eligible for funding but we would always be interested in cooperating with other city departments, perhaps to procure some kind of a stationary or planning grant or some appropriate grant that could help propel this work full word. i believe is fundamental that we pay attention to the land side of this which is not usually our specialty but without it, we are making the transportation side and a bang for the buck investment. >> i am also serving as the oracle for a friend but i am trying to engage with you. >> thank you for your presentation and i agree in terms of it needs to be a joint effort around developing the land for housing and for density, also with transit. that will be a key to making it

forward. i would say it is inevitable that we would see this part of san francisco and brisbane developed into a station that will actually be workable. right now, it is not. it does not serve a lot people. i am pretty familiar with it. i think that the study is really important about how we can proceed and different options. i appreciated the effort that was behind it. if there are no other questions, we can go on to public comment. >> good morning, mr. chair and the commissioners. i am with the city county association of governments and i would like to first thank the transportation authority, your staff, especially for leading this station access study project.

we fully are in support of of the study's findings and we look forward to continue working and collaborating on future projects that impact both san francisco and san mateo counties. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good morning. our staff has been involved with this study since the beginning and i am here today to articulate our support. we feel this is a great opportunity to make sure that we have sufficient in place being proactive in doing that and the efforts have been put forth are very good and we are supportive of those. >> thank you very much.

course it is important to have a better connection between the t line and cal train. the question about the property that you asked and the staff addressed in part, it is important that we not propose something that is going to impact this facility and the malls i have seen suggest a pretty significant structure their, perhaps a large box, if you will. i am not sure the alignments are really going to be workable and i would encourage staff to look

carefully at that. this is redevelopment but i appreciate the director raising the correspondents. it remains to be seen how redevelopment will play out in this area. i want to say this in relation to an earlier item, as someone who served on both the 1989, and 2003 advisory committees, i feel that the staff could do more outreach to folks who have served on those prior bodies. there is a lot of specific projects that get done in the studies such as this and and there could be more of that i reached the people who have had a long-term interest in transportation, funding, planning issues. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning. we are the primary landowner in

the study area. we have been involved in the study process and are supportive of the approval of the steady. given where we are in the overall planning process. we submitted a letter requesting an alternative and we will submit that letter. the reason we submitted that letter is it reflects our concern that the full range of the bay shore alternatives need to be considered in the future once the specific plans once they have moved past the review process. we expect the final process. it is probable that the design of the station will differed from all of the alternatives but

nevertheless the study is useful in identifying some important considerations and benefits of each alternative. in this post redevelopment environment, we look forward to looking to design the most cost- effective station and to identify private and public funds that will be required to implement this strategy. thank-you. >> thank you very much. any other member of the public that like to comment? seeing none, we will close public comment. colleagues, this item is before us. we have a motion to move

forward. >> thank you. we will take that without objection. >> thank you. >> i am getting used to how these meetings are structured. i thought that he would respond. supervisor olague: i wanted to comment on the letter from fran martin earlier. she pointed out that the oversight board or may oversees the formally developed areas. the other six redevelopment areas, we need dedicated staff for those remaining areas. i know the mentioned that you would be speaking with the planning director, but i agree that a lot of this transportation planning was centered around the housing being considered for that area.

particularly the [unintelligible] site that is up in the air. is there a possibility of getting some kind of a report back from the mayor's office on housing to see how they plan on dealing with these projects? it seems to me that the relevance of some of these transportation plans before us rest on the fact that it was being viewed that there would be new residence in that area. with a very comprehensive plan around housing and transportation and that sort of thing. so,-housing, i am not sure if that changes the paradigm here. >> you are correct. beyond that, not only is there rabbit -- relevance, which we care about, but the opportunity for funding, because the region

is looking for transitive development. as far as your request for an update, at the very least, what i can do is make the contacts between the different agencies. giving you a sense of where it seems to be moving. supervisor olague: it should be reevaluated, in a sense. supervisor avalos: can we get an update when it comes to the full commission? >> we will have contact on that, yes, absolutely. supervisor olague: it is concerning to me. i am sorry i did not comment sooner. supervisor avalos: we have actually approve the item. we can, -- along to the next,

item number 7. >> item #7. recommend approval of the western south of market neighborhood transportation plan final report. >> this item begins on page 49 of your packet. the transportation plan final report. we are seeking approval. there is a separate inclosure for this item. in my presentation today, i will be discussing the context and purpose of the study. the process that we undertook to produce the proposed improvements, a bogus some highlights of the needs assessment that be conducted. i will go through the community posts that we have received and that will then touched on the funding in the presentation as well. i would like to thank our funding partners for this study.

