Would also like to acknowledge and thank Karina Mendoza for sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Thank you, madam chair. Please ensure that youve silenced your cell phones and other Electronic Devices you have brought with you into the chamber today. If you have any documents to include as part of any of todays files, you should submit them to me. You can do so by bringing them forward to the rail. Public comment will be taken on each of the two items on todays agenda. When your item of interest comes up in Public Comment is called, please line up to speak along your right hand side of the room. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment and writing in either of the following ways. You may email them to me. My email address is j o n period cac c a r r o l l at sfgovtv. Or you may send your written comments via Us Postal Service to our office in city hall. The address is one. Doctor Carlton B Goodlett place, room 242 44 San Francisco, california 94102. If you submit Public Comment in writing, i will forward it to the members of this panel and also include your comments as part of the official file upon which you are commenting. And finally, madam chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of may seventh, 2024 unless otherwise stated. Okay. Thank you so much, mr. Clerk. We have, now item number one, agenda item number one is an ordinance amending the park code to close the great highway extension, beginning at slope boulevard and extending south for a distance of approximately 3300ft to vehicles to allow for a multiuse trail and to improve shoreline resilience as part of the ocean beach Climate Change adaptation project, making associated findings under the california vehicle code. Making environmental findings including adopting a statement of overriding considerations under sequa and making findings of consistency with the general plan in the eight priority policies. The planning code, section 101. 1. Thank you so much, mr. Clerk. We have, anna roche here from the sfpuc, who has been managing this project as well as monica scott from rec park, and we have jeremy spitz here to answer questions. Im sure, so before i let, miss roche do her presentation, i just wanted to, say a few things. Colleagues, because this is in in my district, this project, i want to note how critical this work is given the extreme impacts of coastal erosion that we have seen over the last few years. Im grateful that we have had the foresight to plan ahead with the ocean beach master plan to protect our Wastewater Infrastructure for the west side into ensure that we have safe, accessible public amenities for future generations. As you know, the district i represent is within the plan and we also have other civic amenities like the San Francisco zoo within the area, lake merced immediately to the west, and fort funston, to the south, i do have some remarks that i will wait after the presentation, but i just want to thank the staff at the puc, for all of your hard work, for us today and for generations to come. Thank you so much, good afternoon, supervisors. Melgar preston and peskin. Thank you so much for having us here today to hear about this very important project. Again, im honored. Roche, project manager with the sfpuc, whos the lead agency of this multi city agency project. Im here today with monica scott, a project manager with rec and park, who will be pro, presenting with me, our Partner Agencies include sf planning, sfmta and public works. Prior to being here today, this project has been approved by the sfpuc and rec and park, and the eir was unanimously certified by the San FranciscoPlanning Commission. We are here today to seek approval to close the great highway extension, which will allow for the implementation of this project, which has been in Development Since 2012, when the ocean beach master plan was completed. So first, just a quick overview of the project location in this graphic represents ocean beach from the cliff house at the north and fort funston at the south, fort funston being on the left side of your graphic, the dash is on the left of the slide. Illustrate the location of the project, which sits along the coast between sloat and skyline boulevards. This is the first major Climate Adaptation project within the city, and will protect the western side of San Francisco from Sea Level Rise, so why is this project so important . In the 1990s, there were Major Investments into City Infrastructure to protect Water Quality on this side of San Francisco. Whats in this graphic is the oceanside treatment plant, one of three wastewater plants for the whole city and which was built as part of the clean water program. At the end of the clean water program, the top picture is what the area looked like within 15 years. You can see from the bottom photo how that changed. It was within the same 15 years that the city declared three emergencies to protect the infrastructure which was built as part of the clean water program. This chronic erosion and how the city addressed it is whats being has is what has been the driving, driving the development of this project. At the blue door on this graphic is the Western Entrance to the oceanside treatment plant. The top image is before a large erosion event where we lost approximately 25ft of coastal bluff and the bottom image illustrates how placement of emergency rock was used to stabilize the area as i noted, the city declared three emergencies and those emergency ultimately violated the coastal act. To address these violations, the city developed the 2012 ocean beach master plan. The plan outlines a compromise