and make graffiti right-hand turn. i think we had a situation in a church where a utilize box got beautiful artwork but the mta with a problem with the box had to remove it and there was an uproar. i know that mta is going to return that but in neighborhoods there are neighborhoods that point art on something that may not be attractive of itself. we have the amendments i've distributed we're only approving the encroachments on 25th avenue and or tag.

so colleagues, can we take those amendments without objection? >> just to clarify we strike the 4 and maintain the 2? >> yes. and actually in the resolution that mta had originally submitted i think neither of those numbers was there it said we're including the two locations. >> okay. >> and then on the third page there's also a clarification so can we take those amendments without objection. there's adopted and favored to the full board? okay without objection that's the full order >> madam clerk, call item 4. >> it's an ordinance with the planning code rifkt use district.

>> and supervisor cowen has requested we continue this item to october 7th. so i'll taken a motion after public comment. is there that i public comment on the expected motion to continue. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues can i have a motion to continue it one week on october 7th. item 3 is a hearing directing the transportation protection agency on muni bikes >> i thank you and i called for this hearing. and colleagues that hearing will focus on double parking including the impacts on our transportation city and county system as well as the transportation policies and

endorsement around double parking. it's fairly rampant in commercial corridors. private vehicles we see them stopped in the middle of the street has the drive runs errands and at the scene of the accidents are stopped in the middle of streets even if there's a place for them to pull over and we see driver trucks. and sometimes even when there's a yellow sdpoen for them to use. sometimes there's no where for them to pull over but sometimes, the driver doesn't bother to pull over when they can. there's a total disregard on restrictions on what the impacts are in terms of the traffic flow

and safety and there's a disregard even for considering other optioned like pulling over in front of the curb cut. the impacts are quite significant. there are times when you see one double-parked vehicle cause traffic jams for blocks and blocks. we see situations where double-parked vehicles bloke muni lines. sometimes, the bus can pull around through this causes a delay. and on our vehicle lines, of course, they can't go side to side. we see those vehicles grinned to a halt. we regularly see them blocking

bike lanes and bikes have to go out of the bike lanes and into traffic. that can be unsafe because of the constant merging and we also see double parking blocking pedestrian sightlines particularly when their near a crosswalk. enforcement is theries. there are times when deliver vehicles have to double park because there's no where to pull over or yellow zone. and in fact there's a expectation in the vehicle code if they're not blocking a muni line if there's no where for

them to pull offer and and so forth. but it's gotten to an extreme point when some double parking if really necessary but otherwise the law is to be obeyed. and unfortunately, when outside of downtown in the sylmar area. so before we start the presentation from the mta and we're going to hear from the mta and the police department and the small business division i want to invite of mr. taylor. i want to thank him for organizing that and we put out a call on facebook 80 for people to send in photos for double parking and we've got a few

examples that mr. taylor is going to show. >> . go to the next one.

and this one shows a double-parked car in the back. and i think it's 9th and oring where they can't go anywhere so people locked their keys in the vehicle. i don't know exactly how long that shut down the service but it caused an impact.

we have another photo it didn't make it here but the truck basically couped the whole roadway. i thank you, mr. taylor. i now - before we get to the department supervisor breed? i'd like to call up the mta riccardo. mr. lay i want to thank you and your colleagues with the mta in terms of working with the statistics and the presentation you're about to show >> good afternoon. supervisors and member of the publics i'm riccardo i'm the city traffic engineer we i have a few colleagues that are the heads of our parking enforcement groups. thanks for the introduction you

pointed out a lot of the issues with the double parking it's common in san francisco and a lot of the large decency cities across the world. when i was reaching this there was from new york city and philadelphia. it's a common problem with the cities that rely on the streets for loading activities there's a greater tendency in those situations to have double parking. of course, in other areas of san francisco or for some types of building there maybe off-road site loading but for our commercial streets that's not the case. some can impede parking bikes. the exact impact on transit and the users of the city there's no

one summer that can be given for any street whether it's a two-way or 1-way street or multiple lanes but as we know the delays can be significant. in the case of light rail vehicles they have no ability to pass the double parking. particularly with our transit system that increases our traffic facility. we had someone in 0 traffic department do a study and a their conclusion the double parking added 8 seconds per block to 2 blocks would have a 17 second delay and it's not

especially on admission but when buzz are spaced every three to four seconds this can be significant. double parking can impact safety. this photo shows a bicyclist trying to get around the loading on valencia street but the double blocking makes people change lanes and so forth. when we look at the collision the collision report doesn't necessarily represent the double parking problems so that collision might be an unsafe lane change but we can't see the

problem that the double parking caused but we know it's a problem. in order to protect bicyclist lanes one of the main things we protect this from blocking the bicycle lanes >> the protective bike lanes only work if you don't have the protected bike lanes but the unbelievable of our like lands it seems like in a lot of areas people are using bike lanes to park. what is the agencies view on, on how we can reduce that? >> some of the streets we're looking at the major redesigns

have looked at what new york city did or john fitzgerald kennedy drive is flip the lane and the bicycle lane is between the situation and the like lane. we have not denouncing done that on urban streets but, yes the fact that bike lanes create a temptation for double parking is an ongoing issue as we try to create wired bike lines but that could be seen as the double parking lane we wanted to avoid those situations. in terms of pedestrian safety in particularly places where the crosswalk is as shown here is can make it harder for places

that the pedestrian are trying to cross. and it's a particular issue around schools. our agency has taken a lot of measures to try to prevent the double parking around schools. double parking is going to occur when you have parents dropping offor picking up children so are the bus zones we see it's a peaking type of activity. a lot of people can arrive on one spot and go away shortly. so it's difficult to address this but we try to mitigate this and identify the solutions for the problem areas. in addition to just the

