Counsel and Real Property negotiator. Move to move into executive session. So moved. Second. All in favor say i move that we reconvene in open session. All in favor. Aye. I move that we dont disclose anything in closed session. So moved. All in favor say aye. Aye. Item six pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that use of cell phones pagers and similar sound producing devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal of the meeting room of anyone using a cell phone or pager or other device. Please be advised that a member of the public have three minutes to make Public Comment on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter time on any item. Item 8 Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Call for Public Comment. [inaudible] thank you. Good afternoon commissioners, president katz and commissioners. My name is John Gallagher and i sent a letter and brought copies regarding eight washington which is not on the agenda today but im going to consider discussing the item today and take action or the next meeting with the negotiation of the end with San FranciscoWaterfront Partners. As youre aware there has been a resolution to the litigation in the case. It was almost six years ago now that this body approved an exclusive negotiating agreement with a developer for the washington site and the project has been defeated by the voters, rejected by the courts, and even the board of supervisors this summer rescinded approval alls. Under the terms by the developer to extend this without your input and forced by a clause that was allowed to continue until the litigation was resolved. It has been. Its been more than three months since the eir was thrown out by a court. The developer has not appealed in that case. Its over. There was a second decision this week that i think cemented the deal. There was hope that perhaps the land swap would have been an issue but the court of appeal threw that out too and what the Community Wants and many voted against it is to move forward with the site. We dont want a parking lot on the beautiful site for the rest of our lives and until the port of San Francisco moves forward they will give it tied up and there are recreation and things to bring to the waterfront without block tg off the r of the site and i ask the commission to move that off if not today the next meeting. Just a note for the public we send out the agenda for the meetings unless there are exgent circumstances were not allowed to take up an item not on the agenda without the proper public notice. Just a reminder on that. Any other Public Comment . Supervisor. Thank you president katz, commissioners. Let me reiterate what the previous speaker spoke to which is that i believe that ema has expired under its terms as once amended by virtue of a vote you all took. I want to underscore that this process although its been somewhat unfortunate did really make the Community Start thinking about alternatives so theres a number of them out there. I think theyre alternatives that speak to the fact that the port of San Francisco is a Business Enterprise but there is thoughts out there if we all Work Together to move forward. Its time on close this chapter of the story and start the next chapter and i look forward to doing that and i think the community does too. Thank you for your time. Thank you. If you could state your name for the record. My name is aaron peskin. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. And colleagues i would like to make a request i know for a variety of reasons we have a number of people here for items later in our agenda, but if it would be possible to take items 14a and b out of order at prior to item 11 between 10 and 11 if that would be okay. Seeing no objections. Thank you. Next item. Item 9 executive directors report. Good afternoon commissioners and thank you for being here today and i would like to recognize the former City Attorney who is in the audience today and i was going to recognize the supervisor but i think he departed already and thank you for being here and we have a special guest and john ram the director of city planning which you will hear from in a moment. I have a couple of items to report today. The first is to proudly tell you that the port of San Francisco was a finalist for port of the year in an International Award program hosted by the seatrade cruise awards which is summonsorred by Oracle Hospitality and its the premier program. Its a chance where all entrants be public ports or private cruise lines or anything that participates in the cruise industry has an opportunity to broadcast their success in the industry and encourage new business with a internationally recognized mark of achievement. Through the awards process this is the ninth year and this year it was held in hamburg, germany. There are seven categories of for the award including the port of the year award and judged by leading upon ands and we didnt win. The port of amsterdam was the winner but we were a runner up for the cr james r. Herman cruise terminal and the award was there done recently and we were there to get the award and congratulations to everyone involved in the james r. Herman cruise ship project. Its recognized by the international and local community and friday will mark its First Official anniversary although its soft anniversary was last year so were excited about that. Secondly i wanted to mention on september 15 the port of San Francisco which is the grantee of Foreign Trade zone number 3 with the city of oakland when the grantee of trade zone 56 held a free Half Day Forum for anyone interested in learning about the benefits of the free trade and Foreign Trade zones. Again it was a Half Day Program and hosted in the city of oakland, in city council chambers. There were more than 60 participant that came to hear about trade opportunities and from manufacturing, distributing, refineries, City Economic Development employee, economic forums and associations such as the east bay Economic Development alliance. The port of oakland was present and stockton was present others were present. The main presenter rfs Wayne Coleman and f tz networks and they operate Foreign Trade zone number 7 in memphis, tennessee and provides service around the country and considered one of the more foft authorities on Foreign Trade zone. Another presenter was the Foreign Trade zone analyst for tesla motors and talk about the experience of operating a site at their fremont manufacturing plant and bill wheelon also discussed their experience having been a participate in the Foreign Trade zone program for the past 35 years through the city of oakland so it was a very well attended and very Educational Forum held last week. I want to thank jim maloney for being a sponsor and host of it but working tirelessly on the program and ensuring there was an outstanding turnout. I think as you know commissioners the port of San Francisco has partnered with oakland and san jose to market our Foreign Trade zone opportunity if you will, and san jose which is Foreign Trade zone number 18 will be holding a south bay Foreign Trade zone forum in october so this is an ongoing educational process which is very current and very timely i think and very successful. Congratulations to jim and everybody involved. And then next i would like to share you with yet another award for the james r. Herman cruise terminal which is a very prestigious one as well is that the terminal was awarded the outstanding airports and ports project for the American Society of Civil Engineers awarded in 2015. The American Society of Civil EngineersSan Francisco section