i know vallie has reached out to them. we have to build so much -- we have to build more affordable housing right in front of their front yard, by cutting the trees and building more units. i think it's more about planning and making sure we have enough affordable housing, based on supply and demand in district 5. >> thank you very much. ms. o'mara? >> well, i think the amount of housing in san francisco far he'ds the supply. there's deaf huge kha -- chasm. the millennials between ages 18 and 25 are the ones most affected by it. and that's important to consider. and that's not to disclude seniors. so what my suggestions are, prioritize housing and expand it reintroduce certificates of housing for formerly marginalized communities like african-americans and brown in the fillmore district or hunters point. really protect our renters and tenants' right will go a long way, by repealing hawkins, for instance. >> okay. >> thank you. >> thank you. mr. preston, how would you speed up the permitting process? would you speed up the

at this time, the co-author of the legislation, supervisor vallie brown. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed for your support and your kind words i want to thank supervisor fewer intimate -- director davis for your fierce advocacy and hard work on this, but i also really want to appreciate the people behind us. a lot of times we push them in front that have really got into the weeds to work on this. might aid, thank you -- my aid, thank you. i know supervisor fewer already thank you, but i have to thank you, too. you have to have a doublethink here. district 18, chelsea, and then human rights commission, i want to thank brittany, raise your hand, brittany. thank you. everybody wants to know who she is. and other than the other h.r.c. stuff that worked really hard on this. they really went deep and really drafted some amazing legislation for us to move forward. i really want to thank all of you for joining us here today for this historic signing of this office of racial equity. this office where we will work -- we will build and work on the legacy of the h

the next request is at the request of supervisor vallie brown for her district; to come up request recommendations how to improve safety and circulation and accessiblity within this year, and >> along with a number of seniors and the stakeholders that we would expect to see, we saw a couple dozen teenagers and young adults, which honestly we at the city don't do a great job of getting out to public engagement events, but somcan really did their work here. and you see a group of kids who really had thoughtful responses to what could go on in their neighborhoods to enhance and preserve their character. went to bessie carmichael to promote the neighborhood and walking safe school buses. here you see tenderloin safe passage and families who have banded together to really try to create safety in numbers. one person's crossing the street. they're much easier not to see. five people, and somebody with a fluorescent yellow vest, they're much harder to miss. part of somcan's work was to develop recommendations for the family and special use district. so from here, i'll show you some photos and bullets of t

the next request is at the request of supervisor vallie brown for her district; to come up request recommendations how to improve safety and circulation and accessiblity >> excess landfill revenues from former central freeway parcels which the revenue is intended for improving the transportation system within the area. we will be working on that with m.t.a. we will be the lead as the transportation authority on the project, working with the market advisory committee. the crooked street paved reservation system at the request of supervisor stefani using the funds to advance the system. we are waiting to see what happens by october 13th, which the governor has the ability to take action or not take action to sign or not sign the legislation that is in front of him to create the ability to implement this type of a program, of a paid reservation system. this would fund the full first year of operations, planning for and operating within so there is funding as well as general fund support and support from the anticipated paid fares or reservations from the reservations and the fees generated from the r

we were joined by supervisor vallie brown along with bike and pedestrian advocates and our sister agencies mta and public works earlier this month in golden gate park to celebrate the last of 13 raised crosswalks recently installed in golden gate park, capping three years of traffic-calming measures in the park as part of the city's vision zero initiative. we were joined by supervisor brown, walk sf, communications director lindsay, and in fact, we all, including me, helped stripe the new raised crosswalk on j.f.k. drive east of 8th avenue on october 3rd. it was the first time in my ten years i have ever operated a crosswalk striper, president buell, so we can check that one off the box. the improvement project was launched in 2016, following an executive directive from then mayor ed lee and includes floating curbs along the bike lane, striping, hit posts and media extensions. since improvements began, the number of vehicles battling over 30 miles per hour has fallen 30%. we still have a ways to go. to make the park as safe as it could or should be. we plan to implement longer term solutio

i'm a legislative aid for supervisor vallie brown who represents district 5. i'm here to allow form lar retail grocery store to be permitted within the fulton street grocery store special use district known as the sud. this specific location in question is at 555fulton at laguna in the hayes valley border. before i present, i'd like to note to our commissioners that we have representatives from the property developer as well as leadership from the potential grocery tenants in the audience for any specific questions. and secondly, i'd like to submit into the public record that we have 37 letters of support from the western edition and hayes valley community and these letters are in support of supervisor brown's legislation and of the potential retailers, trader joes, coming into the neighbourhood. i'd like to submit these with the commission secretary. i'll introduce to move quickly. our community members in the western addition of hayes valley neighbourhood have been agitating for full-service, affordable and fresh grocery store for years. in fact, it has sfgo

