i take the van ness underground and walk the corridor from octavia to van ness almost every day. and a lot of thoughts. going back to what commissioner antonini was talking about i was in europe and my experience is different. from are membership car tree boulevards that are thriving and violates. transit runs through them. you have areas where there's basically preves where the train runs through it. they don't have to have separations and it works peacefully. there's bicycle tracks that go through. those areas are vibrant and interesting. one of the things that's going to be important is looking at design principles we put in place for buildings and ground floor frontages. what frustrates me walking down market street particularly from octavia to van ness is the obscured ground floor locations and i think that enforcement abilityd working with property owners along that corridor to really liven those ground floors will help a lot with eyes on the street and kind of the more feeling of the access to the street. the other thing, in terms of street furniture i think there's much m

avenue within the van ness corridor. the proposal will involve interior improvements through ground floor tenant space with no expansion to the existing voting envelope. to date the department has not received any communication regarding the proposed project. staff -- planning department staff is recommending the proposed project be approved with conditions . this concludes my presentation, thank you. >> commissioner sugaya. >> just like this. take something out of order. i will vote for this. there is no reason for testimony unless we can open it for testimony. but i think the commission is -- it was on consent. i don't have any problem with it. what i wanted to say is this, along with what commissioner moore was pointing out, with respect to university of california expansion, this kind of goes along with that, in that they have actually applied for a conditional use to use the space, quite unlike another institution which has a similar kind of program along -- what is it, advertising and post secondary education and t

the car-free option is thinking about car-free from roughly franklin or van ness all the way down to biel. this would minimize conflict with the other sustainable modes such as transit, taxi, bicycle, pedestrian, simpler from a way-finding perspective. in other words if you're driving, you know exactly where you have to get on and off. eliminates potential for congestion to delay transit on market street. so the tradeoffs in auto restriction option, auto restrictions have many benefits to other modes, improved bicycle comfort, potential to improve transit speed and rehabilitate, reduce conflict with pedestrians. this is something we will be modeling and investigating in our next piece of work, there could be increased conflicts at other streets, particularly in the auto restrictions option where we're adding more required right turns. so with that, i'm happy to take any questions you might have. >> thank you. any questions from have public comment? >> president fong: i'm sorry. let's take public comment first and then come back to you. is there any public comment on this item? good.

we know we have to make a link to van ness. i think that is important and city should be responsible for that critical need. >> with lombard, there is nothing allocated. we are working on ways to make that happen. it is a matter of continuing to prioritize in context. >> duly noted. >> with that we have the -- one bay area web site that says www.sfta.org/obag. we have all the information of -- background and priority development areas, background of the process variable there. we have one bay area e-mail, my contact information if anybody has questions. >> great, thank you. so call for projects. we will -- in between call for projects and submission of projects, which is late october 25th -- >> right. call for projects will be september 26th if the board adopts the framework. project will be back october 26th, application also be to the authority. we will be back in front of the board early december for your selection of the projects. then after that we will do project development from december to april. final selection will be

that was van ness and pine. one driver lost his patience. he was trapped very upset, and you could hear the is understand of -- hear the hundreds of cars were just a as fed up. but where we are standing at seventh and market, it was a different scene two hours ago. take a look. hundreds of cyclist dominated the intersection, and watch this cirque de soleil her form -- performance on the side of the building. it was completely unrelated, but it kind of calmed down the crowds of these cyclists for awhile. and actually the crowds were and they all went their own way. they say they were peaceful and they created some angry drivers. but dan and carolyn, there were no arrests tonight. kyra clapper, abc news. >> thanks, kyra. the mission district uh-huh loft kris cal mass demonstrators. critical mass demonstrators. >> at the intersection of 18th and vaw vaw lens yaw, a splinter group of about 200 riders occupied the intersection doing what they referred to as the circle. riding around in a circle in the middle of the intersection while the lights c

that was van ness and pine. one driver lost his patience. he was trapped very upset, and you could hear the is understand of -- hear the hundreds of cars were just a as fed up. but where we are standing at seventh and market, it was a different scene two hours ago. take a look. hundreds of cyclist dominated the intersection, and watch this cirque de soleil her form -- performance on the side of the building. it was completely unrelated, but it kind of calmed down the crowds of these cyclists for awhile. and actually the crowds were and they all went their own way. they say they were peaceful and they created some angry drivers. but dan and carolyn, there were no arrests tonight. kyra clapper, abc news. >> thanks, kyra. the mission district uh-huh loft kris cal mass demonstrators. critical mass demonstrators. >> at the intersection of 18th and vaw vaw lens yaw, a splinter group of about 200 riders occupied the intersection doing what they referred to as the circle. riding around in a circle in the middle of the intersection while the lights c

