So, at rec and park, were encoloneling people to get out and play. Thats our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. Get out and play. We say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. This is a real serious issue. According to the center for disease control, Childhood Obesity has more than doubled in our children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. In 2010 more than onethird of our children were overweight or obese. It is important that we get our kids outside. Our children today average over 71 2 hours behind a screen. Listen to that. 71 2 hours behind a screen, less than 30 minutes a day outside. That has to change. And this playground helps get it done. And i wanted to just offer a quick quote from richard lu who is the author of a book called the nature principle which encourage uz us to reconnect with nature and create a balance between nature and the ever evolving world of technology. ~ he says imagine a world in which all children grow up with
Shout out to the entire city family for their role, Mohammed Nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. applause with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. Gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] director of capital planning, don. Our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. So, at rec and park, were encoloneling people to get out and play. Thats our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. Get out and play. We say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. This is a real serious issue. According to the center for disease control, Childhood Obesity has more than doubled in our children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. In 2010 more than onethird of our children were overweight or obese. It is important that we get our ki
The second tier buildings behind it, new housing, the improvement of the dmv parking area with new landscaping, all the thing to be improved are kind of gelling to make this street a concentrated new main street, kind of neighborhood main street. And im delighted that the legislation is sensitive to the small scale buildings, to the age of the buildings, to the type of mixed uses and to the kind of specific signature of neighborhood commercial district which is very different from any of the others. And as i think the beauty of San Francisco here, im very pleased to see the Small Business commission actually rising to the board of supervisors and copying us to their very unanimous support of whats in front of us. So, i am delighted to just support it as it stands. Commissioner wu. Im also supportive of the legislation. But you have a question on the third recommendation, which is has to do with displacing existing residents. The way it was before was that there could never have been a
Staff recommends that the commission make a specified findings to approve this project. Thank you. Im available for any questions you might have. Thank you. Project sponsor, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you very much for allowing us to present this afternoon. My name is bob tanedler. It is my pleasure to be before you to introduce the tehama [speaker not understood]. Architect our Landscape Architect from cmg Landscape Architecture, Isabelle Wade has helped us plan our plaza and open space integration. Brad paul has helped drive our Community Outreach. Wane hu has helped us understand the economic benefits of the project to the city and county of San Francisco. Sam louder has acted a senior [speaker not understood] and guided us through government interaction and make sure i dont embarrass myself up here today. Susan yogi and david from acom have handled Environmental Review brilliantly and Andrew Junius is our esteemed counsel. All of our team is here to answer questio
Picnic blankets. Carina, youve been our playground champion, Lafayette Park playground sign. Thank you. applause why dont you guys say a few words right now. Okay. The only thing that i want to do is to thank all of you who have been hundreds, it took literally hundreds of people to do this. And i have a couple of names to we want to make sure we mention these names. But im leaving out hundreds of people and i know it. So, and theres plenty more chances. Were going to continue our cleaning and greening days the first saturday of every month, july 13th is our first day but were not allowed to actually maintain it yet at that point. Yeah, we are. I already talked to oh, we are. [laughter] this is how we work, very collaborative. [laughter] so, okay. I want to thank some of these people are here, and some of them are not. If you are here, try to make your way up towards the front here because we all want to hug each other, okay. Kim barnes, our founder of friends of Lafayette Park. We wou