visitation and mclaren park. the second crash happened on a caltrans facility, in the district 11. this vehicle failed to yield to a pedestrian that was crossing, and this -- this street already has a pending project to do another set of h.i.p.s this state route, and this will probably not in project and completion in 2019, and the last crash was at broadway near rock t stockton, and that crash involved a pedestrian crossing the block being hit by a vehicle early in the morning, and that construction was under completion.

[inaudible] >> -- such as the broad case, and then, projects that are pending implementation where we have projects that are coming but they didn't, unfortunately, come soon enough for the fatal that happened. this was a picture that we did on manzell, again, this is -- mansell, this is just an indication that this is not a safe place to pass other people. we are looking at more changes along the corridor, but again, this is a project that had recently been completed, so it had a lot of other projects built into it. like i said, construction can be an issue. this is a case where we worked chosely with public works in the case of the fatality that happened on broadway. we wanted to make sure that the construction was not a cause or a contributing factor to any of the crash details, so public

works staff was on the field with police department immediately after the fatality, and i was able to be at the site at well and talk to people about the crash details. so that's the case of a project that is now completed. there was a ribbon cutting yesterday for the broadway project that has additional improvements in terms of pedestrian sidewalk areas. for the second quarter, fatalities included ocean and victoria which we discussed as a senior fatality last week. we are making a series of changes to ocean in terms of signal timing and markings, and based on your request, commissioner yee, we are also doing a no turn on red for victoria at ocean, so that will be implemented shortly. there was a fatality at 19 avenue and winston, where we visited the site at night where the crash happened and

discovered a streetlight light wasn't functioning, so we indicated that to the sfpuc. arthur and cargo way was kind of a case linked to a criminal activity. vehicle ran and crashed into an intersection. we did not feel that there was a lot of engineering things that we could do at that intersection for the crash itself, but we do have a pending project there to make some changes. at 20 and castro was another case of a fatality where a tow truck lost control of a vehicle and it slid into a work site and it killed one of our fellow city co-workers, a very tragic incident. and this was considered to be a crash, but again, it was more of a work related incident with a tow truck and the work site, so we have not looked at that location for engineering changes, but instead, other parties are following up, including the parties that investigate the tow truck and

the work site conditions. and the embarcadero and sansome, this involved a pedi cab driver being hit by a motorist in a corridor that was under study for cycle track and other. . s and staff has also gone out to the site and looked at other things we can do, shorter than the long-term projects. and finally, the fatalities that happened in july, a fatality happened at 16 and mission, where a pedestrian was walking midblock and was hit at mission. we are doing some changes at the intersection of 16 and mission in terms of extending a transit bulb. we had already done a red lane project on that street. and then, finally, the crash we had just discussed with caltrans at 36 and sloat, where caltrans the prior week had activated a new h.i.c. beacon, and the pedestrian was crossing

the street. >> supervisor yee: okay. thank you very much for your presentation. by the way, i'm really happy that we have this response team that's been created so that the different departments can actually share the same information and data and do the analysis together because it seems like in the past, there's been a lack of coordination. from your presentation, i can see that you're doing a lot more what we call reactive strategies, i guess, after the fact. and one of the things from even last week that i mentioned is that we can't forget to also be proactive in trying to get this -- use the information you're getting to look at other situations to say even though it hasn't happened in the particular intersection, let's be proactive and just go ahead and do the -- whether it's

engineering projects to improve the intersections or to put a signal or whatever, you know. i think those are important steps that we take. thank you very much. >> yes. i was to emphasize that my presentation is purely focused on a reactive part of the work we do. i think it's important, but obviously, the agency and the city are also working on a proactive basis to look at where could the next fatal happen, install traffic signals, signal beacons, additional markers, regulations. we're retiming the entire downtown area, and we're looking at what additional safety recommendations we can do. there's a very proactive component as well, and whatever lessons we learn from the crashes, severe and fatal, we also try to extrapolate and figure out how can we learn

