towards creating or having something created. they have been doing that fo for example. gathering with la to do an rfi to make sure there is a truck that would be zero emission. this is ongoing work. we have ordinances in place and i wish it would have gone further than i would have liked to. i know it will take time for adjustments. i am going to look out to make sure as departments are purchasing certain equipment that they are considering zero emission standards that we have set in place. >> yes, thank you for moving that legislation this year. that is correct. battery technology is improving year by year, and i think as we get to the future there will be larger vehicles that could be converted to electric vehicle

that we would be potentially able to pilot going forward. >> my last comment is following what has been going on the ev working group meetings and based on what i have observed during the budget season. there is a lot every assistance to switch to different typings of vehicles or to zero emission vehicles. i hope that we can push these departments to see this is the direction we absolutely have to go. it is not an option. we need to be creative in reaching the climate goals here. thank you for the comments. >> there was some recent articles with regard to automatic shut off systems in the m un i fleet and have the fleet has these. i discussed this with

mr. riskin. the other half of the fleet do not have them. what is the status of procuring those? >> that is a question the transit colleagues are better equipped to answer. i can look into that and get you a response to the status of those switches. >> that would be great. any steps we can take relative to our fleet. we see this in buses idling in the yard or brake and they should turnoff like my prias does. is there any public comment? seeing none. public comment closed. thank you for the update which is an information item. any introduction of new items? seeing none. any general public comment. >> andrew yip. tender loving care for one

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>> clerk: good morning and welcome to the committee meeting of the treasure island mobility management agency. i want to thank our clerk, steve stamos and thank mark bunch at sfgov-tv for broadcasting this meeting. mr. clerk would you call the roll. >> clerk: commissioner kim? >> present 678. >> commissioner peskin? >> present. >> clerk: commissioner peskin present. we have quorum. >> thank you, mr. clerk. can you please call the next item? >> item two to three the agenda. these are considered to be routine and staff will be prepared to present as desired. if any object, they may be removed and considered separately. >> are there any questions or colleagues from colleagues on the consent calendar? seeing none, can we take a motion?

>> sure. i make a motion to approve the consent calendar. >> we have a motion and a second. can we take a roll call on the agenda? >> clerk: take public comment. >> oh, my apologies. thank you, mr. clerk. at this time we'll take public comment on items 2 and 3. seeing no comment public comment is closed. mr. clerk can we please take a roll call on the consent agenda. >> clerk: on two and three commissioner kim? >> eye. >> clerk: and commissioner peskin? commissioner peskin: aye. >> thank you. can we please call the item? >> clerk: the resources group in a combined group not to exceed $2 hon,000 for on-call services next item? >> thank you. we have mr. tishler to present. >> hello. >> good morning, commissioners.

so i'm here to seek approval of a staff recommendation to award an on-call consulting contract for modeling services to two teams lead respectively by wrsp and rsg. the combined total for any awards under these contracts would not exceed $200,000. so the background behind this is that timma has historically relied on services and the analogy division and our consultants through the tta on-call modeling contract. the current contract with wsp is very close to expiring and this new award would just continue to give us access to on-call consultants for ongoing modeling work. so in the past, timma has used the on-call modeling agreement for work such as model development for parking pricing, parking capacity constraints for treasure island demand modeling, weekend activity monitoring on treasure island and for various

rounds of model applications. so the -- because in recognition of the current on-call contract being close to expiration we issued a request for qualifications for modeling services under six expertise areas, model application, model development, dynamic traffic assignment and so forth. the request for qualifications were issued jointly by the san francisco transportation authority and by tima that we would select the same teams for tima. we received three statements of qualification. two of them are by the teams that we're recommending contract awards to. these are wsp and rsg. they include subconsultants under the rsg statement of qualifications there is pjkm which is dbe for a 10% dbe, inrow, a traffic

assignment company and booming research consulting and the team includes ws solutions, transportation local analytics also a local dbe and the university of kentucky which has a professor that has a lot of experience with working on our model development work and also in-road the same traffic assignment specialist company. so both of these firms have extensive experience working on our models under the current on-call agreement rsg is actually a subconsultant of wsp and they have now both proposed operately. we've had some representatives from the two teams so there is mr. able r and mr. jakham and also we have a representative from wsg solutions if you would like to ask questions. both of the contracts awarded have met the requirements a 5% goal. rsg has submitted for 10% and wsb

