Transcripts For SFGTV 20150214 : comparemela.com

Transcripts For SFGTV 20150214

On the and a question how we see this come forward we should definitely have a map or understanding just the totality of the fees coming down but some consideration of use type; right . So if we see a number of issues dealing with housing maybe we could see the housing at one time im not sure it will work out that cleanly but it is important to see the land use and policy issues as well and i think that can be dhufd along the geographyic lines residential areas we can find a way to achieve that goal. Thank you. Director ram. I cant resist talking about ms. Hesters comment i have to acknowledge it i will say, i think this question ill ask for the commissions thought over the next few weeks how we bring did you approvals to you clearly it didnt make sense to do 19 separate approvals but dont make sense with one so if were doing that by geography e. R. Zoning but ill ask you to think about that so we can package those for our action. Commissioner johnson. Thank you very much commissioner wu i echo our question that you asked buyouts eir i know whats missing is my new job calls the intersection factual there are buildings theyve permitting issues or operational issues we kind of want to see what would be there in the absence of aa u urging the spots because we have to draw a line in the sand we have to see when they started using it theres no point in the eir was would have happened and this emphatic u u a coming in and using it for institutional or residential i see that and this is missing unfortunately one thing in terms of off how to get our approvals to hang together ill madam chair a plug geographically heres why as we develop this cu applications done id like to see the attorney to opine quickly may not now but in addition to the land use we need to have information about how that property hangs together with the rest of what were calling their canvas they have a shuttle system a residence they want to have housing thats the way out in the in the sunset im giving an example the cu makes sense oaring to the building and even though hours of operation and all the things with the land use when you add in theyll have to have a shuttle go out to the sunset from where are the Institutional Uses are it doesnt make sense that is transit and thats an mta thing where the shuttles go not only the land use but how the properties are hanging together as a canvas thats my plug geographically versus the other types. Commissioner hillis. A question on the institutional master plan rules can you remind us when theyre due back when we get them periodically from the snuths. Every 2 years we submitted an update in 2013 but the updates dont necessarily go to the commission if theres no exchange e change no need to come back to the commission were coming up to you know 4 years now so i think we could you know look at having want i mp come back with a fashion that will be helpful well time the eir certification hearing as well as the entitlements coming before you. When is the next time it comes back to the commission an nonupdate. Section 34 i think its 5 years i want to say i think its 5 or 10 years it has to come back for another hearing mandate. And the master plan is a one year the eir thats the future growth that were looking at. Wait chelsea. So the i mp was not an approved document its not what were baigdz the eir on it is the basis for what the academy proposes for their projects theres a distinction in the eir what to say the exact t the exact project it provided a framework formal the academy were analyzing in the eir but there is is distinction between the two. Which one being the more growth. I believe the eir does. Oh the eir so all it assumes kind of a greater growth for students. Not by a large measure. Okay. I know thats an excellent opportunity to reconcile the two documents. And on how we hear them i think that housing has unique issues but coming off the market so in how this new housing is being built ill advocate for that being a separate issue when we take up the cus. Commissioner richards. Commissioner Bobbie Wilson took the words out of any mouth i support a separate housing regardless of the dproem. I think ill enter Jefferson County when we see the list that prioritization will be targeted however, show itself so commissioner moore. So bringing it this into the maps of counter zoning presence of historic building, etc. Will be helpful and giving the commission the previous institutional master plan will be very helpful youll get to you feel about what theyre trying to do. Commissioner antonini. Im sure the everest as the memorandum will talk about how it is 10ur7b9d the students but you mentioned they plan to have 12 hundred nor employees and some more in the informational review it will 0 show i that i read in the Business Times theyre in the Top Employers in San Francisco thats positive in fact, the employees are not living in San Francisco we have to you know your analysis will be able to deal with the impact of not only the students but the employees i assume. I didnt the eir will provide the existing settings for aa u including the number of employees they had in 2010 and the number of students they had in 2010 and how the proposed project in the eir adds on to that so it will address you know the total number of housing unit that had been created by my theyre proposed projections how many need to be built and the total number of employees as well. Thank you. Let me wake up and thank the staff this has been a long line of questions of interest that are of interest for the entire city to im looking forward for the continued dialog thank you. Commissioners 