questions we'll get through this quickly only this suggested amendment exempting projects in the van ness sud those projects have spurred the amendments they have their ground if we didn't you know recommending recommend this amendment their grounding parking would not be the recommended legislation; is that correct i'm not understanding- >> if you locate our parking at ground floor or above it counts as far it will count with respect to the second or third-story if i'm understanding the concern their going forward with what is conditionally allowed so 7.57 above they'll have to dedicate far if i'm understanding the public comment this is an unaccepted change in their perfume design. >> okay. i guess i'm - okay other incarnations may have questions if we have time we'll come back to that generally speaking i've supportive this goes more towards the viability of the incentive so; right? so do we of the find that underground parking works for most projects this is more of a general question most of the time we see the off-street parking included in the multiply use building the ground floor

>> the proposed tenderloin. >> to van ness right? >> this is the proposed. that's currently proposed. >> that represents sort of the 4 public feedback options that we heard and really the conscious the the concentration of many of the requests. moving to the next slide two other options came up through public feedback the first is the yellow area which represents a move south of the southern district to to mariposa a couple of blocks south we heard a lot of feedback on that option and and related to the homeless encampments underneath the 101 and whether that particular area especially where the the 101 and the spur meet at the north end whether that would stay with the mission district or whether it would go to the southern or the bayview. >> other questions about that? again, this is the time to discuss and get it all -- >> did portrero want the purple part or not? >> so the yellow part seemed to be there was a lot of consensus and the purple part wasn't gag to to be that big so we'll have to go back and ask them i believe they just wanted it to be part of

bicyclists we accepting expect more people to get out of their cards and more housing along the van ness and south of market we need to figure out ways to get people bicycling and walking we have a publicized article where a 6-year-old was hit and killed by a driver on polka first grader at the elementary school a horrific story i represented a district that has the highest number of pedestrian kinds of the collisions this is wasn't i'm passionate about i recognize the difficult position there is on a balance of many different needs of the are stakeholders involved i have to say i want to give thoughts to the staff we think they have a balance of the plan with a lot of stakeholders nodes and listening to merchants and drivers but as someone that is a beginning kinds of the committed to bicycling more there our more pedestrians if you want people like me driving less i want to be protected in the bike lanes we're not asking for a lot only polk street again (laughter) we're just asking for polk street - >> i meant in terms of the north-south coordinate there is not a lot in the part of cit

going to go those cars will be circling looking for parking spaces what about the left turns on van ness those cars and trucks and buses will be using polk street i'd like to see a comprehensive stud of what is going on polk street when the construction starts and what's been going to happen to the businesses afterward we would like to have a study and i'd like to submit that for further use. >> thank you for your time. >> congratulations. >> (calling names). >> go ahead. >> good afternoon, sir. >> tim two things everybody has agreed on including our supervisors that public safety is a priority and parking on polk street is very difficult so it did i fizz logic those cars consul general around looking for no parks is going to make public safety worse so my proposal i said it to you folks mid-market to build a couple more garages like on mission and polk a lot of people don't royals there was a garage it has downstairs businesses and if you build a couple more of those i give you locations you can take the cars off the street mitigating the problem of working within a park and do other to

>> the proposed tenderloin. >> to van ness right? >> this is the proposed. that's currently proposed. >> that represents sort of the 4 public feedback options that we heard and really the conscious the the concentration of many of the requests. moving to the next slide two other options came up through public feedback the first is the yellow area which represents a move south of the southern district to to mariposa a couple of blocks south we heard a lot of feedback on that option and

>> the proposed tenderloin. >> to van ness right? >> this is the proposed. that's currently proposed. >> that represents sort of the 4 public feedback options that we heard and really the conscious

operation of the hospital and of so many other businesses in san francisco but particularly in the van ness corridor a hospital cannot operate without the brt the brt must come first we strongly urge you to have environmental impact report done thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names) good afternoon. >> good afternoon marching i'm here with the coalition of san francisco neighborhood and i represent a number of people that counter be here today, i'm going to hand in written - oh, sorry is that better sorry clearly no one is happy with the plan the bicyclists don't get enough lanes and cars to the park and not bother to pass this plan right now we no idea to have a cooling-off period for people to adjust to what exactly is going on we need to see what is the happening with van ness we really are messing with the traffic that is 101 traffic going north and south from bridge to bridge we built a huge bridge with billions of to bring thousands of people into the city in their vehicles it if makes sense to have parking or krooifg so it makes no sense to cut off the north

