tord to order. can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance ] >> president turman, i'd like to call roll. >> president turman: please do. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: commissioner turman, you have a quorum. also present with us today is the chief of police, william scott, and for the department of police accountability, miss sandra marian. >> president turman: okay.

members of the public, welcome to the may 2nd, 2018 regular meeting of the san francisco police commission. this evening, we have a long closed session calendar, so -- which is likely going to be very time-consuming, so due to the complexity and the length of closed session, public comment is going to be limited to two minutes. and with that, i'm going to turn it back over to secretary kilshaw for the first item. >> yes. thank you, secretary kilshaw, i'm going to interrupt the president of the commission tonight because this is a very special night, and it is a very hard night for some of us. tonight is president turman's last night on the commission, and he may not know this but tonight is a very special night for him.

i have with me a proclamation from the mayor of san francisco, and julius, he may not know it, but today is julius turman day in san francisco. [applause]. >> president turman: it would have been nice to know that at the beginning. >> well, you know, plenty of time left in the day. i'm going to read the proclamation. it's actually very appropriate. whereas the city and county of san francisco traditionally recognizes individuals who have made significant and remarkable contributions to the vitality of our city, and the dedicated and vital work of l. julius turman sincere rerepresenting the city of san francisco at its best. he has served the city and county of san francisco in various capacities, joining the police commission in 2011, stepping into the vice

president, and then serving as the president of the body over a year. president turman might run commission meeting with a pragmatism of suffers no fools demeanor, he has been witness to comments delivered as jives, poems, raps and beats, whereasture mass was instrumental in overseeing the police reform efforts, successfully revising several key policies, including use of force, body worn cameras, written communications and complaints against officers, ensuring the department operates the highest national standard, and whereas recruitment is often an arduous process, turman exercised his acute judgment of character, supporting chief william scott after a tremendously long and

collaborative journey that included public input as well as filing key positions at the dpa and the commission office. whereas according to the sometimes ungodly hours of the julius turman e-mail which we've all received, he doesn't sleep, ladies and gentlemen. he's been known to land in your box that seems to need no more than 45 minutes of sleep a night, which means that the remaining 23 hours and 15 minutes are split between his time at his firm and helping the sfpd reaches the highest pinnacle, making sure every person knows in the department how important his or her service is, and everybody feels safe and able to live their best san francisco life. therefore be it known that i mark e farrell do here by proclaim may 4, 2018 to be l.

julius turman day in san francisco. [applause]. >> and we're not done yet. we have some special guests here, too. so on behalf of the san francisco police commission, i'm not going to read this certificate of appreciation. this is to you, julius, for your hard work, and for everything you've done as a commissioner, and you know, i give this to you with great pride. you know, our friendship. i see former president susie loftus is here today. you know, in my career, i have served with some notable and incredibly successful people. on this commission, president loftus, president sparks. i've served in the department of justice with judge ryan, robert mueller. i served in the d.a.'s office with kamala harris, and you're there in my life as people who

have defined who we are and who the city is. i have to tell you from the day i first met you, i found you to be honest. the first day you meet someone, you go he's okay, or no he's a blankety-blank. you know, in a city that believes in a lot of identity politics, you are a michigan wolfe wolferine, a former u.s. assistant attorney out of michigan, a managing partner of a law firm. you are a family man, your whole family comes out to celebrate with you. you're a great person, and a great police commissioner. you're really going to be missed. you're a great commissioner, and on behalf of the commission, i'm going to miss you, buddy. i think former commission president loftus has a few

words she'd like to add. >> commissioners, good evening. i don't think this is the public comment section of the agenda, otherwise this would have been my first time to make public comment to the police commission. >> two minutes and you're out of here. >> your time is up. i wanted to give you that opportunity, president turman. it's so wonderful to see everybody, hello. president turman, i'm here for you. i haven't been back since i left the commission a year and a half ago, but i couldn't miss a chance to come back and honor what you've given to this city. i think it was former chief greg sur who used to remind us sometimes, you know, julius is a really fancy lawyer, and he would ask how much you actually get paid every hour. i think it's high up there. as a government lawyer, please don't tell me. i don't want to know. but over the seven-plus years you've been on this commission, the hours that you have spent in discipline hearings, in time