3 places us on item 10 for the pavement to park just want this is an informational presentation. Thank you good afternoon, commissioners my name is la done or said im with the Planning Department design group im here from the same group the design fraup u group were excited to be here today to talk about the pavement to Parks Program. Go ahead. Hello. So were very excited about the opportunity to present the pavement to Parks Program and i would like to go over what were going to be talking about our informational presentation and give an overview of the program and talk about a little bit about the project portfolio and go into a couple of case studies and would like to leave the presentation with our Strategic Plan for the next fiscal years upcomingn so your program a based on the assumption it 33 percent of cd total area is made by streets we think about streets as public spacious instead of place for cars to go through the potential of the orderly space of San Francisco so our program is also based on the idea of shortterm actions that can take two long term changes in terms of the short term promotions that act as catalysts for the social prospective in the city our our program is set in the larger context the policy framework of the San Francisco pedestrian strategy of 2013 and its based on the strategy calls for one pavement to park plaza per greater and the one parklets of the San Francisco pedestrian strategy we base our designs and projects on the better streets plan an important document that was released in 2010 how it should be designed in the city and as a way to look at it the transportation and pedestrian and also more lastly our program will be become an important tool well weave in the work program this was presented today by our colleague mr. Mar 10 it looked at the neighborhood and how they can be changedful from community prarmgs prospective how our program can be a tool for the neighborhoods to be changing their quality of life and change theyre old spades our goals based on the basic ideas of neighborhood interaction forcing interaction we see transportation as i said we imagine the potential of the city streets underutilized streets we courage the Public Safety and activity and also have we think about local business as partners and how foster the relationship between the citys and the neighborhood and local businesses the Program Functions are many as you can see on the screen were not going to go in depth well tall one that latter we facilitate and support of the Community Initiative to create the internal Parking Spaces so we look at sites and try to evaluate the sites and good places we definitely will be looking at the capacity this is one of our assumption to build the capacity in the neighborhood itself we as a role of development and advisory we advise community and designers on the final outcome of this project and we have also a role of enforcement of Quality Control and provide leadership not only to the city but the country we get calls everyday from many cities in the u. S. And beyond our criteria of really is pretty strong we have a lot of projects we looked at the physical aspects and social aspects so the physical meaning is that a potential Public Safety and there is an area that doesnt have enough open space a road too wide or big for just for cars and so we looked at that and lack of education we think about social components of this project we looked at a definitely local interest well not look at the interest that are not interested at the local level we have a Supportive Community support when the Community Support is there it is well documented and built this long or long term stewardship in the neighborhood we have consider land use and pedestrian activity so i come back later and talk about plaza so any colleague robin will talk about the next program thank you. Well take a few moments to drill down into pavement to parks as we enter into our 6th year of existence its increasingly important to be to how open spaces unequally are described different neighborhood are endo you do with parks and mraergd and pavement to parks creates new spaces where the Community Need them we work with a number of sponsors on both our parklets and increasing he weve teen e seen an interest in institutions and museums that are key to form new partnerships with pavement to parks is an enter agree program the any of us parts are lead by the the partnering partnering with the mta so theres a lot of numbers of tasks and responsibilities we royalties pavement to parks a increasing niflg the analysis of the impacts of those demonstration those temporary places have in the community we get questions all the time about parklets address mrardz are impacting Public Safety and the performances of local businesses and cb d this last summer we launched a initiative to look at the impacts arrest plaintiff as mentioned pavement to parks has technical guidance as well other kind of programs over the worldwide well have the privilege of meeting with the representatives of japan and places you under your regular calendar transmittal and talking to people in london other cities around the country and world are looking to San Francisco as the original terrors of this technology for our guidance broadly speaking pavement to park facilitates these 3 types of programs and getting to the statistics but the Larger Community gathering says that the parklets the small playrooms at the curb sites and the cultivation there are 50 parklets on the ground that number keeps growing because of high demand we have 6 plaza the program has produced 6 plaza two are happily graduated if parks to pavement and become permanent projects and there