van ness, b.r.t. and people are suffering. it is just a true fact. and i had the controller's office actually analyze sales tax data on the van ness corridor and shockingly, like every poll i have ever seen, it told us actually what we would have thought. the second we proceeded with construction, sales taxes on van ness avenue plummeted, right. so there you have it. real live data. and i just want to make sure that we do everything that we can do. i would like joaquin torres from the office of economic and workforce development and as of december 16th, jeffrey tumlynn from the sfmta, mohammed nuru, the president of this board of supervisors, the chair of this sfcta, our best staff to actually gain this out, far in advance, i'm not saying this -- knocking on doors and getting ready. >> thank you, commissioners. jonathan rurz with the m.t.a. so as a partner with the department of public works on this project, i do want to remind all of the commissioners that the city does have a construction mitigation program, christina did go through a lot of pre-construction elements that we would include, as part of that project. w

i no longer shop on van ness. for van ness specifically, that project we did the open for business campaign. there's an ad campaign on our buses quarterly that speaks to coming to the corridor and highlighting if it's entertainment, the nightlife. we did have signage up to point people to where the businesses are. and we can even have banners that say this business is open. and so this project is unique in that it's constantly moving. there's different sequencing happening on both sides of the street. where parking can open and there are times that construction is not going on. signs are up saying no parking. once we see there's no construction, we're able to place a call and within an hour we can have those parking spaces reopened. >> thank you. i think you're speaking to the actual conditions on the ground and how our office can play a role. i think our role is to hear from the merchants and relay the message to the project lead, which in this case is the sfmta. i think because of the close collaboration that our

when you look at van ness, right now we have three proposed uses for storing automobiles on van ness. no museum license no plan for any way for the community to go in and view the collection like you can at stanford and uc berkeley or other places that have university museums. but simply to warehouse them. so our first request is there should only be one licensed museum. and it doesn't even have a license. there should be a program students should be trained, community members should be trained. they should be open to the community. this can create a vibrant street for use. this other two proposals for the existing bakery it doesn't need to be additional car storage and another paint shop. i don't know how many students can be painting automobiles. two automobile paint shops on van ness is ridiculous. that should be classrooms. it is a historic building. 950 van ness does not need to remain car storage. and when you consider 950 van ness is across the street from a hospital that has 2200 employees has no staff parking none. they have a vibrant -- for the academy to say they have to ha

commissioner stefani and i have experienced it on a van ness avenue. commissioner fewer lives in abject fear on it on geary street. we just -- we've got to do better. a lot of this respectfully is the regurgitation of a bunch of things that sound good, but are not that meaningful. let's keep sharpening our pencils. i am personally available on sure commissioner haney will be personally available to discuss this as we get it going. no matter how many bytes you put this project in and if each is a couple of years. this is a ten-year megaproject. so let's be real about it really early and often. as i said in our last meeting, between bart and the subway, i will not let that happen again. are there any members of this body would like to ask any questions or make any comments? seeing no names on the roster, are there any members of the public would like to speak? i'm sorry, commissioner fewer. >> i am wondering, are you looking for a continuation until there is an agreement or commitments on some of what was mentioned today? >> no. i am not. let me be clear

questions about ad accessibility and people raised questions about transit and the concentration on van ness avenue. basically, the only people that were listened to buy the planning commission were the the immediate neighbors. housing, ada and transit were shit canned. we had no ability to get in put. >> thank you. next speaker. >> when you don't speak -. >> supervisor peskin. >> i want to clarify that on monday, december 9th, the land-use committee will hear this matter. that will not be forwarded to the full board until our first meeting in january for a possible first reading, and the second meeting in january for a possible second meeting. it is not going to the full board of supervisors on the 17th of december. >> thank you for that additional comment, supervisor peskin. i have been following the academy of art university. i think there is quite a bit more here about the proposed settlement be that needs to be sunlighted. too many parts of this complicated agreement haven't had public scrutiny, and a lot of it i am not sure that we can see even now. there seems to be some parts of it t

. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're plantin

van ness. they have all these opportunitye educational sites on van ness a. 625 polk street is within walkif california hall. california hall is a nice build. i'm glad they are doing rehab o. i don't object at all to califo. but having an opportunity, havit they build housing in the futurt have a site is ridiculous. if they have a site right now, e part of the california automobi. i got my car tested all the tim. so it is a site that as they de, there's so much housing being b, built already right now becaused this as a city as a housing are. and it's a huge site right nextt housing that's being built by ty of music, which is an art insti. so i would ask you to, one, fige disability issues are dealt wit. don't kick it down the road to e with it and then oh, things hav. if you are approving a cu, you e plans. if the plans don't comply with y should be changed. two, don't let 150 hayes, put ce building that are real, that thf load a building and strike it ra building. this has gone -- i want the ove- from three sites that didn't han institutional master plan to 43. they were illegal. a institutional mast

so they moved the facilities on their van ness, and they keep running around their buses, it's free advertiseing. they have the bus system. they have a campus concentration on sutter street, and they have sprawl up and down van ness avenue. and they have another facility in the south of market in mr. haney's district. the people concentrated on, in their comments in the years we went through the hearings. they need to pay attention to building housing for their students. some of it really addresses part of it. but what we found in the city, what you found in the city, is the biggest need for housing. so part of the problem that people like me are having right now is figuring out why are you allowing them to basically sell their sites, get rid of their sites, instead of keeping the site for housing. the site in the van ness corridor makes sense for housing is 150 hayes. right next to student housing being built by the conserve horry of con -- conservatory of music. 150 hayes is -- they are being allowed to walk away from i am it without keeping a site for housing. the other thing around van ness

[bell dings] engineers -- we are so stupid on van ness, that for every one day we work, three days we do not work. and it took somebody one and a half years to find out, oh, how to mix this problem. so mohamed was there, holland was there. ed was there and, guess what, a good man like ed raskin, you ganged up on him and he had to leave. and now you've got a clown -- you expect this clown to do some justice. [bell dings] stop the talk, but don't walk the walk. we need engineers. engineers who understand transportation and can do needs assessment. thank you such. >> chair peskin: next speaker. ms. lee. >> hello. good morning, commissioners. my name is janice lee with the san francisco bicycle coalition. i'm going to keep this really short. come on, you know to vote yes on this. but what i will say this is phase 1a. i didn't know you had to split phases into letters, which means a lot of phases coming before you over the coming years to fund this project. and i really think that that is where you as commissioners can weigh in and hold the city accountable to those timelines. so i look fo

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tradition, glad memorials annual prime rib luncheon was held in the tenderloin house of prime rib on van ness donated for the 26th year in a row now all of that meat they but about 3,000 pounds of prime rib and about 2800 people attended glide also has volunteers that bag of lunches and take food out to folks who can make it there to the dining room, the owner of the house of prime rib joe bets spoke with us about fy he is giving again this holiday season. hunger is nothing new. and if you kind of help a little bit. everybody should do is not a big deal. it takes about 250 volunteers to make today's launch happen. the need to also doesn't end after the holidays of course clyde serves about 800,000 meals during the year. and they say if anybody wants to help out they always need. volunteers. >>a smash-and-grab robbery at a southern california mall set off panic after reports, there was an active shooter. police confirmed there was no shooting at the shops at montebello authorities say a group of suspects smashed the glass and a jewelry kiosk inside the mall and grabbed several items and ran ou

i also the art consultant to the related projects on mission and van ness. i will just give you a little background on the two artists. shannon finley is a berlin-based artist originally from canada. she is an artist that i have had personal experience working with for over 10 years. this is a really exciting opportunity for him and for san francisco, i believe. this will actually be his first public artwork in the states. it is currently being fabricated in berlin with a fabricator who has done a lot of projects with artists who have had works at the met museum in new york and other large institutions. here is an image that is similar to but not nearly as tall as the one we are producing. shannon finley has committed to the science-fiction of abstraction. standing by the front doors of the building between the glass faÇade and the green wall, this 15-foot sculpture will suggest the polygon icons of trees or crystals found in early videogames. that is part of his inspiration and influence. made of stainless steel, the work will be powder coated in a matte bla

exclusive negotiating agreement between the city mercy housing for surplus city property on grove street and van ness avenue. we are reporting on this because the negotiating agreement does set the rent for the future ground lease which is subject to board approval of 15,000 per year. considering this to be low market rent. it is consistent with the city policy to have ground lease set in these terms. we will be reporting further on this project when it comes forward for the actual ground lease including any kind of city finance that might be added to the project. we recommend approval of this resolution. >> thank you very much. >> if it comes back to final approval for the ground lease, at a later date, is that the term that at 15,000? so we are being made aware of what the ground leases being proposed that we still have to prove it at a later date gulf that is correct. >> okay, i happen to, two nights before this made public i happened to bump into a family that was talking about what the city was doing on behalf of the disabled community and what we could do to build more housing and more accessib

