for latin salsa type dancing since i seem to go to every one of them and it's nice to have another venue, and if that's type -- to be truthful if it's that type of venue i never seen alcohol consumption as a primary motivation for people to go to these places so i'm going to be supportive. >> thank you. and for those in the audience that don't know i hear a really expert salsa dancer here, so colleagues it sounds like there is support for this. supervisor wiener. >> thank you. i'm not an expert salsa dancer but it sounds like a great venue and i am very supportive of the license. i do have a problem with condition number nine. again mandating that they place surveillance camera and monitor it at all times and keep the surveillance

for 30 days, produce it upon demand to the police department without even a warrant without policy discussion about this so i support the license but i don't support condition number nine. >> thank you. can we just have a roll call on this item mr. evans? >> supervisor wiener. >> yeah i don't want to vote against the license. i support the license so maybe what we can do is i can make a motion to amend to remove number nine and vote on that and i'm going to vote for the license whether or not condition nine is there because i think this is a great application. >> that sounds fine and i know ms. bruses spoke in spoke of the alu conditions. it doesn't prohibit the owner from voluntarily using the electronic surveillance as suggested by the alu as well so your motion

supervisor is -- >> well, i would make a motion to forward this with positive recommendation without condition number nine and i would say as a district supervisor i am very sensitive to the needs of the district supervisor to work with the community and have appropriate limitations on venues, but i view this as this is a city wide issue because this is happening all over the city. >> okay. i think i will be supportive of that as well, but so can we move this forward with a positive recommendation? supervisor yee. >> can we just vote on the amendment first? >> okay. let's use this as an amendment to supervisor wiener's amendment to strike condition nine on the electronic surveillance. is that your motion? >> yeah condition to strike

nine. >> district city attorney again. condition nine is listed in one of the whereas clauses and listing the police department recommendations so i believe we amend this resolution just as we did with the last item to change the resolved clause to provide that that the board supports all of the police department conditions except condition number nine. >> so that the motion to amend then. can i mr. chairman just ask -- [inaudible] i have a question for you. regarding video surveillance. if it were not required for the license but if the police station and sprofer supervisor cohen asked you to do that can you do that. >> you put something into the

microphone. it's not nice to have take liberties of people sometimes going in and out. i will have the best security you can ever imagine. never, never, ever the police was called at cesar latin plaza or cesars and i owned in the 70's eight night clubs and restaurants and never had a problem with the police but to monitor your life it's not healthy for me, not even for you. cameras are cheap -- >> if supervisor cohen asked you to put a camera up are you open to that? >> oh yeah. >> thank you. that's my motion and again if you want to put it up voluntarily working with supervisor cohen and the police that is great but i have a problem mandating it so that's my motion. >>i am voting in opposition to the motion. i think that we

need surveillance mandated in certain spots on a case by case basis and i think this is the type of business that probably needs surveillance so i am voting in opposition to that so this is amendment. supervisor yee. >> i ask for a separate vote for the amendment then because i was going to be in opposition to it. in january these clubs are pretty. >> >> in general these clubs are well secured and so forth but on particular saturdays it's a little different and knowing that these types of areas -- especially there's a lot of them breaking into cars around this because it's so isolated and great to have that type of surveillance to stop that because even -- there's a similar like club over on

maraposea and connecticut and the break in to the cars there are a lot, and i think they have cameraos site would deter that so i'm going to be voting against the amendment. >> so mr. evans can we have a roll call on the amendment. >> on the motion for the moment by supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener. >> aye. >> supervisor yee. >> no. >> supervisor mar. >> no. >> mar no. we have two no's, one aye. >> can we have a roll call on the item? supervisor wiener. >> i don't think we need a roll call. >> just move it with recommendations. >> we can move the item forward without objections colleagues. thank you. thank you.

