It represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. [roll call] item number two, pledge of allegiance. Item number three, approval of minutes for the june 9, 2020 Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Sorry, roll call vote. [roll call] thank y
Presume you all have your home to choose the right firms in each of your areas of specialty. Thank you. Commissioner gillman. No questions. Im supportive and im glad to see there are new firms that got chosen, instead of the same ones, new people that got an opportunity and we want to provide more opportunity to support other people just in the same old group of people. So thank you. I think were all very supportive of this. So all in favour . Aye. Resolution 1930 has been approved. Item 14a, a presentation is addressed and waterfront review process and solicitation of Public Comments. Good afternoon, president brandon. Im the Deputy Director for planning and environment. Happy to be here today to provide a report on where we are with the draft waterfront plan which was published in june. The work that weve withi been g over the summer. I wanted to give you a report on the feedback and the outreach efforts and to provide this public hearing opportunity, as well, for further Public Comm
Good afternoon, president brandon. Im the Deputy Director for planning and environment. Happy to be here today to provide a report on where we are with the draft waterfront plan which was published in june. The work that weve withi been g over the summer. I wanted to give you a report on the feedback and the outreach efforts and to provide this public hearing opportunity, as well, for further Public Comments to come forth. We have really sought to solicit comments by the end of settlement so that we can take stock of whether the draft plan is hitting the points that people expected after the long process lead by the Waterfront Plan Working Group and to make any further refinements and, of course, corrections, if necessary, before we start the Environmental Review process. So to that end, the staff report lists more details, but this is the summary of the meetings that have occurred over the last couple of months, continuing through the end of the month, as far as scheduled. Were still
The patience and teamwork that went into this and youve heard me say this many times, i think the giants have shown the city what a good Corporate Citizen can be an engage in the community and you have brought the community along with you, right . And you can feel the investment that youre putting back. I want to go back to what commission wohoo said about your commitment and it shows by what youre doing. Like the Affordable Housing and things like that. And i know its been going back and forth and i like it. And also the different mayors. Mayors that have seen this, whether gavin, the late ed lee. Its a transition about people and i like the fact that the people in sanfrancisco, we never use the word i and me but use the word we and us and woke through it. And then the back and forth. Im just moved by this project and want to see it get done right. This project, for future generations, you know,lyin in the city, the average age is 27 years old. The Younger Generation and generations t
This is a proposed development. As you ca can see on this side,n 015, after you proposed the dne, they came out with a proposal for 124 million with a groundlevel basement. This is the slide that is before you, you can see that the area has been reduced to 127,000 square feet and a communitybased basement level. Why are we doing this project . Some of the this is listed on the slide. It includes the sustainability as indicated on this slide. The key to transaction document that you would be approving is what we call the Lease Development and dispostion agreement. The lgda is the agreement and it is going to be for a period of one year and will list all of the conditions of what you need to complete before the port will allow the lease to be recorded. During the period, it will be paying us for staff time. And they will have transaction costs that have will be moving the project forward. They will use this for financing the project and then keeping more time to close escrow because, you