Sea level rise and so the question came, how do we protect it . We put together a bond that went to the voters and in 2018 to say, we have risk, we have trouble, help us. The leadership behind me made that bond happen. With that bond, we began to work and advocate that same year, we amazingly got a new start from the army corp of engine and say said we will study this problem, well figure how to fix it and if we find federal interest well build with you to build the project and today we are celebrating the draft plan that has come out of that process. It involves 6 years of work, very deep analysis and investigation. This is not a easy problem to solve. But now you will see and it the public will see this work lead to key answers to the puzzle of how to protect this waterfront. The remarkable leaders behind me took very very very bold steps with persistent commitment to the long game and to addressing sadly what we must address, to make this day possible. We mark this milestone as a gr
Thousand people who come here every year from around the world to our beautiful city. I want to tell you about another jewel of the San Francisco port that just celebrated 125 years. The San Francisco Ferry Building. [applause] in the 19th century, commuters and visitors traveled by train or ferry or both. A Ferry Terminal on the waterfront downtown was a practical necessity. It was the sfo of its day. Grand central station. But as we so often do, San Francisco built a practical space a world class beauty, with a 245 foot clock tower along arched arcade, and a interior worthy of a renaissance cathedral. At the foot of Market Street, a beautiful bridge from water to land, the Ferry Building announced to every commuter, every traveller, this is San Francisco. You have arrived. Until that is, [applause] until that is, in the late 1930s when two new bridges the bay and golden gate and rise of the automobile made the Ferry Building seem outdated and unwanted. Soon the grand interior convert
I would like too thank matthew to for sf gov. Tv for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk do you have any announcement. Clerk thank you madam chair, just a reminder to please make sure to sound off all cell phones and electronic devices. Should you have any document as part of the file they should be committed to myself the clerk. Public comment will be taken on this agenda. Please line up to speak on the west side of the xhaim behr to your right along the curtains, while not necessary to provide Public Comment. We do invite to you fill out a comment card by the doors. If you wish to be accurately recorded for the minutes. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment in writing in either the following ways, email them to myself, at brent. If you submit Public Comment via email it will be forwarded to thed supervisors. You may also send your written comments Via Postal Service thats and dr. Carleton place room 244 San Francisco california, 91412 and items acted upon today are expected to
Mont street. A conditional use authorization also. Indefinite continuance. I have no other items proposed for continuance. So we should open up Public Comment. Members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on any of the items proposed for continuance only on the matter of continuance. Again if youre in the chambers, you need to come forward. Seeing no no one coming forward, Public Comment is closed and your continuance calendar is now before you. Commissioners Vice President moore, move to continue items one through three to the date stated. So second, thank you commissioners on that motion to continue items as proposed. Commissioner braun i commissioner imperial i. Commissioner koppell i commissioner moore i and Commission President diamond i so move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 5 to 0 placing us under your consent calendar. All matters listed here under constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the Planning Commission an
Sun burn and swap in the sunset gleams thrown in ultimate glory, youre a city of mist and a city of dreams. Welcome to the 10th anniversary of the closing ceremony of black history celebration of San Francisco lets give yourselves a round of applause. [cheers and applause] we want you to feel inspired. We want you to feel uplifted and we want to you feel curious about the history of this wonderful city by the bay and how black history is San Francisco history. We are celebrating the trailblazers, you know that came from San Francisco have been still coming from the gold rush era to wwii. When tens of thousands of African Americans including my parents came to San Francisco as part of the great migration, they came from the south and the west and midwest. They came for better way of life. They came to celebrate their gifts can and by the end of wwii, the filmore district had earned the title of harlem of the west. Now although the numbers of African Americans have dwindled and decreases