City and County of San Francisco Tuesday, November 06, 2018

municipal transportation agency. >>> good afternoon everyone.

I want to go ahead and call to

order this meeting of the san francisco municipal

transportation board of directors for tuesday, November 6th.

Would you please call the roll.

Roll call:  .

Madam Chair you have a quorum.

Item three announcement of sound

producing devices.

The ringing of electronic devices are prohibited. Any person responsible for one going off in the room May be

asked to leave the room.

Also, note that cell phones on vibrate cause microphone interference. The board respectfully asks they

be turned off.

Approval of October regular meeting. >> public comment is closed.

Do I have a motion to approve and second. All in favor aye.

Any opposed? Hearing none the minutes for October 16 are approved.

>> item 5 communications.

Directors at the direction of

staff 10.2a has been severed from the consent calendar.

It will be called after item 11.

>> I team 6 introduction of new or unfinished business by board members.

>> any new or unfinished business. Thank you.

We will move on. Item 7. Director's report.

>> good afternoon. Happy election day.

I hope everybody has voted or will be voting. I hope for good outcomes.

I do want to start with a couple

of special recognitions for a

couple of highly valued but departing employees. I would like to ask the

government affairs director to

come come forward to recognize one of her staff. >> good afternoon. Today I have the privilege and

honor to start the recognitions

with my colleague dillon young

or departing government affairs manager. Dillon joined in 2014.

During the last four and-a-half

years has created a strong respected presence for the agency.

He has provide you had highly effective leadership in an

environment of constant change. He is a strategist and negotiator working independently as part of the teams to build

and lead effective coalitions.

His approach of keeping everyone

informed no matter the issue, insured there were as few

surprises as possible, and that

the agency was as prepare ed and

responsive as we could be. Dillon is known for burning the midnight oil.

If you got any of his misses sent after midnight.

His updates are on any given

issue were always appreciate

ed.

That is essential to the transportation

system and emerging technology and different modes of

transportation I have had the

privilege of witnessing the dedication and I hope to contribute to the great work. Anything I have accomplished is through my colleagues and folks

in the room and the mayor's

office, the transportation authority and passionate stakeholders during this disruptive time.

So I want to thank this board, director and kate you and director of government affair to entrusting me with this role and

for your leadership and courage toward others. Especially during these

challenging times.

Finally, I want to acknowledge

my colleagues.

Janette martin son, kathleen and jd. They further protected the

agencies and the transportation agency at the federal and state and local represents.

They represent the critical work

of the divisions of this large organization. Effectively and humbly in the

service you of others which is true leadership.

It made it possible for me to do anything I May have accomplished. Thank you for having me stand up.

I want to thank my wife trish,

my in-laws, meredith and fred and my 7-year-old daughter in school.

They are all my favorites.

From the board of supervisors, the of the who looks at the camera like she does.

Thanks for all of the voice

messages with mom and all of the

notes in my bag when I had to work late and when I am not with

you I am probably with you.

We will watch this on sf

government tv later.

I am with our amazing

amaze amazing cfo.

As an american of chinese

descent from the south of china to san francisco, where I was born, where all of my relatives

lived in the sun set and richmond. To be recognized in the same

meeting with a nationally

award-winning cfo and public

servant of indian descent it is greater to be recognized on this

election day as people vote to

shape the future of the country.

With that, thank you for the

honor and for the opportunity to

speak.

[Applause.] >> so that is a bit of a tough act to follow.

I will say that as you know in

this work and this agency, we

don't get a lot of positive feedback.

Let alone unsolicited positive

feedback from o elected officials.

Dillon was one of the few rare

sources of such unsolicited

positive feedback from elected

official that I would get regularly on the second floor. He is a tremendous asset.

You can tell from what he said.

Tremendous asset to this agency.

Sorry to see him go, grateful for five years of outstanding service. We wish him the best. To move on.

I am down here because I am

taking the opportunity to you

recognize you our cfo.

I wish I had come up with a

phrase like dapper diplomat.

I don't think either of those

fit, certainly not the diplomat.

Maybe if our outgoing director

of finance and information

technology can join me, she told

me already today she is tired of

the accolades. We were planning a parade.

We have to cancel that.

For more than 10 years she has

been providing passionate,

professional outstanding service

to this agency, to the people of san francisco. Dillon mentioned she is nationally recognized. She is an amazing force not just

for the agency, but for the city city, transit agency and the region.

Someone we will not be able to nor will try to replace.

She most known for being our cfo

and managing our finances

exceptionally well, much to the dismay of her colleagues and people in the agency.

Because of her work, we have the

highest credit rating of any

transit agency in the country.

When you read into the reports that sound financial management is one of things that jumps to the top. That is driven by her, all of good financial policies this

board has adopted emanated from

her fiscal conservatism, but

with that fiscal conservatism

she brought creativity and can

do attitude to do the great work

we have done in the decade applause expanding the muni service, amazing capital program

double today what it was not too long ago. our operating budget is probably more than double today what it was.

A lot of that was her dogged determination and passion for the work of this agency.

She was, although she was the

cfo and known as director of finance and information technology, she over saw the

real estate and other aspects of the organization.

She often strayed to managing

transit and streets and taxis as well.

I always appreciated her lack of

boundaries, her unsolicited

advice, but her willingness day and night to be thinking about and trying hard to do what is

right for transportation and san francisco and the region and the

state and nationally.

I could go on but I imagine some

of you May have words. We did recognize her last week

and she was also recognized by May

bymay or breed.

It was the day she got a

certificate of appreciation from

the board of supervisors and the

legislator and the assembly

members. I know there will be a ripple

effect with her departure

because of how deep her impact was on what we do here. We are not going to try to replace her.

We will fill the position.

There will be no replacing her

and we will try to make sure she doesn't shut off her phone so that should we need to continue

to get unsolicited advice from her there is an avenue to do that.

It is a great honor for me to

work with her. sometimes I felt like for her. I certainly learned a lot from her.

I do think the financial success

of agency is because you have

her and her team and the great

work they have done to make us all look good.

I ask you to join me in thanking

her for her great years of

service.

Applause:  . >> wow. Dillon, you started crying. I May go down that route with you.

Before I say a few words.

I want to thank dillon we have exchanged e-mails in the middle

of the night. Dillon, thank you for your great work. I have appreciated working with you. Thank you, ed.

You must be getting tired of

saying nice things about me. In the last several weeks you spent a lot of time saying nice things.

I am humbled by the accolades.

I have many faults but hopefully

you believe I paid a small part in moving the agency forward.

Thank you for putting up with me.

I am not the normal kind of cfo.

I want to give a shout out to

the nta colleagues as dillon did

who work tirelessly without much recognition.

I would like to recognize all of

you today for your great work.

A special gratitude to the fit

folks who always supported me

over the year and have done incredible work.

I have not done any of it, these guys have done all of it.

I leave with a plea that you continue your hard work.

It is often very difficult and frustrating but I have faith that you will continue the work and the public deserves the system. My last I would like to leave

you with a poem.

She was born in calcutta. I have got to leave.

It is call farewell.

I have got to leave bid me farewell, I bow to all you have

you and take my departure. I give the keys back to my door and give up the claims to the house.

I only ask the last kind words from you. We were neighbors for long, but

I received more than I could give.

Now the day has dawn and the

lamp that lit my dark corner is out. The summons has come and I am

ready for my next a long journey.

Thank you all.

[Applause.]

>> now you have made me cry. Directors, would anybody like to

say nice things while I stop crying? >> well, to dillon as well, you

are joining a wonderful company,

the roberts family. I have been very close for many years.

They helped start comcast from a small cable television station in new york.

Now they are nbc and universal. You are joining a good force, and I wish you luck.

I want to thank you for always

being there for me to give me advice and council. The poem last few words say to

the last a long journey.

i hope it involves tawing a call

from a future governor.

>> you don't have a poem.

I can only say nice things.

I said the funny things at your retirement party.

I will repeat one thing that I

said at the party here publicly

which is you helped us through a very difficult time.

We are abelias well and I was

always impressed by your candor. We have had offline discussions

about the importance of the reserve and make training physical discipline around

looking for the future and

avoiding short term gain to get long-term benefit.

This board has done that through your direction. I would leave that to some of

the newer director on the board.

I am proud what you and I

accomplished together so thank you.

>> I always have such confidence

in the audits and financials.

You taught me much more about

public accounting which is different than private sector accounting.

You were always looking out for

the agency to make sure we were

planning for the future and making smart investments.

We are so fort natural to have you.

-- fortunate to have you. We are in a good place.

I don't know if we will ever be able to fill your shoes.

>> thank you.

>> I am going to talk so much.

I just want to say thank you for your hard work.

You are amazing. Thank you so much. >> thank you all.

>> I work understand finance in a prior career.

It was one of those things

where it was easy to come here

and know that was taken care of and done with confidence and

skill and in a way I never had to worry about it. Not thinking about it is a testament to how good a job

everything was done in such a big agency. Thank you.

>> thank you.

On behalf of the board of

directors and the entire city thank you so much for your years of service.

I am amazed you are stepping

away without a promise not to make muni free for everyone and immediately take all of the ads

off the buses.

Thank you again.

Applause:  .

>> that was very dangerous the

way you baited her just then.

I do have a number of other

things I want to cover some I

didn't cover last time. Vision zero.

I want to let you know as speeding is a top cause of traffic collisions and fatalities on our streets.

We have restarted the safe streets media campaign.

You will hear it on drive time

radio and see it on bus shelter ads.

Reminder it is the leading cause of fatal and serious collisions in the city.

We want to make sure people

remember to slow down.

We will continue to share that

message and some good news is that san francisco's stick to

the limit video is now playing

at california dmv field offices statewide.

it remains important not a day

goes by where we don't have a

reminder of the tragedy that can

strike in our city.

Yesterday we had two of those

within a few blocks of each other. On powell street. The first was 6:00 A.M.

There was a motorcyclist involved in a collision on the

corner of broadway and powell. The preliminary indications we

have suggest a car traveling

eastbound on broadway made an illegal mid block you turn from

the right lane hitting the motorcycle traveling in the same direction.

A little after midday a block

away on powell and vallejo an

elderly female pedestrian was struck by a large truck turning on to stockton. I don't believe we have

information or names of victim.

In a single day in a couple blocks we had two more people die on our streets.

That is tragic.

The risk every peteing not just

-- repeating both were preventable. We will continue to work with

the police on the specifickics of these cases to see what we

can do but certainly our

thoughts and prayers go to

families and friends of those

who lost their lives needless leo our streets. Neither of these happened in the evening or they didn't happen in the evening.

This is on the heels of daylight savings time.

We want to remind everyone as it gets darker earlier and people

are driving at dark when it used

to be light to be extra careful,

go slowly and look out for people in the public right-of-way.

If you are driving, walking, biking, beware of that visibility change is something everyone needs to pay attention to.

On a little more upbeat note.

Earlier this month san francisco

was recognized bye-bye

by the bicycling magazine behind seattle.

This is done every two years

based on safety, bike friendlynis, political climate and culture.

They specifically noted progress we made in installing protected bike lanes in 2010.

You May recall we didn't have a

single protected bike line.

Now we have 10 covering 20 miles

of our streets and one is coming your way today.

They recognize the city's

efforts to reduce fatalities

through zero and the goal

through sustainable mode.

Despite the tragic news of yesterday, it is good to be

recognized for some of the good

work your leadership is enabling here. Switching gear to muni. An update on the work we are

doing to improve muni service.

As you know, after a decline in service during the construction

shut down, the mayor called us

to rye double our efforts to --

re-double our efforts to make it more safe.

We have taken steps to do that.

We have delivered 95% of our scheduled service over the last

three weeks which is up from where we were in July.

It is not where we want to be,

at minimum 98.5 in the charter.

we want to be at 100.

We are making progress there. We have been able to reduce gaps

on the rapid bus lines and on

the muni metro lines and slight improvement in on time performance.

Part of how we address groups is

adjusting balancing the service that might work against on time performance but provides better

spacing of the vehicles.

There are some trends that are

moving in good directions such

as crime on muni dropping 10%

and assaults decreased by 43%.

We continue to work on reducing

collisions by an additional 5%.

Really looking at all aspects of

the services safety, reliability

and we are making progress there.

Along those lines on saturday, November 17th.

, we will song more more than -- honor more than 50 muni driving with 15 years or more.

Four have more than 35 years of

safe driving including the cable car division with 44 years of

safe operations with muni.

That is unbelievable.

I do want to note every day in

an increasingly complex environment the vast majority of

the operators are operating

safety and demonstrating excellence in service to the hundreds of thousands they serve.

To be eligible they must have

driven a minimum of 2000 hours

each fiscal year without an

avoidable collision for 15 years that is a testament. We look forward to recognizing

them on the 17th.

A couple other things.

Elevator status web page. This is something we heard from

the director and members of the public.

The significant issue for those relying on elevators.

To enhance accessibility of our

stations there is a new web page where people can see the current

status of all muni metro elevators.

It is sfmta.Com/elevators design

to improve muni trip planning to

those rely on the elevators. They will be able to see the

status of the elevators and make a change to plans. Station agents are the best source of information on the

status of elevators.

After feedback we allow them to

enter updates in realtime from their booth. As soon as they know, which is

as soon as anybody knows, everybody in the public will know.

This was great between the

transit, I t, communications and accessible services.

We will continue to make improvements.

We encourage anyone using the page to give us feedback on how

it is working.

One construction update with

regard to the new ucsf mission

bay platform. Beginning next monday we will be closing the platform through

late April of 2019.

During this time period with

platform closed the t will skip the mission base stop.

We need to shut this down.

As you May recall we are

constructing a new center

platform on third between south

and 16th street in front of new arena and development is being built.

This will be a larger platform like king street? Front of at&t park.

It will accommodate the crowds associated with events at the

new event center.

We will be providing bus

substitution from -- on November 25.

From November 30 to dust 3 and January 4 to late February.

We will have shut downs of different durations.

We are making sure merchants and riders and neighborhood groups are aware.

We started that outreach a number of months ago.

We will have ambassadors out

catching good lessons from

construction related shut downs including making sure the rest

of the service remains sound in

accommodation of this project. I want to let you know about that. With regard to the facilities, a

couple weeks ago we convened the

first meeting of the working group with an introduction to

the project.

The yard is a 100-year-old

project in need of renovation.

We launched the progress program

to ensure the facilities are equipped with capacity to keep

up with population growth and

are brought into good seismic condition.

While we have one of the newest

and greenest and most advanced

transit fleets the facilities to support the fleets are generally

old and outdated and over capacity.

The first modernization of the

yards will be the patrayio yard

at 17th and bryant.

It is a full city yard between

17th and mare

and mariposa.

We will remove the facility and develop it from the groundout.

It will be modern with more capacity and we will provide development opportunity four

housing in line with the mayor's desire to increase the amount of housing we have in the city.

We have a working group, and we

would love more community input.

Folks interested can go to sfmta sfmta.Com/building contract to apply.

A couple last things.

On this coming saturday, the

tenth, from 1:00 to 3:00 P.M. We

will hold an open house four the

27 bryant transit reliability project.

Improvements we can make in

terms of reliability and

reducing delays on the 27 bryant

which serves disproportionate disproportionate low income ridership.

It will be at the clubhouse on eddy street.

Looking for feedback from riders

and others in the neighborhood

what would make that route more usable by more folks.

The following wednesday,

November 14th from 5:30 P.M. To

7:30 P.M. There ask an open

house four the bikeway. We have been charged by the

mayor with accelerating what we

can do in terms of demonstration project.

We will showcase what we

developed from market to 15th. Then receiving input four the

rest of it from 15th to 24th.

We look forward to feedback to getting something up and running soon.

This thursday from 5:00 to 7:00,

at the sf moma, we are going to

have a transit open house for third street transit and safety project. As you probably know coming up

through south market, we have read transit only lanes for the

high volume buses that use third street.

If you have ever ridden those you know those lanes are performing well.

There are a lot of conflicts with heavy and right turning

traffic to the bay bridge. What we are looking to do

through the open house is

solicit feedback on ideas about

redesigning that street, particularly the location of the

transit lane to make it more

effective and less gummed one traffic.

A number of different open house us.

We hope there is good participation from the public.

The folks that can't make it we encourage feedback. That concludes my report. >> thank you very much.

That was a jam-packed director's report.

Do I have any comments on the report? Any observations? >> yes.

>> thank you for the report.

I wonder if you could reflect on

the top few causes of the

inability to deliver 100% of service. What specific intersections are

designed to address those

barriers? >> it varies.

At the moment it is operator availability is our biggest challenge.

Some days on the rail service we deliver 100%.

We are closer to having full staffing. Although we have you increased

the number of operators we have

since the summer, it is going to take a little bit more time for

us to catch up, and while we have had challenges in the past

in terms of getting new

operators for part-time work. Until recently we did not have challenges filling classes for full-time work.

The last advertisement for new bus operator positions we got

more than 800 folks who signed up.

When it came time to fill the

first class this month, we were having trouble filling the

double size class.

We will double the efforted to

work with the office of marketing to reach the neighborhoods and through the community-based organizations to

find folks unemployed or

underemployed or potentially

entad in good candidates for the operators operation. One path is bringing in new operators.

