the question is newsracks are a good thing. do we really need seven or space for 50 newspapers at one intersection? similarly, there are bus shelters, because of our bus shelters are rather wide, there are some sidewalks where you almost have to walk single file to get past the bus shelter. so, one of my legislative aides is here and we have some photos we're going to show of some examples around the city in terms of our placement of street furniture. ~ andres powers is here >> is that andres power with supervisor squalor. i'll show a quick set of slides with some of the issues we've asked the department to speak about ~ and as the supervisor has mentioned in his introduction. so, here, we see sort of a large kiosk intersection crowding at one point a pedestrian crossing. we is see all kinds of random pieces of furniture on sidewalks blocking pedestrian access. some of it, again, useful, some of it questionable. we have a large advertising kiosk and hidv that is you may or may not be able to see the pedestrian crosswalk, visibi

no one i know of is trying to get rid of newsracks and i personally think that these clearchannel newsrack pedi mounts are a huge improvement to the old kind of newsracks which were ugly, sometimes badly vandalized, fall over. some of them were just falling apart. so, these are -- i have some areas in my district where i would like to get the clearchannel pedi-mount to replace some of the old news racks. some term of the concentration i gave, because i know in my district, 18th and kass strobe, having 7 of them in one intersection with almost -- spaces for almost 50 newspapers when most of those are typically empty, what is the thinking in terms of how to distribute them so you have enough for what the newspaper needs are, but not dramatically more than you need, recognizing that they do take up quite a bit of sidewalk space? >> thank you, supervisors. john kwong once again. we have to recognize first the clearchannel contract program initiated back in 2002, okay. so, that was pretty much before really the advent of a lot of the digital press that came along. so, at that point there was a

in [speaker not understood] in order to maintain the newsrack certificates. thank you very much. i have my survey in hard copy i'd like to submit to the supervisors. >> great, thank you very much. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is kevin fong. i'm the circulation manager for the san francisco advertiser paper. i received an e-mail from the city of dpw regarding elimination of the freestanding racks to keep our subway -- sidewalks clean from clutter. i'm very shocked to hear committees consider eliminating newspapers street racks. we have been in business over 43 years and we have held many small business to grow. ~ helped they are like us, they hire local employees, pay city payroll taxes, support local business and pay property tax. we are a weekly newspaper. our readers use our paper to save money, retail, [speaker not understood]. by eliminating freestanding racks on the street, that will negatively impact the larger number of local small business and [speaker not understood] largely depend on the small advertising rate of these smal

we definitely appreciate having these newsracks myriad freestanding newsracks consolidated, but if there is not the coverage there, then we really have to kind of have an audit and say can we redistribute, eliminate? on the overhead i'm going to try to improvise some visual aids here, pictures on the overhead [speaker not understood]. sfgtv? perfect. it's kind of hard to see here. you can see here, this is near the e-trade building is behind -- e-trade at market and sanford. you can see one rack here that is not being used and is a -- stickers all over the place. you see a lot of redundancy. you'll see a frame here which is dpw, which needs to be we need to work on regulating those more chollasly. another sf examiner, freestanding kiosk blocking that air why there. this is [speaker not understood] going to the bart entrance there. very busy, very busy intersection. enter you can see there's lots of emptiness, redundancy with those. ~ finally, last picture here, you can see there is a lot that needs to be kind of regulated when it comes to freestanding versus these racks. >> thank you ver

the question is newsracks are a good thing. do we really need seven or space for 50 newspapers at one intersection?

for example, as you know, we were able to work with dfw to eliminate one of the 10 mount newsracks and to put the shelter there. so, sometimes we can, sometimes we can't. we are very sensitive to the fact that the sidewalks are narrow and where we can, we can. so, with that any questions. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. you know, the bus shelter issues come up in our district for a different set of reasons. i think you remember two years ago we had worked on the turk and hyde removal. one issue clutter on fourth can be created on narrow streets based upon people trying to move through the sidewalks, but also the public safety issues. it's not just bus shelters. it isal everything on the street that kind of blocks sight, sight views to our police officers and residents, particularly in areas where we do have high levels of low-level crime such as drug dealing. so, i know that continues to be an issue. and i would really, know, like to work with the mta and see what strategies we can implement particularly in the tenderloin neighborhood where i know we're getting lots of requests to rem