Aye. Ok. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge of allegiance to the flag, of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar soundproducing electronic device. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter period on any item. Item eight, Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Is there any Public Comment . Ok. Item nine, executive directors report. Good afternoon, president brandon, Vice President adams, members of the commission, members of the public and port staff. Im Elaine Forbes, the executive director. And today before we get into what is a really exciting agenda today, i would like to announce our own allstars at the port who wons the employee of the year. Every year we hold an event. We call it the breakfast of champions. And we did it this year on january 17. And this is a peerled Award Programme where managers, sub ordinants, supervisors nominate and eligible port employees evaluate and select. So every division has an employee of the year and we also have teams of the year. So just to announce all of our winners, Kerry Anne Joseph is our winner from the finance and administrative division. He is a key accountant on staff. He is koch tent. He is competent, he is behind the scenes and he is quite excellent in the work he produces. Hes had a big task with the city moving its Financial System to new Financial System and he has been on the front lines in making sure that works for our port organization. So, congratulationss to curian. Theres photographs up so of some of the winners. The Maintenance Division winner is alex chung. Alex is considered a favourite among the crass. He is somebody who helps them get through their work. He is constantly helping all the crews, whether it be the wharf crew, the laborers, the gardeners with barricades, fence panels, the plumbing shop, the iron shop. He has a cando at tuesdayer and is a friend of all. Congratulations to alex chung. In the maritime division, mike is up there. Mike nernie won this year in maritime. Mike has overseen the cruise industrys growth to record levels and very stable levels. He was recently elected as an officer of the cruise the west organization, important Cruise Association representing cruise ports from vancouver to ensenada. He is the host of many port events. Mike is wellrespected for his work with the u. S. Navy, coast guard and is the face of the port at numerous diplomatic and civic events. Congratulations to him. From the planning and environment division, the award goes to carol bach who is pictured up there. Carol was an instrumental part of the waterfront land use update team which you will be hearing about at the next agenda. She cochaired the resiliency subcommittee, which had six Public Meetings and hundreds of Public Comments for over 10 months. She has secured numerous grants for us, and competed in multiyear, multimillion dollar brownfield investigation and remediation and with a key component and partner in the pier 71 work. She is involved in the eco centre as a seawall Resiliency Team and shes lead negotiation to clean up many contaminated sites. Carol has made quite a mark here and so congratulations to her. In the real estate division, Kimberly Beal is a dedicated property manager who protects the interest of the port every sing day. She is very meticulous and pays attention to detail and is an excellent communicator. She is new and has made a mark on the real estate team. Congratulationss to kimberly. And two of the the executive Division Award was really from the port staff to our city attorneys. With kylene mali being the head of the team. Port staff gave the award to our city attorneys. Arlene leaves a highly effective, small team of lawyers who have completed volumous documents for pier 70, and for the mission rock project that you will see today. We really couldnt be rehabilitating and providing new neighbourhoods without the skillset of our attorneys and they have really allowed us to create the thriving neighbourhoods that are planned. They are tenacious. They are hard working. I dont even want to tell you about all the hours theyve billed this year. But they are tremendous value to us and they have very strong integrity, smarts and endless stamina. Congratulationss to the legal team. Ok. We have an award called above and beyond, which is really not about port work, but a port employee who does something above and beyond for either his community or the community. And this year staff nominated edmond lucia. He has taken on work with children and is a surrogate father to a relatives sofnlt hes generous and collaborative and sharing his knowledge and expertise and he is a standout person in assuming his duties in the community and in his family. So his coworkers wanted to honour him. That is not edmond up there taking the award. That is dan mcguire, an iron works supervisor accepting the award on his behalf. Congratulations, edmond. And then we have our manager of the year and that went to meghan wallace. That is new award and meghans employees, not just one, put in an award for her and asking her to honour the abilities to motivate the team, to really provide excellent supervision and Quality Assurance and to just get the best out of her group and they were all saying that meghan is just a delight to work for. Congratulationss to meghan. And the team we have two teams that won the award this year. The first is our Human Resources department. Which is pictured on the top lefthand corner. And