Address the public with respect to jound agenda items your opportunity when be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to 3 minutes. I have one speaker card Richard Rothman, please. Good afternoon, commissioners im Richard Rothman im back here again talking about the building at the zoo. They opened the childrens playground there so the building is now assessable and hopeful that that will be opened up and the next thing the recreation and Parks Department put in a grant for the Historic Preservation commission for the rec and park and the zoo society to do a study to see how much it would cost could renovate the building and i would hope this commission would ask the staff to send a letter of support to the Historic Preservation Commission Fund committee in support of this application. And i still building this building down the road is not a city landmark and should be a city landmark. If people want to know more about
Jackie and thank you very much, commissioners, for your sustained interest in this item as of such a long afternoon. Pending your approval to award the lease to the Bay Institute Aquarium Foundation i hope to return on your next meeting february 25 to request authorization to execute the lease. And that concludes my presentation. Thank you. So moved. Second. Public comment . Let the record reflect that several members of the audience are giving a thumbs up. Thank you. Commissioners, comments . I just think that we are extremely pleased to see the results since the last Commission Meeting that we discussed this and want to commend all the parties and you heard us and just the fact that we dont have 40 speaker cards today is an amazing accomplishment. Thank you very much. I would like to say congratulations and thank you. Its great that you have been able to form your collaborative and it seems like you have really thought it out really well to find out everyones strengths and weaknesses
Commissioner sugaya. Commissioners first on our calendar is consideration of items for continuance. Item one the sharp park safety sfwra improvement and habitat it is a negative declaration it propped for continuance for janua january, 2014. American people mainstreamed to the planning code for the retail use for the commercial formula use is proposed for january 23rdrd. Item 3 amendments to the he zoning map in the downtown area plan for 33 golden gate avenue is proposed for continuance. I have there are no speaker cards. And is there any Public Comment on the items from the evidence phone number for continuance seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And snaring. Move for continuance items 1, 2, 3 second. On that motion to continue matters as proposed commissioner antonini. Commissioner borden commissioner moore. Commissioner sugaya. Commissioner wu and president fong. So moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and place you under the draft minutes for december
A closed session. Motion to kick a closed session. Second. All in favor, say i. Great we will now move to close. Thursday, january 9, 2014. Happy new year everyone happy new year. Id like to take roll president fong commissioner wu. Commissioner antonini. Commissioner borden. Commissioner moore and commissioner sugaya. Commissioners first on our calendar is consideration of items for continuance. Item one the sharp park safety sfwra improvement and habitat it is a negative declaration it propped for continuance for janua january, 2014. American people mainstreamed to the planning code for the retail use for the commercial formula use is proposed for january 23rdrd. Item 3 amendments to the he zoning map in the downtown area plan for 33 golden gate avenue is proposed for continuance. I have there are no speaker cards. And is there any Public Comment on the items from the evidence phone number for continuance seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And snaring. Move for continuance items
Not i dont know why that is. Second im the executive director of the friends of urban forest weve been working with the Forest Council for the last two years to construct a master plan for the San Francisco urban forest its been an open process to the public. Weve been working with the Forest Council for the last year and a half having meetings with the Planning Department. Weve excited about the work and we think that the Planning Department in conjunction with the dwp and other entities have strong recommendations. We look forward to presenting it on the 15 and hope youll participation to it theres an enormous amount of work here thanks dan we are going to talk about trees. And were going to start at the beginning. So San Francisco nirnl having had very few trees its a scrub lands and grasslands and when the city was considering hiring an architect to complete Golden Gate Park and the architect expressed not good thoughts and didnt get the job. We have seven hundred thousand trees we