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just can't thank you enough for coming and talking to the membership. it really made an impact at least in my district and i have to thank you for that. >> you're welcome. >> commissioner clyde? >> i just wanted to ask you did the limited life performance, it has not been assigned to committee yet? the supervisor introduced it. >> my apologies, yes. it's been -- it's been assigned to land use and will -- and it also has to be before the planning commission. it will be assigned to our legislation and policy committee for the first review. >> and does it have to go to the entertainment commission as well?
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president o'brien: see no further, next item. clerk: item number 14, the legislative and policy committee report. commissioner dooley: i do not think i have anything. >> pardon me, commissioner dooley, i think we will be bringing that in june. commissioner doolely: and we did regret -- request to go from just a few days. sometimes we have now 60-day. president o'brien: that
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concludes your report? next. clerk: the permitting committee report. commissioner: there is no report. clerk: i number 16, the outreach committee report. commissioner: there is no report. clerk: the president's report. president o'brien: no report. clerk: item number 18, the vice president report. vice president adams: --
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president o'brien: next item. clerk: item number 19, commissioner reports. commissioner: manufacturing facilities and parties, so i would recommend looking at that if you are interested. i did attend several meetings this month. one of them with supervisor farrell in the marina, and i would like the commission to know that there were many ways about the licenses it. this is a new condition on abc licenses, and i think there may be some concern to the commission. the small business commission
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was thanked repeatedly, and most thanked being small businesses. sunday streets on lower 24 have significant participation from the merchants, and this was this past sunday. there is the sidewalk sale. that was held on ocean avenue on saturday. and i spoke briefly with supervisor aval;a -- avalos, and there was participation. i would like to highlight the work of the director in this focus on retail plan for the islands.
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i was just really heartened to see that small business was considered as part of the treasure island development plan, and i think that is really significant. this is the first day of operation. it is a really well thought out mix of food and beverage service. i have actually included in my report for the commission a copy of the current business opportunities at terminal 3, the national terminal cost and part of the retail mix, and i think considering tonight's conversation began looking at neighborhood retail and looking at the entire regional picture in a neighborhood, if you look at terminal two, which is an
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amazing place, and if you have the good luck to fly out of it, it is just beautiful. it is a signature plates, and the retail mix is so well thought out and really honors the small-business community of san francisco. there are several local businesses to have something there, and that is why i am including it in my report. thank you. president o'brien: thank you. commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i will be brief. i attended the meeting about the cvs pharmacy is, and i used the opportunity to bring up some issues around formula retail and the coach, and that prompted the president olague to call for a
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joint meeting. this brings the merchants, the residence, fire, police, everyone together under one roof, and supervisor chu was the host, and everyone got together and asked him a number of questions about what was the most concern in the neighborhood, is about was the most interesting. on may 4, i attended a meeting on polk street between the owners of a building there regarding ada compliance. two of the tenants were being sued, and it was very refreshing to see them getting together with the owners to see what they could do, and i but that was a very exciting way to deal with a big problem, so that
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is my report. president o'brien: next item, please. clerk: item number 20, general public comment. president o'brien: next item. clerk: item number 21, new business. president o'brien: any new business? seeing none, next item. clerk: item number 22, adjournment. president o'brien: the meeting is>> hello.
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findings and recommendations. these reports them become a key part of the civic dialog on how we can make san francisco a better place to live and work. >> i want to encourage anyone that is on the fence, is considering participating as a grand jury member, to do so. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call >> in the year 2020 to see everybody traveling the whole city using their bicycles. that would be great dedication, don't you think? [applause] today, i know that all of our
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supervisors -- while this was not a noticed meeting, it was a very noticed meeting. the department heads that have been here with public works and rec and park and mta and others, the commissioners writing this, and we had a great conversation with different parts of the roadway that we had with the very soft area of golden gate park to the pathways and the panhandle, and we really hit into traffic. that is the really challenging part, which i intend to work with our supervisors and supervisor mirkarimi to make sure we try to experiment with the ways we can have dedicated bike lanes. that would be wonderful to have, wouldn't it? and we need to calm that traffic down and make sure that we have state pathways, and then we went to the widow. that is a fun part.
