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 measure for the november election. For proposition b, this particular measure will increase the height limit at the building limit up to 90 feet. 90 feet is the height t
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 the pier 14, Public Access, the art installations that have gone up that have really made this place a game changer for the water front. We look to see more transportation improv
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 been some recent controversy, and there would be a benefit in some subarea of planning in those areas. And we are eager to hear, the feedback from the residents in those areas, to see if there is a shared inter
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 to get some ideas for us here in Sa
Hi, my name is malia cohen and im the current elected representative of the San Francisco board of supervisors representing district 10. Im one of five girls raised by my parents in the southeastern neighborhoods of San Francisco. And i know the history of the difficult challenges that the southeast has faced as my family has faced them, too. However, what i see is what many residents see. Neighborhoods that are unlike any other. Contradict 10 is comprised of communities where people are familiar with each other, where families have lived for generations and where people look out for one another. I vividly remember being told by my grandmother and friend of my grandparents to work hard, get good grades, serve others and never forget where you come from. And to remember to help those coming up behind you. Thats a large part of the reason i ran for district 10 supervisor four years ago, because i have a calling for public service. Now, im proud to be a product of San Franciscos public sc