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
much, 3.49? this is a san francisco institution. this is a relic. red java house, they serve long shore man and other people who work at the waterfront. there used to be a lot of other ones. these have survived. the boondocks now called high dive. the building survived, thank goodness. and then interestingly, along underneath the high dive, i guess it s part of the sculpture and public art. the band, light band and all that. the art ribbon. the art ribbon, thank you. and you see the little skateboard stops. this was an immediate draw worldwide, people came to skateboard the embarcadaro. and they re still here, right? they re still here. many different type of wield people. so here, bicyclists. now, when the embarcadaro was rebuilt not very long ago, there was a large joint committee of people and everybody was staking out their turf. muni wanted 60 feet. the caltrans or the transportation wanted space. the art people wanted a ribbon. the sidewalk had to be so wide
may i have a motion to start the meeting. second. commissioner. here. commissioner. here. commissioner. here. item two is approval of the minutes. moved. second. all in favor? aye. next is public comment. executive session. no public comment. item four is executive session. move to move to executive session. second. all in favor? aye. next is legal counsel and real property negotiateor. so moved. move to open open session. excuse me kathleen we re starting. okay. is there a second? second. second. would you like move. move that we not disclose what transpired in close session. second. all in favor? aye. aye. okay. item six please be advised that use of cell phonings, pagers and similar electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal of the meeting room of any person that uses one of these devices. please be advised that a member of the public has t
moved. second. all in favor? aye. next is public comment. executive session. no public comment. item four is executive session. move to move to executive session. second. all in favor? aye. next is legal counsel and real property negotiateor. so moved. move to open open session. excuse me kathleen we re starting. okay. is there a second? second. second. would you like move. move that we not disclose what transpired in close session. second. all in favor? aye. aye. okay. item six please be advised that use of cell phonings, pagers and similar electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal of the meeting room of any person that uses one of these devices. please be advised that a member of the public has three minutes to make comments on each item. good afternoon. thank you for joining today. i have a short executive director s report and the first item happened a w
real property negotiateor. so moved. move to open open session. excuse me kathleen we re starting. okay. is there a second? second. second. would you like move. move that we not disclose what transpired in close session. second. all in favor? aye. aye. okay. item six please be advised that use of cell phonings, pagers and similar electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal of the meeting room of any person that uses one of these devices. please be advised that a member of the public has three minutes to make comments on each item. good afternoon. thank you for joining today. i have a short executive director s report and the first item happened a week ago saturday and i wanted to share with you. there was a pleasure craft vessel with three people board that was out on the bay and in the course on the bay they struck little alcatraz rock which is located on the west side of the island