Before going through the amendments, i want to thanks my cosponsor, supervisor ronen and the advocates for sending and continuing to send hundreds of letters of support. I want to thank neighbor emerging association, parent voices and Richmond Senior center. And dozens of other people that came and testified in support of this legislation two weeks ago. And truly thankful and humbled by their commitment to fight to protect public space. I also want to thank the city attorneys office, namely andrew sims and my staff, erica mayborn and jen to actually craft some of the amendments that we will be introducing today. I probably should go for the amendments before Public Comments. And i think you have a copy of the summary of amendments. But i will Read Everything into the record. I will just summarize. It provides a streamlining process that strengthens the frameworks so the department of public works can have flexibility to enforce as we learn more about the new technology. The permitting process gives opportunity for public process and appeal if there are concerns. We have clarified a process which will come to the board of supervisors. Permits will be at the department of public works and requires 20 days noticing to inform the public of a permit application. Due to the length of the permitting approval process, im suggesting that the permit durations go from 60 days, which is in the original legislation to 180 days with extensions should Companies Follow the permitting guidelines and prove to be good stewards in the public space. This provides companies up to a year of testing if there is no incidents. I hate that we live in a time where there are regular occurrences of terrorism. I would not risk someone creating a fake robot with explosives because the permitting process is overly permissive. Therefore, im requiring that upon renewal, permits must submit a report or data or any useful information for the public. The other change i am proposing today is to ensure that we allow more innovation among different companies. The new permits would allow up to three automated delivery devices to be tested instead of two. Companies are limited to applying for one permit at a time and this should not be more than nine devices permitted at any given time. I also want there to be discretion from dbw on the distance between devices to ensure we are not obstructing any one sidewalk. I feel very strongly that if operating on sidewalks, these devices should not be faster than a human, especially given that the companies are in the research and development phase. Due to the fact that we have persons using asis tifr devices and assistive devices and children can be unpredictable in their paths. I have allowed for some flexibility in the speed, but only up to three Miles Per Hour from the two Miles Per Hour that is on the legislation. The other changes are substantive, but provide guidance and clarifies penalties for violations. I believe this legislation strikes a balance for our needs today and in the year that dbw will return to the board having analyzed the effectiveness of the permitting process and its impact on our public infrastructure. I hope you can adopt these amendments today. Im happy to take any questions to clarify any of these amendments. I just want to make sure that i want to put some emphasis that after companies have spoken to me, that we wanted to allow for the research and development so that at least for companies that want to prove themselves and especially those that might be operating in the city, that they have an opportunity to finetune that machines and eventually for those places they want to allow these machines to operate on sidewalks, then they have the opportunity to also grow their company here. At the same time, i want to make sure that whatever i did in the permit process that no one company monopolizes all the permits. This is so that we can encourage in the future maybe other companies that may want to test their devices here or actually start a company here. So, those are my statements for now and maybe unless we have questions, i would like to open up to Public Comment. Require that sounds great. So, we are opening up this item now for Public Comment. Each member of the public will have two minutes to speak. Supervisor yee, do you want to read the name . Dennis. Laurie, roger, joan. Come up in the order i called your name. Roger hoffman. Software developer for 30 years. It has been my privilege to work with medical researchers in the battle against aids. Will delivery robots interfere with First Responders . Will they cross picket lines . How will they cope with parades, protests . Robots will be hacked. Everybody in this room has had their information hacked. Equifax, yahoo, twitter, gmail, hbo, cnn, disney, all hacked. Consider ro botd hacking could cause fizz robot hacking can cause physical harm. If robots can learn, will they learn to play nicely . Microsoft developed a chat bot named shea. A company with thousands of computer scientists. Shea was designed to chat with 18 to 24yearolds. Within 24 hours of release it was a nazi. Heres a question for you. So, what did you expect the robot to learn at the folsom street fair . Consider robots impact on tourism and sales tax revenue. Why do people visit San Francisco . Why do they shop at union square . For the same reason they go to a sporting event they can see on tv. They want to be there, feel the energy and excitement. Now we will ask tourists and shoppers to dodge robots. Are we reducing the attractions of our city . Is there a potential to kill the geese that lay our golden eggs . [bell]. Public the legislation doesnt appear to cover what thirty parties might do if they obtain information collected from robots. That i believe this is something this legislation should consider. Thank you very much. Thank