where we're waiting for national/regional to catch up with us. >> thank you for that. >> commissioner olague, did you have any other question? >> yes, van ness vrt funding. >> vrt project i think is doing great in terms of having our locally preferred alternative identified and the federal transit administration has already given us -- given mta, in fact, $15 million pre-investment to fund the conceptual engineering for that and detailed engineering for that project. we're on track to hopefully receive the full 75 million as soon as our environmental is completed and we develop that plan for delivering the project. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner avalos. >> thank you, chair campos. just a couple comments and perhaps suggestions as well. i think it's really important as we're looking forward to finalizing the transportation

plan we look at equity in san francisco and look at communities and neighborhoods in san francisco that heretofore have not received really a fair share of funds for infrastructure, for transit and other form of transportation as well. i live in a district that is clearly beset by a real lack of funding. balboa park station is a place that needs enormous investment just to make it functional. and it's really not, although people use it every day, thousands of people. i'm looking at the map on page 4. it has the areas of expected growth and new housing units. 1800 planned around balboa park. i would expect that's not just in that little box area that's there, but surrounding area. in the past 10 years in district 11 we have had 6,000 new residents come in. so, there's growth that's happening. that isn't measured here in what we're projecting for the next, you know, 20 years.

that i think is really something we have to take in consideration as we're planning. now, these numbers come from the regional level. we have to look at the reality of the local level as well. what does that mean in terms of our transportation plan? we have to make sure our transportation plan is actually put in place, the need to really up lift neighborhoods that don't have the infrastructure that we need. when you have fewer choices and you have to get somewhere and you have a car, you're going to get in your car because that's the only choice you have. and i think we have to be really cognizant of that, moving forward how we can as a city support neighborhoods like the ones in district 11, district 10 and the outlying districts, district 7 and in 4 that have fewer options for transit. just want to make sure that we're moving forward, we take that into consideration and how that could be -- so it's really a part of transportation plan for the city. >> thank you, commissioner avalos. that's an excellent point and we'll make sure we continue to

look at that. commissioner wiener. >> thank you very much. and i just want to follow-up on commissioner avalos's point. i do think equity is important and i'm glad that commissioner avalos mentioned accretion of new housing because density equity is also important. and i do believe a transit investment should be tied to a community's willingness to accept increased density and i can say in the south and southeast we are experiencing housing growth in market octavia. we're having thousands and thousands of new units through an area, market street, that's poorly served with transit. so, i do believe a density equity needs to play a role because there are parts of the city that are more willing than others to accept density in areas where you can put new

housing with more of a fight or less of a fight, or even with open arms. so, i agree. >> yes, mr. moskovich. >> if i may, to the comments from both commissioner avalos and commissioner wiener, the fortunate thing is that the structure in which we are operating -- because this plan essentially feeds into regional transportation plan in the next cycle, is such that the region is already requiring us to take into account these things because the regional investment strategy is also based on investing where the density is going to be. i mean, considering the very significant numbers of people that are going to be coming into the bay area in the next 30 years and the significant numbers of people -- of new jobs, there is no other choice. the bang for the buck needs to be there. so, that's a huge consideration that supports essentially both of your assertions. but the other thing that i think is fundamental to

understand is that the challenge, as i think rachel alluded to in a couple of the slides, is that we need to ramp up to be able to deliver real choices for people to travel which we're talking about commissioner avalos, people not having the option to drive, or needing to get on the bus. we really have a huge challenge coming up in the next [speaker not understood] to assure people the acceptance of density will come coupled with tangible improvements in transit service, in other options so they don't have to be worried either about having to buy a car and drive, or if they are over the driving, the whole business of parking and where the parking will become a jungle in the city and the neighborhoods, you know, because of the influx of new people. so, those are really critical issues for us. and one of the key ones is, of course, what are we going to be able to actually put in place in the next decade, two decades to keep pace with the public

that supports these plans. >> commissioner avalos. >> i just want to be really clear about how i talk about density. in my district, what i'm seeing in my district is we don't have a new development that's happened in district 11. we have a couple housing sites here and there, no more than maybe 12 units that have gone up in each site. most of them are under 12 units. but we have 6,000 new residents are there that weren't there in 2000, which is a huge increase in density in the neighborhood, not being measured necessarily by the city in terms of its housing goals. not being measured by the regional level as well. and the reality is we have to figure out how to build a transportation system that also, you know, recognizes that density in a different way than we recognize it in other parts of san francisco where we are seeing housing that's being developed in greater amounts. i think that's a challenge that we have to face and we have to go with open eyes knowing the reality of certain neighborhoods in the city. >> thank you.

