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Development of the waterfront and the Commission Works very hard with the port staff. In the ports waterfront land use plan, our blueprint for the 71 2 miles of waterfront, we make a conscious effort to plan and maintain open access for the benefit of our residents and our visitors. And the port now has 86 acres of open space which is about 10 of the port property. And our ongoing plan can youxv for increasing this amount to 28 acres within the next eight years. So, this is not the beginning or ...

Whistle along with me, yall. [whistling] yeah [whistling] thank you. applause [cheering and applauding] other than that, how about a San Francisco welcome . [cheering and applauding] now, a few words about otis redding and that absolutely gorgeous song. Can you think of a better song for this great wharf . As you probably know, otis redding was in San Francisco to perform at the fillmore in the summer of 1967 and he found himself for a week on a sauselito house boat. On the bay came the inspirat...

Ironically, with a small little abandoned swath of land that has grown up to become the cuseda garden. And its the thought child and the physical manifestation of hard work, of a few Community Leaders that got together and rolled up their sleeves and got to work. And tonight i have the honor to introduce one of the cofounders, his name is jeffery betcher. Where are you . Get up here. And jeff is going to introduce to you as he escorts ms. Annette young smith to the stage. This lady, ladies and g...

Space. It takes a village for us to build a park and i want to very much add the thanks to the so many city staff that came together who monique and mayor lee have already mentioned, but i want to thank in particular the port for your leadership over the many years, all the departments, mayor lee. I also want to thank an agency that i had the pleasure of serving on that many members of the public dont know much about, the bcdc, the bacon Certification Development commission. applause thank you, ...

Lot. The scare you part is that commissioner arce, youre absolutely right. They could set the not to exceed rate next week. They could move forward with a Shell Program and no other program, which as i said is only less than 4 of what we envision. So, but with that said, the reason that advocates have recently voted and said to the sfpuc and to lafco we would like them to proceed with these not to exceed rates is because they are now competitive with pg e. Especially if you compare it to a pg e ...

History of our city and particularly the hard history of our waterfront labor struggles. And that International Long shore and work house union, yes, very important part of our citys history. applause are reflected in these wonderful artistic and historic panels. And that will just give us even much more of a deeper sense of appreciation for what our city does with this. Then this opens up a viewpoint that i know you know that i personally share because its not just the history. Were also going ...

The port, its commission and the staff, because this is in fact 150 years of celebration of our port. And what a way to celebrate with all these wonderful things that are happening here. Its taken 15 years for this project to get done, 15 years. Thats a 10th of the history of the port of San Francisco. And theres a lot of people to thank and moniques already thanked them, but its worth repeating. I think the big Conservation Development commission, the Port Commission, our port staff, public wor...

Headed for the frisco bay i have nothing to live for and look like nothings gonna come my way so im just gonna sit on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away oohee sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time ahah look like nothings gonna change everything still remains the same i cant do what people tell me to do so i guess ill remain the same sitting here and this loneliness wont leave me alone 2000 miles i roamed just to make this dock my home im just gonna sit on the dock of the bay w...

Thank you again to mayor lee and mayors newsom and brown before him for making this possible and best wishes for memorable celebration. Best regards, nancy pelosi, democratic leader. Thank you. applause thank you, dan, very much. And please take our best and most gracious respects back to congresswoman pelosi, your colleagues in your San Francisco office and of course in the capital. They are just fabulous for all of us. Another group that needs recognition is the Port Commissioners themselves, ...

Its a pleasure to be here. Id just like to say thanks to the city of San Francisco and the mayor and all of you great people for keeping the legacy of otis redding alive. And a quick thing about the song. My mother said my father was in california and done some shows in los angeles. And he came home and he told her he wanted to be a new otis redding, not the begging and pleading, he wanted to do something totally different. He came home and started putting bits and pieces of a song together. It ...