with the historic district and the u cu city hall has a mark on the skyline effecting market and van ness and the adjoining building will effect how we look or not look to city hall so the massing what surprised me unfortunately, the intersection of market and van ness is probably from my experience one of the worse intersections along two very powerful streets one market and one van ness what we have from a traffic point one of the most inefficient and almost non-workable intersections with two many modes public safety and easy of pedestrian movement is absolutely zero and there is nothing which any of those projects are doing to address improvement of that situation but what their rather do is make that worse the access to public transportation and bart foreclose of those buildings is one of the worse places to get into the fire station when i come to the department i walk down van ness and each time i have to do it is horrible cumulative wind effects each project in the general area of the intersection of market and mission that already in its current state at wind have a lights are un

all the way south which would include city hall and all the way down to where van ness meets market street is the third option that we've heard. >> i think the chief wants to say something and i do too. >> i don't recall there was ever an option where city center got taken and i thought the blue area underneath underneath there that blue area would just go to van ness with mcallister being the southern border i don't think the tenderloin residents ever wanted civic center. >> correct. >> civic center is in the orange area. >> do you see where the arrow is now? that arrow would just go to van ness and the dividing line -- >> i have including the arteries to polk and eddie and farrell street larkin up to polk. >> yeah that is correct. this is why we do this but that's too broad of an area. it would go to mcallister -- that was the request. >> absolutely. >> i want to stop there. we had a really robust meeting in the tenderloin and the thrust behind it there was a concern about the border on larkin street and the activity there and certain gangs and people benefitting from that being a

do this before we see what happens on van ness without an environmental impact report makes no sense the congestion you're going to cause and without trying it out for first and seeing what it is going to do makes no sensed i have a home and business there it will impact the neighborhood i wish that you put wherever you all live in your neighborhood to put critique a tolling tow away zone and remove parking in the small merchant easier to be more difficult if i want to go to bowwow mow to pick up dog food 28 pound bags and tow away for cars going north it mines in a sense i wish they'd put a tow away zone in our neighborhood it frustrate me that the laws are not enforced it is not popping up but at san francisco and polk i've taken pictures this last year two bicyclists hit one another had to take them away in an ambulance they don't stop at the stop sign you create a freeway with toys of more pedestrians 0 going to get hurt i don't want anyone to get hurt it is very frustrating to be what you goose are trying to do. >> thank you that will conclude the open

heavy vehicles and bikes and motorized obscurity and tourists and the volume is from overflow on van ness avenue and the how 101 this is not going to get better on worse with the opening of 3:00 p.m. st. hospital on endearing and van ness it is difficult to safer everyone 0, however you should do any environmental impact report before making decisions related to the bike lanes and other restrictions address residents concerned and w width of the street this is about quality of life for residents clean air, cease to parking noise safety for families and seniors and children scenario one and two imagine our an ambulance on the way to a hospital stuck in traffic returning home after a hundred plus million dollars from commuting from the south bay you're keeping people from getting home to feed their children taking their elderly parents to get their megsdz from walgreens. >> okay. thank you, sir. >> thank you. (calling names) >> good afternoon. >> i'm steven the transcript chair for a russian hill neighbors a 6 hundred member neighborhood organization that represents neighbors and businesses

it will be deep below the ground but the construction will require some closures of van ness avenue, cpmc has been working with caltrans and us to develop plans for these closure, they anticipate right now three of them in this calendar year, the first one starting the second week of april, april 10th and 12th, they will be -- there's a lots of information, i don't think i need to go through all of it. the access will remain open for emergency vehicles and transit vehicles, but it's still closing off van ness to general traffic is a pretty significant undercharging so we've been working with them to make sure that the streets where the traffic is going to be diverted to are ready to a company that spent a significant amount of outreach, they've been doing the cpmc contractor is hired an outreach firm to help them with this, so we'll help them in the lead-up to that first weekend where this will be happening, april 10th through 12th, there will be a lot of public information going out to ensure that people can adequately plan, so our folks have reviewed and are providing guidance on t

