00:00:07 AND. >> OKAY GOOD AFTERNOON
00:00:08 EVERYONE. THIS MEETING WILL COME TO
00:00:12 ORDER. WELCOME TO THE APRIL 27TH, 2026
00:00:15 REGULAR MEETING OF THE LANDS AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE OF
00:00:19 THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
00:00:20 I AM SUPERVISOR MARION MELGAR, CHAIR OF THIS COMMITTEE JOINED
00:00:23 BY VICE CHAIR SUPERVISOR CHEYENNE CHEN AND SUPERVISOR
00:00:27 BILAL MAHMOOD. THE COMMITTEE CLERK TODAY IS
00:00:30 MR. JOHN CARROLL. >> I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO
00:00:31 ACKNOWLEDGE EUGENE LIBERIA AND AS HAVE CAPTIVATE FOR
00:00:38 STOPPING US DURING THIS MEETING MR. CLERK, DO YOU HAVE ANY
00:00:39 ANNOUNCEMENTS? YES, THANK YOU MADAM CHAIRS,
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00:01:37 5TH 2026 AND AS OTHERWISE STATED THANK YOU MR. CLERK.
00:01:41 PLEASE CALL ITEM NUMBER ONE. >> AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE IS A
00:01:45 RESOLUTION ADDING THE COMMEMORATIVE STREET NAME HELEN
00:01:48 WALK AS A WAY TO JULIAN AVENUE IN RECOGNITION OF HELEN
00:01:52 WALKER'S LEGACY AS THE FOUNDER OF FRIENDSHIP HOUSE AND HER
00:01:56 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN THE CITY
00:01:58 AND COUNTY BE IT SASHA PLEASE COME ON UP.
00:02:00 >> WE HAVE SUPERVISOR FIELDER'S OFFICE HERE TO PRESENT.
00:02:06 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU, CHAIR MELGAR
00:02:10 AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS. MY NAME IS SASHA GARNER.
00:02:14 I AM THE CHIEF OF STAFF FOR DISTRICT NINE SUPERVISOR JACKIE
00:02:18 FIELDER. >> I AM PROUD TO BE HERE ON
00:02:22 BEHALF OF SUPERVISOR FIELDER TO HONOR THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF
00:02:26 HELEN WALKER ZOO WITH A COMMEMORATIVE STREET NAMING OF
00:02:30 HELEN WALK US THROUGH WAY TO JILLIAN AVENUE LOCATED IN THE
00:02:33 AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL DISTRICT AND A PART OF THE
00:02:35 MISSION DISTRICT. >> HELEN DEVOR WALK US WHO WAS
00:02:40 BORN AND RAISED ON THE NO NAVAJO RESERVATION IN NEW
00:02:44 MEXICO AT AGE 13, SHE WAS FORCIBLY SEPARATED FROM HER
00:02:48 FAMILY AND SENT TO A FEDERAL BOARDING SCHOOL IN UTAH PART OF
00:02:55 A SYSTEMATIC EFFORT TO STRIP NATIVE CHILDREN OF THEIR
00:02:56 CULTURAL IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY.
00:02:59 HELEN ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO AT THE AGE OF 19 AS A PART OF
00:03:03 AN INDIAN RELOCATION ACT, A FEDERAL POLICY THAT RELOCATED
00:03:08 NATIVE AMERICANS TO URBAN CENTERS UNDER FALSE PREMISES OF
00:03:16 PROMISES OF HOUSING AND EMPLOYMENT HERE IN SAN
00:03:19 FRANCISCO, HELEN QUICKLY LEARNED THAT HER NATIVE
00:03:24 AMERICAN SIBLINGS WERE FACING A SPECTRUM OF CHALLENGES FROM
00:03:28 DISCRIMINATION AND POVERTY TO SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS.
00:03:31 >> SO IN 1963 HELEN FOUNDED THE FRENCH FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
00:03:39 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN INDIANS AS A PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO
00:03:43 RECONNECT WITH THEIR CULTURE AND JOIN A COMMUNITY OF OTHER
00:03:47 NATIVES LOOKING FOR HEALING UNDER HELEN'S LEADERSHIP, THE
00:03:50 FRIENDSHIP HOUSE GREW FROM A DROP IN CENTER TO A NATIONALLY
00:03:54 RECOGNIZED MODEL FOR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT BY
00:03:58 INTEGRATING TRADITIONAL OR NATIVE HEALING PRACTICES WITH
00:04:03 EVIDENCE BASED TREATMENT. >> HELEN WAS A SAVVY LEADER
00:04:07 WALKING THESE VERY HALLS TO MEET WITH SUPERVISORS
00:04:11 AND MAYORS ENSURING INSTITUTIONAL VISIBILITY FOR
00:04:14 THE NEEDS OF LOCAL AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY.
00:04:18 >> TODAY FRIENDSHIP HOUSE HAS SERVED MORE THAN 6500 CLIENTS
00:04:22 THROUGH THEIR MULTI BED TREATMENT PROGRAMS HERE IN SAN
00:04:26 FRANCISCO AND OAKLAND PROVIDING A PATH TO RECOVERY ROOTED
00:04:29 IN CULTURAL IDENTITY AND DIGNITY INCLUDING CULTURAL
00:04:33 PROGRAMING, ADVOCACY AND VITAL COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR THE BAY
00:04:38 AREA'S NATIVE COMMUNITY AND FRIENDSHIP HOUSE IS WORKING
00:04:41 HARD TO CONTINUE HELEN'S LEGACY WITH THEIR EXPANSION OF VILLAGE
00:04:45 S.F. HELEN'S LONG HELD DREAM OF A NATIVE LED WELLNESS, CULTURAL
00:04:50 AND ECONOMIC CENTER FOR SAN FRANCISCO WIDE INDIGENOUS
00:04:54 COMMUNITY ADDING THE COMBINED MIGHT OF HELEN WALK US YOUR WAY
00:05:01 TO JILLIAN AVENUE, THE LONGTIME HOME OF THE FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
00:05:04 AND FUTURE HOME. A VILLAGE I SERVE WILL UPLIFT
00:05:05 HELEN'S LEGACY AND THAT OF THE POWERFUL NATIVE COMMUNITY OF
00:05:12 SAN FRANCISCO. >> SUPERVISOR FIELDER AND OUR
00:05:13 OFFICE WANT TO THANK THE FRIENDSHIP HOUSE STAFF
00:05:17 AND LEADERSHIP AND THEIR FULL COMMUNITY FOR THEIR ADVOCACY
00:05:23 AND FOR BEING HERE TODAY. WE HOPE THAT YOU CAN SEND THIS
00:05:25 ITEM TO THE FULL BOARD WITH A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION
00:05:28 AND THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH MISS AND I
00:05:32 FOR THAT WONDERFUL SUMMARY OF YOUR ACTIONS.
00:05:35 PLEASE ADD ME AS A CO-SPONSOR FOR MR. CLARK.
00:05:39 >> SUPERVISOR CHEN THANK YOU CHAIR MY OLGA THE FRIENDSHIP
00:05:43 HOUSES ARE SUCH AN IMPORTANT COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL
00:05:47 INSTITUTION IN SAN FRANCISCO BECAUSE OF THE FRIENDSHIP OF
00:05:51 HELEN WAKO SO IT HAS BECOME A CHERISHED HOME FOR URBAN
00:05:55 INDIANS AND A PLACE TO UPLIFT THE VISIBILITY OF INDIGENOUS
00:05:58 COMMUNITIES. I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT THE
00:06:00 CITY'S PUBLIC SPACES SHOULD REFLECT THE CONTRIBUTIONS
00:06:03 AND HISTORIES OF COMMUNITIES OFTEN UNDERREPRESENTED AND I'M
00:06:06 VERY HONORED TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION PIECE ALSO AT ME AS
00:06:11 A CO-SPONSOR. >> THANK YOU.
00:06:13 OKAY. I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE ON THE
00:06:15 ROSTER. >> MR. CARD, PLEASE LET'S GO TO
00:06:18 PUBLIC COMMENT. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR LAND USE
00:06:21 AND TRANSPORTATION WILL NOW HEAR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATED TO
00:06:22 AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE IF YOU HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS
00:06:25 ITEM PLEASE COME FORWARD TO THE LECTERN AT THIS TIME.
00:06:28 AND MADAM CHAIR, IT LOOKS LIKE WE MAY HAVE SOME SPEAKERS
00:06:32 COMING UP. >> HANG ON JUST A MOMENT.
00:06:33 COME ON UP. >> GOOD MORNING.
00:06:50 GOOD MORNING. >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:06:51 MY NAME IS BEATRICE. >> SURELY I'M NAVAJO AND I COME
00:06:55 FROM ARIZONA BUT I MET HELEN AT THE BOARDING SCHOOL WHEN I WAS
00:07:02 EIGHT YEARS OLD AND SHE WAS ABOUT TEN AND SHE REALLY TOOK
00:07:06 ME IN AS A LITTLE SISTER AND REALLY SHOWED ME HOW TO
00:07:12 TAKE CARE OF MYSELF AND HOW TO ADJUST TO THE NEW ENVIRONMENT
00:07:16 IN SUCH A WAY FROM MY PARENTS. SHE JUST FULL OF COMPASSION FOR
00:07:20 ALL THOSE CHILDREN. WE WERE A LONG HUGE BELEN
00:07:25 NATIVE BY GIRLS THERE ALL YOUNG AND THEY'RE JUST COMPLETELY
00:07:29 LOST BECAUSE THEY'RE TAKEN FROM THEIR PARENTS.
00:07:33 >> IT WAS SUCH A STRONG STRENGTH FOR ME BECAUSE I AND I
00:07:36 NEVER KNOW HOW TO FIX MY HAIR. MY PARENTS ALWAYS DID THAT FOR
00:07:41 ME. BUT HELEN SHOW ME THE WAY.
00:07:44 SHE'LL SHOW ME HOW TO MAKE THE BED AND HOW TO DRESS MYSELF
00:07:48 AND BE ABLE TO COMFORT ME, YOU KNOW, KEEP ME BUSY.
00:07:52 I LIVE BY LONELINESS AND GRANDMA LOSSES.
00:07:53 THEN WE CAME TO SAN FRANCISCO IN 1963 APRIL 6TH AND THEY PUT
00:07:59 US IN AN A AND A HOME AS A MAID BUT WE DIDN'T LIKE THAT ONE SO
00:08:06 WE START COMING BACK TO SAN FRANCISCO AND WE CONTACT A
00:08:13 CHURCH THAT WAS CALLED FRIENDSHIP HOUSE AND SHE START
00:08:17 WORK AND WE START WORKING THERE AND WE SAW A LOT OF A LOT OF
00:08:22 PAIN THAT PEOPLE ARE FEELING. >> IS THAT MY TIME UP IF 25
00:08:28 SECONDS. OKAY SO WE REALLY TALK ABOUT
00:08:32 HAVING OUR OWN BUILDING WHERE OUR REALTOR CAN COME IN AND
00:08:36 EXPERIENCE COMPLETE HEALING FROM THEIR LOSSES WHEN THEIR
00:08:40 GRIEF, WHEN THEIR TRAUMA AND SHE REALLY WENT TO WORK
00:08:45 AND WE REALLY GOT FULL SUPPORT FROM THE SUPERVISOR HERE
00:08:48 AND IT'S JUST AMAZING. SHE'S JUST FULL OF HER
00:08:52 COMPASSION. >> SHE'S AMAZING.
00:08:53 THE WOMEN ALWAYS CARE FOR OTHER PEOPLE AND SHE'S THE FIRST ONE
00:08:59 TO PUT THAT BUILDING UP OR THE FRIENDSHIP NEEDED FOR COMMENTS.
00:09:02 >> THANK YOU. LET'S HAVE THE NEXT PICTURE
00:09:03 PLEASE. >> HELLO.
00:09:06 GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME
00:09:09 TO HEAR US TODAY. MY NAME IS CATHERINE COLLINS
00:09:10 AND I'M ALUMNI OF THE FRIENDSHIP HOUSE.
00:09:14 I ENTERED FRIENDSHIP HOUSE 14 YEARS AGO AND IT SAVED MY LIFE.
00:09:19 I'M NOW A CERTIFIED COUNSELOR AT FRIENDSHIP HOUSE GIVING BACK
00:09:21 TO THE PROGRAM THAT HAS GIVEN ME THIS BEAUTIFUL LIFE.
00:09:24 MISS HELEN WALK AS YOU SHOULD BE HONORED EVERY DAY FOR THE
00:09:27 THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF INDIGENOUS FAMILIES SHE'S
00:09:32 HELPED PUT BACK TOGETHER. IT'S BECAUSE OF HER RESILIENCE
00:09:35 TO NEVER GIVE UP ON HER PEOPLE. THAT IS WHY I STAND HERE BEFORE
00:09:40 YOU AS A PROUD NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN AND MOTHER ROOTED IN MY
00:09:43 CULTURE AND SOLID IN MY RECOVERY.
00:09:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
00:09:49 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:09:51 MY NAME IS SHEREE APODACA. TO OUR TEAM I CAME THROUGH THE
00:09:56 FRIENDSHIP HOUSE PROGRAM IN 2018.
00:09:59 VOLUNTEERED IN 2019 AND HELEN ASKED ME TO BE HER H.R.
00:10:06 >> ASSISTANT. I MY LIFE HAS CHANGED BECAUSE
00:10:10 OF ME. SUCCESS FOR ME GOING THROUGH
00:10:15 THE PROGRAM AND MY CURRENT ROLE AT FRIENDSHIP HOUSE.
00:10:18 I'M THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER.
00:10:19 I'M ALSO THE GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF A BOARDING
00:10:22 SCHOOL SURVIVOR. THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF A NAVAJO
00:10:26 ARMY VETERAN AND THE DAUGHTER OF AN AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT
00:10:34 PROACTIVE PERSON AND THE ALCATRAZ MOVEMENT.
00:10:37 I'M HERE WITH MY COLLEAGUES IN MY COMMUNITY AND TO ASK THE
00:10:41 CHANGE OF JOLENE AVENUE IN RECOGNITION OF HELEN
00:10:46 WALKER'S WAY. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR
00:10:50 TIME. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
00:10:53 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:10:56 MY NAME IS JAVAN SHIRLEY. I'M CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE
00:11:00 OFFICER OF THE FRIENDSHIP HOUSE.
00:11:01 I'VE BEEN WITH THE PROGRAM FOR 28 YEARS.
00:11:03 I'VE SEEN A LOT OF CHANGES THROUGHOUT MY TIME THERE.
00:11:06 IT'S BEEN AMAZING LISTENING TO HELEN STORY SINCE I WAS A
00:11:10 LITTLE GIRL. WE ALL OUR FAMILIES GREW UP
00:11:11 TOGETHER. IT'S AMAZING TO SEE HOW FAR
00:11:14 SHE'S TAKEN THIS AGENCY. SO I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE
00:11:18 NAME CHANGE OF JULIAN AVENUE TO HONOR THE REMARKABLE LEGACY OF
00:11:22 HELEN WALKER ZOO WHOSE STRONG LEADERSHIP VISION
00:11:25 AND COMMITMENT TRANSFORMED DREAMS INTO REALITY.
00:11:29 THROUGHOUT HER LIFE HELEN DEDICATED HERSELF TO BUILDING A
00:11:33 SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR NATIVE AMERICAN MEN, WOMEN,
00:11:37 YOUTH AND FAMILIES STRUGGLING WITH ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE
00:11:40 ABUSE. HER EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH A
00:11:41 FACILITY SPECIFICALLY TAILORED TO THE NEEDS OF NATIVE
00:11:44 AMERICANS HAVE OPENED DOORS TO HEALING AND RECOVERY, ALLOWING
00:11:48 MANY TO RECLAIM THEIR LIVES AND CULTURE.
00:11:52 >> NAMING A STREET IN HER HONOR WOULD NOT ONLY SERVE AS A
00:11:54 TESTAMENT TO HER UNWAVERING SPIRIT AND DEDICATION BUT ALSO
00:11:57 PROMOTE AWARENESS OF THE ONGOING CHALLENGES FACED BY
00:12:01 NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES. IT IS ESSENTIAL TO RECOGNIZE
00:12:05 AND CELEBRATE INDIVIDUALS LIKE HELEN WHO HAS MADE A LASTING
00:12:09 IMPACT ON OUR SOCIETY. I URGE YOU TO SUPPORT THE
00:12:13 PROPOSAL TO CHANGE THE STREET NAME TO HELEN WALKER'S WAY,
00:12:16 THEREBY ACKNOWLEDGING HER LEGACY AND A SIGNIFICANT
00:12:20 CONTRIBUTIONS SHE MADE TO THE NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY
00:12:24 IN OUR AREA BUT NATIONWIDE ALSO.
00:12:25 THANK YOU FOR CONSIDERING THIS IMPORTANT CHANGE.
00:12:28 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
00:12:31 GOOD AFTERNOON BOARD SUPERVISOR'S CHAIR.
00:12:36 MY NAME IS KNOWN TO PLAY FOR WOMEN ENROLLED MEMBER OF THE
00:12:39 CHEYENNE RIVER SIOUX TRIBE AND MY ROLE AT THE FRIENDSHIP
00:12:43 HOUSES DISCHARGE COORDINATOR. >> I'M HERE TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY
00:12:47 SUPPORT IN THE NAME CHANGE FOR HALAWA BECAUSE AWAY FROM JULIAN
00:12:52 AVENUE I SEE ON THE DAILY THE IMPACT THAT OUR AGENCY HAS HAD
00:12:58 ON OUR COMMUNITY AND IT NOT ONLY DOES IT REQUIRE DAILY
00:13:06 PLANNING AND DISCHARGE PLANNING BUT IT ALSO REQUIRES A SENSE OF
00:13:10 BELONGING AND HAVING THE NAME CHANGE WOULD HELP SUPPORT THAT
00:13:17 . HELEN WALK US WHO WAS A PIONEER
00:13:18 OF YOU KNOW WHAT SHE DID, WHAT SHE CREATED IN THE CITY AND I
00:13:24 REALLY HOPE THAT YOU SUPPORT THAT CHANGE.
00:13:25 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
00:13:28 TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. PLEASE.
00:13:31 >> MY NAME'S JAMES WILLIAMS. I'M PIMA MARICOPA OF SALT RIVER
00:13:38 ,HOME OF IRA HAYES WHEN? WELL AMERICAN THAT HELPED SERVE
00:13:42 IN THE COUNTRY. I CAME TO THE TO ADDRESS 80
00:13:48 JULIAN BACK IN 97 FIRST TIME I CAME BACK AGAIN IN 2016
00:13:57 AND REALIZED THAT I HAVE A FAMILY A FAMILY HERE
00:14:00 AND EVERYTHING THAT THAT MICHELLE AND WALKER ZOO HAS
00:14:06 DONE HAS BEEN AMAZING. AND I'M A FACILITIES ASSISTANT
00:14:09 MANAGER AND EVERYTHING THAT SHE HAS DONE HAS BEEN AMAZING.
00:14:15 EVERYTHING THAT HAS COME BEFORE ME HAS BEEN LOVING, CARING,
00:14:19 UNDERSTANDING AND MY HEART IS OPENED TO TO THE WELL-BEING
00:14:27 AND THE CARING OF THE REST OF MY FAMILY.
00:14:30 AND YOU KNOW, TRIBES AND NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
00:14:31 SO THAT'S WHERE I STAND TODAY. ONCE AGAIN, IT'S JUST FOR THE
00:14:36 WELL-BEING AND THE CARE OF OUR FAMILY AND TO TO UPHOLD HER
00:14:39 DREAM AND I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE NAME CHANGED.
00:14:43 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
00:14:47 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:14:50 THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THIS MOVEMENT.
00:14:53 MY NAME IS MATTHEW SORT OF AND THIS YAKI MEMBER AND MY
00:14:58 FAMILY'S BEEN IN THE MISSION SINCE THE 40S AND 50S.
00:15:00 AND I GREW UP KNOWING THAT SAN FRANCISCO'S BEAUTY AND ITS
00:15:04 STRENGTH COMES FROM ITS MULTICULTURALISM AND ITS
00:15:05 INCLUSION OF ALL TYPES OF PEOPLE.
00:15:09 I DIDN'T HAVE THE HONOR OF KNOWING HELEN WALK AS YOU
00:15:12 PERSONALLY BUT I GET TO EXPERIENCE HER IMPACT EVERY
00:15:15 SINGLE DAY THROUGH MY WORK AT THE FRIENDSHIP HOUSE AS A
00:15:19 PROGRAM CO-LEAD FOR THE VILLAGE S.F..
00:15:23 I GET TO SEE IT IN THE FAMILIES THAT ARE HEALED.
00:15:27 YOU'VE HEARD SOME OF THEM SPEAK TODAY AND IN THE THE CARE THE
00:15:31 CULTURALLY GROUNDED CARE THAT HELEN BUILT THE FOUNDATIONS FOR
00:15:35 HELEN WALK IZZY WASN'T JUST A LEADER.
00:15:39 SHE WAS A FORCE A MATRIARCH THAT CONTINUES TO SUSTAIN OUR
00:15:42 COMMUNITY FOR GENERATIONS EVEN BEYOND HER LIFETIME.
00:15:43 RENAMING JULIAN AVE TO HELEN WALK AS A WAY ISN'T JUST
00:15:48 SYMBOLIC. IT'S A VISIBLE ACKNOWLEDGMENT
00:15:52 THAT THE AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY IS NOT ONLY A PART OF
00:15:56 SAN FRANCISCO'S HISTORY BUT ITS PRESENT AND ITS FUTURE.
00:16:02 THIS VOTE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HONOR THAT LEGACY.
00:16:03 HELEN'S LEGACY THAT CONTINUES TO SAVE LIVES AND TO GIVE HOPE
00:16:07 TO THE GENERATIONS THAT WILL WALK THAT STREET FOR DECADES TO
00:16:11 COME. SO I URGE YOU TO VOTE YES.
00:16:13 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
00:16:15 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:16:21 >> MY NAME IS ANDREW CLOUD. ENROLLED MEMBER OF THE SPIRIT
00:16:22 LAKE SIOUX TRIBE BORN AND RAISED HERE IN THE BAY AREA
00:16:28 . I'M HERE TO STAND ALONGSIDE MY
00:16:31 RELATIVES AND THOSE THAT SPOKE BEFORE ME IN SUPPORT OF THIS
00:16:35 NAME CHANGE FOR MISS HELEN WALK .
00:16:40 I'D LIKE TO SHARE A QUICK TESTIMONY AND HER IMPACT ON MY
00:16:43 LIFE AND OUR COMMUNITY'S LIVES .
00:16:47 >> MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY. I'M A RECENT GRADUATE OF THE
00:16:51 FRIENDSHIP HOUSE BACK IN 2022 2023.
00:16:54 SINCE THEN, THROUGH HER PRAYERS AND THE WORK THAT SHE'S DONE
00:17:01 IN OUR COMMUNITY, I WAS ABLE TO START A NEW LIFE THAT THAT'S
00:17:05 BENEFICIAL TO MY OWN AND MY COMMUNITY AND ONE TO WONDER MY
00:17:11 NEW FOUR MONTH OLD DAUGHTER CAN BE PROUD OF AND JUST DO THE
00:17:13 WORK OF HELEN AND HER DEDICATION TO TO HER PEOPLE
00:17:18 THAT THIS IS POSSIBLE AND THE IMPACT THAT SHE SHE SHE HAD ON
00:17:23 OUR COMMUNITY IS IS IS IMMEASURABLE AND TO ONE DAY I
00:17:30 HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE MY DAUGHTER DOWN DOWN THIS ROAD
00:17:35 DOWN THIS STREET AND TO SHOW HER THIS FUTURE NAME CHANGE
00:17:38 AND WHAT IT MEANS AND THE IMPACT THAT WILL HAVE ON MY
00:17:43 DAUGHTER THAT ANYTHING'S POSSIBLE.
00:17:46 AND THAT THESE THESE ARE HER ANCESTORS THERE'S HER ELDERS
00:17:50 THAT SHE CAN LOOK FOR FOR STRENGTH.
00:17:51 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
00:17:54 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> HEY Y'ALL DOING.
00:18:00 MY NAME'S PETER BRATTON. I'M A CATERER.
00:18:01 I MARTYR INDIGENT PERSON I BORN AND RAISED HERE IN SAN
00:18:05 FRANCISCO, SERVED AS A FILM COMMISSIONER, MAYOR GAVIN
00:18:09 NEWSOM AND I KNEW HELEN BECAUSE SHE CALLED ME HER SON.
00:18:13 I'VE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH FRENCHIE PAST ASSOCIATION OF
00:18:16 AMERICAN INDIANS FOR OVER 30 YEARS.
00:18:19 I'M LEADING THE VILLAGE OF SURF PROJECT CURRENTLY.
00:18:23 AND HELEN WAS NOT JUST A GREAT AMERICAN INDIAN HUMAN BEING.
00:18:27 SHE WAS A GREAT SAN FRANCISCAN. SHE WAS A GREAT AMERICAN.
00:18:34 SHE RECEIVED A MINERVA AWARD ALONG WITH JANE GOODALL
00:18:38 AND SEVERAL OTHER ICONIC FEMALE LEADERS.
00:18:39 SHE WAS RECOGNIZED BY MARIA SHRIVER.
00:18:42 SHE'S BEEN CONSIDERED GIVEN RECOGNITION IN THE CALIFORNIA
00:18:46 WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME. SHE WAS A REMARKABLE HUMAN
00:18:47 BEING WHO MADE EVERYONE FEEL WELCOME.
00:18:50 WHEN YOU WALKED INTO THE GATES SHE CALLED YOU NEPHEW GRANDSON
00:18:54 ,GRANDDAUGHTER, DAUGHTER, NIECE, NEPHEW.
00:18:57 THAT WAS KIND OF HELEN'S MAGIC .
00:19:01 SHE HAD VERY CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SEVERAL
00:19:02 MAYORS HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO INCLUDING GOING BACK TO ART
00:19:06 AGNES MAYOR LEE GAVIN NEWSOM WHO SHE MENTORED AND CALLED SON
00:19:13 WHEN HE WAS A SUPERVISOR WILLIE BROWN THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.
00:19:21 SHE CALLED SPEAKER PELOSI HER SISTER.
00:19:22 THESE WERE ALL ADVOCATES WHO SUPPORTED HELEN'S BOLD VISIONS
00:19:27 AND AND SHE SHE NOT ONLY CREATED A SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY
00:19:31 THAT IMPACTED THE LIVES OF AMERICAN INDIANS BUT SHE SHE
00:19:32 HELPED CREATE THE CRITICAL SAFETY NET OF SAN FRANCISCO.
00:19:40 YOU KNOW, TODAY FRIENDSHIP HOUSE PROVIDES 11 BEDS TO SAN
00:19:41 FRANCISCANS THROUGH A CONTRACT WITH H.
00:19:44 SO RECOGNIZING HER IS JUST INCREDIBLE.
00:19:48 WE BREAK GROUND ON THE VILLAGE PROJECT AT THE END OF THE
00:19:49 SUMMER I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING MORE FITTING FOR THAT
00:19:53 BUILDING TO LIVE ON. HELEN WALK A WAY AND I REALLY
00:19:56 ENCOURAGE YOU TO MAKE THIS MOVE AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
00:19:59 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
00:20:03 >> HI, I'M JULIA LEE. I'M A REPRESENTED OF OF THE
00:20:07 NATIVE AMERICAN TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDER TEAM OF THE
00:20:09 CALIFORNIA REDUCING DISPARITIES INITIATIVE.
00:20:12 THAT'S A STATEWIDE INITIATIVE THAT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHING THE
00:20:15 EVIDENCE THAT CULTURE IS PREVENTION AND CULTURE IS
00:20:16 HEALTH AND FRIENDSHIP HOUSE MODEL WAS IS ONE OF THOSE
00:20:20 PROGRAMS IN THIS INITIATIVE AND I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
00:20:27 THAT NOT ONLY HAS FRIENDSHIP HOW FOR SO MANY PEOPLE HERE
00:20:28 IN THE COMMUNITY BUT ALSO MANY CLIENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE
00:20:32 HAS AND THE MODEL THAT WAS HELEN'S VISION HAS REALLY BEEN
00:20:37 REPLICATED AND SERVED AS A AS AN INSPIRATION FOR SO MANY
00:20:44 PROGRAMS REALLY HELPING PEOPLE RETURN TO THEIR CULTURE.
00:20:48 SO THANK YOU. WE SUPPORT THIS NAME CHANGE.
00:20:49 I THINKS REALLY WONDERFUL. >> THANK YOU.
00:20:52 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
00:20:55 >> YOU GUYS GOT A TIME UP HERE? PERFECT.
00:20:59 GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME SECTOR PATTY MUSKOGEE
00:21:01 CREEK IN SEMINOLE FOR HELEN SHE WAS MORE AS MY MOTHER I YOU
00:21:06 KNOW BECAME A SON OF HERS THROUGH CEREMONY I HAD A
00:21:11 MANHOOD CEREMONY WHICH I FELT LIKE CHANGED MY LIFE IN A WAY
00:21:17 AND JUST LIKE HOW SHE'S CHANGED A LOT OF LIVES, YOU KNOW, EVEN
00:21:21 DURING HER ENDING TIMES WHEN SHE WAS YOU KNOW, MAKING HER
00:21:25 TRANSITION AND SHE LOST HER HER FREEDOM OF SPEECH, HER VOICE
00:21:29 THROUGH A GLASS SHE WAS STILL WRITING ON HER NOTE.
00:21:33 SHE WAS WRITING HER NOTES ON A PIECE OF PEN, YOU KNOW, TO GIVE
00:21:37 THOSE DIRECTIONS FOR FRIENDSHIP HOUSE AND FOR CLIENTS, FOR
00:21:41 COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU BOARD
00:21:44 MEMBERS, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR JUST EVEN TAKING THIS THIS
00:21:48 TIME TO HEAR US OUT BECAUSE IT'S JUST A BIT AND A PIECE OF
00:21:52 WHAT HELEN BROUGHT TO THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO TO THE
00:21:56 AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY AND ALSO MYSELF AND SO MANY
00:21:59 OTHERS THAT COME ALONG AND TO BE ABLE TO SEE THAT NAME
00:22:03 ACROSS, YOU KNOW, I HOPE TO SEE THAT SO THAT YOU GUYS CAN ALSO
00:22:07 SEE THE IMPACT THAT IT HAS TO HAVE AN AMERICAN INDIAN
00:22:11 MATRIARCH OF THIS CITY WHO FOREVER IS I FEEL LIKE WE JUST
00:22:19 EVERYTHING SHE DID SHE DID IT FOR HER COMMUNITY AND ALSO FOR
00:22:23 THE FRIENDSHIP HOUSE. SHE ALWAYS DID SOMETHING WITH
00:22:27 THAT IN MIND AND YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW,
00:22:34 SHE'S MISSED AND EVEN JUST TO SEE HER NAME WILL, YOU KNOW,
00:22:37 INFLUENCE PEOPLE TO JUST SMILE BECAUSE THAT'S ALL SHE DID.
00:22:41 SHE DID ONE GOOD DEED OF THE DAY EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK EVERY
00:22:44 MONTH. AND FOR THIS YOU KNOW, I
00:22:45 SUPPORT THIS AND YOU KNOW, I HOPE YOU GUYS SUPPORT THIS AS
00:22:50 WELL. >> SO THANK YOU.
00:22:52 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. DO WE HAVE ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS
00:22:54 PUBLIC COMMENT FOR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE, MADAM CHAIR OKAY.
00:22:55 >> PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM IS NOW CLOSED.
00:22:59 >> THANK YOU MS. GO AND THANK YOU TO SUPERVISOR FIELDER'S
00:23:06 OFFICE FOR BRINGING THIS TO THE COMMITTEE.
00:23:07 YOU KNOW WE LOST HELEN WALK YOU WHEN WE WERE STILL SHELTERING
00:23:14 IN PLACE DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC AND I FEEL LIKE THE
00:23:18 COMMUNITY AND OUR CITY NEVER REALLY HAD A PROPER WAY TO, YOU
00:23:21 KNOW, CELEBRATE HER LIFE. I HOPE THAT WHEN THE NAME GOES
00:23:26 UP OR PERHAPS WHEN FRIENDSHIP HOUSE DOES THAT THE
00:23:30 GROUNDBREAKING OR YOU KNOW WHENEVER THE COMMUNITY COMES
00:23:34 TOGETHER WE CAN INCORPORATE THAT YOU KNOW JUST BECAUSE I
00:23:38 FEEL LIKE IT'S STILL NEEDED FOR FOLKS TO REMEMBER HER GREAT
00:23:42 CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR CITY AND THIS IS A PERFECT WAY TO DO
00:23:46 IT. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.
00:23:49 WITH THAT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE SEND THIS ITEM
00:23:53 FORWARD TO THE FULL BOARD WITH A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION ON
00:23:57 THE MOTION OFFERED BY THE CHAIR THAT THIS RESOLUTION BE
00:24:00 RECOMMENDED TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS VICE CHAIR CHEN
00:24:03 CHEN I REMEMBER MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I CHAIR MELGAR I MELGAR I MET
00:24:07 HIM TOO. >> THERE ARE THREE EYES THAT
00:24:08 MOTION PASSES. >> YES THANK YOU.
00:24:12 LET'S GO TO ITEM NUMBER TWO PLEASE.
00:24:15 >> AGENDA ITEM NUMBER TWO IS A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE
00:24:17 DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS TO APPROVE THE INSTALLATION OF A
00:24:19 COMMEMORATIVE STREET PLAQUE IN HONOR OF CARLOS SANTANA WHO
00:24:23 HAS ENJOYED A LIFELONG CAREER AS A WORLD RENOWNED
00:24:24 AND GROUNDBREAKING MUSICIAN WHILE MAINTAINING A STRONG
00:24:27 CONNECTION TO SAN FRANCISCO PROVIDED THAT THE INSTALLATION
00:24:30 SHALL BE APPROVED FOLLOWING THE ARTS COMMISSION'S APPROVAL OF
00:24:32 THE COMMEMORATIVE STREET PLAQUE DESIGN AND THE DIRECTORS REVIEW
00:24:35 OF ALL CORRESPONDING PERMIT APPLICATION MATERIALS AND THE
00:24:38 COMMEMORATIVE STREET PLAQUE SHALL BE INSTALLED IN THE
00:24:42 SIDEWALK AT AN APPROPRIATE LOCATION IN THE VICINITY OF TWO
00:24:44 OH FIVE MULLAN AVENUE WHERE CARLOS SANTANA WAS LIVING WHEN
00:24:46 HE WAS FIRST DISCOVERED. >> THANK YOU, MR. CLERK
00:24:50 COLLEAGUES. SUPERVISOR FIELDER'S OFFICE HAS
00:24:53 REQUESTED A CONTINUANCE ON THIS ITEM.
00:24:57 >> THEY NEED A LITTLE MORE TIME TO DISCUSS THINGS ABOUT THIS
00:25:01 PLAQUE WITH A COMMUNITY. >> SO IF IT'S OKAY WITH YOU, I
00:25:06 WILL. AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT.
00:25:09 MAKE A MOTION THAT WE CONTINUE THIS TO THE CALL OF THE CHAIR
00:25:12 BUT LET'S TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE ITEM FIRST.
00:25:15 >> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION
00:25:17 WILL NOW TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEM NUMBER TWO IF YOU
00:25:20 HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS ITEM PLEASE COME FORWARD TO THE
00:25:23 LECTERN AT THIS TIME. AND MADAM CHAIR, TO PRESERVE
00:25:26 THE SPEAKER'S OKAY PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW CLOSED.
00:25:28 >> I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE CONTINUE THIS ITEM TO
00:25:31 THE CALL OF THE CHAIR ON THE MOTION OFFERED BY THE CHAIR
00:25:34 THAT THIS RESOLUTION BE CONTINUED TO THE CALL THE CHAIR
00:25:37 VICE CHAIR CHEN AND I MEMBER MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I CHAIR MELGAR
00:25:42 I MELGAR I AND I'M SURE THERE ARE THREE EYES THANK YOU THAT I
00:25:46 AND AND PASSES LET'S GO TO ITEM NUMBER THREE PLEASE.
00:25:50 >> AGENDA ITEM NUMBER THREE IS AN ORDINANCE CONDITIONALLY
00:25:53 ACCEPTING AN OFFER OF DEDICATION AND QUITCLAIM DEED
00:25:57 FOR REAL PROPERTY FROM THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY INVESTMENT
00:26:00 IN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A SEGMENT OF EAST CLEMENTINA STREET
00:26:04 BETWEEN BEALE AND MAIN. CONDITIONALLY ACCEPTING THE
00:26:08 SEGMENT OF EAST CLEMENTINA STREET FOR MAINTENANCE
00:26:09 AND LIABILITY DELEGATING TO THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR OF THE
00:26:14 AUTHORITY TO FIRST ACCEPT THE STREET SEGMENT FOR CITY
00:26:15 MAINTENANCE AND LIABILITY PURPOSES AND SECOND TAKE OTHER
00:26:19 RELATED ACTIONS SUCH AS ESTABLISH OFFICIAL PUBLIC RIGHT
00:26:23 OF WAY WIDTHS AND STREET GRADES CONDITIONALLY ACCEPTING OFFERS
00:26:27 OF IMPROVEMENTS FROM TRANSBAY TO FAMILY LP AND TRANSBAY TO
00:26:31 SENIOR LP COLLECTIVELY TRANSBAY TO FOR PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS ON
00:26:38 BILL FOLSOM AND MAIN STREETS AND IMPROVING FOLSOM STREET
00:26:39 PUBLIC SIDEWALK EASEMENTS FROM TRANSBAY TO WAIVING THE
00:26:42 APPLICATION OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 1061 ENTITLED REGULATING THE
00:26:46 WIDTH OF SIDEWALKS TO ALLOW ESTABLISHMENT EXPANSION
00:26:49 AND REDUCTION OF OFFICIAL SIDEWALK WIDTHS THROUGH
00:26:52 ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION ASSOCIATED WITH THE STREET
00:26:53 SEGMENT AND TRANSMIT TO PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
00:26:57 ADOPTING FINDINGS UNDER SEQUOIA MAKING FINDINGS OF CONSISTENCY
00:27:00 WITH THE GENERAL PLAN AND THE HIGH PRIORITY POLICIES
00:27:02 AND PLANNING CODE SECTION 121.1 APPROVING A PUBLIC WORKS ORDER
00:27:05 RECOMMENDING VARIOUS ACTIONS IN REGARD TO THE SEGMENT OF
00:27:08 EAST CLEMENTINA STREET AND TRANSBAY TO PUBLIC
00:27:12 IMPROVEMENTS AND AUTHORIZING OTHER OFFICIAL ACTS
00:27:13 IN CONNECTION WITH THE ORDINANCE TO BE TAKEN BY THE
00:27:17 PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR AND OTHER OFFICIALS.
00:27:19 OKAY WE HAVE MR. HENNESSY HERE TO PRESENT.
00:27:24 >> WELCOME. GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:27:24 THANK YOU. TRUMP FROM PERSON AND COMMITTEE
00:27:28 MEMBERS. MY NAME IS CARL AND C I AM WITH
00:27:31 THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND FOR THE SCREEN PLEASE THANK
00:27:34 YOU. YES, WE ARE HERE TODAY TO TALK
00:27:35 ABOUT THE ACCEPTANCE OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE TRANSBAY
00:27:39 TRANSIT TERMINAL LOCATION JUST TO GET OURSELVES ORIENTATED.
00:27:43 THIS IS THE SECTION OF THE BLOCK THAT'S AROUND THE BAY
00:27:47 HOWARD BEALE MAIN AND FOLSOM STREETS IN MAY OF 2024.
00:27:55 SUPERVISOR DORSEY INCLUDING MANY OTHER DIGNITARIES ATTENDED
00:27:59 A GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY THIS TIME LAST YEAR I WAS PRESENTED
00:28:03 BEFORE THE COMMITTEE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
00:28:06 THE STREET NAMES FOR EAST CLEMENTINA AND I AM HAPPY TO BE
00:28:10 BACK HERE AGAIN ONCE MORE TO MAKING A RECOMMENDATION FOR THE
00:28:13 BOARD TO ACCEPT SOME OF THE PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
00:28:17 PARTICULARLY RELATED TO THE EAST CLEMENTINA STREETS
00:28:21 AND ALSO THE IMPROVEMENTS TASK BOUNDED BY BLOCK TO WEST WHICH
00:28:25 HAS SENIOR HOUSING WHICH INCLUDES 151 UNITS ALONG WITH
00:28:28 THE BLOCK TO EAST FAMILY HOUSING WHICH WILL HAVE 184
00:28:33 UNITS AGAIN BODIES BOTH OF THESE BUILDINGS WOULD BE 100%
00:28:38 AFFORDABLE. THE SENIOR HOUSING HAS ALREADY
00:28:39 STARTED TO RECEIVE RESIDENTS MOVING IN AND LATER THIS YEAR
00:28:43 IF NOT IN THE SUMMERTIME WE EXPECT RESIDENTS TO START
00:28:50 MOVING INTO THE FAMILY HOUSING BUILDING.
