having -- maintaining ultimate success with loyalty, parental love, dignity, pathways in humanity and true meanings, one delivers practical living to benefit others with good manners and good trust in lieu of our people with improvement of good works for family, career and society, imagine people where [inaudible] or people's living benefits, making peace and equality and s*if rights, having constant progress of human civilization, living on people's wisdom and passion on full success of good virtues, the culture of religion, [inaudible] and sound nature should make holiness appear on a bright side for peace and wellness and phenomena, everyone fulfills one's original destiny and being full of

self-nature into attainment all while trying to accomplish, so all the achievement levels having wholly management of 51, changing our earth to the kingdom of pure land. thank you. >> any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk? >> item 9, adjournment. >> thank you very much, thanks for coming here to listen to this very important discussion on vision zero. ( meeting is adjourned ). and

all right i want to go ahead and call the meeting excuse me. hello human resources that works really well, i'll to call to order the as a matter of law ms. bloomer director brinkman director borden director heinecke director ramos directors please

be advised director nolan and cristina rubke will be convictions devices. any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. item 4 approval of the minutes from the march one regular meeting. >> do i have a motion to approve second >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> minutes pass communications i see we have supervisor avalos here ask him to come forward. >> thank you directors having me here on short notice most first of all, thank you for are we looking at the auto

return contract and the administration fee for towing that's a huge change to make is it easier for working families in san francisco we all make mistakes and making a mistakes for a person barley on being able to pay for rent and food and towing that sets them back forever maybe have to leave san francisco thank you for are we looking at that and you don't know i don't think we gave you much choice so thank you i think we need to look at revenue and reimbursement reinforcement i know metering is controversial looks at at our transit goals of being a transit first aide we don't provide that subsidize on sunldz i don't know why that day is important but 21st century we should be doing

with constraints on the foundz for transit leaking overall parking maybe night or sunday parking will be something would be worth studying for the mta that is only for reinforce i want to get funding for mta through the sustainability fee last friday was my birthday i got for my birthday present a veto of an increase to the fee and think that was poor planning on behalf of the city that we wouldn't look at how we can make developers who developments have a huge back impact on the transportation pay a little bit more not socking to 9 taxpayers or the riders with the analysis of transportation sustainability fee we can increase the fee on

large commercial buildings by $4 those projects will be flaebl we raised it $2 and not taking away when it was rejected by the mayor's office a new version asking for a new version of tsf for funds from the tsf for operations at some level of operation i believe the mta needs nor flexibility the budget to handle operation needs the capital is spur important to be able to have revenue to make investments in we have 2030 process we're 20 or $30 million short of covering deferred makes sense be that as it may we have operational needs with the sustainability fee that

helps when last minute decided with made on the budget for the mta i want to make sure you have the flexibility we want to reopen this is a heads-up i was intending to do and most of all when we make the decisions we can be responsible coming up with ways to help you find resolutions to the abrupt issues as they come up thank you. >> thank you very much supervisor and happy belated birthday thank you for your continued support. >> madam chair please be advised no decision of the anticipated litigation in closed session today item 6 introduction or unfinished business but with board members. >> director's report. >> good afternoon madam chair and members and members of the public and staff a number of items to touch on

today and first and most tragically i guess i'll say we're off to a bad start this year in terms of safety on the streets streets of san francisco sadly a gentleman was hit and killed imply a hit and run driver by the broadway tunnel a at the intersection of broadway and powell on the same day something hit on sunset boulevard i believe there was two additional hit and run incidents on saturday we stale obviously those are fresh and not a lot of information about those but as with ever serious and fate collision in their tragic and preventable your thoughts and prayers and condolences to the

friends and families of those who have been involved with this i guess i'll say this underscores of work we're doing at your doing on the board and across the city with the coalition and the impervious of marking our streets safer as supervisor avalos said maybe folks shouldn't get can charged a hefty fee for charges of the subject to be sorrowful hurt or killed by somebody making a mistake in our streets so as you know, we've been working hard and committed to 24 high priority projects in this months got thirty done with the 2015 with another $13 million no

2016 by the end of this year we've improved hundreds of the highest needs intersection with the high visibility and crosswalks and red zones at broadway. >> powell there is a project you've previously approved that is set to start construction this summer that improves the intersection that greatly and will help with - we will be going out potentially as soon as this week and putting in interim improvements that could come back to you by retroactively approval that might make that intersection safer we might do that i want to give you a heads up we'll continue to redesign the streets but, of course not about design it is there behavioral issues that play here

we'll continue to work on education, supporting the police department and enforcement and really need everyone the city to be careful and mindful and to slow down and pay attention we have i don't know what the number is right now this year but more people that have been killed in the first 2 1/2 months than at that point the last few years this is not where we want to be in terms of vision zero we were named by the vision zero network as one of the 10 focused cities we'll be cooperating and sharing best practices and anything from the cities but i just it is a sobering reminder that there is work we need to do i think you'll see things on the agenda that are reflective of that work but a long road ahead to get to that zero and sadly

we're not on the path for that today. >> on to some better news were with regard to ceqa the california environmental quality act i know you know this just to refresh when sp 743 was passed by the state senator senate a couple of years ago for criteria for the significance of transportation impacts and sufficiently they require the career is with the green house gas emissions and the development of multiple transportation and diversity that land you know the old measure sometimes drove us the option direction the great news a couple of weeks the planning commission unanimously implemented the standards for, thank you to the vice chair for

speaking in support as were a number of folks that understand the matt haney of this in terms of making the transportation system better and safer so with that, decision we became the first city in california to adopt the levels of serves as a measure that is congestion will be replaced by vehicle miles traveled as the threshold for ceqa viral determinations going forward the old standards essentially protective of the car and don't think the transportation system suggests as remedies like wildly the streets things we can't do in san francisco wanted to do in san francisco but this modernized approach will be a better way for us and the urban design that public to evaluate the impacts of transportation projects and building development projects that allows us to better get to solutions

efficiently get to solutions that prioritized walking and parking and thank you to the planning department for that achievement wanted to also let you know that walk to workday it is thursday april 7th at participation takes on this 15 minutes of walking at the beginning or end of the bike transcript or car trip i think we can do more than 15 minutes of walking folks leaving from different places around the city i urge you to meet you up with the city supervisors and others as folks make their walk to city hall that is a critical part of i guess an important mode of transportation the city that is the cleanest and one that ever trip begins and ends with and the more we promote and make our streets safer and the better for

our residents and better for our city so look forward to seeing everyone on april 6th for walk to work and the season starts april 10th the mission run for typical from april to november generally one a month sfmta is proud to be city the main aide sponsor of this program and looking forward to engaging with the naked that the event will come to in this event to kickoff the season in april a number of staff working will be there to share the projects and update to promote biking and walking and transit hope for a sunny day on april 10th a couple of other quick things the work in the sunset tunnel continues this past week was off

