it was lucrative i doubt it will make a big dent unless the person's who have profited in the trade have a new plan so san franciscans can understand the largest economic marketplace thank you very much. >> i have two more cards to call (calling names). >> good afternoon i'm sorry is ann rae a long time retained of san francisco my family arrived here one hundred years and learned a trade and used their skills in the value of honest and hard work becomes the fabric of san francisco's economy i take pride to help the foundation of what i take to be a proud city this is the home to

one of the biggest market to irony not only in the state but the entire country it is a heinous industry it is a bunch of dangerous carr tells once it destroys families not only elephant but human families as well as hundreds of rangers have died it is our tourism and it will fade away once the elephant are gone and the statutes are sold a few blocks from this room i'm sure you'll agree our traditions are supporting the vulnerable certainly not violent terrorists it is in the 2, 3, 4 complete contrast when we avert

our eyes from a trade stubborn from butchered elephants and the good news that you can control this and stop this today please support please i beg you to support ab 96 if that spaengz on behalf of the elephants and innos. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> we have a lot of weddings here and stuff. >> (laughter). good afternoon. i'm julie live in santa cruz i'm here as a vows for el fanlts and rhinos prior to attending the gloeblg march in 2015 i was unaware that ivory was sold i was shocked in chinatown to see the stores

overflowing with horns and illegal irony i have such a strong connection with elephants looking at a in the icy understood ear intelligence and sadness and debt i learned about the family beings we are killed at the a rate of 96 per day i felt compelled to end the insanity i started organizing maker for elephant in santa cruz i can'tful brown this there is not a total ban in 70 california people assume that the poaching has stopped they've that watched programs showing the faces of elephants and rhinos their horns hawked off they see images of

baby elephant reviewing to leave their mothers side i'm here to ask the city of san francisco second in imports in the united states pass the resolution in support of ab 96 i look to san francisco as a role model like santa cruz thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi esteemed board and esteemed public i'm sarah 28 year resident in noah valley 24 years teaching for unified school district and national board certified teacher i wanted to describe two mutually executive views of the city view one a

world war and sanctiony city tolerant and inclusive it's board of supervisors representing all it's major cities and city managing to work together excellent we have excellent animal human facilities in correcting the kindness and respect for animals shown by our patrons st. francis you, too san francisco complexity in the irony trade this past weeks chronicle recorded 28 hundred irony saddles recorded in san francisco those are what made it to the books through our inaction to donate we know that elephant sloth is on our hands albeit it unwilling our silence

breeds content how do we justify the use of opposing views which view shock - will the real san francisco please stand up thank you. >> thank you very much. >> is is there any public comment on item number 2 seeing none madam chair may we close public comment. >> thank you very much any public comment on this item? >> colleagues any additional discussions on this item seeing none may i entertain a motion. >> shall i put my name. >> i'm sorry supervisor wiener. >> i want to thank everyone that came out for the presentation for all the very moving comments by the members of the public san francisco is a city we

provided ourselves in being good environmental steward and not only good environmentalist about but on the leading edge and acting the way we want outside the to act around the country and world to make sure we have a sustainable future for the entire world we also are a city that deeply respects all beings on this earth and building in the humane practice of animals 2, 3, 4 san francisco we support the agencies and nonprofits and it is a key value here in san francisco so i think for a lot of of us to know this city with

the values we are also such a significant center of illegal trade and in irony and rhino horns i think frankly it's cilician when we see what is happening in african for those majestic animals that are key to the eco system their driven to the insdargsdz status we shouldn't have any part in fact we should be fighting it tooth and nail to end 0 this x termination and first of all, thank the advocates it is going to be a long fight and want to thank speaker atkins and senator laura for taking the leadership to move this bill forward i know in the legislation this is been

floating around inform a while and not gaining traction seeing the leadership in the legislator that's taken on the bill it has a shot this time and i think we have a diverse coalition so mr. taylor given san francisco's status as one of the leading centers of illegal irony trade in the country i think it sends a loud megs message for us as a city to say no and band it so colleagues, i ask for your support and madam chair i make a motion 20 forward item two to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you charger cowen i want to second that and thank the advocates that have done a lot of hard particularly the last year to bring this to

surface and reach out to our office in march or april i hadn't known about this issue i know one of the policy interns was working with this group as well to support it i've learned a lot over the past couple of months it is important to pack e take the position to ban this trade i had no idea that san francisco was one the top city not hearing about the stories of rhinos and illegal e elephant issues around the world knowing we can make a defensive in san francisco i'm happy to bring this forward. >> there's a motion made and seconded for this item number 2 to the full board with a positive recommendation that motion is unanimous

