>> good morning, everyone, the meeting will come to order. welcome to the july 25th, 2018, regular meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i am supervisor rafael mandelman, chair of the committee. to my right is vice chair supervisor ronen and to my left is supervisor peskin and we are also joined here by as a guest supervisor fewer. the clerk is john carroll who is going to be guiding me through this first meeting and telling

me what i'm doing wrong. >> clerk: so far so good. >> supervisor mandelman: and i woullike to thank those at sfgov to staff this meeting. clerk, do you have any announcements. >> clerk: silence your cellphones and electronic devices. and documents to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk and items will appear on the july 31,2018, board agenda unless otherwise stated by the committee. >> supervisor mandelman: call the first item. >> clerk: hearing to consider that the premise-to-premise transfer of a type-48 on-sale general public premises liquor license for zechsan business development, inc, doing business as executive order, located at 848 mission street [district 6], will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco. >> supervisor mandelman: good morning. >> i'm sergeant george from the a.l.u. unit. and i have a report for the

executive order that have applied for a type-48 license and if approved this would allow them to sell beer, wine and distilled spirits. there are two letters of support but those have been withdrawn. i mean two letters of protest -- i'm sorry -- but those have been withdrawn. and there's zero letters of support. they are in plot 210 which is considered a high crime area. they're in tract 176.01 which is considered a high saturation area. there is no opposition. a.l.u. approved with the following conditions. number one, sales of alcoholic beverages should be permitted between the hours of 10:00 to midnight, sunday-wednesday, and 10:00 to can, thursday-saturday. and number two, the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption off-sale is prohibited. number three, between the hours

of 10:00 and 2:00 a.m., or any time that the premise are providing live entertainment the petitioner shall provide three uniformed security guards in the parking lot and/or premise and shall maintain order therein and prevent any activity which would interfere with the clientel enjoyment of the property or by nearby residents or surrounding community. the licensed security guard must be licensed by the state of california department of consumer affairs. number four, no distilled spirits shall be sold by the bottle. and, number five, to actively monitor the area under their control and in efforts to prevent any damage to the properties adjacent as depicted or in the a.b.c.253. and it should be noted that the applicant has agreed with all of the listed above recommended conditions. >> supervisor mandelman: thank

you. supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: yes, i have no questions, and i just wanted to mention that i did receive a letter of support from raquel radondesz with the filipino cultural district. and she is supporting this liquor license and particularly i just wanted to mention how happy they are that the owner is community-minded and agreed to support filipino art in the bar itself. and also to host up to 12 community events or fundraisers to support some of the filipinos during the year and hosting six annual pop-up dinners for aspiring filipino food businesses. and so that's very exciting to me as a proponent of cultural districts and i just wanted to put that on the record. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. all right. i think that with that we can

hear from the owner. is john eric sanchez here? >> this is my first time also. good morning, supervisors and rafael mandelman and peskin. and i know that there's issues to address and i would like to first thank you to give me the opportunity to speak with you today. i am john eric sanchez and i was born in san francisco and attended the university of san francisco and i am a 17-year resident and soon-to-be business owner in south of market district 6. as you have read, as you have may have read in my application, i own and operated sit bar and lounge in the hancock women chinatown and north beach for close to 13 years on broadway and powell street. and i have been displaced due to city mandated earthquake retrofit work required of my

former landlord. i stand before the committee today on behalf of my new business, potential new business, executive order bar and lounge, to request that this committee and the s.f. board of supervisors approve my request to transfer my type a.b.c. liquor license into my new location at 868 mission street at jesse west at the westfield san francisco center with the adoption of a p.c.n. resolution. this resolution will allow me to continue my work in the neighborhood that i call home and will allow me to proceed with the a.b.c. with the state to move forward with the next steps in the liquor license chance for process. a little bit about what my plans are. executive order bar and lounge is a 21 and older cocktail bar and lounge whose theme and decor pay tribute to the more benevolent acts of our country's founders, presidents, abraham

lincoln and theodore roosevelt and the notable figures, movements, lives and times surrounding each of their eras in american history. through its theme executive order aims to promote what we consider to be not only san francisco values but mutually understood american values -- equality for all, the important role that immigration and diversity has played in america's progress, and the importance of equal work opportunity for all to contribute to the greater good, and to promote the importance of conservationallism and our duty to be good custodians of the environment. including the packets before you are the findings of the reviews conducted by s.f. planning and the s.f.pdlau and i have collaborated with the sfpdalu and agreed to the conditions on my liquor license that aim to promote the spirit of being a good neighbor, safety and security to both guests and the neighborhood and the city as a

