dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy,

>> chairman brinkman: lest call this meeting to order. please call the role. >> [role call] >> director hsu will be absent and you do have a quorum. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. >> the use of cell phones, p e pagers or electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any person responsible for the ringing of a cell phone or whatever in the room may be asked to leave the room. cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference so

please turn them off. approval of minutes. >> chairman brinkman: any public comments? no. a motion to approvement. >> the closed session discussion regarding the paul case has been remove from the agenda at the request of staff. in addition, staff has asked that 10.2h and i will considered separately under the consent calendar. that's it for communications. >> chairman brinkman: item 6 introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> i have something to mention. i'm sure that you've seen e-mails from neighbors talking about the traffic calming work that went on there. a little bit of unhappiness with the big changes on the street. so director rubke and myself went

to meet with the neighbors. i had a fantastic briefing by patrick who worked on the project. i went out and walked the corridor and i encourage you all to go and see it because it's a different street treatment from anything that we've attempted since i've been on this board in san francisco and i really like what it's done. the neighbor and i walked the streets. he was a very littled that car -- a little concerned that car drivers were confused but that met all the safety rules. that was community requested and community driven and it really has made a dramatic difference on the streets, the cars are slower, the lane widths are narrower, the traffic circles are doing what they are meant to do in terms of traffic calming so i just wanted to say that staff did a really good job on that and although i would imagine we might still hear from some neighbors who are getting used to the changes, it sounded

as if even from the time it went in to when i saw it which was probably three or four weeks later the car drivers and pedestrians and cyclists had gotten used to it. it's calmed down and safe er. we had an unfortunate collision by a young one in a stroller being pushed by a parent that was hit by a car that started this whole thing. i just wanted to say thank you to staff for the work on that and i encourage you to take a look at it. >> chairman brinkman: anybody else? mr. torres. >> board member torres: that traffic calming report was excellent. i think that's what we need on so many other streets in san francisco and i'm sure we'll be getting requests from neighbors saying what a great plan this was. first i want to thank supervisors for introducing the ordnance on e scooters and issues those

disclosure notices and to add our staff, as i know that you're pr dealing with regulations on how to deal with this issue of how people take advantage of our city without seeking a permit and who cares where they leave their scooters on the streets, sidewalks and driveways, i've tripped over twice almost already dealing with that in neighborhoods which i thought were safe. people leaving their scooters at the entrance to buena vista park and not coming back. a lot of elderly try to access that park. i just want to thank the staff, the attorneys and the supervisors for working on this issue. thank you. >> board member borden >> chairman brinkman: thank you. do i have any -- we'll move on that one. thank you. >> item 7, director's report. >> good afternoon, madame chair, members oh of -- of the board and staff. a few things i

want to touch on including whether director torres raised. first some good things to report but i want to let you know that just before coming to this meeting got word that there's a reported pa -- fatality on ocean avenue. it happened around 9:00. it was a vehicle on victoria northbound turning eastbound onto ocean and striking and killing a pedestrian in the crosswalk. that's the preliminary info which is subject to change. just a reminder of how important it is for us as director torres was just saying to make sure all of our streets are safe. so we are sending our staff out as we do after each reported fatality or near fatality to see what we can evaluate about the intersection. but sorry to have to report that. on the more

positive side, a couple of projects that have been discussed not too long ago in this forum which are making progress in the ground, which is great news. the 11 is turk street -- the 11 is turkstreet. our paint shop finished the during turk street safety upgrades for people walking and biking in tenderloin. it included a bike lane, crosswalks, painted safety zones and signal improvements. this is a project, you know, we've working on for a couple of years now. we started back in the spring of 2016 working with supervisor kim and the tenderloin community to develop and implement a much needed improvement on turk between mason and polk. the history

