>> item 12, van ness bus rapid transit update. this is an information item. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, madame clerk. i believe that all of us, because so many districts come together along van ness from supervisor haney's district to supervisor stefani's district to supervisor preston's district to the district that i represent, and i think many of us traverse that corridor whether on public transit or other means of transportation and have seen the evolution, albeit a little behind schedule, of the bus rapid transit project that was fishes initially -- first initiated by then executive director of sfcta moscovitch some 20 years ago and now together with a lot of work that nobody can see, because it is below ground, has been moving forward with massive lane changes in recent days. and with that, i will turn it over to sfmta who has a present for us. good morning and thank you for joining us. and thank you for slogging through what i know is a very, very difficult project and i promise to keep my expressions of frustration to

this walgreens at van ness and eddie has been hit so many times the walgreens now plans to close the doors for good on november. 11th this video courtesy of inside edition shows a man just days ago, jumping over a counter at the store and taking off from it with stolen merchandise. inside the store, the shelves are bare with very few products for sell the store no among at least half a dozen walgreens locations here in the bay area now closing this year because of excessive shoplifting wednesday afternoon kron 4 reaching out to supervisor matt haney who represents the area for comment. but so far we've yet to hear back kron 4 also reaching out to the san francisco police department to see how they're tackling the troubling trend. in a statement sfpd says quote it's working closely with all members of the public we serve including businesses, we're always assessing crime trends in addressing staffing to accommodate for fluctuations in crime as of pd also said it does have officers on foot patrolling the area kron 4 cameras caught 2 officers at that store wednesday afternoon for a call

based on third street, which is a mess, the central subway, we are waiting for the opening, the van ness bus rapid transit, the businesses that needed to be helped have gone. and we haven't learned anything what happened on market street before. we always don't seem to learn something from the past projects and we don't seem to have a checklist. we just live it to become project managers, who are not really project managers, because they can't do a needs assessment. and then we love to have our fire chats, the public comment period, where we allow them a couple of minutes and you don't seem to be paying attention to us. it's going to come to bite you all in the back. >> supervisor peskin: next speaker, please. >> thank you, caller. your two minutes begins now. >> thank you. supervisors. i apologize, what i'm going to say. the first thing i would like to do is thank you about some of the downtown -- [inaudible] -- from the meeting and the new improved -- [inaudible] classification is appreciated. the thing i do want to bring to your attention. on the one hand, we have the c.a.c. moving al

a car plowed into a fire hydrant at bush and van ness 6:00 tonight. no one was hurt. not clear xa what exactly caused the crash. >>> we are hearing from scott peterson's former defense attorney. after the supreme court ordered a review of the case. the court ruled juror number seven did not disclose that she was a victim of a crime. and today scott peterson's defense attorney said that he was always worried about jurors who had a, quote, "agenda ". " >> it's a major step, and we're happy to be at the point now where we can hopeful get the conviction set aside. >> peterson was found guilty of murdering his pregnant lacyy, and their unborn child in 2004. he is currently serving life sentences. >>> and breaking news in oakland. police are investigating yet another shooting. three people were shot tonight, at least one was killed. this is the latest in a string of shootings in oakland recently. >>> new at 11:00. a series of disturbing drive-by paint ball attacks are being investigated in davis tonight. a girl was bruised while roller blading with her family. others have r

this is the walgreens on van ness and eddie there. they were there first or about rampant shoplifting at that location ironically when this happened by the way inside edition. we'll have more on this story coming up tonight on 11 o'clock right here in california, certainly they didn't have to wait very long. >>crawford jonathan mccall live for us in the newsroom with the bigger problem incidents like these rampant, shoplifting you know how are having on stores all across the bay area jonathan grant vicki because of the rampant shoplifting at that one location alone. >>the story venison any will close its doors for good on november. 11th. we're told that the store was losing thousands of dollars in merchandise day. the store will be among half a dozen set to shut its doors this year alone because of the issue. >>caught on camera a wild scene that's being played out at retail chain drug stores across the bay area. scores of shoplifters swarming stores ransacking racks and pilfering thousands of dollars in products off the shelves. this