when we've been in closed session struggling with some of the biggest issues this police department has faced, you have been dedicated every single moment so what is best for this city, what is best for this department, and you have shined in your integrity, president turman. you make the decisions for the right reason, you care deeply about this city, and you have given a tremendous amount. it was an honor to serve with you, and thank you for the kindness and the partnership you showed me and you've shown all of your colleagues over the years because you've made things better, and the city is very grateful. thank you. [applause]. >> president turman: are we done now? >> i think we're done now. president turman wants to get back to the agenda, and i'll -- >> president turman: i was just going to say thank you to everyone, and i will come back

during commission comments and make my comments, so thank you so much. thanks so much. >> should we tell him now? we were going to save this, but you're invited to come back to every police commission and talk in public comment moving forward. >> president turman: thank you so much, but you know, be careful what you ask for. all right. madam secretary, we'll start with the first line item. >> line item one. [agenda item read]. >> president turman: commissioners, in your packet are the meeting minutes from those dates, march 14, april 4, april 11, and april 18, 2018. hopefully, you had a chance to peruse them. if you have any comments or revisions to them, please let us know.

if there are none, then i will entertain the appropriate motion. >> move to accept. >> second. >> president turman: all in favor? any opposed? thank you. those minutes are adopted. next item, secretary kilshaw. [agenda item read]. >> president turman: okay. chief, did you want to say anything further? >> nothing -- nothing further. >> president turman: okay. all right. so as i understand it, la casa

de la madres is receiving this from dignity health, and they've sent us $10,000 connected with participation in the bayview domestic violence high risk program. i'll entertain the appropriate motion. >> move to accept. >> second. >> all in favor cler. >> clerk: can we have public comment on that, commissioner? >> president turman: i'm sorry. public comment on that, item 2. seeing none, public comment is now closed. with public comment now closed, i will reopen the floor for the appropriate motion. >> i think you just call the question. >> president turman: okay. call the question. all in favor? any opposed. okay. that is now approved.

secretary kilshaw. [agenda item read]. >> president turman: good evening, chief scott. >> good evening, commission, commissioner turman. i'll start out with crime trends for this week and start off with violent crime. homicides are down 28% from this time last year. we had 13 homicides as of the last reporting period. our shootings -- shooting victims, i'm sorry, are down 17% with a total of 39 year to date. homicides with firearms, we've only had six for the year, which is 54% below where we are last year, and our toting gun violence is down 25%. our total violent crimes, that includes all the part one violent crimes, we're down 36%, and part two violent crimes,

we're down 14.55%. auto blaerz are down 25%, which is equivalent to 2,000 less auto burglaries than last year, and all the strategies that we've put in place will continue, and hopefully, we can continue to push that down in the right direction. in terms of special events, items of interest, the department continues to provide opportunities throughout the city as part of our youth engagement efforts. our youth wilderness hikes is one of those things. this happened this past week, and that was at our lady of visitacion. students went to angel island, and st. john's students went to mou mount -- i'm having trouble pronouncing this.

tamalpais. one event to report this week, our peace parks is a continuing effort. i spoke about this in a prior meeting. it's a collaboration with rec and parks and the san francisco police department to give programming in some of the parks around the city in concentrated in various rec centers, so it's really gotten off to a good start. we believe this is part of the solution to address some of our violent crime, giving young people activities and programs in the parks, so that will continue. the next peace park event for this week is tomorrow -- actually, tomorrow through sunday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at hearst park in the ingleside district. and cinco de m 5 yo events occur this sunday at 10:00 a.m.

