Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

As we said, as many people have said, the communities growing. We have lots of residents. There is already a fenced off dog run across the street under the 20th street overpass. We really dont need another dog run. What we need is a park to remain as one single meadow. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Anna willis, dogpatch Community Tasks force. I also sit on supporting and following up on comments, i would like you, as a commission, to know that over 18 months of Community Outreach that was done , with s. F. Planning, to ensure that all voices were heard, all stakeholders were heard in the design for the park , park, which is the reason why to date, almost three years later, the design hasnt changed at all. I feel that we have the community saved recreation and parks 5 million because we made the Business Case for ucsf to give 5 million for three parks. From a policy perspective, what i would like to have is recreation and park to recognize that the policy that works for 12 acres for a hilltop park in Pacific Heights is not applicable to un to and under 2acre park in dogpatch, which if you are not familiar with it, it is in pollution alley. The pollution is so bad the city has a program. Where if you have an older car, they will give you 9,000 to buy a clean car and get your polluting car off the road. So i would just like support from the commission for recreation and park to recognize the realities that all policies do not fit on the situation. Thank you. Thank you. Tom . I need you to speak into the microphone. You got it. You can just leave it open the whole time i am talking. Okay. , we will take care of that. Thank you. Commissioners, i would like to speak about some improper trail changes that are planned for mclaren park. At the november 2017 commission hearing, you approved the mclaren park vision, however, due to public up application to the trail plan component, you asked the Natural Resources division and the capital team with them to reengage with the public, amend the trail plan, and return to the commission for approval of the trail system design. On behalf of the capital team, melinda agreed they would have more Community Input and come back to the conductors come back to the commission for Concept Design approval. At last weeks collaborative meeting, lisa announced her intention to bring volunteer people into the park to begin implementing portions of the vision trail plan. She insisted that the plans have been, and i quote, adopted, and later on in the conversation, approved, so it was perfectly legitimate to move the plan forward. Needless to say, the people who oppose the trail plan in 2017 are very displeased with this turn of events. Lisa wayne seems to ignore the november 2017 commitment and move forward with her trail plan without your approval. Will you allow this . The mclaren Park Community would like a clear answer from the commission. I need to point out that in a year and a half since the hearing, capital team has yet to hold any Public Meetings to work on the trail plan. Meanwhile, that the tension against the trail plan has grown to 1,315 signatories, up from 949 at the time of the hearing, and there have been 75 signatures since i started this. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else would like to make general Public Comment . All right. Seeing none richard. Richard, come on up. [laughter] good morning, commissioners. I wanted to try and update some of you on this issue. We asked the board of supervisors and i did initial outreach to the people involved in the board of supervisors. They informed me that should park and recreations require additional surveillance cameras, they would be available. I spoke at the rules committee mostly about whether there was graffiti and that type of problem. I was thinking more of nighttime activity where there would be surveillance of all the parks and recreation facilities, and that way the city can look after the town and they can look after their own properties. I didnt yet to get into parks like in play areas where it is kind of interesting, where there would be surveillance, but i believe that is more departmental, and that would be the general manager and his executive staff. They probably would be coming back to you with different ideas one of them has to do with ceqa, and it is sorting and triaging of what is available. I have also known that there is always the privacy issue. I am just touching basis. I think it is an important issue i have already spoken with aaron peskin, and should there be the necessity of additional cameras, there would be. Thank you. Thank you. We have time for one more. Come on up. This is the last one under this item. Hello. My name is susan. About 20 years ago, my husband and i were able to purchase a home in dogpatch. At that time, it was a lowkey overlooked neighborhood. Things have changed. One of the things that was so special about that neighborhood was that it was a community and we would go to the park, park, hang out with our neighbors, and meet each other and find out whats going on and build that Community Even more. Talking and meeting with people who you would never expect to meet with. Hell his angels, gang members lots of people are coming to the park. If the renovation progresses in a manner where the type of surface is an artificial turf as opposed to natural turf, it is going to hinder people from going to the park and using it as a community, or building that community. As a senior in this city, it is getting harder and harder for me to get around and navigate the city. I am using my neighborhood more and more. I need that park, and other people like myself need that park, something local where we can communicate and hang out, and i just ask you to think about the citizens, the taxpayers who are in the city, who need a Natural Environment that they can go to and continue to build a community. Thank you. Thank you. Margaret, before you conclude that, did you want to make