roughly from van ness to ellis and geary to mission. the tenderloin would become a protected zone and these defendants, none of whom live in the tenderloin, would be allowed to go there unless they had a lawful legitimate reason to be there. we're focused on the predatory repeat dealers selling the most dangerous drugs, including those leading to the most deaths. we have rigorous criteria. he or she was arrested at least twice for drug sales or possession of drugs for the purpose of sales in the tenderloin in the past year and a half. one of those arrests must have been in the last nine months. both of the arrests must have led to either criminal charges by the district attorney or a motion to revoke probation. the drugs involved were fentanyl, heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine. and the defendant is not a tenderloin resident. has been given the opportunity to present their defense in court at a hearing and the court finds there is sufficient evidence to warrant the injunction. in other words, an injunction is issued if the need for it

the fire started shortly before 8:00 this evening on south van ness avenue, south of market street. it was captured in this video from the citizen user app. the fire started in the encampment and then spread to the building, causing some smoke damage, but fortunately no one was hurt. >>> people protested in sunnyvale today in response to the city's plans to clear a homeless camp at fair oaks park. police were scheduled to remove about 20 homeless people to make room for a renovation prospect, but they canceled after receiving a number of complaints last week. protesters say homeless sweeps during a pandemic puts lives at risk. >> we need to ensure that the people at this park are given every ability to stay within their bubble, to follow cdc guidelines, to keep everyone at the park just as healthy as everyone else in sunny vail is allowed to do. >> homeless advocates say the only viable solution to s for the city to provide hotel rooms during the construction work. >> new tonight, a halloween display in the front yard of a home in newark has been taken down after complaints from nei

that increase could have been due in part to the van ness construction. on safe route taylor, the quick build, we saw a 35 second increase which is only a slight increase. on 6th street, we saw a vehicle travel time increase -- [inaudible] [inaudible] -- -- >> chair yee: um. so -- so kalia is -- has a bad connection. can you go ahead and complete? >> i can step in. we're running short on time. my lack of detailed knowledge will run through the additional slides quickly. so on the -- one of the things we were measuring for in the evaluation program is travel times, so even though our primary goal is safety, we want to make sure that the streets are working and not creating massive congestion. while we do see some increases in travel time, they're pretty moderate. and far outweighed by the safety benefits of the project. next slide. so i'm going to talk a little bit about some of the -- some of the specific findings from our bicycle project as well, because we've been investing a lot in protected bike facilities. one of things we've found, not surprising, w

that increase could have been due in part to the van ness construction. on safe route taylor, the quick build, we saw a 35 second increase which is only a slight increase. on 6th street, we saw a vehicle travel time increase -- [inaudible] [inaudible] -- -- >> chair yee: um. so -- so kalia is -- has a bad connection. can you go ahead and complete? >> i can step in. we're running short on time. my lack of detailed knowledge will run through the additional slides quickly. so on the -- one of the things we were measuring for in the evaluation program is travel times, so even though our primary goal is safety, we want to make sure that the streets are working and not creating massive congestion. while we do see some increases in travel time, they're pretty moderate. and far outweighed by the safety benefits of the project. next slide. so i'm going to talk a little bit about some of the -- some of the specific findings from our bicycle project as well, because we've been investing a lot in protected bike facilities. one of things we've found, not surprising, w

. >>> walgreens at van ness and eddies is set to close because of rampant shoplifting. it has been happening for months and the contributor phil mattier reports that the shelves are total near empty. most of the products are locked behind plastic theft guards. it is the second to close since last year. you can read it in the could not cal. >>> there is so much debris at the encatchment along i-80 at the overpass the state brought in an excavator to clear it. the work forced the closure of the on-ramp. they say that no tents will be removed. this tent has grown in size ovee recent months. >>> residents saying to use caution after another mountain lion sighting. this one was seen walking through a backyard. the cat was spotted at p.m. one friday night and they were unable to locate the animal. >>> an effort is on to make part of the great highway perfectly car 43. it has gotten more than 2,000 signatures online since june. the plan would trans perform the lincoln highway into a park. the city closed part of the road to cars due to the april. >>> no matter what you want do

