the subject matter jurisdiction of recreation and park commission, you may speak under general public comment and that is item 4 and it is continued again on item 10. please address your comments to the commission during public comment on items in order to allow equal time for all neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during public comment. the commission may ask questions of staff after public comment is closed. last, if the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion using any exit, please note elevators will immediately return to the first floor and are not available for use. if you need assistance out of the building, please make your way to the closest area of refuge which is across the hall in the men's restroom inside the restroom is a speaker box, press it and city hall security will answer, let them know where you are a and they will assist you, with that, we are on item number 2, the president's report. >> well, the vice-president's report, i first wanted to acknowledge president commissioner buell, today he is being honored by spur at the silver spur luncheon award for all his dedication and generosity to the parks and open space, not only for san francisco but for the the entire region, so i did want to acknowledge and congratulate commissioner buell in this great honor. also i wanted to advise everyone that the december 1 operations meeting is being cancelled. i wanted to also say that tomorrow is the annual turkey cook at many levy ward, we have some celebrity judges including commissioner mcdonnell who will be there. follow his restaurant -- you definitely have to follow his restaurant recommendations as he's a great connoisseur of fine food. it's a fabulous event and it's a great community gathering event and i encourage all of you to attend. also, i wanted to acknowledge that last monday was a unity gather hating the mayor hosted that was a terrific event and with all the craziness that's going on in the country and in our region, it was a very inspiring event to remind us that we are all one city. i also wanted to wish everybody a happy thanksgiving, this is the one time you can eat and enjoy -- eat and enjoy the gathering with your relatives. and that includes the vice-president's report. >> is there anyone would would like to make public comment on item 2? being none, the public comment is closed. we're on item number 3, the general manager's report. >> that one is tough to beat, particularly since my first announcement is about the turkey cook, just to underscore what the vice-president noted, tomorrow is turkey cook at many and levy, we have staff and kids from 11 rec centers across the city and they cook for best side dish and dessert, so come on, come all, it's really a terrific and tasty event, and then after thanksgiving, next friday, we at the recreation and park department will be avoiding calls and joining rei in national opt out side day, last year, millions of people joined in this new movement to bring attention to the natural gifts of parks and outdoor spaces provide, this november, let's turn our black friday green by avoiding the malls and visiting our favorite park instead. then moving right along into the holidays, on thursday december 1, we invite everyone to join us for the 87th annual holiday tree lighting in golden gate park featuring sledding, yes, sledding, snow, yes, snow, carnival rides, arts and crafted, live entertainment and a visit from santa. this is a free family event and it's become one of most popular events throughout the year and it's become a tradition, a long tradition for san francisco families dating back to john mclaren, this year's theme honors the san francisco fire department's 150th anniversary, and chief joanne haze white will be on hand as a special guest to help us light the tree. then on december 9th, the california coastal conservancy, the trust for public land save the bay san francisco estuary partnership, east bay regional parks and your own san francisco recreation and parks department are convening a regional leadership conversations on multiple benefit green infrastructure, it is on december thatch at the jewish contemporary museum, this is a half day event that begin widths a mayor's breakfast, sharing opportunities to integrate green infrastructure into planning and development. following the breakfast, national and regional green infrastructure experts, state and local policy makers, practicetysingers, community leaders discuss barriers and opportunities and develop strategies for expanding implementation of green infrastructure in the bay area. you know, green infrastruck klur and you're going to hear a little bit more about it, as soon as a critical strategy to impacting to climate change, protecting air and water resources, creating mobility options, increasing cohesion and public health and o as our region plans to incorporate our growing population, this is a growing stratd ji and envision the role of infrahave you beening cheer to share equitable development, including in the basin, i hope some of the sf hope work all focuses on green infrahave you beening khu, those interested in attended the event can visit attend break.com to sign up. then on saturday december 3, beginning at 10 a.m., we invite everybody to join us, parks 94124 and our terrific partners at the trust for public land for the grand opening, reopening of hill top park, otherwise known as sun dial park, featuring music, food, ribbon cuting and the unveiling of the park park's new scale park, a thorough public design process inspired a site plan for amenities for all ages, a seating area overlooking the bay, picnic and barbecue area, fitness zones, including tolerant plants, stormwater retention are also imbed ined the park design. funding from this project included a grant of 5 million dollars from our state parks department, the california recreation and parks develop community revitalization prap, prop 84, a community fund of 200 thousand dollars, thank you, commissioner, as well as 500 thousand dollars in housing related park grants for a total investment of over 6.5 million dollars is being made in this bayview neighborhood park. it's really a spectacular project and also underscores the absolutely phenomenal partnership we continue to have with our friends at the trust for public land. lastly, and is she here? she's not even here. well, i had a brief amount of recognition, i don't know if any of you know, you may or may not know jamie hopper, she's leaving the department at the end of the year after six years with us, she begins a new life with her husband in oregon, and the reason i wanted to recognize her is two-fold, one, she was one of our first graduates of the san francisco state internship program, she graduated from state and was in i think the first class of interns under our ongoing partnership with san francisco state parks and recreation tourism program from which we hire many of our interns and she's been with us over the last six years, in that time, she's worked in our public affairs office, a accomplished photograph with a great eye, in fact, she was involved in many of our this month parks videos, she has planned many of our employee special events, by the way, including sunday december 4th which is i think the last one she's involved in is our staff and play recognition event at the i academy of sciences, so i think you all have gotten an invite, we would love to see you there. she has overseen programming, the department's role in programming at boeddeker clubhouse where we had this great partnership with the boys and girls club and jamie oversaw the program that we ran and most significantly and we'll bring back jamie's supervisor to talk more about this, she's helped to grow our zumba in the parks program and you think you know about this but we don't talk loudly about it. our zumba in the parks program currently offers 35 free vao*um ba across the city in a week, we have a thousand weekly participants, including 34 of those classes are in our equity zoned parks, and this is a program that jamie really drove, it's a mix of volunteers and staff and there's a remarkable amount of coordination and the program has such a wonderful following, we have it rites of s*ifblg -- civic center, two of them are at noon, three will be at 8 a.m., every day we'll have a zumba class outside at civic center and i'm so sad she's not here. so, but i just wanted to sing her praises. lastly, our -- this month in parks, thank you, ryan kelly and el to*n pawn for the amazing work you guy do to make these videos happen. this is a focus on our volunteer appreciation party which we held at lake merced boat house a few weeks ago. ( showing video ). >> you get bonus points if you can name a song. come on. yes. [inaudible]. >> 190 thousand hours of volunteer time in 2016, so con gras to the entire volunteer staff and that concludes the general manager's report. [applause]. >> is there anyone who would like to make public comment on the general manager's report? being none, public comment is closed. we are on item 4 which is general public comment, up to 15 minutes, this item will be continued to item 10. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on item of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and that do not appear on the agenda. with respect to agenda items, you will have the opportunity to address the commission when the item is reached in the meeting and i do have two cards, linda and corinne, if you could both come up or one at a time, i don't know how you're going do do it, one at a time. come on up. >> our yearly meeting, yay. because i know you're really a lot like me, you bring the best of what you do to the city of san francisco too, which brings us to the holidays, i would say and i told sandra once again, i was going to jump flight, i told some unions is where i would prefer to stay and i would like to say that i will be proud to be performing, welcoming our children, feeling like an ambassador of the city of san francisco to every person that arrives. i hope to see you this year in union square, i'll definitely be there and keep the spirits high. >> thank you. happy holidays. >> happy holidays. >> corinne? >> happy holidays to one and all. happy holidays to you too. as part of the advanced force of santa, i'm here to wish you all happy holidays, peace on earth, and with that, i've been going down the union square for years from the h*es of sunshine, which i come and formally introduce myself to you because i do like to bring advanced balloon a art for everyone to enjoy and this is for you, and i look forward to bringing joy and happiness to san francisco despite all the things that are going on in this world, and just taking pictures with people, letting them know that san francisco is a wonderful place and it's a joy to be a native san franciscan and to make sure that the kids have a wonderful time too, so i would love the see you down at union square as well, like with el *fs, i'm all over the place, these are a little bit more about myself that you can pass out because i do private birthday parties and corporate events as well, so i'll see you around town. >> thank you. >> commissioners, make sure to invite both of them to our tree lighting, come join. >> yes, thank you. >> and maybe you should be there at 4:00. >> yes. >> [inaudible]. >> well, you should know the time because santa's going to be there. >> okay. >> so, is there anyone else who would like to make general public comment? okay, being done, general public comment is closed. we are on item 5 which is the consent calendar, is there any public comment on the consent calendar? you want to speak on the consent calendar, come on up, you need to come up and speak. thank you. if you could please come up here. >> i have a question, does this include the strategic vision presentation? it's item 5g? >> it does. >> okay, then i would like the make a