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one of your projects you really control how your site permit will look. your adeneda process will look and that is most important thing is what happens after the site permit. >> so, somebody who is a very seasoned veteran like yourself, is there any uninteneded consequencess we are overlooking here? >> i'm all for streamlining >> none i can see. >> okay. thank you for that. >> a motion to approve? >> public comment >> public comment on this item ab 032? seeing none, is there a motion to approve it? >> move to approve. >> a second? >> second. >> do roll call vote.
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mccarthy, yes. walker, yes. clinch, yes. gilman, yes. konstin, yes. lee, yes. warshell, yes. the motion carries unanimously. item 9, directors report. >> 9 a, update on dbi finances. >> good morning commissioners rchlt taurus madison deputy director for department of building inspection and before you is october 2016 financial report. it provides data on expenditures and receive news from jm twnt 16 through october 2016 and i'll go over a few highlights. for revenues remain strong. we collected about $21 million in revenue and see that on page 1. page 2
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you see that while revenues remain strong they are lower than they were compared to the same time last year and that is to be expected. last year in fiscal year 15-16 that was the highest collection in the department. overall, reserve news from last year to this year have gone down about $2.7 million. if you look at innext table it shows the number of issue permits and talked about this before and you can see that both evaluation has gone down about 37 percent and also we are also seeing fewer number of permits issued. if you look that first table you see the largest decrease in the number of high value permits want down by about 19 percent. but overall revenues are still fine. we expect to meet our budget or exceed the revenue
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budget but just compare to last year you see things going down and anticipated that. on the expenditure side we can continue to increase compared to year over year. you will see we are about 8 percent this year and that is primarily because salaries have gone up more this year than last year and that is reflected in the last meeting of gearing up and hiring. so, overall if you look at the first page again, you see the projected revenue is at budget and the reezten is there is because it is too early to make real adjustments and so just projecting that budget but as we get to the 6 month mark we'll look at if we see trends and information and try to make actual projections. i'll happy to answer question. >> seeing none. thank you. >> thank you. >> item 9, b, update on propoz
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said or recently enacted state or local legislation. >> good morning. bill strom, legislative and public affairs. i call attention to a few of the items that i submitted in your packet. the fire safety requirements that supervisor campos and others supported and took effect after labor day, we actually had a first working group meeting with some folks in the mayor's office about a week ago. essentially still working out data assistance with the fire department so we can improve transparency and make it a bit easier for people to track these types of investigations following a fire and/or when citizens call to alert us to a possible fire hazard so that our cardination
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efforts are improved. i would say that is moving forward. we also have sfr visor farrell and peskin making adu city wide. you are probably aware the governor also signed just recently a state law that essentially facilitates and encourages owners to do adu's by waving the utility cost for connections. that does save substantial amounts of dollars so whether or not this actually leads to more adu permits, we'll have to wait and see. as of right now dbi issued 29 of those permits, we had about 134 applications filed. there are still 116 of them under review
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at planning and another 17 under review at the fire department. so, we are trying to coordinate with planning to see what some of the review issues might be on adu. they continue to be a potential source for more affordable housing, but i would say the process is still relatively slow. i think mentioned earlier during the president announcement the triannual codes have been passed. the board passed that unanimously on consent yesterday. we made arrangements with the mayors office to try to obtain that signature soon in the next day or two so will make our january 1 deadline and as thez president said we owe a lot of thanks to mr. means and the technical services staff who keep that on track. i guess
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the final thing i'll mention is i think i mentioned supervisor peskin proposed a tall building advisory committee and expect that to come to the land use committee and possibly also to the budget committee possibly around thanksgiving or immediately there after. there are responsibilities dbi will be involved in relative to that and working with the supervisor and mayor prfs office on those. with that, happy to take any questions. >> seeing none mr. strom thank you. >> iletm 9 c, update on major projects. >> good morning commission. tom hui. as you can see compared to last month the
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[inaudible] go down by.77 percent. any question you have? >> item 9 d, update on code enforcement. >> good morning commissioners. deputy director inspection service. here to report the code enforcement and dbi update. building inspection performed for the mounth of oct, fiver 184. 1 err complaints 328. [inaudible] 284. complaint with first notice of violation, 61. complate and abated without notice are 258. abated complaints are 27. second notice of violation refer to code enforcement were 6.
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hazard inspection service, performed with 1081. complaints received 341. complaint response 24 to 72 hours is 334. complaint with notice of violation 129. abated complaint of notice of violation are 266. [inaudible] 41. routine inspection, 352. code enforcement services number of cases sent to directors hearing is 54. number of order of abatement, 11. number of cases under advisement, 13. number of cases abated, 46. code enforcement inspection, 210. number of cases referred to city attorney, 1. over to the right we have a total column we added to see the total for the year along with the graphs provided. thank you.