whole. and i have reached out to and i have received support from the community benefit district, and soma filipino cultural district for which we are a part. i respectfully request your adoption of this resolution and i'm happy to answer any questions that you might have and i thank you for the opportunity to speak before you this morning. >> supervisor mandelman: great. thank you. any -- appears that we have no questions for you. so, thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: are there any members of the public who would like to speak? speakers will have two minutes. please state your first and last name clearly and speak directly into the microphone. those persons who have prepared written statements are encouraged to leave a copy with the clerk for inclusion in the file and no applause or booing is permitted and in the interest of time speakers are encouraged to avoid repetition of previous statements. >> hi, i am desede can know on

and our director raquel asked us to read a letter of support. dear chair mandelman, thank you for your support and i write to express support for item number 1. we are very excited to work with john eric sanchez and has team to open up on 868 mission street. currently in the westfield. mr. sanchez expressed a first commitment to being a good neighbor and working with the cultural district to advance our goals and cultural celebration and visibility, community development and economic and social justice. we are happy to support a filipino business that is community-minded and has committed to working and creating opportunities for local organizations to create entry level job opportunities in the district. and there's an interest to work with our arts and culture committee to create additional art pieces in the space to celebrate filipino culture. we're excited that the executive order bar and lounge has committed to hosting six annual pop-up dinner for aspiring

filipino food businesses and to explore the commissary for the kitchen for growing food businesses and the hopes for our pastry chefs to provide baked goods for his daily coffee program. we're hopeful that the executive order lounge will continue to contribute to creating a lively commercial corridor for the cultural district and creating commercial corridors is one of our top challenges for the cultural district because we're so large. and yet we have no economic base. and we're hoping that more business owners like john sanchez will come to the table and to help us to develop that and we hope that you support his liquor license transfer. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. any other members of the public who would like to speak before public comment is closed? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues? >> to make a motion to move this forward with positive recommendation. >> supervisor mandelman: mr. clerk, does that work.

>> clerk: this would determine that the public would be served. >> yes. >> supervisor mandelman: is there a second? i do not need a second, fantastic. thank you. and does that include all of the conditions or have those been -- >> clerk: the resolution will track the recommendations as recommended to and agreed to by the parties involved. >> supervisor mandelman: okay, fantastic. so without objection. yeah... great. all right. mr. clerk, call the next item. >> clerk: special on-sale general liquor license -- verifying completion of preapplication meeting -- 341 judah street la puesta del sol cantina and section 23826.13, for the issuance of a new non-transferable, type-87 neighborhood-restricted special on-sale general liquor license.

>> supervisor mandelman: great. do we have a departmental presentation? jessica speaking on behalf of supervisor tang. >> good morning, chairman mandelman and committee members. i am jessica ho and an aide to supervisor tang. and our office is committed to helping small businesses to open and thrive along our neighborhood commercial corridors. the office of economic work first and development, also shares this goal. and they have engaged with the states to allow additional restaurants to also provide alcoholic beverages in order for these businesses to succeed. in light of this effort, cbtw incorporated was selected to submit an on-sale general license application for la puesta del sol cantina at 3414 judah street. this resolution before you today is put on record that the product sponsors conducted a

community meeting about the proposed restaurant in which we are aware that six members of the community participated. we are hopeful that this proposed restaurant if established will bring more vibrancy to the judah street neighborhood corridor. thank you for consideration in advance. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: we are joined by supervisor yee. >> thank you, chair and members of the committee. good morning. i am with the economic workforce development, just to provide a very brief sort of overview of this process. this is a unique process to san francisco and something that this is now the fourth time that this type of resolution has been considered by the board this year. in 2016, the state legislature adopted sb1285, authored by then senator leno to create a new affordable, nontransferable

restaurant liquor license for businesses located in some target commercial corridors, including the sunset, excells your and ocean avenue, and visitation valley, hopefully i mentioned all of them. and there are five licenses that were up for issuance in an application process and drawing that happened late last year. again, this is the fourth of those five to come forward for a certification of the completion of preapplication outreach. so this is before the consideration of the full liquor license application by the a.b.c. and the potential applicant who is selected from that drawing process has to send a mailing 14 days in advance of a community meeting to residents within 500 feet of the proposed business location. and then 14 days hold that community meeting and then submit evidence of the completion of that meeting to the board and for this committee. i attended the meeting last

month and i believe that all of the relevant documents are in your packet and i think that maybe it's time to invite up colin o'malley, one of the partners from la puesta del sol cantina to talk about that outreach. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> hello, i'm colin o'malley and my partner is john brendan. we have applied and we're lucky enough to be selected to obtain one of these new licenses in the city. all three of us met on the sunset and i'm about four blocks away and i cover ortega and we wanted to have something in the neighborhood. we do own bars in downtown san francisco and we have about 50 years of experience between the three of us. we have been doing this for quite a long time. we decided to open up la puesta del sol cantina and it's something to bring to the neighborhood to activate some more family vibes in the area. it's a family restaurant that will serve food, cocktails, yeah, we just want to do

