with the improved 12th street, pedestrian friendly street will be part of the development of 10 south van nessto 22 feet thus increasing pedestrian safety. a 40-foot wide promenade is dedicated to the 10 south van ness side. this what the site looks like now. when the project is realized, there will be a variety of neighborhood serving amenities along the wyden sidewalk, street furnishingfurnishings. instead lifeless streets filled with meter parking, there will be removal street parking to be replaced with two 60-foot long passage loading green. the new development and making of the pedestrian prioritytized place with a active storefront and neighborhood serving amenities including art and entertainment reflecting the cultural significance of the place. we're very excited about this project. this will add additional units to the pipeline. we hope to bring to the community. thank you for your time. >> president hillis: anybody else from project sponsor team. i like to open this up to public comment. anyone like to come up when you're ready ready. >> good afternoon commissioners. mr. director,

the 1660 and 1680 properties which were used to help fund the 49 south van ness project. >> supervisor peskin: welcome to new member haney. i want to thank you and your staff john gavin for meeting with me earlier and these are not questions about the rezoning but questions around the purchase and sale agreement and the appraisal i wanted to determine for the record and hopefully with some evidence for the record that the highest best use in the appraisal was for c3g or office if you will and that was set forth in the purchase and sale agreement. >> thank you for meeting with us earlier supervisor. it was our pleasure to speak with you this morning and to your question, based upon your inquiry, we did go back and look at both the purchasing sale agreement and the appraisal. we believe there are evidence in both of those documents that support your assumption and your assertion. i would first going to the appraisal report, the report was done by -- they indicated they used the comparable sale approach. if i may quote from that report. it says in quote, in the sales comparison approach,

this is on south van ness, in the area of phil bert and union. no word on how long that will be closed in that area. we're also getting video into our newsroom of flooding in daly city. crews are working on draining from the john daly off-ramp. and the storm also expected to bring big waves on the coast. as waves could reach up to 40 feet in some areas. expect rip currents and sneaker waves at bay area beaches. >>> meteorologist kyla has a look at this. >> it's been a little bit of a rough ride. you can see them cleaning up the highway. and i feel for them. that's a lot of work to be done. let's talk with the westerly swell that is making us have this high surf warning. not just today but tomorrow. goes until 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. very, very dangerous there. as we head into the next 24 to 48 hours. as you can see, extends all the way up the coast. goes through today to tomorrow 5:00 p.m. f. you're near the seaside. it's best to not be there at all. please be careful. you could be easily swept off your feet if you're too close to the water. taking a

he hung out right there on south van ness. that's our headquarters. it's ongoing situation. i got disciplined one time because i complained. this lady. she got on the bus, she pushed her tourist. i said that's not nice. she started telling me i get paid to drive people around. >> supervisor brown: thank you. appreciate it. >> good afternoon. thank you for having this hearing. my name is ryan banks. i dealt with muni most of my adult life. i came in when johnny stein was still manager. then muni was family. all the departments within muni was family. whatever you had to deal with outside, you could withstand it. it was a family inside. first thing i noticed when i got hired on, was the embrace from management from the supervisors through management. it was family. they help you get through that together. there wasn't much money. it was part of the general fund then. things were literally held together with duct tape. we provided the service. what i was trained to do, you go out there and you treat these people you want them to be treated. you give them the same service you de

the senate bill 127 target highways that run into cities and towns like south van ness avenue san franciscoically highway 11. bicyclists and pedestrians use it as a thoroughfare through the city but in some sections, there are no bike lanes and very few crosswalks. it is a similar situation on 19th avenue in the city sunset district. the proposal would require caltrans to make these improvements to the roads and cities and towns that also function as a state highway. >> what we wanted to do is require caltrans, when it is working on the state highways that are really city streets, to make them safer for everyone. >> safety improvement can include sidewalks and bike lanes as well as bus boarding islands. >>> eight teachers and the new nation second largest school district hit picket of thousand teachers that take into the street in la. what they are asking for comment coming up. struck a tough break for the oakland a's. the first-round draft pick has just announced he wanted to play football, instead. >>> daiwan of a massive teacher strike kicked off in los angeles. more than 30,000 teachers

get conveniently van ness and geary boulevard one of the most reliable transit systems in the country van ness avenue is a major connecter between potrero hill and mission on the south side of san francisco correcting connecting us to the marina and state highway in the financial with the western edition neighborhood it is mostly residential a lot of the geography of van ness the rain that is wide it was uses is a firebreak in the 1906 san francisco earthquake a lot of building occasion that helped of hoped to stop the fire from jumping van ness had a light rail or sprash separating and along geary 0 when we came to the question of how to address the needs on haven because of its cost effectiveness we have found in the brt system with the new vehicles. >> the new mr. secretary is a change we will actually have transit in the middle ♪ the far legal unit and a broadly prom >> one of the reasons it is in the center a was it is an clouf right-of-way a set of pedestrians will cross from the sidewalk to the middle of the street a. >> to move the reliable along the corridor with this travel time had been signifying reduced we think the ripped will go from 16 thousand a day