what are the opportunity that would be maximizeed. the assessment answers who lives and works in the neighborhood the demographic and social economic character of the residents. what are the types of businesses and what are the employees for example. beyond the neighborhood program those assessments serve as a useful model for other planning activities such as a our public realm program we're expected to have assessable profiles for the surrounding san francisco diverse neighborhood corridors. thank you. >> nfrl gary didn't design this part of our presentation so

there's more bubbles with small print. so just to finish up and turn it back over to sue. so one of the other features of the program is each of the 25 corridors is assigned a point pardon me out of our officer who is responsible for deploying the services but once we've done a final draft we have our people with the board of supervisors and with city departments who we believe need to be part of the deployment of resources. so that's the place we're at tracy said we're very close to having the final drafts. and so we're in this planning phase for the next month or two where we go and turn the

assessments into a set of actions. we call that a customized service plan. that could include resources you such as a is tenant improvement program. it would also be from any other department. so dp w tree trimming services. streetscape improvements college grants etc. we've started working w collaboratively with the departments and it kind of takes an initiative to get everyone together. so i thank everyone for getting involved that was the first piece of the work and the

assessments are a lot more work than we anticipated but this is around the collaboration and the partnership. so i think from there, you know, as i said we're in the process of reading the assessments. we're extending the rest of the summer working with the controls office as well with our outside partner to develop the metrics which is a little bit complicated because it's tailored in each neighborhood. we hope to be able to evaluate as we go. i'm going to turn it over back to sue to talk about the planning how their contributing beyond the assessment >> thanks amy i think i want to

say we're excited to launcher this program. we've been thinking about this for a while. we go into a neighborhood where there's an area planning process and a large rezoning and we think about the big changes and the idea of this program is to think about smaller changes in the existing neighborhoods and working with the organizations and supervisors and others. so i'll walk through what we've come up with as our tool kit and the kind of services we'll be able to offer to folks. the first is zoning. we as i mentioned the idea here is really small improvements so where are the opportunities to

deal with a 5 feet height increase and thinking about the zoning comprehensively. so of the donald's happened 25 years ago. then there's the public realm work we do in the city group does already and we're thinking about working on that plaza type of spaces and the streetscape plan. a couple of images here. the next one is the specific guidelines. so when we look at a site that's under utilized or vacant and thinking about the community to get the energy and thinking what

should we do with this site. i worked on the folsom project. this is a her picture of balboa park and the community wanted to see some change and it's now a supermarket. we can work with the community and think about those sites ease bring some energy there. the next tool is something other folks in our department has been working with this is a ground up we as city staff will be providing technical assistance. so just an example would be a collective solar panel so folks in our department are working with the community on those

ideas. so again, the math is kind of all of the 25 commercial districts that o e d has. and i want to walk through where we're going to start our work. we have limited resources so we want to think about where we kind of use that most of it. we want to look at where we're doing work. so kind of where wore doing our realm work as he planning department. and the "x" accelerator right now there's folks who are looking at improvements around the triangle. so we're going to work with that and think about are there any zoning congressman's and the "x"

cellar group is working with the sites they'd like to see turned over. starting again those are just starting right now. the next section is the area on mission street south of chavez. and this is part of a streetscape plan in the mission. that extends from van ness to college hill. we're focusing on the part where there's an oh, will you explain and working with district supervisors and then chinatown. we're about to loufrn the perry sing square so within that process we'll look at the zone and other opportunities in this

area. the next piece is coordinating our work externally. so supervisor tanking is launching her blue print and working closely with her office to think about what to do in the sunset. and there's another project on another street. so i want to say thanks and here's our contact information. we have handouts that list all the tools on the table and like i said we're excited to starting this program and working closely with o e w d. thank you >> there any public comment on

