tv Government Access Programming SFGTV December 4, 2017 1:00pm-2:01pm PST
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hundreds of volunteers pitched in during our last community clean team event of 2017 which took place in the mission, and the port. in celebration of world spoilers day we rolled out our newest model designed in the style of the lady victoria. the much-anticipated second street improvement project with were completed will complete pedestrians, psyche lists and transit as well as drivers. have you noticed snow flakes lit among market streets. the holidays are around the corner in preparation we came together with the mayor and the police chief to announce our efforts to ensure that residents and visitors have a safe and clean experience during the busy holiday shopping season in the downtown and neighborhood commercial corridor.
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>> hi, i'm muhammad the director of public works in san francisco we're doing a show for public works tv and my guest today. >> interview: thank you. >> you run an organization that actually empowers people to be stew address of the land and troy to change people's lives. tell us about the organization and maybe a little bit more about kind of what you have been doing in public works? >> interview: well, i founded the hunters point family when i was 23 and basically it was in anticipation of having my first child and if i wanted a better community for my children, we would create that. we employ people who are in the reentry population, former life ers, people with life sentencing to monitor the toilets and that means to make sure that they keep them safe and they keep them clean and the
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thing this population does is they have overtime developed a sense of emotional intelligence so they are able to so easily and smoothly make sure people can come in out and diffuse and deescalate any situations that and give people a sense of safety which transforms their perceptions of themselves and in society and other people's perceptions of them so it helps stabilize this population as they come home and be an asset to the community. >> interview: i think one of the things that we are most proud of is that these individuals are able to get work and they're able to do something positive which i think there's a direct relationship with crime or neighborhood people feeling safe because a lot of these individuals they didn't have a job or something to do that make
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their own money than people need to take care of their families and people do resort to other types of situations that are not necessarily productive or helpful to communities. >> you are absolutely right. there's an old saying if people knew better they would do better and what i believe is this program gives people an opportunity to do better creating a lot of our employees that have been in prison for 20 or 30 years and holding on to little glimmers of hope and when they get out to have this job and have people to look up to them and feel important in the city family, and giving back to the community on so many levels, it's validating that there is hope and there is a life and there is a place for them in society and it helps them to hone all that motivation and moving to the next step in that drive to move up to continue to
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better themselves and at the same time society so yeah, absolutely. >> so i want to say thank you for all the leadership that you bring to the community and i think our partnership where we are changing people's lives and also giving our community a better place to serve them and a better place for people to use the bathroom or a clean street or a nice park has all been part of the partnership that we have and i just on behalf of public works i thank you for everything that you do. [♪]
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workforce development program. it's great to be here at the san francisco museum of ice cream. i want to thank the entire team here for hosting us for this event. this is a special day. we are doing the fourth annual launch of the mayor's shop and dine in the 49 local shopping campaign. this is a really big deal because it is a partnership between a great many members of the small business community and the neighborhood throughout the city focused on helping san franciscans spend more money in our local commercial corridors and at small businesses in san francisco. but it is also an opportunity to celebrate the entrepreneurs that are making -- that keep san francisco strong, that are keeping the city thriving and vie brand. one of the things that i'm really excited about and want to focus on today is the incredible partnership of all the members of the small business community that are here today. where are you, jason? raise your hand.
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hi, jason from shop small saturday. thank you very much for your partnership and continued klb ration. -- collaboration. we have mark quite thesing, regina dickendreezy, the council of district merchants has been a critical partner of ours as well. we have the council district of merchants here as well. juan of the things that we're really proud of and really inspired by is our mayor, ed lee. the mayor came to us four years ago, the office of economic workforce development and said i challenge you to create a program and campaign that gets more shopping done in our local neighborhoods. increase the amount of spending to support jobs and small businesses and also support taxes and the vitality of our neighborhoods. and we, through the incredible work of mariane thompson and gloria chan, joaquin torres in the office of economic workforce development launched this program to do exactly that.
