Were required to go for lead goal on this project and meet as many features as possible in the budget. This is an emergency staging site right now. That combined with the fact that we are serving youth is driving us to go for a more robust, seismic performance standard. This shows the landscape. We worked with the trust for public land along side the studio. Playground here. Its anticipated that the ground floor multipurpose room would be largely youth serving. So theres visibility between the multipurpose room as well as the Basketball Court out to the playground. The idea was that the outdoor Basketball Court could also serve as a platform for festivals. There are a lot of festivals at this site currently. There could be movie nights and other things in the future. Here are some precedent images. There are some concrete steps above the court, again allowing for viewing and an informal hanging out space for the older youth. Some benches and we anticipate a mix of some playground structures that are out of a catalog and some that are really custom to go with the beautiful architecture in the building. Were still in development of materials of the building. These show two elevations. The top is looking from 6th street into the building, and this one is looking from fulsome west into the building. The birdseye view show it much better, so ill move on to those. Were also including at this point an accessory structure for garbage enclosure that will make it easier for that surface to happen in and out, without interfering with programming. This is a birdseye view looking from 6th street to fulsome. This is the multipurpose room, the outdoor lounge and a court with the lawn in the back. This street view zooms in to show the openness here. The text is a little bit over, but you can see the light coming from the building. You might be wondering why its taken almost five years. While its taken a while for us to get here. I feel good that weve been given some additional funding from the friend family to include the possibility of a pool at this facility. This was a request that came up, and it took a little bit of extra work, but we looked with the architect and a pool designer and the stakeholders to see would this be feasible. In the end the pool because of the structure where the site is and whatnot, the pool would dramatically increase the cost of the project. As luck would have it, were looking at a pool being added to the rec and park portfolio just down the street. So were really excited about the way that worked out. While it took some extra time, its great that we closed that loop early on in the process. This slide shows the Basketball Court, openness, transparency. This aerial is looking from harriet street towards fulsome and 6th. I wanted to give a shout out to all the Community Members who have worked above and beyond to support this project friends of gene friend and many others. As i mentioned before, in addition to the publicly noticed meetings and focus groups at Bessie Carmichael school, they met with us and our recreation and permit staff. We made some modifications to this just before a Community Meeting that we had last september. These are folks who are serving our communities most in need, and theyve taken time to come to the Capital Committee and this hearing today, but also to the arts commission. I want to mention that our supervisor for therapeutic, recreation and Inclusion Services is here today. Hes been a valuable member of our team. Tim figaris who has now retired, but worked was an original facility director of the facility that opened in 1989 has been a key director of our team. Its been such a fortunate opportunity to have that kind of Institutional Knowledge informing our design. Thank you. Clerk i have one blue card, cynthia. My name is michelle liva. I am a resident and i facilitate the collaborative which is a collaborative of about 20 organizations and private businesses that support Bessie Carmichael. Were so happy to be here in support of this design. Were appreciative of the rec Park Department, t. P. L. , for including us so much in this design process. Like was said, up until the last moment, they were listening to our feedback and taking our suggestions into account. And i think that has resulted in a really, really great design. Two things that i really want to point out. I fully support this Concept Design. I fully support this renovation. Were super excited about it. But we are really apprehensive where the community will have to go somewhere else. We would really like to come up with a solution to that problem so that people have somewhere indoor that they can recreate. Until permits are pulled and ground is broken, we really, really hope that all future shadow impacts on this park would include both scenarios, because the park economists as it is now. It may exist in this beautiful design later, but until ground is broken we dont know that. So we really want to make sure that any developments around the park that would impact the park are taking into account both scenarios until that day that happens that were able to celebrate a ground breaking. