Transcripts For SFGTV Small Business Commission 31317 20170316

Lbe subcontracting goals. As needed contracts fell 2 below but we expect that to increase as the different scopes of work come online. This slide compares the awards and paymentses over the six months of the past three fiscal years. We awarded six contracts in the first half of each of the last three fiscal years. This time weve gone down a bit with 41 going to lbe firms but we did well in the last two fiscal years and were exceeding the mayors citywide aspirational lbe participation goal of 40 . In terms of local hire these are Construction Projects that are over a Million Dollars. Theyre subject to the local hire ordinance which is implemented by the office of economic and workforce development. Since the inception of the ordinance back in 2011 there have been 15 contracts at the port that have fallen under the ordinance and its requirements. They have all met the ordinance requirements. Currently we have one contract that falls under the threshold and that is the pier 31 roof repair project. The threshold currently for local hire is 30 of hours worked must be done by local San Francisco residents. That project is currently at 40 40 . During the reporting period through the directors delegated authority we a authoritied 2lbe micro set aside contracts and one to Butler Enterprise Group and the other to rdj enterprises and the goal of the work theyre doing for us is to link residents in the surrounding communities, district 10 to port employment opportunities. Though the contract is new one of the considerers has hit the grand running and hired three district 10 residents there and have additional seven individuals that have been cleared and awaiting start dates. Bob davis is managing the other project with Butler Enterprise Group to recruit and promote and hire local residents from the citys sector on port jobs and excited about that initiative and if the work that the team is doing. We have a ton of contracts coming in the next three months, four months and include the one that you heard before. We had Contract Opportunities and open house. People want to come and work for the port. There is buzz out there. Some include construction pier 31 upgrade and the belt line building core and shell. There are seven construction opportunities coming in the next seven to eight months. We have a number of professional Service Contracts and the Sea Level Rise resiliency management and two communication contracts out now and the as needed environmental Service Contracts coming on line next month so theres a lot of activity and a lot of opportunity at the port and all our projects we work to have at least a 20 lbe subcontractorring goal and that is a floor and not a ceiling and we have been able to exceed a lot of those goals. Finally in conclusion the lbe performance for the past six months and 40 to lbe and 30 of payments and one project under the local hire ordinance. We have some contract initiatives that are happening on a parallel track and then just a lot of work coming down the pike in the next six months to a year. That concludes my presentation and i am available for questions that you have. Thanks. Is there any Public Comment on 13b . Any Public Comment on 13b . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Commissioner katz. As always boris very, very thorough, so i appreciate your presentation. Are there any a broader question. Are there trends that you see or things that we should be aware and think as we focus on improving our outreach efforts or where we see other things where we might want to address and reduce barriers for participation . I think on the contracting realm you know there are a lot of insurance requirements and barriers that come through working on water for instance and things of that nature so working we im on the lbe Advisory Committee and growd up representatives from different departments and looking at that and bonding and those types of initiatives. I think thats one area where we could have some bonding support that would help firms bid on some of this work. I think were doing we try to break up contracts as much as possible by awarding micro lbe set asides and thats the first level getting into the City Contracting process. We had four during this period i think continuing on that line is important. Is it at all helpful for us to encourage you to explore or encourage the port to explore the feasibility of providing some of that bonding support to potential contractors . I know youre working with citywide but maybe there is something we at the port can do to back that up. We have been talking with the contract monitoring division. They have a program through merry whether and williams that we want to bring to our next open house and feature and talk about some of the Resources Available at the city for bonding and things of that nature. Thank you. Thank you. Boris commissioner brandon doesnt have anything to say. Commissioner kounalakis is next. Commissioner brandon is happy. Actually that was a great presentation, very thorough. Thank you and its terrific. It is really great to see the progress and ensuring that local businesses can really have a good crack at doing work for us and the diversity you know the work to create diversities in terms of hiring practices is also it seems like its really doing what was hoped when these initiatives were put into place so its terrific. Boris thats it no, commissioner brandon. I have nothing to say. [laughter] no, boris thank you so much for this report. I really appreciate all of the effort and everything that has gone into making these numbers what they are today. This is really, really a great much better than the last report, much better so thank you for that. I think the contract opportunity open house was really great. I think it was really well attended and think it generated a lot of interest and i agree that we need to find some way to try and diversify our outreach and interest in all the opportunities that are coming online pier at the port, and i had the opportunity to introduce our executive director to ingrid merrywhether last month and i hope we bring her in prior to next years annual open house. Hopefully we can find some way to at least start the dialogue sometime soon. I think thats an excellent suggestion and these done excellent work for the contractors and businesses in the city through the Bonding Program in the city and working through creative ways to make it easier to do business with the port of San Francisco so boris and i will reach out to her directly. Thank you and thank you so much for all of this. Thank you everyone for making this these opportunities available and a priority. Thank you. Thank you. I second all what my my commissioners said boris. Director. Thank you. You have been listening and a longterm process and were getting there. I am sorry i missed the breakfast that bay but i understand from commissioner brandon and commissioner forbes and great and 200 people and i appreciate it. Madam secretary next item please. 14 new business. Colleagues is there anything you want to the port calendar . Seeing none next item please. Adjourn. In the memory honor. In honor. I move to adjourn the honor of kathryn dodd in retirement. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . It is 6 35 p. M. Thank you. [gavel] going this is the regular meeting of the San Francisco Small Business Commission Held on monday, march 13, 2017, the meg is call to order. 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Find us online in personal and best of all our services are free are charge the public official public forum to voices our be concerns about policies that effect the connective vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco if you need assistance with Small Business matters start here at the office of the Small Business commission thank you item one. Wait, wait i have something to say first we missed an important event be last week we are that not together a heartfelt happy birthday to our policy analysis minica. Oh, thank you, thank you very much. clapping. precede. Thank you okay number one, and roll call. Commissioner Vice President adams commissioner dooley is not arrived commissioner president dwight commissioner ortizcartagena is absent commissioner toursarkissian commissioner yeeriley has not arrived commissioner zouzounis present. Mr. President , we have quorum. All right. Lets get started. Or the two general Public Comment but not on todays calendar and suggest necessary agendas for the commissions future consideration. Commissions future consideration. discussion item. and members of the public that would like to comment on nothing not on todays agenda seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item 3 discussion and possible action to make remedies on the board of supervisors file no. Reorganization technical and other amendments other amendments. Ordinance amending other planning code sections reorganize article 7 and to update, correct, clarify, and simplify code language in other planning code sections requiring taraval, and judah neighborhood commercial districts ncds enacting permanent controls at this time large scale urban agriculture Business Hours fro 2 00 a. M. To 6 00 a. M. , and the demolition or merge of units on the the north beach ncd; preserve the small storefronts, street frontage and prohibit vehicular access on certain streets with the vehicular access on certain streets with the manufacturing and amending the eating and drinking controls our presenter is aaron starr manager, legislative affairs, Planning Department. And this is a discussion item item. Hi welcome. Again my name is starr manager, legislative affairs, Planning Department. Good afternoon, commissioners the item before you is phase two and phase three of planning Code Organization that that focuses an article 7 like to begin by explaining why the department started the process that is a large and complicated document some of the complexities we having a daytime city and reflects the aspirations and the citys neighborhood and have the identity for the land use controls, however, there is a level of complexity in the code that is urban necessary the code is added to over the years without thought for reorganization or over lapsing controls so it is not 0 easy to find the controls and some of the controls are lost because of complaekt that makes that difficult for planners to do their job and for the members of the public individuals this will illustrate the citys 1948 planning code 27 pages 4 of the text of the planning code and the other 23 include the land use maps you can look at it as a historical document next, we have the planning code from 1978 this cod is quite a bit longrange and complicated 200 and 17 pages and then have todays planning code with the 3 volumes over 13 hundred pages the code has grown significantly not only in size but complexity in recent years normally i bring the code but not going back to the office this is a picture prior to the project 4 places in the code you can find 4 definitions in article 2 and 83 was to promulgate the chariots in article 2 and article 7 and similar but difficult tables in article 8 after is process will be one set of definitions given the number of definitions from 15 to one and 16 there will be standardized ways of Informational Organization and all will be gone awhile maintaining the legislative aide recollections for i like to say preserving the necessary code how do does the code maintain the basic structure until second year 86 and article 7 is prior to many the standards were in article 1 and two is the control for organizing tabs tables that have the definition we had one dozen district and fewer regulations, however, the code has a complaekt with suspending added to the code for used in the commercial districts trying to bring the order to the code the city has article 7 this created general as well as individual commercial districts and deleted some of the special use districts added a new set of articles a new way of organizing the information known as is zoning control and article 8 adam definition and also similar but different tables article 2 is the same 3 definitions in way ways of conveying the controls from the planning code initiated in 2013 to restructure the planning code to be easier to understand and use the accomplished by the standard disz and he zoning format to help to achieve that is divided two phase three. Fetish one article 2 is the mixed use and pdr and zoning map as far the consolidated definitions have been successful 3 streets it is overall helping this helps phase two and focuses an article 7 of the planning code that governs the eastern neighborhoods commercial strict that phase three will focus an article 8 that covers chinatown and south of market since is definition have been consolidated in section 1012 under the main component to reenforcement the tables to mimic in article 2 and consolidated the definitions in article two as part of definition in 790 will be deleted in section one one 02 are providing contribution for this phase even though next one of the Biggest Challenges will be regulated certain challenges to how to say regulated is removal of groupings in section 790 made up of individual uses ill go into this