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Want to welcome you back to the this is the regular meeting of the this the Land Use Committee im supervisor cowen chair of this committee and to my left is aaron peskin and our clerk ms. Alicia thank you jim smith and charles kremack of sfgovtv to help us broadcast this meeting madam clerk, any announcements . Electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the depth 13 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you could you please call item one. An ordinance 30 years the acquisition of Real Property from the state of california for sidewalks along van ness avenue under the jurisdiction of public works with the Maintenance Agreement waving fees and making appropriate findings ii was told ms. Julian is presenting i dont see her in the chambers one presenting yes why not have the Mayors Office staff make a recommendation i dont know is it finally. Xavier for various reasons
Mayors office staff make a recommendation i dont know is it finally. Xavier for various reasons which well show you in a little van ness sidewalks a desire so are the van ness sidewalks under the city jurisdiction for the apply for local codes like beverly and thanks of that nature Public Utilities commission performed on investigation about 83 sidewalk blocks that will be added to city jurisdictions that includes 2 million a little bit over on van ness from palm on the south side to lombard on the northerly end it is important to note that only existing sidewalks are being replenished from the state to the city at this time any additional sidewalk expansion will require a further relinquishment at this time it is should the sidewalks challenge hands we would go from state controlled policy and regulations to local public works code for this i guess id like to introduce ann marie from the city planning to give us the details for the van ness. Welcome thank you supervising emery rogers
For evaluating us in the broadcast thank you very much madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. All electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the. Okay great you both are ready to present on this item and Shelly Campbell take that away. Good afternoon. Im shelly the public works personnel were here for the jurisdiction challenge from the point of privilege the item before you is virtually for the public works Sewer System Improvement Program the Sewer System Improvement Program is a 20 Million Investment required to renovate, upgrade our aging infrastructure to insure reliable and seismically sewer system for generations to come france is 70 projects 2 plus billion dollars is alter southeast plant which started out 70 years ago property jurisdictional challenge was initiate to enable the sfpuc to identify the space for the facilities at the southeast plant that is a challenge of the San
We have to extremely dignified speakers and colleagues of mine on the podium today. They smiled but they know they are. Housing to ritchie first on my immediate right is a professor at the in warsaw poland. My has written widely on should all of the world. Her two books are absolutely fantastic. The two that i have read. Spouse metropolis, a history of berlin. I cant recommend that highly enough. And warsaw, 1944. Hibbler, himmler and the warsaw uprising. Alex is a member of the president ial Council Advisory board to spend to good advice to the using them for a while. We are truly lucky to have her. Alexs right. Conrad. He spent 26 years in active military service. Ofn including nine years hard duty as a professor of history at United States military academy. I say that with a smile having visited as a professor when youre. Faculty at United States military academy puts themselves on a list to open the building at 6 00 a. M. In the morning. Which is something that he tried in a academ