And advocacy groups all throughout the city. Especially Affordable Housing advocates and park advocates. We have had a long journey together and i feel really good about it. Not only the relationship with the port, but the relationship with the community has produced a promise that im proud of. Weve worked hard with the sister agencies throughout the city. The Mayors Office of housing, the m. T. A. , planning department, p. U. C. , public works, contract monitoring division, city build. Josh arsay is here. Bcdc state lands commission, the department of environment and energy. It really has taken a village to get to this point. Were very grateful with the positive relationship that we have and getting start sod we can transform this part of the waterfront. Im also going to pass it to fran whos really been heading our project on a daytoday basis for many, many years who has spent hundreds of hours working with your staff and staff of the different city agencies. Good afternoon. Under the incredible leadership and vision, this group of people has been really an Extraordinary Partnership and had the pleasure of working with. Byron rhet, mike martin have provided wonderful leadership. Rebecca, of course, has been a great addition to the team. Together with dianne and dan, steven and kevin, we collaborated on the design and engineering that you see and all the documents that you had. We took two pieces of successful, statewide legislations to sacramento with brad benson and daly dunhams help. We developed the financial structure with Meghan Wallace and her team in the finance division. And, of course, have responded to countless media requests with renee martin. The inordinant number of hours that eileen, joanne, grace and rona have spend on the transaction documents we are very grateful for and not many people know that our mission rock team within the giants has almost lived out of the pier ones one day a week for the last several years. So, they have been incredibly hospitalable to us as we spent so many hours squating in your offices. [laughter] really it has been a huge team effort. And we just are very grateful and thankful to be here today. And happy to answer any questions. We have a great relationship with them dating back to the ballpark construction and working with the p. L. A. For this project as well. This really has been a great experience and one that i think we all feel good about being involved in. Its not always the case when you deal with a complex, difficult negotiation. It takes a goodwill from both sides and we really enjoyed that and enjoyed working with with you and your staff. Thank you. We turn it over to you. Thank you. Mike . [laughter] there is an almost celebratory aspect to this particular hearing and for good reason. You know, just as of a few weeks ago when i came to compliment you on your staff work, im going to do the same with regard to the giants here today. We had, as jack has noted, a very Good Relationship with them that began at the ballpark and is moving across the creek. The the ive always viewed this particular project as a commission that began with mission bay. This is when willie cut the deals back in 2003 to get that project to move forward. This is plot of land that functioned under different requirements and restrictions as you are well aware and those required a different sort of work that your staff has put in to overcome. I think in some ways it will represent an improvement as well as a completion upon what has gone before it in mission bay. And we look forward to it going forward. Thank you. Thank you, mike. Diana parsons. Thank you. Maybe i didnt pronounce your name right. Hello. From spur. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is susan a na parsons from spur. Purchase is a membersupported nonprofit working to make the city a better place and the reason a better place through research, education and advocacy. Im here on behalf of spur to support approval of the mission rock project. Mission rock will create a special place for San Francisco residents, workers and visitors on a site of citywide importance that is currently underutilized. The giants have worked closely with the neighborhood, various stakeholders and a broader city because of 2015s prop d. As a result, the project includes Numerous Community benefits that address affordability, livability and quality of life for those who will live and work here as well as for the broader community. Those include 40 Affordable Housing for a variety of people with a range of incomes. Eight acres of parks and open space, including improved Public Access to the waterfront and connections to the bay trail. A renovated, historic pier 48 and neighborhoods serving retail. This info project is also doing the right things on the environmental project. It is located on major transit, the team is planning ahead for Sea Level Rise and the project has bold environmental targets, including zero water waste and 100 energy use from renewable sources. And this project will generate revenue for the port and the city and county of San Francisco. We think mission rock is a transformational mixed use and mixed Income Development that has gone through a decade of Community Planning process. Spur urges you to approve this project. We look forward to the completed development and all the opportunities it will bring. Thank you. Thank you. Corinne . Hi. Commissioners, my name is corinne woods. Im a Merry Christmas of sea wag. Im no longer cochair. That is alice rogers. Because i dropped being cochair in order to get on to the waterfront Land Use Plan update working group. Which is why im up here. We worked on this project for a very long time and its wonderful to see it so close. I do