Havent changed in the book world over the past 20 years. Many things have changed. But im also very pleased to say that one constant over the past couple decades is the Media Presence of john mutter, cofounder and ed or to have in chief of the brilliant daily newsletter, shelf awareness. He was also the longtime editor at Publishers Weekly and the former e newsletter. Go to the web site, www. Shelfawareness. Com. Without further ado, ill turn the stage other to john who will introduce this panel of wonderful and talented booksellers who i know will offer you brilliant insight into the everchanging Book Business. Of john . [applause] thank you, gene. I dont think ive ever been called a constant. Thank you. [laughter] welcome to the independent bookselling panel. I want to start off by saying anything you take away from this session, it should be that contrary to current perceived wisdom, one independent bookseller stores are not dying and are not going the way of the dinosaur and, two,
Consistent with the better street plan. Our goal is to come back in detectives but wanted to give you accurate time to review and provide us with any feedback so when you get a draft in november it will be the final one for approval. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Any Public Comment on this item. Excellent lets move into q and a and a thank you very much for those shout outs. You say the same ningdz or things for an a couple of years it might happen. Which means i can move on. Ill move on quickly. First question is on the what is unknown as the bridge. Thats not in the first phase of the first major phase so real quick where does the bus Rapid Transit go before the bridge economists of exists weve been working with the mta and the transit bus will connect into the project site. I think ill ask chris mitch but it will be to loop it around the cps route thats a guess were still working on that that would be a good one for 0 diagram before the final approval. Okay. Next question. So i k
2010 we negotiated that the Alice Griffith revitalization would be linked up for the phase two market rate development. While it seemed smart tempting at the time it wouldnt allow the developer to start without doing Alice Griffith we didnt anticipate the display that actually prevented us from starting on alice awhile we wait for the navy he property. The new phasing is responding to the decouple of of the shipyard and the Alice Griffith now with the 349 could precede. The additional piece i wanted to mention i know the this phasing schedule is something that must get reviewed by the california economical quality act were working with the sequa to identify anything that my create additional economical impacts. Generally, we dont expect that but as part of the approvals were going to be hopeful seeking from you in december well have that analysis complete and, you know, finding related to the Environmental Impact for the preoccupied faekz change but the number one thing is to continue
Marshall special i referenced back in 2010, the commissioner said it would be helpful to have the bill of rights come closer this is a change weve made it has some impacts and theres a tweak that was made on the housing project. Generally what this does that bring the bus transit into the hunter or so shipyard. In addition you have a minor modification with the sfmta duo routine to the 29 and it was approved in 2010 and on the right thats what we motive. The main goal is to get to the front door of the mall. And also the bill of rights on the shipyard side rituals are different and this provide for a better intermingling, if you will, with the transit line around the transit center. So those are the types things weve been fixing in the transit side of things. Here in the bike lane youre looking at the improvement. Weve made bicycle changes in this slide. After the xhoumgs with the Bike Coalition the next time thats shown with the circle e cycle tracks in green it matches the new be cyc
Ill discuss those later. Excuse the font. Were moving face and thats what the font tells us. I wanted to walk you through the major phase first. The major phase covers 15 hundred new enemies half of them are affordable in the Retail District next to the stadium. That will be built over seven years highlighted in red. Most importantly this includes the oneonone dilapidated housing united at Alice Griffith and you see this adjacent to the site which is shown in the phase one generally likewise, the residents to move directly and its outlined in red. As required this document the major phase document convolutes the phases. Our primary job is to compare the submission we see with the improved documents to make sure it conforms to the approvals where the submission does not conform weve analyzed those changes and are evaluating them and ill discuss that later in the permission. Are first a quick overview. One of the things that is the land use its the same as the 2010 its a mix of residenti