you. Public thank you for this opportunity. I intended to come here to support the legislation until i read the amendments. And i have a great deal of respect for all of you, including specifically supervisor yee in our recent relations around housing stuff. But i notice that the amendments do not permit arming of these machines. But it prohibits them from carrying ammunition. It doesnt require taillights and side lights. Just points. But i want to make a different point. I came here thinking, well, these robots are really a camels nose under the tent. And now i think with these amendments, with all due respect, the camel is eating your lunch. And i really liked this measure as it was originally intended. In order to actually deal with getting ahead of the tech crunch disrupt world that is obviously disrupting our world in negative ways. Smart is not always appropriate. Smart and innovative doesnt mean needed, good or appropriate and i dont think these robots are needed in these circumstances on our sidewalks to deliver sandwiches. They will never deliver medicines upstairs. Thats nonsense. And the public is more important than the robot. So, i like down and i say well, what about the other industries . [bell]. Public well, tesla is laying off hundreds. Amazon is going to hire more and more robots and lay off more and more people and google wants Driverless Cars that will wipe out millions of drivers including truck drives. I want to say this. Drivers. I know that drones want to operate in a public space [bell]. [microphone cut off] public i live in district five. The evidence is everywhere that San Francisco has consistently failed to protect the public and our infrastructure from the ravages of tech run wild. Uber clogs our street and a culture that infected our policy. Robots should only be used to do jobs hazardous for humans. As someone who spent the last 25 years of my working life representing union workers, i urge you to consider the effect on jobs, on the workers and their families and the larger community. What about Privacy Protection . Look at the invasions of privacy made in the interest of profit. In order to function on our sidewalks, robot must be outfitted with cameras. What is stopping their masters from collecting data about people on those same sidewalks . Will they be recording speech . Will these really be only used for deliveries . Will they deliver a bogus pitch about delivering medication to shutin seniors . We have an opoid crisis because of the complete failures of regulators to say no to big pharma. [bell]. Public are uber and lift giving usda that . If these machines are permitted to occupy human space, it is your responsibility to make sure they do no harm. Disrupting Public Safety are not San Francisco values. Unfortunately, these last minute amendments appear to promote the eventual proliferation of robots on our sidewalks. Public good afternoon. My name is john. Im a resident of the Richmond District and an operator at marble. I want to start out by thanking supervisor yee for the collaborative approach we have had over the last few weeks working on crafting these regulations. My background is in city planning. During my stulddyes my focus studies my focus was on pedestrian and bicycle safety. I joined marble because of the mission that they instill in their company and employees and their proactive approach to regulation. We want to be regulated. I have a role to craft safety and to protect the public and make sure those safety requirements are enforced throughout the company. As an operator, im with the robot on the streets. I walk the sidewalks. I interact with the public and i educate them about what we are doing. Im excited about the civic applications that marble has to the city of San Francisco. We are interested in data sharing, working with nonprofits and improving accessibility throughout the city. Marble is committed to being a San Francisco company. I both live and work in San Francisco and i hope that can continue. I want to also say that i appreciate the frameworks we are setting up and i hope that we can continue to move forward and find a solution that works everyone and protects Public Safety. Thank you. Public my name is fran taylor. Im cochair and retired member of the Typographical Union which i mention. I want to remind you that the people will be attacking are also workers. I support the original total ban. I have long suggested folk who is lack a home should get a tent in the shape of a car and no one would blame them for blocking the sidewalk. I have never heard an elected official complain when a car forces a pedestrian to walk in the street. We can never get by. Nobody cared. Similarly, if you are tired with nowhere to go but the sidewalk, officials aiming for Higher Office have an answer for you. Let machines run amuck in the same space and watch those same officials fawn over them. New technology, innovation. My second suggestion is the tired humans should dress themselves as robots if they want to be left alone. What does this say about San Francisco . If you are a human in public space, you are swept away, ticketed or even in the case of luis pat, shot to death by police. If you are a machine obstructing our sidewalks, we will praise you to the sky and find excuses for the harm you do. If you are elected officials supporting machines over people, giving priority to robots over pedestrians, i have one final suggestion. Lets just cut out the Human Element all together and go straight to robot supervisors. Not a bad idea. [laughter] public hello. I own two pizza places in San Francisco. One in marina district. I work a lot with delivery and deliveries is really important to my business. I want to tell you why i support this real quick and first of all, i am the president of merchant association. Im also on the board of