00:28:53 I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF PHOTOS OF SHOWING THE ALMOST COMPLETED
00:28:55 STREETS WHICH IS THIS IS EAST ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE
00:28:58 SCREEN IS EAST CLEMENTINA STREETS LOOKING FROM BEALE TO
00:29:02 MAIN. IN ADDITION WE ALSO SEE THE
00:29:05 SIDEWALK. YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE BUILDINGS
00:29:07 THAT ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED AND CURRENTLY BEING RESIDED
00:29:10 IN CENTRALLY ON FOLSOM STREET. IF SOMEBODY OFFERS OF
00:29:14 IMPROVEMENTS WHERE WE HAVE WIDENED SIDEWALKS INSTALLED NEW
00:29:17 TREES, NEW STREET LIGHTS AND AGAIN THIS PROJECT WHAT
00:29:21 THESE PROJECTS ARE CLOSE TO COMPLETION AGAIN WE ARE HERE
00:29:25 TODAY TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD THAT THEY ACCEPT
00:29:31 CONDITIONALLY ACCEPT THE OFFERS OF DEDICATION AND QUITCLAIM
00:29:33 DEED TO ACCEPT EAST CLEMENTINA STREET FOR OWNERSHIP
00:29:36 MAINTENANCE LIABILITY AND TO DELEGATE TO THE PUBLIC WORKS
00:29:40 DIRECTOR TO TAKE VARIOUS ACTIONS TO ACCEPT THE STREETS
00:29:44 AS STREET SEGMENTS OWNERSHIP MAINTENANCE LIABILITY TO
00:29:48 ESTABLISH PUBLIC RIGHT AWAY WITH AND STREET GRIDS
00:29:52 AND ALLOWED ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL OF SUCH STREET GRID
00:29:55 WIDTHS AND EXCUSE ME AND ALSO TO APPROVE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
00:30:01 THE EASEMENTS ON FOLSOM STREET ALSO IN YOUR PACKAGE IS A
00:30:05 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR OF REAL ESTATE WHO HAS REVIEWED
00:30:07 THIS PACKAGE ALSO MAKING THE SAME RECOMMENDATION TO THE
00:30:10 BOARD. >> I AM JOINED HERE TODAY BY
00:30:14 MEMBERS OF OCI PROJECT TEAM ALONG WITH OUR DEVELOPMENT
00:30:17 PARTNERS AND OTHER PUBLIC WORKS PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM WHO
00:30:21 HAVE BEEN LEADING THE CONSTRUCT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF EACH
00:30:22 COMMUNITY INDUSTRY. >> WITH THAT I'M OPEN TO ANY
00:30:26 QUESTIONS. I DON'T SEE ANY QUESTIONS OR
00:30:29 COMMENTS ON THE ROSTER FROM MY COLLEAGUES AT LET'S GO TO
00:30:33 PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM PLEASE.
00:30:34 >> THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION NOW
00:30:37 HEAR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATED TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER THREE IF YOU
00:30:40 HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS ITEM PLEASE COME FORWARD TO THE
00:30:41 LECTERN AT THIS TIME. AND MADAM CHAIR IT APPEARS TO
00:30:44 HAVE NO SPEAKERS FOR THIS ITEM .
00:30:47 >> OKAY. PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM IS
00:30:48 NOW CLOSED. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION
00:30:51 THAT WE MOVE THIS ITEM FORWARD TO THE FULL BOARD WITH A
00:30:55 POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION PLEASE. >> THE MOTION OFFERED BY THE
00:30:56 CHAIR THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE RECOMMENDED TO THE BOARD OF
00:30:59 SUPERVISORS VICE CHAIR CHIN CHIN I REMEMBER MAHMOOD MAHMOOD
00:31:02 I CHAIR MELGAR I MELGAR I MET HIM TWO THERE ARE THREE EYES
00:31:06 THAT MOTION PASSES THANK YOU. >> LET'S GO TO ITEM NUMBER FOUR
00:31:10 PLEASE AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE
00:31:13 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE TO AUTHORIZE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES
00:31:16 COMMISSION TO PURCHASE UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE FROM CUSTOMERS
00:31:17 THAT THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION WOULD OTHERWISE BE
00:31:20 REQUIRED TO INSTALL SUBJECT TO SPECIFIED CONDITIONS.
00:31:24 >> OKAY. WE HAVE MR. O'NEILL BIJOY FROM
00:31:28 SUPERVISOR RANDALL MEANS OFFICE STAFF.
00:31:32 OH, GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU CHAIR MELGAR VICE
00:31:36 CHAIR CHAIR AND SUPERVISOR MAHMUD THIS IS RENO FROM
00:31:39 SUPERVISOR OR PRESIDENT GENTLEMAN'S OFFICE.
00:31:40 HE'S THE SPONSOR OF THIS ORDINANCE WHICH WOULD ALLOW THE
00:31:43 SPC TO CONNECT NEW CUSTOMERS MORE EFFICIENTLY AT LOWER COST
00:31:47 AND ALSO SUPPORT THE CITY'S ELECTRIFICATION GOALS.
00:31:51 >> IN 2021 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS GAVE THE PUC
00:31:54 AUTHORITY TO HAVE DEVELOPERS BUILD ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE
00:31:56 FOR THE PUC AND TURN IT OVER INSTEAD OF THE CITY DOING IT
00:32:00 ITSELF WHICH HAS PROVEN SINCE THEN TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY
00:32:03 AND REDUCE COST. >> THIS ORDINANCE WOULD EXTEND
00:32:07 THAT SAME APPROACH TO CUSTOMERS BUILDING FACILITIES WITH
00:32:11 SIGNIFICANT ELECTRICAL LOAD TO HAVE MAJOR PROJECTS UNDERWAY
00:32:14 BUT AREN'T COVERED BY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
00:32:15 IMPORTANTLY, THIS LEGISLATION WOULD RETAIN THE CITY'S COMMON
00:32:19 SENSE PROTECTIONS. ANY AGREEMENT MUST INCLUDE
00:32:22 PREVAILING WAGES LOCAL HIGHER NONDISCRIMINATION CONTRACTS
00:32:26 AND FIRST SOURCE HIRING. FURTHERMORE, THE PUC COULD ONLY
00:32:30 PAY LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO WHAT IT WOULD HAVE SPENT DOING THE
00:32:31 WORK ITSELF AND THE CITY WOULD ONLY TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THE
00:32:35 UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE AFTER TESTING AND INSPECTION.
00:32:38 WITH THAT I RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND I'LL PASS
00:32:41 IT OFF TO THE PUC TO GO INTO MORE DETAIL.
00:32:43 THANK YOU. >> SPALDING THANK YOU.
00:32:53 GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M CATHERINE SPALDING.
00:32:57 I'M A DEPUTY ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER AT THE SAN FRANCISCO
00:33:01 PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION POWER ENTERPRISE RESPONSIBLE
00:33:04 FOR POWER PLANNING AND CAPITAL DELIVERY.
00:33:09 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TODAY TO DISCUSS
00:33:12 THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE FOR THE PURCHASE OF ELECTRIC FACILITIES
00:33:16 AND THANK YOU TO BOARD PRESIDENT MANDELL MIN FOR
00:33:17 SPONSORING THIS LEGISLATION. >> THANK YOU SAN FRANCISCO'S
00:33:24 MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY HAD SUCH HIGH POWER PROVIDES 100%
00:33:27 GREENHOUSE GAS FREE ELECTRICITY AND IS ACTIVELY WORKING TO
00:33:32 SERVE NEW DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT ELECTRIFICATION TO
00:33:35 MEET THE CITY'S CLIMATE ACTION GOALS.
00:33:36 >> WE ARE EXPERIENCING A SIGNIFICANT SURGE IN DEMAND FOR
00:33:43 OUR ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE. AS THIS DEMAND GROWS IT IS
00:33:44 INCREASING CHALLENGING TO SERVE NEW CUSTOMERS ON THE TIMELINES
00:33:48 THEY NEED. THERE ARE LARGE LOAD CUSTOMERS
00:33:51 SEEKING HETCH HETCHY POWER SERVICE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE
00:33:55 TO SUPPORT MAJOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS ALREADY UNDERWAY ON
00:33:59 THEIR PROPERTIES. MANY OF THESE PRIVATE SECTOR
00:34:03 PARTNERS ARE ACCUSTOMED TO CONSTRUCTION TO CONSTRUCTING
00:34:06 INFRASTRUCTURE AND THEN TRANSFERRING THOSE FACILITIES
00:34:10 TO UTILITIES LIKE OURS FOR OWNERSHIP AND ONGOING
00:34:14 OPERATION. >> ONE EXAMPLE IS THE CORDIA
00:34:17 STEAM LOOP PROJECT. >> CORDIA IS TRANSITIONING FROM
00:34:21 GAS FIRED BOILERS TO CLEAN HETCH HETCHY POWER TO HEAT THE
00:34:25 SCENE HEAT THE STEAM THAT IS USED FOR SPACE AND WATER
00:34:29 HEATING IN MANY BUILDINGS IN THE DOWNTOWN AND CIVIC
00:34:33 CENTER AREAS. >> THIS IS A LARGE LOAD
00:34:36 AND REQUIRES A NEW ELECTRIC SUBSTATION IN ORDER TO SERVE
00:34:40 IT. FORTUNATELY CORDIA IS WILLING
00:34:41 TO CONSTRUCT THE NECESSARY ELECTRIC FACILITIES AS PART OF
00:34:46 THEIR LARGER CONSTRUCTION PROCESS AND THEN TRANSFER THE
00:34:49 FACILITIES TO THE SFP U.S. TO OWN AND OPERATE.
00:34:53 CORDIA IS ALSO MAKING REAL ESTATE AVAILABLE SO THAT WE CAN
00:34:57 SITE THE SUBSTATION AND THEY ARE ALSO WILLING TO ALLOW US TO
00:35:01 BUILD FACILITIES WITH EXTRA ELECTRICAL CAPACITY SO THAT WE
00:35:05 CAN SERVE OTHER CUSTOMERS WITH THIS NEW INFRASTRUCTURE.
00:35:08 >> IT WOULD BE MUCH MORE EXPEDIENT FOR US TO HAVE CORDIA
00:35:12 DO THE CONSTRUCTION RATHER THAN DOING OUR OWN CONTRACTING
00:35:16 AND IMPLEMENTING CONSTRUCTION IN PARALLEL WHICH IN ADDITION
00:35:20 TO A LOT OF OTHER INEFFICIENCIES COULD
00:35:24 ADDITIONALLY DISRUPT THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY.
00:35:27 >> AND WE ARE IN DISCUSSIONS WITH OTHER CUSTOMERS IN SIMILAR
00:35:31 SITUATIONS. CUSTOMERS WHO LIKE CORDIA NEED
00:35:35 TIMELY SERVICE AND ARE WILLING TO CONSTRUCT ELECTRIC
00:35:39 FACILITIES ON OUR BEHALF AND THEN TRANSFER THEM TO US
00:35:43 UPON COMPLETION. >> THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE WOULD
00:35:47 CAPTURE SUCH OPPORTUNITIES BY PROVIDING US WITH THE NEEDED
00:35:50 AUTHORIZATION TO CONTRACT WITH A CUSTOMER TO INSTALL
00:35:54 INFRASTRUCTURE ON OUR BEHALF AND THEN PURCHASE THOSE
00:35:55 FACILITIES. >> THIS FACILITATES EXISTING
00:35:59 CITY POLICY THAT WE PROVIDE ELECTRIC SERVICE TO ALL NEW
00:36:03 CUSTOMERS WHENEVER FEASIBLE. >> WITHOUT THIS AUTHORITY WE
00:36:07 MISS THE OPPORTUNITY TO CAPTURE THE EFFICIENCIES OF
00:36:10 CONSTRUCTION THAT IS ALREADY UNDERWAY AND BE RESPONSIVE TO
00:36:14 MARKET CONDITIONS. AND WITHOUT THIS AUTHORITY WE
00:36:18 MAY NOT BE ABLE TO MEET THE CUSTOMER'S TIMELINE FOR SERVICE
00:36:22 AND THUS WE RISK LOSING THEM ENTIRELY EITHER TO ANOTHER
00:36:26 UTILITY OR PERHAPS TO ANOTHER JURISDICTION.
00:36:29 >> THE PROPOSE AMENDMENT EXPANDS THE EXISTING AUTHORITY
00:36:35 AND THE ADMIN CODE AS YOU JUST HEARD IN THE INTRODUCTORY
00:36:39 REMARKS. IN 2021 THE BOARD ADDED SECTION
00:36:44 99.5 AND UNDER THIS LAW THE PUC MAY CONTRACT WITH DEVELOPERS TO
00:36:48 INSTALL ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THE PUC WOULD OTHERWISE
00:36:52 BUILD. THIS HAS ALLOWED PROJECTS WITH
00:36:55 THOSE AGREEMENTS TO PROCEED MUCH MORE EFFICIENTLY BY
00:36:56 COORDINATE INFRASTRUCTURE INSTALLATION WITH ONGOING
00:37:00 CONSTRUCTION. >> BUT CURRENTLY THIS AUTHORITY
00:37:04 IS LIMITED JUST TO PROJECTS THAT ARE PART OF FORMAL
00:37:08 DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS ALREADY APPROVED BY THE CITY.
00:37:12 >> THIS PROPOSED AMENDMENT WOULD EXTEND THIS AUTHORITY TO
00:37:16 ALLOW PSC TO CONTRACT TO PURCHASE FROM OTHER CUSTOMERS.
00:37:20 >> THIS NEW PROPOSED AUTHORITY WOULD ONLY BE APPROPRIATE WHEN
00:37:24 CUSTOMERS HAVE THESE LARGE LOADS TRIGGERING THE NEED FOR
00:37:28 SIGNIFICANT INFRASTRUCTURE AND WOULD ONLY BE APPROPRIATE
00:37:31 WHEN THESE CUSTOMERS HAVE THE ABILITY AND WILLINGNESS TO
00:37:35 CONSTRUCT SUCH INFRASTRUCTURE ON PEW'S HALF PUC'S BEHALF TO
00:37:40 OUR STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS.
00:37:46 >> THE PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE 99.5 AUTHORITY WOULD RETAIN
00:37:50 ALL OF THE SAME IMPORTANT CONDITIONS AND PROTECTIONS
00:37:54 UNDER THE EXISTING AUTHORITY. >> THE PUC WOULD HAVE
00:37:57 AUTHORIZATION TO PURCHASE CUSTOMER INSTALLED FACILITIES
00:38:01 ONLY UNDER SOME VERY SPECIFIC CONDITIONS THAT IT WOULDN'T
00:38:05 CREATE ANY ADDITIONAL COSTS. >> WE HAVE CLEAR LABOR EXCUSE
00:38:09 ME WE HAVE CLEAR AGREEMENTS ON RESPONSIBILITIES AND SCOPE WITH
00:38:13 THE CUSTOMER. >> ALL CITY EQUITY, LABOR,
00:38:17 LOCAL ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP PATIENT REQUIREMENTS ARE MET.
00:38:21 >> SPECIFICALLY NONDESCRIPT ANATION AND CONTRACTS
00:38:26 PREVAILING WAGES UTILIZATION OF LOCAL BUSINESS ENTERPRISES,
00:38:30 PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS AND LOCAL HIRING.
00:38:34 >> OTHER CONDITIONS ARE THAT THE FACILITIES WOULD BE OWNED
00:38:38 BY THE CITY AND CONSTRUCTION IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL CITY
00:38:42 RULES AND APPLICABLE CODES. >> IMPORTANTLY, JUST AS WITH
00:38:46 THE EXISTING 99.5 AUTHORITY THE CITY MAINTAINS CONTROL
00:38:49 AND ACCOUNTABLE FOR OUTCOMES. >> ALL WORK IS DONE SUBJECT TO
00:38:54 OUR REVIEW AND APPROVAL AND MUST ADHERE TO OUR STRICT
00:38:57 DESIGN AND ENGINEERING STANDARDS.
00:39:01 >> WE WOULD HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO INSPECT, REJECT, AUDIT
00:39:05 AND WITHHOLD PAYMENT FOR ANY NON-COMPLIANT WORK.
00:39:09 >> TO CONCLUDE WE BELIEVE THIS PROPOSED AMENDMENT IS IN THE
00:39:13 PUBLIC INTEREST. IT WOULD MAKE US PREPARED
00:39:16 AND COMMERCIALLY READY TO ACT. >> WE WOULD BE ABLE TO REDUCE
00:39:20 DELAYS AND ENABLE MORE FLEXIBLE AND TIMELY PROJECT DELIVERY
00:39:24 LEADING TO A LARGER CUSTOMER AND RATE BASE SOONER SUPPORTING
00:39:28 LARGE SCALE ELECTRIFIED NATION EFFORTS ACROSS THE CITY.
00:39:32 >> ADVANCING THE CITY'S DECARBONIZATION AND AND HOUSING
00:39:37 DENSITY GOALS DELIVERING INFRASTRUCTURE MORE EFFICIENTLY
00:39:41 AND AT A LOWER COST THAN WHAT THE CITY COULD OTHERWISE
00:39:44 PROVIDE DUE TO UTILIZING CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES THAT ARE
00:39:48 ALREADY UNDERWAY ALL THE WHILE STILL MAINTAINING OUR CITY
00:39:52 EQUITY, LABOR AND LOCAL ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION
00:39:55 STANDARDS. THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
00:39:57 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> REALLY, REALLY GREAT.
00:40:00 THANK YOU SO MUCH. PLEASE ADD ME AS A CO-SPONSOR.
00:40:05 THIS IS REALLY SIGNIFICANT AND IMPACTFUL.
00:40:09 SUPERVISOR CHEN THANK YOU CHAIR MALKA.
00:40:15 I APPRECIATE THE PUC'S COMMITMENT TO DELIVER A NEEDED
00:40:18 ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE IN A TIMELY WAY.
00:40:19 I DON'T TAKE ANY POLICY DECISION THAT STREAMLINED
00:40:22 PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PROCUREMENT PROCESS LIGHTLY SUCH AS
00:40:26 EXEMPTING AGREEMENTS FROM CHAPTER SIX AND 21.
00:40:30 I SEE THAT UNDER THIS LEGISLATURE AND THE CITY
00:40:34 SPECIFIES THAT THE CONTRACTOR MUST HAVE THE NECESSARY
00:40:37 QUALIFICATION AND RETAINS THE ABILITY TO REJECT BITS
00:40:41 AND CONTRACTS FOR CONSTRUCTION THAT DO NOT MEET PRICE QUALITY
00:40:45 AND SCOPE SPECIFICATIONS. THE ORDINANCE ALSO REQUIRES
00:40:49 AGREEMENTS TO INCLUDE WORKFORCE PROTECTION SUCH AS PREVAILING
00:40:50 WAGE NONDISCRIMINATION NONDISCRIMINATION, LOCAL HIRE
00:40:57 AND FIRST CHOICE HIRING BECAUSE THIS AUTHORITY IS INTENT IT TO
00:41:01 FACILITATE CONNECTIONS OF SERVICES ONLY FOR SPECIFIC
00:41:05 PROJECTS WHERE THE TIMING TO DELIVER INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS TO
00:41:06 BE ALIGNED WITH CONSTRUCTION TIMELINE TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY
00:41:12 . >> I BELIEVE THE ORDINANCE IS A
00:41:13 REASONABLE EXTENSION OF EXISTING AUTHORITY.
00:41:16 >> SO I'M SUPPORTING THE RESOLUTION.
00:41:17 THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
00:41:20 THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR. LET'S GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT ON
00:41:21 THIS ITEM PLEASE. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
00:41:24 LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION WHEN I HEAR PUBLIC COMMENT
00:41:27 RELATED TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOUR IF YOU HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT
00:41:28 FOR THIS ITEM PLEASE COME FORWARD TO THE LECTERN AT THIS
00:41:32 TIME AND IF YOU'RE WAITING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK YOU CAN
00:41:33 LINE UP TO SPEAK ALONG THAT WESTERN WALL I'M POINTING OUT
00:41:36 WITH MY LEFT HAND PLEASE COME FORWARD.
00:41:39 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS BRENDAN GREEN
00:41:40 REPRESENTING THE ELECTRICIANS OF IBEW LOCAL SIX AND WE
00:41:44 STRONGLY SUPPORT THIS ITEM AS IF YOU SEE HAS MADE CLEAR THAT
00:41:47 ELECTRICAL DEMAND IS GROWING RAPIDLY REQUIRING NEW
00:41:50 SUBSTATIONS AND MAJOR GRID UPGRADES ACROSS THE CITY.
00:41:51 THIS ORDINANCE IS A PRACTICAL SOLUTION THAT ALLOWS NEEDED
00:41:55 INFRASTRUCTURE TO BE BUILT WITH LARGER DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
00:41:58 AND INTEGRATED INTO THE CITY'S SYSTEM HELPING AVOID DELAYS
00:42:02 AND KEEPING PACE WITH GROWTH. THIS WORK IS HIGHLY SKILLED
00:42:03 TECHNICAL ESSENTIAL TO BUILDING A MODERN ELECTRIFIED CITY.
00:42:07 OUR UNION ELECTRICIANS ARE TRAINED TO LICENSE AND HELD TO
00:42:11 THE HIGHEST STANDARDS WITH CITY OVERSIGHT AND INSPECTION
00:42:14 ENSURING QUALITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
00:42:15 JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, THIS POLICY PRESERVES EQUITY, LABOR
00:42:18 AND LOCAL PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS SO THAT GROWTH
00:42:19 BENEFITS SAN FRANCISCO WORKERS AND COMMUNITIES.
00:42:23 WE RESPECTFULLY URGE YOU TO MOVE THIS ITEM FORWARD WITH A
00:42:26 POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:42:27 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. >> THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
00:42:30 GOOD AFTERNOON. SUPERVISORS AND STAFF ALBERTO
00:42:34 GONZALES AT THE SAN FRANCISCO BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION
00:42:35 TRADES ASSOCIATED MYSELF WITH BRENDAN GREEN'S COMMENTS.
00:42:39 WE THINK THIS IS A SMART POLICY.
00:42:40 YOU KNOW A LOT OF US HAS BEEN THROWN OUT IN THE PUBLIC SPACE
00:42:43 AROUND PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS.
00:42:46 WE THINK THIS IS ACTUALLY A GREAT MODEL FOR THAT.
00:42:47 THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION HAS A SHORT TERM AND MID-TERM
00:42:50 AND A LONG TERM PLAN IN TERMS OF THEIR CAPITAL OUTLAY.
00:42:53 AND WE THINK THAT THIS INTEGRATES VERY WELL.
00:42:56 IT ALSO IS IMPORTANT TO DOWNTOWN'S RECOVERY.
00:42:57 I DON'T THINK MANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC OR EVEN REGULATORS
00:43:00 FULLY APPRECIATE THE SCOPE OF THE STEAM LOOP SYSTEM AND HOW
00:43:04 IT IS YOU KNOW, FOR DECADES AND DECADES AND GENERATIONS
00:43:07 PROVIDED ALREADY A CARBON NEUTRAL OPPORTUNITY.
00:43:11 BUT WITH THE ELECTRIFICATION OF THE BOILER ROOMS WHERE YOU
00:43:14 ACTUALLY PRODUCE THE STEAM ITSELF.
00:43:15 WE CAN REALLY PUSH OUR GOALS FORWARD IN TERMS OF OUR CLIMATE
00:43:19 ACTION PLAN AND CREATE GOOD SKILLED WORK OPPORTUNITIES.
00:43:23 SO YOU THINK ABOUT THE PRE APPRENTICES YOU COME CELEBRATE
00:43:24 WITH SYSTEMS WITH TOOLS AND CITY BUILD AND ALL THESE
00:43:27 GREAT YOUNG SAN FRANCISCANS FROM ALL DIFFERENT LIFESTYLES
00:43:30 WHO WANT TO GET INTO THE SKILLED TRADES AND FIND
00:43:32 EMPLOYMENT IN OUR CAREER PATHS .
00:43:34 THESE ARE THE KIND OF PROJECTS THAT WILL MOVE THOSE FORWARD
00:43:36 AND POSITION US FOR MORE HOUSING PRODUCTION, MORE OFFICE
00:43:38 AND OTHER ECONOMIC ACTIVITY DOWNTOWN.
00:43:42 WE'RE EXCITED THAT IT'S CORDIA FRANKLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE
00:43:46 SKILL SET, THE QUALIFICATIONS AND OFTENTIMES WE'RE THE FIRST
00:43:49 ONES TO CALL FOUL WHEN THERE'S SOME SOLE SOURCE OPPORTUNITY OR
00:43:52 SOMETHING LIKE THAT. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL.
00:43:53 THEY ARE QUALIFIED. THEY'RE READY TO GO AND THEY'VE
00:43:57 ALREADY HAVE A TRACK RECORD WITH THE PUC.
00:43:58 SO WE FULLY SUPPORT THEM AND WE'D LIKE TO THANK
00:44:01 PRESIDENT MANDELSON FOR HIS LEADERSHIP SPONSORING AND THANK
00:44:02 YOU FOR ADDING YOURSELF. >> MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU FOR
00:44:05 YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLACE.
00:44:08 >> GOOD AFTERNOON CHAIR MELGAR AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
00:44:12 MY NAME IS MIKE YERKES AND I'M ACTUALLY A GENERAL MANAGER OF
00:44:14 ENERGY CENTER SAN FRANCISCO AND WE'VE OPERATED THE DISTRICT
00:44:16 THEME SYSTEM FOR DECADES HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO SERVING OVER
00:44:22 37,000,000FT2 OF BUILDINGS ACROSS 185 AND SORRY
00:44:27 37,000,000FT2 ACROSS 185 BUILDINGS.
00:44:28 SO IN 2000 2440 ACTUALLY ACQUIRED A STEAM LOOP FROM THE
00:44:31 CIVIC CENTER RIGHT OUT HERE IN FRONT OF CITY HALL HELPING
00:44:36 TO SERVICE BUILDINGS LIKE CITY HALL MAIN LIBRARY AND THE
00:44:39 COURTHOUSE. WE ARE ACTIVELY WORKING TO
00:44:40 CONVERT OUR SYSTEM FROM GAS TO ELECTRIC STEAM GENERATORS A
00:44:44 LARGE UNDERTAKING THAT MARRIED LARRY'S UPDATED 2026 CLIMATE
00:44:47 ACTION PLAN SPECIFICALLY CALLS OUT THIS LEGISLATION WILL ALLOW
00:44:52 KOREA AND APAC TO ACT AS A UNIFIED TEAM TO DO JUST THAT BY
00:44:56 AUTHORIZING THE PUC TO PURCHASE INFRASTRUCTURE WE INSTALL
00:44:59 DURING OUR OWN CONSTRUCTION WE CAN MOVE FASTER AND MORE
00:45:03 EFFICIENTLY. THIS ISN'T JUST FOR US.
00:45:04 UNDER THIS ORDINANCE WE CAN WORK WITH THE PUC TO BUILD AN
00:45:07 ADDITIONAL CAPACITY WHEN KOREA BUILDS A STRUCTURE TO ELECTRIFY
00:45:10 OUR SYSTEM. WE CAN INSTALL THE ADDITIONAL
00:45:14 INFRASTRUCTURE THE PUC NEEDS TO SERVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
00:45:17 AND IN ADDITION TO SERVING THESE NEIGHBORHOODS, WE'RE
00:45:19 EXCITED TO BRING MORE WORK FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE.
00:45:21 COURT REMAINS COMMITTED TO PREVAILING WAGES LOCAL HIRE
00:45:25 AND FIRST SOURCE HIRING. LET'S WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE SAN
00:45:26 FRANCISCO A NATIONAL MODEL FOR URBAN ELECTRIFICATION.
00:45:30 SO WE STRONGLY URGE YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS LEGISLATION.
00:45:33 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
00:45:34 DO WE HAVE ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS PUBLIC COMMENT FOR AGENDA ITEM
00:45:37 NUMBER FOUR? MADAM CHAIR, PUBLIC COMMENT IS
00:45:40 NOW CLOSED. >> I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A
00:45:44 MOTION THAT WE SEND THIS ITEM FORWARD WITH A POSITIVE
00:45:48 RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL BOARD ON OUR MOTION OFFERED BY
00:45:51 THE CHAIR THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE RECOMMENDED TO THE BOARD OF
00:45:53 SUPERVISORS VICE CHAIR CHEN CHEN.
00:45:56 I REMEMBER MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I CHAIR MELGAR I MELGAR I MEAN
00:46:00 I'M SURE THERE ARE THREE EYES THAT MOTION PASSES.
00:46:03 LET'S GO TO ITEM NUMBER FIVE PLEASE GENDA ITEM NUMBER FIVE
00:46:07 IS AN ORDINANCE AMENDING DIVISION ONE OF THE
00:46:08 TRANSPORTATION CODE TO AUTHORIZE THE DIRECTOR OF
00:46:11 TRANSPORTATION TO APPROVE TEMPORARY STREET USE PERMITS
00:46:14 UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES AMENDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE
00:46:16 CODE TO AUTHORIZE THE DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION TO APPROVE
00:46:19 CERTAIN STREET CLOSURES PROPOSED BY COMMUNITY BENEFITS
00:46:23 DISTRICTS UNDER THE DOWNTOWN ENTERTAINMENT EVENT ACTIVATION
00:46:26 PROGRAM AND AFFIRMING THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S SECRET
00:46:29 DETERMINATION. >> OKAY, THANK YOU.
00:46:30 WE HAVE SEVERAL PRESENTERS AND I THINK THEY SHOULD START
00:46:35 WITH BEN. >> WELCOME.
00:46:40 THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:46:41 CHAIR MELGAR VICE CHAIR CHEN WE HAVE A POWERPOINT TO BRING UP
00:46:44 BUT BEN VAN OUTEN, DIRECTOR OF NIGHTLIFE INITIATIVES AT THE
00:46:48 OFFICE OF ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
00:46:51 JOINED HERE BY HAVA KRONENBERG FROM S.F. MTA AND KATIE TANG
00:46:55 FROM THE OFFICE OF SMALL BUSINESS WHO WILL ALSO BE
00:46:56 SPEAKING AS PART OF THIS PRESENTATION.
00:46:59 THIS IS IMPORTANT LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE THE SPECIAL EVENT
00:47:03 PERMITTING PROCESS THAT WAS INTRODUCED BY MAYOR LURIE WITH
00:47:07 CO-SPONSORS PRESIDENT MANDELL MANY SUPERVISORS WONG MAHMUD
00:47:08 SAUDER AND DORSEY. >> AND BEFORE I JUMP INTO THE
00:47:11 SUBSTANCE OF IT I DID WANT TO NOTE WE ARE REQUESTING THAT THE
00:47:15 FILE BE DUPLICATED AND HAVE CIRCULATED THE DUPLICATE WITH
00:47:19 SOME TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS AND I HAVE IS EQUIPPED TO SPEAK TO
00:47:22 THAT AS WELL. OKAY NEXT SLIDE.
00:47:29 >> SO THIS LEGISLATION IS PART OF THE PERMIT SRF INITIATIVE
00:47:34 PROMOTE SRF AIMS TO DRIVE MEANINGFUL REFORM THROUGH
00:47:37 STRUCTURAL CHANGES MAKING IT EASIER AND MORE COST EFFECTIVE
00:47:41 ,TRANSPARENT AND EFFICIENT FOR BUSINESSES AND PROPERTY OWNERS
00:47:42 TO SECURE THE PERMITS THEY NEED.
00:47:45 I WILL SAY FROM THE EXPERIENCE WE'VE HAD WORKING ALONGSIDE
00:47:48 FOLKS DOING SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL EVENTS CAN BE COMPLEX
00:47:49 FOR BOTH EVENT ORGANIZERS AND CITY STAFF AND I'M EXCITED
00:47:56 ABOUT THE WORK HAPPENING HERE TOO TO IMPROVE THE PROCESS
00:47:57 AND TO WORK ACROSS DEPARTMENTS TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR
00:48:00 ORGANIZERS AND FOR CITY STAFF ALIKE.
00:48:03 THE GOAL HERE TODAY IS TO SIMPLIFY A SPECIAL EVENT
00:48:05 PERMITTING FOR STREET CLOSURES BY ALLOWING THE ADMINISTRATIVE
00:48:08 PERMIT ISSUANCE BY SFM TO FOR CERTAIN SPECIAL EVENTS
00:48:12 ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR THESE SPECIAL EVENTS TO GO TO THE
00:48:16 ESCORT COMMITTEE FOR APPROVAL. ALL OF THE RELEVANT PERMITS
00:48:19 WILL CONTINUE TO BE REVIEWED BY THE RESPECTIVE DEPARTMENTS SO
00:48:23 FIRE PD, EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS WILL STILL BE
00:48:27 INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS IN ORDER TO GET ADMINISTRATIVE
00:48:31 PERMIT APPROVAL AN EVENT MUST MEET THESE REQUIREMENTS SPELLED
00:48:35 OUT ON THE SLIDE B CONTAINED WITHIN THREE BLOCKS KEEP
00:48:38 INTERSECTIONS OPEN AND NOT REQUIRE THE REROUTING OF ANY
00:48:42 MUNI VEHICLES. >> THIS AS A RESULT OF THIS
00:48:50 PROPOSAL. THIS WOULD IMPROVE THE
00:48:53 APPLICANT EXPERIENCE BY ELIMINATING THE NEED TO ATTEND
00:48:56 AND PRESENT AT THE ESCORT HEARINGS A COUPLE TIMES A
00:48:57 MONTH. IT'LL EXPEDITE SPECIAL EVENT
00:49:00 PERMITTING REVIEW THROUGH THE SUMMER ADMINISTRATIVE PERMIT
00:49:04 ISSUANCE AND WILL ALSO SHORTEN ESCORT HEARINGS TO FOCUS ON
00:49:05 COMPLEX SPECIAL EVENTS THAT DO REQUIRE ADDITIONAL COORDINATION
00:49:09 AND PUBLIC INPUT. AND I THINK THIS QUOTE FROM
00:49:13 CAROLYN THOMAS ABOUT THIS BLOCK PARTY EXPERIENCE IS REALLY
00:49:16 VALUABLE FOR SPECIAL EVENT PRODUCERS, ESPECIALLY SMALLER
00:49:20 SCALE EVENTS THAT THE TIME IS REALLY AS IMPORTANT AS THE
00:49:24 MONEY AND SO THE ABILITY TO HAVE THAT TIME BACK TO TO FOCUS
00:49:28 ON PRODUCING EVENTS AS OPPOSED TO ATTENDING THESE HEARINGS
00:49:31 WHEN IT'S NOT NECESSARY THAT IS MEANINGFUL REFORM TO HELP EVENT
00:49:35 PRODUCERS ACROSS THE CITY. WITH THAT I WILL HAND IT OVER
00:49:38 TO OTHER THANK YOU SO A KRONENBOURG S.F. MTA SO VERY
00:49:45 BRIEFLY AND CURRENTLY ESCORT TAKES ALL TEMPORARY STREET
00:49:49 CLOSURES AND HERE'S THEM. >> THIS WILL SEND ABOUT 80 TO
00:49:52 90% AT OUR ESTIMATE THROUGH THIS ADMINISTRATIVE PERMIT
00:49:56 ISSUANCE JUST AS SOME ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES ABOUT
00:50:01 WHAT WOULD BE NOT QUALIFIED FROM OUR LAST ESCORT AGENDA.
00:50:05 SO WE HAVE FILLMORE JAZZ SO THAT HAS A TRANSIT IMPACT.
00:50:09 IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN QUALIFIED A SHARED SPACE
00:50:10 PERMIT, AN ATHLETIC EVENT AND TWO EVENTS GREATER THAN
00:50:13 THREE BLOCKS. >> BUT ALL THE OTHERS WHICH ARE
00:50:16 MOSTLY COMMUNITY BLOCK PARTIES WOULD HAVE BEEN ELIGIBLE FOR
00:50:18 THIS ADMINISTRATE OF PERMIT ISSUANCE AND SO WE'RE EXCITED
00:50:22 TO SEE THESE PEOPLE GET THEIR PERMITS FAST AND TO HAVE THE
00:50:25 GREAT EVENTS THAT THEY'RE ALL PLANNING.
00:50:29 >> SO PASSING IT BACK AND I'LL PROBABLY BE BACK SO ALL RIGHT.
00:50:35 GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS KATIE TANG HERE TODAY WEARING
00:50:38 MY HAT ON THE PERMIT S.F. LEADERSHIP TEAM.
00:50:39 THIS CHANGE COMES AT A TIME WHERE WE'VE ALSO LAUNCHED A
00:50:43 COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO A NEW PERMITTING SYSTEM ALSO CALLED
00:50:46 PERMIT S.F. WHERE NOW EVENT ORGANIZERS HAVE A PLACE WHERE
00:50:51 THEY CAN SUBMIT THEIR INTAKE FORMS AND LEARN UPFRONT WHAT
00:50:55 PERMITS THAT THEY NEED FROM ALL THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS
00:50:56 ALONGSIDE THIS ALL THE DEPARTMENTS NOW HAVE VISIBILITY
00:51:00 I WOULD SAY IMPROVED VISIBILITY FOR SOME DEPARTMENTS THAT HAD
00:51:03 TO WAIT FOR THE ESCORT HEARINGS AND NOW THEY CAN SEE ALL THE
00:51:06 INFORMATION IN REAL TIME COMMUNICATE WITH APPLICANTS IF
00:51:10 THERE'S ANY MISSING INFORMATION AND SO THEY NO LONGER HAVE TO
00:51:12 AS A RESULT OF THIS NEW PERMIT S.F. PLATFORM WAIT FOR A
00:51:15 HEARING TO ACTUALLY INTERACT AND ALSO TO LET THE EVENT
00:51:21 ORGANIZERS KNOW WHAT REQUIREMENTS THAT THEY NEED.
00:51:25 OUR GOAL HAS BEEN TO GET EVENT ORGANIZERS THE INFORMATION ON
00:51:30 FRONT LOADED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE SO THAT THEY CAN BEST
00:51:33 PREPARE WHETHER IT'S A DIFFERENT REQUIREMENT OR A NEW
00:51:36 COST THAT THEY NEED TO BEAR FOR THE EVENT.
00:51:38 SO WE COULDN'T BE MORE HAPPY THAT THIS LEGISLATIVE CHANGE IS
00:51:41 COMING AT THE SAME TIME THAT WE HAVE THIS NEW SYSTEM IN PLACE
00:51:45 AND WE REALLY WANT TO THINK AS A FIRM TO FOR THEIR PARTNERSHIP
00:51:48 AND COLLABORATION ON THIS EFFORT RIGHT.
00:51:56 >> OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
00:51:57 OKAY. THANK YOU.
00:51:59 DIRECTOR TANG. I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL
00:52:01 VERY MUCH FOR THIS. I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY
00:52:04 AWESOME PARTICULARLY FOR THE SMALL ORGANIZATIONS AND SEE
00:52:07 THESE THE YOU KNOW, LITTLE GUYS FOR WHOM THIS IS ALWAYS A
00:52:11 HEADACHE EVEN THOUGH IT HAPPENS EVERY TIME THAT THEY DIVERGE
00:52:18 HERE. BUT IT'S SO COMPLICATED.
00:52:19 SO I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE SUPPORTING STREET LIFE AND YOU
00:52:22 KNOW THE LIFE OF OUR CITY AS IT HAPPENS THE MOMENTS OF JOY WHEN
00:52:26 PEOPLE COME TOGETHER ON OUR STREETS IN MAKING IT FASTER,
00:52:30 EASIER AND SIMPLER SO THANK YOU SO MUCH SUPERVISOR CHEN THANK
00:52:37 YOU CHAIR AND GIRL AND OUR CITY HOSTESS OF LARGE NUMBER OF
00:52:39 COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC EVENTS AND WE HAVE OUR FAIR SHARES
00:52:44 IN THIS SHOW 11 IT'S ONE OF THE MANY QUALITIES THAT MAKE SAN
00:52:45 FRANCISCO UNIQUE AND CULTURALLY RICH.
00:52:48 I AM VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE EFFORT THAT WILL SIMPLIFY THE
00:52:52 PROCESS FOR APPLICANTS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH A CLEAR
00:52:53 ROADMAP OUT OF ALL FEEDS AND REQUIREMENTS OF FUN IN THE
00:52:57 PROCESS. I KNOW THAT THIS LEGISLATION
00:53:00 WILL ALSO REDUCE THE BUREAUCRATIC PROCEDURES
00:53:04 INTERNALLY FOR THE CITY DEPARTMENTS.
00:53:05 OF COURSE I'M ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT REDUCING PUBLIC OVERSIGHT
00:53:08 OR POLICIES THAT WILL UNDERMINE OUR EQUITY GOALS.
00:53:12 HOWEVER, THIS LEGISLATION DOES NOT DO THAT.
00:53:13 SO I WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT IT AND ALSO PLEASE ME AS A
00:53:17 CO-SPONSOR. THANK YOU.
00:53:19 OKAY. THANK YOU.
00:53:24 SUPERVISOR LET'S GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM PLEASE.
00:53:28 >> MR. CLERK THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.
00:53:29 LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION OUT HERE PUBLIC COMMENT RELATED TO
00:53:31 AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FIVE. TEMPORARY STREET USE PERMITS
00:53:32 AND CLOSURES IF YOU HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS ITEM PLEASE
00:53:35 SIGN UP TO SPEAK ALONG THAT WALL AND THEN THE FIRST SPEAKER
00:53:38 CAN COME FORWARD TO THE LECTERN AT THIS TIME.
00:53:41 >> THANK YOU. MY NAME IS JILL LYNWOOD.
00:53:45 I WORK WITH YERBA BUENA PARTNERSHIP WHICH IS THE
00:53:49 COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT OF YOUR PROPERTY NOW I'M HERE TO
00:53:53 SAY THAT WE ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORT STREAMLINING THE PERMIT
00:53:57 PROCESS. >> WE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WHICH
00:54:00 IS DENSE WITH SMALL AND LARGE BUSINESSES WERE ABLE TO HOST
00:54:07 BOTH SMALL AND LARGE EVENTS AND REMOVING THE TIME CHALLENGE
00:54:14 AND SOMETIMES DAUNTING PROCESS OF THE ESCORT HEARINGS WE THINK
00:54:19 WILL ENCOURAGE EVEN MORE EVENTS DOWNTOWN.
00:54:23 SO THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING US .
00:54:26 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
00:54:30 >> THANK YOU. CHAIR MELGAR VICE CHAIR CHEN
00:54:34 SUPERVISOR MAHMUD MY NAME IS SIMON BERTRAND EXECUTIVE
00:54:38 DIRECTOR OF S.F. NEW DEAL AND I'M SPEAKING IN FAVOR OF
00:54:39 THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE AS A NEW DEAL IS A NONPROFIT DEDICATED
00:54:43 TO STRENGTHENING NEIGHBORHOODS BY MAKING IT EASIER FOR SMALL
00:54:46 BUSINESSES TO SUCCEED. OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS WE'VE
00:54:50 DISBURSED OVER $58.8 MILLION TO 2400 SMALL BUSINESSES IN ALL 11
00:54:55 DISTRICTS AS HAVE NEW DEAL SUPPORTS PERMIT S.F. IN GENERAL
00:55:00 AND THIS ITEM SPECIFICALLY WE WANT TO SUPPORT ALL THE WAYS
00:55:04 THAT THE OFFICE OF SMALL BUSINESS AND THE OFFICE OF
00:55:05 ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND THE OTHER CITY
00:55:08 AGENCIES ARE LOOKING TO MAKE PERMITS EASIER, CHEAPER FOR
00:55:12 SMALL BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO NAVIGATE.