something new to the neighborhood and bring it up a little bit. so any questions for me? >> supervisor mandelman: it does not appear that we have questions but thank you very much. >> thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, is there a motion or -- >> i'd be happy to make a motion to send this forward with positive recommendation. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, vice-chair ronen. take that without objection. all right, good. mr. clerk, call the next item. oh, i believe that we're taking item 4 before item 3. so call item 4. >> clerk: senior pedestrian injuries and fatalities and targeted implementation of vision zero improvements. >> hearing on pedestrian injuries and fatalities affecting seniors and how data on collisions is analyzed to

make specific improvements, targeted enforcement, implementation of vision zero improvements, education outreac to communities and monolingual communities. >> supervisor mandelman: supervisor yee you requested this hearing. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much, chair mandelman. >> good morning. in 2014 i co-authored the city's vision zero policy that goes with the vision zero to get to zero traffic fatalities by the year 2024. through engineering, enforcement and education we have made some significant strides. last year was the least number of traffic deaths ever recorded in san francisco. this is an accomplishment and it should be recognized for that. but, still, there were 20 people that passed away and so it feels

like we have made strides and we need to do more. i call this hearing because back in april we had two fatalities of seniors being hit -- being hit by vehicles nearly back-to-back in my district. each of these crashes were preventable and leave a lifetime of pain for their family and friends. i'd like to note that i'm wearing the colors of families for safe streets who actually had impacts when their family members or friends or relatives either are killed in a traffic collision or seriously injured. you know, i would say that it's really interesting to me because when i started noticing it more

and more i checked the data and it wasn't just people across all age groups equally getting killed by these collisions. in fact, what we found is that the majority of the fatalities are pedestrians and nearly 80% of them are people over 50 years old. i mention fatalities but this hearing is also about those seriously injured. we will hear data from the department of public health. but injuries from crashes pick up more of their trauma and more than anything else at the hospital. in 2016, 75% of the seniors killed in crashes were in my district, district 7. in 2017, three of the eight fatal collisions involving

seniors were in my district. while i hope that there isn't another death anywhere on the streets of san francisco, but this year 40% of them have actually been mo in my district. and it's not just my district that i'm concerned about and this 40% and 60% are happening somewhere else. since april since i called this hearing six more people were killed on the streets. two of them were seniors, dimetry scottman was killed on 36th and slope just this last thursday. and these stats are striking. but we shouldn't call them stats, these are real people that we're talking about, residents and our neighbors and their families and friends continue to grieve. these deaths are unacceptable and absolutely preventable. i call on the departments to hear specific data analysis from

the crashes impacting seniors. as a city we must not be solely reactive, we must be proactive in preventing injuries and fatalities. there are three main pillars of vision zero, engineering, enforcement and education. when there is a crash what is being done to ensure that there isn't another? how are the city strategies and data being shared, analyzed and leveraged towards prevention and in this case the prevention of crashes and fatalities involving seniors. so today we are going to hear from the san francisco police department, the san francisco m.t.a., and the department of public health, and the d.a.'s office. colleagues, i also want to note that there are representatives from the transportation authority here, the public works and cal transwho are here to answer questions if we have any.

i'd like to now bring up hava cronenberg, the program from the smtda who will start with a brief overview and go ahead and introduce the speakers as they come in from the -- in order of the presentation. >> thank you all, and thank you, supervisor yee for calling this hearing. we as a city, as a team of vision zero staff we really appreciate the opportunity to talk about the work we're doing and to give a real showcase to the efforts that we're making as well as to sort of highlight the critical issues that you have just raised. i'm go through quickly through my overview because i felt that you did an excellent job, speaking to all of my slides. so i'll be fairly quick. so some of you are new on this board so i'll do a refresher. which is in 2014, the city along

with agents and our board of supervisors and mayor lee adopted vision zero as a policy to end the traffic fatalities in san francisco and to reduce our severe injuries. this is a picture of ninth and division, our new protected intersection. but supervisor yee has pointed out that this is a public health crisis. and just like any other public health crisis that we talk about, it has severe impact on lives all over san francisco. that's not just those who die, on average 30 per year, but those who are severely injured. they have lot a loss of abilityd loss of jobs and real impact to their families. we see that in a role cost at s.f. general. so it was a cost born by the taxpayers of san francisco but there's a larger social cost that we have estimated at more than $500 million annually to the injuries and fatalities that we see on the streets.