the merchant association. Im active for business and measure chants and i really merchants and i really support any business and especially a beautiful new idea like this in the city of San Francisco. I recently in my place in the marina, replaced at least ten delivery drivers in the last year and it is all because i cant compete with what they make with uber and lift. I ended up not delivering anymore. Im just relying on the Delivery Companies to take my food to the people. This innovation or this New Invention will help a business like mine big time. And it will help me stay in business because i cannot afford anymore to hire people to deliver the food. I cannot compete with whats going on in the city. [bell]. Public when they first brought the idea to me, from my daughter, i just jumped. I am like one of those people drowning and someone like a boat came over to help me. It is really helpful and i would really like to support it and hopefully it will go on. All they are asking for right now is just to test it. Thank you. Thank you. Julie. 170599, jim, david. Public good afternoon chair ronen and supervisors. My name is josie and im is Senior Community organizer and walk San Francisco. As you will recall from the previous meeting on this item, the community had great concerns about the impact of autonomous delivery vehicles on the safety and mobility of pedestrians. We would like to thank supervisor yee for starting this important conversation and forgetting forgetting ahead of the problem. We ask you to support this legislation today. At the same time, we ask you to ensure that those limits are robust and truly ensure that pedestrian use of the sidewalk takes precedence above all other consideration. Once we let these vehicles on the sidewalks, it will be hard to get them off. Getting this right and being cautious is imperative. We will be asking you to very seriously consider the following things in your discussion today. One, how this will Pilot Program be enforced . If we allow some vehicles on the sidewalks who will enforce the location of the vehicle as being ahered to. And the maximum number of vehicles will be nine. We ask you to be consecutive in the number of conservative on the number of vehicles allowed. Thank you to providers for your thoughtful consideration on this topic. Thank you. Public good afternoon. San francisco chamber of commissioners. Supervisor yee, thank you for taking a second look at this and working out what i think we were seeking from day one, and that is reasonable regulation in a test stage. I know what is pending is a broader Civic Working Group on technology as a whole. And i think the Chamber Small business resident civic organizations are more than willing to sit down with the supervisors and city departments on looking at about appropriate regulation across the Technology Spectrum as new industries get nurtured in San Francisco. But we appreciate you recognizing supervisors and your colleagues that have cosponsored the legislation that theres a role for a limited amount of testing, properly regulated by the department of public works to allow this industry to continue to model as it has to on sidewalks to assure that we are part of the development of this. Whether it is rolled out in the future, how it is rolled out, thats an issue for residents, businesses, elected officials to deal with in to coming years. But thank you very much for the direction you are going today. Public thank you. My name is david and i represent star ship technologies. I was here last month and i want to once again thank the board and the staff for their willingness to engage us on this matter. As i mention before, starship technologies are an International Robotics company. We are operating in five countries. We have had about 11 million human interactions. About 66 thousand miles operations and we deliver thousands and nows of projects. Supervisor yee, i want to extend a personal thanks on behalf of the company. When we came to you and asked to come up with a framework that would work for the city of San Francisco and for the company. We were delighted with the reception we received. By way of background, starship is active in five states here in the u. S. And we have never once operated without having obtained local permission and authority. In fact, i have been personally involved in the legislation that has moved through these states and we have insisted that the state actually permit local governments to make exceptions and to have local control. Even when we were offered to have that exempted, we insist on that because we believe each jurisdiction is different. What we have here is a process of reasoning. Elected officials of San Francisco believe that this is the best framework to allow this new technology to be introduced and we support it. I will say that as a former elected official, i spent five terms as at large member of the city council in washington, d. C. I appreciate the challenges of wrestling with constituent concerns and embracing new. I chaired the committee on health and saw firsthand how this technology i believe will be helpful to our underserved by lowering the cost of delivery of necessary items that help people, especially lowincome people stay in their ohm and produce a better quality of life. This is new and we very much appreciate the ability to reason with one another and come up with a framework. We are supportive of this framework and want to thank you for your time today. Thank you. Thank you. Public members of the board, thank you for taking the time. Im with the company post mates. I actually just moved to San Francisco recently last working in the Obama Administration and i didnt anticipate spending this much of my life talking about robotics but we are here. If we walk away with this with nothing everything, i discovered supervisor