00:55:13 WE SUPPORT ALLOWING APPROVAL OF RELATIVELY SIMPLE STREET
00:55:16 FESTIVALS THREE BLOCKS OR SMALLER NO MUNI OR INTERSECTION
00:55:19 CLOSURES TO BE APPROVED THROUGH ADMINISTRATIVE PERMIT AND NOT
00:55:23 REQUIRING COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO VISIT ESCORT FOR APPROVAL.
00:55:26 THIS WOULD MEAN A DRAMATIC REDUCTION IN TIME AND EFFORT
00:55:30 FOR ALMOST 80 TO 90% OF APPLICANTS FOR STREET FESTIVALS
00:55:34 SUPPORTING THE CONTINUED REVITALIZATION OF OUR
00:55:37 NEIGHBORHOODS AND BENEFITING COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS AND SMALL
00:55:38 BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT THE CITY .
00:55:40 THANK YOU. I URGE THE COMMITTEE TO ADVANCE
00:55:42 THIS LEGISLATION TO THE FULL BOARD WITH A POSITIVE
00:55:44 RECOMMENDATION. THANK YOU FOR COMING.
00:55:48 SO THE NEXT BIG PLACE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:55:51 LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE GRIFFIN LEE HERE
00:55:55 REPRESENTING CONNECTED S.F. STAFF AND MEMBERSHIP.
00:55:59 >> WE ARE CERTAINLY GENERALLY SUPPORTIVE OF DOWNTOWN RECOVERY
00:56:03 AND THE ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION OF OUR BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN.
00:56:07 VERY SUPPORTIVE OF REVITALIZING SMALL BUSINESSES
00:56:10 AND STREAMLINING PERMITTING PROCESSES THROUGH PERMIT S.F..
00:56:14 >> I DO HAVE ONE QUESTION THOUGH IN THE CODE OR IN THE
00:56:18 LEGISLATION IT STATES UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES WHAT ARE
00:56:22 THOSE CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES? I KNOW YOU PROBABLY CAN'T
00:56:29 ANSWER ON THE SPOT HERE BUT IT'D BE HELPFUL TO GET THAT
00:56:32 PHRASE DETAILED OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE.
00:56:33 UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:56:37 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. DO WE HAVE ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS
00:56:41 PUBLIC COMMENT FOR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FIVE?
00:56:42 MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU SO MUCH. ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT
00:56:46 HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONNECT WITH
00:56:50 STAFF AFTER THIS MEETING TO GET THOSE QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
00:56:54 PLEASE ADD MY NAME AS A CO-SPONSOR OF PUBLIC COMMENT ON
00:56:58 THIS ITEM IS NOW CLOSED AND I WILL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE
00:57:01 FORWARD THIS ITEM WITH A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION TO THE
00:57:05 FULL BOARD. >> MADAM CHAIR.
00:57:08 >> OH I'M SORRY. YES.
00:57:09 WE NEED TO DUPLICATE THE FILE. >> THAT'S RIGHT.
00:57:12 WELL, LET'S DUPLICATE THE FILE AND THERE IS AN AMENDMENT TO
00:57:20 THE DUPLICATED FILE THAT I NEED TO MAKE SO YOU CIRCULATED THIS.
00:57:24 DID YOU SET IT ELECTRONIC TO MY COLLEAGUES OR.
00:57:28 OKAY. THE DUPLICATED FILE HAS IN ITS
00:57:31 YOU DIDN'T READ THIS INTO THE RECORD SO THE DUPLICATED FILE
00:57:38 HAS IN LINE THREE TO REORGANIZE PROVISIONS GOVERNING THE
00:57:42 INTERDEPARTMENTAL STAFF COMMITTEE ON TRAFFIC
00:57:46 IN TRANSPORTATION. I SEE IT AS A CHANGE IN THE
00:57:48 DESCRIPTION. >> SO YOU'RE MOVING THAT
00:57:53 AMENDMENT TO A DUPLICATE VERSION OF THE FILE?
00:57:55 YES. AND I GUESS WE CAN DO IT IN ONE
00:57:59 MOTION AND ALSO CONTINUE THAT TO THE CALL UP THE CHAIR TWO
00:58:06 MOTIONS OFFERED THEY ARE TO AMEND AMENDED DUPLICATE VERSION
00:58:11 OF THE ORDINANCE AS PRESENTED AND THEN CONTINUE THE
00:58:14 DUPLICATED VERSION AS AMENDED TO THE CALL.
00:58:17 THE CHAIR BOTH OF THEM ARE OFFERED BY THE CHAIR ON THAT
00:58:19 PAIR OF MOTIONS. VICE CHAIR CHIN CHEN I REMEMBER
00:58:22 MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I CHAIR MELGAR I MELGAR I AND I'M SURE THERE
00:58:27 ARE THREE EYES ON EACH OF THOSE TWO MOTIONS.
00:58:29 >> OKAY THANK YOU. NOW THE ORIGINAL LEGISLATION AN
00:58:33 AMENDED THAT I WILL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE MOVE THAT
00:58:41 FORWARD WITH A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL
00:58:42 BOARD ON THE MOTION OFFERED BY THE CHAIR THAT THE ORDINANCE BE
00:58:45 RECOMMENDED TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS VICE CHAIR CHEN
00:58:48 CHEN I WOULD LIKE WOULD I CHAIR MELGAR I MALKA I MADAM CHAIR
00:58:55 THREE EYES ON THAT MOTION AS WELL.
00:58:56 >> THANK YOU ALL. >> LET'S GO TO ITEM NUMBER SIX
00:58:59 PLEASE MR. CLERK JUST ONE MOMENT.
00:59:05 >> AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SIX IS AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE HOUSING
00:59:11 CODE TO REVISE QUALIFICATIONS AND DEADLINES FOR CONDUCTING
00:59:14 STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE INSPECTIONS AND AFFIRMING THE
00:59:17 PLANNING DEPARTMENT SQUARE DETERMINATION.
00:59:20 OKAY, WE HAVE CHRISTINE CASPER HERE TO PRESENT FOR DEBBIE.
00:59:31 WELCOME A STEP FOR US. HEY, GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR
01:00:02 MOSHER AND SUPERVISORS. I'M CHRISTINE FITZPATRICK,
01:00:05 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, GBI AND I'M GOING TO PRESENT THIS ORDINANCE
01:00:09 TODAY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS LEGISLATION
01:00:12 IS TO ALIGN OUR LOCAL REQUIREMENTS FOR INSPECTION OF
01:00:17 EXTERNAL ELEMENTS TO STATE LAW AND TRUTH AND REDUCE
01:00:20 UNNECESSARY DUPLICATION AND CONFUSION.
01:00:24 >> SO IN 2002 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS PASSED AN ORDINANCE
01:00:28 REQUIRING APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND HOTELS TO CONDUCT AN
01:00:31 INSPECTION OF BUILDING APPENDAGES SUCH AS DECKS
01:00:35 AND BALCONIES EVERY FIVE YEARS AND SOME SPECIFIC PROVISIONS
01:00:39 INCLUDE QUALIFICATIONS FOR INSPECTORS AS WELL AS THE
01:00:43 REQUIREMENT THAT AN OWNER SUBMITS AN AFFIDAVIT TO THE
01:00:47 DEPARTMENT TO VERIFY THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY.
01:00:50 AND THEN IN 2018 THE STATE LEGISLATURE PASSED ITS OWN
01:00:54 SIMILAR LAW REQUIRING INSPECTIONS OF EXTERIOR
01:00:55 ELEMENTS EVERY SIX YEARS. AND THE INSPECTOR
01:00:59 QUALIFICATIONS CALLED FOR IN THE STATE LAW ARE SLIGHTLY
01:01:02 DIFFERENT THAN OUR LOCAL LAW AND IT ALSO REQUIRES THE REPORT
01:01:06 TO BE KEPT BY THE OWNER UNLESS THERE ARE SOME NEEDED REPAIRS.
01:01:10 >> SO ALTHOUGH THE TWO LAWS ARE SIMILAR IN INTENT THE THEY'RE
01:01:14 NOT ALIGNED AND RESULTS IN BUILDING OWNERS HAVING TO
01:01:18 COMPLY WITH TWO DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS POTENTIALLY WITHIN
01:01:21 A YEAR OR TWO OF EACH OTHER. >> SO THE ORDINANCE BEFORE YOU
01:01:25 ADDRESSES THIS PROBLEM BY ALTERING OUR LOCAL LAW TO
01:01:29 BETTER ALIGN WITH THE STATE LAW ,IT PROVIDES A FLEXIBLE TIME
01:01:33 PERIOD TO SUBMIT LOCAL AFFIDAVITS TO MATCH UP WITH THE
01:01:37 STATE REQUIREMENT AND ALSO MATCHES THE STATE REQUIREMENT
01:01:40 FOR INSPECTOR QUALIFICATIONS. WE ARE ALSO PROPOSING TWO MINOR
01:01:45 AMENDMENTS. ONE IS TO REINSERT FIRE ESCAPES
01:01:49 AND THE LOCAL REQUIREMENT IT WAS INADVERTENTLY TAKEN OUT
01:01:53 DURING THE DRAFTING PROCESS. AND THE SECOND IS TO CLARIFY
01:01:57 THAT THE EXTENDED TIMELINE FOR THE LOCAL INSPECTIONS IS A ONE
01:02:01 TIME THING TO GET THEM BOTH ON THE SAME TIMELINE BUT IS NOT
01:02:05 ONGOING. SO THEY CAN'T THEY CAN'T USE IT
01:02:06 AGAIN AFTER THEY'RE ON THE SAME TIMELINE AS THE STATE
01:02:09 REQUIREMENT. >> THE BUILDING INSPECTION
01:02:15 COMMISSION RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF THE ORDINANCE AT ITS APRIL
01:02:16 MEETING AND THE CODE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ALSO RECOMMENDED
01:02:20 APPROVAL. THANK YOU.
01:02:23 I'M AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS AND WITH ME I ALSO HAVE JOSE
01:02:27 LOPEZ WHO IS A SENIOR HOUSING INSPECTOR IN THE DEPARTMENT TO
01:02:31 ANSWER TECHNICAL QUESTIONS AND I WANT TO THANK CARRIE
01:02:35 BERNBACH FROM THE OFFICE OF SMALL BUSINESS FOR HER SUPPORT
01:02:36 WITH THIS AND THE PERMANENT STAFF TEAM FOR CHAMPIONING THIS
01:02:39 CHANGE. >> OKAY.
01:02:42 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR CHEN THANK YOU CHAIR
01:02:46 MALKIA THANK YOU FOR THE DEPARTMENT AND FOR YOUR
01:02:49 PRESENTATION. I REALLY ALSO APPRECIATE THE
01:02:50 STAFF FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WHERE MY STAFF
01:02:54 REACH OUT WITH QUESTIONS. I TOOK ISSUES OF BUILDING
01:02:58 SAFETY VERY SERIOUSLY AND I UNDERSTAND THAT OUR RATIONALE
01:03:02 FOR THIS LEGISLATION IS TO AVOID BUILDING OWNERS HAVING TO
01:03:06 COMPLETE TWO SIMILAR REQUIRE INSPECTIONS AND ONE FOR THE
01:03:09 LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND NOT ONE FOR THE STATE AUTHORITIES ON
01:03:13 DIFFERENT TIMELINE IT CAN FEEL DUPLICATIVE AND ALSO CONFUSING
01:03:17 FOR BUILDING OWNERS. THE LEGISLATION WOULD ALIGNED
01:03:21 TO LOCAL AND STATE REQUIREMENTS TO SIMPLIFY THE PROCESS FOR
01:03:22 INSPECTION IS WHY STILL ENSURING THAT SAFETY STANDARDS
01:03:26 ARE BEING ENFORCED IT MAY I HAVE AN ANSWER AND MY
01:03:30 UNDERSTANDING IS CORRECT. AM I UNDERSTANDING IT CORRECT
01:03:36 WHEN YOU COME TO THE PODIUM SO THEN WE CAN HEAR EVERYONE CAN
01:03:39 HEAR YOU SO AM I CORRECT? >> YES, YOU ARE.
01:03:44 OH, GREAT. THANK YOU.
01:03:45 AND I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION EXCLUDING THAT DUPLICATIVE
01:03:47 INSPECTIONS, I AM UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE MAY BE SOME
01:03:52 SITUATION WHERE THE INTERVALS FOR BALCONY OR DECK INSPECTIONS
01:03:55 WILL BE LONGER UNDER THIS LEGISLATION THAN IT'S CURRENTLY
01:04:00 PROVIDED FOR THE CALL IN THE DEPARTMENTS ASSESSMENT AND THAT
01:04:03 ADDITIONAL TIME DOESN'T COMPROMISE OUR ABILITY TO
01:04:07 ASSURE SAFETY. >> I'LL ANSWER THAT YES, IT'S
01:04:11 AS I SAID, IT'S KIND OF A ONE TIME THING WHERE THEY CAN DELAY
01:04:15 THEIR LOCAL REQUIREMENT TO MATCH UP WITH THE STATE
01:04:19 REQUIREMENT. BUT WE STILL BELIEVE THAT THERE
01:04:22 WILL BE SUFFICIENT OVERSIGHT. GREAT.
01:04:23 THANK YOU. >> OKAY.
01:04:26 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR.
01:04:29 THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION WHICH I LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION
01:04:34 SUPERVISOR CHEN I WOULD LIKE A WE HAVE TO TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT
01:04:40 FIRST. I'M SORRY.
01:04:42 PUBLIC COMMENT FIRST LET'S PET PUBLIC AND THEN I'LL LET YOU
01:04:44 MAKE THE MOTION. >> LET'S GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT
01:04:46 ON THE SITE IN PLACE LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION NOW HEAR
01:04:49 PUBLIC COMMENT RELATED TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SIX
01:04:51 STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE INSPECTIONS.
01:04:53 IF YOU HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS ORDINANCE PLEASE COME
01:04:54 FORWARD TO THE LECTERN AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS WE HAVE NO
01:04:58 SPEAKERS. MADAM CHAIR.
01:05:01 >> OKAY. PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM IS
01:05:02 NOW CLOSED. >> SUPERVISOR CHEN I WOULD LIKE
01:05:06 TO MAKE THIS ITEM NUMBER SIX TO THE FULL BOARD WITH POSITIVE
01:05:10 RECOMMENDATION. >> LIKE THE PREVIOUS ITEM I
01:05:14 BELIEVE THAT THE DEPARTMENT WAS REQUESTING AN AMENDMENT TO THIS
01:05:17 THAT THEY'VE CIRCULATED. >> I'M SORRY THIS IS WHAT YOU
01:05:18 JUST GAVE ME. THE TWO AMENDMENTS THAT I SPOKE
01:05:26 ABOUT. ONE IS WE HAD INADVERTENTLY
01:05:27 REMOVED FIRE SCAPES DURING THE DRAFTING PROCESS SO WE'D LIKE
01:05:34 TO PUT THAT BACK IN AS WELL AS CLARIFY THAT IT'S A ONE TIME
01:05:38 OPPORTUNITY TO DELAY THE LOCAL INSPECTION TO MATCH UP WITH THE
01:05:42 STATE CYCLE. >> I CAN AMEND THAT.
01:05:46 >> I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT AMENDMENT AS
01:05:50 READ IT BY THE STAFF AND MAKE AND THEN FORWARD TO AMEND
01:05:54 AMENDED AMENDED ITEM TO THE FULL BOARD WOULD POSIT A
01:06:01 RECOMMENDATION. >> THANK YOU TWO MOTIONS IN THE
01:06:02 BOOK BOTH OFFERED BY VICE CHAIR CHEN THE FIRST THAT THE
01:06:06 ORDINANCE BE AMENDED AS PRESENTED IN THE SECOND THAT
01:06:08 THE ORDINANCE BE RECOMMENDED AS AMENDED TO THE BOARD OF
01:06:10 SUPERVISORS ON THOSE MOTIONS. VICE CHAIR CHEN CHEN I AM
01:06:13 MEMBER MOHAMMED MAHMOOD I CHAIR MELGAR I MELGAR.
01:06:16 MADAM CHAIR, THERE ARE THREE EYES THAT MOTION PASSES THANK
01:06:19 YOU. READY?
01:06:22 YOU READY? ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO TO ITEM
01:06:28 NUMBER SEVEN PLEASE. GENDA ITEM NUMBER SEVEN IS A
01:06:30 HEARING TO DISCUSS TRANSPORTATION, ECONOMIC
01:06:33 DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH REGARDS TO THE
01:06:34 MARKET STREET CORRIDOR. OKAY, SUPERVISOR MAHMUD, THANK
01:06:40 YOU FOR INTRODUCING THIS HEARING REQUEST.
01:06:44 >> THE FLOOR IS YOURS AND THEN WE'LL GO TO THE PRESENTERS.
01:06:48 >> THANK YOU. CHAIR MELGAR MARKET STREET IS
01:06:51 THE BACKBONE OF THE CITY'S TRANSPORTATION NETWORK CARRYING
01:06:54 COMMUTERS BOTH BELOW AND ABOVE GROUND ON JUST ABOUT EVERY MODE
01:06:58 IMAGINABLE. >> IT ALSO IS A CULTURAL
01:07:02 AND RETAIL CORRIDOR THAT IS A CENTRAL PART OF THE CITY'S
01:07:04 IDENTITY AND WILL BE CRITICAL TO HOW SAN FRANCISCO'S RECOVERY
01:07:07 IS FELT AND PERCEIVED. THERE'S A LOT OF OPTIMISM
01:07:11 AROUND MARKET STREET TODAY. LAST YEAR MARKET STREET
01:07:15 REIMAGINED INVITED ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS TO THINK OUTSIDE
01:07:18 THE BOX. THE NEWLY FORMED DOWNTOWN
01:07:19 DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION IS ALSO COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING PUBLIC
01:07:23 REALM IMPROVEMENTS AROUND THE POWELL STREET STATION.
01:07:25 >> I'VE ALSO BEEN WORKING WITH CITY DEPARTMENTS AND LOCAL ARTS
01:07:29 ORGANIZATIONS TO ESTABLISH AN OFFICIAL THEATER ARTS DISTRICT
01:07:33 IN THE MID-MARKET AREA TO PAIR PUBLIC ART LIGHTING AND DAILY
01:07:38 STREET ACTIVATIONS WITH COORDINATED SAFETY AND SMALL
01:07:39 BUSINESS INVESTMENTS TO SUPPORT THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S HISTORIC
01:07:42 THEATERS AND MUSIC VENUES. THERE'S ALSO UNDERSTANDABLY
01:07:46 THOUGH SOME CONCERNS HIGH PROFILE VACANCIES SHOW THE
01:07:49 ECONOMIC RECOVERY POST-COVID. IT ISN'T WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE
01:07:54 TO SUPPORT A LIVELY CORRIDOR ON THE TRANSPORTATION
01:07:57 AND STREETSCAPE FRONT, COVID BROUGHT A MASSIVE SCALING BACK
01:08:01 OF AMBITION OF THE BETTER MARKET STREET PLAN WHICH
01:08:05 PROMISED A TOTAL OVERHAUL OF THE STREET BUT ENDED UP JUST
01:08:09 DELIVERING REPAVING AND INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS
01:08:11 ON A THREE BLOCK STRETCH. >> THIS PLAN ALSO CAME WITH
01:08:16 PRIORITIZATION OF ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC
01:08:17 TRANSIT OVER PRIVATE VEHICLES. BUT THE CUTBACK OF TRANSIT
01:08:20 SERVICE AND THE INVITATION OF WAYMO'S AND CERTAIN RIDESHARE
01:08:24 VEHICLES TO THE STREETS LOADING ZONES GAVE THE COMMUNITY MORE
01:08:27 QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS ABOUT WHAT IS THE CITY'S PLAN.
01:08:31 I RODE A BIKE DOWN MARKET STREET WITH THE COMMUNITY
01:08:34 MEMBERS AND SAW THE HIGHS AND LOWS LAST WEEK CROWDS WERE
01:08:36 SPILLING OUT OF THE ORPHEUM MATINEE SHOWING BIKE COMMUTERS
01:08:40 MOVE SMOOTHLY BY ON THEIR WAY HOME AND THE SIDEWALKS
01:08:43 AND PLAZAS HAD SIGNS OF URBAN VIBRANCY.
01:08:46 THERE'S BEEN CORE TO MARKET STREET'S IDENTITY FOR DECADES.
01:08:50 ON THE FLIP SIDE THERE WERE PRIVATE CARS PARKED AND LOADING
01:08:54 ZONES, TREACHEROUS PAVEMENT ISSUES AND VACANCIES LARGE
01:08:57 AND SMALL ALL ALONG THE CORRIDOR.
01:09:01 >> THAT BRINGS US TO TODAY'S HEARING WHERE THERE WILL BE
01:09:04 THREE PRIMARY QUESTIONS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO DISCUSSING
01:09:06 TODAY. >> FIRST, WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF
01:09:09 TRANSPORTATION AND MARKET STREET PARTICULARLY IN LIGHT OF
01:09:12 RECENT PUBLIC TRANSIT REDUCTIONS AND THE
01:09:13 REINTRODUCTION OF COMMERCIAL PRIVATE VEHICLES?
01:09:16 >> SECONDLY, WHAT ARE THE CITY'S INVESTMENT PLANS FOR
01:09:20 PUBLIC REALM ENHANCEMENTS ON MARKET STREET?
01:09:22 WHERE WILL THESE INVESTMENTS BE FOCUSED AND HOW WILL THEY BE
01:09:24 ROLLED OUT? >> AND FINALLY, WHAT STRATEGIES
01:09:27 ARE IN PLACE TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESS ACTIVATIONS ON MARKET
01:09:31 STREET? >> I HOPE THAT THROUGH THIS
01:09:34 HEARING PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT MARKET STREET WHETHER THEY'RE
01:09:36 RESIDENTS BUSINESS OWNERS, CYCLISTS OR ALL OF THE ABOVE
01:09:39 FEEL HEARD BY THE CITY AND DECISION MAKERS WHO WILL
01:09:43 SET THE POLICIES ON THE FUTURE OF THE STREET.
01:09:46 >> I ALSO HOPE THAT THE DEPARTMENTS PRESENT SEE
01:09:47 TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL MARKET STREET HAS ON THE FUTURE OF OUR
01:09:50 CITY AND CAN CONTINUE TO GROW INVESTMENT AND ATTENTION ON THE
01:09:54 CORRIDOR. WITH THAT LET'S BEGIN OUR
01:09:55 CONVERSATION ON THE FUTURE OF MARKET STREET WITH JEREMY SHAH
01:09:59 FROM THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIRMAN CARR.
01:10:05 VICE CHAIR CHEN SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD THANK YOU FOR CALLING
01:10:09 THIS HEARING. MY NAME IS JEREMY SHAW.
01:10:10 I'M A PRINCIPAL PLANNER FOR URBAN DESIGN AT THE PLANNING
01:10:14 DEPARTMENT. >> I AM JOINED BY SEVERAL
01:10:15 COLLEAGUES TODAY HINA KRONENBERG AND JANINE W.M. OF
01:10:18 S.F. MTA AND CHRISTINA OAKLEIGH OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
01:10:22 AND DIANA PONCE DE LEON, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY
01:10:25 AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AT EWG .
01:10:29 >> GET THE SLIDE DECK MARKET STREET IS IS SAN FRANCISCO'S
01:10:37 PRIMARY TRANSIT SPINE EVERY DAY EMPOWERS SAN FRANCISCO'S
01:10:41 ECONOMY BY SAFELY TRANSPORTING RESIDENTS, VISITORS, STUDENTS
01:10:45 AND EMPLOYEES. THEY WALK, BIKE, TAKE THE
01:10:48 STREETCAR, RIDE THE BUS ON MARKET WHILE TENS OF THOUSANDS
01:10:52 OF WERE RIDING MOODY METRO AND BART UNDERGROUND MARKET
01:10:55 STREET IS ALSO THE FRONT DOOR TO SAN FRANCISCO'S MOST ICONIC
01:10:59 PLACES AND EXPERIENCES IT WELCOMES VISITORS TO THE FERRY
01:11:03 BUILDING THE CABLE CAR. IT PROVIDES FOOT TRAFFIC TO
01:11:06 SMALL BUSINESSES AND IS THE GATEWAY TO PERFORMING ARTS
01:11:08 AND CIVIC INSTITUTIONS THAT DRAW PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE
01:11:11 CITY, REGION AND STATE. >> AS A SUCCESSFUL MARKET
01:11:15 STREET MEANS ADDRESSING ALL OF THE OVERLAPPING TRANSPORTATION
01:11:18 DEMANDS BUT ALSO THE ACTIVE STOREFRONTS THE OCCUPANCY
01:11:22 IN THE VIBRANT NEIGHBORHOODS ALL AROUND IT.
01:11:23 SO TODAY STAFF WILL SHARE THE MANY CITY INITIATIVES THAT ARE
01:11:27 DESIGNED TO MAXIMIZE PEOPLE MOVING THROUGH MARKET STREET
01:11:30 WHILE GROWING ECONOMIC AND PUBLIC ACTIVITY AROUND IT.
01:11:34 >> I WILL PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT IMPROVEMENTS TO
01:11:38 ZONING PUBLIC THE PUBLIC REALM AND PERMITTING PROCESSES AS
01:11:42 KRONENBOURG IN THIS DILEMMA S.F. MTA WILL SHARE THE MOST
01:11:46 RECENT UPDATES ON TRANSIT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND ACCESS
01:11:49 ALONG MARKET STREET AND RMS PONCE DE LEON WILL DISCUSS THE
01:11:53 ECONOMIC WORKFORCE AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES.
01:11:57 THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT IS FOCUSED ON THREE MAIN AREAS TO
01:12:00 BRING MORE PEOPLE AND ACTIVITY TO MARKET STREET ECONOMIC
01:12:04 DIVERSIFICATION IS THE FIRST DIVERSE ECONOMIC BASE IS
01:12:07 ESSENTIAL FOR THE RESILIENCE OF THE CITY'S ECONOMY.
01:12:11 THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT IS REDUCING BARRIERS TO DOING
01:12:14 BUSINESS IN THE PLANNING CODE AND ZONING ORDINANCE DOWNTOWN
01:12:17 EXPANDING HOUSING DOWNTOWN WELL EXCUSE ME WITH HIGH COMMERCIAL
01:12:22 VACANCY RATES AND WORK FROM HOME TRENDS THERE IS A GREAT
01:12:26 NEED AND OPPORTUNITY TO INCREASE HOUSING DOWNTOWN TO
01:12:29 CREATE 24 SEVEN NEIGHBORHOODS AND NEW DEMAND FOR LOCAL
01:12:30 BUSINESS. AND FINALLY ACTIVATING
01:12:34 AND IMPROVING OUR PUBLIC SPACES.
01:12:35 IT IS CRITICAL THAT THE CITY AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS DESIGN
01:12:40 ACTIVATE MAINTAIN THE PUBLIC REALM SO THAT ALL THE RESIDENTS
01:12:42 WORKERS AND VISITORS CAN COMFORTABLY WALK, GATHER
01:12:46 AND CONNECT IN OUR PUBLIC SPACES.
01:12:49 >> JUST A QUICK NOTE WHEN WE WHEN WE SAY DOWNTOWN WE MEAN
01:12:52 THE ENTIRE MARKET STREET CORRIDOR AS WELL AS THE LAND
01:12:56 USES SURROUNDING IT. THE DOWNTOWN ZONING IS SHOWN
01:12:57 IN RED ON THE NEW MAP YOU SEE BEFORE YOU AND THESE ZONING
01:13:03 DISTRICTS ALONG MARKET STREET HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN VERY
01:13:05 FLEXIBLE ALLOWING FOR HOUSING AND A RANGE OF COMMERCIAL
01:13:08 INSTITUTIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT USES.
01:13:12 IN 2023 THE CITY PASSED LEGISLATION TO REDUCE ZONING
01:13:16 BARRIERS FURTHER AND EXPAND THE USES ALLOWED ON MARKET STREET
01:13:20 NOW USES LIKE SENIOR HOUSING, OUTDOOR ENTERTAINMENT AND TRADE
01:13:24 SCHOOLS ARE PERMITTED UPPER FLOOR HOUSING IS PERMITTED
01:13:27 IN UNION SQUARE AND FLEXIBLE WORKSPACES AND MORE POP UP
01:13:29 ACTIVITIES ARE PERMITTED ON GROUND FLOORS AS WELL.
01:13:33 >> UNLIKE OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS THERE ARE FEWER CONTROLS ON
01:13:36 RETAIL AND MOST PROJECTS CAN BE APPROVED ADMINISTRATIVELY THAT
01:13:40 IS BY BY PROJECTS BY PLANNING STAFF MEANING FASTER TIMELINES
01:13:46 . SECONDLY, THE COMMERCIAL TO
01:13:47 RESIDENTIAL ADAPTIVE REUSE PROGRAM IS A NEW PROGRAM
01:13:50 WAIVING PLANNING CODE REQUIREMENTS TO MORE EASILY
01:13:52 CONVERT COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS TO HOUSING DOWNTOWN.
01:13:58 >> ALSO THE CITY REMOVED SEVERAL FINANCIAL BARRIERS TO
01:14:01 RESIDENTIAL CONVERSION PROJECTS IN 2020 FOR THE TRANSFER TAX
01:14:05 FOR CONVERSION PROJECTS TO RESIDENTIAL WAS WAIVED BY
01:14:09 VOTERS IN 2025 INCLUSIONARY HOUSING AND IMPACT FEE WAIVERS
01:14:13 WERE ALLOWED IN THE MARKET STREET AREA UP TO A LIMIT
01:14:17 AND EARLIER THIS YEAR THE CITY ESTABLISHED THE DOWNTOWN
01:14:18 REVITALIZATION AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY FINANCING DISTRICT,
01:14:22 ALLOWING PROJECTS TO REINVEST THEIR TAX INCREMENT INTO AN
01:14:25 ADAPTIVE REUSE PROJECT. >> FINALLY, THE CITY COMMUNITY
01:14:33 BENEFIT DISTRICTS AND CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BROUGHT A
01:14:34 TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF PUBLIC EVENTS IMPROVEMENTS AND ONGOING
01:14:37 STEWARDSHIP TO DOWNTOWN'S PUBLIC SPACES SOME OF WHICH YOU
01:14:41 HEARD EARLIER TODAY THIS MAP WHICH IS JUST A SNAPSHOT OF
01:14:44 PUBLIC EVENTS AND AND PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND GIVES GIVES AN
01:14:51 OVERVIEW OF SOME OF SOME OF THEM DOWNTOWN.
01:14:53 IT DOESN'T INCLUDE EVERY PROJECT DOWNTOWN BUT IT IS
01:14:58 COMPREHENSIVE IN THAT IT INCLUDES INPUT FROM CBD PUBLIC
01:15:00 REALM PLANS, PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS AND COMMUNITY
01:15:03 STAKEHOLDERS. THE GREEN DOTS REPRESENT NEW OR
01:15:07 PHYSICALLY IMPROVED PUBLIC SPACES SUCH AS THE DOWNTOWN
01:15:10 GATEWAY WITH THE DOWNTOWN S.F. PARTNERSHIP REC PARKS
01:15:15 IMPROVEMENTS TO THE UN PLAZA AREA AND THE WHITE DOTS IF YOU
01:15:21 CAN SEE YOU CAN SEE ON YOUR MAP ARE ALSO PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENTS
01:15:25 THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS SUCH AS THE MINOR NATOMA ALLEYS
01:15:29 AND OTHER PROPOSED PROJECTS SUCH AS IN THE THEATER DISTRICT
01:15:33 AND THE WIDE ARRAY OF PURPLE DOTS REPRESENT PUBLIC
01:15:37 PROGRAMING AND ACTIVATION. >> SO PERMIT S.F. IS AS YOU
01:15:41 HEARD IS A CITY INITIATIVE TO REDUCE BARRIERS AND STREAMLINE
01:15:45 THE CITY PROCESS. RECENT LEGISLATION MAKES IT
01:15:49 EASIER FOR BUSINESSES TO HAVE TABLES AND CHAIRS OR MAKE
01:15:52 ROUTINE TENANT IMPROVEMENTS SIGN AND TRANSPARENCY
01:15:56 REQUIREMENTS ARE SIMPLER PERMITTING FOR ENTERTAINMENT
01:15:59 AND PUBLIC ACTIVITIES HAS BEEN STREAMLINED AND STANDARDIZED SO
01:16:03 COMBINED WITH OTHER ZONING AND PUBLIC REALM IMPROVEMENTS
01:16:07 PERMIT US THAT REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS TOWARDS
01:16:08 GETTING MORE PEOPLE DOWNTOWN WHETHER BY HELPING BUSINESS
01:16:11 SUPPORTING NIGHTLIFE, BUILDING HOUSING, ACTIVATING PUBLIC
01:16:15 SPACE AND ACCORDING TO THE CITY ECONOMISTS WE ARE SEEING YEAR
01:16:19 ON YEAR IMPROVEMENTS IN DOWNTOWN TRENDS SUCH AS
01:16:22 VISITORS, LOWER VACANCIES, HIGHER MUNI RIDERSHIP AND SO ON
01:16:26 THAT TOPIC I'D LIKE TO INVITE MISS KRONENBERG AND MR. LUMO TO
01:16:30 DISCUSS TRANSPORTATION UPDATES ALONG THE MARKET STREET
01:16:31 CORRIDOR EXCUSE ME. >> WE'RE GOING TO SPLIT UP THE
01:16:34 PRESENTATION BY DEPARTMENT SO WE CAN ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT EACH
01:16:38 OF COURSE. >> EXCUSE ME.
01:16:38 SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION
01:16:41 AND IT'S REALLY EXCITING TO SEE ALL THE AREAS OF AVENUES FROM
01:16:45 HOUSING TO PUBLIC REALM AND INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS
01:16:48 THAT YOU'RE MAKING ON MARKET STREET.
01:16:49 I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS RELATED TO THE CURRENT PLAN
01:16:53 INVESTMENTS AND THE ONES IN PROGRESS.
01:16:56 CAN YOU PULL UP THE SLIDE AGAIN WHERE YOU'RE SHOWING THE PUBLIC
01:16:58 REALM ENHANCEMENTS? SO OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A LOT OF
01:17:01 DIFFERENT THINGS PLANNED ACROSS THE CORRIDOR AS I UNDERSTAND IT
01:17:08 ,THE MAJOR INVESTMENTS THAT YOU'RE MAKING RIGHT NOW ARE
01:17:09 EMBARCADERO AND POWELL. >> WAS THAT CORRECT?
01:17:13 WELL, THOSE ARE THOSE ARE SIGNIFICANT CITY INVESTMENTS.
01:17:17 YEAH. AND HOW MUCH IS GOING INTO EACH
01:17:20 OF THOSE INVESTMENTS ON THOSE RESPECTIVE CORRIDORS?
01:17:23 WELL, THERE'S A COMBINATION OF OF FUNDING SOURCES FOR EACH
01:17:27 THOSE YOU DESCRIBE THAT. SO FOR THE EMBARCADERO PLAZA MY
01:17:34 UNDERSTANDING IS IT'S A $32 MILLION PROJECT INCLUDING $14
01:17:38 MILLION IN BOND FUNDS, 2.5 MILLION OF IN-KIND DESIGN
01:17:41 FUNDING AND 16 MILLION FROM THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT
01:17:48 CORPORATION. THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING.
01:17:49 PALO STREET WAS THE OTHER PROJECT YOU MENTIONED.
01:17:52 >> YES. SIMILARLY COMBINATION OF 22
01:17:58 MILLION FROM BOND FUNDING, 4 MILLION FROM A GRANT FROM THE
01:18:01 MTC AND I BELIEVE 16 MILLION FROM THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT
01:18:09 CORPORATION THAT IT SO SEEMS A LOT OF THIS FUNDING IS HALF OF
01:18:10 IT'S COMING FROM THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
01:18:13 IS THERE ANY OTHER PLACES AROUND THE CORRIDOR WHERE THE
01:18:16 DDC IS IS EARMARKING INVESTMENTS AT THIS TIME ASIDE
01:18:19 FROM THOSE TWO QUARTERS? NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF.
01:18:26 >> SO THOSE ARE THE TWO MAJOR AREAS THAT THEY'RE INVESTING
01:18:28 IN TODAY AND I CAN'T SPEAK FOR THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT GROUP
01:18:34 BUT THAT'S WHAT I HAVE INFORMATION ON RIGHT NOW.
01:18:36 OKAY. HOW HOW ARE HOW ARE YOU
01:18:41 AND EITHER FROM YOU OR THE DDC DECIDING HOW ARE THOSE TWO
01:18:45 SITES SELECTED AS A PRIORITY OVER THE REST OF THE CORRIDOR
01:18:48 AND HOW ARE YOU DECIDING ON THOSE INVESTMENTS OVERALL?
01:18:52 >> WELL, I SHOULD I SHOULD SAY THAT THIS IS A CITY EFFORT IS
01:18:56 NOT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT SURE.
01:18:57 YEAH. DECISION ON OUR OWN AND AGAIN I
01:19:00 CAN'T SPEAK FOR THE DDC BUT CERTAINLY THERE'S A NUMBER OF
01:19:04 OF OF LONG TERM PLANS AND PROCESSES IN PLACE TO
01:19:08 ESTABLISH CITY PRIORITIES. >> I THINK IN THE MARKET STREET
01:19:12 CORRIDOR IN PARTICULAR REACHING BACK TO THE MARKET.
01:19:13 OCTAVIA AREA PLAN AND THE TRANSIT CENTER DISTRICT
01:19:17 STREETSCAPE PLAN FROM 2012 THE CIVIC CENTER PUBLIC REALM PLAN
01:19:21 MORE RECENTLY AND BETTER MARKET STREET OF COURSE AND ALSO
01:19:24 PUBLIC PROCESSES AROUND CONNECT S.F. THE BIKING AND ROLLING
01:19:29 PLAN. THERE'S JUST A NUMBER OF
01:19:31 DIFFERENT AREA AND TRANSPORTATION PLANS THAT
01:19:35 SOLICIT COMMUNITY INPUT AND STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION
01:19:37 TO INFORM INFORM THOSE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS.
01:19:41 I'D SAY THE SECOND SIGNIFICANT BUCKET ARE THESE CBDS
01:19:45 THEMSELVES, RIGHT? THEY'RE CLOSER TO THE GROUND.
01:19:47 THEY UNDERSTAND THE NEIGHBORHOODS BETTER THAN
01:19:49 ANYONE AND THEY DEVELOP THEIR OWN PUBLIC REALM PLANS
01:19:53 IN GENERAL. SO THESE PLANS INFORM A LOT OF
01:19:57 THE A LOT THAT ARE SHOWN ON THE MAP AS YOU SEE IT STREETSCAPE
01:20:01 ACTIVATION, PUBLIC SPACE PROJECTS AND THEY CAN ALSO BE
01:20:02 FUNDED PARTIALLY BY CITY FUNDS FROM THE CBD BUDGET OR OTHER
01:20:06 SOURCES. >> AND I WOULD JUST ADD ALSO
01:20:10 THAT THERE'S A TEN YEAR CAPITAL PLAN PROCESS RIGHT RUN THROUGH
01:20:14 THE CAPITAL PLANNING COMMITTEE AND PROGRAM AND THAT'S THAT
01:20:17 CAPITAL PLAN IS REWRITTEN EVERY TWO YEARS.
01:20:21 IT'S A ROADMAP FOR ALL OF THE CITY'S INVESTMENTS RIGHT AROUND
01:20:24 STREETS, FACILITIES, PARKS, WATERFRONT ETC. AND STILL MORE
01:20:32 PLANNING PROCESSES INFORM AND SHAPE THAT THAT PLAN AND SO
01:20:35 WE CAN LOOK TO POLICY INITIATIVES LIKE MUNI FOR
01:20:39 FORWARD THE HIGH INJURY CORRIDOR NETWORK FROM SFM TO
01:20:43 EARTHQUAKE SAFETY AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM, THE PAVEMENT
01:20:47 CONDITION AND PARKS WATER SYSTEM AND SEWER SYSTEM
01:20:51 UPGRADES ALL OF THESE THINGS INFORM AND SHAPE THE
01:20:54 PRIORITIZATION PROCESS AND PROJECT READINESS.
01:20:58 >> YOU HAVE A LIST OF PROBABLY HALF A DOZEN DIFFERENT PLANS
01:21:00 THAT YOU'RE SAYING ARE INFORMING WHERE IT'S GOING.
01:21:02 I'M STILL NOT REALLY COMPREHENDING THOUGH WHAT IS
01:21:06 THE PRIORITIZATION FRAMEWORK? YOU HAVE HALF A DOZEN TO A
01:21:10 DOZEN DIFFERENT PLANS TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO.
01:21:13 >> HOW ARE YOU DECIDING ALONG THAT CORRIDOR WHAT TO
01:21:14 PRIORITIZE ABOVE ONE THING OR ANOTHER?
01:21:20 WELL AGAIN, I WOULD SAY IT DEPENDS ON THE JURISDICTION SO
01:21:24 IT'S NOT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S PURE DECISION
01:21:25 IN EACH AGENCY HAS ITS OWN SORT OF CAPITAL PLANNING PROCESS
01:21:32 THAT INFORMS AT TEN YEAR CAPITAL PLAN ALTHOUGH CHAIRMAN
01:21:34 GRASS INVOLVES YEAH SORRY BECAUSE I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE
01:21:37 SO I THINK THAT IT IS THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S JOB TO
01:21:44 CREATE A VISION FOR MARKETS BECAUSE ALL OF THESE THINGS
01:21:48 THAT YOU LISTED ARE PRIORITIES OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS TO
01:21:52 REACH EITHER EFFICIENT TRANSPORTATION OR ECONOMIC
01:21:56 DEVELOPMENT OR YOU KNOW DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE THINGS
01:21:59 THAT WE'RE DOING AS A CITY. BUT THERE SHOULD BE A PLAN FOR
01:22:04 MARKET THREE WE DID THAT THROUGH THE BETTER MARKET YOU
01:22:08 KNOW, PLANNING PROCESS SUPPOSEDLY WE SCALED BACK ON IT
01:22:09 BUT THERE SHOULD ALWAYS BE AN OVERRIDING PLAN ENVISION
01:22:16 AND FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT CORRIDOR IN OUR DOWNTOWN THAT
01:22:20 DRIVES SO MUCH OF WHAT WE'RE DOING.
