Good afternoon, president brandon. Im the Deputy Director for planning and environment. Happy to be here today to provide a report on where we are with the draft waterfront plan which was published in june. The work that weve withi been g over the summer. I wanted to give you a report on the feedback and the outreach efforts and to provide this public hearing opportunity, as well, for further Public Comments to come forth. We have really sought to solicit comments by the end of settlement so that we can take stock of whether the draft plan is hitting the points that people expected after the long process lead by the Waterfront Plan Working Group and to make any further refinements and, of course, corrections, if necessary, before we start the Environmental Review process. So to that end, the staff report lists more details, but this is the summary of the meetings that have occurred over the last couple of months, continuing through the end of the month, as far as scheduled. Were still open and available, certainly, to other organizations, if they have any interests or questions or meeting requests. So we want to make that clear. But its been a great opportunity to get out to the community and hear so many different perspectives of we vetched out oand wehave reachede port social media, through digital magazine, which has been helpful and we were really the funnest one was the public vote tour back in july. We had over 200 people join that tour. They got a sense to understand what this waterfront actuallien tailactuallyentail entails and it was so fun to see the people in diversity in age and backgrounds and neighborhoods they were coming from. We also have the draft plan online and we have Public Comments and surveys online to make it easier for people to review it and solicit if theyre not able to come to the meetings. And the survey is still open, so this is just a snapshot of the results that we were tallying on the Online Survey as of last week, which was organized by the nine goals that the plan is presented in, along with policies presented in the plan andouille oand all of the subple are promoting for the waterfront subareas. I have snapshots of the highlights because the survey allows for people to give detailed comments, as well and not to repeat them all, but i thought it would be good to highlight for you that on the maritime front, there continues to be very strong support of the ports diverse maritime portfolio and a respect for the birthing, the diversity of birthing requirements that the port needs to maintain to support those industries, particularly for the deep water burbs. Theres a new form of Public Access to the San Francisco waterfront, in addition to Public Access from land. A reiteration of making sure theres as many different public oriented policies and to include opportunities for low and nocost activities, as well, in the interest of really making the waterfront as accessible to everybody, regardless of economic background. I think the two projects that youve had before you today are good examples of what were trying to achieve here. We did get some finergrained comments, as well, on some of the technical issues of some of the policies. One of them being as relates to the embarcadaro Historic District objectives. I would note that all of the Public Outreach done on the waterfront plan, to answer questions or to solicit comments has been done in a quate coordid with on the ports Resilience Programme and rfp preparations for the embarcadaro pier projects and the seawall, as well. Where weve been able to have interactive discussions to show how the policies relate to actual project initiatives that were trying to advance, its helped, i think, the public to understand why the waterfront plan is there and what the policies actually mean and to that end, rattler the Historic District, we did get a comment about, perhaps, clarifying the policy language to make it clear that the highrevenue generating uses that are allowed for in the embarcadro policies is for the purposes of generating the Financial Capacity to be able to seismically upgrade and deliver the trust access and oriented uses and not to be just an an Office Development opportunity. That its an integrated package. I think there are improvements that we can make on the language there to make that more clear. We did get some comments just yesterday from John Collinger from the working group with concerns around the General Office policy provision and we will follow up with him to answer his questions and certainly happy to answer questions you have today. Similarly, as relates to our seawall lots, the giants mixer mission rock project, to enable the kinds of Neighborhood Development that youve just heard about today, there are provisions in the waterfront plan policies for state legislation of some of the north of market seawall lots. And we had comments there asking for more refinements in the policies there to make it clear that if the port were to pursue state legislation to lus lift te public restrictses on the seawall lots, that would happen after the Port Commission had identified a Development Opportunity for that given site and talked about what it is that you would like to achieve before there was a state legislative proposal and i think that that is an easy clarification for us to make in the plan. As it retes to parks and open space, i think the park activation is something that we continue to hears a an interest from many members of the public and a lot of comments really in strong support of recognising the importance of the natural waterfront and how the natural shoreline is also a big part of the ports open space plan as well. Finally, on transportation, we have a lot of comments on transportation. Theres a lot of support for thd transportation goals and policies which are new additions to the draft plan. But i think the comments we got on the transportation policies are a reflection of how much the transportation challenges are that we are constantly facing here, whether it is on a bicycle and Pedestrian Safety perspective, whether it is on reduction of vehicles to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions or to maintain industrial goods movement, to support our maritime industries. Weve got comments that have been logged on to all of those fronts. And finally, on the environmental sustain ac sustaid resilience and all work done on the seawall and Resilience Team on the sealevel rise planning has paid off because people are understanding the importance of really effective environmental Sustainability Practices and strategies and the regulatory programmes that we deploy