high cost and the congestion or the high parking and if you walk it's dangerous if you take your car it's not safe and not good for the rest of the community. this is a huge step in the right direction it will help everyone in san francisco. thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> mary maguire taxi industry who is going to pay for the increased late invite service. over the last 4 years the taxi rates $40 million just in the medallions and 15 millions in fees yet nothing is being done

to protect us from the unregulated taxis. how much did they give the city from using our roads and parks and it's documents over 4 thousand. when the taxis can't operate anymore who is going to take folks to the hospital. and i'd also like to bring up the issue of public safety. the t nc have been required to purchase insurance they've taken their license plates off you'll see that so how can traffic laws or bridge tolls or parking violations they're a big question of who's driving the vehicles as hoover and lift

sidecars are being rented out. so i see young woman hoping in the cars they don't even look to see who the derivative is and how are the taxis supposed to service the ball park when black cars and limos are blocking and we pay for the after hours club 90 the fifth block is blocked so we can't get there to serve the patrons >> before i call the next speakers i have two cards. yeah. go ahead. >> good afternoon supervisors taxi driver.

i'm not going to say that is a cab driver association because cab driver are only cab driver but some people that are medallion pretend to the cab drivers. cab companies are suffering from hoover and medallion are suffering the ones that have go into hoover and the ones that have gone tape recorders hover they're happy. when i started to drive 12 years ago i would pick somebody from the hunters point and bring them to the town and go back empty looking for my next customer people are - i've been waiting

cab 45 minutes or two hours i missed my doctors appointment i did my best i could do and i 90 percent drove into the neighborhood. but it was my dream that a new system should come. i bet the cab companies to do it i wrote e-mail after e-mail after e-mail to do it they never did it hoover came and the game plan changed. completely changed the plan. now people are talking about they have the best service in the zone. cab companies be ready to close their doors and medallion holders be rode to scrap their metal pieces no one is going to pay only $20 to drive and make

$300 with cabs you pay $300 >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm elizabeth simon i'm a local promoter and computer for any day job which is what i do to afford in live in san francisco. i took two buses to get to caltrain it takes an hour to get to castro and mcallister i took another train and i take caltrain and barton and muni to get home and i work in oakland at the oakland opera house and work in the late night industry so i'm taking another 5 to bart and there are no taxis in the taxi line because the taxis refuse to pick people up on western and bart so i wait for a

5 minute late. i work and leave any job with cash and take off any staff to leave to get to catch the last bart train if you miss it you have no options and as a solo female with cash i'm looking like i do at the end of the night it's not a safe situation. the only option is to take a taxi over the bring back to my house which wipes out what i earner to hustle to make my situation in san francisco work for me. that's unacceptable when i'm utilizing he ever form of public

transportation and still not able to make this work i can't book oakland fans because they're not going to come out because they can't get back home on bart. thank you. i'm at our disposal on a promotional level i'm willing to spread the news thank you very much mr. grover and. >> i'm with the taxiing drivers but the remarks are my own. i'm talking to the widen like a lot of other people but all night bart service would be a world-class - this needs world-class regional transportation swirl local

transportation. somehow bart has to step up. this is really in a sense the reserve side of the coin of the affordability problem in san francisco in terms of housing. there are people who would probably prefer to live in the east bay because it's cheaper but they can't get back there so they work in san francisco in the bars and you free up housing to allow people to live where they want to live. as far as bart goes but as far as the taxis i invite you to go out to polk street on friday night i drive frintsz i try to avoid that the traffic is end to end and going from block to block is a matter of light after

light after light. 90 percent of them are transportation either taxis or t nc and 90 percent are empty. there's one riders in one vehicle for every 10 of those vehicles on that street. and this is an incredible irony we have this transportation blockage and there so much more to say but my time is up thank you very much >> thank you very much, sir. >> hi i'm jerry i've been driving in san francisco for 5 years and i'm talking about the people i work with my employees when we're done at the end of