public comment. >> great. >> and i would like to hand out copies of materials to the commissioners and the staff. okay, your strategic vision includes a bunch of objectives including objectives 4.1 and 4.2, 4.1 is conserve and strengthen natural resources with plant 2 trees for every tree removed. er i propose changing that to a plant two trees for every tree that must be replaced due the natural forces and maintain the health of existing forest such as mount david son through maintenance and iv removal to limit need for replacement. i don't like the term removal of trees in objective 4.1. in 4.2, you have increase biodiversity and interconnect which is jargon to me, i propose change hating to maintain existing natural areas and habitat consistent with public use with performance indicators, number of trees that make san francisco park over three inch diameter over prior year for each park area and native number of plants introduced when maintenance requires plant replacement. and one of the reasons i'm commenting on this objective and vision is because you have an eir coming out on the significant and natural area resource management plan and the second page lists the reasons why the maintenance alternative is the preferred alternative including greenhouse gas emissions, heavy equipment use, water use and noise. the draft eir notes activities under the maintenance alternative would be smaller in scale and therefore greenhouse gas emissions would be less than those under the proposed project because they would be reduced use of motorized heavy equipment compared to the proposed project, this alternative would require less water, particularly for establishing new vegetation and we're still in a drought. the maintenance alternative would be environmentally superior because it has fewer potential environmental effects. >> you've got 30 more seconds. >> it would not create new trail and is would preserve the existing distribution and extent of biological resources including sensitive habitat, and in the remaining 20 seconds, i'll note, this works with what's going on because if you drive up dale wood on mount david son, you'll see at least 16 trees tagged for removal, so they're going to remove 16 eucalyptus korkt the city right now, all along gail wood and you can replace those with whatever you want if you have to remove them. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else would would like the make general public comment? being none, this item is closed. commissioners, you would need a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> moved and seconded, all in favor? aye. er any opposed? so moved. >> we are now on item 6, san francisco zoo. >> powerpoint, please. good morntion vice-president low, commissioners, [inaudible] gaines berg, thanks for having me here today, a few updates from san francisco vao*, we have over the last several months have been undertaking a renovation of the historic lion house, i'm sure many of you know this is one of the original buildings on the property of the zoo that was originally opened in 1940, so after those nearly 80 year, some of these buildings do need some renovations and we're excited about this. a will the of our patrons love come tog the zoo and haven't been able to go into the lion house for a period of time. with these renovations, we are updating some bathrooms which are very need ined that part of the zoo, as well as completely renovating the roof, skylights and some paint. what you see here on the left side is a complete removal of the traditional bars that you would see with full glass where our patrons will be able to have better observance of the big kat ins that area. we've also install add partition with the sliding door so that our patients will be able to come in and out and use the restroom facilities while the keepers are able to attend to the animals on the inside. we've also added some enrichment features for the big cats as well, here you see a picture of the renovated roof and skylights which is very needed. next i'll move on a wonderful conservation program which speak tos what san francisco zoo does locally, many times you hear about these incredible global initiatives about rien nos rows and the ivory trade elements, bhiel we are involved in that, there are hometown stories of such as in the last couple of months, the regular willing pond, the [inaudible] and now this, the damselfly, we've released 900 of the dance sell flies to mountain lake and this type of insect is only known to the bay area which was this fly was nearly did mated so we are seeing a relassoers januaries of this beautiful creature and happy to be working on this conservation local program. zoo mobile, i think if you were going through school and you were a kid in the bay area, you probably had a zoo mobile come out to your school. we're happy that we've add added a second new vehicle to zoo mobile, the zoo mobile goes out to about between 30 and 40 thousand kids every year with these fantastic programs, we have two new programs this year, this vehicle's smaller than the ones we've had in the past so much better to drive around the city and much more energy efficientbacker efficient as well, we just finished boo zoo, tla was part of the enrichment, it was fun to watch how they interacted with the pumpkins and this is how he had fun with his pumpkin, after nearly two days, we had 10 thousand people come out to the zoo, we had 400 kids take part in the costume parade, there were 200 thousand pieces of candle di distributed, almost like at my house it feels like and it was a wonderful event falling on the heals of a very successful event at scare grove. the entire month at the zoo was zoo overbear fest, it was the reshaping of the program that was taken in the past but this lasted for the entire month, zootoberfest brought in over 40 thousand people, thousands of kids came out and a nearly 6 thousand square foot hay maze and it was a fun event. we know last week there was a big event on tuesday, election day, so what the zoo tried to do was distract people, so we partnered with fire fox, if you know, their little lodging goe is a red pan da, we worked with them and did the red panda election day cam, so we thought we could district people for an hour or so, take them off the focus of the election and we live streamed the red panda from san francisco zoo, so everybody thought it was fun until the web started exploding websinger had over 206 thousand views on fire fox, 4400 shares as well as nearly 40 thousand views through the facebook of san francisco zoo, it was covered in media and press from seattle spoex hand, san francisco all the way to norway sh we were happy with the effect this had. last friday, veteran's dpai was a really special day for us at the zoo, you may know uulu, she's our polar bear, the oldest bear in captivity, she came to us nearly 33 years ago at about the age of 2, she had and her sisters and mom were getting into trouble up in northern canada, and she was going to be euthanized, the san francisco zoo saved her and she's been us for 33 years so last week, she had ten tons of snow shipped in and she was able to roll around and have a great time. this was sponsored by a wonderful partner of us abode and we had 8 thousand peel on-site that day for a great veteran's day. starting this sunday, no, saturday, is the rain beer romp, santd ta is lending three of his reindeer, they are being tracked and should be be here arriving on saturday morning at san francisco zoo and come on out and see our three wonderful reindeer which leads into zoo lights, december 16th, we start zoo lights which is a wonderful program that's been in the making for years at san francisco zoo, it will run the 16th through the 30th, filled with lots of music, lights and sounds and sights of the holiday season, so with that, that concludes my report and happy thanksgiving. >> thank you, happen thanksgiving. >> is there anyone would would like to make public comment on this item? item number 6? being none, public comment is closed. this was discussion only, commissioners, item 7, the deferred maintenance budget has been removed from calendar >> we're going the bring it back in january. we identified the project that we brought in committee which was -- we were going to use the money to -- at pole low to remove the reefers which became a health and safety issue. we identified a fund that is limited to use in golden gate park, by using that fund to do that project, it frees ufp our -- some of our deferred maintenance contingency funds to do a project, to do something else. >> this will come back to us in january? >> yes. >> one quick question? >> sure. >> so, when that comes back, what will be helpful because i would have had this question with this project as well, just to see what else was considered, just where we landed, it will see all that was considered? >> sure. >> thank you. >> okay. so, we are on item 8, potrero hope sf development agreement and shadow on potrero hill recreation center. >> good morning, commissioners, jordan harrison with recreation and park department, i'm joined here with other city staff and the may yr's office of housing and community development, oawd, economic and workforce development and mranlbacker planning, the item before you is the potrero hope sf project with two considerations, the potential acquisition of a park within that new development and second, the shadows that result from that development on to the recreation center property. before we discuss those item, i would like the turn it over to fu miller from the hope sf initiative, he'll go over the hope sf project as well as potrero. thank you. >> thank you very much, good morning, commissioners, good morning, mr. general manager. hope sf, it is a tremendous day in the stay to be in front of you, really, you know, hope sf is one of these things that the city understands is long overdue, so i'm here before you today, we'll be at planning later, go before the board of supervisors in january to put forward on initiative that's unlike anything in the country, this is the nation's first public housing transformation and creations initiative designed to interrupt intergenerational poverty and to build vibrant mixed income communities so we have done -- and i use the phrase reparations intentionally, we are repairing what our city by public policy -- we have tremendous friends in the audience who will be speaking on behalf of hope sf, i'm going to go through this briefly, i wanted to start with, again, my name is theo miller, mayor mill who's in pittsburg today just wanted me to say this is part of the mayor's vision to end public housing, this is no longer the other side of potrero hill or those swamps in sunnyvale, this is our community, this is our san franciscoer, this is an initiative that is designed to build on the assets and the strength and the resilience of our residents to rebuild communities that we've created. just to give you a sense of the context, hope sf is four neighborhoods all in the southeast, all in district 10, about 5 thousand individuals, 2200 households, some of the most incredible views, incredible household ins the city. we're well on our way with hunter's view and alice griffith, there's at least 150 new households who are in hunter's view, alice griffith folks will go in in february and in march, the senior center off 3rd and carol, so hope sf is a community transformation initiative in large, we are here to talk about potrero and sunnydale and the slide in front of you is small, you have it in detail, a sense of how we partner with local affordable housing development, in the case of potrero, bridge housing n the case of sunnydale, mercy and partnership, so the mayor has commitment not just with the highest levels of city departments including rec and park but with affordable housing developers. hope sf, what's key to it is not just its real estate xhoent but itsz