it's important that we be flexible and that we attempt to accomplish for each project that comes before us what ought to be done in order to preserve the property if it reasonably fits within the secretaries standards or in this case, the standards set forth in article 10. >> commissioners any other comments? seeing none, i have one speaker card (calling names) >> i'm thankful for the privilege of the perfumed i want to simply ask you to support the recommendation to the board of supervisors designation of 1712

to 1716 street historically noeng known as marcus book store and jim boss bob of section of the planning code. this is a historic moment for me. i was working behind the counter of marcus book store. i think the next step needs to be national landmark designation. thanks >> thank you. two more speaker cards (calling names) >> morning, commissioners. i just wanted to ask for a little bit of clarification on the commissioners condominiums regarding flexibility and referring to article 10 as a

guideline. as you're aware there's litigation surrounding this property. we're certainly in support of preserving his history and we don't want any of the commissions decisions made on this property to influence the outcome of litigation. that would help both parties in that common understanding. thank you >> thank you good afternoon. i'm mr. anderson. i recently helped to save the landmark of marcus book store it was a 9 month battle against city bank and we raised $175,000. i understand how important the

marcus book store is to the african-american community. it's crucial it's not just african-american history it's naturally nationwide history. i would go to the marcus book store with my father. i feel if we preserve the name and the legacy of marcus book store it will serve the generates of san francisco citizens and people across the world. a lot of times the african-american legacy gets separated with the american league and that's wrong. the world legacy of america is intooend with the america society. if we continue to allow marcus book store to function it will

serve the community >> any member of the public wish to speak? come on up to the microphone. thank you >> many of us are here because we want to emphasize. >> would you like to give your name? >> rick. >> when the book was jim bosses and on washington and because of the militia order the japanese communicated had a hardship. they had to reestablish their lives and the japanese community came back together. during the 50s students came together to help with the

education. this established the first historic department and they got together to share the space. the marcus book store is supporting the housing initiative and people in difficult situations besides did historical locates to help with their houses. and, of course, you've heard about the offices that have been there. the main thing i want to thank the historic preservation for sporting the african-american heritage. and i want to thank you for the japanese complexity statement. that was after the marcus book store back in september i went back and evolved the session

afterward and i wanted to say thank you for supporting the japanese-american community also for all the years they've put into it was amazing i thought that was a great part of the process. it's wonderful to see the things that make san francisco strong. mainly those are the efforts i thank you and thank you for supporting marcus book store designation. thanks >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm karen. i'm very pleased to be here today. this is really a special believe and institution for san francisco and to have it recognized by this commission is very, very important.

it's significant not only to the african-american community but to san francisco as a whole because we're looking not just to preserve buildings but to preserve our community our legacies of the cultural institutions and people who make san francisco such a unique and important place. i'm very much i want to xrets envy admiration for the report it quadriplegics that sense of how this embodies a place that gives us the cultural life and this city is acting to a protect and recognize those sorts of institutions. that's really an important thing

so thank you for doing that. i want you to know this is part of a larger continuing efforts. we are he letting you know, too, we hope you'll attend the human rights commission hearings on november 14th at 6:00 p.m. in city hall on the gym both bob's city not only for the particular building but how it relates to other buildings in san francisco that are losing their economic, their institutional pieces and how we as a city can apply ourselves to keeping that vitality going and certainly the work you've done as a commission that ms. brown as your staff will be part of that because we're pleased with what you've

done and thankful you've he will taken this you object up. i have some information about the hearing i'm give to clerk >> thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm desiree smith. as you recall we are we were here and we're here again to reiterate our comments and data we're still in support of the nomination of the designation of marcus book store and jim boss bob city. we've reviewed the second draft of the report and believe the planning department did the great job you all brought up and

we think overall the additional japanese interim time and between the japanese-american and african-american communities has made the report stronger so we you're going to you support in >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. i'm trying to figure out we haven't, you know, a commission hearing for the landmark building or are we having a hearing a meeting for the marcus book store landmark are they trying to tie up together because that's going to influence the litigation that's going on. we asked you before to give us