the night they have cash i load up my car and drive them home and one of my employees got robbed and gunshot. i think the late night transportation is a safety issue all the bars get out at the 2 clock in the morning and their liquid up and your stlechl to come down from a rage and they've been partying. they're waiting and they have no place to go they're waiting on a cab. we're unsafe after the bars closed people waiting for the rides. i'll end on that and say the t ncs there's 0 thousands of them

out there there's obviously a market for that i think there's 14 medallions in the city anti night the cabs would put hoover out of service. there's a support for the market and the t ncs. i've had equally scary rides they can talk about unsafe chiropractors but i've put people in cabs the cabs could put hoover and lift out of business >> thank you very much. any additional - yeah. those are more pins than normal i like it >> i'm laurie live in district of castro district and i go to

church in your district supervisor cowen. i'm here everyone is talking about safety if you look at this article how lgbt struggle that the bias and that's in the bar paper this is how we see love of those parties vans we can't go to sleep we also of the those people should pay their fair share and stress we are on safety. look at me right here on february 22nd i was at jashgsz at the complex i get home and look someone's in my room and tied a noose you talk about public safety. i don't get it when you talk about safety on people coming

into getting drunk and leave out the city we know that it should be 24 hours transportation. think of frankie conjectures we don't get to loan to his microscopic we hear people coming her i go out to el revises and the mission and castro and lubricate and dave in the mission i know what it's like to catch the busy do karaoke you'll see i get to perform from 12 to two because people leave because they won't be out there without a bus

>> is there any public comment item 3. seeing none, public comment is closed. so i would like to thank both the presenters and the members of the public for coming out here i thought that was really an informative hearing in terms of hearing a lot of different angles and the last speakers we've heard in terms of the struggles of workers to be actively able to get home it's not only workers but patrons it's a significant challenge that we have not only as a city and region i we need more and better and more reliable late night transportation service. you know, ultimately in terms of affordability that is where we need to go.

and i was heart end e he lived by muni they're working on frequency and it will continue the eternal dialog with bart about expanding the services there. i think it's unfortunate that new york apparently knew something a hundred years ago when it built their system that muni and bart seem to forget when they built our systems you can't even do 24 service because

it's outrage but i'm hoping we'll move in a positive direction. i would like for us to work toward comprehensive late night processes like the transit operations and the transit and various business and worker labor union groups and so forth to try to come up with some ideas. that some which might be challenging to implement in the short-term but more straightforward solutions to you looked forward to doing the work. i also want to say it's unfortunate but leave public

focused on the cab industry. i've been a cab driver and have a lot of respect for the companies and drivers for the providing of services. i also know as something i'm focusing on late night i can't count the number of times going back to 1997 when i moved here long, long before or lift exist i can't count the number ever times that i would go out with myself or friends whether 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock or 2:00 a.m. couldn't get a cab or wait 45 minutes without a cab. for years and years and years cab drivers figure out against the efforts to increase cabs

they wouldn't move toward centralized capture so i didn't know if i called you luck's our would they come or yellow. so the industry cab drivers and cab companies i'm a fan i want this in the forbode this industry needs to look at itself in the mirror and acknowledge there's responsibility there. we have starting to increase the numbers of cabs and we're starting to see throughout the bay area services a more centralized service for cabs. that's long overdue and i do think we would be in the dire straits we're in today so we have to all accept responsibility so i look forward to making sure our cab industry

skews. so colleagues if there's no future comments i'll suggest a motion to have this to the call of the chair we'll take that we'll take that without objection. >> madam clerk, call item 4. >> it's a resolution for the comparative straight naming. >> supervisor kim. >> supervisor campos and i are co-sponsors. >> thank you chair wiener and your co- spokespersonship as well. i'm excited we're having this come to the land use committee. in the based on over a year and a half of outreach and organizing work. with the support of supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos we've trod a resolution of the