because st. patrick's day there are 3 scopes of work did replacement of the rails themselves and overhead wires by the emergency communication system and the new radio system so we've got two more we understand shutdowns we'll need more in april this is not necessarily a exist stuff not like new buses e.r. red transit lanes but critically important for the safety work we need to do so we apologize in advance for the invention and they have done well, we have a few more ahead and get the work done i wanted to give you an update on the 7 hate project that was nearly a year ago in june of last year you approved a variety

of parking and changes on laguna to improve pedestrian safety and the liability lower hate portion of the corridor is under construction as part of a public works repaving contract and the construction it expected to last to another 12 to 18 months the upper hate construction ♪ 2017 we're working with the stakeholder the area ta to accommodate the festivals the efforts in the hate over the summer this project i think as you may know the lower hate reverberation was delayed because of contractor that was the reason for the motor coach as opposed to a other coach but we'll continue to work with the public works to expedite in a way they can to get the projects

done and restore the service and get the benefit the transit and pedestrian safety benefits when you approved this item in june you asked for the support back on the progress made to fund the pedestrian scale lighting as part of the upper hate as you may know jeopardy support for the project one thing people didn't like it didn't include the pedestrian scale lighting the funding sources we have are transportation funds generally are not appropriate for non-transportation purposes but we have been working with public works additional public utilities commission staff as well as the district 5 presidents office to get other is sources for the 3w4r06 ground lighting we have install the

underground conduit and hopefully, this will identified and we'll identify the remaining fund for to light the lights when the project is complete and sorry for the long report the last one i wanted to let you you know in case you've not heard this past weekend san francisco and sfmta was one of the finalist in the united states department of transportation of transportation for the smarter project through the program the that i have are partner offers $50 million to the winning city and it is two this was a challenge that was put out to midsized cities we made it under the cap the purpose for the forward thinking plan to hanger technology and reimagine how people move we'll have a lot of

temp that enables the services that come to our city witch largo have been racking to this is an opportunity to work with the neighborhood to proactively help to define how we want that to look rather than those things coming at us a lot more technology is that will be coming to us via vehicles and connected vehicles our feeling if we proactively work with san franciscans to help frame and shape how that comes to san francisco we'll get much better results 0 so as one of the winning cities they give us a one thousand dollars for to the grant two months to do it as sprint if we are successful then we would be in line for the $50 million grant 40 from the federal government and $10 million from the private

sector the strategy is led by the new office innovation and was telling him that hesitates that office that spearheaded 24 application done with the with the transportation authority with the mayor's office and will continue to work with them and others to develop that proposal so hope at some .3 months director fried will is a good news that concludes my report. >> thank you director reiskin and action packed d ot report on the ceqa changes that was director borden's former commission i want to thank the planning department and others for the anti climate, etc. there should have been balloons and confetti but we'll do great things and continue to as we know with the hit-and-runs we

have tlooekd so hope that helps us move towards that and congratulations to the smart city grant that will be fascinating to side how that happens and decorations anything on the director's report no director. >> i want to say i'm deeply disturbed by the amount of pedestrian injuries and collisions we've had i certainly don't take that lightly i'll work for ways to expedite the work and/or maybe changing things so that the way we're going about doing things but looking forward to topics the future to how we can really address this this is something that you know pedestrian safety is something we all need to be healthy as a city the economy is better for that and communities

are better for that everybody is better for it we need to get a handle on a few years ago an all-day workshop i talked about lower the slightly around the city i want to make sure invokes folks know that is not sitting easily with us and looking forward to expediting the efforts to resolving this and getting us closer to vision zero faster. >> thank you that is a good thing to bring up i was the vision zero conferee in new york city and the sfpd was recommended a lot of stuff that came out i was reminded the of national highway transportation thirty percent of the cashiers in some manner of distraction

not that easy for the police to subpoena the records of cell phones of the drivers director reiskin we're working on a lot of things around vision zero can that be involved for our court to look at that to work with the city hall or the state to change that. >> how about when we come back i think we at our request we were bringing you quarterly updates or so with regards to vision zero maybe at the next one we'll be able to address the speed limit reductions i don't know if if so a leg or procedural issue i know that anecdotally i know when i'm standing on the corner i see a lot of folks that are looking at their phones it is horrifying

this is a real large go a automobile or truck they're not paying attention we'll make sure to get this as part of our next report. >> thank you very much madam chair you have one member of the public that want to address an addresses director reiskin addressed. >> casket. >> thank you good afternoon directors i'm kathy the policy and program manager with walk sf and i'm here to express our extreme questionnaires for the rash of pedestrian fatalities that director reiskin and some of you mentioned on friday as director reiskin mentioned mr. sun was killed at broadway and powell a high injury location on saturday a gentleman was killed at leavenworth and ellis another one an february 12th ms. lange was killed one block away from

the high injury and sue was killed on market and 7 a high injury location as far 7 pedestrians have died in traffic crashes our grandparents and coworkers and friends we need to step up and do something to keep san franciscans save and the city is making great process on doing this the projects are faster the environmental review reform will be fantastic but i think there is something this body can do to help you can be vision zero leaders and not let the projects that the city staff bring to you get water counsel they have great recommendation the original proposal for pedestrian safety features it because of the push back back and other projects are water down you, say no room for compromise on pedestrian safety do that that

now and every week that you meet so i encourage you to do that and be the vision zero leaders the city needs thank you. >> thank you. any other speakers? >> wait one more. >> that's okay. please come up to the microphone. >> i'm diana having attend the planning department open house on the el carville i don't know what was said is entirely what happened i understand the passion of recuse fatalities there are many things that can be done but parking is not what that community meeting was mainly about i'll urge you to do the simple fler things rather than concentrate stops and call that delusion with the community that has concerns that are not just parking but has to do with

with people living there i respect the passion about this i'll you go suggest you not only listen but hear with the community is saying how they would reduce the facilities thank you. >> thank you very much. >> any other speakers. >> yes. >> items that ed reiskin discuss. >> in continuing on el terryville and sorry mr. ed reiskin didn't talk about that. >> pedestrian safety the you mean tuesday we don't want to have boarding islands we want more parking the same kind of thing not if you have enough to give us us parking around the corner we have a tight street to move traffic no matter what this is crazy i'll have to say looking at another the time relevant to this when we set up

the mta we collected signatures we could not get enough and the supervisors put it on the ballot and it essentially says transit first a tremendous vote of people every time you. could to a neighborhood transit first is good for the city we have an interest the neighborhood you guys don't need that you have to move transit and now hey here we are we're up to 4 it will break our record for killing people this is a boarding island harlan kelly this will be good for transit but the supervisors knew they couldn't stand up to people that wanted parking they give you to you guys you have to do

