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with the city and county of san francisco. >> neighborhoods in san francisco are as diverse and fascinating as the people who inhabit them. today we're in the sunset, where we'll join supervisor tang for the inspiration of this show, where we explore san francisco, one neighborhood at a time. hi i'm katy tang the district 4 supervisor in san francisco, which is comprise of sunset and parkside neighborhoods. i think what makes district 4 unique is that we have so many different cultures here. we have so many different generations of people.

different experiences and that makes it a vibrant neighborhood. for example, which you go down urban street you can do to a japanese restaurant, chinese restaurant, american restaurant, and the cultural diversity is just what makes it so amazing my name is ching le, and i'm the owner of the kingdom of bounty. 17th san francisco, 94116. we make the most authentic and different kinds of dumplings and dim sum. recently more and more popular because they are vegetables and meats that we use fresh vegetables and meats in the business. it's really inspired to start discover your district series, because i wanted to find a way for neighbors to come and get to know our small businesses and our neighborhoods. get to know each other, get

know our office, and do so in a setting that was unintimidating and fun. so i launched this idea call the "discover your district," where we go every month to one or two small businesss in district 4 and we have done things such as learning how to make dumplings that we're learning today and there are so many different activities that we have exposed our residents to. >> today is the very special day, because the city of san francisco hosting this for san francisco city. learning how to make dumplings and knowledge of dumplings. they love to do it and all enjoy it. >> this is definitely not my first time making it, so i have definitely improved a lot. the first couple of time s i tried to make dumplelings they looks inedible.

they have definitely improved. there is a special dumpling eating contest, which is amazing. everyone those eat the dumplings that they made and see how many they can do. i'm curious as to how many they going to be able to down today? >> don't forget to write down what you are eating today. >> we make all different kinds of dumplings and enjoy what they made. so after that, we'll have contact how many pieces of dumplings they can eat and announce the winner today. women's network for a sustainable future . >> san francisco streets and

puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have

in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place

is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program

that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv.or

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>> clerk: good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for today, november 14th. our clerk is still mr. steve stamos. could you please call the roll. >> clerk: commissioner breed? commissioner cohen? present. commissioner farrell? commissioner fewer? fewer absent. commissioner kim? kim absent. commissioner peskin. >> chairman peskin: present. >> clerk: commissioner ronen. >> supervisor ronen: present. >> clerk: commissioner tang? >> vice chairman tang: present. >> clerk: commissioner fewer? we have quorum. >> chairman peskin: thank you, mr. clerk. now we will hear from our citizens advisory committee.

mr. larson. >> good morning chair peskin, vis chair tang and members of the transportation authority. -- vice chair tang and members of the transportation authority. i will be presenting the cac report today. beginning with item eight, the cac recommends approval for the allocation of prop k fundses as presented. there was particular support expressed for the valencia street bikeway impolicemen taths plan request -- implementation plan. the bike lanes were last striped in 1999 and valencia street has become a major bike commuter route in the city. at the same time, development along this corridor has resulted in many more conflicts and hazards with transportation network company or tnc and food delivery drivers making quick stops and double parking in the

bike lanes. the item did pass. turning to item ten, the presentation on the 2017 facility's framework. a question was raised if any of the older facilities to be altered or replaced had any historic cig any chance. they don't -- significance. it was also noted the facilities owned by the city and county seemed to kon trait on the eastern side of the city -- concentrate on the eastern side of the city. and whether it would hinder growth and development in the future of transportation networks locally. we also heard presentations about the core capacity transit study and compliment sector action strategy. discussion concerned whether the impact of carbon admissions from tnc's and the single rides they

provide could be factored in. that was interest in resiliency efforts in networks affected by sea level rise climate change and calling the effect of super storm sandy on the new york subway. citizens advisory committee members would like representatives from uber, lift to share what guidelines are offered to drivers about where to pull over and stop. instances where tnc double park when a curb side location or driveway is nearby, creating real traffic risks. that concludes my report. thank you. >> chairman peskin: thank you, mr. larson. are there any questions for mr. larson? seeing none, is there any public comment on this comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. clerk, next item please. >> clerk: item three, chair's

report. >> chairman peskin: thank you colleagues. in late october, i had the pleasure of well coming the self -- welcoming the self help coalition for the focus on the future conference. they have approved measures to fund transportation improvements. the theme was the power of partnerships, a fitting message given that it takes contributions from all levels of government to plan, funld and deliver -- fund and deliver transportation infrastructure. since the mid-1980s, california has been proving itself a leader in self help. revenue sources make up 75% of transportation revenues in the bay area. at a time when the federal tax bill contemplates removing funding for commuter benefits, rolling back incentives for alternative fuels and cutting funds for affordable housing, we must continue to be a leader in self help here in san fran and

