Prices. She a Community Worker in downtown oakland. She said the business boom is great but not for everyone. I am concerned about this placement. There is such a rich culture. It is hard to survive out there right now. Lifelong oaklander isnt sure if he will be able to stay here much longer. Everyone all my friends from the city want to come here now but i want to be able to live here too. Hopefully they can do some something about it and keep us all here. I asked the mayor about this. We know that we have got to bring jobs to this region so our residents can afford the high price of living. It is all part of making sure that oakland is affordable. Not just for the new people but also for our long term residents. The mayor is optimistic. My oakland in two years looks safer and cleaner. It looks vibrant but still interesting. For wendy it is more of a nightmare than a dream. I am really afraid to see what that looks like. Back to you. Well super bowl is just a few weeks away. Maria is
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Adams. Anyway, to get to the point, now that there has started to become a residential neighborhood, its been a positive to our businesses, but what im feeling and what other businesses are feeling, there is a we, its sort of almost there but its not quite. Theres not enough People Living in the neighborhood to provide businesses with to stay open on the weekend and there is very little night business out there. I feel the addition of these two buildings would provide just what we need to present the massing and the attraction of other businesses to make it so that we can be more successful, have longer hours and not rely only on lunch and coffee business, so thats why im in support of these two buildings and in particular, 801 brannan, so thank you very much for your time. Thank you. A couple of more name, sue vaughn, caleb [inaudible], thank you. Good afternoon to members of the Planning Commission, my naifp is rich stephens, ive been a Business Owner for 25 years. Way too long to te
Neighborhoods plan which set the land use strategy for this area and we hope you will support these projects that allow the city to realize that vision. Im going to turn things over to paula from bar who will talk to you about the 1 henry adams project and then hand it over to david baker who will talk about 801 brannan, thank you. President fong, commissioners, members of the public, thank you very much for having us here today. Can we move to the screen, please. And could you also state your name . My name is paula krugmyer. We have a collaboration on this project with john warden, our associates and also Miller Company Landscape Architects. With regard to the project data, i think youve all seen this, i think the point here on this slide is that the open space that were providing is nearly double that of of what is required in the eastern neighborhoods plan. With regard to the location, the context is largely very large buildings and i think the main point here in the interest of ti
Streets, we are providing sidewalks with a bus stop, folks are currently waiting in the street, and this is showing how the massing is turned inside out and the courtyard is actively connected with the street. Moving around to alameda and henry adams, we see on henry adams in particular, there is no sidewalk, the cars are parking perpendicular which in fact we liked and the proposed view shows the other side of the h shape building showing again how the scale is broken down and again on the South Building, we have the 17 foot first floor. The [inaudible] on the South Building are cement plaster, that is stucco with zinc accents, and then moving down henry adams, we have this is a view into the muse and this is also showing that unusual grade condition that we talked about where the historic street dips down for loading purposes and with the old brick warehouses, weve set back the building an additional 15 feet so we have a sidewalk at the commercial level and a lowered sidewalk at the