for 5% with their subconsultants and the contract would be for three years with optional one-year extensions two times. so we -- so the selection committee, the selection panel consisted of the three people, staff members from the sfmta and sfcta with the option to conduct interviews we decided not to because of the high call of the snq's because of the size of the staff and experience and they covered all of the bases. also, for recommendation for awarding contracts to two different teams we will, in the future, whenever issuing a task order, seek proposals from the teams where they would submit a scope and budget and then choose between the two teams. so there is an option going forward to have a little bit of

competition in each desk issue. if there are any questions i'm happy to answer them or refer them to appropriate people. >> thank you very much, mr. tishler. any questions from committee members? seeing none i would like to thank wsp for an tending and at this time i will open it up for public comment on item number 4. seeing no public comment we are closing public comment for item number 4. colleagues, can we please take a motion on item number 4. >> i would move that we award the three-year professional services contract with an option to extend. that's my motion. >> thank you, commissioner peskin. and we can do that without op -- can we do that same house, same call? same house, same call. mr. clerk, can can you please call item number 5. >> clerk: item number 5, update on the management mobility

program. >> thank you. can you please call item number 6 as well? >> clerk: number 6 on transit design. this is also an information item. >> thank you very much. we have mr. cordoba to present on item number 5. >> good morning commissioner kim and a pleasure to present on the treasure island management mobility program. i've got a five-minute presentation here that i'll run right through. there we go. let's start with the punchline here. as you may know some of the develop approvals have taken a little longer than anticipated. what that has done, in essence, is set back the launch date. so there on the screen you show the previous launch date which would have been in early 2020. now we're projecting the launch date of the mid time frame of 2021. we want to make sure that we don't in essenceincur costs for transit services without having an essence fee and the

homes that we have built at a minimum. so, in that regard, it is semi good news but, tame, we are making sure that we use our resources judiciously in that regard. okay. let me get into the details of the infrastructure and engineering schedules which is really my bread and butter in that regard. let's start with the south gate road infrastructure and realignment project. that project is a $30 million project. it is basically 100% funded with federal, state, and bay area toll authority funds. we've been able to work with cal-trans to, in essence, get them to change the offramp and how it realigns with the environment. we're starting the phase and design concurrently to start the construction of that by, hopefully, the fall of

annext year. these are the improvements that are basically on the south side of the bay bridge on the other end of the offramps that we completed already. i'm going to go now and that's a project that the transportation authority and the capital projects group is in essence, administering all the way through construction. you'll see many items here over the future in the next year related to that. secondly, let's talk about the west side bridges project. west side bridges is basically the treasure island road and hillcrest roadway on the west side of the island. there are approximately eight bridge structures that are seismically deficient. we have obtained federal and state funding to that project to the tune of $66 million with a tied match of about $1 million so we're leveraging our funds well in that regard. the project is just completing its environmental revalidation because we did some engineering exercises the past year and made

changes to the project. now we're ready in essence to start the final design for them we are going to implement the design, i'm sorry, the delivery and construction of the project through what is called general management contracting. we're going to bring in the contractor early as part of the design. our intent is to bring in a contractor early next year to work with our design team and work out the nitty-gritty details. there are some geotechnical issues here and slides that are present in this area. so it's important that we bring in the right expertise early. the plan is to deliver that to construction and have it done by the mid-point of 2021. now, let's talk about the macalla road reconstruction. that project is part of the redevelop project. so what we'll have is a new roadway across the island as we finish with the south gate road realignment as well as the macalla road reconstruction.

the construction team expects to start that next spring or summer and have it completed by the 2019 time frame. what you see there, eventually, macalla will become a one-way roadway downhill. macalla does have some steep grades in that area. let's talk about the tolling and that contract you'll hear about that a lot in the next year. what that is, in essence, is putting in a infrastructure and our target date is what is called a "go live" by the summer/july time frame of 2021 to coincide with the major development of the island. this graphic here is simple graphics showing a little bit of the shift to the buildout and the delay associated with that to the 8,000 units. the ongoing activities that we'll have here and we'll give you quarterly updates at minimum are to go ahead and continue our

outreach with the businesses and other stakeholders. another key program that we're working on is developing an affordability and transit pass design. you'll hear more about the transit pass here in a few minutes. we continue to receive operations funding and grant funding from all states and regional. i've mentioned the toll engineering. we're looking with sfmta and transit to establish with sftma transit and also new bus service. we are also having basically autonomous vehicles that we'll have as the inter-icd vehicle and we're excited about that. we are also considering ferry service. we're working with the ferry service to work with all of them on costs and how we can