this is a highpowered team that this last year brought in 50 new port employees through the hiring programme. This group has amazing accomplishments in terms of onboarding employees, providing for dealing with grievances and m. O. U. S and the team is levina holms our h. R. Director, suzette love, helen chan, lenai atkins, eliza and priscilla and terry jorgenson. And theyre pictured up at the top lefthand corner. The final award went to our pier 70 team pickeder on the bottom of the slide there. And you know its a large number of folks that provided for our pier 70 approval. Started 20 years ago. If we could all give a hand and acknowledge these employees. [applause] thank you. That concludes my report. Thank you. Commissioners, any questions or comments . Is there any Public Comment on the executive directors report . Thank you, everyone, we really appreciate all your wonderful work. Bye employee of the year. [applause] yay [applause] item 9b, commissioners report. Commissioners . Anybody have anything to report . No. No. All right. Item 10a, request approval to issue a request for proposal sewly sitting Technical Support services for mission rock and special use districts. There any Public Comment on item 10a . Commissioners . All in favour . So move. Oh. Can i have a motion . So move. Second. All in favour . Aye. Resolution 1802 has been approved. Ok. Thank you. Item 11a, request adoption of environmental findings including a mitigation, monitoring and reporting programme in a statement of overriding considerations pursuant to the California Environmental quality act, to approval of the disposition and Development Agreement with seawall 337, associate l. L. C. And the attached forms of master lee Development Agreement and parcel lease for development of sea wall 337 bordered by china basin, the foe bay and mission rock street. And adoption of public trust consistency findings. Request con sent tos zoning amendments, Commission Special rock district over 348, third street, rock street and San Francisco bay and related amendments to the citys general plan and, two, approval of the mission rock design controls. Request approval of amendments to the [inaudible]s use plan. Request con sent to Development Agreement between the city and county of San Francisco and seawall lot 337 and associates l. L. C. For project. Request approval of memorandum of understanding between the port and other city agencies regarding inner Agency Cooperation for the mission rock project. Request recommendation to the board of supervisors to, one, establish authorized issuance of bonds and otherwise implement subproject area i1 to i13 within project area one of the city and county of San Francisco, infrastructure, financing district number two and to establish one or more special tax districts. Request one approval of memorandum of understanding between the port and the citys controller and treasurer and Tax Collector to implement the financing plan and disposition and Development Agreement and, two, recommendations to the board of supervisors to appoint the Port Commission as the agent of the infrastructure and [inaudible]ed district and one or more special tax districts. Request approval of 10year lease with china basin and ballpark company l. L. C. For parking and special event use of pier 48 located east of Terry Francois boulevard and north of pier 50. Whoo hoo. Amazing. [laughter] thank you, amy. Wow. That is quite a mouthful. Well be hearing more about those items in a few minutes. Good afternoon, president brandon. Vice president adams. Commissioners. My name is phil williamson, senior project manager for the port of San Francisco. Very pleased today to be before you seeking your approval of the eight resolutions that amy just read into the record. So today im going to be talking and building off the report that we provided last november to you, the informational presentation on this project. And ill be introducing after that kind of update, since well, what weve accomplished since that november meeting. Ill be introducing rebecca to go over the projects finances and the deal terms and shell be followed by adam vanderwater and carly payne from m. T. A. To respond to the questions you raised in november, neighbourhood impacts from the project. And then ill come back at the very end to sum up and repeat what amy just went through to remind you what were all voting on today. Heres the slide that should look familiar by now. This slide will change over the next 10 years. That area outlined in pink will dramatically be altered to bring a new neighbourhood to the waterfront. Over the last 11, 12 years, weve been very busy, and your continuous support and given us so much good advice and direction to get us to this point in time and i just wanted to kind of remind you where we all started and what lies ahead over the next few months. Today is an important day for you to seek approval of the transaction documents and the resolutions and recommending this project forward to the board next month in a few weeks and then following that, going to the state to seek their approval of the documents. [bell tolling] so today with good makeser and a great team, well build this in the next 10 years or so. So quite a lot to look forward to. And to remind everybody in the audience, i think Everybody Knows by heart now what the project programme envisions. I want to highlight the 40 Affordable Housing, which is just an amazing accomplishment that this project has as a goal and