i too like to take a moment and thank you for your tireless work thank you congratulations. >> (clapping.) madam clerk call item 23. >> it's an ordinance amending the planning code for the office conversion and landmark buildings. >> thank you colleagues i'm the author i want to remind the committee members this was passed last year this legislation establishes the floor controls to limit the amount of office space in believes that are dedicated as a historic landmark it was amended to incorporate the recommendations of the planning commission and unanimously

recommend the approval of that legislation let's take public comment on this item any public comment on item 3? okay seeing none, public comment is closed at this time colleagues any further discussion all right. motion made by supervisor kim for a with a positive recommendation seconded by supervisor wiener this motion passes unanimously thank you very much without objection madam clerk call item 4 >> item 4 a hearing on the pavement of parks program. >> great, thank you thank you, supervisor wiener is the author of this item and will present and lead the discussion. >> thank you, madam chair i called for this hearing on the xachlt program to receive an update on the program how it's pressed and this champs and make sure it is succeeding in the

philanthropy as i'll recall the pavements and parks program is a innovative program that was start in san francisco about five or six years to make sure that we are creating great new public spaces both by taking underutilized street spaces and thank you for the opportunity it into plaza spaces and one the great parts about the new urban itching we're seeing in san francisco and throughout the country is a renewed understanding of public space and our park system and large amazing parks are critical it is also important to have those smaller neighborhood gaeshth spaces whether a park let or plaza whatever having terrific you public space in the middle of a neighborhood can have positive benefits and add

to the vibrancy of the neighborhood we want to insure that the program succeeds you've called for the hearing today and i'd like to with the chairs permission ask the gentleman from the planning department to provide an update from the department on the program. >> great, thank you welcome we appreciate our presentation. >> thank you, supervisor for hearing us today, we're very excited about the opportunity to present 0 you today an update on the parks program i'm here with another clearing up from the department from the planning department and we should be joined by public works cal and the mta staff so i'm

sure you're aware of we're an intelligence agency group we work together on this program die i'd like to give you an update on the program and go through the project before you and give some case studies and we close the presentation with our strategic plan that illustrates our goals for the next 10 years sorry so the program is based on the idea we think about our streets our san francisco streets the land of 3 percent of land of the city is made up of streets so this presents an excited opportunity to we think streets as a resources for our public spaces as supervisor wiener was saying they're not only parks and open spaces but smaller spaces that

make life to improving people's lives your general strategy in the this program so really look at short time action and how this small project with the short timeline can effect long term changes in the city we'll see in a few minutes our program seeks the larger policy fraction of the city the pedestrian safety called for one park plaza per year and one circle and this is exactly what we've been working on in the past years of the program also our work is based on the

plan this it talks about the streets and illustrates how it is designed in the future and guides new streets design our goals are many and we mostly our baseline is working with the community we foster neighborhood interaction and make sure that the neighbors work together and bring the program acts as a catalyst for neighborhood to grow and become stronger community we courage transportation we looked at the pedestrian flows and bicycle and transit first policy and all this is enter would have been in the program we imagine the potential of public streets and vision zero the mayor for vision zero we also, of course foster the approach and courage the

public safety in our neighborhood we support the local businesses and are strong with partnerships and working with the stewards so businesses are part of the process so we also support the local business we have the program has many functions and generally our idea and our work is reidentified and facilitated through the community issues to create the public spaces we assess the potential we look at the geography equity and moetdz modes of transportation below our capacity to the strpd we offer the design and work with all the agencies of the city and the elected offices and the stakeholders we do enforce the very thorough

and strong standards design standards for operations maintenance also and we do quality controls to look at post elevations and provide leadership nationwide as you'll see in the rest of the presentation our criteria they're both physical and social so it is important to us to look at places that have very wide roadways that are underutilized and look at the neighbors the green spaces or they have lack of greening in general and we also take advantage of the leadership to improve public safety we want to make sure that any projects we initiative is is strong i want to ask robin to present another part of the presentation

