i'm also here to advocate for kimberly jones. i think she'd be an excellent addition to our committee. she's been attending our meetings for the last year. always asks pertinent questions and the fact that she was badly injured, i think this is something that she shares with you, supervisor yee, and she recovered from her severe injuries. so, this is a very critical issue for kimberly and i think she'd be a great addition to our board. >> thank you. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john alex [speaker not understood]. i am a member of the pedestrian safety advisory committee and i hold seat number 4, the other seat that is the one that the two candidates are here for. your approval on [speaker not understood] disability organization, i hold seat number 4, they are seat number 3. in particular, i come to you to endorse kimberly jones for seat number 3 as i became a friend and a peer of hers in 2011 after she became aware of pedestrian safety stories being covered in the san francisco chronicle. she is very engaged and dy

. >>> hi, john weitz, pastor at calvary presbyterian church here to speak on behalf of kimberly jones. i know kimberly in her capacity running senior arts program at the church and have come to know her story. while she certainly has the empathy one would expect having been through her own traumatic experience, she is able to combine that with her analytical abilities, with complex systems and understanding community needs and do so in a way that i believe is collegial and that would work with the community in that way. and speaking personally as a parent, trying to raise children in the city in which they're safe with many cars passing by, she's the sort of voice that i value having in my community. thank you. >> thank you. >>♪ a poem is due, poem is due i like the way you walk i like the way you write and talk appointments new i like the way you walk i like the way you talk like the way you walk i like the way you talk and i like safety, too oh, city you pick appointments new i like the way you walk i like the way you talk pick appointments i like safety, too ♪ and... ♪ this is not

i'm kimberly jones. i'm an artist. i've lived here 16 years. as a volunteer across the street from this site, i painted a 30-foot mural for the obama campaign, and i struggle as an artist to live in this city because of its uniqueness. with 25 years of practice in the architecture business, i am keenly professionally and humanly well versed in understanding what makes for uniqueness and memorable places and i am committed to being in a community that's like that. i love coffee and it is abundantly available in this neighborhood. and with all due respect to star bucks, their product is abundantly available and truly mediocre. the environments are corporate and unmemorable and i wish them well, but i don't want another of their enterprises in this unique city. so, please, please, reject this product -- this [speaker not understood]. [inaudible]. >> next speaker, please. >>> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is justin jackson and i am not only a store manager for star bucks, but i'm also a resident in the castro. i'm asking you to approve our

. >> kimberly jones. >>> good afternoon, supervisor breed and supervisor yee and supervisor cohen, andinda wong. thank you so much. i'm humbled to be here. i've lived in san francisco for 16 years and three years ago this month my life took a sudden change when on a lovely afternoon on second and market, i was on union platform when a car cast me 10, 12 feet. my life, repercussions and long journey of recovery allows me to want to prevent that for any other fellow citizen here in san francisco. i've practiced architecture for 25 years from the time i was a teenager so i have a lot of knowledge of -- sophisticated knowledge of streets and how they work and design issues which equip me to understand the proceedings. i've attended many psac meetings with my passion to advocate for pedestrian safety and not have, you know, one more precious soul injured. my second career is in the young arts. so, i workday to day

. >> kimberly jones. >>> good afternoon, supervisor breed and supervisor yee and supervisor cohen, andinda wong. thank you so much. i'm humbled e