as far as local activity, we have entered a third round up of reach in the transportation plan. that may make a pitch for the significance of this document. this is a comprehensive look at transportation in relation to land use. that is something that no other organization does in san francisco and is likely to have some significant outcomes because of the context of the sustainable communities. we have not reached efforts now including a second project, lunchtime webinars, surveys, and also, one survey on school transportation, which is becoming a hot topic as well. as well as presentation to community groups. the dates have not been sent but i will make sure that you are aware of them. at that point, we will share with those committees and results of the surveys that we have done and starting to use that information as the basis for the framework for an alternative which would be in the next several months. we have submitted the draft staff legal eir eis. i believe yesterday there was a letter submitted by n reiskin supporting the contents of the document. it further enhances t

transportation needs. it feeds right into the regional efforts on the regional transportation plan. and we completed the first phase of outreach, and we expect to be briefing the technical and other committees on the progress. we will be briefing the programs committee at an upcoming meeting as well. one followup item, on jfk drive bikeway project, approved funding for it in september. there are some follow-ups to that that report of the approval. among them, the approval by the golden gate park authority and by the recreation and parks commission to both of those approvals that happen. the golden gate park concourse authority had some mitigation for the parking spaces being lost as a result of the bikeway implementation. the sfmta has already ended the fight another 15 parking spaces that can be restored by small changes in the design right in front of the parking institutions, which is what we were hoping for. and the park and rec commission requested sfmta to hold off or rearrange is better to avoid any impact on the crowds during the holiday season. that is in the works as well.

the neighborhood, they've also had side effects. the plan is really looking at ways to compensate for some of the transportation planning that has happened in the last 60 years. then, the final issue that is of concern are the development concerns. glen park is a pretty built out neighborhood and there are a lot -- there are not a lot of opportunities for growth. there is a lot of concern about some of the few sites in the neighborhood and what will happen to them in terms of scale and compatibility and contributing to the village character that is so loved in that area. one of the big concerns is the bart parking lot and what is going to happen there. bart has a 54 space parking lot across from the bart station on boss worth street. this is their only san francisco parking lot. there are more trend -- they are more in the suburban locations. it cannot be used for anything else. bart has expressed interest in developing the allot as some kind of mixed use development, but they have not come forward with a specific proposal. they have a development team we're working with and we have been communicating with them as well. while the plan do

and housing planning, which were linked together through the funding process. in the past there was a regional transportation plan created by the metropolitan commission. is an important plan, guiding the investments of the discretionary revenue coming into the region. there are about $68 billion expected to come into the region over the next 28 years. on the housing side, the other regional agencies associated with bay area governments have created the regional housing needs allocation arena, giving the city within the region a share by income level that must be planned for in their housing element. these planning processes have been brought together for a land use element called the debatable community strategy. it must meet two requirements. one, it must achieve the great house guest production target, by 2035 in the bay area. two, identifying strategies for housing by income level. where are we in the prague -- process? there was the revision scenario, back in the winter. it was the first cut of what a bay area program might look like. in the second phase, alternative scenarios. the difference this that

update on the san francisco transportation plan. this is an information item. >> principal transportation planner of the traditional party. i will be presenting this item. you should have a copy of the presentation in front of you. there are copies available for the public if people would like them. quickly, the transportation plan is our 25-year out of a transportation goals and writer is in san francisco and really helps to frame our investment strategy and prioritize our limited resources and limited street space. it is not specific to any type of transportation or anyone transit operator but is meant to be a comprehensive look and all aspects of land-based service transportation in the city. it also incorporates the land use changes that we expect in the community plans, looking at the change in the expected trend based on how we expect to grow. when we look at the baseline, incorporates the land use changes as well as the other projects we know will be happening in the future. even though we are investing in our transportation s

i was the chair of the committee that prepared the transportation plan and the sales tax measure, which the voters approved in november 1989, and then, i served on the committee 13 years later that reprogrammed that. i want to give you a little perspective, which the civil grand jury report has nine. the original report calls for corridor studies. $200 million not to build the line but to start the process. those with third street, north beach, not chinatown, geary street, and the reason there has been little work is that the merchants have opposed any development of transportation on the street for the last 30 years. resources that could have been made available have been spent on third street and on the subway to the north beach, which is one we are talking about. in the initial prtiof -- period, we naively thought we could build a subway ride at the surface of the street and spent years looking into that. it would not effectively go over the bar too, and we also spent several years looking at routes. there were too many curves. it became too long and unfeasible. the minutes of the tr

