the street is a very busy commercial district. the picture on the upper right it's where we see trucks double parked. and the pedestrians level is very, very high and the sidewalks are crowded on the weekends and the street serves the automobile traffic as well. photo just to give you a sense of the roadways it's nearly 60 feet wide with generally 1 traffic lane for those two blocks which provides a substantial amount of excess pavement and we see double parking and this is a typical afternoon.

i mentioned the pedestrian volumes are unusual from saturday from 8:00 p.m. and the four hundred street of market street we're seeing the high volumes and jennifer streets and higher volumes then on irving and valencia so there's definitely improvements needed. as owe mentioned the street is nearly 60 feet wide it has parking on two sides and 12 foot sidewalks speaker the project will widened the sidewalks by 9 feet. and generally maintain the on

street parking. i want to highlight a few of the design features. this graphic shows the intersection of 17th, market and castro streets. the project proposed to realign the crosswalks to have more traffic. to remove the northbound and southbound traffic lanes justice approaching the intersections. is it proposes to revamp the plazas and make some aesthetic changes to the plaza itself. we believe this will help remove delays from the f line terminal. and it proposes a full upgrade to make some pedestrian improvement changes through

timeing. moving down the street at the intersection of 18. you can see the widening of the sidewalks. the curb space will be maintained. in addition to the mid block sidewalk that's being proposed this is highest pedestrian crosswalk and the enhanced crosswalk markings. and the final block moving south to 19th and continuing the widening of the sidewalks and enhancing the sidewalks. and it proposes a mid block outside of the historic harvey

milk place it is really going to provide a nice benefit for this historic building. and lastly making a number of upgrades to the proposals they will have now street lights and the overhead wiring structure adjacent to the new curb line. proposing new bike racks and other streetscape features to make in a pedestrian conditions on the sidewalks. the department of public works is working on this and wrapping the design and putting the project out to bid and beginning

the construction next year with the completion of the fall 2015 >> great presentation. i think that's a huge benefit and those crosswalks are hugely crowd. a quick question. we've received a letter expressing concern about possible delays to the project. they're worried about it didn't address the traffic time for the buses can you briefly tells us about that. the narrowly of the street is going to discourage the impact of the traffic time on muni? i mentioned earlier the remove e

removal of the traffic lane but multiple traffic lanes are provided at market street and 18th street and the project proposes to reduce the lanes at the market street where it approaches. based on our relatives that will add some details to the traffic and a muni buses. the model says we'll have a delay about 24 seconds additional the delay here is about 30 seconds. we'll tried to might those idealize. and the first, you'll see in your packet exempting muni vehicles from southbound on

mafshth street. we've proposed american people - an inclusion to help mitigate muni delays and the bus zones are all proposed to be bracket up to standard length to help muni vehicles to get in and out of them. i agree with the idea we're going to have idealize and we've tried to enhance the pedestrian environment >> maybe we can have a caveat in our minds maybe we can see if we can tweak it a little bit to make sure we're not impacting the level of service for our bus

passengers. >> so some extent we're hard wiring this. this was something that was a subject as the project developed. i think we took all the steps that the design to mitigate against transit details which are relatively minor. points fact we have those altercations of northbound and southbound gives opportunity for enforcement to make sure that the traffic control can keep the traffic moving and make sure we don't have double parking. we'll monitor this and there are some adjustments that can be made. we're continual looking ways to improve the service throughout

the line that will also help might the impact. you have duty tin mentioned in the photos we've going got a lot of pedestrians here. we know there's a little bit of a trade-off and a last question. remind me if the 24 bus has a camera on it and there's a car that's double-parked outside his shop is that covered under our - >> no, the authorization we have is for transit only lanes. >>right. >> i think certainly when we - after we cut the ribbon we have pretty active enforcement by the police department to try to set the stage and retrain the car drivers. >> in this area and supervisor

wiener's been a advocate for the enforcement of double parking and there's been a call for a hearing and to set the frozen the get-go once this project is complet completed. >> investigated. >> i think it's a real good presentation. have we looked at the needs of the commercial fleets that are out there. we can say one thing to modify that but can he take a long time that, too >> i think the director alluded to that. we've done looter communications with the merchants about truck loading activity. the agenda today includes several changes to truck loading

zones and the net result would be an increase of about 8 new loading zones. and we're trying to cluster them together so we don't have an isolated zone we want to provide two or three or 4 together so some of the larger vehicles can maneuver into them. we also have numerous changes from the merchants. we shouldn't be using our loading zones after 6 so the proposal runs from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and that allows general parking in the afternoon to occur. so we'll be monitoring that and it's one of the ears change. if we find the loading plan it

is not addressing the issues we can make some meter tweaks with low costs >> you would be cache because we do that on h p where it's a yellow loading zone from 7 to one and there's no place to park. it if we have that flexibility and say nobody is doing anything after 3 do we have that be flexibility to change that thing? okay >> yeah. i think your comment is well-taken. we did spend some time collecting observations. and although some merchants were asking we end-all loading commercial zoning at noon but

after 3 o'clock it appears to die-off so that's where we came for the recommendation. there's the supply store on the 5 hundred block of castro streetcar were there some loading zones that go on until 6:00 p.m. for fedex and other companies >> thank you, chairman nolan. i appreciate the staff and all the great work that's gone into this year i brought this up and i've heard grumg. but we've heard this is a transit city and we should be expediting our transit but i want to reiterate the fact i