time to wait until the litigation is over we don't want any litigation to effect that. we aren't saying that we should have wait until the litigation is over. we ask you it's been in the planning department for two years. we don't know what - let us hold until the litigation is over we can't falsify one person over another. so, please let's hold on until the litigation is over. so that's what i'm going to say. it's going to be on your conscious to affect one over another >> thank you do we have any

other member that wishes to speak p seeing none, we'll bring it back to the commission. >> commissioners? >> commissioner pearlman. >> i want to say one thing i wrote the landmark for the designation for the memorial and it was an old theatre building originally and the designation did not include the fact by the time we designated the quilt had moved inform atlantic right now it's a seafood restaurants. it's relevant to the city of san francisco that the aids quilt was made there from the activities in the 80s and 90s around the aids crisis. mary brown mentioned the fact

that the tendency, you know, is not related to this be landmark designation it's specifically for the building a physical building itself. so i believe that is clear ms. brown. i mean this is clear that the marcus book store is, you know, it's tenancy because of the fluid nature of history says that the marcus book store didn't exist; is that correct >> that's correct and the intent of the memo for all parties. >> again, i'm not party to the litigates i don't know what the issues are but for your clarity the marcus book store section shouldn't be an influence like that. >> commissioner.

>> move to adapt the resolution. >> second. >> commissioner. >> yeah. could you have an opinion from the attorney's office on this issue. >> absolutely and there i'm here as the deputy attorney. that's correct i reviewed the memo and article 10 is regarding the physical characterized. the building is significant because of it's past events. as marcus book store and as a jazz club but it's not protected under article 10 only the physical characteristics >> any other comedies. >> seeing none. >> on the motion to recommend

approval (calling names) so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and concludes your calendar. >> thank you very much we'll bring this meeting to a good o

to the san francisco board of supervisor's land use and economic development. i'm scott wiener and supervisor david chiu will be joining us shortly our clerk is lisa miller i want to thank sf tv. miss miller are there any announcements? >> items acted to know today

will appear on the november 19th board of supervisor's agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you madam clerk can you start by calling item number 2? >> extend existing roadway. >> okay john from the department of public works. good afternoon. the department received a request from an applicant to reconstruct that portion to install a privately maintained drive way that will lead to his new garage. at that point the applicant was not ready he was working with neighbors and they are now

currently ready and that's why this application is in front of the full board with recommendations for full approval. >> colleagues if there's no questions or comment we'll open it up to public comment. is there any public comment on item number 2? okay seeing none public comments is closed. colleagues do i have a motion to forward item 2 to the full board with positive recommendation. take that without objection that will be the order. madam could you please call item number 1. >> the bay area bike share program plannings for expansion for city wide roll out. >> thank you i requested this hearing on bike sharing in san francisco to receive an update on the initial roll out of the

initial pilot program as well as future anticipated and much desired growth of the program so it can become a city wide program a few months ago we launched bay area bike share in san francisco san mateo and santa clara counties and that will increase to 500 bikes next year. bike sharing is a very important part of the future of transportation in san francisco in terms of becoming truly a transit first city we all want to have more access to biking in san francisco and this is a key part of that strategy. for people who have bikes they may not want to carry those bikes around with them all the time and having the option to be

without your bike and still bike when necessary is important and in addition there are people that don't own a bike but they want to be able to bike when they need to get somewhere and muni or driving or walking isn't necessarily an option. so transit first is about giving people as many options as possible biking and bike sharing are one of those options. it's also important that we move consistent ly to have a city wide bike sharing program currently the pilot is focussed on the downtown civic center south of market area which is terrific but i can attest to the fact that in my

district i get regular requests and queries when are we going to have bike sharing and it's important that we stay on track that we keep the momentum and move toward city wide roll out so the purpose of today's hearing how it's gone so far what the experiences and usage levels have been and what the challenge has been and increasing from 350 bikes to 500 bikes early next year and in terms of the city wide expansion so i look forward to today's important conversation about this important program. >> thank you and i want to thank the chair for introducing this hearing item today and also i was present at the ribbon cutting for the bike sharing program early in the fall and i can't tell you what