it is about saving lives and we're going to talk a lot about statistics. and i don't want to lose sight that these are real people, real neighbors, real friends. these are the names of the folks that we have lost just this year. i am not going to read them all out loud and i hope that we can all keep them in our thoughts as we make our way through this presentation. so overall, san francisco sees 30 traffic deaths per year. last year we had 20 recorded traffic deaths which was our lowest on average ever, recorded in san francisco history. and those are still 20 people who didn't make it home. so, you know, there's no opportunity for congratulations here and we still have to focus on getting to zero. and in san francisco seniors represent a disproportionate number of those deaths. so those are trends that are not

necessarily true all over the country or in different cities so it's really important for us to think of the context here in san francisco and what we're doing to address things. so we do see about 50% of the people 65 or older who are represented in those fatalities and that's because when someone like me is hit by a car the odds of me living are pretty good. you know, i'm young and robust. the older we get the less likely to survive a collision with a car. what is important to think about is that often as someone who works on vision zero daily i get a comment, well, maybe someone was looking at their phone and not paying attention. but the reality is, and this is represented in the people that we see on that list of names, these are older people who are crossing the street and they're paying attention and things went wrong. and i want us to think about that person instead of sort of the young kid with his cellphone out.

so what is exciting and encouraging about vision zero is that we have a huge commitment to addressing vision year in a collaborative approach. i think that you will see that as we have presenter comes up. and what i recognized when i looked at this hearing room is that we have broad support from the community. so it's not just city agencies doing individual work day-to-day, but we are so fortunate as a group to have, you know, people out there on the street, community members, who are working with neighbors and talking about what it means for all of us to be safe on our streets. and that is a privilege that i have. so i'm going to talk very briefly about who is coming to talk today and so we will first have up commander tracy yuin from the police department who does our traffic enforcement. and additionally we'll have megan weir, my vision zero task force co-chair from the

department of public health to talk about a lot of their work, including their data collection at s.f. general which is nationally leading work. my colleagues from sfmta who are doing work specifically to address reducing speeds around areas where seniors are most likely to be and our broad communications efforts that you have seen everywhere i hope and additionally we have been joined by the district attorney office and i noted on my commute in their banner is everywhere so i'excited to hear about their programs. so i am going to introduce commander yuin and talk about our enforcement program. so, thank you. >> hello, supervisors, how are you. so i'm going to talk about really this year's fatalities. i understand that 2014 to 2018 is what you're looking for. we will work with vision zero to have that for next week for the t.a. hearing.

so the overall -- i have been here for about a year, 2017, i looked at and 2018, and, you know, a lot of the causes of the collisions are turning and speed. i understand that you want information in regards to where people are heading to and coming from. that is definitely something that we will look into. because i know that senior centers are definitely one of the subjects that we want to look at as far as the path to that location. so the four seniors that were fatalities this year, one at rice and san jose was a pedestrian crossing in a crosswalk. and it was a pedestrian crossing and struck by a right-turning vehicle. and there was another a cabdriver going straight. and then slow pedestrian crossing and struck in a crosswalk. what we have put in place that

is new to our unit is a 72-hour -- 72 hours after the collision that we have a conference call with all of our stakeholders so we can understand what occurred prior and then the cause that we know at that time. so there's a large investigation to be done, and finding video and witnesses and so on so that we can build that case. and i'll get into more of our enforcement in the next presentation. i have some slides that i can share with you. next up is ricardo alia that is going to speak about responding to fatalities. unless you have any questions. i'm sorry. >> supervisor mandelman: looks like -- do we? >> supervisor yee: i'll hold off my questions until all of the presentations are completed so we have flow. >> thank you. >> hi, supervisors, thank you for calling this hearing. i am the city traffic with the

transportation agency. and i'll be speaking a little bit more about what we're doing to follow-up on some of the fatalities that the commander described. in november of last year mayor lee issued a directive to our department to set up a rapid response unit to formalize the agency's response after fatalities. something that we had already been doing but this established a kind of a structure. the way that the process works right now is that as noted the police department informs our department immediately about fatalities. we get as much details as we can from the police department as the events are happening. our management has been informed that a fatality has happened. and we assign staff, myself included, to go out into the field and to investigate hopefully within 24 hours, sometimes as the crash investigation is happening.

