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Projects have presented themselves, the port staff and the city staff have worked to develop a public process, like that, articulated in the water front land use plan. And sometimes, it has been wildly successful. And such as at t ballpark that draws 4 million visitors a year and the explore torium is already drawing 1. 2 million visitors and drawing the kids down to the water front that meets that sort of diversity of people and activities and the goal in the water front plan, and the americas ...

An amazing job of community out reach. Of meeting with anyone who has, or who wants to understand anything about what is going on with the water front. And so i do believe that the boaters have made a statement and i do believe that maybe, there are some things that we could do differently, and i just dont want to take away from the amazing work that this team has done and created along the water front, thank you. Commissioner woo ho . I am going to take a different tact, and i certainly dont ta...

The past 17 years, and a Productive Partnership with the port of San Francisco, and that is incredibly necessary and so now what we need to do is exploit it, and we need to think far in the future and we need to think about not only the next five to ten years but the next 25 to 30 and we need to make the water front better for San Francisco. And because, the more that we make it better for San Francisco, is the more that it will be better for region and for the rest of the world and that is what...

Is an active notice, and the beeping of the cards, and the voice over the system and the airconditioning units and just thinking about that, because we live in a world with so much noise and that makes sense that these cars can help to contribute to quieting the rider experience is important. And to that, effect, i mean, every time that one of those pneumatic doors go off it is loud and it is almost like a gun shot when they are working and so, looking forward to having a much quieter operation ...

Very public meetings. Next door, piers 1 and a half, i dont know that the public understands how decrepid that facility was and it had been condemned and basically left for dead before we put it together in the piers one and half three five, project opportunity that was improved by San Francisco water front partners. And then, moving down, obviously, the brandon street wharf and a new improvement that we are all able to enjoy. There were two prao ers there, 34, and 36 and both had been condemned...

Project and the pier, 43, and the other projects have not been. As successful. The warriors project, and it drew a lot of controversy, the people wanted to talk about the other locations, not on the port property. And the americas cup initially envisioned the Long Term Development rights which did not come to pass. And there was a proposal for the International Museum of women at pier 26 which was a soul source authorization for the board of supervisors and so the report tries to take stock of t...

That every citizen believes that they own the water front in San Francisco. And that is a hard one for us as a commission to meet everybodys needs and desires. And i have come to respect that. And we also at time have to make some decision and we have made the decisions and we sort of know where i have stood and so the controversial projects as well. And we not having to go back and revisit that. I will start off with the division and i think that the staff has heard me talk about this, in 1997,...

With the wrong word and it really is the appropriate word, really because, we do deal with each other and we like each other and we do a good job with each and you should be congratulations with the kind of staff that you hire because they are good. Thank you for saying that. And i often say that the support staff is the best in the city. And i started to stop because i am afraid. , and truly we have extraordinary staff and you have singled out just a few but they are supported by Extraordinary ...

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And there have been, however, difficulties with the development in the north east water front that is chronicled in this report. And we had the Hotel Project that went through the long process, almost got to the finish line but, for the lack of public consensus on the design. And that process failed, and there was also a high profile, proposal for piers 27 to 31 by the Mills Development corporation, and that again, was a mixed use, recreation project and had too much retail and did not achieve t...