my colleagues to a continuous encouragement of initiative, responsibility, and energy in serving the public interest. i'm glad that my road has served folks so well for so long, but is that what we have now? with the people that are presenting this plan? is that what we have here with my road, in this city? are we witnessing public-service or personal agenda? as i seem to recall, i was billed for the public to be used by the public. and yet, we seem to be discussing how or whether to restrict public access. this is not the way. i hope that those of you who have been proponents of restricting my access to some, instead of sharing with all will reflect carefully on motives. their desires and their intent. ask yourselves why so many people have been raising their voices and ask yourselves whether this plan to restrict public access advances the public need to share public resource. ask yourself if you are working

in the public interest as a public servant. finally, when you are finished reflecting, take a long look in the mayor and ask yourself, why on earth you would want to prevent a handicapped person from accessing and enjoying a museum or a park? at that point, if you still want to close the road, then there is really only one last question to ask yourself. what the fuck is wrong with you? you should be ashamed. what the fuck is wrong with you? >> okay, thank you. >> what the fuck is wrong with you? >> our next caller is public.

you have been permitted to unmute. >> hi. [speaking foreign language ] >> i am a retired person, even though i am retired, but i use golden gate park a lot. i always go to golden gate park with my friends and also use golden gate park to purses --

participate in activities and i sometimes go to golden gate park to go to the other area for dim sum, also for grocery shopping. so jfk is very convenient for me, but now if jfk drive is closed, it makes it very inconvenient. i oppose to close jfk. thank you. >> thank you for your comment. to the chair, how many more public comments remain, please? >> we have one more public comment in the queue. >> i do believe we have correspondence as well on the remaining part of the agenda.

i would like to suggest that we continue with the remaining public comment and then correspondence will be provided to council as part of the meeting after the meeting if we run out of time today. thank you. >> okay. walter, you have been permitted to unmute. >> thank you very much. i would like to thank the commission for allowing this public testimony today. it has been a very democratic process after what seems to be a couple of years of fairly undemocratic process. this is a very much that mtc and recreation and parks started with a conclusion and raced through some details and then announced the conclusion. i agree with them that fossil burning, single occupancy vehicles are killing the planet,

killing san francisco, they are bad for the park, but to start off by then closing the main thoroughfare, the main attractions to the park, doesn't -- a long-term exhibit, and people with disabilities and families who live in the neighborhood and families who live all around the city and around the world want to use is a very bad plan. the surveys have been involved -- debunked adequately at this point. it seems to me that the place to start in this is not the place where they started. the place to start is with an accessible mobility plan for golden gate park. golden gate park is not a byway, it is not a trail in the woods. it is a huge national facility. we need a way to get around within the park that works for everybody, and a single shuttle with a single mode or even a couple of modes is not going to do it.

it can be done. of course, it can be done. we need to plan that access within the park from one point of the park to another. we need to connect that to the immediate neighborhood in easy ways. i don't had a car. i probably had a car about half of my adult years. i am on public transit. i spend more time waiting for public transit making the transfer than i do actually on the bus. that is a horrible situation. we need to have a plan that works for the park and the transfers who work for people with disabilities, vision disabilities, of all the kinds of limitations. we need to connect to the arms of san francisco. we need to be able to get easily. it takes money and it takes attention. the way this was done reminds me of ronald reagan's wonderful

plan to de- institutionalize people with disabilities by shutting down all the institutions. okay, we moved everybody off. there is no plan for how to deal with that closure. we wound up with millions of people on the streets, with no facilities. they were moved back to the community, but there were no community services. that is kind of what we are trying to do by shutting down jfk drive. you don't shut it down first and then work it out later. this just needs to be worked out in the beginning. thank you. >> thank you. we have another caller who wants to make public comment. caller ending in 2080. you have been permitted to unmute. perfect. >> hello. thank you for having this meeting.

i have been listening to the last hour or two in the comments. it really emphasizes how we, the city, us, the community, everyone has failed to address an issue that has been going on for years at golden gate park. the issue is, the park has not been accessible. many people ended up using -- [ indiscernible ] -- to solve the issue. at the same time, a car, as a sensibility issue, is also one of the most hazardous things to do for everybody. it creates -- it injures people, it creates pollution, but that was the only way to have it. if the park was made accessible, and there's many ways to make it accessible to everybody then closing down jfk.

it wouldn't be such a bad idea. because of this, for many, many years, we have people who have to drive no matter what. and then we have others to close it down and really don't address the accessibility issue if you do close it down. we have learned, i hope we have learned, and right now the city, recreation and park, m.t.a., it has been reaching out. they don't have a plan right now. it is not finalized. they are looking at how to make it successful for everybody. it actually has a ramp in front of it so it is easy to go in and out. have taxis allowed to pick up

people in the park. have paratransit actually go down jfk. have them away signed to go out. have designated parking and designated pickups. extend the free parking at the garage so it is easy to drop off people and go out for free. and there are many other ways to do this. and they are looking at that and they are trying to make it so it is accessible so we are not getting into the car. it is creating an accessibility problem in the long run which is why we have 500 entries a year. we have over 30 deaths per year due to cars. we need to sit back, look at what the plan is, and also communicate with the city and the city needs to communicate with us on how to make jfk

accessible to everybody so we don't have to use something like a car that causes so much damage. physically, emotionally, and to the environment. please, patients on both sides. that is all i am asking. thank you. >> okay. that is the final public comment. >> i am a councilmember with the mayor's disability council and interim cochair. i wanted to thank everyone for giving public comment. mod, i might need some support on knowing what the next item on the agenda is. is it to close off the meeting? >> the next section on the agenda is a correspondence and open public comment, however, as

i mentioned, we unfortunately need to close the meeting in four minutes. what i would like to suggest for consideration is that we provide any remaining public comment to the councilmembers following the meeting that we receive. i will give the e-mail address for the mayor's office on disability again. mod@sfgo.org, so that we have all the information from the meeting in one place. this meeting is also archived on

san francisco government t.v. with that, you can determine how you would like to proceed. that is my advice. thank you. >> thank you, nicole. thank you to our presenters and for everyone who tuned in over the last almost five hours. as nicole suggested, i will take her comments and go with them. we will take all correspondence and provide that to the councilmembers and nicole also provided an e-mail and the phone number if anyone else has any additional comments. 's indexing i can do to close at the meeting? to adjourn the meeting? >> that is correct.

>> with that, i would like to adjourn the meeting. i don't know if i have a motion or a second motion to adjourn the meeting as well. >> i motion that, yeah. >> thank you, helen. with that, we will adjourn the meeting. thank you, everyone. >> thank you, everyone.

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>> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by

deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community. >> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe.

we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas as my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview

bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several

years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different

from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. >> all right.

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>> remote meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. president swig will be the presiding leader joined by and lazarus, darrellhonda, tina chang and we expectcommissioner lopez and he's here . >> here we go . >> also present is the deputy secretary who will provide the board with any need needed legal advice for five and six. deputy city attorney brad will provide the city with any legal advice for the other items on theagenda . at the controls of the board approval assistant and i judy judy rosenbergexecutive director. we will be joined by representatives from the city department presenting before the board . tina tam, representing the planning