commissioner kim. >> i just wanted to appreciate commissioner avalos' comments. we are seeing that growth throughout the city. i do want to speak to some of the frustration i hear from residents that are moving into kind of our newer emerging growing residential neighborhood where we are seeing very escalated density. and i think there is a lot of concern about a promise of a public transit infrastructure that people feel like the commitment to transit first neighborhood is not really being fulfilled in their neighborhoods. and i hear this a lot in south beach and in mission bay and in the south of market. i think last week a lost of us experienced the disaster that was several major city-wide events going on, moscone and city hall, people taking 40, 45 minutes to get from one end of south of market to the other which is a small area of the city of san francisco. and i saw lots of people waiting for buses because the buses couldn't get through on second and on mission street. and i think that as we talk

about a potential warrior's arena moving in next to the giants' stadium, our neighborhoods have a lot of concerns about whether the city really does have both the revenue and the plan to mitigate for this kind of density. not just residential, but, of course, people being attracted to neighborhoods with major city events and what our public infrastructure is going to look like that follows that. so, i just wanted to kind of add that thought in as well. >> thank you, commissioner kim. commissioner wiener. >> thank you. and i think also part of this has to do with the way the mta addresses its infrastructure. right now the market street subway is -- it's just -- it's a huge problem. this carries such an enormous mood from the ocean all the way east and the subway is just

consistently -- it's consistently a problem. with crowded cars, not enough vehicles in the system, with the fact that we're going to be adding thousands and thousands of new residents, whether it's in south of market and the civic center, market and octavia area, and this subway is absolutely incapable of carrying the load that we have today, let alone thousands of new ones. it's been a significant frustration for me, for example, that we have a significant number of our lrbs that are out of service, that they were in an accident, they've broken down. some of them have been out of service 10 years or more and muni -- and i think that the current management of muni is terrific and i think they understand this and are working on it. to me it's outrageous that we've had lrvs that have been out of service for, some of them 10 or 12 years, that we haven't gotten it together until very recently to even bother fixing these.

and the fact that now that we are, they're coming back one at a time. and i know this is really hard and it requires funding, bull to me that's the basics of running a transportation system. and if we don't get that together and then go above and beyond it, we're going to have a real problem in our transit system. and i think that we need to be very cognizant of those kind of nuts and bolts transit issues as we see this increasing population and where we prioritize our investment. >> thank you. i appreciate everyone's comments and a very substantive and interesting discussion. why don't we open it up to public comment. any member of the public who would like to speak on this item, please come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. and again, i know there will be a number of community meetings that will be taking place and we look forward to continuing to engage not only this board but other agencies in the entire community in this discussion. and again, thank you to the executive director and his staff for the excellent

presentation. if you can please call item number 13, please. >> item 13, update on authority projects in districts 5 and 7. this is an information item. >> thank you. and now we're going back to prior presentations that we've had on specific projects in districts throughout the city, and this is an opportunity to hear about what's happening in districts 5 and 7. and not only for the benefit of those of us who are here today, but also anyone who is watching, especially folks who live in that district and those districts can hear about some of the projects that are in the works. thank you. >> really brief, [speaker not understood]. take a quick opportunity to thank our superstar anthony adams who has knocked every single project we have funded. and you'll see the benefits of that hopefully next month in a sneak preview. just want to remind folks watching, this is a lot of information. the powerpoint is available at our website at www.sfta.org

along with tables detailing each project. then other authority staff and mta staff are here if you have any questions. and lastly, this comes full circle. next month there will be a presentation on the district 6 project. but also a huge group of city-wide projects, a lot of munich re hactionv thaition and projects such as commissioner wiener was talking about we will cover next month. that will be it for today. >> thank you, maria. ben supka, planning authority. i want to point out we have the district 5 and 7 lists available today and they were included enclosures with your packet. the list is more detail than i can go into in the presentation. i want to remind you these are active projects in the district. we leave projects off the list that were completed six months ago just so you know. so, we have a quick map of the projects in the district. i just want to point out that

as you can see we've separated projectses broadly by project type and they're mapped out here in the district. * and then we're going to do an update of just a few of the authority-led efforts that were both in district 5 and district 7 and we'll get into the mta and dpw projects. central freeway studies, it was adopted today. so, unless there are other questions i'll move to the next item. venice vrt, we reported that in the executive director's report and that answers commissioners questions. i'll move on to that as well. the geary vrt project, quickly we completed the most recent round of outreach. we're currently incorporating the feedback we received from that outreach, prepping for the full environmental impact statement and refining other design. we're in the workshop stage right now. and we have that project manager if there are specific questions about geary. moving to the mta and dpw projects, one of the key