some comments on the jackson park . I wanted to make a comment and ask a question maybe for claritys sake, so one, i spend a lot of time in the dogpatch and bayview area, and it is amazing how much it has exploded it is actually quite affirming to see all the people who have moved to the area. Everybody in the room how priorities for the 2020 bond were made, and when can we expect some sort of action on jackson park . Usually we dont get into those things during Public Comment, so what i will ask is that the general manager if they would respond to the commissioner after the meeting, and if you want to have anything reported out at the next meeting , i would be happy to entertain that. I would love to have something reported out at the next meeting. Thank you. Okay. We are at time now for item number 4. We are closing item number 4 and going to item number 5 which is the consent calendar. I have two cards. Tom borden. You have i need you to come up if you want to speak on item five. Those are under item five. Okay. Sorry, i was confused. I just want to say regarding the trail and restroom project, i would hate to see you guys approve that plan without knowing what trail is going to be closed, and i will bet you have no idea that the plan is focusing on the asphalt path along the outside and there are a lot of trails. There is the peer down there that no one hardly goes to because the trail isnt maintained. Theres a lot of little treasures. And i ventured they will all be closed off under this plan, or it is in the making in this plan it be nice to know what will be closed. It doesnt show up in the plan. I just wanted to say, i support the restroom in mclaren park. It will be great. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else would like to make Public Comment under the consent calendar . Okay. This item is closed. We do need a motion. So moved. Moved and seconded. All those in favor . Aye. I wanted to ask if we can pull these items out. I apologize. Okay, lets back up. Go ahead. Item c. And item e. C. And e. , those were the ones that mr. Borden just spoke on and they have been taken off of consent, and we will need to have a staff presentation on those. Commissioners, without we need a motion to approve the consent calendar without item five c. And five e. So moved. Seconded. Moved and seconded. All those in favor . Now we are going to go to item five c. , the lake merced trail and restroom project. Why do we need a staff presentation . We dont have to, but when we pull it off lets start with a question from the commissioner. The question i had, why did we decide to do a prefabricated restroom . The restroom is part of a Citywide Program and one was removed from st. Marys under the replacement of those. There is a new design that is being approved right now through that program, which is managed by public works, freeing up that one from st. Marys allowed the department to place that restroom at a new park, and problems with the existing portable chemical toilet at lake merced is a major 31 issue for that park, and so the decision was to place the restroom at lake merced, which is considerable savings to the department because they own and pay for that restroom. The project is only responsible for providing Utility Service to it. Right. Wait, i am confused. Are you moving one restroom . It would be bring new one. It would be a brandnew one. The choice of new know she no restroom, it is part of a citywide contract. This wasnt an independent decision to bring in a modular restroom in this case. And right now weve got a leaking port a party and that is our only option. That is all we can do. Why is that . Why cant you build your own restroom . Because the restroom is 2 million that we dont have budgeted, that the voters did not approve as part of the bond project. I also looked under item c. I did not see a subcontractor list for who would be hooking up utilities. Maybe i missed it. Could you possibly get that to us . Sure. This is just the concept. We have it uptodate. No. Okay. Thats all the questions i have. I will have to vote against item c. I just dont believe that a prefabricated anything is the way to go. It is not by the same code as the rest of the building in San Francisco, local hire doesnt apply, somebody else is doing it somewhere else for way less, 10 an hour maybe. Can we move onto item e. . Before we do that you need a motion and a second and then a vote. Okay. The chair would entertain a motion on item c. So moved. It has been moved. Is there a second . Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor . Aye. A no recorded by commissioner mozilla. Okay. Item e. I just have a question because i dont see a sublists under that one. I was just wondering if that has gone out to bid yet. It has not gone out to bid yet. It hasnt . No. Will be know that before we approve it . This is the Concept Design approval for the restrooms, and when the project goes out to bid , in order to award the contract, we would be coming to the commission if the total value is over 600,000, and there can be a subcontractor listing as part of the document submitted to the commission. Great. Thanks. I am good. Can we have a motion on item e. . So moved. Moved and seconded. All those in favor . Thank you. We are now on item six, the San Francisco zoo. I might say before they start , that this item was heard by the Zoo Committee and unanimously approved by them until this morning, and just in recommending it to this commission the budget. That is next month. All right. [laughter] go ahead. We approve the budget. It will come next month. Thank you. [laughter]. Im sorry. Go ahead. Margaret, you have changed . [laughter] there we go. To celebrate the arrival of orangutans, we are offering a chance for you to come and hang out with us this summer. You can enter to win a perfect summer hang out for your child in a spot in one of our little learners, or at animal adventures classes. The yearround classes are filled with music, crafts, games , and education animal visitor. To enter, you