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Your time. But im carla johnson, the interim director with the Mayors Office on disability. And as you understand, we are the citys overall ada coordinator here to make sure that all of our city programs and services and facilities comply with americans with disabilities act. And part of our role is actually to perform an architectural access plan review of important City Projects as they come forward. We prefer to be involved with the City Projects at the earliest possible stage and understanding that and [speaker not understood] the office of economic and Work Force Development called a meet...

This is a later sketch. All of these are still really sketches from where we had hoped and are hoping to provide some direct access to the waterfront for humanpowered boating as well as other marine activities as youll see also in just a moment. This is a detail of the site plan. And just to mention to you, one of the key features here, this plaza thats in between the arena and the retail is actually raised so youll see a series of ramps and steps leading up to that. And that brings you up to the level of the entrance into the arena and allows for views of the harbor front in a unique way slig...

I know when the cac was put together there was no one from the Entertainment Industry on the cac which i thought was i know was a complete oversight, it wasnt intentional. I know you assured me that [speaker not understood] in the community would be involved in the planning process. I want to make sure were continuing to really take into account the fact this is an entertainment venue. I think that community can have a huge contribution in making sure that it is successful both in terms of design, working with the surrounding neighborhood. I want to see if we can get a little update on that. T...

Related to this ramp itself. The retail functions of the site are placed in a lowrise structures that are very much in the quality and appearance, esthetic of the original structures along the piers. So, theyre about 60 feet high and they have the shedlike appearance that were still developing. Theyll have direct access from the embarcadaro. This is a view showing those retail facilities in relation to nearby pier 28. Youll see theyre about the same height. So, there is no sort of wall or tower kind of structure on the west side of the embarcadaro. Its simply continuing the esthetic and mass o...

Facility operating. The seawall side has been of tremendous concern for many people. We understand that. Im going to move very quickly. Were almost finished. The idea here is to focus now more attention on this site. Tremendous amount of energy has been spent on the pier sites. Just to show you what is sort of the general zoning restrictions on this site, you can build up to about 100 feet high with relatively small towertype footprints above a podium. This allows itself to about 600,000 square feet of area that we could build up to. But we didnt find this very appealing. We found it very prob...