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners. I am a district 6 resident. I am excited to be here and to see these renovations before you. I just want to express my gratitude to the team at the department as well as the trust for public plan and w. R. Studios. The amount of work that has gone into this plan is huge. A lot of folks will come through, host a couple of Community Meetings and move on. The team has really gone back to the drawing board again and board to make sure that this is right, that it accommodates the needs of users and the expanded use and our changing community and what new users can enjoy in the space. I am grateful for the thought and details in this plan and the opportunity to have this beautiful facility come to the south of market. I echo mishas concerns for the potential shadows that can come from projects in the neighborhood and just want to make sure that you all have a real qualitative understanding looking at this new design as well as what is existing now, as we consider multiple developments that are coming up in the neighborhood. Again, probably our number one concern is what will happen to the existing users in the meantime. A two or threeyear construction period is not unfeasible for a project of this size. So really making sure theres a place for folks to go in the interim, and also making sure that they feel welcome back into the new space, that this space is really renovated for them, as opposed to moving them on and this is a new space where new folks have moved into the neighborhood. I know thats your priorities as well. So we just appreciate all of your support on this project. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners. My name is [ indiscernible ] the hotel workerers union. A number of our workers live in soma and use gene friend as their recreation spot. I wanted to comment on a potential peril to this lovely new design. Its got this fantastic light box and solar panels and there is a proposed hotel that would cast a shadow on both. It would defeat the purpose of all the time and effort that went into this very forwardthinking design of having solar panels and a lovely light box in a recreationcentred neighborhood and then having a hotel casting a shadow. Next month there is a scheduled meeting at which a joint commission a joint group of this commission and the Planning Commission will be asked to consider the potential shadow impact on gene friend and the proposed hotel. Were asking that you take into serious consideration the impacts on the proposed new design of this hotel, of the proposed hotel, and in particular consider the fact that as far as we know gene friend still has a zero shadow budget. Its not clear how its going to get the development of that proposed hotel when zero is still zero. Thats currently scheduled for a month from now, although it would be preferable if that joint hearing were moved so as to allow more time for consideration of these potential impacts. I also want to echo the concerns of our friends and allies in all the neighborhood organizations in terms of the need to consider both scenarios, the new proposed gene friend design and the existing gene friend design when doing the shadow analysis. Our members use these parks too, and it is a concern where they will go and what they will have for their outlet during the time gene friend is being designed. I just want to make an announcement that 1025 howard is off calendar. So its not being heard next month. Next speaker. Good morning, park and rec commissioners. My name is carla lorrell. As i said before, were an organization that has been serving the existing Soma Community for the past 51 years. All of our residents, most of our staff live in the neighborhood, and the rec is their back yard. So were really excited that weve gotten to this point now where our voices have been heard and we want to thank everyone at park and rec for really taking into consideration the existing community and whats important to them in this rec center. Whether or not the rec center gets the renovation or not sooner than later, this is where they go every day, period. So to have a renovation thats happening thats really focusing on quality and a place thats safe, thats clean, thats exciting for them is something that were really looking forward to. Just to echo what some of our other Community Partners were saying too, just really taking that into consideration, that while its being renovated, it is going to displace a lot of them from their outdoor space and their back yards. How can we figure out a plan in the interim . And also recognize that when we come out here for stuff thats exciting like this, its also the reason why we come out and object shadows so passionately because we know the impact of these spaces for our residents, for our kids, for our seniors. So we want to make sure that as much as possible we protect them. We know that this rec center has been something thats been a long time in the making. Just echoing what misha was saying, until we break ground taking into consideration how shadow impacts will affect our rec and our park. Thank you. I want to thank you as well. Im tim figaris. I was the exfacility coordinator at Gene Friend Rec Center. I also served as a basketball, volleyball, baseball coach. So one of my biggest concerns is im supporting this solely because it expands it. At one time there were 200 to 300 kids that went to it daily and still getting that much. We used to have so many teams. As a matter of fact, theres a couple of kids in the audience who i coached, one in basketball and one in girls basketball. I want to make sure that becomes activated again. I want to make sure the parks and rec gets coaches out there. Theres a lot of kids there that love playing ball and it keeps them off the streets. Thats important. When the center goes up hopefully there will be inadequate staffing to handle that. As i said, the staff that was there before, we used to coach ten basketball teams and ten baseball teams and i want that to continue. A lot of those kids i run into. Im retired now. We broke the link. They have their kids playing ball now in their communities. At one time when i got there, nobody played anything and they just hung around in the streets. Thanks to united players. We have many of those people who have helped over the years here. There are a lot of kids who really want to play. Its almost like when they get to high school theyll be able to play. If you dont get that athletic stuff that somebody mentioned earlier, how do i want to say this, in the Public School system they dont start sports until sixth