Ringing of cell phones and pagers and similar sound prodaoutioning Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter period on any item, item five, Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda . I have comment cards on specific items, is there anyone wishing to speak on any item not the on agenda. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Six a, executive directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public, port staff and thank you for joining us today it is a great turn out and i appreciate that. Commissioners i have a few things to report on, and beginning item is that the Forest City Development the developer at the water front site has proposed a ballot me
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 the kind of public consensus needed to get through the public process and so on that basis, we see that there are really still some work to do, with our relations with the community, and that will come forth and our recommendations for fostering those further conversations. And in the Ferry Building area, i think that this building reflects all of the accomplishments and the success of how the Ferry Building has now become again the civic heart of the port and an iconic piece of San Francisco. I think that none of us could really have understood the ability for the ferry expansion, and fertry building, and eop success on creating and managing the Farmers Market and the Ferry Building. Market place. With
Longer advisable. So, this is the last of our recommendations, and it really goes to what we suggest for planning Going Forward. We think that in order to balance state and local interests, in the water front, where there is planning Going Forward, we need to invite bcdc and the state lands to participate in the process. Much in the way that we are seeing with the bcdc port working group. Given our recommendation that we do the subarea planning and the discreet areas of the water front, rather than the whole water front as was the case with the adoption of the water front land use, and there is a lot of efforts in the projects that are under way and those projects need to continue while the planning discussions occur and looking at the discreet water front subareas, we have planning under way in both the fixer mans wharf area and with the planning area focusing on the public loan improvements. And south beach and then in the north east water front, look to be the areas where there has
Francisco. Good afternoon, planning and development staff, we are going to switch gears a little bit and talk about the water taxi, something that is relatively new to us all here in San Francisco. The one on the left that you have not seen is the boat belonging to the San Francisco water taxi and you know, you could see it in action there, and in that the other one on the right is or belongs to our other, and our second operator, and tide line marine group and you can see it there, and docked at pier 1 and a half here in the fair building area. And i am going to be talking a little bit more about both of those operators in a moment. And just to go through kind of what i am going to be covering, in this presentation. I will talk about the purpose of this work in this presentation, and a little bit of background, about the current operators, and their operations. I tell you about some Research Efforts that we have been doing to kind of inform ourselves, about water taxi in other places.
And we have the representative for the court and the joint powers board. And with that, director lee, and here. Lee, present. Director nuru in present. Harper present, and kim . Present. Madam chair you have a quorum. Do we have any communications or board of directors new or old business . Good morning, directors and members of the public, would i like to begin by thanking mayor lee, and the tax rates that were introduced in yul july and i would like to thank all of those in the process, and i have been in with, and working along our side and helping to move the project along and thank you very much and, you are support is valuable and now i would like to ask the counsel to provide a little more detail on the out come of the hearing this rate. And the counsel for the djpa, and the Transit Center, plan, provides, that in return for the permission, to build, the taller buildings, then allowed by the existing zoning, and the developers building to these increased heights will pay the com