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SFGTV Port Commission 31417 March 19, 2017

Madam secretary. Roll call. Commissioner willie adams. Here. Kimberly brandon. Here. Leslie katz. Here. Motion for approval of the minutes for february 28. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Item 3 comment on executive session. Is there any Public Comment on executive session and Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary. Item 4 executive session. Move that we go into executive session. Session. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . We are now in executive session. Session . Madam secretary. All right. I move to revine in open session. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Next item madam secretary. Pledge of allegiance. I would like to disclose that in close session on february 14, 2017 the Port Commission meeting the commission unanimously approved the appointment of cathy pouchony as the Deputy Director and finance and administration and i would like to disclose anything ulc discussed. Thank you. Second. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Next item madam secretary. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advice the cell phones and sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Please be advised that the chair can remove anyone for the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make Public Comments on each agenda item unless the commissioner adopts a shorter time. Item 8 items not listed on the agenda. Is there any Public Comments on items not listed on the agenda . I dont have any cards. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Item 9 madam secretary. Item 9 a executive directors report. I am forbes with the port. I would like to give everyone an update on pier tweafnltd we started a rfp process and as you recall the developer was jamestown who we selected through a competitive solicitation process was becoming nervous because of some Community Opposition while they enjoyed Community Support also and requested that the port bring a term sheet to the board of supervisors and you forwardd that along and approved it and i am happy to report that the board unanimously passed the term sheet on first read today. Before that passed the term sheet went to the finance committee on march 2 and aaron peskin, supervisor peskin who is the District Supervisor in the area recommended three amendments which i think the Port Commission will be very happy with. First he specified that hes requesting when the lease return to the board of supervisors that a minimum of half of the goods sold in the 20,000 square feet of retail space is reserved for sf makers. The developer said they can meet that requirement and we will talk about that. I know the commission asked for detail on the leasing program. He asked that were clear that the lease applies only to the bulkhead building as advertised and not to any other portion of the property and not the shed of the property and finally to report to him and the full board of supervisors in a report what were learning through the waterfront Land Use Plan regarding active recreation and the recommendation and how were pursuing the recommendations and they have a specific time to come back in february and i am happy to report that the vision for use of the property, the very well run solicitation process and process has been confirmed nam by the board. I would like to announce this saturday there is San Francisco Public Works Team event from 9 00 a. M. To 12 00 p. M. And warm water cove. Its a family fun event and plantings of trees a lot along cargo way. Recology will be there handing out 5 pounds of compost for residents gardens and please bring your buckets. If you want to be involved in the planting and closed please wear closed shoes and goats and Face Painting and you can ride in a bucket truck and please come and have some fun and that concludes my report. Is there Public Comment on nine, the executive directors report. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Madam secretary next item. 9b Port Commissioners report. I would like to ask that we adjourn in honor of kathryn dodd who retired from the city yesterday and has done Amazing Things on behalf of the employees and retirees of the city during her tenure. Most recently as head of the Health Services commission where we saw rates in health care went up and we brought rates down and hold steady and save members funding. She served in the Mayors Office and leader pelosi as chief of staff and aid to supervisor shell and he nancy walker and adviser to many of us and she just retired from city service yesterday. Doesnt mean shes retiring from of abouting us with her knowledge and wisdom and staying on as the chair of the National Committee to preserve medicare. In a volunteer capacity but would love to adjourn in her honor today. I would like to thank the staff. I had the opportunity to attend the contract opportunity open house, and it was such a great event. There was such a wonderful turn out. I think almost 200 people were there in addition to the city and port staff, and everybody was just so happy and so excited that we did it and it was so successful so i want to congratulate the staff and director forbes for the foresight to do it and because it was soful successful making it a event. Anything else. Ing none madam secretary. Item 11. 10a. Is there any Public Comment on 10a. David pilpow. I havent been here for a while and i agree with the commissioner and appreciate you recognizing kathryn dodd and survive and doing her Health Circumstances which is courageous. On item 10 a i would like to support this. It seems like a minor and routine item but that will actually make significant long overdue repairs at pier 9496 and theyre minor league flooding event when is it rains i have seen out going out to the recology facility and this dovetails with the item of 11c and i want to support the work here. I was going to ask why the resolution didnt include a whereas of the ceqa but this isnt the time action for those purposes and just the bid and back here with approval and thats the approval for the ceqa item. Thank you very much. Thanks david. Is there any more comment on 10a . Seeing none it is close. All in favor of 1713 . All in favor say aye. Madam secretary next item. 11a informational presentation by the city of San Francisco office of economic and Workforce Development on the south beach, rincon, mission bay mission bay, central waterfront, bayview Hunters Point, candlestick interagency coordination to guide community and citywide investments. I am here today to introduce ken rich the director for the office of economic and Workforce Development and make martin the project director for owed to give you an update on the south beach, rincon, mission bay coordination and framework. You may recall back in may of last year the office of economic and Workforce Development presented the south beach, rincon, mission bay strategy and theyre here today to provide an update some of the Community Outreach since last may and next steps and with that i will turn it over to ken rich. Thanks david. Good afternoon commissioners. So we were here last may to discuss the effort that owed is leading which were calling a construction framework along the southern bay front and a couple projects and here to give you update between then and now and negotiate Public Benefits from these projects of Affordable Housing, transportation and a host of other topic areas that will go over in a moment. 