the bay area. this means putting, preserving and protecting sb-one funds by putting them to work. in fan francisco we -- san francisco we will get congestion relief. was must stand up to those calling for repeal of the funding package, a mix of reasonable and overdue gas and diesel thankses and veeblg -- reek -- taxes and vehicle ridge station fees. in -- registration fees. we will total and in turn their counties would act to place the measures on the june 2018 ballots. it will help tackle traffic congestion and traffic expansion symptoms of our growth. at the local level, we continue to work on a potential 2018

revenue measure through the transportation task force to boost transportation funding plans and provide local regional funds. as part of this work, i have asked our staff to initiate a public opinion survey to inform the transportation task force deliberations and recommendations later this year. as part of this effort, we are engaging our independent oversight consultant to look at the transportation authority's project and payment systems, all of which recently received a clean audit, but as with everything, can benefit from occasional review and fine-tuning. finally, i will close by noting our debt program is active again with our bond, which i signed 22 signatures on a whole bunch of papers to start the funds flowing just in time for the arrival of the new lrv's this friday. i will be away due to travel, but wanted to congratulate them on this milestone and thank the

team for the successful financing to support delivery of these vehicles. with that i conclude my report and wish all of you and our staff a very happy thanksgiving next week. is there any public comment on the chair's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> clerk: item four, executive director's report. this is an information item. >> vice chairman tang: thank you. just wanted to echo the chair's comments about the federal bill and the importance really of all of our local efforts from protecting sb-one to keeping our focus on 2018. regarding the statewide picture, caltrans is releasing and inviting public input on the final bicycle plan for 2020. this is something that they have been working on for -- actually a bicycle and pedestrian plan. the goal the to double walking and triple biscycling trips by

2020 and they are ready to skusz their -- discuss their findings. and the closest one is west oakland youth center in oakland. it will be happening tomorrow 5:00-8:00 p.m. in addition, at the state wide level, earlier -- actually in late october, director peskin and provided joint comments to the california dmv on their proposed drivers testing. we earlier commented in april and pleased many of our comments were incorporated. we further stressed the need for the importance of training for operators near pedestrian and cyclists reporting all collisions and disengagements. and ensuring two-way communication between remote operators and local law enforcement. and data collection of on board

units before, during and after a crash is very critical as well. turning to another state program that we implement locally. we are continuing to refine the program. i want to thank chair peskin, vice chair tang and commissioner sheehy for fine tuning and shaping the recommendations. we hope to bring that forward on december 5th and the hearing on school transportation including the potential for yellow school buses has been rescheduled to a future date. i think we had previously scheduled it for late november, but we will probably move that to earlier in the new year. regarding vision zero, just wanted to thank all the departments mta and our staff, the whole task force on their workshop november 9th. they held a vision zero bold ideas workshop to really take a

longer term view looking out beyond the traditional two-year cycle to reach our goal in 2024. they expressed an interest in deepening community engagement around all aspects of vision zero. some included taking another look at road pricing, major street redesign and bold ideas there. high visibility community engagement and curb management. those are the four ideas that emerged from their bold ideas workshop. next steps includes the staff will share the information on the workshop with community folks and also highlighted on the website and bring it back hopefully to the vision zero committee as well. turning to the local level, the canopies for the bart stations are -- have begun construction here in san francisco. palace street station construction has begun.

they will also be starting on the civic center station at 7 and market street soon as well. these are the canopies that will shelter the escalators from the weather as well as other trash and things that gather at the escalators hindering their operation. they also have included in the project a digital display of the train arrival times, new security grills and new l.e.d. lighting as well as cameras. the $230 million project is funded by bart as well as matching funds from the state, prop 1-b and prop 1-a. our funds are also being put to work to improve elevators around town. we are happy to report work is nearing completion on the platform. the elevator safety and reliability upgrades project will provide upgrades to improve the safety and reliability of 12

elevators. work will begin on the church street station soon and mta has planned for the work to stake place in staggered ways to ensure accessibility for those who need these at each station. chair mentioned on friday we will be seeing the new lrv's rolling out. this was the larging single allocation of the prop k program the board took action on last year. i want to thank you all again for that. we are providing $131 million towards this program. the $934 million program which will expand by 24 lrv's and replace 151 of the brayda lrv's. we look forward to a second street opening. we whether report more on that next month and finally wanted to mention the van ness project is hitting a milestone by shifting the traffic to the center of the roadway allowing work to begin

on the sides. but the traffic shifts are necessary to accommodate two utility work zones to replace major utilities including water, sewage and emergency. the mta is monitoring traffic in construction conditions along van ness avenue and is scheduled to provide a briefing at our december 5th meeting. with that, i'm happy to take any questions. >> chairman peskin: are there any questions for ms. chang? any public comment? seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. next item please. >> clerk: items five through seven comprise the consent agenda. aye semisix was a-- item six is for final approval. >> chairman peskin: is there a motion to move the consent agenda? made by commissioner sheehy. is there a second? seconded by commissioner kim. on that a roll call vote.

