informal work to contribute to the projects as i mentioned the agency were trying to fourth how to work with one another and how to enter face with the community we want to formulas lists those for the community we're midway through our strategic plan to focus on in the upcoming year around permits and the legislation to set a better program thank you. >> thank you opening it up for public comment i have one speaker card pat o probated. >> he had to leave i'm being to

be speaking on matt on behalf of he's the ceo of the parks alliance this is a wonderful 6 our most existing programs it creates new spaces our parks in a very crowded city we're a dense and growing city and the on spaces we have under incredible pressure we're looking for new places to create new opportunity for greenery and people to get together and subcontract i remember one of my first experiences with the park let was parking day. >> completely different experiences to sit on the street with a car going by 35 mile-per-hour with 3 feet away from you

it gives us a sense your clinging that separates and taking offer something that rightfully along these or books to you, we think of streets as dangerous but creating those new placing and parklets in the transportation right of ways is starting to reclaim some 69 space and calm the traffic there are more benefits that come along with the pavement to parks programs some of the great things the pavement to paradoxes like persia triangle offer are opportunity for people to connect this is one of the ways the businesses and economic vital in the city grows i've been told that twittering was conceived on 9 top of a slide in south park i'm wondering one way

or another what new ideas have come about in the pachltd to parks at persia triangle i'm urging you to condition our support of the program like staff suggested it's a an international model to hope people to follow in san francisco footprint i want to thank the staff robin and others have been good to work with and thank you for your support. >> a couple of more cards (calling names). >> good afternoon. i'm the paperwork land manager for the pavement to parks i support the goals formalizing the rules is

necessary for the program to address the current needs and future needs pavement to parks leads to the creation of spaces in the city where we need it the most he worked closely with my colleagues to do the ribbon cutting people came up and cried because they were happy to have the space and the effect it has on the neighbors it is amazing you know it's been a longs work in progress and people are so happy to have this space in their neighborhood to gather especially not as much green space that was nice to see them sits where it is safe and there's a lot of pedestrian accidented from cars so this give them a setting safe place to gather there are movie nights there so seeing the communities

support for that project really parks lapd's supports those and especially persia triangle i'm happy to see the installation going in a couple of months and i'm not the project is great as well. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, members of the city planning commission i'm a san francisco membership distributor here to share and support for the pavement to parks in 2013 san francisco land use & economic development committee hemmed to get even though strategy that included the reductions for pedestrian injuries and fatalities but it also set important milestones for approving walking environment and increasing the number of walking trips in the city to support those goals and enhance the lives as well as the

physical and mental health of san francisco residents and workers and visitors the pedestrian strategy called for the development of 20 parklets annual and 9 plaza by 2021 last year the pavement to parks oversaw the construction of 67 parklets with another 14 in various stages of design review and permitting and funding san francisco land use & economic development committee considers this to be an important program to reclimbing claim our streets they make up 25 percent of our landmass morph pavement to parks is an incredible component of public safety and the planning commissions own public endorsement of the vision zero polar the goal to end all

serious traffic injuries and death by 2024 the pier triangle narrowed it to calm the traffic to provide a safe space for people to enjoy the pavement to parks program is vital to bring the region opportunity for open space has not think available like chinatown and tenderloin and others many of the neighborhoods are community of concern where resident bear a disproportionate burden of traffic violence so the space is made available by pavement to parks is urgent so we urge the planning commission to continue its support of the program by making sure it gets the necessary funding and

encouraging partners like the sfmta and public works who are critical to the permitting project to continue to support those effective investment for the city's own vehicles thank you. >> is there any additional public comment okay public comment is closed. >> i want to quickly add i remember the very first parking day and we took it upon ourselves to take over a couple of spaces i know it was close to halloween i brought out dracula and franklin city council and watched but to our point you could see the reaction so congratulate to you and we're happy for franklin steno and extracting la. >> i'm very much in favor of this whole plan i have a couple

of concerned stewardship was brought up who is that is going to maintain and police those is it going to be the city or the committee benefits district? particularly the plazas >> thank you good question obviously the stewardship is the main item the main building block of our program so we usually when we start a project we start it from day one with the sponsor so the sponsor is a nonprofit organization like in the case of persia triangle with had a extension group or the cv d from 9 alley like others so the partnership is regulated by an agreement and the permit he holders it the

sponsor so the sponsor is responsible inform maintain the space and to make sure that the space is a properly activated plants are water and kept up we really don't start a project without project sponsor in plays we have people interested in starting a project in their neighborhood but didn't identify some place in charge so we didn't take those projects on. >> thank you from what i tell the plazas i's i've visited are in good shape because you have co-stewardship between the sprrn sponsoring and the cvc the city has started historic things like the embarcadero between mission

and market? kind of a came grounds for the homeless so those of us who want to use is are precluded because we're using it for purposes not intend for by the way, that's not one of our deals and the way we look at stewardship the maintenance building for our program it is difficult to separate them so as you develop a project you development the community and often the installation of the spaces we try to involve resident not for all if only symbolic a day or two of work where people plant plants that will create for example we installed the planet and after a day there was one plant stolen

so we immediately got 20 calls saying the plant was stole now we find - when that happened i realized that was not going to be a problem in the future because there's enough stewardship in the future. >> so in regards to the parks some merchants have claimed a little bit because there's a parking space and lots parklets go in i'm wondering if there's planned the city has to try to address some of the loss of the off-street parking. >> yeah. so it is obviously could be a concern for some residents or businesses but what we found so for it is actually surprisingly how very few concerns and complaints about parking lots it was actually our concern at first, we realized