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>> thank you. >> any public comment on directors report item a through d? seeing none, item 10 review and approval of the minute of regular meeting of april 20, 2016. any discussion or a motion to approve? >> move to approve or second. >> second. >> there is a motion and second to approve the minutes. any public comment? seeing none, all commissioners in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? the minutes are approved. on to item 11, discussion and possible action on the annual performance evaluation for the director. 11 a, public comment on all matders per taining to closed session. is kna therepublic comment on the item? seeing
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none-- >> john [inaudible] city attorneys office. i just wonder for the convenience oof the commission in closed session since we there are two evaluations whether you want to call both items together so you don't have to come back into the public after the first one and return. >> dually noted. >> if no objections? >> i'll also will be address item 12 rsh discussion and action on the anual perfornlance evaluation of bic secretary. 12 a, all matters per taining to closed session. any public comment? seeing none, we are addressing both item 11 and 12. 11 and 12 b possible action to convene a closed session. is there a motion to convene? >> move to convene in closed session for agenda items 11 and
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12. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second. all commissioners in favor? >> aye. >> we are now in closed session. it hello, this is the building inspection commission. we are reconvening our session regarding ajendsa item 11 and 12. is there a motion to reconvene in open session to vote on whether to disclosez any or all discussions held in closed session regarding 11 and 12? >> i move >> and second. >> there is motion and second and now in open session. >> thank you for the
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commissioners for very detailed discussion. regard to item 12, commission secretary and the big unanimously approve the performance evaluation for sonya harris who is our dedicated and long serving commission secretary. we congratulate and thank you for the job well done and look forward work wg in the future. >> thauchck. >> with regards to director, we accept the evaluation of 15 and 16s however we amend that will follow three priorities for 16 and 17. these evaluation will highlight the three policies that we would like added to this memo that we will probably introduce in sometime around december. if i miss spoke please commissioners add. >> i want to emphasize that we
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moving forward we appreciate the extensiveness of the evaluation process the city and county of san francisco has you do and we do appreciate that, we will focus on 3 pritorties. they will be the most important looking at performance. we will issue that memo at december meeting. >> thank you. next item. >> next item is item 13, adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> we are now adjourned it is 129 p.m. thank you. [meeting adjourned]
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>> all right. good morning, everybody. welcome to the transportation authority plans & programs committee for tuesday, november 15, 2016, like to thank our clerk steve stamos and leo and mark from sfgovtv madam clerk, any announcements? no announce. >> mr. clerk item one. >> roll call commissioner avalos commissioner breed absent commissioner farrell commissioner peskin commissioner hwang absent we have quorum okay. thank you very much colleagu
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colleagues commissioner tang had a previous engagement can i have a motion can we take that without objection? 70 >> all right. mr. clerk item number 2. >> sense advisory report this is an informational item. >> good morning item number 4 the $3.1 million for the traffic calming most of questions or comments from the cca the clarifications on specification by the degree to which federal dollars we need to continue the operations of the cable car and to replace the gear boxed in the overhaul funded made this monthly attractive we're happy to have this and have the traffic calming efforts there is a large
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increase and desire for traffic calming item 5 the central subway master plan the cca wants to ask a question, of course, something we didn't touch on much and should perhaps be part of every study and discussion how land use effects your subways and how the demographics are take into account to the get to the jobs in the recreation centers that 0 closes any remarks. >> colleagues, any questions. >> move on to public comment for item 22 anyone wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues this is an informational item no action mr. clerk item 3. >> approval of the minutes for the october 11th an action. >> colleagues questions or comments move on to public comment anyone wish to comment on item number 3 seeing none,
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public comment is closed. colleagues can have a a motion to approve. >> motion any commissioner avalos. >> roll call vote commissioner avalos commissioner breed is absent commissioner farrell commissioner peskin approval of the minutes are approved. >> berkley item 4. >> recommend allegation of $3 million plus prop c in prescription of one hundred thousand for prop k subject to the fiscal year distribution schedule a commitment to allocate prop k funds an action item. >> good morning, supervisors and rather commissioners i'm the deputy director for the transportation authority you'll jump into this allocation request grouping we have 4 requests to present the first, the cable car
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compulsion gear boxed request and this is a prop k request from the mta for approximately 2 or $1.3 million inform leverage the federal funds to overhaul the com provision gearboxes it provide powers to the cable car there are 4 in use and one a spare and been in use since 1984 a rehab project as opposed to to the - the cable car is a unique system and no official parts and component that can be purchased they need to be custom-made tlasz information in the packet of materials that includes the shut down schedule the mta is proposing a series of 4 shut down systems 3 one more each cable car line and one for all
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of the cable car lines the 10 consecutive days a elevation period and an outreach plan a communications plan mta is working with the tourist and the hotel and convention and churches and stakeholders in the area to make sure to get the word out about the shut down schedule the project should be complete by the end of 2019 next the traffic calming implementation project is referred to as the backlog of traffic calming projects from area wide plans that were completed between 2 and 10 years ago this is the last banish of those projects there are the traffic calming plan that be will pretty a total of lovingly of them there are various schedules of