that the project team has agreed to. Weve had help from the city to achieve this goal and help from many people to get to that very, very high mark of Affordable Housing, spread across multiple income levels. You know, the various needs of the city on housing have been wellestablished and this project will go a long way to helping meet some of those needs. Also eight acres of expand parks will bring the public to the site and create a very vibrant and new part of the waternraonlt will add to the ports portfolio. Phase one of the project shown here in blue includes that china basin park and four development parcels. It is currently anticipated at this stage that we Start Construction in 2019, next year. There will be some preliminary work on site before that to improve the site, to improve the soil, conditions of the site. The first major kl ux begin one year from now with subsequent phases to build out as Market Conditions allow. And as i mentioned, becca will go into this in much greater detail. But this project has multiple Funding Sources and a very complex, financial picture. Ultimately creating a feasible project and i just want to highlight some of the goals of the and the results of that financing package will be to limit developer capital to the appropriate amount, to maximize Public Financing, to help reduce that developer capital. And also to allow opportunities for the port to invest money in the project and earn a return. And as i opened with, as the project since november has the project team since november has been busy. Primarily negotiating the documents for the project. But also going to some other important milestones of the promise, including submitting our major permit application to bcdc and presenting all the large documents to the state Lands Commission for their review and consideration, presenting to the ballpark and Coordination Committee and getting feedback from that group that is in the neighbourhood that will be the subject of this project. And getting nam approval from the p. U. C. Commission, the Development Agreement. As mentioned, negotiating numerous documents with the help of port council. At this point, id like becca to talk about the projects finances. Thank you, phil. Rebecca benacini. Very pleased to be here, summarizing the returns all the parties. The reason were all getting involved in this is not only to produce this wonderful neighbourhood, but also to make sure that the investments weve all made in our time and dollars will be well compensated. So i wanted to note that the developer return and investment at the site is identical to what was shown in the november 2017 informational presentation. Theyre anticipated to achieve an 18 i. R. R. And youll recall that this project has two key return threshholds for the developer, including the multiple. So, in the base case performa that were running today, the governor of the return either the 18 or the multiple and it is 18 in the base case scenario. So theyre anticipating a 18 and 1 30i8 on the multiple investment on the site. The port cash flow we segmented into a couple of different Revenue Streams. We showed the annual rent under senate bill 815, there is one segment, which is unrestricted, meaning we can use it for whatever we want. There is also a restricted segment and under that state law, they must be used for key policis that we have anyway, which are open space and Historic Preservation and shoreline. So those two Revenue Streams are above 600 million in nominal dollars through the 75year term of the parcel leaves. And youll see it is about 70 million. And then we also have other real estatebased revenues and ive included in that revenue stream, not only transfer fees and other fees we get over time from the parcel leases, but ive also included the c. F. D. Special taxes, which onces the c. F. D. Special taxes are used on the promise and arent needed for the infrastructure, the port has the abilities to keep those in the district to use for other capital projects. [coughing] including any number of public facilities we might want to invest that money in. Finally down below, ive included the Public Financing sources for shoreline so it is unique in this project and we were able to establish as well to places a special tax on new development in the site to be forward to shoreline protection going forward. The site is being raised to account for Sea Level Rise. But we are also anticipating there may be other improvements to be made off site or on site in the port dlaikt may not see as much growth that we have here. We can use the revenues from this growth at this site to benefit other areas of the ports shoreline that may not have access to those sorts of funding. I wanted to point out whats changed since november 2017. Its all Revenue Streams that werent projected in november of 2017 because they werent as certain. Now that weve negotiated the documents, we can project with more certainty interim rents. So these are rents from ongoing use of the parking lot while development is going forward. This is interim rent from pier 48 and this is also rent from the d2 parking structure that we were able to project. So, in november 2017, when we were last before you, we were at about 60 million of all these Revenue Streams. Now that we included all the Revenue Streams in the documents, were up to 76 million. You can see the total playing out there. The other key change is in the Public Financing from shoreline. This wasnt including some of the