happen you're going to narrow down the street in russian hill we have stop signs that slows down the traffic we urge you to adapted this >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> donning tren everyday again. >> i'm barbara been if loosening and washington for 20 years not a problem walking the streets of polk street i have been threatened and by bicyclists more than i'd like to say they are dangerous and i don't hear anything about the responsibility that cyclists have to take in mayor view they have - i feel there's no

shared options when a bicyclist wanted to do we they want to do they do it the side streets is a way for cyclists to have traffic for themselves and i'm curious as to why there is no one on the board that represents the automotive aspects of our population polk is the is important for so many people and make that xvr important for cyclists yonldz that (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> hello, i'm steven i live on market and washington as well everyone here has given you

difficult aspects of the same issue different aspects the residents and all it is based on other than the same thing there are inherent flaws in this plan that will mean it is going to get worse so the reduced parking for the books that oufbs there's no clear corridor let's face it the road is too narrow it accommodate the needs and not all of the concerns have been addressed by itself safety changes in particular almost all the changes relate to parking co-laid so the problem is it is not the parked cars it hit bikes it's the moving one you may not royals this but rush

hour polk street is an alternate pathway i've seen it packed the entire distances the current plan to fusible more bicyclists without a clear apathy that is suicide people are going to die because of this and if this happens if there are increased injuries there will be personal injury lawyers will be 3i9 up signs. a few people sigh larkin is good, i agree but over that lay that with a map and come up with a map that shows a list of bike riots that enter connect with the city's bike lanes

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> hi, i'm a 47-year-old san francisco native i live on hill and church and am a frequent traveler to polk street i support the manufacturer mentioned i support in plan and support the amendment to the cyclist tracks i support that after all people are is a right to bike and move around san francisco safely this is not giving us this is self-employed 0 no one has the right to park their car whatever they want creating the best walking and riding bikes it creates room for

people that can't walk or ride a bike or coming long distances let's design san francisco students to are safe for everyone based on human rights not privileges when you do the right thing it is like a multiple indication factor like peoples rights to get around safely without a car let's good luck for emergency vehicles and financial savings and individual that don't need to own and store a car and increase the happiness of people including the jobs and great health and cleaner air and less glshl too many benefits you'll never go back, please

start this on the right foot and don't compromise the redesign thought possible street let's make it a model to san francisco and the world thank you (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon my name is is dawn i'm the chairperson with the polk association i thank the sfmta for you're good work and say that polk street defines our neighborhood i understand this project has many elements to it including the toxic arrangement of sewer lines and water makes sense this will late 18 months for merchant

and have a lot of help and recovery for the city for added support we have many users of polk and the designation hospital is estimated 20 thousand plus cars everyday to the north quadrant of the city document from 9 hospital plan shows a lot of those cars will used polk street and look for parking that that eliminates the parking and only provides westbound travelers that will make a series of left turn turn exemption from the document states the project is not anticipated for additional pollutant a shortfall of park in the proposed project will be minor it states it is stepped up

to the plate he e expected that the drivers will go he is e elsewhere so for parking this is heading for the new designation block review of parking how is it that all of those cars will not raise pollutant negatively and impact our quality of life those are just a few examples of the environmental analysis falls short and finally the 10 tow away zones is a hash trade off. >> thank you thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> 17 hours rather than the current. >> sorry for the last few minutes. >> thank you. >> (calling names) good afternoon. >> good afternoon in the war and how long we're

lived here i 2k3wr5u9d from elementary school over 60 years on polk there the this is not new we started this bike thing 15 years ago polk street had 3 lanes on polk street we eliminated one of them that's 1/3rd the traffic on polk street was eliminated 250i789d to add the parking and add bike lanes where they couldn't fit this started a long time ago we did the enormous changes my business really saw that in its truck deliveries coming in we get 44 foot trucks twice a week it is hard to park those trucks we have other huge changes coming to polk street not the bikes as we heard the hospital is coming in with upwards of 20 thousand

car trips per day to the hospital when they made their application where are those cars going to go those cars will be circling looking for parking spaces what about the left turns on van ness those cars and trucks and buses will be using polk street i'd like to see a comprehensive stud of what is going on polk street when the construction starts and what's been going to happen to the businesses afterward we would like to have a study and i'd like to submit that for further use. >> thank you for your time. >> congratulations. >> (calling names).