being, the reason that we were focused there is that over a 5-year period there had been a total of 174 traffic collisions in the area with 92 of the reported collisions involving people walking and people biking which gave turk, this stretch of trus turk, the distinction of being high injury network that account for 75% of the serious and fatal collisions. i went out to see it last week. i would encourage folks to just go check it out. it's a pretty dramatic change for turk street. the most dramatic part being the new separated bike lane which is boarded by the delineaters and a significant buffer that allows for loading but not for parking. already getting some good feedback about it. it's just a

few blocks away from here so i encourage you to check it out on your way home. also making good progress is the upper market street safety project. you know, we've came a few different times on this. it's been delivered in phases. it's really covering the area from octavia all the way up to the castro and some of that work has already been put in place. this is another one, this one dates back to 2015 in terms of identifying hot spots along corridors where we thought safety improvements would reduce the likelihood of collisions. what we've done recently, our crews have installed a new protected bikeway, painted safety zones, better intersection signage and markings. right now it will be

octavia to debose. we will add the rest of the paint this week and then pauses the work on market street for public works who is going to come in and construct concrete islands. that work is now progressing. after that work is done our shops will come back and finish the initial part of the project which will be done in about three weeks. but the folks who travel up market from van -- or from octavia can already see that in the ground. as someone who rides that area frequently it definitely makes a difference, that separation between cars and bikes. i think whether you're driving or you're on a bike it's something that will be welcome by everybody. i think i mentioned at the last meeting that we had walk to workday coming up. what we did as part of walk to workday along with supervisor jane kim and

chang from the county transportation authority and walk san francisco and a number of community groups is we accelerate visited a new mid-block signal at ross and howard to kick off walk to workd workday. we also did one at falsom. both have been high priorities for the neighborhood. with the new intersection or new signal cams high visibility walks, signals and what was notable is that this is just north of where we put in a signal at folsom and rusk right in front of the park and betsy carmichael elementary. i think there's another school in the area as well. people have been crossing these mid-block crossings on howard and folsom before the signals. if you

picture what it's like, it's wide streets, cars move very fast so the see the difference once these signals went in where cars were stopping and that signal was giving the pedestrians the protection to cross safely is night and day. it was very well received by the neighborhood stake holders. i do want to note that these improvements were also fully supported, not just been the community but by mayor lee who funded the signal through allocating funds from the soma community stabilization fund. so that's what paid for that new mid-block signal. also this morning i participated in a bike and roll to school week event. it's happening -- the whole week is bike and roll to school week. so all over the city we are supporting schools with enhanced

visibility on encouraging kids to get to school in nonmotorized ways. then so moving on, speaking of motors, last week we inaugurated the first of our new 40 foot new electric trollies into service. this one started on the 3 jackson line. these new trolly buses like our old ones are completely ebbing -- electric means zero emission vehicles. they give us the largest bus fleet in the station. our older fleet that these ones will replace came into service back in 2001. they are from a manufacturer no longer in business with parts that are very difficult to find and are past if not long past their useful lives. getting these new buses into service will be a welcome change for

anybody who rides those lines that includes our busy lines, the 6, the 21, the 31, the 1 california, these where a lot of our 40 foot trollies are as well as the 30 and the 45. so some of they have -- heaviest used routes will be treated to new electric trolly buses. the new buses like the new electric hybrid diesel buses have been designed for reliability and maintainability. these new trollies have a much bigger battery than the existing one. to the extent they need to go off wire they can travel at regular speed off wire for a period of time. we have thing that is block our streets whether it's construction project or traffic collision this flexibility will make the

service all the more reabliable the first one is in service. we will receive the rest of the batch later this month. they will continue to roll into service over the course of the summer. great news there. then finally with regard to the item that director torres mentioned during any business since there's been a lot of discussion and activity lately i just want today bring you all up to speed. in the past month there has been three electric scooter sharing companies that have began operating in san francisco. there has been three or four others that have expressed interest in operating in san francisco though those latter have decided not to start operations until the city develops a regulatory frame work that the director suggested with uz -- was in order. we definitely see that the scooters have the potential to complicate