year 31 through 45 Revenue Streams that now that weve completed the i. F. P. And submitted it to the board for their committees consideration, we can project those outyear tax increment revenues and through the i. F. P. , if the board approves it next week, well have those Revenue Streams to use for shorelines anywhere in the ports i. F. D. District. Overall its a happy picture from where we were in november 2017 just projecting Revenue Streams that we now have more of an abilities to project now that the documents are complete. I want to oh. Oh. I almost forgot about my charts. [laughter] these show the Revenue Streams coming in over time. Many of them are growing at what appears to be a normal pace. The outlieer on this is that mountain in the middle. The middle represents tax increments that the port is able to receive as a payback for its prepaid lease revenues that it puts into the deal. The parcel leases that are signed to the extent there is prepaid revenues that are put back into the project to repay the developer for the infrastructure, we could use tax increment in the out year to get that value back for the port. And then the second bump in that mountain is when that turns into public facility serving. At first we get our money back for putting our land value into this particular project and in the outyears, well be able to use that revenue for o. P. P. Er needs in the ports i. F. D. That means we can use that tax increment for public facilitieses that support the ports shoreline and we use that as revenue as well. Well bring it back for questions and im sure adam and carly went go anywhere. Good afternoon. Director to beser. Im adam van de water. You asked about our framework that we called the southern bayfront. We friended to you some time ago now back in january and may of 2016. But our office negotiates a number of Development Agreements both on public and private property throughout this sector. This is about a fivemile stretch of San Francisco from Mission Creek to the brisbane border and we started this entire process some years back with the recognition that we are negotiating a future development but recognize there are already 36,000 people who live in this shaded yellow area and about 23,000 existing employees in this area. Some of whom i recognize in the audience with us here today. But on top of that, were looking at a number of large developments. There are numerous developments that are collective and substantial. But from the mission rock project were discussing today, through the north, chase centre and mission bay, pier 70 which were quite familiar with and other projects that are both approved, candlestick point, Executive Park and then that are forthcoming at the former power point. These developments, just these nine squares will represent at full buildout of 20,000 new households, onethird of which were aiming to have affordable, 38,000 new jobs and the equivalent in space to golden gate park. Throughout our discussions and throughout all of our Development Agreements, we target add number of key te thans for citywide public benefits. Those include Housing Affordability and i mentioned aiming for a 33 affordable rating to a variety of area of incomes, low to moderate. Enhancements to transportation. Were looking to transition large parts of this neighbourhood from its industrial path to mature, complete neighbourhoods with reliable transportation. Sustainability, representing leading standards for building design, site design and Sustainable Energy use. Adapting for Sea Level Rise and future flooding throughout this area. Providing Community Facilities and that can be anything from schools and policen fire stations to community centres. Open space, both for passive and active recreation and then Workforce Development opportunity and i should say were joined here today by a number of my colleagues from the city family, from the planning department, from the workforce side of our office and Workforce Development and forming the sets of approvals that are in part before you today to reach those goals. Mission rock, im pleased to be here before you today to request the approvals working with the project sponsor, your port staff and our city departments. Weve put together a very robust set of public benefits. You heard phil mention 40 affordable. This is a new High Water Mark for the city. A range of very moderate, median incomes. Ill invite carly payne in a moment to talk through the transportation investment, both the site design and serving the site and the surrounding neighbourhood. We have a number of sustainability measures built into the approvals, including Building Energy use, vehicle trip reduction, water recycling and waste diversion. The entire site will be built to accommodate 66 inches of Sea Level Rise plus 100year floods and pay into the community facilitys district for shoreline protection throughout the port jurisdiction. There is a route to improving the Historic Resource at pier 48 and to including 15,000 gross square feet of Community Facilities on site. Well be expanding china basin park, creating a new park at Mission Rock Square and channel wharf for a total of eight acres of open space on what is currently roads and parking lot and a bit of existing china basin park. And then working with my colleagues on another robust set of Workforce Development projects and first source hiring Administration Programmes and a 1 million contribution split between the workforce site of our offices