really not good in any sense, okay. now, in terms why there is so much pigeon poop on the bus shelters, it is because the overhead electrical cables do not have ant pigeon jell on them. that is pg and e property. however, i think that sfmta needs to look into bird sensitive sound repellent machines. there is latest device to stop birds landing on this property and roosting there. i'm in touch with barbara garcia from department of public health to declare this a public health emergency. you need to get on regular cleaning of the bus shelters.

>> denise louis followed by [inaudible] >> good afternoon. glad to see mr. hsu here from the west portal association and want to say i really appreciate muni. it gets me where i want to go. for years i have been saying thank you to the bus drivers and for the past yearo so i have been hearing other people do the same. i'm here to ask you about landscaping in san jose at bal bowy park station. the last i heard mt deciding on a mediterranean pallet. prior to that asked that native plants be planted where possible in dpw project along ocean avenue. since the area i'm referring to has not been planted, and dpw is assisting

mta with landscaping planning here, and since the landscapers must yield to your desession on the pallet i ask you to reconsider. i ask you to [inaudible] environmental correct and what neighboring stakeholders have asked for. is there a particular person with mta i can talk to about this? >> we'll make sure to have somebody follow up. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> marry aliza followed by car lumetser and paula katz. >> good afternoon. speaking on behalf of the tar vel. the tarival project [inaudible]

delivering 87 comments and ask that you scanned a e-mail to the board members along with the statement. 70 of these comments oppose the elimination of tarival stop. the staff will not forward these so like to make sure you get them another way. before you next meetding we urge you to read the public comments and listen to the audio of the public hearing. other 50 people took time off to attend the hearing that was triple the number usually ateneding. when you read the staff report before you next meeting we urge you to keep in mind the vast majority the written and verbal comments supporting keeping the tarival stops. there are many [inaudible] about the various hardships their family members inclulding elderly parent and parent face if they lose these stops. many opposed the loss of parking on tarival and

proposed transit only lanes and perpendicular parking on san tiaugo. a large number also support what the community calls, the tarival plan which calls for establishment of a 6 month pilot program of early implementation followed by community input before approval. the merchant will explain this furlther and want to add and believe this will be a universal cry throughout the merchants of the city. this thereis a real problem and also you also mention it isn't just in the mission. the parking and transportation concerns are keeping people from going san francisco merchants. >> good afternoon.

>> okay, hi. carla metsler with save or el tarival stops. microphone. thank you. the el tarival project is scheduled for next meetings agenda. proposal for 9 stops at 6 locations. in the transit effectiveness project final environmental impact report that you approved in 2014 states on pages 2-26 one of the factors to be considered when selecting stop locations removal is valium of boardings and lighting of the transit stop. excuse me. now, this

-okay. the kentucky fried chicken, pub lb library, library, post office and safeway, the stops surrounding 19 lth and tarival which is the busiest stop we are adding a thousand people by closing the stops before and after 19th. a thousand more people every day on 19th and tarival. i think this is dangerous and should be looked at again and it is not what we voted for. we dont want our tax dollars being used to make things more dangerous. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> paula katz followed by tom gill burty and those are the last people. >> what do i do to get this--

there it is. paula katz. i want to make a correction to what carla said t is 2-26 of the final environmental impact report where it states that one of the factors to be considered removing stopicize boarding and lighting at the transit stop. we will give you the average weekly boarding and alignment at tarival for inbound and outbound stops. one thing we hope you can see is this data was collected november 2007 from january 2009 and so the decision to remove stopicize based on data that is 7 to 9 years olds and completely out

of date. sean kennedy agreed the usage probable increased but believes the proportions stay the same. sfmta has no identity if this is true and told we can't do more head counts until next your and maybe when the new lrvs come in. in the areas whereplore housing is build or stores open usage will increase than other stops. in addition the staff said because the study is so old they can't access it and have no way of finding out when the study was done over what day or hours and doesn't include weekend. when the new lightrail vehicles we can track use r usage we urge you to put them on the tarival line as soon as possible and obtain up to date and accurate findings.

this is incorporated as part of the pilot program that the merchants propose at part of the plan. i like to give you these documents. >> tom gillbirty. >> tom gillbirty. i was going-i remarked about the elevator ativan ness and thinking while we were gone that it was going to be the definition of rank. when you say something is truly rank was a slang word and that-i can't say that now because i used it and it shown the effort of being maintained a little better. i would love to have it steam cleaned and love the carpet to come up and take a look underneath. i hope

probably it dirt is holding it together and triing to get rid of that sooner that later because of property changes. i also want to applaud the mechanics on the old buses. i have been very good for long time. the mechanics on the light-rail very very good and i am using my standard of when the doors open there is a floor expansion that comes up. [inaudible] tipping my hat to mechanics. next we got a number of seats we are losing, the standees we are getting. we are always losey seats with the new cars and looking like we are doing herds into subways and into the early 1950's and 60's of new york city and don't like the way the new light-rail are going. corridors are now a

big word. a couple years ago cumulative was the big word. cumulative amount of traf ic. third street in the rails are going to restrict the amount of people we can allow to live there. your voices have to come up aletal higher on that. we have to slow down for the bridle on uncontenses growth. last week i call ded [inaudible] for cleaning too. >> mr. chairman that is the last person to address matters in the jurisdiction of mta and not on todays agenda. move toog consent calendar. all items considered [inaudible] member of had board wishes to have aiteal severered and considered separately. i have not heard you like to have a

item severed but the public asked item 10.3 be severed. >> is there a motion on the consent calendar minus 10.3? all in favor say aye. 10.3. >> cristina varner followed by edward mason. >> good afternoon. my name is cristina vrner. i strongly urge you not to establish a week day morning shuttle done on san jose between valley and 9th street. my family lives on this block and va3 your old son. we already live on one of the dirtiest and busiest streets in san francisco where we witness accidents involves vehicles, cyclist and pedestrians. the pollution

levels are high. the shuttle buses are nysy and enormous and block views. the exhaust creates unbreveth air and trophic congestion. the residents-the full loan tree that helps create breatheable air for residents on this block will be damaged by the buses pulling to the curb. i understand it is proposed to be trimmed but need the whole tree t. is a shame that to see that dpw exempted this from environmental review because it effects our environment. i want to draw your teengz to page 3 of staff report. the shuttle bus stop takes away the use of 5 to 6, not 4 parking spots which are especially permitted for residents. the city should refund the cost of the parking permit through may

