the number one transportation project which is improvements to the 16th street transit which is also in coordination with tep and that is basically electric strife indication potrero to the waterfront and pedestrian improvements related to that. * electric-ification and i do want to find that last slide. jonas, if you could show that one. these are the infrastructure projects that are in our plan areas that were built or constructed this year. which i think is kind of a really nice way to end this presentation. i had the honor of touring a new child care center out on 3rd street which was part of the potrero launch development site in the eastern neighborhoods. that's 2y a picture of the building, but that was approved by the commission through an in

kind agreement. it's currently serving children right now for a day care. so, that's kind of a fabulous piece for eastern neighborhoods, first child care center we were able to establish in one of our area plans. and the other pieces you'll see are duboce park, church, transit and streetscape improvements. those were not funded as development impact fees. that is an important part of the story. impact fees pay about 30%. so, we do have to rely on other public funding sources like federal, state, and local funding sources. and off in the bottom right corner a small green project which is new to the planning department. the cop instreet, and that was part of the central freeway [speaker not understood]. that's another funding source we're patching together. * so it's been exciting this year around planning implementation for a long time, we've been projecting the fees and trying to get everybody at the table and now we're actually seeing projects on the ground.

so, if you have any questions, i'm here. thank you. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? good afternoon, tom radulavich from livable city. it's actually great to see this presentation. i kind of lived through a lot of this neighborhood planning and we're [speaker not understood] in western soma. and, you know, it's really variable, you know, if you have a neighborhood plan or an area plan what you're going to get from that plan. we've seen a lot of difference in terms of the degree of planning the public infrastructure and streetscape, i think market and octavia there is a lot of detail. we had with the streetscape [speaker not understood]. eastern neighborhoods less so. balboa park, glenn park somewhere in the middle. so, as the neighborhood goes through this plan they're never sure what they're going to get. that is a not entirely in the

hands of the planning department. you don't design streets, you don't design and run those streets. i think getting an interdepartmental group together to think about what we do a neighborhood plan what all needs to be in it would be good. as sort of the follow-up, we've had a few criticisms of the proposed transportation sustainability fee. we have in the city a network the cacs that kiersten talked about [speaker not understood]. you have a group of local people to talk about prioritizing [speaker not understood]. neighborhood skill involvement goes away. obviously some transportation improvements you need to think about on a city-wide scale. you need connect bus work, interconnected bike work, et cetera. a lot of priorities should be set by the community. so, i'd say think about trying to actually have the planning department take a much more active leading role in planning

neighborhood transportation improvements mostly because the other departments aren't that good at it. mta has never developed a neighborhood planning capacity. and you have it here. so, you're well resourced for all the agencies of the city. secondly, think about not only how to preserve this network of community-based prioritization of public improvements, but how to extend it to every corner of the city. maybe rather than subsuming all of this into a transportation sustainability fee, like maybe every neighborhood needs some kind of advisory committee or community meeting, town hall, something, where they get to have a chance to prioritize improvements in their neighborhood. so, we think this is great work. we'd actually like to see it refined. we'd like to see it extended. the last question is how do we pay for community planning. we've always done it through fees. community planning follows development sites. if you have a lot of development sites and you can generate a lot of fees then you can get a community plan if you don't have that. but still need community planning. you may not get it in the current environment.

so, i think we also need to have a conversation in the city. should we general fund fund community planning and really look at fees to do things liken forcement and the project level plan. * that way every community can get the plan whether they generate the fees or not. thank you. sue hester. i've been thinking a lot about the rincon hill plan because i went to a transportation workshop earlier this week on the area along the waterfront. and the port is embarking on a plan to develop seawall through lot 330 which is directly adjacent, but for the freeway, to the rincon hill area.

and you approved last week a project, an 800 unit project on folsom and main. and that happens to be a very short walk from seawall lot through 330 and pier 30-32, the warriors. and the transportation meeting this week on issues related to this area showed different issues than you had -- you, the planning commission, had ever talked about on the rincon hill plan. partly because we have truncated historically redevelopment, the port, the planning commission. and the area around the south of market -- around rincon hill was redevelopment. on yet this side of folsom, [speaker not understood]. it doesn't even exist any more. and we have a rincon hill plan that focuses on a park.

