octavia from market to pell. goal is define projects for the former parcel sites that complemented octavia and design standards for the former parcels. at the time of competition the project was thought to embody these goals. project is designed for the ground floor retail on the octavia corner and frontage to market street and intended to serve as part of larger transition from larger buildings from central market to smaller in the market. market street is also intended to serve as a visual focal point in the gateway of octavia boulevard. five-story front onto the haight street frontage with three to five story residential with full lot coverage. build log be broken down into three along octavia and clad in the glass curtain wall with vertical sun shades. project amendments building across octavia is first baptist church, keeping a consistent roof height across the length of project as it goes out from market to haight street. several have submitted formal endorsements, including the haight valley neighborhood,

the market and octavia dozen vision that. once this is build out there will be ground floor retail spaces along the boulevard, so we are happy to see that. we are pleased that the parking is within the recommendations of the market octavia plans. it is.5 spaces per unit or less. but we do have one concern with the parking access from the octavia boulevard street. there is a lot of bicycle traffic that crosses market. that is a significant bicycle path. we foresee some conflicts with the bicycle traffic there. we think maybe there is a way to improve that, maybe create a raised table at the entry to that side street from octavia to slow the traffic entry mat. i'm sure those can be worked out with the project sponsor. as noted, this is a very sitting site. it is a gateway not only to our neighborhood but to the west side of the city. to the north side via octavia boulevard and to upper market and castro. so this is a very significant site. the gateway is very important here. i just want to -- i'm very pleased to see the buildin

most are familiar with oak and octavia, eastbound traffic making a right onto southbound octavia. there are opportunities we have worked out with the mta and project team to improve pedestrian crossings, provide corner bulbs, extend medians to the northern side and look at reconfiguring oak street to east of octavia from three lanes to two. recognizing that two lanes are only that what is provided from oak, west of octavia boulevard. this would help to also additionally channel some of that turning traffic and potentially extend that -- those two turning lanes further westward on oak to help ease that traffic, provide for more orderly cuing and paramount improve the pedestrian environment. >> it wasn't that long ago we constructed octavia boulevard. was there an anticipation we would be making improvement so quickly to -- >> sure. >> the pedestrian areas so recently built? >> thanks for that question, mr. chair. the boulevard was one of the first of its kind in terms of facility that is replacing an elevated freeway with a contact-sensitive and neighborhood-friendly design. it was

market and castro and central market as well as leading octavia boulevard. so i commend the developer and also we have stanley sidowitz in this city. i think he is one of the great architects today. here he is creating really a magnificent building at this location. i think i strongly -- i strongly support this. i encourage you to. along with that, there are a lot of two bedrooms and three bedrooms. they encourage them that don't have children to have children or children to move in. >> thank you. >> public comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners. tim colin on behalf of the commissioners on this project. our group reviewed this in the spring. can't add too much more than you can add. we loved it. we love stanley's work. ken rich and mark mcdonald already expressed elegantly. like the on-site bmrs, parking ratios, like the spirit, how it conforms to the spirit of market and octavia plan area, which we support. this is a great project. love how it addressed the challenge of a steep hill. the activation of street scape in particular. don't wait a second. you

we were very much looking forward to the market octavia building out. it is exciting to see that is about to happen. i think this is a great plan and at least for myself i really want to express my support for the project. >> thank you. any additional public comment? okay. the public comment portion is closed. opening up to commissioners. commissioner moore. >> i was probably the commissioner who asked the most questions. the paper presentation of this project that's been around a while left more questions for me than it answered. however, hearing the architect's presentation and seeing depth completely changes my understanding and perception of the project, which makes me think that next time you might want to add cd that we can listen to your presentation beforehand and better understand the depth of what you are thinking. i think some of the prejudices i had, i'm going to repeat them, are completely unfounded when i hear of how you envision the project in the much larger context than the package we have, which is a rather flat one, allows us to under

and -- so they can cut down on the number of fatalities along market and octavia. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. and we again thank the citizens advisory committee for the work that they do and their insight to the authority. any other member of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. and the house has changed, so, if we can take a roll call. >> roll call. on item number 9, commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> commissioner campos? >> aye. >> commissioner david chiu? >> aye. >> commissioner carmen chu? [speaker not understood]? elsbernd absent. commissioner [speaker not understood]. aye. kim absent. olague? >> aye. >> item passes. >> that item passes. if you can please call item number 10. >> item 10, approve the one bay area grant program funding framework, schedule, and screening and prioritization criteria. this is an action item. >> again, another item that came out of the plans and programs committee. commissioner wiener. and, again, this is a very important item because it really relates directly to the work that's happening regionally and