our network with a sustainable last mile solution or alternative. the first few weeks have identified many concerns that director torres already identified. we also have received numerous reports of riding on the sidewalk, improperly leaving them in unsafe conditions, blocking pedestrian paths. i have seen -- i have seen a lot of this myself firsthand including somebody who parked along the median illegally on 3rd street in the dog patch to pull scooters out, run illegally across the street in front of moving traffic to dump the scooters on the sidewalks. while we see great potential here the first few weeks have not been encouraging. there are already a number of regulations in place regarding the proper riding and storage of scooters but no regulations for operations of a shared scooter

program. so we are as the director said working closely with members oh of -- of the board of supervisors to establish a scooter program so anyone operating such a service would have to have a permit that would allow us to regulate the scooter share services to ensure these programs operate in a way that is in the best interest of the city and all residents of the city, not just those uses the scooters. this will be done consistent with our approach to merging mobility services generally and the most recent example was the stationless bike share specifically supervisors did introduce the violation for operating a scooter share program without a permit. it was heard yesterday at the land use and transportation committee and passed favorably to the board of supervisors today for a first reading which if it gets through a first reading today

will be up for a second reading on -- a week from today on april 24th. then that would go into effect absent a veto within 30 days. so we will be following that with division ii transportation code legislation to establish the permit program and the terms of conditions of which are being developed. we are aiming to get that to you for our next conversation in two weeks on may 1st. again, the intent is to ensure that any scooter -- shared scooter program serves the public interest looking at things like capping the total number of scooters, requiring education, requiring insurance, establishing penalties for a violation of permit conditions, addressing issues such as privacy but primarily focused on safety and on ensuring that people are operating them safely and that they are stored safely

which is not consistent with what we've largely observed over the last three weeks including on my walk to city hall here just a few minutes ago. so on that timeline we would expect to have a permit program and application fully in place in late may when the division i ordnance would take effect. in the meantime there's some enforcement that's taking place availing ourselves of existing regulations. notably the public works department has started impounding scooters from sidewalks in neighborhoods such as south park, financial district and mission where they have received complaints. the public works code prohibits blocking of the pedestrian path of travel. so under the existing public works code they have been removing those, issuing notices of violation with fines of up to $125 for

each scooter. in addition, yesterday, again, as director torres mentioned, the city attorney issued cease and desist letters to each of these companies. it cited the violation of the public works code as well as a number of other concerns including violations of state law, governing operations of these scooters. state law currently requires that folks uses these scooters are at least 16 years old, have a driver's license and a helmet and don't operate on the sidewalk. a lot of evidence suggesting that those state laws are not being adhered to but my understanding is at least one of the scooting companies are looking to change state law to that effect. in the meantime the state law is in force and the city of attorney's letter made reference to that as well. it offers many injections and

requires a response documenting their step to address the issues that the letter describes. we are working with public works, the board of supervisors to make sure we don't have unintended or unsafe situations arise as a result of these shooters. >> chairman brinkman: director? >> are you looking at permits required for users of those? those head injuries and drama -- trauma injuries are expensive. then we are left on the hook with the cost. >> absolutely. so many of our existing permits require a healthy level of liability of insurance and we will be making that requirement as well as

reemphasizing if not repeating some of the late law requirements that exist and putting the companies on the hook requiring compliance with state law by their users. that concludes my report. >> chairman brinkman: before i check in with directors for feed back object the director report i would like to see if there's any public meant on the director report. >> herbert winer is the only person. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. two minutes, please. >> herbert winer. i noticed that you are really throwing the book at the people who use scooters. it's the pleasure of the board. shouldn't the same apply to bicyclists? they ride on the sidewalk, they don't have a license, they don't have insurance against injury. shouldn't the same apply to

them? now i think that the board is in a good position to apply for strict regulation to the bicyclists. after all, two bicyclists are serving on the board. what you are doing is you are favoring one group over the other. so this is really food for thought. what is good for the scooters should be good for the bicyclists. >> chairman brinkman: anymore public comment? seeing none it's closed. director heinecke. >> vice chair heinicke: following on the scooter regulation, you are proposed something in a meeting or two. >> two weeks from today. >> vice chair heinicke: that's