later in the definition the ordinance eliminates 415 that cover the mixed use except one diverse those controls are the same in section 306 that covers the cu and others entitlements for the rest of the city a lot of envocation between the sections the one is a 20 day 90s for the commercial and mixed use district and other Zoning District are only 10 days this ordinance makes the 20 day notice standard throughout the nose it takes out the food existence with the redundancycy and the definition to better describe how their regulate in the planning code these will have been requested and commissioner tang and supervisor peskin with the outer sunset with the conditional use for the personal services on the second floor and reconstitutes the cu for the mcds in the outer part supervisor peskin has requested to the north beach mcd for land and storefronts consolidation and prohibits the access in green street and prohibit a loss of twmz on the uttering floors about the agricultural for twentyfour hour businesses and restable for restaurants and removes the section from movie theatres add specialist im sorry food definitions for the north beach sud and requires the cu and requires the eating and drinking for the 2011 ordinance and finally supervisor peskin asked the mcd momentum to allow the restaurants and require conditional use authorization for the bars the next few shades will show how it works under phase with the 8 categories agricultural and automotive and entertainment and be parts and recreation owe institutional and residential, sales and service and utilities and infrastructure each of the using includes a list under that category example agricultural is defined as a category that includes the neighborhood argue and identified the uses in the use definition for example, the Jewelry Store is Retail Stores Advisory Board injury 124e identify the category in the first part and this is how that will work in the chart as you can see rather than listing all the two industry uses we have the use category and this is not permitted saying that for the institutional we list 8 individual use but the use for the controls for the other of this helps to cut down on the length of the chart and also allows for every use to be accounted for in the control table 0 from the supervisor supports that and is willing to take on the Public Outreach for the backing of the supervisor im not willing to but that in there it depends on the supervisor wanting to make changes i reject but they complicate the issue just to really restructure the planning code so it is consistent but i made the offer and holding to it okay im good with that thank you so the supervisors you support was the proxy for the district. Yeah. In the supervisors supported it when we introduced an ordinance we assumed theyve done the Public Outreach for the changes. Commissioner yeeriley yes, thank you for the presentation and also you mentioned you sent out thousands of invitations and had 3 meetings people showed up unfortunately in the very many thats i put the sign up on the plus not a very engaging topic nobody wants to take the planning Code Organization but we did we are continuing the outreach and trying to reach out to bay area and looking at organizations to make sure they teach them and if they have concerns were also meeting with the council the thought merchant our each continues not a sexy topic frankly. The ones you met with what are the reactions. I think that some of of them were fine when they were mr. Pacheco the proposal they were comfort with that and liked the idea that consolidating easier to use some groups are very weary of changes reacted negatively and spent a lot of time responding to letters and emails when they bring up an issue ill counter that with how it is working thats why that southern is negated i would able to win over a lot of people but i im willing to meet and talk with people about them. Do you think that all of the changes may not have a lot of impact for the existing businesses. I certainly hope not were keeping controls the same for example, were pulling out uses from the other rare sales and Services Category theyll be permitted before the way they were previously a neighbor can come in and go to the supervisor and change that that allows that to heap for more finegrain controllers from the commercial districts but as it effects the existing businesses it may help future businesses i hope the code will be clear and easier to understand so a Small Business owner what get information from planning staff. So mostly impacts the new businesses coming in. Yes. Thank you commissioner dooley. Ive spent a lot of time with you aaron starr and got things done in north beach my question do you feel that consistency should take precedence over the needs of mcd. So i think that we are preserving a lot of the uniqueness so like i said the definitions were really predator indicated an article 7 and it preserves the controls in the neighborhood district so the specific controls were decides on by the community and makes each neighborhood unique are being preserved i dont think that is a trade off between consistency and between specializetion or zoning controls i guess youre not squaring won over the other. They use well, i found that inaudible . Not necessarily positive changes and each will district i mean, i reality appreciate that aaron took the time with us to acid for many, many hours to make sure that to continue to preserve what is a special district but you know, i was surprised that even though districts did not spend the time for example, we got put in our part of code a new definition about commercial manufacturing so we can allow for example, a regional aspect to come in as a different category and thought that the districts would have would have been interested so. Right. It depends on the district. But as aaron pointed out the objectives i i remember he opened pandoras box but put pandora is back in the box but to simply reorganize things you were asking for a new definition than that was sort of beyond the scope of this project the call not to have everybody rush to the go table had can i jam but rather ill reorganize things and under the new reorganization if you want to plug thing into the mcd great we have a cleaner framework. Yes. And no, because some of the things that have been perhaps inadvertently deleted are not positively things and once appreciate that aaron recognizes these and these are things that are include for everyone so that, you know, that was a very interesting exercise for us and im not faulting aaron im surprised that the sdpikts didnt spend the time reviewing it is not boring it was fruitful i will urge other districts to have i wish theyd done the same. So aaron during our organizing and sorting things out the implication some mistakes or oversights and this effort this particular group underwent basically said hey go things fell through the cracks a lets fix that. Thats why we have the introduction period and then the adoption of the planning code we pistol the information and receive effecting so countless hours of the north beach but were spent a lot of time responding for the coalition for the neighborhood concerns and they will say have issues with certain is changes made that i changed based on that so part of the progress and i found though i was surprised the translation of the charts ive not had a lot of comment on that the system to accurately translate the current definitions and i havent received much criticism or feedback on that i think i maintain the existing controls with commissioner dooley is referring to has to do with with the sections of the code that are amend and having because we changed the grouping we had to change and list those so learning curb i think i have you know internally been looking at this as well ill say that north beach is a unique district in San Francisco a very complex controls and theyre there to preserve the north beach unique character and it has an sud that is with the commercial district theyre basically two Zoning Districts for the planning corrode k34r5ib8g9d district thats one reason i didnt reach out to them in the proper like over a year ago. As normally the case far more interest in what youve done than what youre going to do once you have done what youre going to do what kind of process some other district came forward and says oh, i see what you do and there are things missed. We im sorry we did article 2 we knew there will be errors i set up a expedite we had another ordinance to adopt to correct the errors sow the exception their licking be a secondary action. Yeah. Ill even file with yes, a clean up after this i think that is just you know as theres the causeandeffect you will probably is this will cause people to wake up and say wait. Yeah. Is also hospitals people what is kind of controls the neighborhood in the commercial districts including in the chart are included and a lot of things are spelled out more clearly and people didnt know things were spelled ousted clearly but can go back and change things. Commissioner zouzounis. Thank you for your presentation i hoping you can walk me through the language im not familiar with that. Ill be happy to. Just to follow up on the question so formula retail i dont understand that referred to Ownership Structure than new. Correct. So we consider formula retail a huge characteristic you have a bank that is formula retail or a restaurant that is formula retail or have a Clothing Store formula retail we have a code that independence what groups of retail uses formula retail and not all are formula retail but pretty much all of them now are we included the banks and some other ones recently. And so secondly im trying to look at the names of the file number included in the packet that is referencing something in the code has to do with with the grocery specialist designation and im just trying to understand everything that is pertaining to that sector the liquor store and i wanted to know if something that for a grocery speciality is inside or outside what that use. Speciality grocery will no longer allow the seating to help to distinguish between limited restaurants. Thats new. Inside and outside we dont dictate seating outside but i mean on the sidewalk so the dpw handles that. Probably not we get a referral but, yeah im sorry we specialities grocery will no longer be available to have. Nancy and others have concerns there was no significant differentiation between a limited and grocery so out of conversations with the Zoning Administrator the way we made more depiction is seating at the speciality grocery that will not be limited to restaurant use so full foods a speciality. No a Grocery Store. And some distinction. Not to during this trial into the specifics that is interesting. Im trying to understand if there was a change to the space in which an off sale or rather they have tip 20 or 21 off sale with the license basin in which the floor occupies 15 percent of floor area is that something that is. No it is not located in the accessory use maybe putting that in the existence but the actual keej has not changed. Okay and what triggers a cu. So in a use is you look at the use controls of the zoning control an mp it is principally permitted it requires a constructive and mp not permitted youre basically going to the chart and it requires a cu. Do you have a visual of that postcard. Not the full chart but watching basically what that looks like the Institutional Uses all of those require conditional use on the first story and second floor and third floor the first column ask the first floor and the second floor and third floor above in the neighborhood were regulated by story and not just by parcel. So do you have these charts for every. All 39 neighborhood commercial. So we dont pairs through them the call to action to all of you out there you viewers the call to action is check the chart youre concerned about that impacts you and so quickly and thoroughly so they can relate changes to you before the legislation is finalized or to alert you after this if any clean up is necessary. Thats on the website; right . Yeah. I i mean you can contact me an aa r o n at sfgovtv. Org. Okay. Those charts are available and anyone what request them. The link to the ordinance. Okay. You commissioner toursarkissian. A quick followup for the existing businesses will not have to deal with the cu. If their use requires cu and they want to expand theyll have to get a cu thats the way it is now this wont change any of that im not making something the ones that i spend out specifically not changing from conditional to the permit if it is a cu youll work and potentially expand it. Commissioner ortizcartagena. Thank you. I have for the purpose questions just to exhausted the questions about the specialities and going over the changes and for the benefit of those listening the minor amounts of food only site if you buy food in a Grocery Store more can you set the premiums it that what the end result is that inception requirement was not there so weve added a requirement. Youre correct yeah, but the Specialty Grocery is for like a chose shop or like one of the small type of things. Like a chose shop or having another like a speciality meats shop or something that he specialize in one product. They can