there are so many other benefits out weighing the one parking lot in the pro revocation i know way, do to the spice of a car how much you can achieve with that so there is that but also - we definitely look at the balance and but usually get this parking lot stalled bus the bedrooms are requesting them and paying for them it is a demand like a you know offer in the situation i also think that for parklets we do so a lot of benefits we're trying to start measuring for economic impact we have to eliminate data we have data showing there is an economic benefit to the business

not the block or the area when a park let is installed. >> their investigated and the nature of spaces like i'm thinking of the inner richard and the sunlight they have severe parking problems so a lot of times i wanted to stop in to buy right but interests never a place to park so i'm not going to spend an hour looking for a parking space. >> we did a study we can give if you're interested looking at the geography distribution of the parklets we want to make parklets for neighborhood for more walkable areas so for people to walk into the

business. >> we would like to have one on lakeside village where i live at there is too much of a parking problem and it would be a nice addition. >> commissioner richards. >> i think did program is incredible i one hundred percent support it there's a flip side in my neighborhood the first jane plaza struggled with how you can have the plaza on for everybody marilyn housed and not housed i know that the neighborhoods are looking where to draw the lines with the anti social behavior the pendulum is out of balance and understand ably the second issue that are a couple different kinds of parklets the workers' comp on

ones and closed the on are the beverages on the front and some are closed the closed are around the corner because it bylaw becomes a privatization for the businesses in front of of it is an extension for the businesses the issue we've had at times they've private decided the spates times the enforcement team has not been there eye and hope we'll do more surveying like the entertainment commission did you we have situations like privatization their food is thrilled to the table so no one can sit there i hope we have a different kind of

enforcement i'm noticing only an 8 and a half by 11 inch paper stubble in the window and parklets the renewal the neighborhood will have to be up on the actual when the renewal toopdz we were caught off guard those are probably few and far between but a down side especially, when you privatize the public spates one other thing when we had bike lanes put in the neighborhood and the management plan looked at mta came out i guess commissioner antonini's statement they did a park efficiency study and reduced the parking spaces from 18 to 15 feet 33 and didn't get a space after we took away the spates so mta can look at our

neighborhood and try to make it more efficient. >> commissioner johnson and thanks just real quick taking a little bit off commissioner richards comments on the privatization of the parklets i see where the concern comes from but in terms of the future this of parklets there's was to fixtures that and not have people come out and police it but have signed and configurations that state this is a public spaceless you can't stop someone from going to a place mirror level service but i can make it clear to the pun it is a public spates and if someone wants to sit there not a mroorn they have the right to do that and obviously in district

678d and 10 the lowest percent in the whole city but less than 5 percent grade looking at or looking forward to the parklets in the southeast one thing i might ask the interagency mou the agriculture the whole presentation that talks about the responsibility of the agencies particularly when it talks about the bike parking those things for the mta i'd like for anyone to give not don't want to be here all night an interagency stating the responsibility of the agency or talk about joint decision-making process or real quick. >> yes. the interagency mous over the fiscal year and with the city attorney's office dow

dow do all the responsibilities of planting agencies so you know we really looked at the last 4 years and tried to identify the roles and residents that make the most sense so those xemthsdz are also clear i mean, i'll say a few words about the private shuns we're tentative and we've pursued a number of precipitation buyout privatization the commission mentioned the design strategy which actually in our technical and design guidance we are clear for example, not using elements or furnishings that match inside the establishment some of the parklets that are challenging come from the experimental days and, yes have caused problems and concerns but taught the project how we need to move

forward and the guidelines we need to enforce and enforcement comes up in the interagency mou there are various things we've tried to monitor like 15 or 16 parking spaces we hope the stewardship and policy we screen to avert a lot of the issues we might have later with stewardship but we do think that you know it could be helpful in some stance where dpw or mta issues citations currently our policy framework the areas the dpw code that we refer to don't quite allow us to be a aggressive part of our strategy plan maybe there's things we can

do to lessen the problems but there are few complaints about privatization those are really the mortgage of things we hear about in the park let program. >> commissioner hillis so thank you for this this is great a question i think a lot of them are outside services it is great to see museums or bike shops do you have a gate on that how many parklets are associated with non-food related uses or are you seeing generally an increase in those. >> we absolutely do have numbers 85 percent of the parklets sprayed throughout the city are sponsored by restaurant and institutions are coming forward i think we want to delve

into the partnerships so in this year's rvp the program has had fewer relatively fewer restaurant and cafe and institutions that are interested in pushing the issue to the next level. >> the library to make a more observe that rec center to see what they would do with the parklets they can. >> commissioner wu. >> following think outside the box that line of thought when commissioner johnson said she was interested looking forward to more in the southeast there is one clearly a challenge with bars and restaurants were sponsoring them but moving to the cvc model is challenging only richer neighborhood so some thought how to make it an

equitable program and sponsors can reach a number of the neighborhoods. >> commissioner moore. >> only spend a second on the issue of privatization and restaurant and coffee shops being great yourselves or adjacent yourselves to those parklets who want to whatever they eat the thing that is missing you have the prospective it is in the purview the restaurant the restaurant act if you are not buying anything from them you better move and perhaps it's a question of signage or a question of making it different in the way that some of them are furnished or pay an extra fee if more than 50 percent have used by the patrons that are certain times of the day that are

occupied by people that are consuming by items bought in the establishment and other times no, it's a question of perception i've asked myself am i allowed to sit here it doesn't feel right it is that untangle thing but to make that possible to the first point they compliment each with the parking space. >> i agree. >> okay. thank you very much thanks to the team leadership. >> appreciate that. >> the commission is going to go ahead and take a lunch break and be back in a little bit