well. >> it is a separate topic but -- >> related. ñ1k3'sçñ . >> we will close public comment. this was an information item, so we can go on to item number 11. >> one bay area grant program update,g> good morning, again. principal transportation planner for the authority. i have a quick overview of the onebayarea program. we have a detailed outline of the strategy and the funds available and the criteria. i am going to go through how much money is available, what kind of projects can be[=+í fud and, what the schedule is for projects election, and where to get more information. just by way of note, the

onebayarea program is for cycle two of the congestion at mitigation program. they are programmed for four years. mtc has asked that the projects be put forward, between 2013- 2014 and 2015-2016. san francisco stands to get $38.8 million in federal funds. we have broken it up in a draft funding from work. the first crunch is $2.5 million. these are standard funds we have to administer these programs and many others, including the countywide transportation plan. priority development areas, the program coming down from ntc

requires that we spend 70% of the funds in priority development areas. so this represents that. we have created safe route to school target. $5 million. we are going to be looking to target this towards infrastructure portions of safe routes to school projects. this is the target. we hope to get enough projects to use this bit of the remaining amount, the $8 million, can be spent in a non-pda's. i do want to note that with the passage of map 21, the new federal transportation bill, there may be shifts in funding. we do not expect anything too dramatic, but we're still working out what that will mean. but we're not expecting anything to dramatic. what the eligible project types? four main categories. previously, we had three of these categories that would have caps per category. over $38 million, you would have

to spend a certain percentage on roads and a certain percentage to transportation to livable communities. now we do not have cabs, so we can spend it all on one program or another. essentially, these are projects like valencia streetscapes. these are large multi-modal streetscape type projects. this is generally pavement religion -- rehabilitation street resurfacing. the bicycle program is a new program. this is pretty much every bicycle and pedestrian improvement you could think of, from class 1 a through 3 bicycle lanes, by parking's, sidewalks, education, and outreach. this is a very broad category. and the safe route to school program. moving to the schedule. this is an information item today. we will be moving forward to adopt the schedule funding from

work and prior to the fishing criteria in september but you can see the cac and the authority board schedule for adopting those items. we release a call for projects immediately$ié& after the adop. then we have applications due october 26. knowing that they will be very detailed applications, we will probably do a pre-release to allow project sponsors in a little bit of time before hand to start developing those applications. they will change applications of the board changes the criteria. the funding framework will have to be fluid with that. but want to give them enough time to give us complete and detailed applications bu. 30 days will be the official, but we will do a pre-release, and that will probably be sometime in august. we want to give them six weeks to eight weeks. that is generally what we try to do. the screening in prayer decision criteria, i do not have a

slight. page 154, we have that detail. the majority is from the ntc guidelines. it is differentiated in your packet. the italicized items are items we added in. to give you a couple examples, we are explicitly trying to prioritize projects that address multiple modes of travel. we're also prioritizing it safe routes to school projects from documenting walking audits. and we will be prioritizing projects in high risk and high activity pedestrian and bicycle corridors. we want sponsors to hone in on the safety issues and how the projects address those issues, and we would like points to back those up. moving to the second part of the schedules, we will bring through the initial onebayarea project list in the december board

cycle. again, you can see the committee's schedule there. i do want to note, as we move to the next slide, we're going to c projects. the first part is to get a larger than $38 million pool of projects. and we want to move forward with the adoption of that list and possibly some of prop k or other local funds to the four to five months of project development. this would be project specific outreach and cost estimates. things of that nature to add more detail to these projects. if we want to bring them through the federal process, as we have all learned from previous examples would second street and sunset elementary school, we want to make sure we have identified any issues that may be existing as they are moving projects forward. that will be happening between december and april of 2013. end of april, will have the final obag applications do.

