, and what happens on vanesse affects mission street. what happens on polk street affects fillmore street, it is a much bigger thing than just looking at things narrowly. that is something i hope that can be brought out in hearing the maybe you can find out to convince them that's the way should be. that's a series of us that will come up and talk about some of these things and hopefully you'll get some of the questions. thank you so much. >> chair adams: thank you. >> as a speaker comes up, speak your name for the record when you start your presentation thank you. >> mitchell berg, order of bow wow miau. in the project like the on polk street that would have the potential impact on businesses in the community that is so dramatic the business community should have been involved in the process much sooner than it was. it seems sfmta has serious outreach problems in -- and a pr problem. the coalition with small business has been left out of the loop. we were brought to the table at the point where we became a spoiler; the plans were drawn

. >> it's also clear that what happens on vanesse, especially during the construction period will affect you. there needs to be coordination of those two efforts, the construction phase and anticipating what the final outcome is in terms of traffic patterns. >> and we agreed, there are changes that are planned for vanesse as far as not being able to make left-hand turns forcing many more right-hand turns , forcing much more traffic on to polk street, which is a topic at hand here. >> i propose, have been proposing a technique which i call pave it and paint it; paint can be changed. curbs once done our hard to undo. i'm hoping that at least in moderation but they will adopt a strategy the last things to be modified over time and in a less difficult way, like this repainting things; traffic patterns ; change and they will your traffic patterns will change and i think that the flexibility to add and subtract features on the street should be preserved over time so that we can deal with the changes in the neighborhood and changes in the traffic patterns affected by all the other project slate

is 162 units combined with our 100 vaness. one of the areas that are... this is the probably the west of chicago, it is probably the best served public transit area in the western part of the united states and there are 37 transit lines running there and four lines and 700 metro and 16 muni buses, vaness and brt, it is incredible transportation, easy access to the south bay highways and google etc.. and haze valley is just two blocks away. and this project, and with the knights and our other project 100 and, this is going to change this is really important right now it is a dangerous area to walk at night. so the project. there is a picture of it. >> there is the picture of the project. and it is a nice building. you look at the design now and that is our 6th design. and i don't have time to tell you a story, maybe i will tell you it any ways. we went through the planning and we made presentation after presentation, and i really liked when jackson and we kept getting shot down and shot down and finally we want up this one and we will show you how it goes

there a couple of small properties on the edge of haze valley, but with the project coming on, 100 vaness, and some of the other things that are being proposed and built this will be 24 hours neighbors that drives certain kinds of neighborhood serving retail that of course increases the safety of the age in the area. so of course, we along with everything else, you can't, you have a winning project. you have union support and you have wonderful transit and architecture that fills in an empty spot in the civic center, so it is a dream project thank you very much. >> thank you. >> any additional public comment? >> good evening, my name is jerry bernstein and i am the chief operating officer for the light house for the blind and we welcome this project and not only will it make the neighborhood safer it will improve the alley which has always been kind of a sore spot, and i am also a remember of the board director of the cbd, the civic center and i back up what don said and i think about this project and thank you. >> thank you. >> any additional speakers on this item? >> seeing none, public

and polk street we have the vaness plan which is presented to us by the cta, the county transportation authority. the polk street plan is the nta, it seems like what is going to happen on aness has no impact on what is going on the polk street plan and we are going to lose a lot of parking on vaness and all of the left tiners and that means a lot more traffic is going to be coming down i don't think that any of that is being coordinated with what is going on polk street. these things have to be coordinated and i would echo the thing about having a small business in the neighborhood person on the mta board and also would like to add that there is something called a bike advisory committee of the mta. why isn't there the neighborhood business committee of the mta. the businesses are very much a big part of this whole thing, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please? >> that concludes the public comment if anybody else would like to speak you could line up on the side. we have one more, my apologies. >> hi commissioners, i am the president of (inaudible) dog patch merchan

i cannot predictability how many vaness there will be if you're a smart developer you're going to want to avoid that. >> i'm not fighting it for for your information you asked why we included that. the rb a explained how difficult it is for smaller buildings they're not that much of facade ton the right-of-way and to have th muc ground floor is very difficult. this was an accomodation we made. we're hearing you don't like it that's the history from it. >> i believe the city attorney would like to make a comment. >> i wanted to circle back to the question about the changes were to the sequa finding. so i'll provided that belief. there were two changes at the court of appeals direction. the finding on the alternatives were updated to make clear the connection of the reasons their regretted claiming the reasons of offer riding consideration. so starting on page 721 there was some added text to make clear to the readers and also referenced the reasons for further objectives. and the other clarifies that was made to the sequa findings was to clarify which significant impacts couldn't be lev

