war field's comments that both van ness brt and geary brt really need a lot more attention. removal of bus stops has not improved my ability to get around. going ahead and going this on faith, which is what these projects really have been based on and not the study is a great disservice to the city. and since geary has not ad vansz r vanced to delay the approval on the ier and to have them wait on that and give the public more time to read that report. 17 days during the holiday season not sufficient. van ness tree cutting will begin tomorrow, and the trees will come down and the lanes will be shut off. and disables and elderly will be inconvenienced to say the least. year /* i urge you to look at the effect of these projects which individually may sound great, but aren't terrific. they are really injury yus to us and beyond. i guess i will stop there. but i think you need a better way to evaluate these projects before they go into ground breaking. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other speakers please come forward, we are going to close public comment. >> my make is robert a

brt that will be a bit of a challenge in the next couple of years but doing a lot of work with sfmta and the business and the corridors to make as is workable as possible and we're excited to see rainy-day funds surpass in 2019 and again, a shout out thank you to the deputy director finance cynthia thank you. appreciate the comments from supervisor yee beyond any doubt and recognizing that work and the intentions the double a plus rating this year we don't have a firm 100 percent plan yet but anticipate that maybe the year we go out to capital market value to take up the longer than term bonds with the mta and may need to trigger you know our first bonding in the coming calendar year and the second category the providing support in the project reporting - excuse me - okay in terms of the broad support i'm eager to hear our feedback we work hard to even work effectively to support you in our roles on the ta as well as on treasure island and all our regional roles you play on the mtc and abag and to the bart colleagues, we met to coordinate this important year for bart and be able to a

brt that will be a bit of a challenge in the next couple of years but doing a lot of work with sfmta and the business and the corridors to make as is workable as possible and we're excited to see rainy-day funds surpass in 2019 and again, a shout out thank you to the deputy director finance cynthia thank you. appreciate the comments from supervisor yee beyond any doubt and recognizing that work and the intentions the double a plus rating this year we don't have a firm 100 percent plan yet but anticipate that maybe the year we go out to capital market value to take up the longer than term bonds with the mta and may need to trigger you know our first bonding in the coming calendar year and the second category the providing support in the project reporting - excuse me - okay in terms of the broad support i'm eager to hear our feedback we work hard to even work effectively to support you in our roles on the ta as well as on treasure island and all our regional roles you play on the mtc and abag and to the bart colleagues, we met to coordinate this important year for bart and be able to a

war field's comments that both van ness brt and geary brt really need a lot more attention. removal of bus stops has not improved my ability to get around. going ahead and going this on faith, which is what these projects really have been based on and not the study is a great disservice to the city. and since geary has not ad vansz r vanced to delay the approval on the ier and to have them wait on that and give the public more time to read that report. 17 days during the holiday season not sufficient. van ness tree cutting will begin tomorrow, and the trees will come down and the lanes will be shut off. and disables and elderly will be inconvenienced to say the least. year /* i urge you to look at the effect of these projects which individually may sound great, but aren't terrific. they are really injury yus to us and beyond. i guess i will stop there. but i think you need a better way to evaluate these projects before they go into ground breaking. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other speakers please come forward, we are going to close public comment. >> my make is robert a

war field's comments that both van ness brt and geary brt really need a lot more attention.emoval of bus stops has not improved my ability to get around. going ahead and going this on faith, which is what these projects really have been based on and not the study is a great disservice to the city. and since geary has not ad vansz r vanced to delay the approval on the ier and to have them wait on that and give the public more time to read that report. 17 days during the holiday season not sufficient. van ness tree cutting will begin tomorrow, and the trees will come down and the lanes will be shut off. and disables and elderly will be inconvenienced to say the least. year /* i urge you to look at the effect of these projects which individually may sound great, but aren't terrific. they are really injury yus to us and beyond. i guess i will stop there. but i think you need a better way to evaluate these projects before they go into ground breaking. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other speakers please come forward, we are going to close public comment. >> my make is robert and