runs from monterey bay up to oregon so its a pretty wide area and the james r. Herman cruise terminal was selected as the outstanding project of the year. The award was presented last thursday evening at the city city club in San Francisco and our manager accepted the award on behalf of the port but the award is bestowed on designs and construction that show case advances and or innovations so its a very prestigious award and bestowed on the james r. Herman cruise terminal for a couple of reasons. Its a leadership in energy and Environmental Design gold rating so a lead gold standard. It has ada gang ways that meet various heights of cruise ships and title sickles and has the shore power system which the cleanest source of power and has the best security features. It has fitted glass on the exterior for the safety of birds. Has a drain system that captures rainwater and reuses and it storm water efficient systems and proud to be recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers with the achievements of this project and again thank everybody involved in making that dream come true. Lets see so next i think where am i . Is the San Francisco bay conservation and Development Commissions 50th anniversary which occurred last week. Their anniversary was september 17. The San Francisco bay conservation and Development Commission was established following the Grassroots Campaign by the founders. The women organized to save San Francisco bay from unchecked filling and development and lead to the plan and bcdc was granted authority and manage the development along the bayshore line and in its lifetime i guess is the best word its reversed fill and increased the bay by 29 miles since 1970 and expanded access around the bayshore line and the bay has not only become bigger but the water is cleaner and more accessible to the public for recreational enjoyment. As you know the Port Commission staff and the San Francisco bay conservation and Development Commission staff work side by side on many planning and improvement projects. Notably the alignment of the waterfronts Land Use Plan with bcdc and special area plan. Our collaborations have lead to positive changes such as the brown street wharf and the explor tearium and golden gate and had a summit last week at the explore torium and celebrate the 50th anniversary but also to look forward. They are recognized as a thought leader on rising tides and Climate Change and had a summit on where the future is for rising tides as it may affect the bay and it was a healthy discussion and a good celebration. All right renee if you will help me and on saturday the staff was able to place a bench at pier 14 with a small plaque in remembrance of catherine steinly and says whatever is good for your soul do that which is a phrase that she said frequently and at the france of pier 14 walkway so were honored to recognize her in that way. Our hearts and prayers still of course go out to her family and friends who we know have continued to be very vigilant in wanting her life to be celebrated and memorialized, and they came out on saturday to revel in having this moment of closeness with her. All right. And then i have two in memoriams. The first is for alvin b. Petrie. Alvin worked for the port for 29 years from september 1953 to july 1982. Works as a dredge lever man and a deck hand and retired as the retired port head dredge leverman in 1982. He passed away in august at the age of 93. He was the father of two including mike who is a port worker. Hes the grandfather of six and a greet grandfather of eight so in addition to seeing an immense amount of change along the San Francisco waterfront in his years at the port he also saw a tremendous growth in his family so we wish his family our heart felt condolences and in particular to our colleague will mike petree and i want to remember zeke grader who is the executive director of the Pacific Coast federation of fishermens association. He was a long time advocate for commercial fishing who fought to project fish as well as the people that catch them and he passed away at the age of 68. He played a very Important Role in keeping the fish in Fishermans Wharf and an advocate for San Francisco fishing industry, advocated for the rebuilding of pier 45 after the loma prieta earthquake and was an expert in the ports initial Land Use Plan adopted in 1977. He was raised in fortbrag and his family ran a business and the local newspaper and his dad was aid to a local congressman and worked with pat brown. He went to college at sonoma state and lived off a house boat and then went to the marines and went to usf for law school and after that quickly went back to the fishing industry and organized the fisherman into the Pacific Coast federation of fishermens association. He received National Environmental hero award and is known for his Lasting Legacy to build a bridge between blue collar fisherman and the environmental community. He was a great friend to all of us and he is deeply missed and i would like to request that you adjourn your meeting in their memory and that concludes my report. Any Public Comment on the executive directors report. Seeing none next item. Item 9 b annual presentation by the City Planning Department director regarding interAgency Coordination with the port of San Francisco for waterfront planning and urban design. Good afternoon commissioners, director. I am glad to be here today. Thank you for having me year and i look forward to the conversation with all of you. I am here to talk about three items today they would like to get into a bit and the work with the port and items high on our agenda right now and number one the growth that were experiencing in the city and the challenges that were facing with that growth. Number two, the infrastructure programs were working on to both address the current backlog of needs particularly around transportation as well as the infrastructure needs of all the growth that were doing and were certainly overlapping with your staff on a number of those efforts and thirdly just a bit about the waterfront Land Use Plan and the collaboration were working with your staff on that effort. I will start by just thanking director moyer and her staff for the collaboration of the last couple of years. I think the relationship is probably stronger than its ever been. I think there is a great working relationship at the staff level. I want to particularly thank diane and byron and brad and gill kelly who is the assistant director for planning for their collaboration and all the work were doing together which i think is to the benefit of all of us and certainly to the future of the waterfront so to my three items. In terms of growth to the city its no surprise to anyone here and all the cranes happening that the city is changing. Its growing at a rate not seen since world war ii. The population growth, the visitor growth and job growth are growing at unprecedented levels of the last century. The abag projections had us growing between 2010 and 2040 by 100,000 new households or 200,000 people and 160,000 new jobs. What is interesting the last five years has seen a lot of that growth already happen so we have seen about 10,000 people per year in terms of population. The city has grown by 50,000 people in the last five years. That is 20 of the projected growth. More significantly we seen half of the job projection occur within five years of the 30 years period. We have seen 90,000 jobs in the last five years in the city. That is more than 47 out of the 50 states. San francisco Unemployment Rate is down to 3. 6 which is essentially full employment and i tha