and programs committee. vision zero held a budget meeting last month and want to recognize the great work of sfmta and agencies that participated in that to give a preview of proposition a and b. they are putting that funding to work and we'll continue with the vision zero hearings this month scheduled for may 21 at 3 p.m. here in city ahall. a topic of that proseentation is education and outreach [inaudible] supervisor yee [inaudible] on school transportation we ubnob naincluding the san francisco unified school district to shine a light on the need for scol transportationt. we find

that transit is accounting for half of middle and high school trips and a quarter of elementary and the hope is we can better understand those needs and how to address them in particularly hearing from parents. parents make a challengingition kwhere wl it is for affordability reasons or travel times transit is working for some, but not all and hope throw supporting commissioner tang we will be more responsive and address public and private school student needs. on the geary rapid transit project. -there is a commitment at the highsh level to seeing the project through. we were pleased in the senate finance committee we did see funding support for van ness brt [inaudible] 150 million for central

subway project. geary is right on the heels of van ness and following the environmental work and in anticipation mta plans to bring in prop k sales tax request fwra the near [inaudible] improvements and full [inaudible] in just a couple months. in terms of neighborhood planning in china town, outreach was held last month. we were pleased working with commissioner christensens office to incorporate stack holdser out reach to china town community low the china town trip project and neighborhood association. we'll provide more final report information on that study in the next month in coordination with the other agencies sfmta and planning department. there

is a host of opportunities to improve broadway and kearny and the raisk of north south and east west streets that will provide better access. the west side transit access makes progress and make opportunity to organize community input through focus group jz also work on the rest nof neighborhood transportation improvement program. district 9, the almeady [inaudible] will come in for funding this round in the may and june borebd psychosqul continue to also work together on the district 10 and 6 and i believe 11 proposals as well. we didn't cover doil drive and it will be a traffic switch. the traffic switch for doil drive is a huge mile stone. if you haven't received invitations

to that ceremony to celebrate on june 1. we have a closure that will proceed that from fry day may 20th to june first so stay tune for that and presidio park way dot org is a great place for information. the boarding islands from at balboa park on the [inaudible] have finally been opened. sfmta opened the elevated bording platform [inaudible] this is a bill mile stone and a appreciatement that is a community dream and kbole to operateers as well. everyone will be very much better off in terms of the safety of that platform and the ability to have inficient operations so we are pleased this part

of the light rail track has come to froition. 9th street we have a pavement project that made progress and mu calster as well by uc hasteings college of law so we are pleased with the mile stones. folks can come to sf [inaudible] or visit the my street sf.com. i'll thank deputys for finance and administration and planning. senth ia [inaudible] and david [inaudible] who led a freeway quarter out reach bidders meeting. there was a lot of strong interest from the industry that looks at efficiency and productivity for the phase 2 study that is beginning this summer we

received interest from 20 firms. with that i conclude my remarks. thank you >> thank you very much. culeyings any questions or comment on the executive director report? seeing none is fl public comment on item 4? seeing none public comment is closed. please call item number 5 >> adopt [inaudible] on state legislation. this is a action item >> are there comments or questions on item 5? seeing none, had is there public comment on item 5? public comment is closed and the house changed so if you will call the roll >> 5, avalos, aye. breed aye. campos, aye. christensen, aye. cohen, aye. farrell, aye. kim,

absent. mar, aye. tang, aye. wiener, aye. yee, aye. the item passes >> item 6 >> authorize executive director to replace the transportation paper program [inaudible] up to 140 million for state street public landing corporation entering the alterinate [inaudible] take all necessary related actions and negotiate the agreement terms and non material terms and conditions. this is a action item >> is there comments or questions on item 6? seeing none, is there public comment on item 6? seeing none public comment is closed and colleagues can we take item 6 same house same call? without objection that is the order. also can we have a

motion to excuse commissioner kim? >> so moved >> moved by commissioner compose and second by commissioner breed. without objection commissioner kim is excused. item number 7. >> item 7, appoint john morrison and wells witney to citizen advisory committee. this is a action item >>gy questions or comments regarding 7? sying none, is there public comment? seeing none public comment is closed. can we take item 7 same house and call? without objection that is the order. item 8 >> allocate 773 thousand nob naappropriate in prop cay funds subject to [inaudible] this is a action item >> any question or comments on item number 8? seeing none we'll move to public

