it runs south van ness. so it really is literally and figuratively a consolidation of the city departments. one of the objective of the master plan we've been working on is to give the city a presence on van ness, and also to accommodate a programmatic requirement, very large well played -- something very hard to do. ~ anywhere in the city, but particularly this part of the town. and at the same time, create a project that would be a good partner or good neighbor to the 565 units of residential that we are building on the south and western portion of the site. as this slide shows, one of the fundamental pedestrian objectives of the property was to make it easily accessible for any member of the public or staff that were coming to the building either through mass transit on market and many muni lines that run there or if you were trying to keep the cars off 11th and mission, off of 11th which is a much quieter street. another objective of the site plan was to enliven the intersection of south van ness and mis

is the first project two miles on van ness avenue. and it's supposed to support the rapid in effect the recreational bus routes coming into the city. van ness brt and the brt in san francisco will be unique and the first of its kind operating in a dense urban right-of-way with the transit routes in short blocks represent by all the features in the screen and the dedicated traffic lane but the priority of sf go signal and the fair free payment and the boarding enhancements and high quality shelters this combines is altogether it becomes a new mode of transportation different from rail and bus. something else this project interested it's not just the bye bus rapt but the features i've described a lot of those are fit into the enter cycle the bus ways to the system, however, there are various other prongs but piece of them are necessary to help make the project work like the overhead contact system and new street lights and waterlines and sewer lines as i've mentioned the sfo those are portions of the project this is the van ness project

as andy said i work a half block away on south van ness but this construction where it is going to be i forget the name of thoughts street >> (inaudible) and it's the school the school yard it's not 3 blocks away it will have an impact on the school and children and the parents have reasons to be concerned and should be revolved in the 0 process and don't feel they've been involved i'm part of the coalition and we're concerned about this project and have heard effectively from folks in the neighborhood and he parents so i think you know, i think it's reasonable to give a little bit more time so those folks can get involved and have input we're asking for at least a month's extension thank you. >> is there any additional public comment on the continuance. >> thank you. i'm terrance i live on van ness i want to speak in support of the project and in terms of basically finalizing the project to allow the contractors to go forward obviously because of the housing shortage it was exceptionally a bathroom i see people defecating. >> sir keep our matter to continuance. >> i'll hold my reason

i'm phil lessor speaking on behalf of the van ness team on 16th street we're moving a little bit to the eaton 16th street let me have the overhead on 16 and south van ness you can see from the number on this case this has been in the entitlements pipeline for 4 years i was engaged by the pardons to do extensive community outreach that's what i do in the district we've been doing that for four years we've had the necessary meetings for code but also voluntarily meetings and talking to all the groups i appreciate the elective aid when we were asked to speak to others on july 10th we were ready to go we were told to speak to another five or six people we did that now they are told to talk to the pta we're wondering why marshal elementary school is 3 blocks away from the site there's a project as you might know that will be built next to if i approve that on mission it's the same size as the building immediately to the west of it the labor temple this will not be casting my shadow on the playground or facilities. the traffic study you have in our packet pages 17 and 18 the traffic route >>

can that be installed to van ness, market and gary and lombard? >> thank you. next. we have comments from howard chad ner. >> hi, good afternoon. thank you. couple things. i have not had a chance to really digest these guidelines but i was one of the people advocating against the folly at the jfk drive. it's interesting in relation to cochair zarda's comments. in case it doesn't work, would you change it. jfk doesn't work, bicyclist tell me that, drivers. the only thing that doesn't acknowledge that it doesn't work is the mta. there is no mentality at the mta streets department, livable streets, whatever. there is no mentality of acknowledging when they have made a mistake and starting over because they don't really consider themselves accountable to the people of san francisco as a whole. they are captured pretty much by special interest. couple things, i think this maybe an improvement, thighs guidelines. but anything that puts a pedestrian having to cross a bike lane particularly with mobility disabilities should not have to cross a bike lane. the way i read these

avenue we've had 4 pedestrians killed on van ness avenue this year and that's unacceptable and as we put more resources there we hope to to curtail that activity and the same with the back to school enforcement. using our partners that are going to consolidate volunteers to go out as well as having no nonsense motorcycle officers out there we're going to give people tickets that don't listen. >> suffice to say it's moving from paper to having real time data is essential so there's those parts collect it analyze it and use it and it would be great to see the number of operations at the next report around school facilities and senior zones i'll also be walking my 3 kids to school on monday so i'm glad you are out there and using the data and thank you for your continued partnership on this. one other piece of data we want to look at going forward is the percentage of citations to focus on the five. >> yes. >> i know there's a lot of interests that you are looking at and that would be a good data point going forward. >> actually i can offer that to you now. >> of course you can [laughte