brt that will be a bit of a challenge in the next couple of years but doing a lot of work with sfmta and the business and the corridors to make as is workable as possible and we're excited to see rainy-day funds surpass in 2019 and again, a shout out thank you to the deputy director finance cynthia thank you. appreciate the comments from supervisor yee beyond any doubt and recognizing that work and the intentions the double a plus rating this year we don't have a firm 100 percent plan yet but anticipate that maybe the year we go out to capital market value to take up the longer than term bonds with the mta and may need to trigger you know our first bonding in the coming calendar year and the second category the providing support in the project reporting - excuse me - okay in terms of the broad support i'm eager to hear our feedback we work hard to even work effectively to support you in our roles on the ta as well as on treasure island and all our regional roles you play on the mtc and abag and to the bart colleagues, we met to coordinate this important year for bart and be able to a

war field's comments that both van ness brt and geary brt really need a lot more attention. removal of bus stops has not improved my ability to get around. going ahead and going this on faith, which is what these projects really have been based on and not the study is a great disservice to the city. and since geary has not ad vansz r vanced to delay the approval on the ier and to have them wait on that and give the public more time to read that report. 17 days during the holiday season not sufficient. van ness tree cutting will begin tomorrow, and the trees will come down and the lanes will be shut off. and disables and elderly will be inconvenienced to say the least. year /* i urge you to look at the effect of these projects which individually may sound great, but aren't terrific. they are really injury yus to us and beyond. i guess i will stop there. but i think you need a better way to evaluate these projects before they go into ground breaking. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other speakers please come forward, we are going to close public comment. >> my make is robert a

but regarding the new options will be part of funding requests and residents were concerned that the brt is only severing now populations go did new neighborhoods again adequately the way they see this project going forward didn't adequately consider the needs of existing residents i want to voice the concerns for the residents in those projects on item number 5 the child transportation survey we - very interesting survey it is well worth paying attention to with over 50 percent of parents driving their children to school it is a really good effort to look at how people are getting around the city and getting their kids to school some of the recommendations included a shuttle service for looking at different apps to help with coordinating ridership this was interesting this was presented on the same day at the instrumental update program having two shuttle issues one ongoing to help adults get to work and one recommendations to help kids get to school is interesting to see those next to each with that. >> thank you for your report seeing none, we'll go to public comment on item 2 member

but regarding the new options will be part of funding requests and residents were concerned that the brt is only severing now populations go did new neighborhoods again adequately the way they see this project going forward didn't adequately consider the needs of existing residents i want to voice the concerns for the residents in those projects on item number 5 the child transportation survey we - very interesting survey it is well worth paying attention to with over 50 percent of parents driving their children to school it is a really good effort to look at how people are getting around the city and getting their kids to school some of the recommendations included a shuttle service for looking at different apps to help with coordinating ridership this was interesting this was presented on the same day at the instrumental update program having two shuttle issues one ongoing to help adults get to work and one recommendations to help kids get to school is interesting to see those next to each with that. >> thank you for your report seeing none, we'll go to public comment on item 2 member

war field's comments that both van ness brt and geary brt really need a lot more attention. removal of bus stops has not improved my ability to get around. going ahead and going this on faith, which is what these projects really have been based on and not the study is a great disservice to the city. and since geary has not ad vansz r vanced to delay the approval on the ier and to have them wait on that and give the public more time to read that report. 17 days during the holiday season not sufficient. van ness tree cutting will begin tomorrow, and the trees will come down and the lanes will be shut off. and disables and elderly will be inconvenienced to say the least. year /* i urge you to look at the effect of these projects which individually may sound great, but aren't terrific. they are really injury yus to us and beyond. i guess i will stop there. but i think you need a better way to evaluate these projects before they go into ground breaking. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other speakers please come forward, we are going to close public comment. >> my make is robert a

but regarding the new options will be part of funding requests and residents were concerned that the brt is only severing now populations go did new neighborhoods again adequately the way they see this project going forward didn't adequately consider the needs of existing residents i want to voice the concerns for the residents in those projects on item number 5 the child transportation survey we - very interesting survey it is well worth paying attention to with over 50 percent of parents driving their children to school it is a really good effort to look at how people are getting around the city and getting their kids to school some of the recommendations included a shuttle service for looking at different apps to help with coordinating ridership this was interesting this was presented on the same day at the instrumental update program having two shuttle issues one ongoing to help adults get to work and one recommendations to help kids get to school is interesting to see those next to each with that. >> thank you for your report seeing none, we'll go to public comment on item 2 member