from these so they don't repeat themselves and apply them in a proactive fashion where they don't happen again. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much for your work and your presentation, mr. oleja. >> thank you. >> supervisor yee: any public comment on this item? come on up. >> thank you. kathy deluca. we know that vision zero is just bigger than responding to individual crashes but it matters to people who are impacted, to communities who are impacted, so i just want to thank the sfmta for their quick work and responsiveness. >> hello. commissioners. my name is kristin lecke. in the days following the hit

and run on the embarcadero, i was regularly in touch with people who new kevin manning, the pedi cab operator who eventually passed away from injuries from the crash. i am concerned about the people who are impacted by these traffic collisions are not yet being supported. in the days following kevin's death, we were immediately working with his close friends and family for a ghost bike memorial event. where was the c.r.t. then? then, we turned out for an m.t.a. board meeting. while we appreciate the condolences from director ed reiskin, there was no mention of the rapid response team or the results of their engineering team to bring near term improvements to the embarcadero. time and time again, it is instead up to the friends and family who are grieving after loss to push for more. on behalf of our 10,000 members, we urge the city to do more and to do it faster. if even the loss of life isn't enough for immediate street safety improvements, our city is failing our people. commissioners, thank you again

for bringing this to the attention and let's keep pushing our city departments to do more. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. any othermen comments, colleag? seeing none, then, this informational item -- let's move quickly to item six. >> clerk: item six, update from vision zero community groups. this is an information item. >> supervisor yee: miss deluca. >> good morning, noonish, good afternoon. good afternoon, chair yee, and commissioners. i am kathy deluca, the project coordinator for walk sf. so first, i'll start with the

senior and disability work group. so this group forms in -- formed in 2016, and ad vocates from several departments came together and decided we needed to do something. it wasn't okay that two was killed. we knew that market was a high injury corridor. so we quickly formed this group, and we actually rallied together and made some changes. we were able to get leading pedestrian intervals on market street after we joined together. we got better turn restriction signage because we know on the safer market street project there are a lot of turn restrictions, and is it ae confusing -- and it's confusing, and we were also involved in the city driver training, so we've been getting a lot of good things accomplished together. the city has been putting in a

lot of protected bike lanes, which is really good, but there are a lot of consequences, and so we got a group together to talk about this. basically, when you have protected bike lanes against the curb, you lose access to the curb, so folks who used to pull up to the curb and get out on the curb, which is really important for seniors and folks with disabilities, that access is gone. and now if you're getting out from the curb, you have to cross a bike lane. so we wanted to really talk about this and make sure that improvements that are really important for bicyclists that should happen could also work for seniors and people with disabilities. so we had a big workshop in march. we invited city staff from all different agencies, advocates, consultants, and we even had

folks from oakland department of transportation come. and we had a great day really opening up this conversation and talking about the challenges that these communities face and coming up with solutions. so -- and i just wanted to give you a few examples because i think visuals help kind of understand what we're talking about. so when we have transit islands, when the bike lane's against the curb, and we have a transit island, it could be harder fore people with disabilities and seniors to get off the island. is it a ramp and only on one end of the island? that could be difficult for seniors and person with disabilities. if you're blind or a person with low sight, and you're used to going to the curb to find your bus stop, and then somehow the bus stop moves out into the street, how are you supposed to find out where that is? so we were talking about how can we make this work? we talked about sidewalk level bike lanes, which is the city

is planning in some of our corridors, which again for seniors and people with disabilities there are a lot of concerns with that mixing. we know that those people are more at risk if they're in crashes, so we talked about how to design these so that they were safe. floating parking. so if the bike lane is protected by parking, this is -- this is causing all sorts of challenges for folks with disabilities and seniors. so again, you used to be able to step out of your car onto the curb, but now you're stepping out from your car into this hatched zone. so sometimes folks find that hatched zone isn't big enough to get your walker or stroller out. sometimes instead of, again, you used to be able to step right onto the curb. now you have to travel down this zone and try to get onto the curb which is a longer distance to cross. and the group also found there were few you are accessibility parking spots.

