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Density has increased in this area, maybe something that people are not as familiar with from previous work, but the south of market, grew 27,000 residents in the last ten years and so i hope that we can figure out a way that we can be more forward thinking so we dont have these collisions or conflicts that happen on our streets. The development is great and we want to encourage it and support it. We want to make sure that there is an awareness that they are in neighborhoods that did not exist b...

Theyre essentially his property, his tool or his equipment. And he anticipates retrieving within the contract, he anticipated retrieving the machines, using the machines for his future projects or reselling them on the open market. So, there is a salvage value owe yes. These machines the machines that will be used to build the central subway are essentially new machines. Oh, these machines have a fairly, very they can be reused and refurbished and theyre used throughout the world in other projec...

The issues, we may have we have drawings in front of us and maybe theyre not color rendering. But substantially everything about this project, the size and the scope, the only difference that we talked about is the size of the use for the restaurant there being whether or not it was commercial use, other commercial use incorporated. But i havent actually heard anyone, members of the public bringing up issues about the substantive factors of the project itself should that space not be a larger re...

The revised base line budget included cost estimates based on our 50 percent designed development documents from pelly clark pelly and estimates compared from their consultants as well as the web corp and the additional that we received through value engineering and it reflected the actual costs of constructing the temporary terminal and the bids that have been received on the demolition contract and some advancement of the design of both the bus ramps and utility relocation and the ac transit b...

Connecting an independently managed bridge to city streets. This is a prescription for complication. It became clear unless there was one Catalyst Organization that took it on as a challenge, it wouldnt happen and we did that and for people to advocate. And the project has a structural rating of 2 out of 100. You can see the rusting reinforcing in the concrete when you look at the edges now. The deck has steel reinforcing thats corroded and lost 2 3s of its strength. This was accelerated in 1989...

The terror group to strike in the west. I dont think theyre capable of a largescale attack but certainly an tae tack which could kill maim or wound hundreds of people. Police departments in los angeles, philadelphia boston and atlanta tightening up security measures. Were constantly seeking to be creative to be proactive. Name of the game is to be prepared. At the Washington Mall theyre preparing for all possibilities. New york city taking the greatest security measures in years. The city swept ...

Times. There are many, many examples of this. Thank you. And finally, as to the approvals themselves that are before us, i think they seem to be fairly formulated for the project owner who would want to move forward at this time, as everybody else is in san francisco, because this is the time to build and hes at a disadvantage in hes had to wait two to three years. So, he he needs to be compensated obviously. And the changes that were approving, for example, the height change only is allowing fo...

Commission has done numerous times. There are many, many examples of this. Thank you. And finally, as to the approvals themselves that are before us, i think they seem to be fairly formulated for the project owner who would want to move forward at this time, as everybody else is in san francisco, because this is the time to build and hes at a disadvantage in hes had to wait two to three years. So, he he needs to be compensated obviously. And the changes that were approving, for example, the heig...

The different alternatives that we brought forward to the community, there were pros and cons. In the end the confluence of being able to help address the pagoda site, of being able to pull the machines out as is currently contemplated in our contract, not leave something underground, that kind of tipped the balance. At that particular meeting at the time there was seemed to be little to no public support for bringing the machines to north beach and leaving them in the ground. But that is someth...

Both the risks of phase one, and face two construction of the Transit Center. To provide a railready Transit Center to improve the ground floor design of the Transit Center by providing Program Space below grade where we could locate a number of utility and back of house programs freing up the ground level to more publicly, Public Programs and retail programs. And it also by funding the first phase of construction, allowed it more time for the land sale market in the bay area to recover, improvi...