The other is getting operators

who are trained not working getting them back to work.

>> thank you.

Vice chair.

I want to touch on the feedback

with the consumers. Generally our system is about

next bus and next trains are

gaining popularity and more and

more relied on by users. We have a new system coming in

for the next bus system, buts my understanding is that is the

system for the bus us.

The train system is not tied up with that, is that correct?

>> no the next generation system will cover the whole system.

>> the new signs and signage is the display.

The change in the underlying technology will affect the

trains as well? >> that's correct. >> when we get reports which I

personally do and see about has time we had fun about someone getting to school and the next bus not right.

The thing I have seen personally

and received comments on the

signs and through the app is phantom trains, particularly with the shuttle train. For whatever reason it will say

it is coming in two minutes and disappear.

They say five minutes then magically bounce to 19 minutes. Is the best answer for the

public that we are aware of it

around this is part of the

redesign with the prediction sochi olympics? >> we are aware of it.

Doing what we can to address

issue nuss the short term. We have been identifying the ISSUEs.

The goal is by the the end of this

month to have those addressed.

Software upgrades there. Are limitations to the present system.

Right now we are seeing problems you are referencing we might

address within the existing

system. We don't want to ask people to wait a couple years.

We have identified problems.

We are looking at software upgrades.

We are aching for the end of the

month.

-- he appreciate. The overhaul is going to take

time and people are rely on this more and more. I appreciate that. maybe at some point we can get a

report back on once those things

have been implemented how they are workings because I think

this is a sore spot for

consumers relying on the

technology to find out when their transit is coming.

>> I don't know if it will be in place for the next meeting.

>> I would prefer to have the report once you know how

effective it is and whether the

board needs to authorize something else.

I am happy to wait two or three meetings. >> thank you.

>> I want to say thanks to the

staff that worked on the elevator status page. That is a great improvement.

I know from friends using the

system is more accessible when you can epocha stations you will

be able to use.

I appreciate the agents and the ability to update information in realtime. >> thank you. No more comments.

Do I have any public comment on the directors' report?

>> you do.

Her been weaner, karl then jerrek.

These are only topics addressed

by Mr. Riskin. >> herbert weiner.

I want to welcome Ms. Eakins to

the board.

Always vote your conscience.

Now, unfortunately, the policy

of mta is not fixing muni.

It is fixing the passenger.

Last weekend was frustrating.

I waited a half our. -- half hour.

You had two buses at the same time. what remedy is there to this?

One, you could transner the muni

bosses responsible four this, send them to any agency in the

city, housing authority, port authority or the mayor's office or simply fire them.

The other solution is breaking

up the mta.

Muni is such a complex problem

it is consult to manage parking

and the taxis. All three departments need specific attention.

I am not recommending a reduction in 1578 refor the head of the muni.

It is a consult job.

You cannot fix the passenger.

This is a bogus policy. I am the target.

It is painted on my back. Thank you.

>> next speaker, please.

Marry mcguire.

>> tear

.

>> good afternoon.

I ask the direct tour one-time

can I have your budget of 16 and 17?

She refused to give me the

document. They

then I went to the freedom of information and got the budget.

When I look at the budget.

I see a $20 million gap. This lemake -- they will make

that from the sale of the taxi medallion.

There was no sale.

What a wonderful personality.

In two seconds she said, yes, we

are short on this, and we have not corrected it.

This is the integrity of the human. Whatever you have done it but

you just say yes.

she didn't say not to hide a

document, I give a name and I

have a document to prove it. Liar. This is the difference between

the boards.

When you listen to me, if I am a

liar, kick me out of the door.

It is not the money but the integrity. Thank you very much.

>> next speaker, please. >> thank you.

I would like to address the red lanes.

It is something I have been observing a lot.

You know the new scooters, e scooters on the streets.

They are riding in the red lanes.

That is one person holding up a bus full of people that want to get home.

At times I see two or three

abreast having conversations. I would like to see that. Thank you. >> thank you.

>> that is the last person to address you. Public comment is closed.

One more, please, come up, sir, if you have comments to give.

>> if you have public comment,

please approach now.

You can state your name.

You don't need a speaker's card

if it is on the director's report.

>> thank you.

Public comment is closed.

>> quick question thank ago commissioner mcguire for feedback.

It is important to hear from the

professional tax see driver -- taxi drivers.

I assume it is not legal for a scooter to be in the red lane.

part of the reason for the

regulatory program is for two

responsible points of contact. Might it

can we see if they have an

education campaign to deal with

this? Mary's point is right on. >> thank you.

Public comment is closed. Moving to the next.

>> item 8. Citizens advisory report.

>> good to see you. >> good afternoon, directors.

Happy voting day.

First of all, I know they are

out tough room, but I would like

to echo the thank thank yous and farewells. I knew her.

She helped us on the council

guiding us through the budget

meetings with much good humor.

I will Miss Her one-liners.

We passed the one motion at the

most recent meeting. Director

direct director riskin provided

an overview of harassment des

crimnation and workplace issues

are handled which was appreciated to have an open discussion about it. We passed the following motion

after that discussion.

The sfmt recommends that they

extend harassment train you go

to all employees including

nonsupervisory employee employees to

report harassment and present

trend findings publicly. This motion seeks to create away

for employees to feel respected.

This cannot be solved like an engineering problem. It is about people.

We can't ignore it.

We have to treat each other

well. thanks again. Happy thanksgiving.

I will probably see you next in December. Thank you.

>> thank you for your continued

service, much appreciate ed.

Do I have public you comment on

the cac report?

>> I would like to speak

favorably on the advisory committee report.

Bullying at the work site slows

down pro ducks u duck activity -- productivity.

This is happening in every size

agency and has to be stopped.

All agencies have to stop witnessing this.

Bullying is equivalent to

domnesstic violence, -- domestic violence and child abuse and

school shootings, which resulted

as the product of bullying.

It is not acceptable to any city

agency and I comment you

compliment the city advisory committee.

>> any public comment. >> taylor el grin.

I want to continue what is said by the advisory committee.

I will ask the board to consider

that among all of you.

There was discussion at the last

meeting a lot of members of the

biking committee felt that there

was behavior that was

inappropriate for the sfmta

board, and it was in relation to

some of the discussion around

the sixth street improvements.

I can go to the discussions. The uncomfortable discussion at

the last meeting should be

addressed to did directors.

Public comment could be made to

address that discussion, which I

think, and many others I was

speaking too, felt it was

inappropriate nor public consumption. >> any other public comment?

We will move on. Item 9.

This is an opportunity for

members to address the board on matter was in the jurisdiction of the board of directors not on the agenda.

>> two minutes.

>> good afternoon, Madam Chair and members of the board.

Our new members to the board and meningen dairy -- legendary members.

I am here to speak on behalf of

the aaa shared mobility service.

I serve as the government

affairs director for aaa northern california.

A not-for-profit member organization. It is the first

shared mobility venture introduced by aaa.

It has been operating since

2017.

Westonnished it as a strong registered business in 2018. We have been operating in the

city from private parking lot

locations.

We currently have 12 locations from north beach.

We support 2000 san francisco ways

based members living a car owner

free lifestyle.

With 12 locations they have

taken 200 trips -- 2300 trip this is gig.

This allows them away from

scooter on the streets. As the gig membership continues

to grow we will work with the staff to determine additional

area us where gig could legally operate in the city.

I would like to point out your

staff is tremendous in working

with such patience and diligent.

Thank you for your amazing staff.

Thing work hard to resolve the ongoing transportation challenges.

>> thank you very much. Next speaker please.

>> herbert weaner.

>> mark grew beron behalf of green cab.

I want to address a decision

regarding airport taxis.

I hope you had a chance to read

the letter we sent on this, but

we have a huge poster in our office.

A momento of an event

celebrating the city taxis.

The legends says the greenest taxi city in america.

Why would we opt for an

environmentally friendly plan.

Circulating in the city.

In brutal competition with one

another for a fare. That is what is going to happen under this plan.

We have another grave concern

that is related to that. The harder you make it for

drivers to make a living, the

less service they will be able

to provide to the public.

The more we hand things over to uber and lift.

To profoundly different

companies which is a report you will discuss later today. Very well documents.

If you don't want that to

happen, please reverse your decision.

There were better alternatives.

Don't go down to road to destroy

to livelihoods of so many drivers and companies as well. >> next speaker.

>> herbert weaner followed by david woo.

>> herbert weaner.

We have a problem with the

california line because from did you spruce street to laurel you

have removed parking spaces, the panel that existed have been

moved and they don't announce

the arrival times any more.

This is very frustrates.

I would like to see them as soon

as possible.

I wonder how many six digit

managers you have hired in the last six months. You have the resource to do this. I would you like this addressed.

We have sacrificed parking.

The least we deserve is the our rifle of bus us.

I note that julie, the new

manager of transportation is in the office.

I would like her e-mail and telephone number so I can

address my concerns.

The transit was flawed.

Presently I consider I had a perfect failure.

I would like to communicate my

concerns to her. Thank you for your audience.

>> next speaker please. David woo.

>> I am with the community

action network to comment on new

red lanes south of market

relating to the central SoMa plan.

The plan an area in the south of

market is centered around

transit ordered development that

includes that transit is

adequate reliable and pleasant.

It builds off the new central subway under construction.

Due to years of lack of

infrastructure improvements it

is addressing a past need not present or future.

The reality is now further

exacerbated with private shuttles such as google bus us

in you the lanes.

On 2018 the spokesperson said

that all transit only red lanes

are going toally to google bus us.

We are concerned about this.

If they are serious about reliable public transportation

that works to get people out you

have private automobiles, people

which were permitted must not be

allowed to use the lanes in this area.

>> you May allow you the public vehicles and tax sees in the

area.

Supervisor kim expressed support.

At the land use and

transportation hear there is was

testimony how the hsmta can you

save the lanes to what they are meant to be.

>> next speaker. Good afternoon, board of directors.

I am a family case worker at the community action network.

They are concerned about private

shuttles in the red rapid lane.

If they are serious about ridership and having

transportation that works to get

people out of the vehicles.

Taxis were previously permitted.

They must not be allowed to use

public transit himself.

This list excludes private transportation systems

contributing to the majority of

increased traffic within the plan.

It has enormous traffic problems.

Read lanes were to speed up

public transportation.

which contributes and delays the

traffic that is experienced

everything it defeats the real

reason they were created.

Sfmta must restrict the lanes to

only public transportation

vehicles and taxis in central SoMa.

As david just said they

expressed support to allow public transportation in the

plan. Angy,

.

>> karl mic murdo, please. >> thank you for the opportunity to speak.

I am the person who sent the

link to the five minute

investigative video that nbc did

recently showing how unsafe drivers not associated with lyft

and uber are renting user

accounts from illegal brokers

and driving. They are not vetted.

I feel what happened last week

under item 15, the taxi iteming.

I ask to rye vehicle the medallions because people made

too much money.

To restrict the cab in the

airport is better.

It is less drastic.

I feel like we in the industry

have been the victims of a three year farce in which tax caesarviss -- maybe orders came

from above.

Led to believe the people can't

pay bhakta loans -- pay back alone.

Uber and lift is all over did you world.

We are outnumbered 35-1.

The director -- director didn't want use less pain.

How about use full plane.

How about australia, taiwan, china, new york city committed suicide.

You it is people whose living

ofs have been destroyed by the business model.

On the scale of pain and

suffering some of the people buying the

the medallion are

expecting income in the senior years. I see hope you reconsider what you are doing.

>> next speaker please.

Good afternoon, commissioners.

My e-mail sept to the board. None of that should be give tone the director.

It will be given.

Going further up if you decided

in the last meeting on taxi, guess what?

I am giving you this document

take it home and put it by your

pillow side and read it

seriously and next

next chance no. Maybe you can make the better decision.

Lit's see the challenge.

I put it if the taxis are

causing congestion are you ready

to go to the airport.

Prove it I will give you $10,000 price.

We have a road enter and get out.

I put the taxi numbers.

That is hip z helpful.

7 billion people live on the planet.

You cannot change it.

These are rock solid numbers.

Nobody can change it.

Going further, it is like when you go a murder trial.

There is a cost.

Taxi director has a congestion.

I challenge the numbers.

The murder trial is feared.

Don't do what you are doing.

in regard to other things, there

is one homeless guide for solution. You hired him. I don't want to tell you his address.

He is the only brilliant in the whole word maybe but you are not.

>> next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I am new in the taxi business.

I have been driving taxi for four months.

I am here to speak out four the

taxi ban for pick up at the airport.

What I want to say is -- thank you.

Social justice is one of the

most important pillars of the backbone of this society.

In this country, america is

known for justice. California is the long shot.

The united states and san francisco is the difference.

Everybody is looking at us.

Tax see drivers -- taxi drivers

have been serving this country.

Just because we have another

employer now, this tech -- uber now.

It is not only because we have

uber and lift today we should get rid of people serving us for

a century.

It would be very unfair.

My concern is do you guys want

to kill the taxi business or

just want to regulate? I do refuse to believe you want

to kill the taxi business

because there are still things

taxi men can do that uber can do.

Before gps the taxi drivers know

the city.

Some having driving for 20 or 30 years. Some know the city like their hands.

It is very different what people

want is a taxi ride now.

>> thank you.

>> I have been a taxi driver for

30 years. Last meeting your decision to

ban the k medallion from the airport is bad.

It could destroy the whole industry.

It was a bad decision. Don't punish us.

It is not our fault. We didn't ask you to sell.

It is just like you are stealing

from us to give it to them.

It makes no sense.

Entire city will suffer.

The service slows down and neighborhoods are going to get cabs.

The company has been around for a long time.

They will be totally destroyed.

That will hurt the purchase of medallions.

They won't have you dispatch,

the out of town travel lirs come

from the other places to visit here, convention people won't

have good reliable candervis.

Now many times you go to many

places they need cabs like 30, 40 cabs.

They call the cab companies.

They are able to send them

quickly, dispatched quickly.

If you banned the k medallion

from the airport it won't be profitable for anybody.

The people who got the

medallions after working 30, 40 years will lose money and have

to leave the industry.

These consider reversing your decision.

>> next speaker, please. >> you after 30 years you want

to kick me out of the airport. Can you tell me where I should go?

I am 56 years old. You want to kick me out of the airport.

When I applied at medallion no conditions.

We can do this and this.

Somebody fires you tonight.

What do you do?

I think you are crying. Everybody should cry tonight.

I get fired, I get fired. How about me? Don't you have anything better to do?

Why are you harassing us. Please, stop doing that.

Last year I was it is you go one

hour and 45 minutes in marriott

hotel and took off emtie after

one hour and 45 minutes thank you.

>> next speaker, please. >> tony fletcher.

I am the k medallion holder.

Why should the city preserve the taxi industries. The city has control.

You feel comfortable leaving the

city in the hands and continuing with your current policies.

What do we need? We need cabstands, cabstands.

With popularity of smartphones

and ads, street hails dried up.

They are not there any more in

the numbers they were.

People will take cabs when they them and are confident to get

them.

Stands at marriott and pier 39. People take cabs. They do move.

The city needs to put more stands for cabs now at city hall right out here we need a cabstands. there is none. North beach.

Powell and market.

All on the main thoroughfare. Hayes valley. Cabs can be seen and people

aren't going to look and click an app.

Given the conditions for a

variety of reasons cab apps are

unable to compete with apps of uber and lift.

There is an advantage in preserve anything industry if

you want control over the situation.

Central dispatch.

If cab companies can't get central dispatch.

Maybe there is a sum mentioned

years ago where it was an open

model platform? The cabs and any app could be

used to access that system for a cab.

Airport why all or nothing?

Find another solution. If you are going to offer

medallions for say, do that -- for sale do that first.

>> next speaker.

>> when people see the cabs they take them.

I want to address the last meeting.

The reform package you voted on.

I would like to thank director

borden for your common sense observations and your vote. And director su as well. During the staff presentation,

the claims were made that to

reduce congestion at the airport.

When director eagan asked for a

or againstian compare -- ongestion comparison.

We wonder why when the false

claims were made regarding

congestion to you and the public.

When anybody witnessed the tnc backing up traffic they are back

to the mulberry exit.

Where a vote was allowed to take place?

Without requires any statements,

photos, anything to back up the

statements the sfo representative made. For

for the record, at 6:24 P.M. The director said you would not vote

for this proposal.

Seven minutes later 6:31 P.M., a 13 minute break called the

commissioners were observed

conversing with each other.

7:01 P.M. Director eagan changed her vote.

The vote passed. Some wonder what was said during this 13 minute break.

I might remind you under the

brown act any conversations in regard to an item you are to

vote on are required to be held publicly.

Why did you leave?

100 people spoke passionately. Couldn't you see how deeply it mattered?

>> next speaker, please.

>> comfort taxi two years. Yellow 18 years there.

Is no more yellow. I mean the yellow I worked for is gone.

We have one that bought up the

big taxicab companies.

We have uber and people that bought mid dalons. You can't tell anybody that they

didn't pay their dos and shouldn't get what they got. You are out there putting your life on the line.

We all did for 20 and 30 years.