roughly from van ness to ellis and geary to mission. the tenderloin would become a protected zone and these defendants, none of whom live in the tenderloin, would be allowed to go there unless they had a lawful legitimate reason to be there. we're focused on the predatory repeat dealers selling the most dangerous drugs, including those leading to the most deaths. we have rigorous criteria. he or she was arrested at least twice for drug sales or possession of drugs for the purpose of sales in the tenderloin in the past year and a half. one of those arrests must have been in the last nine months. both of the arrests must have led to either criminal charges by the district attorney or a motion to revoke probation. the drugs involved were fentanyl, heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine. and the defendant is not a tenderloin resident. has been given the opportunity to present their defense in court at a hearing and the court finds there is sufficient evidence to warrant the injunction. in other words, an injunction is issued if the need for it

database so we're almost fully online now which is incredible and we moved our office to 49 south van ness from city hall so when you visit us again we won't be in city hall beyond that, i served as a member on the erts along with commissioner blue man and dial on and i lead to art, culture, hospitality and entertainment and we worked to vet through the policy proposals that would then put into the draft so dillon worked hard on sf.gov and it compiles all of the best practices relevant to our industry and online and we launched and that effort and we also held virtual office hour and we've been doing that since the beginning with issues and pathways and resources and all of that. we worked on the jam permit so we don't need to get into that. they are the buckets where we drop our rolling basis but it was created based on buckets within the five year strategic plan we were supposed to create a few years back so we just have been improving upon that document essentially and and however we can support small businesses we will so it will require a legislative process and we will implement with

. >>> the walgreens at van ness and eddy in san francisco is going to close permanently next month.yres the store is known for being notoriously easy to shoplift, and neighbors agree. shoplifting has been an ongoing problem at the location and may be a major factor in why it's shutting down. >> the store is completely wiped out. i've watched these guys come in and grab boxes full of honey pups and walk out, and poor guys inside, they can't do anything about it, yeah. >>> the store is set to close on november 11th. this is the third walgreens to close in san francisco in the past year. nearby businesses say they would like to see more police patrolling the area to crack down on shoplifting. >>> san francisco police announced the arrest of a man today accused of assaulting a protester during a free speech rally at u. in plaza. a member of a conservative activist group said someone punched anymore in face during that rally, causing him to lose two teeth. police say the investigation led them to dora anderson. he was arrested in oakland yesterday and booked into the san francisco county

man is seen jumping over the front counter here this is the walgreens in san francisco, the one on van ness and eddie this afternoon. he steals an air mattress rampant shoplifting has been reported at chain drug stores across the bay area. and this particular walgreens here has been hit so many times they tell us they are now closing for good. inside edition was actually they're at the store doing a report when this guy jumped over the counter. they shot the video coming up tonight on kron 4 news at 9 we'll hear how police are responding to this string of thefts and we have more information tonight on san quentin state prison being forced to cut its inmate population. >>in half. we first brought you that story last night is breaking news on kron 4 news at 8 in tonight. our first has made you explains what factored into the judge's ruling. >>the warden at san quentin state prison use deliberate indifference towards prisoners during an outbreak of the covid-19 virus that is according to a ruling by the california court of appeals and now the prison has to release a significant amount of priso

door now this is not the only old-school restaurant in san francisco to reopen tommy's joynt on van ness avenue. >>has announced that they will be reopening on october 29th with a limited menu unlimited hours that tommy's joynt is pretty famous for serving up to a big crowd on thanksgiving day. this year, however they say they are not going to do that will only serve. because they say they don't want to have a super spreader events maureen kelly kron 4 news. >>a good idea, thanks so much marine, let's talk now about our 4 zone forecast as we take a live look outside at downtown san francisco from our sutro camera we're looking ahead towards the weekend. and meteorologist mabrisa rodriguez is here now s we can expect for as the kids call it not friday friday i call it friday. i love it it's my favorite day of the week, let's take a look at current conditions out there right now san francisco international airport clear skies. >>noticeably cooler temperatures today and that cooling trend is going to continue not just for your friday will also your end of the workweek forecast downtown san

