Mentioned beyond the fundamental issues of the building itself were very interested in trying to use what we have we can of our resources in the project to take steps to improve anything that needs to be improved in this adjacent edges so this includes the bridges and streetscape and howard were going to widened this to share the lane of 45 feet width that will be shared with the occasional buses for the pedestrians and you can see in yellow the connections through and around the building. I know there say, i understand theres conversations about the possibly of the Howard Street becoming too way that would be a wonderful thing and make that a neighborhood street so i certainly hope that will happen and make that bettered you see along the sidewalk a can weaver that provides rainwater protection and it does occasional rain in the winter and those color pieces are video pieces our local media in creating a building we use video imagery and also when is it called dark days to bring visua
We have known for a long time in order to remain competitive weve got to expand moscone we know moscone is in a neighborhood where people own and live and the people car about the community. When we start to look at the project we wanted to make sure it was done in partnership with the community over the passing past year and a half weve held over 2 dozen Community Meetings and oneonone meetings with the Community Leaders and weve listened to the concerns and based on the feedback from those meetings the Building Design has been revised and its restraining order stronger and the massing has been reduced it meets the expansion for the city and meets the demands of the community. We also wanted to use the opportunity for this project to better weave moscone into the surrounding neighborhood and cape with the destine that activates third street and introduces more widening of the sidewalks youll see the better design flow for the people in access to the gardens. Sorry i think my slides ar
Another one was Orchard Supply that wanted to come in on Howard Street or one of those streets and i forgot which one. And in both cases, the way that the Planning Department came up with how many other formula stores were around it or how many other similar stores, there was not a set kie criteria in the Orchard Supply case, the City Builders was a block and a half or two blocks away and they were never counted as part of it, it didnt make sense, in the case of the sherm an Williams Store they left out a bunch of stores by jerry man did jerry man dering the area. I think that has to be fixed a uniform thing that makes it reasonable. Some things to think about. Thank you. I need to remind that the Public Comment is at three minutes. Any other member of the public who would like to weigh in on items three and four . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And i would like to open this up for discussion. Steven thank you for coming out tonight, and i think that we need to send the message
Legislation coming down the pike. And it is effecting every neighborhood has their own definition and it is not the same. And i do believe that we need some type of uniformty and that this needs to be brought up. And everybody has their own opinions and it has been in the paper a lot lately, in both and so i really appreciate your comments this evening and it is not an easy one and you are right. There is a lot of legislation coming up regarding this. So, an item number four to discussion and i would like to, and i see that we have some here, the commissioners and any thoughts and any ideas and any thoughts that you may have on this subject and i will start with commissioner ortiz. We should call for Public Comment first. Unless there are other commissioner questions . We will go through questions first and then we will have Public Comment. I am thinking about in the last meeting we had the haze valley and we saw some conditional use, and i think that the question that popped in my hea
Information from this scope to help advise and guide you, does that make sense . Yes. Commissioner dwight . We are just directing specific questions, i think that after Public Comment we can have a little bit of discussion, and i dont, desire to draw it out tonight, because i just think that it is really important that we are starting the conversation. Yeah. Okay, great. Commissioner white . Yes, do you have any data in regards to formula retail in districts that impact Small Business. In regards to when they come into a neighborhood, and if, you know, if there is a closing down of Small Businesses because of their type of business that goes in the area, or could that be included in this rfp. I think that is what we are hoping to gather. How does the presence of a formula retail impact rents vacantcy rates and positively and negatively and how does it impact the Small Businesses and the other question that we are hoping to answer is to what degree does the existence of the cu process s