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Legal assistant im im Cynthia Goldstein the boards executive director. Were going to be joined as by were joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. Sitting in the front right now is amanda representing the bureau of mapping and shes joined by her colleague raul shaw i believe chris buck is here in the front right now with the bureau of urban forestry and Scott Sanchez will be here shortly and representing his office and the Planning Department and Pla...

Hon. Commissioners director forbes and port seven thank you for allowing me the opportunity to tell you about pier 39 birthday celebration. In the late 1970s savvy San Francisco businessman Warren Simmons dreams of building an urban park along the citys underdeveloped waterfront. October 4, 1978 simmons dream became a reality. When he transformed his dilapidated cargo pier into pier 39 and eclectic collection of Specialty Shops restaurants and attractions. The First Public Private Partnership pr...

Report good afternoon members of the commission. Members of the public and port simon lake forbes or director. The first item is to congratulate pier 30 on august 30 ninth birthday. It was october of 1978 that pier 39 opened on schedule i here to here in San Francisco. At its opening pier 39 had 50 stores, 23 restaurants, a diving pool and street performers. Today it is a twolevel open air festival marketplace which owes 60 Specialty Retail shops 20 attractions 14 restaurants including the rock ...

But in particular with regard to underground Natural Gas Storage, theres a very collaborative atmosphere over the course of two decades already worth of information study and sharing, and now with the recommended practices that have been developed, the question now is how do we best set the minimum Safety Standards that could be national in nature and then recognizing that any state could of course go beyond those minimum Safety Standards and advance whatever additional Safety Measures they woul...

You arrived. I think you were age 29. Oh, my god. You were 29 and two days early from being eligible as United States senator. And through all those years weve worked together, weve been dear friends. Weve been a part of the Progressive Network of america. And when you were elected Vice President , we talked about my experience with the office and youve taken the vice presidency a big step forward. Partly because of [ applause ] aided by your experience in the senate as sometimes chairman of the...

Regulation of Net Neutrality. So Net Neutrality is an a very hot topic in washington for the past several years. A previous role at the federal trade commission. I was head of the office of thecy planning and head of Internet Access task force. And we looked at this issues in connectivity competition policy that we issued. And some of the issues that that at was whether the antitrust laws which we enforce as well as Consumer Protection could promote some of the values that the Net Neutrality try...

Now battery trains bart trains do open from both sides. Its almost like i need to do 2 cases. If it opens from the bottom of that drawing, the left side of the car, as you board, you would have a double side ways facing green on the left and that would be for seniors and people with disabilities. A little bit to the right is a tripod pole right in the middle of that area but offset a little bit off center to open up a wider aisle. Sort of diagonally to your left about 45 degrees will be the whee...

Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have Jessie Lorenz executive director, senior disability action San Francisco. All right. Thank you council and thank you mr. Wine stein for the wonderful presentation. My name is Jessie Lorenz and im the executive director of the independent resource living San Francisco. Im here to talk about an issue about but of the critical avenues of the issues of our center and also for the California Foundation for independent Living Centers. A stat...

Barts got a problem in this community. Im hoping when all is said and done, we can get to a place where we are all talking to each other an listening to each other with more clarity and more insight and more respect. The Disability Community is broad, vast and the movement of folks with disabilities who sought independent disability rights started here in berkeley. I think one of the things that is not being stated clearly is process. Just on a personal note, several of us, myself included was p...

The future, bart and any other Government Agency look at going above and beyond what is the minimum requirements. I personally travel with another person often, my husband in a wheelchair. The two of us trying to get off a train that is not even crowded with a pollen there is going to be a big obstruction. I also wanted to say its brought up for me too because its an cumulative process. As a person with a disability requiring the use of an elevator with the bart its not an equitable experience. ...