the investment neighborhoods item? okay seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner >> thank you very interesting subject and i just have some thoughts kind of reflecting on neighborhoods during my 45 years of residing in san francisco. and is things that i find are most important when i am thinking about going into a neighborhood is it save and clean? is the commercial establishments show pride of ownership and the sites are going o doing in a fleent manner. and over the past 45 years i want there's are some neighborhoods that have actually deteriorated in terms of they're

adding a variety of retail needs. some neighborhoods have become exclusive will i like eating establishments only one type of food. if you surcharge enough you may not find what you're looking for. if you live in this neighborhood or other neighborhoods they've greatly improved where they've added a lot more services or the entire nature the neighborhood has been so much more welcome living and vibrant from gary gary to jacksonville per and

others are hayes and 24th street which you've referred to not to say there aren't others doing we will. ches nut is another one that has improved a lot. their few of large establishments. i did have a question for staff. some of the streets that are not being analyzed i guess in terms of mapping them it mate be at least notable you talked about lu lumping some of the areas together. >> so are you talking about the o e w d part of it? >> well, i was looking at the

25 you put on your map one was va lecture street. yes, we're set with the o e w process and we look at the furrier so maybe i'll let amy talk about that >> there are definitely more than 25 districts citywide we're basically going for about 2 per district and we also have a bias on some level of bias toward the lower income neighborhoods that have had less funding from the city. all districts need this kind of attention we plan on graduating the corridor from the project and add more it's a staff capacity thing >> so you're trying to

concentrate on one you feel need for improvement? >> although there's always opportunity in the community benefit district that would create a long sustainable thing but there's always more you can do. >> but eighth street there's a lot of vibrantcy but their may not be some of the things you've done with the study. as also absent maybe the reason you feel hair doing well, is intersunset street so i kind of understand what you're looking at with this study thanks

>> i was just alm this is a terrific piece of work it shows you all the departments working together and it answers all the questions we have fragmented questions where we don't see the comprehensive situation but i want to commend you first. >> thank you. >> the question i have looking at your map of the internal process i have in black and white only i am concerned south of marketing all the way to the waterfront there's not one individual corridor and that concerns me because in this area l there are many changes and i think those changes need some kind of coordinated help.

perhaps it's flited but if you would be able inform in parentheses talk about that there are processes that help those neighborhoods it would be comforting to me otherwise we're creating holes in large accepting times of the city. i want to point out that south of market there is nothing. and as we're now embarking and many of the people are involved like japan town and perhaps the use of family jones we're findings other tools of criteria which sooner or later would bring those subsequent sections

of your list that - i'm glad and very pleased you're talking about graduating i'm using amy's word here some of the neighborhoods out of the plan. i be given the changes we're seeing the rapid changes that will be sooner or later we'll see a lot of new development and supporting new development, however, when you start with creating those you need some program in order to accelerate the productive. you start with something gu good but it needs some help for the secondary benefits. the long and short i would appreciate if in some form or another explain or graphically show where other programs are

happening which meanwhile don't fall into what you're doing but help with the improvements >> i want to thank everyone. i want to say those neighborhoods profiles are amazing. there's so interesting to look through. not to make more work for you but is there a way - if the data were available for the public i think it would be good to look at overlays and working with this community specifically on their neighborhood but looking at the trend across ail neighborhoods maybe the neighborhoods who are not part of the program and think about what makes those corridors successful and things that are

lacking in neighborhoods. i like the offer laying of some of the areas you're trying to impact. could you talk about the customized program and how symptom can get involved >> so it looks different in each case and our folks out of our office are kroortd the meeting. we're putting together meetings that maybe another department may not be holding e e w d.org we try to keep everything updated >> so missing lists and stuff

like that. there are things like sensors that track bicyclists and they're already tracking data i would definitely reach it out to them they might have some pedestrian information that could be overlaid. >> commissioner. >> yes for one thing there is a japan town assessment that's not included in our packet. we've got it right here. because i think the commissioners did receive the japan town g h s plan a week or

