dpw has worked to ensure that parking lot is a secure facility. it will be a fenced and locked facility. only open and accessible to city vehicles, so for the most part utilized during city working hours. additionally the real estate division has a security team located at some of their mission properties which are about two ploks away and they're adding this to their routine route of spots to check in on to ensure there is no security problem there and doesn't become a homeless encampment or another attractive nuisance and obviously we additionally have been working with the police department to make sure they're aware of these issues and they will be doing enforcement and checking in on these sites as well and real estate informed it's a similar plan they implemented at other parking lots in the area used by city vehicles and they are happy to report they're been successful in stemming the homeless tide and other things in the parking lot and while that responsibility ultimately falls to real estate and the parcel is managed by them i wanted to

we absolutely dispute the dpw's position that mr. yee received a june 12, 2012 e-mail notifying him that there was going to be a hearing to decide the suitability of this location, the ability to object, had mr. yee been notified of that, we could have raised many of the issues that we are raising in this appeal, so it is quite unfortunate that there mr* yee was not given that opportunity. had we been notified, we can point out the various flaws in placing this smf at the location where it currently was. at&t fell very short in its notification procedures and following through with its own procedures, during negotiations that at&t had with mr. yee was fond of boasting that they don't negotiate with anybody, so since at&t apparently has unlimited resources to handle matters like this, perhaps it could have developed and done a little bit more to make sure all of the affected residents and property owners of this very busy commercial area would have been notified and had the opportunity to object. moving on to the merits of the matter,

please give consideration to ask dpw and at&t to be a bit more creative. there are intersections at 20th and irving, 21st and irving, 22nd, 23rd, and many of those locations have blank walls where they are just building sites and not that much traffic. thank you very much for your attention. >> before you sit down, i have a question, i'm not as familiar with the neighborhood as many of you are. 20th and irving, you're suggesting are better alternatives? >> they're still shopping areas, but the -- >> there's no bus line going down there? >> the bus line is going on 23rd out bound on the south -- excuse me, the west side. >> what about 21st and 20th? >> 21st and 20th are just less congested, not as much traffic. >> thanks. >> next speaker, please. >> commissioners, my name is benjamin lu, i'm a long time resident of the sunset district, and every day in the morning, i go up to 22nd and irving, have a cup of coffee and donut and deliver my mail, i was sitting all the time watching, it was one of the most heavy traffic in terms of [inaudible] traffic, irving a

dpw as a rule does not do the abatement. so, whether they are or aren't using the correct materials to remove it off of brick, it's based on who they hire or who they get to do the work. we are aware for the time when we did do t we have several different products based on the type of surface. and staff was trained at that time, but that's when we were doing abatement on private property. >> i can just help a little bit. again, from the historic building perspective, of course, private property can be historic, too. but there's a difference between, of course, when it's a public owned building or private owned building. perhaps some of it is an awareness or an education about resource he he that are available. there's a whole gamut of people available to remove graffiti, people who have never done it before, maybe they're painters but they just have access to materials and they are used to taking paint off. i guess farther down the spectrum of people that have never done it before and just want to be good citizens to remove

and dpw's application of the laws is arbitrary and mr. hwang said that it is 300 feet away and how could that be, they are doing something weird. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hi, my name is keith, and i am not affiliated with any business in the neighborhood. impart of the neighborhood in the sense that i walk and drive those blocks frequently to get from the financial district to my facility. i know that you don't make policy decisions but this is public comment but i will note that the last thing that this block needs is another coffee per vaier particularly a truck that blocks the sidewalk, and it can con gest the traffic further. i am happy to know that there are things that you could deny this application and i hope that you do, you know, pay attention to what you are going to do and hopefully at the end of the day this application will not be allowed to exist, thank you very much. >> next speaker please? >> hi, i'm gary, i'm the applicant. i have gotten no rest in 15 calls from the department of public health over the last

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both for the operation side of dpw and in general [speaker not understood] also. our performance measures were indicators, as you can see. where we are struggling the most is in the number of [speaker not understood] relinquishments, that's the red that you see. other than that, i would say the other two areas to look at are the turn around estimate times for some of our projects where last year we set goals pretty high and we have exceeded last year's goals but we haven't reached the goals that we set for ourselves. and also a number of committees, volunteer hours that we have asked a number of community groups and residents to get involved in. the other area is our response to landscaping. in 11-12 our response was 73%. we are at 80% right now, and our goal is to get to 90%. >> mr. mohammed, can you talk real quick about the red area, number of trees relinquish, we spoke about that before the hearing. maybe you can explain that in more detail. >> okay. within the city's right-of-way there's about 105,000 street trees. roughly 105,000 street trees, the department

