those back in the 80s like carl. we were able to do it at the end of the lines where it wasn't in the street right-of-way. so at that time we did about seven of those way side platforms and in the 90s there is the passage of the americans with disabilities act. one of the requirements was to designate key stations. you can think about boston or new york or the systems especially new york they have an underground systems. they need to go through their systems and decide what will be key stations and put in elevators. we put in those requirements with reference to stops. we put in key stops and determined which should be ak

ccessible under the ada. we looked at where there were more aboardings at the stops at the transfer location and other transportation options where it was an end station or major trip generator like a hospital or school or something that one would interpret many people would want to go to. at that time we did a plan and had a lot of public input and we determined key stops and we then and bob can testify to this because he was involved with us. we went out into community and worked with the community to put platforms into the middle of the street. that was a difficult process because you are dealing with issues regarding parking, regarding drive ways, businesses, it's wasn't something that had been done in the past and it wasn't

an easy process but it was a very important process because it allowed people with disabilities to get to the parts of the community that they hadn't been able to get to before. as part of that we put an existing line. we made the line access to the car system and put in six key stations or key stops in the middle part of market which is the lower part of market between embarcadero and van ness. soon after that

we put in new tracks which replaced that area before and everything between castro and van ness was accessible and then we did the entire embarcadero. it's difficult but the darkness doesn't show through. you can see the blue stops, the blue dots are all access -- accessible platforms and all the new sections are fully accessible. one other thing i wanted to mention in the 1990s is we also did a lot of upgrades to the platforms we did in the past. one is to put

in landings because the run of the ramp was longer than 30 feet so people wouldn't have to go up 35 feet without having to rest. we replaced a lot of the platforms with new ramps and put new railings and made them to comply with ada. i think we are only one of the systems that did the platforms prior to the 80s. most of the country didn't start doing it until after the ada. we also, let me move forward to the map. that will be easier to see. we also added a stop to broaden it's limits because it was one of

the places in of the gaps in the system. i will show you when we get to the map. then in the 2000s, we extended the line from the foot of the embarcadero along the cal trains station and we built full stations there high level so it's accessible by all the doors up to cal train. a few years later we also added in way side flat forms on the side of all these sides to run historic street cars to cal train. then also in the 2000s we added a whole new line, the t line which goes to the border with san mateo county out third street. every single station on that line is fully ak cezanne

-- accessible with high level platforms so it's accessible at all doors. we had another stop at the city college. it was difficult to get to the city college because of the hill. we added another stop to the other side to make it easier to get to the college. now we are up to 2010 and in this decade we were able to get a grant from the federal government from the fta for funding for project that go beyond the requirement of the ada to work on conceptual engineering for additional stops to fill in the gaps between our accessible stations or stops on the surface. we also were able to get these new stops included as part of the transit effectiveness project which is

a project that mta looking at the entire system and ways to make it more user friendly. and for those of you who ride the j line you probably have seen we've added a new stop on market street coming inbound. that has been helpful for people going to market street but also if we have to have turn backs of service and transfers sometimes we have to replace with a bus with lines that are down and people are able to transfer right there marking would get on the bus. it provides a lot less flexibility for any problems that come along the way. it's for something i think people really appreciate it. so now to where we are going from now, we have two more stops at balboa park. there is already an

accessible platform when you come into the station. we are working with bart to completely -- if you come from city college there is now a ramp that comes down to balboa park station that will go over on a new platform. where the metro trains come in they will be able to enter the bart station and all the doors will be accessible. then we are putting in as you go out of the yard, right now wheelchair users board there and have to wait for the lay over and so we are building a new platform on the opposite side to be able to get on the first train that is going into service. right now

we have a gap in service between 19th it looks like 28 is best for that. now i'm going to show you a few pictures that will illustrate some of these platforms if you are not familiar. the first one here is one of the center platforms on the t line. in this particular stop, the platforms in the center and train stop on both stop on both sides. if you are going inbound or outbound, it's full level at all the doors. the second one is high level side platform so it's only serving one direction. all of the doors are at the full high level and the steps would be up

