that if someone is adding 400 square feet -- the fee is likely to have a square footage exemption so that if someone is adding 400 square feet. financial feasibility, because we are conducting and eir in this program, we don't expect it be in effect until 2013. we are expecting to update the exposure to the time when this legislation might be adopted. we are establishing a steering committee which would program the revenue every two years and is sure that we are meeting our

requirements in terms of how the money is being spent. this will be reviewed by the relevant policy bodies and reviewed by the board of supervisors. every five years, we will need to update the environmental assumptions to ensure that our development assumptions are accurate and to take a look at the expenditure program to make sure that the parties that we have put the finding into are having an impact on the system this lines up nicely with the prioritization programming process so that the board can consider the entire transportation program in its totality we are expecting that there will be a transition

time so that it can change, during which we will be working closely with the project sponsors to coach them on the appropriate methodology to be using for their environmental review too ensure the greatest feasibility. in terms of timeline, we have started stakeholder out reached in november of this year and we have been reaching out to supervisors and citizens advisory committees. we are providing presentations here today as well as to the board of directors, the transportation authority board. we expect to be at the land use committee in late february this will kick off our environmental review process. once the process is complete in 2013, this will determine whether any changes will be necessary and we would expect it to go through the adoption

process at that time. it will be referred back to the planning commission under normal procedures. 'm available for questions. >> thank you very much. is there any public comment on this report? >> good afternoon, commissioners. good to see you all. the veterans of this commission, i have been coming and talking to you since 2003 perhaps. we are very much in support of this program. we are appreciative of all of the city agencies.

this complicates realizing things that we're trying to get done, every day bicycling being among them in my interest professionally. this is how we do things in san francisco. it is not only the making the business it coherent to our policies and programs but it will generate some revenue. that is a very good thing for a

city that is broke, that needs to have money put into transportation improvements and to transit. that is worth noting and worthing purging. i am sure i will be back to talk to you more as this moves along. thank you for your patience and attention to this over the years. >> it is there additional public comment? if not, public comment is closed. >> this is a terrific day. perhaps it is serendipitous that earlier in the meeting, the director announced that we won two international awards acknowledging the city for- looking measures in transportation planning. this gives a visual talk of what they are doing and they will be implementing a real end of what

it looks like when you start to implement this. i am denied -- delighted. this is about increasing intersections. i think this is a step in the right direction and there will be more questions of participants worry input which i would be very interested in listing to because many are suffering from our people actually coming from out of town and how are we capturing that? i am really glad that we are fast tracking this, the studies, and everything that we need to have been placed in order to do this quickly. thank you to everyone.

this could not be a better day for hearing it. >> wheat have welcomed some comments which we think have some promise. this is an important matrix to half. fortunately living and working in san francisco, i usually do not have to drive in situations such as the bay bridge or other hopeless situations where you are caught in traffic. this is very first -- very frustrating. i think it is important that this still happens but i think that the matrix has to expand. you have to realize the impacts that other means have on the movement of all means of transportation, be this pedestrians bicycles cars,

buses are often trying to pass each other. they are always out in the street. this causes lots of problems. my feeling is that the money from this feet should go specifically to transportation improvements which is buses or preferably light rail in their own right of way. the only way we will improve people community will get to have people in a situation where they get on a train, it stops only at the stations, it moves quickly and reliably to their destination. otherwise, they will drive into most people's time is valuable. but people, if they can afford to do it, will take the most expedient way to move from one place to another because they have a lot of things to do. if there is this increase in fee

or replacement feet, as you have it, whatever it will be. we have to make sure that we don't set ourselves up for not being competitive with other jurisdictions in the area for business or for residents and to make sure that it is well thought out and that it has precedent and the results are tangible and that it is directed towards the improvement of better transit. trying to change people's behavior is spending a lot of money that the will not happen -- a lot of money that will not happen. you can take away some lanes, they will say, maybe i should ride the bike. they will not do this just because you have taken a lained away. this is an important thing to look at. i appreciate all of the bike lanes that have been put in. this cuts a laying off between

the school for the arts and where you get off on diamond heights boulevard. it would have been too bad, this goes across midtown. that is just an aside on looking at these things and always studying all of the impact. wherever you can place the pipelines, they should not jeopardize major transit streets. it is not safe if they are on a streak like butcher pine -- on the street like busher pine. >> this is extremely exciting.