projects in district 5 is a bike improvement project. this project is environmental review and design is underway. the project [speaker not understood] a $350,000 bicycle project to a complete streets project including curb ball, traffic calming and traffic management items. it's about $1.3 million project that happened after the planning process. again, this is to provide connections on -- bike connections on fallen oak and pan handle and key connections across the city. construction is planned to start in the spring. remainder of funding will be from the [speaker not understood]. the next project we have is the [speaker not understood]. this is about five different bicycle projects and match the bicycle [speaker not understood]. two in district 5, south street and masonic, and the market and

valencia street intersection, this pays for the design of the intersection. this is to improve the left-hand turn from market street onto valencia. the next slide is the construction phase of that project and this is a really good example of how the prop k funds and transportation fund for clean air and other types of fund sources and other agencies worked together. this is the funded portion of that project. the project is just completing design. i understand dpw and nto are working throughv some issues with the granite curb. there is a granite curb on market street that makes it a little more complicated, but construction is planned to start in october of next month. a few pedestrian safety projects in the drifted. there is a sliver of district 5 that hits 19th avenue. there are two pedestrian signals. these are pieces of the pedestrian signal that beep and chirp and also have warnings for people with disabilities to cross the street. this was funded -- this was in the design fade and was funded

through prop k allocation in april. * phase the design is expected to be completed at the edv of this year and construction in 2014. the clayton traffic cowving project is a planning project. this project is for the ashbury heights neighborhood. the project has been cleared environmentally. it is going through the internal agency review. expected to come forward to the mta board in november. so, in just a few months for approval. again, this is the planning portion of the traffic calming project and they are identifying things like speed humps, curb balls, things of that nature in that area. masonic avenue, the project is environmentally cleared through sequa. the current cost estimate is $18 million. we understand there is a good possibility we'll be seeing this project, application for the one bay area grant program.

i also want to point out that as the mta board approved all the necessary legislative changes on september 18, this project is moving forward. traffic calming, we found a broad range of traffic calming projects every few years, 80 to 90 projects. this is just a few that were in the district. these are completed, speed humps 17th avenue and pedestrian visibility improvements along soma. the visibility curves, this is another kind of standard city-wide project. and i believe the board earlier in the prop k allocation requests approved the next batch of the visibility curbs throughout the district in the city. three single projects, new single contracts, 61, is in design, [speaker not understood] between masonic and ashbury street and another flashing beacon at post octavia.

it should be complete in september 2013. a year from now starting construction 2014. this is recent i believe we did the allocation a few months ag very recent. single modification, as opposed to new signal contractor, this is modifications generally adding pedestrian signals or turn phases, things of that nature. several of those are in the district. we did have a small delay in this project in the design phase, but we're back on track. and the project should be completed by the -- the design portion of the project should be completed by the end of this year. this is going in before the major masonic upgrade project. design should be completed by june of 2013, construction completed by september of 2014. again, this is an upgrade for the pedestrian signal extending [speaker not understood], things of that nature. finally new signal contract, these are brand-new traffic signals. the construction is near

completion. i believe they're what we call punch list items. the signals aren't up and activated and moving forward we should be seeing a close out from this fairly soon. franklin and goff improvement, this is to install a suite of traffic signal improvements along the full extent of franklin and goff. goff is currently completed. and franklin street is about 97% complete and the design, they're looking to move forward the construction contract very soon. that will be coordinated with full repaving of franklin street and installation of pedestrian [speaker not understood] along the full franklin street corridor. final project reporting on district 5 is a market haight street transit program. [speaker not understood]. the main portion of this project is to create a two-way street -- two-way haight street between laguna and market. this is to improvement the

operations of the 71 haight and the [speaker not understood] so it does include spending the facility of the [speaker not understood] trolley coach. we have to add new overhead wires in. it can be expensive to do that, but it is a good improvement. like i said, it's moving almost to the end thev conceptual engineering phase. it is anticipated to be complete at the end of january 20 136789 final design should be completed after that, completing december 2013. moving into construction june of 2014 and completing may of 2015. the total project cost did increase quite a bit from the original grant for this project. this project is supported by a regional transportation for livable communities grant and also some redirection of seeing block grant funds from the 2nd street project as well as some other mta funds. it is fully funded, but the cost increase came from looking back at the overhead work that needed to be done for the project as well as other items. project also includes -- i wish

i had a better schematic for you -- a lot of improvements at the market, goff, haight intersection, both intersections across market street. i believe that is it for district 5. shall i move on? >> unless there are any questions. okay, great. >> we have three authority projects to give you an update on 7. >> hello, [speaker not understood] transportation planner. i'll talk about three of the efforts that the authority is heavily involved in this morning. first starting with what we're callingedth 19th avenue transit corridor, transit study for short. this is looking at exploring how to move the m oceanview and light rail line from the median of 19th avenue where it runs today to the west side, together with separating the crossings of the light rail makes of 19th avenue so we can