i didn't 8 unit building on south van ness -- i did an eight-unit building on south venice. if there had been an affordable unit, i would not have been able to do it, simple as that. look at what has been completed since 2006. that says it all. thank you for your time. >> good afternoon. my name is ciro hackett. i am here as a business owner and a tiny part of the construction business. i do not want to waste your time on what i have written here, since people have spoken today. i will say i am in the restaurant business. i see people here i have not seen in my restaurant for many years, simply because they are not making money anymore. this is trickle-down economics. the money is not being generated in the community. it comes down to me and my fellow restaurant owners. it is a different aspect of it. we are suffering. we are not downtown, reaping the benefits from twitter and social media. we depend on the people in our neighborhoods, who work and spend locally, and educate their kids locally. i and the other people in my business hire many workers in this city, and they ar

that was van ness and pine. one driver lost his patience. upset, and you could hear the is understand of -- hear the hundreds of cars were just a as fed up. but where we are standing at seventh and market, it was a different scene two hours ago. take a look. hundreds of cyclist dominated the intersection, and watch this cirque de soleil her form -- performance on the side of the building. it was completely unrelated, but it kind of calmed down the crowds of these cyclists for awhile. and actually the crowds were and they all went their own way. they say they were peaceful and they created some angry drivers. but dan and carolyn, there were no arrests tonight. kyra clapper, abc news. >> thanks, kyra. the mission district uh-huh loft kris cal mass demonstrators. critical mass demonstrators. >> at the intersection of 18th and vaw vaw lens yaw, a splinter group of about 200 riders occupied the intersection doing what they referred to as the circle. riding around in a circle in the middle of the intersection while the lights changeed several time

one thing to note is vehicles used on the van ness rftb will be included here, they're asterisked here we will purchase 15 60 foot hybrid motor coaches and 23 60 foot trolley motor coaches. there is the lines that run the different type vehicles, we will need to make two procurements to operator the van ness scheduled project. this is shown to come in sometime in 2014. this gives you a little sense where the funding for those procurements come from. this is specifically for the upcoming procurement of 57 vehicles that was mentioned on the previous slide. so typically you have the -- how these are funded is we receive federal grants because of limitations on amount of funding available within the region, so we also have to bank together several years of federal grants, then come in for prop k as the match. the other difference in this funding plan is we were successful in getting an fta discretionary grant for state of repair needs. this will specifically be used to replace the fairly old buses running on the annex today, they will have new vehicles that they can provide that service. s

gulf and frankton were moving forward with the van ness and octavia market impact to deliver pedestrian improve pts, the crossing environment particularly as the key auto corridors may be implemented by brt. in the soma grid is recommendations from the ent project in coordination with long range plan core study, which the team will be -- is developing and will be presenting and chairing with you over the coming months. finally taking a look up even further away from individual streets, recognizing that this part of town, transportation issues mirror those of the city as a whole. in fact, the region as a whole. the challenge of developing a livable and sustainable way, managing automobile traffic, providing options for diverse travel patterns. what are programmatic and citywide strategis that can help be of -- help manage the demand in the neighborhood. this may be everything from parking management to supporting employer based measures such as shuttle services, looking at how does freeway access in the soma grid function in terms of priority for buses and high occupancy vehicles. actual

if you have to go down and take a street, pine, and then go to van ness, and then down to market, it's easier just to go to market and diagonal down. saves gas too. anyway, i never been a total car-free person anyway. i have a question, -- not a question an observation. if you allow paratransit and other, like delivery and taxis, how are you going to treat the new form of urban -- they're not called taxis, this iewber, whoever those other guys are with the mustache on the front of the car. there are at least three or four that i think have started up. so that's a consideration, unless there is some way to identify them, i guess if you have a mustache in front of your car, that's an easy way to identify it. but i think if somebody like me participants in one of those other programs and just uses my car, then there's no readily available way to identify who i am. so that's something -- i don't know if those will last but it's a phenomenon that cropped up. it just came to mind. also in terms of your nodes, it seems like one other aspect of considering where the city might spend it's money

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highlighting the block of th e post of van ness and franklin which would put the cathedral hill development in 25. >> that is a population of one person. >> who lives there? >> the guards. >> the deviation for district 2 would be -5%. we will be checking on that. >> it is still ok. it is still ok. >> would you like us to check on the deviation? we can take a look at it. >> it becomes 6.9944. >> i have some good news for you. the deviation is 4.998%. >> ok. please highlight it. 4.998%. commissioner tidwell: yes. commissioner schreiber: there are fewer people who live on the median strip on 19th avenue. yes. commissioner pilpel: no. commissioner mondejar: yes. vice chair lam: yes. commissioner leigh: yes. commissioner alonso: yes. >> please make this change. yes, mr. schreiber. commissioner schreiber: i had this on my list as something that you mentioned. commissioner pilpel: the tingly trade that i describe the other day and we did not come to consensus on doingis to take the area south of 280, north of tingly, i don't have the numbers here. move that back to 11. take the aread south of st.

