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The high traffic areas nearby as well as from the parked cars that are there on lincoln. Another great thing about this project is its being privately funded so, theres not actually any Public Resources that need to go into this project. Thanks to the generosity of the Crane Foundation. And, so, this is a great opportunity to accept a wonderful gift from them for the city. So, we urge your support for the project and look forward to working with you on it. Thanks very much. Thank you. [speaker not understood]. Hello, im carla crane. Im the founder and funder, and i just thought you might want ...

To know a little history how this all came to pass. My parents passed away, i thought i would find a project that would honor them and the city that we all loved. And there were avid gardners and nature lovers and i have a background in the arts. So, what followed was what inspired me, anyway, was two things. The wonderful [speaker not understood] in the presidio. And in new york, if youve been to the jaialai, you know these are two projects that have brought artful interventions to lots of people in an urban setting. So, i love that idea. So, that led me to Phil Ginsberg who is very enthusias...

Numerous picnics and social gatherings at the triangle and they plan to continue doing so. The mou before you establishes the framework for collaboration between rec park, the Parks Alliance, and the friends [speaker not understood] this project. The agreement [speaker not understood] assigns roles, responsibilities to Design Construction of the project. Specifically the mou includes the following provisions. The San Francisco Parks Alliance as fiscal agent to the friends shall provide all labor, materials, and project and Construction Management Services Necessary for the completion of design...

They are not optional. They are something that we as a city have repeatedly indicated that we want to see more of, and this fire Code Amendment allowed us to do that. When just a month or two after the mayor signs that unanimously passed legislation, the Fire Commission forwarded to us this update of a fire code and stripped out that amendment that we had just unanimously passed. When we learned of that, we put it back in, and we passed it out of committee. Colleagues, i want to thank president chiu and supervisor farrell for putting back in that amendment. It is a critical, critically importa...

We love our parks, but we love. And the community who is really the core of it all, came together and said what we need is a place for our teenager to play, not just play grounds for the kids and soccer fields but we need a skate park that will keep the kids home in the neighborhood so they can play where they live. The children in the neighborhood and it will be a major boone. And we have generations, the youth generations that will be able to use this park in different places. The best park in San Francisco right here. Creating place where people can be active and lead, active, healthy life ...