Transcripts For SFGTV SFCTA Full Authority Board 20240711

Agenda item, the prop k allocation funds request, there was a [inaudible] curbside pilot instituted in response to the covid19 pandemic. Some of the c. A. C. Members felt that because the Curbside Pickup zones were benefiting other services, the private sector should be paying or contributing to the pilot given the track record of these companies, were limiting their data shares, some members thought this should be segregated and voted on separately, however, other members voted against the sever. In the end, the prop k allocation request recommendation before you was approved on a 74 vote, with a request that a more indepth presentation on the entire citywide curbside Management Strategy be presented to the c. A. C. In the near future. Moving onto the portsmouth Square Community based Transportation Plan final report, members were supportive given the levels of access in the square and a more overall inviting space. With respect to the public buses at the hilton hotel, a member noted that these buses need to pay a transportation fee as do other forms of shuttles. Chair peskin mr. Larson, can you repeat that last im sorry. I repeat that, please. The better Market Street project . Chair peskin okay. Gotcha. I thought you were still on portsmouth square. No, the portsmouth Square Project had unanimous support. This on the better Market Street project. The more specific concerns on the downsizing included questioning the wisdom of putting bicycles into the street and sharing space with vehicles because of the unexpected increase in the number of bicyclists. An early indicator of success of the better Market Street successes thus far. Other observations included that the down scaling of the project seemed to be driven by a grant deadline imperative to start building, that there might be missed opportunities to coordinate the street anticipating with current projects underway, and a question about revisiting the scope once the election and additional prospects for funding are clear, and that completes my report, mr. Chairman. If theres anything else i can clarify or additional questions, ill be happy to take them. Chair peskin are there any questions or comments from members of the sfcta . Seeing none, mr. Larson, thank you very much, and we will obviously be taking up item 5, and i have similar concerns as to the consenting members of the c. A. C. , and i want to note for the record that vice chair mandelman has joined us, but we will get to that in due course. Seeing no questions from members, are there any members of the public that would like to comment on the c. A. C. Report . Operator theres currently no Public Comment. Chair peskin okay. Then we will close Public Comment, and madam clerk, will you please call item 3 . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair peskin is there any Public Comment on this item . Operator there is no Public Comment. Chair peskin okay. Public comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve the minutes of october 27 . Supervisor mandelman moved by mandelman. Chair peskin is there a second . Seconded by yee, and on that item, a roll call vote, madam secretary, please. [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. The minutes are approved. Chair peskin next item, please. Clerk item 4, appoint one member to the citizens advisory committee. Chair peskin miss smith . Good morning. April smith, Community Planner at the Transportation Authority. The Transportation Authority committee has an 11 member citizen advisory committee, appointed to a twoyear term. [inaudible] make recommendations on appointments. To qualify for the c. A. C. , applicants must be San Francisco residents and must appear before the board at least once to speak to their interests and qualifications. Attached to the packet is a list of applicants, and there is a list describing their interests. [inaudible] and with that, i can take any questions. Chair peskin thank you, miss smith. Commissioner stefani, this is the district 2 appointee. Supervisor stefani yes, thank you, chair peskin. It is my pleasure to recommend appointment, reappointment for jerry levine on the citizens advisory committee. Jerry has been a strong voice advocating for the needs and concerns of our community. Jerry and i recently met to discuss his prior term on the c. A. C. , and his ongoing priorities for the committee, including an emphasis on regional coordination of the 27 transit agencies throughout the bay area to create a robust and seamless transportation body through San Francisco and the enti entire bay area. I know he will continue to advocate for greater Pedestrian Safety efforts and keep in mind the need to protect our most vulnerable users of our streets and sidewalks. During my time on the t. A. , ive made an effort to highlight the needs of vulnerable individuals, particularly seniors and people with disabilities, and i am confident that jerry will continue to be a voice for these residents in district 2 and residents throughout the city. Jerry, i want to thank you for your service for the residents not only of district 2 but the entire city and your leadership and proposal of ideas and your continued dedicated service. Chair peskin mr. Levine, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, supervisors, and thank you for that introduction, supervisor stefani. I am seeking reappointment, and do appreciate the trust that supervisor has shown in me, and her desire to renominate me. Prior to my previous two years with the c. A. C. , i served four years on the policy advisory council, which gave me a particularly broad view of the regional needs for transit in the bay area, and so with this with this newly new emphasis on the need for regional coordination in these times of covid, its my particular interest to continue in that vein. So i look forward to that, and im open to answering any questions you might have. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Levine. While weve got you here, given the c. A. C. Report, and given that you were one of the four not dissenters not did dissenters, you were one of the four that wanted to sever that item, is there anything you would like to tell this body . Im sorry . Chair peskin anything you would like to inform this body about your position in this matter . No, not at this point. Ill be interested to hear the discussion and, if its possible, be able to comment at that time. Chair peskin you are always welcome to comment as a member of the public. With that, seeing no other questions from members, are there any other applicants to this position the district 2 position to the c. A. C. Transportation advisory board, Public Comment. Operator we have one caller. Chair peskin okay. Please proceed. Operator hello, caller. Your line is unmuted. Hello. Its david pilpell. I just wanted to speak in support of jerry levine. Hes a great person, has great experience with regional transportation matters and all of that, and would be a great addition to the c. A. C. Thanks very much. Chair peskin mr. Pilpell, you are becoming famous or infamous. Are there any other members of the public that would like to comment on this item. Operator there are no other callers. Chair peskin seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor stefani, would you like to make a comment . Supervisor stefani yes. I would like to move the reappointment of jerry levine to the Transportation Authority Board Community advisory board. Chair peskin im going to do something rare. Im going to second jerry to the board. I dont second a motion often, but i hold jerry in high esteem. Roll call vote, please. [roll call] chair peskin he appeared and disappeared, so he may have had to go to his other thing, so he is excused. [roll call] clerk we have ten ayes. The appointment of mr. Levine to the c. A. C. Is approved on first reading. Chair peskin thank you, madam secretary, and congratulations, mr. Levine. Thank you, commissioners. Chair peskin next item. Clerk item 5, allocate 745,651 in prop k sales tax funds with conditions for three requests. This is an action item. We have three asks today. The one is citywide daylighting. This request supports the board of supervisors resolution from may 2019 that urged the sfmta to create a daylighting plan and systemately implement and creation a location. This work will be completed by march 2022. Our next question is the Visitacion Valley and portola Community Based Transportation Plan in which the neighborhoods will collaborate with Community Transportation groups to address priorities that support growing Community Values in Visitacion Valley and portola neighborhoods. It will include recommendations for streetscape improvements and a funding and implementation plan. The funds will provide the local match for a 350,000 caltransplanning grant, and sfmta expects the final plan by 2023. And finally is the curbs side pick up zones pilot. Sfmta requested a streamlines way for businesses to use the curbside for delivery pick ups and other outdoor activities. This would allow sfmta to survey the use zones. It will include guidelines for the inclusion and location of pick up zones and policy recommendations for the future of the curbside pick up zones program. The plan will be complete by next july, and based on the c. A. C. Discussion, which weve already heard about, we have provided sfmta to provide a broader overview of the curbside strategy, so i can take any questions on these items now, or i can bring up sfmtas slides for them to present. Chair peskin so why dont we start and see if supervisors walton or ronen have any comments . Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you, chair peskin. Im going to wait until the presentation is over, and then, i have a few comments. Chair peskin thank you. Supervisor ronen . Rena supervisor ronen thank you. I just wanted to thank you for including Visitacion Valley and the portola in that. Im looking very forward to engaging in the planning effort. And then, i think my guess is that supervisor walton and chair peskin want to talk about the 200,000 for the curbside pick up. I could be wrong there, but i am not happy about that. So i will waive, as well, until that presentation happens, but i would chime in and say that that would not be my choice to fund that program. I dont understand why were providing public space to private companies that isnt even treat their workers as the employees that they are. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, commissioner ronen. Well stated. Well go back to you, mr. Pi pickford. I will ask francesca from sfmta to make her presentation. Chair peskin great. Please proceed. Good morning. My name is francesca napolitan, and im here to present an overall adoption of our curb management strategies, as well as provide a proposal for a shared spaces pick up zone evaluation. Chair peskin whoever somebody needs to mute. Somebody needs to mute. Hold on, francesca. My apologies. All right. Chair peskin which one of you needs to mute. All right. My apologies. No problem. I wanted to start with my agencys per Management Strategy because i think that would provide the framework of how we would be looking at this evaluation and why we would want to collect this data. So i think we all know that over the last ten years, weve seen an increase in the modes of transportation that are wanting to share our street spaces, including uber and bicycles, while at the same time, our agency has long supported muni put service, paratransit, and taxis, which still need curb access, all of which is putting increased pressure on our limited curb space. Next slide, please. So an increased demand for curb access in combination with lack of adequate loading space has resulted in safety hazards, such as crosswalk and bike lanes being blocked, problems with accessibility, and bike lanes being blocked. So the sfmta has referred on our curb color program, which has resulted in a mismatch between supply and demand for loading space and also does not really reflect how people are getting around today. Inventory of our current curb space allocation found that 90 of our citys curbs are allocated for storage for vehicles, while only 1 is for paratransit, community loading zones, access, and ride share. So the current Management Strategy proposes a new approach and thinking about the curb, shifting away from curb car parking, focusing on a holistic approach and focuses on a way that represents the changing transportation landscape. This strategy is also designed to support our citys wider goals, such as our vision zero and transit first policies, our Climate Action strategy mode share goals, improve equity and accessibility, as well as support our Small Businesses and improve transparency in our planning processes with the public. The strategys comprised of three elements. A set of hierarchy, a set of recommendations, and strategies. Today, ill just be highlighting the hierarchy, which is how well approach the curb coloring in our projects. So the first step in creating the hierarchy was to think about the curb, how its used, and whos using the curb. So we came up with five key functions that the curb services. The first is active people. This is things that move people to and from the curbs. The second is access for goods. This is space for deliveries, both traditional as well as the new models that were seeing, such as ondemand parcel and food deliveries. Then, we have things like pit stops, private vehicle park is, reserves parking for specific reserved parking for specific users, and curbside parking, a. Next slide, please. So the second step in creating the hierarchy was thinking about how the adjacent land uses affect the way in which the curb was used and how these needs change throughout the city. So we identify six land use types. The first you see is low density residential. These are primarily singlefamily home neighborhoods, so we have midto highdensity residential, which are multifamily housing with locally serving retail such as laundry mats, core laundromats, Grocery Stores, and other businesses. Then, we have active retail, which is the most dense part of our city, and then, we have other needs which may be temporal, and then lastly, we have our p. D. R. Neighborhoods. So weve created a prioritization matrix to help guide how we allocation curb space in our projects, and as you can see, this is a shift away from how weve been allocating our curb space historically, which as youve seen in the past has been predominantly towards vehicle storage and instead focusing on shifting to those functions which provide access for people and access to goods to allow more efficient movement. The purpose of the hierarchy is to not preclude any one session but to prioritize other functions. The application of this hierarchy will also need to be tailored to the specific needs of corridors. So next slide, please. So the sfmta has implemented several cub Management Plans using this framework. One is the inner sunset curb Management Plan and the other is the 23 and sunset station. However, due to covid19, our work plan has shifted over the last few months, and we are working on the shared space curbside program. [please stand by]. What conflicts are there with other users, such as commercial deliveries, transit, bikes, and curbside dining zones. How well are these zones meeting business and community needs, and are there any enforcement challenges or abuse of zones . The finance of this evaluation will form longer term policy, including one of the is suggestioned in the strategy, which is how to suggestions in the strategy, which is how to meet current curbside nonspecial loading needs . Many Business Owners use their personal vehicles to load and unload goods at their store, but they are not allowed to use existing commercial zones, and they cannot find nearby parking, so they end up double parking. The evaluation will layout a Community Process for gathering feedback on potential curb changes. My colleague, hank, and i are happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. Chair peskin mr. Wilson, anything you would like to add . Thank you, chair. I no, i mean, i think francesca did a fantastic job. As you are all well aware, the shared spaces is something that has been 100 small spaces merchant driven. We take direction from the applicants. We do our best to say yes to every application we get. The only ones we cant approve