I also look it through the lens of there were many legal ways judy woo could have helped you, she could have bought a building with 30 units or a warehouse or legalized some other space in the dog patch or somewhere but she chose not to. She chose to game the system. And what sowed it for me, there were lots that were illegally added, there was a dr where i think there were 12 units and as a trust had, we had no choice in the end but to demolish two or three of the 27 units. I felt horrible because we had no placement plan for the people in the units. Here we have a placement plan and it comes down to me, with i have hope that mr. Buckley and mr. Cole and the city family are going to give you hope and keep their word and help you. I dont have that hope with miss woo after i heard she put another person at risk in a unit we thought was vacant. The plan around lets spend 200 k to make them legal because theres no stove, after hearing that doesnt hold water with me. I couldnt trust judy woo as far as i can throw her. I would trust the city and trust the fact that we have your interests in mind and youre going to get comparable units and i would support the staff recommendation and again, hearing it was another person put at risk when she knew they were being put at risk sealed the deal for me. Commissioner moore. This is not only heartwrenching but probably the most difficult thing we have ever did. Theres the human side, which all of us are 500 on target, but then theres the reality. And in addition to what commissioner richards eloquently summarized, theres the others. I did not expect to hear other neighbors talking about what is basically a primary rh1, get along with each other without causing nuisance and stress. Hearing that was not necessarily finger pointing and loud shouting but very calm and convincing presentation that there are already others who are affected by what is basically the selffocused operation of personal gain, aside from the niceness and i appreciate that she is humanly friendly, accessible and caring, but the other side, shes not caring enough to deal with those impacted by it. The trash, the excessive number of cars and thats all part of getting along in a neighborhood no matter where you live. I think that makes me support and be convinced that the summary is on target and i have to stand with what the department and City Attorneys Office are proposing as being the one and only way to get us out of this. I do have to put my trust somewhere and i have to say that the additional work and by which everybody has taken a responsibility to chip in and create what i believe is a pretty seamless strategy for help in moving forward is the only way i can support at this moment. Commissioner richards. So i move to how do we want to do this, aq. Can we just take staffs recommendation. Enmass . Yeah. I take staffs recommendation on all the items. Second. Thank you commissioners. On that motion then commissioners, to take dr and approve the matters were not im not arguing the case, i just want to point out a technical issue in the motion. Revered, if you can make sure the unit count is correct, i think theres a discrepancy. I think that technical issue can be resolved by staff. Were allowing four units in the building, four units in that property . Thats correct. Thats what the chart says. It is four units. That one lets see 1351 revered, seven units currently. Yes, there are seven units and there are four were going to legalize up to four units, so it would be a loss of three units. So were taking dr and adding the adu on that property. Yes, the original Building Permit did not have the adu. Thats included in the four. Okay. So commissioners theres a motion seconded to take dr and approve with conditions items 24a through c, not take dr and approve 24d and g. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. That motion passes anonymously 60. Is there general Public Comment . Oh, we dont have any. Good morning, everyone. I am elaine 23 orbes and i am the executive director of the port and its good to see everyone here today. This is a very important moment for the port of San Francisco, for the city, for the dogpatch neighborhood and for the future of our city, and this moment really started a long time ago. 20 years ago, port staff began a master planning process, and i see some of the folks that started that process in the room today. When i first sat up here seven years ago, i thought interesting place, very beautiful. Lot of different maintenance. How in the world will we get this rehabilitated for the public . How will we protect the Balance Sheet from the deferred maintenance, but we had some people in this room where people saw beauty where others say decay, and that was very important to this place. We have the tenacity and the creativity and the believe that something that takes 20 years to complete and to do it right, so im very proud of the collaboration of court staff with all the city departments to make this a reality that were at the point where we can sign documents today, and i want to say before i turn it over to our vip guest, a very special thank you to ken from dwd. Ken really took a lot of time to understand the ports points of view, and others points of view, the developers and to find solutions when things got hard and you never took your eye off the ball, and you were a great partner, ken, and i am so proud that you were leading this effort and the collaboration between our city departments. So this thing that started 20 years ago is going to result in affordable housing, connection to the bay thats been lost to the residents for 100 years, art spaces, creative spaces, pdr, and primarily, its going to be a beautiful space for everyone, the kind of thing that you demand our departments create, so were very proud that we kept faithful to your project for the city, and with that, i would like to introduce the mayor who has been instructal in seeing this through to the end. Mayor lee. Well, thank you, elaine for not only your leadership, your