to put us in better position for planning for the resilience. So a lot of comments and positive feedback on that front, as well. Alongside the draft plan, we also have other work involved with bcdc and Sanfrancisco Planning Department so that were working in sync with their planning documen documents to ae port, city and bcdc planning and land use policies for the San Francisco waterfront. For the Planning Department did i skip over b. C. For the Planning Department, we are taking a look at the citys general plan and well be working with the staff to develop conforming amendments as necessary so there are conflicts between the waterfront plan and the citys general plan. For the planning code, those are regulatory procedures that are contained that affect or designed review process for Port Development projects on port property. We would like to amend that planning code so that we have a Design Review process that extends through the entire seven and a half mul half mile waterfd all of that work is being down iin sync preparing to issue the sequa Environmental Review process which we hope to be able to do after weve completed this Comment Period on the draft plans. And then with b. C. Dc, for president brandon who was here when we did the last waterfront plan and did a major amendment to bcdcs plan so both agencys plans were consistent with each other, we have to go back and do that again. And in this case, we have, we a new transportation resilience and Environment Sustainability policies, and new upgraded rules for how to try to manage historicpeer projects to deliver, we have a number of planned amendments to b. C. D. C. s waterfront area plan, and it will be formally initiating with the Commission Next week on september 19th. This slide here is to give just a quick highlight of some of the key items that are described in further detail in the staff report. But this 50 rule policy, just as a reminder for the newer commission members, that is an old policy that b. C. Dc had on the books that basically frustrated the efforts to try and allow for seismic retrofit or substantial repairs to pile supported facilities that redated b. C. D. C. All of our historic piers predated that and under the 50 rule, that rule would have appeared to have shrunken to half of the footprints of the repair and the remaining half would either been removed to create bay fill and expand the size of the bay or to be converted to Public Access or a combination of bill fill or Public Access and for the historic piers, that was at 20 years ago, deemed to be not possible and from pier 25, down to china basin, we were able to strike a deal with b. C. D. C. Where we could create the brandon street wharf and the cruise terminal plaza and remove some piers but allow the rest of the historic piers in the Historic District to be held in place and for us to be able to do the kinds of projects like this project or pier one, where we can do seismic retrofits and rehabilitate them. Ands that really what were trying to do on the rfp projects comincomecoming forward. please stand by . Some of the improvement may be most needed vase on an two area outside of a given geographic vicinity. As we go through our Resilience Program planning, seawall planning, we are starting to see that we need to be very holistic in the way we are looking at improving the waterfront, and making sure that the equity opportunities, Environmental Justice issues that we need to respond to are also considered in taking that holistic look. Those are kind of the key issu issues, and their other details in there, to that we will be working with bcdc on to work on draft amendment to the plan. We will bring back report on our progress on that front for the Port Commission and the public to weigh in on it as well. For next steps, we want to hear out to what other comments that we get to the end of the month, port staff will be taking review of all of that to figure out what refinements, if necessary, are going to be needed for the plan. Where we make any proposed edits to the goals of the policy language. So that the commission members, as well as the public will be able to review that. At the same time, we have got some comments about the length of the plan and how its very long, and if there are ways in which we can edit it down, and reduce some of the background information, we are working on that front, too. We will be doing redline changes on background information, so much, but any policy related comment that would do that. And then we will report back on our progress with the Planning Department, and bcdc on the special planning amendments, and wrap those into what will ultimately be covered by the Environmental Review process area without, i am happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Public comment . Randall scott. Good afternoon. My name is randall scott, im with the secretary of treasurer for the wharf. I would like to applaud diane and her team for the herculean effort for the dog and they produce and its amazing. The primary reason why am here today, is to really lobby on behalf of the fisherman wharfs area, for the 50 elimination at 50 that bcdc proposes area as you can imagine, reducing pier 45 by half for seismic upgrades it would just really be a detractor to the area. The holistic approach, you know, i plan on going to the bcdc hearing next week as well. The holistic approach that the Planning Department towards the entire waterfront is really the modern way of looking at development, as well as space activation which, as you know is one of the things were trying to do at the wharf in the publics face. Anyway, that is why am here today. Thank you, diane, and commissioners of the port. Thank you. Alice walters. Good afternoon. I am trying desperately. [inaudible] i am here wearing two hats. We had the pleasure of having diane, and half present the waterfront plan update last night, to our community. I have to say, being able to present, they really focus on the goals and the values of the plan doing that was a conjunction with the runup of the rfps, the first of which are going to be in our subarea. Really brought the plan home to the community, so that they can understand what all of those hundreds of recommendations actually meant on the ground to them. I think it was incredibly valuable for the community, and it also, the three years, i think, that you all invested in really paid off. The community was kind of talked about how these projects can go ahead because i have to balance so many different interests. I think for the first time, they really registered what you have to juggle, and what the staff has to juggle, and i think having the goals and the values as the drivers, rather than specific uses is really valuable moving us forward. As the chair of the land use subcommittee, i really appreciate the clarification that diane has adjusted. They are very important to me, in terms of maintaining the integrity of what we heard at the hearing. Often she is really neat to be clearly called out, really has an accessory use they are not a standalone use we had they can also add vitality. Just to clarify further on the seawall lot, with the public trust. There was a strong sentiment which actually surprised me that nobody wanted to do a blanket of the public trust. Not that there are that many seawall lots left. They really wanted it to be site pacific as diane said. To warrant the listing of the trust for some community benef benefit. