dedicated bike lanes maybe there's another street. i think it's important to know where we're started from there was a initiative from mta to have a bicycle lane on this street. i think from the prospective of merchants we're certainly taking into account on the one hand i appreciate that the merchants shouldn't be begging for the opportunity to earn their livelihood but i hear from the cyclists. i've had many meetings and we will continue to have this conversation. i want to put a little bit of

context on that i also wanted to mention my apologizes because this hearing is lasting a little bit longer than i intended to go but we'll move those dialogues with respect to the concerns that businesses have and we'll all occupy the streets are very scarce resources that works for everyone >> you made a comment a certain about having a higher priority in terms of double parking enforcement and the effects of businesses deliveries and i understand the small businesses needs the deliveries

but it shouldn't be a choice between, you know, i'm not saying we're going to have officers stations around the city for double parking but it's not acceptable to have such little enforcement in some areas by all sorts of vehicles. and people have the minimal fear they're not going to get a ticket they won't care. its about how delivery trucks could pull in and they're not bothering to double park all the way over. i had a situation when i was in a church and there was a delivery truck and there was it was pulled impartial over but

not far enough over and shut down the street and the radio dispatcher road it in but we were there for 15 to 20 minutes. i went in and searched down the guy and told him to move his vehicle and no one was ever sent out to do anything. sometimes, it's the way people do things and it's the total lack of enforcement. you look at the entire castro roadway. approximately 233 hundred and 50 tickets a year that's one ticket per day for a multiple commercial stretch. i know there's a lot of double

parking and on the average one ticket is a given out everyday. and there are also a citation issued in one area every other day. so it's one thing to say and i agree with you, you don't want to have such a problem where businesses can't do business but in some areas where there is major problems >> i think we're in agreement that enforcement needs to happen. and if vehicles are not utilizing the yellow zones then questioning if we need to send out the message then we will. again, we're starting to have perhaps we can work with the

sfmta to work with the merchant. they know who the delivery folks are to figure out l are there better places to have loading zones on the block. i think that has supervisor breed said in terms of developing awareness and bringing everyone together to solve this >> with that, i want to thank all the departments. we'll open up for public comment. i have only one card. from the san francisco bike coalition and other folks if i want to fill out a card coming over here and we'll take you in order >> i'm eric i'm the design

manager for the bicycle coalition. i want to thank you for holdings this hearing. i think you said you noticed a lot of the bike lanes were blocked >> it was till when we had the bike coalition and we is constantly had to swerve into traffic but go ahead. >> thank you for holding this meeting on this serious issue. today i'd like to urge you to continue to urge city staff to look at this finest and continue to push for enforcement in the bike lanes it's a hazard like making did care we get containments weekly from our

membership. so those are some areas in need for enforcement. i didn't see them on the areas that are highly picketed. san francisco commission asks for areas like market and okay to provide people on bike safety and making life easier whether you're in o a car or on a bike. and we know that people feel safer in bike lanes and the city has a goal of 20 percent ridership so the safety it is more people will be riding and thank you for your attention on this important issue >> sir, were you next.

>> you inspired me. beyond the experience i had the experience in the london k we proposed the specialized delivery for xhejd areas. for early morning deliveries it was redistributed by beneficiaries. we discussed market and octavia and other areas of the city lost somewhere in the great mass but the problem is worse by businesses who want to expand

their clientele at the sidewalks. with those two proposals thank you very much for raising the issue >> thank you. >> hi. i'm steven i'm with the mrntd and i own a business on polk street. i know this is an issue on double parking but i think you can expand this proposal throughout the city. they had parking and delivery they thought b about that polk street was that lanes at one time so trucks could double park they'd stay on the two-lane part of the street and that was removed l about 15 years ago to

accommodate some bicycle lanes. polk street is one of the highest double parking areas. now to change polk street we've added as supervisor chu said we've had many meetings by when the plan come out there was no provision for yellow zones on the side of the street we permitted bike lanes no yellow zones. and the mta said oh, we'll put them up the side street and i don't think they're planning on that. most of us think about deliveries of ups trucks. a store like mine i make deliveries we have to go to a street like knob hill and double

park. i do have a commercial vehicle and to make a delivery you have to go up 3 stories it's hard to tell you're doing active delivery but you are. it's a complex issue. this seem like we have to go berg at the time and we're not considered as part of the situation. raising the fines are making it harder for us to do we get fined more and it costs more and our merchandise goes up and who pays for it but the customer >> thank you very much.

reverend. i just want to hope in front of you that knowing san francisco what i see is a hostility toward the faith community and every time by mta. i hope this attention is not a witch-hunt for church services on sunday because of the lack of parking there has to be some double parking. i'm hoping it doesn't turn into that more than it doesn't anything else. i know that it's okay for some people to impede traffic but i hope you'll keep attention on

this and don't allow it to violate us on sunday. thank you very much >> any additional public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed >> thank you. i want to ask mta a followup question about the reverend concern. has about been any enforcement in those particular areas where on sunday some congregations double park and have traditionally double-parked for many, many years? >> there has not been supervisor. it's a for lack of a better word an issue and a parking concern that has been a long part of san francisco's history. we're not actively pressuring

the faith community for double parking >> thank you. >> and memoranda parking you might call it is not limited to churches and synagogues on delores street. i'm pretty confident. anyway, thank you supervisor breed >> i want to thank everybody for participating and my request to the mta agency t is to take an internal look at how the parking is done and again, i'm advocating we're not priority tiger's downtown those areas of market is heavy xhenld and i agree with the agree.

