test, test, test, test, test test >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economical committee i'm scott and to my right is the committee vice chair and supervisor david chiu and also david campos. i want to thank 70 tv for broadcasting today and our clerk ms. miller >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic

devises and submit the items to the clerk. >> thank you very much. madam clerk, please call items 1 though 5 together >> item one is to establish a street code committee and item 2 is to urge the utilities commission to insure the coordination of street infrastructure. and item 3 is the fire code and the fire apparatus road. and item 4 is to adopt the legislation to allow the flexibility to allow fire code and bicyclists safety and a item 5 is an ordinance to amend the ordinance code to accept

certainty improvements for public use >> okay. thank you very much. colleagues items 1 though 5 is a package of legislation to improve the process by which we implement pedestrian safety projects in san francisco. and i want to thank supervisor norman she can't for co- sponsoring this legislation. our streets are not as pedestrian friendly as they need to be. whether market street or narrow roads near parks and playgrounds. and dangerous and problematic things 0 on our streets effects everyone especially vulnerable seniors and others who don't

cross as quick as the rest of us. over the last 3 years we've seen pedestrian facility 19 last year and 17 in 2011 and 6 in 2013. that does not include the many hundreds of non-fatality and pedestrian accidents. our streets and sidewalks are only going to get more defines. we're a transit first city and to make sure that that people walk and we have walkable

neighborhoods. in the a public safety issue and in addition to a quality of life issue. we have a responsibility to create a safe environments. this means the boo belts and pedestrianplasia and other pedestrian measures. while almost everyone agrees this is a good direction for our city to have more walkable neighborhoods. but those are not getting

the legislation that supervisor she can't and you are proposing will make real improvements to our ability to implement safety

projects by insuring better coordination. the first piece of legislation is the cremation of the planning department and from the controllers offices. this came from the controllers office. we know that there are a number of different departments involved in the approval up grates if the public works department and the fire department and sometimes others. now this legislation does not in any way effect how projects come into confines in terms of the

ideas and the community ideas. this legislation is not about the planning or selection of projects or the prioritization of funding. instead this legislation focuses on a part of the street process that month people know little about. it's the process that happens after planning where agencies who may not have participated in the community in moving the project forward where the staff dissects the proposal or end the project entirely or waters it down. today theres not enough coordination among the agencies so that we can insure that rather than ending the project or immediately reducing its scope the agency can fully

cooperate and do everything they can to work towards a solution. this is really about the engineering of the project and making sure we're doing that in a comprehensive way in which their dialog among departments and between departments and the community. the next item is a resolution urging better interagency cooperation. this is related to the street design review committee and it has to do with the agencies that apply the virus code provisions they're doing so with the big picture in mind in terms of getting the pedestrian projects done. there are times when the departments apply the code in inconsistent ways that don't

help our pedestrian strategy. we want to make sure that all the departments are looking at the code provisions and there being a done in anna consistent way. the next item is an amendment to the fire code. i'd like to start by acknowledging the fire department by the professional and heroic work that they do everyday. they do so by responding to fires and medical emergencies and they're the same department that respond to our pedestrian facility on our roadways. i've seen first-hand over and over the great work they do.

we must make sure our streets allow for fire trucks and ambulances can provide aid for those who need it. we also need to make sure that our roads will save for pedestrians.

that counts towards the minimum of 20 feet of street clears up. we by doing this we'll make sure that the fire trucks can go to

provide assistance while at the same time allowing us the flexibility to build much needed safety improvements. again fire safety and pedestrian safety are two complimentary policy gallons they're not the same. there's also a resolution urging the state legislation to give for local flexibility in terms of implementing that i had safety and up grates on the fire code. and finally i'm over a piece of legislation in with the planning department. right now as i know that

colleagues you all know when developers build projects and frequently build sidewalks and other improvements adjacent to the new developments and those are part of the community benefit packages that the developers are required to do with the city. right now we actually make it quite challenging for developers to actually create and transfer those landscapes improvements at any time a lengthy process we make it harder than it needs to be. we need to make these easier for the transportation to the city. we'll allow this to happen in a more efficient manner and to get

the improvements to the city and make sure it's administered by the department of public works. for many improvements they'll never be a need to spend maintenance money important acknowledge there will be. those are the various resolutions of safety policies and if there's any questions supervisor campos will go over those >> thank you to my colleagues to let me sitting in. i want to thank you and your colleague the supervisor for bringing those forward. i want to thank the members of

districts 9 and specifically the mission around 22 and bartlett who are here to speak about a project this has clearly combajtd by legislation you've introduced and in our estimation will make this project possible. the folks will include individuals that have been working at the mission community market which is a market that happens around every thursday rain or shine from 4 to 8:00 p.m.

