think is huge far beyond the limits of our city where i think the impact will be minimal i do think it could have a larger national ripple effect. we'd be the first major american city to pass the elimination of the minimum parking requirements. and think it's important as we talk about climate change as we fight this trump-denial agenda and show san francisco is a city that puts our residents and housing first over vehicles and parking. colleagues, i ask for your support on this ordinance and hope at minimum we can move it forward to the full board for an up or down vote. finally, i want to thank the members of the public that came today and came to the outreach meeting and wrote letters of support i want to thank those who helped work on the legislation, alice rodgers from the neighborhood association and cathy deluca and the planning department for all their work in the outreach. >> thank you, supervisor, safai. >> just since you brought it up because i'm actually someone that's worked in vernal heights over there i want to ask a couple questions. so vernal heights no longer has a minimum parking requirement? >> it's still in the code but any

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they must also contribute to public transit for the new residents and we are a transit-first city. so you have heard this comment before. this must be included. low-cost housing, must always be included in any consideration of policy for new buildings. because otherwise you are going to get sprawl. so, thanks. >> good afternoon, supervisors, corey smith on behalf of the san francisco housing coalition, also in support. i won't really repeat my comments from the last time we gave comments on this but just one added component of the development economics, as you all know it's incredibly expensive to build housing -- or sorry, parking spots, it's expensive to build housing too, but that's a different conversation. we are talking about $75,000 per underground stall. this is a huge, huge cost for home builders to include it. often times we always try to encourage to do bike parking and as many transit options as possible. no-brainer, i think is the word i used last time and reiterating that today. please support it and move it forward. thank you. >> hello, supervisors, my name is scott

city clinic. he was the first time i came to city clinic was a little intimidated. e first time i got treated for [inaudible]. i walked up to the redline and was greeted with a warm welcome i'm chad redden and anna client of city clinic >> even has had an std clinic since all the way back to 1911. at that time, the clinic was founded to provide std diagnosis treatment for sex workers. there's been a big increase in std rates after the earthquake and the fire a lot of people were homeless and there were more sex work and were homeless sex workers. there were some public health experts who are pretty progressive for their time thought that by providing std diagnosis and treatmentsex workers that we might be able to get a handle on std rates in san francisco. >> when you're at the clinic you're going to wait with whoever else is able to register at the front desk first. after you register your seat in the waiting room and wait to be seen. after you are called you come to the back and meet with a healthcare provider can we determine what kind of testing to do, what sampl

san francisco is the first city in the nation to have a trans alleged government office. his city is committed to the advancement of the transgender community. i am a proud member of the transgender advisory committee and i am honored to work alongside some of the fiercest community leaders in san francisco. if you are part of the t.a.c. team, please stand up. we would like to acknowledge you [cheers and applause] >> thank you for being leaders in our community. at the t.a.c., we help prioritize community needs and give recommendations that advise the office of transgender initiatives and the mayor's office. i am also a human rights commission or. i was appointed by our late mayor ed lee, may he rest in peace. i would not be here today without the guidance of some amazing people like teresa sparks, cecelia chung, nikki, jason chan, and francis sang. thank you all. i mentioned this because i want to stress the importance of leadership. this recent midterm election, we had a rainbow wave, everybody. record breaking numbers of lgbtq , women, people of color elected into offic

we have accomplished some really tremendous feats, become the first city in the country to mate -- me to $15 an hour and july 2018, which we should acknowledge. we let the way and became the first city in the united states to issue marriage license and same-sex marriage licenses in 2004. we have been the leader on so many fronts in regards to environmental -- being proactive in regards to protecting the environment and climate change. so that leads to the question, when do people of color become a priority in san francisco? that is why we are here today. the black population in san francisco is hemorrhaging. it has been hemorrhaging. if the census trends continue from the last study that was done, which i believe is somewhat conservative, because it does not incorporate all the postrecession impacts and wealth distribution that took place over the last ten years, in two years, the black population -- just take in those numbers. in two not years, the black population in san francisco will be 4.27%. down from 13.4% at a point to, which is a 70% decline in a fifty-year period. in 12 year

parking minimums have no place in a transit first city. they have no place in a vision zero city. and good transportation policy happens on both sides of the property line. i also want to add that in my 13 years working for this city in the planning department and at sfmta, i have never once had to echo being part of a discussion about a development project where there was any desire on the part of the city to see more parking added. there have been many discussions involving looking to have less parking added. our next step is to look at some parking maximums as well and stronger ones. most of all, i want to say, thank you. sfmta is fully supportive. >> hello, supervisors. i am here to support eliminating minimum parking requirements. i am offering comments here is as a san francisco resident but also i am a proud renter but also as a parking professional. i work for a small software company in san francisco that helps cities use data to improve parking management. i work with cities to analyse occupancy patterns across on street lots and garages. through my work, one thing has b

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if it passes, we will be the first major american city to do this. the first major city in north america i guess that includes canada. we would love to get the support of the board of directors. there's definitely some hesitation on the board of supervisors and while there won't be an immediate impact, we know in the long-term, this is exactly the direction that a transit-first city should head. developers can build parking but we should not be requiring them to build that parking. i want to thank the staff members that came to public comment. we rarely get so many planners at public comment at land use. it was continued at land use because my colleagues would like more conversation and dialogue and feedback and so i think this board is an important one to hear from. so thank you again for all of your work and happy election day. >> thank you, very much supervisor kim. thank you for all work you've done for this city. >> supervisor, i for one want to thank you for your service and leadership over the years to the great city and county of san francisco

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first city. that start back in europe where a mimic protest in belgium has erupted in clashes the so-called yellow vests rallies spread from fronts to brussels. a lot of five hundred demonstrators gathered in the city center on friday morning they are protesting in solidarity with the french movement against fuel price hikes on what they say are rising living in close. yes chanting for the french and belgian leaders to resign protesters started to throw stones out police officers responded by deploying tear gas dozens of people opting to taint we will be picketing across the the protests there to see to the flare up this evening because they are at judo towards the parliament in brussels that is a no go zone for rallies let's get more all this with geo politics expert peer among you well tom you're very welcome to the program why do you think the protesters in belgium have taken to wearing yellow fast like in france is it such that a larger movement perhaps across two countries will achieve more.

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