it's not specific to market octavia.nd i don't see any reason to do a continuance. >> president chiu: supervisor avalos. >> supervisor avalos: thank you. we had this discussion at budget and finance committee and i ended up supporting the legislation, and most of all because it really seemed to be difficult to enforce this rule. and i just felt it was probably just too much work to actually want to weigh in on something that was not necessarily going to be enforceable. so i'm actually -- i seconded the motion to continue, but, you know, i expect that we'll have a vote probably -- it might not pass, the continuance, and i'll be ready to vote for the legislation. actually, i withdraw my second of the motion to continue. >> clerk calvillo: i have recorded it was supervisor campos who seconded the motion. >> supervisor avalos: that's fine. >> president chiu: supervisor olague made the motion seconded by supervisor campos. supervisor his campos. >> supervisor campos: i seconded the motion as a courtesy to my colleague. i don'

the real story of octavia boulevard, what it is. as i mentioned before,ly reiterate, it did bring sitting benefits to the community. some traffic diverted else where. as this part of town grows and we seek to provide robust alternatives for folks to get to their destinations via walking, biking, transit, ride sharing, car sharing, we will be challenged to do so to make sure these high traffic volumes don't impair the neighborhood's ability to grow and we are recognizing that travel patterns are really diverse and that we will have to be creative, supporting employers that want to provide different options for their commuter, whether their locations are in san francisco or else where. i think what we have also learned from octavia boulevard and finding show that as the street is rebalanced d to prioritize non automobiles we need to focus on how this works in tandem. as the conversation provides at the city level how our corridors function in the next 20, 30 years, we need to be looking at those investments to be paired with those cha

. >> recommended approval of final report of central freeway in octavia study.this san action item. >> good afternoon, commissioners, jeff keller, senior planner in planning division. i will preserve time for your discussion and questions. this item is to present finding and recommendations of the central freeway in octavia circulation study with which the authority has been engaged for some time in partnership with our partner agencies and the community. it was funded by a planning grant from metropolitan transportation commission a number of years ago. the purpose of the study was really to take a look back since the former central freeway was replaced with new touch stone ramps at market and the boulevard facility, which runs through the heart of hayes valley. recommend near-term improvements and high level look of circulation and what those mean from policy and planning perspective in this key core area of this city which serves so many travel demands, whether they are local or cross-town or regional threats that are accessing the freeway goods movement. hig

i take the van ness underground and walk the corridor from octavia to van ness almost every day. and a lot of thoughts. going back to what commissioner antonini was talking about i was in europe and my experience is different. from are membership car tree boulevards that are thriving and violates. transit runs through them. you have areas where there's basically preves where the train runs through it. they don't have to have separations and it works peacefully. there's bicycle tracks that go through. those areas are vibrant and interesting. one of the things that's going to be important is looking at design principles we put in place for buildings and ground floor frontages. what frustrates me walking down market street particularly from octavia to van ness is the obscured ground floor locations and i think that enforcement abilityd working with property owners along that corridor to really liven those ground floors will help a lot with eyes on the street and kind of the more feeling of the access to the street. the other thing, in terms of street furniture i think there's much m

and thousands of new residents, whether it's in south of market and the civic center, market and octavia area, and this subway is absolutely incapable of carrying the load that we have today, let alone thousands of new ones. it's been a significant frustration for me, for example, that we have a significant number of our lrbs that are out of service, that they were in an accident, they've broken down. some of them have been out of service 10 years or more and muni -- and i think that the current management of muni is terrific and i think they understand this and are working on it. to me it's outrageous that we've had lrvs that have been out of service for, some of them 10 or 12 years, that we haven't gotten it together until very recently to even bother fixing these. and the fact that now that we are, they're coming back one at a time. and i know this is really hard and it requires funding, bull to me that's the basics of running a transportation system. and if we don't get that together and then go above and beyond it, we're going to have a real problem in our transit system. and i thin