there is a backup control center just inaugurated at 1 south van ness. the control center allows the control operations to resume quickly if an evacuation of the t.m.c. at 1455 market is required. and what this task agreement will allow us to do is expand equipment to manage rail service to that facility -- that new facility in south van ness. there is also limitation our trainers have with the current crop of training tools. this will allow us to build a new central control operator center so that we onboard staff with the right skills and a more user friendly training environment. under way in the subway is a project to eliminate vestiges of our 46-year-old train control system. our current acts still had dependency on that. we'll be removing that dependency this year, but we still need the task agreement in order to finally remove the equipment from our equipment. and the agreement will support the activation of additional crossovers in the twin peeks tunnel. some of you may be aware that there have been service disruptions due to halts of the main tr

this walgreens at van ness and eddie has been hit so many times the walgreens now plans to close the doors for good on november. 11th this video courtesy of inside edition shows a man just days ago, jumping over a counter at the store and taking off from it with stolen merchandise. inside the store, the shelves are bare with very few products for sell the store no among at least half a dozen walgreens locations here in the bay area now closing this year because of excessive shoplifting wednesday afternoon kron 4 reaching out to supervisor matt haney who represents the area for comment. but so far we've yet to hear back kron 4 also reaching out to the san francisco police department to see how they're tackling the troubling trend. in a statement sfpd says quote it's working closely with all members of the public we serve including businesses, we're always assessing crime trends in addressing staffing to accommodate for fluctuations in crime. sfpd also said it does have officers on foot patrolling the area kron 4 cameras caught 2 officers at that store wednesday afternoon for a call. t

>>was doing a story on van ness and eddie about shoplifting when they saw this shoplifting it's one of many cases of shoplifting that we've seen in the bay area because of the rampant problem at this location that store is closing for good this walgreens on november 11th james. >>all right time now is 5.20 coming up on the kron 4 morning news less than 2 weeks away now from the election and the fbi's accusing multiple countries of working to sway american voters. we'll explain what's going on. plus the latest on the coronavirus stimulus negotiations on capitol hill as lawmakers work closer towards a deal will have full story just ahead. >>5.23 right now and in national news congress could be getting closer to a new stimulus package for coronavirus relief. yeah, white house officials say they feel confident a new bill can be passed in the next few days we have our washington correspondent anna werner key with the latest. >>white house trade adviser, peter navarro says a stimulus package agreement could come as early as this weekend. we are now at a point where we might possibly get a de

>>van ness between frances. nothing to see here. >>nothing other than close to a dozen vehicles with the passenger windows smashed glove box is open ransacked and personal belongings emptied onto the passenger seat, waking up to the side of shattered glass on the ground from an overnight smash and grab bottle burglary is not uncommon in this russian hill neighborhood right by the who was live different 12 years says he's never seen anything like this. >>yeah walk my dog to formation any every day and think we see one or 2 broken windows across you know through the lock. that's been going on for more than 10 years, i've never seen an entire block. it like that. >>in response to the ongoing auto burglary problem, san francisco police urge residents and visitors to park smart it's an education campaign on how to limit the chances of the vehicle break and hoping that they're only going to be gone for a couple minutes. >>and we'll be back to our so they leave backpacks or cameras, anything visible on the seat on only takes criminals. sec

charles and nelly van ness married 71 years they spent 10 days in separate hospital rooms >> i love himuch as i ever have or maybe more, and i just thank god that we can be together. >> a happy ending for these lovebirds. >>> texas. some people collect coins. others collect cars, but this arlington man is the owner of a collection like you've never seen, porcelain neon signs nearly 200 of them >> i grew up in an era when neon signs were the primary form of advertising. >> not so much anymore phased out by plastic and led lights makes this collection all the more unique on a cnbc trip coast to coast ♪ >>> i'm shepard smith on cnbc. it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news covid crisis escalates in the ne virus in check over th states in the northeast held the virus in check over the summer and now cases are climbing there again. new york reporting its highest single-day number of covid cases in many monthsy hit more than half its total cases today hit more than half a million. in new jersey, more than 1,000 people are in hospitals now because of the virusthen there's the

