city in the united states and lead the way for the environmental smart policy. it's important as you heard from what we ed -- experienced last week. it's a transit-first city and transit love first policy are and resonates with walk san francisco. i feel as an organization we do need to support this because we do need to start putting our chips in with the transit, walking and biking for us to be a real transit-first city and a vision zero city to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024. we heard from you all at the last committee meeting you wanted us to do further outreach so walk san francisco with our allies and community partners, some you've seen here today, did additional outreach through our constituents and you should have [record scratch] received 50 support signatures and sure you received more from other advocacy groups. in closing i hope you support this and pass this out of committee today. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. howard stressan for the sierra club. i'm happy to be here to urge you to correct the mistake that is over 50 years old. in the '50s we passed minimum parking requirement and they say we need more

antiquated land use policies in san francisco have a real and negative impact on our city's ability to live out our transit first policy. as a city, we should provide ourselves -- pride ourselves, excuse me, on upholding the highest and best standards when it comes to urban planning principles. this means development, especially housing, is much more expensive. it induces the demand for driving and with san francisco, they have the third worst traffic and the nation. is irresponsible to say no to best practices for land use and transportation. for the sake of future generations, we strongly encourage you to move forward with a recommendation today. thank you. >> good afternoon. and the planning director of the sfmta. i am here to say that the m.t.a. very much appreciates the actions taken by the planning commission and by supervisor kim and the planning department on this front. parking minimums have no place in a transit first city. they have no place in a vision zero city. and good transportation policy happens on both sides of the property line. i also want to add that in my 13 years working for this ci

the reason why you come into work every day, you wanted to run the best transit city. you were admonishing us or thanking us for the work we were doing to follow your vision thank you for your passion, your smarts. i'm not sure what we would have done without you. i'm glad to have your service. >> thank you, supervisor kim. [applause] >> president cohen: next we'll hear from supervisor brown. >> supervisor brown: 5 want to thank sonali and dylan. sonali, you were our go-to person as an aide when we needed to find out what the truth was. what is really happening? i was very excited to see that you are standing strong and i'm sad that you are leaving. i understand. to be with the department that look and do the work you've done, you should be proud. i think we're all really proud of you. and, dylan, thank you very much. yes, you have always been really responsive and that's so important for us because, you know, it seems like everything is last-minute and it's an emergency for us. so we just really appreciate that and tell your daughter thank you. >> thank you. gosh, i'v

ther the transition period, city o of london could face a downwngrade as manany banks exi.inancial services will be governed by the same rules as countries outside the block. a framework known as regulatory equivalence, meaning the eu country's regulations in equivalent to its own. able to withdraw from the arrangement unilaterally. with the exit coming closer, they plan for the worst and hope for the best. rochelle: thank you for the round up of business and the impact brexit could have on those businesses. storieser international , national troops are arounund 0 people searching for victims and the deadliest wildfires in this state history. state's history. and 130e are dead others are reported missing. and many of them elderly. 50,000 people have been evacuated. the california government, jeremy brown had this to say. brown: this is so devastating, i don't have the words to describe it. it looks like a war zone. it is. devastation only fires of this kind can bring. nobody is expecting it, but it happens. brian thompson is that the town of paradise. asan: the house behind

about mark twain on the banks of the mississippi and he did this in an old converted new york city transit bus and wrote a book about it called the magic bus. brian lamb sat down with the professor and talked about that experience and after taping that interview, brian turned to c-spaner and said with doug's thating, we will steal idea and c-span will get out of washington, d.c. and hit the road and we will travel around and talk to people. host: what were you hoping to a conference by getting on the road and talking to people? host: good question. in that first -- guest 1: good question. in that first tour, we had four goals. one was to work with all of our cable affiliates. those cable systems in all the neighborhoods and towns and communities targeted teachers and students and high schools and middle schools and we went to the schools and talked about c-span in the classroom as an educational resource and that was great for us to be able to support the cable system and for them to make a connection and these teachers and students could learn about politics and their government. the seco

literature and history and read mark twain on the banks of the mississippi and did this in new york city d transit bus. he wrote a book about it called piniel magic bus. of an interview of him he turned to c-spaners doug's blessing we are going to steal that idea and get out of washington and hit and we are going to travel around and talk it people. people.to host: what were you hoping to accomplish by getting on the road and talking to people? guest: i would say in that first probably four broad areas, four goals. talking to erms of people was to go work with our cable affiliates. systems in the neighborhoods and towns they targeted teachers and students schools and middle schools and we went to them and talked about c-span in the an educational resource. that was great for us to support and for themystems to make a connection and teachers and students could about politics and their government. second area was programming. was a way to follow in foot sor brinkley's stretches and visit historical sites and presidential libraries birthplaces, u.s. constitution or civil war battle fields. almost eve

it has the advanced customer information systems that we have an innate high transit using city. and that was not by accident. that was through the leadership and a really strong procurement process. so what we have before you today is an information item to let you know that although there is a lot of things that have to happen between now and then, it is our recommendation that we look to expedite the replacement of the fleet. so that we are on track and exceeding our timeline for the first 68 vehicles, which are expansion vehicles. they are desperately needed for our crowding and for our customers. and we are now looking for opportunities to bring the replacement portion of the contract quicker and also to shortage in its overall timeline that will reduce the amount of time we spend with a mixed fleet , which in and of itself, is a complication in terms of maintenance and it will really expedite getting an excellent service product to our customers i know you guys have had the presentation, i think i covered a lot of the highlights. this is the current timeline. as you can see

