[cheers and applause] >> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco. south vanness runs from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor. in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. van ness avenue. >>> there's so much involved with becoming a firefighter. and as a component of being a

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we're at south van ness at 21st in the mission. we're driving around because there has been a lot of downed trees in the area. and we notice the power was out. there is a large scaffolding as you can see in ethan's picture. the building looks like it's a brand-new remodel. pg&e told us this is the reason for the 2,000 power outages that are in the area. a woman that just came up to us told us that originally pg&e told her that her power would be back on at 7:15. now they said 7:15 tomorrow night instead of tonight. so this is a

the first is on van ness between o'farrell and geary. it's funded with the m.t.a.s van ness geary street project. another project is for the central subway. it is one of ten artworks commissioned for the new line. it's over 650 feet long, consists of 550 l.e.d. panels between the powell street station and the union street station. it's called lucy in the sky, and the lights are patterned with unique sequences so that commuters can experience a unique pattern each time they pass through. >> perfect. what about the early day sculpture that was removed from the civic center? >> this is a question that cities have been grappling with nationwide. following the removal of early days in 2018, there was a toppling of statues in golden gate park as well as the removal of the christopher columbus statue. we are partnering with the parks department as well as the community to engage with the public to develop guidelines to evaluate the existing monuments and memorials in the civic arts collection and evaluate the removal of a monument or statue but

when we look at van ness, vrt and getting on the 49 and quickly and immediately get all the way up van ness or being able to hop on the 14 mission and because of those red lanes, quickly get down mission street. and now this morning, i hopped on a castro street, my muni station, and took it down to pal and had a really short walk to the central subway to this station and that just warmed my heart and it makes me so optimistic for the future of san francisco and for the future of public transportation in san francisco. because we know that we need our transit systems to work for our city and for our region. this region is only going to succeed if people are able to get around easily. if people are able to get within san francisco, back and forth to the east bay, down to the south bay, we don't have a choice. we have to make it work and this is going to help make it work. the central subway is going to be a new spine right in the middle of our public transportation system and that is why i'm so, so excited about today. i will say that this is great. this is such a fantastic day, but this

this was near a church on south van ness. that street had to be shut down from about 19th to 22nd street. so that stretch of and that was off-limits. they lost power in the area for a while until they could get restore. luckily, nobody hurt. >> but it's amazing to see when you have video like this showing that kind of yeah. takelook at this one. another down treated blocking lanes of traffic on mission street near south van ness. >> partially landed on the front of that car was parked on mission street. fortunately, at least nobody got hurt. so that's some good news. well, speaking of trees down on the car's a family had to be rescued after a tree came crashing down onto their car in san francisco. they were trapped inside. this is video from the citizen app. you can see everybody responding running up to try and help. >> this was on grove street in front of the city library. fire crews say the family's, ok, it took a little bit back. you can see them here with chain saws trying to cut those branches backs. they could get to

this is near south van ness as well. and it partially landed on a car there, too, on mission street. that's on lucky. but the lucky thing is nobody. i car. if you are in that car, go and now. one family doesn't have to imagine it happened to them. >> check this out. a tree fell on a car in san francisco family trapped inside. >> this is video from the citizens app showing everybody the bystanders running to try and help them out as they were calling from inside the car. this was just in front of san francisco public library. firefighters got on scene. they got the chainsaws out. they started cutting away at that tree to they could get those inside. >> how we usually see in a parked cars and the cars and we say while they're lucky in this case, they were lucky still because they did get out of the car. okay get hurt. thankfully, let's take a peek at the radar as we go to the break just so we can see where the storm is headed next. covering most of the bay area with rain and some downpours. those are yellow spots. we'll th

yep, that's drainmond green, which we spotted at the corner of mission and van ness. it's draining men, steiner in california in pac heights. basically it's a lot of drain puns. there's also twist and curvy, which are at the base of the twisty and curvy part of lombard street. joining us now is david lang. his day job, a real estate agent. he's also a longtime volunteer drain cleaner in pacific heights. david, nice to have you on the program. we're all having fun with these names but you guys are providing a real valuable service. why isn't the city of san francisco able to do this? >> well, the city had to cut back a couple years ago or decades ago to not every week but every two weeks, and mother nature doesn't tell you when it's going to rain or the leaves are going to drop. so i just feel it's easier to do my bit so no one slips and falls. you have two schools near where i live. you don't want kids and people walking their pets, going into the streets. it's for safety. we have compost bins now. let's use them. >> it's really a good community service. you watch ove

