>> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco transportation authority meeting occurring november 18, 2014, will begin shortly. >> good morning, everyone. this is the tuesday, november 18th, 2014, meeting of the plans and programs committee of the san francisco county transportation authority. and my name is eric mar and i am the chair of the committee to my right is supervisor commissioner norman yee, to my left, london breed and our clerk is mr. steve, and could you give us me announcements? >> there are no announcements could we have a roll call? >> item number one? commissioner breed? >> we are just going for do the roll call. >> okay, got it. here. >> campos? >> absent. >> commissioner kim? >> kim absent, commissioner mar? >> here. >> mar present. >> commissioner yee? >> here. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you and i would like to thank charles from sfgtv for tell vicing this today, call the next item, two, citizen advisory committee report, this is an information item. >> and we have brian larkin. >> good morning, commissioners. we had only one action ite

that sought to hold back the long standing policy, the transportation joins with the san francisco transportation authority and other city agencies in thanking the voters of san francisco for supporting much-needed investment in our city's local and regional transportation system. we look forward to rolling up our sleeves to help to deliver the improvements that will support our city's visioner zero, to drive the traffic fatalities to zero and, that will support reliability and improve traffic management and in the bikes and the walking grass across the city, in order to assure, broad based benefits i have also been seeking the sfmta assurance that will apply to the equity policy and analysis to propositions a and b, programs and i am hopeful that it will be supported i have actually called for a meeting or a hearing at the board of supervisors, to cover that very topic. election night marked another major milestone for transportation in our city and it was 25 years ago, this november, that voters approved the first half cent tax known as proposition b and also created the transportation authority to admin

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>> >> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco transportation authority occurring november 18, 2014, will begin shortly. >> >> good morning. >> are you ready? >> okay. >> good morning, the meeting will now come to order. welcome to the regular meeting of the transportation authority finance committee, i'm cohen, share of the committee and to high left is tang and to my right, scott weiner, david chiu has officially resigned from the transportation authority finance committee. and will be moving on. and madam, clerk, the clerk is steve. sorry. >> and also, would i like to thank, charles our friend up at sfgovt tv for broadcasting this meeting, mr. clerk, could you please call item number 2 item one one? >> roll call. >> cohen? >> present. >> commissioner farrell? >> absent. >> tang? >> present. >> commissioner weiner. >> present. >> we have a quor up. >> could you call the next item? >> consent calendar, 2 and 3 comprise the consent calendar, these are routine and not presenting but prepared to present if desired, any of them may be removed and considered separately

. >> good morning, today is november 25, 2014, welcome to the san francisco transportation authority.nd today, this meeting is being clerked by our clerk, steve, if i can get the last name. steve, stamos, thank you and, cell women to your first leading, clerking the transpti

i know that we have the san francisco county transportation authority here as well. to make some comments as well. should we go to them first? i believe that we have lee... (inaudible) >> good morning, i am the deputy director for the san francisco transportation authority, and i am grateful for the opportunity to provide our agency, perspective this morning on the important issue of compatibility between the cal train and high speed rail. and the electrickfiation project will release the existing service with electrified service from fourth and king in san francisco, to the (inaudible) of san jose, and in early 2012, the california high speed rail business plan embraced a blended operation and under this structure, cal train and high speed rail authority which share the infrastructure on the existing right-of-way, cal train's decision about the design will fundamentally effect the service for the foreseeable future, while the california high speed rail authority has selected a vehicle, whose height is 50 inches, the cal train has indicated to specify the vehicles who

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. >> good afternoon let our rejoicing rise, with the san francisco transportation authority here to try to talk about the pilot in context of the boarder set of strategies that we have to management changing the problems of traffic congestions thought the city particularly in selma so to start i want to just through up a couple of pictures i took this was on opening day of giants season of traffic congestion there it is and also the impact it has to muni to supervisor cohen sdrusz discussed in her opening rangers and pedestrians trying to cross with the crosswalk is blocked and also for cyclists and truck drivers it's hard to navigate a transacting truck through the gridlock and bicyclists that went to the other side of the street i wanted to introduce it in this way this problem of all the cars on the street is one that i don't think is going to be revolved but don't block the box the reality a lot of people want to go home by crossing the bay bridge how quickly a car can get on the bridge not to mitigate by car or by walking or transit that being said i know i wanted to frame the issu