01:22:21 SO I WILL PERHAPS REFER REPHRASE THE QUESTION BECAUSE I
01:22:25 HEARD YOU WHAT IS THE PLAN? WHAT IS THE OVERALL PLAN?
01:22:29 WHAT IS THE VISION THAT WE HAVE FOR MARKET STREET?
01:22:33 >> ALL OF THESE YOU KNOW, SUBURBS AND IN IT PLANS THAT
01:22:36 THE DEPARTMENTS HAVE A CAPITAL PLANNING PROCESS HAS FEED INTO
01:22:40 IT BUT I STILL HAVEN'T HEARD WHAT IS THE OVER WHAT ARE WE
01:22:44 TRYING TO ACHIEVE WITH ANYTHING THAT TOUCHES MARKET STREET I
01:22:50 DON'T KNOW. >> I GUESS IT'S JUST I DON'T
01:22:51 THINK I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S AN MTA ANSWER BUT GO AHEAD.
01:22:55 >> BUT I I'M VERY YEAH I JUST RESPECTFULLY I THINK WE WE MAY
01:22:59 BE ANSWERING SOME OF THE QUESTIONS YOU'RE HAVING
01:23:03 IN LATER PORTIONS OF THE DECK SO I AM GOING TO COVER HOW WE
01:23:06 THINK ABOUT BETTER MARKET STREET AND THE INVESTMENTS
01:23:07 WE'VE MADE. >> SO WE JUST I THINK THE
01:23:10 CONTEXT OF SUPERVISOR CHAIR MELGAR QUESTION IS THE PLANNING
01:23:14 DEPARTMENT SHOULD BE LEADING THE VISION FOR THIS PROCESS.
01:23:17 BUT WHAT WE JUST HEARD IS THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A PLAN THAT
01:23:20 YOU'RE DRIVING FROM PLAN DEPARTMENT.
01:23:24 >> IS THAT CORRECT? WELL, BETTER MARKET STREET
01:23:25 CERTAINLY GUIDES A LOT OF THE STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS THAT
01:23:29 YOU KNOW, THE CITY HAD HAD PRIORITY LIST AND SOME OF THEM
01:23:33 WERE WERE COMPLETED AND WE'LL SPEAK TO THAT.
01:23:36 BUT CURRENTLY THE FOCUS AS YOU AS YOU KNOW IS ON IMMEDIATE
01:23:41 AND SHORT TERM IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE THINK WE CAN OR THAT
01:23:45 THE CITY AND PARTNERS CAN EXECUTE IN THE SHORT TERM.
01:23:49 RIGHT. AND BEYOND THOSE TWO THERE, YOU
01:23:51 KNOW, IT WOULD JUST BE THE COMPLEX OF PLANS THAT I
01:23:54 DESCRIBED EARLIER AND I'M GOING TO NEED ON THIS QUESTION WHO
01:23:59 WHICH DEPARTMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VISION FOR FOR MARKET
01:24:01 STREET? I, I WOULD SAY IT'S A JOINT
01:24:08 EFFORT AND I KNOW THAT'S A FRUSTRATING ANSWER BUT IT IT
01:24:12 REALLY IS BECAUSE IT FALLS UNDER SO MANY JURISDICTIONS
01:24:16 AND PLANNING IS OFTEN PLAYED A CONVENING ROLE IN IN CERTAIN
01:24:20 KINDS OF CONDITIONS LIKE THAT BUT AT THE MOMENT RIGHT THERE
01:24:24 ISN'T A PLANNING PROCESS. I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE
01:24:29 PROBLEM IF YOU'RE NOT ABLE LIKE YOU MENTIONED HALF A DOZEN
01:24:35 DOZEN DIFFERENT PLANS, MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS COORDINATING DO YOU
01:24:39 THINK PART OF THE PROBLEM ABOUT WHY WE HAVEN'T MADE PROGRESS
01:24:40 HERE IS THERE'S NOT ONE SINGLE CENTRALIZED INITIATIVE TO DRIVE
01:24:43 THIS TASK FORCE? >> I YOU KNOW, I CAN SPEAK FOR
01:24:50 THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. I CAN'T SPEAK FOR PERSONALLY.
01:24:54 >> YOU KNOW, IF IT WERE THE THE SUPERVISORS PREROGATIVE TO
01:24:58 ESTABLISH A VISIONING PROCESS. I THINK THERE'S THERE'S CERTAIN
01:25:02 BENEFITS TO THAT. I THINK IT'S ALSO A YOU KNOW A
01:25:06 TIME OF OF CONSTRAINT AND SO YOU KNOW A LOT OF THE
01:25:09 PRIORITIES AS I MENTIONED WERE REALLY FOCUSED ON WHAT IS THE
01:25:10 CHANGE WE CAN EFFECTUATE TODAY. AND LIKE MANY OF OUR TACTICAL
01:25:16 OR PILOT PROGRAMING EFFORTS, RIGHT WE WOULD BUILD ON THAT
01:25:17 TOWARDS TOWARDS A LONGER VISION WHEN THE RESOURCES WERE
01:25:21 AVAILABLE. >> I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS
01:25:25 FOR PLANNING CHERYL GETTING MY QUESTIONS.
01:25:29 >> I'VE GOT A COUPLE MORE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THERE
01:25:33 AND BASED ON SOME OF THE THINGS YOU ASKED, ONE WAS IT SEEMS
01:25:36 LIKE SOME OF THE IN THE ABSENCE OF DOING A HOLISTIC PLAN, SOME
01:25:41 OF THE PRIORITIZATION SEEMS TO BE ARE YOU INDEXED BASED ON
01:25:44 WHERE THE BOND MONEY IS GOING TODAY?
01:25:47 YOU MENTIONED FOUR POWELL STREET EMBARCADERO.
01:25:51 HALF OF THE MONEY WAS COVERED BY BONDS.
01:25:52 IS THE CITY MATCHING ITS INVESTMENT ITS PRIORITIZATION
01:25:55 BASED ON THE BOND MONIES ALLOCATED AND NOT WHERE IT'S
01:25:57 NOT I, I WOULD HAVE TO I WOULD HAVE TO REFER TO THE CAPITAL
01:26:04 PLANNING DEPARTMENT FOR THAT FOR THAT QUESTION SORRY.
01:26:05 SUPERVISOR DON'T HAVE ANY ANSWER.
01:26:09 >> OKAY. IN TERMS OF THE OFFICE TO
01:26:10 HOUSING CONVERSION, IT SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF YOUR YOU'RE
01:26:13 SAYING THE PLAN FOR MARKET STREET IS AROUND HOUSING
01:26:17 AND INDEXED ON THE OFFICE TO HOUSING CONVERSION.
01:26:20 WHAT'S THE PIPELINE TODAY? DO YOU HAVE A CONTEXT ON HOW
01:26:22 MANY PLAN CONVERSIONS WE HAVE CONVERSATIONS OF DEVELOPERS
01:26:25 WHAT'S THE PROGRESS METRICS PERSPECTIVE ON THAT QUESTION
01:26:30 THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS WITH DEVELOPERS
01:26:34 BUT AS YOU KNOW THE THE MARKET IS THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS ARE
01:26:38 VERY HIGH. I'M AWARE OF ONE APPROVED
01:26:42 PROJECT AT 75 MARKET AND ANOTHER POTENTIAL PROJECT
01:26:45 IN THE WORKS AT 901 MARKET FOR CONVERSION.
01:26:49 HOW MANY UNITS WOULD BE THERE? I DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION.
01:26:54 OKAY IF YOU CAN FOLLOW I'M HAPPY TO GET WITH THAT LAST
01:26:56 QUESTION. >> A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT
01:27:01 VISIONING EXERCISES. I KNOW IN PARALLEL THERE'S A
01:27:03 CIVIC JOY FUND URBAN LAND INSTITUTE STUDY THAT'S
01:27:04 HAPPENING RIGHT NOW FOR OTHER IDEAS.
01:27:07 ARE THERE ANY OTHER IDEAS IN THAT PUBLIC SPACE COMPONENT
01:27:11 THAT RESONATED THAT YOU FEEL YOU MIGHT BE INVESTING IN GOING
01:27:12 FORWARD? YEAH.
01:27:15 THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP. SUPERVISOR THE THE REIMAGINED
01:27:19 MARKET STREET COMPETITION FROM LAST YEAR DID SOLICIT OVER 100
01:27:23 INTERESTING IDEAS THE WINNING PROPOSALS DID DID SPARK A LOT
01:27:30 OF INTEREST AND I THINK HAD SOME COMMONALITIES AROUND
01:27:31 GREENING LIGHTING AND PARTICULAR FURNISHINGS
01:27:35 AND GENERALLY WAYS TO ACTIVATE OUR PUBLIC SPACES
01:27:38 AND STOREFRONTS THAT THAT FRONT THEM THE JURY ITSELF I THINK
01:27:45 HIGHLIGHTED A COUPLE OF NEW WAYS TO FRAME THE CORRIDOR
01:27:49 AGAIN FOCUSING ON LANDSCAPE TREES IN GARDENS THAT PARALLEL
01:27:53 PEDESTRIAN AND CYCLIST INFRASTRUCTURE MORE DENSE
01:27:56 PLANTING AS YOU KNOW THERE ARE TREES BUT MORE GREENERY
01:28:01 AND ALSO AMPLIFYING NODES OR THE ACTIVITY ZONES ALONG MARKET
01:28:06 STREET. WE KNOW IT'S A LONG CORRIDOR.
01:28:07 IT HAS DIFFERENT DIFFERENT NEEDS AND DIFFERENT STRENGTHS
01:28:09 THROUGHOUT IT. SO REALLY TREATING EACH NODE OR
01:28:13 A CLUSTER ACCORDING TO ITS NEEDS AND AMPLIFYING THOSE
01:28:17 STRENGTHS THOSE ARE SOME THEMES I THINK THAT THE PLANNING
01:28:21 DEPARTMENT PICKED UP ON AND WE'VE ALSO ANTICIPATE THAT
01:28:25 THE CIVIC JOY FUND IS IS PUTTING TOGETHER OR EXPLORING A
01:28:28 SORT OF ACTIVATION PROJECT TO TO TEST MANY OF THESE IDEAS
01:28:33 AND IS WORKING WITH CITY STAFF ON UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S
01:28:37 POSSIBLE. >> LAST QUESTION IN THIS ONE OF
01:28:41 THE SLIDES YOU MENTIONED ABOUT THE PUBLIC INVESTMENT YOU SAID
01:28:44 IN YOUR COMMENTS THAT ONE OF THE THINGS IN PROGRESS IS THE
01:28:45 THEATER ARTS DISTRICT. WHAT IS THE COMMITMENT YOU'RE
01:28:49 MAKING AS PART OF THAT PROCESS WHERE AS STAGE OF THE PROCESS
01:28:53 YOU SAID IT'S IN PROGRESS WHAT I CAN'T DESCRIBE MORE ABOUT.
01:28:57 >> YEAH WE JUST WANTED TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE WORK THAT
01:29:00 YOU HAD BEEN LEADING OUR WORKING ON WITH PUBLIC WORKS I
01:29:01 THINK THERE WAS A LOT OF STREETSCAPE PROPOSALS GENERATED
01:29:05 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CBD AND WITH WITH YOUR OFFICE THAT
01:29:08 COULD COULD REALLY DO A LOT TO ACTIVATE YOU KNOW, TO ADDRESS A
01:29:13 LOT OF THOSE THEMES WE JUST MENTIONED, RIGHT LIGHTING
01:29:16 GREENING ACTIVATION. SO WE SUPPORTED IN OUR ROLE AS
01:29:19 THE PLANNERS JUST WITH SOME OF THE OUTREACH AND DESIGN
01:29:23 FEEDBACK TO PUBLIC WORKS. BUT AS OF NOW WE UNDERSTAND
01:29:24 THERE ARE NO RESOURCES TO ADVANCE IT.
01:29:28 SO SO UNTIL THEN THERE IS THERE IS NO MORE WORK FOR THE
01:29:32 PLANNING DEPARTMENT. >> THANK YOU.
01:29:33 ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT FROM GUYS?
01:29:36 >> OKAY NEXT MTA THANKS. I THINK WE'LL GET SOME OF THE
01:29:43 ANSWERS THAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR UP HERE IN THIS ONE.
01:29:45 SO AGAIN, I'M SLAVA KRONENBERG. I'M A SENIOR PLANNING MANAGER
01:29:48 AT S.F. MTA. I'M JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUE
01:29:51 JENNY DILMA BUT I'M ALSO JOINED BY PUBLIC WORKS PROJECT MANAGER
01:29:54 CHRISTINA OLEA AND OUR MUNI SERVICE PLANNING MANAGER
01:29:58 JESSICA GARCIA. >> SO THEY'LL BE AVAILABLE FOR
01:29:59 QUESTIONS AS WELL. >> SO FIRST I'M JUST GOING TO
01:30:02 GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT FOR MARKET STREET FOR
01:30:04 TRANSPORTATION THEN I MIGHT JUST TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT OUR
01:30:07 CAPITAL AND OPERATING HOW WE ARE SPENDING ON MARKET STREET
01:30:11 AND THEN MY COLLEAGUE JENNY IS GOING TO COVER THIS PROGRESS
01:30:14 MARKET STREET LOADING EVALUATION THAT WE'RE
01:30:15 PERFORMING RIGHT NOW. >> SO JUST TO BE COMPLETELY
01:30:18 REDUNDANT MARKET STREET MOVES SAN FRANCISCO AS JEREMY SAID,
01:30:24 IT'S OUR CENTRAL DESTINATION AND AS WE GROW AND PEOPLE COME
01:30:28 BACK THAT IS WHERE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE GOING TO.
01:30:32 >> AND FOR THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE A DAY, MARKET STREET IS HOW WE
01:30:33 GET PLACES. TRANSIT IS THE CORE OF OUR
01:30:36 SUSTAINABLE TRANSIT SERVICE WITH TRUNK SERVICE FROM BART
01:30:39 MUNI METRO MUNI SURFACE ROUTES WITH A TRAIN COMING ALMOST
01:30:41 EVERY MINUTE A PEAK BETWEEN BART AND MUNI METRO ON THE
01:30:47 STREET THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE USE THEIR PERSONAL BIKES, FAMILY
01:30:48 BIKES, BIKE SHARE SCOOTERS AND FOR THEM IT'S THE KEY SPOKE
01:30:52 OF OUR CONNECTED BIKING AND ROLLING NETWORK THAT
01:30:55 INCLUDES 45 MILES OF PROTECTED BIKE FACILITIES, 32 MILES OF
01:30:58 SLOW STREETS AND NEW CAR FREE PROMENADES AND MARKET STREET IS
01:31:05 A DYNAMIC PLACE AND AS IT EVOLVES AND CHANGES S.F. MTA
01:31:09 MEETS THE MOMENT AS SUPERVISOR MY MOVE YOU JUST SAID THERE'S A
01:31:14 LOT OF OPTIMISM AND HISTORICALLY THAT IS ALSO
01:31:15 TRUE. >> SO THESE ARE PHOTOS ARE SOME
01:31:18 OF THE FIRST THAT HAPPENED ON MARKET STREET AFTER CABLE CARS
01:31:21 WERE INVENTED HERE AT THEY BECAME MULTIPLE ELECTRIC
01:31:25 STREETCAR LINES AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE A PARADE DOWN MARKET
01:31:28 STREET INTRODUCED THE FIRST DIESEL BUSSES IN 1964 WE
01:31:32 RESTORED HISTORIC STREETCAR SERVICE IN 1990 OUR FIRST GREEN
01:31:36 BIKE LANE EVER WAS PAINTED ON MARKET IN 2010 AND OUR TRANSIT
01:31:39 PRIORITY LANDS WERE PAINTED RED IN 2014.
01:31:42 SO EVERY SINGLE DECADE BRINGS NEW CHALLENGES AS CHANGES
01:31:46 AND CHOICES TO MARKET STREET. SO I UNDERSTAND TODAY THERE ARE
01:31:47 VERY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
01:31:51 AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ON MARKET STREET BUT THE ISSUES OF
01:31:55 MARKET STREET NEED TO BE CONTEXTUALIZED IN THE BROADER
01:31:56 WORK OF MTA SO AS MANY IN THIS ROOM KNOW MUNI OPERATIONS
01:32:02 AND SERVICE IS AT A PRECARIOUS MOMENT WITH A REAL FISCAL CLIFF
01:32:03 AHEAD OF US. WE'RE LOOKING ACROSS OUR
01:32:06 AGENCY, WE'RE WORKING MORE EFFICIENTLY.
01:32:07 WE'RE MAKING THE MOST OF OUR LIMITED RESOURCES.
01:32:10 >> BUT GIVEN THE PROJECTED DEFICIT LOOMING OVER US, WE'RE
01:32:14 ACTIVELY PURSUING A COMPREHENSIVE PACKAGE OF
01:32:15 FUNDING FROM OUR VOTER VOTERS SAVING MONEY FROM DEVASTATING
01:32:18 IMPACTS IS OUR TOP AGENCY PRIORITY.
01:32:22 BUT WITH THAT SAID, WE ARE USING OUR LIMITED OPERATING
01:32:25 AND CAPITAL DOLLARS WITH THE UTMOST CARE.
01:32:28 >> SO FIRST WE'RE FOCUSING MAINTENANCE DOLLARS ON OUR
01:32:32 MARKET STREET SUBWAY WHICH IS THE MOST CRITICAL LINK IN OUR
01:32:34 TRANSIT NETWORK. WE'VE BEEN REGULARLY SCHEDULING
01:32:37 FIX IT WEEKS TO ADDRESS LARGER MAINTENANCE PROJECTS
01:32:40 AND UPGRADES IN SUBWAY INFRASTRUCTURE SINCE FEBRUARY
01:32:43 2019, MODERATE SUBWAY DELAYS ARE DOWN 64% AND LONG DELAYS
01:32:47 ARE DOWN 68% ON OUR SURFACE ROUTES WITH REDUCED REVENUE WE
01:32:53 HAD TO MAKE MINOR SERVICE REDUCTIONS IN SUMMER 2025 WE
01:32:56 CUT ABOUT 2% OF TRANSIT SERVICE .
01:32:59 >> SO THE MTA GOAL IS TO MAINTAIN ROUTES AND FREQUENCIES
01:33:03 AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND REBALANCE OUR RESOURCES TO
01:33:04 MEET DEMAND. THE CURRENT SERVICE PLAN
01:33:07 IN PLACE TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THAT TRUNK SERVICE ON MARKET
01:33:11 STREET ITSELF AND TRUNCATES LESSER USED FEEDER ROUTES AT
01:33:14 MARKET STREET TRANSFER POINTS SO RIDERS ON AT MARKET CAN
01:33:18 STILL TRANSFER TO OTHER LINES THAT REMAIN ON MARKET STREET TO
01:33:21 COMPLETE THEIR TRIPS OR THEY CAN BEGIN ON LINES THAT
01:33:23 DIRECTLY SERVE MARKET AND THAT'S ACTUALLY WHAT WE DID
01:33:27 SEE HAPPEN IN THE LAST YEAR IS PEOPLE MOVING FROM LOCALS TO
01:33:30 RAPIDS THAT REMAIN ON MARKET STREET.
01:33:31 SO WE'RE SEEING DEMAND SHIFTING ON OUR STREET SIDE AS WE
01:33:36 EMERGED FROM THE WORST OF COVID CLOSURES WE WORKED CLOSELY WITH
01:33:40 MID-MARKET ENTERTAINMENT VENUES AND BUSINESSES TO IMPROVE
01:33:44 LOADING AND ACCESS TO THEIR DESTINATIONS A SUITE OF
01:33:45 FLOATING SOLUTIONS WE COORDINATED WITH TAXI
01:33:48 DISPATCHERS FOR EVENTS THAT LET OUT LATER WE FACILITATED VALET
01:33:52 PARKING. WE'VE WORKED WITH RIDESHARE
01:33:53 PROVIDERS SO THEY UNDERSTAND AND MAP CROSS STREET LOADING
01:33:56 ZONES. WE'VE PROVIDED MORE BIKE
01:33:57 PARKING FOR DELIVERY SERVICES AND PROVIDED NEW AND UPDATED
01:34:00 LOADING ZONES ON SIDE STREETS AMONG OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.
01:34:04 WE'RE ALSO RE TIMING TRAFFIC SIGNALS TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:34:07 MARKET STREET IS CLEAR AND CROSS STREETS ARE OPERATING
01:34:11 EFFECTIVELY OVERALL. >> SO JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE
01:34:15 WE TALKING ABOUT? WE HAVE CLOSE TO 60,000 TRIPS
01:34:16 BY MUNI METRO AND BUS IN MARCH 2026 BIKE SHARE STATIONS
01:34:20 LOCATED EAST OF VAN NESS RECORDED MORE THAN 37,000 TRIPS
01:34:23 THERE HAVE BEEN 25% MORE BIKING AND ROLLING RIDES TAKEN ON
01:34:27 MARKET SINCE THIS TIME LAST YEAR WITH MORE THAN 46,000
01:34:30 TRIPS MADE THIS MONTH GOING WEST ON MARKET AT NINTH.
01:34:35 >> SO JUST AS WE TALKED ABOUT MUNI AND STREETS DAY TO DAY
01:34:39 OPERATIONS, THE CITY IS ALSO THINKING ABOUT CAPITAL
01:34:42 INVESTMENT IN MARKET STREET. >> SO IN 2019 THE MTA BOARD
01:34:47 APPROVED A BROAD CAPITAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY FOR MARKET
01:34:51 STREET UNDER THE BETTER MARKET STREET PLAN.
01:34:54 IT'S THE FULL LENGTH OF MARKET STREET FROM OCTAVIA TO STUART
01:34:56 INCLUDING THINKING FOR EVERY SINGLE MODE AND EVERY SINGLE
01:34:59 USER OF MARKET STREET. I JUST WANT TO SAY LIKE THE
01:35:03 ASSETS OF MARKET STREET ARE PRIMARILY SFM TO YOU OWNED
01:35:06 ASSETS, RIGHT? THAT'S A TRACK THAT'S OUR
01:35:08 OVERHEAD WIRE, OUR TRAFFIC SIGNALS AND SO THE BURDEN OF
01:35:14 CAPITAL INVESTMENT DOES COME BACK TO S.F. MTA FOR THE MOST
01:35:15 PART WE HAVE EXECUTED ON TWO MAJOR ELEMENTS OF THIS
01:35:21 LEGISLATIVE PROJECT AND WE CONTINUE TO USE THIS PLAN TO
01:35:24 GUIDE TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT ON MARKET STREET AS FUNDING
01:35:28 AND OPPORTUNITIES BECOME AVAILABLE.
01:35:29 >> SO FOR VERY LITTLE CAPITAL FUNDING AND A BIG BANG FOR OUR
01:35:33 BUCK TO ADDRESS SAFETY AND TRANSIT RELIABILITY, S.F.
01:35:36 MTA IMPLEMENTED PRIVATE VEHICLE RESTRICTIONS EAST OF 10TH
01:35:42 IN 2020 THAT BUILT ON YEARS OF EFFORTS TO PRIORITIZE MOVING
01:35:43 PEOPLE SUSTAINABLY AND SAFELY WHEREVER THEY NEED TO GO ON
01:35:47 MARKET STREET TAXIS, PARATRANSIT LICENSE, COMMERCIAL
01:35:50 VEHICLES AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES ARE FULLY ALLOWED ON MARKET
01:35:54 STREET AND CAN PERFORM PASSENGER DROP OFF AND PICKUP
01:35:55 OR GENERAL LOADING AS NEEDED ON THE STREET.
01:35:59 THE AGENCY DURING THIS TIME ALSO ADDED 100 NEW LOADING
01:36:02 ZONES ON CROSS STREETS TO MAKE IT EASY TO GET TO MARKET STREET
01:36:06 ON THINGS THAT CANNOT BE ON MARKET STREET LIKE UBER LIFTS
01:36:07 OR PRIVATE VEHICLES AFTER PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION.
01:36:10 THE STREET HAS SEEN A 40% SUSTAINED DROP IN CRASHES A
01:36:16 TREND THAT'S ACTUALLY BEEN SUSTAINED FOR THE LAST FIVE
01:36:18 YEARS AT THE START OF THE PANDEMIC, BOTH INJURY CRASHES
01:36:21 AND DOWNTOWN ACTIVITY SIGNIFICANTLY DROPPED BUT AS
01:36:24 ACTIVITY INCREASED OUR INJURY CRASHES REMAINED DOWN.
01:36:28 THE PROJECT ALSO REDUCED TRANSIT TRAVEL TIMES ON MARKET
01:36:29 STREET BY UP TO 14%. AND FOLLOWING ON THIS INITIAL
01:36:35 PROJECT WITH OF THE PRIVATE VEHICLE RESTRICTIONS PUBLIC
01:36:39 WORKS IMPROVED AND UPGRADED MID-MARKET SIDEWALKS
01:36:42 AND STREETS. THIS IS ALTERED IN A MORE
01:36:43 ACCESSIBLE AND BEAUTIFUL PUBLIC SPACE WITH KEY INVESTMENTS
01:36:46 IN OUR STATE OF GOOD REPAIR. THIS INCLUDES FIVE TRAFFIC
01:36:50 SIGNALS AT SOME OF THE CITY'S HIGHEST INJURY AND MOST
01:36:51 GEOMETRIC COMPLICATED INTERSECTIONS IN ADDITION TO
01:36:55 SIGNIFICANT SIDEWALK AND ACCESSIBILITY UPGRADES
01:36:58 AND A FULL PAVING OF THE CURB LANE.
01:37:01 >> SO THOSE ARE OUR TWO MAJOR CAPITAL INVESTMENTS IN THE PAST
01:37:07 FIVE YEARS AND I DO KNOW THAT THERE ARE SPECIFIC INTEREST
01:37:08 IN WHO IS ON THE STREET AND HOW AND I THINK I'M GOING TO PASS
01:37:12 IT TO MY COLLEAGUE JENNY TO TALK ABOUT HER EVALUATION OF
01:37:15 THE LOADING THAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING ON MARKET STREET.
01:37:18 >> SO PLEASE COME ON UP. >> ALL RIGHT.
01:37:26 THANK YOU. HAVE A I'M JENNY DLOMO, PROJECT
01:37:27 MANAGER FOR THE MID-MARKET STREET LOADING EVALUATION.
01:37:32 AND AS YOU JUST HEARD, THE CITY HAS BEEN REFINING THE
01:37:36 TRANSPORTATION NETWORK FOR DECADES, ITERATING AS NEW
01:37:38 TECHNOLOGY HAS EMERGED. AND SIMILARLY IN 2025
01:37:43 MAYOR DANIEL LURIE INVITED WAYMO AND A LIMITED NUMBER OF
01:37:44 COMMERCIAL PLATED VEHICLES THAT OPERATE ON THE LYFT AND UBER
01:37:48 PLATFORMS TO PROVIDE COMMERCIAL PASSENGER SERVICE ON MARKET
01:37:51 STREET USING SEVEN LOADING BAYS USING SEVEN LOADING BAYS
01:38:00 BETWEEN FIFTH AND EIGHTH STREETS.
01:38:01 >> SO IN RESPONSE AS A FIRM TO DEVELOPED THIS LOADING
01:38:05 EVALUATION, THE PURPOSE IS TO ENSURE THAT THE CITY RETAINS
01:38:09 THE SAFETY STREET SAFETY AND TRANSIT EFFECTIVENESS
01:38:12 GAINED THROUGH THE CAR FREE MARKET STREET PRIVATE VEHICLE
01:38:15 RESTRICTIONS AND THE OUTCOME OF THE EVALUATION WILL BE BASED ON
01:38:19 THREE CORE METRICS ONE DO TRANSIT TRAVEL TIMES INCREASE
01:38:22 BY MORE THAN 5%? TWO DOES TRAVEL TIME
01:38:25 VARIABILITY INCREASED BY MORE THAN 10%?
01:38:28 AND THREE ARE PROVIDERS STOPPING IN THE TRAVEL LANES?
01:38:32 BUT WE ALSO HAVE ADDITIONAL SAFETY TRANSIT PERFORMANCE
01:38:36 AND MOBILITY METRICS THAT WE'RE TRACKING.
01:38:40 >> SO THERE'S THREE PHASES TO THE EVALUATION DATA COLLECTION,
01:38:44 EARLY MONITORING WITH LIMITED OPERATIONS AND THE FULL
01:38:48 EVALUATION WITH ALL DAY OPERATIONS.
01:38:50 FIRST WE KICKED OFF THE EVALUATION WITH AN AMBASSADOR
01:38:52 PROGRAM AND INITIATED COORDINATED ENFORCEMENT WITH
01:38:55 SFM TIRES MOBILITY SERVICES, OUR PARKING ENFORCEMENT TEAM
01:38:59 AND THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT.
01:39:02 THEN DURING THE EARLY MONITORING PHASE LYFT BLACK
01:39:03 UBER BLACK AND WAYMO WERE ALLOWED TO BEGIN VERY LIMITED
01:39:07 OPERATIONS ON MARKET STREET WHILE SDM TO CLOSELY MONITOR
01:39:10 CONDITIONS. AT THAT TIME WE OBSERVED THAT
01:39:14 MEDIAN TRANSIT TRAVEL TIMES BETWEEN EIGHTH AND BEALE
01:39:16 STREETS REMAINED STABLE WHILE TRAVEL TIME VARIABILITY
01:39:20 INCREASED MODESTLY BY ABOUT 20S.
01:39:21 BOTH METRICS REMAINED BELOW THEIR RESPECTIVE THRESHOLDS OF
01:39:25 5% AND TEN PERCENT. >> WE OBSERVED NO DECLINE
01:39:29 IN BIKE SCOOTER OR OTHER MICROMOBILITY TRIPS IN THE BIKE
01:39:32 LANE ON MARKET STREET IN TRIPS WAY TAXI OR PARATRANSIT USERS
01:39:36 REMAINED LARGELY UNCHANGED BASED ON AVAILABLE INJURY
01:39:39 COLLISION REPORTING. WE DID NOT IDENTIFY ANY INJURY
01:39:41 COLLISIONS ATTRIBUTABLE TO A SERVICE PROVIDER DURING THIS
01:39:44 PHASE AS SFE STAFF THEN PRESENTED THESE EARLY
01:39:48 MONITORING RESULTS TO OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON DECEMBER SECOND
01:39:51 OF LAST YEAR AND WE WERE DIRECTED TO MOVE INTO THE FULL
01:39:52 EVALUATION PHASE AND RETURN WITH RESULTS WHEN SUFFICIENT
01:39:56 DATA WAS AVAILABLE TO INFORM RECOMMENDATION.
01:39:59 SINCE THEN WE HAVE CONTINUED MONITORING MARKET STREAM.
01:40:02 >> UBER BLACK BEGAN OFFERING FULL DAY PICK UP AND DROP OFF
01:40:07 SERVICE OF THE SEVEN DESIGNATED BAYS ON DECEMBER 15TH.
01:40:10 LYFT BLACK VEHICLES MAKE TRIPS ON MARKET STREET BUT HAVE ONLY
01:40:12 RECENTLY BEGUN TO DO A LIMITED NUMBER OF PICKUPS AND DROP OFFS
01:40:16 ON THE STREET ITSELF. >> WE WILL ALSO DRIVE ON MARKET
01:40:19 BUT THEY HAVE ELECTED TO DELAY FULL PICK UP AND DROP OFF
01:40:22 SERVICE TO ENSURE A RELIABLE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE WHEN
01:40:25 LOADING BAYS ARE FULL. >> OUR EVALUATION IS STILL
01:40:29 IN PROGRESS BUT WE'VE NOT IDENTIFIED OR OBSERVED I SHOULD
01:40:31 SAY ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO DATE MUNI TRAVEL TIMES
01:40:37 AND TRAVEL TIME VARIABILITY STILL REMAIN BELOW THEIR
01:40:38 RESPECTIVE THRESHOLDS AND ARE CURRENTLY AT LEVELS CONSISTENT
01:40:43 WITH MARCH OF LAST YEAR. >> BASED ON THE DATA CURRENTLY
01:40:46 AVAILABLE WE HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED INJURY COLLISIONS
01:40:49 ATTRIBUTABLE TO A SERVICE PROVIDER DURING THIS PHASE
01:40:52 AND IS HOWEVER SHARED TRIPS BY BIKE SCOOTER AND OTHER
01:40:54 MICROMOBILITY MODES IN THE BIKE LANE.
01:40:57 BIKE SHARE TRIPS AND OVERALL TRANSIT RIDERSHIP ON MARKET
01:41:01 STREET CORRIDOR ARE HIGHER THAN THEY WERE THIS TIME LAST YEAR.
01:41:04 >> WE ALSO MONITOR AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC ON MARKET STREET
01:41:08 AND COMPARED TO JULY OF 2025 WHEN WE KICKED OFF THE
01:41:10 EVALUATION AS OF MARCH OF THIS YEAR.
01:41:13 WEEKDAY TRAFFIC VOLUMES ARE SLIGHTLY LOWER WHILE WEEKEND
01:41:16 VOLUMES ARE SLIGHTLY HIGHER SUGGESTING NO SUBSTANTIAL
01:41:21 INCREASE IN TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC VOLUMES ON THE STREET.
01:41:24 BASED ON THOSE TWO DATES, THOSE TWO MONTHS OF DATA.
01:41:27 OUR NEXT STEPS INCLUDE CONDUCTING A PUBLIC INTERCEPT
01:41:30 SURVEY INTERVIEWING MUNI TRANSIT OPERATORS AND MARKET
01:41:32 STREET BUSINESSES AND CONDUCTING LOADING BAY
01:41:35 UTILIZATION OBSERVATIONS. WE'LL ALSO CONTINUE TO MONITOR
01:41:39 THE SAFETY TRANSIT PERFORMANCE AND TRAFFIC CONDITIONS AND WILL
01:41:42 REPORT FINDINGS TO THE SFP BOARD AND THROUGH OTHER FORUMS
01:41:46 CONSIDERING THE BEST WAY TO PROVIDE LOADING ACCESS TO
01:41:50 BUSINESSES AND RESIDENTS ON MARKET STREET IS JUST ONE WAY
01:41:51 WE'RE THINKING ABOUT HOW THE CORRIDOR CAN GROW AND THRIVE
01:41:54 BUT WE UNDERSTAND THIS IS JUST A TOOL IN A LARGER TOOLBOX THAT
01:41:58 OUR COLLEAGUES AT O W EWR WILL ALSO SHARE.
01:42:02 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU AND THANK YOU
01:42:08 JENNY FOR THE PRESENTATION. A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ON THE
01:42:15 TAXI PILOT AND THEN SOME QUESTIONS MORE BROADLY ON
01:42:17 BETTER MARKET STREET AS WELL. SO JUST TO REPEAT WHAT I FEEL I
01:42:23 HEARD SO BASICALLY WITH THE PILOT TODAY THE ONLY COMPANY
01:42:27 THAT HAS BEEN LEVERAGING IT SO FAR HAS BEEN UBER.
01:42:28 AND CORRECT ME IF I'M YOU'RE SAYING LYFT AND WAYMO ARE STILL
01:42:31 IN THE PROCESS OF STARTING TO ADOPT IT.
01:42:32 >> WHEN WE TOLD THE PROVIDERS THAT THEY COULD START FULL
01:42:35 EVALUATION AS OF DECEMBER 15TH UBER BLACK THAT THEY WOULD BE
01:42:40 READY TO GO ON THAT DATE. >> WE'VE ALL WE'VE RECENTLY
01:42:43 HEARD FROM LYFT BLACK THAT THEY'RE PILOTING A SMALL NUMBER
01:42:47 OF PICKUPS AND DROP OFFS JUST RECENTLY AND WAYMO IS NOT DOING
01:42:48 PICK UP AND DROP OFF ON MARKET STREET.
01:42:51 >> OKAY. SO LAST FOUR MONTHS ONLY UBER
01:42:52 REALLY HAS BEEN STARTING YOU AND LYFT TO A LITTLE BIT.
01:42:55 >> OKAY. DO YOU HAVE DATA ON HOW MANY
01:42:58 DROP OFFS? UBER AND LYFT I GUESS TO SOME
01:42:59 EXTENT HAVE HAVE DONE SO FAR. >> WE'RE STILL WE HAVE SOME
01:43:05 ROUND NUMBERS ABOUT THE NUMBER OF TRIPS THEY'VE DONE AND WE'RE
01:43:07 STILL DIGGING INTO THE ACTUAL THE PICK UP AND DROP OFFS FROM
01:43:10 THEM. >> DO YOU HAVE THE ROUND
01:43:11 NUMBERS? >> YEAH.
01:43:13 THEY COLLECTIVELY TAKE ABOUT TWO HUNDRED AND 50 UNDER 250
01:43:20 TRIPS ON MARKET STREET PER DAY WHICH AVERAGES TO ABOUT TEN
01:43:24 TRIPS AN HOUR. >> OKAY, TEN TRIPS AN HOUR FROM
01:43:27 THE RESPECTIVE COMPANIES ARE USING THE LOADING ZONES TO TEN
01:43:31 TRIPS JUST ON MARKET THROUGH DRIVING NOT NECESSARILY PICK
01:43:35 AND DROP UP. THAT WOULD BE A SMALLER SUBSET
01:43:36 THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM TO BETTER UNDERSTAND.
01:43:39 YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MANY THE PICK THEM DROP OFF THEY'VE
01:43:41 ACTUALLY LEVERAGE OF THE LOADING ZONES OUT.
01:43:43 NOT NOT NO. UNDERSTOOD.
01:43:44 WE GO THAT GOOD IN THAT CONTEXT, IS IT SAFE TO SAY THAT
01:43:49 YOU SAID THERE HASN'T BEEN A THANK YOU FOR COVERING THE
01:43:53 METRICS OF SOUNDS LIKE THE FIVE AND 10% THRESHOLDS FOR WHAT IS
01:43:58 WHAT YOU'RE DESIGNATING AS REASONABLE?
01:44:00 IS THAT CORRECT IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE
01:44:02 THE BUFFER IS BELOW? >> IS IT SAFE TO SAY THAT MAYBE
01:44:05 THERE HASN'T BEEN BECAUSE THE UTILIZATION IS SO LOW THAT WE
01:44:11 HAVEN'T SEEN ANY OF THAT POTENTIAL DISRUPTION THAT
01:44:15 COULD'VE BEEN POSSIBLE AS WELL AS POSSIBLE?
01:44:18 ALSO IN THAT CONTEXT, SIMULTANEOUS TO THIS DECISION
01:44:23 AROUND ADOPTION OF THIS CHANGE FOR TEENS THE LOADING ZONES.
01:44:27 WE SAW SERVICE CUTS TO MUNI. AND DO YOU HAVE ANY DATA
01:44:33 SPECIFICALLY AROUND THE FIVE AND THE AND THE NINE BEING
01:44:36 REMOVED DURING RUSH HOUR AND THE SIX BEING REMOVED
01:44:38 ENTIRELY? HOW THAT HAS AFFECTED SERVICE
01:44:41 RIDERSHIP, OVERCROWDING OR LESS ADOPTION ALONG THE MARKET
01:44:48 STREET CORRIDOR AS WELL FROM A PUBLIC TRANSIT PERSPECTIVE.
01:44:49 >> I MAY PASS THIS ONE TO MY COLLEAGUE IN SERVICE PLANNING
01:44:52 JESSICA GARCIA. >> HI, GOOD AFTERNOON.
01:44:59 I'M JESSICA GARCIA, THE SERVICE PLANNING MANAGER AND TRANSIT
01:45:02 ABBAS OF MTA. AND SO YEAH, FOR THE PAST YEAR
01:45:03 WE'VE BEEN LOOKING TO SEE HOW THE RIDERSHIP HAS CHANGED ON
01:45:07 THE ROUTES THAT WERE IMPACTED BY THE SERVICE CUTS LAST YEAR.
01:45:10 IN THE MOST PART THE THE FIVE ARE IN THE FIVE LOCAL HAVE SEEN
01:45:13 THE A BIG SHIFT FROM THE LOCAL TO THE RAPID.
01:45:17 SO CROWDING HAS ACTUALLY GONE DOWN ON THE FIVE LOCAL BUT THE
01:45:21 RAPID HAS INCREASINGLY GONE MORE AND MORE CROWDED.
01:45:24 >> SO WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND WAYS THIS LAST YEAR TO TO
01:45:28 ADDRESS THE CROWDING. SO BACK IN FEBRUARY WE HAD TO
01:45:32 MAKE SOME CHANGES TO THE FLEET SIZES THAT ARE ON THE ROUTE DUE
01:45:34 TO THE CLOSURE OF OUR POTRERO YARD.
01:45:37 SO WE INCREASED FREQUENCY DURING THAT TIME POINTED TO THE
01:45:40 PROJECT AND THEN THIS SUMMER WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT WAYS TO
01:45:44 ADD SOME ADDITIONAL TRIPS WHERE WE'RE SEEING SOME OF THAT ACUTE
01:45:47 CROWDING DURING THE PEAK PERIODS.
01:45:48 >> WE SAW A SIMILAR PATTERN ON THE NINE AND THE NINE ARE WE'VE
01:45:52 SEEN MORE LOCAL RIDERSHIP GO TO THE RAPID BUT IN THAT CASE THE
01:45:55 RAPID IS ABLE TO ABSORB IT SO WE'RE NOT SEEING EXTREME
01:46:00 CROWDING OR HIGHER LEVELS OF CROWDING ON THOSE ROUTES.
01:46:03 >> WHEN CAN PEOPLE EXPECT TO SEE THAT THE SHIFTS TO THE FIVE
01:46:06 FIVE ARE THEM? >> WE ARE PLANNING A SERVICE
01:46:08 CHANGE IN JUNE SO PROBABLY BY MID-JUNE WE'RE HOPING TO SEE
01:46:11 SOME ALLEVIATION AND THEN WE'RE ALSO CONTINUING TO WORK ON
01:46:14 OTHER SOLUTIONS TO TRY TO ADDRESS THE CROWDING THAT WE'RE
01:46:18 SEEING BECAUSE OVERALL WE ARE SEEING, YOU KNOW, A HIGHER
01:46:19 PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE TRAVELING DOWNTOWN AND WE'RE SEEING A
01:46:22 GROWTH IN OUR METRO SYSTEM AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S ALL
01:46:26 JUST DUE TO THE CHANGES THAT WE MADE LAST SUMMER.