as was the case with two projects from true mark and we've continued one on 409 van ness those are come forward to the western neighborhoods and all the sorts of things we've asked them to side kwartsdz substituting for rear yard and other things are r that have no significant impacts on the neighborhood around them that part is very good and again, the oversight affordability this is tier one that is different from tier two. the legislation from eastern neighborhoods describes the amount of affordable that's required of a project and their, of course, completely conformity and as commissioner moore suggested especially with the change of elevation in the streets that's a tough thing to do this is as good as it gets i'll move to approve >> i'll second that motion. >> i want to clarify if the motion or ask staff to call out the roof-deck or removal of the roof-deck. >> if i may commissioner there are a number of references particularly to the roof-deck so as part of the motion take out and modify the motion according inevitable workman's comp windows. >> i don't have to add it to the mot

group continued along market street to learn will the car sharing and bike sharing as well as the van ness bus rapid transit they finished the site of the two freeway parcels that will provide one thousand units of housing 50 percent affordable housing. looking this is transforming the city to be more liveable and sustainable there are addresses to our landscape thank you to all the leaders for participating in this productive day we'll not be meeting in august due to the next recess and the next is the 23rd my public comment on item 3 >> you can just come in up you don't need to raise your hand. >> spirituality transit in the upper level. chief content sky after lower level two levels >> is there any additional public comment on item 3 seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk item 4 >> item 4 the executive director's report on informational item. >> thank you, ms. chang. >> thank you for your attention to this month we'll have great pro tem developments on the federal side last between us the house of representatives is k3e789d to vote on this this week the president will be wil

contractor that performed on a couple of not more city projects including the one south van ness project in 2009 the value was $5.7 million and they did the renovation of the clubhouse for $2.7 million and the projects were completed to the satisfaction of the city. if approved the changing construction the total budget will be $2 million $37 plus therefore the staff recommendation to say award the contract go to the chang construction. additional a reallocation of $1.68 million from the 2008 from the parks contingency fund to the project. >> any public comment on that item? please come forward richard. go ahead >> good morning, commissioners i've been listening tour your package this project has been detailed over different times this project should then be considered whether there's a 20th century 20, 17 or renovation of the entire park area i don't know how that 2012 fits with this project you have this project from the 28 funding enough said i have a question in my mind how that type of money it moving at&t park when you look at the other issues on this park practical kind of stuff s

signals and the van ness corridors rather and those are supportive as well as on the ellis theres 75 percent more prop k that mta is prepping to ask allocation of in the next 5 years then the last so ramp up delivery on the projects are that for traffic by the way of background prop k has funded the traffic cohn a program and most recently, the planning work for the revised about a year and a half ago to improve the traffic cohen e cohn program to reflect the city's priorities including shifting resources with the greatest safety needs based on the safety data and supportive of vision zero so this slide highlights the work funded to date with the residential cohn plans. over the next 5 years particularly within the mere term in the next year mta plans to request about $2.6 million in prop k funds to complete the backlog of the plans those are plans that have been implemented over the past several years and the list of locations is shown in our packet available online at sf.com and the location on sf.com the residential program is underway on track and applications are done every year

the goal of the project is to make public transit on van ness quicker and more reliable. authorities want to create transit-only lanes from filbert to market street as well as ban left turns an u-turns at certain interseconds. the sfmta board will make the final approval based on today's hearing. >>> remember this? this is interstate 280 in san francisco over the 4th of july weekend during majorette tro fit construction. more construction closures are coming over labor day weekend. northbound interstate 280 will be closed from highway 101 to downtown san francisco. the closure begins next thursday afternoon at 2:00 and will continue until 5:00 tuesday morning, september 2. >>> more developments in the aftermath of that brutal killing of james foley. there are now growing concerns about the threat of isis, the terror group that's claiming responsibility. cbs reporter craig boswell has more on the plans by the obama administration. >> reporter: top u.s. officials say the islamic militants isis poses a terror threat unlike anything they have seen. >> they are an imminent thr

