it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year.k your calendars every year. you can see us on the website shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclus

i just wanted to thank you for including visitacion valley and the portola in that. i'm looking very forward to engaging in the planning effort. and then, i think my guess is that supervisor walton and chair peskin want to talk about the $200,000 for the curbside pick up. i could be wrong there, but i am not happy about that. so i will waive, as well, until that presentation happens, but i would chime in and say that that would not be my choice to fund that program. i don't understand why we're providing public space to private companies that isn't even treat their workers as the employees that they are. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, commissioner ronen. well stated. we'll go back to you, mr. pi pickford. >> i will ask francesca from sfmta to make her presentation. >> chair peskin: great. please proceed. >> good morning. my name is francesca napolitan, and i'm here to present an overall adoption of our curb management strategies, as well as provide a proposal for a shared spaces pick up zone evaluation. >> chair peskin: whoever -- somebody needs to mute. some

i just wanted to thank you for including visitacion valley and the portola in that. i'm looking very forward to engaging in the planning effort. and then, i think my guess is that supervisor walton and chair peskin want to talk about the $200,000 for the curbside pick up. i could be wrong there, but i am not happy about that. so i will waive, as well, until that presentation happens, but i would chime in and say that that would not be my choice to fund that program. i don't understand why we're providing public space to private companies that isn't even treat their workers as the employees that they are. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, commissioner ronen. well stated. we'll go back to you, mr. pi pickford. >> i will ask francesca from sfmta to make her presentation. >> chair peskin: great. please proceed. >> good morning. my name is francesca napolitan, and i'm here to present an overall adoption of our curb management strategies, as well as provide a proposal for a shared spaces pick up zone evaluation. >> chair peskin: whoever -- somebody needs to mute. some

it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year.k your calendars every year. you can see us on the website

i just wanted to thank you for including visitacion valley and the portola in that. i'm looking very forward to engaging in the planning effort. and then, i think my guess is that supervisor walton and chair peskin want to talk about the $200,000 for the curbside pick up. i could be wrong there, but i am not happy about that. so i will waive, as well, until that presentation happens, but i would chime in and say that that would not be my choice to fund that program. i don't understand why we're providing public space to private companies that isn't even treat their workers as the employees that they are. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, commissioner ronen. well stated. we'll go back to you, mr. pi pickford. >> i will ask francesca from sfmta to make her presentation. >> chair peskin: great. please proceed. >> good morning. my name is francesca napolitan, and i'm here to present an overall adoption of our curb management strategies, as well as provide a proposal for a shared spaces pick up zone evaluation. >> chair peskin: whoever -- somebody needs to mute. some

there you can see over portola valley, we had a little bit of light shower activity. as we get you in closer, you can see some of this is starting to now make it into the south bay. the lower atmosphere is still a little bit dry so much of this is not touching the ground. we could see a little bit of this hold up into sunnyvale to produce a light shower. be careful on the roadways because we will keep this slight chance of some spotty showers. it's all from this cold, wide-reaching storm dropping down across. the primary thing we're dealing with is those colder temperatures. a slight chance of a spotty shower as we move through tonight, primarily for the south bay and the peninsula, and then you'll see as we move through tomorrow morning, we'll hold on to just a little bit of a chance here off towards our east as well. so it's not the big rainmaker we need, but at least our temperatures are starting to head into the right direction. so as we bring you into our sierra snow forecast, that's really where the storm system is going to hit hard. look at this. seven to eight

it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year.k your calendars every year. you can see us on the website >> clerk: the board meeting guidelines are as follows. the board requests that you turnoff all cell phones or electronic devices so that they don't disturb the proceedings. appellants, permit holders, and department respondents are each given three minutes to present their case and three minutes for

i just wanted to thank you for including visitacion valley and the portola in that. i'm looking very forward to engaging in the planning effort. and then, i think my guess is that supervisor walton and chair peskin want to talk about the $200,000 for the curbside pick up. i could be wrong there, but i am not happy about that. so i will waive, as well, until that presentation happens, but i would chime in and say that that would not be my choice to fund that program. i don't understand why we're providing public space to private companies that isn't even treat their workers as the employees that they are. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, commissioner ronen. well stated. we'll go back to you, mr. pi pickford. >> i will ask francesca from sfmta to make her presentation. >> chair peskin: great. please proceed. >> good morning. my name is francesca napolitan, and i'm here to present an overall adoption of our curb management strategies, as well as provide a proposal for a shared spaces pick up zone evaluation. >> chair peskin: whoever -- somebody needs to mute. some

it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year.k your calendars every year. you can see us on the website

down the peninsula from half moon bay to portola valley, we are also seeing the slippery roadways.tully, definitely seeing the wet weather as we had expected for this evening commute. san francisco, daly city, street level radar, lake merced boulevard. really light stuff. in the sierra, it is actually turning to snow. now, all roads leading up to tahoe requiring chains except for 80 at this moment. it's a level one on our storm impact scale. scattered showers, a wet evening commute, and gusty winds. those winds, novato, half moon bay to 24 miles an hour. higher elevations even stronger winds. those temperatures, they're down in the 50s and 60s. los gatos at 47 degrees. if you're going out of town, tomorrow mainly sunny. breezy at the coast. low 60s at our local airports. now, honolulu looking at scattered showers. this is the hawaiian airlines travel fork. 86 degrees. new york city, 53 degrees and sunny. los angeles, fog to sun, 70 degrees. here's our hour by hour forecast. 6:00 tonight you're still going to have those showers around so hang on to the umbrellas. 7:00 p.m. as well.