31, 2017 because the point is park in the spots all day and now it is impossible to do so. there is a existing commuter shuttle spot on valencia and 26th street and additional stop doesn't need to be created in front of our house. the worker of companies catered to can walk a few blocks to caf a bus. the plan decreases safety by increasing exhaust and nysand tafic. please don't [inaudible] by approving san jose avenue. >> next speaker, please. >> edward mason and mr. chairman that is the last person. >> edward mason. stop removes the residential parking permitinant which is a form of de facto imminent domain. it is a gift of public space for private use and broken contract

with no reimbursement for the people. you have a stop about 2 thousand feet away at valencia and cesar chavez. you eliminate stops by lengthening the walking distances while making these particular stops more veents. convenient. the stop is unnecessary. this is unnecessarily stop and impacts the environment because for every cycle of a bus you have pollution from the break pads and break dust and upon acceleration you have pollution caused by the engine and also the noise. this is got a environmental impact that could be-is unnecessarily if you can walk an extra 2 thousand feet. operation after 10 a.m. for bus operations i have observe buses. there is a bus at 1015

and 1010 and 1035 stopping at the current location. this is going to create unsafe situations if the automobiles are parked after 10 a.m. this will be cause a safety issue with double parking on san jose avenue. in summary, i would recommend that you take a good look at this station as to why these individuals cannot walk a extra 2 thousand feet to the new stop-to is a existing stop at the salvation army that you approved several months ago. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. questions or comments? mr. migire you want to talk about this? >> good afternoon. tom

mcguire. joined by [inaudible] who has detailed answers to your questions. >> good afternoon. so, the purpose is primarily to place a stop that is at san jose is deloris is that is being removed where they are widening the itisland so this is replacing existing stop where we have 57 vehicles stopping during the a.m. period and just serving the a.m. period. >> thank you. thank you mrs. [inaudible] i know when mrs. pain brought the commuter shuttle program she made a point of saying this is a changeable program and it is a living stop thing and we are moving it around and have seen these stops at all most every meeting we had for the past few months. i will go ahead and

support this stop and thank the people who came to give feedback and completely understand how much of a change it for your block face to have a commuter shuttle stop and also want to make request that we take a look at dolores street because i understand dolores street is limited away from it stop. what we have seen in that we hear from the people around dolores park that have a hole in the shuttle program where they are walking for 15 minutes to get to a stop. i think we need to take a look at dolores street and see if the weight limit can be restricted and share the pain on the shuttle stops because nobody wants them and we need them. i make a motion to approve them. >> second that >> the residential parking space is only not available in the shuttle hours but available during the other hours. >> yes. >> thank you mr. chairman. i just want to thank the public

for being engaged in this work t. is important to achieve the best possible program for us to continue to monitor how things work and accommodate accordingly looking at dolores street or what have you. this is a thing that that we hope will have a positive net effect on the community as a whole and certainly sensitive to the concerns that are brought upism namely, the pollution of diesel or what have you. those concerns are very real. i appreciate the fact the shuttles do take away a lot of otherwise car traffic t. is important that we are sensitive but look ought for the entire community so i'll support for this measure but i want to thank the public for being vigilant and encourage more individual laens as the project is implemented.

>> director >> we are taking people out of cars and increasing transit use even in this private form. sorry i'm not familiar with the map out there but is there a commercial space within relative proximity to this area such that we have the stops not in 41 front of a 3 year old home or in front of a business not open and appreciate the fath they bring a lot of people to their block? >> so this is a primarily residential portion of san jose. we looked at numerous locations, mitchells is there primarily commercial use in that area and we did reach out and spoke with them early in

the planning process. their concerns were around the fact that this would block their driveway used for loading during the a.m. period. so we shifted the stop a bit to not block their driveway and also be partially in front of a house and partially in front of empty garden lot to try to minimize the impact but it is challenging given it is primarily residential. >> motion and second to approve. all in favor say aye. opposed? ayes have it. >> regular agenda mr. chairman. item 11, approve parking and traffic modifications along folsom street between hawthorn and embarcadero involved in the folsom street streetscape

project. >> good afternoon director. greg leaseen and sustainable streets and here to presents the folsom streetscape projeth. exciting project. been working on this my 8 year career. the project goes back further than that and touch on the history. the project sponsored by the office of ocii formally known as the redevelopment agency. it is there project but i'm the mta lead and mta and planning department are active in the streetscape design of it. public workicize construction manager and project planjure on behalf of ocii so big team effort. also have a consultant

team, cmg architects and [inaudible] big team and excited to be hoor. here. 8 years of work so thank you for coming out. sharing the exassignment with me. this is the project site. it is folsom street downtown, between second street and embarcadero. this is a old aerial of the old folsom street under the freeway terminal separator structure. so, everybody knows the old embarcadero free bp way torn down after the earthquake. not everybody remembers the terminal separator which connected to the bay bridge which is the equally structure

in the air. i have scoured all over to find more historic photo's of structures and i really can't find any. it is like people want to forget it existed. i called the cal trans department and had nothing. i did just-couldn't include in the presentation. if you watch the 1958 san francisco cop drama, the line up, you will see-i highly recommend it. the climax at the end takes place on the under construction terminal separator structures so please take a look and get excited about that. there are no other photo's i can find accept there is one i like to share. my friend gave me a great book when i moved to san francisco and a favorite of my kids now. don't know if you can see this. leer sat the bottom you can

cineld kind of see. there is the old structure and this book remarks san franciscans dispice the monstrosity and it was torn down. i'll talk more about the history in a moment but sorry i don't have more photo's of the old folsom street. i do of the new folsom street. this is a rendering and qu walk you through the details. we will convert the street into two way traffic operation with one lane each way. there will be big widened sidewalks with corner bull bout which you can see here. the bull bouts have rain gardens and bench seating and looking into having native plants for the rain gardens because they request is made. this photodoes not show the bike lanes there also which i'll show in a moment. it is

