is it okay if they go, miss richardson? >> sure. we'll go right after. >> okay. >> good afternoon, commissioners. linda richardson, former san francisco planning commissioner, long time bayview-hunters point. you all need to know that this particular site was where the city and the state several decades ago were trying to build a power plant. yes, the vocal minority -- no, really, the entire community came out and the entire san francisco. after we defeated that with the board of supervisors and just about everybody in san francisco, you all asked us, planning commission, to go back and plan 18.5 years, 18.5 years has now boiled down to your resolution. we came to india basin. you know what, this here, lots of housing. we are the only one building housing. when you see me hear, i am instrumental in building thousands and thousands of houses in my city. when building came to bayview, call me and the rest of my neighbors, i encouraged him, called the a.p.r. we work with them. but what you're about to do then, that zoning of that area

richardson. can you come up a second? i was really trying to understand the history and what you were trying to say in the three minutes. can you expand on what you said. >> yes please. i appreciate your time. when the site -- when a.e.s. was going to build the power plant. we've been very prodevelopment. we went to port of san francisco to the planning commission. we ask them. this neighborhood is a mixed use. we welcome houses. we put together the bayview master plan which you have in your 100-year anniversary. no neighborhood in san francisco. you have residents, youth, seniors and workers trying to create this vision. you have that plan. we created the india basin neighborhood plan. i wish everybody here can look at that. we have housing in there. we have all the mixed use element. that is not the case. >> commissioner richards: what's the difference between what was in front of us today? >> that zoning, we have shown -- [indiscernible] i wish you can go. how many the commissioners have chance to be there. you all nee

richardson. >> director richardson: the timing for the presentation, i can tell you, i've been going around town. the san francisco board of directors promoting housing. i made it clear to them that i would appreciate they could be helping with funding. that's the bottom line. i have a series questions with regards to the construction cost. this is stunning. i'm looking at your contribution. even the average is 627k. that is astronomical. help me out here in the projects that are ready for production now, construction you listed the project one, two and three. what are the differentiation. the average project for three is almost a million dollars per unit. what kind of housing is this? can you give me profile why all the abbreviations. >> sure. we hope that project will be outlier. i'm concerned it may not be as costs continue to increase. we're seeing 5% to 10% escalation per year. part of that higher cost is a matter of time. time has passed, cost increased. that particular project, it was a very high land value. it was a project. there was political pressure to buy a particular pa

richardson. >> supervisor richardson: thank you so much. we need to remind everyone, and even before i remind anyone, i want -- mr. wallace your patience, you started in 1999 and you sta stayed true through all the situations and community engagement going back and forth and back and forth. this commission it should be noted for more than 18 months we sent the sailing center and mr. wallace to go back. we care about what we do here, our responsibility is to uphold public/private partnerships. treasure island has to be developed. sometimes th all of us have to come to the middle to make things work. in fact, almost about nine months ago the village center agree with the negotiation and they came back here and said we can liver with it live with it and it was appeared by the sierra club. at some point pau all of us will have to get together wit in the interest of the city. we have heard from the other stakeholders that are looking at this marina from people with big boats and people who wul subsidies this and small boat owners. i am comfortab

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director richardson your question is expert nantes. there's a working group looking at this. there are a number of efforts that are addressing this. i mentioned the advancement we've been making on the entitlement side. this is your planning side on the permitting side getting through dpw and mod and mayor's office on disability. we are tackling that issue head-on. lot of our conversations are on how do we improve that process. how can we take advantage of the mayoral director that focus on the major projects and move that same infrastructure to support our site specific work our infill work as well. we want to see housing coordinators at all the permitting agencies. we're part of the city family. we're like a consumer in this question. we're not a permitting agency. we're also trying to move projects through the process and see those challenges firsthand. i will say there seems like stated and shared belief that is an area of focus. not just among staff but also of leadership. i'm cautiously optimistic we'll see improvements on that front. >> today we have a new mayor. we ha

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linda richardson. i had the privilege of not only being on the working group, but i was also one of the subcommittee chairs of the transportation. danielle oshima, she came out here, and she thank everybody, but i wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to let you know how grateful we are working with diane oshima putting all these things together, and your esteemed director, elaine forbes. we have put together a fine document that is going to giet your development for decades to come. so we have that much confidence and also wanted to give a shout out to our overall leader, mr. rudy nothenberg for his wonderful leadership. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for the participation. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner? >> i just want to thank the staff, i want to thank the chair, all the cochairs from land use and transportation to resiliency, as someone who is new and came to this process at the very end, i am astounded by the amou