have a couple of minute quibbles under the Transportation Plan. Giving muni the option to move money out of the neighborhood. And the other thing im concerned about is pier 48. Obviously we have a long way to go on that. I do think it is important to think about pier 48 in the context of the r. F. I. Proposals that you will be hearing about later this afternoon. And the work that the Waterfront Plan Working Group has been doing. About all of the historic piers. Pier 48 isnt really included in our work because when we started, we really thought anchor was going to be there. And we didnt have to think about it. But i think that we have to be consistent in the treatment of longterm planning for pier 48 as we are with the rest of the historic piers. Otherwise, im really looking forward to having new neighbors. Thank you. I think this is bruce. Rosatti. Ok. Thank you, bruce. Good afternoon. Executive director forbes, president adams, commissioners. My name is bruce agate and im speaking in support of the Mission Rock Development. Im involved in the Community Serving on the board and as transportation rep of the south Beach Mission hill neighborhood association. In the recent pass as an officer of the democratic club. However, my comment today is provided as an eightyear resident of mission bay. Over the past six years, ive had the opportunity, along with my neighbors, some for up to 10 years as you heard, to be involved in the planning process for the Mission Rock Development. This includeded providing feedback on a variety of public documents and Numerous Community outreach meetings and workshops. In addition to current residents and local businesses, those Community Leaders involved in the planning of mission bay from the beginning were also involved in the process. We discussed building heights, transportation, quality of life, open space and so much more. Together we shared our insights and provided input on this project which will help transform this part of the eastern waterfront into a vibrant and complete community. Good for us as neighbors, good for us as community and our city. As i mentioned, this community in greater stakeholder engagement, helped us shape the project we see today. Striking a delicate balance on the amount of parks, waterfront access, housing, neighborhoods serving retail and restaurants, preparation for Sea Level Rise and office space. Im not an expert in the financial aspects of development, but this project brought together an Amazing Group of stakeholders experts to find the optimal mix of land uses while providing some flexibility to enensure successes and delivery of the project. Even with this collaboration and consensus building there were dramatic lastminute discussions to gain agreement that this project could raise a percentage of Affordable Housing from 33 to 40 . With this said, today we have a parking lot and community desert along this section of the waterfront. At the appropriate time, please approve this project as presented, allowing the Mission Rock Development to move forward. Thank you. Thank you, bruce. Chad houston from local 261. Come on up, chad. Good afternoon. My name is chad houston. With local 261. First i want to commend everyone on really the longtime coming it has been for this project. 261 likes this project for quite a few reasons. One of them is weve had a longstanding relationship thats great with the giants and were really just excited for that to move forward as well as its providing blue collar jobs that really are dwindling from this city, the working class individuals arent able to stay in San Francisco. Local 261 has about 50 to 100 members crossing three counties with about 35 of that workforce being San Franciscoans and keeping individuals in San Francisco with blue collar jobs always a plus for us. We also have a component, a workforce plan that is identified to train and employ local workers. So, we have preapprenticeship programs and apprenticeship programs and we work with city build. Im sure josh will be speaking at this hearing add well. Those programs provide jobs for individuals who live in San Francisco and provide training for those individuals in Career Pathways for them to stay in San Francisco, keep jobs, have a union job with benefits to stay here so we really do appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. I dont have anymore cards. Is there anyone else that would like to speak on 12a. Please hit the mic, please. Being none, thank you. Public comment is closed. Commissioner katz. Not sure where to begin. First off, fran, im a little disappointed. You let out the secret about our amazing staff here at the port. I used to make comments about how fantastic our staff is and then i realized i better not say too much because we dont want them to get poached. But now that you said it, thank you for acknowledging the tremendous people that are here at the port. We really do think certainly i know that we have some of the best people in City Government working here at the port. So, fran, i think you cede it really well in terms of what everyone has offered. But thank you for acknowledging our team and thank you for your team and everyone at the giants. It is really a treat to have a project where we have the support of a Development Partner that looks at the city as a true partner and has the best interests of the city and the community in mind as we move forward and really sense that in this project, all of us have seen what this project can do for the future of San Francisco. And it brings together labor, the port, the giants, but really provides a benefit to all of San Francisco and creating a community that will really be additive to our city. I think weve got an opportunity, as