and if it's not possible we'll try to go in a normal time frame and to investigate the location and to ask questions to the police department later about the details of what happened. within five days or so we have been having conference calls with the captain of the -- the captain who has been very helpful in providing us with information which we need as engineers to figure out in what direction the vehicles were traveling, what were some of the conditions that police noted at the crash site, things that will make us kind of think critically about what were the crash details. and what were the vehicles doing. what were the pedestrians doing. exactly where the crash happened which is sometimes not always clear, was it on the west crosswalk or the north crosswalk. those details are given to us within a week. once we have combined the office study with the field study and the information that we get from

the police department we'll make recommendations whether they be short term quick fixes such as fixing things that need to be repaired or adjusting things that may need a little bit more work. and all the way down to long-term capital projects that may require finding funding or finding additional resources to execute. we also work with other agencies. a couple of the fatalities that we'll talk about are right-of-way and so we work with the state department and caltrans, and sometimes there's lighting issues and issues that they help us with. so it's collaborative and very coordinated and making sure this gets the highest attention from all relevant parties. the first crash that i wanted to mention was the crash that happened at rice and san jose on a state route. this is a short highway that is on the caltrans restriction though it's a city street. this is the site of the crash.

the monday after the fatality happened, an uncontrolled crosswalk, marked, but not having anything in terms of requiring vehicles to stop. so the plan right now at this intersection thanks to a caltrans project is to have a beacon to require the vehicles to stop and this will be done on the rest of the corridor here. there's a number of other locations that are uncontrolled. in that project it was on design when this fatality happened, unfortunately, but it will soon be under construction. and here's the actual diagram of the infrastructure that will be added to this corridor. and another fatality was at ocean and victoria and on chester and santam. vulnerable population and bicyclers and a petty cabdrivers, unfortunately, was killed by a motorist that was traveling in the area. for ocean avenue, sometimes just

looking at one intersection in isolation is not the right approach so what our staff did at m.t.a. in the case of ocean avenue is that because of the similarity between these intersections we decided to take a global look and to make changes to all of the intersections that required changes. and by changes i mean things such as signal timing and striking changes, things that we can do quickly. so we're adding a feature where pedestrians get to walk before the vehicles which can help prevent crashes when vehicles particularly are turning right. we're changing the signals to provide a longer crossing time which is particularly important for seniors. and our current crossing time that we provide in terms of the walking speed we assume is 3.5 feet per second, but due to a change that we're doing city-wide in response to requests from the senior and stable communities we will go to three feet per second which is on the lowered end of what's

required. so those changes will be gradually be done throughout the city but in this case we decided to accelerate the implementation on ocean avenue. we're changing yellow and all red timing. the all red is a pause between the time that the light turns yellow for one direction and green for the opposite direction which sometimes can address vehicle crashes. and also updating as i said the crosswalk markings and the stop bars to make sure that the vehicles stop and don't encroach into the pedestrian right-of-way. >> supervisor yee: excuse me, i have a burning question so i have to ask it right now. for this particular intersection, what you're suggesting is -- the suggestions that you're making in terms of changes are really good. in this case i don't know all of the details but part of the problem with that particular -- and we have several like that -- are these big old -- what do you

call these things -- >> monuments... >> supervisor yee: yeah. and i believe that the driver couldn't see and i don't know whether it was -- because you can turn right now on a red light. so one could be in a crosswalk or not and the person wouldn't be able to see any major turn. so to me what's missing in your solution is no righthand turns on red. and that's pretty simple to put a thing up there. a sign. is there any reason why we wouldn't want to do that? >> that's something that we did discuss, without going into the crash details which i don't have the actual crash report, but we did not think that it was the fact that the column was there that caused the crash. we believe that the motor i was was doing something that led to the crash and it was not the

obstruction itself that caused the crash. in terms of no turn on red, that is something that can be done at times. we looked at the corridor and we did not see a pattern of that being an issue. we can take a look at it again based on your request. the main issue is that when we add regulations at some of these intersections that there may be a problem with people following them, compliance issues. so we tried to tailor the measures to what we feel are the kind of common or likely process of these type of severe or fatal crashes. but we'll take a look again at that to see if it's -- o if it's needed. but the column itself we don't believe was the cause in this case. >> supervisor yee: i would appreciate it if you look at it again because right after that i sort of went and made a conscious effort to make that

turn there and we have several in the neighborhood, even in westley park. and if you think that you saw that it was clear from one angle and you started proceeding to make the turn right there, and somebody happens to walk into the intersection and -- most people as you know when they make the turn they don't necessarily look at where they're turning because they already did that. what they want to do is to make sure that somebody on the lefthand side driving is not going to hit them because they care about themselves. so that's the problem that i saw when i did my own testing what i would do when i was making that turn. >> i -- i do want to share with the board that no turn on red are part of the regulations that we considered and, in fact, one of the fatals received a no turn on red treatment on 19th