01:46:29 I THINK THERE'S ALSO PEOPLE COMING MORE DOWNTOWN FOR WORK
01:46:33 AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO WE'RE WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL
01:46:35 OF THOSE FACTORS TO SEE WHAT'S THE BEST WAY WE CAN LEVERAGE
01:46:37 OUR RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE. >> UNDERSTOOD.
01:46:41 SECOND LAST QUESTION I THINK ON THIS CONTEXT IS ONE OF THE
01:46:45 CHALLENGES I THINK THAT CAME FROM COMMUNITY LAST YEAR WHEN
01:46:46 THESE DECISIONS WERE BEING MADE WAS KIND OF A SENSE OF DISTRUST
01:46:52 BECAUSE THERE WAS NOT REALLY A TRANSPARENT COMMUNICATION
01:46:55 PROCESS ABOUT HOW THESE DECISIONS ARE MADE PARTICULARLY
01:46:59 AROUND THE TNC PILOT. WHAT WILL PUBLIC PROCESS LOOK
01:47:03 LIKE GOING FORWARD TO MAKE SURE THAT COMMUNITY ON MARKET STREET
01:47:05 AND THE NEIGHBORS ARE MADE AWARE OF ANY FUTURE CHANGES
01:47:08 THAT ARE HAPPENING AROUND SERVICE OR TNC PILOTS AS WELL?
01:47:12 >> SO I CAN SPEAK TO THE THE MARKET STREET OR THE MUNI
01:47:16 SERVICE CHANGES THAT WE MADE. I KNOW WE HAD A REALLY RUSHED
01:47:20 PROCESS TO BE ABLE TO BALANCE THE BUDGET LAST YEAR.
01:47:23 SO WE DID OUR BEST TO DO A REALLY EXTENSIVE OUTREACH
01:47:27 PROCESS TO GET THE FEEDBACK ON WHAT TYPES OF CHANGES RIDERSHIP
01:47:31 WOULD BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN WITH THE RESOURCES WE HAD AND WE
01:47:32 LANDED ON USING THE UNDERUTILIZED CAPACITY THAT WE
01:47:35 HAD ON MARKET STREET WITH THOSE SERVICE CHANGES.
01:47:39 >> SO I CAN'T SPEAK FOR THE TNC OUTREACH.
01:47:43 I CAN HAVE THAT BACK TO MY OTHER COLLEAGUES BUT IN GENERAL
01:47:44 I THINK YEAH WE WANT TO BE IT WAS IT WAS A TIMING ISSUE.
01:47:47 IT WAS JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT THOSE THINGS LINED UP AT THE
01:47:51 SAME TIME BUT THAT WAS NOT PART OF DRIVING OUR DECISION MAKING
01:47:53 AND IN MAKING THE CHANGES COMMUNITY SERVICE.
01:47:55 >> GOT IT. CAN WE HEAR ABOUT COMMUNICATION
01:47:58 TNC IS GOING FORWARD? >> OH I'M SORRY.
01:48:02 CAN YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION? SUPERVISOR?
01:48:05 AND THE CONCERN LAST FALL WAS THAT IT CAME AS A SURPRISE TO A
01:48:09 LOT OF THE STAKEHOLDERS IN THE SUPERVISORS BUT ALSO THE
01:48:13 COMMUNITY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ABOUT THAT THIS TNC PILOT
01:48:16 HAPPENED. >> WHAT WILL BE DONE AS A
01:48:21 PUBLIC PROCESS GOING FORWARD TO ENSURE THAT THE COMMUNITY
01:48:24 IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE DISTRICTS ARE INFORMED OF NEW
01:48:26 CHANGES OR PROPOSED CHANGES BEFORE A CHANGE IS ACTUALLY
01:48:29 FINAL AND NOT JUST NOT JUST RESPECT TO THIS EVALUATION BUT
01:48:33 ANY CHANGES ON MARKET STREET ON THIS PILOT AND ALSO IN GENERAL
01:48:37 ABOUT CARS AND TRANSIT ON THE ON THE MARKET STREET.
01:48:41 >> YEAH. YES AND WE WE UNDERSTAND
01:48:44 AND RESPECT THOSE CONCERNS. OUR EVALUATION WILL LIKE OUR
01:48:51 OUR NEXT STEP IS TO DO ADDITIONAL ROBUST DATA
01:48:55 COLLECTION AND TO TAKE THE TIME TO REALLY DIG INTO THE NUMBERS
01:48:59 FROM THE PROVIDERS THE NUMBERS THAT WE'RE SEEING ABOUT TRANSIT
01:49:03 BIKES, OTHER MICROMOBILITY TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THE
01:49:07 EFFECT IS ON THE TYPES OF SERVICES THAT THAT THEY'RE
01:49:11 PROVIDING AND TO COME UP WITH RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE CAN
01:49:13 THEN TALK TO OUR ADVOCATES AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS IN THE
01:49:16 CORRIDOR ABOUT AND THEN TAKE THAT TO OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
01:49:23 THAT AS OF MTA. >> SO YOU'LL GO THROUGH THAT
01:49:24 BECAUSE I THINK PART OF THE CONCERN IS LIKE WE MENTIONED
01:49:27 WITH THE SERVICE CUTS THERE WAS THAT PUBLIC DISCUSSION PROCESS
01:49:28 BEFORE A FINAL DECISION WAS MADE BUT ON THIS PILOT THERE
01:49:32 WASN'T THAT PUBLIC. THERE WASN'T OPPORTUNITY FOR
01:49:35 THE PUBLIC TO WEIGH IN. SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT ANY
01:49:36 CHANGES TO THE TNC PILOT GOING FORWARD WHETHER WE ADD MORE
01:49:40 CARS OR TAKE AWAY CARS OR SERVICE MEMBERS IN THERE, IT'LL
01:49:44 GO TO THE MTA BOARD FOR DISCUSSION.
01:49:45 >> YES. THE MORE BROADLY WE COVERED A
01:49:53 LITTLE BIT ABOUT BETTER MARKET STREET AND KIND OF THE SIDEWALK
01:49:56 LEVEL BIKE LANES OR PROPOSED OR PRETTY EXCITING.
01:49:58 >> CAN YOU WALK THROUGH WHY THE DECISION WAS MADE TO MOVE AWAY
01:50:01 FROM THE ORIGINAL SEQUEL CLEARED VERSION AND WHAT MIGHT
01:50:04 BE THE FUTURE OF THAT COMPONENT OF THE PLAN AS WELL?
01:50:10 >> SURE. SO YOU KNOW EVERY PROJECT WE DO
01:50:11 IS SEE QUICK CLEARED. SO WE DID CLEAR AN ORIGINAL
01:50:15 VISION OF MARKET STREET IN THE 2019 BETTER MARKET STREET
01:50:19 LEGISLATION THAT THE SFM T A BOARD APPROVED AND SUBSEQUENTLY
01:50:23 ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF LATER THERE WAS A LARGE ITEM HEARD BY
01:50:27 OUR BOARD AGAIN AND SO WE HAVE WE DID HEAR SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC
01:50:31 OUTREACH AND FEEDBACK ON THIS DECISION TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE
01:50:34 CYCLE TRACK THE ORIGINAL CYCLE TRACK AND SHIFT IT BACK TO A
01:50:39 STREET LEVEL BIKEWAY. AND SO THE THINKING THEN THAT
01:50:45 WAS SHARED WITH OUR BOARD AND WITH OTHERS IS THAT THE
01:50:47 CYCLE TRACK AND SIDEWALK LEVEL VARIED BETWEEN 5 TO 8FT.
01:50:50 >> YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON THE SIDEWALK AND EVERYTHING ELSE
01:50:54 THAT WAS GOING ON IN THE STREET WE KNEW THAT IMMEDIATELY IT
01:50:57 WOULD ACTUALLY BE UNDER SERVING THE NUMBER OF BIKE RIDERS THAT
01:51:01 NEEDED TO BE ON IT. YOU KNOW THAT IS A VERY NARROW
01:51:04 BIKE WAY AND SO THE THE THOUGHT IS TO LEAVE THE BIKE WAY AT THE
01:51:09 STREET LEVEL THAT IS ALSO MORE COST EFFECTIVE, RIGHT?
01:51:13 >> LIKE MOVING ANYTHING ON MARKET STREET COSTS AN ARM
01:51:17 AND A LEG. >> SO WHETHER WE ARE NARROWING
01:51:20 A SIDEWALK OR SHIFTING A BOARDING ISLAND THAT IS GOING
01:51:25 TO BE A VERY EXPENSIVE ENDEAVOR .
01:51:28 AND SO THE CURRENT APPROVED VERSION OF BETTER MARKET STREET
01:51:31 HAS THE BICYCLE FACILITY ON THE SIDEWALK LEVEL AND IS
01:51:36 CONSOLIDATING ALL OF TRANSIT SERVICE INTO THE CENTER LANE
01:51:39 THAT IS PREDICATED ON A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT CAPITAL UPGRADES
01:51:42 THAT ARE CURRENTLY NOT IN OUR CAPITAL PLAN.
01:51:44 BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT
01:51:47 AND WORKING TOWARDS AS FUNDING BECOMES AVAILABLE AND AS
01:51:48 OPPORTUNITIES SORT OF MOVE AHEAD, WE DO STILL HAVE THAT
01:51:51 INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN IN PLACE THAT WE CAN ADVANCE THE ISSUE,
01:51:55 PUT UP THE SLIDE WITH SO WHEN THE CURB CUT ACTUALLY DO YOU
01:52:01 MEAN OUR SLIDE IS THIS ONE? YEAH I JUST WANT TO DODGE ON
01:52:06 THE RIDE THAT JENNY AND I AND THE ADVOCATES WENT ON.
01:52:10 SEVERAL PEOPLE COMMENTED SPECIFICALLY ON THAT ONE
01:52:14 AND REALLY COMPLIMENTED THE INNOVATION THERE TO BE SUPER
01:52:17 HELPFUL. SO JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
01:52:18 AND THANK YOU FOR FOR DOING THAT ONE AND HOPEFULLY SEE MORE
01:52:22 OF THOSE AS WELL. THANKS.
01:52:24 THE LAST QUESTION IS ON THE TNC PILOT.
01:52:26 I GUESS HOW WOULD YOU SAY THAT AS OF RIGHT NOW IS IT MEETING
01:52:30 YOUR EXPECTATIONS FOR WHAT THE RESULTS WOULD BE AT THIS
01:52:33 MID-CYCLE POINT AND WOULD YOU SAY IT'S A SUCCESS OR NOT?
01:52:37 >> SO YOU KNOW, WE DON'T I DIDN'T HAVE ANY EXPECTATIONS.
01:52:40 COMMERCIAL VEHICLES WERE NEVER PROHIBITED ON MARKET STREET
01:52:43 IN ANY POINT, WHICH IS WHY THESE VEHICLES ARE ALL ON
01:52:48 MARKET STREET. >> RIGHT?
01:52:49 SO ANY ANYONE WITH A COMMERCIAL PLATE IS ENTITLED TO BE ON
01:52:52 MARKET STREET AND THAT WAS ALWAYS INTENTIONAL, RIGHT?
01:52:53 THAT WAS A THOUGHT THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKE A PLUMBER OR DOING
01:52:56 A MOVING TRUCK OR ANYTHING ELSE NEED ACCESS TO THOSE LOADING
01:53:00 ZONES AND NEED TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES THAT THEY ARE
01:53:03 PROVIDING. THERE IS CERTAINLY THAT THE
01:53:07 IDEA THAT CURRENTLY OUR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE FLEETS ARE
01:53:10 COMMERCIALLY PLATED IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD HAVE
01:53:16 KNOWN IN 2019 AND IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE COULD EVEN
01:53:19 KNOW IN FIVE YEARS. RIGHT?
01:53:20 THE THAT SPACE IS REALLY DYNAMIC AND TRULY CHANGING
01:53:23 AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO ANTICIPATE EVERY MOMENT
01:53:24 IN THE FUTURE. BUT WHAT I THINK IS CERTAINLY
01:53:28 TRUE IS THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF RULES ABOUT OUR CURBS AND WHO
01:53:35 CAN USE THE STREET ON MARKET STREET ALREADY AND THAT THERE
01:53:38 IS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF NIMBLENESS THAT THE SFM TAYPORT
01:53:40 CAN USE. >> SO AS WE SEE THINGS
01:53:43 CHANGING. SO JUST TO COME BACK TO YOUR
01:53:44 QUESTION, WE HAVEN'T SEEN THINGS CHANGING RIGHT?
01:53:47 SO I DIDN'T HAVE EXPECTATIONS BUT BASED ON WHAT JENNY SAID WE
01:53:51 HAVEN'T SEEN THINGS CHANGING BUT WE ARE MONITORING IT AND WE
01:53:54 ARE CONCERNED ABOUT NOT JUST THIS BUT ANY OTHER CHANGE THAT
01:53:58 MIGHT COME TO MARKET STREET. AND AS THAT HAPPENS LIKE THAT
01:54:02 IS THE WHOLE POINT OF MARKET STREET.
01:54:03 IT'S NEVER GOING TO BE ONE SIZE FITS ALL LEGISLATION THAT IS
01:54:06 GOING TO BE GOOD FOR 100 YEARS WE SPENT 100 YEARS FIXING
01:54:08 NIPPING AND TUCKING IN 2020 WE MADE SOME REALLY BIG CHANGES
01:54:12 BUT WE ARE CONTINUING TO NIP AND TUCK AS THINGS COME ALONG
01:54:17 AND I YOU KNOW, I'M PROUD OF OUR BOARD FOR CONTINUING TO
01:54:20 PUSH US TO MAKE THOSE CHANGES. >> SORRY LAST QUESTION FROM MY
01:54:23 COLLEAGUES. >> YOU MENTIONED LOADING ZONES
01:54:24 WHEN WE WERE ON THAT BIKE RIDE WE ACTUALLY SAW A LOT OF
01:54:28 NONCOMMERCIAL VEHICLES PARKED IN THE LOADING ZONES
01:54:32 AND SOMETIMES DOUBLE PARKED ON MARKET STREET AS WELL.
01:54:35 THERE WAS AT LEAST ALMOST A DOZEN CARS THAT WE SAW PARKED.
01:54:39 IS THAT A CONCERN THAT YOU'VE SEEN HAPPEN AT AN INCREASED
01:54:43 LEVEL SINCE THE PUBLIC PERMISSION TO HAVE COMMERCIAL
01:54:44 LOADING THE UBER LYFT IN THE LOADING ZONES IS THE SAME LEVEL
01:54:50 OF DOUBLE PARKING THAT YOU'RE SEEING PRIOR TO THAT
01:54:52 ANNOUNCEMENT AND ALSO WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ADDRESS THAT AS
01:54:55 WELL? >> I'LL LET JENNY SPEAK TO IT
01:54:59 IF SHE WANTS BUT I THINK THAT IS WHAT THE EVALUATION IS FOR.
01:55:02 >> AND SO WE'RE STILL UNDERWAY. IT'S STILL ONGOING AND WE
01:55:03 HAVEN'T PARSED ALL THAT INFORMATION AND DATA.
01:55:05 >> YOU KNOW, WE I WILL SAY THAT BEFORE 20 WHAT YOUR 2025 YOU
01:55:13 KNOW, WE DEFINITELY SEE SOME NONCOMPLIANCE IN OUR FOR OUR
01:55:16 CEO'S ARE OUT THERE AND THEY DO ISSUE TICKETS AND SO WHETHER
01:55:20 WE'VE SEEN A CHANGE I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT BUT I'LL LET
01:55:22 JENNY SAY YES YOU WANT YEAH OH NO SORRY ABOUT THAT WE GOT TO
01:55:31 SO OUR ANSWER IS NO WE ARE NOT READY TO YET AS A SORT OF
01:55:33 REPORT OUT IN OUR EVALUATION OF WHAT'S HAPPENING BUT THAT IS
01:55:36 SOMETHING WE ARE CURRENTLY DOING AND PAYING ATTENTION TO.
01:55:39 >> YEAH, JUST THE CONCERN IS THAT IF WE'RE NOT SEEING AN
01:55:40 UPTICK IN UTILIZATION BUT WE'RE SEEING AN UPTICK IN ABUSE BY
01:55:44 NON-COMPLIANT ACTORS THAT WOULD BE CONCERNING.
01:55:47 >> SO YEAH, SO THAT IS SOMETHING WE WILL CERTAINLY BE
01:55:49 EVALUATING AND CONSIDERING AND REPORTING BACK ON.
01:55:52 WE SHOULD SO VERY MUCH I'M THANK YOU SUPERVISOR MOVE I
01:55:55 HAVE A QUESTIONS I KNOW THAT IT'S ONLY FOUR MONTHS SINCE TNC
01:56:00 VEHICLES ON MARKET STREET YOU ARE STILL TRYING TO COLLECT
01:56:03 DATA BUT I STILL WANT TO KNOW IF ANY UPDATE US OR ANALYSIS
01:56:08 IT'S ALREADY AVAILABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE DEGREE OF
01:56:14 INFLUENCE BECAUSE OF TNC CARS ON MY HISTORY THAT ACTUALLY
01:56:22 ENCOURAGE OR OR OR MOVE PEOPLE TO USE MORE ALTERNATIVE
01:56:26 TRANSPORTATION METHODS SUCH AS PUBLIC TRANSIT OR BICYCLE ASKED
01:56:34 YEAH I THINK THE ANSWER IS THE SAME WHICH IS THAT WE HAVE NOT
01:56:37 FIRST OF ALL WE'RE NOT SEEING A DRAMATIC UPTICK IN THE USAGE
01:56:41 FROM THOSE PROVIDERS SPECIFICALLY.
01:56:42 >> AND THEN ON THE SAME LEVEL WE HAVE NOT EVEN FINISHED THE
01:56:45 EVALUATION THEREOF OF ALL THE DIFFERENT IMPACTS OR NON OR NON
01:56:50 IMPACTS OF THIS SORT OF COMMERCIAL PLATED PASSENGER
01:56:57 LOADING AND IN THE FUTURE WHEN YOU HAVE MORE DATA AND LONGER
01:57:00 TIME PERIOD FOR EVALUATIONS WOULD YOU CONSIDER THAT AND AND
01:57:05 SEE YOU KNOW HOW CARDS A TNC RELATED OR WAYMO EVENTUALLY ON
01:57:12 MAKE HISTORY AND HOW WOULD THAT INFLUENCE PEOPLE'S BEHAVIOR OF
01:57:15 CHOOSING ALTERNATIVE YEAH I THINK THAT IS EXACTLY THE
01:57:19 INTENTION OF THIS EVALUATION AND I THINK THAT THERE IS
01:57:23 CERTAINLY WE'VE HEARD PUBLIC CONCERN THAT THESE SOME OF
01:57:26 THESE ARE EMERGING AREAS AND THAT THE MTA DOES NEED TO
01:57:30 BE PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS. AND SO THAT IS PRECISELY WHY
01:57:34 JENNY IS LEADING THIS EVALUATION AND IF THERE ARE
01:57:38 DECISIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE THAT ARE RELATED TO CHANGING
01:57:41 WHAT KIND OF ACCESS OR LOADING IS PROVIDED ON MARKET STREET
01:57:45 AND WE WILL BE BRINGING THAT TO THE SFM TO SUPPORT.
01:57:46 >> THANK YOU GENERAL. I AM GOING TO BE THOUGHTFUL
01:57:53 ABOUT MY COMMENTS BECAUSE I DON'T WANT IT TO COST ME ANY
01:57:54 FRIENDS BUT I THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS I THINK YOUR
01:58:02 PRESENTATION WAS I THINK TO THE CRUX OF THE ISSUE I, I THINK
01:58:06 THE MTA IS IN JUST A TRICKY POSITION BECAUSE EVERYONE
01:58:10 BLAMES YOU FOR EVERYTHING IN THIS CASE YOU IN YOUR
01:58:14 PRESENTATION STATED THAT WE NEED TO CONTEXTUALIZE THIS
01:58:18 IN THE WORK OF THE MTA AND YOU TALKED ABOUT YOUR ASSETS WHICH
01:58:26 IS MOST OF MARKET STREET IT'S YOUR AVERAGE AND THEN UNDER IT
01:58:27 TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE IT'S ALL YOURS.
01:58:30 >> SO WHILE YOU GET BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME I
01:58:34 THINK YOU DO SORT OF TAKE POSSESSIVENESS OF A LOT OF IT
01:58:37 BECAUSE YOU WANT CONTROL BECAUSE IT'S SO MANY OF YOUR
01:58:41 ASSETS AND SO MUCH OF WHAT YOUR WORK IS CHARGED FOR IT.
01:58:44 >> BUT I WOULD, YOU KNOW, PUSH BACK ON THAT BECAUSE IT'S NOT
01:58:49 ALL YOURS. >> SO YOU KNOW, YOUR
01:58:50 PRESENTATION WAS ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT MARKET STREET IS TO
01:58:53 THE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE CITY.
01:58:56 EVERYTHING GOES BY THERE, YOU KNOW, GETTING PEOPLE FROM POINT
01:58:59 A TO POINT B BUT IN ADDITION TO IT BEING A STREET AND A
01:59:03 THOROUGHFARE, MARKET STREET ALSO IS IMPORTANT FOR US IN ANY
01:59:07 NUMBER OF WAYS. >> SO IT IS NOT JUST A
01:59:09 THOROUGHFARE FOR IT IS ALSO A DESTINATION AND SO WHEN YOU
01:59:12 HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THAT PART OF IT SO LIKE HOW ATTRACTIVE A
01:59:19 DESTINATION IT IS, HOW IT FEELS AS A DESTINATION, WHAT IT LOOKS
01:59:23 LIKE, WHAT THE POLICIES ARE, WHAT THE TAX POLICIES ARE FOR
01:59:27 THAT DESTINATION AND HOW THAT DESTINATION IS IMPORTANT TO OUR
01:59:31 BUDGET BECAUSE ALMOST 60 PERCENT OF THE INCOME THAT THE
01:59:35 CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO GETS IS FROM TOURISM
01:59:38 AND HOSPITALITY THAT IS ALL ALONG, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST RIGHT
01:59:42 ON MARKET STREET BUT ALL ADJACENT TO MARKET STREET MAJOR
01:59:47 CONCENTRATION OF YOU KNOW, HOTEL TOURIST HOTELS, OWN
01:59:50 PARCELS, OUR ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT, ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
01:59:54 IT'S AN ECOSYSTEM, RIGHT? >> AND SO WHILE YOU AS AN MTA
01:59:58 ARE MAKING DECISIONS FOR WHAT IS MOST EFFICIENT, WHAT YOU
02:00:05 KNOW, HOW OVERCROWDED THE BUSSES ARE, WHETHER OR NOT
02:00:09 PEOPLE ARE COMING TO THE LOADING AND UNLOADING ZONES YOU
02:00:13 REALLY HAVE NO CONTROL OR ARE KEEPING TRACK OF YOU KNOW WHY
02:00:18 PEOPLE WOULD COME AND UNLOAD, YOU KNOW, IN FRONT OF A CITY
02:00:22 WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE SOMEPLACE TO EAT AFTER THE
02:00:26 SHOW, WHETHER IT FEELS SAFE FOR A 12 YEAR OLD GIRL.
02:00:29 >> I'M JUST SAYING THIS BECAUSE YOU KNOW, WE HAD A TOWN HALL
02:00:33 MEETING THAT YOUR MTA DIRECTOR CAME TO US THIS WEEKEND FOR
02:00:37 THIS DISTRICT'S A NEW COUNCIL. IT WAS GREAT.
02:00:40 THE KIDS ARE GREAT. BUT I ASKED HIM THIS QUESTION
02:00:44 BECAUSE THEY HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT DOWNTOWN
02:00:45 AND ABOUT MARKET STREET AND I'M LIKE WHY DO YOU ALL GO TO STONE
02:00:49 DOWN BECAUSE EVERYBODY KNOWS IS THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM RIGHT
02:00:52 FOR ALL OF THE HIGH SCHOOLS ON THE WEST SIDE AND ON ANY GIVEN
02:00:58 DAY AFTER THREE IT'S LIKE FULL OF PEOPLE FULL OF KIDS, RIGHT?
02:00:59 >> IT'S RIGHT ON THE M VERY ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLIC
02:01:02 TRANSPORTATION AND THE THE THAT WHAT THEY TOLD ME WAS LIKE IT'S
02:01:06 NOT FUN ON MARKET STREET IT'S FUN.
02:01:09 IT'S STONES DOWN THEY HAVE YOU KNOW ROUND ONE THEY HAVE ALL
02:01:12 THOSE THINGS THEY CAN GET THERE BY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION JUST
02:01:15 LIKE THEY CAN ON MARKET STREET BUT YET THEY'RE NOT GOING
02:01:19 BECAUSE IT'S NOT FUN. IT IT ALSO DOESN'T FEEL SAFE TO
02:01:23 THE KIDS RIGHT AND SO ALL OF THOSE THINGS PUBLIC SAFETY THAT
02:01:26 HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR JURISDICTION OR WORK PLAN
02:01:30 AND SO I THINK IT IS KIND OF A THING TO PUT IT ON YOUR LAP
02:01:34 AND SAY GO SOLVE THIS BECAUSE IT'S NOT REALLY FOR YOU TO
02:01:38 SOLVE AND IT'S A DIFFERENT THING.
02:01:41 AND ANOTHER THING THAT YOU KNOW, YOU SAID IN THE
02:01:43 PRESENTATION WERE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MUNI MUNI TRAVEL TIMES
02:01:46 AND HOW IMPORTANT THAT WAS AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE
02:01:49 AND I'M WONDERING YOU KNOW WHAT THE RELATIONSHIP IS BETWEEN YOU
02:01:53 THINKING ABOUT MUNI TRAVEL TIMES AND THE FACT THAT YOU
02:01:57 KNOW, LATE AT NIGHT AND WE WANT BODIES ON THE STREET YOU KNOW
02:02:04 THAT'S WHEN MUNI DECREASES ITS FREQUENCY YOU KNOW WHAT'S A YOU
02:02:08 KNOW SO SO I JUST THINK THAT YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE MEASURING
02:02:12 AS MEASURES OF SUCCESS YOU KNOW MAY OR MAY NOT ALIGN WITH WHO
02:02:19 IS BEING CHARGED WITH DOING MOST OF THE WORK FOR CREATING
02:02:23 SUCCESS BECAUSE THAT'S NOT ALL ON YOU.
02:02:24 >> SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WAS, YOU KNOW, A QUESTION
02:02:28 IN THERE. >> I JUST HAD TO SAY IT BECAUSE
02:02:32 YOU KNOW, I DO THINK, YOU KNOW, PROVISIONS HERE ARE FOR
02:02:35 EVERYTHING. >> EVERYBODY'S LIKE MTA GET IT
02:02:36 DONE AND I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT'S RIGHT HERE IT'S IT'S
02:02:40 BECAUSE IT'S NOT ALL ON YOU. I THINK THIS IS A COLLECTIVE
02:02:44 EFFORT THAT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT IN TERMS OF IT'S OUR LIVING
02:02:47 ROOM MARKET STREET IS OUR LIVING ROOM AS A CITY.
02:02:51 RIGHT AND AND YES YOU KNOW GETTING TO THE LIVING ROOM
02:02:52 AND THE FRONT DOOR KNOB THAT'S ON BUT BUT IT'S NOT ALL ON YOU.
02:02:55 >> I APPRECIATE THERE WASN'T EXACTLY A QUESTION IN THERE BUT
02:02:59 I DO WANT TO LIKE GIVE YOU A REJOINDER AND SAY LIKE WE I
02:03:03 HEAR YOU FIRST OF ALL LIKE I THINK I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE
02:03:06 WERE HOPING TO CONVEY. >> MTA BUT ALSO THE CITY
02:03:08 UNDERSTANDS THAT MARKET STREET IS NOT JUST A THROUGH STREET.
02:03:11 >> IT IS A TWO STREET. IT IS IT HAS TO DO DOUBLE DUTY
02:03:13 AND YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT NOBODY PEOPLE AND NOBODY
02:03:17 PARADES ON SOUTH VENICE THEY PARADE ON MARKET RIGHT LIKE
02:03:19 THIS IS A A TWO AND A THROUGH PLACE AND MTA IS VERY
02:03:22 THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THAT UNIQUE ROLE THAT MARKET STREET HAS
02:03:28 AND THAT IS WHY WE'RE ACTUALLY SANDWICHED BETWEEN OUR FRIENDS
02:03:30 AT PLANNING AND BECAUSE IT ISN'T ON US AND WE DO
02:03:33 ABSOLUTELY NEED THE SUPPORT OF OUR CITY PARTNERS AND I REALLY
02:03:37 APPRECIATE HOW MUCH WORK THEY ARE GOING TO DO.
02:03:40 I KNOW EVERYBODY IS GOING TO COME UP AFTER US SO I THINK
02:03:42 THAT THAT'S A REALLY NICE WAY FOR THEM TO SPEAK TO HOW DO WE
02:03:45 MAKE IT MORE OF A TWO PLACE RIGHT?
02:03:48 IT USED TO BE A TWO PLACE BECAUSE OF EMPLOYERS AND AS THE
02:03:51 POST-COVID SHIFTS OUT WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT.
02:03:53 >> LET'S GO BACK TO US. I WILL ASK YOU A QUESTION.
02:03:56 LET'S GO BACK TO THE WAYMO ISSUE BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING
02:03:59 THAT MY COLLEAGUES HAVE BROUGHT UP.
02:04:00 >> SO HOW YOU ANSWERED IT WAS WE HAVEN'T REALLY SEEN A
02:04:04 CHANGE. WE HAVEN'T SEEN AN INCREASE.
02:04:08 >> BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE MEASURE OF SUCCESS FOR PUTTING
02:04:12 WAY MORE BACK ON MARKET STREET? >> LIKE I GET IT THAT THEY
02:04:15 ALWAYS HAVE COMMERCIAL VEHICLES YOU KNOW WHATEVER YOU KNOW I'M
02:04:19 GOING TO BE FOR THE MOMENT AGNOSTIC ON YOU KNOW WHETHER OR
02:04:23 NOT WE HAVE WAYMO'S ON MARKET STREET BUT IF WE'RE GOING TO
02:04:24 HAVE THEM BECAUSE I YOU KNOW BRIGHT MARKET STREET ON THE
02:04:27 DAILY ON MY BIKE I HAVE NOT SEEN WAYMO'S ON MARKET STREET
02:04:33 REALLY VERY RARELY WHAT I HAVE SEEN IS A MARKET UPTAKE OF
02:04:38 PEOPLE IN PRIVATE VEHICLES AFTER THAT HAPPENED IT'S ALMOST
02:04:42 LIKE IT WAS CARTE BLANCHE YOU KNOW FOR PEOPLE SAY OH I CAN DO
02:04:47 THIS BECAUSE MAYOR LURIE SAID IT'S OKAY, YOU KNOW AND SO
02:04:50 IN BUT ENFORCEMENT OF THAT IS NOT ON YOU.
02:04:51 YOU HAVE NO JURISDICTION OF THAT IT SHOULD BE AS A PD
02:04:55 SOMEWHERE SOMEONE SHOULD BE KEEPING TRACK OF IT.
02:04:57 SO YOU KNOW I'M JUST WONDERING LIKE WHAT THE MARKER OF SUCCESS
02:05:01 IS, WHETHER OR NOT IT HAS DONE ANYTHING TO MUNI TRAVEL TIMES
02:05:05 OR WHETHER OR NOT THE DELIVERY YOU KNOW SPACES ARE BEING USED
02:05:10 AND I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT'S A MEASURE OF THAT SUCCESS BECAUSE
02:05:13 WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS YOU KNOW, DOES IT DOES IT FEEL
02:05:17 SAFER FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BIKING OR YOU KNOW, IN YES OR NO
02:05:21 AND IF IT'S WORTH, YOU KNOW, US NOT FEELING AS SAFE AS WE USED
02:05:26 TO BECAUSE THERE'S MORE PEOPLE BREAKING THE RULES IS IT WORTH
02:05:29 IT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY COMING TO ACT ON SHOWS FROM,
02:05:33 YOU KNOW, THE SUBURBS AND TAKING AWAY MOST AND YOU'RE
02:05:37 YOU THAT'S NOT WITHIN YOUR JURISDICTION TO KEEP TRACK OF
02:05:41 RIGHT YOU'RE NOT KEEPING TRACK OF WHETHER OR NOT THE
02:05:44 BUSINESSES ARE MORE SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE OF THAT DECISION
02:05:46 WHETHER PEOPLE ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF DIFFERENT MODES OF
02:05:49 TRANSPORTATION, WHETHER YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE OLDER WHO
02:05:53 WOULD BE RELUCTANT TO TAKE MUNI THEY'RE 11:00 AT NIGHT ARE NOW
02:05:57 MORE LIKE LIKE NONE OF THOSE THINGS ARE UNDER YOUR STICTION.
02:06:01 >> SO ARE YOU DO YOU THINK THAT YOU THE MEASURE OF SUCCESS THAT
02:06:04 YOU'RE USING IS THE ADEQUATE MEASURE OF SUCCESS?
02:06:08 >> WELL, I THINK WE HAVE THOSE VERY SPECIFIC METRICS THAT YOU
02:06:10 GAVE BUT WE ALSO HAD A WHOLE SET OF OTHER QUESTIONS THAT WE
02:06:12 ARE EVALUATING AND ASKING. >> SO I DON'T WANT US TO ONLY
02:06:16 SAY THAT THOSE ARE THE ONLY MEASURE OF SUCCESS.
02:06:17 I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A WHOLE SET OF THINGS THAT WE ARE
02:06:20 CURRENTLY EVALUATING AND CONSIDERING AND I WANT TO
02:06:21 SAY SPECIFICALLY THAT WE DO INCLUDE THE IDEA OF PEOPLE ON
02:06:24 BIKES BEING SAFER. SO WE ARE DOING YOU KNOW AGAIN
02:06:28 OUR DATA IS STATS ARE VERY LIMITED AND WE DO NOT WANT A
02:06:32 COLLISION BUT WE ARE TRACKING THESE THINGS.
02:06:33 >> WE ARE LOOKING AT THEM, WE ARE CONSIDERING THEM AND WHEN
02:06:36 WE COMPLETE THIS EVALUATION I BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE
02:06:40 LIKE MORE TO SAY THAN JUST LIKE WHETHER MUNI IS UP OR DOWN.
02:06:44 THIS IS JUST OUR LIKE SORT OF INTERIM OUTPUTS THAT WE CAN
02:06:47 TRACK BECAUSE THEY'RE LONGITUDINAL BUT WE AREN'T
02:06:50 COLLECTING VERY SPECIFIC ONE TIME DATA.
02:06:51 SO IF DANNY WANTS TO PROVIDE ANY MORE COLOR COMMENTARY ON
02:06:54 THAT ONE, GO AHEAD. >> NO YEAH, YEAH.
02:06:57 >> BUT I THINK YOU'RE ASKING ARE WE THINKING HOLISTICALLY?
02:06:59 THE ANSWER IS YES. WE REALLY WANT MARKET STREET TO
02:07:02 SUCCEED. AND SO THIS EVALUATION AND THEN
02:07:03 I DO WANT TO SAY AGAIN LIKE THIS IS WHERE THERE ARE
02:07:06 WONDERFUL, AMAZING DESTINATIONS SUCCEED.
02:07:10 >> IT'S THIS IS JUST LIKE A SORT OF SMALL PIECE OF THAT
02:07:11 BIGGER PUZZLE AND THAT'S WHERE WE NEED OUR COLLEAGUES AT EWG.
02:07:15 >> AND SO I KNOW THEY HAVE NOT YET PRESENTED BUT I THINK THAT
02:07:18 THEY'RE GOING TO SHARE HOW THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT THIS
02:07:19 MUCH BROADER RIGHT? >> IT ISN'T GOING TO BE SEVEN
02:07:22 LOADING ZONES THAT ARE GOING TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE HERE AND WE
02:07:25 DO HAVE A BROAD SUITE OF TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS AFTER
02:07:29 10:00 WHICH INCLUDES OUR TAXI INDUSTRY WHICH INCLUDES CROSS
02:07:32 STREETS FOR TNC IS WHICH INCLUDES YOU KNOW, A BIKE SHARE
02:07:34 STATION SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE YOUR BIKE OUT AT THE
02:07:37 THEATER FOR THREE HOURS. YOU CAN JUST TAKE A RIDESHARE
02:07:39 THAT HAS A NICE LIGHT ON IT. SO YOU KNOW WE ARE A MULTIMODAL
02:07:43 AGENCY. >> NOT EVERY MODE IS GOING TO
02:07:45 BE THE PERFECT ONE FOR THE TRIP YOU ARE MAKING TODAY BUT WE ARE
02:07:49 HOPEFUL THAT WE'VE PROVIDED ENOUGH GREAT SOLUTIONS.
02:07:52 DOES THE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE THE RIGHT THINGS AT THEIR
02:07:53 HANDS SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE A CHOOSE A SUSTAINABLE CHOICE?
02:07:57 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR DAY AND ALL
02:08:04 THE SPEAKERS WHO PRESENTED THEIR IN HAVE NOW OFFICE OF
02:08:07 ECONOMIC WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT .
02:08:14 ALL RIGHT CAN WE HAVE THE PRESENTATION PLEASE?
02:08:28 >> THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS
02:08:32 CHAIR MAO AGHA VICE CHAIR CHEN AND SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD THANK
02:08:36 YOU FOR CALLING THIS HEARING. SO TODAY MY NAME DIANE UPTON,
02:08:39 CIVILIAN DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
02:08:43 AT THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
02:08:45 I WILL BE PRESENTING COLLECTIVELY ON BEHALF OF ALL
02:08:48 OF OUR DIVISIONS TODAY AND ALL THE PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS
02:08:52 AND POLICIES THAT WE'VE BEEN IMPLEMENTING WITH A VIEW OF THE
02:08:55 CITY WIDE RIGHT TO REMOVE AND CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR
02:08:59 THE SAN FRANCISCANS AS IN OUR LOCAL ECONOMY BUT AS WELL HOW
02:09:03 DO WE TAKE A NEIGHBORHOOD BALANCED SUCH AS IN THIS CASE
02:09:07 MID-MARKET OR MARKET STREET AND APPLY SOME OF THOSE
02:09:11 POLICIES AS WELL AS CUSTOMIZE IT BASED ON WHAT WE'RE SEEING
02:09:14 AS OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES AT THE LOCAL LEVEL AND WITH
02:09:17 VERY CLOSE PARTNERSHIPS WITH NONPROFITS AND CBOS ON THE
02:09:21 GROUND. >> SO OUR MISSION IS TO ADVANCE
02:09:25 EQUITABLE AND SHARED PROSPERITY FOR SAN FRANCISCANS.
02:09:27 WE SUPPORT BUSINESSES OF ALL SIZES, CREATE GREAT PLACES TO
02:09:30 LIVE, WORK AND HELP EVERYONE ACHIEVE ECONOMIC
02:09:33 SELF-SUFFICIENCY. >> SO WHETHER IT'S LOOKING AT
02:09:37 BUSINESSES AND ATTRACTING THEM TO SAN FRANCISCO TO CREATE JOBS
02:09:40 TO KEEP US COMPETITIVE AND ALSO SUPPORTING OUR WORKFORCE
02:09:44 PIPELINE TO THOSE JOBS AND WHETHER IT'S ALSO
02:09:48 SUPPORTING OUR SMALL BUSINESSES, REMOVING BARRIERS
02:09:49 AND CHALLENGES AND PROPOSING NEW POLICIES THAT CAN DO THAT
02:09:52 IS WHAT WE DO ACROSS ALL OF OUR DIVISIONS.
02:09:56 >> NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. >> SO I'M GOING TO START WITH
02:10:00 OUR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TEAM WHO HAS BEEN WORKING ON
02:10:04 IMPLEMENTING SOME PRETTY POPULAR PROGRAMS THAT YOU HAVE
02:10:07 HEARD OF OUR ENTERTAINMENT ZONES AT A CITYWIDE LEVEL TO
02:10:11 CREATE MAKE IT EASIER FOR NEIGHBORS TO BE ABLE TO
02:10:15 ACTIVATE AND SUPPORT BUSINESSES WITH THE ABILITY OF BEING ABLE
02:10:18 TO HAVE ALCOHOL ON THE STREET. SO INSTEAD OF BRINGING VENDORS
02:10:23 FROM THE OUTSIDE AND NOW WITH ENTERTAINMENT ZONES WE CAN
02:10:25 SUPPORT THOSE SMALL BUSINESSES ALONG THOSE CORRIDORS WITH THE
02:10:29 ACTIVATIONS, WITH PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO PURCHASE FROM THOSE
02:10:30 LOCATIONS ONCE IN ONE OF THOSE ENTERTAINMENT ZONES IS ACTUALLY
02:10:37 ON MARKET STREET BETWEEN FIFTH AND SIXTH STREETS ALSO AS SAFE
02:10:41 LIVES. SO AS A RESPONSE TO WE HAVE
02:10:42 SEEN MUCH POSITIVE ATTRACTION IN TERMS OF DOWNTOWN MORE
02:10:48 ACTIVATIONS IN TERMS OF THE CITY AS A WHOLE IN SAN
02:10:50 FRANCISCO, A MORE POSITIVE OUTLOOK.
02:10:53 SO WITH THAT WE WERE HEARING FROM OUR SMALLER VENUES
02:10:54 AND THEATERS THAT THEY WANTED SOME OF THAT ATTENTION TOO.
02:10:57 SO S.F. LOVE WAS CREATED AS THAT EFFORT TO REALLY DRAW
02:11:01 TRAFFIC AND BE ABLE TO HAVE IT CALENDAR OF EVENTS ACROSS THE
02:11:04 CITY FOR OUR SMALLER VENUES INCLUDING LIKE THE FUNCTION
02:11:08 AND IN SOME OF THE SMALLER THEATERS ACROSS THE CITY.