yee and i share a mutual admiration for sofa. We are not a robotics company. We are Small Business enabling company. We help local retail like the gentleman that was speaking earlier distribute their goods around town. In the city of San Francisco, as the town has seen a 35 decline in retail sales, merchants on post mates have seen an increase in revenue. We appreciate the strides in progress that supervisor yee has offered us. You run a multistakeholder process. We are not asking to move this in a transformational direction, but all we are asking for is to have an additional dialog about what is the right way way to balance to help businesses distribute goods. Your staffer, jennifer was kind enough to email that this morning to get our views. We look forward to that continuing dialog and conversation. And at the end of the day to some individuals speaking previously, we are not asking to be inoculated as another company. How does local retail compete and we think we can help in a meaningful way. Thank you. Are there any other Public Comments for this item . Supervisor ronen Public Comment is closed. Supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer thank you. I just want to state for the record that quite frankly, i dont see the need for robots on our sidewalks. Im just going to say that i just think that we have delivery service. We have those services to deliver medications. This is the most ridiculous reason that people say we need robots to deliver medication when quite frankly i can get my medication delivered any time from kaiser and they actually walk it up my stairs. As most seniors or people who have just been released from a hospital would want. Also, im 60 years old. Maybe im biassed. I like to have a sidewalk that is actually cleared and that is free for people with apparatus such as walkers, but also strollers that would have access to our sidewalks. I think when we start blaming strollers, we are in trouble. We have food delivery, we have door dash. We have grub hub. We have eat 24. We have a lot of food delivery in San Francisco. I dont see how this curtail as Small Businesss able to deliver food when we have all these companies that do food delivery and many do it on scooters that have zero emissions. So, im just going to say personally on the record i dont see the reason for robots. However, im seeing that actually many colleagues on my board actually do see a purpose for delivery and i just want to thank supervisor yee for taking a broader look at this, first bringing this to my attention. And also for working so hard to come to an agreement i think strivers to pro strives to tro protect the sidewalks. The suggestion for taillight Social Security a good one if they are going to be operating all hours of the day and night. I think taillights are reasonable to ask on a robot. Im sure whoever is designing the robot can put some taillights on there. And also i think that 70 of my of Golden Gate Park is my district. And i havent run this by our general manager of the park. So, i would like to exempt Golden Gate Park from robot use just until we can actually have a conversation the general manager of the parks to see whether or not this is something conducive that we would want in our parks. I hope that is something reasonable. Also, i have a question now that someone just brought it up about large events. Are we allowing robots during large events . I have large events in my district. Is there language in here, supervisor yee, that actually addresses when we have large events, whether or not robots will be for example, rallies, parades, those type of things. So, the legislation states that that he could actually do the they could actually do testing for research and developments and not for deliveries in pdr zones. So, those zones generally arent the places where they have large events. Supervisor fewer okay. For instance, the park is not a pdr zone. You dont have to really talk to the general manager because they are not allowed. Supervisor fewer they are not allowed. Okay. Thats great. Because im just looking at this when it says permitees shall only test devices on sidewalks so, they must meet a, b and c. It is not either one i mean, if they not just a or not just b. But it must meet sidewalks that are a, b and c. Is that correct . Right. Supervisor fewer okay. Thank you for the clarification and i just want to say thank you for taking the lead on this and actually having the forsight and standing up also for all the people that use our sidewalks to permit this. But also have some is regulation which i think is really needed when we have new technology coming into the city and county of San Francisco. Thanks, supervisor yee. Supervisor ronen yes. I want to echo supervisor fewers comments. Supervisor yee has been very bold and visionary in this legislation and i was prepared to support the complete ban on the sidewalks. But i appreciate the permit scheme that you have developed together with the companies. I think it is limited and reasonable. And i think that this is a real difficult issue. Hearing some of the public testimony today, it was incredibly compelling and i appreciate it. And perhaps at some point the public will want to go to the ballot, depending on how this all plays out on the streets. But in the meantime, i do think that this compromised measure that you negotiated, supervisor yee, it is a good one. And im prepared to support it today. So, thank you. Thank you. First of all, i want to reemphasize that the amendments arent in a direction where we are saying we are giving up our sidewalks for just delivery purpos purposes. Maybe these devices will end up doing that, but what the amendment does is allow for companies to do some research so that if whatever they develop, it is something that is attractive to other locations. They are able