the transportation commission provided funds in addition to the ones provided for the study. i would also like to acknowledge the west and planning tax " -- task force. -- western planning task force. the first was the western planning community plan from the citizen planning task force, put together for the approval process. the idea was to take the recommendations for a small number to see some early implementations. there is a community based transportation program that we support on a regular basis to address communities like this, with high population of low-

income minorities. those two efforts spawned this plan. the idea is the two nearterm small projects were prepared for grant implementation. to get there, the plan used three avenues. we conducted an extensive community input process and we reached out to other city agencies to get input on the improvements that you were developing in the plan. the concept was born in neighboring conditions and focus really only on the ballot -- alleys. the first one shows existing conditions. the diagram on the left in this

slide shows the usage. it shows how the alleys are dominated by pedestrian traffic. four to five times as many vehicles. but they face less than ideal conditions. the diagram on the rights shows that there is a lot of seeding in the alleys. there are many vehicles going above the 15 miles per hour, and it creates an inhospitable pedestrian condition. supervisor kim: how do you actually calculate these numbers? >> we counted the number of pedestrians and the number of vehicles during peak periods over the course of a couple days. for the speeds, we hired consultants to lay down teeth

and count the trafficked. we also capture speed information. we have got a sample survey technique for that. >> thank you. -- supervisor kim: thank you. >> looking at the alleys as public space, in this neighborhood we know that there is a scarcity of park space. there is a real source of community space in this area on the streets. we know that the alleys are promising in some ways. they could release serve as the community space in the area. looking at them today, there are very few amenities for pedestrians. the sidewalks are very narrow with parking and one side of the street. it does not serve its function

as a community space. other problems that we noticed in the assessment included issues of crossing the major streets. most of these streets for four main arterial is in one way. right now where the alleys connect with the streets there are not any help for pedestrians attempting to cross the street. so, based on that assessment, with input from the community, the plans settled on improvements to three streets. for these alleys, we had two improvement goals. we wanted to improve pedestrian

safety by slowing down vehicle speeds and discouraging vehicles from using the alleys as cut through routes. we wanted to enhance them as community spaces, as i mentioned before, providing better quality neighborhood public spaces. to do that, our strategy is included what is shown on the diagram here. the final report actually has the full plan view of the improvements on pages 27 and 28, if you want to take a look at the full view, but this captures the typical sets of improvements, and funding crosswalks at the entries and exits, signaling to drivers that they are entering a different kind of space that is more pedestrian friendly. we also included horizontal jogs

in the travel ways. instead of a straight shot down the alley, vehicles and countered a jog that naturally slows them down. we created that by alternating the parking between the north side and south side of the street. we are also proposing that all of that sidewalk, that strategic location, provide room for additional landscaping and other pedestrian amenities. we have a more ambitious approach on wrangel street. under that scenario we dedicated the entire right of way to pedestrians. vehicles are welcome to use the street, but they must go slowly in yield to pedestrians, that way we can open up the entire street to serve as a pedestrian based.

it is a better use of space dedicated to pedestrians as well. i encourage you to visit, if you have not already. it is quite nice and affords you more flexibility, building a sense of place as a pedestrian base. in designing the amenities, we did encounter constraints in the considerations that we are highlighting your. we wanted to retain access for right of way. we did need to retain higher access. on some parking is another consideration. the community does use the alleys and we recognize that

that would continue to be the case in the future for improvement plans. we also encountered this issue of ongoing operational maintenance. the city has not had a clear policy with respect to which city agency is willing to take on the increments of operations and maintenance that along with improvements. that will be an issue that we will lead to follow and hopefully resolve, as we advance these improvements. just in the about the public input that we received, again looking at the on street parking issue, we wanted input from the community about the willingness to let go of those parking spaces to convert them into pedestrian space. the majority of the community really does support kent -- converting some spaces into pedestrian use. on the right receive a percentage of responses.