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to encourage and challenge san franciscans to do more in our small business community. mayor lee has done more than any mayor that i know to invest and support in small businesses, directing more money and investing more money than any administration in the city's history to support small businesses through the invested neighborhoods program, by launching a small business portal, by meeting constantly with our small business leaders and as a tireless advocate for the issues that they care about most. it is my honor and privilege to introduce mayor lee. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, todd. good morning, everybody. let me correct todd because i want to make sure you understood the challenge. i challenged him to find me more ice cream. that was the real challenge. and i'm really happy to be here. at the ice cream museum. this is one of those innovative ideas, very unique to the city and, of course, they're getting booked up like crazy and we're in the heart of our shopping and union square and, of
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course, the chief and i already have enough chants. we need some opportunities to smile and, of course, we're about to jump into this speckle pool. forgive us if we have too much fun. the holidays are beginning. we're going to have lots of fun. i want people to not just come to the city but take advantage of really supporting the backbone of our business community and small businesses and people here, karen fled knows union square is at the heart of a lot of things that we do during the holidays. you have jeffries toys, my favorites. they're a legacy business in the city. and keep supporting them. [shouting] we'll have all of the different business associations that are working together with us. but the experience is all about fun. safe fun. and that is why the chief and i will be doing a lot of things over the holidays to make safe shopper programs, to provide the safety level that people have.
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reduce the harm reduction program on our streets. make sure people, as many people can get off of our streets. while work on those hard things. in between those difficult, challenging things, we want to work with our business community to provide safe fun for the kids that will be here. thousands of kids over the holidays, families. people from all over the world that are taking advantage of this wonderful city that we have. and we're doing this with programs, yes, that we funded but we want to make sure that everything else is working for folks on the long-term. small businesss are so important to cities like san francisco. more than the backbone, they provide the innovative, the cultural diversity all over our neighborhoods. this is one big area. but listen, shop and dine in the 49 is about shopping in all of our neighborhoods. allow them to give you cultural innovation, small business
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innovations, shopping small innovation because when people put their entire lives behind their small businesses, you should see the innovation that comes out of their ideas, their service, their good patronages of products and designs that are locally sensitive and culturally rich. wanted to say thank you to this museum for starting out their innovation. i think kids already have ice cream in them because they are jumping up and down before they come in. to our restaurants, our golden gate restaurant association will be very full this year. probably hard to get reservations. but persevere. use every app that you can or, like i do, walk in with a $5 bill or something and hand somebody. then they will give you a seat. the old-fashioned way. but i know mark is excited because small businesses really are our engine and creating even more and they not only love our support, we love
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supporting them. but i want to emphasize shop and dine in the 49. go to that app. if you really want to have a lot of information about those stores. and we'll be on the streets to make sure everybody is safe and enjoying themselves. of course, this is thanksgiving. so, we're going to, just after this, we'll be handing out a lot of turkeys to people if their need. we have fire victims up north that are in need. we have people on the streets that are in need. i want to make sure that the spirit, the principles that we operate on, are right in front of us. right in the front of everything that we do, that we support, everybody that needs that help and that's why these -- this is so wonderful because they are often the untold, unknown heroes that come out and do a lot of gift donations and support that never gets covered and i want the media to cover them.
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cover all of our small businesses as they really are the help that we want to have. so thank you very much, everybody. and shop and dine in 49. happy holidays. [applause] >> thank you, mayor. as the mayor said, this holiday season is about shopping local and shoppinging safe. it is my honor to welcome our fantastic chief of police, chief scott. >> thank you. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. i couldn't have said it better than mayor lee. [kids shouting] and this place is fun in here. i'm not a big ice cream eater, but my entire family is. i'm sure i will be here many times during the holidays. this is my favorite time of year and it is my favorite time of year because the holiday season, thanksgiving, the holiday season, it brings out the best in communities. it is a time where we're selfless, we give, we come together as a community.