we look at sort of the changing landscape and this is also a project where its taken into account the need for Affordable Housing and not just met the minimum but rose above that. Think that really needs to be highlighted again that this project goes above and beyond sort of minimum requirements for Affordable Housing and i want to just thank everybody for figuring out a way to make that happen. Im not going to thank everyone on our team. Fran, you say it well. But just everyone that has been involved in this. Youve really been stellar. Many of you sitting in the first few rows here. Thank you for the work that has been done. This brings out in the true sense of the word, a team effort. We look forward to another world series victory from the part of the team. By think this is really a world series worldclass opportunity and project for all of us. Very excited to see it coming to fruition. Commissioner brandon, think you are one of the few people in the room that was really here at literally ground zero. So thank you. Thank you for your vision. [laughter] corinne and toby, it is a Community Effort and Community Opportunity and i think all of the input that so many leaders from the community have put in, its made it that much better project. Ive seen the shaping of the parks and the open space and extra acreage there and i know corinne and toby, you were really key in raising that issue. So, it really is, i guess, a little bit of a love fest. But this is the kind of project that deserves it. So, excited to see this moving forward and was pleased to get to this point today. So, thank you. Commissioner katz has told it well in terms of the sentiments of which i share about the giants and their tremendous effort and working with the city and the community as well as our own team and i wont work through the details of what commissioner katz just went through and echo with our Community Partners with corinne and toby and the waterfront and katie and all other people that work with us from that. I think this is a project that illustrates how it was a long journey. A lot of collaboration and interaction and voices were heard. I think what we hear today, there are a couple of things that were brought up that i know that we still want to hear and were almost to the goal line here in terms of getting over that oneyard line. I would echo the same things that we are interested in at the commission and we hope that, elaine, when it comes back to full action that we do hear about the Transportation Plan and i know it is something that has been on our minds and i know that is important for mission rock as well as the whole waterfront area and how we hear about how the transportation issues are going to be addressed. Secondly, i think that the commission has already echoed that we need to hear about pier 48 and hope it is not something thats left to languish for too long, given some of the other fate of some of our other piers. I think that is something that were interested in hearing in the next rendition. Its been a long journey. Its great to be here today. And we look fortoward to getting this across the goal line. Thank you. Commissioner brandon. Thank you, rebecca anfield for the presentation. This is just so wonderful. It feels like at this point were all family. That weve all put so much into this and all worked on this and put a lot of time and energy and thought into this project. And i just have to say in my 20 years of being here and working with the giants, they have always been great partners and great neighbors. You know, it may take a little while or we may have to negotiate here and there. But in the end, what they really want is to do something very good for San Francisco and all the communities within San Francisco. They have been great partners and im not going to go through and thank everybody that everybody has already thanked. But thank everybody. Because it took a village and a true partnership. And i would like to hear from romulus and josh about the l. B. E. Utilization and the work first development. Because i think the giants have just gone above and beyond so i would like to hear from those departments. Heads. [laughter] commissioners director. Im a relative newbie to the collaboration here. I only started in 2008 with the folks. The way i gauge it, my son was 2. He is 11, roughly 12 now. Thats how long i gauge weve been working with the giants. But more importantly, like everybody else, its been a thrill to work with the giants. They were they have always been enthusiastic about working with the city on crafting a voluntary l. B. E. Commission program and thank you for their collaboration. In terms of specifics, there is a overall l. B. E. Go for the entire project of 20 . A little short. Through which theyre going to do this through working with us on good faith effort. They also agreed to work with c. M. D. To engage l. B. E. S for tenant improvements and commercial spaces above 15,000 square feet. As well as trying to engage l. B. E. S for followon services such as janitorial services, security, etc. And finally whenever practical, they would work with us to seek contracting teams that meet diversity of the city and seek to include businesses and residents from our most disadvantaged communities. So that is in a nutshell the program. Thank you. I really appreciate that. And it just shows that the giants have gone above and beyond what others have done and so we really appreciate that. And now, if we could hear about the Workforce Development piece. Sure. Thank you, commissioner brandon. Im the director of the city build program. Started in here two months ago after being appointed by mayor lee to become our fourth director of this agency. And what i can sa