slip in an additional unit here. she's interested in a single family home. if she wanted to do this unit, she's got an extended family that visits from east coast and needs the space for those family members. >> if you were to have a pitched roof it would be higher than it is now because you have to raise the spring point of the room? >> correct. i understand the softness verse the flat roof. it's providing additional light in there in the time of day and

we felt it was a better solution all around. my understanding is that the existing dr request or has two yards? >> no. her open space is oriented towards noi street. her lot is oriented as those other three parcels are. it's just that her residence has been constructed. it abuts the sidewall of the subject property. >> i understand that but there is a yard immediately to the south of her. that yard belongs to 806 noi street. she looks down over those rear yards.

>> got it. i'm going to make a motion to take dr and prove the project with 3 feet setback on the west side which eliminates a portion of the ground floor where the planter is sitting. and we have a motion.

>> commissioners. i think i understand a little bit about what project architect was doing if i'm not mistaken because of the property is an i forget which direction but the non-dr request or has some windows property line windows probably to allow them to have some and you made a setback. if it weren't for that consideration you could have carried the pitch back but now you have a pretty narrow area there. if we were mid block lot and we had adjacent buildings on either side we could understand making accommodation to building if we were in mid

block position. the building to our west is the one where we providing set backs. we've will is agreed to raise a window height on a living space which was looking towards that neighboring building because of privacy concerned. so that was something else agreed to and that's been formally withdrawn. that dr. okay. now i appreciate why you have to go with the flat roof or at least it makes it more practical so i can understand that. we know it doesn't apply because we would apply it if it were a single. >> okay. commissioners on that motion to take dr requiring at the west side setback as part

of the planter: commissioner sugaya, wu, no, commissioner president fong. commissioners that motion passes 6-1. it will place you unto the calendar. >> is there any public comment? >> okay. you have a comment? >> could the staff remind the architects not to do this plastic stuff. >> it would save you money. seeing no public comment. the meeting is adjourned.

take pictures of the view of the city that you soon went forgot. our first look out and at buena vista park san francisco heavily forested hill with couples and doing walkers it's as old as the near neighbor golden gate park and both have a coast live oak forest and fresh in retreat from urban life and meanders under a canopy of oaks yup lipid u.s.

and chill out in this pleasant and quiet environment and you might see butter nice, and dandelion and is squirrels hundred dollaring for their next meal and buena vista park is 88

>> i want to learn more about it. >> social networking and e-mail. >> i want to know how to use it. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> divisional divide is a divide between those with access to use digital tools and those who don't.

>> with young people, having computers and i just don't know. they're doing it fast. so, i want to know. >> not knowing how to navigate the internet or at a loss of what to do. >> we don't have a computer. >> we're a nonprofit that unites organizations and volunteers to transform lies through literacy. our big problem right now is the broadband opportunity program. a federally funded project through the department of aging. so, we're working in 26 locations. our volunteers are trained to be tutors and trainers, offering everything from basic classes all the way to genealogy and job search. >> to me computers, knowing how to use it. >> i think it's really important to everybody and possibly especially seniors to get enough of these skills to

stay in touch. >> it's been fun. with seniors, to get them out of their homes. >> so they can connect with their family members. or their family members. >> [speaking in spanish]. >> so, what we focus on is transferring skills from volunteer to learner to help them get onto facebook, find housing in crisis, be able to connect with friends and family. >> i decided to teach what i learn and it made me want to give back.

i discovered that seniors do a lot of review. >> i am a beginner, so, little by little i learn. i learn a lot now. >> if you get the basics, you can learn it. it's simple. it's easy. once you know it. and that's what i want to learn, how to make my life easier and more knowledgeable with the computer. >> so, what we need right now are more people who speak languages other than english or in addition to english who can give their time during the day and who care deeply ideally about helping to close the divide. >> it's a humbling experience. it's something simple to ask in our daily life, but to someone that doesn't know and to help somebody gain that experience in any way is awesome.

>> [speaking in spanish]. >> no matter how tired or cranky or whatever i might feel, when i walk into this place i always walk out feeling great. >> if you feel comfortable using computers and you have patience, we want you on our team. >> would you show me how to type? >> [speaking in spanish]. >> will you help me learn more?

>> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. could we get someone from -- welcome to the land use and economic development committee. i am scott wiener the chair of the committee. to my left is david chiu a member of the committee and joining shortly is supervisor zane kim the vice chair of the committee. i want

to thank sfgtv for broadcasting today's hearing and staff and i would like to just start this hearing with a moment of silence for the victims of the bombing at the boston marathon so if we could just observe a moment of silence. okay thank you. so as i think you can see we have quite a packed agenda today and turn up of the public i think reflects that. we have an over flow room in 250 and i also want to note those that are here for item number six, the condominium conversion measure. that is the last item on the agenda, so if

you're so inclined if in here come back so people hear for other agenda items are come in i invite you to do that but you don't have to. also for all items if you could fill out a blue card and which agenda item you would like to speak about and that will facilitate public comment and one title thing if you're here for hearing four which is a hearing i called on street furniture clutter it's my intent that item be continued to a later date given how packed the agenda is so madam clerk it you call item one. >> item one is mayor's pedestrian safety strategy and action pla >> thank you and supervisor kim is the lead supervisor of this hearing. supervisor kim.

