there is there a representative from the m.t.a. here? i am wondering, could you comment on the amendments that have just been made, which i understand are on top of the amendments i had made in committee last week? turn on the main mic. >> thank you, supervisor. the first two resolved clauses came out of the budget and finance committee, and we are fine with them. the second two clauses introduced by supervisor campos, we are not sure whether we will be able to achieve those, the result of those clauses. i think bart at this point is fully aware of the concern from the board of supervisors. the ability to get retroactive payments at this time, i don't know if we can. i think it will be difficult. i think to the extent that we are limit our negotiations and box in what we can and can't negotiation will be difficult for bart and m.t.a. to get to a favorable outcome. from my perspective, i expect to do what supervisor campos is requesting. but i think to have that requirement in writing may constrain our ability to achieve a more favorable r

commissioner hwang: the m.t.a. position is to deny the medallion? your position as the agency would be for this board to apply the standard at the time he applied? >> correct. vice president garcia: that is not exactly what you said the first time you spoke to us, is it? >> i am sorry? you mean today? vice president garcia: just moments ago. >> that is what i said. i said our opinion is that when he became eligible for a medallion in the fall of 2008, when his application on the wait list came up, he was ineligible. vice president garcia: do not add that were the board to apply the current transportation code, the m.t.a. would not be opposed? >> i did add that. commissioner peterson: thank you for that clarification. commissioner hwang: on principle, i do oppose using the standard of the day, simply because there is an incredible incentive to get driving quickly, when the whole idea of the standard that was implemented prior to the current was to allow full time -- existing full-time driving workforce taxi drivers to get the medallion. now, that is

the m.t.a. would like to partner with us for some of the improvements. thank you. commissioner buell: thank you. commissioner harrison? commissioner harrison: just a question. i noticed that there's some concern about tree removal. >> he yes. commissioner harrison: how have you addressed that? >> great. i have a couple of slides. this is an image of existing tennis court and some of the undermining of the adjacent structural walls around the tennis courts. more close up image of the park. here's the current entrance to the park. let me see if i can get to one of the ones. so the relocation of the tennis courts would affect this set of trees in a thin strip of two access roads between the park, between the tennis court area and upper area. there's a series of seven trees. two trees have already fallen. one on to a house across the street and one across the tennis court. jim clark has gone out and looked at these trees. they are problematically swailted for that reason, but also the -- situated for that reason, but also the tennis court situation which would open up

we could have you move forward and the m.t.a. would take action august 2nd and can expand a pilot areas beyond what was rick -- what was originally given to us. we're fully comfortable testing in other parts of the city, but we were working under the agreement agreed to buy it city car share. >> we need to open up for public comment, but i'm open up -- open to moving it forward with our recommendation to allow time for communication and think about other potential pilot sites as well. thank you very much. if there is no other comments, let's open up for public comment. is there anyone from the public would like to speak? >> good afternoon. i'm going to speak on another item, but underserved areas are going to remain underserved unless all the stakeholders are brought to the table. i think this thing should stay in the committee myself because certain neighborhoods have been clearly neglected. get right, get people to come to the table, and then present it in the form of a pilot program. thank you very much. supervisor mar: thank y

the m.t.a. would like to partner with us for some of the improvements. thank you. commissioner buell: thank you. commissioner harrison? commissioner harrison: just a question. i noticed that there's some concern about tree removal. >> he yes. commissioner harrison: how have you addressed that? >> great. i have a couple of slides.

we will further detail the design for the play gruned other elements in the park and the n. -- m.t.a. is working with a park plan to have it from a paid parking lot to a farc. meeting with all the local businesses and the various community groups involved will continue this fall. i wanted to show you an image of some of you -- at the full commission meeting when we brought this before you, a lot of the members were able to attend. a lot of those kids are in school today and couldn't ble here again today. i wanted to mention that they came and represented their support for this project. again, the m.t.a., the planning department, community organizations, supervisors kim and camp oasto s's office. we have -- canpos'office. so currently the site is a paid parking lot owned by the san francisco public utilities commission. it's surrounded by residentses, businesses, community organizations and a high-density, low-income, culturally diversed neighborhood diefficient of open space. -- deficient of open space. what happened there? so this is the portion of the site that would be occupied by

i think we're having the m.t.a. come here, right? in september, is it? that's the sustainability plan, though, i think. a little different. okay. thank you. secretary avery: commissioners, you can move to item 17, case 2010.0641m, the recreation and open space element update. it's an informational presentation. >> good afternoon, commissioners. and i am back to give a more in-depth presentation and i was here a month ago and we initiated and will make the initial presentation today and another in october and proposing adoption for later october. this is a kind of timeline and a brief history of where we started in november of 2007 and produced the first draft in may of 2009. and we started that last year and produced a revised draft in june of this year. and now we're working through kind of the last bit of changes and expecting adoption in october. i want to tell you a little bit about the community process we went through. we had a lot of help and neighborhood parks was a key partner and they produced the summary which you have now. i passed this stuff

the plan. >> we did work closely with m.t.a. throughout this process and communities work with them and look at all the issues in terms of the different streets and balance and allocate this and making sure that in the downtown, we need more dedicated bicycles and other parts of the city to make sure people aren't riding on the sidewalk and pedestrians have all the spaces they need. president olague: exactly. that is what i am trying to get at. >> and i should add again that the plan itself has fairly high level recommendations in terms of the streets when you see the draft raishgs, there will be a detailed description and everything from the sidewalk and where the facilities are and so forth. there will be more detail in the draft e.i.r. than in the plan. president olague: thanks again. a really excellent presentation. i think we're having the m.t.a. come here, right? in september, is it? that's the sustainability plan, though, i think. a little different. okay. thank you. secretary avery: commissioners, you can move to item 17,

again, the m.t.a., the planning department, community organizations, supervisors kim and camp oasto s's office. we have -- canpos'office. so currently the site is a paid parking lot owned by the san francisco public utilities commission. it's surrounded by residentses, businesses, community organizations and a high-density, low-income, culturally diversed neighborhood diefficient of open space. -- deficient of open space. what happened there? so this is the portion of the site that would be occupied by the park. the other portion would be -- at the same project being sold to the mayor's office of housing. our park would take up approximately half of the site. and the parking lot would continue to function for at least a year into -- in its current condition until 2012 and during that time we'll be working with the mayor's office -- excuse me -- the metropolitan transportation authority tanned others to develop parking strategies to make improvements to the neighborhood parking availability and, again, the rest of the portion of the site will continue to function as it is until the mayor

we will further detail the design for the play gruned other elements in the park and the n. -- m.t.a. a park plan to have it from a paid parking lot to a farc. meeting with all the local businesses and the various co

economy and to the life of every citizen, it will take organizations like ours working with the city to realize m.t.a.'s vision for the future transportation of san francisco, a safer, more efficient and lower carbon vision. we remain committed to advocacy, communication and developing existing and new businesses to support the transportation infrastructure of the 2 sst century. -- 21st century. i'd like to thank the other panelists. thank you. [applause] >> next up, we have julia. [applause] >> good afternoon, mayor lee. i am very pleased to read the letter from the gray to green advisory panel. as organizations concerns that the climate will have on green infrastructure and as panelists on the greater green advisory panel to the san francisco climate action plan, we appreciated the opportunity to learn about the city's climate action strategy. we are writing to express our support for the city and county of san francisco's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets and to recommend that the city incorporate urban greening and green infrastructure into its larger climate planning efforts in regards