Review some of your hearings on sfgtv and see the same things that i do. Any further Public Comment. Yes, sir, please come forward. Commissioner, board, chief, my name is mike and i am with the occupy movement. And i dont have much to add in addition to what mr. Heart brought up is that these concerns are pretty prevalent in our neck of the woods. And it has been a very good year for everybody, i hope that you guys learned as much as we did. I would like to ask a question, is the city interested at all in working diplomatickly with this movement . Is the department simply going to continue to take its orders from the mayor . Whether they be just, unjust, legal, or illegal or whatever. I just want to know what the Temperature Check with you guys is regarding working with us and building a relationship with dedicated personnel. Much as the Language Program and many other things that you guys are working on. Are you going to need to take this a little more seriously. So, rough idea . Woul
A committee to protect San Francisco Bay recommended Wednesday that the Port of Oakland keep Charles P. Howard Terminal for maritime use rather than allowing the Oakland A's to build a new ballpark there.
and new residential. this is right next to it is the san francisco boat works which is like the only place where you can get your yacht repaired here in san francisco. or you d have to go to alameda or somewhere. lovely vessel there. and then directly across the street, we have mission bay, wow, the epicenter for neuroscience research. that s unbelievable, right. it is unbelievable how much is happening there. we have the new giants ballpark and this is mc covy cove. and there are boats out there waiting for barry. this was taken the other day, just hit one into the cove. i said pier 40, somebody said you row out of pier 40. somebody else said they sale out of pier 40. pier 40 undergoing some major renovations. and the ballpark is right next to it and there is almost no impact on pier 40 when there is a ball game. almost no impact other than muni is crowded. it s amazing. we all thought oh, my god this is it, hot dog wrappers all over the place. enthuse a new handicapped ramp
thank you very much for coming today. this is one of the department of building inspections brown bag lunch series which we run on the third thursday of every month and we ve been doing it now for five years plus. and it s a lot of fun for me and i have guests every month who are knowledgeable in the area. and today s area is a broad area, it s going to be a quick tour of san francisco s waterfront. and we have with us today diane oshima, an old friend. diane used to work for the planning department in environmental review, right? that s right. you re now good memory. i have close relations with the planning department. true. very close. yes. my wife retired from the planning department. [laughter] and diane is now deputy director for planning waterfront planning at the port. so she knows what s happening now and a lot of the history. and chris verplank san architectural historian who knows a whole lot of history about the waterfront. he and i drove some