we could go into this forever, and i like to -- oh, again, post protected bike lanes, just an unintended consequence is how are folks who need to get to a destination right at that location accessing it? it's blocked now. so we had this great discussion where we talked all of these -- these problems out, and we came up with a handful of solutions. and so the group really talked about hey, if we had raised crossings across the bike lanes, that would really help pedestrians be safe and visible. if we had really visible and predictable crossings, that's going to help people find these transit islands. universal design was talked about a lot, which is just making sure a street -- a design of anything, street building, works for everybody, so we talked about that. the group also -- you know, we tried not to get mired in write

offs, so this group just thought we needed more space for people. and then, flexible designs where you can try things -- this was a short-term low case transit island that the city put in, and trying these out and seeing how they work. and finally, the group found the need for multiple access and crossing points. sometimes the island is really long, and there's only one ramp at the end. so that is a ton of info -- okay. that's a ton of info, but i skbru just wants to raise this info because i don't think the group was talking about it, and we want to make sure that vision zero includes everyone. we're continuing this conversation, and the senior and disability work group is -- we're actually going to form a temporary design review group

with the city to make sure we're looking athe some of these new designs and really getting some standards down that will work. we're also going to be putting together a toolkit with all the information that's easy to digest that we can handout and share with other cities because we've gotten input from other cities because it's really not happening elsewhere, so that's the power of this group. >> supervisor yee: could you remind me this group, when did it finish meeting and come up with these solutions? >> these -- so we met -- this charrette, this workshop was in march. so we have been meeting with the city since then to figure out next steps, and then, we recently decided to form the design review group, and so we're still working on this toolkit, too, so we're going to get that done in the next month or so. so that's kind of a lot of information for you about the senior and disability work group. we're going to keep working on the protected bike lane work because we're not done yet.

and then this year, we're going to work on safe streets for people with disabilities. we love the safe streets for seniors program, and we really want to see an equal focus on folks with disabilities. so that is the first group that we are fortunate to be involved with. the other group is near and dear, i know, to supervisor yee's heart, san francisco and bay area families for safe streets. so commissioner stefani, i don't know if you've had a chance to hear about this group yet, so i'm excited to get to tell you about it. so walk sf has the great privilege of working with this group and supporting this group, which is why i'm here to tell you about it. so sf bay area families for safe streets is a group of people who have survived crashes or who have had loved ones who had have been in crashes or loved ones killed in crashes, and they came together to basically support each other and advocate to the end of preventible injuries and deaths on our streets.

so they're an amazing group of individuals, super inspiring. here you'll see one of our members. elvin lester, speaking with acting mayor breed in the beginning of the year to really announce that vision zero victory last year. this group has accomplished a lot in two years. they formed two years ago, and then, subsequently put an event on in 2016 and 2017, and every year, participation has just gone through the roof. so really great way to raise awareness of this problem. last year, we were super excited, our members -- so we're a bay area wide group, not just san francisco. some of our members live in san jose, and they lunched their first day of remembrance in san jose, so we're really excited to continue that again this year. automated speed enforcement, which we all know about.

this group, san francisco bay area families for safe streets was the heart behind getting this bill to sacramento, was the heart of getting this bill sponsored and the heart of getting this bill the furthest any bill has ever gotten for automated speed enforcement. they haven't given up. they're going to keep meeting with folks and keep testifying and keep working so that no one has to die from speeding in this city. they worked a lot with the department of public health on a traffic fatality response protocol. it's not the one that ricardo was talking about. that's the rapid response. this is when a traffic fatality happens in san francisco, this is a protocol that all of our city agencies work to come together to basically make sure when someone's killed in a crash, there's a quick response, tfamily gets sort of a -- not sort of, gets a quick

