have positive benefits towards the plazas and open space. now the legislation gives the city a tool to activate plaza like farmer's market and limit live performance that will have partnerships with the community members and proposes to streamline the permitting process for standards of the plaza making activation easier and sustainable it establishes an inner agency group to incite the administration of the program. now we've got a couple of speakers first, i want to bring up ms. robin as well as another gentleman from the office of economic workforce development they'll give us a detailed description of the program and

answer any questions you have. colleagues you should have in front of you some non-sun active codes and the planning code that's some of the questions the public has. this clarifies privatization it addresses concerns about privatization noting identification of plaza stewards and private events we have anothers attorney here to discuss this matter. we're joined by john updyke and the department of real estate and the rec and park department staff are all present. so first robin and ken.

thank you very much robin. good afternoon, supervisors i'll change that to good evening. robin with the office of economic workforce development. thank you very much for the opportunity to addresses you today about the proposed plaza program you'll be considering four amendments that enable it process. allow me to start with the program mission and goals i'm sure you're aware of cities are dauptd proposals and san francisco should be a leader in the positive activities but currently the city department of motor vehicles doesn't have a system we're going to try to fix it so san francisco can be a initiative leader we want to support of vibrant community by creating and successfully managing san francisco's open

spaces. o e w d is launching the program and we've formed a plaza working group for agencies that have those issues at heart. here's a summary of how the program is structured it will streamline processes to encourage activation by dpw more tools forlogically the permit costs and this is the - some plaza like is that a have been clearly enhancing the goals but the plans are not clear. the city lacks the coordinations of the plans. each the individual programs

will provide a stem tisk approach mriment overlapping city efforts. the program aims to have the stewart's involved as well as the pavement to parks program. while san francisco partnership has the greening of sidewalks and transformation of the parklets the city has yet to develop the systemic plaza outside the jurisdiction. for the plaza program the the appealable the potential at the

words warts obey robust proposals to carry out the community support goals and include a scope of work and project letters of support. the plazas program is a program framework it didn't include specific plazas plazas will be adapted on a plaza a i plaza basis and also the program will design robust escalation robust programs to benefit everyone. directing the revenue this is a fundamental part of the program approach the program directs the monies back into the plaza and in addition when possible the revenues generated by the

stewards could be directed back to the other plaza. the program supports the maintenance goals by working closely with the at the warts for the sustainability of the plaza. an important part of the aspect it is designed to educate a long term management approach for plaza for the community processes like example on the left as you see from the diagram the plazas programs include the pavement to parks and plaza could emerge from the area programs and others programs in kind agreements. if a space emerges for one position and brldz the benefit to the community but the strategy is unclear and a potential for stewardship

process the space will be looked at. once it's dermdz that a project is developed could be sponsored by plaza program and the local stewardship is a good program first, the street placing that are plaza in the right-of-way they're still streets this is the best strategy for the vehicular traffic like a driveway they'll use an encroachment permit and over permits for streamlining their support the activation in the spaces the second type is a city plaza their city owned but not streets. agreement formed will be a license that will detail the plans are a term years as well

as the streamlining elements. many communities have expressed interests if the increased levels of activation this can help them to have transformative aspects we want to give you a demonstrates this is an example there are some examples in spaces in san francisco but we want to note that will allow unknown activations approaches as they emerge. this slides gives an illusion how a steward will act this represents the city initiatives where the plazas would emerge and dpw or the real estate division to administer one the

processes so you see in the process above the blue line the city releases an rfp and only eligible at the warts would be available including the documents for the orientational capacity now let's look at the particularly diagram above this this is the same but slightly different because of the regulatory process. this process also requires a detailed plan that all plazas will have a term years or less unless the stew wart is installing improvements.