are the ones that we cant approve for some kind of transportation program. We have not had the chance because weve had this flood of applications that francesca can attest to she spends more than eight hours a day to evaluate these applications day in and day out we dont have the manpower to look at everything going forward. All we can do is review everything coming in. We know this is extremely important and essentially keeping a lot of businesses alive right now, but we want to do it in a way that makes sense and also takes into account everything thats on the street. Chair peskin and miss politan and mr. Wilson, the scope of the project is 750,000, of which you want 200,000. Can you elaborate how that would be spent . We would use it for video Data Collection. Based on prior projects, we know that using video is the best way to collect data of whats going on on the street, mainly because its so complex that its very difficult to fully capture this information in person with actual staff on the street . So with this funding, wed be able to roughly cover 20 to 30 blocks of Data Collection, depending on how complex the blocks are, and then, we would also use this funding to do outreach. We really want to talk to merchants, residents, and other Community Members to understand how this program is actually meeting their needs, what issues are they seeing, and really just gather more feedback from those who are using and affected by it. Supervisor peskin and when you say video data for 20 or 30 blocks, that would be whats that mean . Youre going to install cameras or is that being done by the sfmta or by a thirdparty consultant . How does that work . So we did this for the inner sunset and valencia, basically. We dont have the camera infrastructure to go out and do this ourselves, so we hired a Data Collection firm, and they actually go out and place the cameras, and they collect the footage, and then, they actually visually look at all of the footage and count the number of vehicles. Weve had them count conflicts with sites. Weve looked at dwell time. How long are vehicles staying in the zones, what type of vehicles are using the zones . That helps us understand things like abuse as well as dwell time. Like, how long does it take to do these pick ups because that would affect our ability and how to design them. We also mention problems with cyclists or other vehicles, so someone actually looks at all of the data points and information that we want, which is why it ends up being costly and also is not something that we can do inhouse with the staff that we have. Chair peskin and separate and apart from how this video collection works and other issues related to that which ive not even wrapped my head around, where would the 20 to 30 blocks be . So that would be part of the development of the Data Collection plan, and right now, the general idea is to identify blocks all throughout the city. We do see these zones in every neighborhood. Obviously, some neighborhoods have much higher concentration than others, but we would like to get a representation from the different neighborhood commercial areas throughout the city. Also, we would want to select locations that have bike and transit on them, as well, so we can better understand that these zones are creating conflict with those modes, so that is the general approach we would take to site selection. Chair peskin but the zones are shared space zones . Yes. Chair peskin so we know, because we know how many shared spaces we have permitted, and we know that and im making the numbers, but im darn close that there are 11 in district 11, 7 in district 7, or thereabouts, and the vast majority of them are in the area of the city commonly known as district 3. And we have a fair amount in d2, as well. Chair peskin and a fair amount in d2. And by the way, i walk these streets, i talk to these merchants, i can give you, albeit anecdotal times about times, usage data. I walk the densest blocks that happen to be right around the corner of my house. I can do that for you for well less than a third of 1 million, respectively. I think we thank you for that. I think just given the fact weve done a lot of these, and its not just the curb management team, or sustainable streets doing this Data Collection all the time. What weve put out there is in line with what it costs, especially to do a citywide project like this. So and i think, you know, again, we could spend less money, but we would be doing less Data Collection and outreach. Chair peskin francesca gave us a very robust presentation about what the policy is and what the considerations are. Im unclear why we cant, based on what we know, or if you interview this supervisor and his staff, what you can garner from us, and we can not just spend some number of months garnering data that we already have. Maybe im missing something, but to my mind, its not that complicated. Well see what my colleagues have to say, but look, ive had personal conversations with jeff tumlin as it relates to and by the way, there are many more of these in district 3 than district 2, but youre right. The northern part of the city has the vast majority of shared spaces, which is a god send, and while it does have its complications, its something we want more of, until the rainy season. This is something it seems we have enough information to act on, but with that, let me turn to my colleagues. Commissioner walton . Supervisor walton thank you so much, chair walton. First, i want to thank