response. a lot of times, the victim gets blame. they should have had a helmet on. that sort of language does not work for people suffering trauma, so the families were able to work with city agencies, talk to the police department, talk to fire, talk to the department of public health, and the city respond does with this amazing protocol, which i think is really a model for the whole country. the group has been involved with ad campaigns with the sfmta and john knox white, to really spaed awareness of traffic campaigns in our city. we had our first retreat this summer where we came together and stepped back and start today do some planning, so that was really exciting. and then finally, just last week, the group won the golden wheel award from the san francisco bike coalition which was a really big honor and big deal. so i will end by telling you what we're going to do now. they're going to go to new york

in december for the nshl bike cities conference. we're planning day of remembrance, which will be november 18, and we're hoping you'll all join us, and we're doing a lot of foundation building for the group. we kind of got out of the group really quickly with a.s.e., and now we need to step back and get some things in place. but we're really strong and really excited, and so i hope that the group can come -- i hope some members can come and meet you all. it's hard. some of the members have full-time jobs and they don't live in the city, but i hope you can get to meet some of them in person because i'm just a full-time representative. so that's all. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you for your presentation and any questions? seeing none, any public comments? >> hello, again. i'm kristin lecke from the san

francisco bicycle coalition. i just want to take a minute to thank walk sf and the working group for the great charrette they held this past march on how the city can design bike lanes that are safe and accessible for all pedestrians. through my own work to extend healthy saturdays year-round, i've been lucky enough to work alongside rec and park and the mayor's office on disability in regards to access ibltiblity -- accessiblity issues in the park. we're very excited to be a part of these conversations and we look forward to making more spaces accessible for all ages and abilities in the city.

thank you. >> supervisor yee: okay. any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i -- oh . okay. so the recommendations from the disability community, i know you're putting it altogether, and i know at some point, the -- i guess sfmta would look at it, but in our next meeting, i want to make sure it's on the agenda that we get a response in terms of what has -- how sfmta will be utilizing some of these recommendations and -- and whether or not there's a plan to move forward with some of these recommendations. so that should be on our next agenda. okay. thank you very much. so this information item, can i

have the item number seven. >> clerk: item seven, bold ideas update and next steps for action strategy. this is an action item. >> supervisor yee: bold ideas. >> good afternoon. my name is ryan reeves. i work at m.t.a. at our vision zero program lead. i'm going to talk to you very quickly because i know we're the last item about a recent workshop we held for the bold ideas and how that feeds into the next action strategy that we're developing. so we held this some response to the vision zero coalition as well as supervisor yee's office to really think about the longer plan for vision zero. our goal was to talk about what

else we needed in the city to really move the needle beyond -- move the needle for vision zero. we had more than 70 people attend, including about half representing community groups or advocacy organizations, and we also offered a scholarship or a stipend for people who wouldn't otherwise be able to taebd to increase our -- attend to increase our outreach and participation. these are long-term initiatives that we want to advance that might have significant political challenges, perhaps have high costs, perhaps are equity concerns to really think through carefully or might require legislative changes to achieve. so these are the six bold ideas that were elevated by our community groups who attended the workshops, and i'm just going to briefly go through these. we also have a report in more

details that we can share with you. so the first is this idea for major street redesign is that we could really continue to do these even more transform ative projects as part of a larger citywide conversation about a lot of the tradeoffs that tend to hold us back. in terms of high visibility community engagement, so this is really thinking about a culturally per sesive marketing campaign about behavior change? think about something like an antismoking campaign. something we've been thinking about is how we can get our vision zero out more on an informational level? how can we really extend our marketing and -- excuse me or education and outreach to really reach the broader bay area. for automated enforcement, this is building not only on