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development for the construction because of the various banishes will be going on encouraging but complete at the end of 2019 those are the recommendations from the plans and traffic island speed humps and the proposition of the speed humps the third for the edge or the pedestrian safety project this is a district 8 transportation improvement program capital improvement for $80,000 for the design for the project and a commitment to allocate another one and 25 thousand when the project precedes and improves the glen canyon and request do from the stakeholders and supervisor wiener supports the request the project will be open by 2018 and the last request is from the
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transportation authority and this is for one hundred thousand dollars to leverage and caltrain grant to the sf ct a for district of funded phase one study program sections in the south of market area and studied 5 locations and made short term and easier to implement the recommendations for those ramps and this will expand the set of ramps that can be examined to 10 ramps the project focuses on the south of market area the highest clusters of high injury ramp intersection areas and this particular corridor but there are other projects that you are glounth the city like the alamany and the balboa park where ramps are studied for the improvements and other areas for the various types of
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configurations of ramps i'll be working closely with the caltrain and community outreach beginning next summer and i'm available to answer any questions and various project sponsors from the sfmta. >> thank you very much colleagues questions or comments commissioner avalos just a question about the work that we done on alamany right now a real need for pedestrian assess if the southern on the south side of alamany to get to the farmer's market a goal to be able to make sure there is actually access for the pedestrian. >> yes. there was a presentation at the finance committee last month that the alamany sgrarj program study it is currently underway the presentation went to finance
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committee because commissioner avalos the district representative for the studies on this committee there two phases of mere term improvements that are recommend one of which you'll see next month for lane configuration and putting in better striping to guide the traffic and guide the cyclists in the area the second phase of work for a multi use path that will allow for access and a signal going to get the streets wrong but provides the farmer's market streets and drainage issues that will be creating a new path that is prone to flooding we need to work with puc but the striping requests should be coming forward next. >> the intuts the cross over sounds like you guys are working on that. >> any questions or comments
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we want to thank you and the whole staff for working on a lot of the laurel heights the committee is working on for years with that, we open up for public comment anyone wish to comment on item number 4? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> same house, same call? >> same house, same call? all right. so moved. >> mr. clerk, call item 5. >> update on the subway master plan an informational item. >> good morning, commissioners matt long-range manager planning and with michael from the san francisco transportation authority on a possible component of san francisco's
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transportation future significant specifically subways and want to knowledge the planning department in this work as well the subway division is generated out of an ordinance by supervisor wiener isn't fall of 2015 and supervisor wiener is really about not losing momentum on transit investments for the city we think about the first iteration of subway we wanted to frame what is subways are their characteristics and how policy guidance how we think about implementing delivering the subways for the city of san francisco also an operator a start find a conversation not predetermining who might run the subways in the city and thinking about initial candidate corridor they make sense the work will feed into the sf program and the rated
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this is the start avenue conversation this allows moving large volumes of people in separated corridors quickly he's a trade off we're delivery process is very along the capital dollars are high in delivering those investments and they may not meet the needs of all travel choices and modes for the stations they may not allow everyone to get everyone where they want to go part of eco system we took a 3 pronged approach for the prior plan review and talked with san franciscans today about where they think subways are valuable and conducted new analysis in the prior plan saw a
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lot of great ideas that have not materialized but ideas that have for the corridors plan the central subway it is under construction and the brt project this past weekend and moving through the environmental review that is looking at what it comes next not the first time that san francisco has tried to think big about railing we saw a number of corridors we wanted to keep in mind as we forwarded this work. >> in trying to hear if san franciscans today, we decided to use the leverage of online proud sourcing for people to engage at their convenience from their home and really spend as much or little time to let them looking at the stopping stations and rail alignments how they fit into the current system we need
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to compliment that with outreach elements so we were touching folks may not have intersect access and have high internet 10 or penetration in our community and want to technique with us we had 34 pop up activities from the bayview and tenderloin and excelsior inwards we're heard back the online tool westbound extremely successful 26 unique submissions some were single lines people were drawing their commute trips and comprehensive networks and systems that includes the software stations and creative thinking with the island a couple down in the south of america and africa and australia by the way, you can
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see on the heat map on the online tools asked folks to draw their dream for the future we can interpret where people think their mobility is not met and a greater need for more streamlined travel the corridor is at top based on the heat map that is a point of information to understand where the perspective and realty in travel patterns online we also at the pop up design the tenderloin bayview and excelsior we were intercepting people on the streets by and large didn't hear and the transcription services a need for from folks not native english speakers and we can by and large is the one and thirty responses and the multiple hundreds of people we