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and definitely shop and dine in the 49 is, i think, the way to go. this time last year, even before i got hired by mayor lee to be the chief here, we were here during this period last years and i remember walking around, basically walking around this area and just going to the different businesses and it was an experience. for those of you who have lived here all your lives, when you come here from another city and experience this great city, it is really something to behold. so, we want to make sure that that experience is shared and that people can do that safely. i have a couple of tips that i want to share with you. i have a long list. but i'm going to be very quick in reading -- rattling off this list of safety tips. first of all, cell phones. we all have 'em. we all use them. and sometimes i'm as guilty of it as anybody else. i'm walking and texting and on the phone and i'm not paying
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attention to what i'm doing. take a minnesota pay attention to your surroundings. i know we're a cell phone generation. we live on these things but they can be distracting. it is really important when you are shopping, particularly going to the bank and the a.t.m., buying things for your family and loved ones, pay attention to your surroundings. there is nothing more important than vigilance. if we are to be a resilient city, there is some basic things that we can do. if you're using your a.t.m., block your p.i.n. number so it is not visible. really basic thing. but unfortunately we still have people if our society that will make a living and make a profit off of stealing p.i.n. numbers and then getting into your bank account and taking your funds. block your p.i.n. numbers. make sure you look at your surroundings when you are at the a.t.m.. no matter what you are, look at your surroundings. if you are driving to your location, number one, public transportation is great here. take advantage of public transportation. but if you are driving, make
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sure you lock your car, first of all. make sure that you put things away that are visible. if you have a trunk, put it in the trunk. don't leave valuables if your car. we have a program we're calling park smart. it has been very successful. but that means to park smart. don't leave your valuables if your car for somebody else to take them away. the last thing you want to do have your hold day season ruined by somebody else breaking your car window and taking out the things that you work hard to provide your family and friends and loved ones. so park smart. the next thing, if you are shoppinging, make sure when you -- some people will shop and they'll go and load up their car and then go and shop. there are things you can do to prevent being an easy victim for that. if you are shopping, if you are going to load your car, take the time to move your car to another location. because people that are going to prey on innocent people, they do watch what you do. so move your car around. i know it is a little bit of an
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inconvenience, but it does help. if you're walking around with packages and loaded up on the arm, again pay attention to your surroundings because you don't want to become easy prey. our city overall is a very safe city. but there are things that we can do to be resilient and individual lends and some of these things may sound like common sense. when you are caught in the moment of the day sometimes you lose track of what you are doing and you get distracted. the main thing is to pay attention. pay attention to what you are doing. if you do that your resiliency goes up and your vigilance goes up. the last thing is look out for your neighbors. if you see something, say something. the cell phones that i just mentioned, be safe in doing so. but if you have a situation where you need to call 3-1-1 or 9-1-1, do that. 9-1-1 is an emergency situation. somebody is getting a, thated f you see a crime in progress, that's a 9-1-1 call. if your car gets broken into
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and there is no danger, that is a 3-1-1 call. we'll get there and take a report. or you can do that report online. i want to end this on a positive note. i started this with this season is all about giving, sharing and taking care of each other. i think if we do that, that is a resilient san francisco that we all know we can be. let's take care of each other and be a community and enjoy your holiday season. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, chief. as i mentioned earlier, the shop and dine the 49 campaign is a partnership with the small business community but also with other government leaders. it is my honor to introduce and recognize our s.b.a. district representive, fewly appointed just a couple of months ago. come on up, julie. [applause] >> good morning. first of all, mayor lee and chief scott for your great
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support of the small business community. s.b.a. is really proud to co-sponsor, again, small business saturday with american express and women impacting public policy. they have been tremendous supporters of this initiative across the country. and i know jason and lynn are here today and we have a representative from american express. thank you for your dedication and your support of the small business community. we have been part of this -- or the small business saturday has been around since 2010 and it's really been exciting to watch this initiative grow year after year. last year was a record-breaking year with about 112 million consumers out shopping small and dining small across the country. they saw 68% increase in the neighborhood champions can. i know this year with all this momentum and excitement, maybe fueled by a little sugar from the ice cream, that we can even beat those numbers. i'm looking forward to seeing
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everyone out and about on saturday. in your various communities. so why small business? i mean, we all know small businesses create jobs, they fuel the local economy, spark innovation. that's all true. but small businesses are more than that. they are actually what makes our communities unique. it helps us define our neighborhoods. so, when you support a small business, you are supporting your friends and neighbors. they tend to hire from a local community. they tend to support local initiatives. philanthropic events. so when these small businesses thrive, we all benefit. so, at s.b.a., of course, we're here to be your small business resource. so any small business loaners out there today, know that you have the skills and talent and ambition, but if you ever need a little bit of help, s.b.a. is here to help you as well, where you need counseling, training, financial assistance, or you're looking for new opportunities such as exporting or government contracting. please remember to call upon us.