it happened near van ness and pine. abc7 news reporter alan wang is live with the latest. alan? >> reporter: dan, we are on the corner of van ness and pine and if you look down pine street you can see the crime scene behind me. there were plenty of witnesses and police were taking their statements at the holiday ip across the -- the holiday inn uh cro the street. that's where we caught up with a few of them. >> she was crazy. >> the black volkswagen was reported stolen. the female driver took off from the gas station at the corner of van ness and pine. >> she was crazy. she was driving to the gas station probably at like 30 miles an hour. >> witnesses say she drove up pine street smashing into several cars and nearly running over a motorcyclist. >> she couldn't get around him so she went backwards. >> she's down. >> police say officers had to use lethal force to stop her. >> the vehicle already made it on to the sidewalk and off the sidewalk several times and drove at him. they thought they needed to use the force they did. >> two shots at first and then four more shots a moment

the car came to rest on the sidewalk near van ness and pine. sainez >> the driver succomed to her injuries and died at the scene. police would not say where the >> jeff : car was stolen from or who the driver was. i'm jeff bush, live in san francisco, kron four news. >> pam :thank you jeff. and alecia reid is live in our newsroom. with a witness's account of what happened. alecia? bill >> alecia :pam it was a very frightening evening for people that were in the vicinity of pine street near van ness. that's a very busy intersection by that chevron gas station. there's a bus stop there as well. this happened during rush hour witnesses say the crash was very loud. heard glass shatter, and saw what looked like suspects attempting to break into a vehicle. >>:i saw some gentleman trying to smash out the window of a car >> alecia :thankfully nobody else was injured two of the victims were winner--women, and one was a man >> reporter :look at that ram you can see a scrap of tire dangling from the rim a flag from a flag football game. >> pam :that was o

to use polk street because it's flat they can move to a different street the businesses can't but van ness is pretty flat very wide situations and very few pedestrians and the new bicycle complain not buses every single minute why couldn't the bikes travel in the bus lane safely or make a lane for those very wide sidewalks are through could be one think each side be safer for pedestrians and safer for bikes for the elimination of the traffic on polk street it's no one really wants to be walking we have to save the parks and the businesses why can't we look at this thing it is just as flat as polk so the bikes should like it (clapping.) (calling names) is the gentleman here. >> (calling names) >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon my wife and i have lived in the polk street neighborhood for 33 years it is a vital part of our community we believe that the streetscape project eliminations of one hundred and 50 parking spaces for the borderer it hive detrimental to the bike community the purpose informative the plan is the exception of the bicycle safety in the chronicle the bicycle facili

they said simply we simply need to do a better study of how the impact of van ness projects are going to impact this i think we need to think about more mitigating factors to help support the merchant on polk street i have a tenant that has a small business there and she boonsz depends upon people coming from all over the city my remain tenants don't own cars they need the small businesses on polk street to be able to getting give vibrant businesses i hope you'll think about some options like mitigating factors of handling off-street parking in the north end of polk street near union street there are no off-street parking places until you get to pine or places like that i think we need to do some studies on this northern part to accommodate everyone begin with the major part everybody hats talked about for safety let's really make a viable thing to keep the businesses on possible street if they have 80 have parking for their customers we need to think about that seriously thank you very please. >> (calling names) cip cip. >> okay. please come forward. >> ivy chang. >> hi good evening

it happened near van ness and pine. abc7 news reporter alan wang is live with the latest. alan? >> reporter: dan, we are on the corner of van ness and pine and if you look down pine street you can see the crime scene behind me. there were plenty of witnesses and police were taking their statements at the holiday ip across the -- the holiday inn uh cro the street. that's where we caught up with a few of them. >> she was crazy. >> the black volkswagen was reported stolen. the female driver took off from the gas station at the corner of van ness and pine. >> she was crazy. she was driving to the gas station probably at like 30 miles an hour. >> witnesses say she drove up pine street smashing into several cars and nearly running over a motorcyclist. >> she couldn't get around him so she went backwards. >> she's down. >> police say officers had to use lethal force to stop her. >> the vehicle already made it on to the sidewalk and off the sidewalk several times and drove at him. they thought they needed to use the force they did. >> two shots at first and then four more shots a moment

