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president yee riley: commissioner kasselman. commissioner kasselman: i have one last question and it has maybe a few parts. but commercial vehicles, like taxis, i don't know if they actually quality as commercial. they're fees are already very high. >> we considered an exemption for taxis in this phase of the analysis. commissioner kasselman: how about other commercial vehicles that are making deliveries to small mom and pop grocery shops? will they have that $3 fee that they will then pass on to the store who gave you delivery? >> so, again, at this level of analysis, we did consider that, but we also considered that the $6 cap would be a benefit to those types of commercial vehicles. this program is another thing that would help mitigate some of those. some some of the outreach that we have heard, one of the
president yee riley: commissioner kasselman. commissioner kasselman: i have one last question and it has maybe a few parts. but commercial vehicles, like taxis, i don't know if they actually quality as commercial. they're fees are already very high. >> we considered an exemption for taxis in this phase of the analysis. commissioner kasselman: how about other commercial vehicles that are making deliveries to small mom and pop grocery shops? will they have that $3 fee that they will then...
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commissioner kasselman: can you tell me about hours of operation? how would someone is a you can find out about you? -- how would someone to visit you -- someone visit you or find out about you? >> we are an event space and we are trying to create our own defense. we do have sfcocktailweek.com, a site we have used for past events. you can look at that and see everything that happened this year. we have not been able to update that yet. a volunteer bartender wrote that site. we also own barbarycoastconservancy.com, but have not had the money to build that web site yet. we have a facebook page to communicate. we have a database of 500 subscribers for e-mail communications. we do not have any salaried people are paid people. right now, we are just building slowly and slowly. besides my bar, i have a consulting business. each one of us has a number of ventures. commissioner kasselman: as a person who is in the industry as well, i remember the first cocktail week. it was a great success. it was definitely -- it definitely generated more business and foot
commissioner kasselman: can you tell me about hours of operation? how would someone is a you can find out about you? -- how would someone to visit you -- someone visit you or find out about you? >> we are an event space and we are trying to create our own defense. we do have sfcocktailweek.com, a site we have used for past events. you can look at that and see everything that happened this year. we have not been able to update that yet. a volunteer bartender wrote that site. we also own...
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we have a second by commissioner kasselman. >> those in favor? >> the motion carries. >> item 10, stuff report, discussion, and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on our see zoning district use changes -- on rc and zoning district these changes to amend rc-3 and rc-4. there is a document in your packet entitled "street frontage s ii." i also included a map. the director asked me to do a step report and i have something for the monitors, so i will -- the director asked me to do a staff report and i have something for the monitors, so i will step up to the podium. commissioners, currently, and i will refer to this map briefly -- >> there we go. >> ok. rc zoning districts are a zoning classification primarily in the northeast sector of the city. there is a lot of concentration in the tenderloin, lower nob hill, into knob hill, along venice's avenue -- venice avenue. there are other isolated pockets in the rest of the city, but they are limited. commercial uses and rc-zoning districts are currently subject to regulati
we have a second by commissioner kasselman. >> those in favor? >> the motion carries. >> item 10, stuff report, discussion, and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on our see zoning district use changes -- on rc and zoning district these changes to amend rc-3 and rc-4. there is a document in your packet entitled "street frontage s ii." i also included a map. the director asked me to do a step report and i have something for the...
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all right, commissioner kasselman. commissioner kasselman: hi. i just wanted to ask, you mentioned quite a bit of performance metrics for the northeast corridor and then the best performing scenario. what is that metric that you're looking for, how are you gauging, is it environment, is it like, are you trying to increase your revenues or are you trying to decrease congestion? they are counter, they work against themselves also. >> it's absolutely a congestion management program. the goal was to simply make sure that the level of net revenue that's generated from the program could support an investment in improvements that would support, so people would take other travel modes. beyond that, there really wasn't an analysis of we want the highest revenue or the lowest revenue. it was simply is there enough to support the type of investment that was needed. the main metric that we're looking at congestion management. we looked at the number of trips over the course of the day to understand are we losing trips. are people going to start sort of filte
all right, commissioner kasselman. commissioner kasselman: hi. i just wanted to ask, you mentioned quite a bit of performance metrics for the northeast corridor and then the best performing scenario. what is that metric that you're looking for, how are you gauging, is it environment, is it like, are you trying to increase your revenues or are you trying to decrease congestion? they are counter, they work against themselves also. >> it's absolutely a congestion management program. the goal...
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commissioner kasselman: do you think the small business in this corridor and they have parks and employees who work 9:00 to 5:00 and they drive in from the richmond and now an hour of their pay almost goes to driving in and out, are they going to start looking for jobs outside of that area? it seems like you're going to lose jobs in that area because they're going to go elsewhere. >> we did analyze that possibility. if we can go back to the presentation, i can put up another slide that might be helpful. thank you. what we found is because, again it's a peak period program and because people can take advantage of other modes of travel by again the improvement of those modes by the reinvestment revenue, what we're finding is that people would see a benefit of the program. it would be a benefit in terms of travel time improvements in terms of reliability of their travel. again with a 12% reduction in peak period trips, what we expect is that most people would continue to drive and reap the benefits of that program, but we also looked at implement impacts that are expected. we anticipate that
commissioner kasselman: do you think the small business in this corridor and they have parks and employees who work 9:00 to 5:00 and they drive in from the richmond and now an hour of their pay almost goes to driving in and out, are they going to start looking for jobs outside of that area? it seems like you're going to lose jobs in that area because they're going to go elsewhere. >> we did analyze that possibility. if we can go back to the presentation, i can put up another slide that...