the planning staff, we're very pleased to have the sensitivity and a broad range of resources. one major component that is coming along that is somewhat out of our control is the transportation plan. because we're tied to the geary brt, and a kind of move at their own pace. we're trying to keep an active voice and our transportation subcommittee is working with them on making sure that landscaping and other development is sensitive to the neighborhood. so at this point, i would like to turn over the podium to bob to discuss our cultural heritage and economic development work. >> thank you. commissioners and director, good afternoon. i am a member of the organizing committee and co-chair of the committee of economic development in the japan center subcommittee. i am here to brief you on a couple of elements, the cultural heritage and community ownership aspects. but first, a couple of general comments. first, i want to recognize the other committee chairs that have worked on it on the other chapters. in the transportation public realm area, greg johnson, diane onizuka, paul, and rose. in the land use build forum, you already met karen, and her sidekick is not here today, could not

the airport's terminal a. planning and design cost $445,000. >>> the transportation department says the government's plan to modernize our air traffic control system has run into some serious problems. and those problems threaten to delay the upgrade and make it more pricey. the faa plans to replace the current system with one based on satellite technology. but some software problems have delayed full deployment of a critical flight tracking system. >> we are all plugged in these days, be it on our computers, at home, or at work. despite the warnings of dangers of taking that technology with you behind the wheel, some people still seem unwilling to just hang up and drive. a new survey by the aaa foundation for traffic safety found 95% of the people said they know it's dangerous to text or e-mail while they're on the road, but 35% say they do it anyway. >>> seeing an armadillo on the side of the road could be a bit distracting. why it may not be as farfetched as that sounds. we'll be right back. >>> i'm kristin fisher where a home invasion was stopped over the weekend by this old guitar. >> that's the first thing i pi

the transportation authority can play a role in helping to employment a key feature of the project, the implementation of the transportation improvement program. back in 2008 as the overall project was being planned, there was state legislation that authorized the project to implement an innovative travel demand management project in connection with the supporting treasure island development goals. it was ab 981, and this begins on page 25 in your packet. the features of ab 981 are described on page 26, which allows for the board of supervisors, on the tida recommendation of the board, to designate an agency to serve as a transportation agency for treasure island to allow for sustainable transportation programs, including travel demand management programs, to be implemented in support of their world development goals. these programs would include such things as enhanced transit, bicycling shuttles, alternatives to driving, but also a road pricing component that allows a repeat period tolls to be charged as well as parking pricing to support the overall implementation of the project. the purpose of this item is to seek your recommendation for approval of a memorandum of agreement that we have outl

welcome to the transportation authority plans and programs session meeting. clerk of the committee is erica cheng. madam clerk, can you please call item no. 2? >> review of minutes of the july 12 meeting. >> colleagues, you have the minutes before you. before we act on it, with any member of the public like to speak on this item? seeing no one, public comment disclosed. taken without objection. madam clerk, please call item no. 3. >> item #3, citizens of advisory committee report. an information item. supervisor campos: mr. davis, good morning. >> good morning, commissioners. our meeting took place last week and i it -- as a result there were three, $270,000, so they can to work at union square. passed by, seven-one, with one abstention, the discussion for the meeting was around community involvement as put into the planning. the other item on the agenda was the central subway. this was the first time we had passed anything regarding the central subway. the discussion on that was very focused on the risk management issues and the assumptions that the mta was m

the downtown plan also called for the retention of housing. chinatown, the plan also said transportation goals for transit rider ship. it also established a new open space or a childhood care requirements. this shows the original downtown zone. as part of implementing action, pieces of the tenderloin, south of market, the thai town -- how well do we do the last 25 years? we have forecast a growth for 90,000 and space needed -- employment will remain flat and some of the original areas actually lost jobs. there is 12 million square feet of office space. in some ways, it is branded as the financial district, a loss of almost 40,000 jobs. it was distributed down south of market and also to the west. and there was a total of about 47,000 jobs lost in the downtown area. that is south and also west. the downtown plan aims to maintain chinatown, south of market, north beach. about 29,000 units were retained as affordable housing. new housing areas were also rezoned, primarily around south beach, south of market. the gold of the downtown plan has set for housing production at that time was about

