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 area in san francisco triangle destined by mixed use and ocean avenue and persia as you can see it is i know didn't have a lot of height or a lot of features

but this was a heart of the neighborhood so we worked for the committee to envision a new spaces that brings upper design ideas to fruition to implementation a corner plaza with the intersection an mission street and ocean and to bring a central places to the neighborhood we had an intern design that looked did corner ass also the street where the crosswalks and we formed throughout our trial design an implementation the real permanent process which is an upgrade of the bouts around the triangle and beyond by mta so they were funded by mta to build them we were able

to influence some of the decision making thanks to our temporary space so to the vision we went to a one-day trial in 2013 doing the excess festival it was incredibly unaffordable trial with blue caulk it was the essence of the work working at the corner just to do a few changes we installed the plaza this september a year later and the plaza s has a lot of components there are a strong participation and collaboration with the mta traffic design shop we were excited about improving the student and bringing in a new type of crosswalk we work with the public works yard to install those project with our systems so the plaza was on it

will be on from september to approximately march and we'll upgrade the site to a permanent condition starting this spring we'll conclude the prediction with the plaza and then talk about our substitute plan shortly thank you very much. >> just another recap of one of our plaza project the alley was just a banner alley in the south of market in district 10 we know is the district of at least mulch of on space now the alley from the diverseable improvements in november of 2013 a cultural event place for the weekend and week days we've got a huge workforce that comes during the week and because people who live here there's a

large senior population so the need for public space is just as necessary as any place else similar to those facilitated we've seen one week demonstrations that shows you what value this can delivery to the residents and everybody that comes both to work during the week this this is a couple of benefits from the yerba buena as moving forward we want to make sure our projects are tied to a larger corridor for streetscapes and one the alleys was one the projects produced by accident yerba buena community district that was issued in 2011 the graphic here shows all the alley spaces that were identified as

part of the community planning process for potential experiencetion with creating open space a lot of many of those ideas were fold into the central selma program that planning & zoning economic development committee plan is going electro the eir and subsequent to the yerba buena benefit street light plan our team launched a community outreach process that took almost two years we went out into the community to talk about the design and for the alley which results in what we see a place for us to celebrate and expand on all the things he'd love to see in our public spaces yerba buena has a robust calendar that takes us to the end of the summer that excludes cultural events and other events

quickly wrapping with the strategic plan in 2013 our interagency team got together to take a look at the first three or four years of pavement to parks existence and try to understand how we can set up the program to be sustainable and to really effectively and efficiently deliver the process we came up with 4 goals that represent the core strategic plan for the directors in february of 2014 this is a two year strategic plan we're about halfway through it really the main points of our strategic plan are to real understand what the city and the participating departments will need in order to deliver on our pedestrian strategic goals the

one plaza of 20 apartments and understanding from the pilot plans between 2009 and 2013 how we could formula lists the exemption between the departments and also when the public formula lists the staemgz for the public and want to understand the permitting to understand if there's a way to address the policy framework to make those promotions important sustainable especially for your sponsors that's those. >> great thank you very much i actually have a question i know that dpw and mta are here so i don't know maybe for one of the departments we've been hearing if the members of the public that staffing constraint and departments have really slowed the process in terms of

creating those new public spaces we all want pavements and parks program to say succeed that requires the departmental resources that supported the success of the program so can whoever would be appropriate maybe comment on that in terms of the staffing resources and what the stent to its impacting the programs expansion. >> thank you so as you saw from the goals on the screen we have been working together being other departments so we have the presentation last year to the director working group to access what is need for our program to be successful so the many functions of the program we think that it is our goal 0 now

to work together and bring more clarity of rules the projects before implemented more like a dock so project to project as we're growing and becoming stronger we need each agency to have their role and to staff the location for the fiscal years so fiscal year 2015-2016 so a need for staff and also for a clear interagency rules as we implement the. >> staffing for which department in particular. >> 3 main departments the training department you've met our staff and the department of public works and then landscape

and the dpw yard that implements so the situation is having all 3 departments working together and we've been working with the mta and have a staff located there they've done an evaluation and in terms of the 3 and this is not a criticism of any there are staffing resources is there a particular department it is having the most challenges? my sense is that dbi has is a >> the dpw has a program they are permitting functions design functions and implementation few minutes that's the one department that has the most in the project is make the projects

helping happy right now, we're understaffed in that department. >> in terms of where and point in the budget it's not come to the board yet but goes to the mayor's office with their requests is dpw or any of the departments potentially raising this issue those are not dramatic staff increases is that a part of the budget discussions within the departments so that the mayor can at least consider and the board consider what to do? >> i don't know if dpw wants to comment on that ms. short. >> carli short department of public works bureau strait mapping i think what we've found from the permitting side we needed additional staffing to help particularly with some

reviewing of the permit requests and tracking some of the administration active functions to make sure we're getting the data into our programs and the city entities are understanding that a park let might be in the future or a temporary plaza so part of the our budgeted eave identified additional fat on the administration active side to support this program. >> thank you very much. >> i might add that in as part of strategic planning exercise we look at closely other park let and plaza programs like new york and los angeles what makes them wonderful and fetch the city the stakeholder the big group of stakeholder that move forward with the implementations and design and we saw some of our pilot projects and couple of

