and fulsome is two lanes in each direction and the sidewalks are pretty wide. and walking along it with the high-speed traffic. there is literally no buffer. and our goal was to think of the streets as a safer place and more confidentable and pleasant place and civic boulevard as indicated in the mission plan for the neighborhood. one is the idea of the fourth options and the pockets and intersections because the left turns are needed on such a large, important boulevard. and what to do with the extra space of the two lane could be different approach. one is providing a green median in the center that enhances the quality and connects the mission with this idea of caring for traffic like a symbolic presence in the city. and the median could also provide features and similar to what you probably have seen for the design of ceasar chavez that the median becomes displaced to management which is an ecological component. the second idea is to bring the space to the sidewalks and create a buffer with what we call a green area by the sidewalk that doesn't require a cu

you have the choice of what to do with fulsome and i am incl e inclined towards the median rather than the sides, but either can be very inviting as long as it's maintained and i am hoping we will have the funding to maintain the improvements indefinitely as well as put them in place. >> thank you so much for the point because the part i didn't mention today which is very important is the idea of maintenance and how to make these things and not only implementing them but creating a constituency that can implement and maintain the project and the spaces otherwise if there is no maintenan maintenance, this space would not be successful. our approach to this is i believe involving community members and we feel as planning staff that we have a pretty good relationship and a good partnership with the community at this point and we have been working with the community for over two and a half years and the mission market is an example of a project that really started from us and our staff helped set it up and now we feel that are ready to go on its own and that is a good point and having the

and on fulsome street, i spend a lot of time there and i do like the idea of the median coming up that area which feels so much more transformed with that and the median with the tree line and it's a very congested street otherwise, but that little bit of greenery really makes it much more welcoming and inviting and the park that's on that street kind of shine much more. and also amazing that the market actually came out of this process. kudos to everybody for putting that together. i guess i wanted to know f priorization of projects, how are we prioritizing which projects to pursue? and what are kind of what kind of ranking are some of the projects receiving? >> right. basically the way we did it so far is the potential funding and interagency work and we really looked at we organized our ideas and see traffic coming with capital planning of m.t.a. and we have a very good working relationship with them. we work with them basically on all these projects. we also look at d.p.w. other projects and funding, for example, and the restriping of fulsome has been a way of coordinating that and

upstream at, fulsom, yesterday it was like ten billion dollars to build that reservoir and that's a great example for water managers to take what this means. it's clearly a mistakes to build something that water managers assume they can capture might literally be gone in several decades. >> on the point that we can't assume that the past is like the future, um... you mentioned hydraulic models. i'm wondering if there's any practical models and i'll make the point with insurance industries. when they set rates, they are required to use a message that factors the past and not the future. theres the new model that the insurance industry wants to use and they've all been modified since- katrina and they have three models but they have now revised their catastrophe model to incorporate climate science and of course, insurance companies want to be able to go by those models and i'm wondering if such practical tools are being developed for water management. >> well, the short answer is absolutely, yes. the longer answer is that from my perspective, many of the bigger models that drive our smalle

it is becoming a social center, a corridor from market street to pull some -- fulsom, which is planned to become a major social center as well. there are families in this neighborhood, as are monde -- as armand mentioned. people are not opposed to building, but they are opposed to buildings that do not make sense, that have not considered the character of the neighborhood. how are you going to feel 20 years later if you had the opportunity to maintain a very special area and instead, as one of the developers called it at the commission meeting, a fortress is stomped down into the middle of this neighborhood? it is not just a place. it is a neighborhood. i think one of the head designers of the project, with all due respect to their efforts, was asked by the commission, who only passed this vote narrowly, and people who voted in favor indicated they were voting in favor for now, but it was asked whether it could be done differently. he was silent. the obvious answer was yes. we would like to see some collaboration with the stakeholders, the small businesses in the area, the residents, t