avenue. on the area here, staff is looking at the intersection for specifically short-term changes. but as the board knows there's also a wider study of the protected cycle tracks which would have helped this this case. however, if a more involved capital project in the sense that it would require infrastructure changes, changes to the roadway, that are currently being looked at and there's been discussions as part of this incident and previous concerns with safety to kind of accelerate the look of the enhancement project. >> supervisor mandelman: supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: excuse me. you just mentioned this was really not about the righthand turns, but you said that you are extending the length of time for people to cross the intersections which i think is great. but i'm asking, wondering, if you are evaluating specific

intersections. for example, the institute on aging which is all seniors, i mean you just mentioned that, i believe that the commander did that, that it is seniors that are susceptible to these fatalities and also injuries. so i have an intersection at palm and actually gary that is right in front of the institute on aging. so the primary people that use that intersection are all seniors. are you you evaluating those intersections to see whether or not they would need more time to cross the streets? >> yes, in terms of the three feet policy, and there's two tracks. one is proactive where we look at locations where we have concerning or look at corridors also. and gary boulevard is looked at as a whole to see what is the appropriate crossing time in terms of locations such as palm and i'll have staff look specifically at that location which i'm familiar with our

agency that installs the traffic signal there. we share your concern and we're trying to make sure that we provide as much time as possible. we are re-timing the entire downtown area, for example. so north and south of market, to have three feet per second. that's a project that is ongoing. and we respond to any 311 or constituent requests for additional time. so we can't re-time all of the signals at once but we can prioritize those that are important to the community and those locations such as the one on ocean avenue where we have concerns about safety. and then also look at where we're being told that we might want to provide additional time. >> supervisor fewer: i want to suggest also that on fulsom there's a senior center there that has over a thousand members and there's a light there that also may need to be evaluated. and then there's another senior center on gary between 25th and -- no, 26th and 27th, and those lights on 26th and

27th might need to be evaluated too. so i think that my question is -- are you taking a proactive stance in looking at intersections where there are a lot of seniors that use those intersections to see if you can evaluate whether or not they may need more time to cross the street? and also when we look in chinatown those are densely populated and also many, many seniors are crossing the streets. and i'm wondering if you're giving any of those lights consideration also? i just think that it's an overall sort of policy whether or not you're looking at proactively looking at intersections that may need more pedestrians -- where the pedestrians may need more time to cross the street. or not just on complaints but actually you're working proactively to look at these sites and you yourselves would evaluate and say there's a senior center here and it's an active senior center, that we know that seniors are more susceptible. this is specifically an

intersection that needs more evaluation? >> yes, i think that some of our presentation will touch on some of the greater proactive efforts that we're doing both on the capital and the proactive track that will look at intersections such as senior centers. we'll look at entire corridors and we'll look at entire areas of the city for re-timing and those are active projects but i wanted to make sure that people know they can contact us and we can look at specific areas. so we'll look at locations proactively and make sure that we do the changes first where they're most needed both from a safety standpoint or just from the infrastructure that is pressing there. >> supervisor fewer: i wanted to mention one thing but i think that supervisor yee would agree with me that anywhere that there's also a child development center as it takes much longer as we know as parents to cross the street with a child in hand. they're slower to walk and many

of them -- sometimes parents have them on scooters or bicycles and i think that so we're looking at playgrounds and also child development centers and also of course our elementary schools. thanks. >> yes. >> supervisor yee: i was going to say thank you supervisor fewer, because this whole hearing is about what do we do to be proactive. not just reactive to, okay, this incident, something happened here. and it's good that they're reacting to that but i want to -- that's why i asked for analysis of data to see where it makes sense, what to do, and as we move forward. and also i think that as he was mentioning there, later in the presentation there's some of the things that you're talking about that i think will be addressed. >> yeah, i think that my -- my part of the presentation is by definition reactive. we are reacting to where a fatality happened and we're

reacting to problems but we want to also make sure that we get on the proactive side which we'll talk about shortly. and then finally the last fatality was at 36th and slope which is also a caltrans facility. this location that had a major project that is just wrapping up which activated a number of new pedestrian beacons, they're called hawks, which help the vehicles stop when a pedestrian is present. i attended a meeting yesterday at oakland caltrans headquarters with high level manager there is and we talk -- managers there and we talked about doing additional outreach and making sure that the project wraps up which i think that the last two hawks have been turned on i was told yesterday by the project manager. and making sure that we follow-up as we learn more information about it. so the state and the city are working in partnership to make sure that we follow-up on, and

this was a project that the state sponsored and followed up on in terms of providing all of these different crosswalks on slope with additional traffic signal devices to make sure that the incidents like this don't repeat themselves. if there's -- if there's no further questions i want to introduce megan weir with the department of public health and a leader on vision zero, to talk about data and analysis. >> supervisor yee: thank you and stick around, because i do have questions. good morning, megan. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you so much for your attention to vision zero and the opportunity to speak today. my name is megan weir, the co-chair of vision zero with haba, and i also lead the data systems work for vision zero and work closely with my colleagues

