tom mcguire director of the sustainable streets portion of the sf meat. -- sf mta. i will try to move quickly through this. as supervisor peskin said since i was here before you last fall, when we first started talking about legislation and charter amendments, you certainly have gotten our attention. i promised i would come visit each of your offices, talk to you and your staffs about ways we could be more nimble, transparent, engaged and responsible in some of the things that we did with you, and some of the internal changes that we did in the mta started to change the expectation of responsiveness in the board. the first thing i wanted to mention was the reorganization of our planning team. supervisor safai has pointed out the importance of organization and prioritizing the needs of this board in our -- in our organization. we've dedicated senior staff as part of a community response team that is there to give focused attention to priority issues of the supervisors, not issues that are our priorities, not issues that are the things that are necessarily part of our

tom mcguire. director of the sustainable streets division.location 16th and kirkham is at the base of the hidden garden steps. we had a question on the -- request on the 22nd saying that pedestrians with -- were hard to see and requests a stop sign be installed. it was taken to a public hearing on march 22nd at which there were no objections and that's why we are recogniz recommending it. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. any directors or a motion to approve. >> on the 10.2 item social security it typical that hearing those things constitutes public out reach and they got some sort of notice for people in the area? >> that's right. the audience that we brought to you on the 10.2 consent calendar are items that went through the public hear and there was objection or minimal disagreement. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. do i have a motion? a second? >> [roll call] >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much. as noted by the public commenter perhaps we can keep an eye on that one and if we hear any complaints maybe revisit. 10.2ii. >> chair, that

tom mcguire, the streets director. very simple text change in 10.2.h. the current -- currently it reads four hour time limit 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. waller street, south side from 3 feet to 175 feet west. that should have read from 3 feet to 41 feet and from 75 feet to 170.5 feet west. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. dually noted actually motion to approve as amended? and a second? i'm sorry. a motion to approve the amendment first and a second on the amendment, correct? all right. all in favor of the amendment? any opposed. hearing none amended. motion to approve? >> approve. >> second. >> chairman brinkman: all in favor? any opposed? hearing none, as amended it's approved. >> thank you, madame chair. with the rest of the consent calendar being approved the regular calendar. item 11 has to do with approving proposed traffic modifications to may 31st, 2020 as part of the twin peaks figure eight redesign project. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. >> good afternoon, chair brinkman, members of the board. i'm jason hyde and i'm a planner . i'm here today to

tom mcguire, director of the sustainable streets division at mta. the bulk of the presentation will be done by my colleague, who is the acting head of our bicycle section. i just want to give a little bit of background here. on april 17th the board of supervisors unanimously passed an ordnance that requires companies who offer shared motorized scooters on the streets of san francisco obtain a permit to operate from the sfmta. today we are here to consider enacting that permitting system to we can put in place the board of supervisors vision for that ordnance and the themes you will hear from the presentation and in all of our comments is that we believe that any use of the public right of way, sidewalk, street, bike lane, ought to be in the public interest and we think that a scooter permitting system, any scooter permitting system could authorize us to put in place should prioritize public safety, public equity and focus on accountability by operators. we'll go through each of those points in our presentation. we encourage you to allow us to carry