really a long history how we got to this point. i'll walk you through the cross section. this is folsom street, new folsom street looking east bound and i'll walk you through left to right. on the left on the north side, the existing 10 foot sidewalk remains at 10 feet but the high rise and ground floor retail have a 15 book setback mandated so results in a 25 foot sidewalk on the north side of instreet with double row of trees and one block is already built with phil's coffee. there is a 6 foot wide west bound protected bike lane and south of that there is a buffer and south of that there is a parking and loading strip for vehicles to stop where they won't interact with the bikes. similar design as other protected bike ways we

have implemented. south of that thral is the west bound lane and east bound lane and on the south side of the street there is parking and loading and buffer and east bound protected bike lane and sidewalk will be widened to 15 feet. that is the new street, really exciting and this is implemented after the new transit center opens in 2018. ac transit will come out and move into the new elevated bus facility that will enable one lane of traffic each way without impacting ac transit. there is a map of the extents. important note is between second street and spear street is the ocii project which includes the sidewalk widening and all that lovely stuff. mta we are going to restripe the

last block between spear and embarcadero to have protected bike lanes to create the connection between second street to the embarcadero and folsom street is the link. we are build agnetwork of protected boo bike ways with this project and enhancing transit and cars by make tg a 2 way street making it better for local circulation. here is the timeline. this is a abbreviated timeline rel toov the streetscape project and parking and traffic changes seeking your approval. the history of this project goes back a long way. i think when the elevated free way was built people called to have it torn

down. it is worth noting there is a big effort in the late 70's and early 80's to tear down the embarcadero freways. people wanted to tear that down. the board of supervisors approved it in 1985 and the voters overturned that and that was a huge blow to the freeway removal idea. two years later there is a earthquake and the embarcadero didn't fall dow it was damaged and so was the terminal structure so at a very contenses vote the board approved 6 to 5 to tear down the freeway in 91. the people-the advocates try today tear town other freeways. as soon as the freeway was shut down all the traffic

materialized. terminal separator structure and removed in the mid-90's and laid the ground for the rest of my slide which is redevelopment agency known as ocii created redevelopment area in the zone and the removal of the freeway parcels created new lands sold to developers to fund the transit center and fun this project which is $15 million project. it is a long time coming. we are here today with legislation and final approval and then we hope to break ground next year. should take about a year to build so hopefully enjoy the street and riding our bikes and walking along in 2018. here is a overview of the design. i will not walk you through this. again t is from second street

to the embarcadero so the slide is from second to fremont and the bottom is from fremont to embarcadero. i'll zoom in to a example. this is typical of the design. you see-you can't see on this screen but one lane of traffic in each way and protected bike lanes and also install transit boarding islands. muni has a plan to [inaudible] bus route extension at the moment. there is work on there [inaudible] it will happen here so we are building boarding islands so the buses will not conflict with bikes. that's it. that is my presentation. >> excellent presentation. members the board? >> great presentation thank you

very much. it was nice to be reminded of the history of that freeway. when i worked at [inaudible] after the earthquake we would walk and have our lunch. very fun. i love this project and think the widened sidewalks will be great. if anybody has not tried to go downtown in the last 2 years try it. a lot of the sidewalkerize so narrow you can't walk. i think the wide sidewalkerize fabulous. the parking buffered bike lanes is what everyone is look frg as we heard from mr. star about upper market street. there is such a sense of frustration among cyclist. there is a huge sense of frustration so pleased to see these are going because i

know a [inaudible] crowded urban environment you can't expect 100 percent separation all the time but if we engineering it so we can prevent the [inaudible] i'm so excited about the project, it will be a fantastic addition. no questions. motion to approve. >> veckd. second. >> the buffer like a raised pavement? >> a lot of people asked that. this design isn't raised. the design is for a painted buffer. it is similar to jfk drive or bay street. it is important to know the difference from the second street which will have raised bike ways. the short answer for why we were not able to consider that is because wree have corner bull bouts with rain gardens and it is

designed so the rain water rains into the rain garden so looked how that will work with a raised bike way and it basically wouldn't. we are excited. the corner bull bouts and rain gardens shorten the crossing distance between for pedestrians and also if we do find-i'm hopeful that car drivers will figure it out to not pull all the bay to the curb and putting thought into the striping and painting to make it clear but if we have issues we can ret row fit qu treatments. >> the things that youthey are like little magnet things you run up against. not a curb, but it sticks to the ground and you can-something that is like a lot of times people if they are parking and not paying attention they pull too far and if there is something like on the freeway and go to the wrong

lane all is a different sound. that type of thing. >> we'll be watching closely how it functions and have it opportunity to install treatments like that. >> i think in a situation like this because this project the parking is outside the bike lane, correct? that make as huge difference because as lang asia see one or two cars parked correctly most people figure it out they are supposed to park out of the bike lanes so i think in golden gate park you see cars parked correctly and one parks incorrectly. i have high hopes this will be working. >> one traffic question and trying . is there a stretch to

bridge access? >> yes. >> yes. we are going from 1 late to 2 lanes >> accept between second and essex street. that isn't changed. >> okay. and so-great. northbound traffic on second will make the right and curl up that way and there is lelft turn restriction. let me cut to the chase, you addressed this and not anticipating this will exacerbate that existed line up? >> correct. >> i think this is very exciting and looking forward to see it played out. the one question is the stretch from spear to embarcadero. was it determined there was enough [inaudible] the only change is the bike lanes? >> yes, it is really just that is the project boundary for the

redevelopment area so thereat is where ocii can spend the money to widen sidewalks. mta or public works can come back and do more sidewalk widening on the south side. the good news there is the gap building on the north side so have the 15 foot set back so the 25 foot wide set back is preserved from the embarcadero to essexs street. we can come back later for the bull bouts and widen the sidewalks. >> i'm supportive of the bike lanes. there is minority andimably a vocal minority in the disability community that pestered me that they need curb back squz there are protected bike lane jz want safety for