can email us with your name and your childs age. Names will be compiled and winners drawn each week during the month of june. This july, this july we invite you to join us every weekend including the long july 4th weekend for live music and outdoor barbecue. There will be a special historical display in the pachyderm building, featuring early zoo photographs and fun facts about the zoo and popculture and the many decades since the zoos opening in 1929. We are also featuring selfguided and guided tours highlighting our information. More information is available on our websites. Zoo visitors will have the opportunity to see orangutans at the zoo. A. 14yearold female named judy , named after a long time zoo supporter, jodi judy marcus by her husband, george. She is exploring her new habitat and overhead passages. She was hand raised after being rejected by her mother, so she is very social and interactive with animal care staff and enjoys learning through in which enrichment sessions with their caretakers. Most recently, she learned to paint using a blush brush and canvas. She also we also have a 9 yearold male. He appears to need a bit more time to live up to his name. We expect to become more curious and interactive with judy as he becomes more accustomed to his habitat. June 8th, march the start of many summer programs at the zoo. Wildlife theatre shows return including a variety of ambassador animals from the Animal Resource Centre that will engage and educate visitors about animal adaptations and conservation, the show starts at 1 30 p. M. The nature trail now opens with more then a dozen animals up close. Youth volunteers staff each station to deliver fun facts and conservation stories from 1130 11 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. Daily the talk on the wild side, the wildlife theatre is open from thursday until sunday. Talk on the wild side returns. Volunteers utilized by a fax, cartes, and animal exhibits daily around this you. Life on the farm is a special talk in front of the insects to thursday through monday at 3 15 p. M. , with a chance to meet our farm animals. In honor of world giraffe day, june 21st, an annual event to celebrate the longest neck to animal on the longest day of the year, we celebrate our heard and raised awareness of the drafts face. This thread a through sunday, there will be draft feedings from 11 00 a. M. Until 1 00 p. M. Especial enrichment activity at 2 30 p. M. , and an opportunity to talk to a care team. The proceeds will go to the restricted giraffe project. And last, but certainly not least, margaret the meerkat. A newly arrived meerkat at San Francisco zoo exploration zone will be named margaret in honor of retiring long term s. F. Park employee Marcus Macarthur who is with us today. [applause]. [laughter] we think margaret for many years of services to the city and her longtime support of this do. You will certainly be missed and have big shoes to fill. Thank you and congratulations , margaret. Thank you. Is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment on this item . Okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This was discussion only. We are now on item seven, 95 hawthorne, the shadow on the many park. Many park. Good afternoon, commissioners commissioners, general manager. I am a planner with the capital and Planning Division and im joined by Nicholas Foster from the Planning Department. The item before you today is the 95 hawthorne street shadow on guy plays many park. A review of the shadow cast by the project is at 1. 2 of the strategic plan. They strengthen the quality of existing parks and facilities. As you know, your review of the shadow on recreation and park land is codified by the planning code, section 295, and from the 1989 memo. The proposed project is located at 95 hawthorne street at full some street in the south of market neighborhood. The area surrounding the project includes a mix of high density, residential, and commercial uses with buildings varying in height from two stories, up to 24 stories within a block of the project. In addition, there are several popo and plan parks within a three block radius, including guy plays many park, and under ramp park. The proposed project would demolish the existing five Story Building and construct a new 42 Story Building with a groundfloor retail and it on the ground floor. These are images throughout the project at the corner of hawthorne and folsom on the left , as well as a few looking down folsom from second street. Nicholas foster from the Planning Department will now tell you about the proposed project. Its Public Benefits, public outreach, and the environmental review. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners. Good morning general manager ginsberg. That southeast trail will be coming back to planning next year. Your time is up. [laughter] i think we are five and 46 of my ten year, we are not very good. Brian touched on this project. This is 95 hawthorne street. This is the Northeast Corner of folsom and hawthorne. A fivestory existing Office Building will be demille demolished and placed with a 42 story 444foot tall for 62 if you include all the rooftops, including 392 dwelling units with groundfloor retail, approximating about 4,000 square feet, but this is a residential project in nature. Nineteen of the dwelling units would be provided onsite which equates to 55 dwelling units. The project is a state density bonus project which means that 35 of the development is being converted to the project by providing very specific a. M. I. Levels, which are 50 of the a. M. I. , so those are 11 , so the additional develop and capacity is being conferred to this project. [please stand by]. 80 and 110 respectively. This project has to achieve a greater ability and from the low income tier down to 50. It is even a deeper benchmark. Thank you for the question. Thanks. Guy place mini park, which is currently under construction is a 4,308 square foot site acquired in c

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