02:11:09 SO THAT PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO VISIT SAN FRANCISCO CAN NOW SEE
02:11:12 ACROSS THE BOARD WHERE ARE WHERE ARE THOSE MORE
02:11:16 NEIGHBORHOOD BASED BUSINESSES WHERE THEY COULD COME AND ENJOY
02:11:20 SMALLER ACTS AND PERFORMANCES. ALSO SPECIFIC TO MARKET STREET
02:11:27 WE HAVE A PROJECT WHERE CAS WAS ABLE TO LEVERAGE THE S.F.
02:11:35 COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND IN THE AMOUNT OF $4 MILLION TO
02:11:38 BE ABLE TO PROMOTE THE ARTS AND AFFORDABLE SPACE ON MARKET
02:11:43 STREET SO THAT WAS VERY EXCITING.
02:11:46 THEY ARE NOW THERE. IT'S A VERY SUCCESSFUL PROJECT
02:11:48 . >> NEXT PLEASE ALSO JUST LASTLY
02:11:52 OUR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP DOES ALSO KEEP INVESTING OUT
02:11:57 SORRY ENGAGING WITH HOTELS AS WELL AS BUSINESSES THAT MAY BE
02:12:01 INTERESTED IN SOME OF THE VACANCIES ALONG MARKET STREET
02:12:02 SO THAT ENGAGEMENT IS CONTINUOUS AS WELL AS THE
02:12:05 OFFICE OF SMALL BUSINESS WE HAVE A LEASING AND COMMERCIAL
02:12:09 ASSISTANCE SO THEY'VE SEEN AN UPTICK IN A LOT OF INTEREST
02:12:13 SPECIALLY FROM THE EAST BAY AND OFFICE SPACE THAT'S MAYBE A
02:12:16 B AND C CATEGORY. SO GIVEN THE CHANGES SOME OF
02:12:19 THE POSITIVE CHANGES WE'VE SEEN ON MARKET STREET OF SAFETY
02:12:23 AND PERCEPTION AND CLEANLINESS THAT WE'VE SEEN AN UPTICK
02:12:24 IN INTEREST WE HAVE WITH THAT SAID, WE KNOW WE HAVE A LOT
02:12:28 MORE WORK TO DO BUT WE ARE SEEING SOME POSITIVE IMPACT
02:12:32 BASED ON SOME OF THE WORK. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
02:12:39 >> SO IN TERMS OF OUR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION,
02:12:43 THIS IS WHERE WE WORK VERY CLOSELY ON THE GROUND WITH OUR
02:12:47 PARTNERS TO DEVELOP AND SUPPORT THE CAPACITY BUT ALSO REALLY
02:12:50 COORDINATE AND PLAN DIFFERENT STRATEGIES BASED ON WHAT WE'RE
02:12:54 SEEING ON THE GROUND AND WHAT THEY'RE SEEING.
02:12:55 SO TWO MAIN PARTNERS WELL REALLY THREE ENTITIES THAT WE
02:12:58 WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH IN THIS AREA OUR MID-MARKET CBD CIVIC
02:13:04 CENTER CBD. OBVIOUSLY I DIDN'T MENTION ALL
02:13:05 THE OTHER CBD IN DOWNTOWN BUT I'M FOCUSED HERE ON MID-MARKET
02:13:10 IN ADDITION TO THE MID-MARKET FOUNDATION.
02:13:12 SO WE DO FUND THAT VERY CLOSELY THE VISION OF CREATING A SPACE
02:13:16 FOR ART FILLING VACANCIES AND DEPLOYING OUR SMALL
02:13:20 BUSINESS GRANT PROGRAMS TO ALSO SUPPORT SOME OF THOSE EFFORTS.
02:13:24 SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT OUR MID-MARKET PARTNER SUPPORTS ARE
02:13:28 THE BASKET RIGHT ON STAGE WHICH WE PARTNER UP WITH THE
02:13:29 ENTERTAINMENT ZONE TO LEVERAGE THAT AND WE'VE SEEN ALSO A HUGE
02:13:33 NARRATIVE SHIFT IN TERMS OF THE INTEREST ALONG FOR PEOPLE TO
02:13:37 COME TO MARKET STREET TO EXPERIENCE THOSE.
02:13:39 WE'VE ALSO PARTNERED VERY CLOSELY THROUGH THOSE PROGRAMS
02:13:41 WITH OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE AREN'T
02:13:45 JUST COMING TO THE PERFORMANCES BUT THAT THEY'RE EATING,
02:13:48 DRINKING, STAYING. WE HAVE A CRAFT PROGRAM RIGHT
02:13:52 NOW WHERE WE ARE PROGRAMING ON A WEEKLY BASIS WITH MID-MARKET
02:13:56 FOUNDATION AS A PARTNER CRAFT ACTIVITIES THAT ARE VERY
02:14:00 POPULAR TO SUPPORT WITHIN OUR BUSINESSES SO THAT PEOPLE HANG
02:14:03 OUT, THEY EAT, THEY DRINK AND THEY SUPPORT.
02:14:04 >> SO THOSE ARE SOME OF OUR PROGRAMS AND THEN GENERALLY SO
02:14:10 I JUST WENT OVER THESE THEY ALSO HAVE A VERY STRONG RETAIL
02:14:15 ACTIVATION COMPONENT SO WE SUPPORT THE FUNDING IN THE
02:14:20 STAFFING NOT JUST FOR MARKETING BUT ALSO FOR BUSINESS
02:14:23 RECRUITMENT. SO THEY HAVE THIS PROGRAM WHERE
02:14:24 THE MODEL IS TO BE A MASTER USER FOR A FEW SPACES THEY THEN
02:14:30 INVEST IN THE SPACE, BUILD IT OUT, ATTRACT THE BUSINESS TO IT
02:14:34 TO REMOVE SOME OF THE RISK RIGHT SO THAT THEY CAN TRY IT
02:14:35 OUT AND ACTIVATE IT SO IT CREATES A CENTER OF ATTRACTION
02:14:39 FOR OTHERS. SO WE'VE DONE THAT AT THREE
02:14:42 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AND I THINK MIGHT BE ON THE NEXT SLIDE BUT
02:14:49 SOME OF THOSE ARE HOLISTIC THE RED TAILS BEER AND WINE THAT
02:14:52 THAT IS NOW CLOSED BUT THAT WAS ONE OF ONE OF THE BUSINESSES
02:14:54 ATTRACTED AND RAUSCH COOK AND SOME OF THOSE YOU KNOW THE
02:14:57 GOAL IS THAT IF IT WORKS OUT THEY CAN SIGN A LONGER TERM
02:15:01 LEASE AND IF IT DOESN'T IT'S OKAY.
02:15:02 WE WORK ON ATTRACTING ANOTHER BUSINESS IN ITS PLACE AND WITH
02:15:08 THAT I THINK THAT'S IT. >> THANK YOU FOR THE
02:15:12 PRESENTATION AND AND REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE PARTNERSHIP
02:15:19 WE'VE HAD ON INVESTING ALONG THE CORRIDOR AND HELPING A LOT
02:15:20 OF THE BUSINESSES AS WELL. I WANT TO DIVE INTO KIND OF
02:15:24 SOME OF THE INITIATIVES YOU'VE REPRESENTED AND KIND OF
02:15:27 UNDERSTAND THEIR EFFICACY AND MAYBE DATA AROUND PROGRESS
02:15:30 THERE AND SO FAR FROM AN OVERALL INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE
02:15:34 YOU COVERED A LOT OF DIFFERENT INITIATIVES BUT ALONG THE KIND
02:15:39 OF SIMILAR QUESTIONS I HAD FOR PLANNING IN THE BEGINNING
02:15:42 THERE'S MULTIPLE PARTS OF THE MARKET STREET CORRIDOR FROM
02:15:43 EMBARCADERO TO THE FRONT STREET TO SECOND STREET TO FOURTH
02:15:47 STREET TO POWELL TO MID-MARKET. >> WHERE DO YOU SEE THE CURRENT
02:15:51 PRIORITIZATION FROM YOUR DEPARTMENT ALONG THAT CORRIDOR
02:15:54 AND HOW ARE YOU DECIDING RELATIVELY ON WHERE TO
02:15:58 PRIORITIZE? >> YEAH.
02:15:59 SO IN THIS ENVIRONMENT OF BUDGET CONSTRAINTS OUR BUDGET
02:16:02 HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED.
02:16:03 SO WITH THAT AGAIN DOWNTOWN HAS BEEN A MAJOR, MAJOR FOCUS
02:16:06 OBVIOUSLY AS OUR ECONOMIC ENGINE THAT BENEFITS ACROSS THE
02:16:10 CITY. WE ALSO HAVE NEIGHBORHOOD
02:16:11 PROGRAMS SO IT'S IT'S NOT ONE OR THE OTHER.
02:16:15 WE DO ALL OF IT BUT A HIGH CONCENTRATION HAS BEEN
02:16:18 IN DOWNTOWN RIGHT BUT WITH THAT ALSO HAS BEEN ALSO A SCALED
02:16:22 BACK AS WE'VE PROVEN CONCEPT IN MANY OF THOSE ACTIVITIES
02:16:25 OBVIOUSLY THERE'S THIS PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE
02:16:27 TDC SO A LOT OF THE PRIVATE FUNDING IS NOW SUPPLEMENTING
02:16:32 AND ACTUALLY WE'RE PARING BACK A LOT OF THE DOWNTOWN FUNDING
02:16:34 THAT'S GENERAL FUND MID-MARKET ACTUALLY HAS AN ASSIGNED STAFF
02:16:37 PERSON TO HELP SUPPORT SOME OF THOSE PARTNERSHIPS KEEP GOING
02:16:41 AGAIN. WE ALSO FUND OUR NONPROFIT
02:16:44 PARTNERS AS WELL AS OUR ABUTTING NEIGHBORHOODS.
02:16:45 RIGHT. SUCH AS THE TENDERLOIN.
02:16:46 THEY ALL WORK TOGETHER AND SO IT IS A PRIORITY OF OURS.
02:16:51 WE HAVE AN ASSIGNED PERSON THERE AS WELL AS WE LEVERAGE
02:16:53 ALL OF OUR STAFFING AND PROGRAMS FROM OUR OTHER
02:16:56 DEPARTMENTS. >> THIS IS FROM OTHER
02:16:57 DIVISIONS. HOW DO YOU DEFINE DOWNTOWN?
02:17:00 I WOULD CONSIDER MID-MARKET AS PART OF DOWNTOWN AS WELL.
02:17:03 >> SO IF THERE'S A DISTINCTION WHAT IS THE SO IN TERMS OF THE
02:17:07 CURRENT INVESTMENT FOR DOWNTOWN THERE'S LIKE THE DDC HAS THEIR
02:17:11 OWN RIGHT NOW WE HAVE WE HAVE INVESTMENTS SO TO YOUR POINT WE
02:17:15 HAVE INVESTMENTS IN THE TENDERLOIN.
02:17:16 WE HAVE INVESTMENTS IN MID-MARKET.
02:17:17 WE ALSO WORK WITH SOME OF FILIPINAS.
02:17:19 >> SO FOR US LIKE THAT'S ALL OF OUR AREA OF INVESTMENT THERE
02:17:22 ARE SPECIFIC TARGETED PROGRAMS THAT HAVE SPECIFIC BOUNDARIES
02:17:26 IN THE CORE OF DOWNTOWN FINANCIAL DISTRICT ETC. THAT
02:17:27 ARE DIFFERENT NOW WE DEPLOY YOU KNOW, BASED ON DIFFERENT
02:17:30 GEOGRAPHIES. SO WE HAVE HAD PROGRAMS THAT
02:17:33 ARE VERY SPECIFIC TO ONLY MID-MARKET ONLY TENDERLOIN AS
02:17:37 WELL AND WE DEFINED THOSE AT THAT TIME.
02:17:38 >> AGAIN, JUST TO CLARIFY, YOU'RE SAYING THERE WERE BUDGET
02:17:41 CUTS AND SO YOU PRIORITIZE MORE INVESTMENT DOWNTOWN.
02:17:42 CAN YOU STABLISH AGAIN HOW MUCH MONEY RELATIVELY IS BEING
02:17:46 INVESTED IN DOWNTOWN VERSUS TENDERLOIN RECIPIENT MARKET?
02:17:49 >> I DON'T HAVE THE TOTALS RIGHT NOW BUT I WILL SAY
02:17:52 DOWNTOWN AND TIO ARE VERY HIGHER IN INVESTMENT THAN
02:17:57 MID-MARKET CURRENTLY IN TERMS OF OUR GRANT FUNDING.
02:17:59 >> GOT IT IN TERMS OF ONE OF THOSE INVESTMENTS I KNOW I WAS
02:18:05 THINKING ABOUT WAS THE STORE FOR AN OPPORTUNITY GRANT
02:18:07 PARTICULARLY MID-MARKET AND UNTIL I BELIEVE WHERE ARE
02:18:11 THE CORRIDORS ARE THEY ON ON MARKET STREET THROUGH
02:18:12 OPPORTUNITY GRANT SO WE HAVE MARKET SORRY I DON'T HAVE THE
02:18:16 TOP OF MY HEAD WHICH ONES? ALL OF OUR ASSOCIATE THROUGHOUT
02:18:20 THE CITY WE HAVE BAYVIEW TENDERLOIN MISSION STREET
02:18:26 MARKET STREET. >> I FORGOT WHAT THE OTHER ONES
02:18:31 ARE BUT MAYBE JUST FOCUS ENTIRELY ON MID-MARKET THEN
02:18:34 WHAT HAS BEEN AND ARE THE DEADLINE FOR THOSE GRANTS IS
02:18:38 COMING UP. WHAT HAS BEEN THE ADOPTION OR
02:18:42 APPLICATION RATE? >> ARE PEOPLE INTERESTED?
02:18:43 HOW'S THAT GOING? THANK YOU FOR THE PLUG.
02:18:45 YES PLEASE. MID-MARKET BUSINESSES WE HAVE
02:18:49 ANYWHERE FROM 50 TO $100,000 TO ATTRACT SMALL BUSINESSES TO
02:18:53 MID-MARKET WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED WELL.
02:18:54 I THINK THERE'S SOME POTENTIAL RIGHT NOW APPLICATIONS BUT
02:18:56 REALLY THE END BECAUSE OUR FUNDING WE HAVE TO GET IT
02:19:00 BEFORE THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR OUT.
02:19:01 SO THE END OF MAY IS THE DEADLINE.
02:19:04 SO I DO ENCOURAGE ANY BUSINESS THAT MAY BE INTERESTED IN SMALL
02:19:07 BUSINESS IN LOCATING TO EITHER TO MID-MARKET THE TENDERLOIN TO
02:19:11 REACH BACK OUT TO US. >> HAVE YOU HAD APPLICATIONS
02:19:13 IN THE TENDERLOIN YET? THE TENDERLOIN WE ACTUALLY
02:19:16 CLOSED OUR APPLICANT SORRY. WE CLOSED OUR APPLICATION
02:19:17 PROCESS. WE HAVE A FEW IN THERE THAT ARE
02:19:19 WE'RE FOR THAT FOR THAT PROCESS IT WAS LIKE THEY ADOPTED THEY
02:19:24 WERE INTERESTED IN THE TENDERLOIN AND WE'RE NOW
02:19:27 HELPING THEM LOOK FOR SPACE. >> IS THERE A REASON WHY YOU
02:19:30 FEEL YOU GOT MORE ADOPTION FOR THE TENDERLOIN THAN MID-MARKET
02:19:33 AS PART OF THE PROCESS? >> WELL THE APPLICATION PERIODS
02:19:37 WERE DIFFERENT. >> THEY WERE TWO TRACKS SO ONE
02:19:40 OPEN LATER SO MID-MARKET OPEN LATER THAN TENDERLOIN.
02:19:41 >> OKAY. SOME OF THE INVESTMENTS YOU
02:19:45 COVERED AS WELL WERE LIKE ENTERTAINMENT ZONES.
02:19:48 >> BIG BELIEVER IN THEM. I THINK WE'VE ADOPT A LOT OF
02:19:50 THEM ACROSS THE CITY. WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN ON THE TIMES
02:19:56 WHERE THE ENTERTAINMENT ZONES WERE NOT ACTIVE OR HAVE WE SEEN
02:20:01 A RECURRING FOOT TRAFFIC BUILD MORE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS WERE
02:20:05 ENTERTAINMENT ZONES ARE THERE RELATIVE TO THE ONES THAT THEY
02:20:06 WEREN'T OR EVEN PRE VERSUS POST ENTERTAINMENT ZONE?
02:20:09 >> I DON'T KNOW THAT WE KEEP TRACK OF THAT BUT I KNOW THAT
02:20:13 OBVIOUSLY WHEN WE DO HAVE THEM IT HAS A HUGE BOOST OVERALL
02:20:17 THESIS OF THE QUESTION IS DID THE BUSINESSES ON THAT CORRIDOR
02:20:20 BENEFIT FROM AN ENTERTAINMENT ZONE OUTSIDE OF THE HOURS OF
02:20:23 THE ACTIVATIONS? >> YEAH THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION
02:20:27 SUPERVISOR AND WE HAVEN'T YET DONE WE'RE ACTUALLY IN THE
02:20:28 PROCESS OF STARTING TO THINK ABOUT LOOK BACK ON A MORE
02:20:31 STRUCTURED WAY FOR ENTERTAINMENT ZONES OVER THE
02:20:34 NOW ONE AND A HALF YEAR DURATION OF THAT PROGRAM
02:20:38 AND BECAUSE EACH ENTERTAINMENT ZONE IS DIFFERENT, I THINK
02:20:40 WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO BE THOUGHTFUL TO HOW TO MEASURE
02:20:43 THE ZONES THAT HAVE MORE FREQUENT ACTIVATION VERSUS THE
02:20:44 ONES THAT ARE ONLY RECURRING ONCE A MONTH OR LESS.
02:20:46 SO YEAH, WE'RE WE'RE WE'RE WORKING ON IT BUT WE DON'T HAVE
02:20:50 ANY GOOD DATA AT THIS POINT. >> APPRECIATE IT.
02:20:51 THERE WAS NEXT IS SOMETHING LAST QUESTION IS JUST PUBLIC
02:20:57 SAFETY I THINK IS PARTICULARLY ON MARKET STREET IS A
02:20:58 SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE. OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF THE
02:21:01 PERCEPTION AROUND OUR CITY AND DOWNTOWN IS REALLY TIED TO
02:21:05 THE PUBLIC SAFETY PERCEPTIONS AS WELL.
02:21:08 I WOULD ACTUALLY ASK IN THAT CONTEXT IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S
02:21:12 MORE INVESTMENT OR FOCUS ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF DOWNTOWN BUT
02:21:16 THE MID-MARKET AREA WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF SAN FRANCISCO, THAT'S
02:21:21 WHAT THEY'RE SEEING IN THE NEWS .
02:21:24 THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SEEING ONLINE.
02:21:28 IS THERE IS THAT CONTEXTUALIZED WITHIN IWD OR PLANNING OR ANY
02:21:32 DEPARTMENT THAT UNLESS WE INVEST MORE IN THE MID-MARKET
02:21:35 CORRIDOR WE'RE NOT GOING TO CHANGE THE PERCEPTION OF SAN
02:21:39 FRANCISCO. SO THAT'S FOR ME IS PART OF THE
02:21:40 CONFUSING PART OF WHAT I'VE HEARD ACROSS TODAY HAS BEEN A
02:21:43 LOT OF FOCUS ON THE EMBARCADERO AND POWELL STREET.
02:21:47 BUT EVERYTHING WEST OF POWELL STREET IS SEEMS TO BE NOT BEING
02:21:51 INVESTED IN AT A RELATIVELY SIMILAR LEVEL THAT'S HURTING
02:21:55 THE IMAGE OF OUR CITY. >> WE'VE ACTUALLY HAD A HUGE
02:21:59 AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT OBVIOUSLY THE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM URBAN
02:22:03 ALCHEMY STARTED IN THE TENDERLOIN MID-MARKET AREA THAT
02:22:04 HAS CONTINUED. WE HAVE SEAWEEDS THAT ALSO
02:22:07 COVER THOSE AREAS JUST YOU KNOW WITH AMBASSADORS
02:22:11 AND CLEANLINESS. I THINK THE YOU IN PLAZA WITH
02:22:14 THE RESTRUCTURE OF THE OUTSIDE HAS SEEN CIVIC CIVIC CENTER HAS
02:22:18 SEEN ALSO A HUGE IMPACT ON THAT THAT HAS BEEN VERY DIFFERENT
02:22:22 IN THAT SHIFT SO I WOULD SAY ESPECIALLY WITH ALSO THE POLICE
02:22:25 COOPERATION AND ACTIVATION WE HAVE SEEN YOU KNOW, IN THE FROM
02:22:30 THE PAST YEARS A HUGE, HUGE DRAMATIC CHANGE IN THERE
02:22:34 BECAUSE OF THAT INVESTMENT. SO I WOULD SAY THERE HAS BEEN A
02:22:37 HUGE AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT THAT HAS GONE THROUGH FOR THOSE
02:22:41 EFFORTS OF PUBLIC SAFETY. AGAIN, WE CONTINUOUSLY HAVE,
02:22:45 YOU KNOW, A LONG WAYS TO GO BUT WE ARE WE HAVE SEEN THE
02:22:49 PROGRESS AND WE'RE SEEING IT LIKE PEOPLE ARE NOW INTERESTED.
02:22:51 THEY'RE FEELING A LITTLE BIT SAFER.
02:22:53 BUT WE STILL WE'RE STILL WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH THE
02:22:54 POLICE DEPARTMENT AS PART OF THOSE OPERATIONS AS WELL AS OUR
02:22:57 BENEFIT DISTRICTS IS TO CARE FOR MY POINT MY QUESTION ON A
02:23:01 PERCENT SEE THE INVESTMENTS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AND URBAN ALCHEMY
02:23:04 ON THOSE INVESTMENTS AND THAT'S MAKING A PROGRESS THERE
02:23:08 AND THAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW.
02:23:09 MY QUESTION IS MORE SO WHY AREN'T THE PUBLIC REALM
02:23:12 ENHANCEMENT INVESTMENTS COMMENSURATE WITH THE NEED FROM
02:23:16 WHERE THE CONDITIONS SEEM UNSAFE?
02:23:17 BECAUSE I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE WHEN YOU MAKE
02:23:20 FUNDAMENTALLY INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES TO THE PUBLIC REALM,
02:23:24 THAT IS THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT THAT CREATES ANTICIPATION
02:23:27 OF NEGATIVE STREET CONDITIONS. WE SAW THE EVIDENCE OF THAT YOU
02:23:31 IN PLAZA WHERE IT WAS CONVERTED INTO A SKATE PARK AND WE'VE
02:23:35 SEEN SUCH AMAZING IMPROVEMENT THERE IN AND WE'VE SEEN KIND OF
02:23:39 THAT INVESTMENTS GOING NOW INTO POLICY I MEAN THE NUMBERS WE
02:23:42 HEARD WAS THAT $32 MILLION INTO EMBARCADERO AND THEN $22
02:23:46 MILLION INTO POWELL STREET. MY QUESTION IS MORE WHY AREN'T
02:23:50 WE SEEING THE SAME LEVEL OF PUBLIC REALM ENHANCEMENT
02:23:55 INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT THAT MAYBE QUESTION FOR EVERYONE
02:23:56 THAT PRESENTED ON MID-MARKET AS WE ARE SEEING ON THOSE OTHER
02:24:00 PARTS OF THE STREET CORRIDOR WHEN UNLESS WE CHANGE THE
02:24:03 PUBLIC REALM ENHANCEMENT COMPONENTS OF THE MID-MARKET
02:24:07 CORRIDOR, WE'RE NOT GOING TO SEE A PERMANENT CHANGE
02:24:08 IN STREET CONDITIONS. >> YES.
02:24:11 SO OUR JURISDICTION IS NOT THE PUBLIC REALM.
02:24:15 SO APOLOGIES FOR THAT. I THINK WE HEARD A LITTLE BIT
02:24:18 AROUND THAT. WE DO FOCUS WITHIN THE
02:24:19 STOREFRONTS. SO FOR US LIKE WITHIN THE
02:24:22 STOREFRONT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, MURALS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
02:24:26 SO WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE THOSE PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENTS
02:24:27 AND INVEST IN THEM AND YOU KNOW, AGAIN OUR PARTNERS ARE
02:24:32 TRYING TO DO THAT EVEN IN THE VACANT STOREFRONT TO MAKE IT AT
02:24:36 LEAST MORE INVITING AND FEEL MORE ACTIVE THROUGH ART I'M
02:24:39 GOING TO SAY SO WE IN A IN A SMALLER LEVEL WE DO HAVE THAT
02:24:43 INCORPORATE INTO OUR PROGRAMING OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, GIVEN OUR
02:24:50 BUDGET SITUATION IT IS LIMITED BUDGET THIS YEAR THANK YOU SO
02:24:54 MUCH ON THANK YOU SO VERY SOMEWHAT MORE YOU KNOW FROM
02:25:01 DOWNTOWN FROM THE LITTLE TIME THAT I SUPERVISED AT THE BOARD
02:25:05 SOME I FIND YOU SOMETIMES FOCUS IN ON LARGER CORPORATION WHEN
02:25:09 THERE'S AN ANCHOR FOR ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION OF THE AREA
02:25:11 HASN'T ALWAYS PAY OFF WHY MOM AND POP ENTERPRISES CAN BE A
02:25:17 REAL ANCHORS OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD THROUGH THICK
02:25:18 AND THIN SO I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IS THE DEPARTMENT DONE ANY
02:25:22 ANALYSIS AFTER ECONOMIC HEALTH AND STABILITY OF A MOM AND POP
02:25:26 ENTERPRISE? SO IN IN GENERAL I GOT TO SAY
02:25:30 THAT WE HAVE A HUGE FOCUS ON SUPPORTING OUR SMALL BUSINESSES
02:25:36 . THE CHALLENGE OUT THERE WE SEE
02:25:37 IT IN THE SALES TAX. IT HASN'T COME BACK.
02:25:38 THE FOOT TRAFFIC. RIGHT.
02:25:41 BECAUSE ESPECIALLY IN THAT AREA IT WAS IT'S IMPACTED SIMILAR TO
02:25:45 DOWNTOWN WITH LESS USE OF OFFICE SPACE.
02:25:48 RIGHT. AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT
02:25:49 WE CONTINUE TO WORK ON. HOWEVER IN TERMS OF GRANTS
02:25:52 AND FUNDING, RIGHT? SO WE DO DEPLOY PROGRAMS
02:25:55 SPECIFICALLY TO OUR SMALL BUSINESSES FOR THAT WE HAVE OUR
02:25:59 SMALL BUSINESS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE BUSINESSES CAN REACH
02:26:01 OUT TO US IF THEY NEED SUPPORT IN TERMS OF THEIR OPERATIONS.
02:26:04 BUT ALSO I GOT TO SAY WE ESPECIALLY IN THE AREAS THAT
02:26:08 HAVEN'T SEEN AS HUGE RECOVERY AFTER COVID WE DID HAVE AS OF
02:26:11 LATE THIS YEAR OUR S.F. THRIVES GRANT APPLICATION IN WHICH
02:26:15 SUPPORTED BUSINESSES WITH UP TO $10,000 AND IF THEY
02:26:19 DEMONSTRATED EXPENSES TOWARDS THEIR BUSINESS OPERATIONS SO
02:26:23 MANY OF BUSINESS ESPECIALLY MID-MARKET AND TENDERLOIN
02:26:27 AND OTHER AREAS BENEFITED FROM THAT PROGRAM TO HELP SUPPORT
02:26:30 THEM STILL AND AND PAY BACK SOME OF THOSE OPERATIONS UP TO
02:26:36 10,000. >> SO WE HAVE BEEN DEPLOYING
02:26:38 THAT. THANK YOU.
02:26:41 I UNDERSTAND JOE'S PROGRAM DISTRICT 11 IS ALSO BENEFITED
02:26:44 DIRECTLY FROM IT. >> HAVE WE TRACKING DATA
02:26:45 AND HOW HEALTHY AND HOW STABLE ALL THOSE STORE FUNDS OR
02:26:51 AND SMALL NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISES THAT ACTUALLY
02:26:53 RECEIVED A GRAND BEFORE COVID DURING COVID RIGHT AFTER COVID
02:27:00 FOR THE RECOVERY POST-COVID FOR THE RECOVERY DO WE HAVE ANY
02:27:03 REPORT OR ANALYSIS EVALUATION THAT FINDS ONE GRANT IT'S MORE
02:27:11 IMPACTFUL AND THEN ALSO FINDS BUSINESS IN WHICH NEIGHBORHOOD
02:27:15 IS MORE BENEFICIAL TO SOME OF THEIR GRANT?
02:27:18 >> YEAH WE DO IT BASED ON NEED AN OPPORTUNITY AND WE HAVEN'T
02:27:22 DONE TO YOUR POINT THOUGH I THINK THAT'S A GOOD POINT DOING
02:27:27 A SURVEY FOR THOSE ALL OF OUR RECIPIENTS THAT HAVE RECEIVED
02:27:30 GRANTS TO SEE HOW THEY CONTINUE TO DO HOWEVER WE DO CONTINUE TO
02:27:34 DO OUTREACH AND PROVIDE THEM THE SERVICES IN TERMS OF WHAT
02:27:38 IS AVAILABLE TO THEM. >> AGAIN THE OFFICE OF SMALL
02:27:40 BUSINESS CONTINUOUSLY YOU KNOW AS BUSINESSES NEED HELP
02:27:43 AND SUPPORT THAT'S HOW WE GET OUR FEEDBACK IS DIRECTLY FROM
02:27:47 THE BUSINESSES AT THE GRAND LITTLE LEVEL OUR INDICATION OF
02:27:51 WHETHER BUSINESSES ARE DOING WELL OR NOT WITHIN QUARTERS IS
02:27:54 OUR OUR RETAIL TAX RATE. >> SO THOSE ARE LIKE AT A
02:27:57 LARGER LEVEL AND THAT'S HOW SOMETIMES WE USE THAT AS A
02:27:59 GUIDE TO THEN INVEST BASED ON WHAT WE SEE THERE.
02:28:02 >> THANK YOU. I WANT TO BRING IT BACK TO
02:28:06 MARKET STREET AND AGAIN I DON'T WANT TO GO OUT TO CITYWIDE BUT
02:28:09 HOW DO YOU ASSESS NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITY YOU JUST
02:28:13 MENTIONED LIKE BASED ON NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITY AND AND HOW DO
02:28:14 YOU HOW IS THE DEPARTMENT ASSESSING NEEDS
02:28:20 AND OPPORTUNITIES. >> YEAH SO OBVIOUSLY VACANCIES
02:28:21 RIGHT SO IF THERE'S IF WE HAVE MORE VACANCIES OR LARGE
02:28:25 VACANCIES IS A BIG CHALLENGE I MARKET'S THREE I'M GOING TO SAY
02:28:29 AND SO WE LOOK AT THAT SO WE'RE DEPLOYING ATTRACTING BUSINESSES
02:28:32 TO MARKET OBVIOUSLY WITH OUR RESOURCES AS WELL AS OUR DIRECT
02:28:36 BUSINESS ATTRACTION WITH PEOPLE GOING OUT AND TALKING BECAUSE
02:28:39 THEN THAT CREATES MORE FOOT TRAFFIC, RIGHT?
02:28:40 IF WE HAVE LESS VACANCY. >> SO THAT'S ONE OF THE
02:28:44 MEASURES THAT WE LOOK AT AGAIN LOOKING AT SALES TAX WE ALSO
02:28:48 THERE'S A BIG SORT OF NARRATIVE SHIFT IN TERMS OF YOU KNOW,
02:28:53 WHEN WE ARE GETTING A LOT OF NEGATIVE PRESS ON CERTAIN
02:28:56 ISSUES IN THE PAST WHEN WE HAVE WE OUR PARTNERS HAVE WORKED
02:29:00 REALLY HARD TO DO THESE POSITIVE ACTIVATIONS TO REALLY
02:29:01 ADD SOMETHING MORE POSITIVE IN TERMS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING
02:29:04 NOW THAT PEOPLE CAN COME AND BE ATTRACTED TO VERSUS THE
02:29:07 NEGATIVE IN THAT WE HAVE SEEN A BIG UPTICK IN TERMS OF INTEREST
02:29:10 OF WHAT'S HAPPENING ON MARKET STREET SO THAT'S A HUGE THING
02:29:14 FOR US TOO IS THE MARKETING AND HOW WE'RE SEEING IT
02:29:15 PORTRAYED OR SEEN AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE UPTICKS I
02:29:22 THIS QUESTION MIGHT BE YOU ALL MAYBE THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT
02:29:26 HAS THERE BEEN ANY ANALYSIS DONE ON WHAT DISPLAYS MEANT
02:29:31 PRESSURE FOR SMALL BUSINESS IN IN ON MY HISTORY ANY DATA ON
02:29:35 DISPLACEMENT? >> NOT SPECIFICALLY THAT THE
02:29:42 PLANNING DEPARTMENT HAVE ANYTHING TO SHARE.
02:29:44 >> OKAY. THANK YOU.
02:29:49 THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
02:29:49 RESPONSIVE EARLY ON FOR THE PRESENTATION SO I HAD SOME
02:29:56 QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND THEN WHAT IT IS DOING
02:30:04 OVERALL SO I AM VERY APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR PROGRAMS.
02:30:08 THEY DO SERVE ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY IS I WONDER HOW YOU
02:30:15 MEASURE SUCCESS FOR THOSE PROGRAMS IN THOSE SPECIFIC
02:30:19 AREAS. >> AND THEN YOU KNOW, YOU
02:30:20 TALKED ABOUT HOW YOU YOU'RE NOT A DEPARTMENT THAT HAS LIKE
02:30:23 HARDSCAPE IMPROVED RENT RESPONSIBILITIES BUT I'M
02:30:28 WONDERING HOW YOU CONVEY WHAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR LEARN
02:30:34 IN TERMS OF THE SUCCESS OF YOUR PROGRAMS OR THE YOU KNOW,
02:30:39 DELTAS THAT YOU SEE TO THOSE DEPARTMENTS.
02:30:42 SO I'M SAYING THIS BECAUSE YOU KNOW, AS YOU NOTED AND YOU KNOW
02:30:46 YOUR ANSWERS THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF BAD PR FOR THIS YOU KNOW,
02:30:51 PART OF OUR CITY AND THAT HAS AFFECTED OUR TOURISM INDUSTRY
02:30:55 WHICH IS OUR YOU KNOW, LARGEST INDUSTRY AND IT HAS AFFECTED
02:30:58 THE SUCCESS OF THOSE BUSINESSES ON MARKET STREET.
02:31:02 >> AND I ALSO KNOW THAT WE WERE REALLY SLOW TO ADAPT TO THE
02:31:10 CHANGES IN THE RETAIL ENVIRONMENT THAT HAVE HAPPENED
02:31:14 ALL THROUGH THE WORLD. >> SO UNION SQUARE AND OUR
02:31:18 DOWNTOWN WAS VERY HEAVILY DEPENDENT ON LUXURY RETAIL THAT
02:31:22 WORKED FOR US FOR A LONG TIME. IT BROUGHT IN A LOT OF INCOME
02:31:27 FOR THOSE BUSINESSES AND FOR OUR CITY COFFERS.
02:31:29 >> BUT THEN YOU KNOW, LUXURY RETAIL BRANDS STARTED FALTERING
02:31:33 ALL OVER THE WORLD. >> IT WASN'T JUST IN SAN
02:31:35 FRANCISCO. >> THE MACY'S MEN'S STORE
02:31:38 CLOSED LIKE EIGHT YEARS AGO. IT WAS A REALLY LONG TIME AGO.
02:31:41 SO PEOPLE WERE NOT SO, YOU KNOW, HAPPY TO GO UP TO THE
02:31:47 EIGHTH FLOOR OR NORDSTROM, YOU KNOW, AFTER SOMEBODY BRINGS YOU
02:31:49 A LITTLE BOX WITH WHATEVER YOUR HEART DESIRES AT YOUR DOOR.
02:31:51 >> SO A LOT OF THINGS CHANGED IN THE WORLD AND WE DIDN'T
02:31:55 CHANGE OUR ZONING. WE DIDN'T CHANGE OUR PLANNING
02:31:59 FOR THIS AREA. WE DIDN'T CHANGE A LOT OF
02:32:03 THINGS. >> AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF WORK
02:32:06 THAT WE NEED TO DO YOU KNOW, DESIGN AND INFRASTRUCTURE
02:32:10 IMPROVEMENT IS PART OF IT BUT ALSO LIKE OUR BUSINESS PLAN
02:32:14 BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, IT'S NOT JUST A THOROUGHFARE.
02:32:15 IT'S ALSO A DESTINATION AND AND WE NEED TO JUSTIFY YOU KNOW,
02:32:19 THAT IN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS WE'RE DOING TO THE
02:32:22 YOU KNOW, INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TRANSPORTATION BECAUSE IT'S
02:32:26 BRINGING PEOPLE TO THE DESTINATION.
02:32:29 SO THE QUESTION IS LIKE THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU'RE RUNNING
02:32:33 WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE WORKED, HOW DO YOU HOW DOES THAT
02:32:35 INFORMATION TRANSLATE TO SOMEBODY LIKE, YOU KNOW, MR.
02:32:38 JEREMY SHAW IN TERMS OF THE PLANS FOR THE URBAN DESIGN THAT
02:32:42 WE'RE THINKING ABOUT FOR MARKET STREET, HOW DOES IT INFORM, YOU
02:32:46 KNOW, THE ZONING DECISIONS THAT WE'RE MAKING ABOUT WHAT WE NEED
02:32:50 CONVERSION OF COMMERCIAL TO DO LIKE HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?
02:32:54 >> THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION AND SO IT HAPPENS AT DIFFERENT
02:32:57 LEVELS RIGHT? SO WHEN WE ARE TAKING A
02:33:01 NEIGHBORHOOD AND MAYBE JEREMY I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL WANT TO
02:33:06 TALK ABOUT THE BIGGER KIND OF LOOKING AT COMMERCIAL RETAIL IS
02:33:07 ACROSS THE BOARD. WE DO TALK POLICIES AND THEY
02:33:10 OFTEN COME TO US TO LOOK AT YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE LOOKING AT
02:33:14 DIFFERENT CORRIDORS WHETHER IT'S A VERY NEIGHBORHOOD
02:33:16 APPROACH, RIGHT? SO WE'RE LOOKING AT CONSTANTLY
02:33:17 CHANGING EVEN LAND USE AND ZONING.
02:33:20 RIGHT? SO ONE EXAMPLE RIGHT NOW IS
02:33:23 WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR 24TH STREET STUDY RIGHT AFTER YEARS
02:33:27 OF BEING IMPLEMENTED WE'RE EVALUATING AND LOOKING AT HAS
02:33:28 HAD GREAT SUCCESS BUT ARE THERE CHANGES NOW THERE'S A HIGHER
02:33:31 DEMAND NOW NOW THAT THERE'S MORE STABILITY IN LOCALLY OWNED
02:33:35 BUSINESSES. IT'S NOW POTENTIALLY WE'RE
02:33:39 LOOKING AT EXPANDING THE NUMBER OF RESTAURANTS THAT CAN GO
02:33:42 IN THE CORRIDOR AND SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY ENGAGING AS WE'RE
02:33:44 GETTING FEEDBACK AND TO YOUR POINT AS WE'RE WORKING ON THE
02:33:47 GROUND, WE'RE SEEING AN OPPORTUNITY THERE WORKING WITH
02:33:50 STAKEHOLDERS AND THEN FIGURING OUT IS THERE A LAND USE
02:33:54 INTERVENTION THAT IS NEEDED IN THIS CASE WE ARE LOOKING
02:33:58 IN THE TENDERLOIN RIGHT NOW AND LOOKING AT ALL THE OUR
02:34:02 MAKEUP IN TERMS OF COMMERCIAL YOU KNOW, MAKEUP OF OF THE
02:34:06 NEIGHBORHOOD AND SEEING ARE THERE INTERVENTIONS HERE THAT
02:34:07 WE CAN THAT CAN PROMOTE RIGHT OPPORTUNITIES THAT MAYBE WE
02:34:10 DIDN'T SEE BEFORE. SO WE WE HAVE IT AT BOTH LEVELS
02:34:17 I WOULD SAY IN TERMS OF PROVIDING THAT FEEDBACK AS
02:34:18 THEY'RE CREATING AND LOOKING AT POLICIES AS WELL AT THE
02:34:21 NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL AS WE'RE ON THE GROUND WE DO ENGAGE WITH
02:34:24 THEM IN CONVERSATIONS TO SEE IF THAT IS ONE OF THE MANY
02:34:27 INTERVENTIONS RIGHT THAT WE CAN DEPLOY.
02:34:28 >> THANK YOU. I HAD A COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS.
02:34:31 ONE WAS ABOUT THE SORT OF PUBLIC PRIVATE YOU KNOW,
02:34:38 COLLABORATION. SO YOU KNOW, I'M IKEA IS LIKE
02:34:42 MY SECOND FAVORITE PLACE. >> THERE WAS THIS BUT I WILL
02:34:46 ADMIT THAT WHEN THEY OPENED THERE WAS SO MUCH ENTHUSIASM.
02:34:50 IT WAS DURING THE PANDEMIC SOMEBODY WAS INVESTING ON
02:34:54 MARKET STREET. >> THAT'S GREAT, RIGHT?
02:34:55 BUT THEN YOU KNOW, WE WERE MASS MARKET STREET WAS A MASS AT THE
02:34:59 TIME. YOU KNOW, WE WERE FIXING THE
02:35:02 SIDEWALK, WE WERE FIXING THE INTERSECTIONS AND IT WAS KIND
02:35:03 OF A THAT YOU KNOW, IT WAS A MASS IN FRONT OF IKEA FOR A
02:35:07 LONG TIME. YOU KNOW, WHILE THEY HAD THEIR
02:35:10 FIRST YOU KNOW, A FEW YEARS IN SAN FRANCISCO.