that is needed, but the transportation back-ups in this area are immense and they are not on your radar. and if you don't go back and look again at the need for transportation improvements in the south of market, because there is no redevelopment agency, and the port doesn't think in those terms. they are in their own little area. who is going to do the planning for this area of south of market at the other end of south of market? at the embarcadaro end of south of market? and i plead, because i went through a very painful transportation planning process this week and it's going to come to you, the next person. it's going to go through the

port which is only caring about their finances and the board of supervisors which is only caring about the port finances. but it is coming a planning issue to you. seawall lot 330 and the area around main street, and your projects that you've approved, how are we going to reopen the issue of planning for this area? and you should, because there is no more redevelopment agency and all of these citizen advisory were also wiped out. and you have a big mess in rincon hill. thank you. >> is there any additional public comment? okay, public comment portion is closed. commissioner moore. >> thank you, mr. president. this is the first time actually i hear such a report like i'm on the commission six or plus years. this is really, really interesting. and i have only one question.

and you can obviously tell me that the question is not answerable. what do we do with all of the large redevelopment projects which now all of a sudden have to be considered as being potentially generators of funds, of projects where there are funds which have to fit into the street -- into this chain of communication end of accountability? >> commissioner, you mean the redevelopment areas that are outside of -- the three big ones that will still proceed. >> the other one -- but also the ones continue to foresee the interface of what you are reporting on here. this is kind of like a little bit mysterious of how this all comes together. >> yeah, they don't -- they certainly -- unless they are within one of these plan areas, there are no impact fees of the same way. so, the question is, of course,

obviously -- obviously traffic does president stop just because one enters the redevelopment area. one has to drive through. and, so, there are clearly challenges. i mean, i will say that the planning for those areas and the implementation for the areas that are outside of those big three areas, transbay, mission bay, and candlestick shipyard, is now at the planning department. so, we have in a sense broadened our jurisdiction, if you will, and have a better ability to help in those areas. but i mean, i think the challenge, as the speakers have said and as kiersten has suggested, is in the transportation end of things, particularly in the south of market. and we are working fairly closely right now with the mta and the ta and other agencies to look more comprehensively at what we should be doing in south of market. because that's where the real transportation demand and where the growth and where the transportation need is the greatest. there is very little question about that. we need to spend more time looking at that and trying to

figure out how to fund what -- we have a hard time funding really in the city which is long-term transportation policy planning. and i am working -- it is something that i'm working on right now trying to figure out how to fund some additional work in that area. and that would cross all those boundaries. it doesn't end at redevelopment area. it has to be comprehensive in how we do that. >> thanks. >> commissioner antonini. >> thank you. i agree with comments by the two speakers, and i would add to it that three areas that are very important. the first is coordination, intra-agency coordination on all these issues, traffic, transit parks, housing, business growth, and looking at it as we're planning something, and many of these plans are extremely desirable, but we have to realize that there will be impacts and make sure that we analyze the impacts and try

to provide for them at the beginning. simply saying that we're going to move everybody to public transit, which may not be adequate, probably isn't. there will be people who will drive. and, so, we have to realize that there will be an impact and we have to accommodate that and make sure we can keep the streets passable. that's just one example. the other thing, i think it was mr. radulavich, talked about community impact, extremely important, too. when an agency goes forward with a plan, that they get some input from the neighborhood, people who have particularly been there a long time throughout the city, and find out whether this makes a lot of sense or not. and what they feel about it. and the third thing is maintenance, and we see this oftentimes with parks, medians, beltways. we do a lot of things which look really impressive when they're first put in, but a year later they're particularly

planted areas, they're not being maintained, they're not being watered, weeded and they become overrun and they're actually a disgrace for the city. and one point -- and i've had a lot of complaints about this. this has nothing to do with your specific item areas, but the same thing could apply in rincon hill. it could apply any of the areas we're looking at through here. sunset boulevard, i think it was the san francisco public utilities had jurisdiction, decided to put in this bent grass and they thought it would stop glowing at a certain point, which it hasn't, and it's kind of a mess out there. * growing they never asked any of the neighbors ahead of time whether they wanted that and nobody really did enough study to figure out what would happen if it doesn't stop growing and it's fully muni tokens and weeds and other things because they didn't figure any maintenance. and some day they're going to

