i can't tell you how many people after i proposed this at the board of supervisors, paepl on the board, off the board, came up to me and said why didn't anyone think of this before, it makes so much sense. it will save us money, it will mean more people voting for city attorney and treasurer and if that's not democracy, i don't know what is. there's a reason why this is getting such broad support and i think it deserves the voters' support. >> thank you. and dr. faulkner, would you please summarize why you believe people should be voting against this measure? >> originally it was all odd year elections for city government. the main focus was to have a lot of elections spread out so people would pay attention. that was the idea of the 1932 charter. it is good in the sense given the history of san francisco and, frankly, a lot of governmental problems we had historically, getting people to pay attention to city government has been very important. we had 1901 to 1907 a group called roof ring, they described the 18 supervisors then on the board as, quote, so corrupt they would eat the pain

people are happy to have a room that, we ask paepl to save up money but they don't have it pay for the room. there are complaints, there are complaints about bedbugs, there are complaints about people in the space using drugs and alcohol. these are private hotels and we don't have control over every single unit in the hotel. there are people that come into the hotel to sell drugs. this is a reality in the area we're talking about. there are neighbors that are using and it's tempting it use with them. we don't have as much control over the situation as we would like, but at the same time if you want to expert more control then you have to have a higher bar. so it's a dynamic that we struggle with all the time. but by and large, over 95, 97 percent of people are extremely happy to have a space that they can actually, they get a key, they can lock the door, they can have a place that's private for them and a place where they can store their belongings and just feel safer. overwhelmingly it's a positive response but by no means is it perfect. >> i would say for the permanent housing, you k

we all know second street is a popular route for paepl to get to the freeway. it doesn't connect to any of the on ramps directly but you can take also full folsom or essex to get to harrison. so there's lots of cars trying to get to the freeway. this moves the bicycles over but it's a very different design, very unique design, similar to when we good to england or australia and cars are on the other side of the road than we expect. bicycles would be headed northbound on the west side of the street, there could be additional confusion at alleyways or cross streets, drivers not expecting the bicycles to be coming from the right and also a little confusing for pedestrians. so we would leave about 12 1/2 feat for the bike way and provide an 8-foot planted buffer to separate the bicycles from the vehicles and one lane in each direction and parking on one side. again, we laz a little bit of parking but we're physically separating and protecting the bicycles. as i mentioned, there are pedestrian safety improvements in all designs. this slide is just meant to show some

i can't tell you how many people after i proposed this at the board of supervisors, paepl on the boardoff the board, came up to me and said why didn't anyone think of this