we think it is actually a very livable house. we have met all the neighbors and everyone is very amiable. we would like your support on this. chair miguel: thank you. is there any public comment on this item? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i live a few houses down from 3020 laguna. currently, they are doing a lot of construction on the street and it is robbing a lot of parking spaces. i have noticed the building plans for these other units, they are getting higher and higher, and it does not really go with the historic feeling of the neighborhood. my initial feeling is to at least delay the demolishing of the construction at 3020 laguna until next year, because currently they are doing a lot of construction on the street, and it is taking spaces in our neighborhood. it is a very busy street. and i know it causes a lot of traffic congestion, too. my suggestion would be to delay it until spring next year. thank you. chair miguel: 6 thank you. is there additional public comment? >> good afternoon. i live around the corner. i was

the notion of a gracious, welcoming edge to that site is one that will make the city more livable for everybody. the plan provides a nice array of housing types to support to the first population of current and future residents, including young professionals, families, seniors, and students. it could be a bit more family and student-friendly. perhaps by adding 3-bedroom units and we would like to see that be a cool student housing project. i am working on a mirror on that. their art to other colleges -- three other colleges in the neighborhood. it is important to keep making progress on housing. the downtown plan monitoring report that was highlighted in the column on tuesday shows how hard it is to create new housing in the city when you are trying to -- new projects of 10 units or more. even with the inclusion of mission bay, a 900 of these new units have been added over the past 25 years. i commend the commission on its leadership in creating a vision for housing over the long term with the recent approvals of parkmerced and treasure island projects as well as the innovative thinki

many people and the work of anne marie rogers and many of the planning staff and tom radulivic from livableell, they offered many insights and the small business commission, a couple of nights ago, that gave us unanimous support, as well. the legislation has gone through a number of changes and i'll introduce the number of projected amendments based on the planning staff's recommendation and our principal and ultimate objective has been about supporting small businesses in our neighborhood especially those that are locally owned and neighborhood serving and to encourage economic activityÑi and vibrancy on geary boulevard and clement street. i wanted to use this prop and that prop now to show visually a little bit more of what areas we're dealing with. thanks, anne marie. this is your own planning map and i wanted to show that the richmond district is very diverse, stretching from usf near masonic all the way to ocean beach bounded by the presidio on the north and includes golden gate park. i wanted to point out that the geary boulevard corridor is& key lifeline to the neighborhood and much

community arts space is that i just love, and it makes our neighborhoods a much more colorful and livable as well. >> what motivated your interest in politics? >> i guess i have always been passionate about civil rights and equality for everyone, and i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality and other issues, but i guess i have always been someone that is vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, and having to listen to many perspectives before making key decisions. as an activist in chinatown, i have always felt that working families and people who work in our neighborhoods need to have much more support. it is always about giving more voice to immigrants or the underserved and workers in the city. that is what drives my passion as a supervisor. >> tell me about the process of running for supervisor. what did you learn from the campaign process? was anything surprising? supervisor mar: i had to move from being a regular person that barely gets his kid to school on time and makes her a healthy lunch to having to go to a photo op

. >> i support working families, livable communities, definite drawn support for the small business. even in my district, there are pockets of poverty and many people of work. so it is also about supporting those under employed people, small businesses in this difficult economy. >> there are a lot of vacant storefronts, so we are trying to find people to read these spaces. there is a bookstore over there. this way there are a lot of businesses that have been closing. >> i support the small businesses versus more chain stores that seem to be coming in to some of the vacant storefronts. i am trying to be sensitive to the local merchants because they make up the unique character and diversity of our neighborhoods. you go to lafayette. i was just there reading to a bunch of kids. i think i was reading to fifth graders. what grade are you in? >> as a member of the school board, i know strong schools in the richmond is key. also, from the birth to 5 commission -- each commission has an organization to oversee pre-kindergarten kids. i want to ensure that the state level that we advocate str

this happens is the transportation plan has finished his analysis of four scenarios, the economy, livability, environment, and infrastructure. there is another round of the out reach planned this summer to communicate those findings to the public. there will also be a second call for projects, which we had mentioned earlier. the back of all and large projects through september. briefly, a couple of studies on upcoming out rich. the intermodal accessed study has the final round of community average planned on alternative connection designs and related findings. that will be on saturday august 13 at 10:00 a.m. at the visitation valley branch library. targeted outreach on alternatives for pedestrians and traffic calming improvements in the area. these begin in july and include approaches such as storefront window displays and a community meeting the va. the van ness brt study is going nicely. we hope to release to the public draft environmental review impact statements in december -- september. we worked with a number of our partner agencies in the city to provide comments to caltrans on its co

world class infrastructure, livable condition. better market street is also making strides. they have completed the existing conditions analysis with probably the most comprehensive examination ever of transit operations on market street. we had over 30 volunteers riding muni for a total of over 20 hours to try to document transportation issues on market and mission streets, both functioning as for the course for transit. -- corridors for transit. we met with the citizens advisory committee on monday night. we will be generating the next set of guidance but symbols. on the van ness brt, we are preparing to launch a 30% design effort, and also for the annual submittal to the transportation administration on draft starts. that is expected to begin circulating to the public as a draft eir/eis in the early fall. we are looking forward to making sure that the detailed designs start on time. the authority and got a joint award, together with the san francisco mta, for the greatest national impact from the department of the environment, for its work on the climate action strategy.

this happens is the transportation plan has finished his analysis of four scenarios, the economy, livability, environment, and infrastructure. there is another round of the out reach planned this summer to communicate those findings to the public. there will also be a second call for projects, which we had mentioned earlier. the back of all and large projects through september. briefly, a couple of studies on upcoming out rich. the intermodal accessed study has the final round of community average planned on alternative connection designs and related findings. that will be on saturday august 13 at 10:00 a.m. at the visitation valley branch library.