i was part of the committee. we won 76% of the vote in 2003. it is exciting to see this as a complement at that work. i remember talking about how do we balance in our expenditure plan at the need to do all of the multi modal aspects of what is acquired for transportation. that process specified release specific project and mitigation actions. i am happy to hear that when you look at this every five years, it will coincide with how you look at that expenditure plan. this is a nice complement that needs to happen. it is really interesting because in my day job, we have this

challenge for cities all of the world like to get expertise to look at problems in their city. we send consultants in for free. the biggest problem around the globe in every single country you go too is looking at how you balance getting people out of their cars. they are clogging the streets and they're taking three hours to get into the city center. now looking how to provide better information. the trend around the world, everyone realizes he cannot build more roads. i think that this takes us a long way in that direction. in terms of a policy question that you raised for our feedback, i think this is a great idea to incentivize

projects that go belie the4y parking maximum. i think that that is a strong opportunity. maybe there is a certain threshold of projects. i think that the fee waivers for non formula retail is the assistant space and this makes a lot of sense as well they don't have very large margins to begin with and any sort of fees make it's difficult for them to survive. obviously waivers for affordable housing, most of them don't involve parking. those people will be users of public transit.

kc'ni think this is really well thought out policies you have discussed. i think they are all steps in the right direction. >> i was not thinking about this but how will this applied to square footage for small businesses? we have existing stores on fillmore street and there are retell and someone goes out of business and someone comes in and uses the same space. >> it would be on new only or a change of use. if this is one for one, the assumption that it has been accounted for and the fleets --

the fee is not applied. >> if we take an example and a new addition to the museum of modern art, it would be charged $13.30 a square foot? :p é right. >> $3 million. >> depending on the square footage. >> the change of use is the new change. this goes from a retail operation to a restaurant. is that correct? bubut as i'm starting a campaign for having to weigh on the

streets. -- two-way on the streets. >> this makes it a lot more pleasant and it moved just as well if not better and it allows it some options for some people that made a mistake. all of a sudden they were trapped going in the right direction. in terms of waivers, i think your pricing makes sense for businesses. smaller businesses should pay a smaller fee. i don't think they should be entirely exempted. as far as housing, i would say, no.

just as people are in affordable housing, just because their incomes might be lowered, they don't have cars. i don't think that a lot of people, the first thing they can afford is a car. this allows them to get to jobs that they can now attend. i think that the impacts are probably just as great and they may be hidden because we did not put parking places in. actually, they are in the street or in a rush somewhere. i think you really have to be more honest about what the real impact on our and assess it

equally. -- about what the real impacts are. >> i had to have a colleague explain los to me. i never understood it because it never made any sense. i was always interested in moving people, not moving four wheels on the vehicle. all this was ever concerned with was the vehicles. i appreciate it will take 10 years to get rid of it but that

is how things go. i rarely had a report or i have used so much highlighter on. i appreciate everyone's work on this. this really condenses it very very well. as far as the policy discount, the first thing that should be looked at is that it says up to 100%. so, we will have to deal with that and that is in my mind exactly the way to be. the last problem or the straw that breaks the camel's back will hopefully be eliminated. that, which is basically an .