best implement ferry service coming to the island. let's talk about the grant funding update here. i'm very excited to report as part of a joint effort with sfmta the city was awarded $10.9 million which we'll receive $5.3 million 300,000 for the on-island shuttle. we anticipate later this month or hopefully no later than the november time frame to have, in essence, that authorization so we can start to use those funds. rm-3 and if i recall the senate bill has been signed already. we've been basically working with mtc in that regard and we'll be looking to, if it is voter-approved, to go ahead and request funding for ferry capital and operations. and then finally, as i indicated before, we're looking at other grant sources as listed here and we'll continue to do so. so that actually completes my update here, and i'm open for

any questions if you'd like. >> commissioner kim: thank you, mr. cordova. it doesn't have to be at this hearing but i would like to see proposed routes for the shuttle and inputs on where the shuttle should go. i think it's great to have this. i want to get a little bit of sense in how we're developing the routes and who is providing input. >> definitely. we'll provide a full update in that regard when it comes to that. >> commissioner kim: thank you. and with regard to increases, i know we've had a discussion on whether these tolls will impact those coming from the east bay as well. so i'm just wondering where the conversation is on that point. >> what we're doing right now is taking -- taking into account the revised development schedule and rerunning, in essence, our traffic model, as well as our tolling/revenue model. and we're about to embark with

the bay area toll authority in terms of working with them and their fair share of the tolling. because they do have the rights to toll on and off the bridge. and then recognizing that coming from the east bay is already -- you're paying $5 or $6 coming from the east bay. we're looking at that and seeing how we, in essence, don't have to take on an additional toll potentially, but that's still in the works. >> commissioner kim: thank you so much. >> all right. >> commissioner kim: so for item number 6 for the update on transit pass design we have mr. ahmhed, the transportation planner, to present on this item. >> hello. i am pierre ahmhed and i'll be presenting on the transit pass today. for today's agenda, we'll go through the transit pass overview, goals and objectives. i'll go through our proposed alternatives and our transit

value principles, our ongoing outreach efforts and next steps. so this map shows the transit services that are planned on treasure island. we have muni, ferry, and a.c. transit connecting treasure island to two different -- the east bay side. and our goal for the transit pass is to make the transit users' experience seamless and easy. so, for that reason, we are designing this transit pass to encompass all of these different transit modes. so it has showed there are two mandatory passes. first, one is market rate pass and one for hotel room. for our transit study, we have increased our user group. we have included workers and market housing in our transit pass. so with that

we have market rate households, below market rate, legacy, workers, and visitors. so the goal of this transit pass is to figure out the benefits, the new fare that would be required for a.c. and ferry, and how to implement this pass. so before we designed the pass, we looked at case studies in san francisco. so the first is san francisco state university gator pass where all san francisco state students are eligible and this includes the pass to the bus station. this pass is mandatory for all students and included in their tiewiation. the transit easy pass. this is a discounted easy pass for universities in the developments. the pass cost is figured on how many are bought and the

accessability. so it ranges from $55 to $188 annually. the housing development which is in san francisco this, is an optional pass where residents can opt in to receive a $100 cash value. and they can use this $100 on their clipper card or uber ride or split in between. the other pass is 100 points program. this is a mandatory pass for residents and employees and they can choose between the cash or a muni fast pass. and we have developed -- >> commissioner kim: i am sorry. i'm going to stop you right there. >> yes. >> commissioner kim: this is the first time about hearing about this development and when they first move in, is this a annual cash value? and how do they -- you know, why is uber included

in this? this is the only program that works with t & c as opposed to transit. >> yeah. this is given by developers so residents can opt in each month so, each month it is a $100 value. and they have -- they can do either the muni or either put it on clipper to buy a fast pass or uber rides. >> commissioner kim: so the developer is providing that this is a benefit of living in the development? >> right. i believe that chair kim to your question, when this project was approved, the developer committed to funding the -- because it's a rental market project, versus say the hunters point shipyard and treasure island, which is also ownership. the developer promised to provide 100% of that subsidy. and so it is their program that they've designed. they've decided to add uber as one of