van ness and market station. crews had to evacuate this and the church street station and without subway service to downtown, passengers had to cram on to bus shuttles from westportal to van ness. freeway drivers had obstacles. this is videos of the san francisco skyway ramp from ninth street to the golden gate bridge. you can see a few cars stalled out in the standing water. at the height of the storm, some streets turned into rivers of rushing water. and some intersections turned into ponds. this is 15th avenue and wowona at the westportal district. fire crews helped clear out the drains when the rain stopped, but the damage was done. >> it went over sandbags that we had put beforehand, and it went, came inside and into our rooms. >> reporter: kenneth cervanes and his family planned to celebrate their 2-year-old son's birthday but cleaning up their home from flooding instead. more than half a dozen homes on this block had water damage. debris and dirt stopped up storm drains and across the rest of the city. at harrison street and 19th street you can see water is a little more than ankle deep as this woman tip-toes through the inter

when we arrived here, there was a big crowd standing around on the corner bundled up waiting for the slut -- for the shuttle to go to the van ness station. it was packed with people trying to get on. back here live, i want to show you people lining up trying to get on the next shuttle. they come rather frequently. but a lot of people showing up to get a ride. we did reach out to tm s -- to sf mta and didn't hear back. more people waiting for the shuttle. reporting live in san francisco, nbc bay area news. >> that is a lot of people. big inconvenience there. thank you. >>> a deadly crash in the east bay and police are looking into whether the rain was a factor. it happened after 3:00 in the morning on highway 24 in orinda. chp says the driver veered off the highway and crashed into a tree head-on. the three people inside died at the scene. two lanes of the highway closed during the investigation. the chp has not identified the driver but say theassengers fro a hayward. police are looking into what role the wet pavement may have played in how fast that driver was going. >> the wet weather, slowing down is probably one of the most

but the van ness muni station has been cleared. >> it off night on the road. thank you so much. >>> is from the to the delay and cancellations at sfo. as of an act tonight, 360 flights were delayed with most flights delayed 60 to 90 minutes. 60 flights canceled. cancellatimostly west coast flights. >>> other parts saw some problems thanks to the weather. the police to prevent posted some water on the road. and the city canceled at the annual hometown holiday parade and tree lighting due to the wet weather. >>> not all bad. snowboarders are loving the fresh snow in the sierra. this was the scene at boreal mountain result along interstate 80. for people on the road, the snow made for some tough driving conditions. a quick reminder to download the free ktvu weather app to have a deep interest in radar and minute by minute update on your area. you can also see uploaded photos which we may show an air. >>> highway patrol trying to determine what made a driver beer off highway 24 in miranda earlier. he crashed into a tree all three people in the car. as ktvu's justi

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one of those sites i know is 10 van ness, which is the old honda dealership and operates as a pop-up event venue and has been incredibly successful at that. so my view on this is that it is smart to more narrowly tailor this to areas where there is a principle many use and i appreciate the piece around shortening the time a bit so this doesn't become -- be a more permanent use but is clearly an interim use, but just as a general point, it's exciting to me that we are making it easier for the activation of sites particularly ones that can become blight or problematic in various ways. thank you, chair peskin for the amendments. >> supervisor peskin: thank you for your cosponsor ship. >> supervisor safa >> supervisor safai: i want to be clear the version is your amendments? >> supervisor peskin: yes. and those amendments are only on page 6. >> supervisor safai: you added the word, and accepted, on line 4? >> supervisor peskin: on line 4, and accepted, and that appears two more times in the same definition of eligible development site at lines 6, 7 and 11. >> supervisor safai: got it. >>

i can think of a couple on 18th street between south van ness and mission. the ramen place. they used to have a parklet there. we thought that corridor was going to be much more activated. so the building across has been vacant for a number of years and that didn't help the situation and we didn't have uses and the embassy were spending a lot of staff time at the beginning of the day to clean up the parklet and they decided it was not worth it. that's why we logged they're reversible and tried to keep the applicants conscious about the design so if and the time comes they're able to do that without a lot of resources. >> thank you so much. >> commissioner dwight. >> thank you for your presentation. i remember when the program started. i'm a supporter of it. how have you seen the application process. you don't have a proactive program so it has to be people who become aware on their own behalf and come up with enough money. what's the activity like now? below where it's been in the past? >> in mission we used to do rsp cycles. i think it would be 30 days when the rfp was open