02:35:13 BUT I'M WONDERING IN TERMS OF LIKE THE THE POP UP THE YOU
02:35:18 KNOW, EVENTS THAT WE DO, HOW OFTEN OR WHETHER YOU TIME THESE
02:35:25 THINGS TO SUPPORT THE PRIVATE INVESTMENT THAT DOES COME LIKE
02:35:30 AN IKEA DO WE PLAN THINGS SO THAT YOU KNOW PEOPLE LIKE OKAY
02:35:34 WELL THIS STORE NOW OPENED UP YOU KNOW LET'S CALL ATTENTION
02:35:38 LET'S SEE IF WE CAN SPRUCE UP AS I WALK A LITTLE BIT LET'S
02:35:42 SEE YOU KNOW LIKE THOSE THINGS I FEEL LIKE ARE IMPORTANT FOR
02:35:45 THE ECOSYSTEM TO THEN BUILD ON ITSELF AND I FEEL LIKE, YOU
02:35:49 KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES THAT YOU KNOW,
02:35:50 JUST LIKE WE KIND OF LET GO BECAUSE BECAUSE YOU KNOW, WE
02:35:53 HAVE THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE BUT THEN YOU KNOW, WE DON'T
02:35:57 HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO ADAPT OR TO
02:36:00 COLLABORATE WITH, YOU KNOW, PRIVATE INVESTMENT.
02:36:03 I WELL WE HAVE ESPECIALLY IN THE IKEA CASE I WOULD SAY
02:36:08 LIKE EVEN WITH THE RESTAURANTS IN THERE TRIED DIFFERENT MODELS
02:36:11 ,SOME OF THEM DIDN'T WORK. SO WE'RE LEVERAGING NOT ONLY
02:36:13 LIKE ATTRACTION OF BUSINESS THROUGH OUR GRANTS AND WE'RE
02:36:17 PROACTIVELY TO SOME OF THE NEW BUSINESSES THAT HAVE COME
02:36:20 ONLINE HAVE BEEN SUPPORTED THROUGH OUR OFFICE BUT ALSO AS
02:36:23 THE MID-MARKET FOUNDATION A LOT OF THEIR EVENTS ARE FOCUSED ON
02:36:24 THERE AGAIN TO COLLABORATE AND SUPPORT AND KEEP THAT GOING
02:36:28 RIGHT THROUGH THE MID-MARKET FOUNDATION MID-MARKET THROUGH
02:36:31 OUR OFFICE OF SMALL BUSINESS THROUGH YOU KNOW MULTIPLE EVEN
02:36:35 LIKE AGAIN THE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM AS WE WERE SEEING
02:36:39 THINGS HOW CAN WE SUPPORT SO WE DO LEVERAGE OUR RESOURCES
02:36:43 COLLECTIVELY AS WE'RE HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS YOU KNOW
02:36:47 WITH OUR NOT JUST LARGE BUSINESSES BUT OUR SMALL
02:36:48 BUSINESSES TO THE THEATERS AS WELL.
02:36:51 SO IN TERMS OF LOOKING AT HOW CAN WE COUPLE THE THE
02:36:55 ACTIVATIONS ON MARKET STREET TO MAKE IT FEEL MORE WELCOME AT
02:37:00 THE TIME WHEN THERE'S THEATER PERFORMANCES WHY DON'T WE DO
02:37:03 THAT? SO THOSE HAVE BEEN
02:37:04 COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS. WE MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO TRY TO
02:37:07 LEVERAGE EVERYTHING WE HAVE TO CREATE A MORE POSITIVE SPACE.
02:37:11 >> THANK YOU SO MY LAST QUESTION TOUCHES UPON SOMETHING
02:37:15 THAT I THINK MY COLLEAGUE SUPERVISOR CHEN WAS ASKING
02:37:18 ABOUT AND THAT WAS LIKE THE SMALL MOM AND POP BUSINESSES
02:37:22 AND I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND LIKE HOW EXACT LEE WE ARE DOING THAT
02:37:26 IN MARKET STREET AND PARTICULARLY AROUND UNION
02:37:30 SQUARE BECAUSE YOU KNOW AGAIN TO MY DISTRICT SEVEN NEW
02:37:35 COUNCIL KIDS YOU KNOW WHEN I ASKED THE QUESTION OF WHY ARE
02:37:38 YOU GOING DOWNTOWN WHAT THEY SAID IS ASIDE FROM MAYBE
02:37:42 FEELING LIKE IT WAS UNSAFE, IT WAS EXPENSIVE.
02:37:45 SO I REMEMBER THAT HOTDOG PLACE AND THE BASEMENT OF WESTFIELD
02:37:50 WAS ONE OF THE LAST SURVIVING, YOU KNOW, EATERIES BEFORE THEY
02:37:55 WENT UNDER BUT I THINK ARE PAYING LIKE $20,000 A MONTH OR
02:37:57 SOMETHING OR RIDICULOUS. >> IT'S LIKE A LOT OF HOT DOGS
02:38:01 ,RIGHT? >> RENTS ARE HIGH IN THIS AREA
02:38:04 AND A LOT OF THEM HAVE BEEN THERE STILL LEAST UP TILL LIKE
02:38:08 BIG BOX RETAILERS RETAILERS THAT CAN YOU KNOW SO SO ONE OF
02:38:12 THE THINGS THAT THE KID SAID IS LIKE YOU KNOW WE WOULD COME
02:38:16 AND YOU KNOW LIKE HANG OUT ON THE STREET MORE IF THERE WAS
02:38:20 LIKE YOU KNOW, THERE USED TO BE A BLONDIES PIZZA.
02:38:23 NOW THERE'S NOT ANYMORE THERE USED TO BE YOU KNOW THOSE ARE
02:38:26 SMALL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES THAT COULD LIKE INTERSPERSED
02:38:30 WITH A LUXURY RETAIL HAD AN ECOSYSTEM THAT KIND OF WORKED.
02:38:34 >> YOU CAN'T GO BACKWARDS AND RECREATE SOMETHING YOU KNOW
02:38:38 THAT WAS THERE 40 YEARS AGO WHEN THERE WAS A WOOLWORTH'S
02:38:42 YOU KNOW, RIGHT THERE. BUT BUT WHAT ARE WE DOING TO
02:38:43 CREATE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES? YOU KNOW, IS THAT OFFICE OF YOU
02:38:50 KNOW OR IS YOUR OFFICE ACTUALLY LIKE DOING SUBLEASE IS ARE
02:38:54 DOING ANYTHING THAT CAN CAPTURE THAT REAL ESTATE TO TRY TO AT
02:38:58 LEAST TEMPORARILY PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES YOU KNOW AND THEN
02:39:01 BY THE SAME TOKEN, YOU KNOW BEFORE THE PANDEMIC AND THIS
02:39:05 WAS A DIFFERENT WORLD RIGHT THERE USED TO BE FOLKS WHO
02:39:09 SHINE SHOES RIGHT ON THE SIDEWALK AND FLOWER SELLERS
02:39:13 AND PEOPLE WHO HAD IT, YOU KNOW, AND SOME OF THE BEST
02:39:16 THINGS THAT HAPPEN ORGANICALLY IN OUR CITY IS WHEN PEOPLE ARE,
02:39:21 YOU KNOW, HAVING DRUM CONCERTS ON THE SIDEWALK.
02:39:24 >> YOU KNOW, THERE'S THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOTH
02:39:26 ARTISTS AND YOU KNOW BUT BUT IT'S ALWAYS LIKE INFORMALLY
02:39:31 ECONOMY OR SMALLER BUSINESSES AND I JUST I WONDER WHAT WE'RE
02:39:35 DOING BECAUSE THAT DOES ADD TO THE VIBRANCY AND IT BRINGS
02:39:37 PEOPLE BECAUSE IT'S FUN AND I DON'T SEE THAT HAPPENING AS
02:39:41 MUCH AS AS IT USED TO ORGANICALLY OR YOU KNOW, WITH
02:39:44 THE HELP OF OF OUR GOVERNMENT. YEAH, I THINK THERE'S MULTIPLE
02:39:49 FACTORS HERE BASED ON THE TIMING OF HOW THINGS HAVE
02:39:53 HAPPENED, RIGHT? SO WHEN RENTS YOU KNOW WERE
02:39:56 HIGH AT THE HEIGHT OF IT IT HAS TAKEN A WHILE FOR RENTS TO COME
02:40:00 DOWN TO SUPPORT SMALLER BUSINESSES.
02:40:04 HOWEVER OUR OUR FORMALIZED LEASE NEGOTIATION INTERVENTION
02:40:07 TEAM WITH THE OFFICE OF SMALL BUSINESS THAT YOU KNOW WE
02:40:11 ESTABLISHED MAYBE 2 OR 3 YEARS AGO AS WELL AS SOME BROKERS
02:40:15 THAT WE HAVE ON HAND TO INTERVENE IN THOSE NEGOTIATIONS
02:40:19 AS WELL AS PARTNERS. SO AGAIN WE'RE USING SO MANY
02:40:22 DIFFERENT TOOLS SO OUR PARTNERS ARE ALSO CREATING A LOT OF IT
02:40:23 IS JUST CREATING THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PROPERTY
02:40:27 OWNERS THAT MAYBE THEY DIDN'T KNOW THERE OR MAYBE THEY
02:40:30 WEREN'T WILLING TO AT SOME POINT.
02:40:31 NOW WE'RE SEEING THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE BOTH THROUGH AGAIN OUR
02:40:34 CIVIL PARTNERS BUT ALSO OUR STAFF ON THE GROUND CREATING
02:40:37 THOSE PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS.
02:40:41 THAT'S ONE RIGHT TO THEN OPEN THE DOOR FOR NEGOTIATION SO
02:40:42 THAT WHEN WE HAVE THE PIPELINE OF SMALL BUSINESSES WE CAN PUT
02:40:46 THEM IN OR WE SAY WE HAVE A PIPELINE.
02:40:49 SO WE ALSO HAVE A WEBSITE WHERE WE HAVE MADE THOSE THOSE THOSE
02:40:53 OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEASING PUBLIC WHEREAS BEFORE IT WAS
02:40:57 IT. SO NOW THERE'S ACCESS AND AGAIN
02:41:01 THAT'S A TOOL THAT WE USE TO INCENTIVIZE PROPERTY OWNERS
02:41:02 THAT MAYBE WEREN'T LISTING BEFORE NOW IT'S LIKE HEY WE
02:41:05 HAVE THIS TO OFFER AND WE CAN BRING YOU A BUSINESS AND YOU
02:41:06 DON'T HAVE TO PAY US. >> WE'RE DOING IT.
02:41:09 SO THOSE PARTNERSHIPS AND THOSE RELATIONSHIPS GOT A REALLY LONG
02:41:12 WAY. THEN WE HAVE PILOT PROGRAMS
02:41:15 SUCH AS THE ONE THAT MID-MARKET IS IMPLEMENTING AS WELL AS
02:41:17 OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGHOUT THE CITY WHERE THEY ARE THROUGH
02:41:19 CITY FUNDED. THEY ARE, YOU KNOW, GETTING THE
02:41:23 SPACE, SPRUCING IT UP, CREATING THAT ATTRACTION POINT
02:41:27 AND HELPING SUBLEASE TO NEW BUSINESSES AGAIN REDUCING THE
02:41:31 RISK FACTOR TO ALLOW FOR THEM TO COME IN.
02:41:34 MID-MARKET IS PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR YOU KNOW FIRST YEAR OF RENT
02:41:39 TO TO OFFSET SOME OF THAT AGAIN WE NEED PEOPLE TO TAKE THE
02:41:42 CHANCES WITH A LITTLE BIT OF CITY FUNDING TO HELP STIMULATE
02:41:46 SOME OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES. OBVIOUSLY IN DOWNTOWN WE HAVE
02:41:47 OUR VACANT VIBRANT WHICH IS TEMPORARY TEMPORARY POP UPS.
02:41:50 RIGHT AND ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOODS WE HAVE MORE OF THE LET'S HELP
02:41:54 SUPPORT NEGOTIATION OF A LONGER TERM LEASE WHICH IS WHAT OUR
02:41:59 STOREFRONT OPPORTUNITY GRANT PROGRAM RIGHT IS LONG TERM
02:42:02 LEASES AND A SUPPORTING START UP COSTS FOR THOSE.
02:42:05 >> SO YEAH WE HAVE A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT TACTICS
02:42:09 AND STRATEGIES AND PROGRAMS THAT WE DO TO DO THAT.
02:42:10 >> YEAH I COULDN'T DO IT OTHERWISE I SORT YEAH I'M JUST
02:42:21 CURIOUS I JUST HAVE A THOUGHT IN MY DISTRICT YOU KNOW I WE
02:42:24 JUST CELEBRATED TO CHILDCARE CENTER THE CHILDCARE PROVIDER
02:42:29 WAS ABLE TO ACQUIRE OR PURCHASE THEIR HOME WITH SUPPORTS FROM
02:42:33 GOVERNMENT AND ALSO SUPPORT FROM COMMUNITY PARTNERS
02:42:37 AND FOUNDATIONS THAT IT'S REALLY HELPING BUSINESS MODEL
02:42:43 OFF LIGHT ASSET BASE APPROACH. I'M REALLY JUST CURIOUS AT A
02:42:48 MOMENT THAT HAS THE DEPARTMENT ENGAGING WITH ANY OF OUR SMALL
02:42:52 BUSINESS COMMUNITY ABOUT YOU KNOW LONG TERM INVESTMENT SO
02:42:55 THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE TO BUILD ON THEIR ASSETS TO BECOMING,
02:42:59 YOU KNOW, A MORE STABLE PART OF OUR MARKET MID-MARKET ON MARKET
02:43:03 STREET CORRIDOR YOU MEAN OWNERSHIP?
02:43:07 >> YEAH, MORE OR LESS A HOME OWNERSHIP ASSET BASE APPROACH.
02:43:10 >> YEAH. THE ONE PROGRAM I CAN POINT TO
02:43:12 THE NEW MARKET TAX CREDITS RIGHT OF WHICH YOU KNOW ONE OF
02:43:18 THE ORGANIZATIONS WAS ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT.
02:43:19 SO IN TERMS OF THE PURCHASE THAT'S OUR PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE
02:43:22 WE DON'T HAVE LIKE SMALL BUSINESS LIKE PURCHASE OPTIONS
02:43:29 FOR LIKE THEIR BUILDINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
02:43:30 AGAIN, WE HAVE IT WHEN THEY'RE OCCUPYING A VACANCY TO MOVE
02:43:34 INTO A VACANT RETAIL STOREFRONT BUT NOT FOR OWNERSHIP SPECIFIC
02:43:38 NOW FOR OWNERSHIP. >> YEAH.
02:43:41 AND AS A MARKET STREET WE DON'T HAVE BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU KNOW
02:43:46 IN THE TENDERLOIN WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF MOM AND POPS MALL I ON
02:43:50 THEY BEEN AND IN BUSINESS FOR A LONG LONG TIME SOMETIMES IS
02:43:54 COULD BE YOU KNOW COVID COULD HIT THEM VERY BAD BUT IF THEY
02:43:58 ARE ABLE TO HAVE RELIEF OR THEY OWN SOME THEIR OWN PROPERTY
02:44:04 THEN THEY MIGHT CHANGE THAT THEY CONTINUE TO BE ABLE TO
02:44:09 OPERATE AND WOULD GRANTS CONTINUE TO YOU KNOW DIFFERENT
02:44:12 PROGRAM CONTINUE FROM OUR OWN DEPARTMENT THAT THEY WERE ABLE
02:44:16 TO BE MORE SUSTAINABLE? >> I WOULD SAY THE CHALLENGE TO
02:44:20 THAT IS THE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT IT WOULD TAKE
02:44:21 TO ACTUALLY MAKE IT FEASIBLE FOR THEM TO OWN THEIR
02:44:25 STOREFRONT RIGHT NOW OUR GRANTS, YOU KNOW AND AGAIN ARE
02:44:28 GOING TO BE LESS AND LESS EVERY YEAR AND SO WE HAVE TO REALLY
02:44:33 JUST KIND OF PRIORI TIES WHERE WE YOU KNOW AGAIN BASED ON
02:44:36 FILLING THE VACANCIES ETC. THE LONGER TERM THE OWNERSHIP WOULD
02:44:40 COST A LOT MORE MONEY TO ACTUALLY MAKE A SIGNIFICANT
02:44:43 IMPACT FOR BUSINESSES. >> GOT I THINK YOU THANK YOU
02:44:47 DANA THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION CHAIRMAN GARVEY
02:44:52 THERE THE QUESTION IS GOING TO PUBLIC COMMENT ON LAND USE
02:44:55 AND TRANSPORTATION WITHOUT YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATED TO
02:45:00 AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SEVEN A HEARING ON TRANSPORTATION
02:45:03 AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ON MARKET STREET.
02:45:04 IF YOU HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS ITEM PLEASE LINE UP TO
02:45:06 SPEAK ALONG THAT WESTERN WALL AND LET'S HAVE THE FIRST
02:45:08 SPEAKER FIRST COME FORWARD NOW TO THE LECTERN.
02:45:11 >> HELLO, I'M A SOPHOMORE WEST RESIDENT AND WANTED TO RAISE
02:45:14 THREE POINTS FIRST. >> PEOPLE BUSINESSES
02:45:18 AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT WILL NOT RETURN TO MARKET STREET STREET
02:45:20 CONDITIONS OR POOR MUSHROOM MARKET STREET IS BETWEEN THE
02:45:23 TENDERLOIN SOMA WHICH HAVE THE HIGHEST CRIME RATES AND MOST
02:45:27 CHALLENGING STREET CONDITIONS IN THE CITY SOUTHERN STATION
02:45:28 WHICH COVERS MARKET STREET IS ONE OF THE MOST UNDERSTAFFED
02:45:32 POLICE STATIONS THE MARKET STREET CORRIDOR HAS 80% OF THE
02:45:35 CITY SUPPORTIVE SERVICES FOR VULNERABLE POPULATION LIKE THE
02:45:39 HOMELESS. WE NEED TO ADDRESS THE
02:45:40 CONCENTRATION OF HIGH ACUITY SERVICES AND UNDERINVESTMENT
02:45:43 IN SAFETY RESOURCES BEFORE WE CAN EXPECT MARKETS TO BE
02:45:46 REVITALIZED. SECOND, THE ZONING
02:45:47 AND CORRIDORS AROUND MARKET STREET ARE SUCH THAT IT'S
02:45:50 DIFFICULT TO DEVELOP HOUSING AND OTHER NEW DEVELOPMENT.
02:45:54 INDUSTRIAL ZONING IS PREVENTING MARKET RATE HOUSING FROM COMING
02:45:56 IN THE ENTITY ZONING ON SIXTH STREET IS DESIGNED TO PREVENT
02:45:59 DEVELOPMENT AND SO WE REALLY NEED TO CHANGE THROUGH ZONING
02:46:01 AROUND THE CORRIDOR AND ABLE TO ALLOW THE REVITALIZATION PLAN
02:46:06 THAT WE NEED ON MARKET STREET. >> THIRD, I'M A DAILY CYCLIST
02:46:10 AND I'M ASKING YOU TO SCHEDULE A HEARING ON REVERSING THE 2020
02:46:11 BAN ON PRIVATE VEHICLES ON MARKET.
02:46:14 THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR THE BAN HAS COLLAPSED AND MARKET STREET
02:46:17 IS PAYING THE PRICE. THE BAN WAS A TRADE OFF LOSE
02:46:19 PRIVATE CARS GAIN A WORLD CLASS BOULEVARD BUT THAT BOULEVARD IS
02:46:23 NOT COMING THE MARKET STREET BEFORE BETTER MARKET STREET
02:46:26 BALLOONED TO A $1 BILLION BUDGET WHICH HAS BEEN SCALED
02:46:30 BACK TO 600 FOR MILLION AND PHASE ONE AND NOW MTA FACES
02:46:34 A THREE YEAR 20 MILLION BUDGET DEFICIT.
02:46:35 AS WE JUST HEARD, THERE'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO DO A LOT OF NEW
02:46:39 ROAD DEVELOPMENT ALONG MARKET. >> THE CITY HAS ALREADY
02:46:40 CONSIDERED THIS PRINCIPLE BY ALLOWING WAYMO AND UBER BLACK
02:46:43 AND LYFT BLOCK TO OPERATE. IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE THAT
02:46:46 A CAR CAN DROP YOU OFF AT THE WORK FIELD IF IT'S A ROBOT OR A
02:46:51 BLACK CAR BUT NOT IF IT'S YOUR OWN CAR.
02:46:54 AND WE REALLY NEED TO CHANGE THIS POLICY IN ORDER TO GET
02:46:58 SOME OF THE STREET TRAFFIC AND ACTIVITY BACK TO MARKET
02:46:59 STREET. WE CANNOT REVITALIZE DOWNTOWN
02:47:02 WITHOUT REVITALIZING MARKET AND SO I ASK THAT YOU CONTINUE
02:47:05 ON THIS ISSUE. SCHEDULE A HEARING ON CAR FREE
02:47:07 MARKET. THANK YOU.
02:47:09 >> THANK YOU FOR COMING. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
02:47:13 >> GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS MARK GLEASON SPEAKING ON BEHALF
02:47:17 OF TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL SEVEN.
02:47:20 OUR MEMBERS OF COURSE ARE ENGAGED IN DELIVERY, LOGISTICS,
02:47:24 COMMERCE THROUGHOUT SAN FRANCISCO AND CERTAINLY WE
02:47:28 APPRECIATE THE FOCUS TODAY AND I'M SURE IN THE FUTURE OF
02:47:35 REVITALIZING AND IMPROVING THE BUSINESS SECTOR OF OUR CITY.
02:47:39 THAT BEING SAID, YOU KNOW A ASPECT OF OUR INTERESTS IS
02:47:46 ALWAYS GOING TO BE AND REALLY ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO DON'T
02:47:47 HAVE BENEFIT OF REPRESENTATION BUT ARE ENGAGED IN DELIVERY OF
02:47:53 COMMERCIAL SMALL SMALL PARCELS OF OFFICE EQUIPMENT OF FOOD
02:47:58 SERVICES AND OTHERS THAT ARE NEEDED ON ON MARKET STREET
02:48:02 IN THE MARCH STREET CORRIDOR TO HAVE A SAFE AND EFFICIENT
02:48:05 ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH TO WORK. THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE EXPAND
02:48:10 ATION OF COMMERCIAL LOADING ZONES NOT JUST ON MARKET STREET
02:48:14 BUT ALSO THE ANCILLARY STREETS OF STEVENSON FOR INSTANCE.
02:48:18 ELLIS APOSTROPHE CARRIERS SO ON THEIR DIAGONAL TO TO MARKET
02:48:23 STREET. SO THAT DELIVERIES AND GOODS
02:48:26 AND SERVICES CAN BE DELIVERED TO THIS REVITALIZED COMMERCIAL
02:48:30 CORRIDOR THAT WE'RE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO.
02:48:31 SO AGAIN WE APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS TODAY AND WE LOOK
02:48:35 FORWARD TO BEING PARTNERS WITH THOSE WHO WANT TO EXPAND
02:48:38 AND MAKE THE BUSINESS COMMERCIAL SECTOR OF OUR CITY
02:48:42 THRIVE. >> THANK YOU.
02:48:43 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
02:48:45 >> HI, MY NAME IS SUSAN GREENE. I LIVE IN NOVI VALLEY AND I
02:48:50 COMMUTE AROUND TOWN BY TRANSIT AND BIKE FROM 2011 TO 2020 I
02:48:54 COMMUTED TO WORK AT MARKET IN MAINE PRIMARILY BY BIKE.
02:48:58 I'M RETIRED NOW SO I DON'T BIKE THAT ROUTE DAILY ANYMORE.
02:49:01 BUT LAST WEEK I RODE FROM NOVI VALLEY TO THE EMBARCADERO VIA
02:49:05 MARKET STREET TO GET TO A MEDICAL APPOINTMENT NEAR PIER
02:49:08 27 AND I WAS STRUCK BY HOW LITTLE IT HAS CHANGED FOR
02:49:12 CYCLISTS SINCE 2020. SINCE 2020, DESPITE YEARS OF
02:49:15 CONSTRUCTION, IF ANYTHING IT WAS WORSE DUE TO MORE CARS TO
02:49:17 MAKE MARKET STREET SAFER FOR CYCLISTS WE NEED TO GET PRIVATE
02:49:20 CARS OFF OF MARKET STREET. >> TO REVITALIZE DOWNTOWN WE
02:49:24 NEED A VISION FOR A MARKET STREET THAT ATTRACTS PEOPLE TO
02:49:28 A BEAUTIFUL, SAFE, WALKABLE, BIKEABLE STREET WITH EFFICIENT
02:49:31 MASS TRANSIT NOT UNLIKE THE ORIGINAL BETTER MARKET STREET
02:49:35 PLAN. >> AND FINALLY, TO ACHIEVE THE
02:49:36 MOOD SHIFT GOALS AND OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN WE NEED
02:49:39 PROTECTED BIKE LANES SO THAT EVERYONE EVEN 70 YEAR OLD
02:49:43 RETIREES FEEL SAFE RIDING THEIR BIKES DOWN MARKET STREET TO
02:49:47 MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS. >> THANK YOU.
02:49:49 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
02:49:53 >> HI THERE JAMIE BUDGET I'M THE GENERAL MANAGER OF ATG SAN
02:49:58 FRANCISCO THAT OPERATES THE ORPHEUM THEATER, GOLDEN GATE
02:50:02 THEATER AND CURRENT THEATER. ALSO PROUD EMPLOYER OF MANY MRC
02:50:06 MEMBERS AS WELL. >> AND IT'S OBVIOUSLY NO SECRET
02:50:10 THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE IN THAT AREA.
02:50:14 OBVIOUSLY SOME OF IT WAS MENTIONED TODAY.
02:50:17 WE JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE HEARD OUR SUPPORT
02:50:21 FOR THE SUPERVISORS PLEA FOR MORE INVESTMENT IN THE AREA
02:50:26 AND ESPECIALLY HIS PLANS FOR AN ARTS AND TAINMENT DISTRICT.
02:50:29 OBVIOUSLY ALL OF THOSE AREAS IN QUESTIONS ARE WEST OF POWELL
02:50:34 AS AS WAS HIGHLIGHTED BUT WE JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT
02:50:39 OUR SUPPORT WAS HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
02:50:44 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS.
02:50:47 MY NAME IS SHAWN OAKLAND. I'M A RESIDENT OF SUMMER WEST
02:50:51 NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. OUR ASSOCIATION HAS THE SOUTH
02:50:55 SIDE OF MARKET STREET FROM FIFTH STREET TO VENICE.
02:50:58 SUPERVISOR MAHMUD, I WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS
02:51:03 HEARING. I THINK IT HIGHLIGHTS A LOT OF
02:51:04 THE DISPARITIES THAT WE ARE WELL AWARE OF BUT THAT DESERVE
02:51:06 ATTENTION. AND I AGREE THAT THE CORRIDOR
02:51:09 NEEDS A VISION FROM THE CITY. WHAT I HEARD IN THE ANSWERS
02:51:14 THOUGH IGNORES THE FOUNDATIONAL REALITY OF THIS CORRIDOR THAT
02:51:18 MARKET STREET IS CURRENTLY BEING MANAGED AS A CONTAINMENT
02:51:21 ZONE. TENDERLOIN TO THE NORTH SOMA TO
02:51:25 THE SOUTH AND MARKET STREET AS PART OF IT IN THE MIDDLE A
02:51:29 CLASSIC CONTAINMENT ZONE OPERATES BY FUNNELING THE
02:51:32 CITY'S MOST SEVERE HIGH ACUITY CHALLENGES INTO ONE SPECIFIC
02:51:35 GEOGRAPHY WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY WITHDRAWING ITS BASIC MUNICIPAL
02:51:39 SERVICES LIKE POLICE, PUBLIC SANITATION AND THE VERY
02:51:43 DOWNTOWN RECOVERY GRANTS BEING HIGHLIGHTED HERE TODAY THAT ARE
02:51:48 BEING DEPLOYED EAST OF FIFTH STREET OUTSIDE THE CONTAINMENT
02:51:51 ZONE. A FEW DAYS AGO IN MISSION LOCAL
02:51:54 THEY ASKED OUR SUPERVISOR DIRECTLY IS SOMA BEING TREATED
02:51:58 AS A CONTAINMENT ZONE THAT INCLUDES MARKET STREET?
02:52:02 >> AND HIS ANSWER WAS YES. LOOK AT THE DATA.
02:52:06 TENDERLOIN AND SOMA TOGETHER ABSORB 60% OF THE CITY'S
02:52:10 HOMELESS BEDS AND TRAGICALLY WE HAVE HALF OF ALL FATAL
02:52:14 OVERDOSES. THIS IS A DELIBERATE POLICY
02:52:17 CHOICE FROM THE CITY AND IT IS STARVING THE CORRIDOR OF
02:52:19 PRIVATE INVESTMENT. SO THE ONLY ACTUAL SOLUTION TO
02:52:22 REVITALIZING MARKETS MID-MARKET AND MARKET STREET IS TO
02:52:26 ECONOMICALLY INTEGRATE IT WITH THE REST OF SAN FRANCISCO.
02:52:29 THAT REQUIRES THREE IMMEDIATE ACTIONS COMMITTING TO TRUJILLO
02:52:33 GRAPHIC EQUITY BY CONCENTRATING SERVICES BRINGING CARS BACK TO
02:52:37 MARKET STREET TO ENSURE VITALITY AND ALSO ENSURING THAT
02:52:41 RECOVERY GRANTS ARE DISTRIBUTED EQUITY EQUITABLY RATHER THAN
02:52:44 WITHHELD FROM THE CONTAINMENT ZONE.
02:52:45 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
02:52:47 >> NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS
02:52:55 SUPERVISOR MAHMUD THANK YOU FOR CALLING THIS HEARING.
02:52:59 I'M A TECH WORKER WHOSE OFFICE IS ON MARKET STREET.
02:53:01 I CAN BE DOWNTOWN EVERY DAY BY TAKING MUNI.
02:53:03 SOMETIMES I BIKE IF IT'S NICE OUTSIDE.
02:53:07 MY COWORKERS AND I WALK TO GET LUNCH DOWNTOWN.
02:53:10 ON NICE DAYS WE'LL WALK ALL THE WAY TO THE FERRY BUILDING A CAR
02:53:14 FREE MARKET MAKES WORKING DOWNTOWN NOT ONLY MANAGEABLE
02:53:15 BUT ENJOYABLE. >> THE HIGH SERVICE FROM PUBLIC
02:53:18 TRANSIT IS INCREDIBLY CONVENIENT AND I LOVE BEING
02:53:21 ABLE TO WALK AND BIKE AROUND SAFELY.
02:53:22 THE ANNOYING PARTS OF MARKET ARE PARTS WHERE CARS COME INTO
02:53:27 THE EQUATION. >> THE BUS THE BUS OR BIKE
02:53:30 LANES TEND TO GET BLOCKED BY CARS ILLEGALLY PARKED ON MARKET
02:53:33 AND HIGH TRAFFIC INTERSECTIONS LIKE BATTERY FRONT OR THE
02:53:37 EMBARCADERO HIGHWAY TEND TO GET BLOCKED BY CARS AND MAKE
02:53:40 INTERSECTIONS DIFFICULT TO CROSS AS A PEDESTRIAN.
02:53:44 I LOVE MUNI. I WANT IT TO BE EXPANDED BUT
02:53:45 SOMETIME IT FEELS LIKE THE CITY.
02:53:49 EVEN THE S.F. MTA ITSELF DOES NOT WANT IT TO BE EXPANDED.
02:53:52 ISSUES LIKE ALLOWING WAYMO'S AND OTHER TAXIS ON CAR FREE
02:53:56 MARKET RIGHT AFTER CUTTING MUNI SERVICE ON MARKET ARE WHAT MAKE
02:53:59 ME THINK THIS. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW GRANTING
02:54:03 TAXIS AN EXCEPTION TO CAR FREE MARKET CONTRIBUTE TO THE
02:54:07 REVITALIZATION OF DOWNTOWN IN ANY WAY THAT WE COULDN'T GET
02:54:08 FROM INCREASING TRANSIT SERVICE AND DOUBLING DOWN ON PEDESTRIAN
02:54:12 AND BIKER SAFETY. >> THE PILOT BEING RUN RIGHT
02:54:15 NOW IS MEANINGLESS WHEN WE'RE ONLY SEEING TEN UBERS AN HOUR
02:54:18 TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. I DON'T NEED A PILOT TO TELL
02:54:22 YOU THAT THESE TENTS ARE GOING TO WORSEN TRAFFIC CONGESTION
02:54:25 AND WORSEN PEDESTRIAN AND BIKER SAFETY AS THEY RAMP UP
02:54:27 OPERATIONS AND AS SUPERVISOR MELGAR AND MOHAMMED POINT OUT
02:54:30 THE PILOT IS BEING EXPLOITED BY PRIVATE VEHICLES TO ILLEGALLY
02:54:34 DRIVE AND PARK ON MARKET. I URGE THE MTA TO CLOSE THE
02:54:38 COMMERCIAL VEHICLE LOOPHOLE AND REAFFIRM MARKET STREET AS A
02:54:42 CAR FREE STREET. >> THANK YOU.
02:54:43 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
02:54:46 >> I SUPERVISORS. MY NAME IS MICHAEL HALPERN.
02:54:50 I'M A REAL ESTATE BROKER HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO HAS DEALT WITH
02:54:53 BUILDINGS IN MID-MARKET FOR THE PAST 25 YEARS.
02:54:57 I APPRECIATE YOU HAVING THIS MEETING.
02:54:58 OF COURSE NEEDED. WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE.
02:55:01 I WANTED TO FIRST JUST SAY THANK YOU.
02:55:05 >> THESE GUYS DO A GREAT JOB AND HONESTLY YOU GUYS SHOULD
02:55:09 FUND THEM EVEN MORE. JUST A PLUG FOR THEM BECAUSE AS
02:55:12 SOMEONE WHO WORKS WITH SMALL BUSINESSES EXCLUSIVELY, THESE
02:55:13 GUYS HAVE BEEN FRONT AND CENTER IN MAKING THAT HAPPEN DURING
02:55:16 OUR RECOVERY HERE. SO TO YOU GUYS.
02:55:20 SECONDLY, AS FAR AS MID-MARKET ITSELF, I MEAN THE CHALLENGES
02:55:25 THERE ARE THERE'S JUST NO PEOPLE WORKING IN THE
02:55:28 BUILDINGS. >> SO AS A BROKER I'VE BEEN
02:55:31 TRYING TO GET FOLKS BACK IN THOSE BUILDINGS.
02:55:32 THE GROUND FLOOR ITSELF WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE STREETSCAPE,
02:55:35 MOST OF THOSE SPACES ARE ACTUALLY FILLED AND THEY'RE
02:55:39 FILLED WITH BUSINESSES THAT ARE TRYING TO HANG ON THE BEST THEY
02:55:43 CAN. AND BY DOING SO HAVE BEEN
02:55:46 STRUGGLING. AND IT'S NOT JUST THE RENTS,
02:55:47 IT'S THE CUSTOMERS. A FEW YEARS AGO I CAME TO THE
02:55:51 SUPERVISORS AND I SAID GOSH, YOU KNOW, MIND MARKET'S
02:55:55 TROUBLED. WOULD YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE
02:55:58 HAVING YOUR 12 YEAR OLD GO TO CIVIC CENTER BART STATION OR
02:56:02 TAKE MUNI DOWNTOWN? >> AND THE SAME IS TRUE TODAY
02:56:03 AS IT WAS A FEW YEARS AGO. >> THE ANSWER IS NO.
02:56:07 I HAVE FOUR CHILDREN. I WOULD NEVER FEEL COMFORTABLE
02:56:10 HAVING THEM GET OFF AT THAT STATION THAT CIVIC CENTER EVEN
02:56:13 NOW TODAY. THOSE ARE THINGS THAT NEED TO
02:56:14 BE ADDRESSED. SLOWLY THEY ARE.
02:56:17 >> LASTLY, WHERE IS OUR REAL ESTATE DIVISION HERE?
02:56:20 THEY'RE THE LARGEST LANDLORD AND HAVE THE MOST TENANCY
02:56:24 IN MID-MARKET. THOSE FOLKS NEED TO BE HERE
02:56:28 AND REPRESENTED AND THEY'RE NOT HERE.
02:56:32 SO LET'S SEE THOSE BODIES ON THE GROUND.
02:56:36 LET'S SEE THEM GOING INTO THESE BUSINESSES, EATING SOME
02:56:37 SANDWICHES, GOING TO LAWN GO INTO ALL THE PLACES THAT I KNOW
02:56:41 YOU ENJOY AND YOU SPOKE ABOUT. >> THANK YOU.
02:56:44 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
02:56:47 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIRMAN. OUR VICE CHAIR AND SUPERVISOR
02:56:52 MAHMUD, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR CALLING THIS HEARING.
02:56:55 MY NAME IS FERNANDO PUJOLS. I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
02:56:56 THE MID-MARKET FOUNDATION MID-MARKET BUSINESS
02:56:58 ASSOCIATION. YOU HEARD THROUGH THIS
02:56:59 PRESENTATION ABOUT SOME OF OUR GREAT WORK TO REALLY SPUR
02:57:03 POSITIVITY IN THE AREA AND I INVITE ANYONE TO TAKE A WALK
02:57:07 WITH US SO THAT YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THE GREAT INCREMENTAL
02:57:10 MOMENTUM THAT WE'VE HAD ESPECIALLY OVER THE LAST YEAR.
02:57:14 I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE DEPARTMENTS FOR THEIR
02:57:15 PRESENTATIONS. IT SEEMS YOU KNOW EVERYONE IS
02:57:18 DOING REALLY GOOD WORK WITH APPROACHING LIMITED RESOURCES
02:57:22 AND I DON'T REALLY HAVE TO SAY MUCH BECAUSE ALL I HEARD TODAY
02:57:23 IS THAT EVERYONE REALLY TRULY AGREES HOW CRITICAL MID-MARKET
02:57:27 IS TO THE CITY'S FUTURE. SO GOES MID-MARKET.
02:57:31 SO WE'LL GO SAN FRANCISCO NOW BUT WE WHAT WE DON'T SEEM TO
02:57:35 SEE IS A REALLY COORDINATED UNIFIED FOCUS AND AN INCREASE
02:57:39 IN PUBLIC INVESTMENT COMMENSURATE WITH THE NEED.
02:57:43 AND SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT I'M CALLING ON HERE TODAY
02:57:46 AND REALLY ASKING FOR WE'VE DONE GREAT WORK.
02:57:50 AND ESPECIALLY AGAIN KUDOS TO IWD WITH REALLY MINIMAL
02:57:54 INVESTMENTS WE'RE HAVING A GREAT IMPACT AND IF YOU REALLY
02:57:56 WANT TO KNOW SOME OF THE DATA YOU'RE ASKING FOR IT.
02:57:58 LET'S HEAR FROM THE BUSINESSES. TAKE A WALK WITH ME AND LET'S
02:57:59 HEAR IT FIRST HAND. THEY'RE THERE.
02:58:01 THEY WILL TELL YOU THINGS ARE A LITTLE BETTER BUT THEY'RE
02:58:03 BARELY HANGING ON. THE GREAT CHRONICLE ARTICLE
02:58:06 THIS MORNING THAT YOU CAN READ ON SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT
02:58:09 ARE MAKING THE INVESTMENT. WE'VE ALSO SEEN A WAVE OF NEW
02:58:12 INVESTMENT IN PROPERTIES AND MANY OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS
02:58:13 ARE SIGNALING THAT THEY BELIEVE IN THIS AREA AS AN ARTS
02:58:17 AND CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT AND THEY WANT TO FIND
02:58:19 USES AND PUT PEOPLE IN THEIR SPACES AND THEY'RE WILLING TO
02:58:21 BE CREATIVE AND DO WHAT THEY CAN AND PUT THEIR OWN
02:58:23 INVESTMENT INTO FILLING THOSE SPACES BOTH ON THE GROUND FLOOR
02:58:27 IN THE UPPER FLOORS. SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR CALLING
02:58:31 THIS HEARING. I HOPE THAT IN SEVERAL MONTHS
02:58:32 WE CAN COME BACK WITH A UNIFIED PLAN FROM ALL THE DEPARTMENTS
02:58:36 AND GET THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS WITH EARMARKED
02:58:37 INVESTMENT FOR THIS AREA AND THAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR
02:58:40 WILL ALSO COME TO THE TABLE IN THAT IN THAT REGARD AS WELL.
02:58:43 >> THANK YOU AGAIN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
02:58:44 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> HI, MY NAME IS CASH.
02:58:52 I OWN WARM PLANET BIKES ON THE CORNER ON MARKET STREET.
02:58:56 I'M SURE YOU ALL KNOW WHERE THAT IS.
02:59:00 THE PROBLEM IS NOT THAT THERE AREN'T CARS ON MARKET STREET.
02:59:04 I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 86. I RAISED MY KIDS IN THE
02:59:07 NEIGHBORHOOD. I REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS LIKE
02:59:08 WHEN IT WAS A TRAFFIC SEWER. >> IT DID NOT HELP TO HAVE CARS
02:59:16 ON MARKET STREET. WHAT HELPS IS TO CLEAR THE
02:59:17 SIDEWALKS OF BAD BEHAVIOR. >> I AM BEGGING YOU I DON'T SEE
02:59:23 LAW ENFORCEMENT HERE AND I HAVE THE GREATEST RESPECT FOR
02:59:25 OFFICER GAMBLE AND CAPTAIN SULLIVAN IN THE TENDERLOIN
02:59:28 STATION. THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO CLEAR MY
02:59:32 CORNER. BUT THEY DON'T HAVE THE
02:59:34 RESOURCES TO BE THERE 24 HOURS. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY PEOPLE
02:59:38 DON'T WALK FROM THE ORPHEUM DOWN TO UNION SQUARE, IT'S
02:59:42 BECAUSE THEY'RE HARASSED WHEN THEY GET TO THE CORNER OF
02:59:44 MARKET IN JONES. IF YOU CLEAR THAT CORNER THEN
02:59:50 YOU ARE GOING TO SEE A BLOSSOMING OF ALL THOSE EMPTY
02:59:51 STOREFRONTS THAT I LOOKED AT TEN YEARS AGO WHEN I MOVED
02:59:56 IN THERE AND THEY WERE EMPTY THEN AND THEY'RE EMPTY NOW.
03:00:00 MY LANDLORD IS DESPERATE TO RENT.
03:00:02 >> HE BRINGS PROSPECTIVE TENANTS EVERY COUPLE OF MONTHS.
03:00:07 THEY TOUR THE PROPERTY, THEY WALK OUTSIDE.