are a number of other things floating around the city those are a look at the project distributed across the city the present my neighborhood to drill down a little bit more the types of things the pastimes to park hepatitis to inbutton weve held American People International Design connection winning the competition fabricated it a party south of market was designed by students design students here in San Francisco we helped to realize the Community Idea for a mobile cultural venue for Poetry Reading and concerts and the ocean off district this is one of the projects we find most existing and yes, maam mask where we want the program to move this is designed by High School Students used by the Art Exchange Program here youll see them a quick reminder about our land Program Everyone is familiar with that urban type of technology urban are opportunity by private entities weve produced a lot of technical guidance where in the process of reviving that for our upcoming spring our in inform designed has been yes, maam laid by cities all over the world this is the park let dime thoughts of released in 2010 weve seen how the parklets approach this strategy this has been encoded in National Guidance for urban design as with the urban street guidance parklets are sponsored by everyone from bicycle shops to cafes a beautiful one in north beach the Art Galleries and museums this is an art gallery in the midst that works with different artists every year so a new scripture every year that is great at creating public spaces and on powell street really long parklets relieving acute congestion to to prove a couple of things in the boys and girls club to the middle school this was cultural annexation as well as in the dog patch. So we would like to give you a couple of examples of plazas case study and again, our approach is to look at starting from short actions to long term changed how does that happy through one day usually one day to one with demonstration are followed by 12 to 36 month trial and it follow if funding that available by the plazas that is part of our program so this is a little bit of the progress we put as an example a couple of plaza that is the known one it its the first pilot in the San Francisco neighborhood plaza that that was an existing conditions for people that remember it that has been changed the muni turn around at castro an coast to coast and market to create a new public space in a highly congested area and a lot of visitors from all over the world and those residents who want to use it we went from phase one demonstrations only 3 months temporary materials and went or went to the plaza from may needing to 2013 in collaboration with the castro cv d and the final version on the ground is a permanent plaza installed folded into the castro bond we were able to bring in federal fund and brought if in by dpw this was an idea that came back with the new space to San Francisco another case study similar in the making was the persia triangle this was the corner of between mission and ocean but very Important Community spates we found it is in the excelsior district and the specific conditions the parking lot and two roads but with the Community Work with the community we came up with a new idea of bringing a plaza at the crossroad of the two streets crossing with the more like market and crosswalks and the sitting area and mraept we came up with a concept by the studio and from there we were able to work with the capital team at mta and dpw and led them build a bulb out at the corner of market and ocean in the the construction that will think implemented in the couple of a months in the persia triangle the idea going from the Community Vision where people were talking about the corner into a place this is vibrant and people and we see a one day demonstrates that is happening in october 2013 and followed by a one weeklong installation so we took one week to install it in september 2014 the plaza is still being stalled and there was a decorate situation and the corner plaza with seating and the plans so we opening day was the end of september actually and it was success the plaza is city there and said is it is updated for a permanent space with the capital fund we concluded in the alley my colleague worked on the possible then were on for questions from you. So in the alley this is a case study south of market is really exemplar of our effort to increase Public Safety and create public space we have an expand asphalt this is in alley at Mission Street it was through the implementation and introduction of restoration or reverseable treatment and from the cultural Fire Department from 2 years that preceded the installation we had listed we had also implemented some trial deementsz here and days and week at a point at the alley from using the Film Screenings to daytime pinks and a lot of the Business Owners and installations were wanting to do and see more in the neighborhood this project came out of the street life that was created by yerba buena general district that identified alleys and streets throughout this district that could be a floor for potential to demonstrate new public spaces some are folded into the Planning Department is going to the eir as i mentioned two years of outreach for the final design and installation of the alley south of market we have through this summer to implement a really robust calendar were going to see all kinds of cultural events through the day and week days and weekends quickly wrap up with our Strategy Plan the pavement to parks Strategy Plans a couple of slides it started in 2009 at the giant with experimental this is the word the types of p

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