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. >> my name is dawn richardson and musician, drummer and drum teacher. i guess i would say i started my professional path quh i started playing in bands and teaching drum lesson when i was in college. they were definitely not that many women that would do what is doing. in 198 8 i graduated from cal state los ang and studied mostly classical percussion and music education but at the same time i was in hollywood so played at night in rock bands so was doing two different things. >> the reason i'm [inaudible] the people. there is a extremely vibrant art community especially arounds the red poppy art house [inaudible] as a artist in the past 2 or 3 years there is a event called the [inaudible] every 3 months a free art music festival that i usually play at and just met so many people. >> i was teaching a little bit and doing odd jobs like waitressing and going at night and playing in bands and meeting a lot of people. i chss in ban that had cool break jz get parts on tv shows or things like that. a friend of mine, we had mutual friends that got signed to a

community while if you get a chance to read this interesting opinion piece on al-jazeera dot com sophie richardson is the china director at human rights watch and she says political leaders around the world are increasingly failing to condemn china's human rights abuses you can find it on our website at al-jazeera dot com now whether it's plastic water bottles plastic plates or plastic forks the material they're made out of has become a massive global problem and while many initiatives are moving towards a plastic free environment plastic production is still accelerating because it's cheaper to produce then to recycle but one major recycling center in the u.s. is trying to change that is under reports now from new york. at this recycling plant business is booming two thirds of all of new york city's plastic waste that's put into recycling bins ends up here where it's meticulously sorted then sold to companies to make it into other plastics to meet skyrocketing global demand in the past twenty years the amount of plastic produced in the world has doubled but today globally less than ten percent is

the olympic silver medalist winning his fourth consecutive asian games title and the richardson al-jazeera as the foreigner sits in past has become one of the first seeded players to be knocked out of the u.s. open in new york russia's dunnill medvedev here knocking out the great number fifteen seed who had been expecting better after rising one hundred forty six ranking places in the past year medvedev will face born a coach of creation in round three on the right while defending u.s. open champion sloane stephens is facing a fight to stay in this year's tournament the american lost the first set against unseated ukrainian unholy in a color nina but the third seed hit back to win the second seven five the match now into a deciding third set stevens is a break up well an extreme heat policy is in force for the second straight day in new york it means that for the first time male players can take a ten minute break between the late to set something that was already allowed for the women on tuesday five players were forced to retire due to heat related problems paul vander worth has more kno

the olympic silver medalist winning his fourth consecutive asian games title and the richardson al-jazeera. well that cemented iran's place in fifth in the medal table but china have long been out of sight at the top more than one hundred gold for them now trailed by japan who haven't finished top since one thousand nine hundred seventy eight definitely successful hosting for into these yet thirty gold medals for them so far at the previous asian games they want an a for defending u.s. open champion sloane stephens how to overcome a scare to reach the third round having fallen a set down and how much against ukrainian qualifier and helena callan a no colony no was appearing in her debut grand slam but took the first set six four over the american the world them a three baffled back in front of a home crowd edging the second seven five and was back to her old self in the third breezing through six to chill face to time champion victoria azarenka in round three she's obviously playing well so i just kind of weather the storm and wait for my opportunities obviously i wish i could have been pl

the olympic silver medalist winning his fourth consecutive asian games title and the richardson al-jazeera. the growing dispute between muhammad salla and the egyptian football authorities has escalated dramatically in the egypt and liverpool star has been increasingly vocal of his country's federation over its poor handling of the recent world cup campaign he was a senior official with the f.a. is accused of sending a tweet following the criticism that said quote i'd like to remind you most about your mother is still in the egypt you were abroad and can do as you wish those who understand understand the head of the egyptian football association claims that the accounts of the t.v. and others were all fake and have been closed down tennis now and former world number one andy murray has been knocked out in the second round of the us open by fernando verdasco the spaniard she was seeded as number thirty one twenty twelve champion and forced out after grueling three hours and twenty three minutes murray had previously been very task going thirteen out of their fourteen minutes. and when i got

. >> i have shayla richardson and carlos ramos. sha'nice patterson could not be here. she had a family emergency. >> good afternoon. i'm shayla richardson, i'm at u.c. irvine. i completed my seventh summer with project pull. i've had the privilege of working with many city departments. starting in summer, 2012, i worked at the human rights commission, which was my first job. then i worked for public works, followed by the police department in 2014. from the summer of 2015 to the summer of 2017, i worked at the port of san francisco. and finally, this past summer i had the amazing opportunity to work with the san francisco public utilities commission. [applause] >> good afternoon. i would like to thank all of you for providing me the opportunity to speak upon my experience with project pole. my first summer was in 2014 as a college team leader. it was my very first job and as a first-generation college students, it was truly an eye-opening experience. it was through project pull that i was able to envision the future that i wanted for myself and for my family. i remembe

fourteen on his contract last year ok that is how your sport is looking for now c'mon thank you mr richardson that is your news are all done thank you for joining us on the team here and heard of your opponent is back in just a couple minutes time in our london news center with more of the day's news i'm tamara santamaria joining. optimism has faded. blue khan's elected leader has undivided attention as fia's that a crackdown is imminent the targets the activists who fought for democracy to divide and conquer hot. pot five of a six part series filmed as a five year. plan china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera. volcano kill way erupted explosively last thing boiling pods of steam and ash and rock high into the atmosphere scientists say it's not unusual for eruptions to stop and start up again later as for kill away a it has been spilling love of continually for more than thirty years. they deploy and spiritual beliefs say eruptions reflect the mood of the goddess bailey. says native hawaiians to perry is always nice to us whether she takes our home or not we accept this type of event. as e