believe you said it best director lee it's transit firts first not transit only. in some places we need to make sure we're recognizing the real use of the neighborhood and we're just not going to be able to prioritize transit everywhere. which stresses to make the improvements where we can like dedicated lanes and other parts of a transit lines route we should be making those accommodates because we're going to be running them through pedestrian areas. i know that this neighborhood really needs sidewalk widening. i frequently go to the castro

theatre and i feel like i'm in a traffic jam in between shows and i want to get back to that movie theatre. i feel like there's been due diligence and i appreciate you folks looking for a great compromises and i appreciate supervisor wiener's letter to us that reinforces and i'm happily going to move this forward >> and before you take a motion and a hold on your emotions. control your emotions (laughter) >> thank you anything else for the - and a thank you, mr. white and mr. perry. members of the public who wish

to speak >> (calling names) >> hi good afternoon. directors again. i want to make sure that the cab stand on 18th and castro is not going to be implicated by this and when they widened the sidewalk to make sure they paint for the cab stand and make sure it they put the right sign back up. i want to make sure that stays in place. i'm concerned and i think the transit union said by eliminating two lanes at the intersections you're going to be slowing the buses and it will be long-range 20 seconds. especially at market street a lot of can be drivers make the right turn from castro to market

street. it's a popular street to go downtown to castro. they don't go that way to - that's not as popular a move after the other part why don't they start enforcing the double parking now. it's horrible. it's horrible i've come before this body 20 million times. people are going to double park to take out or the delivery companies and you have double parking on castro streets between 17th and 19th. i keep calling and no there should be someone there

babysitting. that's causing all the transit problems. i think you should reconsider eliminating on market streets of elimination of the second lane >> now the last speaker and a good afternoon directors. i don't see how we can approve a route and people are going to battle about anything to speed up things. even as important sure the widening the sidewalks are great but that's not going to slow down muni. whatever i have to do you should start out and if that means less parking move it around the corner.

so be it you can't win them all. we have to do this together. a few spaces that might help make the bus work better. cars never want to let a bus back into traffic. and they're the same as wider sidewalks. every line has places that are not wide enough for buses. that's going to happen many other places. we can't go into the system and says oh, well, it adds a few more seconds the minutes add up to millions and this should go

back to find the left hand lane pockets and the renewal pockets >> would you like to make a motion. >> i make a motion to approve. any further discussion. all in favor >> is there a motion inform conduct a closed session and i believe we have 3 yes. >> okay. >> item announcement of closed sessions to discuss the t w-258 with the city attorney and the director of transportation and the board secretary. the board didn't discuss no

litigation and would it be preoccupy to disclose or not disclose no. >> we're

>> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features.

>> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at

each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. >> this park is open. ♪ hi, i'm lawrence. we are

doing a special series about staying safe. let's look at issues of water and sewer. we are here at the san francisco urban center on mission street in san francisco and i'm joined today by marrielen from puc and talk about water and sewer issues. what are things we should be concerned about water. >> you want to be prepared for that scenario and the recommendation is to have stored 1 gallon per person per day that you are out of water.

we recommend that you have at least 3-5 days for each person and also keep in consideration storage needs for your pets and think about the size of your pets and how much water they consume. >> the storage which is using tap water which you are going to encourage. >> right. of course at the puc we recommend that you store our wonderful delicious tap water. it's free. it comes out of the tap and you can store it in any plastic container, a clean plastic container for up to 6 months. so find a container, fill it with water and label it and rotate it out. i use it to water my garden. >> of course everyone has plastic bottles which we are not really promoting but it is a common way to store it. >> yes. it's an easy way to pick up bottles to store it. just make sure you check the label. this one says june 2013. so convenient you have an end date on it. >> and there are other places

where people have water stored in their houses. >> sure. if you have a water heater or access to the water heater to your house, you can drink that water and you can also drink the water that the in the tank of your toilet. ; not the bowl but in your tank. in any case if you are not totally sure about the age of your water or if you are not sure about it being totally clean, you can treat your water at home. there is two ways that you can treat your water at home and one is to use basic household bleach. the recommendation is 8 drops of bleach for ever gallon of water. you add 8 drops of bleach into the water and it needs to sit for 30 minutes.

the other option is to boil water. you need to boil water for 5-10 minutes. after an earthquake that may not be an option as gas maybe turned off and we may not have power. the other thing is that puc will provide information as quickly as possible about recommendations about whether the water is okay to drink or need to treat it. we have a number of twice get information from the puc through twitter and facebook and our website sf water.org. >> people should not drink water from pools or spas. but they could use it to flush their toilets if their source are not broken. let's look at those issues. >> sanitation is another issue and something people don't usually or like to think about it but it's the reality. very

likely that without water you can't flush and the sewer system can be impeded or affected during an earthquake. you need to think about sanitation. the options are simple. we recommend a set up if you are able to stay in your building or house to make sure that you have heavy duty trash bags available. you can set this up within your existing toilet bowl and once it's used. you take a little bit of our bleach. we talked about it earlier from the water. you seal the bag completely. you make sure you mark the bag as human waste and set it aside and wait for instruction about how to dispose of it. be very aware of cleanliness and make sure you have wipes so folks

are able to wash up when dealing with the sanitation issue. >> thank you so much, commissioner kimberly barn don? >> here. >> commissioner willie adams? >> here. >> commissioner mel murphy? >> here. >> approval of july 9, 2013 meeting minutes. >> motion to accept the minutes. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> item 3, public comment on executive session. all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> and like to report out that in closed session the commission voted unanimously to approve the settlement agreement with distillery number 209 limited napa, california, and described in agenda item 4.a1a. >> and will not disclose