mr. evans please call the next hearing item. >> item number five is a hearing and presentations from the municipal transportation agency, planning department, transportation authority and department of public health. >> and this has been called by supervisor norman yee. >> thank you. i requested a hearing on pedestrian safety issues on district 7. i did so for many reasons. i know first hand how important an issue it is. i know it's important to hundreds of people that i spoke to on the campaign trail who shared their stories. i also know that because of the dozens of district 7 residents that have reached out to my office since my election with their concerns and priorities. pedestrian safety is a public safety issue in san francisco. in the first three months of

2013 six people have lost their lives because of pedestrian collisions and two in district 7 and i find this is unacceptable. the city and myself as a supervisor we all have the responsibility to do everything that we can to improve this situation. pedestrian safety to me is also a question of being fiscally responsible and making it most out of money that the city spends. on the cost side every year collisions between pedestrians and cars cost the city an average of $15 million and district 7 trails only district 6, three and four in how much the collisions cost the city. on the spending side i want to make sure as a city we are making smart investments based on data, and that we try to coordinate among the many city agencies under which these

matters fall, so that we are efficient, coordinated and effective. finally i think that pedestrian safety is a community issue. people of district 7 know where improvements needed and today by looking at the data that the city departments are presenting and listening to the public comments i think we are able to get a real sense of the needs of the district. there will be several departments that will be presenting. i'm going to do this a little bit differently. i'm going to ask most of the departments that are involved to do the presentation. then i'm going to ask for public comments, and then i will ask for the transportation authority to make their presentation as the last piece of this before i question -- we can question the departments, and in doing so i

wanted to be able to capture all of the information, data, and so forth and get public comments in regards to what they're seeing in their neighborhoods and their particular intersections before the transportation authority, which of course has some resources to address these issues, so that's sort of the order they will be taking it in, so first up i would like to ask christina alea of the department of public works who will present on the jurisdiction of public right away who is responsible for what and how we currently coordinate pedestrian safety improvements with street repaving and other road maintenance activities. >> good morning supervisors. i am christina caldron alea and

engineer and project manager with the department of public works. dpw manages and maintains the public right aways and in general from building face to building face. we maintain approximately 878-miles of streets which consists of 12855 blocks and 7200 intersections. we work with other city departments to maintain and improve the public right a way. as you know building faces are regulated by city planning. we work with city planning to prioritize street scape projects for funding and work in the planning place of the projects. we work with the public utilities commission on street lighting and especially pedestrian scale lighting. we also work with them on sewer and water projects. when we do repaving

a lot of the projects are joined with the puc to make the sewer and water improvements at the same time. we work closely with the municipal transportation agency on transit and traffic operations, on the over head system during construction, and we also work closely with them in planning and design of our street scape projects. we work with the transportation authority to program funding and planning of many of our projects. we work with the department of public health to promote pedestrian safety and active transportation. that is walking and biking. and we also work with the mayor's office on disability for curb ramp improvements. dpw worked closely with these departments as part of the better streets plan as well. within dpw pedestrian safety efforts fall into three categories: maintenance of the streets and

sidewalks, enhancements, and helping the city develop pedestrian safety policies. in the maintenance category we have a sidewalk inspection and repair program, a street resurfacing program, curb ramp construction,. under enhancements we have the street scape projects and in developing pedestrian safety policies we worked with mta and department of public health on the pedestrian safety task force. so for the sidewalk inspection and repair program under city and state codes the property owner responsible for the repair and maintenance of the sidewalk fronting their property. if the property owner fails to repair the sidewalk after being notified the city will repair the sidewalk and invoice the owner for the cost. the inspection and the repair is handled by the sidewalk and

repair program which was established in 2007. the program inspects all sidewalks throughout the city on a 25 year cycle. the inspection schedule is prioritized by pedestrian usage and the types much streets or elements used to prioritize include whether the street is a commercial district, sidewalks along muni routes, sidewalks within 500 feet of schools, public facilities, hospitals or senior centers and population density. this is a map specifically of sidewalk inspection and repair in district 7. you can see that we have completed inspection and repair along judah, kirkham and latman and between fourth and 12th avenues and then we have 18 accelerated sidewalk repair program which are the stars and