the work because you can't keep watering down those things so each we'll deal with many important issues but every time you have to hold firm and accommodate them a little bit we'll talk about but making people safer and moving traffic ticket faster and better when the transit moves better, more people use it if their driving and all that kind of stuff thank you very much. >> the director's report items discussed by ed reiskin not by commenting. >> according. >> state your name for the record. >> patricia i disagree with howard i think that you should have pedestrian safety but i'm sure about some of the other things my question on this is the fact it the transit first policy says that the department

must address he had a safety and quality of life and equal viability in san francisco in san francisco and what i'm seeing is oh, we'll put it altogether and i'm seeing the department push issues low that are going to be causing all over the city more pedestrian accidents and i i did not think that the department is doing proper studies every single section of this city has their own presenter or personality and their own issues and by pushing through and pushing it through aggressively our eliminating people that are not just in wheelchairs but eliminating the

people that have other health issues and safety issues now at the hot corners like those mentioned particularly market and mission that is where you should be working hard and safety you should be working hard on the garages that are having break-ins and assaults like wall to the safety of people there will be murders pretty soon i'll guarantee you must look at the broad picture. >> thank you very much i see mr. wiener approaching the podium. >> herbert wiener one comment about pedestrian safety what about bicyclists riding on the sidewalk people have been struck by bicyclists they don't report to mta but a significance of

people being ensdarthsz by people on the sidewalk you can advocate pedestrians being struck by automobiles, bicycle can be just as dangers in someone gets struck by a bicycle it could be deadly you have to include that and skateboards i have a lot of stuff to include on that and just because a bicyclist has an influence with that body didn't make them right when they strict other people and don't be surprised with the bicyclists strict other people they'll not be attacked in retaliation for the interest of everyone including the bicyclists you have to include that if your plan thank you. >> thank you, mr. wiener any other public comment i see one other person couple of.

>> good afternoon alyssa speaking as a concerned citizen i was going to mention this in another part of meeting it's been mentioned the whole beyond a reasonable doubt of of vision zero didn't work since there are more fatalities than as at least as many consider having on independent study what the effects have been it's been a in operation for a couple of years why haven't more fatalities gone down but staying the same and going up may not be working maybe we need another plan to protect the pedestrians and one of the ideas that came up yesterday, i guessed it is used in some areas are four-way stop strablz and the downtown area i understand one is tried an

columbus 3 maybe a better solution cheaper and not taking a lot to put that into effect maybe this is a a this is a test not a multiple million dollars project. >> thank you. any other. seeing none, move on ms. bloomer >> madam chair next is item 8 this is the advisory committee report i don't see mr. weaver here item 9 general public comment this time, members of the public may address the commission items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, we'll start with jean (calling names). >> hello, i'm the owner and of

o'farrell street between formally and olive on polk i spoke about the concerns of the bike lanes i think that was misrepresented when you were told that there were one driveway there is actually 4 businesses and driveways on a short block we are still concerned and want someone to come back and see why we're concerned about moving the bike way outside of driveway. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon directors i'm michelle alexander i'm the president of the board of walk sf on behalf of the walk sf i'm here to talk about the watering down the el terryville it is a high injury corridor over half

of the pedestrians hit on 2013 were on and off the terryville train of the 24 people hit awhile getting on and off 6 were teenagers or 2 were 14 years old and ta proposed adrc boarding island at all stops walk sf stronger supports this proposal none should have to step off a train into boarding traffic the boarding islands are under attack by the parking relocation that will happen when the island are adam feel fortunate all spots will be replaced within one block of taraval unfortunately, the push back is so strong the original proposal is water down now part of a pilot instead of the boarding islands will have paint

next to the train that is something like the transit boarding area that paint will not keep pedestrians save safety we shouldn't compromise open we urge you to add do boarding idles added altering value stops and make the safety improvements before another life is lost if we were serious about reaching vision zero we must do that. >> next speaker >> those are the last 3 people that turned in speaker cards. >> good afternoon directors to your knowledge thanks for the opportunity to speak i'm a career cab driver on the board of directors of the yellow cab to ask you to consider waving the annual medallion we struggle to make

ends meet and especially those who paid the full price it is not fair to how far us one thousand dollars renewal fee when the city allows the tdm invasion not fair that we are in case he would and diamond the same time the tax collection doesn't demand a driver's license from the thousands of parties we're hurting more than last year so i really urge you to consider waving the very expensive medallion fee thank you very much. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon howard i heard that it is going to be shutting down the formally garage for

this necessary improvements and repairs i see this is a good opportunity for testing the need for parking downtown if you were to close it for a long term announce the closer and so what happens that is 3 percent of all the parking downtown and to disclose is for a long time let's see what the other private garages do with their prices per parking will it go up or shutting down a how much of parking spades increase the total net will you want to raise the parking meters fees is that parking really necessary we're the transit rich place of world and so people can have access to a garage it is a good time to think about this if not a dock

transit paper but a masters people get someone to study and cooperate and accumulate the data let's see all the parking does it mean anything will constitute u smutd a brarg reduce congestion maybe you have to deal with the tmc they may step in and provide deals because of the parking spaces prices go up you'll have those things are connected the city of san francisco the people of city of san francisco you guys are in charge we give you our streets for better transit and less congestion and better safety this is our job maybe that is the place to do the research but use this time i don't know they'll have to do a lot of stuff. >> thank you. >> thanks a lot. >> herbert wiener the last

person to turn in a speaker card for general public comment and mr. wiener and herbert wiener i nodded that now there is this project for a deal that is self-driving and i am wondering how the squares of the policy with the mta now you eliminated at least 20 thousand parking spaces and where will the cars find a place to park and the deal the all you can't have to both ways, and, secondly, he notice that now the two complementing bus iron will no longer you'll replace that with a two sutter line and the planning is rational but you don't take the human impact take into consideration maybe walk sf likes the people will be forced

to walker long distance but not ms. christensening applying to the seniors and disabled but paratransit is over loaded any opinion that basically this is the equivalent or bombing 50 thousand feet in the air you don't see the human impact maybe the planners should go to work would for the strategic air plan and mission can be accomplished the drone program is other opportunity but this is not the way to go your destroying public transportation in san francisco i won't say thank you. i'll say no thank you. >> thank you, mr. wiener. (calling names) >> i don't think you're looking at the bigger picture

i go out to daily stay all the time when i get to a corner they have the beeping sounds so far the blind and the hard of hearing we don't have them we need to do - project programs like this so that all people are included we had a push bottom for the seniors to cross lombard we had a push bottom it worked all of a sudden all the buttons have disappeared we're not looking at the big picture particularly market and mission you can't hear hardly anything but if you put the loud beeps

more people had been save take care of the elderly and the infirmed and blind okay. thank you. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> last person to turn in a speaker card. >> i basically came here i believe the last meeting he requested some kind of a change the noticing system and i was approached by katherine disshe said, yes maybe look at that so i take into account it and here's what we actually have now i'm going to give you the big picture now we have to tell people once you've made the change manage to put those up their rather larger but really easy to see from every direction that did buses that stop are no longer here this is what you're cable of doing to notice the