You promised us we put $300 down

that we would get a medallion. one day one guy calls me.

You can't have it now we willcle it for $250,000.

That is embezelment.

That was my mid

medallion.

They make $250,000 selling them to pure cabdrivers.

Why did they file bankruptcy?

Forget that.

Uber, half of them have not been

background checked. 50% are felonies. You get it?

They can get out of prison in

the morning and get in the uber

car and take your family up at

the airport and you want to kick

us out of the airport so the

fellows can -- felons with pick you up. Now the tables have turned.

They have to wait 40 minutes for an uber.

They are coming back to the cabs.

Do you know anything about the cabin does industry? I question that. >> the last person to turn-in a speaker card on this matter.

>> good afternoon, board.

I have been a taxi driver for

the last 30 years.

I am a medallion holder. I look at you.

I have never seen any of you in

my tax see. -- in my taxi.

I would like to say what can we

do?

Instead of fighting uber and lift, technology is the way to go.

The answer for all medallion

problems today is all cab companies slept on it.

You inherited the problem.

It is not your fault.

The medallions were demanded at that time. Drivers were willing.

You didn't force them.

You said it is for sale.

Today if somebody loses business or their house we don't say I

bought this house today in your neighborhood and you bought it 30 years ago and have to move. We don't do that.

We follow the law.

We got the city what they told

us to do we received the

medallion accordingly. What can we do?

Not kick out the rest of the drivers?

It is your value now.

We can fix it if we put the

medallions with uber and lift.

If somebody comes from los angeles to drive here from sacramento or fresno, they drive here.

You have a medallion. If you are in touch with it, it

can be used as lift or uber x.

It is a cheap fare. $1 million insurance.

You have a vehicle worth 1.2.

>> thank you, sir.

Do I have any more public comment? Yes.

>> hello, commissioners.

I was a poll workers in the last election in June.

I am not a poll worker now or I wouldn't be here.

When I signed up to be a poll

worker the department of elections told me when you show up your inspector will give you

parking permit to park your car

for free on the street for the

15, 16 hours you were there.

That makes a lot of sense for people driftage

driving to get there early. what we don't provide is anything for people who don't

have a car or have to take

transit to the polls. In the los angeles metro announced over the weekend that

today for election day all

public transit in los angeles will be free.

They are also providing free

parking within one block of the polling place.

We should be able to do that for poll workers.

We should not prioritize those driving over transit especially

for those on 24 hour bus lines

and can get to the polling

places at 6:00 A.M. On transit.

>> thank you.

Do I have any more public comment? Seeing none public comment is closed.

>> you are on the consent item.

These items are routine by the

board and will be acted upon inspection a member of the board

or public wishes to have an item

severed.

Item 10.2 a regarding oversized

vehicle restrictions is severed

at the request of staff.

I have received no indication

the members of the board wish to sever any other item.

>> do I have a motion and second. All in favor.

Any opposed.

Hearing none it ask achproved.

>> item 11 the policy guidelines

for restricting oversized

vehicles on the streets of san

francisco. >> we are going to go through 11

and then come back to 10.2a. >> good afternoon. Members of the public.

I am andy thornily, senior analyst in the sustainable

streets parking and curb management division.

I will give a brief presentation for context and the department

of support of housing is with us

and he will follow with other

context.

A month ago this board heard a

proposal for parking restrictions on de wolf street. That was held. We will hear that later.

The board asked staff to bring

back policy guidelines and use of over size vehicle restriction. We have formulated effectively a draft that we have shared with

you and I hope the directors have had a chance to look at that.

I want to go through quickly a little background and context

for this before udelinbrate and

take comment from other folks. Indeed as the name say us there

ask in the transportation code

an infraction. Section 7.2.54 dobtechnical.

It is a red and white sign and

duly posted to prohibit the

parking of vehicles longer than

22 feet and 7 feet.

This was created seven years ago

in collaboration with the board of supervisors.

We had a supervis sour in 4 and 10.

They have said vehicles parked for a long time on the streets.

Could we come up with a new parking infraction to address

the inappropriate parking of oversized vehicles.

Just to speak a little bit about

the business of parking

oversized vehicles, there are numerous problems with having a large vehicle park understand

the wrong place for a long time

if it is inhabited or not.

Let me elevate that point.

Six years ago where are the

problems. We found school buses with

someone living in them.

Recreational vehicles and vans.

We found large vehicles, some inhabited, some not.

We have a graphic here that shows that we hear from the

public and we hear from the

board of supervisors offices and the police and parking control.

There is a problem in this location because there are large

vehicles parked here, they are inhabited vehicles parked here

and vehicles parked for weeks on

end. This illustration shows those

are three different things that overlap in different ways.

We have places where there are

folks sleeping in vehicles, conventional sed

sedans.

Places where vehicles are on the

street for a long time and

landscaped trucks blocked causing hazard and no one is living in those.

There is not an overlap to the problems.

I want you to think about this.

Your staff is thinking about this.

The oversized vehicle

restriction, of course, impacts

folks living in large vehicles.

After we had brought you our

first bunch of locations to consider for posting the

overnight parking restriction, advocates for homelessness,

homeless folks, neighbors came

forward and said this

restriction is discriminatory, unfair, it punishes people who have no choice but to live in vehicles.

I say that ask a reasonable

point there are folks living in

the vehicles. This board became concerned to

say please don't bring more proposals. We have not.

There are a couple exceptions. We have conversations. It

it is a city-wide issue.

There is not one street or one neighborhood.

The southeast corner of town has

a larger representation or we

see more in district 10 in the

southeast corner of town, but the overlap of oversized

vehicles and inhabited vehicles is something we keep trying to

pull apart for a more informed

and effective engagement.

The oversized vehicle restriction has various problems

as I noted if we are concerned about people living in vehicles we we

we

we are not not dealing with

people leaping -- sleeping in

sedans smaller than 22 by 7 feet.

Three apply during night time hours.

With an ada placard are

are execs.

The big one -- exempt.

The big one any parking regulation has a tendency to

push the parkers down the street

in the bmw, jaguar or winnebago.

Regulatorring the streets puts pressure.

As we use this tool or other

tools we push the problem to other streets. Not just oversized vehicles.

that is valid here.

There are humans and people's

lives in the vehicles it can be devastating.

It could be the last step to

putting them out on the street.

That is inexcusable. You signs we post get pulled down.

These signs particularly and enforcement can't hatch because there is no -- can't happen

because there is no restriction.

Some own their own fishing boat, whatever large vehicle and that

is confounding consideration here.

To remind this board that since

1971 the police card section 676

and -- 76 and 77 prohibits vehicular habitation.

It is the law in san francisco that you can't live in the vehicle. It is not enforced.

It is politically as a city we

try to restrain ourselves and the police are doing that.

It is the basic rule that you

May not live in the vehicle.

We have gathered up thoughts and

policies.

None you have what we brought in you the document is knew.

It is our current practice.

We are not asking for a new

regulation but rather to consciously and deliberately

take up this question with this tool on the books.

With this parking infraction on

the books if your staff were to

bring you a proposal to use this tool what would be the terms and

conditions of using that tool?

It bundles up many things. Particularly the process we go

through generally when we get a

complaint from neighbor, supervisor, look at the street. there is a problem.

It is hard to park here, there

are large vehicles and dumping here. Wepel out this is -- spell out

this is how we evaluate those questions. It is common sense.

When we have a question before

us we try to evaluate the question and the options.

We looked at every alternative

to treat that problem as a last resort.

If the street is appropriate for

permitting.

Maybe mitres make sense. If standard time limits are appropriate we would pursue that.

If nothing else works, then we

might turn to would the over

size vehicle restriction be

appropriate for this question?

On page-7 we put to you the

question what is the problem?

Is there a problem? The tool to treat it?

If we turn to over size vehicle for your consideration here are

three possible characteristics you might find and support

proposal for over size vehicle restriction. Schoolyards playgrounds, community parks. Residential streets with limited on-street parking.

Congested parking on residential street. Perhaps you would think that that is a point to take it up on.

Streets with vehicles parked subjecttographyty, dumps and blight. We put those three out as a starting point.

You might say those three

characteristics we would approve or support staff bringing a

proposal for the over size vehicle restriction.

I want to you put your attention on that.

I want to point out and elevate

that not only has this agency

made progress on being more

forgiving for low income folks

who find vehicles sited to the boot and tow.

This board has approved those relief policies.

We are working and have been working for a lounge time with

other agencies on mechanisms for

relief and refuge for foilings living in vicks.

-- for folks livings in vehicles.

If I can't park here around live

in it, where could I park my vehicle?

It is common sense.

This agency and your staff I

don't think is in the position

to initiate and operate such

safe parking facility.

I think we have with us today

the director of the head of the department of homeless and support of housing.

Maybe I could ask jeff to tell you what his agency has been

doing on this and get his couple of slides ready come on up, jeff.

>> thank you for joining us. Thank you very much.

Our department was formed in August of 2016.

We are relatively new. We brought together program

staff and funding from four

different departments to create

the center of gravity around homelessness.

We developed five year framework available on the website.

we focused on dealing with large

tent encampments more than vehicles.

It was an oversight we are

working on correcting as I speak

about in a moment.

>> we have been joined by supervisor kim.

Would you like to hear the

presentation or give comment

now? Great. Thank you.

>> I will keep going through the presentation.

As you know, there are approximately 7500 homeless

people living on our streets any given night.

That is a decrease from previous

counts and despite the fact the decrease was small compared to

the rest of the west coast we are doing well.

We are the only city that didn't

have double digit increases in homelessness of late.

One of the things not well understood on this issue. That is a one night count. We have 20,000 people

experiencing homelessness in san francisco on any given year. As you will see, about 7500 homeless people we start within a year.

We will see between seven to 12 newly homeless individuals

coming through the city each

year, about half self resolve or leave the city on their own.

The city helps 2500 people every

year, 50 people each week exit homelessness.

We end up with the same number. Any time we make a planned or think about homelessness.

There are 7500 we will build 7500 wedge its.

That will not solve the problem

and could exacerbate the problem if they are not the right thing to focus on.

We have been despite the fact we

did not spend a lot of time in the formation of the department addressing people in the vehicles. We have been working on this for

six months. We convene a working group of

people living in vehicles,

advocacy groups, my staff, folks

from mta talked through options.

We piloted the encampment resolution team charged with

helping address the 35 or so

large encampments that existed in the city. They no longer exist.

We are working on people sleeping in vicks in neighborhoods that have --

sleeping in vehicles in neighborhoods with large amounts

of vehicles in them.

It was successful.

We had one gentleman going to

the hospital, some went to navigation centers and family members.

We got vehicles that weren't

being occupied by owners with no

registration towed and the street was cleared.

We did this in a way that is

important nobody was told to leave without meaningful offers of assistance being made to them.

Some of the things we have been

doing is piloting with the home ward bound program to help

people connect with family and friends.

If somebody is here with a vehicle that is not registered

but they are trapped to henry locate to where they are heading.

we are helping with that today.

Also been working with mta case-by-case.

When we run into a situation

with a vehicle that needs towed

we have been appreciative of the

mta willingness to find a solution for that individual.

We included the healthy streets

center out of the department of

emergency management the city's

department response to street

homelessness and people on the streets. It helps plan out what we work on.

We spent time to develop

researched 35rv parks in a 50-mile radius around san francisco.

Some of them are very, very

expensive and not suitable for

folks with economic struggles.

Some are affordable and have spaces.

We are preparing that document that we can give to people as

alternatives if they prefer to

not sleep on the streets and go

somewhere for a small fee with laundry facilities. We conducted the first ever city wide extensive count of vehicles

on the street.

Here is what we have found.

There are currently -- well at

the time we did this count it

changes every day.

432 vehicles with people

sleeping, 313RVs.

The neighborhoods most impacted

were the bayview, mission and the police districts.

What are the next steps?

Now that we have the data, we

are doing a more extensive

survey of 12% of the people

sleeping in the vehicles to development the need.

Who is there, what is the need? how many are lift drivers

sleeping overnight or people who

are looking for alternatives to

commuting or people who are engaged in a small number of cases criminal activity, how many are in need of assistance

from the department of

homelessness and supportive

housing and have no other meaningful alternatives. When we understand better we

will move forward with the long-term plan to address the problem.

I do not believe the city should rush to decisions about what to do. I will talk about some of the

things we are exploring.

The think we are working on is

vehicle encampment team is going

to respond to complaints about

large numbers of people on dual street and the portal neighborhood by the end of the year. We will go to outreach and try

to understand whatever body's

needs are and help meet the needs. We will look into options. We will develop a long term

schedule with mta for the

vehicle encampment teams and

what neighborhoods they will work on based on number of

vehicle in the neighborhoods.

We want to explore vehicle storage. We are looking for space where

if an individual wants to come

to a shelter or permanent housing we can store the vehicle for them.

That might be a better alternative to save parking. We don't want people to have to

live in vehicles as the place

that they are going to habitat as a home.

We would rather find housing. That does not mean we are not going to look at safe parking.

We visited a number of programs.

I will tell you most communities

with safe parking programs have failed and closed.

We have been trying to find ones successful.

We are looking at santa barbara.

We want it to make sense we

don't want to ex as

exacerbate the problem.

We don't want a situation where

the number of vehicles is

constantly growing and to meet the needs of people on the streets.

Portland has a vehicle buy back

program for people who are ready to get rid of vicks.

We would like to explore on an early tow warning so people know in advance the vehicle is at

risk of being towed and the fee policy and to understand it better. I have been learning and the

staff has learning as they go.

The program that helps reduce fees we are using right now to

look at what else we can do

around this issue. Ed

we are meeting with the supervisors who have been interested in this issue and are

looking at coming up with solutions.

What are our goals?

Most important goal is we want

to make sure people needing help receive meaningful assistance and will not lose their property in the process.

We don't want to take away

somebody's vehicle which is the most vicious thing they hope and

is their home or lose the things in the vehicle that is our

number one goal we need to

develop with the police development what are the resources to be clear about how we are going to address this issue.

We would like to see an end to

large long-term vehicle encampments.

Any street with six or more

vehicles for more than a month

is long-term encampment.

We see think this is challenging for a neighborhood not safe for

the homeless and we have been successful in addressing this with tents. We hope to do the same with vehicles.

We would like to see a reduction.

This is in draft form.

Reduction in 50% in the vehicles occupied by individuals in the next year.

Based on our experience, I want

to point out we expected 65% of

the people we engage will accept services.

There ask going to be a third of the people who do not.

We have to make decisions case-by-case.

If somebody doesn't accept help

due to mental health. That doesn't mean we will tow the vehicle away. If they don't need the assistance we need to talk about enforcement related ISSUEs.

I would like to close with I absolutely do believe that the

only way to address the issue of people sleeping in vehicles is

to help the people in the vehicles.

Towing them is not the solution. I want to add that a lot of

times the issue of homelessness like anything wrong on the

streets people like to label with homelessness. If there is a problem with

parking it is homeless people's park.

I recently received a lounge letter with a -- long letter

when they gave me 30 photos of

people sleeping in the streets.

We haven't to verify that.

It was seven of the 30 or so

vehicles were actually people

sleeping on the streets.

One rv was owned by a gentleman that didn't leave in san

francisco. He is getting removed today. Many were trucks stored there.

I can't emphasize how important

it is that we enforce laws

around large vehicles on the

street illegally in a way that is you

is unfair to the people.

We need to address both but it

will be easier if that occur us.

I think at the point where we

work with people sleeping in the vehicles and they aren't willing

to go to a safe parking place or

help we are offering enforcement needs to be brought into play.

We have heard the neighbors they

expect the city to step up to address problems.

As long as it is done with

leading with services to ensure

everybody is offered a safe

place to go and mention

meaningful assistance. We can help people. Thank you very much for your time. I will be back again to talk about this further and happy to take questions.

>> thank you. directors, do we want to hold

questions and hear from the public first or do you want to

ask the clarifying questions.

>> go ahead director torres.

>> I am familiar with the east

palo alto program is that still functioning? >> yes. >> we hope they are operating okay? >> yes, so far. It is relatively new.

The one we are looking at most

closely because it is the most

eye effective is santa barbara.

>> the coalition for homeless homelessness issued ideas work

with you for safe parking lots. Is that proceeding?

>> it is absolutely on the list. Something we are looking at doing.

I don't want to say it is absolutely you we are going to do it.

It is worth looking at once we

understand who is on the streets and their needs.

It is something we should consider. The other thing we are

considering is helping subsidize people who want to relocate to rv parks.

Helping them move there and

provide financial assistance.

I don't think one thing is the magic solution.

We want to think opening up the nap centers will solve it. We need a number of tools. Safe parking May be one of those.

>> director borden.

>> at that point would year

agency work to do the outreach

to figure out who is on the street first so we would know

what happened?

>> we would coordinate with you.

We are meeting and seeing what

resources are available and deciding where it is going to go

and work on that. We certainly will work on that. We would like to assist with that. We don't believe people should be forced off the street. They are going somewhere else. We know where they are now and

we can provide assistance.

>> make sure that is part of our policy.

A mechanism that kicks in. Obviously there is a difference

between stores boats on a street versus people living.

