-- aqua vista park. >> wait for her to call you, please. >> topher delaney. >> this one is yes, yes, yes. we have been terrorized by this kelly mission rock for the last nine years and i am so thrilled to have this guy here. i just ms. -- met him. he is a responsible restaurant eur. he is going to help us out. he has a wonderful restaurant that is run like a grown-up. that is really fabulous. we are thrilled to have him. i hope you will give him whatever this guy needs to come in. he is going to run a good ship and it will be a good reflection on the port. it is going to be fabulous for the community. that is it. three cheers for the sky. >> thank you. -- for this guy. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. i am the managing partner at water bar. just down the street. i am the newly elected president of the golden gate restaurant association board of directors and i am late for dinner service right now. i have known pete osborn for little over 10 years. he is a wonderful human being. you are not going to find a more dedicated and passionate restaurateur. a super-smart bus

osborn has offered to extend his improvements to aqua vista park, which the port may not get from other bidders. mr. osborn will also improve public access for completing the visitor dock that was always intended for that location that has been approved. if you approve this request today, court staff will begin negotiations with golden bear, including market data that the new transaction would bring market rents and be in keeping with port retail leasing policy, which allows for extended terms if a tenant is making a significant investment in the property. at that time, you will have the option of approval. the transaction will also require board of supervisors approval. thank you for your consideration and i am available for questions. mr. osborn regrets that he cannot be here today, but he has invited other representatives to speak for him. >> so moved. >> second. >> public comment. we have john, then topher. >> good evening, members of the commission. i am john. i have been fortunate to have had a relationship with peter osborn since the development of momo's restaurant. we have begu

park district. i am the chair of the steering committee of the blend of vista neighborhood committee. we serve 4500 households around the area. we have about 400 paying members of the time. i'm also honored to serve on park station's community advisory board, and to be the representative on the city-wide cpab, part of the department of community relations you did. barry police captain feeney has been assigned to the park station. excited about the many fresh ideas that he is bringing. you saw a summary of them tonight. and that is just within a few -- a few weeks. especially his focus on the equal approach to enforcement of rules and behavior among vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles. what a novel concept. equal enforcement of all those in the mix. also pleased with the reassignment which happened before captain feeney. the recipient -- reassignment of the honda unit to be based at park station. while they serve the whole city, the local presence coming and going from park station through our neighborhood where they happen to be assigned is really benefiting golden gate park -- my favo

this is buena vista parks. this is quezar park. this is mount davidson. look out for the rock. this is on telegraph park. this is stern grove. this is a little known park above candle stick. here's my friend jake, standing by a wall. this was rosy play ground. they turned it into a park and it was also restored by wpa. i believe they torn down the house, which was unforgivable and the zoo is wpa. and here's the murals inside the mother's building. the marina sea walls and great aquatic park. the palace of fine arts. we wouldn't have and a little further in, lake merit, this pier. alva rado park and then, some of you my recognize this. the berkeley rose garden. did it have to be this beautiful. finally, i'm going to wrap up. san francisco is rich in the various kinds of arts projects. we have a fabulous collection of stuff here. there were four components. there was visual arts, federal theater, federal musics and federal writers. they employed many people. this is excellent to show the work. the visual arts project. it was especially important in san francisco because of dieggo

in the hills of buena vista park. >> only a few people know where exactly we sleep. yeah, i would definitely make sure i -- >> born and raised in bakersfield, california, josh gradually drifted away from home. >> yeah. >> hey, got any leftovers? hey. >> leftovers? >> please. >> since i was about 14, i have pretty much gone my own way, you know? i was able to make it in school up until my senior year and then i just fell out. i bet you it's hamburger. i don't need anything. i don't need a house to be happy. i don't need food to be happy. food's free, dude, as you can so well see on haight street. >> josh is a runaway musician without an instrument. he says his guitar was stolen in santa cruz, a beach town 70 miles south of san francisco. >> all i need, man, is 35 bucks and i can get this guitar from goodwill, and with that guitar i can make enough money to get a better guitar from the haight-ashbury music store. but i don't want to be here this long. >> josh says he met his girlfriend annie while he was passing through her hometown of santa cruz. she decided to join h

they have great access to the areas of the park in the panhandle and one of this parwhf buena vista park. we of six members assigned to the station. we will be able to do better work with their services. homeless our reach in the albert lake area. bringing in social services, it's expanding beyond the police rome -- from. -- realm. we need to have the transient population that are the criminal population that are dealing drugs and assaulting other people. we need to have them think about who they are asking to buy drugs as they're walking by. we want to put sense in their mind that perhaps that may be an undercover police officer. we can actually make them feel uncomfortable and hopefully lead this area. he street itself. we have coverage with the foot beat officers. we have officers that will be on bike. we will have approximately 15 hours of coverageof the week. the haight street beat will concentrate their efforts as well. the mcdonald some entrants to albert lake and albert lake itself. i am going to skip this next one. we talked about bicycle thefts and burglaries. campbell playgrou

with other neighborhood associations, including the haight-ashbury improvement association, beuna vista park improvement association, to work on some of these challenges. we have drafted an improvement plan for this street with encouragement from supervisor mirkarimi, and since, supervisor olague taking office, i have met with her a couple of times briefing her on the planned including public space. we had our first parklet go up as an experiment. we will be looking at other locations. we are committed to making sure those public spaces we are creating will not be abused. the we know this could be an ongoing problem. in any case, i wanted to say, as a group, we are very committed to working on some of these challenges, whether it is coming up with creative solutions for the short-term improvement, as well as longer term solutions for the street. thank you. >> good evening. my name is lea harper. i move to the haight-ashbury years ago. i would often walk through the park and become familiar with the gardeners there. i would speak to the one at albert lake in the morning and i said, i do not k

. >>> san francisco has golden gate park, marin has vista park. oakland is working on plans for gateway park. a public hearing will be held this morning on the project at the east end of the bay bridge. the city is discussing the idea of adding a park along the south edge where the new span will touch down. officials say today they'll talk about design and cost. the meeting is at 9:30 this morning at the metro center auditorium in oakland. >>> 6:18. palo alto's popular municipal golf course could get a major makeover. city leaders are looking at a proposal that would build a levee at the golf course to protect people living downstream of the flood-prone creek. in addition, city council is throwing its support behind an ambitious plan to renovate 13 of the 18 holes to create 15 new greens and set aside about ten acres for a new athletic field. the revamp would cost about $7 million. >> the giants would take on the rockies at spring training today. the game starts at noon. yesterday's exhibition pit the giants against the dodgers. melky cabrera hit t

. >>> san francisco has golden gate park, marin has vista point. kland is working on its plans for gateway park. a public hearing will be held this morning on the project at the east end of the bay bridge. the city is discussing the idea of adding a park with the south enl where the new one will touch down. officials say at the public hearing they plan to discuss design and cost of that park. the meeting will be held at 9:30 this morning at the metro center auditorium in oakland. >>> saving the environment one tree at a time. that's what cal fire is hoping to do this week. today marks the first day of arbor week in california. to commemorate the event, cal fire is asking the bay area community to plant a tree today. cal fire says the trees will reduce air and noise pollution and make the bay area less of a concrete jungle and more natural and beautiful scenery. their hope is sl thousands of trees will be planted this week. california arbor week starts today and ends march 17th. >>> it is 5:19. palo alto's municipal golf course could get a major rede