Special, unique space. Were also looking at different areas. This is just a placeholder really for that food and beverage pavilion. But theres some very fun ideas that were exploring around tucking that food and beverage pavilion under some of the raises in our lawn which ill go into in the future and being able to create an incredible experience where the infrastructure and the Natural Environment are integrated together into one. The paseos are pedestrian only in between the buildings, in between the residential and the office buildings. We have two paseos. They have been designed theyre largely infrastructure. Its almost like an extension of the street, but we want the park to feel like its coming down into this. So were knitting together the feeling of a street with a park. Again theyre pedestrian, but theyre protected areas. They do serve as important Emergency Vehicle access for the park, but theyre designed to feel welcoming and almost an extension of the park. You see here an image which is looking right into one of the residential buildings and how we have the public area and the staircases and access to the lobbies and to the public parts of the building, very integrated with the design of the park. So these things are working together and, in fact, our design teams meet often together to make sure that we dont have any issues in terms of coordinating those. This is a birdseye view of the two paseos. Well, the shared public way which is now officially called plank road. Is it official yet . So on the left, plank road, and on the right bridgeview way. And you see how we have important infrastructure elements, but were integrating with the park design. The promenade of the buildings is another important piece of this, again for infrastructure. Some of our utilities are under that promenade, but we want to make sure its integrated into the design of the park itself. And the crosssection that youll see here in front of building a, you get a sense of that lifted grove coming back and then lifting up into the promenade and in front of building g into our grand lawn. The promenades will also be lined with retail, so we may have some cafe tables and chairs outside. The great lawn is a key feature of this site that has remained very much at the forefront of the design in terms of providing a recreation opportunity thats currently missing and thats part of the waterfront and celebrating the incredible views of the bay. Weve designed it to be a little bit more multiuse process. The grading allows for flexible public programming and events. You can imagine a pickup soccer game during the middle of the day. When night falls, you can put up a screen and have a movie night for the community. The lefthand or the western part of this lawn is also what i was mentioning we are looking at. That will be pulled up a little bit and we can tuck that food and beverage pavilion underneath that. Really an incredible layering of view quarters that come from the different elevations of the park, as you see by this section. Our stormwater gardens has been consolidated and brought together into the eastern part of the site. This is an incredible resource. Environmentally all of the stormwater runoff will be treated here. So these are performing infrastructure. And we have designed to allow for these boardwalks that walk over, perch over the stormwater gardens. Its important that theres not Public Access inside of them because they are performing important work, but that we get a sense of connection to them and we can use this as an Educational Opportunity telling a story around environmentally and sustainably designed. There is a dog run also here for many fun afternoons. And the knuckle wharf and the pier water access as well that comes off of pier 48 has been integrated here. This also is the start of where the bay trail comes from the Terry Francois condition into china basin park. So ensuring that we have enough right of way so that we can have multiple different types of uses on that bay trail and ensuring its well signed is a big goal of this corner intersection and entrance to the park. Finally ill touch on the coastal gardens. Theyre my favourite feature and theyre new from when we may have last reviewed the park ideas around design together. This is the long china basin, the northern part of this site, across from the ballpark. And we see this idea that San Francisco is a city on the bay, but theres only a couple of places you can actually access the bay as a person. A lot of the parts of the waterfront youre raised up on the sea wall, on the soon to be newly done sea wall, and you feel a little bit disconnected from the water itself. We asked ourselves can we provide an area at china basin park where you can actually get down and experience that water, experience what it means to be a bay city . So the tidal shelf and this is just a picture of a lot of the activities that do go on inside china basin today, they have to be preplanned, you cant assemble on the waterfront. You have to know that youre going down and make the plan to take the boat and get out there. The idea was creating a Family Friendly and easytoaccess part of the waterfront here. We want it on the northern side because were sloping down towards the water. Its also well protected from wave action. So this is a nice entry point to the water. So we have tidal shelves that go down at different elevations. Theyll experience tidal pools, theyll experience different tides of water at different times of the day and theyll enter into a coastal garden and a teach area. Were still working out the details around that material to make sure its safe and accessible, but the general idea is that were sloping back down into the water here. The plantings there will be focused around saline tolerant planting and the incredible thing is that weve seen through these types of project, the reintroduction of native habitat and species because weve seen the