I think my concern was displacing people with no other place to live.

>> we don't have all of the tools we need right now. We don't have a safe parking facility.

We have been working with folks

010 one basis to find creative

solutions where we can find

places if they go to a nap center or whatever it takes.

It will be six months before we

are up and running with all of the resources we need to address

this or some of the resources. >> you and I have talked about this a little bit.

One of the suggestions here and

when we spoke was about we have our emergency shelter program in

the winter we fund with churches

that we kind of increase capacity during that period and could we look at doing a safe

parking pilot with one of the churches with a parking lot that is part of that program?

Would you support that?

I know you have been in this position since 2016.

we have been asking for this issue for at least three years since the beginning of the time I served on the board.

I really feel that I want to do

the dew ilgens. I am glad you are looking at santa barbara.

Just try it seems like we do

pilots around the city.

I am looking to see if you would

support that?

>> in santa barbara the parking

is in church parking lots. I believe strongly that we need

to make sure we are doing the

right thing before we put city resources into this particular program.

We will have a better read in

two weeks when we finish this

extensive survey about who is out there.

We will take this and say 400 of

them need safe parking we better

move forward on the safe parking program. I don't want to lock in. Many cities have tried to address this.

Those with safe parking have not been successful.

Like santa barbara it is still a huge problem in the neighborhoods. Safe parking is not going to

solve the problem even with 400 spaces. We will still have people filling the streets until we

have a good plan to all work

together, combination of services and enforcement needs

to be in place or we will

frustrate the citizens and not

be able to provide meaningful help to those sleeping new

vehicles.

I smith is something we -- it is something we are looking at.

>> can we get a report at the next board meeting on the outcome of what he is looking

into so we have a sense where we are going?

>> I am glad to stand next to staff.

I am your key staff attending

the hkse conversations and

working closely with these folks.

As there is something to report

back we will bring it back to you immediately.

>> you are less enthusiastic about the safe parking program. We need a solution.

Where are people to go?

I wonder if there are other

lessons learned from other

cities with safe parking programs.

Can we address what has arisen.

You said vehicle storage is your solution over safe parking.

Is it feasible to think of all

of the people vehiclely houserd

coming to live in the homes? >> I don't believe everybody

will take us up on

on the offer. That is why we need the survey. How many do we think would who need it and would accept it.

I think that is a possibility.

We are looking at cal tran's property.

They are require ed to lease us

property for $1 if it serves the

homeless community in some way. We can't build nap centers under the freeway.

We can't let people sleep there.

Those are not options for safe parking.

It is not safe to have people

living underneath the freeways.

We can store vehicles there.

It is a viable options.

we will be able to find a place

for people in vehicles that want to come indoors.

I don't know that it is my preferred option.

I will say common sense dictates that we would rather have people not sleeping in cars.

I will say some people that May be their choice to sleep in their vehicles.

We need to provide services. The parking that doesn't work is

when it is large scale program, people park and there are no

services and no plan and no coordination of enforcement with other agencies.

Opening the space to say don't

park there, park here is opening

us up to challenges. It seems absolutely the benefits

of showers and bathrooms. Those are important.

We need to think this through

and not just open this up to see what happens. They have been forced to close

programs they have gotten out of

control, too many people parking there, a lot of violence and

crime occurring, and we don't want that.

We want a safe place for people

who have and key can figure out

the pathway to live permanently.

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>> could you talk a little bit more about your departments incompetenter action with

interaction. I know you covered it in your presentation but I'm interesting in hearing about the challenges

that are next steps. >> it's a challenge when someone experiences homelessness and they're in their vehicle and it's not registered and they have $1200 worth of tickets. they can't get their vehicle registered. Maybe they want to go somewhere else and we're like well, you know, we can just look the other way and you are not registered. When thinking about that, if we tell someone to do that and they get pulled over by the police

and get in a worse situation, we

don't want to do that. Frankly, we've learned about and

worked with the discounted program usually that it brought down to a level. We will just either use some of our -- we have private funds that we can use to assist in cases like this.

We will just payoff those fines.

It depends on the situation. I understand, the restrictions

around the fees and the towing and when someone's vehicle gets

towed it's hard to get it untowed. I think what we're going to troy

to do is to help, again, on a case-by-case basis help people

revealed these problems. Resolve these problems. And taking money available for this purpose and paying off tickets isn't the best in highest use of our funds. I also understand you all are restricted by state and other regulations around how these fines get handled. The discounted program is super helpful. We'll continue to do that. We want to help people clear these tickets. It keeps them from getting registered and it keeps them

from getting their vehicles smogged, et cetera, enters. We

et cetera.We don't want people in vehicles that aren't registered and

haven't been smog tested. >> I would add into that, we're

also getting better at coordinating with the police and

other folks that here is a

vehicle that is just about to be towed. If we can only stop it from being towed. Prevention is much easier than treating the illness.

When a vehicle has been towed.

There are tow fees and some of

them we can and so we've had a few successes that just stopping from the tow and we're working

on right now as we speak, we're trying to workout the registration so we can help get that vehicle home to another

place that's not san francisco.

We have noted this in the presentation that we know anybody with run a plate and find out that bus has 15 tickets. It has $2,000.

It's really in peril of being towed. It's easier to undo it and help someone get the help they need rather than trying to get it out

of the yard. >> thank you. Is there another follow-up on that.

This is so helpful to have you here to talk about it.

I feel hopeful about this situation for the first time

since we've started discussing it. Thank you for that. I really appreciate that. Did I see any other questions. >> just a quick one.

If it's just the caltrance spaces for storage do we know how many that is?

>> no, I'm not 100% sure. I know rel estate and public works are helping us investigate that right now. We'll look at other sites.

Just the caltrans sites are empty and free.

>> one of my concerns with this

policy, and with dewolf is if we

accept this policy and we move

on dewolf we will see a lot more requests for streets coming to

us to ban over size vehicle

parking overnight. What what can we do that will

help work within the framework while they figure out what is going on the streets and what resources you will be able to

point people to. It needs to be six months but a pause would be helpful.

We could also if you wanted to do a pre assessment before you made a decision, we can go out and have our team see who is out there and tell you what is going on and come back as you are

making those decisions about how

to move forward on this. I think that would be very helpful.

I would also say to be honest,

the thing that would be the most helpful is to address people who are parking and not experiencing homelessness and parking over

sized vehicles on the streets.

In a way that upsets neighbors. Where, you May have three homeless people who are kind of

parked amongst like 20 vehicles that -- I'm not an expert in parking law and I don't know if it's illegal or not to actually do that. I see 18 wheelers on the streets and then R.V. And then a panel

van and then a tow truck and

maybe another R.V. And an R.V. worth $200,000 that sat there forever.

I think we need to separate these issues to the extent that

we can and allow us to help the -- there's a lot that can be done without displacing people

experiencing homelessness. And there's a lot that you can

do just around over sized vehicles and we will make

progress with folks who are in the vehicles and chances are we will have some program whether it's safe parking or vehicle

storage or a rent subsidy for an R.V. Park that will help get some of the folks to a safe

place but in the meantime, sir

get these calls and. >> thank you, your being here

turns this into a more the use

of the teams and other

mechanisms to make this a more

tailors and compassionate approach and they're much appreciated.

Thank you for being here. >> thank you. I want to thank you and I want

to thank andy and director peskin. We've only been working together

for the past four or five months

and it is been really a good partnership, a greg partnership and I really appreciate the compassion that you all show and

that your staff show because every time we have asked like can you please stand down and

let us help the answer is always been yes. Yes and what else can we do. We really just command all of

you for that approach. I think we will -- things will get better.

>> thank you, ok. Mr. Thornily, thank you for your presentation. I just want to sort of put in perspective what we're considered, which May help public comment and help us frame what we're voting on here today.

My understanding is that the

policy guidelines you are putting forward today are the policy guidelines around equity,

the policy guidelines around ensuring there's sufficient communication and outreach.

If we're going to adopt one of

these bans on a block by block basis, we're doing it in coordination with those principles.

But that you are not proposing

today the consideration of say whether it's a school zone and those are things for future consideration. Is that correct?

>> well, no, actually, we do want to the extent that we've

given you this paper and it's completeness, that business is a top of page 7 does matter. >> let me ask about that.

For a school, for example.

I assume that thinking there is children are vulnerable to parking May be particularly problematic if there are children around. The ban we're talking about is

an over-night parking ban,

right. Children are not at school at night.

They're at their homes. I will say that is one of the

reasons I'm particularly, you know, receptive to some of these questions

requests because the children of san francisco want to be safe in their homes and some of the issues they're being exposed to are difficult. I understand there are homeless

children too and this is a

balancing act. But just for -- maybe I just

ask, what is the thinking behind

a specific san francisco.

>> you can clarify why continue

over-night parking restriction near a school would take under this, I think maybe get added benefit than would say a neighborhood. >> right. That's an excellent question, director.

What we're up to here is sort of

an indirect treatment of long-term storage of vehicles.

It isn't right now, at 3:00 in the afternoon there's a vehicle we would like to have moved. But rather, here is a place that

seems to a accumulate large vehicles, they're moving things

that ought not be there. The notion and this guidance has been here from the start when we began to bring you these. We said playgrounds, school grounds, neighborhood parks, we

do not want to have a wall of

vehicles that is impeding sight lines.

We have children and parents

crossing the street. The wall of vehicles is a problem. Whether they're occupied or not

is not really the issue here. It May be acceptable to have a wall of vehicles somewhere but around a playground or a school yard, we're trying to kept site lines open and make sure everyone can see and cross the

street safely.

You are right, the temporal disconnect, what's that about?

well that to the extent this truck is parked here for three days, we're getting at it overnight. The cultural sensitivity,

neighbors are generally touchy. Hey, I want to be able to park there, why are you making me move also.

By the time we get to this, I will have proposed, maybe we should not have anybody park there if it's a problem and you can imagine they'll say well no, I want to park here but those

other people should go away. So by saying from midnight to 6:00 A.M., you can't be parked here if it's too big and that's

probably going to get you out of here.

Land scale

landscape truck, fishing boat,

whatever it is that is accumulating there. >> that's very helpful.

>> I know you would like to ask

you another question using

dewolf as an example, correct? >> I really appreciate your joining us today.

This is been a wonderful discussion. It curse to me

occurs the approach is such a humane approach. It's meeting people where they are. It's trying to find better solutions for them. It's trying to really understand the situation.

So I just wonder using dewolf as

an example, has this kind of

thoughtful approach of understanding people's circumstances and working with

them to find alternate housing

situations, has all of this been

tried and failed in the case of die wolf and this is why we're

looking at the restriction or have we not tried the intervention yet? >> we have been out on dewolf. We know who is out there. We have a general idea of

service needs but we haven't put

a lot of resources into trying

to provide that assistance and

help the folks relocate or come indoors. >> if I could clarify, this

maybe gets to director borden's question, our intent would be to

the extent this board ever does legislate a restriction, we

would not put it into effect until the department of homelessness and supportive housing with the other city

agencies are able to do that work. >> I personally would like that would be done in advance and be part of the staff report that

brought us consideration. >> yep.

>> and I also just wanted to

add, related to that, you

brought up six or more vehicles as a threshold. Yep. >> I think no one mentioned that we didn't have that in our report I don't believe. I don't remember seeing that.

I think coming up with a

a a new mer I can threshold talking about an impact to the neighborhood. It's missing in our policy that would make more sense to me and

you are starting to capture a

problem that's not specific to homelessness but the abuse of over sized

sized vehicles.

I would say you can give us that today. I would say I would like a further line. I would like to strike that

condition and add this condition. This is a policy this agency is adopting today. You you could say, should we say as a condition that the staff would not bring us this for cases

where there are one or two vehicles. I don't think that's overcome plex to

overcomplex to today. >> we are committed to working

with folks living in vehicles in the portal neighborhood and on

duel street by the end of the year. We don't have all the the resources we had and I don't think it should stop us from finding solutions for folks who are there and to do it in a way

that's respectful and ends up

helping folks as well as allowing you to address concerns that house people have about

parking in the neighborhood.

>> what I'm hearing so far, in terms of adding to the policy

that staff has come up with, it

sounds like a initial pause in outreach for problem streets is something that we would like to

see. If a street comes to us, that information is included in the staff report as a street comes to us.

It sounds like we're interested

in some type of threshold which

can be challenging but it sounds

like he is willing to tackle this. How many vehicles on a block

face sort of constitute an issue. Yes, vice-chair? >> I would not support that.

I trust the staff to know when a restriction is needed when it's not.

I mean, if he said an objective criteria like that you could

have a small block face. >> you would rather leave that one to staff discretion? >> yes. I'm eager to hear public comment on this one.

I think what we've -- to get ahead of myself a little bit and

start discussing it, I think what we've seen here today with great assistance from our new

friend is that a flexible compassionate approach is the

way to go.

Setting objective markers, I

worry that will restrict Mr. Thornily coming to us when

he thinks we should and create a presumption maybe he should come

to us when perhaps he shouldn't.

I would prefer a more flexible approach. >> we've gotten a lot of questions out of the way.

I'd like to go to public comment now. We can go back to discussing

this policy. Ms. Boomer, could we set two minutes. >> anne worth.

Evan crosser. >> thank you.

I was reading the 16-page report and I was looking at the short term and long-term goals and it seems like no short-term goal

should happen, which is going to destroy the midterm and long-term goals. The basic problem is people have to have a place to live. we understand housing in san francisco is difficult. People who are living in their vehicles are there for variety of reasons.

Some of them are quite resourceful and are maintaining themselves quite well. As you know, the few that are in the worst shape are going to be the hardest ones that need a

different kind of help.

When you destabilize someone's home, if they are constantly

moving their vehicles or afraid

of them being towed, that's not a stable living situation.

If there's some sort of safe parking, or some reasonable way where they know what is going to

happen, that's like the very basics for being able to come up

with solutions for it. Things will -- if you throw people out of their vehicles, they're sleeping on the street and if you take away their vehicles and their belongings are destroyed, they're destroyed. So you have to -- if you are trying to balance off the neighbor's concerns you are

looking at having enough parking for people to make their livings with delivery trucks need to park them somewhere figuring out

what that problem is. Everyone in the city trying to

make a living has to find a way

or just to survive, has to find

a way of making that possible.

So there has to be help available for people on many different levels and the hardest ones, the ones that the hardest

to help are those that need it the most.

Everybody needs it here. If you just shove the problem

around, you are making it worse.

Some steps will give you -- it

will be easy and help a bunch of people quickly. Last part is the hardest part. >> thank you.

>> evan processor, herbert winier.

>> evan had to leave.

Herbert wiener followed by

melody.

>> we are on the horns of a deem lem

dilemma. You have to have an equity for

parking policy and at the same

time these are individuals in their advance. They

vans.It's their means of shelter and

you don't want them on your doorstep.

That is what will happen if

people are slung out of their vehicles. I don't have a solution.

The only thing I can say is that

I wish the board the best in

coming at an equitable solution

and I am pleased that the

director of the department of homelessness is here.

That's a very good sign.

Something has to be done where

people have adequate means of

shelter and at the same time

they can the interesting has to be balanced against it.

I don't want to see people slung out of their vehicles. I don't want to see the vehicles towed. I don't want to see them placed

in an extreme disadvantage.

This is what, basically, has to happen. This is a human problem that

requires a human solution.

It's not really impossible but it's difficult.

that's what the sport is

this board is for.

Thank you. >> melody. Kelly cutler. Those are the last three people

who have put in speaker cards. >> thank you so much for

listening to us today.

I usually have a prepared

statement so I'm sorry if I am struggling. In 1960, when I was two-years-old, I fell out of the bunk bed and had a brain injury.

It was not diagnosed until 1997. In the year 2000, I started seeking help from the city and

county of san francisco to get some kind of rehabilitation so

that I can keep my housing.

They did not help me.

14 years later, my doctor, in

2014, told me what you need does

not fall under our scope of practice.

And this is after I had spent 14

years seeking help for my housing.

I have not come across any help

for traumatic brain injury.

I'm just trying to put your attention on what would be a

meaningful offer of assistance

that I understand that people are -- from jeff's department

are coming out to help people.

They're not -- they don't have

that help that I need. I'm sorry. Thank you. >> thank you, melody. You did a good job. Next speaker, please. >> kelly cutler. This is the last two speakers on

this topic. >> >> hi, I'm flow kelly.

I work with the coalition on

homelessness.

in response to are in place that

need to be changed. There are cake and they don't

fit the san francisco that we are today.

We should not really have awe a law that makes it illegal to live in a vehicle. It's not being enforced anyway.

I know you cannot make that change.

You have influence. When reaching out to folks who live in their vehicles, a small group of us from the coalition

on homelessness, ran across the

family of two parents and three children who were all enrolled

in san francisco public schools.

These children need to stay in the same schools where they are in order to have a consistent education many of I'm a retired elementary schoolteacher.

I know this for sure. Speaking of choices, they chose

to be in an R.V. Rather than

live in a station wagon which is

where they had been before. This family would jump at the chance foresee

for secure housing that they can afford. Until that happens, their rights

to live a life without fear of

being towed or forced to move

should not be denied. So, if safety for everyone is a goal, the coalition on

homelessness proposes a safe

parking program which includes

having the program open 24/7, perhaps operated by community

members including rotating

security, providing a bathroom

and shower facilities like pit

stops or lama May and providing

case management services on site. Thank you, very much.