the main authority board cycle will be cac and then offered the board to adopt, and we have to by june 30, 2013. the font color was not a great choice. we have a project website. we have a general e-mail for the project and a general phone number. 593-1655. that provides translation services. supervisor kim: i would like to say this is the perfect example of why color matters, going back to another presentation. [laughter] very important. supervisor kim: i was wondering if you schedule the dates when you will present to the pedestrian safety advisory

committee and the bicycle advisory committee? >> for pedestrian, i believe that is in september. and also the bicycle advisory will also probably be in early september. supervisor kim: could you give us the dates? >> yes. >> it has been a long meeting, but the agenda and complement each other. i wantedm" created this as a block grant, there were a lot of strings attached. one of the bonuses is it gives you the flexibility to decide what you want to fund with these projects. the policies and prioritization criteria are up on our website. but if you have a particular type of project that you want to fund, please let us know or let your offices know. the time to do that is now. it could fit in obag or could be

prop k or prop aa, it is all the same to us. we have got to get that out. supervisor avalos: thank you. ok, thank you for your presentation. we can open it up for public comment. any member of the public? seeing none, we will close public comment. this is an information item, so we can go on and to our next item. >> item 12, introduction of new items, information item. conversation around how the city is looking at expanding its accessible traffic stops with audible traffic signals, so i think that will be great to have as a presentation in september. that is a discussion we had earlier today. colleagues, in the other items for introduction? ok. public comment on this item? supervisor olague: i just have an item i would like to maybe request. yesterday, some of u3

a discussion about the transit center downtown. i wanted to get a sense of, more of a comprehensive look at some in that area would treasure island coming on board, a central corridor, and also with the transit center, so there is a lot of development being proposed, really an intense level of development being proposed in that area. seems to me that there would be some extreme impacts on all of the above. multi-modal or whatever we want to -- however we want to refer to it as did not want to look at parking and parking requirements, you know, that sort of thing. it seems that is obvious to me

that there would be cumulative impacts. >> if i may, commissioner olague, there has been, of course, environmental work done on each of those to address those issues. supervisor olague: everything has been looked at separately? i sort of looked at them as separate projects. >> as you know, there is a requirement that the cumulative impacts are considered as well. some of these things are on similar timelines. others are not. i think that what we may be able to do to highlight the issues that you're talking about -- supervisor olague: how are these issues being mitigated, i guess that is my question. >> we will give a presentation at the next meeting in september or october about the current effort we're doing on the countywide transportation plan, which is a 30-year look precisely. it starts with a fairly close

ending target year, and it has a much longer target year. so we can look at those other issues. there are no secrets there. the information is there, but it is probably good to put it in context. the other thing i would add to that is that in the case of the transbay transit center, for example, the redeveloper area around it or whatever we call it now, post-redevelopment, is still a key to the financing of the project. you know, there is a significant amount of affordable housing that went into the approval of that plan. obviously, it feeds into the viability of the center. so the two things come together. it does not mean there are no consequences or impacts on the ground, they are part of the package. so we should definitely bring

that i into context, and we can also talk about treasure island and the other things. supervisor olague: so is this practically speaking? what are the impacts, and what are some of the mitigations#mc proposed? >> let's try does something together for you. september or october. supervisor avalos: thank you. we will open this item up for public comment, new information items. public comment. we will close this item. general public comment. >> item 13, general public comment. >> good morning again, commissioners. like i told you last month, with van ness brt going forward and the central subway going forward, you have to remember

that they are building a station at union square÷/&dy with spur t union square for a light rail system. we should also read the final report that was published back in 1989, 1990. it is about the final report of the kerry transit task force that i happened to serve on -- the geary transit task force that i happened to serve on. also, the final report that was published in 1995. i know these items -- of these documents are many years old, but they tell you about a light rail system on geary boulevard that the voters voted for back in 1989. you also have to remember,

during the short term transit plan during the period, the puc was quoted as saying the only way to alleviate traffic congestion on geary boulevard is an "light railk not a bus rapid transit. before you consider brt on geary, read those three documents. remember about the central subway at the union square station, and do your homework. you have two months to do it. i do not know when we will be coming before you again for discussion and passage, but you have plenty of time to do it. enjoy the two months off, enjoy the reading. it was good reading for me. commissioner avalos: thank you very much. any other member of the public that would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item please. >> item 14 is adjournment. commissioner avalos: we are

adjourned. thank you very much.