we're along 17th street not far from van ness where last week water levels were very high, a lot of businesses and nearby residences had water damage and spent several days clearing things out. today a day to dry out and prepare for what's likely to come next. a lot of barriers all along 17th street and we saw a lot of the more than 15,000 sandbags. the city of san francisco says it's begin out over the last week or so. this area says it is much more prepared for what is likely to come in the days ahead. >> another big storm coming in. are businesses feeling relieved, like they're prepared, or on high alert? >> reporter: a little bit of all of those. they are relieved they are cleared out now. a lot of sandbags along the street and streets nearby. still a little bit of nervousness. they don't know how the storm drains will act if they back up or if any of the barriers are really going to work. so far the last couple of days there was some rain and it seemed to work out pretty well. they do remember last week all the flooding that happened here. >> we'll see you live at 6:00 tonight. thank you

>> we have some sites, the one on van ness the former mcdonald through a land dedication. if we get land we want to build on it so think we have been focused on the idea of production and not the idea of buy and hold. >> okay. >> (inaudible) build as quickly as possible. a buy and hold is not been the priority at least for me as director. it has been buy, hold and build as soon as possible because we understand the deficit we have in terms of unit production raised by planning. >> thank you. i want to get clarity on that point. the site you are talking 600 van ness is our office negotiated and worked and thank you all for your involvement in that. that is a example of land banking. is that the only one or are there other sites we are acquiring without being limited by what we can develop immediately? >> no. we don't have-we are try ing to make sure we receive state financing mr. supervisor. we are understanding now i think you know, even with our buy hold and build we were not able to build for a while because we were not competitive for state financing so we are trying to

like the scaffolding collapsed that we saw on south van ness. large trees we were seeing in the mission district were all cleaned up this morning before we had gone to that big cleanup today. the city was saying they're just trying to really concentrate on the big trees that were blocking roadways. like the sad, lone trees that you're seeing on the sidewalk are really not their priority. they could be there for the next week or so as dpw tries to clean up before the next storm really hits. >> we're seeing video now of that incident where you were last night, south mission where that scaffolding -- tree fell on the scaffolding. speaking of the mission, businesses around 17th there, how are they holding up? >> we saw no flooding when we drove by there today. it was wet. there was some debris on the floors, but there was no standing water. we did actually -- a really interesting story that was there was that one of the businesses that did flood on saturday said that the -- the manager said that he had sandbags that were stolen overnight, which i th

our new office building at 49 south van ness is a example of gsa managed project. department of elections. (inaudible) phase 2 is a example of a project that we have done for our client department of election. this- >> just want to say thank you for that. i find that very interesting. it demonstrates the departments work. we will not be asking for that in the future, but i appreciate this first time around very very interesting diversity of projects the department is leader on. thank you. >> sure. similar to the (inaudible) we are also present a bigger slide in the future presentations with the comparison of (inaudible) previous year. next slide is active projects by scope. full service scope. close to 90 percent of projects are full service scoop so we are involved on all most all phases of the project from beginning to close-out. examples are typical paving and streetscape improvement and projects from some of the clients, for example sewer system improvement, traffic sigical projects from mta or building facility projects we take from the beginning all the way t

when we look at van ness, vrt and getting on the 49 and quickly and immediately get all the way up van ness or being able to hop on the 14 mission and because of those red lanes, quickly get down mission street. and now this morning, i hopped on a castro street, my muni station, and took it down to pal and had a really short walk to the central subway to this station and that just warmed my heart and it makes me so optimistic for the future of san francisco and for the future of public transportation in san francisco. because we know that we need our transit systems to work for our city and for our region. this region is only going to succeed if people are able to get around easily. if people are able to get within san francisco, back and forth to the east bay, down to the south bay, we don't have a choice. we have to make it work and this is going to help make it work. the central subway is going to be a new spine right in the middle of our public transportation system and that is why i'm so, so excited about today. i will say that this is great. this is such a fantastic day, but this

van ness avenue.