work here at the port and to all the staff and commission because the ports really an exciting place. A lot of things happening, and i want to let you know that ill be working very closely with you as we talk to the public about one of the most important Infrastructure Projects that the ports going to lead, and thats of course the protection and rebuilding of our seawall because thats something that we will find very near and dear if we get information out. But the port has become not just a place for business, it really is a place, because of this leadership, byron and all the others working, ben, mr. Benson here, and so many others, that its now become a place for families and people to really enjoy the entire city, and our signing today, because of supervisor cohen, because of jack sylvane, because of all the others, allows us to do something that often times we dont get to do. You know when you go down to pier 70, views and access are basically blocked by abandoned historic buildings, and that blockage has not been very good for us, and i know a few years ago when jack was working with kenneth matz, he got me down to a concert of all places, some music concert down there, and then, we walked around the area, and we got excited with made in sf and some of the other events we held down there, we finally for ourselves was discovering how beautiful it was and planning. And thats why were here because the role of the port and planning working alongside for the city and jack, by the way, wanted to praise him, we worked with Treasure Island for many years, but hes in that spirit that we really wanted to get things done here that finally opened up access for everybody, and pier 70 project is all about that. Its about rediscovering what San Francisco is and bringing all the people in that area together to enjoy nine additional acres of parks and rebuild with a lot of respect those historic buildings, make them useful. Theres a lot of quiet artists out there because nobody paid attention, and so we want to bring attention to the fact that theyve been out there, and were going to work with forest city and theyve committed to make sure that theres an arts center out there, Community Center will be built. And of course as part of my agenda, along with supervisor cohens agenda, were going to building a lot of housings in that area, 30,000 units of housing. A lot of commitments that were made by forest city, let me take the opportunity to thank kevin ginter and forest city, making sure that if we were going to introduce a project of this magnitude, its r had to have the amenities that we all enjoy. Theres a really basic commitment that were going to see through, and that is a lot of residents of district 10 are going to get to work on this, just like were getting the work on the chase arena center among others. This project is not only going to be great for housing, for land use, for art, for open space, but it also will create the kind of jobs that we want. Itll also create revenue to contribute to the Sea Level Rise challenges and the seawall. In fact, i think were estimating maybe over the ten years, probably 1 billion of contributions to the seawall, and i think theyre going to support us on another Ferry Service at the end of 16th street. These are all wonderful, wonderful attributes that i have to attribute to the people that have been working on this for over a decade, and i want to say thank you because this is why it was fairly easy for supervisor cohen to get a unanimous vote, because all she had to do was get in there, get the benefits. You know, its easy, like all the proms that she does, so i want to say thank you to her, because everybody does get the benefit from this, and i feel strongly about this because we havent opened up a lot of this area of the southern waterfront to everybody. Its been closed out, you know, you know, later on after this and of course, were looking at Treasure Island, as well, but we also have other projects that will open up the waterfront. Theres mission rock, the potrero power plant to the south, the parklands that were beginning to identify with the bluegreen trails that will dot it all the way through. Youre going to see multiple transit opportunities for people to access, along with the housing and the jobs, so were very excited about this. Theres a lot of great benefits, but it took a while, and it took a while to make sure that everybody respected the historic buildings, that everybody used them. It takes a while tor Historic Preservation to also catch up with development, and in this area, its not only catch up, were going to pay a lot of respect because that is our citys history, and to respect that also means to reuse these buildings and respect the architecture and design of that history. I mentioned jennifer matzs team intentionally because she was part of the team on the port that worked so well and brought so much enjoyment to these projects. Jack had a good time working with her on the same team, and thats the team that ken rich came from, all of that Team Continues to do wonderful work with the port, so theyve given me a list of names that i make sure i mention, because i should, as the mayor, to recognize people who have minimally, six to ten years, working on a project and brought to it the final conclusion that has not only the unanimous vote at the board, but a continued for the next ten years, Phase Development that i think will be honored by not only the immediate residence debts, but the entire city will be welcome to come down here and enjoy all of the assets that have been associated and be part of it. Elaine forbes, christine maher, ken matsuda. From the office of Economic Development workforce, ken rich, sarah dennis philips, cat daniels, mark majors, patrick mitchell, john ram, of course, beg dan siders, job switsy, melinda cooper. City attorneys office, theyve been working a lot on language. A lot of things had to be balanced, a lot of things had to make sure, and in fact, i want to thank them because they just got some