as you can see, over 70% of respondents in the survey wanted to give some parking spaces. on the left, the diagram shows desire by the community for more amenities. it seems the community is very interested in getting improvements there. given the community input we received in the process, the study struck a balance with respect to how much pedestrians wanted an increase in parking to be converted. turns out to be about 20% in the

plan diagrams included in the report. about five spaces per block. where there are only 11 spaces to begin with, creating a shared space meant we had to let go of five spaces to allow for flexibility. the neighborhood transportation plan proposal also proposed in mid block crossing on a number of streets. the plan evaluated three locations. as well as nitoma at 8th. oncoming traffic would get the red light. it would also shorten the crossing distance for pedestrians. supervisor avalos: you had three

scenarios. one was in the middle of the block in the scrap that one. what was the main reason for not recommending that? >> the application was developed as a potential recommendation in the middle, because for that location there was not an obvious preferred location. for the others it was obvious that the have the desire for crossing, because of the market on the corner and across the street there is a senior services center with a lot of people already going across. the other benefit to locating the crossing there is that it allows for the queuing of the cars to not build up so far is

to impact the mission street intersection. so, there are really minimal traffic impact that we are expecting. so, the same idea for the traffic impact is on the location of seventh and minna, at the mid block crossing. supervisor olague: i am glad to see that you will be putting a crosswalk between 10th and markets, which i think his family housing. and across the street there is a service for a lot of homeless seniors. bac>> that got high marks in the community. many members of the community were very happy to see that.

the report also includes a cost estimate of those improvements that i just highlighted. there anywhere from $2.5 million to $5 million. we think that these projects are very competitive for a number of periodic plant programs. there is a list on this slide on the right. they are described from the upcoming von opportunities in more detail. the next step for these projects include environmental. those are already under way. they were gracious enough to include these projects. so, these improvements will be cleared as a part of that process. we will be pursuing funds, as

was just mentioned. sf mta will need to legislate the curve changes. we will need to address universal access needs. designed to support all access and we want to make sure that that continues as we enter final design. we will need to resolve the ongoing maintenance issue question before we actually put them in place. we did hear from the community that there is some interest in incorporating into the project to highlight the cultural significance of the area with a latino heritage.

there will be a separate process for developing and incorporating parts into the improvements. that concludes my presentation. this is a final report and we are seeking approval in manhattan to take any questions. supervisor kim: this is a great study and it is great to see the data with it the anecdotal stories that we hear from residents around pedestrians as open space. it is great to see the you support those changes and improvements. i want you to reiterate how important those crosswalks are. this is a residential neighborhood and often not acknowledge that way, but the blocks are so large and it is on

friendly for residents to walk in the area. light is something that we often hear about as well. glad to see that that was in here. we appreciate the crosswalk recommendation. ninth street, i know that the heavy vehicle corridor, as the folks, 101 and 80, i am curious to see the traffic impact. i know how important the crosswalk is. i know that the commissioner had mentioned the market across the street. the families live on the eastern side and i know that there are a lot of families there where they feel the car's speed down the alley ways. they worry about the kids that play in the area.

i know that public art worked, part of the central aspect is to create a filipino and lgbt cultural heritage peace. is there reason that we pick these potentially for the public art work? >> i think that i can ask paul to come and address that question. he has been closest to the development of those cultural heritage districts. i will ask him to correct me if i am wrong, but it has to do with the relocation specific history of the area. i understand ringold to be specifically important in the history of lgbt as a meeting place.

it is an actual site that i think people come to visit in san francisco. and it historically has high populations of filipino's. does that do it? >> that was great. there was a significant, historic with significant portion of the filipino community there, but i would not know where it was for the lgbt community. thank you. supervisor olague: i wanted to again talked about it and acknowledging all the work that has been done over the years. i am also really happy about the fact that there will be an alleyway program revision to increase the public open space