an ambitious time frame for something new and unprecedented. looking forward to hearing about it then. i will align myself with many of the comments of director torres. i sort of was surprised to see this pop up over night and some of the issues that concerned me are the safety issues and folks just dropping the scooters there. before we rush to judgement maybe the thing to do is to hear from them and -- so that prompts another question. did you orlando staff know this was going to happen? did these companies reach out to us and say we are going to begin operating in san francisco and sort of make an effort like we've seen other -- scoot coming to mind. was this a surprise to the mta? >> more the latter. there was at least one of the companies that came in and talked to us. they did not indicate that they would be starting operations but they did talk and explain their model as i understand it. by and large i think the answer is no. we have had others as i

mentioned reach out and say they do intend to operate but they want to wait until the regul regulations are developed. this the largely came as a surprised. >> vice chair heinicke: i'm a little concerned by rather than ask first and seek later that if we engage that rewards that but i'm not sure that it's our role to reward behavior that happened opposed to regulate it. i guess my point is this, despite the lack of out reach from these companies in the past, given your timeline for wanting to put together a regulatory program it would seem critical to me that they be involved or at least communicate with us so we are not operate anything a vacuum. do you have reason to believe they will cooperate with us in the next few weeks as we put

together this scheme? >> i can't speak for these companies. i would imagine that once we have these regulations drafted that they would be providing comment. they certainly make -- there's seven companies that we know of. we'll certainly share what we are going to be proposing to this board with them. >> vice chair heinicke: you know, to your point on the speed of getting this done, they have been out there a couple of weeks so we have been thinking about this for at least a couple of weeks. we do have models. we did develop these principals for emerging technologies that you-all have adopted. so we have that frame work now in place. recent examples such as private transit vehicles and the stationless bike share, there's a lot from that that we can carry forward to this. there's also some lessons learn from that implementation that we can carry forward to this. so that -- for folk who is want a

preview of what it might look like they can look at the dockless bike share regulations. that's what we will be providing to you and sharing with the public and industry for feedback will be along the same lines generally. >> vice chair heinicke: okay. as one director i was not surprised with the way this was implemented. i'm also willing to move past that and would speak to the companies to the extent they are listening right now. if you want our cooperation and assistance in this process you need to engage with us and assist our staff as we develop these regular la -- regulations. if that doesn't happen i will take that as a message and it will affect me. >> board member borden: thank you director. thank you for the record. it's so -- sobering to hear of the fatality on ocean. even though with do good work

there's a lot left to do and it does feel like things tonight to get challenging we electric shooters on the sidewalk, with motorists holding their hand held devices and not paying great attention to what is going on around them. a very sobering reminder and my condolences to the family of the woman killed on ocean avenue by a distracted or careless motorist this morning. directors anymore comments on the director's report? >> if members of the public see electr electric scooters and want to complain or get assistance do they call 311? >> yeah and we very strongly encourage them to do to. director jordan. >> are they aed to ride in the bake lane? >> they are. >> >> chairman brinkman: that's all. we already had public comment so we'll move on. >> madame chair, i do not see

the cac chair or any member of the cac present to present a report so item 9, general public comment. this is the opportunity for member of the must be to address the board that are not on today's agenda. madame chair would you like to submit a time? >> chairman brinkman: two minutes. >> all right. herbert winer followed by paul court and then jeffery fang. >> hert -- herbert winer. this is about the old servile line. last week i waited 30 minutes for a bus which finally showed up. i had to walk two blocks to wait for a bus that arrived 30 minutes later. now i don't know if any new things

have been ae added to this line it's a long line from downtown to the zoo. it requires more coaches. this has not been the case. instead you have a disaster rows -- disasterous plan comes to fruition. it reports itself, first this and then a tragedy. >> chairman brinkman: next speaker, please. >> paul court, jeffery fang, matthew lane. >> good afternoon. i'm jeffery fang. i was told the person before me wanted to speak after so here i am. i'm a resident of san francisco for 18 years and i am a lyft and uber driver. i understand that cpu c oversees