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Good afternoon president brandon, Vice President adams, members of the Port Commission, my name is zach and im here on behalf of of the fisherman wharfs restaurant association. They also support the removal of the 50 rule, and the the Fishermans Wharf area as it is not financially feasible. Due to the removed Public Access which has been created to the promenade reservation as well as the jefferson street project. In partnership with the Community Benefit district. We feel that there is ample justification for the listing of this rule. Again, i want to thank everyone for your time, i think you for your work. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is close. Thank you again, diane, and everybody that is on the waterfront planning. I think it has been very impressive and he continue to lead us through it very well. [inaudible] being very specific and technical with landuse area, i hope more of the community will understand that. I think it really ties together that we have a mission for the entire waterfront, and everything comes together. And all of these we have in the wharf, and how the waterfront hangs together physically which is what the waterfront plan is really addressing. It is nice to hear these are resonating very well. I want to commend everybody. On the various responses that youve got got. I know you talked a little bit about them, i want to ask, on a couple of them, responses i looked at in terms of the pie chart that you gave, finance, i wondered if you could add a little more color into what was the strong disagreement about . The verbal comments were all voluntary. The survey was set up so that you could just check strongly agree, or disagree, would not necessarily leaving an explanation behind. On the financial, i went through those comments, and its not like there was anything that was really damning. For some people it may be a little more they are not as interested into following the financial structure and responsibilities that the port has. I cant really provide a more clear answer to that, because of not like they left a messages behind. The opportunity, i think, in terms of our. [inaudible] we juggle a lot of balls, and how we balance that is the message we need to continue to work on so people understand, but it is. We have to pay for these things that everybody want. We want to do as much as possible. [inaudible] yes, we understand transit fir first, bicycles, pedestrians and public safety. What are other alternatives to the congestion, as we know, water transportation. That is something ive been very supportive of an advocate. In that regard where there are some comments . There were some comments on water transportation. I recall a comment that was made about really understanding about coming to your point, how the ports can be working further together on growing Water Transportation Services from the water. I think we spent a lot of time in the planning process to try to educate people about their transportation agencies that, you know, operate or use the property, for which we do not have direct control. Some of that was taken to heart. On the water transportation side that is someplace where we actually do have more impact, so we had comments calling for more of that. A lot of it was, give me safer bike lanes and pedestrian zones, and can we get more Public Transit service, to be able to relieve some of the congestion concerns. There has been a lot of chatter around the Transportation Network companies, it has become a more complex issue. The other one that scored higher, is the maritime. Is there any more color you can add to that i people commented in that regard . That there are some people that dont think maritime is a strong use for the San Francisco waterfront. Again, we do not know who these people are, and how much time they might have spent for the planning process. You know, we have run into situations where people were not aware that there were maritime uses at the port. That may be a reflection. When you survey their connection, in terms of how often are they down here. It was like 78 or more. So you got the audience responding. Physically they are down here, some of them are on a daily basis. That was very positive. We get People Living in the sunset per se, they could be living in the sunset, these people that have moved onto the waterfront. That is an important action we need to continue, just to understand where people are coming from and building that connection. Weve been projecting for a while, its not just about the neighborhood, its about the whole city connecting to the waterfront. Absolutely. One of the thing you mention, i dont know that weve ever see the whole length ourselves area if you are not planning to come i just want to encourage, and i think you probably have, if you please develop an executive summary it is much easier, for not just us as commission members, the people in general who want to go through it quickly, understand the Key Takeaways of the changes. The only other thing i want to also mention relative to the references that we always use a detailed letter from one of our very concerned constituents. He represents a lot of things going back to 1990. I just want to make a comment that, you know, this is 30 years later, the city has changed dramatically in many ways. The character of the city, the physical, the people in the residence. You can debate whether its better or worse, but change. I think part of our responses to balance that change, we have to do that responsibly. I dont think we can just go back and say this is like a constitution, we are bound by the constitution. I think this is a living document, it is a dynamic document. That is the reason we do updated every few years, to make sure its getting the new circumstances. A