not every bike rack provides the same kind of theft protection. we have a square tube that's a lot harder to cut through. there's two points of kanth where people are locating their bikes correctly. we've got more than 4 though bike racks and we're going to install three to four hundred more. but i'll say we're going through a change how we fund that. we get a pot of grant money and we're going doing to lean toward a request system we get questions and we try to honor that. we can respond to windows and go at the more active approach to see where our greatest need is and more quickly. in terms of the long-term bike parking. we're very excited in september we're going to release our strategy like train stations it's a more innovative idea. a lot of resident may not be able to bring their bikes into their homes or have a bike room in their buildings. we're trying to secure the bikes for residents in more of a medium place. we have the demand where should we put in - where are some of the transit stations that are eligible for a secure bike station.

our street racks look much cleaner than a few years ago. i hope we can continue to go along with the clearchannel and the racks looks much better. thanks. >> thank you very much. next speaker. and i have one additional card, ronald austin. [speaker not understood]. >>> good afternoon, supervisors, chairman, president. chairman, thank you so much for calling this meeting. through the visual wasv that we've seen and walking around the district i'm sure know and face the difficulties of being a pedestrian [speaker not understood] in san francisco. and the key elements that you've called for here prioritizing services, strategic placement, [speaker not understood] communication and consolidation is really going to be critical and help us move forward. san francisco has tremendous guidelines and goals and standards that we hold ourselves accountable to. accountability is i think something we can work better on. in talking about the interdepartmental communication, i know we're focused on that here and now, but i also want to encourage you to and

one statistic there's about 757 thousand bike trips but only 8 though bike racks so there's a secure parking lacking >> your numbers are correct supervisor and not that every one of the 75 thousand needs to park but certainly there's a big gap between the number of riders and bike racks and cages so forth available. mta is going to - has a plan to expand the number of parking facilities and that will be helpful. one of the big gaps we've found is in the transit stations so that's such a good place to have those types of facilities so people can pop on muni or take the bike to muni for the day for longer periods of time. so that would be one place that is extremely effective but on the streets in general our absolutely correct. there a big gap a rack can hold more than one bike but not close to 75 thousand. >> i hope that the staff will address that but our best of my knowledge strategy by the senate mount has an aggressive number of bike racks but different strategies i know it takes funding to do that. i think the new building construction requiring bicycles are important. i want to

so, it translates to approximately six racks, yeah, six free-standing racks, sick standing racks a year. so, we're looking at in order to remove that number, evaluate [speaker not understood] everything else. as we continue to move forward today, however, okay, we do evaluate because right now we have three zones -- two zones in the sunset, one in richmond as we continue to move forward to install these newsrack zones, we continue to evaluate and reevaluate to make sure we don't put an excessive number of these newsracks in there. >> in addition to the annual reduction of up to 2%, how about a redistribution? in other words, does the space over here in the sunset or different part of my district, supervisor kim's district, that maybe could use one and there are too many in this other area, so, not eliminating, but redistributing it. does the department have the flexibility to do that? >> the department -- the department can reallocate -- you know, again, knowing with all the green boxes available, we can't reallocate, but we cannot literally take one newsrack from one location and move

so, it translates to approximately six racks, yeah, six free-standing racks, sick standing racks a year. so, we're looking at in order to remove that number, evaluate [speaker not understood] everything else. as we continue to move forward today, however, okay, we do evaluate because right now we have three zones -- two zones in the sunset, one in richmond as we continue to move forward to install these newsrack zones, we continue to evaluate and reevaluate to make sure we don't put an excessive number of these newsracks in there. >> indditn to the annual reduction of up to in other words, does the space over here in the sunset distri stsupect, maand cothere is other area, s not eliminating, but ribung it. ment-an recato do that you know, again, knowing wi all the green bl we 't reallocate, but we cannot newsrack from one location and move this newsrack to another area. >> why not? >> that's not allowed under the contract. >> so if there are too many in one area and nothing under another area, under the contract you can't say we're going to take-two of these and move them over to this o

this is an example of the racking. obvious example of racking here; right? if you walk into this building, you are going to say this is heavily damaged. easy. large cracks. again, you want to look around the doors and the foundation. here right at the doors because, remember, the soft structure is the bottom structure. that's going to move the most. then right around the doors are structural members of the house. that's where you are going to find a lot of the damage. this one -- but look at all the doorways again. this building, again, here in the marina. somebody wrote something on there. if you look really close it says, search. somebody wrote that there because maybe they thought somebody was inside, they went inside. we use a different method now. it's in your book if you did your homework. otherwise i'll show you later in the lecture. paint lines are another indicator of how damaged buildings are. if you want to look at the paint lines on this building, it's kind of hard to tell until you get up close. remember, this building is kind of a grayish tanni

