once this comes on the polk street is reduced parking bicycle and they are not going to come to polk street. they will spend thousands of dollars to attract people from other parts of town and it is all going to be destroyed >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> welcome. >> thank you >> good evening, commissioners. thanks for having us. and taking up this issue. my name is dave sahagan and i am a resident here in san francisco and a business owner and a customer of many of the people here. and i agree with a lot of what the speakers have said and especially the person that i said need balance and we do not have balance. we do not have representation from small businesses and a lot of different departments here especially mta. these proposals are going to hurt small business, i shopped on polk street and go to the hardware stores there and load up for my businesses. and you know, we got by for a cup of coffee and we are talking about removing parking meters there and yet all around here, city hall, you have, and no meters, and the people are parking for free, the city employees an

polk street is the heart and center of our neighborhood, that is why we are called the middle polk neighborhood association. .the merchant corridor that we have is precious to us it is the neighborhood. it defines the neighborhood. an exciting, interesting, eclectic collection of individual, independent small businesses that are doing very well in our neighborhood and we want to see them continue to do well. as such, mitchell and i got together. and brought neighbors and businesses together to have the final walk-through from the sf mta on this particular project that they were planning and that took place on january 24th, about 70 people showed up for that. a month and a half or little bit later, march 18th, the neighborhood polk association offered our meeting for the sf mta hearing, over four hundred merchants and residents came. with the not have the organization to bus in anyway; all those people were speaking their own truths, what they wanted to see for polk street. we should not be afraid , as people working in city hall working for our neighbors, working on behalf of our neighbors. we

i will also talk about polk street. we have been meeting with members of the safe polk street and the biking coalition. we need leadership to reduce the polarization and the negativity and we are looking at this as an opportunity to do something positive, there could not be another opportunity for another 30 years. satisfy the needs of the bicyclist, merchants, pedestrians. like to see more leadership in producing that positive framework instead of focusing on the negativity. thank you. (applause) >> hello. my name is janine lockard (sounds like) mayor lee, supervisor chiu and supervisor farrell. i'm not asking for money. i am asking you to cut. i am amazed at how many cars are provided to city workers. how much are we paying for this fleet of cars, gasoline, maintenance andinsurance? most city employees use their cars, that cut that ridiculous expense and say the money and provide more meaningful programs. thank you. (applause) >> (speaking a foreign language) >> good morning everyone, my name is -- i am a homecare wor

and i know that polk street is becoming very dynamic and energizei think that is great. that is what democracy is all about. >> i applaud the mta for being receptive for showing up and i know that they are tough. and i am sure that i am over simplifying the situation and i think that we need to meet someplace in the middle where we get better streets, but, the way that things have been for a long time. we don't have to change everything for make it better. some things work the way that they are and it seems to work on polk street and it seems to work in the mission and it works in dog patch. and i don't want to see it or the meters invade it either and i know that is around the corner for us and i will talk about this as a business owner soon. and so, any way thank you for coming out tonight and it has been great and a long hall and i appreciate everybody showing up. so thanks. >> commissioner dooley i wanted to make a comment on something that commissioner o'brien said about the parking garages it seems to me that the thinking that if we are going to be seeing an increa

>> for polk street. >> so i understand your question, are you asking what the status of the project? >> yes. i mean with these concerns that have come forward. >> right. >> because it seemed that they got involved so late. so >> they did. >> so, yes, so when i outlined those four meetings that we have with the safeco, coalition, and the residents on polk street that were disturbed by the idea that all of the alternatives included some level of parking removal and went to the city manager and mta with those concerns and put the process on hold and put the workshops with them to work with them to have them develop an option similar to your question commissioner adams about what happens when a commission says we don't want any parking removal and so we worked with them to sort of draw up what that would look like, and so now four of our six alternative dos include a minimum amount of parking removal and two alternatives came from that group and the work with that group and the meetings and so those are on the table for consideration, we have 600 people coming through to hear from all si

we support 101 polk street project. our neighborhood is missing a key ingredients, neighbors, the area is busy during the day with working commuters and can be active at night when there are events in the area, in between we combat vandalism at earn turn, 101 polk will help on levels, 162 units bring new neighbors acting as eyes and ears for this neighbor 24/7. this will reduce, crime and prostitution and bliet in our streets. there is a promise to keep up the alley and cleaning up the area helps as does adding aesthetics and 101 polk design will compliment the architecture of the surrounding area and there are plans to add a art element as well. i believe that 101 polk is what the neighborhood needs to flourish, we can have a neighborhood that reflects the world class city that we are, i hope that you will approve the project. >> thank you, next speaker please? >> my name is john manning sxh i am a managing director of real estate investing banking and i help developers raise financing for projects and for clients such