>> go ahead. >> good afternoon, sir. >> tim two things everybody has agreed on including our supervisors that public safety is a priority and parking on polk street is very difficult so it did i fizz logic those cars consul general around looking for no parks is going to make public safety worse so my proposal i said it to you folks mid-market to build a couple more garages like on mission and polk a lot of people don't royals there was a garage it has downstairs businesses and if you build a couple more of those i give you locations you can take the cars off the street mitigating the problem of

working within a park and do other toxic things to the street including macro pain and suffering much better so i've said that many times i've taken off work because it's important to the viability of the neighborhood and have to horrible to have those cars in consul general and it is dangerous important the bikes and everybody else thank you (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon, sir and good afternoon. thank you i'm dana fifth san franciscan my daughter a 6th generation san franciscan safer streets for bicyclists and the neighborhood that's what is bringing us here today it is a valid convenient effort sometimes beer not on the same side but we are here today

the neighbors and the thousands of medical practices and music schools and bakers and pizza places where you can get our hair cut and other fantastic places to eat nearly all of those are traditionally mom and pop businesses and don't have penny arcadia nor wax museums this is a good services for the families and the feasted demographic the elderly with over 5 thousand signatures we're not just a handful of businesses but with support of over 40 other neighborhood groups throughout the city we encourage the city to have a balanced plan for all including the families and the sdablgd on a april of 2013, the original

project for sfmta the intersection are by far the more dangerous part of situation it is all about count down signaling and high visibility sidewalks and bitter signage we're making leaps not just steps started towards better safety and new better polk will solve the safety issues but the proposals with exemption of the 84 away zone i support this proposition. >> (clapping.) thank you in the light. >> mr. jefferson is mr. jefferson here oh couldn't read the writing.

>> several times, in fact, he wrote to this board a senior citizen she's terrified to get the food and everything she nodes at the drugstore she a sentencing o senior citizen there's families and sdablgd people out there, yes there's a

bicyclist i see the 7 percent number of the bicyclists i have to tell you everyone i talk to an polk street neighbors everyone is terrified of this i'm terrified i'm going to get run over by a bicyclist there's been pedestrians in the city because bicyclists they run the red light the city negotiates you negotiate with the bicyclists and itself coalition and nobody asked for anything in return we don't expect them to stop at the stop sign and all day long we've been talking about the diagnostics no one wants anyone to die not drivers or pedestrians or bicyclists so this board has a really big job you've got to cut through the rhetoric and look at it some of the numbers and get an eir

thank you (clapping) >> thank you. >> is leslie she's here (calling names). >> thank you good afternoon. >> thank you. i'm leslie i've lived in about polk street areas and i've seen the congestion over the years i know that is issues we need to address my concern is polk street as hundreds of small businesses and is surrounded by neighborhoods who's residents support them and other patrons to visit the businesses and may need parking why destroy the businesses and change the neighborhoods that made san francisco the great city it is suffice it it seems you're not

interested in visiting the businesses please consider those are not people that have the physical ability to walk and they can take the bus thank you. (clapping.) >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon and thank you for your time. >> my name is john ami i've lived on jackson and polk for thirty years we've watched the diversity of the businesses along polk street the hard working merchant have made this a fun community. >> community who's resident businesses have worked together 9 issue before us is about the

quality of life on polk street not only from beautification the plan addresses 20 blocks north of mcallister over the last two years we've been working with the sfmta to reach a common sense plan to dialog and to compromise we all know as mta project at lewis montoya said polk street is kind of narrow and polk street which mandates to 44 street north of posting is not wide you enough to accommodate everyone's needs quote/unquote the compromise plan put polk in a half is a reduce to 44 photo this is consistent with improvement safety goals by the mta and the california highway patrol that says half of the accidents are in the area of

mcallister park to say to have protected bicycle lanes is totally against a sense of compromise that the community and others have arrived at safety is important that is nothing henry safe about bicyclists it didn't equal safer streets i hope the board considers those of us who live in the neighborhood and not those who patios through >> thank you. next speaker, please (clapping) >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> hi, i'm dr. daily have a practice on polk street and lived in the district for 35 years the doctors in the building were acquit concerned with the loss of parking that has parking for elderly people

and families that come from all over the city and outside the city i'm a pedestrian on polk street i walk that street all the time and it is the loss of parking is going to be a serious problem for us especially we're losing the parking on van ness i wanted to let you know that the doctors an polk street are concerned about that we're concerned about the merchants the thing that makes polk street polk street is the merchant thank you (clapping.) >> (calling names) is ms. chang here okay (calling names). >> good afternoon. thank you. >> i'm stephanie chang the delete for the coalition -