comment. is there public comment on item 8? seeing none public comment is closed. can we take item 8 same house and call? without objection that is the order . item 9 we already called and addressed. item number 10 >> item 10 interdugz to new items, there is a nrgz item >> are there new items for introduction or public comment on item 10? seeing none public comment is closed. item number 11 >> public comment >> is there general public comment, please come forward? rkss edward mason-the transportation authority obligate #d 75 thousand dollars for analysis of commuter buses and shuttles and that migrate today the mta for a 18 month pilot study mpt 9 months into the study we still continue to

experience violation. some operators discharge passengers outside the stops. this red broken light is from a double deck bus colliding with a muni key stop disabled ramp. muni engineers accommodate the geography and geometry when they figure out the routes and that is why the 39 quoit tower doesn't operate 60 foot articulated buses. i strongly recommend that there be a revival of the cal trans regional express bus plan done over 10 years ago for utilizing park and ride lots and remove the large vehicles from the narrow neighborhood streets. it is my understanding that mtc is starting to nishiate movement in that area and i would encourage it to minimize the

impact on the neighborhoods on the narrow streets. again, i can't believe this happened and i picked up the pieces after seeing it occur at 24th and church so i can only say this is a example of what needs to be corrected. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. is there any additional general public comment? seeing none public comment is closed. item number 12 >> item 12, aadjournment. we are adjourned. thank you very much.

>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that

i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain.

i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up

into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones

less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty

conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the

door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so

anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for

>> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it host it share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005 she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of species species extinction. >> many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes.

but i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. >> missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. it is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat. >> of course the overall mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. one of which is the nature of life. how did we get here? the second is the challenge of sustainability. if we are here how are we going to find a way to stay? these questions resonated very strongly with maya. >> on average a species disappears every 20 minutes.

this is the only media work that i have done. i might never do another one because i'm not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to convey the sounds and images here. memorials to me are different from artworks. they are artistic, but memorials have a function. >> it is a beautiful scupltural objective made with bronze and lined with red wood from water tanks in clear lake. that is the scupltural form that gives expression to maya's project. if you think about a cone or a bull horn, they are used to get the attention of the crowd often to communicate an important message. this project has a very

important message and it is about our earth and what we are losing and what we are missing and what we don't even know is gone. >> so what is missing is starting with an idea of loss, but in a funny way the shape of this cone is whether you want to call it like the r.c.a. victor dog, it is listen to the earth and what if we could create a portal that could look at the past, the present and the future? >> you can change what is then missing by changing the software, by changing what is projected and missing. so missing isn't a static installation. it is an installation that is going to grow and change over time. and she has worked to bring all of this information together from laboratory after laboratory including, fortunately, our great fwroup of researchers ers-- group of researchers at the california academy. >> this couldn't have been more site specific to this place and we think just visually in terms

of its scupltural form it really holds its own against the architectural largest and grandeur of the building. it is an unusual compelling object. we think it will draw people out on the terrace they will see the big cone and say what is that. then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in

the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. >> we could link to different institutions around the globe maybe one per continent maybe two or three in this country then once they are all networked, they begin to

communicate with one another and share information. in 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to by 2011, invite people to add a memory. so in a funny way the member rely grows and there is something organic about how this memorial begins to have legs so to speak. so we don't know quite where it will go but i promise to keep on it 10 years. my goal is to raise awareness and then either protect forests from being cut down or reforest in ways that promote biodiversity. >> biodiverse city often argued to be important for the world's human populations because all of the medicineal plants and uses that we can put to it and fiber that it gives us and food that it gives us. while these are vital and important and worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars,

the part that we also have to be able to communicate is the more spiritual sense of how important it is that we get to live side by side with all of these forms that have three billion years of history behind them and how tragic it would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotional emotional, psychological spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. >> this is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on -- wake up and realize what is going on. so it is a memberorial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. they have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe don't commit the same mistakes.

. >> good afternoon, everyone. ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon we are going to begin thank you for your patience this good afternoon the the meeting will come to order that is the regular meeting of land use commission i am supervisor cohen i'm the chair to the right is supervisor wiener vice chair and ttd is supervisor campos who will be sitting in for supervisor kim so for today is meeting our clerk andrea ashbury also want to recognize john did i live iron and jennifer lowe as