let's talk about the bus rapid transit project on van ness avenue. how extensive have the improvements been? >> what's called the van ness transit rapid project is in fact more about complete reconstruction of the street and most importantly, the 100-year-old utilities underneath the street. so all of the water, sewer, telecommunications, gas lines under the street were basically rebuilt from market street all the way to lumbard. the part on the surface which provides dedicated bus lanes for golden gate transit and muni, that was relatively straight forward and we're so excited we're going to start revenue service for muni on april 1st. >> that's fantastic. i understand there were some sidewalk improvements too. >> there were sidewalk improvements. we planted 374 trees. there is new storm water treatment including infiltration in the sidewalk, there's a bunch of art. there's all kinds of things. we put in new street lights for the entire corridor. >> finally, the other big news is about the central subway. can you briefly describe the project and giv

>> we have some sites, the one on van ness the former mcdonald through a land dedication. if we get land we want to build on it so think we have been focused on the idea of production and not the idea of buy and hold. >> okay. >> (inaudible) build as quickly as possible. a buy and hold is not been the priority at least for me as director. it has been buy, hold and build as soon as possible because we understand the deficit we have in terms of unit production raised by planning. >> thank you. i want to get clarity on that point. the site you are talking 600 van ness is our office negotiated and worked and thank you all for your involvement in that. that is a example of land banking. is that the only one or are there other sites we are acquiring without being limited by what we can develop immediately? >> no. we don't have-we are try ing to make sure we receive state financing mr. supervisor. we are understanding now i think you know, even with our buy hold and build we were not able to build for a while because we were not competitive for state financing so we are trying to

the first is on van ness between o'farrell and geary. it's funded with the m.t.a.s van ness geary street project. another project is for the central subway. it is one of ten artworks commissioned for the new line. it's over 650 feet long, consists of 550 l.e.d. panels between the powell street station and the union street station. it's called lucy in the sky, and the lights are patterned with unique sequences so that commuters can experience a unique pattern each time they pass through. >> perfect. what about the early day sculpture that was removed from the civic center? >> this is a question that cities have been grappling with nationwide. following the removal of early days in 2018, there was a toppling of statues in golden gate park as well as the removal of the christopher columbus statue. we are partnering with the parks department as well as the community to engage with the public to develop guidelines to evaluate the existing monuments and memorials in the civic arts collection and evaluate the removal of a monument or statue but

let's talk about the bus rapid transit project on van ness avenue. how extensive have the improvements been? >> what's called the van ness transit rapid project is in fact more about complete reconstruction of the street and most importantly, the 100-year-old utilities underneath the street. so all of the water, sewer, telecommunications, gas lines under the street were basically rebuilt from market street all the way to lumbard. the part on the surface which provides dedicated bus lanes for golden gate transit and muni, that was relatively straight forward and we're so excited we're going to start revenue service for muni on april 1st. >> that's fantastic. i understand there were some sidewalk improvements too. >> there were sidewalk improvements. we planted 374 trees. there is new storm water treatment including infiltration in the sidewalk, there's a bunch of art. there's all kinds of things. we put in new street lights for the entire corridor. >> finally, the other big news is about the central subway. can you briefly describe the project and giv

fall onto power lines in san francisco, the scaffolding appears to be around the church on south van ness. that street had to be shut down from 19 to 20 seconds trees while the crews ork to mitigate the damage in that area. the scaffolding reportedly knocked out power in the immediate area. however, the fire department says nobody was injured in san francisco family was rescued after a tree fell on their car happened earlier tonight on grove street in front of the san francisco public library. >> fire crews say the family is ok. >> also in san francisco, a downed tree is blocking lanes of traffic on mission street. this is near south vanished and it looks like it also partially landed on a car which was parked there on mission street. fortunately, no reports of injuries. but let's check in with our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow, who is tracking the storm mentioned earlier the trees. it's simply been falling all over the bay area. too many to even list them yeah, i think tomorrow morning, especially as the sun comes up, we're going to see numerous trees down across specially the peni

venice or market, but for them, this is basically if i had to compare it, this is basically their van ness or their market. can you imagine those places coming to a crawl? much less here in all back to you. >> yeah, not work out. well, thank you. we'll same thing on the peninsula because highway 92 is essential to get to and from half moon bay and look at the backup here because this roadway partially closed. same thing, sink hole opened up last week. in fact, we have new video from quad copter 40 shows you the view from above shows that sinkhole westbound lane on highway 92. see how deep it is. now. look at that. so crews have made some g% progress filling in, but it's going to take a while and they don't know when they're going to get the whole thing reopen. in the meantime, it is challenging for drivers to say the least. >> 2 extra hours, each way to get to and from and you know, families have services. so it's complicated for us, but it's complicated for customers, too. so, you know, we're just trying to figure out can we shift our hours or that? we're used to it on the coast side beca