it will go deery mrvd, vaness boulevard and go around and come up the new viaduct right over here on my other shoulder. that is actually the way you'll get through the city for the next three weeks if you dt after midnight. the good news is after this mess all comes down, they're going to start putting up the new viaduct. the new columns, three tunnels, the new roadway and all of that will be going on this summer. there might be other delays. this is all going to be finished by 2016 and at a tidy price tag of $1 billion. >> call it one last ride for an iconic symbol of hurricane sandy. the roller coaster finally getting dismantled on the jersey shore. that crane began taking the jet star apart this morning. authorities plan to install a piece of the jet star in the reconstructed casino peer and act as a memorial. somebody here has been on that roller coaster. >> end of an era for you. >> spent some of my formative years in seaside heights. it was very scary when you're like nine years old. >> they'll build a new one that's scary. >> the jersey shore will be bigger and better. hopeful

and the property itself, is 11,672 square feet in size, located near chavez and south vaness and it has auto motive uses most recently on the site just to get you oriented on the location and i will have a map up on the overhead. push >> there we are and the subject property right here. a detailed of the property and just off the corner of shotwell and chavez and a couple of pictures, as i say automotive related uses, those will be removed, prior to redevelopment for affordable housing purposes. the property was appraised by a third party appraisal for $4.2 million and the review of the property suggestions a level of mitigation will be required prior to development and the developer under the sale agreement with the city agrees to post some sufficient to address, that predevelopment work that is approximately $92,000. and we are up against undisclosed adverse environmental conditions as outlined in the resolution and agreement, capped at $500,000. that is more particularly outlined in the agreement that i will not bore you with the details. the property is delivered to the city at a pu

be a big year getting out on the yard and another item on the plans and programs agenda later the vaness is the wonderful milestone to finish the environmental and the sfmta where they take over leadership of the project and the finalized design and implement and construct ta whole bunch-innovative project and this one is a mouth fund, (inaudible) management partnership looks at way to leverage the private sector, funding in the transportation sector and this builds on the muni and provide resource and support to private sector employers who are providing shuttles and other forms of management to see if we could pool those resources and effectively, serve their needs with the existing revenues that are available. let's see, very big effort that hopefully will come to a close this year is the san francisco transportation plan update. this is our long range plan for the county guiding our investment for transportation priorities in the city. and it is also very exciting to work with the mayor's task force and which is looking at a need and possible revenue sources for san francisco and wor

the cta says what happens on polk street has nothing to do with the vaness plan. a spokesman for

construction depending on the portion of the work between a year and two years before we break ground to the vanessnd we've been coordinating our efforts with cpmc and at this time i don't believe there's going to be any difficulty in staying out of each other's way. most of the heavy work will be done by the time we start work and in the case of possible interference, we're building a two mile corridor and you can start either north or the south end and schedule our work to avoid any major conflicts of the hospital. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them for you. >> possibly later. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> thank you peter. the next issue that has been up, and it has always been an issue is traffic level around cathedral hill from the medical office and one key new set of terms in the da that was particularly spear headed by supervisor chew when we had the negotiation sessions was the idea of some enhanced monitoring of traffic around the cathedral hill hospital so i was going to have nickleson from the planning department to tell you how that will work and how we'll keep it under

and for me and my constituents to go to the stop from castro and to vaness and now the two, back-to-back days with the problems and to my knowledge, neither one was caused by a break down or a specific incident it was just wait that the cookies crumbled and the system that day and there really were there was no different had there been a break down and as i understand it, those kind of incidents or happenings would not have been captured in the economic analysis. >> that is correct. >> i know that it is hard tore capture because of the specific log reports of those kinds, of things and just for the benefit of the public and $50 million annual estimate is quite conservative but i think that it is a solid start. >> great. >> thank you very much, i appreciate it. >> mr. riskin? >> so i think that the conversation to begs the question that what do we take from this, i think that going from the next slide and i think that one of your main points is that reducing the transit delays will create the economic benefit for the city and over the converse of the last slide and what i would add is tra

a void area to avoid 16th at vaness. it's not affecting the freeway. we should have pictures coming up soon. the chopper is in san francisco. you can see the -- in fact, let me see if you can point -- can you point down, newschopper2? let's see if he heard me. yes, he did. we're in san francisco here. he's -- this is south city. pardon me. this is northbound 101 in south san francisco coming up on oyster point. when the shopper gets there, we'll let you know. there's highway 101 at oyster point. back to the desk. >> all right, sal. we'll we'll get back to you. >>> happening right now in san mateo, passengers on a samtrans bus had to evacuate from the bus an hour ago after some sort of cable or phone line fell on top of the bus. ktvu's claudine wong just arrived on the scene moments ago and claudine, you showed the smashed windshield. some scary moments here. >> reporter: that's right. the driver just put some duct tape there so it doesn't pop out as you drive away? >> that's correct. >> reporter: can you tell me what happened here. >> according to the