my job per se. i'm here to speak about the over all drive like vision zeros and all the initiative of the board here. often times i feel like there's a target on my back. i know you guys mean good. you mean well. i feel like i am the enemy whenever i'm on the road works. it's not like i try to run over anyone or try to hit anybody. i'm trying to pick up people from point a and take them to point b. the road changes, the constant -- just to make the road narrower and taking away lanes and -- i know that there's a reason for that, i can't say i agree with all of them. often times i don't. it doesn't necessarily need to be that way. i don't need to feel like i'm not welcomed even though i live

in the city, i work in the city. i help move people in the city to work. more importantly, i think, you know, the solution is not just talking to the main stake holders. there's somebody you're missing, the driver that lives in the city. you know who they are, they are residentialing for-- forced to register. try to talk some of the drivers. >> chairman brinkman: next speaker, please. >> paul court. >> i'm matthew blaine. i live in the mission district. i came here to talk about a different topic. up just wanted to share on the bike share. i saw the

new paint thing on market street. i'm a big fan of the program and i particularly like now that it's covered i get to go to place to place. i know there's talk about moving the share stations around. i want you to reconsider that. thank you to the board, staff for their support. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. mr. blaine. next speaker, please. >> paul court followed by emily heferling and gabriel chaptn. >> so paul and emily will follow me. i'm the director for the election industry. thank you so much, directors. the reason that we are here, the reason that paul and emily and i are here is to present a letter undersigned by eight equity environmental and justice labor organizations urging the mta to

move forward on electric buses. years ago there was a commitment to convert the fleet to the zero emission electric buses by 2020 and clearly we are nowhere near that point. we have a letter here that kind of lays out what we are talking about, both in terms of addressing the technology issue that will need to be over come as well as timeline and procurement issues. as we move forward we really want to call on mta to do three things, one immediately commence a pilot project, that's one submitted that needs to be rejected. the city needs to move forward with it with its own funds. we need to incorporate zero emissions into our 30 foot replacement procurement. i realize there's technical issues but this is up

to operations folks to figure out how to get there. lastly we need to prepare a plan for your y approval as well as the board of supervisors out lining how we are going to get there. san francisco should not be forced into this by the state of california. we need to be leading the state of california. we hope the mta commission will help us do that. thank you so much and i'll you submit the let -- i'll submit the better >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm paul court. i'm an attorney with earth justice. i'm here on behalf of this coalition to really urge the board to move forward and to offer our support in getting the agency to move forward. we have been working on the zero mission bus issue across the state, at other

transit agencies at the resources board, at the air districts at the public utilities commission. there is a lot of activity going on. at the point l.a. metro, san trans, foothill transit, antelope valley have all committed to go to 100% zero emission buses. they have started to replace them. really the biggest concern is there's so much activity going on that it is in danger of falling behind. the public utilities commission is in the process of approving a utility incentive to support charging infrastructure but those incentives are only going to be open to those transit agencies are prepared and demonstrates they are procuring zero emission buses. at the

sate level there's incentive programs that we are missing out on because there's no plan to move forward with zero emission buses. we are here to sort of try to elevate this and put this back on the agenda, to regroup on the zero emission vision that the board adopted way back when and offer our support to sort of bring you up to speed as much as we can on all the activities that are going on. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker please. >> emily and . >> thank you so much for the opportunity to speak. my name is emily hefling with the union of concerned scientists. i'm here to encourage the deployment of electric buses for san francisco. i'm here to talk about the technology and how rapidly it's developing. we

recognize that ucs operational challenges to deploying a 100% zero emission fleet. in -- if you look across engine type it exceeds the diesel con distribution technologies. this includes accelerate -- acceleration times. we have a detail that -- report that details that out. just a personal story of how exciting the developing technology is. last month i road a 60 foot electric bus from lancaster to san santa monica. 150 miles of steep long grade. there was only one single charge. that was 50 people, a fully loaded bus. that's pretty amazing considering two years ago we didn't have that technology. so at ucs we are here to help show

