our experience with delores street is great. we create a warm and caring environment where people are really made to feel it's atkins a sanctuary. and we're completely confident this space is going to be exactly that and people who were not able to rest are now able to do so. hoping you're going to support it and confident you're going to support it, it's really historic. thank you >> thank you. >> hello the executive director of the aids foundation. i want to take a moment's the memory even if erick. when tommy and i came up with the idea for the homeless lgbt shelter we had a two prong strategy. one was to procedure beds but i went to erick and if we could find space in one of his existing buildings we didn't have time to wait for a huge long process. others mentioned that 29 percent of the homeless count identified as let the record show and others have said it's higher than that. we experience it differently and we're about 15 percent of san francisco population but 29 percent of the homeless. there's a reasons for it and i

our experience with delores street is great. we create a warm and caring environment where people are really made to feel it's atkins a sanctuary. and we're

. >> and memoranda parking you might call it is not limited to churches and synagogues on delores street. i'm pretty confident. anyway, thank you supervisor breed >> i want to thank everybody for participating and my request to the mta agency t is to take an internal look at how the parking is done and again, i'm advocating we're not priority tiger's downtown those areas of market is heavy xhenld and i agree with the agree. but i think we are going in the opposite way but the mta to give some consideration on how we might maybe make the enforcement a little bit more consistent so people have a thought in their headwall if i double park i might get a ticket. in and of itself that will reduce double parking >> so thank you everyone and could i get a motion to continue this to those to the call of the chair. okay without objection >> madam clerk, call item number 4. >> is the hearing to begin the gary underpass and in the western fillmore community. >> and supervisor breed requested this hearing. >> thank you, thank you supervisor wiener for allowing us to host this hearing. thank you to al

i hope that delores street can improve that situation. i think homeless folks the risks are greater. long those lines we do our best to provide a safe alternative to the folks. we hope to increase this to 81 folks per night. i think it's worth sharing that people leave 7:00 a.m. in the morning they're either going to work or looking for work. i believe that unknowingly all the community enacts with the homeless and don't know it. this program offers a significant benefit. all people benefit. we've been at this location for over a decade approaching 15 years. we've got partnerships and those have welcomed the lgbt communities and they've been providing those services and we've partnered them. our immigrant groups have helped the lgbt community. while this project has been developed we've been recruiting within those lgbt homeless folks. our daily operations are as minimally intrusive to the neighborhood. people enter by 7 in the evening and we put up barriers not to obstruct the sidewalks. those recessed escalations are off-site so - our s

. >> just like delores street has pine trees -- palm trees, we have defined our major thoroughfares with particular species and that's actually considered to be a good design feature, urban design feature. >> it helps, one of the reasons why when the city does maintenance on a street that we have these major thoroughfare, then we can sure the prep yet trees are planted. if there's a problem with the species, we hope to keep up with the literature and learn things, so we can have plans for the future. >> how is the health of this generally, this array. >> this is pretty good. >> generally? >> generally market street looks good. even on market street where they have big, mature trees, they get hit by cars, every once in a while you'll see a smaller tree, we're planting with the same species. >> right here at the next tree -- street we have a smaller replacement tree. >> that's right, that has probably been in the ground for ten years. we have smaller ones that we put in recently we, try to stick with the same pallet. >> what about the trees over by city hall. >> those are the same species