project i own a building at 15 and van ness and lived in the mission in the 80s up until new housing in the 1990s, the crime was redundantless and the new building on 15 and south van ness has made an impact of the safety of the surrounding two blocks there is no there's one point i don't understand the problem with the driveway of 490 more schools are on busy streets and the schools provide crossing guards my children were about or were on a road where it didn't make sense that cars during drop off and pick up i hope that kids safety is not being used for a different political agenda please support south van ness thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello commissioners. i'm elizabeth more and more i'm going to read into the record a neighbor dear planning commission i'm paula and long business person in the inner mission i own a property management company we're located on 1905 mission street with our garage entrance on 15 abutting the entrance to a school we have 24 residential units with 24 parking spaces in our garage we have muni on the corner of 15 and 16 street at the bart station approximately 5 to 6 cars only leave our garage so people take advant

the original approvals and ask for justice we need set backs and the parking move forward to south van ness and more affordable onsite thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening. i'm a small business owners in san francisco we work with the successors in pitting the northeast mission and a homeowner in the mission i come into to speak in support of this project this project for one is going to put me in a lot of vacant and the design will behalf that lot and also the studies they've done so far it will not cast a shadow on marshall nor create more traffic around the school and enrich the neighborhood thank you any public comment on that item? seeing no public comment are you part of the project team? okay >> good afternoon commissioners shawn regarding the location of the garage adere is a one way amending and no way impact the students going to school in the morning but the children go to and from will not be affected school gets anti two or three clock and folks get out of work 5 or 6 clock and it's a smart location the right location this project regarding our affordability c

at 1, south van ness avenue in the (inaudible) building and on the second floor and go up the escalator and there are signs that will point you to the right room from 6:00 to 8:00 in the evening. and i suggest that more of us show up next week to ask questions, and see that the needs of the disability communities are met in this report. >> in this plan. thank you. >> thank you, co-, chair. >> moving on to the next agenda item, 12, information item, report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. >> thank you, co-chairs and council members, i johnson and the director, and i am going to keep my report brief and we have a long and productive meeting. i wanted to really focus first off on giving some updates about the election. you might recall that we normally have the department of elections come this time of year to provide an overview of opportunities, and i am doing that report for them. and so i want to remind everybody that election day is tuesday, november 4th, and which is very soon. and that if you are not already, registered you can still register to vote, right up

gentleman said they come in to they're coming back and not going to cross the school they have to go south van ness and when they arrive more than likely make the are the on adere it's a redirect street if i want to predict the children in the white zones change that to a one way the traffic only comes in one direction and people wanting to pickup their kids go to the white zone and others pass through those housing units on van ness is important they've made significant changes based on the commissioner comments and bringing down 10 feet lower than maybe a little bit lower than that and makes a better looking building and allows for more light so it's even more compliant that they've done that this is a large project authorization we're asked does this promote the health and safety and wolf of the city it clearly does i'm supportive of this project and i will see what the other commissioners have to say i'm prepared to make the motion. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much just a couple you have comments first, by thanking the staff for the map i've requested it is nice to say something

derivative we've prepared exhibits and tables to provide an overview of the project site you can see south van ness that has high pedestrian and vehicular traffic and transit priority corridor a series of bus stops moving one next to our proposed project we have another street that front our property that is one way and the traffic calendar data is low in vehicle and pedestrian count that provides an overview view of the surrounding area next slide show a couple of options in terms of the driveway relocating it over to 16 street there will be a stop needing to be relocated and heavy pedestrian traffic that is going to cause trouble getting in and out of that driveway we've had to fight through the pedestrians with everything going around it causes issues of - there is a pedestrian and either one of the locations provides vehicular safety issues in my opinion and the alternative location on ca take care street you're making a right into the property or out and the van ness intersection that provides a better site intersection condition you're dealing with pedestrians than a sidewalk much for typical

projects, including managing the tenant improvements of facilities and moves to and within 1 south van ness, 14 55 market street for the transportation market management center, 1508 ban croft avenue, 15 28 to 38 yosemite avenue, and 26 50 bayshore boulevard in daly city for the sustainable streets shops and toed vehicle. acting as a key member of the central subway project real estate team to acquire the right-of-way for tunnels and stations plus successfully locating 11 commercial tenants in 19 residential households with 57 residents from the chinatown station into new locations to work and live. and participating as a member of the mta's real estate and facilities vision for the 21st century report and the addendum team. to rebuild, renew, and expand our facilities for the agency to meet the needs of the city's growing population and demand for more transit and transportation services. congratulations to ken for his 29 years of service to the mta and the city and best wishes to ken on his retirement and his next endeavors. ken? (applause) >> on behalf of the board of directors to our ag

