We have known for a long time in order to remain competitive weve got to expand moscone we know moscone is in a neighborhood where people own and live and the people car about the community. When we start to look at the project we wanted to make sure it was done in partnership with the community over the passing past year and a half weve held over 2 dozen Community Meetings and oneonone meetings with the Community Leaders and weve listened to the concerns and based on the feedback from those meetings the Building Design has been revised and its restraining order stronger and the massing has been reduced it meets the expansion for the city and meets the demands of the community. We also wanted to use the opportunity for this project to better weave moscone into the surrounding neighborhood and cape with the destine that activates third street and introduces more widening of the sidewalks youll see the better design flow for the people in access to the gardens. Sorry i think my slides ar
Present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. We are in a unseated home land of the original hab stands of the San Francisco peninsula we recognize we tpweupbt from little and working on their era digs al home land. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledge. pledge of allegiance on be half of the board of supervisors i would like to act ol the staff at sfgovtv. We have ms. Mendoza recording the meetings and making the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, the 2 00 oclock special order. The honorable mayor, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. We have her online. Thank you, madam clerk. Welcome to the meeting, madam, mayor. Thank you, president walton. Good afternoon, supervisors. Its election day. I know there is a lot of work to be done. I will be brief. I want to thank the director for running our elections department. So often in the city we talk about the problems we have. This is a opportunity to recognize that our elections run pretty smoothly with little d
That mean that exit subway at china town had takes a stair case or escalator. Escalator goes down and they have emergency evacuation stairwells that come out and go to the street. Trap doors in the street emergency hatches from the inside you can open and up get out. There are elevators. There is in the a lot of combustible materialless in the stations. And the trains are not combustible. But as you remember in the 70s there was the transbay tube fire and an oakland worker was killed there is potential for a terrorist event in the under ground things that happened in japan. With the gas release. So there very little there is in the a lot of potential for a fire to occur. Unless there is debris on the tracks that could cause a problem. I derailment or accident that could cause a fire n. Station there are several mezzanine levels large electric ral rooms and yerba buena station thereof a fire in the electrical walls. This was under construction. And the electrical vault at Union Square S
Cross the street theres another lobby and, of course, the metron and the theatre and the lawn of bin. Current theres been 4 hundred and 40 square feet if its configured for the exhibition space. Theres connected by connecticut course thats the blue bar there. Our prime goal with the project is to connect those two sides into one space. That includes excavating portions on Howard Street and moving falls and constructing in that exhibition space. So in plan the drawing on the left is what exists and than on the right is our proposed plan. So to achieve that one hundred thousand sxreet of space we have to move a loading dock and rich and some chunks of dirt under Howard Street. That displaced about 3 of thought square feet of meeting rooms that need to be replaced and increased we need for meeting space. So thats above grade. Looking at at the plan above grade on the left the orange dash line that is hopefully easier to see on your screen than mine. Shows the footprint where we expand the
Things are happening and one is keep that in mind to the east particularly along filling so many student. We think this would be an excel positive thing. This is a birdseye view of the space activated by all kinds of interesting things. Were working with c and g architects and those are additional contents for planting in that space. And then the childrens playground itself is one of the most in the course aspects of the center. Weve had a really fruitful discussion process with the users of that space of whom im one with my daughter. Weve got a lot of interesting feedback how to make a few improvements. So at the left again, the yellow is the footprint of our new building and the blue is for improvements. The diagram on the right is for a new central or arrival place thats labeled seating. You can park our skrorlz and find a place to see the whole area where currently you come bro through the bridge its xhefd and not the best spot for visibility. We want to create a new dedicated play