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i know andy wanted to go directly on the hills. we pulled him back. but i know he is in shape. he is going to speak in a minute, but there are a lot of people in shape, and then there are people like me. we need that we go. and then market street, those really dedicated bike lanes. i am definitely in favor of expanding it from octavia all the way to the very building. we should have dedicated bike lanes there. [applause] we are experimenting with turn lanes so we can dedicate more sequential use of that street. and then there is an economic part of it. as you know, we have worked hard with the supervisors to make sure that we have amid market change. all of those employees i know -- you are going to see more than
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25% of them riding and to work. there will probably be 50% or 60% of the workers we encouraged to locate and beyond big-market. they will be riding to work a lot. we need to expand those lines to make sure we work with it. i know that each of the supervisors will have a minute to say, but before they do, i wanted to welcome also our business partners, people encouraging their employees to ride to work. we have jeff from wells fargo. you are still with us, right? come on out here. we have peter from green apple books. where is peter? peter, come on up here. these are also the employers working with the city, working with our supervisors, all of them, to make sure they do the best enjoying our efforts. even when we do these, it has
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been public/private partnerships that actually keep and maintain this. i want to be your with everybody to announce that we have already been working on how we can fund more of these, so with the jfk route that we wrote this morning, recreation and park and mta have been working with our transportation authority through the board of supervisors, and they found a grant that would immediately allow them to plan for the jfk route to be implemented. by the end of this year, mta and rec and park will have a dedicated bike lane on the jfk drive by the end of this year. [applause] that is a really great announcement, and we will have more of them. that is just a first, and i think a number of announcements we will try to make and continue to find funding for anti public/private partnerships going. with that, i want to bring up andy. maybe peter and tom and joe, if
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you want to say a few words because i know andy is going to speak about his great hiking experience, his racing skills, and all of the things that he does. come on up. >> very briefly, green apple books recently got, thanks to the by coalition and the city, a bike corral right in front of the store. [applause] they removed a car parking spot, which is a pretty big, aggressive thing to do appeared on the other hand, the loss of one car gave us space for 10 bikes, and that iraq has been pretty much full every day all day, so i appreciate the cooperation of the city and making that happen, and i have to point out that it was done with almost no red tape. i filled out an application and got a phone call, and they put it in, so kudos. [applause] >> wells fargo has been a wonderful partner with the city. i was with them last week.
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they had all these volunteers out helping us repair homes in our mission and excelsior for seniors, so it is a wonderful cooperation we have with wells fargo. how was the right coming in today? >> when a great way to start the morning. i wish i could start every morning like this. we have more than 9000 team members at work, so coming from marin county in the east bay from the south bay, so we are actively working with them and helping reduce greenhouse emissions. one of that is by the commute, so we are actively encouraging bike riding to work appear almost every one of our administrative offices has bike racks outside of it to help support our team members, so thank you, and thank you, mayor. >> joel. travel sf. our tourists and visitors are noticing this experience. what are you saying? >> travel and tourism in -- is
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san francisco's number one industry. 80 million people come here every year, and more than 1/3 are from international countries that are used to riding bicycles. the more we can make the city accessible for cyclists, the more people can get out to walk or ride the city. it is the best way to see our neighborhood and see the wonderful thing san francisco has to offer, so we are working to make sure that san francisco is accessible to everybody by bicycle. thank you. ed lee the -- mayor lee: the next speaker is not only a bicycle enthusiasts. he sponsors racers. he has the right uniform. he is in shape, challenging everybody, and also doing great work with our city, building our general hospital, helping to build our new puc administrative building. this is andy ball from webcor. come on up. >> mayor lee was great to ride with this morning.
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it was a wonderful way to start the day. let's hear it for greenland's -- green plains -- green lanes and churros. [applause] it is one of will to have a building that reduces carbon emissions. webcor has been building a foundation for cycling for the last 11 years by supporting 8350-member cycling team. we have a professional team. we set by women to the beijing olympics -- four women to the beijing olympics, and we have national champions. we have been very successful. now, we are advocating for cycling. commuting, for kids to be able to have a safe way to get to school, more bicycle lanes, a better understanding that there needs to be recognition of the cyclist and -- as a vulnerable user on our roads, and that is starting to change the laws to make that recognition, so we
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have roads now designed to recognize the fact that people ride bicycles on them and walk on them. transit-oriented villages where people can have the ability to walk, to cycle, get transit. that is what we believe the future looks like. san francisco has embraced that. it is wonderful to see the new bicycle lanes. when we were out today, we felt safe, and we believe that everybody gets on a bicycle, no matter what walk of life, should be able to ride the bicycle and feel safe while they are doing it. let's hear it for san francisco. we love them. [applause] mayor lee: now, we have our board of supervisors. next time we do that, i would rather do it on a bike. that would be a lot more fun. supervisor chiu: good morning.