the many choices and if they allow for that. i mean, this is something that we've negotiated as a value to the residents, to allow the subsidy go to other than private services and i believe it must. so we ask follow up on that. >> commissioner kim: yeah, that would be great. >> when we developed this in 2011t & e's are not something that we thought about, so i think we need to check on the language about that. >> so with those in mind we have developed a golden objective for our transit pass. so the first goal is to provide maximum transit coverage for our residents, workers, and visitors. that means that all transit on and off the island should be covered through the pass, provide affordable access for our low-income transit users. that includes easy to gain and use the pass and enhanced customer service. that includes

for all customers to be able to receive the pass and use the pass and also provide consumer value through the passholder, which can be integrated through different modes such as parking or towing. and implementation feasibility we looked at the existing fair policy and the time line and for the financial sustain ability, we wanted to make sure that we do a farebox recovery. >> can you please speak into the mike -- mic a little closer. >> yes. so these are our first alternative analysis that we are doing this on, the transit pass this includes all rides on muni transit bus ferries from san

francisco and this is the pass that will include the three modes. the second one is the transit island cash, an amount of cash value that would be uploaded into the fare holder's clipper card. they can use it on any transit that has the clipper and that is most of the bay area. so this shows the alternate comparison summary between the two alternatives. so the first one, as i mentioned, it is an unlimited access on all muni and access to treasure island. the cash will be all transit services that accepts clipper. so for access pass, this there is no penalties where transfer cash will have a penalty and a.c. transit and if you are going between ferry and muni. access pass, the pass holder pays for the three agencies regardless of what they use. so if somebody worked and lives

on treasure island they still pay for the transit portion, where transit cash only pays for what they use. so given that the value will cover the full cost of a access pass user if they are within their three modes where cash may not cover it on their usage and the frequency of their usage. and the common feet yours -- features for the pass are available on clipper and they'll be available through tma and and it is available as an optional which will have a 50% discount from the market rate. the pecked we looked at how to determine the cash values. and here we developed three major principles through which we will determine the cost of the pass. the first one is type of

recommendation. so it has recommended that it should be the same price as the muni pass which is $75, so our pass should not be less than $75. second. it's customer value. we want to make sure our pass is comparable with existing pass and what service they provide. the third is financial sustainability. the pass should be revenue-neutral and have reasonable administrative costs. so the first thing we looked at, what are some of the pass costs in the bay area. so the first you can see, they are all agency passes, which are retail value. so people are -- they offer these passes to everybody. and the pass ranges cost goes from $38 to $345, so it's a wide range. the second row, as you will see, these are institutional programs. so these programs, where built are opting -- people are given this pass as part of

housing or a school program. and this pass cost will go from about $4 to about $188. so it's a -- both of them are a wide range of prices that we looked at. so from this -- from this information we are doing an alternative analysis where we are looking at the financial sustainability to make sure what we know the pass costs will be. and i want to give you an update on the research efforts. we did research on treasure island and we went to a meeting, food pantry and advisory board and conducted a timma open house. and during the outreach effort, we conducted a survey, which looked at existing transportation usage. and we also tried to gauge interest in understanding some of the new programs that we are

designing. and some of the feet yours we found are that 64% of all participants have clipper or a transit pass. so many of the transit -- the surveyors have a muni fast pass or part of the muni life-long program. and we asked what they would like to see which is easy pass, the pass options and we got that they wanted easy to transfer. they wanted to be able to transfer between different modes easily. so with this feedback, we are going forward with their alternative analysis. we also are starting our community outreach for fall, 2017. this time we are doing a focus group with existing business and residents and future residents and visitors. the dates are listed here. we are also going to a board and

community meeting and the treasure island food pantry. so next steps, as i said, we'll be completing alternative analysis and proposed pass values. we'll develop a revenue sharing principle with other agencies, incorporate feedback from community and stakeholders and finally, proposed path design fare and transit pass value by spring of 2018. thank you. >> any questions? >> commissioner kim: thank you, ms. ahmhed. i just have a couple of questions. when you say others have transit passes, what other transit passes exist other than the clipper card? >> the other ones that i mentioned are muni and bart pass and muni lifeline. >> commissioner kim: and have you in your outreach also reached out to community partnership and health rate -- well, not perhaps health rate

