city and frankly as a native satisfy satisfy i as a as a native san franciscan i don't like this idea. i . i don't live in the haight ashbury but i care about what's happening to the rest of the city and i do sometimes take the bus the bus to the city. thank you. >> okay we got one more speaker. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. legislative aid to supervisor london breed. this section is entirely within district five and i want to thank your staff shaun kennedy for all the outreach they have done in the community as well as alexis smith in planning i think they have done a model job doing outreach to the community and they really

deserve a a a commend ation ation for that. >> we received an e-mail and i want to read this into the record so your commission can bear in mind the service bus stations in the future. my name is raj and it's come to my attention that the board is considering installing -- the upper haight retail district has ongoing challenging with quality of life and drug dealing and blight. i would

like to give you some perspective of issues we continue to have with the existing bus shelters on masonic and haight street we have individuals on masonic who drink at the shelters and my officers have to focus on because the shelter becomes un useable for riders. deal ers stand at the shelter. >> this is a 2-minute limit here. what is supervisor breeds advice to us this afternoon. >> i think you have a difficult decision in front of you based on all of the feedback today i wish i could be more helpful on that we've been involved in a lot of the outreach process and

heard from people on both sides of the issue and public safety with respect to the bulb outs and size and homeless population and everything else i wish i could give you a better more definitive answer than that but i think that's why you guys make the big bucks -- [laughter] and so as we move forward and consider the installation of surface bus stops that's definitely a concern for her and a concern for the captain that we'd want you to take into consideration. >> could we have mr. kennedy come back and we have a few more clarifying questions. >> there's a lot that we went through and since director heinicke is not here i'll remind them that we that we set

policy and we have to make really difficult decisions and i think we're at a really difficult decision points we're getting a lot of public feedback on the one hand we have an insatiable appetite we need to move as many people as we can safely and comfortable ly as we can and i think this project is going to go a long way to doing that. can we just address a few of these things? i really want to talk about the the issue the merchants brought up. do you think we'll be able to address the loading zone issues? >> yes. so we've been able to identify any loading zone that we are i guess it's going to be replaced so within the same block on haight street there will be loading zones for whatever we take away.

>> for the place making group i think the merchant group is engaged in i know i've seen this do our changes preclude the work? >> yeah so working with alexis as well as some as some of the merchants this work is ongoing i mentioned we still have a lot of work to do on the place making but we're just trying to move into detail design on the curb work and that's kwha that's what this legislation is about. none of the proposals that we've come up with would not allow for any of the place making and we'll support much of it in relation to the kind of public space they want to make some of those improvements with. >> i'm glad to hear that again the appetite on haight street

for changing the the street and making it a more comfortable place to be is pretty high so i'm glad to hear that it's going to help them and not harm them. the livable city letter brought up the idea of the bulb out extending around the corner to the cross street -- it looks like it's not necessarily in this? >> a couple of places we proposed including masonic but many of the cross streets the street was too narrow to make those turns and include the bulbs but we are going to go back in the process of going back and reviewing that based on his letter and seeing where during the detailed design phase where we could add those additional bulbs on the side street and obviously if we don't have daylighting at those

locations might involve additional parking removal needs so we would return to the board at that time for those additional parking spots. >> and i know the parking removal comes up obviously all the time when we're working on projects i have a high level of confidence in our ability to manage parking so there is availability and remind me i don't remember -- is haight street part of the sf park pilot area? it's not so we haven't optimized parking yet at some point we'll have the opportunity to do correct mr. reiskin? i don't have any other specific questions i'm looking forward to hearing from my fellow board members but from what i've heard i do intend to support this project. >> there's clearly a lot of disagreement within the community all different sectors of the community whether it's

the light at laguna and haight or bulb outs or public safety and i feel like there seems to be a disconnect in the outreach i know there's been great outreach to a certain extent but doesn't seem like there's a best agreement around some of the solutions and i do i do know i remember the whole foods and i know that whole corridor is challenging and garages and other i things don't quite add up for me so i'm just having a hard time because i feel like i mean there could be some more work done to maybe look at where the bulb outs are and commissioner lee taking out parking spaces in some of the those places and i'd rather we spend the time you know doing that as opposed to rushing forward because i mean, it is of concern for the merchants

and people in the communities and i think it's not like one group said we're opposed there's a the there's a lot of people who had issues today. >> i just have a tag along question to that comment which is that do you think that kind of sending this back and having a few more weeks to work with some of the folks that brought up these concerns would be productive or do you feel that staff has evaluated the things have been raised and vetted all these ideas thoroughly. >> i'm going to tell you obviously a statement that haight street is obviously very challenging and there are a million interests and a million you know varying ideas on what should happen and everyone has their own take on it obviously as you have heard today. the only way we're going to if to