programmes and some Community Benefit organisations that serve the neighbourhood to really get local san franciscans working on both the construction to our city build programme, but also on enduse programmes for landscaping and Building Maintenance and security and other needs as the project develops. With that, i want to turn it over to carly. [please stand by] and then beyond that, we also have many, many very localized Transit Service improvements and bicycle and Pedestrian Safety and intersection improvements that are on the way, and so this is really the network that were building off of and taking as kind of the context for the mission rock project as its being built and when it is built. The negotiation framework for transportation within the southern bay front and as applied to the mission rock project as four components. One is site design, making sure that the project is really designed to promote walking, biking, taking transit, and not just internal to the site, but through safe and continuous connection between the site and the existing surrounding neighborhoods. And i think if youve seen the site plans for mission rock, mission rock really does that quite successfully. The second is Transportation Demand management. This project has a commitment of reducing or not creating 20 of auto trips as compared to what one would assume a project like this would generate just based on our modelling and assumptions. And it does that through a set of amenities and programatic features for those taking other modes for most of their trips and its not just that theyre saying that well do that and we like the project team and well do that but theres also an ongoing compliance and monitoring program, so its a project between the city over time to make sure that the measures in place are actually working, and if they arent working, putting into place other measures that really might work better or reflect future technologies or options that we havent thought of now. The third is something that we expect from any project in San Francisco, which is mitigating impact on our Transportation System from the project, and so this project has things like putting in new signals at several intersections that will support pedestrians safety. And then, the last one is payment of the transportation fee. And youll note that mission rock submitted its initial applications at a time when it wasnt subject to the current level of transportation sustainablity fee that was available in 2015, but through negotiations the project has greed to pay the full level of transportation sustainablity fee, which were estimating 40 to 43 million over the buildout of the project. And this is money that comes to mta for transportation improvements not on the site but beyond the site. And you may recall from conversations around pier 70 that mta has agreed to looking at the fees from mission rock and pier 70 together as a bundle of funds and to reinvest those fees not citywide but in the areas between mission rock and pier 70 and theres a list of representative projects that the community has identified and mta and the project have agreed are real priorities, and they generally fall along the lines of really reinforcing tline capacity and reliablity and the operations that were investing in, closing gap in the bicycle and walking network, bus Capital Improvements in the area and water transit. And because these fees come in as over time as Building Permits are drawn, weve also committed to seeking other funds to advance these projects so that were not waiting until the very last Building Permit is pulled to complete the transportation investments in this area, and so that, i think gets at some of the questions that had come up last time around transportation, but i will be here for any other questions, so i will turn it back to phil for the rest of his presentation. Thank you, carly, thank you, adam. Were almost done. Just wanted to remind you how we started out, ending approvals, and then going to the board on february 13th for the first of their two meetings to approve the project. [ inaudible ] youll be asked to approve the youll be asked to consent to the citys responsibilities under the Development Agreement which the tuc recently unanimously approved. Youll be asked to approve the mou and the interAgency Cooperation agreement which is the agreement that the port will enter into with various city agencies, including the puc and dpw or public works, excuse me. A few more. You will be asked to recommend that the board establish ifd project area and a special text direct. Thank you. Youll be asked to approve an mou with the controller, the Tax Collector and the treasurer and recommend the board appoint the board as agency of the ift and the special tax district. And finally, youll be asked to approve a tenyear interim lease for pier 48 for the continuation of todays current uses that while the port and giant seek a viable longterm use for pier 48. So that concludes my presentation and the presentation of city staff. At this time, if it pleases you, id like to invite up representatives of the developer, the giant, to say a few words, as well, if thats okay. So with that, can i invite jack ajack jack and fran up. The port team represented the project in whats before you, and i didnt want to go back over that. Youve heard a lot about mission rock over the years and i wanted to make my comments more general to the day, sort of almost like Public Comment. Today represents a