when we look at van ness, vrt and getting on the 49 and quickly and immediately get all the way up vanng able to hop on the 14 mission and because of those red lanes, quickly get down mission street. and now this morning, i hopped on a castro street, my muni station, and took it down to pal and had a really short walk to the central subway to this station and that just warmed my heart and it makes me so optimistic for the future of san francisco and for the future of public transportation in san francisco. because we know that we need our transit systems to work for our city and for our region. this region is only going to succeed if people are able to get around easily. if people are able to get within san francisco, back and forth to the east bay, down to the south bay, we don't have a choice. we have to make it work and this is going to help make it work. the central subway is going to be a new spine right in the middle of our public transportation system and that is why i'm so, so excited about today. i will say that this is great. this is such a fantastic day, but this can't be th

this was right near a church on south van ness. >> that street had to be shut down from about 19 streeteet. they lost power there for a time. luckily nobody was hurt. took him a little while to get this cleared up. but just another example of what those winds really did last away. there's another down tree that was blocking lanes of traffic on mission street that, yeah, this is a big one on south than us. >> and it partially looks like, yeah, it landed on that car. you can see the car was parked of mission street. didn't destroy the car completely out of its total there. what at least nobody was hurt in that. so that's some good news. yeah. and then check this out. a family. >> was rescued after a tree fell on their car. this was also in san francisco. the citizen app showing a video here. this happened grove street, right front of staff go public library. fire crews say the family is ok, but can you imagine how scared they must have been when that tree came down crashing onto their car and then on for 9-1-1. and here they are cutting away all the branches so that they can get to them.

attended the fifth opening after 5 ground breakings in addition to that, that is now open along with van ness brt. and so -- in acknowledgment of all of those things would like to respectful low nominate rafael mandelman to continue to chair the san francisco county transportation authority. >> thank you. >> thank you vice chair peskin. >> i would accept that nomination if there is a second. >> there is a second from commissioner melgar. are there further nominations? all right. seeing no further nominations for the office of chair, we should take public comment on this item. if there are members of the public in the chamber withhold like to speak to the election of a chair of the ta, come forward and if not we should open and see if we have remote comment on election of the chair. do we have remolt public comment. >> checking for remote comment on election of the chair. and well is no public comment. >> all right. public comment on the chair of election is closed. and i guess we call the roll on the election of a chair and there is one candidate. on the motion in favor of electing commission

i think one of the biggest issues that we continue to have and i will give a good example, van ness, is a huge problem and we want to have glass in place where the riders especially when we get into the winter and raining, we have to replace the glass. if it's not broken, it's not good for neighborhoods and gives a bad look to the shelter and gets to the bars. that is a pattern of behavior where we don't have a perfect solution to. it shouldn't be just absolutely removing the glass. we are going to have to work with clear channel on a compromise around that. i think the funny thing and i have noted this before, the digital shelters where we are going to be expanding those tend not to get vandalized as much. i have no idea why that is not going on. it doesn't occur and another odd pattern that we see and when we talk about the placement of those and the neighborhood conditions and those where the clear channel is at. happy to come back with that analysis and have a good robust discussion about that. >> thank you, jonathan. and what i failed to mention and you just articulated this, as

i think one of the biggest issues that we continue to have and i will give a good example, van ness, is a huge problem and we want to have glass in place where the riders especially when we get into the winter and raining, we have to replace the glass. if it's not broken, it's not good for neighborhoods and gives a bad look to the shelter and gets to the bars. that is a pattern of behavior where we don't have a perfect solution to. it shouldn't be just absolutely removing the glass. we are going to have to work with clear channel on a compromise around that. i think the funny thing and i have noted this before, the digital shelters where we are going to be expanding those tend not to get vandalized as much. i have no idea why that is not going on. it doesn't occur and another odd pattern that we see and when we talk about the placement of those and the neighborhood conditions and those where the clear channel is at. happy to come back with that analysis and have a good robust discussion about that. >> thank you, jonathan. and what i failed to mention and you just articulated this, as

it is nice to set up viewings of >> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san franciscoruns from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor. in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. van ness avenue. morning. we're going to go ahead and get started. hi, everyone. welcome welcome. my name is tamika mo