effectuate is to make some of these smaller improvements that aggregate up to a larger improvement for the whole corridor and get a safer and more reliable transit system that's whale that's what i will say and i realize and recognize there's a lot of disagreements and varying ideas on what should happen but you know this is the staff recommendation at this time and we think this is you know how we're going to get to a more reliable transit system and that's where the trade-offs have to be. >> i was just wonder wondering to the public safety concern that supervisor breed brought up. >> i do want to say today's legislation has nothing to do with shelters and the place where shelters will happen or not happen or where they will go or not go if there's seating

or no seating that's a different process more like 6 to 12 months down the road from now but directly involved and plan to work with the merchant groups that we've setup with the working groups we set to to identify where we're not going to have shelters and not going to have them so today's legislation has nothing to do with shelters. >> director ramos? >> i just wanted to get a clarification -- based on your response are you saying that the meetings with the community has gone as far as as far as it can go and there's no other compromise now? >> there's always more discussions we can have and more things we can do. the majority of those changes i think are kind of on the public realm side of things and we can

work out like i said during the next 6 to 12 months like shelters and exact locations of loading zones identify where they put them and work with the merchants to be sure those are acceptable and we can continue to talk through and with them about and that wouldn't even be something we can legislate today we can go back and do a shorter bulb length so i just feel like those additional conversations can continue to happen regardless if we put this legislation off or not. >> okay because my concern becomes and i know you are diligent about what you do but when you say okay we've identified the yellow zones are going to move to another spot if the merchants are saying wait a minute i'm losing those yellow zones so now wait a minute -- >> i think the disconnect

obviously awareness of the project you know we've had like i said we've been doing meetings in and on and off for for 4 years on the corridor and all of those projects going to street ^ fares to street fares and talking to the merchant can see association and this is going to happen everybody you know, how many people -- there's always more outreach that that can be done and people are always surprised at the last minute and that's something if you feel uncomfortable with put off legislation and i'll come back you know a couple of meetings from now and we can continue on ward just to give us that time to talk through these issues, that's something that that can be done. >> okay. director ramos. >> thank you i want to make sure that we keep in mind what this is all about. this is the first real sort of opportunity

to do the tep in a way that's going to be you know challenging and i think that it's important that we keep in mind what this is all about and more than anything else it's about the 71 ridership and anybody who takes the 71 regularly like myself knows that if you try to get on 71 right now you will have a hard time even getting on a bus and it's extraordinarily challenging to get rider and to delay it anymore than we've already delayed improvements to that line seems to me certainly the opposite of rushing into anything seems like it's dragging on really i'd say agony the 71 is a really challenging bus ride and i think that if we're going to actually walk the talk what we've been talking about we've got got to start moving in the direction i understand there's

there's nuances but for the most part i'd like to see us move forward keeping in mind trying to be as conscious and sensitive as we can but recognizing that we're never going to get everybody on the same page on these things and to make sure we get a transit system attracting new riders out of cars and makes our streets safer and regarding the stop signs and signals initially i had the same reaction as a lot of others have expressed. and i thought about places like irving street where there's a ton of traffic signals they are great pedestrian environments anybody would love to live there i'm sure and i think that those

places offer have traffic signals and it would -- it's not going to hinder the impact or the character of the community i think and i also think that that the data speaks more with respect to safety than anything else and if we have data the reality is we're talking about people's lives and we need to be doing what we can to get to this vision zero and i know that bulb outs help us do that the purpose of a bulb out with all due respect director lee when they happen you are actually creating an environment for pedestrians to be seen and when you take away things like even parked cars they take away the calming effects that happen when you actually have things that make it more -- more of a

conscious decision to speed because when you have more of an open environment like without bulb outs or parked cars you are more inclined to speed and you know they result in collisions and unfortunately lives sometimes with respect to the purpose of bulb outs and the idea of not needing wider sidewalks for those of us around a while even before ameba came to haight street there's there's the haight street highway i'd encourage everyone to learn about anytime on the weekends especially those sidewalks can get so crowded there's a bike lane between cars that are parked that a lot of pedestrians go out into and actually walk into the street to try to get somewhere where they need to go faster because it's already so congested so anywhere we can create more opportunities for pedestrians to get to where they need to go safer is a step

in the right direction so i'd like to make a motion to adopt the staff recommendations and recognizing that we want to keep in mind the sensitivities and when we get into the details we address the concerns but keep going to a project that actually moves along and responds to the transit demands that we have on this corridor to get more riders out of their cars making parking more available actually for those that can't have the choice to take transit and actually improve service and reliability and efficient of the 71. >> do i have a motion. >> i'll second it. >> the stoplight at haight and laguna i'm in that area quite a bit. doesn't seem like anything can get slower there it's really unbelievable in the

mornings and evenings. >> a little bit more about that specific intersection. i think this idea we're going to extend the transit only lane that's right where haight starts east of laguna so we're going to extend that lane back to buchanan basically right now left turn lane. we're going to restrict lefts so it's a right turn only and a transit only lane for the bus to enter into the two wait haight project there. >> how much -- supposing the board supports the motion how much flexibility is there now we talked about loading zones and bulbs and all of that how much real flexibility is there for our merchant friends? >> i mean i think there's there's quite a bit of