so ago i don't think the assessment was included as part of that that >> it sound like it's being revised they're going to resubmit it. >> wherever. >> i think we'll just plan on when they come out we'll send them your way. >> thank you. and secondly many, many years ago the recreational director in chicago started a mainstream program which expanded into the trust in washington and other various states got on board and there was a main stream program in california. and then in june, we had a social heritage program at which

one the corridors from oakland came and give us a talk. she was quite interesting i thought but one of the things that stuck in my mind was not emphasis but the night i think in some ways of having a strong local merchant organizations of some kind of that can propel all of the ideas that the city departments are trying to implement and apply for funding and grants and coordinate sales. and that i think it less - it's an organizing i guess i'm trying to say organizing the merchants

is important vs. things like design and street improvement i think are of less importance in the success of a commercial area. so that's some lessons i think have come out in the programs in existence for 40 years now. i love this i think the japan town will really, really like under the g h s there is little that the planning department and zoning are being asked to do but a whole bunch of things that the e e d will be doing >> thank you. i can add a couple of thoughts. out of the methodology i appreciate that it was done with the vesting of the neighborhoods. that's things that the planning

department may not have the time to do but it makes the process smoother because you've provided the foundation of knowledge of which to do the work. that will going forward with the vesting of the actions in those plans. i think somewhat building on the commissioners idea. i saw some blue prints out in the sunsets and i've been asking for a a long time to change our communication and this is a great model of what i've been trying to articulate. i call it within the concepts of actual contents this provides information to teach to folks in the corridors so they can improve their neighborhoods. if we can build the capacity in

those neighborhoods it will carry on. so really appreciate that and want to see the department do more of that. and along the lines of captive commissioner talked about providing accessibility to the data. i think that could help neighborhoods also. they've already participated in some of the collecting of it. so thank you >> commissioner moore. >> following up on capacity building. i think in the idea of interconnected those documents you've district will be accessible in pdf form so individuals can download them and why'd use them for themselves and comparing them across the neighborhoods. there are certain neighborhoods

that are doing some things we're not able to do people can see this on the web. the question i'd like to have answered if i can personally have the planning department start to track the attractiveness of the corridors. i'd be interested in that. they're the new minnie part and i'd like to see how that increases the attractiveness overall >> i want to thank all the staff in particular tracy and her staff. when we started this program we were working in 4 neighborhoods annoy we are in 25. we had to get those assessments

done in a hurry that you are but i think this work is a kind of new phase in some ways of the departments own work plan in the sense as sue said earlier we've spent a lot of time over the last 15 years working where we think the growth it anticipated. now we're shifting change about come in some form so i think this is a good way to get involved in the commercial neighborhoods to look at less dramatic a change but supporting the exciting commercial districts. it represents a shift in the departments work and an interesting one >> thank you. >> yeah. as a final note i think it's good to look at the

best practices if other cities that have neighborhoods similar to the ones we have and the suburbia areas find out why their successful. and i think the idea that many have improvement districts and it's a guy thing, of course, it's up to the merchant to fund it but when tailor problems that develop like graffiti it is quickly cleaned up and working with the police from the various stations that have authority over the neighborhood commercial districts because we'll have unfortunate incidents when sometimes people are successful

that people come in and vandalize those. so it's important to find out to deal with those >> one final question. when we had an nc report can you incorporate some of the data from this process and form that one >> great thank you. >> commissioners if there's nothing further we can move on to item 7 formula retail controls recommendations to the board of supervisors that the issue of formula retail rail be looked to understand the issue. >> good afternoon amy rogers of the planning department staff where we're here at the request of commission president fong and

would like to note an error on the first sentence in 2011 i believe when the board asked for revisions and earlier this summer in review of the multiple frldz - we've been looking at this and his request was in june. as the report before you outlines there are currently 7 active proposals that would change the way the city formula - multiple supervisors are looking at the issue and we think it's timely you asked for this presentation. if