it's an annual street events celebration. we don't -- we anticipate we'll be adequately staffed for that event. and that concludes the report for this week. >> president turman: thank you. chief. any questions for the chief? hearing no questions, thank you, chief. let's go directly to the report by dpa director henderson. [agenda item read]. >> certainly. we are currently at 258 pending cases. last year this time, we were at 407 cases. i'll continue to -- every week to that similar update when we meet. we are still at 34 cases that are past the 270-day point. as a reminder, the majority of

those cases are cases that are being tolled from other civil or criminal pending charges. we are continuing to fill folks in the management positions so we can continue to process the contract that we had from the department of technology to take over our department and bring the department current, both with software and with hardware. our -- the majority of the investigation unit right now is at a training, one of the things that folks had asked me to do was to provide more training for our investigators, so i've sent the majority of the investigative team to aele training, which is use of force training, so they're in vegas right now, but i'm sure they're watching us on sfgov tv. this week, one of our lawyers who are here in the audience with us today, samra marian,

spoke on dr. maeshrshall regarding violence -- biased policing. those are my updates for this week. >> president turman: thank you, commissioner henderson. sorry -- director henderson. any comments, questions for director henderson? no? okay. hearing none, let's move to the next item, please. [agenda item read]. >> president turman: well, as commissioner mazzucco has said, today is my last day with the police commission, and this is -- the kind of work we do

here, i guess you can never say, my work is done because there is plenty to always do. but it's been seven years. i'm proud to have had the opportunity to serve with such talented, intelligent commissioners. out of all those list of priorities -- high ranking officials that commissioner mazzucco named in his remarks, i want to tell you that susie loftus, who was my friend and in whose foot steps i followed was probably the most instrument in helping me learn how to do this job. and this has been good work. i'm proud of the san francisco police department. i'm proud of its leadership and its chief.

i'm proud of the department of police accountability. every day, they strive to make transparency and public interface, and the work we do even more accessible to the city and county of san francisco. and the people you don't see behind -- the behind-the-scenes people, you don't see what they do every day, the people who serve on our commission staff, the people who advise us from the city attorney's office, and others who work hard to make sure we live up to the mandates of the charter of the city of san francisco. they deserve our highest respect and thank you. and thank you to the citizens of san francisco who have constantly given me reminders in many, many forms of what they believe san francisco

should be, and i hope to some measure i have lived up to that in the last seven years. thank you for the time, the attention, and the ability to serve. thank you. commissioners, and i'll say -- commissioner dejesus, i'm sorry. >> commissioner dejesus: so i also want to say thank you to commissioner turman. you've been refreshing, you've been plain speaking, you've been pretty blunt with us. it was refreshing to have that bluntness, but you also had understanding of complex and difficult issues that we faced. you know, you and commissioner loftus led us through some pretty trying times in the community and some trying community meetings, but i think most of that was successful, and we have come away with a body of policy for this department that really moved us into the 21st century, and we have to continue that march

into the 21st century and best practices, and hopefully by doing this, we're going to be changing the culture of the department. so i want to thank you for your dedication and long hours. as you said, people have no idea what goes on behind the scenes, so thank you so much. >> president turman: thank you. commissioner hirsch? >> commissioner hirsch: i also want to thank you. i've only been on the commission for a year, but you've been the president for that year. and i've learned a lot from you, actually, in the year. ands and as i told you, your bedside manner can be rough, but your heart and your mind is admirable, and i appreciate your leadership. >> president turman: okay. next line item, secretary kilshaw. [agenda item read]. >> president turman: anything anyone needs to schedule? >> no.

>> not for me. >> commissioner? >> president turman: go ahead. >> i was just going to mention for the members of the public, the commission will be dark next weekend. we do not have a quorum. >> president turman: and please check your website because we're not quite sure how long we will be dark. so there are some commission appointments that need to be filled to bring the quorum levels back up to speed, so please make sure you're checking our website. >> we should be clear with the public. it's not that the commissioners here are not willing to attend. we are willing to attend, but we will not have a quorum with commissioner turman leaving -- the president turman leaving. we have two commissioners pending reappointment, and we have two -- we have two openings, so we don't have a quorum. as soon as the board of supervisors moves on that, then hopefully, we can recon

convenient oreconvene our meetings. >> president turman: all right. public comment on-line items 3-a through d. any public comment? 3-a through 3-d? hearing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> president turman: secretary kilshaw, public comment. [agenda item read].