dawn turner, middle polk association. we have been meeting with members of the sf mta weekly if not even more. we are planning on seeing a new design on thursday, one that will accommodate hopefully our interests a little more. the tricky part of it is that this coming saturday and the following tuesday are going to be additional open houses where this will be shown to the public and will be voted on. so there will be little time to really flush that out, promote it, etc. it's coming and i think it's good. >> it's important that everything be given due process; it is no good of the group also kind of get the shotgun treatment so it will be important for you to consider it very carefully and as quickly as possible and make your comments none. and i think that i am personally interested. we should be able to see it when you have the information. i live on second street and i am familiar with this process and i familiar with the mta's desire to make san francisco look like an european city, and there is talk about making sig

the polk situation. you have to move for consideration the people that were there, that people that work there, they also the small businesses that have no place else to park to load and unload their goods on polk street and plus you have that large walgreen's. we did not make a recommendation. we didn't want this go forward because we want more work done out of it and more studying done on it before you try to take away the parking and the safety for the people in the neighborhood. thank you very much. >> next speaker? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> can we move thisitem forward without objection? >> moved. thank you. miss chang please call the next item. >> item no. 9. item 9: recommend appropriation of $240,432 in prop k funds, with conditions, for environmental analysis and advanced conceptual engineering and an allocation of $1,311,847 in prop k funds, with conditions, to the san francisco municipal transportation agency for preliminary engineering f

for polk street in particular we tried this walking tour idea. and then, we get into presenting alternatives. and the next step going forward are that we come out with a recommendation at a final public workshop and then we go into design, and environmental review. and then, legislation, in the fall. and i will say that this is just about the out reach, the sort of external face of the project, internally we are doing a lot of data collection and studies and analysis and coordinating with other projects in the area to see if tests all of these alternative to see which ones are fatally flawed and take them off the table if they don't work. >> this is the similar approach to the one that we took on the open felt street but i think that this is where we like to find out, how can we meet people where they are. how can get people's attention and how can we get their time and what is the best way for us to use it because it is incredibly valuable and precious, so that we don't ends up with a a lot of bitterness or confusion about the projects because w

we tried to balance the interest of the community and i think that what we will end up on polk treat is what i hope will be a win/win solution that will achieve the majority of the bike and pedestrian safety goals but in a way that works for the neighborhood and we do that to a greater or a lesser degrees to each project because it is always that fixed right-of-way that we are trying to figure out best how to allocate. >> i have one more quick question on meters because this is something that you did on castro street and that works great and i am hoping to see it. and i wanted to bring it up at this that is does city wide yellow meters. you know that the truck meters where after 3:00 in the afternoon, they convert to a regular parking meter. and it is only in that block that it works. and for everywhere else, where else you are going in the city they don't have that and if there is only way that you can implement that city wide and you can go to the sunset or the snowy valley, and you have the yellow zones and you can't park here and you get a ticket if you are a car, after 3:00 ther

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folks for polk advocate for the infrastructure for public space and public discourse. despite i have years of outreach by the smta, hundreds of thousand dollars have already spent for almost no progress. delays will further drive up the cost to both the economy and to civil society. we are demanding to maintain an effective status quo which is simply not an option. the current rate of coalition costs an average of 23 million dollars a year not including legal and administrative costs. apart from the terrible human toll -- the actual rental value of the land use for polk's on street parking suppression three -- the year. the city collects -- for parking on polk so we are subsidizing almost 1,000,000 dollars a year to the very few who get there by car. it has the potential to become the prime destination for san franciscans and visitors alike. it's a wonderful opportunity that we won't have again for another 30 years. if we ignore the trend about future needs, will not be able to maintain a competitive edge and liability. finally a part of the local economy that is overl

found not only was polk overbear budget polk tried to use congress as a rubber stamp.so lincoln tried to be very solis to us of congress to try to keep them in the loop to try to make them feel as to the they were part of the decisionmaking process even when he already made the decisions for them. and it works. when he becomes president he issues a call for a number of volunteers and money to fund the civil war. congress actually increases the number of troops above what he asked for and increases the appropriation, and one of the things lincoln was very mindful off. polk fought publicly with zachary taylor. i'm convinced why he ran for president. polk would not make a public pronouncement about any of his generals without fighting with them. so he tried to aplace two of. the with a democratic general so maybe the democracy can run for president. tries to politicize the war. lincoln tried to do that in other different way. his first three appoint 's to generals in the union army or up democrat, all representing some sort of important group. elected officials, because l