to have something that can be manufactured in San Francisco. And it might be something at the end of the day where these devices will fill proper infrastructure and the development right work in San Francisco. I dont think currently thats the case. I feel like the somebody mentioned about data collection. Thats why we built in, in terms of the testing itself that the companies that test need to give us the data they collected and see whether it makes sense or not. So, we are getting ahead with things like uber and lift basically fighting tooth and nail just to get information to us. So, im happy i was able to work with some of the companies to limit what we are going to go in San Francisco. And im also happy that we have some legislation to look at those Guiding Principles and setting up a task force for future types of technologies. And really, i do appreciate supervisor ronen in all this as sort of a thought partner and really heavily having her staff be involved with thinking out some of the issues. Even the idea of having these principles was really a Great Partnership to have supervisor ronen and her staff to say, well, maybe it shouldnt be just about one thing and absolutely correct. This is really the tip of the iceberg. Im just seeing future developments in technology that may that will eventually impact the quality of life for residents in San Francisco. Im not alone. We dont know what they are right now, but we need to be prepared for them. So, those are the amendments. I dont know why or if we need to continue have an extra meeting on the amendments that are suggested. Can you explain that . Sure. Deputy city attorney. Given the breath of the amendment and will require an opportunity for Public Comment. Can we have that continue at the next meeting . Supervisor ronen should we take a motion to adopt the amendments . Yes. Before we adopt the amendments, i promise will i never require robots to do salsa dancing. [laughter] i would like to make a motion we adopt the amendments as i described. Supervisor ronen second. With that objection, those amendments pass. I just want to clarify supervisor fewer because you asked to exempt. Given thats not a pdr zone, im assuming that is not necessary. Supervisor fewer right. Can we do a call of the chair because im not aware of the next meeting. I believe we need to issue a fees as theres an administrative fee being established. Supervisor ronen we will continue this item to the call of the chair and supervisor yee to schedule as soon as possible. Thank you very much. Supervisor ronen thank you. This item is continued to call of the chair. Are there any other items, mr. Clerk . Clerk that complete the agenda for the day. Supervisor ronen this meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much, everyone, for being here. Im Assembly Member phil ping and 57 was for all of us who spend time driving underneath 101 or 280. You see many spots that we wonder what could we be doing with these parcels, other than seeing them. I think the city was able to envision this many, many years ago with the skate park and dog park, which the city leased for 20 years at 4. 8 million. And our bill allows the city to work with caltrains at a 30 of market rate. And these are not used or not really whew exactly. There is excitement everywhere. We could have the wedding move over here next. So we are very excited to work with our cities so we can make these underutilized parcels of land into parcels of land and open space. Especially these neighborhoods, the land is very underutilized. A lot of this area is highly industrialized. You dont see parks. You dont have spaces where you can go play. I know the dogpatch this district has already taken a lead with the Mission Creek area with their volleyball courts and they have shown how we can do this and how its going to be much more prevalent. Im very excited to have worked with our city and bring this to our residents. It is the district bill for San Francisco. I would like to thank ca ltrains and the mayor has talked about this but there are a couple of parcels that theyve already identified at some point soon theyve negotiated and we can start the process of turning these vacant lots into open space and parks. So, with that, let me introduce our mayor, ed lee, who really worked with me hand in hand and championed this effort. Thank you. Let me say Assembly Bill 857 is a winner. I want to take this opportunity to thank. Phil ting who spent years here and were not only benefiting from his life but senator weiner and david and all those who contributed to making sure this bill didnt have a cingular purpose but multiple purpose. Thats what i like about our organization. When they are creating benefits, its not just about one thing. It is multiple things. Thats why people working in parks like former supervisor Julie Christiansen, people are working with our bicycle coalition, people are working with our Parks Alliance are all assembled together to say what can we get out of space . That, for many of us, has been dead space. You know, when you look at freeway land under the freeway, youre generally talking about assemblymen assemblages of people who are homeless, negative activity, maybe some industrial uses. And in a city as concentrated as San Francisco, how do we creatively and innovatively use space that is kind of dead and inviting of a lot of negative activity in to really opened, creative, vibe rant spaces vibrant spaces . And i encourage everybody to participate. Walk your dog down there. Get a basketball court. Get a volleyball court. Maybe you even want to do a little boating, kayaking along the Mission Creek. If you walk down there, youll see the best example we have today on how we turned space that was going to that has been very negative for all of the residents around there. And in conversations