360 but the develop homeless initiative as well? >> yes. >> commissioner kim: are they as well helping with the outreach? >> yes. >> commissioner kim: okay. when you see the proposal, the tipi recommendation and starting point of making it $75 -- >> right. >> commissioner kim: will that include what you see here the transportation access for muni? >> yes. >> commissioner kim: for treasure island residents. >> this is for treasure island workers if we provide a pass. >> commissioner kim: so the $75 would include the transit? that would be great. >> yes and connects it to san francisco. >> commissioner kim: i know we are talking in many ways when we were looking at this program and

many have decided to move away from the metro card and system. are we exploring this for the future? technology is changing so rapidly now that, whatever we are looking at today, may be completely out of date in even a year. so i just want to make sure that whatever we plan for isn't based on what exists today. >> right. >> commissioner kim: but what will be present in future options. >> yes. so in this design process, we have a an where clipper is one of our stake hollers. they are going through their clipper rfp process. so we are going through what the new technology is that they're considering. we are making sure when they design a pass, it can be available for a pass option or some of the new features that might happen. and that's one of our -- one of our criteria to make sure that the pass is available to a new feature. >> commissioner kim: and clipper

now works with the boik share in san francisco. would this pass include the bike share on it? and clipper now works with the bike share in san francisco. would this pass include the bike share on it? >> we are looking at this passion. >> commissioner kim: no, i think that would be an option to include as well. thank you very much for this presentation. it is very exciting. >> thank you. >> commissioner kim: are there any other questions on this item? okay. seeing none, we will open it up for public comment on items 5 and 6. seeing no public comments, public comment is now closed. and these two items were informational so no new action needs to be taken. mr. clerk, can you please call item 7 and 8.

>> clerk: 7, new items. >> commissioner kim: colleagues, are there any new items? >> no. >> clerk: and item 8, general public comment. >> commissioner kim: so at this time we will open it up for public comment. >> good morning. andrew yield. and through the process, and you must put kindness and in consideration and different matters and where one by nature making new improvement and conditions with people and one will be the unified universe. and beyond civilization in the progress and they will supervise with the leadership and they will look at the projects while

delivering for the needy of general assistance and for the well-being of our people and we will look at the leadership and we have a system of unification, and holiness and for a mission and through the proceeds. >> thank you so much, mr. yip. is there any other public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. mr. clerk, are there any other items before us? >> clerk: item 9, adjournment. >> commissioner kim: thank you. meeting is adjourn adjourned. adjourn >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop & dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of

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>> okay. thank you very much, everyone, for being here. i'm assembly member phil ping and 57 was for all of us who spend time driving underneath 101 or 280. you see many spots that we wonder what could we be doing with these parcels, other than seeing them. i think the city was able to envision this many, many years ago with the skate park and dog park, which the city leased for 20 years at $4.8 million. and our bill allows the city to work with caltrains at a 30% of market rate. and these are not used or not

really -- >> whew! >> exactly. there is excitement everywhere. we could have the wedding move over here next. so we are very excited to work with our cities so we can make these underutilized parcels of land into parcels of land and open space. especially these neighborhoods, the land is very underutilized. a lot of this area is highly industrialized. you don't see parks. you don't have spaces where you can go play. i know the dogpatch this district has already taken a lead with the mission creek area with their volleyball courts and they have shown how we can do this and how it's going to be much more prevalent. i'm very excited to have worked with our city and bring this to our residents. it is the district bill for san francisco. i would like to

thank ca ltrains and the mayor has talked about this but there are a couple of parcels that they've already identified at some point soon they've negotiated and we can start the process of turning these vacant lots into open space and parks. so, with that, let me introduce our mayor, ed lee, who really worked with me hand in hand and championed this effort. thank you. >> let me say assembly bill 857 is a winner. i want to take this opportunity to thank. phil ting who spent years here and we're not only benefiting from his life but senator weiner and david and all those who contributed to making sure this

bill didn't have a cingular purpose but multiple purpose. that's what i like about our organization. when they are creating benefits, it's not just about one thing. it is multiple things. that's why people working in parks like former supervisor julie christiansen, people are working with our bicycle coalition, people are working with our parks alliance are all assembled together to say what can we get out of space? that, for many of us, has been dead space. you know, when you look at freeway land under the freeway, you're generally talking about assemblymen -- assemblages of people who are homeless, negative activity, maybe some industrial uses. and in a city as concentrated as san francisco, how do we creatively and innovatively use space that is kind of dead and inviting of a lot of negative activity in to really opened,