but regarding the new options will be part of funding requests and residents were concerned that the brt is only severing now populations go did new neighborhoods again adequately the way they see this project going forward didn't adequately consider the needs of existing residents i want to voice the concerns for the residents in those projects on item number 5 the child transportation survey we - very interesting survey it is well worth paying attention to with over 50 percent of parents driving their children to school it is a really good effort to look at how people are getting around the city and getting their kids to school some of the recommendations included a shuttle service for looking at different apps to help with coordinating ridership this was interesting this was presented on the same day at the instrumental update program having two shuttle issues one ongoing to help adults get to work and one recommendations to help kids get to school is interesting to see those next to each with that. >> thank you for your report seeing none, we'll go to public comment on item 2 member

but regarding the new options will be part of funding requests and residents were concerned that the brt is only severing now populations go did new neighborhoods again adequately the way they see this project going forward didn't adequately consider the needs of existing residents i want to voice the concerns for the residents in those projects on item number 5 the child transportation survey we - very interesting survey it is well worth paying attention to with over 50 percent of parents driving their children to school it is a really good effort to look at how people are getting around the city and getting their kids to school some of the recommendations included a shuttle service for looking at different apps to help with coordinating ridership this was interesting this was presented on the same day at the instrumental update program having two shuttle issues one ongoing to help adults get to work and one recommendations to help kids get to school is interesting to see those next to each with that. >> thank you for your report seeing none, we'll go to public comment on item 2 member

war field's comments that both van ness brt and geary brt really need a lot more attention. removal of bus stops has not improved my ability to get around. going ahead and going this on faith, which is what these projects really have been based on and not the study is a great disservice to the city. and since geary has not ad vansz r vanced to delay the approval on the ier and to have them wait on that and give the public more time to read that report. 17 days during the holiday season not sufficient. van ness tree cutting will begin tomorrow, and the trees will come down and the lanes will be shut off. and disables and elderly will be inconvenienced to say the least. year /* i urge you to look at the effect of these projects which individually may sound great, but aren't terrific. they are really injury yus to us and beyond. i guess i will stop there. but i think you need a better way to evaluate these projects before they go into ground breaking. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other speakers please come forward, we are going to close public comment. >> my make is robert a

war field's comments that both van ness brt and geary brt really need a lot more attention. removal of bus stops has not improved my ability to get around. going ahead and going this on faith, which is what these projects really have been based on and not the study is a great disservice to the city. and since geary has not ad vansz r vanced to delay the approval on the ier and to have them wait on that and give the public more time to read that report. 17 days during the holiday season not sufficient. van ness tree cutting will begin tomorrow, and the trees will come down and the lanes will be shut off. and disables and elderly will be inconvenienced to say the least. year /* i urge you to look at the effect of these projects which individually may sound great, but aren't terrific. they are really injury yus to us and beyond. i guess i will stop there. but i think you need a better way to evaluate these projects before they go into ground breaking. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other speakers please come forward, we are going to close public comment. >> my make is robert a

. >> welcome back and you brt >>> a cold rain, a cold march rain tomorrow in addition to an umbrella maybe a winter coat. put the lining in your raincoat. let's start with the 3 degree guarantee. feeling good and 76 for a high which is well above high. average high is 50. we will talk about how we did still 51 now outside and dew points above freezing and i point that out because we a precipitation coming in and with dew points above freezing in good shape. not that we couldn't cfus sleet pellets well north and west of town. yellow weather alert for rain and bus stop temperatures 34 to 40 immediately dry. culpeper west could see light rain develop. the morning commute mainly dry except south and west. pleasant on wednesday and tracking arctic air thursday. coldest air in the mid-atlantic. 10:00 to night clouds on the increase in temperatures not that cold. mid 40s downtown in mid-30s in the burbs. by morning 6:00 cloudy and dry. look what happens by 9:00 a little bit of rain as close as leesburg manassas and temperatures in the upper 30s. in the afternoon 1:00 rain across the board.

