districts to finance landscaping, improvements, and maintenance of public realm areas, including parks, parklets, sidewalks, landscaped areas, plazas, and gardens; to authorize the purchase of real property with assessment funds, where property will be a public realm area and the district will provide landscaping, improvements and/or >> item number 1 is ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code, by adding article 15a "public realm landscaping, improvement and maintenance assessment districts," to provide for establishment of assessment districts to finance landscaping, improvements, and maintenance of public realm areas, including parks, parklets, sidewalks, landscaped areas, plazas, and gardens; to authorize the purchase of real property with assessment funds, where property will be a public realm area and the district will provide landscaping, improvements and/or maintenance; and making environmental findings. >> thank you. i'll turn this over supervisor cohen. >> thank you for your interest and today's agenda. i want to thank you for hearing this item today. i have been working

and the parklets you might know but the dwp alliance parks program that also support the citizens participation as well as the urban forests that do the sidewalk garden projects. all those projects involves the praurpgs but the city doesn't have an approach for the plaza that are not part of the rec and park department jurisdiction. so those spies emerge citywide right now and don't have a system terrific support system once they emerge. we role building they help to transform the public realm but don't also have a sustainability approach. so some of the examples where they emerge from are the pavement and parks as well as the in kind process through the planning department those are cases where the builder build and efforts like investments in parks as well as the areas plans are the places where those places emerge from. i've talked about the plaza but so we're talking about plaza that are not small generally over 2 though square feet in active corridors so those kwo could be commercial or along bicycle corridors or national pedestrian or activation potential. they as i mentioned are outside