dedications of church street after a tenderloin icon vicky i want to recognize the harvey milk club doing the outreach throughout the neighborhood and educating us of the history of the tarndz community and in particular vicky and her importance to the city. the city will be known as a mecca for the lgbt community and they know the history of the castro in the lgbt community. but combh which is not often well known it the hicht in the tenderloin. it's hard for people to imagination when people in gay bars it was illegal to not illegal rather but when

transgenders were not allowed to crow dress. during that time the tenderloin become a refugee and most infamous the one hundred block of church street was particularly historic for this community. the com rady that was built was expiring and vic wras i didn't was a mentor to many of the folks in this room to transgender youth councilwoman u coming up in the scene. it's finally now okay for this recognition and this block is perfect recognize her. vicky was a carr value perform as a girl with the liquid spine in the documentary and she's

widely known for being fearlessly holding this community together. she was providing mentorship and was a iconic person. vicky was designated the grand marshall the san francisco pride prayed and talks about the trans for she's experienced since 1960s. she was what did you do the best drag queen of 2009. we lost vicky at the age of 786. she's left a huge void in the tenderloin that's celebrated the with her for almost 6 decades.

the memorial campaign launched was reflective of her leadership in the tenderloin and in the lgbt community as well. i want to particularly thank felicia one of original screaming queens for taking the lead role and is one of the few that educates as a parent of jean cafeteria riot and i know that supervisor wiener and i have your poster up on our walls pr i want to recognize i think another person who is a new member of the screaming queens and a tenderloin resident and entertainment commission sue and tom of the harvey milk club for your persistence and oug work.

i think this is incredible and appreciate that the outreach didn't happen only in the lgbt community but in the senior centers and business communities it's important to educate the larger community about the lgbt community in the tenderloin so it becomes part of our history. this timing is purposeful so have the acquisition complete in time for the manner in june and the dike march and the gay pride parade. last year one of our residents d-6 leaders works to facilitate the permitting from 3 different police stations to make sure that the trans march could

ultimately end flofbt of the cafe site. we all do this in her memory justice department jazzy was such an important person in our community we we're dictating this block to vicky today. we're hoping that the mural communicating supervisor campos cousin will be here. we're hoping to have another historic street name change today, the designation of tom wooddell an iv i didn't street between polk and van ness. unfortunately, we had a bit of a miscommunication with dpw about the processes so that name change didn't go through we'll

not hear that today but hopefully in the next come up of months and his own another person who helped to off and on the clinic. without further ado, would love to hear from the public about the importance of street naming and also want to recognize the lgbt asian task force. i apologize to supervisor wiener if you have comments >> other than saying supervisor kim for taking the leads as well as the community it's very important. so there's no departmental - it's not necessary but okay. so i'll call public comment the cards we have

(calling names) >> good evening supervisors i want to thank the land use committee for this hearing it's been a long time coming for both the commemoration ball but for honoring the transgender knew. as the milk club as felicia has remit us the lgbt shouldn't be silent. i had a slide presentation so as i give you the slide show i'll

give you the 11th hour of episcopal dioceses. i'm writing to you this evening because i'm having the meeting on this agenda. i planned on a more official letter. i wanted you to know i'm the minister of the episcopal of the archdiocese supports in resolution i've come to know vicky and watched her performance 8 years ago in the company of a priest. tommy had tears in his eyes. when we left the club he was so

received by watching vicky she was so alive and everything that god defined her to be. this is very aspiring they've worked hard and important to the tenderloin community and the lgbt q community we all need to be reminded the tenderloin is an important part of my story as a fifth generation san franciscan. i wanted you to know there's a happen ending thanks to you all this is what the street signblast will look like after june. thank you very much. thank you. i'm a screaming queen a defying

have a veteran vet and 27 hiv survivor. i want to thank the committee members (calling names) i forget. there's so many. tenderloin in the is 1960s and 70s everyone came to san francisco because it of little place to be until 1970 now everybody comes to san francisco because of the castro. our transgenders was lost and forgotten for 70 o 40 years and in 17994 the t was adams to the lgbt. there's two plaques to commemorate the riot. our rich history