- that again along the lines of what we've seen with the mission community market will create a fun, beautiful space for the

district. neighborhood activists have been working on this project to create a pedestrian car free plaza permanently in that part of the mission. the design of the plaza would widen the sidewalks to a create a farmers market and other communities projects. the widening of the sidewalk would necessarily narrow the road to fourteen feet but along the lines it would leave on all the 6 feet of open space which would be no more than 6 inches high on the sidewalk without trees or obstruction to allow fire trucks to go through.

that would create the additional 6 feet of sidewalk space. it would allow for 20 feet so that trucks can go through to that ear. the key here is exactly what you said mr. chairman that pedestrian safety and fire safety are not muchly exclusive. we can design open space that is car free to allow pedestrians to benefit from something like that an open air market but allow the firefighters to do their work so i think this legislation takes the exciting rules and code a it anyway's that it addresses the specific circumstances of the surrounding neighborhood and easy the needs

while still providing assess for our firefighters. i want to acknowledge the groups the mission development agency the san francisco cart program. the mission merchants association. the miracle mile. the safety network partnership. and shape up san francisco. mission district police station has been a participant and, of course, the san francisco planning department and council. i'm supportive of the proposal that you have and i look forward to hearing from the public >> thank you supervisor campos if there's no additional comments i'd like to ask my colleague to come up and talk

about some issues about the background of this legislation. >> good afternoon adam. i was the city projects manager which was an initiative that really started in 2006 when the city pass a better street policy that case law called upon the city's jurisdictions over the right-of-way to work together for the pedestrian realm. so that's what we did. we started working on the pedestrian project it involves the planning department, the puc

- to how we deliver the street improvements for the reasons you

mentioned earlier. so we asked the controllers office to do a study of our cities existing process and the institutional agreements who have jurisdiction over the right-of-way. and how the process can be streamlined and improved. it sort of overlaps and that is the final report of recommendations how the city could improve the street deliver process. we have a lady here from the controllers office to talk about the report >> thank you. ms. lee >> good afternoon kristin lee from the controllers office. in 2009 we were asked to make

recommendation for the city including streamlining the approval process. in the county of los angeles with the team we selected 6 streets to examine as a case study for existing planning review and processes. we documented the challenges and identified improvements. there are a number of recommendations in the report several of which are related to enter agency collaboration. one of the things is to the have an understanding planning for street capital and the other street review team. briefly the purpose of the

streetscape funding go to citywide priorities. we were to review the major street angina trade-off and to make sure that the policies and goals were met for streets. i'd be happy to answer any questions as well as my colleagues >> great thank you supervisor kim. >> thank you and i don't know if this is who this question applies to. there's the transportation staff committee could you delineate how the street review committee would be different from the other groups so i can see how they interface the process

>> sure. sort of different answers the directors working group is a coordination groups they're not looking at specific projects of the deals of the policy coordination >> could you give an example. >> they might be doug the b r g projects but to give direction that is appropriate for their direction like policy considerations for a particular project. >> and another group you mentioned is the staff committee. i think that's a little bit on the other end of the spectrum. that's the body that is charged

by various agencies that is really looking at the technical details of the project so they're not necessarily looking at the project from a sort of specific broad city the better streets plan. so i think the intention here is is so capture the mid where we want to be able to look at the projects but not the technical engineering standards and the like but we want to look at how this project is meeting the city's goals. i don't know if that answers your questions >> would that be different membership if the staff committee was made up of folks with technical expertise. >> i think that's correct. >> i'm interested in explaining

my question pr i actually think this is very much needed but i'm very weary of creating more kind of meetings if we could consolidate them. >> i think just to be really clear that is not creating a new task force where people getting e get appointed to it. this committee is really about departments that are working on a project that has differing rules basically requiring them particularly when a department raised an issue to meet and cooperate. so it's not emergency vehicle staff time they're already doing the work.

for example, if i had a sidewalk widening and especially the smaller projects because the real big projects get a fair amen u amount even if intention by the smaller ones gets lost. so if there's a placement of how the water pipes are - or someone says it might undermine street sweeping. so to try to get the sign up from a technical level especially from the smaller projects and when happens to one department raises an objection if it's not a big enough project then the promise usually dies unless it's some how brought back to life in having a

requirement it has to go to this working group to actually see if they can chart a path forward in the of enhancing public safety. >> also have you thought about and this pertains more to my district. maybe not at every meeting but if sfmta is funding a project or a street design that's under a success agency would we want them to have representation? >> the other departments are doing the technical work this is about the delivery of the project. the sfmta is thank you very much

i actually involved in the funding. but it's handed off to the agrees that