iive will at 153 page street just a couple doors from octavia boulevard. and every day i witness the chaos that is pedestrians, activists, cars and trucks trying to navigate an intersection that has become an unintended freeway on-ramp. as the mother of a high schooler and a middle schooler, who both ride their bikes through the neighborhood and the city i view the current situation as unsafe and untenable. the anger of motorists got so bad, a neighbor created april fool's signs, ta encourages drivers to take a breath and lay off the horn and they worked, for a little while. [laughter] for more lasting solution, the proposed pilot to alter page street traffic patterns including prohibiting turns is a good place to start. the work should not end there. the m.t.a. needs to prioritize safety for pedestrians and cyclists if we want more people to take more of their trips without the use of their cars. traffic through our neighborhood in particular and the city as a whole must be looked at holistically. changes to traffic-flow patterns on page street will inevi

one example is on the octavia boulevard where they could leverage impact fees but needed a partner to offer assistance and maintain that. so we're entering into an mou to do that. and then what we always are keeping our eye on from a participation inspecto perspectt are we getting? and this shows the stacked benefits of having those regulatory incentive-based and capital interventions in the landscape. so by 2032, wore looking to manage about half a billion of gallons of stormwater to keep it out of our sewer system and continue our efforts to a long-term goal of removing a billion gallons a year using green infrastructure and that would be about a tenth or 10% of all of the rain that falls on san francisco. and just as important as the stormwater management, the whole point is to deliver multiple benefits to san francisco. in terms of the place making with a stormwater performance, we've done a lot of different modeling exercises and this just represents one scenario. so it's meant to be representative. and it shows that by leveraging this investment, we could have about 200 boxes of

we also understand there's a lot of environmental mitigations with traffic and off roads on octavia boulevard. so sometimes that happens organically. i would love to state we can go above and beyond. we have an urban forest plan that calls for in-fill plants. we are using the census data we have from the survey to identify that. but i think we would have to be careful in terms of overcommitting to what we can do. but that's certainly a consideration for any of these sites where there's been a large for lack of a better word large removal. >> lastly, for the species selection, are there evergreen species that you would recommend that are compatible with our climate and kind of other goals in terms of planting trees that are compatible here? >> yes. and with hayes valley neighborhood association there's a desire among many to see evergreens. there's also strong desire in the community to look at other factors. there's a lot of different things the trees provide. carbon sequestering is not the only one. that's difficult. i want to be up front about that. but there is a robust discussion that's t