>> i'm stephanie chang the delete for san francisco neighborhood a resolution was adapted by the coalition on february 17th i'd like to read into the record and present a copy to you. >> dear sfmta board of directors the coalition for san francisco neighborhood c s f n come down or 40 neighborhood organizations at a dealer noted meeting of its general assembly on february 17, 2015 passed the following resolution on the changes being proposed to polk street resolved the c s f neutron supports the retention of parking on polk street the eliminations of the proposed 84 wu zone from pine street to baud on the east side of polk street and the preparation by it sfmta

the city and county of san francisco of an environmental impact report eir on the impact of the polk street escape project on the polk street neighborhood before any 0 further approval the implementation of the project thank you. >> (clapping.) thank you. >> that it be - >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> ruth campbell. >> hello, i'm marlene the president of the k45g9 neighbors association i served on the coalition that negotiated with california pacific medical center that was approved by the board of supervisors in 2013 we were involved in this for 8 years and did extensive traffic studies

ended up with the grant and the transportation improvement that is a very complex number of work on the transit transportation bicycling public safety part of the hospital and the study started in 2001 and the ended in 2009. and since then there has been right now in the planning pipeline crossing to director ram another 68 thousand units being built on the polk side we have outdated traffic information we're looking at as well as the development of the polk street plan as wrarpts to the corridor balloon with the hospital and have changes in the

employment dominate when we started 51 percent of the hospital workers lived in san francisco now we're down to less than 40 percent more and more people are consulting in from longer distances to work in our hospitals and other critical businesses operation of the hospital and of so many other businesses in san francisco but particularly in the van ness corridor a hospital cannot operate without the brt the brt must come first we strongly urge you to have environmental impact report done thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names) good afternoon. >> good afternoon marching i'm here with the coalition of san francisco neighborhood and i represent a number of people that counter be here today, i'm

going to hand in written - oh, sorry is that better sorry clearly no one is happy with the plan the bicyclists don't get enough lanes and cars to the park and not bother to pass this plan right now we no idea to have a cooling-off period for people to adjust to what exactly is going on we need to see what is the happening with van ness we really are messing with the traffic that is 101 traffic going north and south from bridge to bridge we built a huge bridge with billions of to bring thousands of people into the city in their vehicles it if makes sense to have parking or krooifg so it makes no sense to cut off the

north south arteries i'm going to see the particular things that concern us are limiting the terms on van ness that puts more traffic into polk street this will increase the illusion pollution in the area and the transfer jams will result in slower response times for that emergency vehicles any loss of power creates a problems are a city that depends on the pier grids and we don't need toll tankers and people we're going to have machines uneverything i want to see wheepz when the power goes off. >> several people are lined up over here. >> rose campbell.

>> hello, i'm chris not bierman. >> no. there's a chris p. >> well, this is chris bowman do you not have mop. >> go right head. >> okay. fine on the 240g9 of january i'm surprised my - the secretary didn't get it is made out to tom nolan and ed reiskin and others as well as with the board of supervisors i read the 19 page review from the planning department what is called for an exception from ceqa that was complete based on traffic data and in mid-day and at 4 o'clock as people testified the draft is worse between 5 and

8 o'clock at night inform studies about those and that was years ago we have the two lanes of traffic going to polk street there's not going to franklin it is already jammed you're going to have c n mc a densification of housing under plan bay area both long polk and van ness none of those issues were taking into account the coalition of the san francisco neighborhoods asked for eir that has absolutely essential about you go forward you need to see the human impacts your only advisory committee called for environmental impact report before you go forward as to the impact of taking away thirty

percent of parking on polk street that is only a pine it is all the way to union taking away 60 percent of parking i'll ask you delay this until after the studies thank you very much. >> there are two christopher's in the room i'm going to stop calling both names. (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon. i've been a merchant on polk street for 13 years born and raised i applaud that plan in theory i don't know how studied or how many merchant were interviewed i've been to the meetings on church and the out reaches but polk street logically in size is narrowed becau