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but the message for the takeaway today is saturday. please go out, take your friends and neighbors and remind them it is small business saturday. go shop at your favorite local merchants, go dine at your favourite local restaurant and if you have out of town guests, this is the perfect time to show off all those fun places that you love and adore to patronize on a daily basis. so i encourage everyone to amplify this message and encourage all of your friends and neighbors to shop small and dine small. [applause] >> thank you, julie. as you all know, what this ultimately is about is about the small businesses and we're doing this to support them, to support their vitality in the city. it is an honor to be able to welcome up matthew lunn who's the owner of jeffery's toys. now jeffery's toys was nominated by mayor lee as a legacy business. they have been around since 1938 in san francisco. and that is a really long time. i know matthew is going to explain a little more action their story.
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but i want to welcome you up there to tell that story for all of us. [applause] >> thank you. first up i want to say that my dad and my step mom are the owners of jeffery's toys. i'm here as one of the supporters of jeffery's toys. you know, when i was born, it was not -- it was pretty unusual that my parents owned the most family-run toy stores in the bay area. find that as a normal way to grow up as a kid. prison awesome when it is your birthday or a holiday, right? but my parents didn't start the toy stores, jeffery toys. my grandparents operated it before them and then my great grand parents are really the ones that started the toy stores. wow. what a great way to grow up. all that creativety and play and uniqueness made me want to continue to live a life where i could play and be creative. and i ended up working at pixar at the very beginning when the
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studio began. on "toy story." no coincidence, right? [applause] [laughter] and you better believe when we needed to give reference on what toys would be in that film, you know the toy store we went to, we went to jeffery's toys "toy story" one, two, and three. i spends over half my life at pixar, which has been awesome. when i hear that the toy store was being closed down on market street, it broke my heart. i was like this cannot be possible in a city that is all about creativity and play and uniqueness. we can't lose jeffery's toys. that is when i came in and said to my dad and step-mom, there is no way we're letting this happen. and then with the support of the city, support of the mayor and the legacy program, we were able to just open up our toy store once again in the city, just a couple of months ago. so, we think -- we think we can still safely say we've been here since 1966.
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but, you know, in a world of amazon and wal-mart and all this, people still want an experience. people still want to come in and be able to touch the toys, be able to touch the productses, to be able to have an experience. the same kind of experience you get when you see a film. right? people still want that. and in the city that is the most, in my opinion, the most creative, unique city in the world, we gotta have a toy store. we gotta have shopping and dining experiences that are one of a kind. so we're so happy to be part of this shop and dine in the 49 and, once again, since 1966, creating a fun place, a creative place for people to come and buy their toys. so, thank you. [applause] >> in closing, i think matthew hit on a good point which isn't just about shopping or dining, this is about experiencing in the 49. i obviously believe there is no better place to spend the
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holidays, but also year round than here in san francisco. and on that note, on the note of experience, i think with the closing of this event, i think you are going to take us on a tour of the ice cream museum here and maybe the chief and everybody here can join the mayor and maybe we go and check out the sprinkle pole just down the way -- [laughter] and see everything that the ice cream museum has to offer. thank you for joining us today. thank you to all of our partners for your support. have a wonderful and safe holiday season. thank you. [applaus
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>> what anchors me to the community i serve is a terminal connection this is the main artery of the southeast neighborhood that goes around visitacion valley and straight down past the ball park and into the south of market this corridor the hub of all activity happening in san francisco. >> i'm barbara garcia of the wines in the bayview before opening the speculation we were part of bayview and doing the opera house every thursday i met local people putting their wares
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out into the community barbara is an work of a symbol how the neighborhood it changing in a a positive way literally homemade wine that is sold in the community and organized businesses both old and new businesses coming together to revitalizes this is a yoga studio i actually think be able a part of community going on in the bayview i wanted to have a business on third street and to be actually doing that with the support of community. >> how everybody reasons together to move each other forward a wonderful run for everybody out here. >> they're hiring locally and selling locally. >> it feels like a community effort. >> i was i think the weather
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streaming the meeting. do you have anything else? >> items, aed upon today will appear on the december 12 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> ok. thank you. item number one. >> an amendment to implement charter section 16.129 providing that the city should maintain street trees and be liable for injuries and property damage resulting from the failure to maintain trees and making appropriate findings. >> thank you. i will turn it over to supervisor sheehy. >> thank you. good morning, colleagues. today we're here to consider an ordinance amending the public works doed implement charter 16.129. in november of 2016, the voterses paed proposition e which provides that the city