on the train. this is a typical stop for the s line. you have the low level island where people who are ambulatory would board from the island and you have at the end the high level portion where the driver would move the car forward and they use a bridge because those old historic cars don't have high low steps. you use the bridge which covers the steps and allows the user to board. people are able to use all of the historic cars and we modify each one with a special bridge so people can go on the english car or the car from italy or from japan. many of our riders they have not had a chance to go on those cars before. i think the f line has been something that people really appreciate. one thing i wanted to mention on this flat form is

ideally we would love to have a 2-car island and then a ramp and the level platform on the surface of the metro line. in most cases that is not possible because of the length we need and the fact that there is almost no where that you don't have a driveway in that distance. generally we have to do other things to make it work, to make it fit. a wheelchair user or anyone who is going to board at that stop walks up the ramp and first there is a high level platform and ambulatory persons walk down the steps and the island coming after it so it doesn't cover the full length of the 2-car train and people who are boarding in the front of the car and front car can board from a curb and don't to have board from the street. this is

a platform at 30th and church. actually church in that particular location was wide enough to do a switch back in as part of the ramp. you can see there is a driveway just passed the ramp and we couldn't have the ramp extend into that driveway because then there wouldn't be the turning raise for someone to enter into driveway with their vehicle and we were able to make a turn within the ramp so the wheelchair using is coming up from the intersection and make the switch back up to the ramp. so these are just some examples to show you how kind of innovative you have to be of trying to figure out the geometry to fit these platforms into an environment that is really built back in the early 1900s. this is another example at ucsf and we were able to

bold out the sidewalks to the car. in many cases that the not possible because you build the traffic lane too much and the traffic lane becomes too small but we were fortunate to be able to do that in this location and this is obviously an important stop because many people go to use it. this last one is something we don't want to repeat. on market street there was a few locations because of bart and munis we did not have a ramp. we don't expect this to do this in the future because anytime you have a mechanical thing you are dealing with the issues of reliability. we all know, things that are mechanical breakdown. the last one i

wanted to show you which is the most important thing is where is the red lines are there

the designs for these locations but we'll be moving for reaching out with the community and discussing the designs with the community. so sorry to take up time. i know you had a lot on your agenda today. >> you covered a lot of extra ground. a couple questions. one, is it on the feasibility study that guides you on the process upon which stops you are going towards next along the way and how can the public

be up to date on which ones in the future are going to be addressed? >> sure. there are two things we did -- we have heard from many people, this is important to my son or this is a stop that i need. we took all that into consideration in terms of looking at it. then it's really the geometry. you look at it and see where there is more distance between stops. they also happen to be the ones that are on the second list which makes sense because the geometry hasn't changed. we are always open to any new input if

people are interested in a particular stop we want to hear from you. we encourage anyone to give us input. >> i have one more question. you do bring it up throughout the history of coverage. when it comes to elevators, i'm sure this has been brought up many times before in the past not only is it important for elevators to run but are they able to be used. when it comes to that issue of whether they are clean enough. i have heard from the public so many times i don't go travel today on that line or this line because of the elevators access. it works, but it's just so dirty, it's unusable and unhigh genetic.

if we are putting so much funding towards key stops it would seem a smaller problem of how do we ensure who has stop being an issue. instead of it being that's something that happens with mta. what are your thoughts? >> we have an extensive maintenance program as part of our elevator program. we take any feedback. as for the downtown station, we share with bart and bart handles the responsibility of maintaining that and we communicate with bart. the ones that we are in charge with van ness through forest hill. please get to us. we have people who take this very seriously. both the mechanics of the rate or and

the cleaning of the elevator. another thing, future stops, there has been numbers of presentations. we are making sure that we put two elevators every time that we are in the path of travel so there is tandem elevators and not only mechanical but cleaning issues that there is one at the same location. we want the feedback. i'm in the elevators myself. i'm very aware of that and our maintenance people are too. same with the station agents. please let the station agents know if they see a problem with the elevator and they will call maintenance right away. >> thank you. no you for public comment we have bob planto. i'm bob planto. i wanted