lawsuits on this, nothing to delay us, everything to go forward, and so thank you to the City Attorneys be there with us and working on drafts. People like andrea ruiz, kriss tom and kate stacey. They had a whole host of other agencies who assisted them. Our Public Utilities agency, our public works, and of course our Contract Monitoring Division all had dedicated staffers that contributed to this project. All in all, the best projects are the ones where theres a tremendous amount of collaboration, a good trusting relationship with the developers so they know were not trying to rake them over the coals and take money that isnt from there deservingly, but they will be honored from this project. We cant get projects done without a supervisor whos going to champion it along with the mayor, and let me introduce our supervisor, malia cohen. Thank you. Oh, my goodness. Todays wednesday morning, which means that yesterday was tuesday, which means we had a board meeting. Im still in shellshock right . But good morning ladies and gentlemen. Its good to see everyone today. Weve really come to celebrate and kind of pass ourselves on the back. Its been a tremendous lift. This project has been in development for ten years, and i have been a part of it, certainly in earnest for the last three years. Everyone looks good. You look good in a suit. I love it. And but i really wanted to tell you what youve heard you know about the economic benefit to San Francisco, and were really fortunate to live and to work in San Francisco, but i really want to talk a little bit about the community impact, what a project of this magnitude actually means. It means, coming from a native San Francisco resident, that we have an opportunity to interface with a beautiful shoreline that really has been locked away. When you go into the dogpatch neighborhood, its almost like youre relegated to just the 3rd street corridor and maybe one block, block and a half, did he fe depending on what side of 3rd youre on. You can see the water and the bay in the distance, but you cant touch it. Youre not able to bring your kids to experience it, and this project begins to breakdown those man made barriers and open it up, and the significance of pier 70 is its going to be connecting where we are in the embarcadero all along the southern waterfront past the Bayview Project into the community. This is a tremendous project to get through, and i want to recognize the mayor already gave the names called the names cause we remember, but i dont think you guys understand how many hours of Public Comment, how many hours of neighborhood meetings, and then, just right before you get to a vote, you literally spend the weekend with the City Attorney drafting amendments, making changes, and then, thats when you begin to talk to the colleagues excuse me, youre incident being with colleagues prior to this because you need to bring them along to make sure theyre nothingable about the project so that they will vote for it, and that is where the challenge really lies, balancing your colleagues perspective and what they want to see with the reality of what can actually be done, with the reality of what your constituents want to see, and i think that is where the rub is. Im very proud to be on the team that has steered this ship to make this come to fruition. This is a significant accomplishment. Pier 70 will deliver. This project will deliver a tremendous asset in public space, open space, office, retail space, affordable housing, i mean, you name it, and ive got to admit, i wish there were more Development Projects that got it. This team got it right out the gate. They got it correct. They went to the constituents that were affected in the area, and they said, what do you want to see . How can we help you what can we develop thats complementary to your neighborhood . Everything from drawing figures, which was an interesting way to take notes, but its a new fad, to beating back an appeal. If you all most of the people in this room have dealt with development, and you know how challenging it is. I dont want to belabor the issue, but i just want to come out here and to pay my respects because many of you have lost a lot of time in your life on this project. Its the truth. This is this was not easy, and i dont know where kevin is. Wheres kevin . Is he somewhere around here . Okay. I spent a lot of time on the phone with him as the project lead. The port, entire team and family is phenomenal. Elaine, you have a Phenomenal Team here. Mr. Mayor, you have a great team with the city, not only the planning department, but your Economic Development thinkers and workforce builders, and we need this. This change is moving and changing and we need to make sure we dont leave people behind. That is a fear that people have, particularly a little south of this project, and i think the mayor and team in this project has demeonstrated that were not going to leave anybody behind, were allowing everybody to speak and be heard on this project. It gives me great pleasure to be able to come out and to celebrate, to christen this project. Its been an incredible, incredible contrary to what the mayor said, he made it sound easy, and im sure from his Vantage Point it was, but im here to tell you this stuff was hard. Its hard. Its difficult, but you know, when you have a team of professionals, it makes it a little bit easier, so i wanted to just say thank you to everyone who worked on this projects, from the lobbyists on down to the person that was at the neighborhood meetings. Thank you. Thank you so much, supervisor, you said so many important points, and you led a process that was not appealed at the end, an Actual Development project of 28 acres that did not have opposition, so it was hard getting there, but my goodness, we certainly got there, and thank you so much for your leadership. So to do this, we certainly had our vision and our plan, but we absolutely needed our partner to do it, someone put at risk capital up, to find private investments, to endeavor with us through all o