were going back over the principles and we'll talk about our project portfolio. >> good afternoon, supervisors so as laurie mentioned be moving forward we're meticulous about examining where in san francisco we can focus our effort to maximize our goals of providing open space throughout the city this past year the paperwork alliance helped us to identify a number of facts and circumstances where we might start looking at specific areas of the city we also work with a variety of sponsors and sponsor types of we're familiar with the cafes but particle moving forward we're looking forward to creating deep and meaningful relationships with nonprofit we have projects with the museums

and art galleries we will get into later our response depended on the types of projects they're working with the city we have a dive type of responsibilities to their installations, of course, pavement to parks is an interagency program and planning works closely and work with public works as well as mta to administer many of the functions related to the projects also moving forward we recognize that it is really important to understand what the impacts of our projects are what are the community generated installations projects doing for they're neighborhood and the potential impacts to public safety and activity this past summer the program launched a citywide life survey across the

city this forms the colonel of the first study to study those on a more consistent basis as was mentioned we provide technical assistance to programs that have emerged around the world and staff has met with representatives if the japan and loped and australia to second with those urban planners about their programs as well in general pavement to parks helped to facilitate 30 types of projects a cross generation against the 3 buktsd we'll go into case studies of those types of projects a bit later we showed what pavement to parks has proud 6 pedestrian plaza 2

of those have graduated on and become permanent plaza 3 of the 4 which are currently in demonstration are on a path to becoming permanent we have a map we'll look at the a little bit later almost 3 dozen in some stage are permitting and expecting the rfp over one hundred applications so the demand for the parklets is high we have a number of prments to get a little bit deeper into the portfolio we can look at a couple of the prop tips we've helped to produce in 2013 pavements to parks with the coalition of bikes spur and the

y cd launched a competition for a coral we've received over 60 design applications the winning entry was summit by a art academy out on the street being operate by the w b c, d, and spur we've helped to create a street stage this was out of a festival for the arts a couple of years ago a mobile venue for poetry readinging and performances and finally the park let that represents really shows how we want to move forward and the types of collaboration and work this is a park let designed by high school students through the 4th of july exchange and schoolteacher

sponsored by this district this installation will move around the district of 6 months host by a different merchant and currently by the fog lifter cafe and the ocean branch of the library will be hosting for a while and moving around the neighborhood we're all familiar with our park let program the iconic program in san francisco the goal to provide public space throughout the city and in 2013 the program took all the lessons learned from the first three or four years and created some design guidance and technical assistance for the public and we're taking more of those lessons learned and creating another parklets the second version evolved and matures we said to make sure

that everyone has access to that guidance our graphics this is a flow chart by gary chin that as inspired people our guidance material has been yes, ma'am lasted by other municipalities around the fwloeb where the workflow they've received and released in 2014 also parklets are increasing as a tool an instrument that really aligns with our puff and our transportation officials recently coded the park let and the urban street guide and that was being currently created it is host by bikes and shops and,

of course, cafes and shops in the gallery that works with are arts and these others to create a new version of the park let working with sculptures to add more art to the street a really wonderful example of what the park let can do here's diagonal parking in the outer sunset and we also see how the park let form can be adapted and malleable here on powell street for two blocks on both sides of the street having an acute pedestrian population a couple of the parklets rep where we're pushing the program and the exciting collaboration like the annex it north beach and the

path and design in the dog patch and laurie will talk about our case studies. >> thank you looking at our plazas we we mentioned easily we have 6 plaza installed for the administration stage and 3 are upgraded to permanent and we have done a lot of work around those and the idea of the plaza to take a process that minimum ice cream the planning process by accelerating in terms of prelims we have rather a robust community outreach and the week traditionally starts with within demonstration that helps to like a seed for recipe to see change coming to their neighborhood it

helps to visualize the street corner or a block and we 10 typically have a 10:00 to 3:006 month really to trial for the design prospective loouth the traffic patterns and how the design works or doesn't work and it is almost like a phase of signing the design and should the final become available typically some of the plazas can be yubtd to permanent we start the plaza designs for community plans community interests or plans that are developed and sometimes planning on the arrival it takes shock so it is sometime that is doing implementation we brought a couple of example this is one in

san francisco today we put it on just to show you how the process works there it is the first pilot so it's the first temporary plaza in san francisco we've build it built it is something that brings a lot of answers to pedestrian safety and it is a broad intersection we traffic signal it into a high pedestrian slope so the idea start with the phase demonstration in 2009 followed by 3 years of upgrades temporary and today the plaza is folded into the street bond plaza of the district it is a development from one idea to the city and county of san francisco and another project i've worked on the persia triangle it's an