Actually move forward. So given a little space and we have felt it belt best to come and address the commission. Next year. Because this, again, is this train is on the track but it is going rather slowly. So we will have time to weigh in. What is the deal on western soma . Western soma is moving forward. I believe that there is a good chance that different plans for the 11th street corridor will be adopted, what they are is not official yet so i would not want to speculate but i think that we have a good chance of having been heard. No more public or no more meetings . The meeting of the commission is thursday. The Planning Commission is this thursday. Is thursday. And that is like the final Planning Commission meeting and that then goes to the board of supervisors. Got it. Okay. All right. All right. So, i can wish you all a happy holiday and i close this meeting of the entertainment commission. We are all done. There are kids and families ever were. It is really an extraordinary pla
Here. Lloyd. Here. Metcalf. Here. Kim. Here. You do a quar um. Thank you. Are there any communications today . That i am aware of board of directors in more old business . Seeing none we can move to the executive directors report. Good morning directors and members of the public and just a few announcements before we move on for our construction update for today. It is now displayed to the public at the academy of science and that will run for a number of months. So we would like to thank the California Academy for putting on display the mammoth tooth. And we will be looking for a new home in 2013. And finally on october 17th we had number one of our regularly Schedule Committee meetings to provide a construction update to our neighbors. So everything that moving along well. Now to give our construction update with steve turner. Good morning, directors. Steve, ru, with turner construction, construction oversight. I dont know. Is that up . There it is. Another good month, of work or alm
So, it was more categorized to be spent in this neighborhood with the specific uses to be determined in the future. If i may respond to what youre saying, i got a call from the public which basically said, well, where are we . And that is that four parks in chinatown which under this verbiage and i dont know how to say it better or to say conditional could find themselves way at the end of the receiving line because the rest of the implementation of the transit and the district will take time while those parks, four parks by definition [speaker not understood] priority the rest will stand [speaker not understood]. I think that is a reasonable comment which came to me. And thats the reason why im asking the question. Commissioner antonini. Well, thank you. And, of course, as was pointed out by director ram, the lions share of the 47 million in open space, 34. 5 million is going to be spent in the plan area. And were looking at the 12. 5 million and i think we had earmarked 9 million of
Opportunities beyond those first 5 projects become more and more difficult because changing the quality of material or going with concrete floor instead of another floor incrementally in the big picture dont have a large impact. We do have a lot of alternatives within the package but the first 5 packages were going to trigger a lot of the costs. So thats one reason as an example the ceiling underneath the throughout the Transit Center but at the ground level were originally g f r. C. But the design team a redesigning those to reduce the costs of that element of construction which is about 3 hundred and 50 thousand square feet of material by 20 to 25 percent. Thats the reason we changed the awning from glass to melt. In this change were seeking to avoid an rb a impact that would have interested the system by 25 percent but ear going to decrease it by roughly 21 million from an estimate of 32 million. Within those first 35 packages thats where were taking the steps to have the design con
Reviewed forsee qua, it would be a problem to designate the money to be used for certain projects. For ceqa so, it was more categorized to be spent in this neighborhood with the specific uses to be determined in the future. If i may respond to what youre saying, i got a call from the public which basically said, well, where are we . And that is that four parks in chinatown which under this verbiage and i dont know how to say it better or to say conditional could find themselves way at the end of the receiving line because the rest of the implementation of the transit and the district will take time while those parks, four parks by definition [speaker not understood] priority the rest will stand [speaker not understood]. I think that is a reasonable comment which came to me. And thats the reason why im asking the question. Commissioner antonini. Well, thank you. And, of course, as was pointed out by director ram, the lions share of the 47 million in open space, 34. 5 million is going to