The board directed its staff to pursue the pagota a option. First the pagota theater option is far less disruptive to the community. Secondly, we will be tearing down a 15 plusyear blighted eyesore that the neighborhood has wanted to move forward for many, many years and thirdly, this is an option that leaves open the possibility of extending the central subway to north beach and beyond. Now part of the reason why we have had to move this item so quickly is the central subway construction timeline is extremely tight and if we slip on the timeline, able to result in significant Cost Increases to the project. The sfmta needs to begin demolition in early airplane. Both the sfmta board and Planning Commission have approved different aspects of moving forward this particular proposal, with regards to north beach and the central subway. On february 19th, the mta board approved a twoyear lease between the mta and the pagota palace a lease that includes 400,000 dollar and reimbursable costs su
Planning code by adding section 249. 70. Thank you. And item no. 2, the author is supervisor david chiu. Supervisor chiu. Thank you, mr. Chair and i want to thank you for scheduling todays consideration of a suded is at site of the pagato palace. The pagota theater site which has been a blighted site for almost two decades. By way of a little bit of background we have come a long way since this issue was first brought to our attention late last spring when hi office got a surprising call the same day as the First Community meeting to provide details about the proposed construction on columbus avenue. In 2008, the plan to extract the tunnelBoring Machines in north beach was approached by the sfmta and the Planning Commission. Between 2008 and this past may the sfmta did not do any outreach about the construction plans in north beach and when my constituents learned about this director reisk and many other staff from the mta met numerous times to hear concerns raised between last summer
Will be no tunneling into north beach. However, the city wants to tunnel into Northern Beach to get a start on the subway that will extend further. This is fine if it would properly plan. I am aware there has been no proper planning on the extension of the subway beyond chinatown, no Community Meetings on what path it should take and how it would be used. We are starting to build for a future subway without the careful study and approval of what we are going to do. We need a plan before we start digging. So i suggest that somehow we take another look. Your job as the Planning Commission is to take another look at the longer term plan here and ask do we really know what were doing for longterm subway construction . Thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon, my name is lance kinds and im a resident of north beach and in a recent op ad in the New York Times wont stay dead because it serves a political purpose, appeals to prejudices or both. Krugman was referring to the ideas in washington o
Its been very frustrating to the people attending that meeting that we were not allowed to ask questions. The likelihood of a north beach stop is next to nil. The agreement with the owner does not allow for a station at that site, i understand. I would also like to dispute the idea that they keep saying it will be a 50 height limit on the project. Its supposed to be based on the conditions of the original permit, which limited the building to the existing building envelope only part of which was 50 high. I worry about the loss of that particular specific wording in all of these documents and i brought this to the attention of mr. Chius office and justin true at the time argued that the surrounding buildings were 50 height. That is simply not true. If anybody goes down there and justin never paid a height visit. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is mark brun [kwroerbgs ] a longterm resident of north beach and head of the group save north beach, which includes3 2 businesses now that have
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