the analysis and approach these challenges and operational costs that you-all might be facing as a board. thank you for your time. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> gabriel chan. >> good afternoon to the board. i'm a laurel heights resident, i live off of uclid and i wanted to voice my congratulations for putting in the ground. the traffic measures are great. i take transit every day so i notice the difference. my only concern is however is in the traffic circle in the middle -- right now they are just kind of open holes. i was wondering if there were any plans or things coming down the pike to fill those or maybe like with greening or concrete so people are not encouraged to different things there. thank you for your time. >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much. yes, my understanding is the traffic

circles will be planted with drought tolerant planting which should make them more attractive. thank you. do you have anymore must be comment? no. we will move on. our consent calendar they are considered to be routine unless a member of the board or member of the separately. staff has asked that 10.2 be severed. no other will be removed. >> chairman brinkman: do i have a motion to approve content? a first? a second? what is the modification? mr. mcguire. >> good afternoon, directors. tom mcguire, the streets director. very simple text change in 10.2.h. the current

-- currently it reads four hour time limit 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. waller street, south side from 3 feet to 175 feet west. that should have read from 3 feet to 41 feet and from 75 feet to 170.5 feet west. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. dually noted actually motion to approve as amended? and a second? i'm sorry. a motion to approve the amendment first and a second on the amendment, correct? all right. all in favor of the amendment? any opposed. hearing none amended. motion to approve? >> approve. >> second. >> chairman brinkman: all in favor? any opposed? hearing none, as amended it's approved. >> thank you, madame chair. with the rest of the consent calendar being approved the regular calendar. item 11 has

to do with approving proposed traffic modifications to may 31st, 2020 as part of the twin peaks figure eight redesign project. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. >> good afternoon, chair brinkman, members of the board. i'm jason hyde and i'm a planner . i'm here today to talk to you about the extension of temporary roadway modifications on the twin peaks figure 8 which moving forward i'm going to refer to as the twin peaks figure 8 pilot extension. so in april 2016 the prove -- board approved the

pilot. this pilot included traffic modifications between christmas tree point and the southern end of the figure 8 surrounding twin peaks through may 21st, 2018. on this slide you can see a satellite view of the figure 8 with the pilot configuration shown. the western half of the figure 8 shaded in blue was concerted in july of 2015 to two-way traffic with one lane in each direction. the eastern portion of the figure 8 shaded in green here has been open to people walking and biking. access to christmas tree point has been maintained and clarify and we have eliminated four uncontrolled pedestrian crossings. this haas allowed the mta and the park to evaluate circulation impact and get community feedback to

perform permanent modification ins the future. in order to engage the public and the suggestions for a permanent design on the project, the project team installed banners around the figure 8 which directed visitors to an online survey. this survey yielded 433 responses after a year's time and found strong support for making the project permanent. support amongst people accessing twin peaks by bike or foot was notable with 71% of people biking and 23% walking expressing support. not only has it provided 1.23 acres of new biking space it's made the figure 8 safer. for example, the number of people driving under 30 miles per hour dropped by 77% during the pilot and there has been zero reported injury collisions as well. the

pilot has been a great opportunity to hear from the public about ways we can improve upon the temporary configuration moving to -- forward. we've heard concerns about crime and safety. i would like to assure you that the project team has been working with the san francisco police department park station to address these concerns and captain bailey and it indicated it has improved the ability to axis -- access crime. we will ensure that security is addressed through the permanent park rec proposal. one of the other things we've heard from visitors is with respect to issues of broken glass and other debris on the figure 8 and we are actively working with public works to ensure that the space is properly cleaned and