the overarching goal is to revitalize market street from octavia boulevard to embarcadero and reestablish the street as the premiere cultural civic transportation and economic center of san francisco and of the bay area region. we have identified some specific goals around place, mobility and economic development. in our project approach, we're looking at the street as one street, with six unique districts, and really three major public spaces that punctuate that street, those being embarcadero, holiday plaza and un plaza. the street has one identity, two key components within that identity, one around place-making, really what is market street as a place, what is its identity, what is its public space hierarchy, what's happening in the major public spaces today, and what's really happening within these unique districts as well. transportation, we're looking to enhance the continuous bicycle facility, transit efficiency, reconfiguring of the somewhat awkward intersection and reduction of conflict between all street users. as we look at the six district along the corridor they come to ligh

the first is market and octavia, which was mentioned earlier. it is an accident waiting to happen the way it is set up now. an idea i've always had, which i thought would be really cool, which reminds me of some things they do in davis, with signage, is a long, gradual, sloping bicycle over pass on the inbound side of market for the bicyclists to use to go over the freeway ramp, and drop them off before valencia. and have a bicycling motif link electronics, inc. model number: pdr-885 software version: 3.0c and you just get out of that whole illegal turn, or i saw the green bicycle, but i thought it was a green light for me. and a vehicle hitting a bicyclist. thirdly, i'm not going to have time

>> approve the final report of the central freeway and octavia circulation study. >> there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? please come forward. you have three minutes. >>> good morning, commissioners. >> is the mic -- >>> now it's on, thank you. good morning, commissioners. my name is jackie. i'm a member of the citizens advisory committee for the transportation authority. we heard this item at our last cac meeting and i attended last week's plans and programs committee meeting. the one thing that was not brought up as far as the octavia boulevard study, you have to remember there are a lot of senior and disabled individuals that live along this corridor that depend on safe walking, safe crossing the streets sort of thing. besides the fact there is also a major

so i would like to support that request by the cac of the market and octavia plan. >> president chiu: is there a motion. >> supervisor olague: making a motion to continue it. >> president chiu: to how long? >> supervisor olague: there's no specific dates because they are asking for some additional analysis by both of those departments so i'm trying to -- i'm not sure how long that would be. maybe a week or two? i guess i'll go two weeks. >> president chiu: okay. supervisor olague has made a motion to continue this item to to weeks. i think that would put it to -- >> clerk calvillo: october 16. >> president chiu: two weeks, october 2nd. is there a second to that motion? motion seconded by supervisor avalos. supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: mr. president, thank you. i will not be supporting this continuance. and this is the first i'm hearing that any member of this body was interested in a continuance. this legislation has been thoroughly and fully vetted and i believe what supervisor olague is referring to is a portion of this legislation. right now, if you rent out a spot in y

i worked on the market on octavia and it was pretty exciting as far as how it looked at all the different modes of, you know, transportation, walking, bicycling. we focused a lot on parking requirements at that time. at some point it might be interesting to get a sense of how that has affected or not some of the goals i think, which is to build a more sustainable neighborhood, i think. i just want to see how the parking issue and what we did there has or has not affected the rest. you know, some analysis, i guess, would be interesting to have at this point. one of the buzz issues that i keep hearing about is the whole congestion pricing issue. i know you all have been studying it for a long time. i have gone to a couple public workshops. i don't know of any city in this country that has implemented it. i know stockholm, london has. where are we in the conversation? >> through the chair, thank you for the questions. they are timely and related. in some respects, the authority and various other agencies are advancing the pressing dialogue in a number of fashions. in 2010 the areawide cordon

. >> it is at geary, then pine up octavia, over the california, down the canon, to pine again, to scott, back to bush, down to presidio, down to coast, broderick, and then it goes to church, masonic -- to turk, masonic -- >> so and that's geary, up to california to sixth avenue to lake street to 25th avenue, back to california, and then west of 32. >> just an observe. know we have been struggling with the deviation between one and two for many weeks now. i know we had many discussions around the cathedral hill border but the numbers are district five is over deviation by 2%. i'm not necessarily proposing anything. it's just an observation there may be population within 55.2 border if the task force members are continuing to think or struggle with the 1-2 deviations. >> the pros poll as, we will take them one at a time but the is to reverse the 64 population decision. the second would be to go to the 25th avenue block. everyone clear on the questions? >> yes. apologize. >> can i ask the implication of creating an assembly district for the purposes of 64 people on the median? >> it's just