2017 is an important here in this process. We expect to be in front of you later in the year for approval of two Major Projects, the pier 70 project which you will hear more about after me and the mission rock project. In addition theres another important project, the indian basin project that we expect to get through approvals this year. I wanted to make the point that these large negotiated projects, both the several in this part of town as well as others around the city are going to be providing the bulk of new Housing Units that we will be entitling in the next years in the city and generally these large negotiated projects are able to provide a higher percentage of Affordable Housing than smaller projects and we place a lot of importance getting them through. We are working with staff to keep these on schedule and get through the process in the shortest time we can without skimping on outreach and vetting and we will go through the a presentation and move through it quickly as possible in the interest of time. Just a little bit on housing. As you know in january 14 the mayor pledged to construct many new homes in the city by 2020 and at least 33 of low moderate income families and the majority within financial reach of middle income san franciscans and we have a funded pipeline of projects that will enable another 4,000 to 5,000 affordable homes. We are track in general to make the 30,000 goal by the projected goal of 2020. These projects will make a strong contribution to housing for working class middle income san franciscans with a least a thousand work force units and 5,000 low and moderate income units. This is the slide you saw before. I wont dwell on it but the water front is composed of distinct zones and the first three of the zones are not places where we expect to see a lot of change. Theyre either in federal hands or rec park hands or possibly a lot of course is in the ports hands and well see modest incremental change until you get down to the yellow zone where we do see the opportunity and sort of consensus that some change is warranted as some but not all but some of the heavy industrial lands go into a new use. This is a zoom in of that part of the city and this slide is here to make the point were not operating on a blank slai. We have 36,000 People Living near by and 23,000 people already working and it is our charge to make sure that the planning we do in the projects are adding value for the neighborhoods and residents. These are all the different projects that are involved here. A couple of them or at least one of them and the Warriors Arena and Hunters Point and candlestick are approved and several others and five Major Projects going through for approvals in the next years including as i mentioned two that are under port jurisdiction. I want to call your attention to the gray box in the middle and that district is intended to remain as an active industry and maritime activity center. Were engaged in active discussions with your staff on how to make the most out of the ability to house those uses there over time. And so the negotiation framework that we will talk about will generally the five projects they will list off that have yet to go through for approvals and seeking to transform those into assets of the community and a variety of Public Benefits. The idea we dont want to do one off negotiations but we want to understand what were asking for from all of the projects in advance of going through and doing these negotiations. Just a little bit on schedule as i said this is going to be an important year. Weve got the mission rock project and the pier 70 project coming through for approvals by the end of the year, and also we hope to get the indian basin project by the end of this california year. A little bit further out in time because theyre starting a Community Process are the power plants and Hunters Point and portroro plants and quickly and you will get a presentation on these in a minute and the pier 70 project which you will hear about, the mission rock project and another port project thousand units with affordablity and million and a half feet of space and open space. The indian basin project privately owned site and of neighborhood scaled retail and in cooperation with park 1500 acres of open space and a little further out in time and equally important are the power plant and known as the nrg site and acquired by another group and again thats a project with the im sascale as pier 70. We dont know what it will provide yet but similar mixed use environment to pier 70 and Hunters Point also is a large site could be up to 1200 Housing Units and other opportunities for open space and other Community Assets so those are the five projects were focusing on. I am now turn it over to my colleague mike martin who will take you through the rest of the presentation. Good afternoon commissioners. Mike martin owed. As was mentioned this is sort of our second trip around to a number of the interested commissions. In addition since we saw you last may weve always had an opportunity to see a number of Community Groups along this stretch of the southern bay front and i think that outreach helped us build out a lot of the Strategic Elements of what were trying to go for in the various negotiations much of which you have seen in your projects and term sheets so youre familiar with the items as we go through. This slide sort of summarize a lot of the key feedback and a lot of it has to do with obviously the Current Community wanting to know what are the projects going to do to augment and improve what is there . So things like Affordable Housing and prioritizing existing neighborhood residents and need looking for workforce training for specific training Employment Opportunities to get ahead of the opportunities so people looking for work from San Francisco can get the opportunities in the efforts to hire local workers and firms. Work force training is a key part of that. In addition transportation and streetscape improvements, trying to keep pace with implementation so the impacts of growth are met with the things to channel the impacts. Limiting the car trips and gridlock and hoping that alternative modes of transportation can be a help Going Forward. Access to new waterfront open spaces really giving an inviting sense for the people that already live here so the projects arent just built for the people moving in. Planning for Sea Level Rise impacts and obviously a district like this needs to look ahead and that future and designing projects with innovative and strong sustainability principles, so as part of that Community Feedback as well as moving forward with conversations with each of the Development Partners we have isolated a number of key areas and tried to identify a unified framework and project is one off and not is only doing the most it can for Community Benefits but also part of a larger narrative about the revitalization of San Francisco so you see in the red circles there are a number of areas we advanced on since the last time we seen you and i will summarize today. Housing affordability. Were seeking to achieve 33 affordability across all of the southern bay front projects coming forward. This is meant to be sort of an area wide target so each individual project may vary from the amount. As mr. Rich said i think these larger projects give us an opportunity to grow the pie of Affordable Housing but also to address hard to reach income levels and larger family units so trying to get that moderate and middle income family housing, the Work Force Housing that doesnt have subsidies like lower income does and how can we build that in to make sure San Francisco isnt a city of extremes . In addition we want to build off of the aggressive local preference policy by the board of supervisors in recent transactions again to bring some of the benefits of the below market rate housing to those in San Francisco that need it and keep people from being displaced that moves forward as a key issue in San Francisco. Transportation as i mentioned is obviously a critical issue for this part of the city. Theres a number of transportation investments that are coming forward as sort and being implemented as the projects are coming forward for approval. A number are listed here including the opening of the central subway so its a huge improvement in terms of head ways especially at northern end of tthird and limit the congestion coming that is really going to frankly exist the mission bay neighborhoods and the port projects co

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