brannon vete is highlighted in yellow and the above map of soma. the majoritiship -- majority is on the vision zero between 2nd street down it 8th street. the whole corridor from the embarcadero to division street about a mile and a half is undergoing infrastructure upgrades prompt a san francisco public works repaving project. so sfmta decided to take advantage of the paving project to design a safer brannan street. the goals are prome air will focussed on -- primarily focussed on safety for all users and the projects anticipated along the cot -- corridor and this shows the typical configuration and two lanes in each direction and parking on both sides. so one very effective roadway safety treatment is to reduce travel lanes from four to three. this is typically called a road diet. it opens up space to stripe a dedicated bike lane. it shows the configuration with one lane in each direction separate a center lane and bike lanes would be installed in both directions an parking would remain on both sides. we will also use a suite of intersection trea

there are the beacon and there is a lot of people on brannon street and due to the conditions. we have sound that travels from treasure island and people from the hills that hear the noise. i am pretty sure that if you under salter and i know the inside has a bar closed with doors. do you plan to have outdoor speakers or when you have corporate events do you hire a sound company to bring in their own sound system on the roof or are we going to do a sound test with you're in house system? what is your plan for a sound system under your control? >> well the sound system we have is a speaker. usually when there is music it is not loud. they don't have big loud music. on the sunday parties. we did early on when we were doing those parties we work with a bunch of different people, some of the people we didn't want to work with any more because they didn't respect what we were trying to do and sort of didn't respect the property. we have narrowed down to a few people we work with on the sunday parties. >> they bring in their own sound system? >> they bring in their own sound system.

firefighters made quick work today of an electrical fire that forced the evacuation of bay club on fifth and brannon streets. the fire broke out about 2:45. smoke poured out of the lower level of the building. because it was an electrical fire, crews had to use co2 extinguishers, not water to put out the fire. damage was limited to multiple electrical boxes. that was about it. no one was hurt. >>> here at abc 7 news, we're committed to building a better bay area. what that means is we dig deep into the issues that affect our quality of life. we also look foresolutions. today we're highlighting a project that managed to find solutions to two issues, preserving cultural history while providing more housing. abc7 news reporter david louie joins us live from the south bay to show us what is happening in the south bay. >> ama and dan, whenever you have a new housing development proposed, objections are frequently raised over things like parking and density and traffic mitigation. however, it took 127 meetings to get a new apartment complex approved here in san jose's japantown. and it finally was approve