services, trauma informed community building based on resident leadership, we partner with cbo's with trusted relationships and we're trying to transform our city systems to meet the needs of our families in a way we've never done before in the city. i've already mentioned the symptoms of isolation of these neighborhoods and we'll get into it as quu look at the grid and how we're connecting these amazing community tos the vibrancy, wealth and vitality of the city. i'll close as i turn it over to my colleagues and i'll remain here on questions for the initiative and i'll highlight a few of the core principles for hope sf, we are ensuring no loss of public housing, unlike the hope 6 project which we was in many ways started by the federal government, we are replacing public housing with residents, this is a staged, sequence fashion, a non-displacement initiative, we are doing this with and through the residents and we will be replacing at least every single public housing unit on-site and it's more affordable housing to come. creating an economically integrated community, maximize thing raoe creation of new affordable house, involving residents of at the hielgest level of participation, i serve with the mayor but also the residents, providing economic opportunity tos the rebuilding process, ensuring our residents have the opportunities for the construction jobs, creating an environmentally sustainable communities and creating a strong sense of community, these are just some of the core principles we operate by, with that, i'll turn it over to my colleague tos go over the details but again this is just truly a moment occasion, we're moving forward and fulfilling some old promises in this city. >> thank you. good morning, my name is lee lou ten ski, with the office of ek nofm i can and workforce development. , i want to highlight the key elements of the potrero master plan and the development agreement and i will turn it back over to jordan to discuss the action itemess before you today. the first slide, this is the existing site of potrero terrace and annex which was constructed in the 1940's, it's a 38 acre site, it has a 619 public housing resident household, you can see the low slung bare rack style housing that was built in the 1940's is well past its useful life and also as you can see from the aerial photo, the site plan really serves to isolate the community from the surrounding neighborhood, it has superblocks and irregular street grid, very steep topography and there are no retail services or designated public open spaces on the site. so, our master plan aims to obviously fix all of that. the community outreach process to develop the new master plan spanned 18 months and included extensive resident and community outreach. the main community goals that came out of that process are to promote a sense of community, to centrally locate the community services and to create a more rational street grid with better pedestrian access. the potrero team led by bridge housing hosts regular community meetings on the site and throughout the project implementation, the development agreement document that we are bringing to you for approval outline as process for community engagement as each phase of development comes forward ask -- and is designed. the master plan for potrero will be constructed and developed by bridge housing in partnership with the city. the master plan as you can see includes reinserting the city's regular street grid with more fine grained blocks that connect back to the greater potrero neighborhood. there are building topologies and the addition of the regular street trees throughout the neighborhood, it has a steep natural topography which the master plan will be flattening to the extent possible and a new neighborhood center which you can see in the middle of the land use concept plan which will be centrally located and will be graded to be in an accessible zone to be in the broadest range of community members. the potrero development agreement places primary emphasis on the main goal for this project which is to provide a one for one replacement of the 619 households currently living on the site with safe, new and clean permanent housing. in addition, the developers are obligated to today that jordan will go into include a resolution authorizing rec and park to consent to the potrero development agreement and the other item before you is a resolution recommend toing the planning commission that the new -- net new shadow from the project will not have adverse impacts on potrero hill recreation center which is to the north of the site, you can see in white there, so i will turn it back to jordan at new park at no cost to the department with maintenance agreement that addresses maintenance for 25 years, it also includes review of the other parks within the development and connections between the potrero hill rec center and the surrounding neighborhood. this is a close up of the proposed new central park, it's the largest within the network of new parks proposed with this project at [inaudible] of an acre and this illustration is the design included in the decide standards and guidelines which are adopted with the development agreement and shows the draft conceptual plan for this park. it's a sloping site with terraced lawns and a level area adjacent to a new retail district that has picnic and art space. and as part of the development agreement, rec and park would lead a design review process working with the community to design this park in a way that suits their needs, meets rec and park standards and is complementary to other facilities within the area. as part of staff's consideration of this acquisition, we looked at the department's acquisition policy and went to the pro's to ask for their endorsement and provided them with information how this park is located within a higher need area of recreation space element of the general plan and it also meets strategy 1.1a of our strategic plan which encourages acquisition of parks within growing areas. so, to close, i want to reiterate one of the actions before you is consideration of the development agreement and authorizing the general manager to pursue acquisition of this park as well as the department's review of future parks in the project, and so now i'm going to switch to the shadows that are resulting from the potrero hope project on the rec center property. this slide is the summary of section 295 of the planning code which you're all familiar with, we are considering this at this stage because the master entitlements that are granted with the development agreement approved the mass and bulk of the buildings that will be built over time and will introduce shade on on to the potrero hill rec center. this shows you the closer view of the conditions as it relate tos the rec center property ask i'll zoom in on the rec center which shows you the facilities on this close to 10 acre park. and finally this slide illustrates the shade at its greatest impact relative to the rec center and as you can see, the shade occurs on the southern and eastern edges of the rec center property where there are paths among trees as well as the right foul line of the baseball field. this table provides a summary of the figure that is we use to evaluate shadow impacts on park properties. the new shadow that occurs from the potrero hope sf project would occur year-round in the mornings and also in the afternoons, in the fall and spring and there would be new shadow all day in the winter and the greatest would occur on december 20th, the winter solstice when the sun is low and the shadows are at its longest. the edges of the park, the southern and eastern edges are there are walking path and is the perimeter of the baseball field. finally, this slide provides guidance from the 1989 memoranda on evaluating shadow impacts on parks because this because is larger than two acres, has less than 20% existing shadow load, up to 1% increase in shadow is considered permissible by that memorandum. the proposed project would introduce 0.91% new shadow, so in summary, the resolution includes both the shadow information as well as the terms of the development agreement for your consideration and that concludes my presentation, i'm here with staff from several departments and we can answer any questions you may have. >> i do have public comment, would you like to go to that? >> yes. >> so, i'm just going the read off name, please come on up. ( calling speaker names ). >> thank you, good morning, commissioners, dan [inaudible] with bridge housing, very pleased to be before you today. there are many reasons to recommend this initiative and this project for approval. first of which, it comes on the heels of 8 years of community outreach and community engagement. mr. miller talked about the role that residents play in directing this initiative, providing input on this initiative. this work is the culmination of a participatory process and design. there's dilapidated housing that's there, new affordable housing that helps the housing crisis in this city, includes all infrastruck khu, as was highlight ined the present tai, publicly accessible generous new park and open space, so really a profoundly impact transformation of this neighborhood. this hearing and the hearings that follow are in a way the ending of this extended period of planning, but they represent the beginning of a conversation, work that's to come. we really look forward to working with the rec and park department, this commission on refining the designs for the open space, ensuring this new development encourages the use of an existing valuable asset, the potrero rec center and enhances that use, and so i really want to encourage you all to provide us with ongoing feedback about how to make the publicly accessible open space in this development as fantastic as it can be. so, i thank you for your consideration today and i want to let other folks speak to the item as well. thank you. . er thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm jennifer [inaudible] and i'm a neighbor of the potrero hill rec center but i'm also one of the friends of potrero hill rec center which is where a group under parks alliance, parks alliance is our fiscal sponsor, and we fully support the rebuild and we're working on a project near the site and we're trying to increase connectivity to the site for the 22nd street corridor that runs along this site, but we have many plans to work with the rec center over the years to do larger things and the rec center would just enormously benefit from this project as well as the surrounding neighborhood and i'm very excited about it as a neighbor and a community member and we fully support all that you can do to make this relationship and project work wonderfully for our community. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. and i'm going to read off a few more names. ( calling speaker names ). >> hi, good morning, so my name's azuri piece green, i live in the public housing on potrero hill as well as work there and i want to say i'm in total agreement of what's ging on and for the rebuild and also we have to plan for the new park, it's to make sure and i know bridge will, to make sure everything is inclusive especially for seniors because a lot of seniors will be using the park and disabled, so you need to make sure for the disabled access, wheelchairs and so forth, but also on the shadows, i was looking at that, this actually works out good because that's the backside of the park and rec and it's such a big development that the backside is not really utilized except for the walking school bus when the children walk through there, i know we were trying to get lighting back there so this do comes with what the rebuild is doing to make the backside of the potrero hill rec center more -- the eyesight of it to look a little bit better as well as to make the use of the backside of it more incumbent of everybody, and so this would be a very good opportunity to put some work back there. i know like jennifer's saying, they have a project going on in the backside of the rec center as well, which is very -- which is a very powerful piece because it will be a pathway which a lot of people use that pathway, and with the daylight savings, the lighting back there -- because there is no lighting back there, so it's going to work out very good and the fact of being able to make it incumbent of everybody uses it, those quho are using it now and it makes the space a lot better, so thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good morning, my name is malik, i've been a resident for 7 years and i saw the pictures they were showing you earlier, we're ready for this, please, if you guys could speed it up, i want my community back, you know what i'm saying, i want it to look beautiful, all of that, you know what i'm saying, i want to walk with my grand kids and stuff like that down the street. the way it is now, no, it needs to go, so please, you guys have to speed this up, we need some shade. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hi, my name's lisa torani and i'm a potrero hill resident and friends of potrero recreation board member, we fully support the project that bridge is putting forward. the neighborhood is in desperate need of more green space, with the development, i think the 3.5 acres is a great addition to that need that we have. what they've been working on in terms of creating a connection and improving the connection between the existing recreation center and the planned community at rebuild potrero is to be commended and we're in complete support of it, so we just hope that you guys support the efforts that they're doing to improve the neighborhood and to make this a better community for potrero hill. thank you. >> thank you *.. er is there anyone else who would like to comment? >> so, i put the card in for rita how we will. >> we can't, sorry, is there anyone else would would like to comment on this item? okay, being done, public comment is closed. >> commissioners? >> move to approve fm >> second. er >> second, move to approve quickly. >> we don't want to beat up on it, we want it to move quickly, okay. all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? so moved. [applause]. >> o*blg, we are now on item 9, sunnydale hope sf development agreement and shadow on mclaren park. >> good morning, i'm stacey bradley, deputy director of planning, i'm glad to bring this next item before you, it's a companion piece to the one you just heard. we are for this one, we are looking -- the item before you is on rpd's review and coordination role within the development agreement for hope sf and sunnydale as well as providing comment to the planning department on the shadow that this project will have on glen eagle's golf course within mclaren park, i'm joined with hope sf and moewd and the planning department. >> vice-chair louie: ten ski is going to introduce the project before i get into the details of rpd's role and the shadows that the park will have, thank you. >> so, mr. general manager, commissioners, i know i'm going to be super brief on this, i wanted to highlight with sunnydale, what an incredible partner rpd is, adjacent to mclaren, the pool, there's a partnership and there's a relationship, we really think with this hope sf project, we have the opportunity to literally transform this community, most people don't think of visitation valley in this way currently, i wanted to say that we are aware we're right next to an incredible asset in mclaren park and we really see this mixed income transformation through our public housing families as core to the future of this part of the city, so i just wanted to start with that. >> hello, again, lee lou ten ski with sowd, i do want to take you through the existing conditions and the proposed master plan for sunnydale, as you can see already from this slide, the site was designed in exactly the same way as potrero terrace and annex, this is located in visitation valley, it's the largest public housing site in the city, it's 50 thousand acres, i won't recite wlie there's challenges there in influence framing the master plan but i wanted to highlight the community process. the sunnydale team led by mercy housing has engaged resident and is the surrounding communities over the past 8 years to develop the master plan, to discuss relocation and to discuss the phasing strategy as the project is built out, and like bridge house, mercy continues to host regular meetings on the site and will continue to do so as the site is developed, in addition, the development agreement does include a process for community engagement as each phase of the process gets finally designed and developed. so, sunnydale will be developed by a partnership of mercy housing and related california in part -- partnership with city. the master plan for sunnydale includes a continuous street wall, new connections to the existing surrounding community and again for the first time the addition of sidewalks, street trees, bike paths and also enhanced muni bus access through the site. you can see nr the northeast corner on the site in the purple blue and red is the neighborhood hub, this is the area that includes community facilities, child care centers, a large swap of program opened space, a health and wellness center and retail for the site. and, again, as with potrero, the sunnydale development agreement prioritizes the primary public benefit of this project which is to have one to one replacement of the 775 households currently living on the site with new clean and safe permanent housing. again, here, the neighborhood will ultimately become mixed income, we have an additional 200 low-income housing units planned for the site as well as an anticipated 600 new units of market rate housing. and the in-kind improvements the developer will build includes 3.6 acres of neighborhood open space, 13.6 acres of new roadways, utility infrastructure and improved transit connections and again the 60 thousand square foot total of community facilities concentrated in the neighborhood hub that i described earlier. the open space plan for sunnydale again includes concentrating a large program open space in the northeast corner of the site you can see highlighted in green. we have community pavilion, a neighborhood green, a community garden and a plaza area here. you can also see that sort of in the dotted green line above, this is directly adjacent to hertz playground and kauffman pool and that uz was done deliberately to enhance the connections between the existing recreational assets and the new open space to make sure that both residents of the site and surrounding community members can better access those amenities. and the team has been working with rpd staff to begin discussions about how are we going to detail and design those connections. thoepz obviously will be designed when we get to that phase of development, for now, we have this concept plan that enforces that connection. and just a few endeared views of what that main neighborhood space looks like. and so i'm just keeping it short, in closing, again, the same actions for sunnydale as you had with potrero include a resolution authorizing rec and park to consent to this development agreement and a resolution recommending to the planning commission that the net new shadow from the project will not have significant impact on mclaren park, i'll turn it back to stacey and happy to answer any questions. >> as thee owe and lee described for the hope sf initiative and specifically for sunnydale, this important project will revitalize these public housing enclaves and the multiyear planning effort has included many meetings with residents and the broader community. we are excited to codify the department's review role with this project and through this process, we hope to really -- to increase the use of all public open space within the project and in mclaren as well really strengthening that connection wean the two. the development green as with sunnydale identifies the framework of the project and the details are still to be designed. through our partnership, we will work with the project sponsor team to ensure that the new open space complements our facilities, and we will have the opportunities to work on these details as we mentioned as how the project will ultimately connect with mclaren and with gleneagles over the next 15-20 years of its implementation. if there are any spaces that are looked at as an acquisition for the department, we will have the same process potrero is going through for the central park. the next part of my presentation is going to be on the shadow. as jordan mentioned, the shadow ordinance was approved in 1984 and we used the 1987 and 1989 memos to guide your deliberations. the location of the project is adjacent to mclaren, both on the -- there's some natural areas of the west of the project and gleneagles golf course to the no*frt of the project and hertz project to the north as well. here is a closer view of our parks and sunnydale, the border between the two. this shows the day of maximum smad dough impact, it's on the winter solstice, it shows -- it also includes the height, the maximum height of the build, there are 50 feet and 40 feet along the edge of the park, the only shadow you're asked to make findings for on glen eagle golf course and mclaren park, those buildings are over 40 feet. the project would cast shadows throughout the year, mostly through in the late afternoon after 2:45 and in the evening and all day in the winter months from november to early february. the duration of the shadow would last between 5 and 8 hours depending on the day of the year and the time of the year. the location of the shadow is on the southern boundary of the golf course, it's mainly an in areas where there are mature trees and in the late fall and early winter when the shadow is the longest, would extend to some areas of play, fairways, rough and other areas. the existing shadow is 0.0036% of the total sunlight that is cast on gleneagles, we looked at just gleneagles, noted all of mclaren park. as with potrero rec center, the guidance memo from 19ed 89 is that a 1% increase is permissible because this park is larger than two acres and its shadow load is less than 20%. the new shadow would be an increase of .5671% bringing the total shadow the just over .57%. in closing, this is a very exciting project for us, we're looking forward to working closely with the developer on the -- and the project sponsor on the connections between mclaren, herz and the sunnydale open space, we see this as a really great relationship for moving forward and bringing park advocates to the table to talk about that connection and also the details between the project and the park. thank you. we're all available for questions. >> public comment? >> yes. >> ( calling speaker names ). >> good morning, my name is rani dare and i'm the real estate project manager for mercy housing california and related california for the hope sf development. the sunnydale master plan is based on the goals and the ideas of the sunnydale residents and our visitation valley neighbors, through years of community meetings on design and discussions that we will continue as we work on the details of implementing the plan, i just wanted to acknowledge the sunnydale residents and community leaders who are here today and ask them to wave or stand up, they came out in force this morning and they're excited to reach this point of our long 8 year journey. as you know, our primary goal of sunnyvale hope sf is to replace the existing housing for quality affordable housing for the existing residents, as you heard from lee and spacy, another goal is that the development provides an opportunity to better connect hherz playground, pool with the neighborhood, we have the neighborhood hub with the new open spaces, retail, child care, recreational facilities in that location near herz playground to help activate and make sure that is a neighborhood amenity. we're very much looking forward to working with the department and the mclaren park advocates, our neighbors and of course our residents to figure out the details of the open spaces of our master plan as well as how we achieve our mutual goal of improving the neighborhood's connection to herz playground and huff man pool and mclaren and we're happy to have this opportunity to partner together to improve the neighborhood for its residents. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning, my name is jawed u judy taylor and i've live ined the sunnydale area for over 60 years. i have attended every community meeting, every design meeting on the rebuilding of sunnydale and i can't wait rebuilding sunnydale. it would only -- it will help us provide with the healthy and safety homes, we will also have a faculty for safe space for all of us moms which is called mothers on a mission. i lost my grandson over two years ago with gun violence and me and my daughter are trying to organize this group which is called moms. also we would like to start the group so that people that have lost their sons or their daughters could come to this place and mourn or talk about what happened because violence is very horrible and we need to do something to stop it. i mean, i know we cannot stop it but we need to have a place to go to to talk to somebody when something happens like that because i know that me and my daughter hurts every day when i lost my grandson and i mean it's nothing that we can do about it but try to get a space to help people that have lost a loved one in their family. thank you very much for listening to me. happy valentine's day to everybody and this goes out to all the mothers, the fathers and the grandmothers which is what i am, a grandmother. thanks very much, have a nice day. happy thanksgiving. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> i would like the say good morning and to say my name is ruth jackson and i have wrote up a lot of stuff to say today but i raised my children in the visitation valley area which was three of my biological and three of someone else's. now we are in the process of revitalizing sunnydale which is one of the greatest things because we cut the ribbon in the 80's and the families there keep telling me, it's not going to happen, ms. jackson, and i said, oh, yes, it is, so we have met and matched and we are happy to be at this stage, so children will have a safe place, you will have a safe place and us seniors will have a safe place because the families have watched my hair turn from a sparkling cherry to silver, so i want to be a part of the renewing of our community and giving our families hope where there is no hope, there is no life, and i want to say to you today, we want your support in helping us move forward so that we can get our young people and our seniors, i'm disabled too, so i'm looking for my senior place up there, so i want you to embrace us and especially because i've touched many lives in sunnydale because i refuse to teach any place else but my community so i have generations and generations and generations of family, so i want to see us move forward with those, life center, our gymnasium and all the things that will help the families have a better life to live to their potential. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning, my name is april, i haven't been a resident of sunnydale community very long but by come tog the sunnydale community, it has been an opportunity for me to see what safety is really about and to see the redevelopment and revitalization of the community is not just for people who have the money to afford gates on their doors, it's for everyone to rebuild this community, it will give safety to everyone and give us a clean environment, not where just people are dumping their things in our community and where even the seeing ls are coming out to the community to eat and also it would give us a place where our apartments are clean so it would bring safety and by me coming there, it gave me an opportunity to see what it's about but it also rebuilds my life as the revitalization and rebuilding of the community, not only is it rebuilding the community but it gives us the opportunity for hope and rebuilds our lives. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning, everyone, my name is raymond martin, i'm a local resident of sunnydale, i've been there roughly about five years now. i've been attending the meetings with hope sf and i'm very impressed. i, like the lady before me, i'm disabled, i'm a senior, i'll be 70 in another year, i can't believe it, but i'll be there, but i'm a grass root activist as well, i'm born and raised here in san francisco. these last 69 years, i worked at ycd at their apprenticeship coordinator in the 80's, i also worked as an apprenticeship coordinator for elihu hutch about ten years ago after i became sick, i retired, i'm a cancer survivor 8 years, i've got cancer in both lungs and throat cancer, i've had my right lung removed in the last two years, i had my thyroid removed, i'm going through radiation in my other lung right now, but i'm strong as an ox. being a grass root activist in this city and have lived in this city all my life and growing up both in the fillmore hunter's point, sunnydale, you know, considering the years i've been around, but the environment in which i grew up in, in this city and living in these run-down victorians which are not run down anymore, but there's a legacy to what we finally come to right now with hope and stuff and i've been praying for this stuff for over 50 years, i've been fighting and being an advocate for 50 years in this city, fighting for rights, environmental rights and so on, so i just want to attest today that i'm very happy at what stage this city is right now. i worked with ed lee when he was at the human rights commission and we did the wastewater project in the 80's which you are probably aware of, so i want to say that we have our eye on the ball, okay, and there's a lot of us that are determined to see this project go through and to see a healthy community at this stage in my life, and i would like to just have a nice apartment that i can spend the next five or ten years of my life to enjoy and hope that my grand kids and great grand kids can enjoy it with me. i'll just leave it on that note. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is fran martin and i'm sloshed with the visited valley greenway and visitation valley planning alliance, we have been supportive of new housing at sunnydale since 99 when our community created the planning acompliance to address transportation issues, historically our neighborhood has been systematically ignored by the powers that be, sunnydale is a polite on the reputation of our city and a poster child for social injustice, the people deserve much bet and her we hope the proposed development of long overdue new housing will help remedy that situation. this photo up there shows children from sunnydale boys and girls club that we work with in our outdoor education program, they represent those that we need to protect. we support new development at sunnydale and don't want to hinder it going forward, we hope there will be more attention to integrating it and develop more permeability with mclaren park on the northern edge as the project gets built out in later phaseess of construction. i urge you the support this project, it has been too long for our neighbors to live in intolerant substandard conditions. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make anymore public on item number 9? being none, public comment is closed. >> general manager ginsburg? >> commissioners, i want to say a couple of quick things, one, it has been an honor for this develop department to work on this project, both of them, and i really want to thank the community, it's amazing how many people who came to this commission today to express their views and i really want to thank the mayor and thoe and lee and the entire team including my own staff for their graceful planning and engagement on this, and just put the open space opportunities in perspective. this is a great open space opportunity for us because we have such strong partnerships with the community, with the developers and with theo and the leaders of the hope sf effort, we really have an opportunity to leverage those partnerships to do something with park in this community that we may not otherwise have had an opportunity to do, as to jordan, we have an opportunity to add on to kauffman pool and create a recreation and community center hub in that space and we are also right now as you know working on herz playground which is a tier 2 playground, given the revitalization here, there's a great opportunity to collaborate with the developers on that project to take the public money and some of the private money we raised and create even a more spectacular playground at hertz so we're excited about this project and i'm truly honored to play a small part of the revitalization of this neighborhood. >> commissioner mcdonnell? >> thank you. so, i absolutely want to see both of naoez projects and all of the work of hope sf move swiftly. i don't want to move swiftly past this moment because it really is a significant moment. native staff from siskan grew up in the fillmore, by the way, it will always be the fillmore, whether you try to call it anything else, it will always be the fillmore, one of the things that i observed in growing up in the fillmore and in our great city is while the city grew from an economic development perspective, evolved and many communities across our city thrived. the communities of the disenfranchised never were able to fully benefit, even with recurring commitments to doing something about it, recurring commitments to make it different, recurring efforts like hope fix that said we're going to get it right this time, which frankly only resulted in more displacement rather than real revitalization. in growing up in public housing, we had my mother and i, my single mother worked hard, we moved out and 25 years after she moved back to the south, i was still here. i get a call from my mother, my mother says, son, you you'll never guess what just happened, what's that, i just got a letter from the public housing that said they're welcoming me to come back, 25 years, every other community receiving investment, revitalization, economic development and growth and these communities allowed to sit largely uninvested in, left to themselves, both geographically and then economically for too long, this has been happen, proverbs 15 says hope deferred makes the heart sick, and for too long, disenfran economized communities in san francisco have been sick, sick of hoping and waiting and wondering when. when will it finally happen. i grew up at a time of the winens and they sang, it's been a long time coming, when will i see the sun? i've waited past the evening, tell me when will i see the sun, so what's exciting to me about these two projects and the continuing work that mr. miller is leading through hope sf is that we're beginning to see a ray of sun and i applaud the intentionality that is showing up in this effort that counters the other intentionality that divested folks, that displaced folks, and that now is saying with the same intentionality, we want to invest in you and we want to see not only your community revitalized, your families revitalized, we want the see you have the same kind of access and opportunity that you've grown up seeing the rest of the city experience with the best of parks and the best of recreation centers and the best of libraries and the best of housing and the best of jobs with economic growth and opportunity and so this is