cyclist but want to be able to access in our vehicles. the concern is where the buffer basically on jfk as you probably know when you have a blew ue space you can use the buffer to unload and connect to the sidewalk. there are concerns in the community about these going in more and when the buffer is not continuous to the place where you can access the sidewalk. that a complicated thing but wonder if this addresses that or it is a continuous buffer and if we will make a extra to put in blue zones where we can. i don't drive and [inaudible] i know some people in the community are very concerned about the protected bike lanes. >> we put a lot of thought into ark sesable access work wg mta

and public works. all most each block face north and south there will be a new-it isn't a white curb zone but there were be fully accessible loading zone there for everybody and we are installing new blue zone parking spaces as well. both accessible loading and parking. >> great. >> yes, just very quickly. i notice with the jfk parking like the vice chair said, usually the problem starts when one person parks the wrong way and there is a fall though leader sort of mentality of not wanting to disrupt whatever pattern is established. i often wondered if you folks had considered establishing like some kind of signage or stenciling in the buffer that

indicates no parking so that people might see pulling up like where to park or not to park and there is a better understanding of how to dpoo do it. i know that it would be labeerous and maybe ugly to see a bunch of no parking signs at every space but maybe the ones at the top of the block face just wondering if you have thought about that and particularly with respect to when you are going install this one if there is think toog that and what led you to not do it. >> the blue zone spaces we springled the blue zone at the beginning of the street east and west bound because anticipate those being parks with a vehicle. when car is

doing it it is obvious for others how to do it. installing signage in the painted buffer that will be tough because we can't use the street sweeper. >> like painted on the [inaudible] you have stencils and imagine a p with no parking or something to that effect. >> we can go back to the slide and walk you through. so, you can't-so, this shows a spot reserving for bike share stations. this is what the wide zone will look like and still a work in praun progrtss what the striping will be. the idea is this will be a white stripes and shown on black on the paper but are white stripes. this is a white passenger zone. i hate

saying that. here are the yellow spaces which are for truck loading and this is the painted buffer. we are planning as of this moment to use our traditional parking t's to make it clear thris is a metered parking space. these are for trucks. up here where it is a white zone, there is no t's because you don't park there t is just for louding. we have put thought how this work squz we are doing other protected bikeways as we innovate this. the bottom line is we have a idea and watch it very closely and if we need to install rubber curb segments or better signage we haven't done the sign plan yet and will be mounted on the street lights just the typical no parking. we need to develop a sign if it says this is floating loading zone, which is brand new. work

in progress. >> what i'm implying with this where you have the slash, diagonal white buffer zone, that is what i suggest considering putting in like a stencil that says no parking in there because for whatever reason sometimes some people do park on that-on top of it in golden gate park on the jfk lanes and creates this sort of line of parking that i suppose is-it becomes a problem i think because that buffer zone is gone and then it is less safe bike lane. i guess what i suggest is consider how you enforce it or not and see if there are lesson to be learned from maybe putting down a stencil that says no parking in the white diagonal slash because people do it all the time, well not all the time-if

is interesting to see if there is a way to get better enforcement there before maybe doing something like that here. >> i do think on jfk there are stencils and say no parking. maybe we need bigger ones and p where a cross out. >> something like that i think will be warranted there. >> thank you very much. excellent presentation. motion and second? >> josey aaron followed by charles defargs. those are the only people who turned in speaker cards. good afternoon. >> good afternoon directors. josey aaron and the new neighborhood organizer with walk san francisco. on behalf of walk sf i would like to express our strong support for this exciting project. i will make the segment more pleasant and safe for everyone. we are excited to see a project that prioritizes pedestrians and

includes features like bull bouts which increase pedestrian visibility, decrease the distance to cross and slow turning vehicles, wider sidewalks which act as a barrier between pedestrians and traffic with landscape. the conversion of folsom to two way traffic which calm traffic. a street that connects people to parks and open space. we are thrilled to see the city building out green connections like folsom with rain garden squz other feature. we love to see the rest of folsom when the folsom howard project is implement to be designed comprehensively with green and traffic calming features as this project. we look forward to many more projects like

folsom streetscape breaking ground soon. >> charles defargs and he is the last person to address you today. >> good afternoon. my name is defarj and campaign coordinator at the san francisco bike coalition. this is a project we are excited about specifically the protected bike lanes from second to embarcadero. souckt of market is one the most heavily bike trafficked areas in san francisco despite being one the most dangerous. the projects sets to transform folsom into a bikeable street something it is not today. the improvements open up the east end of folsom lowing two way bike traffic and providing important north/south connection to howard on main,

beel and fremont. the result is more accessible ceblthed and vibrant for people walk{biking. thank you guys and thank you to greg at mta. this is a great project. >> we have motion and veckd second? >> aye. >> item twevlg, discussion whether to conduct a closed session. motion to conduct a closed session. >> second? all in favor say aye. we will go in closed ession. >> discuss city attorney voted to settle the cases. 14, appropriate for motion to disclose or not disclose the information discussed >> motion to not disclose. >> all favor say aye. we are adjourned. thank you very

much. alright everyone we'll g started. i want to welcome you today. my name is supervisor malia cohen and your district 10 supervisor. how are you? good morning! this is a big day for all of us here. okay,

i want to thank we will have translation today. i want to thank ocia frubeing here from the mayors aufss for doing the translation. okay, here we are, we are gathered at 66 raymond. this is a long time coming. this is process that the mayor and i have been working on the for last 3 years and i want to acknowledge every single community member that has joined us along this journey. thank you. [applause] for over 100 years this building is extremely important

to the community. many people have danced, many people have shared a meal, there are wonderful cultural performanceess here in this building and today we come as a community to celebrate the reopening and rebirth of 66 raymond. thank you. today is not just a about reclaiming this building we lost but

reclaim agsymbolic importance this plaiz holds in the community. i'm proud to stand before you today to deliver a promise that i made to you that the mayor made to you to insure this building was open and it will remain an asset in the community. this building reflects diverse population of the viz valley community. this building will serve everyone from those that live in public housing all the way down to the community members that will join us when the projeblth project is rebuild. so, you

might be wondering what type of activities will be held here in this space. i want to introduce to you a few members of our city family here todayment we have a lot of people we want to recognize. first and for emost the department of aging as well as department of children, youth and families. these two departments alone are going insure that we got services to offer fwraum the kind ergartners to the seniors of the viz valley community.