have to start cutting it and making it presentable, but nobody's budgeted for it. so, this is just an example of going ahead where somebody has a great idea for something, they think it's great, but they don't ever bother to ask anybody whether they like it or what are the impacts if their idea isn't what they think it's going to be. so, i think planning is the big thing that comes out of our entire discussion, but i appreciate what you've done. and i appreciate the report. i'll read it in greater depth. >> commissioner wu. >> i also want to thank staff and the department for presenting this to us. it's really timely considering we just passed the transit center and then we talked about western soma today. i have been following the road fund a little bit and it seems like there really is a greater level of coordination between planning and dpw on the road fund. i think that is merit in this process so it's really great. out of public comment on this item, some of this question about how do we make sure that the projects that are being proposed that are being paid

for by these fees are the ones that are addressing the needs in the neighborhood, and then also reflects the community concerns in the neighborhood. i think that's a really tough question. i was thinking about that while we were talking about western soma also. is it general fund for community cac, the cag, the really tall ask from the city, is it technical assistance to groups that are in those neighborhoods already? how would those groups pay for technical assistance, how would it come to them? i think it's something the department should keep thinking about and we should keep thinking about how to educate and how to get the right resources to the neighborhoods so that they can have a say in the priorities for not only these fees, but sort of a number of different projects that the planning department is looking at. >> [speaker not understood]. >> thank you. i wanted to thank kiersten for the work on this. we established after the big

plans were adopted almost four years ago now, we established this implementation group in the department for a number of reasons. but primarily because we didn't want to be in a position as is often in the past where we see these plans and they sit on the shelf and other agencies were responsible for implementing them, but only their piece of it. and, so, that is why we chair the ipic committee, i can't remember what it stands for, the plan implementation committee. the planning department actually chairs it frankly because we know the plans best of the we have a more comprehensive view of it, but also because we don't build capital projects. so, we have a more objective view i think on how these funds should be prioritized. we're also learning a lot in the last couple of years. we now have a much more robust discussion with the capital planning committee and that staff so that we can incorporate our work into their -- into the capital planning process and the budgeting process. and i do think that, you know, while we didn't do some of the

more detailed transportation work like western soma in the initial stages or in the final version of the eastern neighborhoods plan, we have followed up with some of that work. so, now we do have a detailed streetscape plan for the mission district, for example, that can take advantage of monies as they come in. and in an ideal world we would do those more detailed planning efforts on more of the neighborhood plans as they move forward. so, i do think it is important to kind of keep following up on these plans. i don't want the department to be in a position nighv years down the road of not being able to implement some of these plans because of we don't have the details ready, we don't have the community input, we don't have something that we can move forward with funding requests or something like that. it's important that we keep doing work to follow-up on. it's a challenge financially on how we fund that work. but i do think it's important work to be done. and as i said, i'm very concerned about big transportation challenges in the south of market.

i think they are the city's biggest transportation challenges right now. i've been talking to a number of people, the mayor's office and bart and others about how we can help address some of that in the long run. but i think it's the city's biggest transportation [speaker not understood] in the future. but thank you. >> thank you. next item. >> commissioners, you are now on public comment. at this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. i have no speaker cards. but you have me. it's an easy thing because it's not 10 o'clock. sue hester. again, i plead for all of us, commissioners and the public, to have an understanding of what we lost in terms of citizen input on land use planning when the redevelopment agency was abolished.

the redevelopment agency, because of its history, had little advisory committees that had some power. right now the only body that has some power is the seven of you, the two people are missing. we have lost not only the redevelopment commission as a citizen commission. and as flawed as it was, it was a citizen commission. and the advisory bodies to the redevelopment. we have created a lot of new neighborhoods, and they were under the aegis of the redevelopment agency. particularly in the eastern part of the city. we have got to address the problem that there has to be citizen input in planning. not the mayor's office of

economic development, not the mayor's office, because they have no commissions over them. it's this commission and the burden on the planning commission is incredible going forward. and if we don't stick up our hands and say, wait a minute, we need more wisdom than just the 7 of you, the pressure on you is going to be horrible. and i don't think because its was a rush job to kill redevelopment that anyone stepped back and said, where do we have bodies that have some power? and i think it is your responsibility as well as our responsibility to do that. the mayor is not going to go off on a tangent and do this because it's good planning. you are our planning advocates and you have to open up your

mouth along with us, that we need to have input -- the west soma task force is abolished at the end of the year. there is no more -- and what is left in the south of market? you, that's it. there is no one else. and that is the area of the most planning activity and the most housing activity in the entire city. and there is going to be you, that's it. the western soma doesn't exist. [inaudible]. >> any additional public comment? okay. that means the meeting is adjourned. [injuredctionerthv? adjourned]

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