>>van ness between day and francisco. nothing to see here. other than close to a dozen vehicles with the passenger windows smashed glove box is open ransacked and personal belongings emptied onto the passenger seat, waking up to the side of shattered glass on the ground from an overnight smash-and-grab of a burglary is not uncommon in this russian hill neighborhood right by the who was live different 12 years says he's never seen anything like this. >>yeah walk my dog to formation any every day and think we see one or 2 broken windows across you know through the lock. that's been going on for more than 10 years, i've never seen an entire block. it like that. >>in response to the ongoing auto burglary problem, san francisco police urge residents and visitors to park smart it's an education campaign on how to limit the chances of a vehicle break it began ripping that they're only going to be gone for a couple minutes. >>and we'll be back to our so they leave backpacks or cameras, anything visible on the seat on only takes criminals. second some

this walgreens at van ness and eddie has been hit so many times the walgreens now plans to close the doors for good on november. 11th this video courtesy of inside edition shows a man just days ago, jumping over a counter at the store and taking off from it with stolen merchandise. inside the store, the shelves are bare with very few products for sell the store no among at least half a dozen walgreens locations here in the bay area now closing this year because of excessive shoplifting wednesday afternoon kron 4 reaching out to supervisor matt haney who represents the area for comment. but so far we've yet to hear back kron 4 also reaching out to the san francisco police department to see how they're tackling the troubling trend. in a statement sfpd says quote it's working closely with all members of the public we serve including businesses, we're always assessing crime trends in addressing staffing to accommodate for fluctuations in crime as of pd also said it does have officers on foot patrolling the area kron 4 cameras caught 2 officers at that store wednesday afternoon for a call

>>was filming at the walgreens on van ness and eddie doing story about shoplifting win. it was shoplifted and this is a case people are seeing this more and more around the bay and because of this this particular location of walgreens actually closing the store on november 11th. >>time now is 7.37 still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, the latest on the judge's order that's forcing san quentin to release or transfer at least half of the inmates there because of coronavirus plus another option for families to spend time outside we'll have details on a new park at the bay bridge. bay area homeowners, learn how you can eliminate monthly mortgage payments and improve your cashflow. look, this isn't my first rodeo and let me tell you something, i wouldn't be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your home. it's just a loan designed for older homeowners, and, it's helped over a million americans. a reverse mortgage loan isn't some kind of trick to take your home. it's a loan, like any other. big diffe

that a crew from inside edition was at the store at that store doing a story on shoplifting along van nessie and it all broke out as their cameras were rolling now this is one of a number of shoplifting case is happening in the bay area because of rampant shoplifting at this particular location. the story's going to be closed for good now on november 11th. >>8.37 still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, the covid crisis continues, but doctors are learning more about the long term affects what can happen to you even after you recover from the virus. and one bay area family is searching for answers after their loved one was hit. and killed in a hit and run we'll have more on them. >>age 40 is a time of big story a bay area family desperately searching for answers after their loved one was killed in a hit and run in san francisco that happened on october 1442 year-old san francisco native jeffrey larry, he was riding his motorcycle on hayes street masonic when a driver struck him and took off. >>we don't know just that he was hit his motorcycle was in the middle of an intersection and his body

and then, of course, at the end of july, we moved to 49 south van ness and in the middle of august we converted most projects to pair and are limiting the electronic plan review to 100% affordable projects. for our issuance numbers, prior to the pandemic, we issued on average about 110 permits a day. and then when we were using only electronic plan review, that number went down to 50 permits a day and most of those were over the counter permits. when we added the curbside services in late june, we brought that number up to about 75 to 80 permits a day and with the new initiatives we've been talking about the last couple of commission meetings we were able to bring that up to 100 permits a day on average over the last three weeks and we issued automatically generating -- generated permits about 130 of those a day. just a reminder, we're taking all of those in paper now as well as in-house review permits. we have our online permits that are auto generated which are the trace permits and regrouping permits which i'll talk about more. we offer an expedited service and any emergency permit