been a leader on transportation for san francisco, and during your tenure, we amoved the van ness, brt project, similar to the stage that we are out for geary and you see the fruits of that labor, happening outside, on van ness, avenue and we signed and we received our full funding grant agreement for central subway during your tenure, and you were able to over see so many of these local and regional projects and city wide projects in those two years and including the planned areas and sustain able strategies at the region and each of these efforts involved a complex set of transportation policy, but also, affordable housing and sustainability, and equitable policies as well and you were a fierce leader in the region for each of these areas and we are grateful to you for that. and during this time, in particular, the equity agenda, it came to the floor, through the discussion of the free, muni for youth, program which you championed and you were able to secure, the regional funding from the mtc in order to compliment our local, funding at the mta and you can see those benefits being ut

thinking about van ness, brt, geary brt, you don't have to look for very long to see abuse on market street with the red transit only lanes and mission, so wondering what hope if there is any. >> it is on the radar. it isn't something that is even in the back of our mind, but i talked about this as well. i think for the objectives that we have to advance camera enforcement in this coming year, not in the session but in the coming year, knowing how we confronted opposition on that particular use with the toll cameras, we are trying to tackle the use the cameras for the purpose of speed enforcement now. i think that to try to change the law as it related to additional authorization would undermine that. that is just my perspective. >> the cameras on the buses themselves. >> yes. >> the concern is that the automated speed enforcement is a uphill clime and more a years of work to get it ted up for possibly getting through in 2017. we are 100 supportive having the on-board cameras to do the moving violations, i think trying to introduce that and get people taejz attention and focus and ed

brt that will be a bit of a challenge in the next couple of years but doing a lot of work with sfmta and the business and the corridors to make as is workable as possible and we're excited to see rainy-day funds surpass in 2019 and again, a shout out thank you to the deputy director finance cynthia thank you. appreciate the comments from supervisor yee beyond any doubt and recognizing that work and the intentions the double a plus rating this year we don't have a firm 100 percent plan yet but anticipate that maybe the year we go out to capital market value to take up the longer than term bonds with the mta and may need to trigger you know our first bonding in the coming calendar year and the second category the providing support in the project reporting - excuse me - okay in terms of the broad support i'm eager to hear our feedback we work hard to even work effectively to support you in our roles on the ta as well as on treasure island and all our regional roles you play on the mtc and abag and to the bart colleagues, we met to coordinate this important year for bart and be able to a

war field's comments that both van ness brt and geary brt really need a lot more attention.emoval of bus stops has not improved my ability to get around. going ahead and going this on faith, which is what these projects really have been based on and not the study is a great disservice to the city. and since geary has not ad vansz r vanced to delay the approval on the ier and to have them wait on that and give the public more time to read that report. 17 days during the holiday season not sufficient. van ness tree cutting will begin tomorrow, and the trees will come down and the lanes will be shut off. and disables and elderly will be inconvenienced to say the least. year /* i urge you to look at the effect of these projects which individually may sound great, but aren't terrific. they are really injury yus to us and beyond. i guess i will stop there. but i think you need a better way to evaluate these projects before they go into ground breaking. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other speakers please come forward, we are going to close public comment. >> my make is robert and

thinking about van ness, brt, geary brt, you don't have to look for very long to see abuse on market street with the red transit only lanes and mission, so wondering what hope if there is any. >> it is on the radar. it isn't something that is even in the back of our mind, but i talked about this as well. i think for the objectives that we have to advance camera enforcement in this coming year, not in the session but in the coming year, knowing how we confronted opposition on that particular use with the toll cameras, we are trying to tackle the use the cameras for the purpose of speed enforcement now. i think that to try to change the law as it related to additional authorization would undermine that. that is just my perspective. >> the cameras on the buses themselves. >> yes. >> the concern is that the automated speed enforcement is a uphill clime and more a years of work to get it ted up for possibly getting through in 2017. we are 100 supportive having the on-board cameras to do the moving violations, i think trying to introduce that and get people taejz attention and focus and ed