>> clerk: please limit your comments to two minutes. >> president turman: any general public comment? >> hello. hi, everyone. good evening or good -- you know, i just wanted to say i'm sorry that you're leaving also, and i know we had a few brushes together, but thank you for being here. and i also want to say i want here last week, and i know last time you were on the board, you said you were going to have a letter written for dpw. you weren't here, so the vice president said he would sign it. but i guess they had to wait until you got back.

>> president turman: i signed the letter today. >> okay. thank you. and the other thing is can i use the overhead, as i come every time to talk about my son who was murdered august 14, 2006, we still have no -- no closure, no one's come forth. i bring the names all the time of the people who murdered my son. thom thomas hannibal, marcus carter. we're still looking for closure, and i always talk about our posters being out there, say where was you when i was murdered? we still need to see you for our children to be out there, so the perpetrators can see their victim.

thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> president turman: thank you. any further public comment? all right. hearing none, public comment is now closed. next line item, secretary kilshaw. [agenda item read]. >> president turman: all right. so ladies and gentlemen, members of the public, what we're about to do is we are going to consider our closed session agenda which has some personnel matters on it. now, what we're doing now is we're about to vote as to whether or not to go into closed session. we're giving you the chance to give us public comment on that-dwthat that -- the vote as well as whether or not we should go into closed session.

so with that, public comment is now open on that. any public comment? all right. hearing none, public comment is now closed on item six. [ gavel ] [agenda it [agenda item read]. >> so moved. >> second. >> president turman: okay. all in favor? any opposed? all right. ladies and gentlemen, we thank you for attending the first half of the open session. we are now about to go into public -- or closed session. we'll return after

>> clerk: commissioner, you're back in session on an open record and you still have a quorum. >> president turman: okay. next line item. [agenda item read]. >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> president turman: all in favor? all right. nondisclosure, we are in -- that is a unanimous vote. thank you. >> clerk: item nine, adjournment, action item. >> well, i'm going to move that we adjourn in honor of commission president julius turman, who you are he going -- who's going to have julius turman day in san francisco, so i think we should have a par aid -- parade. a lot of good things was said tonight about julius, but one of the best was integrity, and he was able to make good decisions despite disparate political forces. he's totally a straight shooter. so god bless, and i'd

>> supervisor tang: good afternoon everyone. welcome to our land use and transportation committee. our clerk is erica major and we would like to thank jim smith and madam clerk, any announcements? >> clerk:. please silence cell phones. items acted upon today will appear on the may 15 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> supervisor tang: can you please call item number one. >> clerk: yes. [reading item #item 1] >> supervisor tang: thank you. i will turn it other to supervisor safai. i know we that had to continue this item last week.

looks like you might have more. >> supervisor safai: no. these are the amendments that were made. i have one thing i wanted to talk about. i'm glad the director of the planning department is here. there was an amendment that we made regarding development projects regarding entitlements of the planning commission. it was about off street parking and loading. is that correct, director? we might add clarifying articles that talking about the planning code. we called it into the record. we want to specifically call that out. so, if you would come to the podium either aaron or director rahaim, maybe we could just talk about that for a second. but i will call you up in a second. but we made a lot of amendments last week that were removing

class two bike and class four separated bikeways from the process. we had talked about a lot of other amendments that specifically had to do with the fee amounts and the amount of time for review from the clerk and then finally whether or not something had been noticed in proper time. and then see ceqa -- ceqa review. we are happy about the piece we talked to talk to maybe for a moment was on development projects that had already had their entitlements and already received entitlements. we were going to take more clarification as it pertained to parking and off street parking and loading. was that the intent of what you were all trying to convey?