.] >> ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor vallie brown. >> commissioner brown: thank you for coming to thank a few people. department of public health, thank you for pushing to make sure this happened in a way that cares about the community. i want to thank the san francisco health network, department of public works. i recorded when you said, yes, ma'am, we will have that done. i will keep playing the recording to you. mayor's office of disability. reverend brown and the naacp was very instrumental and the community center and of course our mayor london breed. [applause.] you know, when i first started really getting involved in the neighborhood, it was over 20 years ago as a neighborhood activist. i remember someone telling me the story, and this is maybe 12, 13 years ago. about maxine hall. they said you need to know this story if you are going to be an activist. when i heard the story and the kind of woman she was and the kind of fighter for the community. it gave me that kind of passion to do more. when i found out her tragic how she tragically died and how the community said w

. >> the quake damaged the cumbersome central freeway, which split hayes vally and western addition.the quake it took years to come down. voters passed a ballot measure to save it and then one to tear it down. >> we looked retrospect ively, the earthquake damaged it and great, we will take it down, but the reality was much more complex. >> when it was torn down, the central freeway gave way to octava boulevard, now home to shops and new residential. >> the earthquake was the single event that gave us an opportunity to make a decision about freeways in this city. >> different generations have their own ideas of progress. but for all the damage and tragedy inflicted by the loma prieta earthquake, it also had a hand in forging a new version of the old city. joe rosato jr., nbc bay area news. >>> our emmy award winning documentary series, bay area revelations, chronicles the day that the loma prieta earthquake hit. we are reairing that special today at 4:00 p.m. right here on nbc bay area. >>> and we have much more ahead on today in the bay, coming up, walking back his comments the presi

hi, i'm your district five supervisor vallie brown. today, san francisco faces serious challenges and i'm proud to serve you at city hall, fighting for affordable housing, solutions to homelessness and keeping our vibrant neighborhoods moving, clean and green. i bring a perspective and life experience that is unique. i lost both my parents by the time i was 14. i've been without health insurance, been evicted and had to live in a van as a child because my mother did not have money for the next apartment. so when i work on homelessness, when i work on housing, it's personal. for the last three decades i've been your neighbor and your community activist first. i've seen the ups and downs, the booms and busts and watch our neighborhoods change. sometimes for the good, and sometimes for the not so good. so i got involved from the ground up in making community better. i fought to keep our neighborhood elementary school open. end the violence plaguing the district. my work brought me to city hall. i helped create landmark legislation. like t

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i really just want to thank our district supervisor vallie brown and her team for supporting this. [pplause ]. >> if we do want to see more small businesses opening and being run by community members, people who want to serve their communities. it just needs to be a little bit easier to do. we need more pathways for these businesses to grow and adapt as they move forward. so that's really what this is all about. all of your support has made that happen here, so thank you all so much. [ applause ]. >> thank you. up next is rodney fong. >> thank you, steve. congratulations. i feel like it's a new day. it's a fresh breath of air. it literally is a chamber of commerce day here in san francisco. i want to thank mayor breed, supervisor brown for being champions of this legislation. all of the points you bring up about the vitality of san francisco, how important it is for our streets to be filled with people and to get involved with businesses. at the chamber of commerce we've put an emphasis on small businesses. i feel growing up in a small business and running our wax museum down at fish

we need to re-examine that by asking the question, if sfmta is the one responsible together with vallie's job as supervisor, then they are not doing their job. they are not -- they're not connecting with the community or advising them. >> moderator: thank you. thank you very much. okay. again i know or i've heard in watching, if i watch tv all the time i'd hear it constantly about uber and lyft in the city. the question is how can the board of supervisors influence the planning department and the sfmta to consider the impacts of uber, lyft and the commute buses that go through the city. and ms. brown, it's your question. >> well, we've already had those studies. we know it's a huge impact. we have around 30,000 uber drivers a day in this city. so what we have to do is we have to make sure transportation works. so when i first got into city hall, i called a hearing because muni wasn't working. you stand on carl and cole and people waiting for a bus and you see the time keep going up and up. all of a sudden people pill off and are taking uber and lyft. so if it doesn't work, it's not going