the recent ones a lot of the design work and implementation is on the project sponsor so we found it w40erg9 to see that the departments that prelims department for instance, dpw has the expertise in the upper design and having the infrastructure to go out and actually lay pavement on the ground to deliver soil to a site we'd like love to have those be more of a more robust program moving forward. >> and is that part of the budget discussion as well? >> wouldn't as - we put together the estimates for staff time and the capital budgets in 2013 yes we included those functions we would like to see - >> i'll assume i hope for the

design that the planning department will be involved in my xhrngs with the planning department is involved that's a positive thing not the detailed but the conceptual. >> yes. >> okay. thank you everyone at this point we'll go to. with permission of the chair public comment had been 2 minutes we have (calling names) >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisors matt the ceo of the san francisco parks and alliance 10 years ago the city created a new collaboration with the parks alliance with the street parks that is a terrific success one hundred and 25 opinion public

will open spaces with the leftovers steep hillside, etc. those wastes bit and pieces turned into beautiful open spaces created by this neighborhoods who adapted them that's part of the striation and this project is a better open space those act as a creation of long term public spaces rich in meaning and value for our community you may also have seen the economic benefit study of san francisco parks that was commissions by the parks alliance that document a near billion dollars in economic benefits for parks and open spaces our those pavements so park projects build on in pattern increasing the value to the city the parks alliance work on

projects like the persia triangle and we support those strategy plan goals and encourage you to advocate for the expansion of the pavement to parks program thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you for holding this hearing and looking at this wonderful program we at bicycle coalition are a big fan of the paperwork to pavement we actually first footed and advocated for the park let program and pavement to parks as part of our speech program almost 10 years ago during the bicycle introduction we realized one of the best ways to help people said their streets as public spaces that creates to take advantage and participate 2, 3, 4 street life we've been i'd say pleased to

see the leadership in sf planning and i think one of the things their demand for the program we get dozens of calls from merchant and business strict and communicated organizations who want to help create a park let and part of our neighborhood or want to take open space and gather so the more we can fund and support in program the more we'll respond to the needs and interests in the community we've as mentioned great benefits on the economic this we think this is not just about you know making a few things happening but revitalizing the neighborhood we're interested in seeing the tie for vision zero and the way those parklets and use of public

spaces make our streets safer for everyone. >> thank you very much ms. smishd. >> i'm nicole schneider the executive director of walk sf we've been pleased with the ma accomplishment of the pavement to parks program that has achieved with in - with such a small budget in such a short amount of time a lot of projects we think take over a decade to come to life and we think the projects are shaping our streets in a way to promote safety and public safety in addition to traffic safety and create open space where it exists and we want to make sure you know this teaspoons to expand we continue

to see the creativity solution that pavement to parks has come up with as we go forward we love to see mta and the dpw work or have more capacity to work with the sf pavement to park i feel this is a great way to rethink a lot of the access public or street space we have like the persia triangle that narrows that street down and reclaim the excessive roadway in order to protect pedestrians and increase safety it's a great way for community members to get involved and shape what we want their community to look like and the alley to bring the open space and create pedestrian safety where there's not as much

spates thank you to the staff for this program and your time today. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors first, i thank you for having this hearing for this awesome and creativity program i'm here with the san francisco beautiful to wage my support for the program there's no doubt this helps the better streets plan by encouraging beautifying and pedestrian safety i'd like to before your accident to the finding of the programs for the citywide reports that from the productive of san francisco beautiful it helps us to realize this program is good and want to support it's permanent 90 percent of the parklets used to

spend money wildly but you know the physical improvements like the parklets and plaza impact the offer all feel, and, secondly the study found socially the new parklets rated highest amongst the people and one of the highest observed activities in the parklets and adjacent sidewalks to the plazas provides the proposition of neighborhood interaction so not only in the commercial zone but this is working great and finally the community wanting to keep those spaces active and clean and the pavement and parks ask folks to work together to create a connection and the sense of ownership around those those a ma reasons sf beautiful

supports the promissory note program last year they supported the park let operations we look forward to your collaboration so i request you support the program thank you. >> thank you very much >> next speaker good afternoon, supervisors as the parks alliance pavement to parks we asking act as a fiscal especially the triangle i support the program formalizing the agency role is necessary to address the current and future needs pavement to parks led to the creation in the areas it is needed the most that's why we support in program

wholeheartedly. >> thank you very much any public comment madam chair may we close public comment. >> all right. any discussion. >> i want to thank the department for the helpful presentation this is a successful program optometry levies and it is popular which is why we have staffing challenges to make sure we have the resources necessary to make the program a success so i hope we'll keep that in mind i know i will as we powerful move into the process madam chair i'll move item 4 to the call of the chair. >> i have a motion to move to the call of the chair and cemented by supervisor kim this motion is made madam clerk , any other business before this commission? >> there's no further business. >> thank you. this committee

is adjourned.

>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco transportation authority meeting i want to thank sfgovtv for broovrt today's vent jonathan and jonathan madam clerk my had