public once you've done the change we request the same kind of notice basically here's the format coming down when our getting ready to remove a bus stop so everyone can see exactly the same clarity what you're intentions that's my request make sure the public get a lot better notice i if bother to bring you the notice you know what it looks like it is hard to see and understand that's my request thank you. >> thank you, ms. elias that's our last speaker. >> looks like it ms. bloomer monarch. >> yes. next item on the consent calendar there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests i've received no request from the board or the public do i

have a motion to approve the consent calendar. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> the i's have it. no notices consent calendar is approval. >> item 11 for the california environmental quality act improving the traffic as part of the lombard safety project and madam chair i'll not glow the whole thing and ed reiskin here's ms. hunter to walk us through it. >> good afternoon directors of the board and director reiskin i'm maria i will be presenting the lombard project i'll start with framing the foundation the proposals that we're recommending today, the

project project is lombard street wraps up to richards bound by vanessa and doyle with a high injury corridor the corridor for pedestrians and vehicles there using the sutter database through 2013 over 5 years over one and 50 collisions two were facility and 18 savior the collision rate is 7 times that of the collision rate per mile the vehicle collision rate is 8 times of that the city rate there are a number of transit collision and side swiepdz a third of which the collision are at transit stops from while the bus is doing transit boarding and getting passersby from the

curb we designed those engineering concerns to address the vehicle and pedestrian collisions and accommodate the existing environment a residential and commercial corridor but highway 101 tens of thousands of vehicles in and out of the city and a number of transit lines not only muni but enlivening and a number of commuter shuttles so bringing these proposals to the community we've had a number of outreach event and received great feedback and fortunate to have an engaged community those proposal has been refined with minor tweaks most notably we've added do you believe to tight that geography and modified the original concept for the proposals and the commuter shuttle program stops along the

corridor are revised to reduce parking impacts and reduce the length of the transit bubbles at the laguna stops to maximize the retention and removed a transit unbelievable at golf i wanted to note another outreach opportunity through those more organized former events by the project engineers did feed work to help connect with the businesses commercial loading zones and passerby loading zones and to make sure that the project was fully assessable so that's on overview of the outreach the next oh, i apologize. i didn't advance that the outreach slide with our meeting we have stakeholder meeting smaller know if groups and the walking tours

the next slide i want to review the treatments we're proposing along the corridor we'll have overwhelm support for the pedestrian treatments i won't spend time on those slides what you're seeing i'll note the treatment are demonstrated to reduce the collisions we're sure those are the solutions those are continental sidewalks for the pedestrians when they're no the crosswalks to insure with the vehicles are not encroaching the pedestrian space this next slide is illustrating the pedestrian intervals and day lighting overseeing sdrarlz powder time to give you the pedestrians a head start about the vehicles start koimentd the

intersection the day lighting at the intersection excuse me. again to improve the visibility so far the motors to see the pedestrians. >> the last really pedestrian focused treatment we're recommending pedestrian bubbles so using the analysis from the walk sf selected the location to receive the pedestrian bulks so similar to day lighting it reduces the turning vehicles and very visits the crossing spaces for pedestrians (baby crying). >> not our presentation. >> i hope not it gets better (laughter) so finally we are recommending transit stops be far side transit bubbles the current configuration is the zones for

most of the stops and this creates an unpredictable condition result the vehicle collisions not only between the vehicle and vehicle but muni and vehicle is it also creates a round hook the drives turn around buses through two crosswalks transit bulbs point of privilege they again eliminate that unpredictable condition with the zones between vehicles and muni drivers their having to anticipate what each other a lot do and specific far side bulbs eliminate that right turn hook so this predictable environmentalist is better for everyone and anticipating this human error we've seen on

lombard street and trying to design the streets to eliminate that with that said, we're recommending are designed for driveways has one of the greatest concerns for the community so guidelines identify the bulbs as the best guidelines in san francisco and the guidelines is states that that will be ideal to avoid driveways whenever possible in a perfect world we'll adhere to those but their context corridors an established urban corridor the curves were cut with the number on lombard the current configuration with the near side zones is not working not safe the recommendations of the far side bulbs are not only the driveways

but a bunch of factors the table calls the number of benefits but also the concerns identified by the community west portal - bulbs people will not park in their curve cuts when the passengers are nine out of ten you'll notice that a few of those have pluses and minuses signs there is a concern but staff feels that the final proposal really does accommodate those to the best stent store the netted parking lots the staff talks about the bulbs requires the at least amount of parking and reviewed the near side zones and upgrading those and far and near side bulbs

we're recommending and again, while there are localized concerns we believe that far side bulbs create the predictability excuse me. predictable environmentalist to have safety for all road users and maximize the parking situation. >> and in summary of the engineering treatments discussed that had been condemned on the corridor intersections will receive daylighting and advances limit lines and assessable pedestrian signals at selective locations with the transit bulbs. >> the last few slides about the environmental review and schedule so the planning department was the led agency for the california california environmental quality act and the environmental review so

amongst the traffic and noise impacts and cumulative impacts it was recommended the recommended proposals are beyond the scope of the transportation effectiveness environmental impact report and no significant compacts were modified of identified i want to note we know the grant the active transportation program is going to be state money not federal in which case we will not need to do the california environmental quality act review process so the environmental review is complete with ceqa and finally the schedule action today, we will be able to install the near term treatment this summary summer the more pedestrian the paint and signal work

we would finish the designs with caltrans and the process by the spring of 2017 start construction that summer and then caltrans will start their repaving in the summer of 2018 we'll wrap up construction so with that, is there any questions. >> thank you, ms. hunter director any clarifying questions before. no, i think we'll take public comment >> madam chair the first 3 speakers are (calling names). >> thank you. >> you suspect we have people they're first time joining us at the mta you have a limit of 2 mimics if you look at down the first soft chime thirty

technologies e seconds and the louder i'm firmly ask you to wrap up your remarks. >> ma'am. >> i'm actually here representing dr. roger he is a veterinarian and owner the marina pet hospital on lombard street he's been there since 1990 the hospital was founded by doctor carol the marina pet hospital is one of the oldest small businesses in san francisco providing the same services for the neighborhood the same location however, there are somewhere between one and 50 to 2 had had small businesses along with a hundred thousand cars over 10

thousand local residents service providers, employees, and tourists all doing business and ash seeking services on loovmd every single day but as of today, the sfmta has not done one study to evaluate the impact of their decisions that on the lombard corridor the small businesses in the let alone the impact of the people that shop or seek services from those businesses they have not yielded notified any small business of the changes they're proposing and i did not believe they intend to do so that's all he had to say. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> marseille alexander and (calling names)

