Please give the advice that the ringing of and the use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting and be advised for the removal for the meeting room of any person responsible for the use of or the use of a pager or cell phone or an electronic device, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make comments on each item and supPort Commissioner about the shorter period on any item. Item five Public Comments on items not listed on the agenda. I have a couple of speaker cards, the first one is lee radner. Thank you, commissioners. And my name is lee radner and i am here today to remind all of us of the communitys vision for San Franciscos north east water front, which was done by the asian neighborhood design, some months ago and you all received copies. And now, is the time to revisit and reread this excellent document as a basis for an open discussion. And this was developed by a d with tremendous input from a large numbe
Now. We hope that a positive, movement and in terms of creating more efficient and accessible design with having a less impact on the surroundings. And we have created the accommodating park and plaza and made the portions of the stairs up to the event center more accommodating and this is version, 2. 0 on the left and as i mentioned those stairs were rising up to about 37, 38 feet in the previous design and now they are only going to less of 28 feet or so, and there is a lot less rise and that is meant that we can have a very efficient and enjoyable ramping system and that does not consider the rails and so it is not really a ramp it is a sloping surface that you see on the right there that brings the people with the wheeled access to this new plaza level. And it is significantly more vegetation in this rising, sort of grand land scheme and so there are different plateu,s and all of these face south and all of these surfaces are getting more daylight sun hours because they are sloping
N and open their doors before paying a licensing fee before paying a permitting fee now extrapolate that to whats happening today, we have a finding by the 0 treasurer of the city and county of San Francisco that Million Dollars dollars 25 million about is owed to the taxpayers of San Francisco and yet as we are deciding whether to provide an additional benefit to this corporation let me say i believe we need to legalize home sharing that it has a rule to play in San Francisco but it would be wrong in my view for us to create a separate set of rules for one group of people and a separate set for another we were here not too long ago when we saw the developers on a major transportation project that were trying to get out of their obligations under that project beyond how we can say that they should meet their obligations with respect to that issue and say were not going to delve into the money that is owed leave that up to the treasurer we crafted the language thats before you with the
Table [speaker not understood] page 32 that would amend in the words i dont have the preexisting language. Hang on just a second. Let me get that page 32. Where its actually about in cityowned garages, the language would be in the middle column where it currently reads none are required, however, if class 1 spaces that can be rented on an hourly bases are provided, they may count towards the garages requirement for class 2 spaces. Essentially, its regulated between class 1 and class 2 spaces in publicly owned garages. We want to change that language, if class 1 spaces that can be rented on an hourly basis are provided then it counts towards garages requirement for class 2 spaces. And with the department of parks and traffic we have to request a waiver from the Zoning Administrator who will be doing the enforcement on these policies moving forward. The Second Amendment would be on page 51 actually, page 52. And that will be roman numeral small ii, for requirement, the new language will
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. They will decide the controversial case of the Waterfront Development. If propositions b and c are approved, 134 units of luxury condos will be built there along with space for small businesses, a public park and other ameniti amenities. Scott shafer looks why a development on a small parcel of land 8 washington street is sparking such a big debate. Reporter there is would be things all sides on this debate agree on, this part of land is hardly inviting. A fitness club surrounded by a large fence and asphalt parking lot but what should we place it . Voters answer to that question tuesday could shape the course of Waterfront Development for years to come. Project supporter tim sees two options with an easy choice. One is to keep what we have that generates about 100,000 a year for the city versus a wonderful project that builds housing, it builds a large amount of new Public Open Space that doesnt exist now. Reporter one of the most