public comment has already happened right? >> clerk: on items five and seven? >> chairman peskin: is there any public comment on the consent agenda? seeing none, public comment is closed. roll call vote please. >> clerk: on the consent, commissioner cohen? aye. commissioner farrell? absent. commissioner fewer? fewer aye. commissioner kim? kim aye. commissioner peskin. >> chairman peskin: aye. >> clerk: commissioner ronen? aye. sphere sheehy? aye. tang aye. commissioner yee? yee, aye. the consent agenda is approved. item eight, allocate $2,941,939 in sales tax fundses by request with conditions. >> good morning commissioners.

i'm departmenty director. we have four requests and one request from the department of public works to present to you today. the first request is to upgrade the fire alarm systems at five of the muni facilities shown on the screen. the construction phase will be done by spring of 2019. next request is for the district eight neighborhood transportation improvement program planning project for the valencia street bikeway limb menation plan -- imme menation plan. this ---i implementation plan. there are a host of recommendations that will be explored including but not limited to protected bike lanes and parking and loading changes and potential enforcement needs. the work will kick off around

the new year and will be completed in fall of 2018. one thing i will add is that since this is a ntip planning project, a final report will be presented to the board prior to adoption of the final report. and that's the case for all the ntip projects. next request is for the wide bike program that sfmta will funds in the spring semester of this year. this funds two-week classes at various different middle and high schools and for the first time at a handful of elementary schools, teaching kids how to bike and how to bike safely. the program was funded in the fall semester by a state grant to the department of public health and the work will continue next year as well. but the program will be funded in the spring through prop k.

next request is from the smfta to fund their portion of the bike to work day 2018. this is organized by the san francisco bicycle coalition. this funds work that is leading up to and on the day of for all of the festivities that go along with that day. and it has traditionally we have seen increased bike cycling before and after bike to work day. and the last request is from the department of public works. this is for the construction phase of the stand-alone curb ramp improvements either for improving ramps that are not currently at the ada guidelines or to construct ramps where ramps currently don't exist. and folks can request a curb ramp by conducting 311. the work will be done in the spring of 2019.

this is an annual funding request that we see from sf public works. with that, i can answer any various questions. >> chairman peskin: thank you ms. la fort. commissioner ronen. >> supervisor ronen: no questions. i just wanted to thank commissioner sheehy for using his ntip funds. it is important. i don't think it is enough. the way mta envisioned this part of the mission, south van ness was to be the main corridor for cars. mission was going to be the main corridor with red carpet for public transit. and valencia was to be the main corridor for bikes. but because of the proliferation of uber and lift cars, and

because of valencia's restaurant and bar culture, it has become one of the most dangerous places for bike riders in the city. i think we absolutely need protected bike lanes to make the vision that mta had about making this a true safe bike corridor real. but it is not going to happen fast enough for me, and i'm very, very worried about the safety of all bike riders in that corridor. i did send a letter last week to the ceo's of uber and lift saying that they are the only ones right now that have the ability to urgently fix the situation by geofencing and preventing their drivers from stopping on valencia street. it wouldn't interrupt their business. they could easily just have their drivers pick up and drop

off on all the side streets that feed into valencia street. so, i think this is a simple ask. i'm going to be meeting with both companies going forward to put on more pressure. i wish as a local body that we had the ability to regulate these companies and force them to do what they should be doing to protect safety of pedestrians and bikers in san francisco. unfortunately, we still don't have that ability. so, they need to step up and do the right thing to protect the safety in this very, var dangerous -- very dangerous corridor. i'm supportive and looking forward to the results of this study. >> chairman peskin: commissioner cohen. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. good morning ladies and gentlemen. hi. i wanted just to share a little bit of an experience that i had with the mta earlier this year. we had a situation in district

ten where mta removed parking spaces largely due to giving poor notice to the removal of these parking places -- parks spots. and several meetings with the residences as well as mta staf, they reversed -- staff, they reversed their decision to remove the bike lane which takes up parking places. i want to make sure that we have -- that we are cultivating new cyclists and that we are creating safe spaces for walkers. i have a large number of seniors in the directed and i want to also cultivate a new kind of working understanding and knowledge and image of what and who bikes in san francisco. bike education is absolutely critical to me and for my perspective, i think it helps inform the next generation and build a stronger connection. so, really, my question is, do you have a list of the schools that will be receiving the bike safety dollars?