, let's say i have a rack of clothing, and it's not really selling. as a retailer, i want to know why. now, there are several different scenarios. let's suppose that nobody goes there. for whatever reason, nobody walks to that part of the store. you address that problem one way, which is, maybe that area of the store is bad or not inviting. on a second set, let's say that people do go there, but they don't stop, they walk right by it. in that case, you know that for some reason, the clothing on that rack isn't engaging people and pulling them in, and you address that problem in a different way. now, a third story would be they come, they stop, and at the end of the day, they leave without the clothing, and in that case you would say, "maybe there's something wrong with the product itself, such that people don't want to purchase it." and so, each of these insights gives you different information you can use to try to solve the problem of "why do i have a product that's not selling?" - tim, briefly, is it typically clothes retailers who use this informa

we have 75,000 daily bike trips, but only 3,000 racks on the sidewalks. and this lack of accessibility of bike parking is one of the major obstacles that people mention when they answer the question of why they choose not to use your bicycle. >> is that photo shopped or -- >> no. this is a picture -- >> this is my house actually. [laughter] >> i got this from the bicycle [speaker not understood]. i'm not sure where it wayv from. also, other examples that -- this is for bicycle parking. people, when there's not enough racks, they use parking meters, "street signs" to put their bikes ~ and that would create unsafety for pedestrians. also, it can damage street furniture and this also kind of creates an undignified image for bicyclists. and we need to present cycling as a dignified and reasonable main street choice of traveltion, we need to change the requirements. ~ traveling also longer term parking for schools, for residential, people use their, you know, living spaces, [speaker not understood], their closets to store their bicycles. and this is also -- yo

you can see one rack here that is not being used and is a -- stickers all over the place. you see a lot of redundancy. you'll see a frame here which is dpw, which needs to be we need to work on regulating those more chollasly. another sf examiner, freestanding kiosk blocking that air why there. this is [speaker not understood] going to the bart entrance there. very busy, very busy intersection. enter you can see there's lots of emptiness, redundancy with those. ~ finally, last picture here, you can see there is a lot that needs to be kind of regulated when it comes to freestanding versus these racks. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >>> thank you. i'm milo hankey. thank you, supervisor wiener, [speaker not understood]. it's a great step. clutter street furniture, there is san francisco beautiful looks forward to participating in any opportunities to advance permitting enforcement. we spent a considerable amount of time in putting together order number 175 566. this is the memo that ed lee signed in 2005 regarding surface mounted utilities. we don't simply ask, but we

wire rack. we'll let it cool completely before we frost it, and that's going to be at least 30 minutes. all right, chris, this is the reason we're here. it's cream cheese frosting. it's one of my favorite frostings. it's so tangy and soft and creamy. but for a special occasion cake, that provides a few problems. it's too soft, and if we cut back on the amount of cream cheese, it's not tangy enough. we're going to fix all that, and you're going to love this frosting. >> this recipe has more problems to overcome than anything we've ever done. >> i love recipes like that, though. all right, so we're going to make a pretty traditional cream cheese frosting up to a point. now, this is 16 tablespoons of unsalted butter, three cups of confectioner's sugar, two teaspoons of vanilla extract, and a quarter teaspoon of salt. and we're actually going to use 12 ounces of cream cheese. so that's a reduction in the amount of cream cheese that we're adding. because cream cheese gets softer and softer the more y

they have bike racks at most of their stations so pedestrians can leave their bikes and they were reasonably protected and under the surveillance of bart agencies. they have community officers who repeatedly patrol the streets. this is the photo of the day we visited and you can see many of them but it's quite a process to locate a bike in there without identification. the bike theft in the low level of bicycle recovery this was based on our discussions with the police department and looked at it some literature on the topic and the improper locking techniques but this is the information that owners need to have if they don't know it. the issue of establishing proof of ownership is a vexing problem. i think i hit on that enough but clearly if you don't have a receipt of ownership there will be a problem. insufficient bicycle parking the bart stationary a good example of what could be down. the underground station don't have those kind of facilities and mta also has in its bicycle plan some aggressive ideas for expanding the number of bicycle racks and facilities on city streets in varies loc

