So, it was more categorized to be spent in this neighborhood with the specific uses to be determined in the future. If i may respond to what youre saying, i got a call from the public which basically said, well, where are we . And that is that four parks in chinatown which under this verbiage and i dont know how to say it better or to say conditional could find themselves way at the end of the receiving line because the rest of the implementation of the transit and the district will take time while those parks, four parks by definition [speaker not understood] priority the rest will stand [speaker not understood]. I think that is a reasonable comment which came to me. And thats the reason why im asking the question. Commissioner antonini. Well, thank you. And, of course, as was pointed out by director ram, the lions share of the 47 million in open space, 34. 5 million is going to be spent in the plan area. And were looking at the 12. 5 million and i think we had earmarked 9 million of
Reviewed forsee qua, it would be a problem to designate the money to be used for certain projects. For ceqa so, it was more categorized to be spent in this neighborhood with the specific uses to be determined in the future. If i may respond to what youre saying, i got a call from the public which basically said, well, where are we . And that is that four parks in chinatown which under this verbiage and i dont know how to say it better or to say conditional could find themselves way at the end of the receiving line because the rest of the implementation of the transit and the district will take time while those parks, four parks by definition [speaker not understood] priority the rest will stand [speaker not understood]. I think that is a reasonable comment which came to me. And thats the reason why im asking the question. Commissioner antonini. Well, thank you. And, of course, as was pointed out by director ram, the lions share of the 47 million in open space, 34. 5 million is going to
Just back to this question on value. So, the port land, the city is going to pay the port, are we going to pay out of the remainder of the impact fees . No. Where is that funding going to can you have from . Thats part of the conversation [speaker not understood] wants to speak about this. Thanks. If i may, pam drew from the office of economic and work force development. So, just to clarify, the purpose of the park purchase is actually a mechanism under state law. It currently is subject to the public trust and in order to remove the trust under senate bill 815, we need to provide the port with fair market value. Were confident, because the appraisal instructions require the appraiser to appraise the parcel with open space. And as a park, that the value of that appraisal will come back relatively low. The port is being very flexible, agreeing to accept payment over time and other you dont expect the payment to be much. The park builds open space on trust land already. They do. There wa
The port is being very flexible, agreeing to accept payment over time and other you dont expect the payment to be much. The park builds open space on trust land already. They do. There was essentially a bit of a catch22 because the parcel is not near water. It wasnt a regional access. Can we build a [inaudible] . [laughter] they have consulted with outside counsel in hopes of finding this parcel was in compliance with the trust use. That led to a dead end. You expect the value to be pretty low. Very low. Okay, thank you. Commissioner moore. Im glad the project is coming forward and i very much appreciate commissioner antoninis questions about the grass. I would agree with him that the drought resistant trees offer [speaker not understood] being in the drought or dry instead of those kind of trees which help us also with sun and wind and protection of the adjacent unit which is energy efficiency. The one thing i would like to put a question mark to is that light green area astroturf for
The request before you today is for several actions regarding the project at 41 tehama street which would construct a 31 Story Building reaching a roof height of approximately 318 feet. The mechanical enclosure reaching a height of 342 feet. It contains 3 25 dwelling units, 700 square feet of retail space, 2 41 offstreet parking spaces, and a plaza and midblock open space sorry, midblock connection to the [speaker not understood] park. The project site is located within the Transit Center district plan area. The city adopted a plan and implementing ordinances in august of 2012. The plan seems to address issues of regional sustainability and Traffic Congestion by focusing growth within an intense urban context in an area with transit services. The project is located two blocks south of the Transit Center which is currently under construction and will accommodate local and Inter City Bus Service as well as caltrain and future highspeed rail service. Other goals of the plan include scopin