found not only was polk overbear budget polk tried to use congress as a rubber stamp. so lincoln tried to be very solis to us of congress to try to keep them in the loop to try to make them feel as to the they were part of the decisionmaking process even when he already made the decisions for them. and it works. when he becomes president he issues a call for a number of volunteers and money to fund the civil war. congress actually increases the number of troops above what he asked for and increases the appropriation, and one of the things lincoln was very mindful off. polk fought publicly with zachary taylor. i'm convinced why he ran for president. polk would not make a public pronouncement about any of his generals without fighting with them. so he tried to aplace two of. the with a democratic general so maybe the democracy can run for president. tries to politicize the war. lincoln tried to do that in other different way. his first three appoint 's to generals in the union army or up democrat, all representing some sort of important group. elected officials, because

and i want to just talk a little bit >> we are going to talk about polk in particular and the north east mission, and when we talk about the parking. and then, we are really eager to hear the feedback from the public and from the commission. so just a minute on the sfmta. and as you know we will put together to really be an integrated comprehensive transportation for the city. the voters took what used to be some pieces of muni of tax is and tackering and traffic and put it altogether under one roof and we could integrate and coordinate in a way to manage the transportation or the city. and it was what we are a unique agency in that regard and i think that there was a lot of foresight for the people and the voters of san francisco to put that together. i think that we are still going through the growing pains and really coming into our own as an agency. but i think that the direction is a good one for the city to enable us to comprehensively evaluate the transportation and manage transportation for the city. and the sfmta board of directors last year, approved a strategic plan for the ne

polk street merchants association.i am happy that you decided to have a hearing on parking issues and we would like to give you today more detail up out some of the things that are happening in our neighborhoods in san francisco around parking and different things with mta, streetscape, streets, everything. hopefully this will give a chance to the small business community and the commission and some of these issues that we are experiencing with mta, which are a lot and are happening all the time. hopefully the commission can come up with some recommendation that will help change policies of the mta and also more importantly change the attitude of this particular agency. of our presentation should give you some insight about what we are dealing with in all areas of the business community. we are talking about issues in the retail corridor; in the business district, light industry; and the downtown areas of the city. one big goal, we in our business community and you representatives in the commission are always dealing w

it is located at the northwest corner of polk and haze streets in the downtown civic neighborhood and the zoning district. >> the proposed building is 13 stories and 120 feet tall and will provide 19 on site affordable units that will be located on the site currently used by a surface parking lot. the building contains 51 subgrade parking spaces including one space and 52 bicycle parking spaces. the project sponsor will give a presentation regarding the design, but i would like to focus on the regular and policy issues. >> order to proceed it will need a change in 309, including the granting of several exceptions it allows it to seek exception from strict compliance with only certain sections of code providing that the commission makes findings, the request requests exceptions regarding the rear yard, parking and the reduction of ground level wind currents. compliance with the criteria for each exception is described in the draft section 309 motions in your packets i am available to discuss any of these specific exceptions in detail if you have any questions, in short, they believe th

next project is the polk street demonstration project. the fta requested $5,000 to construct and evaluate a demonstration on polk in different locations. the demonstration project will install improvements like by ways and temporary curb extensions with pavement marking. this will allow mta to study the potential impacts of these types of treatments, these types of bicycle and

save polk street which is save polk street.com. district 5 diary. that's district no. 5diary.com. meter madness which is meter madness do the word press.com. eastern neighborhoods united fronts which the sfenuf.org. and then also sf info which is sfpar .info. thank you. miss jackie. we are going to ask if you would limit your comment to 2 minutes because we still have a lot of stuff on the agenda if that's okay please. we are still on public comment item 7. >> thank you. i'm allergic to labs and i was thinking being in the bathroom was far enough away that i wouldn't leave in an ambulance. that's how sensitive i am. going from there to the blue placard thing. very quick placard story. i live at the apartment between folsom and howard street. i heard a loud commotion, loud music one day and i see two latino males who are discussing one having a flat tire and need to get a ride to have the flat tire repaired. one of them had a blue placard and his friend said, where did you get that from? he said never mine, i want to use it. he said you can't use that. he threw it in the gutter. i

save polk street which is save polk street.com. district 5 diary. that's district no. 5diary.com. meter madness which is meter madness do the word press.com. eastern neighborhoods united fronts which the sfenuf.org. and then also sf info which is sfpar .info. thank you. miss jackie. we are going to ask if you would limit your comment to 2 minutes because we still have a lot of stuff on the agenda if