type of habitat that they rely on. Even different elevations in a couple of feet of the tidal shelves, youll see vastly different species populating those areas. Pretty ecological work here and we think an opportunity for education and for telling the story of the waterfront. This is a few of those tidal shelves from the bay shelf. That is my presentation. My team and i are available for any follow up. Thank you. So moved. Second. There is Public Comment. Shelly carol. Hello, director forbes, president brandon, commissioners. I am shelly carol. Ive been living in this area for 20 years. Ive been going to many meetings. I want to complement the port and the giants for giving us the opportunity to be part of this for ever. I enthusiastically support the project and hope for your vote for that and remember. And youre a giants fan . [ laughter ]. Bruce. My name is bruce aget and you can tell im very much in support of this item, so much so that i provided my Public Comment early. So on item 10 instead of item 11 a. So with that said, with all due respect to port staff, the commission, to members of the attendees here, the public here, ill just pass on my comments and not go through them again. But, please, i am definitely in support of this item to move this development forward. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner gillman. Thank you, fran, the mission rock team, and staff. This was a very thorough presentation. I have one macro question about the stormwater garden and meckling wharf. The grading that were seeing on here, will people be walking on that . I know its a very intheweeds question. The grading when you look at the slide, all the shading thats gray, i assume thats in the circle. Right, yes. The gray area, the concept is a boardwalk that will be accessible by the public. So my only comment and maybe im the only person who has shown up in your games in high heels, ive gone flying when my heels get caught in grating all over the financial district. There is grating you can put in that wont do that so its safe for everyone to walk on. Thank you. Well noted. Im wearing my only pair of heels today. I get caught in the bridge all the time. Yes, the bridge. Im so enthusiastic for this project to move forward and the activation and the open space. This is great for the existing community. This will be wonderful for the Office Workers and the new residents that are moving in. Thank you again for having the housing in phase one. I cant keep thanking you for that and its a benefit for all of San Francisco, so im supportive of the item. Thank you. Commissioner. I have to say this has been a very exciting and a very comprehensive presentation. I think that we want to thank the giants for putting this forward. I think its going to make it exciting to have this whole park. I listened to your presentation and listened to the absolute detail in terms of thinking about the division of the park, the various constituents, the various and i think during the times of day who will be there, that it will change. You have morning joggers who want to come through the bay trail and it will be a different trail throughout the day and you will have dog walkers. I wasnt sure if it would be pet friendly until i saw the dog run. Are you going to have little dog waters holes at their level. I think that youre going to have your dog walkers, the families come out at certain times, the Office Workers. I have to commend you for really thinking through all the different demand levels and the different times of the day. And i like the fact that you have its not a flat park, that it does have its Different Levels so it will be interesting. I think its going to be one of the most exciting parts that we have seen not just for the city, but this is an awardwinning park once you execute it. So i really am very excited to see how much work has gone into it, particularly since this is a public benefit. We know its very important. The idea that we can have a lot of activation which we talked about early on, not just in terms of developing a green lawn and leaving it and saying there it is, but there will be continued activation, particularly what you did with your popoff and how you introduced that concept to the neighborhood will be well utilized. I think everyone is very excited and you will attract a lot of tourists. It wont just be for the local neighborhood, but this will be one of the most innovative parks weve seen in a long time. I am very excited and look forward to seeing this executed. Vice president. I think my commissioners have said what i felt. But i will say clearly to the team, great work. This is Due Diligence. What i really like about this, this is visionary. This is cutting edge. What were seeing happening in front of us is a new San Francisco. Youre shaping the future and taking us to a new place weve never been to. You mentioned karin, and im so glad you mentioned karin because she was the conscience of this commission because she was also here, but also to the late mayor lee and how he thought and felt about this. To see this thing come to fruition, but the Due Diligence that the team has done, the nuts and bolts, i tell you this will change the culture of San Francisco. And as i said before, if anybody wants to do business in San Francisco, they need to look at the giants model of inclusion. Fran and dan, thank you very much for this report. This was wonderful. Very detailed, very exciting with china basin park and crane cove park coming online, theyre going to be great additions and bringing people to the waterfront. Thank you so much for this. Just a couple questions. When you did the public review and you had the Community Open house and the seawall presentation, what were the comments . Were they all favorable or were there any concerns . I was on maternity leave, so im going to ask one of my colleagues to join me. Roscoe or julian, would you like to join me . Congratulations on the new