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And i am really as john stated, i was for, and i am a supporter of washington, and i was a supporter of the mills corporation, and i was cheered when we chose the development for the building and for the renovation of pier one and for the wonderful projects that we do have along the water front and while, we are not always right on everything as you said, we are not always going to agree. But, what we have accomplished over the last 17 years, i just want to applaud everybody in this room for being a part of it. I cannot even count the number of meetings for the pier 7 on, sea wall 337, and i k...

Projects have presented themselves, the port staff and the city staff have worked to develop a public process, like that, articulated in the water front land use plan. And sometimes, it has been wildly successful. And such as at t ballpark that draws 4 million visitors a year and the explore torium is already drawing 1. 2 million visitors and drawing the kids down to the water front that meets that sort of diversity of people and activities and the goal in the water front plan, and the americas cup, was great success. And the port staff, and delivered, some 32 Million Dollars, of improvements ...

Project and the pier, 43, and the other projects have not been. As successful. The warriors project, and it drew a lot of controversy, the people wanted to talk about the other locations, not on the port property. And the americas cup initially envisioned the Long Term Development rights which did not come to pass. And there was a proposal for the International Museum of women at pier 26 which was a soul source authorization for the board of supervisors and so the report tries to take stock of the unique opportunities that did not go forward. And draw lessons learned, for the public, to think ...

Creek. And importantly, we are thinking that our recommendation today, is that leasing historic piers for more than 35 years, without a Sea Level Rise strategy is no longer advisable. So, this is the last of our recommendations, and it really goes to what we suggest for planning Going Forward. We think that in order to balance state and local interests, in the water front, where there is planning Going Forward, we need to invite bcdc and the state lands to participate in the process. Much in the way that we are seeing with the bcdc port working group. Given our recommendation that we do the su...

There has been broad acceptance, of the projects that have been built, and some neighborhoods have had problems, with height. And particularly in the northern water front and other neighborhoods have welcomed the height and the water mark is example in the south beach neighborhood, and as we moved forward. In terms of looking in terms of prop b with we need to open the die long and how to formulate, the proposals that do need to go to the vote and hers what does that process look like in the future and also, we were moving away. And particularly on the west side of the embarcadaro and there ha...