there is liveable city. there is the friends of the urban forest. the neighborhood parks council. the reason i bring these up now is part of the conversations with stake holders you have are with the fiscal sponsor. many of the fiscal sponsors have technical skills and lots of experience with the city that they will absolutely share with you and become stake holders in your project. >> yep. >> right. you might want to bounce your if you have an idea and we haven't addressed it. you might go down and talk to those people and bounce your ideas. >> one of my sponsors 8 years ago was the bernel heights neighborhood center and it dealt with the vandalized wall. they became my fiscal sponsor and talk about a community alli and way to reach, like the tree with branches that reached out to the other people in the neighborhood. what better resource to work with? >> great. >> >> right. the question is if you require certain permits if your project requires permits dou have to have the permit necessary place before you aply the answer is, no. however, you would caution you th that there are

and the director and member of liveable cities. thanks for being a great advocate for these improvements. i want to acknowledge the deputy director for public works who oversaw the construction and deputy director for operations who now will be responsible for maintaining this beautiful landscape. if he doesn't do so the mayor will remind him. finally, i want to acknowledge the guy who led the team that designed this whole project, an outstanding project. a lot of effort went in to getting community consensus, to working out the technical details and coming out with a beautiful project. landscape architect john dennis. the designers. then last but most the project manager for valencia street and the great streets program within d.p.w. or project manager, chris. phenomenal job on this project. with that, we want to thank you for coming today to celebrate valencia street and the better streets plan. we would be happy to take questions if anybody has them for the mayor or anybody else. >> or we could do the ribbon cutting. >> on to th

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city's new better streets plan. instead of guidelines of rethinking how streets are designed. >> it's not about cars versus bicycles, it's about looking comprehensively at liveability of life. >> reporter: a strong endorsement backed with 40 years of expertise. joe rosato junior, nbc bay area news. >> it looks nice. mayor newsom says the city will redesign caesar chavez street and 19th avenue next. >>> from san francisco let's head to mountain view where jeff ranieri is at rehearseal of a japanese festival. have you learned to play the drums yet? >> reporter: i tried, but it's a highly skilled thing. right now as you mentioned, we're out here in full rehearsal mode for this truly unique event happening in the bay area this weekend. it is the o bone festival, part japanese tradition and part buddhist tradition as well. as we're panning over, what you're looking at is the bone adore dancing that's happening. it's all a cultural mix of many things happening here throughout the bay area. again, a lot of people coming out to this event in mountain view this weekend, and one of our own actually coming out today. mike, thank you so much for setting this up. you're our tra