they were attempting to pull her over at gas station on pine and van ness last night and here are someaudio picked up from the police dispatch that show how intense the moments were. [ inaudible ] >> she is crabbing into every car. we will have to take three natural force. >> after 7:00 last night, two officers on foot and in plain clothes were in the area investigating a stolen vehicle. they approached a woman inside a dark volkswagen the car that fit of description of stolen car. the driver hit the whats and -- gas and tried to flee and drove on the sidewalk and a building. san francisco police officers chased her on boot and she pointed the car at them. they opened fire. >> it was scary. my car was just there. it was very close. the vehicle made it to the sidewalk, off the sidewalk, several times, drove at them and they felt they needed to use the force they used. >>> the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. no one else was sure. her car was towed at 4:00 this morning. we this is an incredibly busy area with hotels, coffee shops, other businesses along this busy stretch of van ne

it happened near van ness and pine. abc7 news reporter alan wang is live with the latest. alan? >> reporter: dan, we are on the corner of van ness and pine and if you look down pine street you can see the crime scene behind me. there were plenty of witnesses and police were taking their statements at the holiday ip across the -- the holiday inn uh cro the street. that's where we caught up with a few of them. >> she was crazy. >> the black volkswagen was reported stolen. the female driver took off from the gas station at the corner of van ness and pine. >> she was crazy. she was driving to the gas station probably at like 30 miles an hour. >> witnesses say she drove up pine street smashing into several cars and nearly running over a motorcyclist. >> she couldn't get around him so she went backwards. >> she's down. >> police say officers had to use lethal force to stop her. >> the vehicle already made it on to the sidewalk and off the sidewalk several times and drove at him. they thought they needed to use the force they did. >> two shots at first and then four more shots a moment

all the way south which would include city hall and all the way down to where van ness meets market street is the third option that we've heard. >> i think the chief wants to say something and i do too. >> i don't recall there was ever an option where city center got taken and i thought the blue area underneath underneath there that

that's what it's like around van ness. >> unfortunately, we lost that live shot. but it all started yesterday i think late in the afternoon there at van ness and pine. the woman driving the wrong way, attempting to almost take out some people. >> actually, collided with other motorists there and there was a scary situation. ended up in the fatal shooting of that driver. trying to check back with stephanie in the next 15 minutes, see if we can get her live. >>> time to check that microclimate forecast. the golden gate bridge always standing sturdy out there. folks making their way across. we're anticipating a pretty nice day. spring is around the corner. >> quite literally. or at least a couple days away. >> got a reality check. 6:45. if you don't know what i'm talking about, you've got to check out our evening news. he has a great segment on the evening. can't get enough sam brown in the evenings. 6:46 is the time right now. 48 degrees on the peninsula. 53 in san francisco. and the man works hard, i'll tell you. i left at about 2:00. not yesterday, but the day bef

anne makovec is on van ness avenue with more.> reporter: this rally just began here at van ness in sacramento. this is a very popular place for those tech shuttle buses to line up to pick up tech workers and take them to their jobs in silicon valley. this is all part of a larger push toward unionization for some of these drivers. many of them work long hours with huge gaps in between the morning and evening commute. the teamsters say they want to call attention to unfair labor conditions and give drivers the option to unionize. >> didn't really want to be out here in the first place but it's our only choice but we are going to be very polite. we're going to try to make sure everyone can get on whatever bus they want to get on. >> you're trying to speak to the bus driver? >> they need to sign a card and that's what we're trying to encourage them to do. it's a five-second speech we give to the drivers sign the card if you want the ballot to take place. >> reporter: the teamsters say they will be here until 8 a.m. the drivers for fa

it happened at van ness and pine street. reporter and on the scene and will have a report in a few minutes. >> stockton police are investigating a drive-by shooting that took three lives and least four people wounded. it happened before 8:30 last night outside a market in an area known for drug trafficking. the motive for the shooting is not known. the gang unit is investigating. >>> three breaking overnight, state authorities revoked a tax-exempt status of blue shield of california we potentially put it on the hook for tens of millions in taxes each year. the groups have long criticized the insurer saying $1 billion cash reserves shut offset rate hikes. >> japanese police are investigating phone calls threaten to kill united states ambassador caroline kennedy who has received calls targeting the counsul general, as well. >>> a top executive at starbucks is back on social media after a wave of backlash. the company senior v.p. of communications was attacked on twitter over a storm of angry tweets about the coffee chain's "ra