enforcement there are other tools that the agency tries to address the double parking we have the white and yellow zones we have 2 thousand spread over the city. parking in general has been a controversial subject but parking meters and so forth this can help the availability of open spaces. peak hour were addressed in the financial district. so if you go to the downtown area you'll see streets have in parking at certain hours and not allowing people to park is where the parking issue is mitigate. we have the mta and department

of public works has the ability for people to apply for for example, if so moved someone has a large parking van they can get temporary passes so they don't have to double park for one type of use. now, of course, enforcement is one of the key ways to pertain double parking. there's one way to directly cite the code section which prohibits double parking and we have over the time increased the parking zones so you can get towed away. we also early on were one of the cities to put the meters so the

commercial vehicles have time limits and we try to enforce the time limits where there's a lot of truck loading so they have so obey the limit. while vehicles can be 18 inches away from the curb it allows the ability to load outside of that when they're actively loading. other cities in the united states have those rules for policies if the vehicles can't find a loading space there maybe some leeway there. it does allow the cities where they don't want double parking from vehicles that need to load

and we've implemented that double signage on gary street downtown. mission street and downtown on or having. enforcement practices by our parking control officers rely mainly on this issue of whether or not the commercial vehicle has a legal space available if they had they should be using that. and if they're not actively loading they can be cited or they tell the vehicle it's time to move and if they disobey they can be cited. the double is prohibited at all times. in terms of fines ever a decade

ago were in the $50 rage and accident mayor's office said let's double the fine on certainty corridors and streets during peak hours so major muni routes we find is higher. so over the times they doubled in practice and those innovates became unnecessary so we charge $110 by law. in terms in terms in terms in terms of citation totals those don't include the automated that penalties there's

about thirty or inform a month so they're given out by parking control officers. and from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. their given out during that time and the typical deliveries are made in the morning this is a little bit more availability to park in the morning hours to there's the intersection of morning delivers obey heavy where the vehicles are starting to arrive for shopping. there's more trucks so that's why the concentration of citations in the middle of the

day. almost 62 percent are truck vehicles and a small amount of motor homes and other vehicles. we tried to break down the taxi but because of the complications we were not able to do that. and a breakdown by supervisor districts they're in the north eastern quadrant >> if i could just look at o statistics again, i think we'd expect there would be more intensive enforcement but the double parking is an issue throughout the city. i'm not suggesting there's notice enforcement from the

south corridor but there's dramatically less. and so can i comment on that because i know that when i first called for the hearing and sfmta had give out a lot of tickets i think i made a comment at the time i had never been made aware of anyone receiving a double parking ticket in the 16 years i've lived here. one person told me she'd received a double parking ticket. bs but there are slots in the city that have not bush street level congestion but why do we

have so much less in areas and mta thinks we should have important consistent enforcement >> speaking genetically we identify the key corridors and so we do try to work out together with our transit team in terms of identifying the locates. the double parking incident is quite large. yes. we've giving out 20 thousand citations where are the prior he locations we're

determining for parking tickets i'll invite my colleague to talk about that >> i'll tell you by way of example on castro street now we because castro street is one lane in both directions people feel very liberty to double park. and either the bus or cars can't get around the double-parked vehicles. as you know we're about to widen the sidewalks and so castro street will be more of a normal street and double parking will have significant impacts. i have committed to my constituents and colleagues saying i'll increase the double

parking in the area but it takes two to tangible >> good afternoon the enforcement manager. currently, we have 2 hundred and 61 parking control officers. their spread out thin, of course. we have 10 beats and those range from general to r vp to yellow zones to street cleaning which is one of the bigger compacts of what we do. so during the course of the day and one of the charts there had most of the citations for double parking in the evening that typically shows the dispatching in the morning. those two areas are the primary

areas that manage double parking so not all of our enforcement officers handle the double parking. so the key area we can do a better job is on the complaint. we have details and they handle containments outside of those areas you such as the do you only u downtown. so if there are containments they come through by citizens or by 311 or dispatch or a call. typically though when we get out there they're typically begun. so it's sort of a difficult challenge >> yeah. it definitely calls for focus. i i know for example, there are times when mta do so sweeps on

your tires they're not angered to the curb and i know on the street it drives people cease you can't tell it's an combine and an enormous amount of people are getting tickets or your pursuing two inches onto the sidewalk and all of a sudden there's like a sweep of tickets but then you have all this double parking and it's harder to catch people for sure but it's not impossible. sometimes, it smeem there's a focus on the eyes tickets as opposed to to the harder issue tickets that are having a more impact on the traffic.

that's part of the frustration someone comes to me and says wait a minute, i got a ticket for not kirsten my wheels and all those folks are double parking and not getting ticket. what should i say to people i think it's a valid point >> well, certainly we don't do selective enforcement we enforce whatever laws are not followed. there are some cases such as a sidewalk parking. we have a more difficult time getting out to those areas that don't have an rp public works area or general enforcement area so we don't have as many pc os. so once we get a complaint we'll typically got out to there and observe the whole neighborhood

and cite several vehicles in violation. we'll get a to a better staffing level and two is to do what i've always wanted to do it's saturation. we've tested it and it's been done in the past. we've in our public works areas it's very difficult to handle certain areas that are lagged where you have to chalk the tire and come back whatever the time was. with a saturation we can put people in more areas whether their complaint driven or a transit area and do a different area each day. so when we hire t