large capital investments for businesses and homeowners, and the livability and character of the city for all. many communities and personal identities depend on it or are expressed through our diverse urban recreation. such high stakes can lead to volatile conflicts. in these situations, and jim has shown a remarkable ability to respect the interests of the stakeholders and to find expectable solutions through delicate negotiation. his deep knowledge and institutional memory are irreplaceable. he has done a superb job as a commissioner. he is a creative problem solver and not a gram standard. his abilities as mediator and broker have turned many conflicts into workable compromises and i feel the failure to reappoint him would be a loss to the commission and to the city of san francisco. thank you for your time. >> supervisor kim: thank you. >> i am a resident of south of market. i am here to support jim meko. it is about his experience. you are familiar with the work he has done with the western soma task force. he has an ability to bring everybody together from different communities

. >> i am the executive director of livable city. ceqa is probably not good to

keeping streets clean, businesses, supporting small businesses, maintaining and making sure the city is livable for everyone. no one really looked to their neighbors. they stayed within their neighborhood, but did not reach beyond the boundaries. that is one thing i saw that i actually made a concerted effort on the campaign to build bridges. for me, that goes beyond the neighborhood. it goes to connecting the southeast to the large part of san francisco, wake up, we're out here. we want bike paths, dog parks, open space. we no longer want to have a neighborhood or a reputation of a crime-filled community. the other thing that i learned is really, we are all human. how to connect with that spirit, whether you're living in public housing, owning your own property, your asian, african american, we are all one. we are a community. when we realize and move in the direction of being a human's and having this human experience, connecting together, really be each other's keeper, then san francisco begins to drive. i also learned through the endorsement process -- you go through this process to get end

. >> i am the executive director of livable city. ceqa is probably not good to give us the answers. this is a question of policy that touches on how we create great streets. we have to varieties of public space in the city. we have parks and we have streets. we love our parks and treat them with great dignity and it anybody said the mound to put 700 utility boxes in them, people would be outraged. but streets are a variety of public space we do not treat with dignity. there are a lot of different entities put the stuff into the right of way. a lot of people, including the former planning director, commented on the mean streets. our streets are harsh, ugly and dangerous. it is important we dignify them and make them safer. it will mean changing the way we do business. there should be another hearing on what triggers this. i think the main issue is the first no harm. do not do something that is point to make it harder to do the right thing later. a great example is valencia's street. when london to the sidewalks, and there were these polls that were too expensive to move and they are

need funds to put people into these great jobs that will make them self-sufficient, and give them a livable wage so they don't have to go back. there's a lot of vocational training that is happening in the city. a lot of it is not connected to the job placement component. if you train someone with skills, you should have a job available to them for those skills that they're getting. i also wanted to tell you that we work in the trenches in bayview and the home of the largest concentration of ex-offenders. once again, the big boxes come in. they put in programs. and the small community-based organizations have to really use their own funds to get people into unions to pay for their tools, to give them clothing and attire to get to the job. and they don't even have transportation sometimes. so there's a lot of small things that can happen to get them tools, tooled up, booted, suited, transportation to all the construction jobs that are in their neighborhood. thank you. chairman mirkarimi: thank you very much. next speaker, please. anybody who else would like to speak? i've run out of yellow c

the prior presentation about allowing neighborhoods and communities to have input in creating more livableeet and communities, in a complete street approach, so we are looking at all different factors, not just transportation but where people live, as well, but for your regulation order, it seems that you have very broad authority to protect the public spaces, as well. maybe not as specific as the better street plan, but from my understanding, had you define as that, just in one section, it means pleasing in appearance in the context of the surrounding area, and the box in my district might become behind shrubbery, but to a neighborhood person, it might not be pleasing compared to some of the neighbors in the area that see it hidden, but i guess, how do you define aesthetically pleasing proof is in a regular person in the neighborhood or a community activist? it is so subjective, i am wondering how you determine what is aesthetically pleasing. >> you are right, a supervisor, that is a challenge. one of the things we use is what other service map facilities are in the area. are they similar

we're just supporting a more livable community. i think she just hit it on the head -- what makes a merchant corridor or community viable and vibrant? i think it is small businesses, unique ones that know every dog and cat by name and the customers and know their particular needs and can cater to those and not suburban strip mall formula retail stores. our legislation is focused primarily on revitalizing the geary boulevard corridor and the richmond district in an outer and zoning controls to fill vacant spaces more easily as the economy is hurting everyone right now. i strongly urge your support and i know supervisor wiener said he would be support allowing this to go forward with our recommendation but i strongly urge moving this forward with a recommendation today and thank you, everyone for coming to speak and appreciate the process we have gone through to bring this for today. are there other comments or questions? supervisor wiener: i would like to thank everyone for coming out today and have an opportunity -- i have had an o

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speakers have mentioned the green by claims, improvements, park lit, thing that make our city more livable. so i want to thank the staff of the mta. i see a lot of you out there now. just to hear the support from the board of supervisors and know that the board of supervisors and mta is on the same page. the sustainable streets group, you are doing such great work, and i am proud to support it. the chairman of our board is here. he rode in with mayor lee. i rode in with supervisor wiener's group, from the castro. i want to mention the fact that there was a 58% increase in the city in the last four years. that is an impressive number, but even more when you put it in context. could we have handled a 58% increase for muni writers? 58% increase in car traffic during rush hour? no one would be going anywhere. this is a lesson to us. we have an ambitious goal. 20% of trips are bike trips by 2020. we can do it. if we have already increased 58 -- 58% in four years, we can do it. events like bike to work day are just proving the importance of biking to meet all our strategies and goals. thank you

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