that the neighborhood doesn't want parking meters and now they have come up with this proposal to get around that and that's not the way it should be done. so i guess i'm speaking for everybody who didn't even know there was a meeting and the sfmta didn't even provide somebody to explain it to you like laura mattern, a lot of -- it's like let's see what we can do to put in parking meters. >> thank you, mr. mack intire, i know all the directors carefully read that report, mr. riskin, i know you responded to a report saying this is increasing the amount of notification that will go out before meters. >> perhaps some people misunderstood what this item is. right now the law prescribes public notification process that we use as a floor

for the notifications that we make when we're proposing to install new parking meters. what this item does would you will note in the example given we did not even bring to you i don't believe a proposal to install parking meters in the university terrace neighborhood based on the public discussions we had. nevertheless, we have heard concern from member s of the public, from members of the board of supervisors, that the public outreach that we do with regard to new parking meter installations was not adequate, was not reaching people.

>> there was a good bit of public out reach, and there was a public workshop back in october. >> that is fine, i am sorry. it was a broad based support

for this pilot. wonderful. >> do i have a second? that sounded like? all in favor? >> aye. >> the aye haves it and it passes. >> item 17, presentation and discussion of the over night parking restriction and recommendations. >> i know that the hour is late and we can move quickly but there was an item of some concern and so we thought that the evaluation was important to do, and we have the results from that, that we have to share with you and the recommendations for the next steps. >> thank you, and i know that we did get a good memo on this and i am sure that everybody read fully.

so mr. yee. >> i skipped the message and i will make it brief. i will not go back into the background of how this came about. because it is clearly in the evaluation memo. we selected two areas for the pilot in the eastern half of the city and also the west half and the reason that we did that was, for a practical reasons, because the nature of the restriction between midnight and six and we have to work closely with our colleagues in the police department who will be doing, you know, most of the over night enforcement. and so we selected the areas, continuous to and we also considered the size and the

extent of the area and so that they are launching up and so that our observations will be meaningful to discuss. and before, the implementation of the pilot, on july 15th, the san francisco homeless out reach team from the public health department did for the out reach for a month and a half until the rec you lacings took effect. and now the parking control officers, also lead the areas and with the fliers, and giving the information about the program, as well as the areas that they can go to for the resources for, you know, if they are, housed, and ways for them to kind of address their needs, to be dislocated or

disrupted. we did issue two citations prior to july 18 and they were caught and dismissed. >> so these are the two pilot areas. the west half of the city and also the south east sector. and so the pilot, has been in the pilot areas, have been and they have been pretty effective in reducing the number of those type of vehicles is that were previously observed. and from the before study, we found that about half of them were commercial vehicles and the other, a little bit less than half were for the camper type, that could be,

conceivablely be ha bitable and so after the pilot went into effect, we observed about 95 percent reduction in the number of those vehicles parked in the pilot areas. but we did note a couple of problems, one is that the displacement. there are vehicles observed that just parked just outside of the pilot area and some that were displaced and adjacent streets and we also continued to, and to air the concerns, from those who are vehicular housed and that they were disrupted. and so, we worked very closely with the supervisor, and i mean, the former supervisor ductis office of hope. and he and us, and we are collaborating on some efforts to try to reach out to the vehicularly housed so that they

have access to the services that will help accommodate their housing needs and also transition them into a more permanent type of housing and just a couple of programs where we think that it is going to be pretty promising, and one of them is we will be meeting with him and our total contractor to explore ways to maybe either wave or reduce the fees, related to towing of vehicles, and we did not experience any vehicles being towed in the pilot period and so that was the good news and we also, talking to his office and the homeless coalition, there are some cities out there like los angeles, eugene, oregon, and seattle who have programs where they work very closely with the faith community and they have

voluntarily set aside some safe parking areas for the houses so they have a safe haven for the vehicles while they are accessing services to transition them into more permanent house and we are in contact with his office and with, graduate program, and usc. and they are very interested in helping us and we have a lot of expertise in evaluating this type of program to see, how effective it is and how it can be implemented we should be hearing from them in the next couple of days of whether or not they would like to take them on. >> and in those situations they are privately owned?

>> correct. >> and so our recommendation is continuing to use the rec you lacing and the focus basis concentrate on the areas that have been displaced and the areas that have already have an higher incidence of observed oversight and people park. the areas that we are looking to prioritize our implementation would be in the typical type of places where would normally find them around the edges and the parts and the schools and the areas with no residential frontage and allowing with the other areas, that i mentioned just previously about the dislocated, and dislocation, and that is our recommendation and i will be glad to answer any questions that you may have.