those are complaint driven so we have completed several of though projects in the district. moving to our payment renovation, our street resurfacing program. it includes grinding and paving of the asphalt, base repairs and curb ramp construction. with the street bond funding we are now adding bicycle and pedestrian and traffic calming improvements along with the repaving projects. these efforts which we call solve the paving projects are coordinated closely with the municipal transportation agency. our curb ramp program's goal is provide accessible s of travel for all public sidewalks. >> >> due to the construction of curb ramps following all state and ada guidelines. $8 million

of the current street repair and resurfacing bond included in the streets bond for design, construction and upgrade of about 1700 curb ramps throughout the city. the locations are prioritized using the city ada transition plan and this map shows locations throughout district 7 that have curb ramps planned. some of the key corridors include various areas . our street scape projects in district 7 include the slope boulevard flashing beak beacon project and that is fund audio there is a million dollars

funded. at the three intersections and those are slope and everglade where we are installing bus balbs and improving the median and we will install these as well as flashing beacons to warn motorists that pedestrians are crossing the street and 23rd and slope we will install the flashing beacons. along 19th avenue we have a greening project. part of it is completed. there is an additional 600,000 in the streets bond for completing the planting between winona and here and this completes my presentation. thank you.

>> thank you. the next presentation will be from the mta and it's ricardo alia. i assume you're not related. are you? >> yes we are. good morning supervisors. my name is ricardo alia and the traffic engineer with the mta so we deal with the traffic controls on the streets, signs, markings and other traffic safety. i will go over district 7 information and some of the things that we do to try to improve safety. in terms of the overall collision pattern frs

the city here is a chart. there was a decline in the mid90's and the 2000's and we have been in a holding pattern and hope to improve soon in terms of trying to get fewer and fewer collisions that injure people each year in san francisco. in terms of the fatal collisions it's of general decline. there is up and down pattern but the fatal collisions have been low in san francisco but there is still unacceptable amount of people killod the streets and that's something that we need to fix. in terms of specific san francisco injury data there was a decline since the 1990's and reach forward to the 2000's but since 2004 the number of pedestrians being injured on san francisco streets have remained steady or have been increasing which is something that goes

counter to the goals of the city which is have the numbers go down each year and this indicates we need to do much more work. we did work in the past but obviously the problem is one that persistent and needs a lot of attention. specifically about district 7 -- >> actually, can i just ask what do you think attributes to the decline of collisions between the 90's and 2004 and the on going problems now? is it funding or are there unique things we were doing at that period and not doing now but what do you attribute that to? >> there are a lot of factors that go into one year's accident total. some is related to street design. some are environmental social factors, demographic changes. the way people drive. state law and enforcement changes so it's hard to say what precisely in

society what is causing certain collisions to go down. i will say when the sales tax was approved for it is city there was a lot of low hanging fruit that needed to be done so when we passed the transportation sales tax i think we got a lot of initial improvements that had a lot of collision reduction associated with them. as time as gone by perhaps the allocations are difficult, more expensive and the changes are more dramatic and require more capital so on the engineering side we're reaching a point where the obvious things to do such as the really high accident locations, locations that didn't have pedestrian signals, all those things have been taken care of over time but we haven't been able to progress but i caution there are probably other factors at hand with one year's total. in district 7 for the past five years which this data

goes up to 2011 every year about five people are killed in district 7 and above average for the districts and 60% of the city wide total. there are over 1,000 people injured in the people and this is average with the vehicle collisions are average and this is the vehicle hitting a tree, a post, something else that is not a person or another vehicle are high and then followed by vehicle pedestrian collisions and vehicle bicycle collisions which are more concentrated in the northeastern part of the city for obvious reasons but happening in this district as well. looking specifically of the break down of factors that are attributed to the district. a third are by police department reports associated with unsafe

