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Slocum down to mackavoy ranch its sort of continuing that bow art symmetry. These will be connected to those interior. There is that potential. If one of the interior shops would like to open up the doors, like heath ceramics, they have a partnership with blue bottle coffee, oh, maybe heath would want to open up part of their door. That would be the purpose of the doors between the two. Also with regard to the sizing of the kiosks, i believe one. Conditions was the back nave wall remain 50 perce...

Respond to in writing in the comments and responses document and i believe what you are ruefr r referring to is the alternatives considered but rejected section. We will provide some more detail in response to your question in the cr anything else . I have a lot of comments but i can wait until later. Okay, commissioner johns. Has there been a presentation of this item to the commission before i arrived . There hasnt . I guess im surprised about that and was expecting that today, that there woul...

Compatible with the historic structure while being clearly differentiated will not result in the removal of historic fabric and the historic character of the landmark building will be preserved. The new kiosk will have nonhistoric material and will be configured to retain the arches, columns and Spatial Relationships that characterize the north arcade. Installation of the new retail kiosks will allow the full width of the arcade to be more visible than is the case with the existing steel storage...

Off the site. Why was that a criteria . Did you consider moving it within the 5m site . This is something we can respond to in writing in the comments and responses document and i believe what you are ruefr r referring to is the alternatives considered but rejected section. We will provide some more detail in response to your question in the cr anything else . I have a lot of comments but i can wait until later. Okay, commissioner johns. Has there been a presentation of this item to the commissi...

Think the Historic American Landscape survey would be helpful here. Theres a lot in that part of the city that the geology, the land forms, the landscape, basically that would be helpful to understanding the context of how were looking at the buildings and the infrastructure that is being proposed for change and renovation. So those are my ideas at the moment. Thank you. And i will just repeat commissioner wolframs comment about the alleyways. They have completely taken out the character of the ...

Advice than necessarily, you know, permits or approval, but id just like some clarification on that and then theres some other ideas that i have but for now those are my general. Thank you. Commissioners, any other questions, comments . Well open this up to Public Comment. Any member of the public have a comment . Seeing none. I would like to recommend we wrote a letter with our comments. I found this eir to be sort of unsatisfying, i guess, in terms of the preservation alternative. It was 740 p...

Building could be a pavillion within the open space and elevations would be exposed so i felt the preservation alternatives didnt seem to be very complete. Commissioners, any other comments, questions . Commissioner johnck. Yeah, to continue to echo the comment about the lack of exciting vision and how we can visualize this exciting project in the context of an exciting San Francisco, the eir didnt do that. I kept saying we need to have more emphasis and look on the preservation element. Weve be...

I think the other thing that we considered is also where we can do core drilling. You know, the building is built on hundreds and hundreds of pilings so theres a limitation of where some of the core drillings can occur but with your comments i think we can go back and look, i think moving 4 over to 3 is a strong possibility. I think we just look at i absolutely understand your concerns about how it doesnt really match some of the symmetry thats so apparent in the ferry building, especially witho...

That we considered is also where we can do core drilling. You know, the building is built on hundreds and hundreds of pilings so theres a limitation of where some of the core drillings can occur but with your comments i think we can go back and look, i think moving 4 over to 3 is a strong possibility. I think we just look at i absolutely understand your concerns about how it doesnt really match some of the symmetry thats so apparent in the ferry building, especially without the south side not ha...

No. 3 is communications. [inaudible] because i never said anything on any of these things. Communications are announcements, generally, thats sort of the thing we are looking for. Each of us have business about and the next one well get to the board of directors. It wasnt clear to me before and i appreciate being be clear on that. Without communications, next item. You had a little something. Yeah, what was i going to say . Oh yes, i want to thank sf govtv staff, jessie and eggan are broadcastin...