Howard street and well oppose and hopefully, youll strongly oppose the structure and have the original design approved. Thank you good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you. Im alice Light Community planning manager of the todd could group. I want to use some graphics to support johns comments. So ill start with the loss of useable open garden space in the included in your packet. On the right you can see in red the loss of what is current can you see sorry. Our screens are is the paper all the way on that paper the screens are flickering a lot. Sorry i guess well look up here. Sorry. Sorry just one second. Better . Oh, okay. I think we have the slow down here theres a hardcopy in the packet. So on the right is the existing garden and the red is the loss of this open space with the proposed expansion. The large escort loss is the tree of la its a annoys quote space. Theres also the sundial garden and the childrens learning garden those are all removed from the Expansion Plan to allow for
Cross the street theres another lobby and, of course, the metron and the theatre and the lawn of bin. Current theres been 4 hundred and 40 square feet if its configured for the exhibition space. Theres connected by connecticut course thats the blue bar there. Our prime goal with the project is to connect those two sides into one space. That includes excavating portions on Howard Street and moving falls and constructing in that exhibition space. So in plan the drawing on the left is what exists and than on the right is our proposed plan. So to achieve that one hundred thousand sxreet of space we have to move a loading dock and rich and some chunks of dirt under Howard Street. That displaced about 3 of thought square feet of meeting rooms that need to be replaced and increased we need for meeting space. So thats above grade. Looking at at the plan above grade on the left the orange dash line that is hopefully easier to see on your screen than mine. Shows the footprint where we expand the
Things are happening and one is keep that in mind to the east particularly along filling so many student. We think this would be an excel positive thing. This is a birdseye view of the space activated by all kinds of interesting things. Were working with c and g architects and those are additional contents for planting in that space. And then the childrens playground itself is one of the most in the course aspects of the center. Weve had a really fruitful discussion process with the users of that space of whom im one with my daughter. Weve got a lot of interesting feedback how to make a few improvements. So at the left again, the yellow is the footprint of our new building and the blue is for improvements. The diagram on the right is for a new central or arrival place thats labeled seating. You can park our skrorlz and find a place to see the whole area where currently you come bro through the bridge its xhefd and not the best spot for visibility. We want to create a new dedicated play
Impacts there in addition to the expansion project it immunity impair the security of the garden and the new childrens facilities it must provide a safe area for the children would use those facilities. All construction must have uninterrupted construction and not be mitigated in a way to make loss of business or revenue. And we also would like to see is that we hope in the transfer of the gardens that the relationship between moscone and the 3 city blocks is carefully looked at and would like to make sure theres no future encroachment on accident gardens or facilities calling names . Good afternoon jim lazarus with the San Francisco chamber of commerce. I had the privilege of sitting on an advisory group. Im sure youre aware of its key to the economy it would hard to see that this is the growth we need and you see in San Francisco now. A few of us were around during the earlier days of the construction of the moscone. This is a changing investment we went into moscone north and south
We opened up crp land, and changed premium payments, things of that nation that nature. It also got us thinking were there other steps, other things we should be doing, to provide help and assistance . It occurred to us perhaps we should be focused more acutely on the need to encourage multi cropping through the United States, in order for us to do a better job of conservation, to create biomass that could be a revenue source, and to potentially allow us to conserve precious water resources, which would in turn allow us to get through these drought circumstances in a more favorable circumstance. We have begun a process of looking at ways in which we could provide assistance. You will be fortunate to hear from a fellow by the name of david brant, who has a no till nutrient Management System he has put in place since the 1970s, that involves multi cropping. It saves about 100 an acre on nitrogen. It has increased its corn yield seven to 10 bushels an acre. That is something that ought to