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shall maintain street trees and thus is liable for injuries and property damage resulting from the failure to maintain street trees. prop e passed with almost 80% of the voter's support and set aside $19 million a year to run this program, which went into effect july 1, 2017. thus public work code needs to be updated to reflect the city intention, which is that the city will be responsible for maintaining our street trees. i do want to give a shout-out to my predecessor, now senate -- senator scott weiner for his leadership. there is a three-year holding time before thety is eligible to take a tree. new trees arened mraeed from a variety of sources, including individual property owners and developers. after three years, the city will look to see if the tree is established, meaning that it has met specific criteria to be
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accepted by the city. simply, the street tree s.f. makes it possible that the city does not take on maintenance for trees before designated time period and, thus, reduces the city's liability. it is important that we continue to work to sustain a long-term vision and strategy for our street trees. this will help us achieve beautiful streets and help the environments. i'll now turn it over to karla short which is part of the department of public works. >> thank you, karla. >> thank you. so, we're here today to consider some proposed code changes as required by the ordinance to the public works code. i'll justs give very brief background to how we got here.
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as you all know, budget. -- budget cuts to the tree program over the last decade resulted in inadequate public works through the public forest. as a result, they transferred them to property own ores. a hugely unpopular but necessary initiative. it was lousy compared to other cities. the report provided recommendations for improvinging the situation. one of the key takeaways was to adopt sustainable funding stream to provide public works with the resources needed to properly care for the city's 125,000 street trees. we looked at best practices in other jurisdiction and potential surrounding scenario and came up with a proposal that premiered on the 2016 ballot as proposition e. as the supervisor noted, the
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proposition was passed overwhelmingly by san francisco voters. street tree s.f. guarantees public works $19 million a year in general fund money for street tree care without raising taxes. street tree s.f. went sbaoe effect on july 1, 2017. transferring maintenance responsibility of all street trees to the city. the ordinance also includes a provisions to protect the city from liability when inheriting more than 80,000 for maintenance on july 1 and essentially if it was identified as an issue prior to the july 1 takeover property owners do share some of the liability for that condition. it also required a code amendment to bring the public works code in line with the new measure. so that is where we are today. there were a few key changes to the code that i'll just highlight for you today. the obvious one is that it eliminates the section that makes property owners responsible for maintaining the
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tree in the right-of-way adjacent to their property. and equally as important, it eliminates the provision to allow the department to relinquish responsibility. for example, if a developer is required to plant a number of trees as a mitigation for their building project, the city will only accept those trees for maintenance after they've gotten established properly and we have inspected and determined that we'll take them on for maintenance. it also adopts a process to it a how property owners to opt out and hire a private contractor to perform street tree maintenance. we have many property owners who have taken great care of their trees over the years and they would like the option to continue to do so. so, the code change allows that.
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another important provision from my perspective is it requires property owners who damage trees to take steps to repair the damage. and to remain liable for the trees until the city determines that they are healthy and structurally sound. if someone tops a tree and that results in damage to the tree, which is going to have a poor structure and be prone to limb failures, the city does not have to inherit that problem. and we can require them to structurally prune the tree and restore it to a structurally sound condition before we take maintenance responsibility back. and it also adopts rules and standards for contractors performing work on city trees. essentially prop e does not cover planting costs of new trees so we'll have to seek other funding opportunities to cover the cost of planting and establishing trees. but we hope to grow the urban forest by 50,000 new street
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trees and the future vision of street trees in san francisco will look something more like this. thank you for your time. >> colleagues, any questions? if not, we can turn to public comment unless supervisor sheehy had more. >> i think dan flanagan was going to be here. but i don't see him. >> anyone wish a comment on item number one? >> i'm gail bau, and we've been working with karla and d.p.w. on restoring the octavia boulevard where the street trees have been neglected. i've also seen something similar on divisidero and potentially on cesar chavez where there are center medians
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that have trees and i'm not sure -- i'm really asking the question of karla, if those trees are covered by this new ordinance. >> anybody else before -- anybody else wish to publicly comment on item number one? ok. seeing no public comments now closed, supervisor sheehy. >> those trees are covereded, yes, karla? all right. >> supervisor p/esskin? -- supervisor peskin? >> i just want to thank you to the staff for getting us up to speed on this long-awaited change on policy and thank the voters and my former colleagues and supervisor weiner for gettinging this thing before the voters and finally solving a many decades' problem and can't wait for it to be rolled out. >> ok. thank you very much. any other questions? if not, colleagues can we get a motion? >> so moved.