but i think we are going in the opposite way but the mta to give some consideration on how we might maybe make the enforcement a little bit more consistent so people have a thought in their headwall if i double park i might get a ticket. in and of itself that will reduce double parking >> so thank you everyone and could i get a motion to continue this to those to the call of the chair. okay without objection >> madam clerk, call item number 4. >> is the hearing to begin the gary underpass and in the

western fillmore community. >> and supervisor breed requested this hearing. >> thank you, thank you supervisor wiener for allowing us to host this hearing. thank you to all the city staff for the hard work. supervisor mar and i called this to begin the planning and redesign of scott and particularly the underpass. built in 19 61 it's a legacy of the freeway that never got completed and the agency thought to divide the japanese and african-american community.

as the gary brt project progresses we can reenvision this stretch of gary boulevard. it includes an evaluation of filling in the underpass and it may continue with the corridors design. it will make the 38 brt safer for more users and now is the time to act and implore this as a possibility. growing up i remember crossing the 8 lanes of traffic and, of course, at that time, i could run faster but it scares me to think about the people who cross this boulevard. so to me this the transit a buff indication project and a social

reunions of our communities project as well. it's very complex and i know there will be a lot of different departments included the mta and planning department who will more than likely take the lead on the land use developments. the department of public works will help and the puc has a significant project in the area. it's a complex project. for the rec and park it's a chance to improve hampton and for the community this is really an opportunity at long last to make gary safer and to improve the bus lines. to bring japan it up and western

edition together to turn a eyesore into a wonderful area not a drub place for those who are traveling east and west. we're going to create a land use when is a collaboration between the agencies. i want to analysis the way to e refurnish it and in terms of the supporting the neighborhood and to discuss how to develop the land use division and lay the ground work for the fund resources. once we've done this i'm hoping we can identify those supporting agencies that can be potential

leads for this project. i think supervisor mar and i want to consider a now a citizens advisory committee to lead this community based process. thank you all for being here i think we'll start off with joshua and steve from the planning department who can offer some technologies for the future >> if i leave to the restroom we'll no longer have a qualm can we take a brief recess like 45 minutes. >> that. >> gentleman.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. >> i'm josh with the planning department staff i will start off today's presentation by giving you the expressway on gary how it came to be and some ann nation's and i'll be followed by two more colleagues from the transportation authority will talk about the explorations into the future of the filing more area. >> so at one time before the construction cut gary was merely a seam in the african-american and japanese-american and jewish and filipino and other

communications and had it span the two areas it was lines with businesses that fronted on it and it was an active corridor. not only the jazz entertainment center but it spanned gary. from this photo in 1958 just before the expressway gary was profiler about 60 feet wide north of market street and it was like an your own area. here another photo before the expressway project was built. before the post world war ii area we wanted to remake the city in the western edition it

was target number one. the first in the city cleared the two blocks between franklin and it fended businesses and demolished buildings and winded the debar into the wide expressway it is today. the next project came shortly after. so it's on both sides of gary south of gary. here i can see the photo it's grainy of the land clearance happening in 19 61 you can see the decrees way on gary and there's a wide slot of land. here's the photo of expressway happening from ground level with the expressway. in on the token of this it went

from there to steiner. you can see from the engineer drawing you don't see the pedestrians or other activities it's meant to be an efficient auto thoroughfare with a lot of attention to the community on either side. on this photo you can see the redevelopment area with the now a japan center buildings on the north side of gary. so the expressway had the intended fact of dividing community with japan town open the north side and the lower income and largely african-american communities focused on the south side of gary. the expressway represents not just a psychological barrier for

folks it was unpleasantness and pedestrians had to cross two parking lanes. indeed like buchanan you could cross the street in between before the expressway it was eliminated. on the other does the pedestrian crows were prohibited. the crossing prohibition sign on the corner there. and those crossing had to be prohib prohibited because their unsafe. and so as a nod to pedestrians - of course, pedestrian overpasses are now are pretty well

ill-conceived but as the supervisor noted it's more common for people to dash across the street rather than use inconvenient overpasses. so it's notes surprisingly with this narrow sidewalk and a big ditch that buildings along the frontage road they init's folks to walk along gary. it's a far stretch from shopping an gary. those buildings were products of the same area at the time. but the design of gary over the years has given the motivation for the buildings to transform themselves for more development. jane center was built for

japanese businesses and when this proved to be a less productive use - here's an image looking east from fillmore street. the pedestrian crossings are not so difficult but crossing on the break-in on fillmore is hard. the japan town cultural heritage and economic strategy is several years in the making was endorsed by the planning commission and before the board for endorsement tomorrow. this is the first time first of its kind for sustainability in japan town. there's constitutional it does

draw gary boulevard with the idea of a difficult place to cross. the project improves the pedestrian crossing and improves the investment to opening it up for gary a more attractive endeavor. san francisco recognize our infrastructure in the past. addressing them with more solutions. san francisco has been at the forefront of the movement in order to reconnect neighborhood. we've torn down major portions of the freeway. now not a ditch like the cut through to fillmore the removal of the boulevard is in this picture. gary was blasted through the

neighborhood as part of the interstate freeway project. the construction of octavia billboard reconnected the boulevard. buildings have made a intentional idea to rebridge the community. there's life on the sidewalks and the neighborhood flows across the boulevard rather than intashth. it's not just a way to get from here to there. a conversation about undoing the fillmore cut in redesigning gary in this area has been spanned by project. is it intends to improve the

project and it will improve street life along the corridor. there are many neighborhood benefits there's financial cost issues that he there's more community design work that needs to be done. the gary brt project runs the entire length of the city. fillmore is anyone mode that is a very complicated one and the presentation will show that. and how this concept might be moved by the brt for future design work. i'll turn it over to my mta colleague to talk about the project >> good afternoon, supervisors