>> thank you for your continued work. Kelly cutler.

>> last person to speak. >> good afternoon.

I'm kelly cutler, a human rights

organization with the coalition on homelessness.

I've been working on this since 2012.

I'm glad Mr. Kazinski came today and we can have a discussion about the whole issue here.

I do have some concerns. A number of them. One of them is like what is when it comes to the meaningful offer of assistance. It's really important to be

looking at the numbers of what actual resources we have and what we don't have.

What we have for temporary shelter so what is it that is

actually going on?

I have concerns with the

vehiclen camment

vehicleencampment resource team. They need resources to help folks. Also, with healthy streets

operations center, this is a

coordinated effort within the city department to be responding

to homelessness. Since the city doesn't have the

resources available, it's mostly

enforcement and sfpd that is

responding or D.P.W. And very little from actual homeless department.

Because they don't have those.

When it came to encampment

resolutions, ok, when

Mr. Kazinski spoke about the enforcement piece, what happened at the tents was at one point

they were giving out misdemeanorses when people had a tent.

sometimes two in a day. We need to be honest and look at

the real picture of what is going on.

So it's not just a facade that we're seeing.

When we resolve an area, resolve

for who? Thank you. >> thank you Ms. Cutler and all your work on this issue.

Do I see another member of the public?

>> hello, david wu. I'm speak as a individual. I was born and raised in san francisco and I still live where

I grew up. There's no permanent solution to

homelessness in san francisco.

Without a pathway to get people into permanent housing, it

really is a chicken in a a egg kind of thing. You will just continue to go down the path of criminalization, which is

something that sounds like you do not want to do. So keeping that in mind and being aware while the criminalization aspect has

funding and resources, the permanent path out of homelessness does not so how do

we resolve those issues without further criminalization? Thank you. >> thank you Mr. Wu. Anymore members of the public. Seeing none, public comment is

closed and I'd like to ask supervisor kim if she would like

to address this now. >> good afternoon, board of directors. Thank you so much for letting me interrupt this very important policy discussion. i wanted to speak on the next item that is before the board

today and this is on the townshend street improvement project.

First of all, I do want to thank

this board, in July, for working with our office to fast track this project. Working with our bike coalition, and our community and also again

to thank you for your support of sixth street and howard as well

as taylor street. I don't need to repeat all that I've said before. I do represent a district with

the vast majority of our high-entry corridors that's why vision zero has been such an important initiative for our city.

We want to achieve zero

fatalities in san francisco. Improving the streets in district 6 will get us there.

I want to also recognize many of

the advocates that have been working to keep townshend street in the hopper and on the burner

and here today.

Townshend has one of the richest mixes of travel roads of any streets in san francisco. Thousands of people an hour access this regional transportation hub by bike,

foot, shuttle bus, tnc, taxi, personal vehicle or by one of

the eight muni bus routes on townshend street. It's home to the highest use bike share station west of the mississippi.

More than 3,000 people walked through fourth and townshend intersection one hour in the

morning and in the evening rush hour. For any of you that have spent time on this intersection, it

really is one of the worst

intersections in terms of allowing pedestrians and psyche

lists and personal vehicles,

shuttle buses and muni to share this very narrow street given all of the track that is on here.

It's a critical link and in moving this project forward,

we're really going to both save

lives and also prevent a lot of injuries that have long-term impacts. Within this project area, just

in the last five years, there were 43 bike collisions.

And so this is the type of impacts that we want to have on this corridor. Again, I understood the initial hesitation. This is a corridor that will be

changing hopefully with downtown extension, in my lifetime and many other improvements. Just given the high usage of

this area, even an improvement for the next five years is going

to be a huge win for our city. So thank you again.

I want to recognize the staff at

sfmta and public works, jamie,

cameron beck, and at public

works shannon karen's mat, mike kelly and of course the san francisco bike coalition, brian, janice and charles, that have

just been working tirelessly on this initiative along with their members.

I want to end on two separate

notes, not related to townshend street because I don't get to

come to the sfm board of directors but earlier, you received public comment about the red lanes in district 6. I want to strongly support our community stakeholders who have asked that red lanes be limited

to muni and taxicabs exclusively. This is important particularly in district 6 where we have a lot of vehicles and a lot of usage.

They should be for our public vehicles. Finally, as some of you May have heard, I did introduce an

amendment a couple weeks ago to eliminate the minimum parking requirement in san francisco. If it passes, we will be the

first major american city to do this.

The first major city in north america I guess that includes canada. We would love to get the support of the board of directors. There's definitely some hesitation on the board of supervisors and while there won't be an immediate impact, we

know in the long-term, this is

exactly the direction that a transit-first city should head. Developers can build parking but we should not be requiring them

to build that parking. I want to thank the staff members that came to public comment. We rarely get so many planners at public comment at land use. It was continued at land use

because my colleagues would like more conversation and dialogue and feedback and so I think this board is an important one to hear from.

So thank you again for all of your work and happy election day. >> thank you, very much supervisor kim. Thank you for all work you've

done for this city.

>> supervisor, I for one want to thank you for your service and

leadership over the years to the

great city and county of san francisco. I lament the fact that term

limits does away with people like you. [Laughter] You should remain in office

because you always have an incredible array of ideas and visions and controversial at times and yet you suffered through that with your courage and your leadership. And you will be missed. >> thank you, director torres. It's been my pleasure and honor to serve our city.

I will continue to do so in a different capacity. Thank you.

>> thank you, supervisor kim. All right.

Directors, let's get back to our oversized vehicle policy.

I'd like to hear some thoughts.

Who would like to start us off?

>> vice-chair.

>> I have four points. I don't think you will need to interrupt me or answer questions but please be there so you can hear it clearly.

First of all, number one, there

is a suggestion at the beginning

of the presentation that maybe

this board isn't eager to hear these requests when they need to be heard.

As I have said before, at least personally, this is a part of our job.

We administer the parking restrictions. When our constituents and our fellow citizens and our supervisors come to us and say they want us to consider a proposal we should consider the

proposal.

We now are improving the framework through which we will

consider those proposals, compliments to you. I want to be clear that at least

from my perspective, if there's a supervisor or a neighborhood

group or another group that feels a restriction is needed, and you agree with that and want to bring it to this board or maybe even think it's controversial and want to bring it to this board, please do so. That is our job.

Number two, I want to compliment a few directors with whom I had

a rather spirited disagreement last time around.

And I'm happy to see the dewolf proposal going forward.

As you all know I said I think

it's very unfair and frankly

outrageous that we were holding

the wolf street hostage to get a

better over all city program. I still feel that but I want to

say to the directors board and brinkman personally, your

standing up to this issue has brought around a better solution. So, you and the others who

joined you took a stand and now

we have Mr. Kasinski and others here to make a better proposal. I would like it would have happened had you not did what you did, but I'm not sure and I'm certainly grateful for what you did.

As Mr. Wiener, said, this is a human problem and I think the

solution we have now is now

treating it with a lot more humanity when it was an up or down vote premised on neighborhood rights versus the city solving the problem.

We're all working together now. My third point, if you want to put into your guidelines schools and parks and places where children are in sight lines and

stuff are important, I am ok with that. I don't think that should really be dis positive.

I think this is going to be a case-by-case analysis of the

needs of our fellow citizens,

the risks posed by whoever is parking there and our ability to

help those people as well. So, you know, some guidelines are ok but what I'm really thinking, what I'm really enjoying more about this

proposal is it's a more comprehensive humane way to deal with this and that's the most important part rather than

continuing to bulk an eyes the

city where schools or parks or certain neighborhood as director torres alluded to, get more protection than others. Let's treat everybody in the

city the same and take these

issues one by one. Finally, I will say I will support this because I'm very pleased with the fact that we're

now focused on how we do this

not whether we do this. We ned to address this problem and instead of fighting back and

fourth and just sort of going to a stalemate, we're now doing it the best way we can. I'm appreciative to you and particularly my fellow directors

for that and I will support your proposal today. >> thank you, vice-chair.

I looked up dispositive, relating to or bringing about

the settlement of positive and I learned a new word.

Thank you vice-chair.

Yes. Director.

>> I have one question and some

comments.

I don't see it here but are commercial vehicles treated differently? >> they are.

We do have infractions in the transportation code. There's been a fair amount of

discussion about that coming out

of supervisor ronen's office.

You cannot, under transportation code, park a over weight commercial vehicle on residential streets for more

than a few hours.

And it's based on the gross vehicle weight and it's 10,000 pounds. That restriction, if you go to

any based on the zoning map, any r or p public, the reservoir. If there was a large vehicle that was a moving truck, you can't park there without even posting a sign. It would be liable to

infraction.

The 10,000-pound gross vehicle weight, the dimension is big.

It maps close to the 7x22. In neighborhoods and directors if you know any and please let

us know, that there is a large vehicle, a moving truck parked in the sunset district. That's just wrong right out of the box. Commercial vehicles though are a

continuum and you May have neighbors who have -- I have a

neighborhood who has an interior decor

decor eight or license.

We have to think about scoping commercial vehicles. Also, I've been hearing a lot from folks about advertising vehicles. It's already illegal under the transportation code to park a

vehicle that's first purpose is advertising. Those bloody billboard things that drive around and park,

those are illegal out of the box.

Signs on top of taxicabs maybe not. There's a little conversation

about the commercial use of vehicles.

If I can just volunteer, seven

years ago in this particular infraction was developed with

the board of supervisors, there

was a gap in having a tool that

would get at large vehicles dimensionally in the sunset in particular. There are a lot of industrial vehicles that get parked along lincoln way in the edge of the park.

No one is living in them and we didn't have a good tool to say no, that's inappropriate. The over sized vehicle restriction, as it's cast, is strictly dimensional and it doesn't say what type of

vehicles, it doesn't say if it's

blue or green, it doesn't say if someone is living in it or not,

it just says here is a need, we should restrict things that are

this large without any characteristics.

>> I guess in your -- how often

have those kinds of vehicles been part of the challenge that

people are identifying in the neighborhoods? It is 50% of the problem, 75% of the problem? is it part of the problem? >> before we did a fair amount of policy analysis research

going out and looking back in 2011 and driving around looking at areas with large vehicles parked. We found about half of them were vehicles that probably didn't

have someone living in them. Following the postings we looked at citations and there was a

general half and half split that

the police who are doing the siding, because it's the middle

of the night, about half of those were vehicles that probably weren't inhabited. It was a paving truck that was

parked at someone's street or something like that understandably, we go to the

human dimension and we should.

But this tool is one that is not meant to only treat cases with folks living in them and what we've seen from experiences, there's plenty of places where there's a large special truck that shouldn't be parked there.

>> I guess for me it brings up

another element of a problem and

so far as people, we have less and less industrial space here in the city.

There are people who work blue collar jobs who might have a large contractor vehicle who

don't have a place to park them. I think, you know, one of the things we need to -- we've been talking about this idea of parking storage as it pertains to people living in their homes. We might want to also look at

parking storage for people who have commercial-type vehicles that they're a contractor or maybe interior designer, whatever, but they don't have a

place to park their vehicle because they don't have a garage space at their work or whatever. Or they drive their -- they have one dump truck and that's actually their whole business.

I mean, I'm not expecting or saying this has to deal with that right now. Part of the analysis we're talking about when you go out and you meant to reach out to

key stakeholders here in your process, I think I would love

for us to be tracking this issue.

This is another issue, a socioeconomic-related issues where people that have those

types of vehicles don't have the capacity to pay to store them on a daily basis and this might be their livelihood.

I want to track this as a important issue.

I live where there are ton of contractor trucks.

A very kind of sensitive to this issue because, as a lot of our blue collar workers in positions where they don't have to place their vehicles. I know we're not going to address that today but I would

say that is one of the issues I want us to be tracking as part of the policy that we're looking

at here and then looking at whether or not we're seeing a pattern to come up with

solutions specific to that.

Going to the other issues that

we talked about, I kind of wish

that this policy talked about

prior to, you said reach out to

agencies and it's more vague. He talked about interventions and I would feel more comfortable if something was one

of the interventions, I mean he

listed like five there were -- they were offered to people who

were provided -- not offered.

Provided to people who were in the situation of homelessness or living in their vehicles.

I feel like without having that as a part of it, we're still not

going to solve that portion of the solution.

I do like the idea, I know that

director didn't like six or more. It speaks a lot to over saturation.

They do the block.

Sometimes people just want one neighbor's vehicle gone because

they hate their neighbor whatever.

And they might have a very large vehicle or a couple large vehicles. Versus a problem where there are multiple vehicles.

I think that it doesn't have to be the threshold is met but

there should be a threshold that is part of the consideration. There were at least five vehicles or six vehicles. It's part of this consideration. It doesn't have to be the threshold which you bring it to

us but it would make more sense in terms of looking at that.

Then you get away from the

targeting of a couple people situation. In terms of the guidelines, I do

also have a problem with the school playyards. When I was on the planning commission we had a issue with the medical marijuana dispensary

issue and we've put in nothing near community and schools and

pretty much that exempted most

of san francisco.

We meant that the brunt of areas

that had to accommodate and deal with dispensaries was smaller. Anything that limits when you talk about schools and community facilities gets really broad and I think it goes too far and starts to impact the ability to have a meaningful consideration point because almost every neighborhood will have a play

yard or something that probably

would be qualifying. Those are not inactive.

I would actually change that in this policy. So yeah, my fundamental things are one I wish that I want to

see us, I would feel more

comfortable if we had more stated language here specifically as it pertains to

people who are experiencing homelessness in like what

exactly we're going to -- not that what we're going to do but how we're going to work with the department on that aspect.

I do want to make sure that this

analysis that we're talking about happens before we hear those. I'm actually even though we were obviously moving the ball forward with the dewolf, the truth is that it still hasn't happened even though we're

scheduled to vote on that today. I personally don't think that's a core part of the policy that

that has to happen prior to this.

Looking at some sort of numeric

threshold and looking at the idea around commercial vehicles and whether or not we need to in

the future look for solutions there. >> I might have a couple of quick responses to that.

The threshold of vehicles makes perfect sense and certainly we've had many cases where

there's a guy with a bus on the street. He put up signs. This agency, that's not a good

use of our resources, even apart

from equity and consistent policy.

The notion of here is a location that's bone to large vehicles collecting here, not to be heart

less about it but this is a good spot to park. That sort of what we're looking for.

It's the characteristic of the street rather than here is a

individual that is making the neighbors angry.

Lead time on bring relev and remedy to regulation. We think agree that no matter about what we do for relief, even if we establish lots of

safe parking, and it's successful, we have to regulate

the streets. With dewolf we'll see this, that

if we stay here is a wonderful place, let's all go over here, five or six vehicles move and

then the next day it's likely to

start collecting because it's a known good place to park. Our challenge is because we're san francisco and we do let folks know what is going on and have a process, our lead time on

posting regulations is a few months.

As we work with jeff's team and other folks, we're having to look ahead and say all right,

here is a street we need to work

on, give andy a head start.

I will begin to get regulations

posted there so that we can come along and do three or four weeks of outreach and connection and

it's a tricky balance.

Again to recognize that we can't

just go out and post lines. The neighbors wouldn't like that. That's not how we do business in san francisco.

If we say yes, we are going to

begin working on regulating so let's get that rolling and follow it with the outreach and connection we have to find the right balance.

The two time lines are hard to wreck. >> it would be helpful to see when staff brings us these restrictions, part of the

staff's report explains like how

sfmta and the department of homelessness works with the populations effected.

That would be, for me, really

helpful to make an informed decision. I like that language included in the policy document. >> ok. >> all right. I think that is a good idea. Do we need to add that language or can we consider that as the

spirit of the policy or does someone have language that they

would like to propose. >> might I recommend we take this direction.

It's clear enough and we bring this back to the board for you not to approve necessarily but to take and.

>> Sarah:   yes that's

say yes, that's whatwe meant.

We can chair it back to you. This is meant to be policy that staff says here is our

understanding of how to proceed. Board, do you support this.

In that collaborative sharing

back here, and we can work for mr. Ruskin to say no it's not still not right. We can get it and you can tell fuss we got it.

Is that amenable to the board? >> is that amenable to the board? >> absolutely. >> I'm looking at your flow chart here, which is like the

order of how this is all going to work.

So we have the request coming in

and they work on standard regulations and you decide whether to pursue it or not and

later on in the process is the site visit to collect the data from the vert. I don't know, it seems like somewhere this that flow chart or maybe earlier in the process

are the interventions that they

were just discussing as an alternative to initiating

legislation around a restriction.

>> that makes perfect sense. I don't want to mislead you, that is happening to some extent

and it will get more and more' more effective and efficient.

We might be at a point where we

want to send this forward with

an amendment that is talking about --

>> a concentration of vehicles.

I think a concentration makes it.

>> if I May, as much as I can hear Mr. Thornily eager to secure approval with the

direction to amend, it sounds like there's inch

enough here the board is seeking changes in this document that we should change it and bring it back. There were a few things, or one

at least, that would be helpful to get direction from the board. It's concentration issue.