with new residents around that area created space that descamps laments what i that complements that park where everyone lives that is what were doing with spaces around caltrains property and were doing more in the much few years because of scotts leadership and scott and david chu but phil was the one that really turned the corner. Because as kind of small as it might be about the that and how it should be needs to have open space and needs to have it within a 10minute walk, this is the most treative effort creative effort we can share. We have 10 spaces. And, by the way, they dont just get created overnight. With the partnership in the Parks Alliance, these are private spaces that will be taken care of 24 7. And id like more than like. This is absolutely necessary in todays world where the housing crisis is impacting everything that we do. And we need to build more housing in areas that weve never built before. But we need to have for that spacing the comp lap meantary open spaces. But we need to have for that spacing the complimentary open spaces. And a benefit that phil ting has allowed us to have the conversation that, if were in a housing crisis, it is 10 times more of a crisis than those on our streets. An we need to have areas of temporary shelter to serve that. So, as can you tell, im excited about this for all of the right reasons. The people standing behind me informed this, these language changes to make sure that our parks, our bicycles, our way of life can continue with quality of life contributions that our open space has. And the Mission CreekSports Complex is just one of many things that weve done through our recreation and Park Department in creating these opportunities for partnership was our private sector. Because when you when you go down there, youll see people walking their dogs and people doing all of the things that were not done under caltrains property for many years. And now were getting an excitement that we are going to turn pretty dead negative spaces into really positive, vibrant open spaces and connect them up with the critical housing that we need. Its going to be, i think, a gamechanger in San Francisco to work at all of space under the freeway. Some work and some dont, so well be very selective about them. But i think youre going to see a very good transformation on these dead spaces into very lively spaces. This will be i think the positive excitement we have with our delegation in San Francisco that is making a difference, not just at the state level, but bringing back both the language to resources, to innovative approaches to making sure that our housing crisis is dealt with, our homeless crisis is dealt with, our openspace challenges are dealt with in a very positive way. So i cant say enough about how 857s going to benefit from us. But youll see the same thing happen in open. Youll see the same thing happening in san jose. Because they are all suffering from negative uses of the freeways for inappropriate kind of tent cities where its dangerous. Youre going to see Harm Reduction because of the collaboration we have with all of the other agencies to make these spaces vibrant and useful for everyone. So phil ting, thank you for your leadership up there. And, of course, as chair of the appropriations committee, were going to ask for more because we know were going to get a lot out of ya. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much, mr. Mayor, and to the entire city for working with us. Next i wanted to introduce senator weiner, who was a partner in this every step of the way, myself, senator weiner, and david chiu, so it is part of a team to make this happen. Thank you, phil. So we have we are lucky that we have a very cohesive delegation, myself and david chiu in this era where Southern California has so much population and representation, we really need to stick together so that we can San Francisco can continue to punch up its weight class in sacramento, which were continuing to do. So we look out for each other and we love to partner on these bills. He he want to thank phil for his leadership on 857 and i was happy to coauthor it. This has been a terrific bill. I think in recent years the theme in San Francisco and other cities, were trying to rediscover urbanism, trying to get away from the era where it was all about housing sprawl and moving away from Public Transportation and focusing on the needs of cars, not people. And now we are refocused on dense, compact housing and walkable neighborhoods and bike infrastructure and better Public Transportation, and rediscovering urban public space and one of the things weve been doing is rededicating land that was really car focused into peoplefocused places. So whether it is the paving the Parks Program with Jane Warner Plaza in the castro or the noey town square where we turned the city into a park or what the city did with oct avia turning it into a square. Now this the freeways caused problems in the market, and potrero hill, dogpatch and we know that anything we can do to make them usable is great. And this bill will empower the city to be able to work with caltrain, to create new parks and to really invigorate these neighborhoods. So im really, really excited about this step and i know that San Francisco will take the next step and actually make it a realty, so thank you. [ applause ] thank you, senator. Next i want to bring up those who have been an advocate of the public land and that is around urban areas and for communities that hasnt historically had much recreational space. Mary . Thank you so much. Thank so you much, Assembly Member tang. Im so excited to be here this mourn because somebody who grew up in San Francisco and able to have ocean beach as my neighborhood park. This is a city of innovation. This is a city figuring out next years, the next decade of issues