really, really, really, really, really, really, really exciting. no, really. [laughter]. this is really, really exciting, again, and so -- [applause]. i would just conclude by frankly paying honor to two people, ms. jackson who has stood in the breach for a really long time. [applause]. i had the privilege of being -- having as one of my best friends growing up her son, reverend winsel jackson whom i miss not more than she does, so the fact that we are here today celebrating this moment and that we're finally bringing sunlight, sunnydale, potrero hill and the rest of our city is really, we should be collectively proud and continue to push on our city to continue this kind of investment. thank you. [applause]. >> commissioner mcdonnell. >> i move swiftly that we approve this. >> second. >> moved and seconded, all in favor ?frjt aye. >> any opposed? so moved. [applause]. >> okay, we are now on item 10 which is general comment continued from item 4. i do not have any cards. is there anyone would would like to make general public comment? come on up. and this is -- it's only on item that is are not on calendar. >> so, i guess i missed the item 5g. >> yes, so you cannot comment on that. >> i will not comment on this, i will just talk in general about a significant nature of area management in which has been recommended for adoption in a strategic plan, i am very sorry i missed it and i will just say that the plan itself, national area plan is really criminal. i am fortunate enough to live near mount david son which is a great resource and i'm unfortunate that it's under the management of natural areas which sprays herbicides there non-stop all the time, it's the most toxic herbicides and you just turn around and your friends, acquaintances, relatives, there's different kinds of aggressive or run of the mill cancer and all those herbicides are completely, totally carbacker carcinogen and can destroy the soil and since rec and park puts them down in the soil, i just want to [inaudible] opposing significant national resource area plan and the natural area program itself that is [inaudible] on the page, and then they have resolver, so there is resolved, they ask for the park commission to remove all forested areas such as those at shar park and mount david son from [inaudible] control and give management control [inaudible] and park department forestry division trained arborist of faubl for hazard abatement and construction of building, further resolve, restrict implementing only the maintenance of [inaudible] and be it further resolved that the recreation and park commission prohibit all tier 1 and tier 2 most toxic herbicide use to ensure public safety in all parks. you probably know all too well that the plan calls for removal of 18 and a half thousand healthy trees in our parks, and that is done at the time when the global warming accelerating, the trees as you know absorb carbon and clear air pollution and [inaudible] raising, so it's really unbelievable that you recommended for adoption, it should not be adopted, environmentalists superior alternative maintenance of the alternative should be considered and not this criminal plan. thank you very much for your attention. thanks. >> thank you. >> thank you, is there anyone else who would like to comment under general public comment? okay, general public comment is closed. we are on item 11, which is new business/agenda setting, commissioners, anything. members of the 3ub lick, any public comment under new business/agenda setting? okay, -- if you want to comment, you should come on up. and this has -- you need to see item number 11 and it's the list here under new business agenda setting, did you want to comment on any of those items? >> i subjecting a new business setting agenda? >> go ahead. >> i mentioned in my earlier comments that there were at least 16 trees that i had identified along dale wood which were intended to be removed by a notice of tree removal and i'm going the see if this will show up under your -- notice of intent to remove tree. i looked at the photos again and they're numbered 42 and 43, so there are 43 trees on mount david son which are intended to be removed. i attended the urban forestry council meeting last november 8th where there was a discussion of tree management and there was a discussion of two ways of dealing with stumps. one is mechanical removal of the stumps, the other is putting herbicides on the stufp to prevent regrowth and i would like to have a policy with the park and rec permission to a maximum extent to use mechanical removal rather than herbicide treatment of the stumps so you don't have to apply herbicides in the san francisco parks. most of these trees along the boundary of mount david son are within maybe 10, 15 feet of the edge of the park so you can get to them with whatever you need to do to do mechanical removal, you don't need the apply herbicides, they're not interior, so i want a policy where if you can, you're going to remove tree, you avoid herbicides for stumps. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on item 11? being done, public community is closed. with communications, is there any public comment? being done, 12 is closed. 13 is adjournment. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> so adjourned. >> thank you, commissioners. ( meeting is adjourned ). >>[gavel] >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. i apologize we had technical difficulty and a special meeting in this chamber and the just ended and now we're going to begin the regularly scheduled meeting for the land use and transportation committee. i'm supervisor melia cohen chairman of this committee and to my left supervisor aaron peskin. clerk is alisa [inaudible] and her friend said sfgov tv thank you for helping us with this broadcast. mdm. clerk any announcements? >> yes. please make sure to silence electronic devices. items acted upon today will appear on the november 28 board of supervisors agenda unless under the wise stated >> thank you. supervisor weiner has requested to be excused from today's meeting. >> moved and seconded. >> without objection that motion passes unanimously >>[gavel] >> clerk: one please >> item number one resolution approving the street name of martin avenue fronting street other by brewster street >> thank you. i believe we have staff from dpw here today to make a brief presentation on this item. welcome the floor is yours. >> good afternoon supervisor. department of public works. as mentioned this resolution is to name an unnamed street in honor of mr. martin ron. was a professional was professional land surveyor well known in the land surveying community construction community is established as his business in 1968. and was dedicated to achieving and expertise in the intricate procedures of land surveying in san francisco. since then, mr. bonds company has been involved with nearly every major project in the city. to this date. it's now being run by second and third-generation license land surveyors at the helm. so this was a project that was in the bernal heights area. part of brewster street extension project. which has been going on for a few years now. we are nearing completion with naming and dedication. that's the much it. if you have questions, concerning the project or street naming all the happy to answer. >> thank you very much. supervisor them has one has to question the was i have no questions but i cannot tell you the number of maps i've seen with mr. ron's name on it and i know little bit about his family's history did i believe the family are survivors of the holocaust and i'm delighted to name an unnamed street after him could of course need naming names streets is always extremely controversial but when you find unnamed streets usually works out okay >> a lot easier, yes or >> i'm in agreement i think it's an excellent idea to write thoughtful. glad we're doing this. will take public comment. so ladies and gentlemen at this time i'd like to invite you to come up for public comment on item number one. reminder you will have 2 min. 2 min. to speak you'll hear a soft i'm indicating about 30 seconds remaining on your 2 min. allotment you please come up to the podium if you'd like to speak on this item. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is mary medic. on the residence of bernal heights and i've lived here since 1994. most people think the neighborhood they live in is a special place and we are no different in bernal heights that we really feel we have a special niche are there that we love and take care of. the proposal to change the name-it wasn't easy to find this good was posted on two lampposts on brewster street but you would have to be walking along. look at the post and find out this was going to happen. someone brought it to my attention and i send out information to approximately 15 or 20 neighbors in the approximate area of the area in question. i have received approximately 8-10 responses. the most significant response is that the neighbors wish no change. after you live there a little while, you know that is rooster street and there is a sign at the beginning of the street that says brewster. there have been a few other names that have been suggested among which, if they--if we want i can diebold them to you, but i have to say that having lived there, every ups driver, every fedex driver every person who delivers pizza in the city or to bernal heights and every cab knows how to get to our home. interestingly enough, i have to live on this area called brewster street but my address is 55 rutledge. so it's a quaint little tale and we are all very used to rooster street and we feel that by introducing another name into this small area with the disruptive and further confusing. if you have any questions or be glad to answer. >> no questions? thank you. any other members of the public that would like to speak of on this item? please, come up. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is perry medic. i live it 55 rutledge. the woman who just spoke that's my wife. anyway, our house faces on this so-called unnamed street. but as always been known as brewster street. this really is not unnamed in our neighborhood. i just want to emphasize that. various merchants trying to find our house, they find it very difficult and for you to change it to another name like this would make that process even more difficult. so i would kindly request the situation on that section of the street remain unchanged. iq. >> thanks. any other members of the public that would like to speak? public comment is closed. at this time >>[gavel] >> quick question for the dpw representative. how would like change for the people that live on brewster street? >> theoretically the area being renamed or i should say be named, not renamed, there's nobody living there. actually going over dpw property at the moment. so addresses will not change. >> no economic impact? >> no. not for the local households. there are signs in the area that can be confusing. other than that, there's no direct change to people living in the neighborhood. >> okay. >> mdm. chairman if i may respectfully make a suggestion to normally when we rename a street the policy is that for a period of a believe five years, the two names are on the street. granted, this is on names public right-of-way but perhaps in deference to the individuals that testified today, we could have the sign read, martin m ron street -rooster for a period of time. i'm not pointing put it in the resolution unless the chairwoman wishes to do so but as a family suggestion, that might help the transition here? >> we could certainly do that. they departed the sign. we follow everything is the same procedures one of the how this would be an issue. >> that sounds good. to provide to peskin i'm happy to entertain it if you are put it as a motion to change the language good the other thing is i want to understand no one lives there. right? at the public