hello, again directors allison park marseille alexander the president of the board and walk sf on behalf of the walk sf i'm here to express our support for the lombard safety project as you may know lombard is a pedestrian high injury cords thankfully that project contains many pedestrian safety features last week leading the pedestrian intervals that gives me the pedestrians a a hundred start that increases the pedestrian visible and decrease the crossing distances and this is higher pedestrian visible and the daylighting we thank staff for pushing the features the project and moving forward we would like to see more labor projects including fwlrg the vehicle volume and speed on the corridor question ask i support

that and all it's safety features. >> thank you, ms. alexander. >> next speaker. >> excuse me. >> it is german i'm matt i own 1735 lombard student we are discussing the issues with the moving the bus stops and in my situation we're talking about going from the september 11th west to the southeast side of the intersection of lombard and laguna i have several neighbors with businesses and parking building in stretch the bus stop move and the bulb out particularly with issues of access for the tenants owners,

clients of the businesses and service providers will be affected by the changes the status of that stretch of sidewalk 200 plus feet we've gone to the sfmta meetings i want to mention they didn't approach us until that was already in place and not before that i wish that they would listen to the community more we have been with them on the walk through tours semiwe have talked with them they acknowledge there is taking our concerns into their concerns i don't see anything that convinces we otherwise they plan to go ahead with what they're doing the bus stop is next to carl we will banker on the does the lombard and they should keep it there thank you. >> thank you, sir.

>> next speaker. >> (calling names). >> overwhelm to speak today about the americans with disabilities act and how moving that bus stop from the southwest to the southeast corner of lombard and laguna will seriously inhabit assess for people to people's homes and people's businesses i have health issues i have disabilities my service providers need to park in front of my house to provide services to me if i'm a micro could say up up and down the corridor than so be is it i am a pedestrian but i can die in my house if those services are not provided to me that's it thank you. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> mr. norton.

>> your time is running, sir. >> okay what i had for you is okay. it's up okay - >> the whole question of being safety first is really an encompassing questions at the corner of lombard and - no driveways for 200 and 10 feats on the northeast corner there is plenty of room there for daylighting and there's no driveways i want to fulfills that to you on the corner of the northwest 2112 and 14 two driveways the middle of the

proposed bus stops themselves there's one and 48 feet with two driveways there so if you put a car in that driveway that car will block the entire sidewalks and block the transit bulbs and extend into the lane of traffic an on and on coming car or truck must swerve to get out of the way of the parking lot as i'm trying to get into my driveway there is a nice looking man that is the lane of traffic in summary a minimum of 11 state and federal and local agencies do not put stops in front of the driveways it is dangerous and views are obstructed the transit bulbs will block that i'll skip and

say there is one final question you tell me how could this possibly. >> thank you, thank you mr. norton. >> next speaker >> good afternoon i want to talk about pedestrian safety on fillmore street from a slightly different prospective i will also mention we've brought you petitions signed by 6 hundred and 50 strrmdz on lombard signed the businesses by an owner or an employee a customer or someone that lives on the street they're not here obviously by the we represent them met 4 times with the san francisco municipal transportation agency to bring them study that shows you putting the bus stops in front of the driveways is difficult

and this last message this was the e-mail based on the package of improvements white blood cell the benefits for the bulbs to help the traffic flow and efficiency justifies the trade off the word safety is not the sentence or e-mail the two trade offs are pedestrian safety that is the 11 studies show that people can get hit awhile back up of a driveway and pedestrians shouldn't be waiting in front of of a driveway we support there are great features i don't want to name but we don't support of placement of the bus stops that are 26 buses that will be stopping at multiple times evidences here morrey about the book thing i can't believe with the corners being as dangers as

you say they are you'll low left turns are right turns it is one of the san francisco's 12 environmental impact reports where it can't be mitigated with the pedestrian improvements that will fetish traffic negatively say no left turns and no right turns. >> thank you (calling names). >> my name is kathy o can he have the lombard street calls for the removal or reform of 46 parking spaces that is 42 percent of the current available parking and terra that comes from the berkley study news she's the owner of terrace and berkley that says the store sales after the parking spaces

in front of her store was lower than the previous year and the month of january the plan calls for moving bus stops in front of the small businesses causing undue negative impact and from berkley terry terrace moving the bus stop may have made the traffic situation less effective because customers of stores like terra make quick purposes and delivery trucks were forced to doufshg along the bus zone the video that was posted online you can see one such scenario in which a bus leaving the alcatraz bus stops pulls into on and on bus stops to get around 11ly parked cars on the northeast street where are the studied of lombard

plan on small businesses they don't exist also the bronx times from new york in february the merchant in bronx joined the community board to call on the state city for the sanctuary for the newly installed bus stops the merchants are concerned the lost parking spaces will impact the businesses there was more trash around the bulbs and mohammed owner the w convention store in front of of one of the new bulbs said that was liv. >> thank you, thank you. >> (calling names) parking space marina merchant. >> we have studied support most of pedestrian safety the project that was on lombard they have to be considered together

they're less than 200 feet apart we are opposing the projects for the same reason the projects we a don't follow the transit policy not address the quality of life and viability of the neighborhood and san francisco by removing the stops in front of large buildings in front of small retail believes is denied their civil rights the equal rights for the act all people with disabilities must be addressed the project did not follicle building code because it doesn't address all the forms of disabilities those projects don't follow the fair housing act and the housing act with the safe assess for line up on the screen side of the room and quality of life and including

medical assess those projects will cause loss of jobs by denying access to bmw's and loss of parking rove the stops on scott and denied the civil rights of the elderly to be able to washer walk in a reasonable distance to buy the goods and have a quality of life they don't follow the transportation act and highway 101 and second white zones denying public assess and piecemealing events, and we - los as far back as 1995 that will exasperate the issues here's - >> thank you copy. >> next speaker, please. >>

(calling names). >> any good afternoon i just have some comments regarding these moving the bus stops essentially ideally transit stops should be 200 feet away from existed driveways and curve cuts number one extra driveways require the pedestrians pedestrians to wait in the driveways elevating the fact that pedestrians can be hit if people going in and out of the driveway and bus stops not within the proximity of the driveway and never basis a place a bubonic bus stop that forces pedestrians to wait in front of the driveway those are all things that are not considered with this project at that point

locate the stops and pedestrians don't light and some major issues i had my building there on lombard since 1977 and you know basically what they're doing is wanting to take away my derivative essentially by putting in this bus stop and not having a curve cut so i strongly am opposed to this project. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> put it down sfgov will you turn it on. >> it's up to sfgov. >> okay. >> after my first meeting with kevin chu. >> are you the gentleman. >> yes. in we were september of last year i've challenged

them to give us proof of adding a bus stop to lombard street they've not proved that outweighs the negative impact on the traffic situation they've not done studies and they've never come to us for our advise as to how to effect our business on illustrated on the map 3 turn from van ness to lombard as a major state highway unfortunately, one lane that makes a left turn on van ness from lombard and this is a major artery for commuters and golden gate tour buses and downtown to the fisherman's wharf the major attraction i like to think that the engineers were wise enough to avoid adding unnecessary

buses to the burden of the left turn they did if you look at here on the chestnut streets the thirty bus line the busiest a bus stop on every corner the engineers showed wisdom so have bus stops on vaping for the sufficient service also away from the main street the van ness and lombard the engineers for this current project team adding the stops on laguna and golf will extend the 28 bus line to be more efficient that concept is not necessary adding the stop to laguna does not address convenience to the street fillmore was a previous stop and 3 blocks away how does that add to the bus stops. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>