>> i was here for the second item and i can't recall the specifics. i believe it was related to parks and what constitutes an approved development project. >> supervisor safai: okay. the way it reads now and the language that is in the legislation, it says a project that has already received land use entitlements and when those entitlements and we called out planning commission and planning department and we might want to clarify that to say a project subject to the review by the board of supervisors or appeals that has received land use entitlements only when it is pursuant to article 1.5. we can give you the language and review it.

we can make that -- these amendments either today or we can make them at the full board to give you guys some time to review. >> if i may, staff reminds me i think the issue was more about on street parking an off street. >> supervisor safai: we had loading zones and off street. >> right. >> supervisor safai: we have off street parking and loading. i guess article 1.5 of the planning code refers to that. maybe what we will do is -- hey, supervisor peskin. what i was thinking of doing is since we have been going back and forth with some of this language, we can make this final amendment at the full board or would you prefer to do it right now because they haven't had a cha chance to review this? supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you supervisor safai and chair tang and vice chair kim. i just wanted to -- i apologize for being a little bit late and

thank supervisor safai and his staff and my staff for working on this. i think -- and i'm sorry. i missed the first few minutes of the meeting. but i think at a high level what is very important about the changes that we made at our last meeting is the fact that only fi five supervisors can ultimately bring an appeal. so, there's an aspect of self-regulation here. and i think in the instance of the exemption for development project as defined, that -- and i don't want to sound conspiracy that we could end up with a scenario where people or agencies try to incorporate

exceptions relative to this. and i don't really think that that game should be played. so, for my money, i would just take this definition out. but i concur with supervisor safai that i think what drives this code mandates that we all agree with. and primarily they are in 1.5. so, i think there's language that we could do. i could offer that language today. but again, i think it should all be seen under the general heading of the board's -- the board will self-regulate. i think what's very important is that we all acknowledge that 11 years later, this is an experiment and to the extent that it's needed, i will -- because i will short of passing away untimely, be here and together with supervisor safai would want to call a hearing about this to make sure we're

achie achieving the priorities of the board. but the language i would propose is something along the lines of changing the definition of a development project to a project subsequent to possible review by the board of supervisors or board of appeals that has received its land use entitleme entitlements, only when these entitlements require an application pursuant to article 1.5 of the planning code. it is only where a code requirement was triggered that there would be an exception. >> supervisor safai: right. >> supervisor peskin: but i'll defer to the chief sponsor as to whether or not we should make that today or at the full board of supervisors next week. >> supervisor safai: just because we hasn't had an opportunity to have them review

it, i would prefer director rahaim, that we give you this language and we're letting you know that we're anticipating making this amendment. but we want to give you the opportunity to review it and then most likely we're going to make this amendment at the full board. so, give you some time to review it. >> that would be helful. >> supervisor safai: the only other thing i wanted to make sure deputy city attorney, that we put in the five -- you mentioned one other thing. we put in the five threshold -- oh. did bewrite the language in that -- did we write the language in this allows us to come back and to be a report from the s.f.m.t.a.? >> no. that was not part of the amendments last week. there was about making it a pilot. you could add in a reporting requirement. a member of the board could just ask for a hearing on it a year

from now. >> supervisor safai: that's fine. we'll ask for a hearing at that time. i don't have any other comments and we made all of our comments last week. i think we've gotten feedback and i think we're ready to vote on this as soon as public comment is over. we will give you a copy of this language, director rahaim and your team and we will make the final amendment on tuesday. >> supervisor tang: thank you. so, supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: again i apologize for being late. i want to make sure the amendment suggested by the clerk of the board were -- >> supervisor safai: we talked about it. i kind of brushed over them. >> supervisor peskin: i just wanted to make sure the clerk of the board suggested a number of amendments and i want to make sure those have been made by a committee member. >> supervisor safai: i talked about -- i thought those were the ones we talked about. why don't you talk about it. >> supervisor peskin: i believe this all falls in and around the