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spoken with would not will have heard in these people that heat map to the pop up events we see some of the similar desire lines indicators of a greater market within the corridors and other lines as well and so we're glad to - >> i really appreciate that type of outreach and in district 11 in you look at who uses our public transportation system it is almost 95 percent people of color and immigrants and people whose language is in the english i appreciate that. >> so this is - we did our prior plan review we spoke with san franciscans today, we want to take those two information points and tie them together with the analytic work to think about where people need to move
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in the future and subways are the most appropriate with that, i'm going to turn it over to mraek to speak towards that work. >> good morning michael sweaters with the transportation authority we use the 20 first two data points and did analysis with the existing operational analyze and looking at 2040 and looked where the land use patterns were developing not only the ridership but the overall traffic demand people that are driving places there is a lot of travel demands xhertsd to traffic - high quality network like a subway we did look at density patterns this map shows with the population density and job
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density and looking ways those patterns develop into the future and then also looked at kind of where people patterns tend to develop if there is a u bic subway that helps us to understand where the demand is generated in the future from the 3 sets of information we - generated 3 types of corridors will fall into multiple bucket but one across town people want to get across san francisco and bart goes through the city from one side all the way to the other so people have a desire to get across town and the other a correction people want to get to the metro or other trunk lines regional trunk lines and the pure demand basis with transportation demand could be from as many transit and diving
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we likely see a lot of displaced in the future and as i mentioned some of the corridors will fall into multiple buckets before i talk about the maps don't get attached to them but we wanted to test what that looked like if we triple the subway within the city of san francisco we have $15 million today and another thirty miles with two concerts looking where we generate the most demands using the analysis okay. this is where we think he can generate ridership where people's designations if you look at this the lines in the geary area and then makes its way south by the golden gate park an extension of t third at the lombard and the underground part of t third and in addition
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the van ness area heading southeast into the south part of mission bay with the m and putting that both is the soma pulling it out of the metro and then we said okay. this is one comparison let's see if we have a different concept how to get more geographic coverage and looked at it trade offs between corridors and different alignments within a similar corridor that's why we came up with the system and the t third a line into hunters point shipyard and the fillmore and divisadero and then the extension will be going to the physics rather than the lombard for the t third and the geary is out towards the beach and this is corridors not streets but in the vicinity and underground with the existing m with the
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mission bay and on the southern part of city some couple of those were shown including the extension of the m line and the geneva corridor so we looked at sort of what the potential for those kinds of system and we did find if we were able to do something as monumental tripling the subways in san francisco we'll have significant benefits including major traffic times, savings about 25 minutes for travelers on a given trip 10 to 15 minutes round trip by quoting the system we'll be able so have the bart's level in the 90 percent no union train will be arriving at that time, the significance of ridership 10 to 15 percent and under either of
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the corridors nektsd you'll see grandchildren 40 percent of san franciscans being able to walk to they're walking danced to the station we did an outlook and found it low income residents benefits at a larger rate than the population at large and this is a complicated map to show you the analysis looking at the traffic time for the zones across the city blue is increases and red is increases in travel time this year to the concept b the hunters point shipyard there was a direct line improves a significant amount of time at this point we know there are major network benefits and there are some next steps to you to do the hard work of
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prioritizing and an incremental way to develop the projects with that, to graham. >> thanks michael as i mentioned the thirty miles of subway will not materialize overnight but incredibly build out for the - where will we be moving the most people and the new investments and new subways compliment and provided synergy benefits to the system we're thinking from an interaction and build a robust system we don't want to leave anyone behind especially the needs of the high
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capacity reliable transit those are representative but want to frame the thinking how will we decide which routes corridors we want to think that prioritizing for investments and as i mentioned this the division the start of conversation but there is lots of other areas to be thinking dramatic and in an efficient like manner and funding is an easy one thirty miles of subway the funding stream didn't seem realistic in our lifetime maybe a change heed of us but we need to look at expanding resourcing and need to think about how we are delivering and speed up the timeline from a cost to calendar and schedule perspective and the cac report
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talked about land use not in the likelihood of major, major investments in the city without a conversation about land use and the number of people that those investment will be available for and how we can move and grow as a city those things need to be talked about together their intrinsically linked and lastly sorry not lastly conditioned inclusive and open outreach those decisions need to be made together the only way to be successful in that building champion champions of the community level and champions at the regional and federal level as well those these things need to come together to push forward individual elements of the subway divisions so we'll or we're going to incapsulate and