to give some context of the involvement of the disability regarding key stops in the high boarding platforms because nobody else amongst the council or mod staff were present when we were doing this years ago in terms of city involvement. the mac came up with larger places for platforms. i was on it then. when we heard there wasn't enough money to build, i was sure we divided up that list into phase one, two and three. the point being i made sure there was a public record future funding to go towards. some of what's proposed here today is an out growth of that. i want you to understand that along ago involvement can still

payoff. taillight -- at the same time that referred to difficulties and disagreement about placement of key stops. here again what i consider disability and power then mayor willie l brown junior stops construction of the key stops in the valley because of subjective thinking. lots of parking would ruin their business. he wanted us to negotiate a way that k stop and move it elsewhere. i kept pushing or mac to stand firm. we did the stop stayed where it was best available to fit. i want to give a counter part that you understand how politicians will serve themselves first. when the south beach portion of the line that is served, when it was opened, the various people who were in office then got to ride

on the first car and make species. michael was big on this. the mac was not allowed on the first car, not allowed on the first train. we were put on a separate station platform from where the media was. we were the ones that keep talking about that is accessible and the supervisors then or since have munis as a daily part to get around. they took the publicity. here again, the disability council can be looking at when there is an event that public sizes access. the people for whom this is built need to be a visible part of any opening ceremony, otherwise it's just

politicians pumping themselves up. >> thank you. >> you guys real cutting time to a limit. so i hope, we are going to cut the rest of p be comment because we have like, i did want to just do at least if we had any correspondence. oh, we are going to table item 9. action team. we are going to table that item. and the disability disaster preparedness report. roland is not here. we'll table that too. and then public comment being that we've had a lot today.

we'll get down to correspondence because we have 4 minutes. thank you. >> thank you. cochair. >> what i will be reading today is correspondence copies of which you have received in your packets today. it is a letter of endorsement for the housing resolution that was unanimously approved last november. and it is from the executive director of the senior and disability actions jessica layman. it goes like this. january 15, 2014. dear members of the mayor's disability council. the action is pleased to endorse the housing resolution to improve the lives of seniors and people with disabilities we believe the housing resolution recommends changes that would increase affordable and accessible housing opportunities for people with

disabilities. in particular we are focused on maintenance of features like elevators, the need for disability and rehabilitative housing and the pressing needs for deeper affordability. we look forward to working with you. the board of supervisors and other community partners in making these recommendations a reality. thank you for your excellent work. jessica layman. executive director. >> thank you. is there anymore? >> we also received some personal letters from individual and city departments to cochairs and councilmembers and e-mail from california council of the blind to pass along to cochairs and councilmans and it was about $2500 student access grant and the information can be found on our website as well as what's

new. >> thank you. is there anymore last minute council announcements or anything? >> yes there are and i will be very brief. so a couple things. coming up next thursday january 23rd it is at robert's okay celebrated here. ed roberts known as the father of the independent living movement. we at the independent living resource center at san francisco will be having an open house day for our device lending library program. this is a program that is free for all californians with disabilities to come by and look at various devices that we have on display from ipads to switches to adaptive equipment

and canes. there is a flyer. also, to highlight the announcement of the 2014 youth leadership forum application for students with disabilities. this is a five-day leadership program that takes place over the summer and it's open to high school students in the 11th or 12th grade with a disability and applies to graduating seniors. this is a program that comes highly recommended from the disability community and being one that helps to prepare students who want to see themselves engage more in community advocacy locally and statewide. the website to find out more about this is going to be at www.dor do the ca.gov/ylf. thank you.

>> thank you, we are going to team 14 adjourned with 1 minute left. thank you. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>

>> good evening, welcome to the san francisco board of appeals. our is fong, and hurtado. to my left is deputy city attorney robert brian. he will give any legal advice tonight. pacheco is the legal assistant. i'm the executive board director, we are welcome from matters of the board. scott sanchez is here. building inspector representing the department of s