maintained. today the board is asked to continue the reallocation of portions of the existing roadway from vehicle use to exclusive pedestrian bike use until may 31st, 2020. this will give the project team the opportunity to conduct further out reach and refine designs for a permanent version of the project that would include more park-like elements and servicing on the eastern side of the figure 8. since the final proposal is still under development we did not want to propose making the roadway mode any indications permanent today, recognizing the temporary nature of the condition of the pilot treatments in the field. before the proposed 2-year pilot extension period expires the project team plans to refine a permanent design for the project, conduct environmental review and secure funding for construction. thank you for

your time and i look forward to fielding any questions you may have. >> chairman brinkman: thank you mr. hard. much appreciated. directors i'm going to take clarifying questions before pun comment. -- before we go to public comment. i do have one, someone volunteers with park and rec doing trail work, can you clarify for me does this bike and pedestrian on half of the figure 8 remove parking spaces because may recollection is there's no parking along that roadway anyway? >> that's correct. prior to the installation of the pilot project we had two lanes of one-way traffic in either sides of the figure 8 and what would happen on certain peak days is folks would illegally park in that right most travel lane.

people have been parking on the figure 8 which was a formal parking space before the pilot but now that we have the barriers up we have formalized those as parking spaces. >> chairman brinkman: so it's added some and done away with the ability to park illegally. directors any comments? no. seeing none thank you. we'll go to public comment. >> madame chair we have some. >> chairman brinkman: 2 minutes again, please. >> good afternoon, directors. my name is asmui takalala. i'm here today to express any strong support for extending the pilot project. as someone who gets around the city by bike, walking and transit and who doesn't own a car i found the project to be a wonderful addition to the

city. one of the great things about san francisco is the ability to access nature and open space without owning a car. in general in the city i think that this agency and the board has improved the conditions for cyclists and active transport quite a bit but not enough just to put protected bike lanes on commute corridors and things like that, we also need to build destinations where people can access nature and open space without having to own a car. so i strongly support this project and urge you to approve it. in general for the long term project i hope that there will be more pedestrian and bicycle-friendly access added to the approaches of the open space. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker please. >> liz westbrook, matthew blaine and then christian lucky. >> hi, i'm liz westbrook with

the bay area counsel. i am here to strongly support the extension of the twin peaks pilot project. the ridge trail adopted the route over the twin peaks as our reroute in 2013 and the san francisco general plan represented this reroute in their 2014 general plan. the buenos aires ridge trail is a 550 mile multiuse trail that connects the nine bay area counties along the ridges. the route that was adopted in san francisco was mostly along streets and sidewalks in 1992 and this reroute proposes moving them to more scenic and trail-like locations including the iconic ridge that is twin peaks. so thank you for your time and we strongly support this project.

>> chairman brinkman: thank you very much. thank you for your work on the ridge trail. that is a valuable resource for people. next speaker. >> matthew blaine, christian lucky and then lincoln lighttail. >> i'm matthew blaine. i'm here of sf urban writers. we represent mountain bike assess in the city and we strongly support this project. we have a sm smaller loop, about 6 miles we call the hills loop and this goes over the top of twin peaks over the south of the mountain and through the valley. this closure has definitely improved the experience. i frequently bring people up there and they get experience much like the first speaker who love this area. we urge you to extend. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, directors. my name is christian lucky and i'm a community organizers on

staff at the san francisco bike coalition. i'm here to extend the pilot. it was approved in 2016 and resulted in the closure of twin peaks boulevard which prioritized the space for people walk and biking to one of the most popular landmarks. if we approve it will ascend through to may 31st 2020 in order to give sufficient time to engage in public out reach and explore permanent options for the twin peaks promenade. it would give the park time to explore permanent operations to the twin peaks trail extension and the bay trail. before the extension people who bike and walk had dangerous access the attraction. the pilot has resulted in an open space where locals and neighbors have have an e

experienexperson ex-- experience to take in the views. we are reminded that has the ability to create a community accessibili accessibility. we want local access to twin peaks for residents and tourists. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. hi name is lincoln lighthill. i'm a resident of twin peaks, an architect and san francisco native. i'm speaking in strong support of continuing this and to thank you for what has been done so far. i think it's long over due to make that area more pedestrian friendly. the basic pitch that i want to make is to think ambitiously about the project. i think if you look at the highline in new york or the olympic sculpture