a difference it's made already in our district actually seeing our residents and workers using them which is great and as someone who's a new cyclist here in the city having the flexibility not having to worry about storing your bike or parking your bike it just changes how you can consider transporting yourself to do meeting and run, errands throughout the day and of course we'd like to see it expand to other neighborhoods in the city go to other neighborhoods whether it's the mission or castro and central parts of the city as well i know it's hard when you think about investing in a program but one of the best ways to get

increased ridership is to have an expanded program it's kind of like the chicken and the egg it limits the times of riders that you are going to get you expand it do a larger investment it's a riskier investment to make but you will probably get more riders so i'm looking forward to ways that we can expand this program into other neighborhoods it's been incredible thus far and i want to thank the bike coalition just on the poling that they did on biking in san francisco as someone that's trying to bike more as i see all the data that sfmta and our transportation authority presents to us on the future of congestion here in the city so my commitment to being one less

car in the neighborhood so what voters believe is going to increase their ridership throughout the city and i think the bike sharing program is going to be an incredibly important parts of that and you don't have to worry about parking and locking your bike but i think about it all the time where am i going to lock up my bike or park it so i worry about that aspect not even just travelling to get to the location i want to get to. >> thank you. >> briefly i want to thank all of you here who have been working on this program so far and ever since i saw bike sharing in other cities it was certainly my perspective when we started that we didn't have enough bikes as part of the initial roll out and despite that we've been fortunate as a

city this program has been as successful as it is but to see the full benefits for the entire city i think we have to get far beyond where we are. i've been really gratified to see residents workers and visitors take advantage of it and it's been helping to improve quality of life on the streets so i'm looking forward to the presentation today and move this forward regardless of neighborhood and income and look forward to working with my colleagues on this. >> we have salidarenolds and for members of the public who wish to make public comment, we have blue cards at the front if

you would fill one out that would be terrific. >> we're very excited to be here to talk about bike sharing launch what we've seen happen and where we want to go with this i'm cynthia reynolds responsible for the school safety implementation throughout the city when we think about our goals in terms of you know around environmental goals as well as reducing healthcare and transportation costs for san francisco san, franciscans bike sharing is one of the most cost effective investments you have all eluded to that if you already bike it removes a lot

of the obstacles in your way where to store your bike park your bike whether it will be there when you come back but there's another group of people we're excited to share bike sharing with and that's people who don't bicycle currently. it removes barriers for new bicyclists. you can just pickup a bike and go for very little cost to try it out and it has really been a powerful catalyst for that change in a lot of the cities where it's been rolled out so i'll introduce keith with a quick overview for people who are watching or listening who don't know about bike sharing or what

it is and what we think that investment looks like and how much of an investment we need to get to a sustainable system in san francisco. so keith is my colleague at the sfmta working on bike sharing on 4 years very long years now. he's been working on active transportation projects for the last 13 years and he's gathered a lot of expertise and has shared that expertise from washington, d.c. to boulder colorado and we're now part of many cities coming together and sharing information under the umbrella so it's a really exciting time to be doing this work and with that i'll turn it over to keith. >> thanks. good afternoon. chair wiener and members of the

committee i'm thrilled to be here today and to tell you i rode a bike here today. this is the first time i've actually talked about something that's happened as opposed to something we're struggling to make happen. so i'll just launch right into it. so very briefly i'll give an overview of what bicycle sharing is. it's very much like car sharing in that its membership based it's for short-term use we have rental companies that will rent you a bike for a half a day or full day it's practical and convenient and available 24 hours a day 7 days a week and

last but not least it's sweeping the nation, it's sweeping europe and the globe really it's something that's really caught on in recent years and also it's healthy and clean and unlike most car sharing i think car to go is the exception but bicycle sharing allows members to make one way trips point to point. so this is the bike we have here in san francisco hopefully most people have seen them by now they are purpose designed and built from the ground up heavy weight bicycle sturdy and robust with a lot of design features which i won't go into but it's not your average bicycle. so it's really no