prepare minor amounts of food. So if the chose shop wants to make cheese sandwiches or meat sandwiches can you be prepared and offsite to be eaten. Well, i guess you no seating but can stand and eat the sandwich. But full Grocery Stores is different that was a definition added a while ago. All right. Thats definition the changes proposed. Yeah. Kind of to clarify and a lot of minor questions you bear with me, im United Health care workers using arcade are they considered. The amazement game arcades were when people were concerned kids would skip schools that was prohibited throughout the city the still do that now on their own. laughter . So when we started the project in 2013 none was open in the gay market we were going to wrap that into the entertainment and we did that under phase one and since that time the proliferation of businesses that want to open up arcades and supervisors are being amending the code to allow that to happen in other words, the preserve the process we put it back in the code and now regulating it as violated uses and not general. Im informed there was a discussion of cu requirement citywide that will be. Nothing that i know of that okay. Then theres no cu process for arcades. It depends on the district. Not citywide. They prohibited them citywide but since 2013 upper market and haight and the Zoning District have been amended to allow the games. It was discussed in let about the possibility of making mainstreams to the code and tweaking it so the question will it be more difficult in the future as a mathematics of the comparison as what it is in the future of making changes and in a neighborhood district you know neighborhood commercial district that is making it kind of difficult. I dont know well the process like the Planning Commission with the cu and goes to the board of supervisors to. What other steps what im maybe for the purpose of calculation those changes will be done requirements 2, 3, 4 neighborhoods changes more difficult to get there. No introduce as the Planning Commission to initiate their ordinance by drafting it or they can petition their supervisor to introduce to change it what it does break down did uses that used to be grouped together like the Institutional Uses and the it allows for more finegrained zoning controls it didnt do anything to how easy to change the code. We like do it thirty times a year. laughter . Thats clear puts some peoples minds at ease and another specific question about the mobile food operators is that going to be decreasing or increasing the ability to place mobile food up by the property that shouldnt change what we did so when we did the article to the phase one we created a separate use in the code after looking at the use more carefully we decided not a use in dpw but their use we see how the regulations is in the code and basically on the street dpw we dont have anything to say about that private property it is like a restaurant thats how that is regulated or a temporary use and then it talks about how it is regulated by that that wouldnt make that easier. It wouldnt change. My finally question the bakery for manufacturing will be a different than neighborhood or you have standards. Right now a bakery is considered a limit restaurant that is allowed to happen and allowed to produce and sell food on site and be a bakery north beach has concern about their long term bakerries that have a connection to the italian past heritage being switched to a coffee shop and not a bakery no more so supervisor Peskin Office created a definition for the speciality Food Manufacturing to help protect those uses in north beach specifically because we didnt want to introduce new use citywide and not you know require doing outreach and sort of talking to the neighborhood groups we put it there special use district north beach has north beach and north beach sud so only applies to the north beach sud. So potentially if required. At this point well have to add it as a use in the code and add it to all neighborhood districts and so phenomenonly this speciality for all neighborhood is that what youre saying and a neighborhood will require would be possible to do it thats my question. Well have to set up an sud. No, but right now the use is permitted in every neighborhood commercial district my understanding correct me if i am wrong the reason they wanted it in north beach to protect the longstanding businesses in north beach a particular need for that district but. Let me clarify when Supervisor Scott Wiener chained the planning code for restaurants. Uhhuh. What happens was everything that was only restaurant or limited restaurant unfortunately what heaped that included therefore every bakery with limited restaurant and everything was a limited ice cream trucks was a limited truck we experienced that someone ought to say a candy shop and became a restaurant they just said were a limited restaurant so we were concerned of preserving additional businesses and making that easier for them or a new one to make that easier for them come into the district not be considered a restaurant. Well to be Clear Limited restaurant are permitted throughout the city and now the specialty informed manufacturing requires a cu so im not sure it makes that easier but makes a distinction between the two and it prevents the business from turning into a restaurant that way. The distinction didnt exist. Only in the north beach sud. It could be added to other neighborhoods. It would take another ordinance and could be added to the code. Thats part of changes were tubbing. The department went through a large exercise the consolidating the eating be institutions in 2011 but really created some large rules on how we regulated restaurants like you can serve ice cream in a cup but a toaster you can have a heating port we tried to solve for the Small Businesses can adoptive their plans and respond to the market and needs without having enforcement staff saying you need to unplug our toaster and take it out of building im not exaggerating our team did that or that ice cream has to be served in a cup but not a cone thats the noah valley ordinance called for and rather not go back that way. Okay. Thank you. Youre welcome. Commissioners any other questions. All right. When do you expect this to be voted on. On a 30 day hold at the end of the month and have to schedule it. So if anyone has any suggestions or changes they want to request they should get to you quickly. Yes. Yes. Great well open up for Public Comment and thank you very much for your presentation. Any Public Comment on item this item come forward come on down. I think ne of you are being with the mayors quarterly meeting since this mayor has been in office and one of the main things that has come out every single time we want to be at the table were always stuff comes up were not at the table i heard over a thousand people were organizations were invited on this process and the im the legislative representative for the merchant and never got notice and legislative representative for is polk street and the Small Business network it never got notice i go to almost every chamber of commerce Small Business policy meeting and never came up if this is legislative that will upset business this is obviously a really fun part of celebrating our Irish Community and national day st. Patricks day for our friend, immigrants, our families, i am saying thank you for all coming and well do more speeching now. One the most symbolic things we can do is raise the irish flag in San Francisco yeah there it is [applause] it is one if not my favorite days at city hall because i look around and i see all my friends for so long and dont call you old friends, i called you long time friends. I dont why but you all dont look any older, so is that baillys irish cream or irish coffee . Ia know what i think it is . I think you all lead such a happy life in San Francisco, right . [applause] and i think the reason that you do is that you all give to San Francisco and through the years the Irish Americans have helped to make San Francisco what it is, so you are wonderful families sticking together and being friends with all your other families in the Irish Community as well as others. A good example of that is chief joanne hayeswhite, where are you . Alright. I danced with your fath er in cork. I think it was on top of a table. [laughter] and i remember last year that you and your sister patty and family gave a Wonderful Party for your mother at a really big birthday and took her all around the city to all the places wonderful in her memory of her childhood and had a wonderful day. Now your boyerize taking up the rein doing wonder fings for the city and other people. On the note talking about family, i like to introduce someone here who is part of the Irish American family and becausei know he is a irish, because there is a river named for him. Lee river going through cork. May i introduce lord mayor of San Francisco, ed lee. [applause] seana, thank you again for that wonderful introduction. Hi every, welcome to people said palace. Today and for the next two weeks we are all irish. Thats going to be reflective of our supervisors here today, supervisor mark farrell, supervisor shehy, supervisor norman yee who is irish for the next 2 weeks along with former supervisor assesser recorder campen chew. All our departments heads will be irish for the next 2 weekzs. Commissioners because we are going to celebrate not just the history of the city, but the migration and history of families that are so a part of the history of this great city. St. Patricks day of course is irlands national day and once again honored to have with us irlands counsel general phillip grant. Thank you, counsel general. He and his team are doing a great job representing their government right here in our great city and want to thank them for the many servicess that you provide to the city and region of San Francisco. You know, we happen to work closely with the counsel general and all of you to bring the air lings back to San Francisco. Isnt that wonderful . [applause]. We are so please today have the non stop service from San Francisco to dublin. This year is a exciting one for the San Francisco cork sister city as we prepare to return to iirland in september and hope to invite as many of you to come with us to reacquaint ourselves with a wonderful mission. A mission that excites me because after the first in 2003 kids are coming over. We are going back, it is a lovely angoing exchange. It will be my second trip to cork and i want to make sure we invite as many people as possible and of course i take this opportunity that i had the honor of being the grand marshal in the st. Patricks per aid in 2013. You see mayor lee along side the riverly in cork on st. Patricks day being your grand marshal. My gosh, that was fun. That fs just fun. I also am pleased to haveis chris mokeo here . Chris, alright. I want to introduce chris today because chris is the winner of the San Francisco marathon here this year and now he will be off to represent us in the cork city marathon, right, chris . [applause] thats just one of the great many exchanges that we have with our sister city, so chris, not only good luck. With you win that you have to do something after you win, you got to jump in the river lee. Thats what you got to do. Hopefully you do that when you are sober. Never happen. I know this time of the year when we kick off the st. Patricks Day Celebration in San Francisco it is so important to all of you to recognize your ancestors from ireland. Many of your relatives left behind everything in order to make it over here and make a new home. We understand that as a city of immigrants. Like many of you who quh to the cuntsry today and irish settlers who fled poverty and political unrest in theirome lan only faced with additional and new barriers here and discrimination. But your ancestors were strong. They were able to make a place for them sevl jz for their children and it is evident right here today. So, we are fortunate that so many immigrants from ireland came here to San Francisco. Our Irish American communities that we are so proud of did a lot of work to rement represent the city. They helped build architectural icons like the Fairmont Hotel that continues to be one of the blessed icons in the city. Charlotte and i love to visit that often as we build statutes around it and occupy it for many parties. They also worked oobject major Construction Projects today that we continue to benefit from like hetch hitchy. You see irish influence looking at the city and understanding names of major corridors like geary, o farrell or in my neighborhood oseanacy. I love going down that street. Make sure the hillside is still safe. And hayes valley. I want to single out one very important immigrant from ireland, a great man. Someone that im pleased to announce is named the grand marshal for this years parade, dermat philpot. Thank you, der mitt. Der mitt contributed see much to our city. Service to the San Francisco Police Department. He is part of that. To there the work not just on Irish Community but the entire city. I know of no more fitting dermat receive the honor. He is great friend the city and great friend of mine. I also want to sinkal out and say thank you to leomfost and United Irish