when we look at van ness, vrt and getting on the 49 and quickly and immediately get all the way up van ness or being able to hop on the 14 mission and because of those red lanes, quickly get down mission street. and now this morning, i hopped on a castro street, my muni station, and took it down to pal and had a really short walk to the central subway to this station and that just warmed my heart and it makes me so optimistic for the future of san francisco and for the future of public transportation in san francisco. because we know that we need our transit systems to work for our city and for our region. this region is only going to succeed if people are able to get around easily. if people are able to get within san francisco, back and forth to the east bay, down to the south bay, we don't have a choice. we have to make it work and this is going to help make it work. the central subway is going to be a new spine right in the middle of our public transportation system and that is why i'm so, so excited about today. i will say that this is great. this is such a fantastic day, but this

i think it's just van ness, but perhaps 12 street as well to help mitigate win where appropriate, so thank you very much. very excellent reporting. um, see commissioner more with her hand. having been part of the previous approvals. the project as it is brought forward today has not significantly changed from what was approved in 2020 and its physical appearance, the increase and small filling of notches. i think it's hardly distinguishable, at least from a physical point of view. the i am glad to hear mr abrams, explaining that the extension for four years is indeed factually only three years because i was concerned that having the intersection being very much in flux on all corners , including what was announced to be a project under construction, where nothing has happened in the last few months. that is so d, uh ah 30 by ness. uh that something has to happen here. uh, the, um. the question i have is, it is a concern. that i think we all share. see. abandonment of larger family units is of concern. ah and partially so because we had all said. common goal. and all buildings to supp

i think the van ness project was a case. started talking to each other sooner we might have had another year earlier to get buses rung there. that is neither here nor there but a quick question. mirna boulevard what diameters when you talk about embarcadero and great highway the rim of the city. we have you know infrastructure in areas of the upon marina boulevard within -- 2-3 sentences i don't want to get into this what different departments were affected by that red energy that was on the tv and we saw. >> >> thank you. commissioner. that -- you will see we always have coordination with a variety of departments in that area you have the puc, dpw approximate rec and park. all significant part of rec park land. along the waterfront it is an challenging area. those are the 3 most affected dptsz will. december i'm speak right anything i'm missing >> the port? >> you know what port is not. that is rec and park land >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner stacy. >> i wanted echo hat general manager said about staff every

so starting in may, our office of small business has actually started working out of 49 south van ness permit center, and we have a team of two staff who are dedicated to helping small businesses through their permitting journey. so we do encourage people, you can come to the permit center or you can e-mail us at sfosb@sfgov.org, and you can communicate with our staff dedicated to helping you with your permitting needs. we hope that people will consider consulting with us before you even sign a lease so that we can help you on the path to success and understanding the journey of setting up a small business in san francisco. >> well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, miss tang. thank you for the time you've given us today. >> director tang: thanks for having me. >> and that's it for this show. we'll be back shortly. you've been watching san francisco rising. for sfgovtv, i'm chris manners. thanks for watching. >> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more resilient and their neighborhood centers are

so starting in may, our office of small business has actually started working out of 49 south van nessit center, and we have a team of two staff who are dedicated to helping small businesses through their permitting journey. so we do encourage people, you can come to the permit center or you can e-mail us at sfosb@sfgov.org, and you can communicate with our staff dedicated to helping you with your permitting needs. we hope that people will consider consulting with us before you even sign a lease so that we can help you on the path to success and understanding the journey of setting up a small business in san francisco. >> well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, miss tang. thank you for the time you've given us today. >> director tang: thanks for having me. >> and that's it for this show. we'll be back shortly. you've been watching san francisco rising. for sfgovtv, i'm chris manners. thanks for watching. 2022.) (gavel) i'd like to call the meeting to order. this is the wednesday, december 7, 2022, city & county of san francisco budget & finance committee an

period occurred after a period when african american musicians were not allowed to perform east of van ness avenue and that history will be on display. ranging between 934 and foub foub all residential unit are family size. dr. chin will live with his 4 children in the largest top floor year. the character defining feature are the blade sign, all the text accept for the touch our yunk wording will remain. the front facade included cladding will remain. the interior adatorium theater space of 39 by 18 feet will become the waiting room for patients. variance is sought for two reason. one, dwelling units exposure. there is one unit without windows which face bush and that rear facing window will face a rear yard. variance for open rear yard that will be smaller then the code requires at the residential levels. by the way, the non residential floor levels require no rear yard setback. this is necessitated by the need for residential space that cannot be built as we wish to build it at the second floor. that is because the medical space plan for the ground floor is being taken up by the large au

>> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco. south vanness runs from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor. in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. the city. >> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of mer