>> thank you chair wiener and is a cosponsor of the item as well as norman yee and i know there are people for multiple issues and for this item and a item later on the calendar so i appreciate everyone's time and this hearing is lengthy because it's an important issue for the city which is the issue of pedestrian safety. it's been two years since i first called a hearing on this item. when i began office in 2011 and the reason we decided to make pedestrian safety a priority in our office is when we came in and started thinking what it makes our city and district safer we were alarmed at the data on pedestrians hit and killed by vehicles on our streets and we saw our data it was unsafe for

citizens here in san francisco than anywhere in california and than new york where a lot of people work and tokyo and hong kong and pedestrian oriented cities and san francisco has a lot to do and we have done a lot but we have more to go and it's important to have an update where we're at especially with the mayor's release of his pedestrian safety strategy last week and we have a sense of where we're going. we have a lot of members of the community that would like to speak on this issue and give input how they would like to see this move forward. just quickly i wanted to talk about some of the data which is unfortunately since 2010 san francisco suffered 14 pedestrian deaths and we see the numbers grow so these are real

people with lives and we lost here in the city. we are still no where seeing the progress to save lives in the city, around the city's most dangerous intersections and we would like to target the problematic areas and we know it's unacceptable. it's a epidemic and why department of public health is here and it's a safety issue and when we're losing people because of car and pedestrian issues that is a health crisis. in fact one out of five traumas treated in the hospitals is a person hit by a car and we have lot of attention to gun violence and important to work on but we have people hit by cars and i really appreciated a member of the believe that spoke two years ago that said "we should treat cars like a weapon because it has the same impact" even

intentionsal or not when dieferg a car you have driving a dangerous weapon and you can use it wisely and you can really hurt people and kill people. i am excited to hear about the task force who worked in cooperation with the board of supervisors to implement some of the goals identified by the new sea wide strategy and i hope we can share this information between the agencies. the daa is important and we need it to target the improvements and be project ready so they can receive the funding in order to be implemented so i am excited to hear from the presenters today. just an overview first we will have the department of public health present. the last three

years of the collision data and the dangerous intersections so we understand the problem. then we will have sfpd talk about the enforcement plan and also we need to change behavior. part of that happens through the enforcement with sfpd. next we have sf mta to talk about the intersections that we are prioritizing the timeline. how they have been working with the data in order to identify the streets and the intersections we are going to look at, and we also have department of public works here to talk about the intersection improvements and last we have staff from sfmta and capital planning how we fund the efforts that we have put together, so i know i said dph first but first we want an overview of the pedestrian strategies, so from the task force we have tim popdrio who

you will present the overview. >> other opening comments from other supervisors. >> i'm sorry. >> supervisor kim anything else? >> no. >> president chiu. >>i would like to make a couple of comments and thank supervisor kim and our colleagues for the renewed attention to this very serious issue. in my first years before they were on the board i and others public officials tried to increase more public attention on this issue but today i really think that the current generation of this board of supervisors including supervisor kim and whose district along with mine has seen the highest number of pedestrian fatalities including supervisor wiener and a transit advocate and supervisor farrell focused on these issues and

supervisor yee whose story everyone knows and about the injury and we have a moment to move forward an awful lot and one of the issues i raised in 2009 and 2010 is we had close to a dozen city agencies responsible for different aspects of pedestrian safety but not able to coordinate and i think that has changed. i want to thank the agencies for the work and i hope that continues. i want to say one other thing about the goals that we set as a city. we hope to bring down the injury and fatality rate down and as i said walk to workday last week we should continue the aspiration. there are states like nevada and utah that have a zero fatality

goal on the streets and it's a vision that makes sense for us and i know we're doing better and i want to thank everyone for the combined community efforts in reaching these goals. >> thank you president chiu. i failed to acknowledge that we are joined by supervisor mark farrell. i just want to make a few comments and i will turn it over. thank you for calling this hearing. this is a big, big problem when you sit down with the fire department which responds to all kinds of human tragedies. we know that this is among at the high end in terms of what they're responding to. we have way too many pedestrian accidents and we need to change that and we know what we need to do. this is not rocket science. we need more and better enforcement, more and better education, and we need to make physical changes to our

pedestrian environment to make them safer, to have shorter crossing distances, to have better and safer environments so that cars and bikes and pedestrians could all coexist and be safe. thank you president chiu for raising the issue of number of agencies are involved which is large, and i am glad there has been some improvement in coordination that i can only imagine what it was like back then because i will be honest i think we have a lot of work to do to improve interagency coordination around pedestrian safety improvements. i don't think we have narrowly enough coordination. we have some excellent people working on the issues in the various departments and in a vacuum

they do terrific work but what i see over and over again in my district every time you try to do a pedestrian upgrade it's like running an obstacle course and you have different departments and objections and they're not talking to each other and it could be any person in that department. it's not always escalated to the top so it's a very disjointed process. where i see pedestrian safety projects that have broad community support it's like you have to be a cat with nine lives and be brought back to live and another department comes in and there is a problem and brought back to life again and there -- it's not efficient use of resources. i have legislation pending and i wish it weren't necessary but i think it is to force better coordination and have a inter departmental working group so if a department has an issue with the pedestrian upgrade instead of ending the

project working together to find a path forward. we also need to make sure that all departments are involved from the beginning. for example we are now tearing up and rebuilding pretty much every corner in san francisco to put ada curb ramps which is an important project. we have been doing that without the mta's involvement as far as i know and while we're tearing up this corner maybe we should put a bulb up there too and it's cheaper and several intersections in my district have been torn up and built the same with the ada ramps and we should have put them there. i think that is improving and we will see improved coordination on that but a way to make sure that all of the talented de