gentleman mentioned earlier, its a modern development. Its about space development, and i would add physical responsibility of what this commission is working for. We have to be able to afford for keeping this waterfront vibrance, we have things like the seawall which you have to figure out how we are going to actually pay for that, which we hope we will solve that issue. Anyway, i commend all of you for doing this. I think its a very important document. I like how it is tied into our strategic plans. I think we need to be able to help people see that this is going to be a living document. It isnt going to go back and say what was said 30 years ago, is what we are doing today. Thank you. [inaudible] i think this process can be a model for other city departments. [inaudible] [inaudible] i really want to share their comments and echo that i suppor. With our values, particularly or in equity sustainability and stability, its really important. We need to have it as a living breathing document. Then you can debate her better or worse. You want dont want to see peers quartered off. Thank you for all of your work on this. Thank you. Diane, you are one of the hardest working people i know. I tell you. Youre like james brown. The hardest working man in show business. The hours, the commitment that you have and showing up to all of the meetings, your passion and your commitment just goes beyond you and your team. I wanted to personally thank y you. Alice, you are spot on about your comments. You have a Rearview Mirror that looks like this, are you looking at that scum are you looking out the windshield in front of you . I know this commission, we are looking out the windshield in front of us, not something that happened in 1999. We are moving forward, and both of my commissioners dont know if the city is better or worse. He looked around, there is some good, and some bad. San francisco is so progressive, and it has moved, and it is counseling moving. You cannot stop change. Change i think it is better. Do we have some problems . Yes, we do. We have issues with homelessness, dirty streets and stuff like that. Why do 30 million tourists a year come to our city . We are the second biggest attraction in california, behind disneyland. People cannot wait to come to San Francisco. There is something to say about this city. How we lead here, in San Francisco, the whole nation follows the way San Francisco does. If i had ice choice between living in San Francisco, even with problems in la, i choose San Francisco hands down 101. Diane, keep keep doing what youre doing, keep looking forward. Those that are living in 1999, let them live in 1999, this is 2019. This Port Commission are rolling on into the future. Thank you. Thank you. Diane, thank you once again, i want to thank alice and the entire committee for all of the time that you have dedicated to this effort over the last three years, because you have done a lot of work, and youve come up with some really good recommendations. With the bcdc amendment, this is another phase of work that is just beginning. Just wondering, have you had any preliminary conversations with bcdc about these . Yes. We have actually had a series of meetings with the staff, and we are going to be meeting with i would note also, with the state Land Commission staff, they were present at many of the meetings of the working group, and so having estate lands, bcdc on the port, each with our public trust responsibilities coordinated and aligned, so we are not stepping on each others toes so we are not marching in the same direction. That is what our objectives are. We met with bcdc staff, i think all of that is really fundamental coming together with policies that make sense together. How do they feel about the preliminary . Well, i think they have been very open to it, and because of what we have done between the pier 35 and china basin is replacing the 50 rule. Just to back up, the 50 rule was trying to balance giving support at that time on land use, and then the ports giving bcdc some extra base sale and Public Access, public benefit. What we did between pier 35 in china basin, create these parts that are graciously spaced and working with the Development Projects in the Historic Preservation within the Historic District, is a good track record. We are trying to bring a lot of those same principles into the Fishermans Wharf area. Bcdc has no interest in trying to undermine the restaurants. I think that, with all of the public investments i have gone in for the pier at 43 promenade, to remove a blighted parking lot that was there previously, and all of the partnering that has been done with the cbd and the city with this public realm improvements. That is what we are trying to get some recognition for as the offset of getting rid of the 50 rule. Is the 50 rule just for Fishermans Wharf or is that port wide . It is port wide. The remaining resources are in the Fishermans Wharf area. Versus solid fill, which is what we have in this other waterfront. Our most urgent concern, especially now as we are starting to go into the seawall and resilience planning. We need to have the tool and the toolkit for making the Infrastructure Improvements that we need. With bcdc being the thought leader on many of the resilience planning initiatives. I think it should not be hard to connect the dots as to why we can come up with a better strategy for delivering public benefits, not having this old policy in place. This september 19 meeting is to cover all of these conflicts . Are there any action items, or is this just for information . It is in an an initiation process. We have submitted a list of these issues, these as well as some others i have spared you from today. That is being presented to the Commission Next week so that the commission can say yes, go forth, and then there is a series of steps in public hearings and Public Comment hearings that go along with that. There will still be, we expect to talk through the issues, and develop the proposed amendments to the special area plan, will be into the first half of next year, there will be a public review. Great, thank you. Any other questions or comments. Next time, i would love for you to go first, most everybody left, and theyre so much knowledge here. I wish the community was here to hear this. This is a lot of pertinent information. Theres probably nobody here. You know, there are certain things, you know, youre going to come up and you will pass. This is important. I feel like Something Like this, when we have a full house, the public on the Community Needs to hear all this information. She knows how important it is for her