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>> move -- >> would you like the send this out as a committee report? >> that would be terrific. by motion supervisor peskin to send this item forward as a committee report and we can take that without objection. so, colleagues, item number two is sponsored by supervisor breed and i think we're waiting on her getting here. let's go to items three and four first. call item number three. >> item number three is an ordinance amending the transportation dozed prevent motorized scooters animo pedestrians to park in designated motorcycle spaces and making appropriate findings. >> ok, mr. thornly is here. welcome. >> i'll take this spot. i don't have a presentation to make for you, if you don't mind. i'll just give you a verbal. i'm andy thornly of the pr*up transportation agency. we brought to the committee a
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little bit of legislative business. and pardon me. the sequence of things we are talking about, the motorized scooters first, i believe. let's see. let me verify that. so, we actually -- two items here. these are both mine. so, these both have to do with shared mobility. the s.f.s municipal transportation agency having watched with a small pilot how small changes to parking policy would support a shared electric moped system. we have scoot networks runninging the system in the city. we tried a year of relaxing time limits in resident permit areas. we decided from our analysis and listening to neighbors and your constituents that we should create a permit. we now created a shared electric moped parking permit for $325 a year.
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a qualified moped operator can get such a permit and scoot's moe -- mopeds are now all showinging this particular permit. have a look at that. in the code, we discovered that the parking infraction for parking if a marked motorcycle stall was not quite exactly right. right now in division one of the transportation code, it's an infraction. you can get a citation. if you park something other than a motorcycle, in a motorcycle parking stall. well, it's been the m.t.a.'s policy and practice for quite a long time that we allow mopeds, scooters, other motorized two wheelers in motorcycle stalls. so we're asking for a very minor correction in the language of division i, in the infraction having to deal with parking in a motorcycle stall.
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that's section 7237. and we are proposing to add a couple of words to that. so that you are now ok to park a motorized scooter or a moped or a motorcycle in a motorcycle parking space. it's taken me longer to describe this than the legislation. we respectfully request that the board of supervisors make that change to division i. >> thank you. just quick question. would you mine just, for members of the public because we get the questions sometimes between where we are today, where we've been the last year and what we're approving now? >> where we've been, we have had now since june of this year, the m.t.a. has had a permit program in place. for qualified moped sharing organization, such as scoot networks. currently they are the only one
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recognized by the m.t.a. for an operator of shared electric mopeds, you make seek permits. the permit exempts the moped bearing that permit from a few parking regulations. you may first park in a permit area and not worry about time limits. you can also leave that moped in a metered motorcycle stall and not pay the meter at the motorcycle stall. and then thirdly, you can park that moped between vehicles and conventional parking spaces, metered spaces and not have to pay the meter. that last one we get raises eyebrows about. you say i can park my moped between two parked cars at a meter? yes, that's been legal for quite a while. you're able to share one of the stars or your vespa or your harley. that is all legal. as long as you're not obstructing traffic. but if you are the fellow on
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the vespa and pull up at that meter and it is not paid, you have to pay else when the parking control officer comes, you are all in jeopardy of getting a ticket. so, this permit forgives the moped of having to pay the meter. . it basically liberalizes acts of mopeds from parking from a meter and the clean-up that we're bringing to you for your help is the infraction for parking your own vespa or shared vespa in a motorcycle stall, strictly speaking, isn't legit right now. even though for decades the m.t.a. and d.p.t. have permitted motorcycles and mopeds and scooters from parking in stalls. this is good housekeeping on the infraction that if you parked a humvee at a motorcycle meter, you'get a ticket. we're just opening up that infraction to say you can park
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a motorcycle or a moped so that we can take a permit and exempt the electric moped from that. >> question for you. have there many people, aside from scoot, who have been working with that applied for or gotten these permits? >> we have not had a second party interested in this. sort of surprised. i expect at some point we'll have a second and third. this is not unlike the station of the spike share systems that the board has talked about and worked on. at this point, it's just scoot networks who are operating. and they have 570 of these permits in effect. >> got it. and we talked about this before. but my concern has been big parking spot, or a parking spot. and if residential zones and they come in and park in those parking spots. so now you're taking them away from people who have been coming home from work. and scoot has been good at alleviatinging that as much as possible and i appreciate their willingness to work together.