. >> how you load it, you have to -- i call it rack it, when you pull back the slide? >> yes. >> so that you and the jury knows that racking it means pulling the slide back to actually put a cartridge or a bullet in the chamber being ready to fire? >> sure. >> okay. a and you say that a person, mr. zimmerman, because we know it to be his gun, yes? >> yes. >> would have racked it to make it ready to fire and put another bullet in the magazine to reload it, correct? >> yes. >> is that a usual occurrence in your experience dealing with firearms? >> i typically see a wide variety of -- >> okay. >> -- of -- >> sorry. i interrupted you. you did not consider that to be an unusual occurrence certainly, did you? >> no. >> matter of fact, to the law enforcement officers here and every other law enforcement officer that has a chance to see, that is normal. that is, one racked in a chamber in a full magazine, correct? >> yes. >> military do that, correct? >> i'm sure. >> in fact that's the way you make that gun as capable as can be for whatever the need may be, correct? >> to have

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>> yes. >> would have then racked it to make sure it was ready to fire and put another bullet in the magazine and reloaded it, correct? >> yes. >> is that usual in your occurrence dealing with firearms? >> i typically see a wide variety of what i -- >> sorry. you did not consider that to be unusual, did you? >> no. >> matter of fact, the two law enforcement officers here and every other gun you had chance to see that's normal that it's one racked in the chamber and fall magazine, correct? >> yes. >> military do that, correct? >> i'm unsure. >> it's the way you make that gun as capable as it can be for whatever the need may be, correct? >> to have it fully loaded? >> yes. >> yes. >> then we've talked about the shirts themselves and i'm not going to go into having you look at them just yet. might be able to avoid that, but you said that the two shirts sort of lined up, correct? >> yes. >> by that you mean there was a hole through one and then the other. when you took the shirts and lined them up they matched? >> correct. >> you're not suggesting they're in any particular configuration

try to find the bike rack at point b, which is another problem. >> all right. >> the bike racks-different. >> i'm been trying to drive with the-buckrakes and i don't know how much they're play-ing. issue the stairs are different. i feel like is complaining so ingrained in being a new yorker we have to complain even when the object of the complaint is putting up a sign that might help us be healthier? >> a bod of work, the body of work. it's salt, it's sugar, it's 16-ounce sodas, now the stairs? >> isn't this what we want politicians to do? >> no. no. >> visions they think is going to make the place better and do what they and can if we don't like their plan for making it better, then we elect somebody else. >> michelle i like the politicians to stay out of my personal life. >> absolutely. and stop trying to make me sweaty everytime i want to go to a meet can. between taking the stairs and riding a bike. i'm going to look like a wreck. >> are you r saying the mayor likes sweaty people? >> apparently he does. >> is he in good shape? >> he says he is. i'm not convinced heel. always in a suit

we need to see the bike you racks in the locations that are high theft areas. one key i want to bring up it needs to be equitable catching the random bike theft every so often is not going to reduce bike theft. we know that when someone steals bikes it travels to flee markets. gps would disrupt the system and catching the offenders p who were exploiting and people buying them for 20 or $30 and take them to flea marketed and they sell them for two or $300 and just to be clear they had a location they were out at golden gate park so the bike didn't get stole but they had gps out this year and it could be implemented within a week there's a local provider in san francisco. but as i mentioned beyond enforcement we talked about engineering you heard the gentleman discuss some of the opportunity to try to improve bike parking but the third is education. that as we duces this is a great step for individuals after their bikes are stole. but we like to to educate people ahead of them of time. we've had hundreded of folks showing up. it's not clear if i wobble outside to

transportation agency, and planning department to reduce clutter on sidewalks, specifically focused on new racks, large kiosks, and muni bus shelters, including improving pedestrian access, and ensuring that city contractors install and maintain these structures in a manner that respects the needs of the neighborhoods. >> thank you. i called for this hearing today to discuss the placement of street furniture on our sidewalks and what the strategies are of city departments to make sure that we are coordinated and strategic in terms of how we use or limited sidewalk space. currently, many of our streets are not pedestrian friendly. whether heavily traveled intersections like market and octavia, or neighborhood streets near schools and parks. san francisco is one of the highest pedestrian injury rates in the state for the last three years, we've seen an increase in the number of pedestrian fatalities in our city ~ and this does not even include the hundreds of unreported accidents that occur throughout the year. we need safe and open sidewalks, not only for today's pedestrians, but for our growing

they take a dress off the rack, and they hold it up against themselves.an tell something from this. they stick one leg way out. they need to know if someday i'm one-legged at a 45-degree angle, what am i going to wear? a guy never takes a suit off the rack, put his head in the neck and go, "what about this suit? "put some shoes by the bottom of the pants. "perfect. now, move the shoes, move the shoes. move the shoes."

