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supervisor fewer: yes, i ll be very brief. supervisor yee, i ll be very happy to work with you on more aggressive tactics. and also, i did not hear from oewd that icon staptly hear from my small businesses is that they are having a harder and harder time getting employees to work in their stores. many of our businesses have wanted signs, and the retension rate is abysmal. they can t keep people working in their small businesses because they can t compete with the wages, and quite frankly people aren t willing to come in two hours to a job that pays $15 an hour, so i d like that addressed at our next hearing, also. thank you. thank you very much. so much to say. i will just concur with my colleagues, and at this time i think i heard that we would like to continue items 1 actually, let s just continue item 1 to the call of the chair, and then, item 2, let ease file that one, if that s okay. okay. we ll do that, supervisor kim, without objection, okay? those motion ....
funding improvements for bus transit in the area. so with that, i m going to turn it back over to phil, from the port. supervisors, that actually concludes our presentation today. we are available to answer any questions that you may have. thank you. great. thank you so much. 1k3 and so i want to call up members of the public who wish to speak. people flock to these different neighborhoods in saech search of something novel and different. yet where i live, people drive through on their way to a different destination. those that live in the area leave to go to other neighborhoods. mission rock will create an inviting, inclusive, vibrant neighborhood drawing on the residents of mission bay, mission rock and south beach. mission rock will bring about new friendships and relationships, the very essence of community. neighbors supporting new small businesses. it will friday more affordable housing, presently in short supply, and with eight acres of open space, it add ....
order to inform exactly how much retail we should have, how it should be sized and placed within the site. we studied the sizes of the shops from how many different the range of the sizes of the shops, how many were on each block, what is the difference between a corner store with a restaurant and a midblock shop, and we looked to emulate these features that were really consistent across the city in mission rock, which we believe will be the main street of mission bay. we actually went so far as to introduce an entirely different chapter of our controls. just to preview it, we ve had the urban design team and the architecture landscape team work together to ensure that those retail spaces on the ground floor of each of our buildings is really working to activate and enhance the public realm along the streets themselves. we ll also be looking at a siteside programmisit siteside programming for all of the retail, so we ll be taking a holistic approach to look at where t ....
environments, and then, a mix of other environments throughout for residential and more flexible retail and commercial use. the design controls i should say the sud along with the the proposition that the voters passed regarding heights and bulk and the design controls work together to assure again, that as i said, we have a livly skyline for mission rock. but that also but with a design controls, having more specific controls for character and modulation of the building. finally, the regulations and amendments before you will call for further design processes as these projects as the buildings become ready for actual implementation. there will be a phase design review process that is actually something that the port will take the lead on, the design review of vertical or a building is something that the planning department will take the lead on and is outlined in the special use district before you. that concludes my portion of the presentation, and i m now goi ....
initial application dates was grandfathered to a lower transportation fund, and they re paying the full transportation sustainable fee equivalent, and we at mta with our city partners have agreed with these revenues along with the pier 70 development which has already been approved will be reinvested in this area as opposed to distributed citywide, and the reason we feel really comfortable doing this is this neighborhood and southern of this area are really aware where the majority of this effort is happening and do deserve concentrated investment. the kind of investments that you ll see is building along that network that i described earlier, so really looking at the t third line. exposing and concealing gaps in our bicycling networks, and funding improvements for bus transit in the area. so with that, i m going to turn it back over to phil, from the port. supervisors, that actually concludes our presentation today. we are available to answer any questions that you m ....