plan. and we started to introduce -- gradually, bike use went up and the danger and the fatalities decreased but not enough, so after a while we introduced the bicycle master plan, the ministry of transport introduced the national bicycle master plan to make all the local politicians and local engineers aware of the need for better infrastructure and more attention to the bicycle. that helped for a while but after 10 years, the bicycle plan was -- master plan was completed and the attention for the bicycle in-- decreased again so time for a new approach and then they introduced the bicycle council. it was a group of people, experts from all sorts of organizations, both governmental and nongovernmental, and they put together the forces to implement more information, more things to do, improve bicycle facilities and bicycle policies and the bicycle council is not working for 10 years. we celebrate our 10-year anniversary next month. and what will come up next, we don't know but we're still not at the bike use level of the 1950's, so also we can improve. and in the netherlands, i also have to explain the benefits of cycling. sustainability, accessibility, health, livability and economics. a

the other question that i have, i know we already approved the people's transportation plan. at was many months ago. this is the work force plan. how many pieces of the america's cup are going to be coming to the board for approval. >> so there will be a number of the plants posted in october. there'll be a revised version coming out. we will also be doing it revised version of the waste management plan, which we are now calling the zero waste plan. they are charged with two other, including u.s. involvement, as was mentioned earlier, -- including youth involvement, as was mentioned earlier, not only what their standing in the environmental report but the next step forward with their environmental plans. in addition, we are working on an operation plan that harmonized, a water and air traffic plan, so all of these plans together are going to be posted over the course of the next five to six weeks said that people can have that chance for more engagement ahead of the ceqa process. supervisor avalos: again, thank you so much. this is part of a promise of the america's cup that w

we will tell as to why the federal government has to -- they just have to pass the transportation authorization extension plan. without that, this would be challenged, and doral drive would be challenged. every major transportation mode of any significance in the bay area would be challenged. we're already hearing from caltrans about the nervousness they have if that transportation reauthorization is not done quickly. so we need that on the national level. that is why we're continuing to use this as an example of how we as the city can work together with city agencies, community- based agencies, our friends in labor and business, to promote one of the most beautiful, very challenging complex, but it will be a beautiful addition to the old downtown skyline and functionality. so today we are celebrating this milestone where all of the demolition has been completed. that is the finished phase one. it has been remarkable. not one word-related accident has happened in all of these thousands of hours put together. by the way, of all the work our that were mentioned, over 80% of those jobs went to nine county reside

1990's with the passage of proposition k, which was approved by 75% of the voters and issue with a 30-year transportation expenditure plan. the t-line, which encompasses phase 1 -- which is an operation as the 2007 -- and the extension of its e-line initiative with an environmental review in 1999. program has had 350 community meetings where the various questions that were asked have been answered, and dealing with the alignment to the depth of the alignment, transportation community that the line will serve. has gone through extensive review that began in 1999 and concluded with the planning approval in december 2008, and finally nepa approval from the federal government in november 2008. the key steps to the central subway project, past 42 recent times -- -- fast forward to recent times, the agency is in the process of acquiring the real estate. we will close escrow on the chinatown station property as of november 1. we have begun three major construction contracts that will deliver the seven construction -- the seven construction contracts that will deliver the program. we have entered into final design, have awarded

the other modes can be accommodated. the plan does have additional policies to improve the transportation demand management implementation in the downtown. in terms of open space, the plan -- the charge of trying to see what we can do to build on the proposed rooftop transit center park that will be built and augmon that with both additional street level public spaces as well as additional connections to this rooftop park -- you probably know that as part of the downtown rail extension, a small number of buildings at the northeast corner of second and howard will likely have to be demolished, and the rail extension will be running right underneath those parcels, so there is limited opportunity to build up of them in the future. so the plan proposes that rather than building a very small structure that could be supported on top of that in the future, to actually create a new public open space at the northeast corner of second and howard, and because the transit center essentially lacks a major southern face -- as we know, it faces mission street at mrs. gore but is primarily bordered by alleys -- this could offer gate wer