that allows for Infrastructure Protection and restoration of safe beach access and recreation open. I wanted to note that in 2018, the San FranciscoPlanning Commission adopted these objectives into the general plan. This area is very complicated in terms of Property Ownership and ecological conditions. So how did we develop a common vision . The city had spur, a nonprofit planning organization, convene all of the affected agencies to develop the master plan. As you can see, the effort included multiple city agencies, federal and state agencies in the San Francisco zoo. Together, we developed a common vision via the ocean beach master plan process and continued to Work Together as we develop the project. While the work has been ongoing to complete environmental review, design, etc, weve utilized temporary measures to protect this area between the years of 2012 and 2024, we took actions seven times, moving approximately 250,000yd t of sand from north ocean beach to south ocean beach, which is illustrated in the top photo. And in 2021, after a decade of work on an agreement with the army corps of engineers, we moved nearly 300,000yd t of sand that they dredged from the San Francisco shipping channel, and instead of placing it offshore, they placed it in this area, which is represented in the bottom photo. While those actions were temporarily protecting the area, we were developing the project that is before you today, major elements include one. Permanently closing the great highway between sloat and skyline boulevards to public vehicles, including reconfiguring affected intersections in zoo parking access. This is the legislation that youre hearing today. Well also be constructing a buried wall to protect existing Wastewater Infrastructure from climate induced Sea Level Rise and shoreline erosion. We will be removing those emergency revetments, rock and rubble and debris from the beach and reshaping the bluff and planting native vegetation. Well be constructing over a mile of multiuse trail, a beach access stairway, coastal access parking, new restrooms, ada beach access and will be providing long term beach nourishment or sand replenishment replenishment. As this project goes into the future. Now im going to switch over to monica, who will be presenting on the open space elements of the project. Thank you anna. Good afternoon, supervisor monica scott with rec and park project manager, and im very happy to share with you more detailed information on the Public Access improvements that were envisioning to replace the roadway of the great highway extension. As anna mentioned, the project area is a southern portion of ocean beach, with a work principally occurring in the area of the great highway extension as it runs south of sloat to skyline boulevard. This slide shows the entire project area with a multiuse path and adjacent service road running from sloat to skyline in the place of the former lanes of the great highway. This section of trail will be a part of the larger coastal trail network, with trail connections between the upper great highway trail and fort funston lake merced. The other components of this project include a plaza at sloat with a restroom, a parking lot, at skyline beach, access stairs, planting areas, and seating along the plaza and trail. Due to the topographical conditions and other permitting related items, ada access to the beach is provided off site at taraval, the nearest access point without a steep bluff to navigate. However, please note that aside from the beach access stairs, the entire trail trail will be accessible for. This is a zoomed in view showing the northern end of the project site, with a new plaza at the intersection with sloat, which will also have a restroom. The sand ramp, vehicular maintenance access that is existing and thats on the left side of the screen that will remain you. You can see how the trail will be separated from the service road, with planting areas including bioretention planters, which will be capturing the stormwater runoff off the service road is also designed to serve as the Emergency Vehicle access point. In this slide, its a section perspective. You can see both the visible above grade elements of the project, and also a view to the below grade elements that anna mentioned with the low profile wall that will be protecting the Wastewater Infrastructure above ground. You can see the new plaza at sloat with a restroom building with solar panels. This building and the entire project site will be completely off the electrical grid, and all power will be provided by solar. In this slide, you can see that at the top, the existing view looking south from sloat boulevard towards the National Park service restroom and west side pump station. And below that you can see a rendering of the projects new restroom, coastal trail, and slope plaza. In the plaza, youll see the art enrichment component, which is a series of sculptures by a local artist. Heres the existing and proposed condition for the area looking to the north, and you can see the beautiful curve of the roof line of the restroom building and as you proceed to the south from the plaza, the trail narrows slightly, but maintains a minimum width of 15ft to accommodate pedestrians and bicyclists. The service road, which runs to the east of the trail, is designed for higher speed bicycle travel with a sharrow to allow for bicycles traveling north in the same direction as the service road, and a striped bike lane for those traveling south. Here is another section perspective at roughly the midway point along the trail, heading south at the existing entrance and exit to the