and challenges. Im super excited about your leadership. I like spending time in San Francisco. And you have the cream of the crop in San Francisco. You have innovative leaders who are figuring out ways to figure out these challenges and mayor lee and mr. Weiner are champions of parks and open space. They know that being champions for parks and open space are being champions for climate resolution and champions for all of that. And we have a organization that creates access to communities for access to nature for all. We do that with mayor lee on parks around the city including vodecker park a couple of miles away. And what this bill is starting to figure out is how we solve the issue of population growth, of the scarcaty of land for parks and open space, and the increase of costs for parks and open space. And this bill is solving it is beginning to be a piece of the puzzle to solve all of that an as we do work around the country, we are looking at this as a model in communities across the country and in communities across the state. This is an example of how your leadership in sacramento is responsible for passing impactable policies that are going to make a difference for real neighborhoods. This is something that folks in their communities are going to feel. So were very excited to have supported this bill, really excited about the passage and the governors signature for ab857 and grateful for senator ting, weiner and mayor lees leadership on this. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you, mary. Next, id like to bring up former supervisor Julie Christiansen who is the executive director of the dog patch in northwest potrero green, north district. I think her district has really demonstrated how to make this a realty. Theyve established that in the neighborhood and they were one of the groups to reach out for this legislation to say hey, how can we help . Were very excited about this and finding ways to work together. These were neighborhoods that were historically filled with warehouses, not people. As weve torn down some of these warehouses and theyve been replaced with office space and housing, theyve shown the way how we can do that responsibly. Thank you. Is it afternoon yet . Good morning. So for those of you who want to follow this story a little further, i really welcome you to come to dogpatch to a place called progress park. Its between indiana and iowa between 23rd and 25th. Its ai lovely space. I have pictures of children swinging in it, people playing bocce an people working out. It was not built with the other budgets and clout with some of the other projects that senator weiner mentioned it was done with spit from the other neighborhoods who went to a chainlinked fence, a weedchoked lot where neighbors could gather and have open space. So please come down to progress park. This measure tackles two important issues that those of us involved in positive civic planning struggle with. One is how do we mitigate the negative impact of our freeways that slights through our camping areas . The fires, the debris that collects in these spaces, especially as our residents and workplaces inch ever closer to those freeways. Secondly, how do we provide open space and green space for the fastestgrowing neighborhoods in San Francisco, nearly all of which line those same transit cora ders. So senator tings measure as the mayor said actually tackles two problems and puts this way ahead. We appreciate very much the heavy lifting that ca ltrain caltrain does and we have neighbors when they used to look out on other Family Residences like theirs and they now face chain linked fence and razor wire and encampments. This is an opportunity to knit our neighborhoods back together. My common line is that these freeways severed our neighborhoods twice, once when the elevated freeways went in with their noise and their pollution and trash, but then a second time when the areas below the freeway were consigned to less optimal uses. Potrero hill is cut off from vacant lots and rusted containers. This is an opportunity to get some of that back. Were very grateful for it. So my deep thanks to Assembly Member ting. He said he was going to do this his perseverance and determination paid off. Were grateful to all who have helped with this, mr. Weiner and assemblyman ting, were grateful to have them. Im grateful to the economic workforce and robin abhod is here and all of those who have worked with us and who will continue to work with us. I want to acknowledge jean and allahson from the green benefit district. The gbd is an amazing, amazing construct. Neighbors who voted to assess themselves in order to spend extra funds to clean and green their neighborhood. And dogpatch is the first one that we know is the first to exist, dogpatch and potrero hill. So im happy to represent them. This is a great day. Hopefully, well be having some of these in these parks before very long. Thank you all for your interest. Thank you. Thank you, julie, again. It is proud to author 857, ab857, which now allows the city to transform some of our freeway underpasses into parks. Again, i think julie put it very well. There are not always positive things that are happening under these underpasses. Again, its our opportunity for the neighborhoods, the neighborhoods of dogpatch, potrero hill to take over this land. So i want to thank everybody for coming today. I appreciate it. I know people will be available for individual questions on the side if you have any interest, but again, thanks so much for coming out today. I appreciate it. [ applause ] thank you all for being here today, and thank you, particularly, to mercay for catering the event. Lets give them a big hand. [applause] we look forward to the start of their cafe soon. Lets have a call for the order. This is the november 15, 2017, Treasure Island th