The rest I think that there is

enough thoughts from the board

that I think merit redoing the document. There's also a question of whether the board wants to adopt

it as policy or just us bring it

back as an informational item. We can do that either way.

This maybe too many moving parts

for us to ask you to approve it now given the good discussion and feedback we've gotten from you.

>> let me introduce two more. [Laughter] One comment and one question.

As I look at these guidelines in addition toll school yard and the parks, residential streets

with limited on street parking, does not describe most of san

francisco in my view? I'm not sure of any neighborhoods that have an

abundance of an street parking. The phrase about blight as we know the history of city planning, the phrase of blight

is a troubled and laidant vague.

I thought that could be revisited.

The second piece, up in the

staff report ahead of the

proposal, was the alternative considered. One of the alternatives

considered was coordinating with

homeless services department on

a parking permit program for over sized vehicles.

I think it's actually an

interesting idea when we have parking challenges over abundance of parking demand, we've used parking programs

successfully to manage that demand. so could you just speak a little bit on the staff report quickly says these were not persuade because they were not successful in other cities but could you just speak about why the item of a permit parking program for over sized vehicles was not persuade?

Pursued? >> he understand the los angeles

was experiment and we heard from other cities.

So the notion here would be that someone like melody and I don't want to single her out but I've gotten to know melody pretty well and here is a case that this agency doesn't want to injury melody.

And the extent that someone like

melody is living in harmony and peace with the community and is

not interesting toxic toxins and so fourth.

Could we find, melody, you keep doing that.

And that stands on its face. You tease at that a little bit.

If that's what we mean, that

this rv and its ok pant are ok,

judging that could be fairly

complex. If you could develop protocol

for that and be the permitter that might work.

I think it would be perilous for

the mtv to evaluate whether

someone was ok and develop that protocol. The other challenge of it is the good

geometry or the spacial.

There are streets in place where

someone who was operating in a harmonious way let's say, couldn't you just let that

street be where someone lives.

That, again, maybe so and I have

suggested that to some supervisors and I think district 11 has been looking at that question. Is there some street? Are there streets some place

where someone that we have

qualified through some sort of a

process could be here and park and live unmolested.

We did not pursue that much farther because it was quite complex.

It's not that it's an unworthy

idea, but just as a mid level clerk untrained planner, I find

whoa, this is really not only complex but takes you to a place

of literally evaluating people and we need to be careful. This agency has a resident

permit parking program for

instance, that's a precedent. The qualification for a permit is very clear and even at that

there are arguments among people where I should get a permit and four permits and that. That simple permit program is already really challenging to

figure out how to administer equity. >> that cuts to it.

I want us to get to a point on this policy where we can go ex

ahead and take a vote on this. It sounds like, although I appreciate the after to take it

and work on it again, I think that what I am feeling from this board is we are close. We can get this to a point where

we can take a vote on this.

From what I am hearing, what

language or amendments director -- >> I'm not prepared to vote on this.

I think the directors' suggestion was appropriate. >> ok. well let's see again if we can get an amendment and get get it up

to a point where we can vote on it. Am I hearing from other directors, do people want to try and take a vote on this or send

it back? >> I wasn't going to vote for it today because of the lack of changes. If you want to move forward I'm

not going to vote for it as it is.

>> it sounds like we do need to send this back to have a little

more work and get it to be amended. Mr. Thornily, do you feel you've

heard enough from us to get a

sense of what it is we're looking for to round this policy out and bring it back again?

>> I believe I do.

My colleagues in the bleachers are paying attention. >> I will say since it was maybe the one sort of point where

maybe there was disagreement, what director borden said at the end that one of the considerations is the concentration of vehicles, that's fine. It's a great way to deal with it.

Obviously greater concentration needs greenser need. There are other factors and I

think the way that she proposed it is I would be happy with that. >> excellent, thank you.

>> understood. >> thank you all for a very robust discussion and thank you

members of the public. And now I believe --

>> we're going to go back to item 10.2a.

>> I'm sorry, on item 11, do we

need a motion to continue? No? >> I don't think so. >> we'll just bring it back when we think we have something that is ready.

>> I suppose that raises the question of -- you know, I know my next bus system is going to take a while but I assume this isn't going to take very long. >> no. >> not at all. I think we can bring this back

to you as quickly as the process supports.

I think you meet again first tuesday in December. That May be too soon in terms of the wheels. We'll bring it back to you at the soonest mechanical opportunity. >> thank you.

>> I would ask you check in, the director said that we're two weeks away and I don't know if

he meant to say two weeks away

from some announcements around other interventions so it would be great if he does that we can have that back or he could even come talk about that.

>> that's an excellent point. What we bring back to you will be fully formed by what we learned from jeff and his team. Thank you. >> thank you. >> great.

Thank you, very much.

>> Clerk:   going to 10.2a. Which has to do with establishing an over size

vehicle restriction on dewolf street.

>> let's go ahead and go directly to public comment on this one.

>> anne worth followed by

melody. >> thank you. Well it's kind of going back to the same problem.

If you push people where do they

go? When there's an answer to that then you can push people. That's about it. >> thank you.

Next speaker, please.

>> melody followed by flow kelly and kelly cut ler.

Those are the last three people.

>> could you please go ahead of melody.

>> Ms. Cutler. >> hi, my name is kelly cutler

with the coalition again. So, with banding new streets, I don't think that we're at that point yet. Also we have been with a couple

of the supervisors we've been meeting, looking at safe parking

and actually finding alternatives. This is jumping ahead of the

game before we're at that point.

There haven't been alternatives

yet. Let me see what else I missed

and I forgot in the last comment I gave. Also with having like a

community engagement process, we were having a working group for a while. And that has stopped.

We really didn't -- nothing came out of that.

The thing with the permit program, the issues was the city had nothing to offer.

So why get this permit because

there is really no motivation or

reason because other than people wouldn't get harassed for

sleeping in their vehicles, and that was about it. That's where we got to a point

of not moving forward. I think that's about it. I'm distracted because we're running a campaign right now and

this is the election day. [Laughter] >> I can't believe I'm here

right now and I've been on my phone and so I'm looking forward to getting back there because

everyone is texting me. >> thank you, very much.

>> next speaker, please.

>> ok.

So, my name is melody and I'm just going to ask you to please

do not do this because where

will these people go?

It's unfair of the sfmta to shut down streets with no alternative and please don't do this and

every time you shut down streets where vehicle dwellers park it escalates the problem to those

who have no city sanctioned exit

from homelessness.

And the streets stress and sleep

deprivation escalates with every street you shut down.

It does matter that I am not

making a mess or discarding debris, and not doing drugs and

not leaving dirty needles everywhere, this punishes me as

if I am doing those things and my mere existence is breaking the law and those signs will be telling me I don't have the

right to exist. It is my responsibility, I'm not

the cause of my homelessness. Again, since 2009, I am asking

the board of directors to please

for a safe place to park because without your help and support I can't overcome my circumstances

and thus I am a scapegoat of societial hip cock ra see

hypocrisy and I am stripped by resources to do so so thank you so much for your time. >> thank you, melody. Next speaker, please. >> flow kelly. >> she passed.

>> Madam Chair that's the last person who turned in a speak are card. >> do I have anymore public comment? Seeing none public comment is

closed. Directors. >> this feels like we're putting

the cart ahead of the horse now but what is your pleasure?

>> I'm not going to vote for it.

They had not done any work on dewolf and in light of everything we've been considering, I think it warrants

that that kind of report to determine whether or not we want to move forward. If we want to do that that's fine.

We do have it.

For me I'm not ready.

>> I will voice the opposite opinion. Having given all compliment and respect to my friend over there already today.

I feel ok about it.

As I said before, I don't think

it's fair to force the neighbors on dewolf street to wait and be held hostage while we come up

with a city wide solution. Other neighborhoods, other streets have received this accommodation when they have presented it and when our staff

has approved it and I think that street and those residents are

entitled to the same and equitable treatment here.

So I will favor this.

I will also note that I think we are considering this request in

a very different context than we considered it at the last meeting.

We now have a positive and hopeful framework for how we

will deal with these requests going forward.

I have every confidence to director borden's concern that our staff will do that here to the extent it will work with our partners and other city agencies

to do that. I feel -- I was ready to vote for this last time and I feel better about voting for it this

time and I do again extend my thanks to my colleagues who

forced an issue and put us in a better place here today. >> is that a motion? >> that is. >> second.

>> I will just add, I agree with vice-chair.

I absolutely feel more comfortable about this entire

situation after the previous presentation.

I find that I actually will support this. Let's go ahead. We have a motion and a second. Let's go ahead. >> can I comment. >> absolutely, please. >> so just as a process point, we just had a very robust discussion about the policy that

we're going to put in place to

review these kinds of requests. And then we just all agreed

there's a missing step in the process of getting to the final step of an actual restriction. That missing step is the department of homeless and support of housing intervention that director boredden has referred to. We all just agreed that step is missing. We heard from the director of

the department of housing and supportive services those kinds

of more humane, thoughtful interventions have not even had a chance to fail.

They've not yet been explored.

To me, I firmly agree with you,

it's putting the card before the horse if we have agreed on a direction of the policy and we haven't taken those earlier

steps to go to the last restriction. And I would want to echo something I heard in the audience, someone said it's a human problem but we're not meeting with a human solution we're trying to meet it with a curb management solution. Right now rather than meeting it with a human solution which I feel would be more intervention from the department of housing

and supportive services homelessness. >> thank you.

>> I agree with everything she just said.

>> just a very quick question.

If we do approve this, what is the lead time on this? Will it give the department

enough time to do outreach on de wolf?

I actually do feel like what has delayed us in approving the previous policy was really the way we had written that policy

to encompass all of that?

With you discuss de wolf should it be passed?

>> yes, thank you, Madam Chair.

from the moment that we say we ought to do something here to

the time the signs can go up can be three or four more months.

If this board a proves this, the next step would be after the

secretary signs the resolution I would write-up a work order and send it to our sign shop and

they would get to it among their other work. Given the time of year, it might

be a week or two or three.

Of course, at staff discretion, and direction from the board we can say hang on.

Don't put up the signs for a month or two. >> that sounds like the way we would like to go. Not proceed until we made sure there's been some outreach. >> if I can clarify. I meant to articulate this before.

I did talk to jeff about this

specific issue yesterday.

I think he felt that we might

know more and if that meant the

policy maybe could be better by incorporating more and we heard

a lot from the board today, I

think it's not a rush for that.

He was -- he felt if there's a imminent situation, I don't mean

to speak for him but we did have this conversation yesterday,

that he wouldn't suggest that

the board not take action. Because it would be done.

This is about, we will not move forward with this until they

have had the full opportunity to

have their process run its course, however long that takes. I meant to say that before. If that wasn't clear I want to say that absolutely clearly if the board takes his action, we

will not move forward until

they've been able to have their process run their course. >> how will we know if the process has run its course?

How long do we know how long it will take?

>> we'll be working with them through the hsoc to make sure

there's no action by the M.T.A.

Until the dfhs and the other

city agencies have done the human part first. >> great. Anymore comments or I'm going to

go ahead and go to a roll call vote.

>> can we do a roll call vote?

[Roll call vote]

Four in support and three opposed. The motion passes. >> thank you, very much. I appreciate everyone's focus on

this and I am confident that

this will progress forward in

what did we call it, in a

flexible and compassionate approach. Having done that let's move on.

>> Clerk:   can we take a short break. >> let's take a break, a five-minute break.

Everybody back here in five

minutes.

>> good afternoon, chair brinkman. My name is cameron beck.

I'm an engineer in the livable street section and the project manager for the towns send corridor improvement project. I'm happy to be speaking to you

today on a proposal to improve conditions on townshend street

in the south of market neighborhood.

The townshend project area is

highlighted in yellow on this map. it's between third street and eighth street.

There are two blocks between third and fifth street on the high injury met network.

We're making safety segment in

the network.

The project goals are pretty

typical, for any street safety project, but townshend street

itself is anything but typical. Looking at the photo on this

slide, can you spot the bike lane.

They installed bike lanes on townshend street in 2010, that

was just eight years ago.

Today they see 2,000 bike riders. Caltrans station access prioritize access by public transit, walking and biking over access by private autos.

And in caltrans 2016 survey, of

the fourth and king station they

saw 70% of the passengers accessing through these active

mows. Sfmta runs bus routes connecting

customers to cal trains. This is the beginning and ending

of six of our muni routes. So townshend serves an important role of storing these buses between runs and allowing our

operators much needed break time.

And since the bike share system was first launched in the bay

area, the cal train bike share

stations have been the three most top used station in the system and that is still true

today even as the system has expanded across san francisco

out to the east bay. Even with all the activity in

use, if you go 200 feet beyond

the end trance to the caltrains station the sidewalk ends.

The photo on the west shows the

south side of townshend street without sidewalks between the station and seventh street. Gaps exist in the sidewalk on the north side as well but as buildings remodel or develop

they fill in these gaps. Top-right photo shows passenger loading activity happening in a bus zone.

This block of townshend street between fourth and fifth is our

highest parking citation locate

of anywhere in the city. Since we will suggest the report

I wanted to apply their research, hopefully without

stealing any of their thunder.

From their online interactive

mapping tool between 2010 and

2016, 95% is contributed to T.N.C.S. Given this activity and use as

well as all of the different

muni terminal zones and muni activities, we partnered very closely with muni service planning and our transit engineering staff to shuffle some loading zones and bus zones to reduce transit commissions

and berman age the loading activities. With the roadway configuration changes between fourth and fifth

street, we needed to make some main or changes.

The 47 van ness and the 83x mid market express that stop and lay over on the north side of townshend street will be rerouted to the buses can stop

and lay over on the proposed

block-long sidewalk and loading

island as shown in this rendering. So this is the most unique

feature of this project.

and between fourth and

fifth street there's a block-long raised sidewalk island. This concrete island will protect the bike way which will

run along the fence line while

providing a place for pick ups and drop offs to happen. There's a extension of this

island expanding the wid ith

allowing for faster muni space. All of the travel lanes will be shifted north to accommodate the bike way and sidewalk island so all the of the parking and loading on the north side of the block will be removed.

In its place a post protected

bike way will be built for the westbound direction. We are adding new passenger loading zones around the area to

disburse the loading activity. New passenger loading zones will

be on the west side of fourth street between townshend and king at front door of cal train as well as on the north side of

townshend between fourth to

capture drivers arriving from that direction. On the south side of the townshend between fifth and seventh streets, the street level pedestrian space and bike way will be protected by a row of parked cars.

We will be converting the back

parking that exists today on

these blocks to parallel. We've heard from people about

the terrible pavement quality on townshend and how rough the ride

is when you are riding the bike on the roadway. We're having targeted repaved areas to provide a smoother walk and ride.

In addition, the project will

provide protected bikeways on

some segments like you have seen

before on seventh and eighth streets.

From our first tabling event at caltrain we have working with

too many agencies to name.

Divisions inside and outside of sfmta because there is so much happening on the street. All has helped inform the design before you today. In July we heard from hundreds

of members of the public as well

as district six supervisor jane kim supporting making quick

changes to improve safety on

townshend street. We will construct the project starting with the first segment between fifth and

seventh streets this month including repaving and restriping the new roadway

configuration and protective bikeways. We'll work on the major changes

again third and fifth streets in the gnaw year that will be extensive coordination with caltrain, money' and all the other transportation providers

as we build out the new sidewalk island and the last segment

between seventh and eighth streets. Thank you very much. >> thank you, very much.

I'm going to go directly to public comment because people have been patient and they've

been here for a while.

If can he

if we can go. Good afternoon.

Senior community organizer at the san francisco bike coalition. The outrage we've been hearing

over the past few months about the condition of townshend is nothing new.

In 2008, the sf chronicle said, referring to townshend, that a city street without a sidewalk

is like a apartment without a refrigerator. That outrage turns to the lack of bike lanes.

Cameron mentioned in 2010 it was

following the lifting of the bike injunction, we did stripe

the first new bike lane of this decade on townshend.

I have a photo here if we can

switch it to the overhead.

This is -- actually, striping

the bike lane. Since gavin striped the bike lane himself, at least a foot

segment of it, we've seen an explosion in the number of people biking as well as an

explosion in the number of T.N.C.S.

Today, thousands of numbers are staggering I'm hearing from cameron. Thousands of people bike daily on townshend and they contend with some of the worst and most dangerous conditions on our

bicycle network. That same paint laid in o 2010

is the only thing keeping us

from ubers and a fleet of large buses out of the bike lane and

it does a terrible job at it.

People are in danger everyday.

Supervisor kim referenced the 43 bike collisions in the past year so I'm very excited to be here

in support of something that will keep bicycle riders safe

and that is protected from eighth to caltrain.

Our members, the folks of people by the bike lane and mayor london breed have made this turn around on townshend possible. approve this project today and let's get it in the ground bit

end of the year.

>> thank you.

>> good afternoon.

I'm an avid psyche list in san francisco. I pro

protected lanes are a great. There's something missing and

that is intersections. There's no treatment on these intersections.