right-of-way? >> correct. it's the roads are built by dpw and it sort of bands off of brewster street property or >> wield this-is this a land with the street you guys built, is their land that's available around? with 30 people residential living at some point in the future >> most likely, not. just because the lots are substandard now for planning, most likely probably remain as open space in that area >> okay thank you very much. wanamaker motions of her visor because if not we can accept it >> i could. why don't we hear if you're willing to reopen public comment mdm. chairman maybe we can ask the nearby neighbors on rutledge whether not i would be an acceptable compromise for them >> i'm going to open up, reopen public comment at this time it is a reminder you 2 min. to speak >>[gavel] >> ma'am, do want to share your thoughts on this compromise? >> thank you for your opening comments. i do want to say that there is a stretch of undeveloped lands in this area and often times cars from out of the neighborhood park along their. they throw beer cans, condoms, debris in this undeveloped lands. recently, the neighbors in the area and after many calls to the city to please, and cleaned it up, there've never done so. i should not saying never. they came one time and i actually just which of the area. having done trees recklessly.. it was just terrible. so recently we've had two days where the neighbors have got out there. they have cleaned the streets. they print the foliage, swept, washington post streets and they really take pride in this area. it is interesting grab a compromise but i don't know how naming a street martin ron, in all respect to him, and brewster will make this any less confusing. >> thank you. public comment is closed. at this time >>[gavel] >> let's do with the legislation we have in front was >> i know amendment and i would suggest we send this item to the full board recommendation as it is >> great. without objection it passes >>[gavel] >> clerk please call item to >> item number two >> ordinance amenity minister to go to berlin city from entering into an extending the leases the extraction of fossil fuel >> supervisor avalos is a sponsor for this item. he's not able to join us today but we have his aide germy public will be speaking on this item was >> welcome >> good afternoon. germy public legislative aide to supervisor avalos did this the ordinance was before you the full board of supervisors and full hearing of the budget and finance committee did the last moment of planning department realized they in overtly do not require ceqa finding and 78 amendment of for you at the finding that this amendment is categorically exempt from sql makes reference to planning's findings on that so we would ask you simply forward this to the full board again as a committee reports after public comment thank you for your time >> thank you very much. >> adam chairman i the couple questions for the department of real estate because i see them sitting there and in so far-i'd knowledge am a cosponsor of this measure but i actually have three questions for the department of real estate. one is: do you have any sense of what the sale price assuming the sale of the 800 acre property subject to the deed restriction would be? >> currently i don't have that information get ugly happy to get it to you >> the second question is, i assume that pursuant to chapter 23 of the administrative code the sale and form of deed would have to come back to this body that were sold? >> correct. i believe director of date mention that at the committee at budget and finance. any transactions that sort would come back to the full board >> then the third question is, how did you come up with the thousand dollars per acre for the solar energy revenue estimate? >> i deferred to the puc on that matter. >> is the puc here? >> john-with the puc do we can come back and explain how we have that dollar amount could >> if you can be ready to do that tomorrow when we consider the item at the full board all be curious to see what solar comps you have at of current county that would substantiate that. >> we will get that for you >> think it does take public comment. any member of the public like to join us in this conversation? item 2 is open for public comment at seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> all right. colleagues, or supervisor jim peskin motion for this item? >> i move we move this to the full board with a recommendation against the was as a committee report >> as a committee report without that passes >>[gavel] >> clerk item 3 please >> item 3 a ordinance amending the planning code to change the requirement from five-to two years to the student housing >> we have missed andrea powers from supervisor weiner's office. as well as [inaudible]. >> good afternoon pres. cohen and supervisor peskin. san francisco issuers staggering number of approximate 40,000 student beds that this is just truly remarkable. these 40,000 students compete with everyone else is looking for housing which makes housing more expensive for everyone. if you years ago supervisor generator offered legislation to identify new student housing while making it abundantly clear it's illegal to convert existing general population housing to student housing in san francisco. student housing as it is today is generally exempt from inclusion rate requirements so long as that housing remains a student housing. hence existing law requires that any point housing entitled the student housing later decides to convert to general population housing at that point the project is required to meet all of its inclusionary requirements, plus intricate today ordinance in no way alters this requirements. student housing to be provided in two ways. the educational institution itself can build housing for its own students or, when a more educational institutions can band together and master lease a building that is built by third-party. in the latter circumstance the current law requires that the master lease be for a minimum of five years and has the planning commission report points out which is in your packet, those five years are said to be a significant barrier for educational institutions for overriding of reason. in fact there was a hearing earlier this year the land use committee, on this matter and he educational institutions brought this up as being one the primary obstacles to entering into housing for their students. so again this legislation to make amends the master lease requirement from being five years to two years. again, as is today at any point whether it's at five years, two years, 10 years, 20 years, the housing converts to general population housing their required to meet all their inclusionary housing requirements and again >> can you repeat the last five? so when i read this over the weekend i was like, wait a minute five years-two years. you are saying if at the end of the two-year master lease they don't have another two-year or five-year master lease, then other provisions kick in the require them to do inclusionary housing or how does that work? >> yesterday whenever the inclusionary housing reforms were at the time the project was originally entitled, they would be essentially be out of that those requirements. they could not convert to general population without plus playing interest over that die for deferred. >> how does the planning department-i know you was to work there but how does the planning department enforce that? >> so it's a relationship between mou acd and the planning department. the original ordinance requires these projects to report annually to mou in terms of whose attendance are and who's living in these buildings. if any violation in fact that son under penalty of perjury just like the much of the house in the city. except that the planning apartment is the entity that their commission entitles the original project to do with any enforcement issues should they arise. >> but at the end of the two years they either have to do another master lease in that location or another location, or the out with interest? >> would talk about a specific building so it's that location. at two years, should they choose to revert back to general population housing perhaps all that erin speak of is more concretely, but they are required to pay and presumably other things as well. >> is this a counterintuitive to me because it seems to me you would want to enter into a total longer master lease because reduces your risk of having to pay the inclusionary fee. i mean, >> i think i'm happy >> have addictive flexibility but it seems like two years as a short-term act on >> is also a letter from a variety of educational institutions that describe it >> i saw it. >> the concern is that being for the smaller institutions in particular, the longer commitment as a being that and to being a risk for them as well. so having a shorter duration it's better for them without of course though always have the option to renew generally speaking that would be that they would >> that make sense to make it was there any consideration by supervisor weiner's office to have a size threshold differentiation? >> no. when going back to when we originally offered the legislation we totally made up to five years. that's something that seemed reason it wasn't necessarily based on a feedback we received at that point. we been told that five years is too much for these institutions and again i think the point to co-op supervisor peskin's boardroom this master lease provision generally is used by small institutions are the large institutions are presumably opening their own housing. >> it seems like there's a sea difference between uc hastings, albeit the not partially subject to local law and the san francisco art institute on chestnut street that has a very small student population. >> right. to your question, no, he did not think about a variation but if you have any thoughts on that i am happy to think about it. >> i am inclined to support our likely outgoing supervisor in his final piece of legislation. >> appreciate that, supervisor. i will hand it over to erin from the planning department >> thank you. >> mr. starr >> thank you supervisors. the planning commission consider this item on september 8 and unanimously voted to recommend approved and make a decision commissioner of the shortage of nearly 40,000 beds in the city and the shortfall insurance that overall housing crisis as students are forced to look for limited and expensive house. they propose ordinance does not change the current law. the ordinance lease in place requirement that student housing projects to fill their inclusionary housing requirement should housing a pretty diverted back to market rate housing. that includes my comments based on the ordinance but am happy to answer any questions you might have >> supervise them as question any questions because >> not that i have enough >> thank you for your presentation. we will go to the public at the time. public comment is open. good to see you. >> good afternoon. the hack is proud to support and past the two pieces of legislation that brought student housing first with supervisor duffy in 2010 and second with supervisor weiner. when the second one past was a lot of news about it and i was getting a call a week from national student housing developers same great get were coming to san francisco. we want to build student housing and three much nothing happens and what became clear is that the schools are really pretty risk averse. they had to carry the small schools had to carry the master leases on their balance sheets. being prayers lease finance and risk averse they do not want to do that. they felt that five years was too much as mr. powers suggested that two years would be something that might entice more of them into master leasing student housing. something that we strongly support and want to see take off the accelerator a lot more. so this actually came at