my business has received nothing from the sf mta suggesting any of these proposals. the only way we heard about it was through a chain on the street the one of the smaller merchants associations, through a very late e-mail saying last-minute i want to let everybody know there is a meeting with the sf mta to approve these projects in december of last year. it is really frustrating, to get to the point to where you have invested in your business; you are good about checking your mail but you see nothing. if i had been out of town and didn't see some of this i would be late to the party just as well. there's over 300 street front businesses in the area proposed for changes. we estimate that if you look at the composite area which includes up to market and hide and both sides of vanesse, they are part of the business community, there's well over 1000 businesses. that doesn't necessarily include home-based businesses as well. and i think there will be a dramatic effect on nearly every business is there. said businesses could survive; the problem that i see is that the sf

we've also recommended that sf mta work with the office on disability to reassess local on ordinance around the blue zones. >> i would like to add one more comment to the blue zones too that blue zones are the most accessible parking space that is out there because they come with all of those important features like the level space, the clear space on the sidewalk if you are deploying a lift and so increasing blue zones will increase accessibility in a great manner. and also, this is one of those items that doesn't actually require a change in state law and in the course of our community work, we got the commitment from the mta that they would move forward on this recommendation even without changing state law. this should be one of the things we first work on. our next recommendation in our slide is called increase enforcement on placard issues. what we see on the screen is a car parked there is nobody in this car but there is a placard hanging off the rear view mirror and this is important from the enforcement perspective because the parking control officer has to be able to match

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 significant modifications on polk street, we have hotels and businesses requ

think the misunderstanding our office going and engaging into conversation means -- the concerns with sf mta is that we are going and shopping a proposal, as opposed to going and soliciting input. i want to convey with confidence -- because i think that there is a misunderstanding that is being put out there that we have put together a proposal. it is the role of our office to be doing foster and promote small business and we have to look at the range of small business, what is the current economy, how small businesses develop, and nurture a room for everybody. but i do want to stress that we are very mindful of our neighborhood commercial corridors, the pressures that they feel on a day-to-day basis through parking, through having to repair their sidewalks, many thanks. i want to convey with confidence that that is not forgotten and it will be taking into consideration as we move forward with what we are doing. and then, with regards -- moving on to the disability access, the california commission on disability access asked for presentation and what seven cisco was doing on education and ou

. >> the health department is leading a multidisciplinary team with the agencies such as the mta and the sf environment and the police department and some community-based organizations such as the bike coalition and walk sf and the city wide program. we are currently working in 15 elementaries schools and we have one in each supervisoral district for geographic equity and the only one that we don't have is district two. and we structure the program on the international model of the five es. education, encouragement, enforcement, engineering and evaluation. this is a map of the school that we are currently working in right now. we are actually just finishing up, the school ends next week. and you can see the spread around the schools, except for district two. right now, for the past two years, we have been doing educational classes in the classroom. we have been doing kindergarten, and first grade classrooms on the benefits of getting to and from school by walking and biking. and for each year, we have reached approximately 50 classrooms and about 1,000 students. the same for the second grad

so members of mta board and all concerned sf residents are welcome to attend a meeting at 67:30 p.m. at the telegraph hall in mason and i looked to a productive meeting. thank you >> (calling names). >> good afternoon directors robert. local cab. i was a participant in the workshop regarding the application by all those apps and i wanted to spend two minutes or one and a half trying to explain to you why wear talking about and why it is such an enormous threat to the taxi industry and in turn to you. the electronic apps - applications claim their something new in spite of the fact that many limousines companies and taxi company are going to use apps. and their claims is they're not transportation companies. they have no control over the drivers. many of the applications are claiming to be ride share and as such, they do not have commercial insurance, there is no inspection of their cars there's no inspection of their driving records which would indicate the accident are anything else they have. in addition apparently their claiming they're not keeping any records so that their driver

i'm in the u sf district and i want to make it extremely clear we didn't ask for mta to come to the neighborhood this, in fact, is round number 2 we represent folks on the western boundary of u sf. the first idea of putting in parking meters was accepted by a install group of folks. the vast majority of residents were extremely against parking meters. and it's only in the last week and due in large part to supervisor point about the u sf area and the changes proposed. i don't want to go into all the details there are that are a number of unmanaged parking spaces on the rim of my air. if we took half of those spaces about 2 hundred spaces and change those to hour only with no residential parking permits. i'm trying to express as of mta and their finally getting to understand we have people who come outside of the area we have gym users we have all sorts of people park in those unrestricted spaces and we have a hard time finding a plays to park as we are the residents. how about a 2 hour limits instead of adding two hours with no resident parking. and i want to correct the record we didn't ask for

there in the out reach and i know that it is difficult but i would urge mta to increase their efforts in this area and make an sf park program that can work for all of us. >> thank you. >> any other speakers? >> welcome. >> thank you. my name is jenna heart man and i actually manufacture apparel here in san francisco. proud member of sf main, and i also have a brick and mortar store just off of polk and it is a dream come true, having a store and manufacturing my own line and we have big plans for a very young growing business. and i feel like a lot of my customers number one are grandmothers and also mothers that generally have 1.5 percent, and that are running around and could not ride your bicycles with a gallon of milk which i need to buy every year and so i am definitely for getting the measure a for the polk street and i want the street to be safe and i feel like we could do a lot of work just for public service announcements and for everybody to just pay attention. i feel like we are all very distracted in our mode of safety of polk and it is a huge concern for me and i have lived there for 13 years and i