park in seattle or any number of amazing landscape projects that are so common these days there's an amazing opportunity here to restore some of what is up there and bringing the hill back while also creating public access and accessible routes. so i think there's an amazing design opportunity up there to think big here. now know,it's always been a parking lot and now we've created a big asphalt space for people. there's nice because of the view but there's no place there. i hope you will consider it. thank you very much. >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much. next peek speak -- speaker, please. >> i'm bob seagull, the head of the trail advocacy committee. we've been working 10 years to

make this modification to get more earth and less asphalt into our boots. we are happy they have enabled this project to go through. those who like to use it call ourselves figure 3. that's the new name for this area. we love it. being up there quite often to see how it's going, i've seen many, many different types of users up there and it's increasing and i know with this new plan it's going to be really fine. so thank you very much and i fully support it. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm sasha mcgee, a runner and cyclist and i live in the castro. i'm up on twin peaks every week, often more than once. i was here 2 years ago advocating for this experiment. at the time remember people, you know, predicting chaos and destruction and buses running into trees and people. clearly that has not happened. this has really transformed the

experience of twin peaks from like islands of dirt surrounded by freeways to very much an area which provides, like -- it's start together provide an experience that, you know, lives up to the view that we see from there. you know, i would definitely encourage you to think big as one of the previous speakers said. this is an opportunity to have a signature opportunity in san francisco. in the meantime i encourage you to maintain the pilot. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker. >> last peeker josie aarons. >> good afternoon, chair brinkman, directors. i'm josie aren aarons. on behalf of walk sf i'm here to support this path that's closed to cars and open

the people. it's created a comfortable, safe, car-free space that prioritizes those who walk and bike. people are driving at safer speeds with the number of vehicles driving over 30 miles per hour down by 77%. this iconic park has become a people first public space where residents and visitors of all ages can enjoy the city. we would like to see this pilot extended since it would you -- allow for adequate out reach and expand to people. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you miss aarons. any more public comment? no. it's closed. directors, any comments or inputs? a motion to approve? >> approve. >> chairman brinkman: second? >> second. >> chairman brinkman: it is approved. thank you so much and thank you mr. hyde for your work on this and we look forward to see what park and rec and mta

will bring us next. >> madame chair, item 12, the residential parking permit area x, establishing residential parking area ee in the dog patch neighborhood, mends the transportation code to limit the number of residential parking permits for residents of area ee to no more one permit issue today an individual person, no more two permit to a single address. provides for area ee residents a waiver process for receiving up to four residential parking permits issued to a singling address with specified permit fees and provide that permits issued to ee residents for healthcare or child care workers do not count towards the maximum number of permits and the time limit and major parking notifications throughout the neighborhood. the agenda does list the various traffic and parking modifications. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. mr. wilson. >> good afternoon, directors.

my name is hank wilson. i'm the head of the curve management team and i'm happy to present the parking management plan for your consideration. this is the result of at this point about 2.5 years of out reach and engagement with the community to develop regulation. the question is why are we here, proposiing regulations in the dg patch? the association said we would like to talk to you about parking issues in the neighborhood. when a neighborhood association comes to us and says we want to talk about parking issues we say yes. so we did that. i think that begs the question why were they concerned about parkings -- parking issues in the dog patch. i don't know if we can get the presentation up on the screen. so right now the number of people living in the dog patch and working in the dog patch and visiting the dog patch to the

significant traffic generators over there far out numbers the total number of parking spaces on the street, that total number of parking spaces on the street isn't going to change at all. so we have a problem. what that doesn't consider is the fact that with 80% of the spaces currently unregulated there's people attracted to the neighborhood because of the free ugh regulated parking. they don't work there or spend money there. they are using it for free parking and taking up spaces from people who need them. so when you have lots and lots of demand you get the higher parking occupancy we see in the city. so the d dog patc really stands out. when you have over 100% occupancy when people park in front of driveways and thing that