Society for all the work that you doin uniting our city. Liam thank you very much. [applause] not only putting together the event that happen on st. Patrick s Day Celebration we know it is more than one day wurkt of event and it is a couple weeks worth of events and kno know everybody appreciates that. With that said, im pleased to declare march 3, today, to march 17 as Irish American friendship and heritage weeks in San Francisco, not days. [applause] liam and counsel general, pleased to present to you these proclamations. Please come forward. Lets kick off Irish American day in San Francisco [applause] alright. Good morning everybody. Um, i am proud it be here today. My name is supervisor mark farrell and have the honor representing district 2 and have for the past 6 years and until 2 months ago i had the privilege being the only Irish American member on the board of supervisors. I want to welcome to the newest member of the board also Irish American descent supervisor jeff sheehy is here with us. [applause] before we bebeen, i do want to say proud to have this be the 5th year i have been able to mc this event and bring the one event of money in the month of march that brings the Irish Community together but really to say and thank mayor lee because as somebody who has come to city hall, mayor lee not only of course has the riv named after him but has been to cork. Going back to cork. Has made a commitment to our Irish Community here in San Francisco and to mayor lee i want to say thank you for all you do for our community. Thank you vaer much. [applause] so, mayor lee mentioned the history the irish in San Francisco is without parallel. We built the city and contribute today the city for decades for generations and we will be the future the city as well. I am proud to be here today. It is part of my family heritage. My son is wearing a green shirt as he should be and it is something i look forward to every year. I want to bring up first someone who has just mentioned and that our counsel general fipple grant. Phillip is with irish forn mintry since 1992. Prior to appointment here was director for press Media Relations in the Foreign Ministry for 4 years. Assumed the duty oof counsel general in 2014 and friend and leader in the Irish Community. So many things happened over the past 2350u years berkeley and otherwise. Phillip is a leader in the community and someone we welcome and thank for being here so want to welcome him up. [applause] [inaudible] this is a great celebrationment this is the 4th time i have stood here and unfortunately will probably be my last time staning in the row and want to say i feel blessed. I feel blessed for the 4 years i had the honor to represent my country in this great city. I feel blessed for each and every one of you i have met and come to grow to love. What you do is outstanding the support you give us on a daily basis, we can not thank you enough. San francisco is a exceptional place. It is always a exceptional place the irish. It was a sanctuary city for us eerfben back then. I hope it a ulaul remains so. I hope we always take great pride in what the city gave us and what we were able to give back to it and we know there will be difficult time tooz head and hope the Irish Community here in the city will be on the right side the debates we may see coming down the line. It really is important to remember where we came from. We were very lucky when we came to the west. We didnt end up in the slums and ghettos of the east coasts. We were the pioneers here and helped build the city. We learned vamues here. The city celebrates diversity and difference like no where else. Every time i stan here and look out, i see same sex marriage and indian and asian marriage, irish marriages. Cherish that diversity and do all you can to foster and keep the flame alivefelt your success ipthe city is based on that. Welcome diversity and welcome difference, share, celebrate who we are. We areate al different. We are wearing green and will do funny things on saturday 11 of manch. Well enjoy ourselves and celebrate our diversity and difference but if there are difficult times ahead make sure we cherish that and do our bit to preserve it and again 100 thousand thanks to the supervisors, to the mayor, to charllet. You menkzed berkeley, you opened your hearts when berkeley happened. I cannot praise the city. You were friend at a time of great tragedy and loss. The irish in San Francisco they love ireland but my god they love San Francisco more so celebrate that and thank you again very very much. [applause] thank you phillip and knethere will be more times to recognize you but we will miss you a ton. Next want to bring up someone who doesnt need introduction and also a leader in the Irish Communityism born and raised san franciscan. Wnt to grammar, high school and college in San Francisco. Served ipSan Francisco Police Department 31 years and retired as a lieutenant and continues to serve the city as a member of the Irish Community on multiple board. President oaf hay bai area Law Enforcement emerald society. Please welcome liam frost. [applause] thank you supervisor farrell a. Appreciate that great introduction. I was like who is he talking about. I do want to welcome everybody to the 166th st. Patricks day festival and prer aid and season and want to thank the mayor again hosting this as well as [inaudible] Kevin Birmingham the liaisons setting this up. I talked about how busy i am. I just stand here and get to come here and make the speeches but it is the people on the board that do all the work and they deserve all the accolades for everything that goes on because during the season not only do we have the vaint patrick pfs day prur aid the grands marshal and have visit toods the va hospital and almalia and laguna honda and st. Ann s and those places allow us to come and spread irish cheer and hope they get something out of it, but i know each of us that walks in there and gets to hang out with those people really get a lot of it so if you have time check the schedule. There is change on the kedge, instead of going st. Anns on whatever day, woo we are going march 18, the day after st. Patricks day. I want to introduce a couple people here. We have rose of trulee from San Francisco, margaret harken. [applause] as well from arizona, kiera archer. [applause] in the crowd i see the honorable Kathleen Kelly up there. I see the president of the united irish culturalsenter Mike Barnacle and appreciate the work that you do out there and coming on board and directing us and doing a great job. I do want to thank all the city departments. Putting on the parade and festival you get to meet a lot of people and sometime thrz is a lot of bureaucracy but when you talk to the people and cut through the red tape they are doing a great job. Nick chapman, diane rea and stacy cat low from park and rec. I didnt get the card, joanne but people from the Fire Department are doing a great job and chief bill scott and his staff at the traffic northern and Central Division is commander david luzar, captain jim moore eno from northern station and sergeant burn acorey and [inaudible] flus ono are doing a great job to get the parade geing. Every time i talk about the parade is there is one woman behind it parade and that is Kathleen Manning and she does a great job. [applause] again y like to congratulate our grand marshal dermat philpap who is a mentor of me and like to give his job back. It is a honor to be up here but it is lot of work and it is pretty cool to think of when i was a kid going the st. Patricks day parade i would be the guy that gets to walk down Market Street with the counsel general of ireland and with the grand marshal and get to wave at people. For it day my mom thinks im important. I also like to thank the honorary grand marshals. Each of these i have a queckz. John mour ark went to marine camp in high school so his father frank we are honor. [inaudible] from holy name is part the mother group and rita omahoney, each of the people i have a personal keck so it is cool to be involved here and a huge honor to be a grand marshal and haunry grand marshal but a lot of work and want to thank the families for being involved in all this. [applause] this started out as st. Patricks day one day and the mayor alluded to it. Feeling somebody elses notes. That it is now going oen for weeks and what we like to call now is st. Patricks day season and the mayor talked about how Department Heads and commissioners are irish for a week. I am vite all of San Francisco to be irish for the st. Patricks day season until march 17. Thank you. [applause] thanks liam. We dont do this enough as the ceremonies and dopet recognize this individual as much as we need to. A legend in San Francisco. I say the best dress woman in the city and the spirit behind the event. I want to thank charlotte schultz. [applause]. Absolutely has irish blood in her. I hope all will come to the event after charlotte supplies a lotf the goods for the celebration. Next up i do want to recognize and allow to come up dermitt phipot. A few comments not mentioned, a board member for 15 years. Liam you are in for a long ride. He was the past board member and director of the Police Athletic league. Emrmd alliance. A longhistory of service and particularly in our Police Department. Welcome up dermitt philopt. Thank you. Mayor lee, supervisors, counsel generals, proud to stand up here today and be a witness to the raising of the flag, the irish flag over city hall. For 166 years the Irish Community in San Francisco has been doing that and mayor, we thank you for hosting thais great event and thank you. When we see the flal flying over the United States, the american flag, we think that is the flag we give allegiance to, but on this day when the irish flag flies we remember with pride the struggles the irish people had over the years. And the faith and the encouragement and knowledge nay got from the United States to set up a country that was all most free again. When you look all over the world and countries throwing off empiriumism, dictateerships, they model their new countries after the United States. The flag of the United States is to them the emblem of freem freedom, justice and law. When we raise the irish frag here, we are testament to the help that this government gives to people all over the world so thank you mayor and every day we like the irish flag, we love the irish flag but pay allegiance to the flag the United States state. God bless america and god bless the United States. So, up next we like to bring up the honorary grand marshals and families. First, to recognize the family of clara hack it. Clary borne in [inaudible] immigrated to the United States as a young woman after libing in chicagocome up. It was San Francisco she called home. Over the years clara enjoyed acting in a variety of irish plays and performances and her involvement with the ladies asian order of hi burnians and president role in 2015 was perhaps one of the greatest honors. Her family is with us today so please give a large round of applause. [applause]. Thank you. Next want to invite the family of rita omahoney up. Are they here . Unable to make it. Just lets mention rita. She arrived in San Francisco 1946 with sister may from couny mayoro ireland. Taught elementary in San Francisco and she and husband selected in 2004 and a legend in the city and will miss her. Thank you liam for accepting the honor. Last the family of frank orork. [applause] frank was a native san franciscan, long precisioner at st. Pauls perish and joined San Francisco Fire Department serving over 30 years and also as a member of local 798 and will be missed and family here today. [applause] okay, we get to do this every year. We have another treat at the end so stick around. Some of the most fun things we do during the celebration are welcome the dancers with us. We have the whelan quenelley academy and Murphy School of irish dancers will dance the irish music today. The Murphy School of irish dance started with 35 members and today has over 175. Please welcome them up. [applause] [music playing] unbelievable. So, for the first time now new tradition we will start this year. I want to welcome mary and Celtic Community voices choir. They are going to stay over there so eyes on stage right. [music and singing] [applause] that thank you. Real quick i wanted to print up we actually have a certificate of honor for durmitt philpot, i want to make sure we present it to him as well. Dermitt. [applause] thank you for this certificate and i like to say that this certificate really belongs to my late wife. My family who put up with me all the years going to meetings and different committees and so forth so deeply appreciate it. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you. I want to recognize i found out a new supervisor has irish history. Want to recognize supervisor safai and want to thank the irish pipers band, please give a large round of applause. Love to invite you up the dancing groups as well as mary and your team to come up for certificates of honor and take a picture with the mayor as well. Come on up, you guys. First of all i want to recognize just because i can my parent here, john and alana farrell. My mom is back in the office already. Two things, first of all, i you think nothing happens behind the scenes but during the ceremony thanks to mayor lee we just talk squd he will light up city haul hall green until march 17 this year. [applause]. I have selfish regions for that because for two weeks from now to the 17th vicky hennessy, tom oconnor, chief hayeswhite and supervisor farrell and sheehy are not suppose today do anything wrong for the next two weeks while the building is lit green. I get that too. Alright. So, as tradition goes we have a reception and will last quite some time. This year we moved office so in room 268 the Corner Office down the hall. Please join us. Happy st. Patricks day, happy month of march, go irish. Thanks everybody. Calling this hearing to order good afternoon and welcome to the Historic Preservation commission for wednesday, march 15, 2017, id like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. Proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president wolfram commissioner vicepresident hyland commissioner hasz commissioner johnck commissioner johns commissioner matsuda and schaem commissioner pearlman commissioners, the first item on your agenda is general Public Comment there are no speaker cards. Does my member of the public wish to speak on a nonagendized item seeing and hearing none, Public Comment is closed. Item one directors announcements. Good afternoon, commissioners tim Frye Department staff the directors report was in your packet should you have any questions. Seeing none, commissioners item 2 review of past events that is Planning Commission staff recorded and amazements important tim Frye Department staff no formal report regarding the Planning Commission, however, one item or two items to share but regarding the events we participated in last night first is the department attended the dog patch Association Meeting and gave on offering of the Millions Program im going to turn it over to mills act applications will be due to the end of this month a number of applications from the dog patch we gave a short presentation to the Neighborhood Association regarding the benefits of the mills program as well as the requirement last night we be participated in a working group regarding the lgbtq Cultural Heritage the lower poublg and upper market poublg invited us we hosted a working group 25 members in attendance and represents supervisor kim and supervisor sheehy that he supervisor Peskin Office it was a great event there was a lot of good feedback and the department has a number of Partnership Webinar that came lower that poublg and thank you for putting on the fefrnlts im going to turn it over to several other events scheduled well be participating. You should be getting the notifications via email about various events within the city or through the department if youre not receiving those let me know i can keep you, you updated on the prior to the board of supervisors towards the end of april that concludes my remarks unless you have questions. Commissioners, if theres nothing further, well move on to item 3 the sifrtsd local government 20152016 annual report. Tim Frye Department staff our annual clg report based on the states fiscal year this is october 1st to september 30th of the prior year was included in our packets we were not anticipating giving you a formal presentation, however, im available to answer any questions as youre a aware a requirement of the clg agreement with the certified local government to produce this report on an annual basis youll see in the goals section towards the end of the report there you are a number of goals that you, you can arguably if meet this year preliminary the projects were in process a lot has happened again with the Cultural Heritage Assets Committee the mills acts and social efforts that participated last year so largely we moved many of the goals to this year as well we actively work on that and that concludes my remarks and on page one providing an electronic link to the program i dont see them. I see that we shall make that added. Okay at the then only on page 3 many yuptsd to the plan we didnt check the answer in the no box there. Oh, thank you yes, this should be noted. Any comments is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak on the sifrtdz Program Annual report seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And looks like a good report to me move on. Xhirsz under president s report and announcement. No formal report. Item 5 adoption of commission minutes. For the march 1, 2017. And draft minutes for hpc march 1, 2017. Any comments before we take Public Comment. Is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak on the draft minutes for arc march 1, 2017. And the draft minutes for hpc march 1, 2017. . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Do i have a motion to adopt the minutes so moved. Thank you commissioners to adopt the minutes for draft minutes for arc march 1, 2017. And other than that, motion commissioner hasz commissioner johnck commissioner johns commissioner matsuda commissioner pearlman commissioner vicepresident hyland and commissioner president wolfram so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places us under item 6 commission comments and questions. Any questions or comments . No. Nope were ready to keep on going. Commissioners regular calendar for 2731 folsom street this is initiate landmark designati designation. Good afternoon janet planning Department Staff the the item before you is the initiate landmark designation of an article 10 landmark designation mraengs for the house on 2731 folsom street the applications was prepared and the final draft by the Property Owner to the the department 2731 folsom street is significant as a master architectural and the fine example of the architectural it is identifiable as the building as a molted balcony adapted by a wrote iron railing used in commercial buildings the other Signature Design a republic indicated ground floor a composition and ornamentation and arts those features are a hallmark of the style, however, the Community Supported application is missing information on the development of the neighborhood the construction and staff recommends that the application includes information from the mission and historic remark and a discussion whether or not up to the time is in the context staff recommends that the application be updated to include from the recent remodel to compare the existing conditions and secondary elevation and regarding the defining features the massing form and style of this horizontal siding on the secondary feature be included and contemporary like the gold leaf be deleted from the features although the subject property didnt meet the pirate for designation it meets the eligibility for article 10 with the architecture building a as a Community Sponsored ive the Historic Preservation commission initiate article 10 and director the project sponsor to include staff recommendations if initiated today, the department that return a subsequent hearings recommending it to the Historic Preservation commission that concludes my presentation. Im available to answer any questions the Property Owner and consultant are here to speak today. Great any kwergz questions for ms. Ferguson. Commissioner vicepresident hyland can you explain a little bit about the future analysis of integrity. The secondary alterations have been alternated the i feel comfortable simple style is compatible so we believe that retains be integrity and like to see an analysis in the application as well as some of the like i said plans from the recent remodel to compare what is original and what is not. With no further questions. Good afternoon, commissioners im the Property Owner i reside on 2731 folsom street and i have no Technical Details im here to present the reason he want it landmarked i moved to San Francisco about 15 years ago first and foremost it has been done im irish and thats a suspicious reason we want to it move forward the second major reason the neighborhood itself is really proud of that building everyone in the mix loves the fact that we have a building in the neighborhood everyday if you stand close to the house youll see this building from neighborhood perspective anything that will formalize it would be great i would love if we moved with the landmarking so the mission will have Something Like a j f because the mission has gotten negative press this is a positive step for the third reason sometimes id like to move towards this to the millions act to maintain building id like to kate hartley, Deputy Director Mayors Office of housing and community development. Republican to present the former of the presentation thank you very much thank you im catherine the primary author of the landmark application i will quickly review i have a few photos 2731 folsom street is a 3 story multi Family Residences locked between 23 and 24th street and we saw a new print from the called africanamericans and from that, we know that is designed by jason in 1999 and we found a waterworks record dated 1899 the water was presented it has misrepresent family and it was the building was depicted on the zoning map from 19 hundred it is unchanged from the stair we found do 1976 Planning Survey those photos are in the survey and the survey considered the building architecturely significant and youll see in the field notes the surveyor noted a great appeal to the scale these photos from the Research Survey the photo the building was in decay but given a rating of 3 the property is eligible for the resources these photos were taken last summer of 2016 and similarlyly to the 1976, 2008 found 2731 folsom street to a remarkable retaining a highlevel of integrity it has a high presence within the Mission Neighborhood and found to be architecturely significant for both the design and the notable work of james and based the photo and the permitting the orientation is limited to the primary facade the bill art features youre looking at the replicated and designed ground story the column and the eloquent design and the doom and the institution all the original detailing is retained with the keystone building and the glasses windows and the molted window frames and the cultural foil windows for the grounds youll see that wood stash windows the engaged corinthian column and the it consists of those to resemble leafs and a ribbon of texture with x month testify and of the work by an important acre james was extensively taught and designed commercial buildings in San Francisco from 1897 to 1921 hes a master annex the architect professional journal ran several pieces by him and 2731 folsom street is one of a number of the Apartment Buildings shown here and recognizable as one the designs at the far right the Apartment Building that is a San Francisco landmark so for those reasons we believe that 2731 folsom street is significant so for the Architectural Design and a notable work by the master architect as a youve heard Property Owner shawn is proud to live in this building and the landmarking will be the first step in securing those acts to continue the maintenance of the building so, please let me know if you have questions. Can you respond to the planning Department Staff comments about the additional items in the report. This is the first time we received those comments so i would want to review them in more detail how is it specifically handled. What would be good to get a sense whether i agree or able to do the additional work that is what we do want to know in the process whether so the comments have been schematic versus new schematic thats fine no problem and we did make changes to the interior but compare o we can submit that i have no issue with that. And yeah. I guess more analysis they requested for the exterior secondary evaluation and the relationship to the development in the district. Im sorry if this is requested well go back and add it to the report i have no problem. Commissioners any questions. Thank you very much at this time open up for Public Comment anyone from the public wish to comment if so, please come forward seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Bring it back to the commission. Commissioner johnck. Well, it is wonderful we have to Community Initiative and thank you for that as long as the applicant is comfortable and turnball is inaudibl inaudible . Commissioner pearlman thank you this feels like a through back to what the public thinks are landmarked in San Francisco because it didnt fit the priorities the fact the owner wants to do that makes it more important because this is how you know this is how we celebrate our city i work with a lot of irish guys and honoree irish so laughter they call me go johnny offering mr. Pearlman i appreciate the relationship of you personal and the Irish Community not a lot of landmarks by the amazing irish you can builders who came over in the 19 century so i think that is you know very worthy and that i dont know if this might be another piece to put in the report about the fact there were so many irish this is a significant architect is irish and the builders i dont know month built this but probably richie agree i think with the booefrt of the report. Commissioner vicepresident hyland. It is a great project and landmark i support it im not sure depending on how much effort to make the revisions done