could you share that with us publicly? thank you. >> yes. the list of schools that are being considered or actually, they will receive the bicycle education in 2017-18. i'm not sure if that includes the spring semester or if it is the entire year. the high schools -- the materials are shown in your enclosure to the prop k item and related to the use bicycle safety education classes allocation request materials. the high schools are ida b. wells, washington and wallenberg. willie brown, c. carmichael, everett and marina and elementary schools are to be determined. >> supervisor cohen: i encourage you to do more work on the

schools. i only heard the willie brown middle school. we have three high schools in the district. maybe you can reconsider. thank you. >> chairman peskin: commissioner fewer. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, chair. i wanted to say thanks for the attention to cornwall street which continues to be a dangerous intersection. this is probably in mta's wheel house, but that is an intersection i think on cornwall because there's an elementary school there it is difficult to cross and people don't understand how to drive through it or they are very confused. i think there needs to be -- we have requested it already. it is very dangerous. we have a lot of walkers that walk across california and that traffic is very, very -- there's a lot of traffic. especially during the drop-off hours in the morning. i wanted to say thanks for these

prop k improvements in my neighborhood. >> chairman peskin: thank you commissioner fewer. any other questions or comments from members? seeing none, we have a number of speaker cards on this item. i will call them. if you want to line up to your right, my left. robert, anna rossi, kyle. >> good morning. i'm a communitier organizer with the san francisco bicycle coalition. in 1994 we celebrated the approval of bike lanes on valencia. at the time this was a major win for the bicycling community in san francisco. lanes were striped in 1999 and the city has changed. but the lanes haven't kept up with the changing times.

not only has population and density increased, the proliferation of u ber and lift it has caused an obstacle course. forcing people on bicycles to constantly merge into oncoming traffic is not only very dangerous, it has turned the bicycle route into a street that people try to avoid. protected bike lanes will provide safe passage and slow down vehicle traffic, making it safer for everyone who uses the treat. valencia's bike lanes are long overdue for improvements that change how everyone they're gait -- navigates this area. we want to thank supervisor sheehy for working on this and we look forward to working with his office and the mta on solutions that will address urgent safety concerns in the

next year. i urge you to improve the funding to create the north bike route san francisco deserves. thank you for your time. >> chairman peskin: thank you. next speaker please. >> hi name is robert. i live in noe valley on 27th and church. i ride the valencia corridor almost every day. i have a car. i probably use it once every two weeks. i have lived there since 1993. i remember before there was no bike lane. the bike lane has been great for me and thank you supervisor ronen for your comments before. it has gotten severely dangerous in the past few years with uber and lift. especially at night. bikers are forced to swerve into

oncoming traffic by cars that are double parked there. there was a comment i think saying we can't do anything because i guess the city doesn't have oversight for uber and lift. i think something needs to be done very quickly. i have a 22-year-old daughter who is also biking every day in the city and it is worrisome. thank you very much. >> chairman peskin: thank you. next speaker, please. and let me just call a few mr. speaker cards. matt, ivan. >> hello. i have been living in san francisco since 2004 and i have been driving my bike on valencia street since 2008. and since 2014, i own a small business on valencia and 25th

and while i keep -- while i keep commuting by bicycle as well. i ride my bike daily as well off the people working on the business and many of our customers. we encourage them to commute by bike and avoid the lack of parking around the area. in the last two years, the commute has become more and more dangerous due to the bikes -- the bike lanes being constantly taken over by lift and uber surfaces, plus loading. i believe this change on improving the safety bike lanes on valencia street will raise the level of safety to cycle irss like me and -- cyclists and bring more business to the area. thank you. >> chairman peskin: thank you. next speaker, please.

>> i'm a resident, long same valencia, over 20 years. i remember what it was like before there was a bike lane and i have to say it is worse now from when before there was a bike lane at all. so, that kind of shows how bad it is and i'm going to reflect the comment made earlier. i hardly ever use it anymore. if i can avoid it, i will go side streets, all that. and the protected bike lane that was built south of cesar chavez has been great. all of a sudden it is working. so, i would definitely also encourage to get this project expedited as fast as possible. thank you for funding it. but keep funding it and pushing the uber lift situation as other people said is completely untenable. it is out of control. so, something needs to be done in whatever form.