Good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors land use and Economic Development committee. My name is scott wiener, im the chairman of the committee and jane kim and malia cohen. Our clerk is os berry. I would like to thank sfgtv for broadcasting todays hearing, jessie larson. Madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Please silence any cell phones and any electronic devices. Please fill out a card if you wish to speak. Items heard today will be in the agenda. Supervisor scott weiner please call item no. 1. The clerk item 131185 airports Noise Insulation Program]1311851. Resolution approving the acquisition of 33 avigation easements from various Property Owners in San Mateo County to replace expiring avigation easements required for the San Francisco International Airports Noise Insulation Program projectt; adopting findings that the project is categorically exempt from Environmental Review under the California Environmental quality act, class 1 existing facilities;
After our action today. I wanted to jump into a little bit of detail about how we are going to resolve some of the issues. In particular ground floor activation. So, commissioner ellington got to a little bit of that when you were talking about entrances on first street. I would like to hear more thoughts maybe from the architect on how we are going to get to some compromise on ground floor activation because the parking is on the ground floor that lovely sort of courtyard which i understand is for private use. Thats above peoples heads on the ground floor and that does appear to be that activated particularly considering there is ground floor units in the Affordable Housing right across from there. So, rather than just leading that to some future point, i would like to hear some ideas that many people have already had about how to help . I believe that condition was primarily related to third street. One of the challenges we had in designing this building was we have a limited amount
Experiencing technical difficulties; please stand by. I want to assure you as this letter reflects that the board is fully in support of this project. Dear supervisors, as you know, the Union Square Business Improvement District is dedicated to the improvement of the building in [speaker not understood]. 706 mission and support this project e. The development of the Mexican Museum would be a major addition to San Francisco and the neighborhood. The addition of additional residents would add street life and benefit merchants and other business ines in the union square area. Weve reviewed the shadow studies relative to 706 mission and find any impacts on the park to be dee minute miss. Any shadowing of the park is a small area early in the morning and in winter. The Union Square Business Improvement District has devoted considerable work to improving union square. We would oppose any project we felt would harm the park. In this case there are limited negative impacts. Thank you for your
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