, but just in the haight. everybody sort of moves down in the park and they had to put in bicycle racks to disperse that. the sfpd has laws on the book that it could use if it wanted to and some of the issues that will come up are not going to go away. these people don't have anywhere to go. a lot of them have drug problems and we have cut services and that is a broader issue of where those people will go. >> thea selby, i also did not support sit/lie and for some of the same reasons. there are laws on the books that could take care of it. so i was concerned that if the chief of police moved on and lo and behold the chief of police moved on, there won't be the same will to do something if we had sit/lie and my ways of reforming -- i didn't think we needed laws. i thought what we needed is what we still need is community-building and getting people on the streets and activating the streets. i have been working with a group of other neighborhood people, and we have been meeting about what are the ways that we ca

i'm a 23 year resident of the haight. i ride this route every day, rain or shine, winter, summer, year round. i'm one of thousands of people who ride our bicycles to get to where we need to go. and having safe and logical pathways to and from downtown, through the district, is really important. a couple of things i wanted to point out, one is there's been a lot of talk about the loss of parking. this is an area that does not have a residential parking permit, and it should. because i was reading about the studies that were done that show over 50% of the cars that are parknd this area are not registered in san francisco. so that means it is an area that people come to park in from other areas. meanwhile, the people who are riding their bikes on these streets tend to be people who live here and work here, and so we are -- we're being asked to compromise our safety so people from other areas can come and park for free in the neighborhood. that's one potential solution. the other really important issue is we have a lot of peo

i have spend extensive amounts of time in japantown and the lower haight and upper haight and other neighbors of this district. and today we had actually three hearings. one that we were approached by members of the community, some community-based organizations. people wanted us to look at the african-american achievement gaps in high schools, which we also ended up talking about the latino achievement gaps and it was really alarming. very disappointing the statistics that we heard today. as miss johnson mentioned we're asking that the housing authority hearings finally be made public, because we need more transparency this and we're asking for a right to return to public housing. we wrote legislation about that, so we have been spending tons of time in the community. >> miss selby. >> i just wanted to say what i want for this district, i don't have the advantage of actually being in office now, but what i want for this district is a safe and thriving district and i want a strong voice for neighborhoods at city hall. i'm the only mother who is running and when i win, i will be the only mother

the map here, page street and haight street are pearl to oak and fell, they're more residential, they have stop signs instead of stoplights upon this they're definitely calmer streets. but as we talk to people who ride in this neighborhood or want to ride in the neighborhood they said that page street and hayes street have hills. we want to ride on oak and fell because they're flatter with the best connection to the panhandle. we took counts. in the inbound direction, twice as many people ride on oak street where there's no bike lane where you're sharing a lane with cars doing 30 miles an hour, twice as many people ride there as page street which is one block over. on fell street it's six times as much as hayes street. so i mean i think there was a clear story here about -- and we heard it from many people that there was a desire to ride on page street and hayes street. and then there's other alternatives that we considered. we considered removing a lane of traffic. there was going to be significant impacts to congestion if we did that. we considered doing a two-way bike lane in which

upper haight, i'm in favor of this project. i think it's a much needed improvement.nk that most of what io'r wanted to say has already been said but i have a few points to make. to the people who complain about cyclists on the:Ñ:uc> sidewalk,i think that nobody really wants to ride on the sidewalk. i think they do it because they think it's their only safe choice. and this project is going to address that. to the story owners who think that losing parking is going to hurt their business, look in north beach and the mission, to businesses that have had park lets1y>q put beside them. it seems that making an area more friendly tov(i> chairman nolan: thank hlwéí next speaker please. >> bettym9ñ matthew, christopher full kerson and dave snyder. >> good evening. antioch baptist churc

final project reporting on district 5 is a market haight street transit program. [speaker not understood]. the main portion of this project is to create a two-way street -- two-way haight street between laguna and market. this is to improvement the operations of the 71 haight and the [speaker not understood] so it does include spending the facility of the [speaker not understood] trolley coach. we have to add new overhead wires in. it can be expensive to do that, but it is a good improvement. like i said, it's moving almost to the end thev conceptual engineering phase. it is anticipated to be complete at the end of january 20 136789 final design should be completed after that, completing december 2013. moving into construction june of 2014 and completing may of 2015. the total project cost did increase quite a bit from the original grant for this project. this project is supported by a regional transportation for livable communities grant and also some redirection of seeing block grant funds from the 2nd street project as well as some other mta funds. it is fully