(calling names). >> good afternoon directors i was born and raised in the city and i've been here quite sometime city of san francisco is really great for the independent small businesses and tourism the major source of the city as well we have not yielded seen studies from the mta regarding the virtual nor any impact studies yes, we're in favor the pedestrian safety and not just lombard street but not mean we take away the white zones and putting bus stops in front of businesses and sdroifrz they've been running ordinary person chestnut street and don't have to be reroute with lombard a stat highway you know accidents

happen and drivers pedestrians not looking but still yes, we need the safety you know those bulb outs they say sometimes you can't see them that was raining heavy one night you couldn't see the bulb outs so please, be save in that matter before the voted today it needs to be taken cerebroc and keep the buses running over chest nut streets before you want to do everyone needs to be notified and due diligence about they start any projects and the mta didn't did that they slammed it on the small businesses or residents has any project on their own property and the neighbors have to be notified to get their permits there should

be no exceptions with the mta they didn't get the permits no anything from any - >> thank you. (calling names) >> good afternoon the project conduits includes taking away 47 practices and it includes taking away white zones from small businesses and putting a bus stop in private driveways and difficult to find parking on lombard street with 42 percent of parking spaces it will be 42 percent more difficult to find parking even the residential areas that are streets on boo both sides of the lombard and residents will experience more difficulty finding parking and with the

scarcity it is a particular business on the corner of golf and lombard is necessary we have guests parking to help the elderly and checking on passengers and at a minded no other parking space available taxis will drop off passengers and deliver food e the hotel has delivery of weekly maybe even monthly and in which the company trucks temporarily park to deliver their supplies and having the white zone taking away the trucks will not have a place to park or park on the streets causing more traffic and as those of us who run the small businesses know and live on lombard know that summertime is peak time for tourists season and people from all over the

world shop in our shops and dine at the restaurant and to be short it will be an convenience for residents and businesses. >> thank you. >> thank you, sir next item, please. >> (calling names). >> hello jody harris i live the marina. >> i'm sorry michelle is next and diana scott thank you. >> the gentleman is not here howard, diana peter straus. >> good afternoon howard speaking for it is true i first want to thank mary for presenting you with a very good plan i want to speak to one little part of this the crossing

of lombard includes put the white guy on to start the walk before traffic i'll suggest you did same thing i tried to do that with transit planners crossing the side streets in this case you delay the pedestrian from going so people can make the right turns and get out of away of the bus i don't want to kill cars we have to move ism or them out of the way and one things that mary forgot one of the advantage you can use your transit signals and now be able to use them that will add for liability and maybe golden gate put the same commit and use it those signals what could can be smarts you may have to wait

but certainly adds quality i look forward to see how you build those parking idles with the boarding when i do it on 19th avenue i'll have to solve the problems on judy you don't have to have a length broadly island and i think it through this one will be at the rear doors and this one is where interest as driveway none has to wait and stand in front of a driveway to get run over but have a raised boarding idles we have to take those steps for too long oh, where should we put a bus stop we'll put it - >> thank you very much. >> thank you, sir (calling names). >> okay i'm go to go talk to some of the

advantages of the near side bus stops the should ideally be used where driveways or alleys make far stop locations problematic problematic that is urban design guidelines national association of transportation officials and also federal transit administration talks about near side stops result in the width of the intersection being available for the drivers to pull away from the curve and allows passengers to board in while the bus is stopped at a red light additionally several different transportation authority's talk about providing the driver with the time the opportunity to look for ongoing traffic with other buses with potential passengers that is important to me when i'm making a connection additionally

near sided locations allows the transit users to load the trishgsz minimized the zaps to connecting services some of the far side disadvantageous including having to run across the street to catch a bus they may result in sgshgsz being blocked by stopping buses they can cause a bus stop to far side after stopping for a red light when interferes with both bus operations and other traffic they may increase the number of rear end accidents since drivers do expect them to stop and stop the intersections when the bus is stopped in travel lanes and

skipping some second a second bus entering - >> thank you (calling names). >> good afternoon period of time straus on the bed-and-breakfast san francisco board riefrdz i urge your support of this this is an important corridor for the 28 and golden gate transit that is an important corridor bus stops at drivers are upcoming 12ki6sh8 but we're in a built up city and frequently need to weigh the balances and come up with the least the at least bad you know and the best solution golden gate this is frequently imperfect but this is primarily about first and foremost about the transit and bus riders not

when torment and about the improvement of pedestrian safety open lombard there is a critical concern i want to sort of follow-up on something that ms. lucas said about taraval we're upset been the compromises in some cases the excessive compromises being made to projects before it they reach our board and i would urge you to not compromise any of the important features of this proposal i urge it's approval thank you. >> thank you, mr. straus next item, please. >> (calling names) good afternoon again commissioners i'm basically going to request a continuance on item 11 and 12 while there are more stusdz done on the situation we have

particular concerns with the merchants i'm going to speak about the changes that is all have on the health of the community of small businesses on lombard and chestnut that served the neighborhoods for decades the merchants don't trust the project plans that are considered we said that the neighbors and merchant met with planners and commissioner pearlman and his staff a number of times and suggested the solutions they can live with but their ideas have been ignored with the established business people they can predict how their customers will rack and concerned about the need for pickup and delivery services and the lack of care of over low income egress to existing parking spaces and driveways they can't function in

an environment we need the net for loading them i was on a mission yesterday, i actually look around on 16th street and mission there are so - at least half a more produce markets open mission around 16th street how will they get their delivery they have the red in parking zones they double park into the lane with the traffic is so they can take their produce to the market which is right there and this is the same thing you want nice restaurants the city the license plates is coming from st. clair. >> thank you next item, please. >> thank you.