c. T. A. For getting ready for this study on Visitacion Valley and portola when it comes to caltrain and Growth Opportunities in the area, so i want to thank them for stepping forward with that. My first question is, has this camera plan been vetted by the office of emerging technologies . I can answer that. No, we have not brought anything, you know, to coit or any of the steps of the technology ordinance. Supervisor walton because its really important to vet the placement of cameras now. As much as i love shared spaces, ive recently witnessed problems with bad neighbors who dont understand the need of businesses needing to operate outside. Its been some of the most racist happening in my community, but not necessarily happening the same way across the city. So all the great thing about shared spaces, i agree with, but theres some things that are starting to rise that are causing problems in communities that we need to work through as we move forward, so i just want to make sure that as we move forward, as we use cameras, that theyre vetted. Ive just witnessed and seen some things that are not in accordan accordance when it comes to the shared spaces that we provide. So we need to make sure when we use cameras, theyre used for that particular reason and not for someones erroneous opportunities to harass that business. Thank you. Chair peskin, you mind if i make a comment . Chair peskin no yes. Thank you, supervisor walton. Thats a very good comment. I want to make it clear for this project, were focusing on the pick up zones. So were not focused on people gathered in dining spaces, were focused on cars pulling in and out, whether theyre pulling all the way in the zone, whether theyre pulling all the way into the zone, whether theyre having conflicts with bicycling. Supervisor walton thank you. Chair peskin weve already heard from commissioner ronen. I see commissioner yees hand up, and commissioner mandelman is on the roster, but i think commissioner yees hand went up before commissioner mandelmans name went on the roster. Either way, well take care of it. President yee i want to strangly support the 500 million or 500,000 thats going to be used to improve our corridors, something that the board of supervisors, i authored that and it was fully supported. And now, its always an issue of where do we get the resources to make this happen . Its a fairly simple exercise of just let me just ask a question here. Maybe im not understanding this. So ive been seeing these curbside pick up parking slots for them to do this, and, you know, im so old, once upon a time, i keep on thinking that the function that actually did this while i was glowing up, and maybe even know, is that we have these tenminute green zones, where theres meters there, and they have to pay to park there, but its not meant for any longterm parking. Why dont we have those instead because i do see in many of the shorter term green zones, people do park there for a shorter time, pick up their items, and leave. So if we did that, we would have the ability for people to go in and out and pick up some change from the meters, if we decided to put meters there. I can respond to that, if youd like. Chair peskin please. So we have experienced a number of issues around the functionality of green zones. The first is disabled parking placard abuse. So persons with disabled placards are not held to the time limits of these zones, and so green zones are often a very viable place for people with placards to park at, and weve seen through our Data Collection a great deal of abuse in that, obviously, using the zones for more than the 15 minutes, so theyre not often readily available for people who need them for shortterm parking. The other challenge with green zones in neighborhood commercial districts where theyre metered is that they, like all of the other zones, a end at 6 00 p. M. Typically, and we see that theres a large need for these types of parking in the evening because thats when people are typically getting deliveries or going to get food. So we test in the the sunset our first evening green zones, but we have not done a follow up to see how effectively green zones work in the evening. I think the biggest challenge in the grown zones are enforcement because the meters are no longer on. Its just a type of colored curb. So its unclear, until were able to do our follow up, how well those are actually working or if theyre actually suffering from the abuse during the times that we have lower numbers of parking staff out in the field. That is one issue, but we do agree that if its working properly, thats one tool that could meet our need. President yee [inaudible] abusing the placard. I wanted to make a comment on the meters. I thought we had meters that operate differently than the typical 6 00 areas of San Francisco. I remember seeing maybe it wasnt in San Francisco, but i remember seeing meters operate into the evenings because there are zones where theres a lot of restaurants and so forth. Am i imagining that . I saw that in other cities. I can take that one. Its not uncommon, commissioner yee, but there are some neighborhoods in San Francisco, Like Mission Bay near the at t park, or embarcadero, meters run until 10 00 p. M. , but in the vast majority of the city, they do shut off at 6 00 p. M. President yee so my point is, you dont have to shut it off . Right, and i think thats something that we have been, in the very early stages, just talking to the merchant groups about, and it