1527 to pine project case which entails domination of 5 xoifts buildings on the south side even if pine between van ness on the west and austin to the south and a construction of one hundred and 37 square feet at all story building with retailer space soon the ground floor and one hundred 37 housing in the upper levels a copy of the eir draft is in front of the commission and published on may 14th and the public hearing was held and the public comment closed comments and responds were published on september 27th no public comments on the draft eir nor did any member of the public speak before the commission in june the elevation contained in the eir found that the implementation of the proposed project will result in significant unavailable impacts that can't be litigate below a significant level the demolition of the pine street building for the purposes of environmental review and it was identified as one of the temporary constructions after the 1906 san francisco earthquake fire in the sequa's mandate it was the american building certification and interpretation the artifacts the alternates to the im

analysis and identify the corridors where deaths are complained now target city efforts streets van ness and south of market and 18 and 24th street in the mission are high corridors that are the focus of city engineering education and enforcement initiatives so - >> yes. commissioners. >> i strongly support this vision zero initiative my questions unfortunately another fatality when we were in recess a child was killed when they stepped away from her home the committee got together the different folks we talk about the dangers or hardship they have around the area and provide solutions i was wondering if you have community engagement you involve the community to provide solutions and pretending it from happening. >> community engagement engagement of everyone is essential to keeping vision zero so we have a quarterly task force it is open to the public where we have a lot of community representation providing input and holding people account so people interested are welcome and encouraged to participate there to provide effecting e feedback and to the capital feedback and the enforcement things th

served over 2 hundred students with the nonprofit organizations like youth speak and van ness and video and 710 south camera and lobbying the youth and college of san francisco the carbarn will serve as a 99 seat black box theatre for artists and installations and the 070 person cafe that will hopefully employ students in the culinary art program and the politician program space in support of the building restoration the carbarn as received institutional support over $200 million also in support of building golds the car barron has pro bono support between 2009 totally half a million dollars earth services schematic content and legal representation and the design and the office and infrastructure and the cost services i want to show you a few images when the barn is complete an picture of the outside building and the power house that is the programming which is a spectacular lit space a cut out in the floor that show cases the turbine this is the black box theatre during the day with the students practicing the audio visible they look at the programs so kids can work on live predictions that is the o

pilot roll out and they are spread out between our offices at market and van ness and the wo water front extending north and south of market street and soma and the financial district. we have plans and initially the project was supposed to have launched with 50 stations in san francisco and we have been founded for a year now and initially the plan was to distribute those areas i just described and when we are able to make the purchase we'll expand beyond market street as far as castro and beyond that we are working with our regional partners to find a sponsor and lining up additional public funding and our initial planning work to show in san francisco that we could easily accommodate 2500 and that would basically cover the north east quad rapport -- quadrant of the city. >> that's a long time. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i know you are asking specifically on the waiver, before you get to that discussion, could i understand lessons learned so far from the bicycle program in terms of, you know, i just observe myself by looking at it doesn't seem we have heavy

are on mission street from embarcadero to the van ness and the closures right now are at spear and main so you can use that causing major difficulty southf market and through the financial district. >> and now the halloween plans. >> if you are outside of the north bay, everyone else, hold on we have moderate-to-heavy rain and a clap of thunder possible with the cold front from 11 o'clock until at least 1:00 o'clock weapon we have the best downpours. don't take an umbrella, it is way too crowded. wish a pancho. that is the best advice. by 2:00, the rain is easing, and by 4:00 we will be mostly cloudy with the rain coming in later and harder the dry window is opening bigger and 6:00 to 8:00 all the showers should be moving east mainly dry and a chance of a scatter showers but the main band of rain is going to come in with the cool front. between bodega bay and to guerneville we have a few sprinkles and headed to marin with the cold front and more moderate showers lining up. check out the orange color from all the buildings in downtown san francisco with orange. showers and thunder, heavy at times, and scattered showers and not a wash out