automated speed enforcement but also thinking about enforcement opportunities for things like illegal turns? so this is something that would require legislative change for us to pursue? curb side management, so this is really about how we are currently using our curb space and are we really reflecting the flexibility of the needs of the curb that we're seeing today for pick ups and drop offs? again, this would require a larger city conversation around parking relative to other needs in the kmubt. the next one is about changing urban speed limits? so this would involve legislative change that would allow you to change the methodology in terms of how we set our speeds, and it would reflect safety and mobility goals a little bit more than our current methodology that we're authorized with? so again this is something that would require political support and legislative change. and this last one is pricing,

which is really a demand management strategy that has potential cobenefits for safety? and they're really opportunities to think about this beyond just a citywide pricing strategy but also like a quarter pricing or pricing for emerging mobility services. and so we would need a citywide conversation on the value of doing something like this. so this is just the beginning of the conversation, and these are the gold ideas that community and citigroups at our workshop really elevated that they're looking at us to think about more. so in terms of how theed bold ideas feed into our next action strategy, we're developing that to release in march of next year as a policy platform for some of these bold ideas. so our first action strategy in 2015 really laid what the vision zero and established public safety as a public health crisis.

in 2017 we moved beyond the five e's that are defined at safety and started thinking about vision zero as a safe systems approach? and now we see this next action strategy as a real opportunity to elevate these bold ideas as a policy platform. so just at a very high level, some things that we're envisioning that would be different. again, this policy platform for our leaders to think about at our next meeting, what can we think about pursuing. synergy is thinking about the cobenefits that we need to achieve our other citywide goals to really accomplish and achieve vision zero. within safe streets, we really want to emphasize engineering aspects, and so thinking about how do we link more of our capital improvement program into our action strategy.

lastly, for safe vehicles, our current action strategy is really focused on city fleet, and we've seen with all the emerging mobility trends that we really want to better address how we're going to think about autonomous vehicles and other emerging technology. and across all of these, we will continue to have a strong focus on equity as a core principle. so we're currently in our outreach process for action strategy, and we'll be developing content in the fall with the goal of releasing in march of next year? and for my last slide, i just want to briefly highlight some of the outreach that we've been doing? so we had a workshop yesterday with the community? we had about 70 people attend a four hour workshop to talk about the new ideas and the things that are important to them as we move forward?

we're going to be holding something now that we're doing that we're calling coffee talks in your districts as well as across all the districts in san francisco to really go to the community and to the public to make sure that they are engaged -- people who aren't otherwise to spend half a day with us to talk about the action strategy? so we're going to places like senior centers, food pantries, to really get that input. so we really want to make sure in this action strategy, we're reflecting what we've heard from the community? and we look forward to sharing more with you as we move through the outreach process. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you. could i ask, with the strategy -- not the congestion, but the one before that, with the -- >> yeah, the speed limits?

>> supervisor yee: the speed limit. what was the thinking beyond that? >> i -- i think it was -- just from what we heard, being able to reduce speeds across the city, and there's been some state legislation that would look at changing the methodology in terms of how you can set speeds to better reflect safety? that state legislation has changed a bit in terms of the scope, and it's now being proposed as a state task force to sort of explore these issues more? so we don't see the actual legislation moving forward in its original state, but it's an opportunity to really think at a state level of how do we better think about safety in terms of setting speeds. >> supervisor yee: what's -- what are our restrictions for setting speeds in san francisco? i know -- >> [inaudible]

>> supervisor yee: i know if it's caltrans or whatever, it's a little more difficult. it took forever to slow down monterey boulevard, but we were eventually able to do that, and we were able to do the school zones to be 15 miles per hour. is this something that the state controls or can we just lower speeds? >> hi, commissioners. i'm an engineer with the sfmta. currently in the state of california, we're required to follow the provisions in the california netcd for setting speed limits based on the 85th percentile of flee flree flow traffic, so our hands are kind of kind of tide when it comes to reducing speed limits. we typically do a speed survey, we sample 100 vehicles in free flow conditions, we take 85th