before i van ness i might be surprised van ness will goodwill go the first transit corridor to have brt as more frequently known the goal to get conveniently van ness and geary boulevard one of the most reliable transit systems in the country van ness avenue is a major connecter between potrero hill and mission on the south side of san francisco correcting connecting us to the marina and state highway in the financial with the western edition neighborhood it is mostly residential a lot of the geography of van ness the rain that is wide it was uses is a firebreak in the 1906 san francisco earthquake a lot of building occasion that helped of hoped to stop the fire from jumping van ness had a light rail or sprash separating and along geary 0 when we came to the question of how to address the needs on haven because of its cost effectiveness we have found in the brt system with the new vehicles. >> the new mr. secretary is a change we will actually have transit in the middle ♪ the far legal unit and a broadly prom >> one of the reasons it is in the center a was it is an clouf right-of-way a

this is the rainfall that brt in not only the moisture, but also that temperature that is into the upper 40s and 50s, which is why we're seeing areas of fog. it's warm and it's moist, perfect for that fog to form. it's prevalent and moving onto the coastline right now where we are seeing visibility below a mile, especially downtown boston where th visibility is only half a mi week. we are starting off in the mid-to-upper 40s. this is temperatures are normal for highsn the afternoon. 50s as we move to the cape. ow. for this afternoon we'll top out in the upper 50s, with the exception of our far western location worcester at 49. but check out boston. 58 degrees, marshfield at 57. notice how things start toar out. su tomorrow. windy conditions still expected. we'll see occasional wind gusts up to even 25 miles per hour heading into tomorrow. the rest of the seven-day is relatively qui with that sunshine breaking through. december well into the upper 50s. essa: where did november go? a look at the expressway by the gas tank. that's northbound heading to the top of the screen. you can see the

the geary project as they call it, brt, bus lane project. >> what is that they wouldn't have a file on? you said generally -- wait a minute -- this general statement that when you addressed them for various things, on anything, they had told you we have no files. this is what we did, but we have no idea -- how we got that. is that true? >> well, it's partially true. i gave a poor example, because with the geary street project, actually the planning department was hired by sf -- transit authority to do the eir. eis review. that was all done under contract. so it would not necessarily fall within this. but the better streets plan amendment clearly did and was clearly all planning. they wrote the law. and they got -- i think president of the board to introduce it. they had their hands all over it and then -- if you want to really just drill-down on it, that had an environmental negative to it, because what it did was it eliminated street tree plantings in many situations. they gave -- the planning code had a provision if you did certain things, build a new building, put in a garage, whate

is interested in the environmental review aspect of it, and he appears also interested in the geary brt project. my understanding is that there is a draft eir on that that is out. there was a hearing on that draft eir last year or earlier this year, i think. and that the response to comments is coming, and that document presumably will be certified by the san francisco county transportation authority as the lead agency. those records exist related to those documents at either sf cta or planning department offices. my understanding is that there is nothing that specifically requires all of those records to be available online, neverthelessing the planning department has an environmental planning page that includes a large number of environmental eirs and other exemption documents for the last few years. there was an amendment to chapter 31 in the city about three years ago that changed the procedures for how san francisco implements ceqa. so that is as to the underlying records that it appears mr. grossman is concerned about. with regard to 67.29, that dates back to 1993. the original su