creative, vibe rant spaces -- vibrant spaces? and i encourage everybody to participate. walk your dog down there. get a basketball court. get a volleyball court. maybe you even want to do a little boating, kayaking along the mission creek. if you walk down there, you'll see the best example we have today on how we turned space that was going to -- that has been very negative for all of the residents around there. and in conversations with new residents around that area created space that descamps laments what i -- that complements that park where everyone lives that is what we're doing with spaces around caltrains property and we're doing more in the much few years

because of scott's leadership and scott and david chu but phil was the one that really turned the corner. because as kind of small as it might be about the that and how it should be needs to have open space and needs to have it within a 10-minute walk, this is the most treative effort creative effort we can share. we have 10 spaces. and, by the way, they don't just get created overnight. with the partnership in the parks alliance, these are private spaces that will be taken care of 24/7. and i'd like -- more than "like." this is absolutely

necessary in today's world where the housing crisis is impacting everything that we do. and we need to build more housing in areas that we've never built before. but we need to have for that spacing the comp lap meantary open spaces. but we need to have for that spacing the complimentary open spaces. and a benefit that phil ting has allowed us to have the conversation that, if we're in a housing crisis, it is 10 times more of a crisis than those on our streets. an we need to have areas of temporary shelter to serve that. so, as can you tell, i'm excited about this for all of the right reasons. the people standing behind me informed this, these language changes to make sure that our parks, our bicycles, our way of life can continue with quality of life contributions that our open space has. and the mission creek sports

complex is just one of many things that we've done through our recreation and park department in creating these opportunities for partnership was our private sector. because when you -- when you go down there, you'll see people walking their dogs and people doing all of the things that were not done under caltrain's property for many years. and now we're getting an excitement that we are going to turn pretty dead negative spaces into really positive, vibrant open spaces and connect them up with the critical housing that we need. it's going to be, i think, a game-changer in san francisco to work at all of space under the freeway. some work and some don't, so we'll be very selective about them. but i think you're going to see a very good transformation on these dead spaces into very lively spaces. this will be i think the positive excitement we have with our delegation in san francisco that is making a difference, not just at the state level, but bringing back both the language

to resources, to innovative approaches to making sure that our housing crisis is dealt with, our homeless crisis is dealt with, our open-space challenges are dealt with in a very positive way. so i can't say enough about how 857's going to benefit from us. but you'll see the same thing happen in open. you'll see the same thing happening in san jose. because they are all suffering from negative uses of the freeways for inappropriate kind of tent cities where it's dangerous. you're going to see harm reduction because of the collaboration we have with all of the other agencies to make these spaces vibrant and useful for everyone. so phil ting, thank you for your leadership up there. and, of course, as chair of the appropriations committee, we're going to ask for more because we know we're going to get a lot out of 'ya. thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you very much, mr. mayor,

and to the entire city for working with us. next i wanted to introduce senator weiner, who was a partner in this every step of the way, myself, senator weiner, and david chiu, so it is part of a team to make this happen. >> thank you, phil. so we have -- we are lucky that we have a very cohesive delegation, myself and david chiu in this era where southern california has so much population and representation, we really need to stick together so that we can -- san francisco can continue to punch up its weight class in sacramento, which we're continuing to do. so we look out for each other and we love to partner on these bills. he he want to thank phil

for his leadership on 857 and i was happy to co-author it. this has been a terrific bill. i think in recent years the theme in san francisco and other cities, we're trying to rediscover urbanism, trying to get away from the era where it was all about housing sprawl and moving away from public transportation and focusing on the needs of cars, not people. and now we are refocused on dense, compact housing and walkable neighborhoods and bike infrastructure and better public transportation, and rediscovering urban public space and one of the things we've been doing is rededicating land that was really car focused into people-focused places. so whether it is the paving the parks program with jane warner plaza in the castro or the noey town square where we turned the city into a park or what the

city did with oct avia turning it into a square. now this the freeways caused problems in the market, and potrero hill, dogpatch and we know that anything we can do to make them usable is great. and this bill will empower the city to be able to work with caltrain, to create new parks and to really invigorate these neighborhoods. so i'm really, really excited about this step and i know that san francisco will take the next step and actually make it a realty, so thank you.