the request. we've heard from some of the small schools. would this work? yes, we think so. i think it deserves to be tried to put it in and see of two years will get were of it going. i think it deserves your support. thank you for a much >> thank you. any other members of the public like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> motion for this item? >> i move this item to the full board with a recommendation >> without objection the motion passes >>[gavel] >> clerk please call item for >> item number four is a planning code zoning map mission and nine street special use district >> i got in my notes we've got [inaudible] from the planning department get to present this item. if she's not here. it's okay because what we will do is i'm going to take public comment but this items going to be continued. perfect. so let's go ahead to public comment did anyone here like to speak on the item four, seeing none, public comment is closed. >> supervisor peskin is minor stand this committee can act on this item until we hear the course one in general plan amendment did therefore i'm going to ask for a motion to continue this item for november 28 meeting >> i'm sorry >> i like to make a motion for you to make a motion to this item continue to our november 28 meeting >> so moved >> thank you be without. >>[gavel] >> item 5 please >> item 5 is a ordinance and many the house go to her by that definition of development projects in large and small residential objects subject to the water >> thank you clerk. again to present as i'm >> afternoon. this ordinance before you is a cleanup amendment two original ordinance that supervisor weiner author back in 2005. that ordinance requires that new buildings greater than 250,000 ft.2 also include facilities for water recycling. in this era of unbridled climate change and what will likely be continued in systemic drought in california we need to be smarter about how we use water and not treat it as a precious resource it really is good today ordinance clarifies that project with zero months but of multiple buildings. that those multiple billings count towards the 250,000 square foot prussia did this with the original intent of our ordinance back when we authored it in 2005 but there's been a little bit of disagreement and that language. today we are here to clarify that. we-basically that's good i'm happy to have your support. the puc is here if you'd like a quick primer on water recycling but that is that you were leisure >> i think will go to public comment. any public comment on item 5? mr.:, welcome back. >> thank you supervisor tim: we have of housing action coalition we stand in strong support with this legislation is going. about half dozen of our members are going to be working on projects that are going to overly deliver recycled water. it's inescapable how we come to terms with climate change and the possibility of systemic drought and completely new different future that we start to move in this direction it is going to give us the tools we need to stop flushing toilets and watering our meetings with a catchy water. so that said, were walking a few last details. we think were very close. there's things that have to do with implementation. we've had conversations with the supervisor's office. i think this is eminently sensible legislation and should move forward and looking for to just getting the last couple of tweaks on implementation. so it has our support >> thanks. that's good to know. any other members of the public that would like to talk speak on item 5? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> thank you. supervisor peskin have a we get a motion on this item >> i move this item to the full board with a recommendation >> without objection that motion passes >>[gavel] >> thank you. >>[calling public comment cards] any other items before us today >> know that concludes our business today. >> thank you. we are adjourned. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> b was >> . >> (clapping.) >> in 2013 san francisco legislators newsom agreed to allow the reciprocate of our soft story buildings those building house one and 20 thousand resident a program of that collect requires extensive outreach and this continuation of that process who is here and bill graham the perfect venue so in 2014 we have the first earthquake retrofit a huge success we're repeating this model what we've done it put together venues that are time professionals and contractor are financing institutions a other services that help people comply with the retrofit and as you can see the thousands of members of the public their assessing over one hundred vendors to comply with the ordinance or make improvements on their property i came to get specification information and puck h picking up information if you don't know what twaur doing i take it overwhelming. >> we're pleased a critical mass of people are keying into knowing their relents and understanding what had are the next steps to take and they're figuring out who to talk to not only the contractor by the mustards and the architect and the structural engineers and getting the full picture of what options are necessary and being pro-acti pro-active. >> so i'm very pleased to see the soft story buildings 99.9 percent complies the highest of the program of this scale of the history a citywide effort high blood pressure in every stretch of san francisco to understand real risks associated with earthquake and those are universally agreed on. >> at some point you need to gather information i'll be talking to another engineer to come out and take a look at it and basically get a second opinion i'm for second and third opinions it is inspiring to see all the property owners that want to do the right thing and for proactively figuring out what the solutions to get them that. >> what is amazing to me here we are over two years of first retrofit fair and at the time we are rh2 out to contractors to help us and reaching it out to design professionals that soft story buildings is in any and people understanding how to comply now it is different an industry that springs up as a result of the - their professed and gotten the costs down with lower financing options and these are defined and now the gene progression and have the buildings are buildings and the compliance we understand the 2020 one and 20 thousand san francisco's 15 messenger of our population will live in a retrofit building those people buildings or lives in buildings with 5 or more residential building is soft story and wood frame and built before 1978 that house that one and 20 thousand san franciscans. >> san francisco is being the leader in getting in done and as you may know los angeles passed their retrofit law two months ago at the sort of taken san francisco's lead on the one and tenth anniversary as the residents san francisco this is a road map to the city and going to give us us plan are these to keep folks here on a disaster and steps to build a resident waterfront by 2020. >> this involves more than one and 80 individuals and over 60 nonprofits and other companies this is a huge plan and what are the challenges we realize that people are concerned about climatic change, sea level rise and not only the affiliated hazards but things hike you're our amp infrastructure and consumed by social and other things we see this in society everyday and how we try to mitigate those are ultimately a direct result how resident we are after earthquake other issue out of the strategy of the concept after a major earthquake of keeping 95 percent of population here in san francisco that's the single best thing to help a equitable recovery to keep people here keep people back to work and kids in school and a residents of normal after a disaster. >> alliance energy in our partner undertook comprehensive bid process we interviewed a half-dozen of folks who wanted to have a part of our soft story buildings are ordinance so alliance energy project programming is a clean assess energy a special financing that is done using the taxed authority of local multiples and one of the interesting features the loan is tied to the property not the vital if an individual didn't have good credit but it is another option for people not able to comply to find another avenue the assessment is actually places on the property and the builds for in that come literally a line item on the tax bill that's how you pay off the segment and tax. >> 20 or thirty years is all paid up front there are advantages your property tax well it is important to give people on option and many private banks that provide loans over a are shorter term we wanted to create a longer pay back term. >> i think the next step for property owners after at the create themselves to take the plunge and quit the working downey done and have works of work done right of the right rest of the property owners can understand this process across the city. >> we need to do it. >> it is safety you know that's the bottom line safety. >> earthquake safety a everybody's responsibility that is providing the resources that people need to get done if you want to know more of the resources as a san franciscan please visit the (clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i think we have more companies anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. the most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think he's a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think we're not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. i thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are great stories for on opera. i was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. a friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. why isn't it are that i have the support now we can do that. i realized that was something that wasn't being done in san francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in san francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality >> you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision that's the final product felt opera. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. >> so much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work there's great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs we've worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. i had a model they have a professionally music yes, ma'am assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor i'd be able to work with them and it's helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial >> it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. that's part of the opera lab >> i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so that's why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. >> there were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and it's different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and that's part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. >> so one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. >> that's what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people don't like it and some people do we're concerned about that. >> it's about thirty something out there that's risky. you know, disliked by someone torn apart and that's the whole point of what we're drying to do >> you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ as a society we've basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure i'm david one of the co-founder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they can't use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the san francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for >> there are speaker cards in the front of the room and you can fill them out and pass them to me and i will call them in the order that i receive them. with that, i will go on to item number one, which is roll call.

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