group to have the stuff. We dont know what is going on, so i just ask in the future that you would consider first. This is too much information. Thank you. Thank you, diane. Item 15, new business. I have recorded to add park activation in the open space for the tease tdk hotel, and dinner Theater Project for information item. Is there any other new business . Yes, i would like to add an item. I am a governance kind of person, and we seem to always be in a Continuous Improvement mode here, at the ports, in terms of our policies, processes and procedures. I think it has been a while, and i think it would be good for us to review several things, but i think we should start with one. We have talked a little bit at one of the hearings, in terms of our revised ethics and rule of conduct. That is a big topic. I think staff can start to approach that. One of the areas of governance that i would like to come back and have your comments on, and you may want to talk to some of the individual commissioners, as well as consult the officers, and that is to look at the term of the officers, come back with a proposal that we can then have an informational session and perhaps we can move to an action item. Does that sound reasonable to you . You are actually asking to look at term limits of the officers . I think it is always good to review some of these administrative processes and procedures, to see whether they still fit, what we think will be good going forward, just as we made all of these revisions to the waterfront plan. And then, i think, silly followup i think it may where we had the discussion from the city attorney, it would be good to see, and i know you are still working on perhaps some sort of rule of conduct, or whatever it is that we are doing as far as it applies to all of us, the commission as well as the staff. It would reinforce a little bit of what we talked about in the water use management plan. For this commission. An. Understood. And then the term were going to have the term on the discussion, but i think we should also include something regarding the commission. The commission secretary. To be at every meeting. Thats always bothered me the way its written, because it requires that amy be here for every single meeting and its not practical. Its impractical. So we need to amend that to give more flexibility. Will you bring that back at the next meeting for discussion and possible action . Absolutely. I can do that. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. A motion to adjourn is in order. Second. All in favour . Aye. San francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for San Francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] fire station 35 was built in 1915. So it is over 100 years old. And helped it, were going to build fire boat station 35. So the finished Capital Planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on Sea Level Rise. The station 35, Construction Cost is approximately 30 million. And the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. It is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. Were looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. The historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. This totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of Sea Level Rise over the next 100 years. Thats what the citys guidance is requiring. It is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. So if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. It does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. So that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. The fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. The access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. In that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. Both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utilitys only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. So electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. High boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. Currently were staffed with Seven Members per day, but the Fire Department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. Looking into the future, we have not only at t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. There are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. Were looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but theyre the only good reference point. We look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. It is very unique. I dont know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. The fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. We have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. This is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. Were proud to serve our community. And were willing to help people in any way we cait. Shop dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their shop dine in the 49 within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local services in the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so were will you shop dine in the 49 chinatown has to be one the best unique shopping areas in San Francisco that is color fulfill and safe each vegetation and seafood and find everything in chinatown the walk shop in chinatown welcome to jason dessert im the fifth generation of candy in San Francisco still that serves 2000 district in the chinatown in the past it was the tradition and my family was the royal chef in the pot pals thats why we learned this stuff and moved from here to have dragon candy i want people to know that is art we will explain a walk and they cant walk in and out it is different techniques from stir frying to smoking to steaming and they do show of. Beer a royalty for the age berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest they think this is i really appreciate they love this art. From the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you dont have to go far. Small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. You dont have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. San francisco has to all ho momentarily. This is a regular meeting of the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure. The Successor Agency commission to the for tuesday, september 17, 2019. Welcome to members of the public. Madam secretary, please call the first item. The first item of business is roll call. Please respond when i call your name. [role call] the next order of business is item two, announcements. The next regularly scheduled Commission Meeting will be held on tuesday, october 1, 2019 at 1 00 pm city hall, room 416 . No