grade. Imagine if you had a child who didnt have math until sixth grade, its kind of unfair and the equity isnt there. When they go out to play these people on these club teams, they dont have a chance. Sometimes those are the things that keep kids in school. I want to stress the importance of that and the importance of making sure that there is a facility for them while the construction goes up. Thank you very much for your patience. Thank you. I work out of the binding Community Center almost daily. I would just like to support the sentiments of my neighbors. I definitely would like to remain mindful of shadow impacts on the Gene Friend Rec Center space, regardless of whether or not it is renovated. I also want to be mindful of the fact that the south of market has minimal green space. Thinking about where these kids are going to be able to play and recreate while the renovations are going on i think is of paramount importance. I am a user of the rec center. We use it to work out, stretch and stuff. Now im thinking about where were going to go. Thats just from a very personal standpoint. I would like to keep that top of mind. Yeah, i think thats really it. Just to make sure that every child as we talked about earlier has access to nature. Its really important. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning. Im Phillip Vitali with the trust for public land. We are an organization that strives to have a park or outdoor space within a tenminute walk of every child. Within a 15minute walk of Gene Friend Rec Center theres more than 1500 children and many of them are low income. As youve heard from our partners here, theyre very much using the space and its a resource for them. I wanted to take an opportunity to thank our partners. First of all, the Friend Family Foundation for their generous gift to allow us to do the Feasibility Study and this Concept Design and to really dive deep with the community. To thank rec and parks, theyve been an amazing partner here. And the countless Community Groups youve heard from. Theyve been dedicated coming to meetings and focus groups, bringing out friends and family and making sure that the space will represent their needs and serve their needs now as well as the growing community. Were really excited by this design. Its really been informed by the community. Its really going to serve the existing community and really handle the growth thats going to take place here. We hope you support this Concept Design and we look forward to seeing this concept come to life. Thank you to everybody who has been involved and our Community Members. Thank you. Clerk is there any other Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Just a quick thanks. This has been a really long planning process and its a really robust one and as youve heard today, a really important one for this community. We are where we are today because of partnership and philanthropy. So i wanted to start by again acknowledging the friend family. This goes back well over ten years when we visited Gene Friend Rec Center with bob friend and donnie friend. Bob friend joked and gene friend was a longtime member of this commission. He joked and said let me give you a piece of advice, never put a name on a building because when it breaks, its your job to fix it. Theyve taken that responsibility very, very seriously. It started with some smaller interim improvements. We resurfaced the Outdoor Sports court, we did the weight room. Then they funded this very lengthy planning process to really address the intense use and the increased density and equity in this community. And then and it was really a great partnership. So my next thanks is to the trust for public land for their support. When we worked on projects together, theyre always better. Third, to all of the community, but particularly u. P. For their leadership and involvement. About threequarters of the way through the process, we felt like we just we were missing something and we were missing the pool. We actually had the guts to take a step back. I had the guts to ask the friends for a little bit more money to look at the pool. They were incredibly responsive and philanthropic and invested more money to investigate whether a pool was feasible. And through that research and process and understanding the need resulted in when the San Francisco tennis project emerged, we had been in discussing with them from very early on about adding a pool there and creating this annextype concept, allowing more Community Space on the footprint of gene friend. So this is a process thats work worked. Weve heard loud and clear the angst of what happens after construction. Well start working together and thinking through how we might mitigate some of the impacts of the construction process, but this is one im super excited about. Commissioner. Id like to hear a little bit more from staff on the parking around the area and how deliveries will be made to the facility in terms of supplies, equipment, food, people engaged in the daily activity of the facility. Thats my first question. Thank you, commissioner. So you can see at the top of this slide the red arrow here is the main entrance. So that is the entrance that will be open to staff and the public. Theres also vehicular access planned here into the court area from 6th street. And then as i mentioned that accessory structure here, that trash enclosure. So we worked with staff to make sure that outdoor lighting and things like that could be accessed through vehicle, and this all will be paved, a portion of vehicular loading. There will be an emergency access in from harriet street. We worked with Planning Department on the categorical exemption and the Environmental Review to look at loading zone here. In terms of parking, this request has come up from staff and Community Members not as much as you might think, but as a transit were not incorporating p