jason henderson. >> i'm chair of the hayes valley neighborhood associations and planning committee and we've been working on this for many, many years as you've heard. in 2014, this iteration began kind of in relation to the tech boom because the traffic from the tech boom started to get bad that year, but also, that was the year we started to see more uber and lyft swarming hayes valley. pot so it tooit took a long tima staff is to be commended. paige street is a disaster. it's a total disaster, waiting for a death. and hake street has constant violation of the red transit lane. >> madam chair, that's the last perp. person. >> are there any additional speakers on this topic? >> good afternoon, directors. howard stressor. i whole-heartedly want to support this. we need places to add a little piece of street for pedestrians, only, and great that it's near a park. i was somewhat involved with this project when the people in this neighborhood, where the people in the neighborhood, one of the first neighborhoods that supported reduced parking ratios for the houses. so we need to find more

. >> jason henderson is on the board of the hayes valley neighborhood association. an avid cyclist. he's encouraged city transit leaders to shut this half block to cars into a real confined small space. >> literally half a block. >> yes. half a block. >> put in convenient block lanes on hayes and octavia. he says there will be many beneficiaries. >> if you bring a child in here right now, you're probably going to be very worried about them accidentally running into the street or something like that. this is going to make this much more child friendly and family oriented. >> roller skate, take my dog, my pubby out. >> and climb, of course, too. parents and neighbors telling me they like the idea of the city parenting a pedestrian friendly mod skp model and applying it here. >> there's so many people here and you can't take a left turn smoothly. >> oh that parking spot is great for bicyclists and people are working it out. >> temporary val ors will go up on octavia while the neighborhood gets >> they will go around here and if it does get expanded it could go down on the next street w