baby. Hi, good afternoon. Executive director roscoe maps. At the open house we had invited the public to comment on some design. We had them comment on the programming they would like to see in the different areas. We set up the open house so that the general area had different stations that reflected the unique areas that fran had anticipated. So with each area, the general public got an opportunity to comment on specifics. Some of the things we had heard were excitement about yoga classes and being able to touch the water. There was some questions about how were going to manage the park, a little bit about security. There were a couple of questions and comments about tents and encampments that were experiencing city wide and how we were going to handle those. They were all really, really helpful as we continue to think through this park. Right. Is there any intention to do a presentation before the flat . We would be happy to. Im just wondering why we havent. We would be happy to. I think it would be great to include everyone along the southern waterfront who will be able to enjoy this park. I agree with you. Who is on the Design Advisory Committee . I believe we did go to the swac on this. We have. We went to the swac to provide an overall indepth view of the entire project. But not the park specifically. We talked about the park, but not in this [ indiscernible ] thank you. Commissioner dan heart. The members pointed out when the open house was up, all the advisory groups were invited to that. So it was an inclusive meeting where everybody gets to hear and see what everybody is saying, and i commend the giants to that approach. So there was some good outreach done on that. The Advisory Design Committee pulls from the waterfront Design Advisory Committee which is set up, but it doesnt cover this area. It stays north of china basin the way its laid out in the city planning code. The members on this one are marsha maiden, katherine lor, chris wosney, and jimmy chan. I believe we had three of the five available and we hope to have all five when we look at the further design details of it which are a natural progression of going through a design process. They were pulled from where . Three were pulled from the waterfront design committee. Jimmy chan and chris wozney are new. Two of the five come from the waterfront Design Advisory Committee and the committee was supported by our executive director. And the other two came from . Knowing people in the community who have participated. I think chris wozney was with the Central Waterfront advisory group. Jimmy chan is a Landscape Architect locally and laura kresenamo did the urban design for development for pier 70 and is a wellknown voice and also participates in some other contracts with port. Great. Thank you. I want to highlight one thing i want to comment on, and that is i want to commend you for the biodiversity effort near the tidal stream areas. I think were all very sensitive now in terms of understanding environment and the fact that you are picking on the biodiversity of plants that thrive in San Francisco is great and i think it is an Educational Opportunity as you mentioned. I hope that gets mentioned so people can come to the park to understand that. And youll have some explanation there for people to see the biodiversity because thats becoming a more popular thing to be focused on. Thank you, yes. And Jeffry Miller who is here from our associate Landscape Architect spent a lot of time on this, even down to the organisms that thrive in the bay mud, you can go deep on biodiversity. Did anyone from the community ever say anything about congestion and how we deal with congestion . Were there any concerns raised about that . Because that is a problem in our city, congestion, right, and traffic flow. Did anyone say anything about th that . Im sure you worked with the different agencies and stuff like that, but how is it going to flow . I can take a shot and please add if i miss anything. So in the recent outreach thats been focused on the Schematic Design for china basin park, i dont think thats come up specifically. But certainly over the years as weve talked about developing here and in this part of town, accessibility and circulation has been a topic of conversation. In recent years with the third street bridge under construction and closed for substantial parts of many weeks, it gets even heightened. So its definitely something that the neighborhood is aware of. I think that the focus on pedestrian bicycle circulation and focusing on different modes of transportation that can help alleviate some of the congestion thats on the streets is helpful in terms of mission rock. And then also when we look at congestion, it can often be it kind of means a whole number of things, right. Its an umbrella for just sort of ease of access and getting around. So the way weve designed our streets which have general dropoff and loading areas. So if there is a car, a ride share that youre in, it can pull off out of traffic, it can get off the street for a safe access point. All of these details of the design alleviate congestion so cars arent double parked on third street. It is something we talked to and that our design responds to. Roscoe is more uptodate on that. Actually, when we were at swac, the question of traffic and coninvestigation came up as a concern for the community. We walked them through our entire program and mitigation measures that were looking to do. One of the things weve done early is hire a transportation director to start looking at these things in depth. Over time we will implement a lot of these mitigations that we talked about in our documents. I would like to follow up just to know because youre talking about street and street congestion and what to do about that with bicycles and pedestrians. Within the mission rock, maybe you can refresh our memory in terms of what you will have, in terms of water landings and maybe not at