get the light rails and the traffic to reduce the conflicts between them. we're also looking at ways we can improve nonmotorized transportation in the bay if we're able to move the light rail to the west side, what does that do to pedestrian accessibility as well as bus operation. this effort is being coordinated with recently approved land use and transportation plan. we're looking at how to extend the benefit of having a west side alignment beyond park merced here. we have produced some initial study products, including planning goals [speaker not understood] as well as existing conditions so we can understand in more detail really what happens to the [speaker not understood] light rail as well as traffic volumes in the area and pedestrian activity. and we started the process of developing some preliminary concepts for how we could do

that light rail shift to the west side. do we go over 19th avenue, do we go under 19th avenue, where do we go over and where do we go under and how do we come up. we continue to screen out these preliminary concepts together with our partners, and we expect to bring some concepts to the community later this fall. this is kind of a project looking at a medium to long-term implementation. we're looking at at least 10 years out or so. which is different from the next effort more of a shorter term effort to improve 19th avenue. this is the 19th avenue build out project. this project is in the environmental and caltrans current state. i say caltrans state department of transportation which retains design jurisdiction over 19th avenue which serves as state route 1. so, we have to get approval

from caltrans to do any changes to 19th avenue. and this project is looking to implement pedestrian corner build outs as well as transit build out along intersections -- at intersections along 19th avenue. this project is being coordinated with sfmta transit effectiveness project. it is looking at ways to improve bus travel time and reliability performance on bus lines in san francisco including 19th avenue. that is looking at a number of options to improve bus services, including making changes to the bus stops. and, so, this effort is coordinating with tep's effort to change the bus stop along 19th avenue and our project, we're taking care of the caltrans clearance that's needed to make those changes.

we believe that this phase will be concluded around december 2013. we understand that the current tep schedules summer fall 2013 to come to the end of their environmental process. we will try and dovetail and make sure we're ready to move forward in lockstep when that project moves forward. the last study i'll talk about that we're heavily involved in in this area is the balboa park station area recreation study that came up before. i think it's on people's minds. understandably, the station is one of the busiest stations in san francisco. it's often the busiest bart station outside of downtown san francisco. it's got three light rail lanes, notable bus lines. and there are currently some issues with pedestrian access and transit op -- operations at the station. there have been previous efforts to look at improving

the station and there are improvements that are on the way. some improvements that have already been done, such as the west side walkway project. and more that are on the way. but there is still room for improvement. this study, the circulation study that we are managing, is looking at ways to improve the overall circulation of the area. we think that one issue that hasn't been looked at in detail before is the issue of can we rearrange some of the circulation in the area relating specifically to how the vehicles access to and from i-2 80 at ocean and [speaker not understood] avenues and whether we can reduce some of the conflicts those vehicles are having with bus operations and pedestrian access. so, this study has also produced some initial products including planning those framework and existing conditions. we're in the process of generating preliminary concepts

that include thinking about ways that we can modify the interchange system. for instance, can we close one or more ramps and, therefore, reduce the conflicts with buses that are accessing the station there. we intend to do some further consideration of these concepts and we'll be ready to share some of these ideas with the public probably in the winter of this year. and that concludes the presentation on these studies and i'll turn the presentation back to dan. >> thank you. >> okay, thank you, chester. i will make haste. so, in district 7 we have john muir bike lanes, buffered bike lane facility installation in october of 2012. 19th avenue median improvements moving into construction. this is construction of local median plantings along 19th avenue from lincoln way to

wawona. the west portal [speaker not understood] these are both -- dewey traffic calming project [speaker not understood]. the projects were a bit delayed but they were delayed so they could be coordinated with each other. they are both moving forward at this point. there are several traffic calming projects in district 7, over 30 from seven difficult aren't traffic calming plans. we provided the maps with all the plans and the status of all the specific small improvements within your packets [speaker not understood]. the majority of the project should be near completion by the end of this year. pedestrian refuge island, this is complete, 19the avenue pedestrian signal, same project as district 5. continental crosswalk conversion, this is a small project that is at the end of design at this point. signal projects, over the majority of these are the same contracts that i described from district 5.

probably most interesting, two new traffic signals recently activated in district 7, action avenue and ocean avenue and capital avenue and ocean avenue. again, these are activated. the final project we want to highlight in district 7, the relocation and public [speaker not understood] transit oriented development. this is moving the current loop project overhead line loop behind the fire station at the corners, you see kind of the red circulation pattern there. and in its place putting in an affordable housing site. to the west of the new phelan loop area is a public [speaker not understood]. this is funded by a combination of regional and federal funds, the federal funds program by the authority. >> commissioner avalos has a quick question about this one. >> a really quick question. i think this is a great opportunity for transformation of this area of the city. i just want to make sure that