i thin -- mean everything -- i saw the city design octavia boulevard. it's a mess. this looks like a bigger mess. >> i understand your feedback. commissioner o'conner: looks like a gouge for us to pay more money the >> it's certainly the type of feedback we've included in the study report when we talk about outreach and the comments we've concerned, concern about living on the edge of the zone is the number one feed bblingt i'm going to continue but come back for more questions. so when we look at -- thank you. when we look at the performance of this particular scenario we imagine that a $3 fee during peak periods, again tapped at $6 per day could deliver pretty significant benefits for travelers in this area as well as sort of quality of life improvements. with about 12% fewer peak period auto trips or car trips, that's a pretty significant reduction in hours of -- vehicle hours of delay. and reduction in greenhouse gases and $60 to $80 million in added revenue that can be invested in improving options for travelers on day one as well as a 20 to 25% improvement in

he's been a professor at berkeley, he's been a codesigner on octavia boulevard.'ve known him since he was the planning director and hired me as assistant directory and i think he's had doubts ever since as my capacity to do this job. that's allen and his idea of excellence. it was under allen's leadership that san francisco urban design plan was done. i think you all know it's had a lot of renowned status and i believe the best thing that describes allen is the list of his honors and awards. a fullñr bright scholar, a argur g ugenheim, and many other awards. with all that, let's say hello to allen. [applause] >> thanks, dean. hi, there. nice to see you. why do you keep changing the color of your hair? jesus christ. that's good. you do good. you know, if you add together the areas of all of san francisco's public parks and open spaces, golden gate park,çi the presidio, the golden gate national recreational area, mcclaren park, the public building, add all that together, it doesn't come close to the amount of space in public rights of way streets. it doesn't come c

because octavia boulevard. they come through our neighborhood like it's the freeway. coming to get on the freeway. they barely stop at the stop signs the turn on the relates and the kids are on the corner. they are coming on through. when we did the safe path we held up signs saying slow down. one of the thing we promote our philosophy is all the children are our responsibility. and a lot of the bus stops at the children are going to to get on to their schools where they are going to work. we are telling the community, watch out for the kids. if a kid is standing off of the curb say, tell the child. get back on the curb this is not safe. what we are really doing is saying this is we all have to be family. if you see a child or someone that needs may be advice to get back to the curb let them know and do it in a kindly way. we have a huge safety concern with the traffic. >> on the traffic issue the best thing that happen todd san francisco is 311. there are a lot of -- to drive this san francisco or traffic in san francisco is a nightmare an engineering nightmare the c

octavia boulevard, allen and his team deserve great credit. every time i drive by there or walk by there -- i do walk by there? [laughter] it's not easy to drive by it it's before to walk so that's a timing issue. i'm reminded of that. when we put the david best skull chiewr in there and challenge people to think differently about art. we talk about great streets. again, it's not just what's going exclusively for cars, pedestrianing and bicyclists. it's about everybody. if there's anything that defines san francisco it's a city of unique characterized districts based on cultural competency and unique lifestyles brought together. we should be advancing that notion by physically planning our spaces in ways people can truly advance together in ways they not necessarily have yet. so i'm excited about all this. i'm excited about ,qat dean's doing and planning department. we added 26 positions, allen, last year, not bad considering we had our fourth budget deficit in a row. you made a great case for me to submit more planning, planners rather in the