the one stop van ness. it's going well and we're changing things up.s far as processing the applications, d bye has handled the fire-only applications. starting on monday to help with if sa tating the transition we'll process, meaning, call control check on intake and apply an application number and collecting fees for fire only and that should help speed things up and on another note, a positive note, the volume plans we're seeing an increase, a steady increase, we're not where we used to be but we're moving in the right direction and things are looking good. >> when you say the plans that are being presented, how focusing mostly on additional dwelling units or are you just speaking broadly. >> >> we have a separate team that handles adus and that's a team that -- >> thank you, fire marshal. i also wanted to welcome chief tagarini. thank you for being here this evening. i appreciate your efforts. ems6. what is the roll out for the new configuration of that? >> so, the roll out for ems6 and the critical response team. >> the critical response team. the

there is a backup control center just inaugurated at 1 south van ness. the control center allows the control operations to resume quickly if an evacuation of the t.m.c. at 1455 market is required. and what this task agreement will allow us to do is expand equipment to manage rail service to that facility -- that new facility in south van ness. there is also limitation our trainers have with the current crop of training tools. this will allow us to build a new central control operator center so that we onboard staff with the right skills and a more user friendly training environment. under way in the subway is a project to eliminate vestiges of our 46-year-old train control system. our current acts still had dependency on that. we'll be removing that dependency this year, but we still need the task agreement in order to finally remove the equipment from our equipment. and the agreement will support the activation of additional crossovers in the twin peeks tunnel. some of you may be aware that there have been service disruptions due to halts of the main tr

and try to improve things on van ness and gary street. suffice to say that the pandemic is stressing us, at least when we go out and use the public transportation, and it should be less stressful. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. okay, operations. next caller, please. we have about 15 listeners and about seven members of the public in the queue. two minutes. >> caller: supervisors, i wanted to thank supervisor peskin with comments about barbara taylor and to name the press room in her honor. after all, that is where she lived the whole time. i'm calling today about the contract, and calling on the board of supervisors to provide some transparency, some explanation for what is going on with this inexplicable build. it's been two months since the membership approved the deal and d.h.r. refused to brief the public and the police commission about it, and the bar association of san francisco has sought documents on october 15th about this to get information. and we received a response yesterday saying that we're not

roughly from van ness to ellis and geary to mission. the tenderloin would become a protected zone and these defendants, none of whom live in the tenderloin, would be allowed to go there unless they had a lawful legitimate reason to be there. we're focused on the predatory repeat dealers selling the most dangerous drugs, including those leading to the most deaths. we have rigorous criteria. he or she was arrested at least twice for drug sales or possession of drugs for the purpose of sales in the tenderloin in the past year and a half. one of those arrests must have been in the last nine months. both of the arrests must have led to either criminal charges by the district attorney or a motion to revoke probation. the drugs involved were fentanyl, heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine. and the defendant is not a tenderloin resident. has been given the opportunity to present their defense in court at a hearing and the court finds there is sufficient evidence to warrant the injunction. in other words, an injunction is issued if the need for it

roughly from van ness to ellis and geary to mission.he tenderloin would become a protected zone and these defendants, none of whom live in the tenderloin, would be allowed to go there unless they had a lawful legitimate reason to be there. we're focused on the predatory repeat dealers selling the most dangerous drugs, including those leading to the most deaths. we have rigorous criteria. he or she was arrested at least twice for drug sales or possession of drugs for the purpose of sales in the tenderloin in the past year and a half. one of those arrests must have been in the last nine months. both of the arrests must have led to either criminal charges by the district attorney or a motion to revoke probation. the drugs involved were fentanyl, heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine. and the defendant is not a tenderloin resident. has been given the opportunity to present their defense in court at a hearing and the court finds there is sufficient evidence to warrant the injunction. in other words, an injunction is issued if the need for it is