dpw is aware of its keen role in implementing the pedestrian strategy by designing and constructing a lot of the improvements that are recommended by the strategy. our pedestrian safety efforts fall into three categories. first maintenance, second, enhancement, and helping the city develop policy so under maintenance we have the sidewalk inspection and repair program and as well as the street resurfacing. we add enhancement through repaving. the curb enhancement program and the screet scape program. in developing city policy we were participants in the citizen strategy as well as the better streets plan. in addition to federal and state grants and prop k funding our primary source of funding for the next three-five years is the 2011 road repaving and safety bond. this is a break down of the funding and you can see there is $50 million that was specifically for street scape, pedestrian and bicycle safety. the projects have been selected for that money but the pedestrian high injury corridors were used to help select those projects. it was also the first time we did follow the paving ef

of exactly where, but it needs to satisfy the regulations as identified by the department -- by the dpw order. if it is a question as it relates to the various locations that was evaluated by at&t, i have to rely upon at&t's comments specifically because my understanding has been they have been working with the community, they have provided statements that they've been working with the community and there has been meetings with the community. >> you have been aware of the concerns raised by the appellant with respect to the location and so what i'm trying to understand is whether the department took into consideration other alternative locations and found those alternate locations not preferable to the one ultimately where the permit was ultimately issued, the site at issue. there is sm what of a burden in my view of the department to make an assessment as to whether alternative -- especially when you have an appellant is voicing as well as community members voicing objections to the site, so what -- you know, it troubles mre to hear that it would be driven by at&t rather than the depar

. >> thank you the dpw, the recreation department, to all of those who helped us in working today. arbor day, it is an annual celebration that we have struggled very hard to make sure this city appreciate because the trees are part of a great answer and solution to reducing carbon emissions and be sure we have greenery and beautification for our citizens. a lot of my friends celebrated chinese new years in china and this year for chinese new years, wilhelm wundt wilhelm wundt of the one of the gifts they gave to the employees is an air mask. if you don't start contributing to its purification, you don't get the kind of air like you do in san francisco. this is why trees are so important to our nature and this is what i love about the city because when it comes to our environment, we do make some serious investments, whether it's green buildings, waste management or going into electric vehicles or getting everybody to change their habits, one of the habits that we want to continue having is planting trees. and so every year for the last 8 years, we have select a signatory to plant a

. >> >> least asking the question and in my experience dpw it's a very nimble agency in a lot of ways and it's smaller than the mta so things can happen a little more quickly and sometimes dpw to its credit moves quickly and sometimes other agencies are not there yet, so i'm glad to hear there is that broader coordination happening. >> right. with repaving in coordination with the mta look at streets repaved two-three years from now so we're starting the process in advance so it doesn't slow down the repaving schedule. we looked at the next two years as part of the streets bond and the repaving effort so it's now getting ahead of the eight ball getting to those future projects. >> great thank you. >> so one of the key efforts that will help bring the pedestrian strategy to reality will be coordinating with our street scape projects or our street scape programs. the pedestrian strategy hopes to improve 1 mile a year of high injury corridors with full design large street scape projects. our projects typically include pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements as well as landscaping, str

they, too, have been involved as a partner with dpw going on 10 years. they have supported the community clean team. the students and faculty come every month in large numbers to plant trees, pick up litter on the streets, and abate graffiti. and in addition to that, the academy adopted 16 city blocks in the city whereby our cap a sigma fraternity go out there every other weekend to abate graffiti. * and i was hoping that they were supposed to be here, but i told them to be here at 4:15 to accept their award. but they're not here yet and that's too bad because i wanted you guys to meet them because they are a bunch of great, great young men who really cares for the city. they're not doing it to get paid. they're not getting paid, by the way, they're not getting an extra grade for doing it. they do it because these are the new crop of young generation who cares. they love their city. they love their government. and they want to give back to our city, to give back to our country. so, hooray for them and thank you for coming. (applause) >> caitlin young. >>

they're random green patches all over the city that are under dpw's jurisdiction. and if you don't have neighbors that are really taking care of it every day, dpw just doesn't have the resources to be out there all the time and you're more responding to particular problems there. can you just comment on the department's level of staffing and resources with respect to those two areas, cleaning crews and gardening crews? >> so, as you said, many of the medianses in the city and many of the plazas in the city have become, some by default or other way, the department of public works' responsibility. so, and many of these plazases in particular, are pretty well used and they need quite a bit of upkeep because of the use that they get. we have never really been staffed to provide that level of service for the plaza in particular and during the economic hard times, we did have -- we lost quite a number of our gardening staff that maintain many of the medians that the city has. we've been able to make up a little bit of it through our programs with volunteers and partnersh

i was there at dpw for years, we were struggling about how we were going to replace 850 bryant streetnd obviously with the financial rec mifms that we we can only do it in phases, only when we do this part, could we work on the courts and the jails and all of the rest of the agencies that are housed, the da and others that are housed in that very old building. today it is about the new public safety building, 700 construction jobs, thank you. union. maus plause [ applause ] for all of the contract unions. panco, and all of the designers that work on this and i notice that the police unit and the fire unit are here as well to celebrate this because they know that the workforce will be housed in more safe buildings and we mean to do that for every police and fire station. we will have to do more eastern bonds in the future, but this particular bond has at its main gem, 239 million dollars dedicated to the public safety building and we are also using that bond to work on the water system and some of the fire stations that are in worst shape and we want to continue doing that. and it is a