There is one traffic signal. Traffic signals for psyche lists

are good but that is the most expensive, difficult treatment to install. We see no paint on any of these

and it's crazy that sfmta's

policy is to paint dash bike lanes through driveways, and major intersection to do nothing.

Imagine if we did that to sidewalks and every driveway you had a crosswalk and every alleyway you had a parallel crosswalk and major intersections were not marked. We need to do this.

We brought this up and sfmta staff drag their feet. If you look at townshend circle, it was part of that was planned to have it protected bike lane as part of eighth street and staff came back and said we need to analyze that more and we'll bring it ahead as part of the

townshend project.

That is just very dangerous, difficult intersection. We do have a protected intersection about two blocks away from here.

At division ninth street. There's been no public studies done of that. We don't know how it's

performing or if it's safer than

the actual signal light intersections. New york city D.O.T. Has done a

good analysis and says the signalized intersection is not necessary any safer. We also have no red light cameras in san francisco that have been installed since vision zero. As you know, you just opened up

a contract for that again.

I biked up on and there's no enforcement of it. These are dangerous and we should do more studies and push on intersections. Please, push staff to paint these intersections to test out

protected intersection and to

reexamine tons end circle. >> thank you. >> kevin burke. Lucas oswald. >> good afternoon, my name is kevin burke.

I'm on the caltrain citizens advisory committee. I commute everyday. This is a good plan. Thank you for doing this. This will make the area a lot safer.

I have a few requests. The go bike documents are the busiest combined stations in the system. Almost 2,000 trips start there per week.

That is surely going to increase

both with the caltrain line and

with a better bike access in the area. Can we look at doubling the length of those stations making

it easier for the go bike valets to park in the area. They do a lot of unloading because there are a ton of bikes that need to be unloaded in the

morning and back on so people

can park in the afternoon. How are go bikes supposed to travel west on townshend. If I get a bike right outside

the station, right now a lot of psyche list

at ofpeople check out a bike and cross illegally. It's not the plan how to get across the street to travel west. You can walk a block and get it from fifth but you have a people where people take out the bikes from the fifth street dock and

parking them at the fourth street dock. You need to balance that flow. Another thing, if I'm taking a bus towards the montgomery bart or chinatown area, a lot of times I want to take the next bus that will get me there which would be any of the 10 or the 45 or the 30 or the 47. It's not really clear to tell

where that is going to be right now.

It will be really good to have a better indication to know which bus is leaving less. It's hard to tell which bus is

leaving because they leave their

door open. Four buses are parked there and it's hard to tell. That would be better if we have

better signage of which bus is leaving next. That is all I have.

Thank you, very much.

>> lucas oswald.

>> hi, lucas oswald. Biker.

I just wanted to biff my support for the townshend bike lane. I've been biking there for two

and a half years every week day.

as everyone was saying, terrible paving.

The cars pulling out of parking space as they are now are just a

terrifying source of danger, especially when everyone is

rushing to the caltrain, people

are frantic and insane like that. Between that and the buses and

the taxis and

>> I am a bicyclist in san

francisco and.

-- with that said, I do want to point to the mixing zones in this proposal. I really strongly hope that

mixing zones are like closer to

the last horrah and turning into things that is not cool anymore.

I realize there are issues with conduits that prevent us from

building single units.

I realize there are street widle that prevent us to building protected intersections and it's

hard to do that in a short term project without putting concrete down because it often requires that. I think we really need to do that.

I would urge you to make mixing

zones the bastard step child of bikes as it should be.

And build singlized or protected

intersections all up and down

townshend street and across our city.

Thank you.

>> taylor all gren.

. >> we'll assume he was in support with improvements.

>> john long, jennifer wong. >> I bike to work everyday.

My office is fifth and townshend. It gets real heck tike out there.

i encourage you to complete this project post haste. I've seen quite a few accidents or people on bikes getting run over. There are cars that are pulling over quickly and people jumping out without looking. There's a lot of parking there

and as the other speaker said, it's dangerous. You don't know if someone will pull out.

It's bumpy. The safety is important for us

to kind of get off the dependency of cars and use bikes to commute.

It's fantastic. I think about my safety. I appreciate it. Push it through.

Get it done bit end of next year. It would be so cool for me. I really appreciate you being

here and listening to us and hearing our concerns. Let's get this thing done together. Happy voting day. >> thank you for coming down.

>> jennifer wong, herbert wiener. >> hell oh I'm jennifer wong, I'm a member of the bike coalition, league of women voters and I also participate in the community groups san franciscans for sunshine. I just wanted voice my support

for the improvements to the townshend corridor and also thank the board and commission for working on this together. I bike everyday on townshend getting to work along with john

on the way to envoy where we both work.

And what I see is extremely dangerous everyday.

I see ubers and lyfts. Many people are passengers of the cars, they get out and don't see us or they're pulled over in the beak lane and there's nowhere for us to go. We're forced into the lanes of traffic where there's just two

lanes and so these cars are also forced over.

So everything is extremely dangerous as a biker there and

so I just wanted to voice my

support for this project and

excitement about the

improvements, especially to the

bike lanes and then to the pavement as well. Thank you. >> thank you, Ms. Wong. Next speaker, please.

>> herbert wiener is the last person.

>> please spell me name weiner

on the board there. Thank you. Ok. All my enemies call me wiener,

by the way.

Anyway, one question I have, I hate to cut and run, because I

have other things to do this

afternoon, is what will be the

impact -- I didn't catch that. >> I'm sorry, go ahead.

>> I'm partially deaf so that

relieves me of the agony.

Anyway, what is the impact on automobiles and automobile traffic and congestion I would

like to know how this proposal

impacts on that because so far, all deals have been thrown under the bus so to speak. There's so much congestion from

the removal of parking spaces

and you really have a traffic problem.

I don't use my car that often. i try to avoid it. I mainly take muni transportation that's why I'm

critical of muni and I get after

you guys. That's what this board is for and why it's called a municipal

transit agency, right.

You have to take this into

consideration and this. >> I'm sorry you can't stay on

the report because it does

address what impact. >> give us your name for the record, please.

>> mark grewberg. I can't looked at this and I can't speak to the decisions of the arrangements but I have to

say that the bicyclist definitely need to protected

lane on this street and it --

something needs to be done at that place.

In terms of enforcement so thank you. >> was that it for public comment? >> anymore public comment.

Seeing none, public comment is closed.

>> I will give try to keep it brief.

I will echo what he has said or emphasize it. We are, as an agency, trying to

do things to support our taxi industry. We have the red stripe ability.

We have taxi zone ability. It's two of the few tools that

we have to deal with this. We've certainly heard of the

impact of the T.N.C.'s on this area. Whatever we can do to clear up that taxi zone and encourage the

taxi to come use it and service

our cal train riders to or from the station,

station, it should be a priority given the proposals we

passed using our other tools to achieve different goals. >> thank you. Any comments or questions? >> I just have a question about

the point that someone raised

related to signals and marking of intersections along the way

and what we're doing in that regard. >> so there's a mix of signalized intersections and unsignallized intersections so the one at fourth street will be

a signal separated bike phase. The mixing zones and striping through the intersection at

seventh street, we are getting them in the ground quickly.

We're also looking to explore the signalization of that

intersection to allow bike

phasing across on townshend. There's bike markings in the

intersection proposed and it's two-stage left turn boxes to get

people to and from townshend to seventh and seventh is also a bike route.

There's also a lot of markings

already in that intersection directing traffic.

We didn't add anymore beyond

that at this point. >> townshend circle?

>> and the eighth street

townshend division traffic

circle. That is

is an intersection that we have looked at in our group and we've done just an initial planning effort on what is happening there and collecting kind of data.

It was initially considered as part of the townshend project

when townshend was a bigger

street scape project. Pivoting toward near term elements we didn't take it on at this time. >> in the future you will assist further. >> it might happen in the future. >> I didn't know, I think

supervisor kim brought up the use of the go bike station which

I didn't realize was so heavy. There was suggestions around, I

mean do we need to expand there? >> we're working closely with the operators over at pure system ask caltrain. One of the stations is on caltrain right-of-way and one is our public right-of-way. With this proposal we'll move

them both on the caltrain right-of-way.

Cal train is vacated there bike locker area. They've removed their bike lockers and so we're looking to repurpose that to have bike and it's a much bigger area and it will be right adjacent to the

newly proposed bike way so it will be larger and more documents and we're looking to see how motivate can access that station for their loading needs

or valet needs and it's all happening underway. >> yeah. >> great, thank you.

>> thank you, director borden. >> I want to thank the staff and the public commenters for how

many years have I ridden my bike downtown and the sidewalk here y

is there no so it's about time

and I agree and I did want to hear some comments on whether

you weighed the idea of some sort of enhanced protection for

psyche lists through the intersections.

I have I know the data better than I do but I premier most accidents occur at the intersection not along the street. So it seems like the intersection is the most important place to focus these kinds of improvements. >> yeah, and we are the fourth street intersection especially is where we are proposing to do

some bike rain markings through that intersection.

As you know, central subway has their rails through that intersection so there's still a lot happening.

We're widening the crosswalks at that intersection to better allow space for all the 3,000 pedestrians that are trying to cross the street.

So giving space and marking that

space is what we're looking at. >> there are other intersections along the corridor, right? So those are not getting improvements? >> right now they're not any

markings proposed at this time. >> can you just speak to why not?

Is that just a width constraints or a design constraint?

>> it's more a -- thought processes and one of the ideas

is intersections are kind of

open and the spaces where

everyone is on guard. The more contact they're having with each other and not to land

a false sense of security then

it doesn't lend to that or it May impact that a little bit more. >> as someone who is currently riding my 10-year-old daughter to caltrain to get her on the

bay area and use transit I would love to have protected bike lanes towards our transit stations to truly reach this all ages and acts goal. I think that we have. >> great. >> thank you.

Do I have anymore comments.

>> that's your neighborhood. >> so I did have a question about one of the commenters was asking if you pick up a bike at

the caltrain station and you head westbound, could you address that point. It seems that there's a lot

going on at that intersection and so what we expecting psyche lists to

bicyclist to do?

>> I think the most common thing people do is look for a gap. They're trying to cross the street and look for a gap and

cross their bike mid-block.

Either way, you can walk to either intersection and cross if

you are pulling out a bike but we see all activity happening there to take the opportunity to get in your bike lane to make your move.

>> the idea is the biking and go to the nearest intersection which is fourth or fifth. >> correct. >> I had a question about

pedestrians getting off caltrain

moving to the transit boarding

island and so what does that crossing the back pathway look like. There's a lot of pedestrian

traffic there and I'm just curious about that.

>> I sidewalk island will have a

ramp down to street level. It will be right at the transit station or right at the transit stop on the island and that will

connect to a ramp on calltrain.

A new ram not on the caltrain plaza side.

The bike way will stay at street

level and it will ramp down and

we'll have the crosswalk in the

bike way for that crossing. >> cool.

And then ok. >> thank you. So I have a motion to approve. Do I have a second. >> before I take a vote, I want to say good work and I think this isn't the first time but it is one of the few times where we've not heard the only complaints we heard is that we're not going far enough. So you are having your work cut out for you.

And I'll second director eakin

that we need to take a deeper look at the intersections. The mixing zones I find problematic as well. It would be nice if we had a way to really slow the cars down before they hit the mixing zones

and if we can geo sense the ubers and lyfts it would account for 97% of the congestion increase. It's unacceptable and we need to

let them know that we need to geo fence them away especially

out of the taxi sands and that's

reprehensible that they're doing

that and thank you.

And all in favor say aye. >> any opposed. It's approved. Thank you all very much.

>> item 13, presentations, discussions regarding the tnc

and congestion report. >> good afternoon. Chairman Brinkman, members of the board, I'm chief-of-staff

and the street division and I'm really please today introduce my colleague drew cooper from the san francisco transportation authority to share with you the findings of the tnc and congestion report they published recently. I wanted to appreciate all the

work that sftca did to figure

out some of the causes of the congestion that we're experiencing in the city so drew -- >> thank you, very much.

Mr. Cooper, good to see you.

>> good afternoon. I'm excited to be here to talk to all of you today.

I'm here on behalf of a full

time I'd like to ak acknowledge.

My boss, the project manager.

My colleague who develops a vision and you heard referred to and I'll talk about it a little bit later. We also had an academic research team from university of kentucky that lended a lot -- >> does that microphone go a little higher.

That podium level is awkward.

I just want to make sure sf gov can get you. >> is that better? >> thank you. >> it keeps falling down a

little bit.

>> so we had this academic team we worked with that kind of

ensured the academic rigger of what we did. And those were greg airhart from

the university of kentucky, his colleague May chen and their

grad students alex and senay roy.

This is their project as well. So this report is the second in

a series of reports. the first one to be released

last year called tnc today. Just for background, we heard from folks like yourselves and others.

It seems like there are a lot of T.N.C.S out there, wouldn't it be nice if we can say something about that at all?

At the time, we couldn't. Both companies report data to

the cpuc but that data isn't available to any other agencies

including M.T.A. Or ours.

Until we really didn't have the resources in terms of data that we needed to answer those questions.

So we formed a research partnership with some

researchers from the university of -- north eastern university

who developed a method to scrape

data from uber and lyft A.P.I. Which we estimate inservice and

out of service develops on city streets as well as pick up and drop off locations. From that report, we learned

there were a lot of T.N.C. Trips

happening on a daily basis. That data was collected between November and December of 2016. And during that time, we

estimate that there were 170,000 trips, vehicle trips everyday on

san francisco city streets.

Surely that number has increased. We weren't able to say with that report, is what the relationship

is between those trips and congestion. There are a lot of theories that go around that say that they May

improve congestion and there are alternate theories that say they contribute to congestion. That is the question that this report seeks to answer.

what exactly is that relationship? So I will talk to you today

about what measures we used to define congestion. I'll talk about the data and methods that we used. And then I'll tell you about the

results of what we found.

So, the ones we used were delay which is basically the extra

time that you spend traveling because there are other cars

getting in your way on the street.

Another one is V.M.T. Which is a

typical metric that we use for

all kinds of transportation project analysis.

And then finally, the most

legible to the public. So, I'm going to talk briefly a

little bit more about those hypothesis about how T.N.C. May interact with congestion. There are several theories about how they could improve congestion. These include that they May have higher vehicle occupancies and

so you need fewer cars to transport the same number of people and you May see a decrease in the number of cars

on the road and that May help things.

Alternatively, they May be supportive of transit by

providing first and last mile connection that's make it easier

to access the transit system.

And finally, the available of T.N.C.S May help people feel more comfortable owning fewer cars so they May sell off one of their household vehicles or

chose to own no vehicles at all.

So these are some of the reasons that have been floated that T.N.C.S May improve congestion.

On the other hand, they May make things worse.

The reasons for this are that

they, similar to taxis --

[Please stand by]

>> so what did we find?

We found that T.N.C., along all the metrics that we looked at contributed substantially to

increased congestion. Around 50% of each of these metrics is attributable to

T.N.C. Kick, delay is around 50% , meaning that had there been

no T.N.C., the increase in delay would be half as much as we

actually witnessed. Similarly, about half of the

increase in vmt, city wide was attributable to T.N.C. And again , half of the decline in speeds was attributable to

T.N.C. When you look at this

information, broken down over

time of day, there is an diverse face.

There is a substantial amount of variation. These impacts are not constant

across the city in space or time

what we are looking at here is

delay by five times a day. These times of day correspond with the day.

That we use in our model. And you should note that they're

not all all of the same length. The mid-day. , the one in the middle of the chart and the evening. , the one on the end are longer than the other ones.

In general, there was a greater

increase in congestion in the. In total and more of it was

attributable to T.N.C. His.

The places where we saw the greatest total increase of congestion are in the mid-day and the evening. This is, not surprising because these time periods are longer so they capture a greater amount of

travel.

If you look at speeds, you get a

similar story. There was a decrease in speeds

across all times of day periods

and roughly half of it, between 44 and 60% for most of these

time of day periods was

attributable to T.N.C. His.

This is higher in the evening.

About 75% of this.

>> I am sorry to wake everybody.

What did this cost? This report? >> I don't have that number of

the top of my head.

>> thank you. >> please go on. Thank you.

>> thanks. So roughly three quarters of the delay in the evening that we see according to the study is

attributable to T.N.C. His. We can also look at the

differences and the effects of T.N.C. His across different

areas of the city.

District six, which is soma and midmarket, it also includes

treasure island. It seems the greatest increase

in delay. And nearly half of that is

attributable to T.N.C.S. By contrast, district --

district three sees about half the magnitude of an increase in

delay but much more of it is

attributable to T.N.C.S. Nearly 73%.

Where as, population and employment had a substantial effect on congestion in the soma

area and it didn't really affect things in district three which

is the north beach area. And then there are other parts

of the city that saw very little

effects in terms of delay like district four.

They saw very little effect. Due to T.N.C.S or any other

reason. Looking at vehicle miles

travelled, the story here is similar but with a few differences.

Again, district six jumps out

here with the greatest increase in miles travelled.

