesterday's weak front. everybody good to go for game one in kansas city. 72. it's friday night at home we're concerned about. a lot of cloud cover

that working if we don't achieve comment platform heights, and we have one platform at the transbay transit center. there are two or three stations on the cal train system that will be greatly linked to the high speed rail and the majority of the stations, do not have any high speed rail stops and so we are going to talk about... (inaudible) and the new downtown transit center and i think that the best for all of us is to find a way to make it. and i think that with the change to a level boarding for cal train, at the other stations will greatly enhance our capacity but as he said, the choke point will become how many trains can you get in and out of the new downtown transit center, and how does that relate to what the platform height is, and it is being driven by several stations and it is not something that is a common issue to all stations we can go to the current 75 percent, six car lengths and in future, build, and it will give us a capacity increase and it is really do you go all the way into the transbay, how much is it fourth and king, and what is that service pattern, that is part of the

the developers move forward with any lawsuits that will jeopardize the completing of the transbay, transit center, and the top park and the downtown extension and the improvements and on the second item, regarding the opportunity to revisit the uniform height and level boarding for cal train and high speed rail, i attended the cal train rail panel discussion, in mountain view on september 29th. >> and the panel members, were dave cal train, and ben from high speed rail and brian from the tjpa project team, and thompson from the high speed rail group and jillian the director of the policy of the city and county of san francisco and this panel was moderated by dina, and when i attended that discussion, really reaffirmed that the issue must be and that issue must be studied closely, providing the funders of the high speed rail and mou and the opportunity to collaborate on upcoming decisions. we must maximize our operational flexibility and capacity, and passenger accessibility. and it is critical, that the appropriate agencies and funding partners, be informed on the assumptions, alternatives, trade

planned station of the transbay transit center of san francisco, and to the san francisco airport station in mill brai, and the station in san jose will generate more than a third of the 110,000 passenger boardings, for 2040. and with 70 percent of planned bay area housing, and 30 percent of job growth expected to come from the cal train corridor and the area region depends on a high capacity, as sustainability. and compatibility is essential for the flexibility which will result in an over all service and more convenient schedules and easier transfers between the high speed rail and cal train, and will reduce the delays when there is an incident. they must embrace it as a policy imperative to avoid the did duplicate, and they will be forced to build a complete underground station estimated cost of $50 million, and this can be avoided by using shared platforms, because of inka patbility, it is planned as a large elevated station with separate facilities for cal train and high speed rail. platform compatibility will allow the construction of more efficient and less expensive facility. cal

. >>> we're finding out more about the human remains found at the site of the new transbay transit centers of are of a native- american and appear to be 7500 years old making them the oldest remains ever found within san francisco city limits. investigators want to contact triballal members who may want to claim the remains that could be reburied at another site. >>> healdsburg is the first to raise the age for buying tobacco products. anyone under 21 will be banned from buying cigarettes. e-cigarettes and other tobacco products, when the law takes effect. the state law sets the age at 18. and and -- opponents say this will end up hurting lowell businesses because smokers will just go outside of the city to buy the products. >>> 19 minutes before 9:00. the halloween display of epic proportion ♪ no eskate from reality ♪ >> the setup outside an illinois house and the reason police were called to the scene. >>> as you know, the excitement for game one of the world series today, building. yes, it's okay, fellows. up next, how fans are showing their love for the giants. >>> good morning. right

back to the transit capacity and services i just mentioned and moving the brand new ferry, much more frequent, muni every 7 and a half and 1 minutes to the service to the transbay service center and, and of course, ac transit and we are buying the transit for them and the parking fee rates will be increased and we are trying to figure out what the best phasing is for this program. and again, in the performance measures are pretty much, sumed up by trying to achieve a less than 50 percent automobile share on the island. and encouraging the residents and employers and others to use the transit and the three scenarios that we evaluated are here on the screen and in your packet and the first one was taken from the original plan and it involved the total peak hour toll and the five dollar range for the weekdays oebl and we found that this one does not pencil in terms of the financial performance and we identified two other options and that will be to price the periods for all congestived periods and all days of the week and keeping the toll around $5, and on and off the bridge and then, finally a third op

back to the transit capacity and services i just mentioned and moving the brand new ferry, much more frequent, muni every 7 and a half and 12 minutes to the service to the transbay service center and, and of course, ac transit and we are buying the transit for them and the parking fee rates will be increased and we are trying to figure out what the best phasing is for this program. and again, in the performance measures are pretty much, sumed up by trying to achieve a less than 50 percent automobile share on the island. and encouraging the residents and employers and others to use the transit and the three scenarios that we evaluated are here on the screen