very important milestone that simply cannot be underestimated. The journey has been long, and there have been some detours long the way, but we have finally arrived at this very significant moment. This project is the result of a tremendous amount of thoughtful work but many dedicated people spanning more than a decade. First, it involved years of working cooperatively with neighborhood leaders and other stakeholders to formulate the Land Use Plan and address a variety of issues from Affordable Housing to child care to Sea Level Rise to transportation and so on. Second, it involved leadership from mayor ed lee and his staff at the office of economic and Workforce Development, and a host of other city agencies such as mta, planning, public works, puc, the contract monitoring division, and the Mayors Office of housing and community development. Third, it required strong leadership from executive director Elaine Forbes and her very committed hard working and dedicated team. Fourth, it required the support and guidance of you, the members of the Port Commission, particularly president brandon. Youve played a role in shaping this project from the very first day 11 years ago. I was there, too. Finally, id like to acknowledge the still represented in our outstanding inhouse team at the giants, and our Incredible Team of designers, engineers, financial analysts, and yes, lawyers, who have been part of our giants family. This project definitely took and will continue to take a village. Together, we helped craft a very meaningful and thoughtful project, balancing our many objectives in a smart, workable fashion in achieving something we can all be very, very proud of. With your support today, we can proceed to the San Francisco board of supervisors and achieve the approvals needed to make this project happen. Thanks for everybodys contribution. It really has been a great process, longer than perhaps we might have wanted to see, but weve resulted in a project that i think we will all be very proud of in our professional careers. Thank you. Thank you, jack, and thank you, Port Commissioners. That concludes our presentation. Thank you. Can i have a motion . Motion to approve action items 1803 through 1811. Second. Just 1810, i think thats a typo yeah, thats oh, 10, im sorry. All in favor . Commissioners, michael terrio, San Francisco construction trades. I want to go back to your awards to your staff and talk about how your [ inaudible ] 14 or 15 years ago, but i guess im a lot grayer, too. The valedictory tone in that would carryover to this particular item. For those of us in the Building Trades who had a long devotion to San Francisco in the port, its not just the work that this particular project brings, but the fact that it brings shall didthat it helps make the port viable in the longterm. It helps sustain the port and the city of San Francisco. Thats the kind of thing thats exciting to us. We look forward to working on this, to contributing to the port on a continuing basis, and i will get out of the way so you can vote on eight items. Thank you. Corrine wood . Good afternoon, commissioners. Corrine woods. Ive worked on this project since kimberly has. Its wonderful to get to this point, and i think the Community Feels strongly that weve always had partnership, not only with the port but with the giants to get things done. I think the communication has been excellent, and were really looking forward to continuing that communication as it gets into implementation. Mtas got some great ideas. The communitys actually on the ground, and we want very much to be engaged as the project moves forward. I worked on mission bay for 20 years, and a lot of the lessons we learned there, we have offered to the giants dont do this. We can do a better job, and i think we will do a better job, and im looking forward to it. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, executive director forbes, president brandon, and commissioners. My name is bruce agget, im speaking on the elements in item 11. Im involved in the Community Serving on the board, and as a transportation rep of the south bay lincoln neighborhood association. However, my Public Comment today is as it was several months back, being provided specifically as a native san franciscan and a nine year reside residence of mission bay. Over the past six years, ive had the opportunity along with my neighbors to be involved in the planning process for the Mission Rock Development. This included providing feedback on a variety of public documents and at Numerous Community outreach meetings and public workshops. In addition, those Community Leaders who were involved in the planning process of mission bay from the beginning as corrine said were also involved in the process. Together, we shared or insights and provided input on the project which will help transform this part of the eastern waterfront into a vibrant and complete community, good for us as neighbors, a community and our city. As i mentioned, this community and greater stakeholderen gaugement helped shape the project we see today, striking a delicate balance on the amounts of parks, waterfront access, neighborhood serving seafood restaurant, and office space. Im not an expert in the financial aspects of this development, but this project brought together an amazing and Diverse Group of stakeholders and experts to find optimal mix of land uses while providing some flexiblity to ensure success and delivery of the project. I continue to be