flexibility you know obviously we haven't really started detail design yet so that's a 6 to 12-month process and during that process hoping to work out all these details and after that process would be when the shelter placement discussion would happen and it can also happen now and decide up front not to to pursue shelters what's that? [laughter]. >> no. >> so we're having difficulties and concerns and i hear them but there's still an opportunity to impact -- >> definitely. >> here's my concern. i served on planning for 6 years and the voice of the citizens is important and the reason prop l went on the ballot was because people felt like what -- i want

the tep p i don't own a car that's how i get around town but at the same time you can't overlook when there's so many diverse groups of people who have varying problems in a particular area you can't just overlook it so i have a hard time with that and oh oh you can fix it later and it never gets fixed kind of making sure it sticks you are not going to give everybody everything because it's not possible but allows people to have a more in-depth discussion here's how we came to this decision. maybe there would be some tweaks more livable for more people and maybe some of it is

taking apart the various items brought up here discussing them going with the things where there was consensus around and taking those apart. i'm not trying to be difficult but i think it's important there's an entire political process and that's what the government is all about and if it is the decision stand then why do we exist and why does the public come out so i want to to balance that out it's not a lack of confidence but sometimes being on the street or being in a place is a little different is a little different than observing from the outside. >> i'd like to suggest an amendment that is the amendment would be to avoid what director breed is saying like it just goes nowhere -- [laughter] that

we direct staff to come back in a month to have substantial conversations with the folks here today about the concerns they raised and report back early january about specific points that have been made. that's my motion is there a second? >> second. >> thank you director breed. >> the amendment all in favor say aye. opposed no. on the resolution. >> aye. >> all in favor say aye. >> opposed no? >> how many nos? two knows okay the motion carries. >> opposed? >> okay. thank you.

>> item for discuss to conduct a closed session. >> all in favor say aye. >> okay. .

>> good morning, everyone much better i'm edward reiskin the transportation director in san francisco great to see so many people out here for an important reason thank you, mayor ed lee and supervisor kim on their steadfast and consistent leadership in working with all of us to make our city safer the reason its important we're proud of our city we have a problem here the problem too many people getting seriously injured or killed trying to make their way around the city that shouldn't be for that reason as a city we've adapted the goal of vision zero to eliminate traffic fatalities in san francisco in the next 10 years good news if you call it that

we've been working with the police department and the department of public health and many on the county which transportation authority to analyze the information associated with each one of the tragedies we've told have a good since of where they're happening and why and what interventions we can make to significantly reduce the likelihood of them happening with people getting seriously injured or killed the traffic signal are one intervention and many others all over the city in order to do that we'll need public support and leadership without further ado we have an rations finding lard i'm proud so ask you to join me in welcoming the mayor of the city of san francisco mayor ed lee. >> thank you, ed good morning, everyone. welcome to the post

world series of the giants in san francisco i know this community is slbl but ed is right we've got serious business to construction this particular street on significance and menu to say 24 projects we've identified we're going to get to vision zero this is the night of the 24 projects we're dedicated since april wife identified those vision zero projects they're serious effort here with the translate today to quell the number number of injuries and death navigate this intersection that supervisor jane kim help we've got counsel a number of the injuries in the city those one has 50 accidents here resulting in two fatalities so

i'm so glad to see residents here and community-based organizations whether it's united players or the so cam are the residents like ms. jones to join the city agency and the opportunity transportation authority and mta and the mayor's office our vision zero director and the supervisor staff agencies like walk sf and others we really have to come together literally on everyone every one of the intersection if we don't do something different more accidents will occur if anything we have to slow down traffic and make all people from all sides aware whether in their walkers or bicyclists or industrial folks everybody that is using our street have to be that much more aware and watch out for each other i myself these device when crossing the

street i don't cross because i've got the green light i try to make eye contract and look both ways especially, when you've got families members that are looking at the wonderful sites in our city we've golden got to be careful with our growing population if the city we've got to do more we're absolutely going to do more we're building the basis with our mta and hopefully tomorrow our public will bless us with a strong vote of prop a that will allow us to do that much more (clapping.) $500 million the bulk of which goes to vision zero and pedestrian safety projects just like this one we need more things to slow down traffic we need better signage and education we need enforcement i wanted to thank our police department that's here a good number they're walking the beats

and louth for the siefrt issues 4r0ug9 for people that may not be uss the street properly we have to use our streets smarter n this is why it's important to place that vision zero and there are month activities in our streets we're encouraging walking in the streets when i get through with this job i'm going to walk more and i want to feel safer and join with all the people that want to join me in walking the streets to be safer we won't ghetto there without vision zero by january 2016 all 24 projects that ben is in favor which to cooperate throughout the city have to be done and spend down this $300