>> (calling names). >> good afternoon, board directors cheryl brinkman and director ramos. >> i'm the director of small businesses and recognize that is unusual to be addressing you in public comment our commission at the last minute add to the agenda a presentation from the lombard street coalition we had our commission meeting last night so the commission directed me to have a letter to you requesting an appointment on postponement and appreciate being afford the opportunity to have a full presentation on the project as the mission to foster and promote small businesses in understanding how the project is going to address the business needs in terms of yes, in making

improvements with the parking reduction but how the parking reduction is taken place and more importantly the deliveries and the business needs for the businesses along that corridor the mission commission fully recognizes our per recognize to not to take argue requests into consideration we'll know for the future i've reached it out the tmc and for the commission to receive a standing monthly meeting or standing presentation from the department it kept apprise to the projects that are take place in the merchant corridors so i'll not standing before you at the last minute for our requests. >> thank you. next speaker. >> he's the last person that turned in a speaker card on this

matter. >> i'd like to address the transit first from the san francisco charter as it relates to the lombard project the number one item under that transit first policy is in red to assure the quality of life and economic health in san francisco the primary objective must be save and a movement of people with goods my comments on this with respect to lombard corridor project the quality of life this degrades the quality of life for most important stakeholders of the lombard corridors the recipient will have reduced services and access to private prompt and business owner will have reduced customer revenue

and business customers will have reduced assess to the parking space and increased parking did the and results the loss of jobs, pedestrians in some cases will be forces to see the situations you've seen earlier from the photos and private vehicular traffic will be involved in increased transit time and extended rush hours as the buses on the comment of economic health this proposal is anti small business results will be economically negative to the many small businesses located adjacent to the larry juicy edmond corridor that overwhelm conclusion of a vast majority of the small business owners and as has to do with with the sofa efficient movement of the goes and - we all could have read that i'll go to my

collection and observation this project is not retina ready for prime time not vetted. >> thank you. next speaker. (calling names) who will be the last person to speak. >> herbert wiener one thing that really concerns me the concerns of the neighborhood and the businesses that have been ignored by this project and another concern i have is people shop on union street to the cal hallow area sometimes they have to walk to lombard street your focusing the whole neighborhood and have you consulted with the police about this you know, do you consultant with the police department at all? and it undermines the fact it mta members should have taken

over parking and traffic into the police department they should be more realistic people are punished for living on lombard street and doing business on lombard street people should in the be punished for living there and conducting business i'm wondering where is the chamber of commerce on that do they support mta cart blank or take them to task they should do it in this case >> thank you, mr. wiener. >> mr. harris welcome back. >> born and raised in san francisco i truly love this city this report is very interesting you have moving bus stops and pedestrian safety and bulb outs and handicap issues i want to point out i walk on chestnut and drive chest unnecessary nut at

any one time i see through double parkers on the three or four block stretch if something that can be done to enforce the laws that will address all the issues the report thank you. >> thank you very much mr. harris any more speakers. >> kathy harris. >> thank you good afternoon, commissioners i'm kathy i think that the lombard transit bicycle should be set back to the drawing board and not adopted the staff materials state that the materials that the transit bulbs reduce the speeds by 14 percent every street is not the same you should study the projection of this as part of 101 that is heavily traveled and

study the degree of increase the particular from vehicle slowing down the effective areas it it will established cars traveling slower emit the black suit that collects on windowsills i've seen this in the abag they've recognize the parcels will result as part of city slow down i've not heard an acknowledgement of the reduction in air quality the city or the lombard areas that is caused by the policies the staff report and if 80 staff is not provided the information you don't have adequate information upon which to base a decision i've driven the city all my life i'm a native lucky to be a native and never done the bus the hook maneuver and not aware of the

significant threat but the most dangerous thing has been bicycles dwlog stop signs i myself had a situation i was turning respect the blinker on and bicyclist come from the south of the block down the hill at a rapid amount of speedy luckily saw him, i was carefully looking in the mirror i stopped or - >> thank you. i wish all the motorists were as safe as you seeing none, public comment is closed directors i'm sure we have questions for ms. hunter if you would to come up to the podium your discussion i was at the vision zero conference if new york city it give me a fresh commitment to the work and made we realize we have a moralism

pester and a moral responsible to doing everything we can to prevent pedestrian injuries and deaths as we know from the doj report that's been a bad year in san francisco we have a lot of over repetitive policies we've put if place through a lot of meetings and spent hours going through the policy goals shaping policies to achieve the safety goals i recognize there is going to be a occasional inconveniences when we make changes to reach the greater goals the first thing i'd like to ask ms. hunter i'll go ahead and start the question of the relocation of curve space that comes up when we talk about a project and we manage curve space have we reached out to the merchant and managing the loading zones the white zones

and parking meters to make sure we are maximize missing the ability to the transit idle. >> the legislation you'll notice we're rome a number of zones and the project engineer reached out to the folks for the merchant if they're using them and if so where we can relocation them and that's part of progress yeah. >> could you remind us the white loading stones were put in at the request of the merchant; correct? >> i believe most of them with commercial and yellow loading curves. >> i am i'm going to turn it over to directors question. >> i want to make a few points i guess mr. hunter one of the points i'll ask is from my understanding even the economical yellow zones and the white zones can be installed

replacing meter spacious am i correct? >> yes, and is there an approach to talk to some of the merchant about taking away some of their zoning district to put in the white. >> the parking lot is part of progress so we've identified excuse me. some of the general meter spaces are remembered with the commercial loading spaces the 46 spaces i want to be clear i believe i heard tom mention 42 percent of parking that is alarming we're retaining offer 95 percent of parking on the corridor and cross streets just to be clear the 46 of over one thousand. >> 46 over one thousand i think for me some of the things i want to make sure we're communicated when staff goes out to talk to the community and what have you do you folks have

they heard some the opponents heard about the racial behind making service faster and more efficient so that is reduced the cost of operations reduces traffic time and gets people out of cars, freeze up parking spaces so people can actually have a competitive mod to get into the as opposed to people don't feel they can take the bus do you have a portfolio i don't hear anyone talk about an alternative that like fine the way it is and not clearly not we have more demand and accommodate things differently than 1910 or however long those businesses are around do you guys have a portfolio or go over this.

>> transaction the foundation is pedestrian safety and we have highlighted the diversities we've gains and i believe about 3 minutes we can stay with the transit bulbs for the far side transit bulbs and want to take advantage the priorities the concerns i have to stop far side and avoid the issues to have the efficiency grains we've seen the auto ownerships drop the transit ryder up we're optimistic that people will be encouraged to take transit more reliable and safer to get to the transit stops we have again made the principle

about safety but transit efficiency has been part of communication and as the region is growing we want to see more people taking transit walking and booking. >> for me i appreciate all the work that you folks have put into that i know many of you made a career of studying this this is not something you talk about at the inn the cafe while you're doing some other job this is what you invested your careers and life and all your time frankly coming up with the best possible proposals and for me, i would love to heard alternatives for how to better accommodate this growth and the growing traffic we're seeing i feel like for me if we don't do a better job of accommodating roads and making transit faster and more reliable and efficient

the alternatives that i think with keeping things the same is to make traffic slower to make that more expensive and to effectively encourage people to have a choice to get out of their cars and make everything slower and including other car drivers when people don't- when transit didn't work fast enough for folks to get to where they want to go thai drive and put pollution and more competition into the air and traffic is sloefr when people are in a hurry they rush and that's what results in pedestrian fatalities or collisions we've been seeing so from my perspective this is the best proposal we have going forward it is not detrimental