speed. these are people going too fast and the police officer determined that was the primary cause of the collision. again there maybe other factors involved but that is tip keap the most common. city wide about a fourth of unsafe speed and the thing to keep in mind with unsafe speed not only does the speed cause the collision but if the person is going fast enough the injuries with the speed increase so focusing on speed is one of the important issues in san francisco because not only does an unsafe speed cause a collision. an unsafe speed can kill a pedestrian, a bicyclist and severely injure motor vehicle occupants. >> excuse me. quick question here. just from your comments. is that why you think the page for that where it shows the

number of people killed in collision district 7 has 60% of the total and yet the pedestrian collisions are 7% of the total. do you attribute the speed for the differential? you would think if you get 7% of the collisions in a city there are a number of people killed in the collisions would concerned. >> yes. i think there are issues at hand and go faster on various streets so when collisions occur on the streets they're more likely to result in the fatal and speeds not likely in a area of the city that is more dense or more difficult to travel at those higher speeds of 40-45 miles per hour. in terms of pedestrian collision totals

in one area is going to be a factor of those conditions as well as as the number of pedestrians, so city wide the heaviest pedestrian and bicycle activity is in district 6, so that's where a lot of them are happening as well so it's an issue of exposure. where are the pedestrians in terms of the concentration of pedestrians? but also what are the characteristics of the roadway and the way the street network is designed? those are all playing a factor in the statistics but looking at the numbers can help us concentrate on what the issues are. the other factors here are very common city wide. auto wide away violation and for example you're turning left and don't yield to the opposing vehicle. stop and signal violations. that's when you don't follow what the sign or signal is telling you and pedestrian right away. that s to a vehicle not veelding to the pedestrian when

they cross and uncontrolled krowk or have a green like and make a turn and hit a pedestrian so the motorist is in fault there and in discussions with the police department and department of public health we want to focus the resources on unsafe speed, violations of stop signs and traffic signals and pedestrian violations and distracted driving and use of cell phones so those are the key factors we're trying to our limited resources on in terms of enforcement. looking at the district 7 they tend to focus along the major junctions and include 19th avenue [inaudible]. the one location that is not a high volume, high traffic location that is on the list is

arch and brotherhood way and the southern point, but we have done changes there to the signalization i think that address some of the collisions there. the locations listed in the previous map include 19th avenue and slope boulevard and in district 7 and one of the highest collision locations in the city. 19th avenue and here a very major junction in the city. followed by 19th avenue and terrabell and these other areas which as i mentioned is not as high volume location but we did changes there that i hope address the collisions being reported there. 19th avenue and slope is the junction of two state routes, highway one and 35. one of the few intersections in the city where six lanes meet six lanes. we have done changes here to improve safety over time since this location has traditionally

been one of the highest collision locations for the city. we installed red light enforcement and one of the first in the city to get that treatment. there are over head signals for traffic and add this for slope boulevard and cause of collisions and done in 2007 and the 19th avenue collisions have decreased and we also are in the process of retiming the signals to provide additional time for pedestrians to cross the street. a location like this and even if has a lot of collisions one thing to keep in mind it's a highly traffic street so everyday 100,000 vehicles go through the intersection so lately there has been about five collisions reported every here on 19th and slope but in terms of the traffic rate it's

relatively low. it's not that we take comfort in that but put perspective on it one vehicle out of 10 million gets into a collision right now there. the changes that we do there again every year if we see a location that has high accidents we try to do something else, something new to try to improve the totals. looking at the pedestrian map for pedestrians this map shows all collisions unlike the previous map so the smallest. dot is one accident and allows to see the concentration of collisions in district 7. high concentration in this area, high concentration along the ocean and [inaudible] and 19th avenue area. same thing with holloway and westportal and other areas of high concentration and