there men people that are a part of our xhounty that remained steadfast and dedicated to this vision. i want to recognize community leaders. i saw patsy teato and want to recognize [inaudible] doing a fantastic job with the beamen centers. i want to recognize the [inaudible] supporting the viz valley neighborhood. i want to also recognize the leadership, i see

tony from apacc that are here. thank you for the community members that joined us and partnership and stephen i see you. [inaudible] i want to recognize the folks here and able to join us today. i want to bring up to speak a man that delivered on his promises, who is a man i have come to grow to respect and admire his commitment and tenacity. he needs really no introduction, but he is our wonderful mayor, ed lee. please welcome mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you all for coming to

this opening of 66 raymond street. in addition to all the people that supervisor malia cohen just mentioned we just have carmen chew come in as well. she helps make sure we get all the revenue in the city so malia cohen and i can respond spend it. let me tell you a little story about this place because a lot of people through chinese radio and letters and advocacy with supervisor cohens office and

my office to many different channels wanted this place open, but want to explain why has taken a little longer than we had anticipated. a few years ago, this location was put in bankruptcy by the bank. unbenonesed to us because supervisor and cohen and i were working to make sure we got it from sth the bank, the bank sold it to a individual family.

so, about two and a half years ago supervisor cohen and i said, well, we have to sit down with the new owner who bought this through the auction and bankruptcy court to plead the them on behalf our visitation valley and district 10 community that we needed the place for the benefit of the seniors and our families. and so for several months we got in

touch with the owner and their representatives and we discovered that they are a old san francisco family that also listened to our request on behalf of the community. and so, after those many months and after we representing the interest of the city and the community, they agreed to give this property to the city on the condition that we use it for this community's benefit.

the building was not in very good shape. there was a lot of things that were broken. a lot of conditions that were poor maintenance and so part of the condition was that we would use the money that we originally were going to use to buy the building to invest in it so that the real estate department can work with public works and police and fire and human services agency, work with department of aging, work with xhern children youth and family, all the different agencies, work together to make sure we have the building in shape so when we promise to

have a place for people to use, it would be a place that would be in good shape. so, i know that it has taken a little long , but on behalf of supervisor cohen and me and all the departments, i want to thank you the members of visitation

valley community for being so patient to have your own center and to make sure we set it up so there could be meals for healthy seniors and families here. it could be used for kids and childrens plays. we have a brand new floor behind us that will be used for entertainment and for the kids to have. we have a kitchen that works. we have rooms that are safe. no leaky roofs. all of this is all done together because we care about the quality of life of the people who live here. so, we are very

happy not just to open the center, but we have agencies that the city funds and whether it is self help for the elder ly or whether it is the asian pacific community that the board is here. i see many the directors and board members that are here. they will all create and support programs that we fund so that everybody's lives can be enriched here because we know that if there is any communities that feel isolated from the rest of the city, it is not good for the residents and that is why supervisor

cohen and i worked skoe so hard not just to get the space, but our commitment now is going to be that we support all the programs that enrich peoples lives and have the center a healthy place, a fun place, a place that supervisor cohen because i don't dance anymore but she can still dance. she can dance in high heels backwards with carmen chiu and i will sit and watch. and that people have a place where local officers also help keep the community safe. it is place where people can learn how to be citizens and good pathways to citizenship and unit family members rchlt you will see me come down to support all the wonderful programs just like

the bayview opera house. we are never going to allow these communities to feel isolated and abandoned, they are part of the city just like everybody should be. and so with the

support of our office, neighborhood services and support from all the groups, i want to say thank you for everybody's strong advocacy. now you have a safe, a really great location and now i can ask mar lean tran to come and say, thank you rather than, you haven't done yet what you are promised. we delivered on our promise mar lean and she will say thank you i know that as well. thank you everybody. lets talk and have fun and make sure the programs that improve the quaument of life, make sure everybody that is safe. this is now the community center and we are very proud to have done our part to deliver it. let's use this place for all the right reasons and let's have fun. thank you. >> thank you mr. mayor for

those wonderful words. i appreciate the mayor taking a moment and walking us back in time reminding how far we have come when we lost this location and we went and fought and got it back. thank you for your support. there is a couple things i really want to talk about and we have speakers that will touch on it in depth. one thing i have been hearing in the community is there a certain this place will be exclusive to one segment of the neighborhood oppose today opening up for everyone. there mayors staff and i have taken

careful steps to insure that this is go tog be a location for everyone. the viz valley community has a very rich history they share with multiple cultures and this community we need to come together, we will come together and this is a space that is going bring us together. i like to bring up sharine mac faden from department of adult-dos, what is that? aging and adult services. she will talk about the senior programming. she will talk about the rfp process. i want to make sure the space is utilized from morning to sunset. why don't you come up and share with us your vision.

[applause] >> the folks at the door, why don't you come in. there is space along this wall. come on in. come in. it is a fire hazard for everyone to block the exist door so i need everyone to come in and not block the exist.

