Knead is also here. As i said when i started the presentation, we have continued to get inquiries from the commission related to the Implementation Committee spanned and so i thought it prude to just share a little bit more information with you today about those dollars even though they are not under the jurisdiction of the commission. As i said at the beginning of the presentation, the commitment thats been made to the San Francisco foundation on bow half of the community is over 8 million. To date and again to date through q2, over 2 million in grants have been made we have currently a 500,000 grant pending to San Francisco Housing Development corporation to support the purchase of 5033 and some of you know the brick building on third street next to the vacant lot near bank of america and it has residential on top and those tenants are protected and below market rate tenants and the commercial space below it is my understanding that that will be a second location for craft men and it
Right is an air quality map which gives you a a sense of their analysis and the dark blue areas are the highest concentration of par tick you lat matter and the brighter the grown the lower the concentration of the matter. The developer studyed the location of the residential areas near the garage and found that the project added 0. 5 or sorry,. 05 to the exiting background measure of 8. 5. And what this means is the projected volumes of cars in and out of the Retail Center garage is not a significant contribute er to air quality. Available for the public here on the table is a memo from the environmental consultant describing their study of the issues. Should you have questions on air quality, karen cone from the department of publichealth is here today and can share her insights on the matter. Ill conclude with the next step in the process as i mentioned were discussing the revised concept with five point and the team and anticipate receiving the formal sematic design application des
I also wonder the Climate Summit is here next year in San Francisco. Are we doing anything that highoit the work we are doing . It is amazing when people talk about the growth and development. People perceive that there are greater levels of pollution. They understand the New Buildings are so much better than previous for climate purposes it is a good reminder when we talk about consolidation and the overall impact this needs to be part of the language when we look at a change to help people ride buses and ride bikes and walk. We need to include that as one of the big reasons to do things quickly and safely and efficiently on that note i think what this strategy should you choose to adopt it today suggests is that the mode shift goal when tim mentioned the goal of 50 is the goal that you established when we put into place our current Strategic Plan in 2012, we are going to discuss the next plan at the retreat in january it will beg the question if 50 is good enough. In the strategy it
Coordinating on these issues through not only the planned area but the studies, on funding. Regional measure three thank you for helping us get that authorized at the state level. This will come in january in order to make it on the ballot in march and be presented to the voters in june. We were happy poinclude the public engagement. We have been partner with city for local hire type strategies, and importantly rede nine the communitys concern to make sure we reflect the communitys needs who are already very hard to bring to the floor because of the nature of documenting some of these. We were proud to get the definition more correct here in San Francisco. That will be used throughout the region as well. We have been advancing our late night transportation study and initiatives and internally we have been participating in a Year Learning Program with other agencies around Racial Equity how we can better operationallize that in the hiring and budgeting and planning. That is very eye ope
Item four. We ask that you complete a speakers card and hand it to me and ill hand it to the president and shell call folks in the order we receive them. Call to order item one, roll call. President elmy bermejo. Commissioner wan is excused. Theres a quorum. Item for discussion. Welcome to the commission on the environment. This is our first meeting since the untimely passing of ed lee. I want to send sincere condolences to his wife and daughters. His last appearance was at the recycling press conference with the department of environment and he spoke about the work so eloquently like he always did. We are really, really saddened by the loss of our environmental champion and today well discuss ways to support and maintain his legacy. Reflecting back on a year ago this month was an overwhelming turnout at the womens march and march for science. This weekend many of us marched peacefully once again to ensure our voices are heard. I had the honor of speaking this weekend to what they cons