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and would like to work today? is anyone a member of the amazing san francisco by a coalition? thank you, and thank you for showing the world how we roll. 15 years ago, i started to bite -- bike to work for the first time, and i have to admit, it was a lonely experience. i do not feel alone anymore. last year, the board of supervisors set a new goal for the city. by 2020, we want to have 20% of all trips throughout the city on our bicycles. in order to do this, we need to imagine. we need to imagine a bicycle network from the bay to the bridge, from the east to the west, from the north to the south. we have to imagine separated bicycle lanes, finally getting bicycle parking for all of us, finally having bicycle signals. we have to imagine sake of conditions for our 8-year-old's
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and 80's -- 80-year-old's to go to work. i want to thank my two great tour guides. we had a great contingent from the richmond this morning. it was great to see ed lee on a bicycle or 7:15 in the morning. why do seven out of 10 san franciscans get on a bicycle each year? we're going to improve that every year. it makes us a healthier and stronger and more vibrant city. the richmond district has not only great businesses like pete from green apple, which just installed the great crowd, but we hope to see many more of those all around the city, and i really will be working with the mayor and my colleagues on the board of supervisors to insure that the jfk drive dedicated improvements are instituted before the end of the year.
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they should have been done before, but we are going to make sure they are down by the end of the year. thank you so much to everyone for being here today and bicycle coalition for keeping us a biking friendly city. thank you. >> thanks, everyone. i want to say thank you to north dakota, mike, the entire group that came with me from district 2 -- i want to say thank you to andy. give me a call anytime. i'm happy to do it again, and thank you to the bicycle coalition and everyone here improving the infrastructure of our bike lanes, whether it be for the america's cup for our daily lives in sanford's is go. as critical to our future, and i look forward to working with everyone here to make that a daily part of our reality in san francisco. thank you very much. [applause] supervisor chu: good morning. i rode in today on a tandem bicycle in the back.
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i promise i did tattle on the hill -- pedal on the hill. [laughter] thank you for that, for helping me see san francisco in a new way. when you go on foot, it is a little too much to cover. when you go by car, you miss so much, so i just want to say thank you for giving us this opportunity every year to really experience the city in a different way, to smell things in a different way, understandings in a different way, get our coffee and bagels in a different way, so i want to thank you for that. i love my furry helmet. [applause] i do not really love my hat hair, but i hope that one day, we will be able to have a san francisco were even i, and an experienced biker, will feel comfortable and safe writing in san francisco. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: i am the
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proud supervisor district 5, home of the first part with, all of the first dedicated bike light after the injunction on felon and sonic, and absolutely the epicenter were bicyclist go from east to west to our city, but i want to take this opportunity to shore up this one message -- it is time we take back masonic boulevard. it is time that we actually step up the city's game in making sure that masonic is safer bicyclist and pedestrians and that we all descend on this cause right now before anyone gets hurt, and it is time mayor leemayor lee said, -- timeline -- time like mayor lee said that we institute those two main arteries. [applause] >> good morning. this is my first bike to work
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day. [applause] i have the honor of representing district 6, which includes where we're standing today. includes mid-market. it includes second street, south of market, tenderloin, and treasure island, and this is a district doesn't have the best and safest bike lanes in san francisco, and it should have them soon. i grew up a city girl, so i never learn how to buy growing up. i have only been biking twice. i want to thank the coalition members that have dedicated their time teaching me how to ride. peter was my bike coalition tour guide today. we got to see some of the green lanes, the boxes, and we also got to ride in some of the areas where there were not biplanes, and i got to feel how unsafe it was to have trucks and cars trying to jostled around you, and i definitely want to work
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towards getting lanes that would make someone like me feel safe to ride to work. thank you. [applause] supervisor wiener: let's hear it for district 8. [applause] i was really lucky to date to be able to experience a lot of the real than the art of making our streets more complete and better for everyone. we started at the plaza on castro and market, which was the first in the pavement to parks program, a wonderful example of using our streets in a smarter way. we went down the brand-new 17th street bike lanes, which is terrific, and of the amazing mee again how important it is to resurface our roads and make them smoot for everyone. then, of course, the green bike lanes on market street and the physical separation, which is so important.
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this was my first bike to work i look forward to working with you all to making our city better and safer for everyone. thanks. [applause] supervisors campos: good morning. buenos dias. \ i represent district 9, and biking is part of daily life for so many of my residents. mr. mayor, i am happy to see you on that bicycle. you look good. one thing i would say is we have so much happening around bicycling in san francisco, it is very exciting, but we also have some ways to go. i see commissionaire brinkman. it is frustrating when you visit is like d.c. or barcelona and see that they are far ahead of san francisco. we cannot let that happen. we should relating -- leading the way not only in this country but in the world when it comes
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to making sure that we have the best bicycle network anywhere, so i am committed to making that happen. one thing that i would say, and i want to thank the bicycle coalition for this -- for us to get to where we want to be in terms of making biking a part of daily line for every san franciscan -- daily life for every san franciscan, we need to reach out to every member of this community, the diverse communities that make up this city, and i want to thank the bicycle coalition for making that effort, taking the time to reach out to those levers communities not only in my district but throughout the city. i want to thank you for that because those communities are part of this effort, and they can benefit from that, and they want to be part of this movement, so thank you so much, and, hopefully, we will see you more out there. thank you. [applause] >> ok, good morning, everyone. your
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