>> there is a neighborhood organization that encomp uses that area the hayes valley neighborhood association which i am a member of. and they have been supportive. something they plugged into immediately because it's in the market/octavia plan. it's identifiable on their agenda for years. >> you would think but that's not what they do. it's about the neighborhood. all about the neighborhood it would be great if we could use their, say, we will have a work party day every third saturday of the month. >> may be the organizations are about policy and discussions and not or land use issues. you had your hand up. [inaudible]. >> right. >> i don't think you necessarily need a master plan. i would say he will give you a technical idea. >> september 21st is parking day. yes. >> take you know go to home depot and get turf on the place and show people want it would be like. >> it's establishing the conversation to figure out who the players are because typically what we see in the projects -- we do repeat funding we have done repeat fundings of street trees. some neighborhoods started small and came o

i'm chairman of the public safety committee for the hayes valley neighborhood association. we meet each month to discuss public safety issues in the hayes valley western edition. hey, crime is down. hey, we're having a real quiet summer. why? community policing and foot patrols. if thrurp on may 27 at the meeting with 150 people, where the police department said that, community policing and foot patrols. you know, if you want to see about foot patrols, you should have been at the carnival last friday. that's the hayward playground, 600 kids running around having a great time and all going up to the police and shaking their hands because they know them. five years from now maybe they will be running around doing something else with the police. you know, you talk about staffing. dealt with, but the relationships that have been built and support between police officers and scheduling providers, 8 organizations that have supported this, we have sen this in the neighborhood where things happen, and the police can call people and we need you to resolve this issue. last week some

>> there is a neighborhood organization that encomp uses that area the hayes valley neighborhood association which i am a member of. and they have been supportive. something they plugged into immediately because it's in the market/octavia plan. it's identifiable on their agenda for years. >> you would think but that's not what they do. it's about the neighborhood. all about the neighborhood it would be great if we could use their, say, we will have a work party day every third saturday of the month. >> may be the organizations are about cy

my name is jason henderson and i represent the hayes valley neighborhood association. we enthusiastically endorse this project. we've met -- our transportation and planning committee has met at least 10 times with the project sponsor and our general membership has met four times. and over the past two years it's been a very cordial, collaborative working experience. and they've come a long way in their design and responded to many of the community's concerns. i would say that the sfjazz team is a model for how to do community outreach and to work towards a better project that benefits everyone. you know that this is a transit-rich neighborhood, so this works really well. i like to call this transit-first jazz. so maybe that will resonate. i do want to point out that there's a couple of issues that i'd like to point out on a map here of the intersection -- what do i do here? oh, there it is. so as you know, throughout this part of the city many of the crosswalks were removed in order to facilitate the flow of cars. we're basically going to have 800 more pedestrians on t

also we went to our surrounding neighborhood organizations like hayes valley association that has been around for many years and a strong neighborhood association. and collaborate and take your best practices and bring them to the lower haight. some of the things we have done with the da's office stem from hayes valley best practices. but really or philosophy is safety for all. when we want to reach out in our neighborhood we felt like having it safe for your children to be on the streets was vital and important and if the children could be on the streets everybody else could safely. we decided to do things with community events that would involve children and all the children. like safe path day where the first day of school we tell the neighborhood come and stand on the streets while the kids go to school in the morning and wish them, have a great school year. get to know them. tell them education's important. we had the merchants and different people donate and healthy snack ands back packs and school supplies we gave to them. we involved the beat officers and they handed out the sc

neighborhood association transportation planning committee. about one year ago, we had a presentation that was brought to was for alternative uses on the parcels, and the hayes valley farm and other projects were represented. all of them were very, very enthusiasticallyr

neighborhood association transportation planning committee. about one year ago, we had a presentation that was brought to was for alternative uses on the parcels, and the hayes valley farm and other projects were represented. all of them were very, very enthusiastically received at the first meeting, and as you can well imagine, the first two that have come have been a great boon to the neighborhood. we stayed in touch with doug and followed his progress as well as the most complicated in some ways. it has attracted incredible of enthusiasm and interest in the neighborhood. so we're here to very, very enthusiastically support, you know, we just feel it is consistent with everything we stand for, using the land, being creative, embracing newness, so we are really excited to have this. as douglas mentioned, he has been to us three times now, and he has given us all of the updates. the timing of this is especially good. and as you know, this is finally coming to pass, as well. this is for the engagement of the alley, and in closing, we have a letter we want to read to you from the association. dear supervisors. we are offering our complete support of this project. the