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my fear would have been, had there been a ton of them and there is no working relationship with them that that would get exacerbated. but potentially that is not the case at this point. >> indeed. that is our sentiment as well that having this relationship with scoot and having a permit binds us to them. they have been good players all along and working with district two office, we've had good fortune. we find this appealing because it is an interesting and policy positive mode to get around but also to have a relationship that is built on this kind of bind or bound -- we're bound together. it does have a little more control. >> thank you. supervisor? >> it's with regard to the fee per vehicle which i assume has to pass the prop 26 cost recovery? >> correct. >> how did you determine the costs and how often is that fee nexus audited for accuracy? >> this is just only our first fiscal year. so we're only a few months into this permit.
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but if cost recovery calculation includes lost meter rev gnueer, administrative cost, my time and some other folk's time and a little bit of enforcement time. as you know well, it's hard sometimes to gather up expenses to make a politically palatable cost. there are some folks who would say it should be much more than that. >> so, how much of the fee is dedicated to the admin side and your involvement time-wise. >> it's been mostly -- mostly lost meter revenue and the other half is administrative time. so, i think we projected as as 1,000 permits, times $325 for a year. we will certainly be auditing and truing up when we come around the corper into next fiscal year with real data to look at the actual cost that we incurred.
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>> it sounds like you are getting off to the better start in the case of the google bus stops relative to that fee calculation. but let's look at nit a year. >> supervisor tang? >> thank you very much. i think our neighborhood had a little bit of a struggle when companies like scoot first came to the neighborhood and i say this as someone who is a -- who rode a scooter and i love scooters and i love that it is an electric moped that they're using. certainly when they were directing people to just flood certain neighborhoods with parking, even though it was like the little sliver in between driveways, that's legal, it really was creating a situation for neighbors where it was difficult for them to get in between two mopeds to get into their driveways and so forth. i'm glad there are new strategies in place now. i'm wondering did -- was there any analysis around the fact that these mopeds will be able to park in parking spots, where
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there's ample parking for motorcycles that are paying to use them? >> great question. there is a finance supply of motorcycle parking, we the m.t.a., places motorcycle parking not a systematic, premeditated way but in response to demand. your constituents, for instance, will tell us. i'm really having trouble. three of my neighbors are with motorcycles. and we'll strike motorcycle stalls in response to that. obviously opening up space, making it more accessible for mopeds and scoots right away we're paying more attention to do we need strike more motorcycle parking and we're looking for supervisor officers and constituents to let us know that it's gotten tight. we know, for instance, at the cal train station at 4th and townsend, it's always been contentious there so we'll make sure that we provide more parking at that location. but to supervisor peskin's point, balancing and paying attention to how much paid parking scoot
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is using to provide all constituents access to that parking without throwing the balance off. so, excellent question. we're paying attention and please you and anyone watching at home, if you see a need for motorcycle parking, 3-1-1 it in and we'll get it on the list. >> ok. thank you. i do look forward to further analysis on this. >> ok. thank you very much. anybody wishing to comment on item number three? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues can we take the same in house -- ok. same house, same call? so moved. ok. ma dad clerk, item number two. >> item number two is a resolution imposing for 18 po*nls incoming zoning controls to limb off-street parking for new development and remove the possibility to apply for c.u.
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authorization to increase such parking in the area known as the hub or the market street hub and making appropriate findings. >> ok. thank you, colleagues. this item was, again, sponsored by supervisor breed who's just joined us in committee. i'll turn it over to her. >> thank you. >> one minute while we get our microphones sorted out. >> thank you for your patience. colleagues, today i'm presenting legislation that will impose interim controls for the market street hub area, also known as the hub. the hub is the most eastern side of the market octavia plan and includes the intersection of market streets with valencia, haitt and goff streets.
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