ross and marin county and portola valley. altos, followed by palo alto and, again, los altos, including parts of sunnyvale. it costs a lot to survive around here. >>> let's bring in jeff ranieri. neither jeff or i live in those expensive zip codes. two out of three of us do not. but we're happy. >> look, we got lucy. >> you know, lucy has -- >> yes, she's hanging out. she has that doghouse, you know, over in los altos, right? >> lucy belongs in the mansion in atherton, jeff. >> oh man. we're going to check in with lucy and we'll talk more about that weather forecast and look all the way out into thanksgiving. we'll be back here in a couple of minutes. right lucy? all right. >> we love seeing her. >>> also, holiday tradition forced to change, of course, because of the pandemic. we're going to give you an exclusive behind the scenes look at san jose's christmas in the park. ♪grocery outlet jingle do you have cheese? of course. more cheese for less chedar do you have kale? absolutly. more kale for less cabbage in our produce sec

out of livermore and even san ramon starting to see a drier outlook there and even for those of you portola valley. >>could see some light scattered showers making its way into sunday bill, but overall, the drying trend is going to continue through tonight future cast for is going to show better clearing as well so not only are we going to dry out but also that cloud cover not going to be as widespread as it was last night really just expecting traces amount of rain up as highest amounts for those of you in the south bay but really not that much moisture with what's left of this exiting storm taking a live look outside and the east bay over berkeley storm clouds overhead but overall we're noticing warmer temperatures this afternoon anywhere from 2 to 7 degrees of warming for most bay area cities. they said that blanket of storm cloud cover but temperatures out there right now very dry and seasonable especially as you move away from the coast near the coast snow. we're a few degrees below average half moon bay, 57 degrees low 60's for those of you in san francisco with widespread mid 60's al

so, for example, you know, recently in chinatown and in portola, we're looking at testing in another place. that's just the ability to move the tales around, as we're seeing disease and as the community is manufacturing us about the -- informing us about the needs. >> supervisor walton: dr. baba, you've been moving the sites, been able to move them weekly, biweekly, monthly? what's the frequency? >> the current goal is to at least have a site be in place for a couple of weeks to ensure that we've gotten out adequate outreach and we've made the right, you know, attempts to get people to the testing sites, before moving it. and the testing site actually ends up being a very high-functioning testing site or i should say a place where a lot of people go, we tend to try to extend that time. but it's at least for a couple of weeks. >> supervisor walton: thank you. >> chair fewer: so are you saying to me that if this -- that the non-approval of this contract now, would prohibit you from continuing the work that you've been doing since august? >> i don't think we would draw that firm of a li

preference to keep the north gate open up to the parking lot while keeping the southern gate, the portolaclosed, in order to maximize the amount of parking that's available safely for people on foot and bicycles and other modes while allowing people to drive up to the lot to the shortest point, which is known as christmas tree lot. so we are going to be talking to the frisk police department, the p.u.c., the reservoir up there, san francisco travel, and the tour bus industry, about whether -- like, how to make this work, and so we will be coming back to you in december or january for a public hearing with our recommendations. finally, i do want to note that there has been a lot of conversation happening about great highway, another street that was closed early in the pandemic and left closed, and perhaps the street that has resulted in attracting by far the greatest number of people to it, we have more people using great highway on foot and skate board and bike and wheelchairs than we had people using it in cars before covid. that said, the street's closure has resulted in a high level of

preference to keep the north gate open up to the parking lot while keeping the southern gate, the portola gate closed, in order to maximize the amount of parking that's available safely for people on foot and bicycles and other modes while allowing people to drive up to the lot to the shortest point, which is known as christmas tree lot. so we are going to be talking to the frisk police department, the p.u.c., the reservoir up there, san francisco travel, and the tour bus industry, about whether -- like, how to make this work, and so we will be coming back to you in december or january for a public hearing with our recommendations. finally, i do want to note that there has been a lot of conversation happening about great highway, another street that was closed early in the pandemic and left closed, and perhaps the street that has resulted in attracting by far the greatest number of people to it, we have more people using great highway on foot and skate board and bike and wheelchairs than we had people using it in cars before covid. that said, the street's closure has resulted in a high le

so, for example, you know, recently in chinatown and in portola, we're looking at testing in another place. that's just the ability to move the tales around, as we're seeing disease and as the community is manufacturing us about the -- informing us about the needs. >> supervisor walton: dr. baba, you've been moving the sites, been able to move them weekly, biweekly, monthly? what's the frequency? >> the current goal is to at least have a site be in place for a couple of weeks to ensure that we've gotten out adequate outreach and we've made the right, you know, attempts to get people to the testing sites, before moving it. and the testing site actually ends up being a very high-functioning testing site or i should say a place where a lot of people go, we tend to try to extend that time. but it's at least for a couple of weeks. >> supervisor walton: thank you. >> chair fewer: so are you saying to me that if this -- that the non-approval of this contract now, would prohibit you from continuing the work that you've been doing since august? >> i don't think we would draw that firm of a li