>> thank you. >> now this is an informational item only directors, any questions? >> if not we will go to public comment. >> and thank you. >> good afternoon, my name is dianna and i am here to represent the office of supervisor katie tang and she wishs that she could be here and expresses the support of the program however she is in her own meeting but this may beat it in terms of length. >> the representatives of district four have received numerous neighborhood concerns of many oversighted vehicles parked on the city streets and turning many parts of our neighborhood into a parking lot for oversized vehicle and the related public safety and public health problems that were connected with many of these vehicles, given that the pilot areas addressed included

much of district four along great highway and sunset boulevard and lincoln way and the reservoir and also included other districts such as district one and district five and the avenue as part of district seven as well as similar locations on the eastern portion of the city in 60 ten and prior to fully implementing this program as the city has mentioned and sfmta first issued warnings and fact sheets about one month on separate occasions and to inform the vehicle owners about these pilot programs. and although this program applies to all types of oversight vehicles including commercial vehicles, and we recognized that, there were individuals who owned oversized that and that is why they were in those vehicles. and in addition to those fires, supervisor chui's office, offered the support of housing for the resources that may need

those service and it was a very important part of that pilot program under supervisor chui's office that they provided this opportunity. and hope has offered us, and has said opportunities for those individuals to store those vehicles on treasure island and to continue to do that out reach and he had spoken at a goa committee meeting about that opportunity and to further toss conversations about the advocates about the further opportunities and providing resource and it was really that service component that was important to that project and we just want to say thank you to the sfmta to responding to the needs of our residents and our office and we have a stack of support from the district... >> thank you. >> we are working together >> thank you, thank you. >> thank you. >> and lisa, marie? >> melody and kelley cut ler?

>> good evening. my name is tory and i have some packets here for you all. that outline the people's evaluation of this pilot project which we have found to not be at all successful, productive and was actually been a disaster for particularly has been displaced and has out comes as a result of this pilot project and the first thing that we want to question is how success being measured if the only out come has been displacement and so, if, if everyone just being pushed to a new neighborhood and we are getting new complaints from the new neighborhoods that can't be considered success. it does give the indication that the city has a city wide ban on the over night parking

which is not what the intention was or what we have been told from the staff or for the board and so we have the major concerns about that especially if it is to go forward with the expansion and i think that the second piece about the report that was prom mat problematic and it is not with the data that we are getting from the housed committing.

over night parking restrictions. >> melody and then kelley cut ler and emily fair bank. >> and good evening. >> hi. >> hi my name is melody. and there is just so much to say. but, i guess short. it really increases the amount of chronic sleep deprivation and it impacts the ability to take care of yourself and make good decisions and it also impacts any kind of chronic

diseases that you already have. it is really a lot hard er to take care of yourself. the person that i am staying with passed away within the few weeks of this all being implemented the police were pounding on our door before this was ever a law to be enforced and they are telling us to move a block up, or there is just no parking at night at all and we were legally parked. from there it just spiraled because we needed more time. we just needed time. we are not trying to break the law.

there is less and less parking and there are more and more people coming and knocking on the door and we are getting less sleep and thes making it harder and harder. >> thank you, and please accept my condolences, on the loss of your partner. >> have you contacted the out reach team? >> (inaudible) all of the agencies keep throwing me (inaudible) and i just came bouncing back. i don't qualify for anything he has to offer. >> i am sorry, again i am very sorry for your loss and i really hope that with the help of the other community organizations that you can find some assistance.

thank you. >> kelley kutler. >> emily fair banks left? >> and kimora? >> jennifer, fradebach, all have gone? >> all right. >> no. >> hi, jennifer, director of the coalition on homelessness. so, i wanted to just spend time a little bit talking more broadly about the issues that folks are facing and i think that it is pretty obvious to everyone in san francisco right now, we are at dire straits, poor people are in san francisco. we have had huge amounts of displacement and actually the number of people leaving in their cars has gone up significantly. the results came out at the last homeless count and showed the count for the people in the vehicles have more than tripled. and we also have a situation

where the homeless people across the board are completely under attack and for us, this, conversation is yet another attack. and we have the department of public works and the police department, and engaging in massive sweeps from tuesday morning to friday morning at 4:30 a.m. and down the major corridors in san francisco. and we have police, really relentlessly harassing people who are leaving in their vehicles whether they are large or small vehicles. we have, you know, we just had today, a huge opposition to a shelter being built, luckily it passed at every place, people are being under attack. and then we have here today, talk of expansion of something that is already had such a negative impact on people who are just simply struggling to survive. and no people were not offered the permanent housing that is simply not true. there was an out reach done and there were warnings that this

was going to come down, the, police, as you know started implementing the law before it was actually in effect and which is kind of classic what the homeless people see any way and they use whatever if they want to get rid of you and that is what they are facing and so this is yet another thing that increases the dialogue of hate that causes more stress, that does not move towards the solution and we want to work together on solution and we brought them to you and we would like to have a better dialogue on them. >> thank you. >> that is the last person to turn in a speaker card. >> that was an informational item only. i think that we have a closed session. >> yes, and it will be appropriate for our discussion to go to conduct a closed session. >> motion? >> move to closed session? >> second. >> all in favor, aye. >> and great, we are moved to the closed session. >> thank you it will take a minute to clear the room.

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