03:00:10 THEY LOOK AT THE SHOW OF DRINKING DRUG DEALING AND BAD
03:00:14 BEHAVIOR AND THEY WALK AWAY. IT'S NOT BECAUSE THE LANDLORDS
03:00:18 DON'T WANT TO RENT. IT'S NOT BECAUSE PEOPLE WON'T
03:00:21 PAY. IT'S BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT
03:00:22 THEIR CUSTOMERS ARE GOING TO BE HARASSED WALKING IN AND OUT OF
03:00:26 THE BUSINESSES. THANK YOU.
03:00:29 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. TO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
03:00:32 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. >> LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION
03:00:37 COMMITTEE GRIFFIN LEE HERE REPRESENT CONNECTED STAFF
03:00:40 AND MEMBERSHIP. >> THANKS.
03:00:44 >> SUPERVISOR MY MOVE FOR CALLING FOR THE HEARING TODAY.
03:00:45 AND THANKS TO THE THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS REPRESENTING.
03:00:48 I AM FEELING SORT OF SPEECHLESS .
03:00:54 I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE A HIGHER LEVEL OF VISION FOR THE
03:00:59 BAY MARKET. >> I DO THINK THAT ACTUALLY
03:01:02 START WE DO ACTUALLY THINK THAT STARTS WITH INVESTMENT.
03:01:05 AND MAYBE ALLOWING THE DDC TO START PAYING ATTENTION TO THE
03:01:10 MID-MARKET. >> SO MUCH OF THEIR FOCUS
03:01:13 AND ATTENTION TODAY IS FOCUSED ON DOWNTOWN.
03:01:17 >> TAKING A STEP BACK THOUGH, I THINK IF YOU WENT TO THE DDC
03:01:21 FOR EXAMPLE, THEY WOULD SAY OH I NEVER GO DOWN THERE TODAY.
03:01:25 AND YOU'LL KNOW THEY'LL PROBABLY SAY WHY.
03:01:29 >> AND IT'S IT'S STREET CONDITIONS AND STREET
03:01:31 CLEANLINESS. IT'S NOT ABOUT BIKES.
03:01:32 TRANSPORTATION CARS. >> THESE ARE SINGLE FOCUSED
03:01:37 ISSUES. WE NEED TO THINK BIGGER PICTURE
03:01:40 TO GET MID-MARKET BACK ON TRACK.
03:01:41 >> WHETHER IT'S LIKE THE TWITTER TAX BREAK BACK IN 2010,
03:01:44 WHETHER IT'S ACTIVATING SPACES WHICH I THINK SUPERVISOR MIGHT
03:01:48 BE STARTING TO ADDRESS. BUT ALL THESE SPECIAL INTERESTS
03:01:52 BEHIND ME, THEY'RE HERE FOR ONE REASON I'M HERE FOR.
03:01:56 >> WE'RE HERE FOR SAN FRANCISCO AND THAT MARKET.
03:01:59 AND WE NEED TO THINK BIGGER. AND THERE NEEDS TO BE BETTER
03:02:03 COORDINATION BETWEEN THESE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS
03:02:04 AND BEHIND ME AS WELL. SO THANK YOU FOR PAYING
03:02:06 ATTENTION. THANK YOU.
03:02:07 SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD FOR CALLING FOR THIS HEARING.
03:02:10 >> BUT TO MAKE SOME PROGRESS. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:02:14 NEXT PICK A PLACE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
03:02:17 ALMOST GOOD EVENING BARRY TORONTO SAN FRANCISCO TAXI
03:02:21 WORKERS ALLIANCE. FIRST I WANT TO SAY TWO DAYS
03:02:25 BEFORE PASSOVER LAST YEAR MAYOR LARRY DECIDED HE WAS
03:02:28 GOING TO RUIN OUR CELEBRATION BY PUTTING US INTO SLAVERY BY
03:02:32 ANNOUNCING THIS THIS ELIMINATION OF OF OF OF CAR
03:02:38 FREE MARKET STREET. >> THE OTHER THE OTHER THING IS
03:02:42 IS THESE HOUSE JUST HOW SHE WORKS LIVES ADJOINED THE KEEP
03:02:46 MARCUS STREET MOVING COALITION TO BRING ATTENTION TO THE
03:02:51 SAFETY AND AND THE FACT THAT USING USING THE CAR FREE MARKET
03:02:58 STREET AS A SCAPEGOAT IS THE WRONG MESSAGE BECAUSE WHAT
03:02:59 HAPPENED YOU ADMITTED THAT MAYBE NOT BROUGHT A LOT OF
03:03:03 WAYMO OR OR UBER BLACK OR LYFT BACK TO MARKET STREET BUT IT
03:03:06 BROUGHT A LOT OF SCOFFLAWS YOU SAW THAT BELONG I WOULD PLEASE
03:03:13 DESCRIBE WHAT YOU SAW LAST WEDNESDAY WHEN YOU WENT ON THAT
03:03:14 RIDE AND THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.
03:03:17 THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND THANK YOU FOR CALLING THIS HEARING.
03:03:20 >> HOWEVER, THE THING IS IS YOU SHOULD HEAR FROM PARKING
03:03:25 ENFORCEMENT WHY THEY DON'T HAVE MORE ENFORCEMENT PARTICULARLY
03:03:29 AT NIGHT. THE MAJOR ACTIVITY ALONG THAT
03:03:32 AREA RIGHT NOW IS AT NIGHT. YOU HAVE THE ORPHEUM, THE
03:03:36 WARFIELD, THE STRAND, THE MAJOR VENUES IN THAT AREA AND AND
03:03:40 I'VE NEVER HEARD OF AIR ATTACKS AT THE WARFIELD AND THERE ARE
03:03:44 POLICE ALL OVER THE PLACE FOR WARFIELD IN STRAND THEATER.
03:03:48 >> THEY'RE ALL OVER THE PLACE. THE CHANCES OF HAVING SOMETHING
03:03:49 HAPPEN WE SLIM TO NONE. SO I URGE YOU TO PLEASE DO A
03:03:55 RESOLUTION URGING THE MTA TO CLOSE THE LOOPHOLE AND NOT
03:03:59 ALLOW THESE THESE SCOFFLAW FOR HIRE DRIVERS ON THERE.
03:04:07 AND THE FACT IS WE GOT TO NOT ONLY HAVE THE BICYCLES FORCED
03:04:08 TO GO INTO THE CENTER LANE FOR SAFETY PURPOSES AND FOR
03:04:11 PURPOSES OF NOT INTERFERING WITH TRANSIT.
03:04:15 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:04:19 TO THE NEXT PICTURE PLEASE. SORRY THAT'S A HELLO.
03:04:32 >> I'M EVELYN ANGLE WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO TAXI WORKERS
03:04:36 ALLIANCE AND I WANT TO START WITH SAYING TAXIS ARE TAXI
03:04:40 DRIVERS. THEY'RE VERY APPRECIATIVE OF
03:04:41 THE ACCESS WE HAVE TO MARKETS STREET AND WE BELIEVE THAT IS A
03:04:45 PRIVILEGE WE DESERVE. WE HAVE FOR YEARS BEEN
03:04:48 REGULATED BY THE CITY. ALL OF OUR TRIP DATA IS
03:04:52 REPORTED TO THE CITY. OUR LOCATION DATA IS REPORTED
03:04:55 LIKE EVERY SIX SECONDS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND WE WE
03:04:59 SUPPORT ALL THE EFFORTS SOME OF THE IDEAS TO REVITALIZE MARKET
03:05:04 STREET TO HELP THE SMALL BUSINESSES WE ARE OURSELVES
03:05:07 SMALL BUSINESSES. EACH TAXI YOU SEE IS EITHER AN
03:05:11 INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR LEASING A VEHICLE OR AN OWNER OF A
03:05:16 VEHICLE A TAXI MEDALLION WHO HAS PAID A LOT OF MONEY FOR
03:05:23 THAT PRIVILEGE. I WANT TO ADDRESS PART OF THE
03:05:26 MISUNDERSTANDING OF PROVIDING DIFFERENT TRANSPORTATION
03:05:30 OPTIONS. WE KNOW THIS VERY WELL THAT
03:05:34 THESE NEW TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS WHETHER THEY'RE WAYMO
03:05:38 OR TAXIS DO NOT ENABLE PEOPLE TO GO SOMEPLACE WHERE THAT THEY
03:05:42 WOULD OTHERWISE NOT BE GOING. IT IT IS NOT GOING TO HELP
03:05:46 PEOPLE COME DOWNTOWN WHO WEREN'T ALREADY PLANNING TO
03:05:49 COME DOWNTOWN AND WE KNOW THAT BECAUSE TAXIS ARE ONE OF THE
03:05:54 HIGHEST SUBSTITUTED MODES OF PRETENSES A WAYMO'S RELATIVELY
03:05:57 NEW BUT THERE'S NO REASON TO THINK THERE THEY WILL BE ANY
03:06:01 DIFFERENT AND THE DATA SUGGESTS THAT THE MOST SUBSTITUTED MODE
03:06:08 IN CALIFORNIA BY UBER AND LYFT IS TRANSIT NOT TAXIS.
03:06:16 AND THE LAST THING WE NEED IS TO REPLACE SUSTAINABLE TRIPS
03:06:20 WITH AUTOMOBILE TRIPS AND WE DON'T THINK THAT WILL HELP
03:06:25 DOWNTOWN. IT WILL LEAD TO CONGESTION WEAR
03:06:27 AND TEAR IN THE ROADS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ALL
03:06:31 THE BAD THINGS THAT WE HAD BEFORE CAR FREE MARKET STREET.
03:06:35 >> SO PLEASE REMOVE THE LOOPHOLE IN THE TRANSPORTATION
03:06:39 CODE. THANK YOU.
03:06:40 LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
03:06:45 >> HELLO MY NAMES ARE NOT AVA MARKOVICH AND I'M A TAXI DRIVER
03:06:54 FOR 33 YEARS NOW AND I REMEMBER HOW THE TRAFFIC WAS ON MARKET
03:06:58 STREET BEFORE THE SEVERAL YEARS AGO BEFORE THEY BANNED ALL CARS
03:07:05 EXCEPT TAXI BUS BIKE AND TRUCKS AND UP UNTIL TONIGHT MEAN THE
03:07:13 THE TRAFFIC WAS THOUSANDS OF BIKES DAY AND NIGHT GOING BACK
03:07:17 AND FORTH USING MARKET STREET AS TO GET TO WORK AND BACK HOME
03:07:22 AGAIN THOUSANDS AND WE THE CAB DRIVERS WE WERE ALWAYS INTO
03:07:26 HAVING TO BE IN THE MIDDLE LANE BECAUSE THERE WAS JUST AND IT
03:07:30 WAS HARD EVEN FOR US TO TURN RIGHT AND MY ISSUE IS THAT WE
03:07:34 ALL THINK MAYBE YOU WANT TO PUT WAYMO OUT THERE.
03:07:38 WAYMO IS NOT GOING TO HANDLE THAT.
03:07:41 WHAT'S COMING WITH HOW MANY BICYCLE THEY'RE GOING TO BE
03:07:45 COMING WHEN EVERYBODY COMES BACK TO WORK AGAIN AND YOU OPEN
03:07:48 UP ALL THE BUSINESSES AGAIN ON MARKET STREET, THE WAYMO IS NOT
03:07:52 GOING TO HAPPEN. I WAS BEHIND A WAYMO THE NIGHT
03:07:54 OF THE POWER WENT OUT IN THE CITY AND THE WAYMO DIDN'T KNOW
03:07:57 WHAT TO DO. >> IT WAS STOPPED THERE AT
03:08:01 SIXTH AND MARKET. I WAS BEHIND THE CAR.
03:08:04 FINALLY I HAD TO WORK MY WAY TO GET AROUND AND OUT OF IT
03:08:07 BECAUSE IT DIDN'T KNOW WHEN THE SOMETHING ISSUE HAPPENS THOSE
03:08:11 CARS FREEZE UP. >> THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO
03:08:14 AND THEN I'M DRIVING. >> I HAVE CUSTOMERS I PICKED UP
03:08:15 A LOTS OF TIMES ON GREEN AND JONES AND THOSE WAYMO'S ARE
03:08:19 CIRCLING WITH EACH OTHER LIKE LIKE 3 TO 5 CARS.
03:08:25 THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO THE FOLLOWING EACH OTHER HOW ARE
03:08:29 THEY GOING TO REACT ON MARKET STREET?
03:08:30 THEY'RE GOING TO BE FOLLOWING THEY'RE GOING TO LET YOU GO.
03:08:34 WANT TO LET THEM 50 CARS OF THOSE GO UP AND DOWN MARKET
03:08:37 STREET AND THE BIKES IS NOT GOING TO WORK.
03:08:40 IT'S NOT GOING TO BE MANAGEABLE .
03:08:43 >> IT'LL BE A WORSE CHAOS THAN WHEN WE USED TO HAVE ALL THE
03:08:45 CARS ON THE STREETS BECAUSE THE WAYMO'S DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE
03:08:49 DOING OTHERWISE PUT DRIVERS IN THOSE CARS.
03:08:52 >> SPEAKER SERVICE CONCLUDED THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:08:54 SO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE THANK YOU.
03:08:59 SUPERVISOR MELGAR FOR THE TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE.
03:09:04 >> I'M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER SITTING AT THAT LUNCH COUNTER
03:09:07 WALGREENS AND THE SHOESHINE GUYS AND THE MAGAZINE STANDS.
03:09:11 HOWEVER I WANT TO ADD MY NAME IS MARY MAGUIRE BY THE WAY
03:09:15 AND I WANT TO ADDRESS WAYMO AND THE FACT THAT AT YOUR LAST
03:09:18 MEETING YOU HAD THE EXECUTIVES THERE AND THEY DIDN'T ANSWER
03:09:22 ANY OF YOUR QUESTIONS. >> IT WAS A GRANT GUARDING THE
03:09:26 POWER OUTAGE IN THE SAFETY ON DECEMBER 20TH.
03:09:30 >> THEY DID THEY WEREN'T THEY DIDN'T ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS
03:09:33 AND JUST SIMPLE ONES LIKE HOW MANY WAYMO'S ARE OPERATING
03:09:37 IN SAN FRANCISCO. SO I WONDER IF YOU EVER GOT THE
03:09:40 ANSWER TO THAT. >> I ALSO RECALL READING A
03:09:41 STATEMENT FROM MAYOR LAURIE LAST SUMMER WHEN THIS ISSUE WAS
03:09:44 COMING TO THE FOREFRONT AND ABOUT WAYMO WASN'T HE SAID
03:09:48 HE WANTED TO ATTRACT THE RIGHT KIND OF PEOPLE TO MARKET STREET
03:09:52 SO I DO SUPPORT THIS PLAN. >> IT'S TERRIFIC.
03:09:56 BUT ADDING MORE WAYMO'S AND UNLICENSED VEHICLES IS NOT
03:10:00 GOING TO FURTHER THE PLAN REGARDING ENTERTAINMENT
03:10:04 DISTRICT THE THE BIG THEATERS AND THE BROADWAY SHOWS THEY'RE
03:10:08 JUST THEY'RE HAVING VERY SHORT RUNS NOW AND THAT'S HAS NOTHING
03:10:11 TO DO WITH MARKET STREET. IT HAS TO DO WITH THE NATIONAL
03:10:15 ECONOMY. IT'S EXPENSIVE TO GO TO THOSE
03:10:18 SHOWS AND THEY WANT TO FILL UP THEY WANT TO FILL UP THE YOU
03:10:19 KNOW, EVERY SEAT SO THEY HAVE TWO WEEK RUNS NOW SOMETIMES ONE
03:10:25 NIGHT ONE NIGHT AT GOLDEN GATE THEATER ALSO THERE'S A HEAVY
03:10:29 POLICE PRESENCE AROUND THERE AT NIGHT AND DAYTIME AS WELL.
03:10:33 SO I'M JUST WONDERING IF THE WAY MOST COME TO MARKET STREET,
03:10:37 WILL THAT REQUIRE A PERMANENT POLICE PRESENCE IN ORDER TO
03:10:40 PROTECT THE VEHICLES AS CITIZENS ARE GETTING MORE ANGRY
03:10:43 AND THERE'S HOSTILITY TOWARD I WE'RE SEEING THAT I'VE SEEN
03:10:48 VANDALISM PAINTED SPRAY PAINT AND WINDOWS THEN ALL THE CARS
03:10:52 ARE GOING TO STOP THERE. SO I JUST WANT TO REITERATE OR
03:10:59 TELL YOU THAT MARKET STREET SHOULD BE OPENED TO REGULATE
03:11:03 THE VEHICLES ONLY AND IT SHOULD BE OPEN TO THE PEOPLE THE
03:11:07 PEOPLE THAT NEED TO TAKE THE BUS TO THE DISABLED.
03:11:09 >> LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
03:11:16 >> GOOD AFTERNOON CHAIR MELGAR AND SUPERVISORS.
03:11:20 THANK YOU SUPER MAHMOOD FOR CALLING THIS HEARING
03:11:22 AND JOINING THE KEEP MARKET STREET MOVING ALLIANCE ON OUR
03:11:25 INFRASTRUCTURE RIDE LAST WEEK. MY NAME IS JODI MATERIALS
03:11:28 AND THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WALK SAN FRANCISCO.
03:11:29 WE ARE A MEMBER OF THE KEEP MARKET STREET MOVING ALLIANCE
03:11:32 AND I PARTICIPATED IN THE BETTER MARKET STREET PLAN FOR
03:11:34 CLOSE TO TEN YEARS BEFORE THE STREET BECAME CAR FREE
03:11:38 IN JANUARY 2020. WE ALL KNOW THIS IT WAS CHAOTIC
03:11:41 AND DANGEROUS FOR EVERYONE ESPECIALLY PEDESTRIANS AT THE
03:11:45 TIME FIVE OF THE CITY'S TOP TEN MOST DANGEROUS INTERSECTIONS
03:11:46 WERE MARKET STREET BUT WITH THE REMOVAL OF PRIVATE VEHICLES,
03:11:50 CONDITIONS HAVE IMPROVED DRAMATICALLY.
03:11:53 TRAFFIC FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES ARE DOWN BY 40%
03:11:56 AND THAT'S PROGRESS TOWARDS THE BROAD STREET SAFETY ACT IN THE
03:12:00 MAYOR STREET SAFETY INITIATIVE SINCE THE ALLOWANCE OF RIDE,
03:12:04 HAIL AND AVS HAVE BEEN ALLOWED ON THERE WE'VE SEEN AN INCREASE
03:12:07 IN PASSENGER VEHICLES. WE SAW THAT A LOT ON THE RIDE
03:12:09 LAST WEEK AND THIS IS AS YOU SAID AN ABUSE IN COMPLIANCE.
03:12:15 THERE IS NO WAY TO ENFORCE PRIVATE VERSUS COMMERCIAL
03:12:16 VEHICLES IN THE BETTER MARKET SHEET PLAN EXPLORED THIS OVER
03:12:20 AND OVER AND OVER DURING THE TEN YEARS OF TRYING TO FIGURE
03:12:23 OUT THAT PLAN AND THEY CAME UP WITH IT'S GOING TO BE
03:12:27 IMPOSSIBLE TO DO THAT. SO WE THINK THAT IT'S TIME NOW
03:12:31 TO REALLY CLOSE THIS LOOPHOLE IN THE CITY'S TRANSPORTATION
03:12:35 CODE THAT ALLOWS THE COMMERCIAL PASSENGER VEHICLES ON MARKET
03:12:36 STREET WHILE STILL ALLOW ALLOWING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
03:12:39 MAKING ACTIVE GOOD DELIVERIES TO BUSINESSES ON MARKET STREET.
03:12:43 LASTLY, WE HEARD FROM THE MAYOR THAT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO
03:12:48 BE AN ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN TO ALLOW MORE VEHICLES AND WHAT WE
03:12:51 HEARD TODAY IS THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISN'T REALLY BEING
03:12:55 MEASURED AND THERE ARE AS YOU SAID, SUPERVISOR MELGAR VERY
03:12:59 LITTLE MEASURES OF SUCCESS FROM THIS PILOT.
03:13:02 SO AS WE CONTINUE TO DO THIS PILOT, WE ARE PUTTING MORE
03:13:06 AND MORE PEOPLE AT RISK AS PASSENGER VEHICLES ARE BEING
03:13:10 ALLOWED ON MARKET STREET. THANK YOU.
03:13:11 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. >> NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
03:13:16 >> GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS. MY NAME IS ROBIN PAM I'M WITH
03:13:21 STREETS FOR ALL SAN FRANCISCO. >> WE'RE ALSO PART OF THE KEEP
03:13:24 MARKET STREET MOVING ALLIANCE BIKE ON MARKET STREET REGULARLY
03:13:28 AND I KNOW I'M NOT ALONE. IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS THE
03:13:29 NUMBERS OF PEOPLE BIKING AND ROLLING ON MARKET ARE
03:13:32 GROWING AS PEOPLE RETURN TO THE OFFICE.
03:13:34 WE HEARD THAT TODAY FROM US MTA IT'S 25% HIGHER THAN IT WAS A
03:13:37 YEAR AGO BUT WE'RE ALSO SEEING A LOT MORE PRIVATE VEHICLES
03:13:40 DOUBLE PARKING DRIVING ON THE STREET AND PARKING IN THE
03:13:44 LOADING BAYS. THIS MAKES IT LESS SAFE FOR
03:13:47 EVERYONE STREETS FOR ALL WANTS TO SEE A VIBRANT ECONOMICALLY
03:13:52 THRIVING MARKET STREET AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT TRANSPORTATION
03:13:55 INVESTMENTS ALONE CANNOT SOLVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
03:13:59 CHALLENGES. >> THERE'S NO PARKING ON MARKET
03:14:00 ITSELF SO ANYTHING WE DO HAS TO REALLY FOCUS ON BRINGING PEOPLE
03:14:04 THERE AND IMPROVING FOOT TRAFFIC STOREFRONT CONDITIONS
03:14:08 IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES. SO I'M REALLY GLAD TO SEE
03:14:11 PLANNING AND HERE TO BE PARTNERS IN THIS ENDEAVOR WITH
03:14:15 SFM TO THANK YOU TO ALL THE DEPARTMENT STAFF BECAUSE WE
03:14:18 NEED EVERYONE WORKING TOGETHER TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM AS IF MTA
03:14:22 JUST CANNOT DO THIS ALONE. >> ON TRANSPORTATION THOUGH
03:14:26 WE'RE HERE TO URGE YOU NOT TO BACKTRACK BUT TO BUILD ON
03:14:27 WHAT'S WORKING. WE DO HAVE A GOOD PLAN BETTER
03:14:30 MARKET STREET THAT TOOK TEN YEARS TO GET TOGETHER AND THERE
03:14:33 ARE ELEMENTS OF THAT PLAN THAT WE CAN USE TODAY.
03:14:35 >> SO FIRST CLOSING THE LOOPHOLE THAT ALLOWS COMMERCIAL
03:14:38 PASSENGER VEHICLES IS IMPORTANT.
03:14:42 WE HAVE A LOT OF EXISTING QUICK BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE THAT COULD
03:14:45 BE HARDENED THE PLASTIC PAINT OR PLASTIC POSTS AND PAINT.
03:14:49 WE CAN ALSO TEST OUT MOVING TRANSIT VEHICLES TO THE CENTER
03:14:53 LANES. THIS WAS EXPLORED A LITTLE BIT
03:14:54 AND BETTER MARKET STREET. IT WASN'T IMPLEMENTED AT THE
03:14:57 TIME BECAUSE OF THE VOLUME OF TRANSIT VEHICLES ON MARKET.
03:15:00 NOW WOULD BE A GREAT TIME TO EXPLORE THAT AND GIVE US A LOT
03:15:02 MORE DESIGN FLEXIBILITY IN HOW WE SEPARATE MODES ON MARKET
03:15:05 STREET AND WE CAN ALSO REEVALUATE SOME OF THE IDEAS
03:15:08 FOR SEPARATED BIKING ROLLING INFRASTRUCTURE IF WE DO THIS.
03:15:12 AND ADDITIONALLY AS THE DEPARTMENTS DISCUSSED INVESTING
03:15:15 IN PLACEMAKING AND GREENING INSPIRE BY THAT BETTER MARKET
03:15:19 STREET DESIGN COMPETITION. >> THANK YOU.
03:15:20 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. SO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLACE HELLO
03:15:26 SUPERVISOR'S CHAIR. I'M GILLIAN FARRIS, COMMUNITY
03:15:30 AND POLICY DIRECTOR AT SAN FRANCISCO TRANSIT RIDERS WHICH
03:15:32 IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE KEY MARGIN MOVING ALLIANCE.
03:15:35 I'M ALSO A RESIDENT ON THE CAR FREE PORTION OF MARKET STREET.
03:15:38 >> I'M HERE TODAY TO ASK YOU TO TAKE ACTION TO CLOSE THE
03:15:42 LOOPHOLE IN THE 2019 BENCHMARK RESOLUTION THAT ALLOWS
03:15:43 COMMERCIAL PASSENGER VEHICLES FREE REIN FOR MARKET STREET.
03:15:46 >> AS SOMEONE WHO LIVES ON MARKET AND TRAVELS MULTIMODAL
03:15:49 ALONG THE CORRIDOR, IT'S CLEAR THAT MARKETS PROBLEMS WILL NOT
03:15:53 BE SOLVED BY TRANSPORTATION CHANGES ALONE.
03:15:55 AND IN FACT THE RECENT TRANSPORTATION CHANGES MAY
03:15:57 ACTUALLY EXACERBATE THE PROBLEMS IN THE CORRIDOR.
03:16:00 LAST YEAR AT THE SAME TIME THE S.F. MTA CUT SERVICE FOR THE
03:16:04 FIVE, THE SIX AND THE NINE ON MARKET STREET.
03:16:05 MAYOR LURIE LEVERAGE LOOPHOLE TO INVITE A WAVE OF COMMERCIAL
03:16:09 VEHICLES INCLUDING SO-CALLED AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND LUXURY
03:16:13 SUVS INTO THE CAR FREE PORTION OF MARKET WHICH IS A BLATANT
03:16:17 PRIVATIZATION OF THE SPINE. AS WE HEARD TODAY, THE SPINE OF
03:16:20 SAN FRANCISCO'S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AND THAT'S ON TOP OF ALL
03:16:24 THE MUNI CUTS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE SINCE THE START OF
03:16:28 COVID 19. SO NOW WE'RE TAKING A TRIP DOWN
03:16:31 MARKET STREET. IT'S NOT UNCOMMON TO COUNT MORE
03:16:32 LUXURY LIMOS AND PRIVATE CARS THAN MUNI BUSSES AND WE HAVEN'T
03:16:36 EVEN SEEN THE INFLUX OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES THAT WE
03:16:38 FEAR AS MORE AND MORE COMPANIES START GETTING INTO THE MARKET.
03:16:42 THIS CAN'T BE THE FUTURE OF THE HEART OF OUR CITY.
03:16:46 MARKET STREET NEEDS HELP TO MAKE IT MORE OF A DESTINATION
03:16:47 FOR SAN FRANCISCANS AND FOR VISITORS.
03:16:51 BUT TAKING SPACE FROM TRANSIT RIDERS AND GIVING IT AWAY TO
03:16:52 CORPORATIONS AND PRIVATE COMPANIES BENEFITS ONLY A FEW.
03:16:55 THERE'S NO EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT INVITING MORE CARS BACK TO
03:16:59 MARKET HAS ACTUALLY IMPROVED THE ECONOMY AND NO MATTER HOW
03:17:06 ACCESSIBLE MARKET STREET IS TO A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE IN WAYMO'S
03:17:07 WE CAN'T EXPECT RECOVERY. >> WHILE MUNI AND BART STILL
03:17:11 ONLY RENT TILL MIDNIGHT. SO I ASK YOU TODAY TO PLEASE
03:17:14 CLOSE THE WAYMO LOOPHOLE INVEST AND INVEST IN RESTORING
03:17:18 AND GROWING MUNI SERVICE ON MARKET STREET AND COME UP WITH
03:17:21 A LONG TERM INTERPRETIVE DEPARTMENTAL PLAN TO MAKE
03:17:25 MARKET STREET MORE FUN AND LIVABLE.
03:17:29 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THANK YOU.
03:17:30 LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER PLACE.
03:17:32 >> GOOD AFTERNOON JEREMY MELGAR AND SUPERVISORS.
03:17:37 MY NAME IS RACHEL CLYDE. I AM THE SENIOR COMMUNITY
03:17:40 ORGANIZER WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO BICYCLE COALITION.
03:17:41 >> FIRST AND FOREMOST THANK YOU .
03:17:44 >> THANK YOU SUPERVISOR MAHMUD FOR CALLING THIS HEARING
03:17:45 AND FOR YOUR WILLINGNESS TO RIDE ALONG MARKET STREET WITH
03:17:48 US LAST WEEK TO THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCE WHAT IT FEELS LIKE
03:17:52 TO BIKE ON THE CORRIDOR RIGHT NOW AS A BIKE LEADS THE KEEP
03:17:53 MARCHING STREET KEEP MARKET STREET MOVING ALLIANCE A GROUP
03:17:57 OF OVER 20 ORGANIZED SESSIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO SHARE THE
03:18:00 GOALS OF AN ECONOMICALLY THRIVING CORRIDOR THAT
03:18:03 PRIORITIZES SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION LIKE MUNI TAXIS,
03:18:06 BIKING AND WALKING. >> ON OUR RIDE LAST WEEK WE SAW
03:18:10 THAT THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE BIKING, SCOOTING AND WALKING ON
03:18:12 MARKET STREET NOW MORE THAN WE WOULD HAVE SEEN A YEAR AGO.
03:18:15 LIFE IS RAPIDLY COMING BACK TO THE CORRIDOR BUT NOT BECAUSE
03:18:20 LUXURY RIDE HEALTH SERVICES ARE ON THE STREET.
03:18:23 WE DIDN'T SEE A SINGLE ONE ON OUR RIDE WHICH IS CONSISTENT
03:18:24 WITH WHAT WE'VE SEEN SINCE THEY WERE INVITED BACK.
03:18:27 THEY'RE SIMPLY NOT DEPLOYING ON MARKET STREET YET.
03:18:30 >> MARKET STREET CONTINUES TO REVIVE AND NOT BECAUSE OF CARS
03:18:34 . >> WHAT WE DO SEE IS THAT SINCE
03:18:35 LUXURY PASSENGER SERVICES BEGAN OPERATIONS, THE LOADING BAYS
03:18:38 ARE REGULARLY BLOCKED BY VEHICLES WITHOUT COMMERCIAL
03:18:42 PLATES. MOST LIKELY THESE ARE PRIVATE
03:18:43 VEHICLES DRIVING ILLEGALLY ON MARKET STREETS CREATING
03:18:47 CONFUSION AND DANGEROUS CIRCUMSTANCES FOR PEDESTRIANS
03:18:50 AND PEOPLE ON BIKES. THE TIME AND RESOURCES THAT
03:18:53 HAVE BEEN POURED INTO ACCOMMODATING LUXURY COMMERCIAL
03:18:55 PASSENGER SERVICES WILL BE BETTER SPENT IMPROVING TRANSIT,
03:18:58 INCREASING STREET SAFETY AND INVESTING IN MAKING MARKET
03:19:02 STREET A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO BE.
03:19:06 >> PLEASE TAKE ACTION TO CLOSE THE LOOPHOLE AND BETTER MARKET
03:19:10 STREETS LEGISLATION ALLOWING ONLY COMMERCIAL VEHICLES MAKING
03:19:11 ACTIVE DELIVERIES OF GOODS TO BUSINESSES ON MARKET STREET.
03:19:15 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. GIVE YOUR COMMENTS NEXT SPEAKER
03:19:18 PLEASE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS
03:19:25 TRACY EV1 WINE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MID-MARKET
03:19:26 COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT WHICH REPRESENTS OVER A
03:19:31 THOUSAND PROPERTY OWNERS AT THIS POINT MANY OF THEM ON
03:19:35 MARKET STREET WITH A 24 SEVEN STAKE ON THAT CORRIDOR NOT
03:19:39 MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, NOT THREE DAYS A WEEK PEAK COMMUTE
03:19:42 TIMES. SO THANK YOU FOR HAVING THIS
03:19:49 AND YOU HAVE ILLUMINATED EVEN FOR US HOW MUCH MORE
03:19:53 COLLABORATION IS NEEDED AMONGST THE CITY DEPARTMENTS.
03:19:57 SO WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP THERE AND SUPERVISOR
03:20:01 DORSEY'S LEADERSHIP THERE AND I THINK IN ADDITION TO REAL
03:20:04 ESTATE NOT BEING REPRESENTED TODAY, NEITHER WAS THE
03:20:08 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. >> SO WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL
03:20:12 INCLUDE US IN THAT FUTURE COLLABORATION.
03:20:16 OUR TEAM IS INCREDIBLY WELL RESOURCED.
03:20:20 WE HAVE REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS ON STAFF.
03:20:21 WE HAVE A TRANSPORTATION PLANNER ON STAFF, WE HAVE AN
03:20:25 ARTIST ON STAFF AND IF WE DON'T HAVE THE EXPERTISE TO SUPPORT
03:20:29 THE NEEDS OF THE CITY AGENCIES WE'LL FIND IT IN OUR BOARD
03:20:33 MEMBERS. SO THANK YOU AGAIN AND I WANT
03:20:36 TO JUST GIVE A HUGE SHOUT OUT TO OUR NEIGHBORS IN THE SOUTH
03:20:40 OF MARKET WHO ARE DOING ADVOCACY WORK WE'VE DREAMED
03:20:44 ABOUT FOR YEARS AND HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING LIKE BEFORE
03:20:47 AND WE'RE IN SAN FRANCISCO SO THAT SAYING SOMETHING THANK
03:20:51 YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
03:20:52 NEXT WEEK PLEASE HELLO SUPERVISORS MY NAME IS MIKE.
03:20:59 I BIKED ON MARKET STREET 4 OR 5 TIMES A WEEK.
03:21:03 I WAS HESITANT TO COMMENT BECAUSE I FOUND THE WHOLE THING
03:21:06 SO FRUSTRATING THE WHOLE HEARING I EXPECTED WAS THAT IT
03:21:11 WOULD MAKE MY HEAD SPIN BUT THERE WAS SO MUCH NONSENSE THAT
03:21:13 WE HEARD TODAY THERE ARE SO MANY MORE PRIVATE VEHICLES
03:21:21 COMING DOWN MARKET STREET THAN THEY WERE 18 MONTHS AGO THAT I
03:21:25 SEE THEM EVERY DAY. THERE ARE PEOPLE SHOOTING UP
03:21:28 DRUGS IN THE BUS SHELTERS ON MARKET STREET.
03:21:30 >> I SEE THAT ALMOST EVERY SINGLE DAY.
03:21:33 THERE ARE SO MANY DANGEROUS INTERSECTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN
03:21:36 TOTALLY UNADDRESSED THAT WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT THE
03:21:37 QUALITY OF THE PAVEMENT IS AWFUL.
03:21:40 EVERYBODY I KNOW THAT'S BIKED ON MARKET STREET HAS CAUGHT
03:21:44 THEIR WHEEL IN THE TRACKS OR ON ONE OF THE BIG POTHOLES AND HAS
03:21:48 BLOWN OFF THEIR BIKE. >> SO THERE ARE ALL THESE
03:21:49 THINGS THAT WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT AND THAT WE
03:21:50 AREN'T TALKING ABOUT A FEW THAT THERE ARE A FEW OF THE OTHER
03:21:52 COMMENTERS TALKED ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN THE GROUPS THAT
03:21:56 AREN'T HERE. THE OTHER GROUPS THAT AREN'T
03:21:57 HERE ARE THE RIDESHARE COMPANIES AND WE KNOW BASED ON
03:22:00 THE ETHICS FILINGS THAT THEY ARE LOBBYING THE HIGHEST LEVELS
03:22:03 OF OUR GOVERNMENT CONSTANTLY HUNDREDS OF TIMES LAST YEAR
03:22:07 INCLUDING DOZENS OF TIMES SPECIFICALLY ABOUT MARKET
03:22:09 STREET TO GET ACCESS TO THIS. SO TO HEAR OUR CITY OFFICIALS
03:22:12 SAY THAT NOTHING HAS CHANGED AND TO ENCOURAGE MORE RIDE
03:22:19 SHARE BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T SEEN THEM COME ON TO MARKET STREET
03:22:20 IS NONSENSE AND IT'S THE SAME NONSENSE THAT WE HEARD BACK
03:22:23 IN DECEMBER AT THE S.F. MTA BOARD MEETING WHERE THEY SAID
03:22:26 THAT THE COMPANIES WEREN'T MOVING ON TO MARKET STREET
03:22:30 AND SO WE'RE GOING TO EXPAND THE PLAN TO BRING MORE OF THEM
03:22:33 . >> IT'S IT JUST IT MAKES MY
03:22:34 HEAD SPIN AND I THINK ABOUT IT EVERY DAY HONESTLY.
03:22:37 SO I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO ADD. PLEASE LET'S FIND A WAY TO
03:22:41 REVERSE THESE CHANGES THAT MAKE NO SENSE.
03:22:42 MAKE MARKET STREET SAFE FOR EVERYBODY WHO'S TRAVELING DOWN
03:22:45 OR WHETHER THAT'S WALKING, BIKING OR ON A BUS.
03:22:49 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:22:51 >> NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> GOOD EVENING.
03:22:55 MY NAME IS PARIS LANE. I'M A CO-FOUNDER OF PARALLEL
03:22:59 ENTERTAINMENT. WE'RE LOCATED AT 1067 MARKET
03:23:03 STREET. NOT ONLY AM I AN OWNER OF AN
03:23:07 ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY BUT I'M AN EMMY NOMINATED ACTRESS
03:23:11 AND SINGER AND I'M AN INTERNATIONAL AWARD WINNING
03:23:15 FILM DIRECTOR. WE HIRE MUSICIANS ONE OF OUR
03:23:21 BANDS, THE BACKYARD PARTY KINGS HAVE PERFORMED THROUGH THE
03:23:25 MID-MARKET WHEN THEIR BUDGET WAS CUT WE WEREN'T WHERE WE
03:23:29 WEREN'T ABLE TO HAVE THE BAND BACK OUT THERE BECAUSE OF THE
03:23:33 BUDGET CUTS BEING ON MARKET STREET, THE DRUGS IT'S JUST
03:23:40 OVERWHELMING. >> I COME OUT OF MY BUILDING
03:23:44 SOMETIMES AFTER 10 P.M. BECAUSE I'M WORKING WITH PEOPLE THAT
03:23:47 ARE IN THE AND YOU HAVE TO WALK PAST PEOPLE SMOKING CRACK OR
03:23:54 SMOKING THE METH AND THE SMOKE IS IN THE AIR.
03:23:58 THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY RESEARCH ON HOW THAT AFFECTS PEOPLE.
03:24:02 NO, I WOULDN'T WANT MY CHILDREN WALKING DOWN THE STREET UNTIL
03:24:06 YOU CLEAN UP THE STREETS. NO CHILD SHOULD HAVE NO ADULT
03:24:13 SHOULD HAVE TO WALK THROUGH THAT KIND OF ENVIRONMENT.
03:24:17 >> IT PUTS YOU IN A STATE WHERE YOU'RE YOU FEEL AS IF YOU'RE
03:24:21 SURVIVING ONLY BY COVERING YOUR FACE BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW
03:24:25 WHAT EFFECT IT MAY HAVE ON YOUR HEALTH.
03:24:30 I WASN'T PLANNING TO SPEAK SO I'M A HURRY UP AND SAY WHAT I
03:24:34 HAVE TO SAY BUT THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO BUILD UP MARKET STREET
03:24:38 AND I THINK THE LARGEST PROBLEM WHEN IT COMES TO THE
03:24:42 ENTERTAINMENT YOU DON'T THINK OUT OF THE BOX.
03:24:43 YOU THINK IN THE BOX AND UNTIL YOU THINK OUT OF THE BOX YOU'LL
03:24:47 HAVE PEOPLE COMING IN TO ATTRACTIONS THINGS THAT ATTRACT
03:24:53 PEOPLE BECAUSE IT'S MORE THAN JUST HAVING BROADWAY SHOWS.
03:24:57 THERE'S ALL DIFFERENT FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT SO I JUST WANT TO
03:25:02 SHARE THAT WITH YOU. >> THANK YOU.
03:25:03 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:25:04 DO WE HAVE ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS PUBLIC COMMENT FOR AGENDA ITEM
03:25:06 NUMBER SEVEN MADAM CHAIR? >> OKAY.
03:25:09 PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM IS NOW CLOSED.
03:25:13 >> THANK YOU AGAIN SUPERVISOR MAHMUD FOR CALLING THIS
03:25:17 HEARING. IT HAS BEEN REALLY ILLUMINATING
03:25:21 AND I'M GLAD WE HAVE THIS CONVERSATION.
03:25:22 >> I DO THINK THERE ARE SOME UPDATES THAT ARE NEEDED TO SOME
03:25:25 OF OUR RESOLUTION AND POLICIES. THANK YOU TO THE DEPARTMENTS
03:25:30 FOR YOUR HARD WORK OVER THE YEARS AND FOR THE PRESENTATION
03:25:37 AND AND THANK YOU TO THE FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO CAME TO
03:25:42 SPEAK IN PUBLIC COMMENT AND ALWAYS ADVOCATING TO MAKE
03:25:46 OUR CITY BETTER AND HOLDING US ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALL OF IT.
03:25:52 SO WITH THAT, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO WITH THIS SUPERVISOR
03:25:56 MAHMOOD WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO FILE?
03:26:00 >> YEAH, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO FILE THE HEARING ON THE MOTION
03:26:07 OFFERED BY MEMBER MAHMOOD THAT THE HEARING BE HEARD AND FILED
03:26:08 VICE CHAIR CHEN CHEN I REMEMBER MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I CHAIR MELGAR
03:26:15 I MALKA I MET HIM TOO. >> THERE ARE THREE EYES THAT
03:26:18 MOTION PASSES. DO WE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE ON OUR
03:26:19 AGENDA? MR. CLERK THERE IS NO FURTHER
03:26:22 BUSINESS. >> WE'RE ADJOURNED.
03:26:23 THANK YOU