oewd has a outreach plan as individuals plaza are proposed we brought various stakeholders to the table and made presentations to 40 stakeholders groups it helps us to create the new legislation. we'll like to thank all of those for meeting with us we believe their additional feedback has helped. oewd prepared to the small property owner commission and the planning commission. we also conducted an open house using the planning department list we comprised a list of one hundred and 15 questions theirs in your packet. based on the input from the list of questions we made changes to

the legislation. they're listed in your 3 page table in your packets i'm going to do one slide. there was initial confusion this might include the property under the rec and park department that he amended it to state clearly no project shall be under here. we've heard the impact so we amended it for the weight addressed the concern through the add minute and planning code and do admin code we added the bulk decision requirement under unless the board of supervisors says that's not feasible for the

plaza. in the planning code additional language is included. and there are several new layers to address this continued. we amended the legislation including a 3 hundred foot marital to neighborhood groups and residents we'll draft the procedures to make sure that no neighborhoods are left out that will include those on the planning department's neighborhood notification system. in order to give the communities for sustainability tools the legislation will preoccupying propose up to 8 events that could restrict access if any are proposed will require the board of supervisors approval per plaza. we've not obey clear for the private events to last more than one day we clarified not more than one day and spread

throughout the calendar years and clarified the steward proposal any drafts for the directors orders to be filed. and since then we may lose quorum can we go to the elective summary >> so that's slide 11. so i showed you some of the tools. that will be used in the program i can tell you about the legislation palm it's a new chapter to establish chapter 94, 3 amendments to support the program. to delve into the legislation passage i'll start with the admin code to establish the goal and functions and prophesies for both the plazas for example, it

establishes the respiratory that each plaza can be established by board of supervisors and this is the criteria and going into the detail. for city plazas the admin code described the code i'm happy to go over all of them in detail. the function of the free supporting elements are listed in the site the planning code established the public use zone district without the update it's difficult to connect the non public access to the plazas like the farmer's markets. in addition the planning staff will explain the other part of the amendment that address much needed technical amendments to the p zone section.

this establishes the plan force is street plaza nate's that's in the public workings code the next encroachment permit is a new past that better encourages the underutilized spaces. there are fee wafrdz and noticing allow for the involvement of time stakeholders and lastly the police code amendment is is a type of lim l. if the plaza is adapted into the plan the stew ward could apply for the l lp and lower the fees. in conclusion. the plazas program supports the

stewardship and continues to strengthen >> thank you for the presentation i know that you unifying and dpw has spent on this and supervisor cowen i know has been through a planning commission and a lot of the neighborhood groups i really appreciate the thoughtful amendments that were made to the admin code and the supporting elements thank you for your presentation. >> cohen. >> thank you in the interest of time supervisor kim while you were away we've got a long line up and i'm going to go ahead and skip to our city attorney to discuss the amendments just briefly sir, and if the colleagues have questions for

john unjohn gibner, deputy city attorney or dpw staff we'll cover but no need for the formal presentation. >> john i'll keep this short i i think you inadequate described the amendments i could go into them in greater detail you there's things about additional public notice provisions were added and rob addressed the things in the presentation as well. >> perfect. mr. chair. maybe what i'll suggest is we take public comment on this item. >> okay. so we'll now proceed to public comment public comment will be two minutes. any public comment cards mr. clerk? and this is from before.

okay. i'll call the public comment cards. (calling names) >> good afternoon and thank you for giving me a chance to speak i'm paul i'm here on behalf of the telephone graft folks. we've been working recently to get comments recommending to notices primarily to residents and neighborhood groups and number 2 to create some quorum where interested persons could come prior to submission to the board of supervisors of a lease or license to give comments on the proposed use of the property, and, secondly, on the

proposed sewer. my understanding is i haven't seen the legislation but it was briefly subscribed that probability accommodates what we were getting at but the earliest will be tomorrow morning and get back to robin assuming those changes were made 10 telephone graft hill dwellers will not and a have at about objection >> for clarification you wanted to know about the clarification. >> to have a quorum i suggested the term public forum prior to submission to the board where the decision making department public works or planning will have a representative who's

working on the project listens eileen to pmdz. >> thank you very much. i'd like to direct it to the city attorney. mr. weber you're going to get our question swrz >> from the sfoofs i'll bring up the amendments but the nose provision adams the tenants e attendance within 3 hundred feet of the plaza will receive notification and all the neighborhood organizations that want to get the notification to be on the alloys low receive notice for the city plaza that is under the real estate jurisdiction there's a new requirement they need to throwing an additional notification process to announce