[ applause ] >> thank you, senator. next i want to bring up those who have been an advocate of the public land and that is around urban areas and for communities that hasn't historically had much recreational space. mary? >> thank you so much. thank so you much, assembly member tang. i'm so excited to be here this mourn because somebody who grew up in san francisco and able to have ocean beach as my neighborhood park. this is a city of innovation. this is a city figuring out next year's, the next decade of issues and challenges. i'm super excited about your leadership. i like spending time in san francisco. and you have the cream of the crop in san francisco. you have innovative leaders who are figuring out ways to figure out these challenges and mayor lee and mr. weiner are champions of

parks and open space. they know that being champions for parks and open space are being champions for climate resolution and champions for all of that. and we have a organization that creates access to communities for access to nature for all. we do that with mayor lee on parks around the city including vodecker park a couple of miles away. and what this bill is starting to figure out is how we solve the issue of population growth, of the scarcaty of land for parks and open space, and the increase of costs for parks and open space. and this bill is solving -- it is beginning to be a piece of the puzzle to solve all of that an as we do work around the country, we are looking at this as a model in communities across the country and in communities across the state. this is an example of how your

leadership in sacramento is responsible for passing impactable policies that are going to make a difference for real neighborhoods. this is something that folks in their communities are going to feel. so we're very excited to have supported this bill, really excited about the passage and the governor's signature for ab-857 and grateful for senator ting, weiner and mayor lee's leadership on this. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, mary. next, i'd like to bring up former supervisor julie christiansen who is the executive director of the dog patch in northwest potrero green, north district. i think her district has really demonstrated how to make this a realty. they've established that in the neighborhood and they were one of the groups to reach out for this legislation to say hey, how can we help? we're very excited about this and finding ways to work

together. these were neighborhoods that were historically filled with warehouses, not people. as we've torn down some of these warehouses and they've been replaced with office space and housing, they've shown the way how we can do that responsibly. thank you. >> is it afternoon yet? good morning. so for those of you who want to follow this story a little further, i really welcome you to come to dogpatch to a place called progress park. it's between indiana and iowa between 23rd and 25th. it's ai lovely space. i have pictures of children swinging in it, people playing bocce an people working out. it was not built with the other budgets and clout with some of the other projects that senator weiner mentioned it was done with spit from the other neighborhoods who went to a chain-linked fence, a weed-choked lot where neighbors could gather and have open space. so please come down to progress

park. this measure tackles two important issues that those of us involved in positive civic planning struggle with. one is how do we mitigate the negative impact of our freeways that slights through our camping areas? the fires, the debris that collects in these spaces, especially as our residents and workplaces inch ever closer to those freeways. secondly, how do we provide open space and green space for the fastest-growing neighborhoods in san francisco, nearly all of which line those same transit cora ders. so senator ting's measure as the mayor said actually tackles two problems and puts this way ahead. we appreciate very much the heavy lifting that ca ltrain --

caltrain does and we have neighbors when they used to look out on other family residences like theirs and they now face chain linked fence and razor wire and encampments. this is an opportunity to knit our neighborhoods back together. my common line is that these freeways severed our neighborhoods twice, once when the elevated freeways went in with their noise and their pollution and trash, but then a second time when the areas below the freeway were consigned to less optimal uses. potrero hill is cut off from vacant lots and rusted containers. this is an opportunity to get some of that back. we're very grateful for it. so my deep thanks to assembly member ting. he said he was going to do this his perseverance and determination paid off. we're

grateful to all who have helped with this, mr. weiner and assemblyman ting, we're grateful to have them. i'm grateful to the economic workforce and robin abhod is here and all of those who have worked with us and who will continue to work with us. i want to acknowledge jean and allahson from the green benefit district. the gbd is an amazing, amazing construct. neighbors who voted to assess themselves in order to spend extra funds to clean and green their neighborhood. and dogpatch is the first one that we know is the first to exist, dogpatch and potrero hill. so i'm happy to represent them. this is a great day. hopefully, we'll be having some of these in these parks before very long. thank you all for your interest. >> thank you. thank you, julie, again. it is proud to author 857,

ab-857, which now allows the city to transform some of our freeway underpasses into parks. again, i think julie put it very well. there are not always positive things that are happening under these underpasses. again, it's our opportunity for the neighborhoods, the neighborhoods of dogpatch, potrero hill to take over this land. so i want to thank everybody for coming today. i appreciate it. i know people will be available for individual questions on the side if you have any interest, but again, thanks so much for coming out today. i appreciate it. [ applause ]