>> good morning everyone. so i'm delighted to see this room full. i can't believe it. last time i came in this room was empty and still being worked on and can't believe because that was about a month ago, i can't believe everybody pulled this off. but i'm really delighted to see all of the senior citizens in the room today and just ask if you are a senior citizen and proud of that fact, if you can just raise your hands. that is

fantastic. one thing i want to say before i talk about the process here is aging is all about living. and i'm so happy and think all are so happy we have a mayor ed lee and a beard of supervisors today led by supervisor cohen who really support aging is all about living. so we envision great

things to happen here and i just want to start by thanking annie chung who is ceo of self help for the elderly because self help for the elder when we ask them to, jumped to come in here and start the meal services and to start some activities. i just want to thank annie chung and her team for asking so quickly. [applause] i also like to thank [inaudible] and apacc and his team for the services they have been providing for over many years here. and i also like to

thank amor saunt augo and apa for being a fantastic master tenant and thinking about services for seniors and children and everyone between. [applause] and i like to thank my colleague mu aria sue from department of children and families because i think we will have a great partnership.

i just quickly want to say we started serveish meals self help started service meals september one and we are serving generally speaking 80 meals a day here. today i think we had more like 150 but that may be because we have celebrities here today. in addition to the meals we have activities here offered by both apacc and self help for the elderly and those include things like, karaoke and

dancing and exercise classes. but in addition to that, department of aging and adult services have just put out a informal bid for more services and so we are looking for organization to apply to us so they can provide more services in this building because as mayor lee said, we want the building to be used from morning to night. sqump and i

just want to reiterate what supervisor cohen and mayor lee said, this building is everyone. visitation valley has a rich and diverse history and so when we look at the proposals when they come in we will look for really strong partnerships to make sure we are serving all the community. so i just want toened my reminding you aging is all about living. [applause]

>> thank you there are a few community partners i want to acknowledge. i want to recognize our outstanding police department, the ingleside station in particular that patrols the streets of visitation valley. we have officers here with us. thank you vaer much for being here sfpd, we appreciate you. i also want to recognize department of real estate that was this incredibly instrumental helping negotiate the property and want to acknowledge john gaven from department of real estate. and

finally, i also want to recognize adembly men david chiu, he is where us every step of the way when a member the board of sfr visor squz now a representative for saf san francisco and sacramento. he has two staff persons here who probably don't need introduction mr. chan and [inaudible] the next person i like to introduce is dr. maria sioux who is the director of department called department of children, youth and families. she is considered the expert here in san francisco when it comes to early childhood

education and programming, summer program. dr. sue will help us program the space for our children. [applause]ue who is the director of department called department of children, youth and families. she is considered the expert here in san francisco when it comes to early childhood education and programming, summer program. dr. sue will help us program the space for our children. [applause] >> good morning everyone. i'm maria and thank you so much for visor cohen for that generous introduction. so today is a wonderful day. i remember 3 years ago standing here with mayor lee and supervisor cohen when they made a promise to this community and their promise was that, we have to close the doors of 66 raymond

today, three years ago, we will come back and make this place better, safer, more engaging and for everyone. today they have succeeded. so thank you so much to supervisor cohen and mayor lee for holding and keeping your promise to the community. [applause] it has

take an while to get here, we are here. i am so happy to be partnering with other city departments, brother and sisters to make the programs here and facilities here as bright and as brilliant as the people who live in this community. so you already heard about all the wonderful program s that will come here for the seniors. let me share all the other wonderful programs we have here for the children, youth and families.

we have over at 50 raymond two amazing amazing partners. first is cross cultural family services and they run a very high quality preschool program and we jointly fund that program with first 5 san francisco, the human services age and department of children, xhoo youth and families. so,

cross cultural also runs an after school program for us and it is also available to all our families here as well as lots of other programs within the visitation valley. thank you mayor lee. so, we also have

apa family services and we are very grateful to have amore san tiaugo here. a pa runs the resource center also open to resident in the visitation valley community. let me tell you about a couple new things we will be doing, more things we will ing bring into this facility and visitation valley community in general. first,

we will be partnering with first 5 san francisco department of human-human services agency and our department to release a joint rfp which is competitive process to put more family services and family support programs here in the community. and then, dcys in july 2017 will release our big rfp for children, youth and family services and that's to provide funding for non-profit agencies

to run after school programs, teen programs, youth workforce programs, health and wellness programs and overall violence prevention programs. i remember when i was in this community talking to the board of dbcc several years ago and they said to me, we will hold you dcyf accountable to making sure that whatever it that you do to help the community thrive you need to make sure we do tit

more in visitation valley and with more commitment and dedication from our staff and i want to share i'm delivering on that promisement . we will allocate funding to visitation valley community and-air yae than other places in the city because we believe the need in visitation valley is really great. we also believe that everyone in visitation valley deserves to have access to high quality programs and services so we can all as a community thrive and be amazing and do better because san francisco, we believe that it is great place to be and to grow up here and let's do this together. [applause] thank you.

>> we are all most done with our program. i like to bring up to the microphone, mrs. luvon king, she a long time viz valley resident and community activist and leader. mrs. luvon king. >> good morning. my name is

luvon king and i moved into this neighborhood 40 years ago. i had a 6 year old and a 2 year old. my husband and my younger brother had been killed . a purchased my first home, it was 4 bedrooms, 2 and a half baths. when people would knock

on the door i would open the door and they would say, where is your mommy. and i would reply, i am the mommy. now, my 2 year old is 47 years old and she works with the san francisco police department. and my son still needs a lot of love and prayer from all of us.

and this center supplied groceries next door, provided childcare. we came in here and had classes and had fun and did dancing and art work so this is a rich history for me i'm a miracle that is happy to be proud of it. i'm honored to be here today and we will continue to mix and mingle. there is no little i's and big u's we are all one big family. you's we

are all one big family. this facility has supervisor cohen said is open to everyone. we want to you to spread the word. there are services for seniors. i'm a senior citizen and malia cohen called me grandmaand i just happen to be nana and happen to be 70 years old and i feel great. [applause] and thank you all

very much. [applause] >> okay, laink ladies and gentlemen i want to say thank you for joining us. we have refreshments we are honored to sirfb you as a token our our appreciation for your patient and kindness and remember today is a celebration for a new beginning and new birth right here at 66 reaened. raymond. thank you very much , have a wonderful day. and before we conclude our program, we will have a ribbon cutting ceremony and i like to bring up our recorder campen carmen chiu

for a short presentation. >> [speaking chinese] >> i'll keep my remarks brief. i want to come out here to say, a lot of the wurk we do bring revenue in is make sure we are able to provide for services like this. for us, being able to provide service for seniors is so important. you raise us when we were liting it is important for us to take care of you as we are able to.

[speaking chinese] [applause]

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the small business commission is also the official forum per policy and projects for people to state their concerns that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. you can visit us here in person or on line and if you need assistance start here. >> item number 1 call to order and roll call. commissioner stephen adams. >> here. >> commissioner kathleen dooley is absent exused. commissioner mark dwight. >> here.