office has been working with neighborhoods, city department, and the city attorney on a project in the portola where the developers got a permit for building ten units and built 30, this, causing a mass scramble to protect the tenants who are in these unpermitted units, creating life safety situations so dire, that the owners were forced to install a temporary fire escape which complicated the process to permit this project. in just over a year ago, in 2019, one man paid the city $1.2 million to settle a civil lawsuit for unpermitted work on several properties, four of them in bernal heights. for months, i've been hearing from neighbors about damage to their home on work that he was doing adjacent to those properties not within the scope of the permit. they are truly the tip of a deep iceberg, and while they show flagrant disregard for laws, we need to understand where the city could have been more active. were there members of project teams with priority history of misdoings? were there red flags in the permit applications? frankly, this has been going on so long that it seems to me that d.b.

so, for example, you know, recently in chinatown and in portola, we're looking at testing in another place. that's just the ability to move the tales around, as we're seeing disease and as the community is manufacturing us about the -- informing us about the needs. >> supervisor walton: dr. baba, you've been moving the sites, been able to move them weekly, biweekly, monthly? what's the frequency? >> the current goal is to at least have a site be in place for a couple of weeks to ensure that we've gotten out adequate outreach and we've made the right, you know, attempts to get people to the testing sites, before moving it. and the testing site actually ends up being a very high-functioning testing site or i should say a place where a lot of people go, we tend to try to extend that time. but it's at least for a couple of weeks. >> supervisor walton: thank you. >> chair fewer: so are you saying to me that if this -- that the non-approval of this contract now, would prohibit you from continuing the work that you've been doing since august? >> i don't think we would draw that firm of a li

office has been working with neighborhoods, city department, and the city attorney on a project in the portola where the developers got a permit for building ten units and built 30, this, causing a mass scramble to protect the tenants who are in these unpermitted units, creating life safety situations so dire, that the owners were forced to install a temporary fire escape which complicated the process to permit this project. in just over a year ago, in 2019, one man paid the city $1.2 million to settle a civil lawsuit for unpermitted work on several properties, four of them in bernal heights. for months, i've been hearing from neighbors about damage to their home on work that he was doing adjacent to those properties not within the scope of the permit. they are truly the tip of a deep iceberg, and while they show flagrant disregard for laws, we need to understand where the city could have been more active. were there members of project teams with priority history of misdoings? were there red flags in the permit applications? frankly, this has been going on so long that it seems to me that d.b.

office has been working with neighborhoods, city department, and the city attorney on a project in the portola where the developers got a permit for building ten units and built 30, this, causing a mass scramble to protect the tenants who are in these unpermitted units, creating life safety situations so dire, that the owners were forced to install a temporary fire escape which complicated the process to permit this project. in just over a year ago, in 2019, one man paid the city $1.2 million to settle a civil lawsuit for unpermitted work on several properties, four of them in bernal heights. for months, i've been hearing from neighbors about damage to their home on work that he was doing adjacent to those properties not within the scope of the permit. they are truly the tip of a deep iceberg, and while they show flagrant disregard for laws, we need to understand where the city could have been more active. were there members of project teams with priority history of misdoings? were there red flags in the permit applications? frankly, this has been going on so long that it seems to me that d.b.

office has been working with neighborhoods, city department, and the city attorney on a project in the portola where the developers got a permit for building ten units and built 30, this, causing a mass scramble to protect the tenants who are in these unpermitted units, creating life safety situations so dire, that the owners were forced to install a temporary fire escape which complicated the process to permit this project. in just over a year ago, in 2019, one man paid the city $1.2 million to settle a civil lawsuit for unpermitted work on several properties, four of them in bernal heights. for months, i've been hearing from neighbors about damage to their home on work that he was doing adjacent to those properties not within the scope of the permit. they are truly the tip of a deep iceberg, and while they show flagrant disregard for laws, we need to understand where the city could have been more active. were there members of project teams with priority history of misdoings? were there red flags in the permit applications? frankly, this has been going on so long that it seems to me that d.b.

. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. mark your calendars every year. you can see us on the website [roll call] >> clerk: we have a quorum. madam president, i want to make a couple of announcements. first, i want to let everybody know that closed session will not be heard today. due to the covid-19 health emergency and given the public health recommendation issued by the san francisco department of public health and that governor newsom and mayor breed have lifted on teleconference, this meeting is being televised on sfgovtv. please note that there is a delay between live and what is being viewed on sfgtv. if you wish to make public comment on an item, dial 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 146-710-1398, pound, pound. to raise your hand to speak, press star, three. please limit your public comment to the item that is under consideration. i'm going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones if they have not already done so. madam president, your first order of business is to approve the minutes of the meeting of