you just have to go all over the city, whether it's van ness, geary boulevard, to see the construction and how m.t.a. looks upon seniors and those that really need help with empathy and compassion. there are new people. i would like to study their resume before i write an article on them. for now, no more changes on market street. we're the taxpayers. we don't need this mickey mouse type of generalities. you need to do proper outreach and the same for the seniors and those that adhere to the american disabilities act. this presentation is full of b.s. i repeat, b.s. no more changes on market street for another five years. thank you very much. thank you, caller. >> supervisor peskin: any other callers in the queue? >> yes, there are. >> hello, caller. caller? i'll move on to the next. hello, caller. >> hi, my name is eric kaplan. i live in telegraph hill. i don't own a car and rely on my bike to get around town. i'm just going to speak frankly. this plan doesn't make any sense. it's a major regression from the consensus plan that was approved last year. it's unclear what is better about

if you put the bus in the middle of gary boulevard or middle of van ness a avenue the person has to get to and from this busy road and risk their life to fall of of the we'l wheelchair. we wish you stop promoting this bus traffic transit. thank you. >> co-chair pelzman: thank you. next caller please. >> this is roger. president of the transport workers union local 258. i want to highlight what the riders, passengers have been stating. one of the ways in which we can provide better more accessible service for the wheelchair community, for the at-risk community, for the community that are special needs community, by bringing back the light rail vehicles back on the surface. we have been pushing and pressing the agency to bring back the light rail vehicle service. from what i understand, sfmta is the only public transportation system in the united states of america that has completely shut down its light rail vehicle service. why? we have no idea. when i say we, i mean local 258, light rail vehicle systems are bigger. they are stronger. they have more space for passengers. they are safer f

the clinic is located on the first floor of 101 grove and would move to the city-owned 25 van ness building. the scope of the project includes interior demolition and improvements that has administrative spaces. d.p.w. will start on this project next year and we hope to have it completed in 2022. next slide, please. the third project is the re-location of the urgent care clinic currently located within the 101 grove complex. the medical, dental, behavioral health, and shelter health programs would be co-located at the new site at 1064 mission street, along with the homeless outreach team from h.s.h. this is funded by multiple sources, including $5 million from the 101 grove exit c.o.p. as we have mentioned the c.p.c. and the board approved this last year. next slide, please. and the critical repairs and recession allowance c.o.p. will fund the chiller and cooling water replacement project. the existing centralized chilled water system at dfsg has cooling water to the hospitals ambulatory care buildings at the acute care hospital, building 3, that includes the pathology clinical services and

and try to improve things on van ness and gary street. suffice to say that the pandemic is stressing us, at least when we go out and use the public transportation, and it should be less stressful. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. okay, operations. next caller, please. we have about 15 listeners and about seven members of the public in the queue. two minutes. >> caller: supervisors, i wanted to thank supervisor peskin with comments about barbara taylor and to name the press room in her honor. after all, that is where she lived the whole time. i'm calling today about the contract, and calling on the board of supervisors to provide some transparency, some explanation for what is going on with this inexplicable build. it's been two months since the membership approved the deal and d.h.r. refused to brief the public and the police commission about it, and the bar association of san francisco has sought documents on october 15th about this to get information. and we received a response yesterday saying that we're not

>> no, because the last thing was a disaster on van ness. >> just yes or no. >> sorry. >> sure, if there's money. >> yes, no, no response. david. >> yes. >> veronica. >> yes. >> connie. >> yes. >> and sherman. >> no. we don't have the money. >> next question. for the lightening round. do you support prop b split off all public work sidewalk maintenance and sanitation duties into a new agency while the current department handles engineering, design, project management and other work tied to san francisco public infrastructure. marshan? >> could you repeat that? >> absolutely. >> so this is still lightening round no response. do you support prop b which would split off other street cleaning and sanitation duties into a new agency while the current department continues to handle engineering, design, project management and other works tied to san francisco's public infrastructure. >> yes. >> >> andrew? >> yes. >> ok. next question in the lightening round. will you commit to providing your district one constituents with rapid, easy and responsive methods of communicating with you? >> david. >>