District ten, which is a less congested, not uncongested but less conducted -- congested network does not show up as much

when we look at delay because of the lowered congestion but you do see it here when looking at

V.M.T. Which simply measures the amount of travel that is

happening. But in this case, it is only contributing about a third of the total. Most of what you are seeing here

is due to changes in population,

housing and network changes.

With that, in the interest of

transparency and engaging with

stakeholders like yourselves and with the public, we developed an interactive online visualization tool that will allow you to drill down to the street segment level on all of the metrics that

are driving this analysis. And you can download the data

set that lies under it if you

are a researcher or an employee. As I mentioned at the beginning, this is a second of a series of reports.

Our agency will be working next

on a report looking at T.N.C.S

and transit ridership and equity we are also working with the

sfmta who is working on studies including ones looking at street

safety and curb access and

disabled access. >> thank you so much mr cooper.

That is fascinating to look at. He really lets us know that when

we hear from people, all they see our T.N.C.S. In certain neighbourhoods of the increase in traffic they see is

really greatly attributable to the T.N.C. It kind of brings it all in to

show that the impact is different across the city but

where it looks not so bad in one neighbourhood, it's very disproportionate, and people are

seeing a horrible impact. I find it frustrating because I

know there is so little that we here can do.

But the point of these reports, to the question that director torres asked about the

cooperative -- the cost of them, the point of the report is to inform other state agencies about what is going on and help

take action. >> that's right. There are a few things that we hope will happen.

One, we have been commentating

with the cpuc who is going through a rule-making process, encouraging them to use the data

that they have and share it with

local planning officials. We also just hope that getting

this information out there will help people understand decision-makers, most

importantly, understand that

this is a real issue that needs

to be taken seriously.

So our agency was just bored, who also happens to be the board of supervisors, has brought up

the idea of going to the state and requesting additional

authorities to regulate. >> there are some aspects of

T.N.C.S that can be addressed at

the local level already.

Most directly, the curb management. >> it points out how important that is.

Do I have questions? >> great. Thank you for this report. I was reading through it and

trying to get to the bottom and looking for recommendations. Sort of like he put out all this interesting information and here

we are, policymakers, looking at what we should do.

There is no section on policy recommendations in the port --

in the report but I wanted to hear your thoughts. I also heard you say you'll be

doing T.N.C.S and transit ridership as the next study. But we have to imagine a 50%

increase is affecting our service transit vehicles in a negative way and they wonder if

you can folk -- comment on a pulmonary way on the impacts on

transit of T.N.C.S. >> sure.

Thank you for those questions. With regards to recommendations, we were very intentional about not putting them in this report.

We wanted this to be, again,

grounded in facts, objective,

and neutral.

And what we hope is that policy

makers can take what we have put

out there and use it to develop reactions. With support from staff, of course.

But we see that as a next step.

with regards to the effects of

T.N.C.S on transit, again, we have forthcoming work on this subject. There has been a growing body of

literature that shows that

T.N.C.S tend to take people off

of transit. And this report shows that they

had to add to congestion to the

extent that buses and trains, particularly those operating on the street, are subject to congestion.

It affects them as well.

>> I know you said this wasn't about recommendations at this

point, but I was wondering if the T.A. Was reexploring or talking about the issue of congestion pricing.

I know it is a study goshen area we looked at before before we

had the traffic and congestion issues we had today given the limitations of the state level and what we can do.

It is something that we could do is not something that is being contemplated are considered particularly when you talk about district three, which is

downtown.

It had a huge rise in congestion >> yes. Our board has directed us to look at congestion pricing and we are working on developing a

scope for that project now. >> so what is the timeline on

something like that? >> I am not prepared to say. >> ok.

[Laughter] >> thank you. >> any more questions or comments before I go to public comment?

>> one more thing if no one else

wants to speak, other cities

have looked at a fee on the transportation network companies , but mostly my understanding is that it is compensate for a bit of the loss in transit revenues as opposed to a congestion management approach on the T.N.C.S.

Given the recent bill that was

passed this year that will authorize a T.N.C. Fee in san francisco with vote approval. Is there something you would be

looking into general pricing?

Which you look at a congestion

based T.N.C. Fee to address

these congestion impact issues? >> with regards to that, I believe that all options are currently on the table.

[Laughter] >> thank you, very much.

We appreciate the presentation and the work and now we will go

to public comments.

>> two minutes, please. >> thank you.

I did want to -- this is a very welcome reports. It is reflecting things that

many of us taxi drivers have been saying for years. And we kinda felt like like we

were voices in the wilderness because every time the T.N.C.S would go to the cpuc or go off

to sacramento, they would be touting their credentials and people were accepting this at

face value. Now we have not just this report , with several others that

put the lie to that.

It is welcome in that sense.

It does note that other key questions including transit ridership and safety are not covered and I wanted to talk specifically to the question of

safety because it just happens that in the last week or two

there was an article in forbes,

which is, you know, basically business publication, the

headline which is uber and lift May increase road deaths study.

Claims, in the study has not yet been published, but the preliminary information about an

academic study, you know, comes to the conclusion that there

have been more fatalities on the

roadways owing to write share companies.

Which May be a result simply of increased traffic.

But other hypotheses such as,

again, anecdotally, what we see every day on the streets.

The driving habits of T.N.C.S drivers May very well be a

contributing cause.

So when you are looking at these issues, it is not just congestion. It is safety and other issues.

Certainly the city must have the

power to deal with this and deal

with their own city streets. Thank you. >> thank you. Good reminder how important it

is to have the data.

>> hello. I'm with the south of market community action network. We are happy this report is out because it confirms everybody --

something everybody already knew and where we as an organization had been saying since buber was

dumped on our streets and that is that T.N.C.S dramatically increase congestion in san francisco. Especially in the south of market and especially in district six.

Further, the report shows that T.N.C.S greatly increase the

total number of vehicle miles travelled which is another significant indicator of automobile usage.

This is all hugely significant

for a number of reasons. Traffic and congestion have tremendous negative impacts. The increase in cars directly increases global warming as does the increase in V.M.T. And idling that occurs.

Aside from the obvious and immediate environmental impacts,

the huge increase in congestion

due to T.N.C.S as lasting negative impacts on the physical

and mental health of residents, workers and community members,

including families and children. It is completely unacceptable

that streets are clogged with these ridesharing companies that exacerbate the neighbourhood his existing pedestrian safety

issues and this is an issue that is really about community health and healthy communities. About children, families, seniors and people with

disabilities and some of our

city his most vulnerable's residence. This study must be a wake-up

call to the city. Regarding the text sharing economy, T.N.C.S and the need

for aggressive regulation.

The unregulated nature of T.N.C.S in san francisco has led

to an unprecedented level of congestion with the south of market shouldering a disproportionate burden of this reality. In addition to the fact that an entire taxi industry has been decimated by companies such as uber.

That city and sfmta must address these out-of-control T.N.C.S. Thank you. >> thank you.

Next speaker, please.

>> thank you.

The report that the C.T.A. Did

has led to a ballot measure that

peskin is putting together for

the tax congestion tax on uber and lift.

It will raise $30 million a year projected but based on 70 million rise. Is 40 cents a ride.

Can be passed on to the passengers. And spokespeople are very happy with that solution. But I don't think it goes to

address the root problems that T.N.C.S are causing. The traffic congestion. This will not get better. Pollution, unfair business

practices, rampant insurance fraud, A.D.A. Violations, deterioration of all workers'

income.

You look at the business model that cooper has, they are using

venture capital to create a monopoly to destroy legitimate competitors.

I applaud taxi companies for having filed an antitrust

lawsuit a couple of years ago against uber technologies. And interestingly, three days

ago, a writer, -- a writer says

the inside story of how uber got into business with the saudi

arabian government, saudi arabia royal family now owns ten% of

uber. The same people who murdered a

journalist, apparently. There are bright spots that have

been shown elsewhere. He has worked well over the years with the taxi industry.

we are challenging on you to be the best and the brightest and find a way to get half of these

uber his off the street. There will be so much less traffic to get places faster. At the same time, you will be

able to help people.

You need to keep the taxi industry healthy and cut back on

the insurance logic -- fraud.

There is rampant insurance fraud I have run out of time. Thank you. >> thank you. Do I have any more public

comment on this item?

Seeing none, public comment is closed. Thank you, again. Is very valuable information and we look forward to the next

report.

Thank you.

>> thank you. Welcome. >> good afternoon.

Although I think we are approaching good evening. I will keep my remarks very

short. I am the acting director of transit.

With me I have janet, our V.P. Program manager and monique, who

is our director -- deputy of

capital finance. They have been tremendous partners with the agent we are

bringing to you today.

I will start with the bad news first.

The bad news is that this is old and they're getting old.

As they get older, they are becoming increasingly hard to maintain.

Harder to get parts. We are having to do reverse engineering because we don't even have a parts pipeline.

And as you know, a major breakdown in the subway can create a bad day for an entire

system of customers.

The silver lining, the good news

is that the program has

delivered on all of our expectations and promises.

It is a reliable vehicle. It has the advanced customer

information systems that we have an innate high transit using city. And that was not by accident.

That was through the leadership

and a really strong procurement process. So what we have before you today

is an information item to let you know that although there is a lot of things that have to

happen between now and then, it is our recommendation that we

look to expedite the replacement of the fleet.

So that we are on track and

exceeding our timeline for the first 68 vehicles, which are expansion vehicles. They are desperately needed for our crowding and for our customers. And we are now looking for

opportunities to bring the replacement portion of the

contract quicker and also to shortage in its overall timeline that will reduce the amount of

time we spend with a mixed fleet

, which in and of itself,

is a complication in terms of maintenance and it will really expedite getting an excellent

service product to our customers I know you guys have had the

presentation, I think I covered a lot of the highlights. This is the current timeline. As you can see, we are talking about the hundred 51 replacement

of the current.

At a stretch over a an extremely long. For financial reasons when we bought these, we did not have

enough money to buy it in a short duration.

So that got stretched out. But there are a lot of trade-offs with that. And most immediately, not having

the new vehicle sooner.

The vehicles themselves, we are getting tremendous amount of

positive feedback from our customers. They are more spacious and more

energy efficient and quieter.

They have advanced accessibility features. We are getting some negative feedback related to the interior design on the seating.

The great news -- >> I'm not alone. >> you are not alone. The great news is 151 as an

opportunity for us to internalize and respond to the

feedback.

So that is part of this process.

Is in addition to some smaller mechanical fixes that we need to

make based on how the vehicles are performing and some of the

feedback we are getting from mechanics, we are also looking at this seating issue is one of the primary things that we want

to address.

Our main ask today is to build

on the momentum that we have.

To take advantage of what is already an institutional knowledge, both on our side and

on siemens, which could be lost by an extending gap in the

procurement and in the process. I think that the document that

we shared with you kind of documents some of the financial positives as well as the negatives. Some of the costs are associated

with the financing of purchasing the vehicle sooner. But there is a lot of financial

benefits that we anticipate,

including not having to pour a lot of money.

We will have to pour some money, because we still need them, but

not having to pour a lot of money into expensive capital

campaigns, as well as just the fact that the new vehicles,

because they had a lot of input

from maintenance staff in their

design, they are easier to maintain. Easier to do preventative maintenance.

More efficient for staff resources.

So our two key benefits are we are not spending money to

maintain old equipment and we are getting benefits to customers sooner. >> yes. >> two things. First of all I think it would

not be fair to her on her last day here to not point out that one of the reasons that finance

costs for this will be so low is because she has done such a good job maintaining our credit

rating and that sort of thing. Is a finance cost but it could

be worse if we were in different streets. This is a great presentation. I'm supportive of what you are doing. The one question I have from a customer service standpoint is this. As I envision this, the idea of

a mixed fleet, going forward meant a bigger fleet and meant

that perhaps the use of three, perhaps even four car trains

where we really need them.

Take for example, the klm rolling through castro, already full.

And expanded shuttle service. My understanding is the goal is

still to give as much life as we can out of the old lrp and have the biggest fleet possible. But it is just when a vehicle is -- there is a point where it is

better to take a vehicle out of service because it is likely to

hold up the entire tunnel and we

are managing that.

Is that the correct analysis of this? >> if I could, what we are

aiming to do is speed up the acceleration.

Or to accelerate the replacement of the vehicles. Not to -- we would still have,

at the end of next year, before we will have 68 more vehicles than we had 20 years ago in

service. We will be at that level until we potentially exercise the option.

At the back end of this, for an additional 45 vehicles. What we change during the time

is the mix of the different

vehicles and we want to accelerate changing over from the vehicles. We will still have the 200 and

something vehicles in service and we want to retire the old

ones faster by replacing them.

Not just parking them, but by replacing them with new siemens cars. To the extent that we have

vehicles that we can't make it perform reliably. They are because we need to make

but the real purpose and what we are proposing is not just to put

cars aside, it is to replace them with new vehicles spewing

to the extent that we have a new vehicle and an old vehicle that

both work, will keep them both rolling and not just replace for the sake of replacing.

>> correct.

The 68 are all expansion. It is keeping everything we have

in service and adding, which is a very significant increase in the fleet.

>> that is the key point. Thank you for clarifying that.

>> go ahead.

>> the seating -- >> there were so many complaints

about the seating. >> that is just from malcolm.

[Laughter] >> he hasn't returned my calls.

Are you kidding me? >> we owe the board and we will

be coming back to the board with

a summary of what we are hearing

some feedback, the process and some options to consider that we would be able to potentially

pilot within the existing fleet and have resolved before we go

into production. >> that is what I have been hearing from people.

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>> if you frequently travel

before I van ness I might be

surprised van ness will goodwill

go the first transit corridor to

have brt as more frequently known the goal to get

conveniently van ness and geary

boulevard one of the most

reliable transit systems in the

country

van ness avenue is a major connecter between potrero hill

and mission on the south side of

san francisco correcting

connecting us to the marina and

state highway in the financial with the western edition neighborhood it is mostly residential a lot of the geography of van

ness the rain that is wide it

was uses is a firebreak in the 1906 san francisco earthquake a

lot of building occasion that

helped of hoped to stop the fire

from jumping van ness had a light rail or sprash separating

and along geary 0 when we came to the question of how to

address the needs on haven

because of its cost effectiveness we have found in

the brt system with the new vehicles.

>> the new Mr. Secretary is a change we will actually have transit in the middle

the far legal unit and a broadly prom

>> one of the reasons it is in

the center a was it is an clouf right-of-way a set of pedestrians will cross from the

sidewalk to the middle of the street a.

>> to move the reliable along

the corridor with this travel time had been signifying reduced

we think the ripped will go from 16 thousand a day in that

portion the corridor up to 22

thousand and we'll have those

beautiful new one like this one.

>> with the dedication of the

signal and lighter saying that

between stops we were able to

estimate a.32 improvement in

travel time and a 50 percent reliability improvement as a result.

>> we're pitting u putting in

a up to date modern system of

new thirty foot high light

fixtures and pedestrian lights

on the same pole again inviting

a comfortable environment for pedestrians.

>> it has become a 3 dimensional street project. >> the water that is my

understanding under the ground

and the emergency firefighting

water system month will be replaced and new street lights and traffic lights and the paving and stripping the trees

both in the medium and on the side.

>> the main core of the

project goes from market it

lombard that's where we'll be replying the sidewalks. >> there are a number of trees

that need to be replaced and

they will be additional new planting.

>> we're planting a lemon gum

that gets to be 50 or 60 feet

tall that comes over the offer

head wires that wee when we get

done van ness it will look like

a new street it will visit fresh new looks like the grand boulevard again. >> we're going eliminating left turns off of van ness into

the side streets and places the

left turning traffic backs up

the traffic and upgrading the

signals to the mini traffic will

flow more smoothly and traffic

impacts as we execute the construction signed we're

working to minimize these but

impacts that will likely shift

the traffic up franklin and we'll pick up the traffic. >> right now that looks like

we're skeleton to start in March

ever 2016 are of our construction.

>> in the past people

prospective of bus traffic that

go unreliable and noisy and very

fluting we're here to remake the

vehicles are on the streets and

with the combination of the brt improvements much more rail like services with the technology.

>> the public is in for a shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. By supporting local services

within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain

unique, successful, and vibrant.

So where will you shop and dine in the 49?

>> my name is ray behr.

I am the owner of chief plus. It's a destination specialty

foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well.

We call it cheese plus because

there's a lot of additions in

addition to cheese here.

From fresh flowers, to wine,

past a, chocolate, our dining

area and espresso bar. You can have a casual meeting if you want to.

It's a real community gathering place.

What makes little polk unique, I think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street.

There's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and

coming out and supporting the businesses. The businesses here are almost

all exclusively independent

owned small businesses.

It harkens back to supporting local.

Polk street doesn't look like anywhere U.S.A.

it has its own businesses and personality.

We have clothing stores to

gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your

hsus repaired, luggage repaired. There's a music studio across the street.

It's raily a diverse and unique

offering on this really great street.

I think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things

that the

session. Directors item 17, it would be appropriate for either a motion

to disclose or not did I see close.

>> motion to not disclose. >> second.

>> there's a motion and a

second.

All in favor?

>> Madam Director, that concludes the business before

the M.T.A. Today. >> okay. Meeting is adjourned. Go vote.