. >> marta lindsay followed by ed bidard and the last speaker is jason henderson. >> san francisco strongly supports this proposal and especially children and families can cross into the green more easily and safely. we believe they need to make crossings into all parks, schools and senior centers and this is right in line with that. and i'and yeah, i was involved n designing the park years ago but the northeast corner of the street is actuall at sidewalk l. there's no step-down at the curb. it was design and envisioned to be a pedestrian realm that cars could go through and i think that this is in keeping with the original intention on that part. and crossing on the western part, i'll tell you, the cars, it's strange how much speed they can get in that little bit of distance. it's difficult for a pedestrian to get by sometimes. 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 te