>> no, because the last thing was a disaster on van ness. >> just yes or no. >> sorry. >> sure, if there'soney. >> yes, no, no response. david. >> yes. >> veronica. >> yes. >> connie. >> yes. >> and sherman. >> no. we don't have the money. >> next question. for the lightening round. do you support prop b split off all public work sidewalk maintenance and sanitation duties into a new agency while the current department handles engineering, design, project management and other work tied to san francisco public infrastructure. marshan? >> could you repeat that? >> absolutely. >> so this is still lightening round no response. do you support prop b which would split off other street cleaning and sanitation duties into a new agency while the current department continues to handle engineering, design, project management and other works tied to san francisco's public infrastructure. >> yes. >> >> andrew? >> yes. >> ok. next question in the lightening round. will you commit to providing your district one constituents with rapid, easy and responsive methods of communicating with you? >> david. >> ye

roughly from van ness to ellis and geary to mission. tenderloin would become a protected zone and these defendants none of whom live in the tenderloin, would be allowed to go there unless they had a lawful legitimate reason to be there. we're focused on the predatory repeat dealers selling the most dangerous drugs, including those leading to the most deaths. we have rigorous criteria. he or she was arrested at least twice for drug sales or possession of drugs for the purpose of sales in the tenderloin in the past year and a half. one of those arrests must have been in the last nine months. both of the arrests must have led to either criminal charges by the district attorney or a motion to revoke probation. the drugs involved were fentanyl, heroin cocaine or methamphetamine. and the defendant is not a tenderloin resident. has been given the opportunity to present their defense in court at a hearing and the court finds there is sufficient evidence to warrant the injunction. in other words, an injunction is issued if the need for it is pro

that increase could have been due in part to the van ness construction.n safe route taylor, the quick build, we saw a 35 second increase which is only a slight increase. on 6th street, we saw a vehicle travel time increase -- [inaudible] [inaudible] -- -- >> chair yee: um. so -- so kalia is -- has a bad connection. can you go ahead and complete? >> i can step in. we're running short on time. my lack of detailed knowledge will run through the additional slides quickly. so on the -- one of the things we were measuring for in the evaluation program is travel times, so even though our primary goal is safety, we want to make sure that the streets are working and not creating massive congestion. while we do see some increases in travel time, they're pretty moderate. and far outweighed by the safety benefits of the project. next slide. so i'm going to talk a little bit about some of the -- some of the specific findings from our bicycle project as well, because we've been investing a lot in protected bike facilities. one of things we've found, not surprising, whe

>>van ness between france, a scam. nothing to see here.othing other than close to a dozen vehicles with the passenger windows smashed glove box is open ransacked and personal belongings emptied onto the passenger seat, waking up to the side of shattered glass on the ground from an overnight smash-and-grab of a burglary is not uncommon in this russian hill neighborhood right by the who was live different 12 years says he's never seen anything like this. >>yeah walk my dog to be on formation any every day and think we see one or 2 broken windows across you know through the lock. that's been going on for more than 10 years, i've never seen an entire block. it like that. >>in response to the ongoing auto burglary problem, san francisco police urge residents and visitors to park smart it's an education campaign on how to limit the chances of a vehicle break it began working that they're only going to be gone for a couple minutes. >>and we'll be back to our so they leave backpacks or cameras, anything visible on the seat on only takes criminals,

the clinic is located on the first floor of 101 grove and would move to the city-owned 25 van ness building. the scope of the project includes interior demolition and improvements that has administrative spaces. d.p.w. will start on this project next year and we hope to have it completed in 2022. next slide, please. the third project is the re-location of the urgent care clinic currently located within the 101 grove complex. the medical, dental, behavioral health, and shelter health programs would be co-located at the new site at 1064 mission street, along with the homeless outreach team from h.s.h. this is funded by multiple sources, including $5 million from the 101 grove exit c.o.p. as we have mentioned the c.p.c. and the board approved this last year. next slide, please. and the critical repairs and recession allowance c.o.p. will fund the chiller and cooling water replacement project. the existing centralized chilled water system at dfsg has cooling water to the hospitals ambulatory care buildings at the acute care hospital, building 3, that includes the pathology clinical services and