filing fee requirements, which i think initially we wanted to waive entirely. >> supervisor safai: right. >> supervisor peskin: and subsequently it was suggested some language, which is primarily but not solely incorporated on page seven at the top at line one, subsection h, filing fee waiver, which conforms with the planning code provisions. mr. deputy city attorney are you looking at me because you don't know what i'm talking about or because you do? >> i do. in addition to the filing fee amendment, the clerk's office also worked with your office to come up with timing changes throughout pages four and five of the ordinance. >> supervisor peskin: right. so that would be on page five in two places at line 12 and filing fee page will be returned to the

requester and fine four at least ten days prior to the scheduled hearing and on page four at line three, that language that says, within 30 calendar days. at line 22 on the same page, page four and accompanied by a filing fee in the amount of $250 payable to the clerk of the board of supervisors. so, contrary to our discussions at the last meeting, those would take precedence and a member of the committee could make those changes. i would be grateful. >> supervisor safai: right. i make a motion to accept these changes as proposed. >> supervisor tang: okay. >> supervisor safai: we have to do it after public comment. all right. just for clarity of the public and those listening, the main purpose of this is that we, members of the board of supervisors just for everyone's memory, we have to act on and

move on any appeal of a decision within 60 days. so, that's essentially what supervisor peskin was clarifying. that we worked out with the clerk the process by which we would meet those deadlines and have appropriate time to review it at the board of supervisors. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. and not to put too fine a point on it, but i want to reiterate the words that we uttered and discussed last week, which is i think to a large extent the notion of reinvolving the legislative branch that ceded its powers 11 years ago is already working for which i want to extend thanks and acknowledgment to the s.f.m.t.a. and its leadership. >> supervisor tang: we will go to public comment on item one. i have a couple of comment cards. eileen, jodie, matt and theodore.

please come up. and if i didn't call your name, please line up. >> public: good afternoon supervisors. i just want to thank you for bringing this ordinance forward. the lack of trust in the s.f.m.t.a. is growing amid the gridlock and unfinished projects and constant bad contract decisions that are following a set of policies and procedures that the public does not understand and does not really know anything about. that is why you're getting all the complaints that you're getting because the public really doesn't know exactly how this whole thing works anyway. and thank you for expressing some of the information that you've been bringing forward during this hearing. and i just want to say a couple of things. i sent emails out earlier and i just want to get them in the

public record that are problems that the public is having. one of them is there's no direct email contact with the individual directors of the m.t.a. board and there's no ability for the public to interact with them. this leads to the level of distrust that's already there. the other thing i want to mention is that the board meetings have been conducted in such a manner that does not invite public participation and is actually also creating quite a bit of anger among members of the public that attempt to deal with the board. and we're hoping that -- [bell]. >> public: these actions will change some of that. so, i believe unless the issues are addressed and the board, and the staff starts following what the board tells it to do, we're finding areas where the staff is

not following board's direction, that this matter will not be cleared up with this particular ordinance. but we're hoping it will work. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker please. >> public: hi. matt. i don't spend a lot of time looking at legislation, but i do spend a lot of time studying our dangerous streets. and i'm worried about any type of legislation that slows the transition of our high injury network to be a safe street network. and so, if adding a stop sign is going to make a street like howard more safe, i don't think we should add 60 days of additional beaurocracy, three months, six months while more people get injured and killed on those streets. i would encourage you to exempt high injury network streets from this legislation, thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you.

next speaker. >> public: good to get one of these hearings. i don't know why you move from four to five, but i would support lowering the number of supervisors that are required for this measure. we think this is a good first

step, but obviously, in our opinion, the s.f.m.t.a. needs decided structural changes that we hope will be forthcoming in the future. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you. >> supervisor peskin: madame chair if i could make two comments, which is that number one, the five supervisor threshold mirrors the threshold as you noted when your suggested the amendment at our last meeting for conditional use appeals under the planning code. and as i stated earlier with regard to the fee waiver provisions, we have incorporated page seven subsection h, the same provisions that exist in the planning code, which is that fee waivers applied to neighbor or organization that has been in existence for 24 months prior to the filing date for the request for review or is on the planning