relationship quickly that would be great if it is extensive and requires costs to the Property Owner im not sure this is absolutely necessary personally and then lastly is that would it be possible or what is the mills act opportunity for getting credit for the restoration . Retroactive yeah and commissioners ms. Ferguson can answer that question. The millions act allows work that has been completed and last one to two years in the rehabilitation of the plan that would be the requirement. Approve it . As amended by staff or . I would motion if it is not too much of a burden or effort i dont know that is amended this is not easemently were we voting of initiating it. Were voting on initiating that but direct staff to have the sponsor make changes were what youre saying a remeinitia and workout the provisions whether or not it is burdensome. It sound the information is in the reports that are done not sounding burdensome at all. Do i hear a second and commissioner pearlman seconded it. On that a motion to initiate landmark designation commissioner hasz commissioner johnck commissioner johns commissioner matsuda commissioner pearlman commissioner vicepresident hyland and commissioner president wolfram so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and commissioners, that places you under item 8 Washington Square certificate of occupancy good afternoon, commissioners francis planning Department Staff before you a request for the certificate of occupancy to make the alterations to Washington Square founded by columbia and stockton and uncle and peel street the repair and replacement of parklands features the subject property is to the certificate of occupancy replacing the playground commit and repairing the walkways and planting something and reform of the staircase in conducting of 1982 they corner of fillmore better is in con for purposes of secretary of interior standard and comparable with the character of the landscape the altercations dont remove the fabric and none of the materials will be affected by the proposed project staff finds that consistent with the Washington Square character and un the features including the wood beverages and did childrens go be playground and pathways will remain in the historic location the historic design and configuration of the playground will be retained and the new materials with the texture of the playground wall and the borders and walkways about match the hard escape the playground and staircase on the corners are not landscape features and will not all of the character of Washington Square staff says it is approve with conditions staff recommends the approval that prior to the ordinance of Building Permit with the materials including the fencing and paving and stones at board and the finish for the perimeter walls will be forwarded by the preservation staff no Public Comment has been received since submitted that concludes my presentation. Unless questions the project sponsor has a brief presentation of the project. Thank you any questions for staff. Take up the project sponsors presentation now. Okay. Good afternoon im a porridge manager and director of the Capital Planning at the rec and Park Department were thrilled to be here to present the childrens play area at Washington Square i want to speak why Washington Square is important Washington Square is the first of 13 playground for the department that is renovating and it is used to be called the Playground Initiative what the parks bond a Citywide Program the goal to provide clean and imaginative playground for all children and families of San Francisco we began in 2014 with the rec and park commissions pointed out a citizens Advisory Committee to determine the playgrounds across the city were in need of renovation the park professional and stakeholders and childrens advocacy and parented organizations and Child Development experts the task force settled on four factors for the playground for renovation the 4 factors in order priority number one, presence of proper q and a pressure treated wood within the playground and second the low Household Income and, of course, with the Parks Alliance playground report card grades the task force recommended 13 playground for renovation that the rec and Park Department adopted unanimously as you can see on this map that locates all 13 playgrounds it is wide geographically exists throughout the city and wheel were planning the department partnered with the alliance to initiate a if you have any questions, well be happy to answer theming campaign to insure that all 13 sites will be renovated in the program were now in the process of implementing all 13 playgrounds as i mentioned Washington Square it the first of those playgrounds to be renovated to today, we went through Community Engagement for about 9 months now that articulated the Overall Community members and Key Stakeholders through the participatory design process we worked with the community to understand the need of kite and take those plans and create a final preferred alternative plan Washington Square has 3 Large Community and overwhelmingly you Community Support youll see with that, im going to turn it over to our architect to explain the plans im available to answer any questions at the end of her presentation. Good afternoon, commissioners thank you for listening in oh here we go. Before i start, i should get a feeling who has been to Washington Square park has everyone . So i dont think i have to explain Washington Square park to everyone what i want to share perhaps you never paid attention to the childrens playground that is completely in the northwest corner indicated in the orange so it is basically a 13 site it is very much tucked in one of the small programs it is really the only Program Element within this part so zooming in the thing about Washington Square park which is important to know is that it is sort of the intersection between the two neighborhood russian hill and Telegraph Hill and just the green square for the community to really gather now the playground its the reason were here it is landmarked in 1995 and are the the 1957 plan so basically this is the third iteration of the playground since the inception and when we run to the Community Process there was a shift part and because the uses and regulations change over time and so because the nearby fairly significant playground joe dimaggio got we done the focus has changed it really towards Young Children and so that means for a number of reasons that was to bring the lower profiles to the site itself and light it up it is a dark corner the structure today is kind of dark and there is issues in the park one of the challenges were trying to lighten it up so just this these two pictures youre seeing up here is really right at the northwest corner looking up to the mraurlgd and then the other one from the east looking over the green court you can basically, not tell it is a playground so this is looking at right into the playgrounds about 3000 and what the two discriminated one is the existing on top and the proposed as you can see that we have retained everything that is critical to the overall circulations of the park and the features that we are outlined in the beverages the trees and the pathways situation this it is the general scope well be removing paving and refurnishing the benches and shifting them taking out the 1982 stairwell is a safety issue for parents and completely redoing the inside of playground so and this is the proposed lens whoops as you can see that we virtual retained using perimeter calls walls it is the boundary and bringing in the notation of the Telegraph Hill and russian hill sort of the hills and letting this playground sort of work within those playful hills and give it place making in terms of where those hills came from and weve play equipment with could he typical swings considered critical and really just an exploratory playground those images now below is the actual types of play equipment, however, the colors are not what well, selecting so, please use our imagination on the colors as you can see there is very few vertical elements were looking to use neutral colors and some green to connect to the green of the lawn are another view you probably not see actually that is really kind of would be possibly from the street and here were going through some of the key components material features that is the concrete wall that actually will weve from the site creating continuous edge that is currently used will match the color of the current restrooms that were rebuilt well tie that into that heres many more features some elements of either concrete or rock were still in the exploratory and a few accent features what the acorn or a touchstone playground and heres some of the overall materials now i brought a material board if you like to pa is that around with so the key sort of materials within the park already the park is in terms of of the paving it is encouraging asphalt but one of the actual desires for the rec and Park Department to shift from asphalt to concrete for environmental reasons as well as long term maintenance were going to the dark concrete with could be he will edging that is started to be used throughout the park that developed through maintenance needs and a percentage of the everybody elses so people dont walk into the planting beds and additionally were adding these simple black post chain fences we started to us in delores park thats been successful in protecting the plant theres a lot of issues about the maintenance that has driven some of the decisions but we feel like were using the element as a test case in the corner that eventually will be for the entire park i think ill let you ask questions at this point. Great commissioners any questions. Commissioner pearlman. No, no questions. No, i think we dont have any questions a clear presentation is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak to this matter please forward seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And bring it back to the Commission Commissioners commissioner johnck well, ive been there recently a merger with four of my grandchildren that is fantastic and we just approved the restrooms a while back yeah. So beautiful job ill make a motion to approve it. Good. That would be great. Second the motion. Its all good a motion and second commissioners, if theres nothing further, well move on to to approve commissioner hasz commissioner johnck commissioner johns commissioner matsuda commissioner pearlman commissioner vicepresident hyland. Yes. Good job and commissioner president wolfram. So moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and xhrsz on items 9 ab for pier 43 1 2 Fishermans Wharf and 1129 folsom street or not those are legacy business applications. Excuse me commissioners i must recuse myself from pier 43 1 2 Fishermans Wharf im under contractor with pier 43 a motion to recuse commissioner johnck. Moving. Thank you, commissioners to recuse commissioner johnck from item 9 a well be hearing those together so if you want to take them separately. I think thats okay. On that motion to commissioners to recuse commissioner johnck commissioner matsuda is commissioner pearlman and commissioner vicepresident hyland and schof so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and commissioner johnck your hereby recused. Okay. Good afternoon, commissioners desiree planning Department Staff in a nut shell are two legacy business nominations and applications which were submitted to the Planning Department on february 13th and ready for recommendation those mrashtsdz were reviewed by the office of the Small Business Commission Prior to transmittal to the department these all the physical features and tradition for those first application for red and white fleet found in 1892 the operator of the San Francisco by the way, a maritime worlds fair the business offered it services in the by the way, the barkers ways launched in the golden state on Treasure Island today red and white fleet is operated by hi grandson and launches if pier 43 the second application is 1995 who own and operate joshua began the sail boat the first one to have a coast guard on the bay since 1981 offers the services and for thirty years has offered services on 1129 folsom street founds theyve met the criteria and qualifies for the legacy business registry that concludes my presentation. Im available to answer any questions and some representatives of the businesses that would like to speak on their applications. Thank you any questions. No at this time well take Public Comment on this item including sponsors that wish to speak and 3 minutes a warning bell of 30 seconds left. Good afternoon my name is tom im one of the owners look with the bank owning the red and white fleet no point i dont think in me going through the history of red and white fleets we tried to look at the environment because when the grandfather started the business one person roe and boat and gotten diesel boats their dirty as an industry were trying to clean it up and for the globe one of the projects were working on hygiene fuel boat were looking for the future where we that is one project and another project we are doing which puts San Francisco at the forefront we or the a 6 hundred passenger hybrid electric with likt yum batters that boat will be here in a year were continuing the operation of the working with the community and working with the unions and working with giving a decent wage to our employees we want to also besides building now boats and looking for the future were in the process of doing additional work at pier 43 1 2 Fishermans Wharf arranging of the facilities we can have take advantage of the zero pollution boats with using solar and electric so we help the environment one of the things is that we were looking for the support for our legacy business status because one of the things you youll be recognizing i think this historic significance as a maritime is a city and the labor aspects that built the city thats why were excited about it so one the things that came out of this whole event for us is the Additional Information that we have the additional interest in the history of company that came out of this we have files and files of documents were looking for someone to come through and organ those for us we can tie the red and white fleet back 1892 so im asking if you have suggestions we, get ahold of me taking our history and getting that better organized i apologize were not more inclusive what we prop and put together something and get something in a form that anyone what enjoy and the children what learn so when were dead and gone people can look at the record electronically how can i do that it is awfully hard any suggestions ill appreciate it. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Oh, im sorry. Im here because captain joshua was not able to be here its his grandmothers 97 birthday im elizabeth i have permission to interrupt his lunch thats the only reason im happy to do my best to answer back. Thank you very much any other member of the public wish to speak seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Bring it back to the commission mr. Freeing. Commissioners preemptly well put the project sponsor in contact with the city architect with the information and had a meeting with a couple of local universities their public history programs and maybe students projects to help to facilitated facilitate organizing that. Thank you just a note the agenda said red and white was funded in 1982 not 18. Oh, on the agenda no. A minor correction the case report i think. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Thank you for that correction commissioner pearlman. I want to say that each one as a piece that the discussion of linking the past with the future with hybrid boats and hygiene boats is krish8 if 1892 liaison red and white exists that a legacy is in the future so each one of the stories how rich of a story thank you. Other commissioners any comments. Move to approve second. Very good, commissioners. On that motion to approve items 9 ab commissioner hasz commissioner johns commissioner matsuda commissioner pearlman commissioner vicepresident hyland and commissioner president wolfram so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and thank you. Congratulations on our first step in our legacy business that adjourns our hearing the hearing is adjourned. It seems like everyone in San Francisco is talking about housing San Francisco housing prizes are among the highest it tops anyone Million Dollars and rent rise unfortunately, this is not the first time housing has been in the news thought california the cost of a home has made headline the medium prices for a house in the the 207,000 in california it is more than twice that amount and the laura u bay area is higher its more than doubled the states so while more than half of the americans can afford the medium fewer in california and quarter in the bayer and now fewer than a 6th of san franciscans can afford it so why it housing in San Francisco so go cheven condition tharz the obviously a high demand to live here the city is known for cultural diversities that attacks new residents and the credible opportunity our city diverse and will daytime committee grows jobs as a result we estimate the number of jobs is at ann an alltime 0 hive of 6 hundred thousand in the 80 the population was 6 hundred and 75 thousand now, its grown steadily and quickly the recent estimate is 8 hundred and 40 thousand the highest in the citys history and its not only San Francisco it is greek the bay area has 2 million for residents and jobs then in the 80 and the growth is expected to continue by the year 20403. 9 Million People unfortunately, our housing supply does not keep up with the demand i might not realize the majority of construction is housing thats been suspended for years due to the 2008 recession while population is increasing the housing is only increasing that i 9 percent if we dont pursues housing the cost of housing about only increase how do we plan the regional allocation identifies the total number of housing unit by affordable level to support the new residents San Francisco incorporates it into the housing elements that guides the housing policies the arena data places it in the investment plans for the growth throughout San Francisco those plans developed by years of Community Planning laid the ground work for the construction so the city he e sets the goals in broad terms the private sectors builds market rate housing and nonbuilt Affordability Housing that majority of housing in San Francisco as well as throughout the Country Market rate houses built by private developers within guidelines of the city some below market rate you howls paid pie public and private dollars and prized to be variable to certain population housing is considered affordable if it costs less than 1 3rd the medium income for a 2 percent householder is 70,000 this householder will have to pay no more than 7,150 to be affordable San Francisco has see long applied federal, state and local money often built and nonprofit tint for individual families the news cities in california what the Inclusive Program requires that 10 or ottawa more units to certain blow income levels or contribute to the fund that supports the blow market rate unit almost 25 thousand have been supported by city funds and more than 6 nous thousand of the unit were built between 2000 and 2012 what you cant afford a million will home youre not alone in response San Francisco mayor ed lee has set a goal of creating thirty thousand now emails homes by the year 2020 most will be in outreach of the san franciscan with federal and state funds drying up the San Francisco Ethics Commission is, taking an iv i of actually roll is providing housing across all levels were working diligently for everyone to live here and mr. Chair protect the housing semiand strengthen goals against evictions were commented for Housing Needs for all san franciscans to learn more visit highwaymuch. clapping. well good morning and thank you all for being here im ed reiskin the director of transportation and cant tell you how existed and speak on behalf of everybody here to be at this milestone after many years somewhat our decades ever planning to break ground on a transformative project for one of the citys anyhow unique and special streets i there is a way this works folks without whom we wouldnt be here ill give an opportunity to speak and afterwards go out and literally 0 break ground i want to acknowledge folks not speaking im not sure theyre here by representatives from Nancy Pelosis office and senator harris and there was a lot of work to be done at the freshen over the years and leader pelosi in particular was a huge comment thank her and stare half and at the state level hearing from the state a strong will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting with the transportation and our legislatures want to acknowledge supervisor chiu and Supervisor Scott Wiener and a lot of folks made that happen but really the lead for this project has came into from right here in San Francisco and one of the hallmarks of our mayor has been to forge collaboration amongst city agencies within the government and with the community and because of complexity of that project there were probably a dozen city agencies and newcomers state agency and the federal government as well as important stakeholders including some of the ones that occupy the building around where were standing it took that kind of collaboration in other words, to get to this point i want to start off by introducing the mayor of San Francisco mayor ed lee. clapping. thank you ed reiskin good morning, everybody. Welcome to the groundbreaking of our van ness corridor bus Rapid Transit i want to say thank you to everyone on stage and offstage since 2003 with the prop k been working hard to get this project done well and right a lot of Community Groups thank you, again to the mta to the commissioners, staff, who working hard to get a lot of views settled but our county transportation agencies and state and federal partners that are part of funding and vision zero of of this our regional mta as well because the state road were still on a lot of people here talking today and ive been told in no Uncertain Terms to keep my remarks under two minutes ill let them talk about all the benefits of bus Rapid Transit and all the advantages as a city what im also exciting to talk about is that were going to have better lighting along this wonderful avenue closing in the very lengthy distance for people to cross better lighting, better walk abilities more bounce on the street will be improvements i think that People Living and walker users this corridor will have a great benefit but also existed to say as your formerly c p w infrastructure person in the city excited to see four more miles of water sewer piping underneath more miles of sewer and stormwater pipelines underneath they wont leak nor break theyll be new 2000 new feet of our auxiliary water system been also underneath this is try infrastructure and i think im making a point that is when we tear up the roads and side medium and do all the traffic relayed improvements were now improving as a city while were there lets take care of what is underneath we never do the that in the past ive not seen an vastly improved and safer avenue an avenue that serves thousands of People Better because of bus Rapid Transit but all the other smart things were doing to include and work underneath while we have at the medium and sidewalks opened up thats Real Progress for a city like San Francisco and, yes well take that as a thank you with that my two minutes are are up lets get the dirt digging and the project done thank you. clapping. thank you, mr. Mayor that is from to have a mayor who was a public works go director not on exciting stop i like hearing the mayor get exist bye about the sewers and other things and the benefits the lighting benefits and go, of course, the traffic and transit benefits a project of this scale was dont happen without the locate leadership were pleased to be joined spy the president of the board of supervisors would grew up not far from the street a great leader and supporter of transit in district 5 and across the city please join me in welcoming president of the board of supervisors london breed. clapping. good morning, everybody. Well, ive had the prestige of riding the 47 and 49 along the van ness beyond a reasonable doubt or corridors when i went to Galileo High School although the next generation of young people wouldnt use the excuse that muni was late when i did back then we are doing what we can to make sure their arriving on time 16 thousand people that use this line gets to work on time and school and get to their designations and thats what this project is about yes, we made mistakes long ago before any any of us were born when we didnt underground the Traffic Systems that is expensive along the central subway and the bus Rapid Transit is reliable it is not underground but a way to speed up up the line and based on the initiatives preliminary numbers that will change the travel time by over 32 percent thats big that is big when you rely on muni to get you back and forth every single day to our example work and designation one of the most important projects in the city and i cant wait until that happens because it is going to make a huge difference address isly with improvements comes sacrifice so for the next 3 years well have sacrifice do send me emails complaining when it is done youll thank us to create something great for the future thank you all so much. Thank you supervisor president london breed. One of our Main Partners is the community of Transportation Authority they lead the first phase the planning and get United States to e got us to a point theyre a Strong Partner and were pleased to be joined by now the chair of the Transportation Authority who during his first couple of terms in office sat at the Transportation Authority when the project was coming to light please help me welcome chair the ta Commission Supervisor peskin. clapping. thank you, ed and by way of the history didnt start during my first term in 2000 behind us this was the firebreak from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake o were on time and on budget so with little disruption there will be disruption weve been doing a lot of outreach with the community to best manage and might mitigate one of the unique aspects of this project as you heard most of us feel like van ness