>> commissioner william ortiz-cartagena is abstent. commissioner irene yee riley. >> here. >> commissioner mar mar. >> here. >> you have a 84 up. item number 2 our presenter is not here yet and would you like to move to item 3. >> yes please. >> all right. we will call item 3 forward. general public comment. allows the members of the public to comment on generally on matters that are within the small business commission's jurisdiction but not for today's calendar and items for commission's future consideration. >> do we have any public comments today. seeing none public comment is closed. >> >> item 4 is a presentation and public action to make recommendation to the board of

supervisors for a resolution authorizing for office of small business to expend grants funds in the amount of $100,000 to disdurs grants at the qualified legacy business who apply for the business assistance grant between october 1, 2016 and december 15, 2016 and we have regina dick-endrizzi. >> members you talked about this grant and this resolution is for the office to extend grant funds for any grant application that comes in after september 31. we need to have a resolution by the board of supervisors to approve us expending these funds so before you today is a resolution. i am asking for your approval to forward on to the board of supervisors. one particular note they just want to make is

that while we will not be expending funds up to a million dollars for the business assistance grant but how the budget line item is in terms of the budget for the business -- the legacy preservation fund is $1 million we haven't set a specific allocation for the business assistance grant the city attorney just to make it broad and cover everything has said up to a million because that's what is in the line item budget but we're not expend expending the full $1 million and it's going to the rent stabilization grant so i am just asking for approval to forward this resolution on to the board of supervisors. >> okay. >> is there are any questions -- >> any questions commissioners? no. okay. so we will take public comment on this item. any members of the public to

comment on item 4. seeing none. public comment is now closed. do we have a motion? >> i motion that we approve the resolution. >> >> as written? >> as written. >> i second. >> okay. >> okay. all in favor? >> aye. >> all opposed? okay the ayes have tit's 5-0, two absent. >> okay. let's go back to item 2. >> all right. item number 2. presentation and public action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors file no. 160553 planning code signs exemptions and general advertising sign penalties ordinance amending the planning code to clarify that all noncommercial signs are exempt from regulation pursue to not planning code article six and increase penalties for repeat violations for display illegal general advertising sign and shorten the time for penalties for general advertising sign

vlzs begin with the accrual allow property liens with the penalties that go unhade for the planning department determination under the california environmental quality act and making finding of consistency with the general plan and eight priority policies of the municipal code section and public necessity, convenience, and welfare and section 302 and our representative is from the office of supervisor peskin. let me make sure your mic is on. i am having trouble with this. just one moment. okay. it's almost -- it just keeps flipping me back to this other screen.

just a moment. i'm sorry. okay. there we go. nope. okay. >> thank you. >> all right. am i good to go? >> yes. >> thank you commissioners and president dwight for having me here this evening. i am from kin's office and i will go through the aspects before the legislation before you right now. legislation before you makes to two fundamental changes to the planning code which regulates generals advertising signs in the city. first it clarifies that noncommercial signs signs are exempt from any regulation. this includes religious symbols, informational plaques, non business related flags, and art murals across the city. the reason is that we know that the supreme court

determined we can't regulate those signs in the way you regulate commercial signs provided that you provide legitimate interest in doing so and could and i think this is more critical to what we're talking about this evening the legislature increases the penalties for violations of the existing general advertising sign requirements. to be clear we're not changing any of the requirements. what we're doing is changing the penalties that apply to violations. the reason for this is as follows. in 2002 when voters passed proposition g instituting a city-wide ban on general advertising signs we had approximately 1500 general advertising signs at that time. in 2007 that level, the existing general advertising signs were approximately 800. in 2007 in that year we instituted new pen

institute pen alternaties for the signs this. was because we were seeing proliferations in the neighborhoods. in the years since 2007 and in fact it wasn't a deterrent but the penalties instituted were a of doing business and we had 200 new general advertising signs, illegal general advertising signs installed across the city. each time this happened the city is forced to step in with either enforcement or litigation or some combination of the two in order to have the general advertising sign removed as a result it's just an expenditure that should be directed to other pursuits so with this the legislation po poses the

shortening this to three day s and the responsible body can submit an application to remove the general advertising sign or request application or reconsideration of the violation. in addition repeat violations of general advertising sign regulations would be subject to daily enhanced period penalties to-five times a day the base time of the violation and additionally for repeat violations there is an alternative calculation separate from the fines that would consist of calculating the income earned by the responsible parties for the display of the illegal general advertising sign and including but not le -- of the owner. these have become extraordinarily lucrative

means of advertising for businesses, and in fact in 2015 we know that the revenue from general advertising signs rose 4.6% to 7.3 billion dollars, an all time high nationally so we believe that the current pen altes are a cost of doing business and no longer a deterrent for the behavior and the proposed legislation proposes to aggravate this and so the city doesn't enforce and litigate these but providing a deterrent to the signs and with that i am happy to take any questions that you may have. i will answer them to the best of my ability. >> what form do these illegal sort of gorilla signage, what form does it take? i am familiar with one that was drapeod embarcadero one during

the super bowl. >> that was a prominent example. technology has made it easy to install these signs virtually anywhere and can be projected on various services. i think that they are being sort of installed on an ad hoc basis across the city where they dangle over the side of a major arterial. i wish i had an inventory of the past signs but -- >> so it includes projected images? >> it would, yeah. >> interesting. and is there a limit, a legal limit to what you can charge as a deterrent sign here or do you have to go to some other legal body to establish the fines would be? >> no, we haven't been advised to the limit we can fine. we have said for repeat violations and on the second day it's two times the initial fine and

three days up to three times and up to five times and the five times repeats. >> escalation. great. commissioners any questions? >> i have a question. what is the definition of general advertising sign? what is it? >> that definition is in i believe section 603 of the planning code. i am happy to have that before me. >> so this penalty applies to any general advertising signs? >> that is correct. >> regardless of size or -- [inaudible] >> that is correct. my understanding the fine can be calculated based on the size of the sign and i think what -- a definition of general advertising signs may be

