Discretionary review are proposed to september 18, 2014. Item two case at 333 pennsylvania avenue is proposed for continuance until october 9th commissioners your agenda says september 18th there has been changes and the proposed continuous cat is october 9th. Commissioners, i do have one speaker card. Irene dick. Good afternoon. Commissioner president wu and members im on behalf of the project sponsor i want to ask you to continue this is this and were pleased with the six weeks data. Is there additional Public Comment on items one or two . Good afternoon, everyone. Commissioners. Im irving im the owner of 284547 broadly restrict street the building next door. There are two requests for discretionary review in this case i filed one and yesterday another neighbor mr. Tim filed another request for discretionary review. I believe that many of our Community Members have written to commissioner president wu to request a pony time i wrote to the two commissioners that we requested a 45 day
Beyond what we are currently doing, but if there is some Extraordinary Initiative that we have to undertake to demonstrate that we have indeed, advocated for, sought, and pressured, and persuaded, tried to influence, this particular issue. And i feel compelled as a member just to raise again, my hand to say, why do we continue to do this kind of thing . And nobody in the room has an answer. And i recognize that, commissioner or that director dodd was part, of the process, for crafting this, and i recognize, that as we got into the union negotiations, which would put another requirement on us, that we would cult consult it. But at the end of the day, the board is required to do something. I would like to add this to the other item if you will in terms of you giving us interpretive guidance as to how we will comply. I would be happy to talk to you about that. For now, i just note that it does not say requirement, but recommend. I understand, but here a recommendation will get translated
Report, we have counted over 1. 6 billion, worth of private and Public Investment in the improvement projects that will summarize here. And there are in addition port leasing and other many maintenance and Engineering Projects that we have not been able to profile here in addition to that. In terms of the policy framework from the water front plan the division of the water front advisory plan was to reunite San Francisco with the water front and the Foundation Points for that were the goals that you see on this slide to really promote, and embrace San Franciscos diverse maritime, working water front, to revitalize the port for public enjoyment. To broaden the array of uses and activities that should be offers along the water front to subscribe to the urbanty of San Francisco. To expand the Public Access to transportation access along the water front as part of its improvement. And to design and come up with new projects, that are mineful of the history, and to the design of creativity
Public access as a successful model for our projects. And we are hearing from the public and the commission a desire to promote, more jobs and more contracting opportunities for the sectors of the city this is an area where the port has exceled with the generosity of the San Francisco voters through two general Obligation Bonds in 2008 and 2012, they thought that the development will deliver the Public Open Space and that has not been the case, it has been this general Obligation Bond Funding Source and other Funds Available to the port. There has been broad support for the historic rehab projects and i think that the people recognize that the piers represent important urban fabric for the edge of the city. There are real challenges with the historic piers related to the Sea Level Rise. The structural of the piers may preinclude the development of those piers. And in order to make these projects more financially viable, we need to pursue new sources like the california, historic tax cr
Region, in the near term and medium term is not really sea level, rise, i mean there may be 6 inches by 2030 or 12 by 2050. But what we are really have to be concerned about in the near and medium term is what i called the trifecta which is the Sea Level Rise, combined with a big tide, and a big storm. And if you really want to bet big, you put the earthquake in there at the same time and that is what happened to hawaii last week, we had a 5. 0 the day before the hurricane hit. And so, what we are doing, with our partners at the point joint policy committee, abag is working on the an integrated 18 move for 24month plan that is fully integrated now. That is the hook that we are going to use to how the water is going to move and where the water is going to move of and how it is going to effect everybody on the ground and as you well know, you have discussed this, it is the water coming off of the hills that backs everything up into the creeks and so on, whether it is the Mission Creek so