percentile of that speed, we then round up our down to the nearest five miles an hour increment, and we can typically reduce that on things such as land use, population density -- we typically take that reduction in all studies that we do given the land use and density in all areas of the city. >> supervisor yee: so i think i heard that same explanation for monterey boulevard in which they originally said they couldn't slow down because they tested it, and it -- are there waivers to that or is it just just you have to follow that particular requirement area? and then, the question i have, i don't know if you mentioned this, but london, the city of london is exploring or maybe implemented for the city core area, central area, that they're going to slow their

traffic down to 20 miles per hour, so is that something that we're thinking about for san francisco? at least, if not everywhere, i mean, in the core area of the downtown and financial district and so forth? >> i can answer your first question. in terms of waivers from the 85th percentile, speed seeding methodology, we can arbitrarily set lower speed limits, but they're not enforceable through electronic means, meaning sfpd cannot issue citations using lidar or radar if there's not a valid 85 prs tile speed survey. in terms of -- i'll turn the mic back to ryan in a bit, but in terms of setting speed

limits as part of our north of market and south of market retiming project that ricardo was describing earlier where we're retiming about two thirds of our signals citywide, we are typically lowering it to 20 miles an hour, so we are trying to do as much as we can under the legal framework that we operate under. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. >> on your second question, it's not something we're currently exploring that i'm aware of. i think this bold idea that we heard from the community groups is really just about changing the methodology to give us more flexibility and better reflect safety as a real goal in speed setting. >> supervisor yee: okay. which means that we're really thinking of the lower speeds. >> yeah. >> supervisor yee: okay. thank you very much. >> and i think linda from the t.i.d. did have a few comments on connectsf, is that right? >> supervisor yee: what?

i'm sorry? more presentations? >> i'm sorry. maybe i misunderstood. no -- then no other comments. thank you. >> supervisor yee: okay. did i ask for public comments on this already? any public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: i guess there's no other comments on this item, so this is an informational item. next item, please. >> clerk: item eight, introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> supervisor yee: no. >> clerk: item nine, public comment. >> supervisor yee: any general public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: and so is meeting adjourned yet? >> clerk: yes, no other items. >> supervisor yee: okay. meeting is adjourned.

>> i came to san francisco in 1969. i fell in love with this city

and and this is where i raised my family at. my name is bobbie cochran. i've been a holly court resident for 32 years. i wouldn't give up this neighborhood for nothing. i moved into this apartment one year ago. my favorite thing is my kitchen. i love these clean walls. before the remodeling came along, the condition of these apartments had gotten pretty bad, you know, with all the mildew, the repairs. i mean you haven't seen the apartment for the program come along. you wouldn't have believed it. so i appreciate everything they

did. i was here at one point. i was. because i didn't know what the outcome of holly court was going to be. you know, it really got -- was it going to get to the point where we have to be displaced because they would have to demolish this place? if they had, we wouldn't have been brought back. we wouldn't have been able to live in burn. by the program coming along, i welcome it. they had to hire a company and they came in and cleaned up all the walls. they didn't paint the whole apartment, they just cleaned up the mildew part, cleaned up and straighted it and primed it. that is impressive. i was a house painter. i used to go and paint other people's apartments and then come back home to mine and i would say why couldn't i live in a place like that. and now i do.

>> this job, it's really not an i job. i wouldn't be able to do this job without other people. i make sure that all the regulatory and nonregulatory samples get to access in a timely manner. we have groundwater samples, you name it, we have to sample it every day. i have ten technicians, very good team. we work together to attain this sampling. >> a sample is only as good as when you collect properly. if sample is not collect

properly according to not the proper protocol, the sample could be biased, could be false positive or could be false negative. so all this to have good so you can manage the sample collectors, as well as the schedule, and she is pretty good, and she is very thorough. and so far, i think that she is performing a very good job. >> this job is really not an i job. i wouldn't be able to do this job without my team. you can assign them any job, they can handle it, and again, without them, i wouldn't be here. i take pride, you know, for what i do. we are providing a very good water department. my name is roselle, and i have been working with the water department