a couple of things, will the dimension with this area with the bike racks will that grow as the programrows. i noticed they're expecting quite a bit of growth. >> if you look in your materials you'll see the stations they're putting in. they have a lot located on the sidewalks as well. we really don't have to come back to us if they want to grow it any further than what we have here. >> and the insurance, will that cover us in the event of civil disobedience. >> you mean -- >> if they pick up the bike racks and throw them through a bus window or something? >> i don't think it would cover that because it wouldn't be caused by them. it would be a member of the public. we would have to get franchesa in here. it would cover if someone fell on the bikes and it would cover us. so disobedience is a little bit harder. >> also, as to the fees, it's a two year term in the contract, at some point are we going to discuss fees? >> i think we'll just wait and see. at this point it needs a sponsor to keep it going. it's not at a breaking point yet. >> these programs are not typically revenue producing

luckily the fans had a bike rack on the back of the car so they put the bike on the bike rack and the star got in the car and they drove him to the concert of the. it -- concert. it can be a little intimidating making small talk with a celebrity. >> we didn't know how to make conversation with him. we were talking about his tour and stuff, where he had come from. they had just been in cincinnati. he said, i'm taking a short break after this one because i had to drop my daughters off s >> somewhere i'm seeing the chris farly skit -- chris farley skit. >> that was awe sp. >> that was so cool. >> dave matthews was so grateful, he invited them to dinner. they also went backstage as you would expect and enjoyed the show from the front row. >>> a 35-year-old girl knew exactly -- 5-year-old girl knew exactly what to do when her mother started choking on a potato chip. she called 911. >> hello? daddy? >> hello? >> daddy, mommy's choking. >> she thought the operator was her daddy. chloe's mom said the chip must have covered her wind pipe because she couldn't get any air. the 5-year-old heard h

but only bike racks also secured parking areas like my cat cages and lockers. particularly along transit hubs. second, it directs the department the police department, to standardize the best practices from individual stations to citywide and to establish bicycle registration and education outreach program along with community partners like and vice semper cisco bicycle goes. together this will help us prevent bike theft and in the event they do occur help services and recover their property good things much for the committee groups were depressed might cosponsor is supervisor wendy reed and david compost. also, i made using a resolution calling august 3, ending the friends of cabrillo program playground for the reopening of cabrillo playground and clubhouse. august 3 would be cabrillo playground day in the city. i want to thank fans of cabrillo playground especially dr. jody garnett and debbie joseph and many others have been working on this project. since voters +2008 park bond it's going to be an incredible opening. i ask you to join us on saturday, august 3

the new racks are shaped just like a bicycle. kind of cool.ds downtown has no like bike lane. he hopes the racks will keep drivers aware of cyclists. >>> if you're out riding your bike, nice day. let's see what the weekend is shaping up. >> in san francisco we have low clouds and fog. fog, increasing coverage. for the weekend that'll be the cooling trend for saturday into sunday. no major heat on our forecast maps. as far as highs from today, they range from the cool 60s in pacifica and san francisco. lots of 70s and 80s around the bay. temperatures inland, upper 80s to the low to mid90s. antioch the hot spot. live storm tracker 2, showers and thunderstorms developing. you see the lightning detection to the south lake tahoe with the strikes there. thunderstorms. we have the fog to contend with hugging a good portion of our coastline. that will increase and bulk up in coverage late tonight into early saturday morning. current temperatures are still in the 80s out toward fairfield and livermore and breezy. san jose checking in 75 degrees. report

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2 bicycle biking requirement by paying an in lieu fee, which is set at $400 per space and $800 per rack. and based on the in lieu fee goes to the bicycle parking fund and the sfmta can use this fund to provide bicycle racks on the sidewalks and neighborhoods that there are deficiencies. lastly, there is also allowances for exemptions, waivers, and variances for bicycle parking. overall, we will not allow a waiver or whelmtion when there is car parking in the building. in those cases they can use the car parking spaces to provide bicycle parking. and also variances will not be allowed for -- lower quantity of bicycle parking, but it will be allowed for design and feature requirements. this was a brief summary of the changes that this ordinance would bring. we're so excited to be here today and we appreciate supervisor avalos sponsoring this legislation and i'm here for any questions. thank you. >> supervisor, anything additional before we move to public comment? >> i'd like to go to public comment. but i have some amendments, i don't know i'd be able to make. i'm trying to get the right