as i read the order, dpw order 180502, there was a finding that there is no evidence in the record that there was a more suitable location for the smf, so that leads me to believe that there was some consideration of other suitable locations, counsel for the permit holder has stated that there was an extensive search in this area for a more suitable location, but because of the requirements of the technology, this was the only place where it could be placed, so i actually don't see anything wrong with this permit and i would actually vote to uphold it based on dpw's findings in that order. >> i would tend to concur with commissioner hurtado. >> as may have been noted from my questions, i don't think just speaking to the concerns raised by the appellants on note, i don't think there's a notice issue here, this is a de novo hearing and we haven't had an opportunity to hear everybody including the appellant. on the question of what commissioner hurtado raised and i appreciate commissioner fung's concern with respect to the process and i wanted to find out and i heard from the department th

the architectural team and fish has been leading this project with dpw. next i would like to call miss judy. >> welcome. i'm thrilled to be here. i'm doing a very brief presentation and i think you are going to be very excited by what you see for a supervisor tang just a little bit of history. this is one of 4 cultural centers owned by the city and that is under the auspices of the san francisco arts commission. this is a project as supervisor cohen says we've been working on with tom elliot fish and landscape designer walter hood. do you have this on your screen? or you should have the hard copy in front of you. one of the things we are really proud of on this design team is recognizing the history k place of the opera house in the context of the district. you will see in front of you the very interesting history that begins with the loaney people that live along the bay of bay view. the history of the shipyard and very interesting and important to us is the picture on the far right is a history of the racial tensions in the mid 60s. that corner you see

so, what i'm saying is i think dpw does a great job on giving referrals on contractors, by the way, and a wealth of information about products. but the bottom line is that property owner is only going to spend so much money over and over and over and get to a point that it's just too much money. so, ghosting i think to me is dear to my heart because of this. if it stays there it's going to attract more vandalism. >> great point, thank you. jan, do you want to read another question? >> yes, this is in regards to abatement and it's something that as a city we have issues with, too, so i would like an answer. is there a product that would clean [speaker not understood] without damaging reflective coating? i've used different brands with no luck and i end up replacing the sign. so, in your experience [speaker not understood]? oh, okay. >> [speaker not understood]. i've got a sign outside my house at home. somebody tagged my sign. so, i went out there and when i got done, there was no red paint left, just a big shiny reflective piece. so, i called up the city of highland and i said, my sign

and sfmta dpw and planning department providing an overview of the options that are under development and under consideration. and this amendment here would allow for the development of mission street option to compliment the market street designs as an alternative or as a near term pilot. following the letter from the directors is a study time line and budget snapshot so that you have a full update on the project. at this point, let me turn it over to mindy to provide the main presentation. >> thank you, kelley. >> could we please have the... okay. good morning, commissioner cohen and members of the committee, my name is mindy linesky i am with the better market team. i also have kelley the assistant manager and neal who is the urban design lead and andrew lee who is the transportation lead, and patrick revera who is the deputy division manager we are all here to be able to answer any questions that you might have. >> i have a question. >> supervisor weiner has a question. >> all right? >> and we have not gotten it. >> i know that we are all, given the presentation, >> very quickly.

i think the mta, puc and dpw. i think staff might have the best recommendation for which ones to list as well. but definitely mta and puc and dpw. the effective communication especially with the mta is going to be a core competency that we need to highlight. commissioner wiener? >> thank you, mr. chairman. in terms of the timetable, i have a probably similar perspective to commissioner cohen. while we certainly want the fros move forwards expeditiously and efficiently and we don't want to have any unnecessary delays, the most important thing is to cast a wide net and bring any and all potentially interested qualified candidates forward and get it right. it is better to get it right than to get it done fast particularly on deadlines that are frankly not self-evidently better or worse than other deadlines and that are in some ways artificial. it would be great to have an executive director who starts on july 1st. that would be terrific. if it takes, if it means starting august 1st or september 1st in order to be abl

but i have a follow-up question that actually goes to dpw. you hold the microphone? >> i hold the microphone that way i can pull it away at any minute. [laughter] >> currently the way i understand it is whenever there is a graffiti on a -- the great majority -- and by the way, we have plagued on this issue here in san francisco. we're talking about hundreds and hundreds of buildings with this issue. basically with brick surfaces where the property owner will get a citation for the violation to remove the graffiti. they send an untrained personnel to try to do it. they are not successful and they leave a graffiti shadow behind. as far as i'm concerned on an esthetic point, it is exactly the same of the graffiti that was there before. the only difference is that you took a little bit of the pigment, but even worse. many times the personnel that tried to abate it is damaging the building, we just explained, by putting the pigment further in in that substrate. and -- or even worse, actually really dee facing the surface. when it's historical heritage buildings, there's n