>> the mayor of the city and county of san francisco. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: you know, as mayor, you go around, and you cut a lot of ribbons, and you do a lot of great things, but i've got to tell you, nothing feels better than doing what we're doing here today, and that is protecting the homes and small businesses of so many families in the city and county of san francisco. 21 units of housing, 21 families, which includes seniors, which includes children, which includes a property that is not protected under rent control. this is absolutely incredible, and to be able to do this with partners like meta, and partners like the housing acceleration program, it makes

all the difference because some of us might know that the city is bureaucratic, and bureaucracies sometimes move a little slow. and that's why having partners in the community to move these projects forward as quickly as possible makes all the difference. to be able to keep six small businesses in business with affordable rent and 21 families in their home with rent protection is absolutely amazing and is what we do best as a city. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and i am just glad to be here, and i am glad for eli and his family. he's going to be speaking and he's going to be one of the people who's going to be able to continue staying here. they were just telling me a

story how they saw supervisor safai down the street, campaigning, and they asked for his help because they aren't under rent control, and they were concerned about losing his home, and here is a promise fulfilled because of the leadership of supervisor safai, and at this time, i would like to introduce the supervisor to say a few words. [applause] >> supervisor safai: thank you, mayor breed. i'm just going to take a minute to thank the people that are really responsible for this happening. eli and his family, i met him at the safeway, and they talked about what we're all experiencing here in san francisco, which is a housing crisis. and this housing crisis is real. every day, we get calls, every day, we heard about families that are being forced from their long-time homes. so when we have an opportunity to work with community partners and to listen and to bring a policy and a program together that really works on behalf of stablizing our community, this is exactly what that means.

so i got a call on a friday from caroline from meta. she says supervisor, you're not reading your e-mails. pick it up. and i said what's going on? and she said there's a real opportunity here. this is the first ever small site that we could do in your district. we have never done a small sites acquisition. one year ago, a little over a year ago, i stood at a press conference in the richmond where we celebrated the 100th unit of the entire small sites program. today, this is -- this puts us over 200 units, which means in the last year, we've already doubled the program in one year. [applause] >> supervisor safai: so carolina and meta called me and said this is a big push. we're going to need a big push from the housing accelerator fund. we reached out to the community partners like poder and somcan

that are funded to do the work that we're standing here today. they went in and met with the tenants. they lowered their anxiety. they said you're going to have an opportunity to stay in their home. and that's what they're funded to do. they're funded to build community and to really reach out and talk about the programs that can stablize and keep the richness and diversity of this district, and that's what this is about. this is a 12-plus million purchase, the largest in the history of the small sites program. 21 residential and six commercial. it is the largest in the city's history, so i'm proud to have the support of this mayor. this mayor has made housing her number one priority and as someone that grew up in a community that was constantly under the threat of housing displacement and housing insecurity, you will have no greater champion in city hall than mayor london breed.

so i'll send by saying any of the people that question why we fund community-based organizations, they're standing, and this is a true witness of that. the work that poder, that somcan and the work that meta is doing and the housing affordability is doing is real and can affect lives. and i'm going to call up caroline from meta [applause] >> my name is caroline feng, and i work for the mission nonprofit agency. meta's purchase of 4830 mission street is a big day not only for us, but for the excelsior and the city of san francisco. 4830 mission street marks a huge first for affordable housing. today, we not just preserved

affordable housing, we actually created affordable housing. let me explain. meta's purchase of 21 small sites in the last two years was largely rent controlled properties. in contrast. at 4830 mission street, we have a nonrent controlled property that was built after 1979. the realtors blatantly marketed this as a rare opportunity, i quote, a rare opportunity to own a nonrent controlled property. let's take a minute to understand what that means. if a speculator had purchased 4830 mission street, they could have increased the rents by as much as they wanted. in fact, we saw that happen just a year ago when 400 london street, just two blocks away was purchased. when speculators bought that property, they forced small businesses to prematurely sign rents that would triple their rents, and the small businesses were at risk of being forced