and destructive but a good balance i'd like to seen dedicated lanes the future revisit that and protected bike lanes get people off the sidewalks we hear about a lot more we could have done i like where we are and certainly hope that people understand that the role of the sfmta is to achieve a balance and accommodate the growth the city is experiencing and staying keeping things the same is not an option that will get worse and worse and commissioner avalos is talking about getting more money for the cost of operations that is money not from thin air we'll have to fight over from the general fund and it could be going to other important things so i appreciate staffs work on this i thank everyone for putting their thoughts and their consideration

into this i'm going to be supportive of proposal moving forward. >> thank you director heinecke. >> thank you you said in our presentation that parking spots were being move forward 46 being eliminated or. >> correct it is a net loss of 46 spaces so where we have the near side transit zones that curb space will be made into parking spaces so whereas where we relocation we've take the parking spaces is not necessary loss of 46 but the. >> ross are on the same blocks actually; right? >> yes. >> so i think director ramos submitted the balance we have to strike and the projects my southern is business community here and you never know with

those things whether there was sufficient roach and people are not opposed so they're asking for more cooperation or their was not sufficient notification and involvement in the business community maybe i'll ask the question you've heard the valued business people the corridors saying one gentleman very conserving said this not ready for prime time for the corridor and what measures you've taken to address them that would be helpful to us. >> sure so we had the outreach events for we've developed that stakeholder go up and invite them to participate the walk tourists some of the about his business owners attend and kevin defined this in september

through the the company to discuss the prospective of the businesses again one of the concerns we've heard from the business is parking lots and the current recommendation don't maximize retention to the fullest stent to keep 9 near side transit zone we'll avoid the driveways, of course, by effective take twice as much parking like the curb space to have full transit zones and even though location will take the curve space and trying to balance those regina we're happy to meet with the small businesses group and explain how the parking changes as well as the loading zone we've identified where the loading zones will be located through the businesses i've requested i need this like to keep it where

can you put it that's - >> i guess what i'll say i mean, i don't take lightly a request from other agency for them to do more work i suspect you've heard that many our recommendations we go forward will you please let me know but if so the recommendation we should at least tell the people that is not the end we can make accommodations you come to us and certainly work with the agency to make sure that you know again i am not we've said that maximums i hear that people think that is it that's the way it is going to be but that's not it we can modify as we go forward i want our business community to come to us i think maybe i'll ask for staffs

commitment to work with the community and agency to see if from if there are other things to address the comments. >> we'll be had that to the good to the small business commission and present the project but there's a probably two main categories of concerns the public comment one of them the location of the bus stops in front of driveways and one parking loss those two are as described intentively we building we can maximize the safety benefits and maximize the other benefits but it places the zones in front of driveways and two or three of the directions along the stretch find lombard. >> those are not buses sitting

there. >> that's correct. >> so we'll absolutely continue to work as we have in other projects with individual businesses who may have floating issues we've been able to accommodate we've done the accommodations the parking and traffic moving around the white limousines ebt to work with the businesses along the corridor or any other to address side needs. >> thank you director heinecke for bringing that up that is a good model going forward and not good for us to go great the small business commission to present feel to them. >> director borden. >> any concern about the driveway situations and currently there their bus stops that block the drivers are we creating more situations. >> we've been yeah. most of

the near side zones avoid the driveways that is a new condition but gay because the exit condition is not work well the near side balance again, we're weighing the trade offs and understanding the local concerns versus the weight of all the pedestrians, all the traffic traveling on lombard and the buses so making sure we're not case by case all the safety for parking i mean it seems to me we have for parking spaces this is great but to the extent it is pedestrian safety that is concerning to me and the trade offs. >> right as explained the transit shelters are you know not in driveways certainly we're not encouraging people to stand in driveways people walk through the driveways their through the crosswalks but people are going

introduce 9 crosswalks the shelter locations will be along the corridor right now people stand next to driveways all the time so and we are trying to eliminate this existing treaty of pedestrian collisions and vehicle collisions with a more predictable far side location. >> do we have experience in other corridors there are bus stops along the parking spaces and have issues the complex areas. >> the parking spaces or drivers i mean driveways. >> yeah. actually a number on visa ders on chestnut and divisadero we haven't had any fatalities there. >> i should adds on the 28 at least where i get on and off the 28 they're pulling up in front of the gas stations there are

driveways along 19th avenue and the bus stops you you know gas stations have cars in and out of them all the time that is their mode of operation and we regularly pull up in front of the driveway and block the derivative the bus does and the pedestrians handle that we don't stand in the way of a driveway when cars are in and out. >> yeah. i guess we have people hit every single day we're not trying to hit people but making sure we're not creating a safety conflict and obviously we've heard that people care about the parking sounds like more than the driveway issue if this the alternative we'll go with i'll say we monitored in general those conflicts that does concern me having the stops

especially like lombard so much traffic people turn quickly to get in and out of the traffic that streets 101 is different than divisadero and don't have all the flexibility but so completely so, i mean all of those things we should be careful and think about how we do the signage in those areas maybe reminders in those areas about cars and things like that you know looking out for the conflicts and concerns in terms of i know we'll have other controlled with merchant being successful and interesting we have the lottery career overflow room people want to lock their car and people come and pick up your car and bring it to you now ways to get around

by transit my restaurants are booming and not concerned about that aspect but you know chestnut street is a commercial corridor i lived in that neighborhood for of years as well a block from lombard anyway, i'm supportive like i said, we should continue the dialogue to make sure they said and people understand what is going on to make sure we've taken care of of the loading issues on admissibility i've seen double parked cars loading and unloading an lombard street but that will be an issue. >> thank you director borden you bring up the interesting point things what if anything we have bus stopped flofrnt gas

stations we've seen the gas stations go away at a shocking rate who is to say that used rue right now that didn't have a driveway might not but it sounds like everyone got their concerns addresses motion to approve do i have a second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? the i's have it. that item passes i want to thank the public for coming out, i know this is a big change for your streets i want to recommit to the fact that the staff will continue to work with the businesses to accommodate the curve side spaces as much as we condition it is a reoccurring issues. >> thank you to the private citizens i know that is a bit of a change for you and hopefully, will workout well and you'll not suffer ill effects i appreciated you're taking the time to come out thank you.

>> in essence item. >> item 12 amending the transportation cod for the transit only from chestnut to one and 50 street the northbound direction and north bound to chestnut in a southbound directs for approving the traffic modifications along the thirty and stockton transit corridor. >> thank you like we have mr. kennedy to present this one. >> game-changer directors my name is shaun kennedy moving forward program manager at the sfmta here today to talk about chestnut street role quickly as a muni forward for the promotions we're working on the george cords corridor to achieve the safety and on 7, 8, 9 performances so here's a map of where