at d.p.h. also to advance the community engagement and equity through this work. so i'm going to be sharing some of our work on that. and just to reiterate, again, that the increased risk of seniors, particularly to fatalities, 50% of our pedestrian deaths last year as people have noted were seniors. and we know in looking at the data from the hospital that seniors are almost twice as likely to have a severe injury compared to younger adults. so in our medical population we see seniors disproportionately represented. this was a national study that looked at senior pedestrians with the risk of dying relative to younger adults. what we see is that across all speeds, when seniors are injured in a traffic crash that they're more likely to die and speed is really a focus of vision zero for this reason. it's physics and then it's the inherent vulnerability of seniors that contributes to them being disproportionately

represented in our fatalities. this national report also recommended a number of things that we could do to reduce this risk. these are all being implemented as a part of vision zero and you'll hear some of them today which includes traffic calming, increased enforcement, by police and also automated speed enforcement. and the reduction of the speed limits which is part of our vision zero bold ideas policy agenda. i want to note that people with disabilities are also of particular concern and we know that these are distinct populations but there's also a lot of overlap and we're also fortunate to partner with a lot of the people, people representing both seniors and people with disabilities as a part of vision zero. 6% of the people that come to the trauma center with a traffic injury and a mobility or a visual or a hearing disability have underrepresentation of the overall breadth of disabilities that people experience that could contribute to vulnerablity. but when we look closer at

people with disabilities that were seen at our trauma center we also learned that 60% of them had mobility limitations which, again, we can understand how that could increase the vulnerability when people are crossing the street. and 70% of those people were injured when walking and half were seniors aged 65. so there's a lot of synergies that with these two groups that we need to protect in our transportation system. the seniors have been a focus since vision zero was initiated as a d.p.h. leads our safe streets for seniors education program that focuses on educating seniors as well as service providers about vision zero and bringing feedback back to the city family. this includes a lot of multilingual outreach and presentations to seniors and senior centers. and so far they have reached 1,300 seniors and staff at over 40 facilities to date. on this slide is the recently released safe streets for seniors brochure that i'm happy to have copies that i can leave with everyone today that is

going to be a critical part of the outreach conducted for this program. and i want to acknowledge our guest here in the audience today and the community-based organizations that are here with us as well. and we know that community engagement is really critical for achieving vision zero and so safe streets for seniors has funded in the first year seven and in the last year eight, and hopefully everyone received a recently released request for applications for our next two-year cycle. it will fund senior organizations and people to work with seniors, again, to help advance an understanding of the critical need for street safety improvements for seniors. and i wanted to highlight which ricardo modestly alluded to in his presentation an important policy change that was made to increase the pedestrian crossing times city-wide. this was in response to a really

amazing concerted action by a senior and disability action and in coordination with community partners to bring attention to this issue and working with seniors not having enough time to cross the street. and it consistently rose to the top as issues of concern. this work that was funded by safety for seniors really elevated the issue to city staff that critically reviewed and considered, you know, increasing the crossing times, and as a result it is increasing crossing times now city-wide. this is a real example of the safety improvement that will advance the safety for all of our vulnerable populations that vision zero and our dedicated staff are really bringing to everyone's attention. and i also wanted to talk about the injury analysis that we conducted in response to some of supervisor fewer's comments. this was really our work to develop another tool that could be used for vision zero that

could help to inform more proactive improvements. so i think that everyone familiar with the network that is based on linked police and hospital data and so we have more comprehensive injury surveillance and it's also hospital outcome data that helps us to better assess injury severity. we're proud to be the first city in the country that has analyzed a map of that data to inform vision zero. this is another analysis that we did with that same data set. so we're bringing in the hospital, the hospital information and for the first time the data on where people with disabilities are injured on our streets. hospital data being our own data source for that information. part of this analysis we though wanted to understand where our seniors and people with disabilities, where they live and where they're traveling. because from a proactive step, they're more exposed and vulnerable to injury. so we started with our internal short list but then we did a lot of outreach including through surveys to better understand

where our locations of concern for seniors and people with disabilities are and that added notably public libraries to the list for attractors. it makes intuitive sense i think for a lot of our more vulnerable citizens in san francisco, that libraries are an important resource. and we got para-transit drop off and pickup locations from the sfmta and we're able to expand our priority areas to important locations for seniors. and so this is a map that we were able to create. on all of the segments that you see highlighted on the map that's where the seniors and people with disabilities -- it capture where is they were injured from 2014 to 20 sa 2015l of those locations. and we looked within the priority area and that captured three-quarters where seniors and people with disabilities were severely injured. so we see this as another important tool to share with our city colleagues to, again, to

help prioritize a proactive improvement moving forward. and drilling down into the richmond -- on gary, we can see some of the more specific locations and segments that are, again, another priority tool that we can share this data to help to focus our vision zero efforts. so, again, our recommendations are really to use this as a way to address concerns specific to seniors and people with disabilities and also to consider locations with injury, histories and project prior tiswraigz of planning and i'm excited to say that mark dregger from sfmta will be up next to talk about how the traffic calming program is using this tool and also deputy chief jacqueline will share a campaign that used these locations to also inform where we have highlight banners.