department's neighborhood notification list and an indigent person attest to his or her ability to not to be able to pay the filing fee. >> supervisor tang: thank you for the clarification. next speaker. >> public: good afternoon supervisors. i'm back again this week to continue to ask you to make exempt the high injury network from this order dance. the high injury network is a specific map of streets that s.f.m.t.a. will be working on in the next five years to achieve vision zero. we know the s.f.m.t.a. must remove or modify parking to install vision zero safety. and this appeal process could stall our progress when lives are at stake and it's at a time when we need projects to move faster for vision zero to achieve vision zero. thankfully last week you modified the ordinance to exempt bike lanes, but you still don't

exempt high injury network or transit projects. and this honestly doesn't make any sense. the s.f.m.t.a. looks at safety holistically. we can take, for example, upper market street. that is a bike project, a pedestrian project and a transportation project. and it's always on the high injury network. again, i urge you to amend the ordinance to exempt projects on the high injury network as well as transit projects because we can't be looking at safety piece by piece. vision zero honestly needs champions and some bold action to achieve it. i hope you will stand by your vision zero making sure this ordinance doesn't slow down our progress. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. next speaker. >> public: good afternoon, supervisors. i'm alice rogers. i'm president of the mission bay neighborhood association and i'm here on behalf of our board and

the entire membership of our association to join in asking you that you exempt the high injury corridors from this legislation as well as transit projects. we feel in our neighborhood that outreach has been good and increasingly good over time. we also understand that it's our obligation as a community group to help extend that outreach and to make sure as many neighbors as possible know about these projects and can weigh in. we think that process is working. as an individual, i dabbled a little bit in public realm and a few intersections here and there and i know personally that parking spaces are just the third rail. i really think that the board of supervisors has many, many more important issues to deal with. so, please exempt the high injury network.

don't slow down the progress on vision zero or transit projects. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> public: hello. i'm theodore randolph. my brother was a grade below katy tang at lowell. and i think our districts have too much parking. we see -- my office now is near the 101 entrance. there's backed up cars most of the day every day and there are cars backed up going to the freeway because there are parking spots on the other side. and actually, in sunset and excelsior a lot of the parking spots are illegal. people are parking on the

sidewalk. so, we really need to have much less parking. and -- let's see. i also think we should abandon this particular project -- this particular legislation entirely because if we want to get rid of the parking, we need to have the parking be equitable fashion and tailored according to the needs of the community and so like my brother went to lowell. he took the bus from excelsior to sunset and we need a lot more people to be taking buses. [bell]. >> public: i think the way that the s.f.m.t.a. has ability to do projects is a pretty good way to try things out, to do reverse small projects. try small projects that don't work well. they got a glowing review in the

institute for transportation engineers last year because of freedom from all the extra hirings they were able to do in 10% of the time and 25% of the cost. [bell]. >> public: thank you. >> supervisor tang: thanks very much. next speaker, please. >> public: thank you. good afternoon. i'm peter strauss. i'm on the board of the san francisco transit riders. i will be brief because you have heard from rachel at your previous meeting and i think you also heard directly from a number of our members. let me say i appreciate what you've done in the last revisions to raise the threshold from the appeals to five and exempt the petitions. we're very supportive of that change. i do want to as other speakers have ask you to reconsider two classes of exemptions that are not defined, one is high injury network to help the city to

achieve its vision zero goals and secondly, that you exempt transit projects as well. transit reliability is the most important concern of transit riders these days. and improving reliability is achieved through small projects, not huge projects on the street every day. this is these transit priority projects we ask you consider exempting from these appeals. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you. before the last speaker if there's anyone else who's name i didn't call, line-up up. >> public: good afternoon. i didn't mean transportation policy associate. like the others who have spoking, we appreciate the changes that have been made to the appeals legislation from last week. we also echo the concerns that were made by others today about the appeals legislation does not include exemptions. we think this is a mistake