zoo from the great highway. At this plaza, there is seating with an overlook. The access paths you see here cutting from the service road to the trail are for maintenance and Emergency Vehicles. And as we proceed to the south, across from the entrance to the oceanside Water Pollution control plant, you can see there are beach access stairs, connecting trail users to the beach. Theres also a seating area at the top of the stairs, as well as a landing on the stairs. And then proceeding to the south. In this slide you can see the beach access stairs as well. The new parking lot and the connection to skyline boulevard. This parking lot will provide an access point for the multiuse trail and will also be the entry point for the one way Service Access road. The trail in this area, as i mentioned, will will connect to the lake merced trail and theres a planned related project to connect with a fort funston trail network. Ill now pass the presentation back to anna, but im here along with my colleagues also from mta to answer any questions. Thank you. Monica so i just wanted to point out that this project is or was designed to meet the citys Sea Level Rise guidance standards and includes a design that considered Sea Level Rise through the end of century. So ive already mentioned a couple of our major milestones. This slide identifies our anticipated upcoming milestones leading up to construction and closure of the great highway extension. Again today, starting with legislation to close the great highway extension. It was initially introduced to the board of supervisors in october of 2023. We expect to go to our Coastal Development permit hearing in june. We expect 100 design early next year. Our bid advertisement would be approximately mid 2025, with construction starting in late 2025. Were still working through all of the sequencing of the work, but we expect that the great highway extension closure would happen in early 2026. And this is my last slide. I just wanted to touch on the, our outreach and engagement work that weve been doing since weve been working on this project. And you can see im not going to read through everything, but weve done a lot of extensive outreach and will continue to do so until we get into construction. That completes my presentation, and were here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Thank you, miss roche, for that great presentation. I have to say, the restroom is by far what im most excited about. People on the west side are excited about the restroom we have right now is managed and maintained by ggnra and its been closed since the beginning of the pandemic, but people use it anyway. They they use the outside and its just not a good situation. So i am looking forward to, not just protecting, you know, the Sewage Treatment plant, but also having this wonderful new park, for, as i said, generations of san franciscans to come and the upgraded facility of the parking lot that the surfers can use to access the beach, which will now be very accessible. So thats all very exciting, but i wanted to i think, talk to jeremy a little bit. If you could, because, i want to say thank you so much to, puc staff, but in particular to mta and, rec park staff and Tanya Peterson at the zoo, for working out our last bit of problem with this, you know, whole wonderful project, and particularly to cronenberg, who i see back there and, sarah maitland, thank you, so one of the things that this project is doing is closing off the exit from the parking lot from the zoo. And as everybody heard, were getting pandas, the zoos, you know, visitors, have are back up to where they were prepandemic, which is a really great thing. But we, of course, want to set them up for success also for generations to come. And so, in working with all the pros and cons of you know, addressing that problem, i think that we explored a bunch of Different Things and we finally came up with an agreement, which is that, you know, we will build a new, or the zoo will build a new entrance to be flush with 47th avenue and use the existing entrance as the exit, and that you, the puc, will incorporate, the project and your predevelopment. Youll do the pre and then the zoo will do the construction, is that your understanding of our agreement . Good afternoon. Supervisor. Yes. Thank you. Jeremy spitz with the puc. You summed it up all perfectly. I have nothing to add. Thats exactly what our agreement was and what the general manager can, committed to you. Thank you so much. I think that this is a really positive thing for everyone all around. So i really appreciate your willingness to engage and to, you know, solve this problem and that everyone will be better off with this project and people will be able to enjoy this for generations to come. Thank you. Thank you, with that, if theres no other questions or colleagues , comments. Okay, well then lets have, Public Comment on this item, please. Thank you, madam chair. Land use and transportation will now take Public Comment on agenda item number one related to closure of the great highway extension. If you have Public Comment for agenda item number one, please line up to speak now and come forward to the lectern when you have when you get there first speaker, please. Good afternoon, honorable supervisor, mayor preston and peskin. My name is donna uchida, and actually, this is my first day working for the San FranciscoZoological Society , so i am probably not speaking from great expertise, but chris connors, who has been working on this project, his flight got delayed. And so hes not able to be here. So i am i was elected, i did want to raise a couple of