can make a lot of money charging high rent and not impose fees that allow us to give better transit in the city muni and housing and child care and any other fees. thank you very much. >> president hillis: all right. thank you. any additional public comment on this item? seeing none, we will close public comment. commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: i guess question for the director. i just heard what ms. hester said. these will stay offices, i imagine. >> where we disagree with ms. hester is we believe and through zoning interpretation and long-held practice they are existing office use for the purposes of prop-m, not existing office use for the purposes of fees. so they will have to pay fees should they transfer to office from public. >> okay, thanks. >> president hillis: commissioner koppel? >> commissioner koppel: motion to approve. >> second. >> president hillis: thank you, commissioners. on that motion to approve zoning map amendment and general plan amendments [roll call] that passes unanimously 5-0. item 14, case 2018-010552p.c.a. prohibiting employee cafeterias within offic

obviously i justti med one company could do that and they want to be near an airport and transit, obvusly crystal city fits the bill. >> thank yo continue our team coverage of today's expected amazon announcement wit justinfinch. >> so amazon could bring a lot of high paying jobs to the area toresidents have concerns o.>>ri ght. you might recall initially the call is 50,000 jobs. we now have reports that they'll get half the number which is a silver lining of sorts because it means less of a t stress onhe infrastructure in crystal city but there will still be growing pains. for example, traffic. we could see a lot more of this, more bumpe to bumper traffic in the area if you can believe it. a first sign that roads have come to the area. al, metro, too, the concern absorb can this service so much growth so quickly here, you might recall over the weekend, had som problem with crystal city and reagan national, servicesow closing for repairs too. housing already the higher area.m in this a lot of high dollar jobs come to the area. will that push uphe cost even further and then also school the a lot more f

the company envisions turning the area into a hub for offices, housing and transit. the city council will vote on the project december 4th. >>> firefighters are making progress on the camp fire in butte county. it is 66% contained and has burned 151,000 acres, about five times the size of san francisco. the number of dead has risen to 77 with 993 people unaccounted for. >>> the number of missing has a lot of people puzzled and horrified. authorities say it's likely the result of confusion, duplicate entries, even misspellings, but as kpix5's wilson walker shows us it's also a sign of just how many people have been displaced. >> wal-mart and stuff, they're trying to evacuate that and all those people will influx here probably pretty soon. this is about the last resort. >> reporter: this is the red cross evacuation center in gridley. it has had its own problems with that notorious sickness we've seen in other shelters, but this is where they are trying to house most of the survivors with no other options. >> i nine we didn't know what to do, where to go. >> reporter: but the to

this legislation is being proposed to help the city meet better of our policy groups or better streets policy, our vision zero policy, our transit first policy and our complete streets policy. it does follow the policy of the original better streets plan in 2015 which gave the city the ability to make improvements to the public right-of-way. after several years of experience now implementing this policy, we have learn what had works well and what can be improved, 340s bryant being an example of that. this legislation did involve the input of staff from multiple departments and we-and this legislation will also enable our staff to more effectively implement the better streets plan and improve the safety for people walking and biking and beautifying our city's public recommends and meets what i believe we've been talk about which is that we want more people out of their cars and more people walking and biking and want development to refrekt this. -- reflect this. this legislation does primarily a number of things. it implements the better streets plan through private development projects. this code section allows the city to requi

any city transit worker who's outside was... and we're told higher quality masks were delivered today. it's a harsh reality... harsh to your lungs and eyes and nose... but certainly a some smoke is infinitely better than having to deal with what the folks up in paradise are going through. (pam) we want to (pam) we want to (pam) we want to bring in our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. (ken) lawrence the smoke seemed worse today than yesterday. is it going to subside at all over the weekend? lawrence karnow: smoke from the camp fire hovered over the bay area today. winds decreased today and the fire danger has eased. high pressure will rebuild this weekend making for high fire danger again on sunday. the air quality will slightly improve tomorrow but still be very poor. highs tomorrow will be in the 60s and 70s. weather conditions should return to normal next week. (ken) our coverage of the deadly camp wildfire continues at kron-4 dot com. there you will find dramatic video of people fleeing the flames. hear from evacuees as t

city. so it wasn't a good fit for it but prop aa transit reliability and enhancements category is a great fit, taking funds that are currently programmed to geary and instead funding this bus stop enhancement project and moving the geary project into prop k so we can fund both projects. and caltrain has seen a good repair, i mentioned this in the last category, just like we're doing now in caltrain identifies projects and amend the 5ypps to amend them but right now they're just shown as capital match. and the c.t.a. and the city will need to work together over the upcoming years to secure another funding source other than prop k to continue to fund the capital match that we provide on an annual basis and i think that there are a few different options, and the silicon valley leadership group is looking at sales tax for the three counties for the 2020 ballot. and there's other opportunities that we will need to explore in order to meet our contribution commitment. transit enhancements category, let's see here, so i'll just point out the condition in the 20145ypp that we are recommending to cont

won't be an immediate impact, we know in the long-term, this is exactly the direction that a transit-first city should head. developers can build parking but we should not be requiring them to build that parking. i want to thank the staff members that came to public comment. we rarely get so many planners at public comment at land use. it was continued at land use because my colleagues would like more conversation and dialogue and feedback and so i think this board is an important one to hear from. so thank you again for all of your work and happy election day. >> thank you, very much supervisor kim. thank you for all work you've done for this city. >> supervisor, i for one want to thank you for your service and leadership over the years to the great city and county of san francisco. i lament the fact that term limits does away with people like you. [laughter] you should remain in office because you always have an incredible array of ideas and visions and controversial at times and yet you suffered through that with your courage and your leadership. and you will be missed. >> thank you, directo