everyone says, well you have to talk to sacramento about this. many of us have attempted that. this is something we can do locally. so, this really is something that the public should be appreciative of. the public might not understand it. that is ok. the end result and how the impacts are determined will be much more understandable to the f%los hasn all of these years. we operate at e and f, g and h,

for that matter, as do most of the major cities and some of the minor ones, in the world. it works. this will be a much better way. >> thank you. i just wanted to thank the staff and the other agencies. this is a lot of work and this is a little complicated and it will be hard to get the word out about how this actually up rates but this is something that you have all been interested in for some time. besides the benefits of this program, there is a huge benefit to projects and delays in projects in terms of not having to do in a very expensive and time-consuming analysis for this project. it makes more sense to do this cumulatively and comprehensively. there are and we have talked a

lot about the fee amounts. this does replace the tidf. the project within the planning area are playing a fee. this is not all new. we are trying to work this through and talking to the project sponsors and community folks about what the fee is dark. that is part of the discussion that will be having an over the next several months. i appreciate your support and interest in this. >> just a last question, on that node, i imagine in areas like market, octavia, if this is going to replace any thing, that they would have some interest in trying to retain, set to speak.

that increment flowing into this program. at >> what i have heard from them is making sure that the priorities so that they have identified through their process are understood as part of a larger process. less concerned about making sure they are holding on to the particular dollars. >> why don't we take a 15 minute >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm from the planning department

staff and i manage the implementation team which was formed about three years ago to help with overseeing and coordinating the implementation of various area plants that have been recently adopted, the eastern neighborhoods, the better neighborhoods, etc. our goal is to make sure the visions and projects that are identified those plans, specifically the capital infrastructure that were identified in the community planning, come to fruition and serve the new growth and existing residents and workers as the neighborhood's change and develop over the next 20 years or so. some of the ways we work to fulfill that mandate to include our work coordinating with other agencies in terms of the capital planning for public improvements, including leading the interagency plan implementation committee, which is what we will be presenting

our report on shortly. we also work closely with the community through the eastern neighborhoods to get their input on the implementation and best uses of the impact fee revenue that comes from the plans. we work with project sponsors to develop in kind agreement for building the public improvements along with their development projects and we track and coordinate with other agencies on specific capital projects, particularly through the transportation projects for eastern neighborhoods and make sure the projects move forward and to go after grants to get funding. lastly, we monitor the project and how they are implemented. we will be coming to you a few times in the next few months to talk about items related to the implementation program, starting with the impact fees.

in february, we will talk about the eastern neighborhoods monitoring report as well as the final report for the even trips project. there will be more opportunities to talk about this topic. today's topic is the annual report of the interagency plan implementation committee. before she begins, i want to provide some context for that work. over the past five years or so, the city has adopted a number of significant new bread plants. other plans are going through various stages of the process. together, these plans represent about a quarter of the city's land we are changing the zoning

regulations and providing area plan envisions for. they plan for an addition of 25,000 housing units. this accounts for roughly half the expected growth we have, so it is a significant amount of growth. along with the new growth, we recognize an essential need to provide infrastructure and the amenities to come with building maintenance, parks, st. abridgments, etc.. when those plans were adopted, those plants that fees that were adopted with them that would go toward the building of the neighborhood and for chartres. o pay for about 30% of the capital

needs projected from the plans. there is a need to supplement that with other needs and grants and that is one of the things we do. h= go after these additional funding sources. that forms the basis of the report you are about to hear. i want to mention one of our recent successes which was mentioned in the previous item. that is the hayes street to way project. that first emerged in the better neighborhoods plant. it was a community idea to change haiti's street from a one-way street that was a conduit for traffic that was more neighborhood-serving and was better for pedestrians. that idea and that the that area plan and in that an we were

to work with other agencies to make sure that project went through all of the channels and use impact fees to finalize the funding for that project and make it happen. if you have been out there recently, you can see it out there and working for the neighborhood. moving forward, we will see many more of these in future years and hope to come back with more stories in the future. with that, i will turn it over to cure certain to walk you through the report. -- will turn it over to kirsten. >> thank you for the overview. i'm here to speak about three items in your packet. the first is the interagency plan implementation report. this