>> involving public meetings, workshops, working with the neighborhood organization and having personal communications with individuals and neighborhoods. i have been invited into some of the homes of the residence and today, this is a good follow-up for we have been talking about over the last hour or so. we think we have a great plan before you. it's a positive mood for the neighborhood and city. we are happy to share with you. this is in advance of the hearings that will be coming up. in october, we expect to be back for the initiation hearing and we will ask you to initiate the planning code and zoning map.

in november, we will be back for you to consider adopting the plan and certify the code. just a little overview -- today, we will be giving some context on the neighborhood and discuss the components. we will talk more but the zoning and hike proposals and what is next. a lot of the information, you should have received in your packet. first of all, where is glen park? it is somewhat hidden by its geography but nestled in the south central part of the city. it is a small 12 block area and the 280 freeway -- the real

focus is the commercial area and downtown area around the bart station. just to highlight, while this extends outward, our focus is on the score 6 blocks. it looks like a guitar shade because the proposals reach out and include -- [unintelligible] it is a unique neighborhood in san francisco. feels like a small town in a bigger city. residents actually call it a village and refer to the place as a village. it's the center of social life in the neighborhood. there are many shops and it's a vibrant, active area people love. it is primarily a pedestrian zone. it is a place for walking.

contributing to that small-town feel is the human scale of the neighborhood. most of the buildings don't reach beyond three stories tall. there is a historic streetcar neighborhood pattern in that neighborhood, rating -- rising streets, small buildings and sidewalks. the other major piece of the neighborhood is its close proximity to glen canyon park, over 60 acres of open space. this is an amazing place -- there are coyotes and owls and a recreational facility and hiking trail. there is also a creek, the last one of the city's free flowing creeks that flows freely into glen canyon. in transportation options, to have such a great abundance of

transportation options is special. there is a bart station, a number of bus lines and the j. church can next to glen park. the freeway access to 280 -- this is a picture of one of the first electric streetcars in the city built at the turn of the century. we talked about this last time. this is transit first period when the real-estate developers decided to bring people into their area, they would build of the transit line. this is an interesting digram from a feasibility study we conducted about a year ago. it shows how people arrive at the bart station. there are approximately 9000 transit riders they use the small area around the station every day. what is amazing is that about 80% of them are arrived not by

car. over half of them arrive by walking. glen park is a strong and engaged community. there is a sense of ownership and sense of pride in the neighborhood. there are a number of community facilities like the library, the recreation center, and a number of schools. while it is a cherished neighborhood, it faces some significant challenges. one of the challenges is that it is such a small area, there is a lot of movement forced to move through small streets. the fifth 4000 pedestrians converging around the bart

station, this brings concerns for pedestrian safety, pedestrian conflicts between the district -- between the different moods. a large part of the circulation issues have been impacted by some of the scale of infrastructure that has come in over the last preceding decades. we looked at this before, but this is the southern pacific railroad line from san francisco to san jose. this is the birth of san jose avenue. it was widened and the train line was removed eventually and it was widened to become the san jose expressway that we see today. this is an example of overbuilt infrastructure that the plans are trying to