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before i van ness i might be surprised van ness will goodwill go the first transit corridor to have brt as more frequently known the goal to get conveniently van ness and geary boulevard one of the most reliable transit systems in the country van ness avenue is a major connecter between potrero hill and mission on the south side of san francisco correcting connecting us to the marina and state highway in the financial with the western edition neighborhood it is mostly residential a lot of the geography of van ness the rain that is wide it was uses is a firebreak in the 1906 san francisco earthquake a lot of building occasion that helped of hoped to stop the fire from jumping van ness had a light rail or sprash separating and along geary 0 when we came to the question of how to address the needs on haven because of its cost effectiveness we have found in the brt system with the new vehicles. >> the new mr. secretary is a change we will actually have transit in the middle ♪ the far legal unit and a broadly prom >> one of the reasons it is in the center a was it is an clouf right-of-way a

decades you're familiar with the efforts to work on the van ness right-of-way and make the changes for brt i'll talk about something else that contribute to the feel of van ness avenue that is how private development interacts with the right-of-way so since the 1980s the adaptation of having an r van ness plan the policies to constrain on van ness and activate the streetscape with more feasible - we have policies that talk about the development of acting that makes the sidewalks interesting in a lively urban place providing the detail on both the buildings through the use of aging & adult services for bay windows over the state right away and activating the right-of-way where appropriate with street furniture and sidewalk cafeterias that's been the city's vision since the 1980s the caltrain policy they have some more recent policy initiative that speak to recognized urban city's desire to have complete streets and mobile streets and have recently recognized the response to the dances of the county, however, there are specific planners that work on encroachment be preliminaries that are con

decades you're familiar with the efforts to work on the van ness right-of-way and make the changes for brt i'll talk about something else that contribute to the feel of van ness avenue that is how private development interacts with the right-of-way so since the 1980s the adaptation of having an r van ness plan the policies to constrain on van ness and activate the streetscape with more feasible - we have policies that talk about the development of acting that makes the sidewalks interesting in a lively urban place providing the detail on both the buildings through the use of aging & adult services for bay windows over the state right away and activating the right-of-way where appropriate with street furniture and sidewalk cafeterias that's been the city's vision since the 1980s the caltrain policy they have some more recent policy initiative that speak to recognized urban city's desire to have complete streets and mobile streets and have recently recognized the response to the dances of the county, however, there are specific planners that work on encroachment be preliminaries that are con

decades you're familiar with the efforts to work on the van ness right-of-way and make the changes for brt'll talk about something else that contribute to the feel of van ness avenue that is how private development interacts with the right-of-way so since the 1980s the adaptation of having an r van ness plan the policies to constrain on van ness and activate the streetscape with more feasible - we have policies that talk about the development of acting that makes the sidewalks interesting in a lively urban place providing the detail on both the buildings through the use of aging & adult services for bay windows over the state right away and activating the right-of-way where appropriate with street furniture and sidewalk cafeterias that's been the city's vision since the 1980s the caltrain policy they have some more recent policy initiative that speak to recognized urban city's desire to have complete streets and mobile streets and have recently recognized the response to the dances of the county, however, there are specific planners that work on encroachment be preliminaries that are confr

relook at the project under the new standards of methodologies ceqa didn't require we apply the new brtnalysis unless we're reopening the transportation studies because it is my understanding where a project that is cannon as this commission knows to a project to be reduced in size and scope didn't trigger an environmental review because the impacts are substantially reduced. >> okay. that's help you mean that is general to understand it because understanding when those are triggered is absent multi vaurnt the height and the old building had parking this one didn't i'm supportive of this. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> i guess a question for project sponsor commissioner moore raise a good question about the existing tenants do you have a strategy how first right of refusal they're worried about business displacement. >> john can you address what the existing tenants they've known for a long time that's coming we were talking with one tenant in particular who wants to hold over her date we're trying to work with the individual tenants john the project sponsor will address th

decades you're familiar with the efforts to work on the van ness right-of-way and make the changes for brt i'll talk about something else that contribute to the feel of van ness avenue that is how private development interacts with the right-of-way so since the 1980s the adaptation of having an r van ness plan the policies to constrain on van ness and activate the streetscape with more feasible - we have policies that talk about the development of acting that makes the sidewalks interesting in a lively urban place providing the detail on both the buildings through the use of aging & adult services for bay windows over the state right away and activating the right-of-way where appropriate with street furniture and sidewalk cafeterias that's been the city's vision since the 1980s the caltrain policy they have some more recent policy initiative that speak to recognized urban city's desire to have complete streets and mobile streets and have recently recognized the response to the dances of the county, however, there are specific planners that work on encroachment be preliminaries that are con