starting school monday we signed up i'm familiar with the development in the area with the one 50 van ness as long as the holding holding we were deciding between a nice quiet salt lake city sunset no more 0 port and for all the diabetic changes we're taking muni and going to take our son and show him the urban we're not detold her we think this will make that a more vibrant community and happy my son will be at school and in the neighborhood thank you. >> thank you. >> hi, i'm jim i'm here speaking for hayes valley neighborhood association i'm a past member and on the transportation fund committee i can't say better than what jim said about the facts the

starting school monday we signed up i'm familiar with the development in the area with the one 50 van ness as long as the holding holding we were deciding between a nice quiet salt lake city sunset no more 0 port and for all the diabetic changes we're taking muni and going to take our son and show him the urban we're not detold her we think this will

van ness as long as the holding holding we were deciding between a nice quiet salt lake city sunset no more 0 port and for all the diabetic changes we're taking muni and going to take our son and show him the urban we're not detold her we think this will make that a more vibrant community and happy my son will be at school and in the neighborhood thank you. >> thank you. >> hi, i'm jim i'm here speaking for hayes valley neighborhood association i'm a past member and on the transportation fund committee i can't say better than what jim said about the facts the hazard of the current building the long process of the market octavia plan all the work that went into that that many organization and you and certainly were all part of we believe we have to respect that processed i do on aside remember sitting here when the school needed variances and needed them quickly we were trying to go quickly to get into a start date for the year and you understood and granted the details are trvm and problematic but this project complies with everyone in market octavia that it filed at least not to my kn

the school going forward from now on i encourage you to approve one 50 van ness as planted the process has been going on for a long time the time to night pick is past with all due respect to the parents i understand their concerns you know going after or letting a project being taken down by a tenant that moves in after the motion and asking for nuisance and construction noise involves ceqa schwartz i hate to mention out loud it is horrible i hope you approve it as planned thank you. >> good afternoon commissioner i was going to say director ram i'm the director of the public special initiative i have a few comments to make and read a statement from the share of the special arts committee that had to depart a fungi want to acknowledge the emerald fund to contribute to the public trust the san francisco aortas commissions hopes they'll be a trendsetter from the one percent art requirement from 9 one 50 van ness and 101 pulp of polk projects will create an original work of art for the pacific auditorium to chances the sixth building is a deems of their civic arts and the arts commission commends them this is an opp

. >> thanks as a architect and long term resident it is a privilege to be involved in this project the architecture seeks to transition from the solidarity to the van ness neighbor to mitigate it's long block the building is articulated into 5 mass a pair of bay windows is to create on a expression in between the mass bandage and windows are add hair significant to create additional roof terrace or so along hayes there will be a frontage and at the intersection of hayes and van ness it creates an opportunity for restaurant outdoor courtyards and roosevelt create open spaces for the residents facade detail role shows the high quality of finishes and the articulation that's been achieved it is a great material that wraps into the resources to create solidarity and the bays provide for further articulation to the facade and project upwards to create visual craft i'll be happy to answer any questions and later in the presentation that you may have thank you. >> as noted one 50 van ness provides balanced needed housing including the one and 50 and has received widening report 3 months ago the preschools opened their doors immediately to the south some of the

crews are digging up a section of van ness avenue as part of the construction of the underground tunnel, they're digging up that tunnel and working on this all week longa map of where the construction site is taking place. it's closed on there between post and geary street. this is the first of several rounds respective closures in the weeks ahead. ktvu's ali is out there, hey, ali? >> this is the first of three weekend long closures that will happen over the next several months. what are they working on. the crews have been working on 32 hours around the clock building an underground pedestrian tunnel that will connect the medical hospital that will go into had in that big hole behind us on van ness with the medical office building across the street. you can see they're using heavy duty equipment to do that. there's the drill right there in front of us that they've been using. they have two of them in operation, they have two others on stand by just in case anything goes wrong. those drills are three feet wide in diameter, and behind that you can see them lifting up the giant pipes, those pipes are going to be used to install the support beams that w