impressed with the thoughtfulness and expertise of the giants Development Team and their close coordination with city agencies. Just recently as our last mission bay ballpark Transportation Coordinating Committee meeting, they walked us through the Mission Rocks contributions to the southern bay front transportation framework, including site design, Transportation Demand management, mitigations and fees, and it was very well done. With this said, today, we have a parking lot along this section of the waterfront. Peace approve the elements outlined in this item today, allowing the Mission Rock Development to move forward. Thank you. Thank you. Chad houston. Good afternoon. My names chad houston. Im with local 261, which is general laborers. We have about 8,000 members in our local union. Of those 8,000, a lot are native san franciscans. A large majority or a large portion are native san franciscans. I can speak to two things on this project. Thats one, the Workforce Development. We work with city build, we partnered on a number of projects, but really, it allows for both soft skills and hard skills for people who are in San Francisco to stay in San Francisco, and also, the affordablity of this project. A lot of our workers cant continue to live here, and having affordablity for a wide range is really important to our union because it really allows people who are actually working in the dwindling working class to continue to be in San Francisco, so we are in support of the project and have a Good Relationship with the giants. Thank you. Thank you. Chris tipman. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. My name is chris kelton. My wife and i have lived in south beach until 1989 and until recently had a Small Business on townsend street for 24plus years. I came here today to voice support for the giants mission rock project. 20plus years ago i stood in front of this commission and voiced support for the visions the giants had of building a waterfront ballpark at 3rd and king, which would gri people together from all walks of life, the community, if you will. Throughout that, the giants work with everyone to build a mag a magnificent facility that everyone is proud of, and led to a transformation of an area that was until then a depressive urban blight. It became a desirable area to live and work. San francisco is a city known for diverse neighborhoods, each unique and full of life with a real sense of community. People flock to these neighborhoods in search of something novel and different, yet despite all that has developed, nine months out of the year, our area becomes a virtual ghost town. Mission bay and south baesh with are called ballpark neighborhoods. [ inaudible ] in fact, this project will draw people to our area seeking novelty and seeking Something Different Small Businesses. It will bring new friendships and relationships, core nor stone stone cornerstone of community, and perhaps you already know, the 40 Affordable Housing. With eight acres of open space it addresses a desperately needed facet of urban living. In short, this is a winwin for all. Finally, the numbers do not lie. San franciscans approved it, every single neighborhood in San Francisco approved it, and the neighborhoods that surround it gave it more than 80 approval. This is smart development. Those of us living in the area yearn for this and realize how important this is to our overall wellbeing. Thank you again, commissioners, for allowing me to speak. Thank you. May aguirre. Good afternoon, president Boston Marathon don, good afternoon commissioners, director forbes, and members of the public. My name is aguirr 1ed. The Parks Alliance is the largest Park Organization serving San Franciscos diverse parks and open spaces. We currently sponsor and support a network of over 200 groups, leveraging their ability to develop and maintain Creative Spaces to maintain in this city. The San Francisco Parks Alliance raises millions to sustain parks and open spaces. Today im here to in the Parks Alliance, we believe the creation of the. [ inaudible ] waterfront and ply an Important Role in planning equity around city spaces. Mission Rock Development plan with eight acres of new parks is a vital step in realizing this vision for San Francisco residents. For too long, the city southern eastern waterfront has been disconnected from the public that especially hurts some of the citys historically under served neighborhoods. The San Francisco giants are invested in this, and they have been responsive in addressing the citys needs for more active recreation opportunities. We are thrilled to see the San Francisco giants commitments to parks, especially prioritizing putting a new park as the first phase of their plan. The Parks Alliance is also particularly pleased with the considerations that have been made to address Sea Level Rise. The creation of open waterfront and investment towards the usable methods of transportation such as bike connects and bike share stations. Although parks and recreations is our organizes priority, we want to applaud the Community Pledge to keeping 40 of the project Affordable Housing. We hope you would join us in supporting the Mission Rocks project as a whole. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Arnold townsend. Thank you, president brandon, commissioners. Arnold townsend. I just want to rise to support this development. Ive been involved with this several years now, and the development is just tremendous. It really should become the model for development in San Francisco. I even said to our late mayor that all things being equal, we should never accept anything less. If they can do it, other developers should be required to do it. In talks about this development, the affordablity. We talk about the affordablity, and we talk about Affordable Housing all the time in San Francisco, and my neighborhood, every time the term comes up, it prompts a question. The question is, affordable for whom, and that means it doesnt affect most of the people that i deal with, most of the folks who are challenged for housing in our church. This will meet their needs. Not only will it meet the needs of people who constantly fall through the cracks, but it will even offer opportunity to people who have been pushed out of the city to come back, and in some communities, that is a really big thing. We have watched in one, because of any real regional planning, we have watched people in this city i know people personally, and you probably do, too, who have moved from San Francisco to oakland to richmond to antioch, to pittsburg, to stockton, and brentwood and a bunch of other places that i had never even heard of 20 years ago, and now ive got friends living there and had to find out where they are just to visit. This is important, absolutely important work that is going on here, and im excited to be a part of it. Not only the planning for the development, but the approach. Im involved because the developers reached out to me and said we want to talk to you about it. I do not live contiguous to this ballpark in the ballpark neighborhood. Im in fillmore. They reached out to people all over the city. Including asking me to put together a meeting of a group of pastors so they could explain what theyre doing and what opportunity that would create for members of their chur church. So i am all over this project. I hope you are, too. You will probably never have a better designed and and a project that has taken into consideration the needs of more people in this city no matter how long you end up staying on the commission, and i hope you all stay there a very long time. Thank you very much. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Thank you. I will be short today. A little bit indisposed, but i wanted to come because this is a very significant day. Its historic. Ive been on this journey since 2011. Not as long as commissioner brandon, but its been amazing journey, i think, working with all the parties the giants, the port staff, the commission. We have worked very, very diligently, very hard on many, many issues, and in addition to what everybody has said in terms of all the speakers, i can assure you weve gone over this with a fine tooth comb to make sure it makes sense for all the stakeholders, economically, financially, and the community in terms of the benefits it provides, and all the things that we have talked about, Affordable Housing, etcetera. Im very proud to see this day come forward, and i think its really a day to recognize all the parties. Thank the staff, executive director forbes. We had another meeting before this to resolve the last remaining issues that we had. I think when you serve as a Port Commissioner, you always wonder what people will say 20 years from now in terms of what legacy you leave behind. There are many, many important things we worked on in this commission, some of them more shortterm, like americas cup, but what is lasting is a project like this which is for all the people in San Francisco, a project that has creating a new neighborhood which is so exciting. And so i just wanted to come, and im sorry if im coughing, but i just wanted to say its very important for me to be here today. And jack, sorry i couldnt talk to you yesterday. I hope you understand why. Thank you. Thank you. Want to thank really, its going to be the time for thank yous, as commissioner wu help pointed out, we spent a lot of time looking at this project. Some of us not quite the full 11 years, but it feels like it sometimes. I think this is an example of what happens when both you have a developer that wants to do things right, a developer that has a longterm commitment to the city like the giants and know that theyre going to be here and that this is their city, too. And as a result, reaching out to everyone in the community. Weve really heard how broad and deep the efforts went, and i think getting the input from members of the group of pastors that they reached out to, it was news to me, but it speaks volumes to the kind of outreach that was done across San Francisco to come up with a better project. And weve heard how its going to positively impact the people. And its no secret were losing a lot of people from San Francisco that can no longer afford to stay here, and this is an example of what can be done to try to keep people here and to work with people, create jobs for those that are here and as you said also, bring people back. This is really a thoughtful project. I was struck as i was reviewing the project before the meeting, the wonderful little details, too, and the things that people got right, from figuring out how to phase in the parks, and kr orrine, i want to thank you again for keeping that front and center. And also thank the giants for this work in recognizing that and the importance of the parks and the needs the community and having that open space and bringing that in the fashion, that it comes in
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