getting a second chance at a game that started two days ago. ,,,,,, the busy intersection of ma and van ness. >>> san francisco police are looking for witnesses to a carjacking near the busy intersection of market and van ness. a driver says three men put a gun to his head and stole his red buick sedan just after 9:00 this morning. the suspects tossed drugs, cash and gun from the car as police chased through the tenderloin. it ended near howard and 7th when the trio bailed out and got away on foot. >>> san jose police have arrested this man in connection with a fatal hit-and-run incident on sunday night. the 25-year-old from san jose turned himself in to police yesterday. he is accused of running over and killing 53-year-old [ non- english language ] , who was crossing the street. the collision happened at the intersection of center road and balfour drive. it was the first of two hit-and- runs in two days on the same stretch of road. >>> california's drought worsens and now one santa clara county supervisor is targeting his own employees, asking for more water cuts. >> faulty ignition switch

hell do you think you are getting millions and millions of dollars from the state government go to van ness and see congested and fulsome and it's congested talked about the southeast and what about the sequa and the environmental review report and what about the common footprint we the constituents want to know what you are doing about this we can't go on preventing everything is okay spending billions of dollars with no accountability and no transparent we have two supervisors that are still talking. thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker. >> . >> (speaking foreign language.) >> in time when the plans and assistance local land geographic response the mobilitytion with progress one step at a time. right now the southeast corner is - >> is there any further public comment on item 4 seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk item number 5 >> item 5 allocate $5 million plus in prop k funds with conditions for 6 requests subject to the trichoid schedules with the prop plan this is an action item. >> colleagues any discussion seeing none, is through any public comment on item 5

the board office is on mission street room 304 between van ness boulevarding it's broadcast live sfgovtv channel 78 and dvds of this meeting are available for purchase from sfgov and thank you at this point we'll conduct our swearing in process if you intend to testify and wish to have the board give our testimony wealthy please stand and raise your right hand arrest incomplete note that any member of the public may speak pursuant to the sunset ordinance under the administrative code thank you. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> (inaudible). >> thank you. mr. mr. pacheco commissioners we have three 0 housekeeping items all to do with at&t >> i'll recuse myself due to a financial investment. >> commissioners because there are an insufficient number of board members to act on the cases they are going to be need to be rescheduled so so item 4 is the protest of the an excavation permit on caesar chavez after the first meeting date is october 8, 2014, the appellant is traveling during our september meeting d

and a second thing i would like to kind of mention is that we had the van ness brt, the bart rapid transit. we would like to see that we can write a support letter regarding the shelters on the route. thank you. >> thank you. with that. we move on to item no. 14. we shall adjourn. thank you again for those who stuck it out and we went to over time here today. we had a lot of great discussion. we will have our next meeting third friday in september. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> this is in memory of veil. let's observe one 1 minute of silence in her honor. please. >> thank you. with that, we adjourn. we'll see you next time in september, third friday for our next council meeting. thank you. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergon

before i is the possible mou between rec and park and the mayor's office of public finance for the van ness property you're familiar with the property that is a site on the waffling adjacent to our islander and to brief i i'm sure you're aware of the proposal for the real estate diversifies to purchase that and hold it up for 24 months it will undergo community outreach at the last meeting i approved the resolution in support of the acquisition and the future use of the fund and the board of supervisors passed the proposed acquisition onto the full board and made the approval contingent on the memorandum of understanding so, so the full board will vote on tuesday the 22nd. so rec and park staff has worked with the director of real estate to prepare a memorandum of understanding that governors the purchasing and maintenance of the property as well as real estate services to assist us what with potential third party sale of the property just a brief term of memorandum of understanding the office of of his opinion will use commercial paper to finance the purchase and they'll have maintenance s

. >> 25 van ness, the third floor conference room. i will email that out. >> i think we were there last year. >> same location as last year. >> and begin at 2:00 o'clock. >> 2:00 o'clock. i will send out a suggestion about menus and i will do that again so i accommodate your needs. >> question. do we still park here and it's a block down? >> yeah, you can park here and walk down. okay. any other items for committee agenda setting? if not then we're prepared for the next item which say motion for adjournment is in order. >> so moved. >> i will second. >> okay. no further discussion. all those in favor please say aye. all right. opposed. this meeting is adjourned. [gavel] . thank you. food in san franc just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 pro