a certificate of appropriateness issued by the historic preservation commission for work at 401 van ness avenue. it requires four board members in decide of appeals of appropriateness. with only three members present we cannot hear this case and should continue it to a later date. my recommendation is to that we hear it at our next meeting which is october 102012 but we need a vote to move it. >> i vote to move the item 9 to october 10 based on the director's comments. >> thank you. is there any public comment? seeing none, then mr. pacheco, if you could call the roll. >> on that motion from the president to reschedule item 9-12-096 to october 10, vice president fung, aye. commissioner lazarus, aye. >> thank you. the vote is 3-0. this matter is rescheduled to october 10. >> thank you. taking up item 1 which is public comment for items that are not on tonight's calendar is there anyone who wishes to speak under this item? seeing none, then item no. 2, which is commissioner comments and questions. commissioners. >> i'm sorry i made you wait for 10 minutes. i apologize. i had issues with pa

this on van ness, we have been discussing the california pacific medical center. right now, it is rife with politics, corrupt politics. we had a counsel from the center come here to this podium and tell our legislative members, are so-called representatives that they were not privy to certain financial documents and reports, and helping them. we want to know what's going on with that hospital and what's going to happen nothing much is happening. nothing much is happening because of funding. you have a developer -- don't waste your money -- spend it on traffic lights on san bruno. don't waste your money on an eir that's not going to go anywhere and don't make statements if you don't know who's going to be the developer. as to that community meetings that you want more information about hunters point, time is running out so i will stop here. supervisor campos: next speaker, please. >> good morning, commissioners. i'm a member of the citizens advisory committee for the transportation authority. regarding one item the executive director brought up, the item about 19th

continue to work with mda and with caltrans on evaluation of benefits progressing the design on the van ness drt project which you approved [speaker not understood] for in june. we are now analyzing lpa to determine the performance of the area for the final [speaker not understood] and focusing on minimizing impacts, of course, and maximizing benefits. we also submitted, of course, the small start program report to the federal transit administration earlier this month. this is an item that was seen by the plans and programs committee. we have a draft extension plan. you recall this is a $10 station fee that passed in 2010 and required a central plan prioritization. we had significant input from the plans and programs committee, from the community, from the departments that are potential project sponsors, and from individual members of the board provide that had we're able to reconcile those. i'm planning to bring the program for approval in october and i will keep you posted, of course. we will also actually do projects that are ready to go at that time [speaker not understood]. so, we can e

the board of appeals office is located at 1650 mission st., room 304, between van ness and dubois avenues. it is broadcast on sfgtv, cable channel 78, and dvd's of this are available directly from sfgtv. at this time, we will conduct our swearing-in process. if you wish to testify and have the board in your testimony evidentiary weight, please stand, raise your right hand, and say, "i do" after you have been sworn or affirmed. there is the right of the sunshine ordinance in the ministry of code. thank you. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. director goldstein: thank you, mr. pacheco, and we will start with item number one, public comment for items that are not on our agenda. is there anyone who would like to speak under that item? seeing none, we will move to item number two, commissioner comments and questions. commissioners? seeing none, then either number three is the adoption of minutes. commissioners, for your consideration and possible adoption of the board minutes from th

the office of citizen complaints is located on the seventh floor of 25 van ness ave close to it than s and a market street. we are easily accessible by public transportation. we receive walked in complaints regarding police conduct from the public from 8:00 until 5:00 monday through friday. we also received complaints by telephone, mail, e-mail and fax. you can also file a complaint at your district police station and station personnel will forward it to us. our staff speaks several languages, including cantonese, mandarin, burmese, catalog and spanish. two of our investigators are bilingual in spanish, which is important because the largest number of non-english interviews we conduct our in spanish. four languages other than the ones i previously mentioned, we will obtain the interpretation services. last year, we conducted 28 case intakes in spanish. five in cantonese and one in mandarin. if any of you would like more information this evening, a senior investigator is here in the back to answer any of your questions. it we also have brochures on the table in the back. that conclude

market street say son ri discontiguous district, market and franklin streets between fell street, van ness avenue and valencia. >> my presentation is based on a powerpoint presentation, we ask to provide the recommendation on the landmark district consisting of 8 properties known as the market street masonry discontiguous district. the commission is requested to provide its review and comment on three items specifically. i'd like to address the consistency of the proposed designation with the policies imbedded in the general plan, the priority policies section of 101.1, particularly the provision of housing to meet the city's regional housing needs allocation and the provision of housing near transit corridors, two, to identify any amendments to the general plan necessary to facilitate adoption of the proposed designation and 3, to evaluate whether the district would conflict with the sustainable community strategy for the bay area. further consideration by the board of supervisors will occur at a future and public hearing. immediately -- some history of the district, immediately after the

there was a bowling alley that wanted to go in at 17th and van ness and they were not going to be able to do it because they would have been banned from even selling beer. that is the tip of the iceberg in terms of planning provisions that make it hard to foster a knife in the city. we are not always consistent with how we deal with liquor licenses. they can vary in different parts of the city. i know the chief is working hard to establish more consistency. i just want to say that the chief of police is probably the most pro-nightlife chief of police we have ever had. i think he understands it on a personal level. i appreciate that. until recently, we did not have anyone at our office of economic and workforce development that actually focus is on night life as industry. and of course, as you know, our transportation system does not support not live that well. we do not have nearly enough cabs so that people coming out and get along without drunk driving. bart -- bars to not stay open late enough. i do think things are changing at city hall and with city government generally. in the la

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