the public forum for the proposal so i think that's a way to respond with the request to include the provisions amongst others. >> thank you very much. thank you. next speaker. and i have 3 more cards (calling names) sorry you have a public comment, sir. okay. were you - >> oh, okay. great. >> good afternoon 3 agenda items for me to speak on. in regards to the plaza program i think the mayor's office woechltd or entertaining the many questions i had with the coalition of san francisco neighborhoods. i have very much appreciated the change in notification

requirements through going there to process of the planning department i'm not sure if part of the vesting would include something like a preoperative notification or this is a part of the planning process that would help the neighborhoods get together with the nonprofit stewards. so that's all i have to say thank you very much >> thank you very much. >> next speaker >> supervisor dennis. thank you so much for holding the hearing i want to particularly thank robin and ken for the responsive way they've dealt with public concerns. the most important thing when this legislative camped it can have read city plazas would have houses for profit making businesses like formula retailer

businesses and that was the probability the most major concern that people had when this legislation came forward and by providing those plaza accept the extraordinarily circumstances to be zoned as open space they have a zero type limits on what can happen and on the street plaza that was never an ability to build the structures they would have been prohibited, and, secondly, was a big concern about the programs in some of the cities public assess has been restricted up to 10 months a year in new york and this has been written there's 8 events a year to close to free access to the public so over 3

hundred and involving days a year the public will have unfettered access which is a concern for public land and the restrictions of the 8 days and set up and clean up time would have to be spread throughout the year that makes it even better in terms of public access. lastly there's concern about an ambiguities in the charter we could have one the rec and park land and ken and robin have amended the legislation to make it very clear this doesn't apply to rec and park department so all in all the improvements elective is very major and really improve it greatly >> thank you.

>> thank you. next speaker, please >> hi i'm james i represent the festival i want to say i agree with robin it would be great to have more events in public spaces and the amount of the process makes it difficult to use the for events because a lot of vice presidents are involved this will help to coordinate this in the underutilized in more vibrant neighborhoods so thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. . >> good evening supervisors and thank you, ken and robin for putting this together i'm lynn the executive director for the concert series the pay any

attention mission so 0 activate public spaces i've been producing about 3 thousand live public events all open to the public all free. i can flu at the beginning of my career i'll be walker away a crying because the process was so hard base of all the different agencies involved. so i've activate spaces including trans american pyramid park and jane warren plaza. i urge you to approve that this plan because this program is needed to you run and manage the new or old open spaces that are small we're not talking about big parks but small open spaces in san francisco. i live across the streets from the new placing a small public

space that niece actuation because it's new. it cuts down the permit process and it kits down the process for community groups and other kwafrts to present events and more events will be put down on if the process is simplified >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm the streets and skriept process for the improvement district and speaking on behalf of the this go legislation i have had two meetings so we're happy to be here. i'm not going to speak on specification i wanted to give a shout out to robin they've been especially to work with in creating a vibrant san francisco

through the vibrant public spares this is an enabling legislation reducing barriers for liveable vibrant public is that a we need this obviously, we have plaza within our jurisdiction but it's great for the city in terms of a gateway to san francisco and creating a prospective as a clean and safe and attractive discount area that's our focus where it's vibrant there are sociology and health benefits and shouldn't be lost in the benefits of the public spaces. and as we can plaza is in need of basically, it is not working or functioning well, we're

looking at legislation that creates plazas that are underutilized to well-used for san franciscans and visitors. so we hope you support this legislation we appreciate our time as well >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening supervisors i'm steve with the san francisco parks alliance we're you're going you go u you to support this legislation that helps to streamline the process for plazas we're currently partnering with the city with our pavement to parks and very excited to have this additional space for perm or permanent spots. there's a strong need to the 40 in the city more housing created and along with that the need for

new gathering places and there's also a need to repurpose much of the extra land area that's in dpw or center street right of ways that can be used to creates new spaces. the plazas program and the street parks and our pavement to parks helps to get people engaged it's got great outreach for the community design and implementation of the spots along with the stewardship and we have over one hundred and 40 street parks throughout the city and see that growing as the strong demand to sign up for new spaces.