>> supervisor yee: what do you call this -- >> i'm an epidemiologist and i'll talk to john about what we call this -- i would call it the senior and people with disabilities prio pritoriza tirn tool. >> -- disability prioritization tool. turning over to mark. >> good morning, i'm happy to be here this morning to discuss with you the natural extension of what megan just presented which is an infrastructure program that is largely the result of the transit analysis that was conducted to date and looking at collisions involving seniors and those with disabilities. so san francisco, we have several initiatives and we discussed a lot today about our vision zero program which is largely focused on this high

injury network and has had tremendous success in recent years. it's a data driven process and it focuses on arterial and collector streets, the larger streets in san francisco. we have a very different program which is our residential traffic calming program. and you submit an application and you say that there's a feeding problem on your street and we take a look. if we find that there is indeed a speeding program we recommend a speed hump, but for many years we have looked to bridge the gap between vision zero and our traffic calming program to look at more residential streets to take a more proactive approach and to still bring the community involved into this process to look at that hard data and a lot of the information that particularly the department of public health has helped to produce for us. but also to discuss with the community and to work with the community to understand where their priorities are for safety in the neighborhood.

so i think that a lot of what we have presented today have shown that our senior groups and those who have disabilities in san francisco are particular populations that we need to pay particular attention to in san francisco. so the focus of this infrastructure program is indeed to reduce disparities in traffic injuries and deaths for these populations and neighborhoods across san francisco. to address the safety issues both on and off the high injury network. and to improve the safety and comfort for particular for those folks who are traveling in unprotected means, so to speak, who are walking or bicycling and don't have that protective shield of an automobile as we have seen through the data that our pedestrians in san francisco are most at risk to traffic collisions in san francisco. and we want to also look at land use, and very important land use for the people in san francisco where they're trying to go between home and work and cluster where is there's more senior who live. and looking at schools, parks, transit areas, our commercial corridors, libraries. so the approach is to combine this hard data looking at our

collision history and looking at speed and volume data as we do in the traditional sense with proactive engagement with the community to really understand where they see safety and comfort issues in their neighborhood. and perhaps there's something that we missed. perhaps, you know, collisions are not happening at particular intersections because people see it so uncomfortable and unsafe that they don't travel through that intersection. or people avoid that intersection all together and that's likewise important information. and in terms of the input for this program as i have mentioned, of course, it's one of the major ones that will be the collision data that we have. looking at the locations where these collisions are happening and do we see patterns year-over-year. left-turn patterns and things that are correctable? and looking at land-use analysis so looking at senior centers and looking at parks and looking at health clinics and looking at locations where people are frequenting on a regular basis and that we should connect between home and, you know, some

of these places where people are going. and we also want to look at this through a lens of equity. so with our traditional traffic calming program this is something where people reach out to us and they say we see speeding on our street but we are likewise interested in working with the neighborhoods that haven't traditionally reached out to our agency to say that there's a traffic problem. so for us to go into these neighborhoods and say, well, this is what we see with the data, what do you see and to have that dialogue and to have that conversation. and we also want to see what we can do to leverage the xa capitl projects already underway in san francisco and to easily add on to the programs that we can move forward with progress on safety improvements efficiently and not need to necessarily hold this up year-over-year. so the planning process is, again, largely bringing together the hard data with input from our senior and disability groups to have this nice synergy from the hard data and community

engagement. and the idea is to focus on a single neighborhood at a time to have comprehensive solutions in place for this neighborhood to look at it as a whole and not just a block-on-block basis. megan shared a snapshot of what these collisions are in this neighborhood involving seniors and those with disabilities. that's one area. but one might also look at visitation valley and we have hot spots in that neighborhood as well. to look at an entire community and seeing what can be done in that particular area. so this is a new program and we're still working through some of the details but i'd like to walk through the typical process for looking at a single neighborhood. so the first step would be determining the focus area of study for that particular year and this involves a ranking process, a priority process, which we take into consideration. such characteristics as what is the collision history, what are the important land uses. do we have high concentrations