clearer in terms what is exempt and they're informational signs, plaque cards that are instructive to the public where to find something, and flases, religious signage. >> these are the exemptions? >> correct. >> as to the definition. for example a small retail business with an advertising would be subjected to this type of penalty, increased penalty? is that correct? >> that is correct. not so much -- my understanding not so much a more key or says where the business is or takes up the interior of a window and large advertising sign -- >> so if it has on the window a product it's selling then this retail would be subjected to

this increase in penalties, correct? >> perhaps it's a unlaw sign. i have a hard time saying that 50% of the product in the store right now falls under the definition of general advertising sign -- >> no, what they're going after -- what happened downtown is buildings with large window facings started renting out the space and putting vinyl advertisements for the businesses. >> that maybe the case but i am wondering if it will have affect on the small businesses. >> any small business requires the permit and the issue is if you put up a sign without a permit you're subject to enforcement if someone complains. >> this is a question -- not expressioning an opinion but a question. >> right. >> perhaps commissioner on page eightit and one definition

and lee correct me but one says that a general advertising sign not exceeding 24 square feet so there's a size i think definition to it, and so there is a size element because it's initially the general advertising signs we're working with the definition of billboards, that concept so in 2007 there was a proliferation of billboards before we got into the technology and projection on sides of properties so anyway. >> so the question -- so the question is -- it's talking about -- that's what i was leading to but thank you helping me. so are we talking about 24

square feet above or below? >> it's my understanding from the section that director read from it's to shelters or kiosks from the mta and you know it when you see it and on the side of the a building. it's a vinyl -- the interior -- entire side of a shop window. billboards of course. >> i am talking about general advertising is advertising about the product that has nothing to do with identifying the business, correct? >> correct. >> okay. so this increased penalty can apply to any sign as long as it's general advertising sign? general advertising sign? i want you to clarify.

>> if it's a new illegal general advertising sign, yes the penalties apply -- >> without any limit? >> what is that? >> no limit as to the penalties, the accrued penalties. >> yeah, they're calculated i believe on the size of the sign in question and then accumulate or rather escalate over five days and capped five days or five times in perpetuity until the sign is removed. >> so the -- -- and accrue indefinitely. >> indefinitely and it doesn't matter because i know the underlying -- because you stated it -- policy was to deter these big advertising signs proliferating in the city and county of san francisco. >> correct. >> but this will also affect smaller businesses. >> i think it may have an

effect on fall smaller businesses and why we're before the small business commission. i think there is a way to do it legally or illegally. if they get the violation it's an opportunity to remove the sign and correct the violation or seek a permit in order to do so. >> so you have the opportunity to correct the situation. how much time do you have? you have. >> this would shorten the time and currently shirt days and would be three days. >> is it set in stone or does the department have leeway -- imagine someone goes to great pains to do the sign and could get a permit to do it and do they have to take it down within three days or get a permit. you have 30 days to get the permit or take it down or is everyone subject to the three days rule.

>> i think with most laws there is inherently a modicum of discretion involved with these things. i don't know how the city would ultimately enforce this. i hope they enforce it strictly but aside from enforcement this is to detear the unlawful behavior. >> yeah, we're just trying to get at the unintended consequences with this. >> yes of course. >> and most violators are not the small businesses, correct? >> this is a gorilla marketing tactic and as pointed out they calculate how much it's going to cost and they do it. >> right. >> i think that -- -- it sends it plainly. there is a vivid and clear evil which this is trying to get at and adopting obscenity language. you know it when you

see it. you know what gorilla advertising sign. there have been several hundred in the last years and knowing full well this is a blight on the urban environment and we are trying to curb that by giving the city all the tools that it needs in order to go after this and deter this behavior. >> this includes sidewalk stenciling as well? >> we addressed that earlier in the year because we were noticing that -- >> is that a different -- >> i believe it's different -- yeah, because we were seeing a lot of the advertisements if you recall of certain music albums and proliferating on the sidewalks along the corridors and we attempted to address that with legislation this year and again it's a tool that the city it use to wren force. >> okay. >> so can you define what is legal or illegal? is it the general rule they have a sign

up without a permit is illegal? >> that's correct and in fact -- i mean the city has a ban on new general advertising signs so i think that the permit comes into play if you need to remove a general advertising sign that has gone up unlawfully. i believe that is the case but since 2002 there has been a ban on new general advertising signs city-wide. >> is store signage a different part of the code? code? the sign -- window -- >> signage -- [inaudible] >> no, i mean a sign indicating a business on an awning? >> that is different. >> i think that's the only -- >> what were you referring to? >> grocers. >> you said window signage. >> i said making a distinction

into a store front and identify the sign above it that is not governed by general advertising sign. that is a demarcation that wouldn't fall under this rubric of general advertising sign. >> the question is beyond that if there is i general advertising sign about a product say on a window. it's clear that the increased penalty and the shortening day from 30 days to three days would apply correct? >> i believe it would correct and if the entire windy has a vinyl advertisement that is among the urban visual distractions that voters decided in 2002 that distract from the urban environment that is counterproductive or blight. >> yeah, but getting to the commissioner's point i mean --

okay, so let's say have a window front and advertise soapos that one and deordant on that one and my goods are and not a dick ad for one thing. it's a series of ads on sale and in its collective it might be considered blight but i am curious if there is any kind of definition or limit on -- you know because many stores, grocers are going to advertise something on sale, commercial goods or produce or something like that and i wonder what is the limit. >> that's not what he is talking about under the law and i remember voting for this and like billboards -- >> i understand that but extends what we consider a traditional billboard and a building being a billboard in of itself and the borming -- as

they call it entire window complexes with a contiguous you know advertising -- >> embarcadero during the super bowl. >> right or the windows downtown. >> can i ask you provided a review for the commission on -- >> yeah, so some of the signs that would be considered general advertising sign considers are signage that advertises a product that is only incidentally sold there so if a convenience store as a coca-cola advertisement in the signs that is a general advertising sign whereas a sign that advertising the business name is not. >> is there a size restriction? can a business have a certain amount of frontage of their building going -- because bars have -- >> [inaudible] >> signs r