>> in this fabulously beautiful persidio national park and near golden gate and running like a scar is this ugly highway. that was built in 1936 at the same time as the bridge and at that time the presidio was an

army and they didn't want civilians on their turf. and the road was built high. >> we need access and you have a 70 year-old facility that's inadequate for today's transportation needs. and in addition to that, you have the problem that it wasn't for site extenders. >> the rating for the high viaduct is a higher rating than that collapsed. and it was sapped quite a while before used and it was rusty before installed. >> a state highway through a federal national park connecting an independently

managed bridge to city streets. this is a prescription for complication. >> it became clear unless there was one catalyst organization that took it on as a challenge, it wouldn't happen and we did that and for people to advocate. and the project has a structural rating of 2 out of 100. >> you can see the rusting reinforcing in the concrete when you look at the edges now. the deck has steel reinforcing that's corroded and lost 2/3's of its strength. >> this was accelerated in 1989 when the earthquake hit and cal

came in and strengthened but can't bring to standards. to fix this road will cost more than to replace. and for the last 18 years, we have been working on a design to replace the road way, but to do in a way that makes it appropriate to be in a national park and not army post. >> i would say it's one of the most ugly structure, and it's a barrier between the mar sh and presidio. and this is a place and i brought my dogs and grandchildren and had a picnic lunch and it was memorable to use them when we come here.

what would it look like when the design and development is completed. and we are not sure we want an eight lane highway going through this town. and it's a beautiful area in a national seaport area on the planet. >> the road is going to be so different. it's really a park way, and it's a parkway through the national park. and they make the road disapeer to the national park. >> and the road is about 20 feet lower, normally midday, you go through it in two minutes. looking back from the golden gate bridge to presidio, you are more aware of the park land and less of the roads. and the viaduct will parallel

the existing one and to the south and can be built while the existing one remains in operation. and the two bridges there with open space between them and your views constantly change and not aware of the traffic in the opposite direction and notice the views more. and the lanes of course are a foot wider than they are today. and they will be shoulders and if your car is disabled, you can pull off to the edge. and the next area, the tunnel portal will have a view centered on the palace of fine arts and as you come out, you can see alkatrez island and bay. and the next area is about 1,000 feet long. and when you come into one, you

can see through the other end. it's almost like driving through a building than through a tunnel. and noise from the roadway will be sheltered. and the traffic will be out of view. >> when you come out of the last sort tunnel and as you look forward, you see the golden dome of the palace of fine arts and what more perfect way to come to san francisco through that gateway. >> it will be an amazing transformation. now you read it as one section, the road is a major barrier and then a wonderful strip along the water. all of those things are going to mesh together. >> right now the road really cuts off this area from public access. and with the new road, we will be able to open up the

opportunity in a new way. >> this bunker that we see now is out of access for the general public. we are excited to completely rework this side and to open up the magnificent views. and what we want to do is add to this wonderful amenity and restore this coastal bluff area and respect its military history and the doyle drive project is allowing us to do that recorrection. and this area is not splintered off. >> and we can see how dramatic a change it will be when doyle drive is suppressd and you have

a cover that connects the cemetery to this project. it's historic on the statewide and national basis, but you could rush the project or put thought and time to create something of lasting public benefit. >> we really want this, for everyone to feel like it's a win situation. whether you are a neighbor that lives nearby or a commuter or user of the park. that everyone will experience a much better situation than they currently have. >> the human interest to me is how people could work out so many challenging differences to come to a design that we believe will give us a jewel. landmark of a place. >> i am sure it will have refining effect like embark did.

and there were people about that and no one would think of that today. and when you look at growth and transformation of the embark, the same with doyle. it will be a cherished part of the city and a worthy addition to what is there. >> it will be a safe and beautiful entrance to a spectacular beautiful city. it will be the entry to golden gate that san francisco deserves. supervisor chu: welcome to the budget and finance subcommittee. i'm joined by a chainim