is a San Francisco city street that is our street and while that themselves that way technically this is the state highway so the street didnt belong to us this street belongs to the state of california so were very grateful to have as we do with the federal government a great partner in the State Government maneuvered in the leadership of the district 4 director of caltrans who with his staff we work closely at the levels of detail to make sure that design will work for the state highway so i want to thank him and his staff for the great work and please join me in welcoming for caltra caltrans. Thank you, ed good morning mayor and supervisors and distinguished guests and agencies and staff and members of the public it is a pleasure to be here today to join all of you as we break ground for the first brt project in San Francisco weve been wanting to reach this milling and reaching this point in the project is reflective of the tireless work for the federal and state and redeeming level those who had the vision for the project those who helped fund it can and the great staff of all agencies that naektd in through the maze of approval necessary for us to reach this point as was stated earlier van ness project brt utilities the dedicated places separated from the paragraph on the u. S. 101 will be used by muni and golden gate Transit Route 101 and then van ness is a regional important route serving 45 thousand people driving on this road everyday and helps navigate those people from the peninsula to the south side and to the north and also obviously the main street in the city of San Francisco lined with mixed use and other mixed use spaces that will enhance the traffic separation within the two mile corridor that will separate transit from auto and stations between traffic times reduces the delays and increase the ridership and improve the safety and increase the transit reliability on behalf of caltrans we thank you for inviting us to be here to celebrate 24 event this project when completed will make van ness more important to these who will use it more efficient and sustainable Transit System moving more people and helping to improve the quality of life of the residents for this great city id like to recognize and thank all the agencies staff that working hard on this project to deliver this and especially id like to thank my staff another caltrans can i see all caltrans people stand up please and be recognized. clapping. as ed said youll all the agencies working hard to solve the problems and the issues that were raised to us and the development of the project congratulations to the city and let this project get started thank you thank you so from federal so state to local that the partnership is expensive one throughout the many Government Agencies as mentioned but again really the led agency that gave birth to the project really got the process going back in the 2000 was the Community Transport authority they lead the initial planning and our as the chair said a funder of the this project were pleased to be joined by the executive director of Transportation Authority tilly chang. clapping. good morning, everyone sew so much and ed and for all of you for being here on this happy day mayor ed lee, supervisors and director brinkman and excuseme. Supervisor peskin thank you for mentioning the state and local partnership the whole vision weve had to transform this street that deserves a great transportation design here we are can you believe that congratulations to you this is a team in the region and the state and the federal government that will build the first full featured brt line in San Francisco the van ness corridors Improvement Project is going to do nothing less than transform this corridor into a worldclass complete street and a model nation wide and in the world and sets standards of fast reliable trait for muni our vision was codified by voters in 2003 when they approved the citywide Rapid Transit buses that turned into this as long as and muni forward approved by 75 percent of voters thank you to the transportation bond and prop a and prop b and thank you for your support for great transit and transportation in the city local funds in fact, comprise a walk e whooping 52 percent 52 percent are were so grateful for the federal Transit Administration for the 75 million for the caltrans providing active transportation and Highway Maintenance and Operation Fund but 52 percent local providers through the transportation measures as well as the puc are really the anchor the anchor for the project and the support and the trust theyve pla theyve placed i want to recognize the team the cac the Advisory Committee that convenes 27 times to offer 6 years thank you so much ill not name you but cross 4 district thank you. Please give them a hand that work is led with the Advisory Committee and any group providing that important outreach and input into the project a including the business Advisory Committee all over the place thank you candice and your Communication Team for leading that vertebrae robust outreach we want to thank, of course, the Board Members of the agencies past generations to the point they guide the work as well our staff director reiskin thank you for your partnership and the puc and Mohammed Nuru and director kelly and john haley the city traffic engineer and others working with teams with the staff on district 4 we had endless discussions many debates buses also including the collaboration go compromise in some cases it came down to interest is that; right . And speaking of the p. M. The project managers peter where are you. clapping. youre our hero. Thank you for your leadership and phase and the prior phase working with bob and sherry and others michael and rachel you lead the project design and development for the past 10 years and the team that peter and others assembled youll take us into the future thank you for your consideration and in and the robust design for the construction effort Going Forward for future generations to come thank you, tilly if we tried to acknowledge all the folks that put their blood, sweat, and tears we could be here all day truly so many people from the agencies that have worked hard to get us to where we are one that is worthy mentioning jose was someone i remember mohammed and i went up to sacramento he did a lot of work in his tenure and acknowledge him as well and lots of folks go no longer with the city or state of federal government had a hand in that within our agency not a part of the organization that was not part of this from the traffic engineers to the finance folks communications assessable services, safety, of course, traffic folks an incredibly strong team effort working across the agencies water and sewer and puc the great planning and financial folks at the Transportation Authority, the Arts Commission not too many city agencies have not touched this project and ultimately with all that good work it came down to the sfmta Disorderly Conduct to put together this funding and approve the project after that the environmental document was finalized wouldnt have been possible without the without sfmta and i see a couple members of the board calling names and currently now under the great leadership of the chair of the board of sfmta please join me in welcoming Cheryl Brinkman thank you, thank you im excited this project includes the benefits for all road users and practice the goals of sfmta transit were helping not only muni but go not only golden gate riders as well as this project will improve both frequency and reliability for all the transit users for people walking well have safer and friendly streets to achieve a citywide vision zero goal at circulations improvements and smoother pavement there is a high need for this project not only the 16 thousand muni riders that supervisor president london breed references but 8 house golden gate riders use that with 24 development coming online those riders will be joined with people on foot and on buses thank you all very much. clapping. thank you Cheryl Brinkman the shoves shovels are being sharpened but thank you to my partner in the streets of San Francisco our public works director to say a few words theyre the partner in delivering projects there are unique aspects of working with the public works support were using a unique mechanism it is called the contract approach different than your typical lump sum low cost build public works has had a lot of experience with this bringing to our support that experience for this long horizontal project as well as great design support and support in many ways please help me welcome the director of the Department Public works Mohammed Nuru. Thank you. clapping. ed and thank you for your speakers as you can see are true testimony on everybody working together to make a project come through and in public works how rare do we get an opportunity to do a lot of things it in one project new sewer lines and water and bus platforms but also the beauty of project its the landscaping the sidewalks and the adu the connections from the ramps all making one cool project so many people with the design especially i want to thank caltrans it is their highway and all the agreements and new york city and the possible words we had to do yes louis was instrumental i remember one day at 4 oclock in the morning we went to sacramento and fighting over just to make that project come through today is a reality were already started the work im excited and happy that the project is moving forward it is going to make a huge difference and commissioner london breed made that clear it is a different time our city is growing we need accommodate the growth from public works i want to thank our engineering staff calling names theyve been on the project making sure that everything is happening because some of the work and from the Landscape Team calling names they have been part of landscape will be new trees and new plants night connection itself when you walk or ride youre bicycle so we appreciate all that and for the Environmental Compliance and everyone that worked hard to make that project it is a great example of Rapid Transit and it is first here in the bay area im excited about it, too so thank you very much and thank you, everyone. clapping. thanks mohammed when he was talking about agreements what comes with agreements lawyers a lot of legal work with the Funding Agreement and the permitting i want to announce the City Attorneys Office a number of firms with the h ac b and others and, of course, our construction general contractor will be a publicprivate effort but kind of last but more for the voice for the community for all this great work and all the great work for all the levels of government this project is not for us but for the people we all serve the people that live and work on the corridor and travel two or more and the corridor those are the beneficiaries of this i mentioned because alcohol, tobacco firearms scale and complexity we have two Advisory Committees and a Business Committee their guidance is important so ultimately it is they are serving were pleased to have the chair of the citizens Advisory Committee here to join us please join me in welcoming alex wilson km. Thank you for the construction workers wouldnt have been possible without the group thank you for making this happen im a little bit surprised was under the impression 3 van ness was my road in any neighborhood and the voters have you approved this i see that as definitely all our roads when i moved to San Francisco in 2009 traveling van ness was a part of route i radioed it and craved critical upgrades to van ness for the major corridors and because it is a part of my neighborhood i wanted more efficient buses and safer sidewalks augusts a clear crosswalks and better traffic lanes so the traffic can move for efficiently were all here today throwing paper because we love and care about our city a city of doers we index what is broken and strive for improvements from tech and corporate to the nonprofit were the epic center of solutions the van ness project is a small example what it means to be a san franciscan to fix and improve by a what is not working our neighborhood will serve as an example to other neighborhood and drivers and pedestrians and businesses and residents me all of us, will benefit from the van ness Improvement Project our road will be savor your buses will run more efficiently and our pedestrians will have beautiful sidewalks to stroll down as a neighbor i look forward to more trans investigating van ness i look forward to the journey thank you very much. clapping. thank you alexs and thank you for the correction the state owns the street but the streets belong to the people of San Francisco and the people of california thats a good reminder were ready now if you didnt get a goody bag grab one ask the folks the leaders to dawn their helmets well move and break ground ready set go. Okay. Ready get set, lets get to work. Yeah. clapping. let the work begin thank you, us. speaking spanish. well call the regular meeting of of the board of education the San Francisco Unified School District to order it is tuesday, february 28, 2017, roll call please ms. Casco and mr. Cook mr. Haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Sanchez president walton and ms. Eng and