. >> good afternoon let our rejoicing rise, with the san francisco transportation authority here to try to talk about the pilot in context of the boarder set of strategies that we have to management changing the problems of traffic congestions thought the city particularly in selma so to start i want to just through up a couple of pictures i took this was on opening day of giants season of traffic congestion there it is and also the impact it has to muni to supervisor cohen sdrusz

coalition for neighborhood obviously i'm not paul weber we appreciate the planning san francisco transportation authority finance committee for a productive meeting which includes the statement that was referred to the zoning control table it 0 contains a brief summary that appears in the zoning code with the consistency so i appreciate that and the agreement for the tax changes for the rfp height limits including the residential guidelines and changes the words and we ask you, please adapt the staff recommendations thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm you paul weber i'm here on behalf of telegraph hill first of all, 42 thank you for your extension it was a productive time period and we were able to collect a number of associations we worked with together putting a letter together with for the staff and had a productive meeting with the staff and are satisfied that the relatives we mentioned had o this it would be a good idea for the staff to come back with how we're doing with the changes in the months to a year and the obvious i observe areas it would be important for the staff

. >> good morning, today is november 25, 2014, welcome to the san francisco transportation authority. my name is john avalos, the chair of the authority, and today, this

series team and continues to grow this part of san francisco one of the most dense areas of san francisco and san francisco community transportation authority recent 2010 calibration study they said there will be total gridlock in 20035 unless we're able to reduce the traffic volume by 26 percent we're seeing that as jobs and housing grows in our may be that is a positive thing but continue to work on pedestrian safety concerns throughout the district in 2011, we established a workshop from the tenderloin and south of market and south beach neighborhood for advocating for pedestrian safety one of the issues we've heard about is about the impact of walking through the neighborhood after a game and the experience of feeling intimated by the number of cars that gridlock on third street or townsend or main and harrison or other intersections with cars that are angrily trying to get in and out of our neighborhoods and the experience that state has been often for pedestrians and cyclists we have to maneuver their way around cars that block the box we also know we've lost many lives and also have injured many of our neighborhoods because of the fa

david, the deputy director for planning for the transportation authority and this morning i want to give an update on the update strategy for the san francisco transportation plan, plan bay area, which is under going and starting its update for the 2017 cycle. so the san francisco transportation plan is san francisco's long range blueprint for the city's priorities in terms of transportation, and bringing both the multimodal and operator and network approach. and the management and agencies are charged with updating the county wide transportation plan and for the mtc updated guidelines and we are recommended to update the plans to track the regional plan in the community strategies every foreyears. the first long range county wide plan was adopted in 2004 by the transportation authority board, and emphasized among other things, an investment extrainggy for prop k, and as well as strategic policy initiatives that led to studies further down the line, including the parking and pricing and the pilot studies and the congestion and pricing, and the muni and among others, the comprehensive update on that county wide transportation plan was the san

and intended to improve the mobility for the low income residents and the transportation authority prioritizes the san francisco lpt funds and eligible applicants are the transit operators and the muni and bart and the like and they will be coming in for 3.8 dollars, in funds and 1 million in federal funds as well. and we expect that sfmta will receive, $6 million in the coming cycle and so we will share that information with your offices and hope to bring that forward to you in the coming months. the next few items relate to a slew of really important planning efforts and the first is the continuation of water front and the planning with the office of economic and workforce development and sfmta and it began with the discussion around the warrior's arena and continues with the mission bay sight planning and in addition to the greater mission bay area and commissioner kim continues to press us for how we can address the existing needs as well as well as what is expected to happen over the next few decades with the new developments coming in. i know that (inaudible) is working with her colleagues and peter as we