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eyewitness news begins at 11:00 o clock with breaking news tonight a car crash has claimed the life of the long-time 60 minutes correspond bob simon. his career with cbs news spanned five decades taking him around the world and earning him countless awards. good evening, i m chris pay. i m jessica dean. eyewitness news reporter todd quinones is live in our sat center with more on the crash and simon s expansive career. todd. reporter: jessica reporter bob simon was killed tonight in a car crash in manhattan when the liver row car he was in crashed no another vehicle. the 73-year-old was riding in the back seat. according to police the driver of the lincoln town karzai mon was in hit another car that was stopped at a red light. simon was found unconscious and unresponsive by emergency personnel just before 7:00 tonight with injuries to his head and torso. he was taken to st. luke s roosevelt hospital where he was pronounced dead. the broadcaster covered some ....
bottom is a renting and a photo of the finished project. this is an open space on a parcel on 22nd street and owned by sfmta and adopted by community members who lead the effort over 18 months to create the play area. we are thrilled to be part of it. we supported it and helped to make it a reality and if you have been down to 22nd street it s filled with neighborhood kids and we re thrilled about. because we worked so hard to make a difference and responsive to the neighborhood concerns i am proud to see we got an unanimous endorsement from the dog patch neighborhood. a few other benefits we are paying $4 million in impact fees and further impact the neighborhood and we are paying about $21 million in inclusionary housing payments to meet the affordable housing and this is the equivalent of 75 new apartments. in conclusion we designed this to be a great place to live but more than that a great enhancement to the neighborhood and we are proud to be presenting it to yo ....
spent months in planning to make sure this was a successful experience for the public and both the committee members and i think greg moore from the conservancy says sometimes you need to go slow to go fast, and we took the time we needed to prepare and be thoughtful and focused about the issues we wanted to put in front of the committee members and i think that has paid off so i m going to take you through today a little bit of the context within which we did our work and the process and then our ultimate recommendations and look forward to your feedback and questions. so a little bit of our context. as you are probably aware within the 2012 san francisco clean and safe neighborhoods park bond we allocated about 15.5 million dollars to focus specifically on playgrounds. now that doesn t mean the only playgrounds we re doing through the bond and as noted in the staff report a number of other projects that are part of larger renovations include playground projects and as ....
lush landscape and three open spaces including a wide central plaza and then the dog park on the right hand side. the streetscape was coordinated as overall plan from 22nd to 18th and reviewed as part of the project. you see the expansion of the plaza. calms traffic midblock. next slide is the dog park about 9,000 square feet. new lighting, seating, landscaping. i think a great complement to the existing useds at esprit park and briefly just looking at the experience from the park roughly in the middle of the park on a november afternoon you see the overpass, that stand of trees and before the project. when the project is add you see a little in fill by the overpass and that area there next slide, thank you joe and again before the project and with the project essentially the view is of that project is just below the overpass modest impact as experienced from the park. thank you very much and i am here for questions and i will turn it over to joe. thank you commis ....
block stretch here so another major benefit is the dog park. this is going to be built on public space and unimproved dead end street by the overpass and we re going to pay to build it and maintain it in perpetuity and it will be open to the public and i want to clarify it s not a standard thing for new developments to. do we feel it s above and beyond but we feel it s an absolutely ideal thing for us to be doing. we saw an opportunity to create something in the space and listened to the community and the concern for more dog facilities so we re happy to commit to make this happen. we have been major supporters of other neighborhood improvements. this is wood yard park. on the bottom is a renting and a photo of the finished project. this is an open space on a parcel on 22nd street and owned by sfmta and adopted by community members who lead the effort over 18 months to create the play area. we are thrilled to be part of it. we supported it and helped to make it a realit ....