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I dont like rollercoasters. You. Okay. We will have some weather, some traffic. Be nice to me. All right. Lets take a look at our wet they are morning, starting off with the number we have select for today between one and ten. We are in the mid with the a five. It is better than yesterday but there is still showers around this morning. A lot of humidity, fog as well and then more strong storms in the forecast for later on in the day. Believe me it will get better eventually but for this morning at summer camp with bus stop buddy, we have temperatures in the 70s, it is foggy, muggy, the doggies...

Costs, to develop, and the ports property, particularly the historic piers. And there is a high expectation for Public Benefits in these projects, which drive up the cost of the project. The foundation of the water front plan has provided access to the capitol that the port would not have had. And also, a great deal of creativity from the private sector that comes through the public, private partnership, at the staff level we have worked to add Public Financing to the equation, to help to address some of these high costs. It did not address, the unique opportunities, the 34th americas cup and ...

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 ...

And there have been, however, difficulties with the development in the north east water front that is chronicled in this report. And we had the Hotel Project that went through the long process, almost got to the finish line but, for the lack of public consensus on the design. And that process failed, and there was also a high profile, proposal for piers 27 to 31 by the Mills Development corporation, and that again, was a mixed use, recreation project and had too much retail and did not achieve the kind of public consensus needed to get through the public process and so on that basis, we see th...