out. thankfully, the residents of 4830 mission street don't have to worry about that. [applause] >> with meta's purchase, this narcotic rate -- nonmarket rate rent controlled building has been transformed into homes for 21 families and six small businesses. like the residents of 4830 mission street, the excelsior has a large population of filipino and latino families. most of them share perspectives that want to stay in this community. it's crucial that we buy buildings like this and it's crucial to keep families like them in the neighborhood. [applause] >> we need our city, our mayor and all of our supervisors to

grow its innovative small sites program. this targeted approach has now been proven as the mayor and supervisor safai said as a major antidisplacement strategy strategy by taking homes off the private market. let me be clear, we need more money to take buildings like this off the speculative market. we need mormoney in the san francisco housing accelerator fund which provided critical acquisition financing so we could buy the building as quickly as any other buyer off the market. we need more money in similar acquisition programs like meta's own program so we can compete aggressively, and we need more money for the mayor's office of community and housing development who as an ongoing partner has been willing to scale this program with us. meta could not make this on our own. i want to thank a number of

folks. i want to thank the city officials for rallying around this work. many of you came to meta, asking how to implement the small sites program in your district. that includes supervisor safai. without advocating for this building and in your community, we would not have this district 11 building, so thank you. additionally, i want to thank the building owners, mr. omahoni and mr. sullivan. owners are often forgotten piece of this equation. in this market, our owners could have easily chosen to sell to somebody else. they chose to sell to meta as a nonprofit to ensure that their tenants could stay in the city and keep their legacy in the city. [applause] >> and then, there are partner organizations, poder and somcan, who with the small but mighty meta team, sat with our

tenants to explain what this program was and answer our tenants' countless concerns about their housing rights. our tenants can now stay here for generations to come. [applause] >> today is a day to celebrate, and let's all work together to make such celebrations the norm, rather than the exception, in all neighborhoods experiencing displacement in san francisco. so i'd like to bring up eli who has been in this building for over 18 years. he has three generations in this building. he's what we mean when we say we are rooting families in san francisco. eli. [applause] >> good morning. today is a great day for me and my family because meta as acquired and converted this

building to affordable housing through the city of san francisco small sites program. the small sites program is a project of the city. i believe the aim is to acquire buildings where long-term tenants are vulnerable of being evicted. meta has worked closely with community organizations like poder and somcan to finally acquire this building, save this building and save its tenants. me and my clan of three generations have lived in this building for the past 18 years and will be able to continue doing that because of the small sites program.

grateful to the leaders of our city, for meta, especially, and for the community advocates gathering together to make this thing happen. thank you very much. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and i just want to wrap it up by saying that when we talk about the need for housing in the city and county of san francisco. yes, we need to move forward aggressively and build as much housing as we possibly can, but we equally need to focus on housing preservation. that's what this is about, protecting people and making sure that they're able to stay in their homes, and i couldn't be prouder of so many people who made this possible. thank you to rebecca fror bein here from the housing accelerator fund, kate from the mayor's office of housing, thank you so much, the folks

from meta. thank you for one of our planning commissioners who's here, myrna melgar, for all you do to continue to promote housing and housing production. i'm proud to be here that this is one of the largest housing purchases we've made as a city, and i want to thank supervisor safai for being in tune of what's happening in thinks district and the needs of those who are here. thank you all for playing a part, and i'm just excited about this. and i just can't even believe that we have been able to do something so amazing in san francisco. and let's continue, as was said, to make this the norm and not the exception. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause]

[ gavel ]. >> supervisor tang: all right. good afternoon, everybody. welcome to our land use committee meeting for monday, july 30, 2018. to my left is supervisor ahsha safai, and our clerk is erica major. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> clerk: yes. please