might make sense, in some places, where the businesses are open later, that the meters should be open later so the meters can serve the businesses. But i think i agree with francesca, if the meters stop at 6 00, theres no enforcement of that. One other point, as francesca said, if the green zones are used properly, they would be a good way to address the issues that were seeing. One of the challenges is this distinction between parking and loading, and what were asking what were sort of requiring in these curbside pick up zones is that people be actively loading. You can stop, get out, get what you need, and then be on your way. And that so that that people are actively using the space. Theyre not just parking their vehicle and leaving, and you dont know when theyre coming back, so theres enforcement action needed in a loading model versus a parking model. President yee okay. Chair peskin commissioner mandelman . Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair peskin. I actually im not sure that we do have enough information, and this request does sort of make sense to me. I have anecdotally seen all sorts of things happening with the no parking placards signs that have popped up in the castro. I think there are wildly divergent opinions among merchants about how they are working and if theyre good or bad and how theyre using these spaces, and also on valencia street, where theres a lot of i think that, in thinking about, you know, we have this experiment with this crazy curb Management Program weve undertaken over the last several months, and i think [inaudible] a mistake not to try to gather data about what that has done to our use of the streets. So i so this does make sense to me, and i think, you know, i do want to thank the folks at m. T. A. Who have not without much in the way of additional resources, have, you know, pretty much just been trying to push these no stopping, you know, no stopping signs out the door as quickly as they or not yeah, no stopping signs or temporary stopping signs out the door as quickly as they can as part of the shared spaces program. I think theyre not going to be able to analyze that stuff without additional resources. I think funding an additional look at that makes some sense. Chair peskin so, supervisor mandelman, when you say no Parking Zones yeah. Loading zones. Chair peskin i want to say, i had a conversation with director tumlin a number of weeks ago. As shared spaces have physically occupied those parking spots, those covid19 signs on meters that are not in shared spaces are making less and less sense. I mean, i would much rather phase those out that spend third of 1 million. If you want to do an experiment for free, take your signs down, get your p. C. O. S out, and youll get your data on the ground, and this supervisor will hear, commissioner stefani will hear well know how it works, and you can do it next week. Thank you, commissioner peskin. I think sorry. I dont know if that was directed at staff. Chair peskin it was more to mandelman. Supervisor mandelman i just i dont know if we should take them all down next week, and i dont know if, given whats happening with cases, that well be able to take them all down next week. So any way chair peskin commissioner fewer, or mr. Wilson, if you want to respond to that, please feel free. No, i think i would emphasize, theres a lot like i said, after francesca comments, there are still a lot of businesses that are depending heavily on curbside pick up. They have completely shifted their Business Models to doing pick up and take out as the way to stay in business, so, you know, i dont think just taking them away is something that we would be able to do any time soon, and we are you know, we have extended them until the end of june, and thats why wed like to do this evaluation now. Chair peskin make i make a suggestion because i watch these fights among merchants every day, where the people who claims that they want the quasicovid white zone are actually using it to park their car in front of their business all day along, and theyre now complaining that theyre getting tickets, so its actually not functioning as a white zone. One thing you could do, insofar as all of these relatively new fangled meters is turn them into institutions and take all that down and turn them into real white zones. These are all they all have their, you know, satellite, you know, whatever, and you can just go reprogram them all to be tenminute meters in front of all of those spots. I dont need a third of 1 million to do that. But supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer okay, finally and that is not a critique on our chair at all. I just wanted to ask, have we done any Data Collection on whether or not individuals are coming up to use these curbside pick ups are doordash, caviar, delivery, uber eats . No, we have not, and thats one of the things we would do is look at who are the users of the zone and expect that the users that probably vary by the business that are serving, because like i mentioned, these arent just restaurants requesting zones. We have retail shops, we have personal services, like salons and other things requesting them, coffee shops, so i think thats something that we really want to understand because we dont have a clear picture of who are the users and who are they serving, and so that is one of the outcomes that we want to achieve from this. Supervisor fewer well, actually, im just going to suggest, as you know, many people know, im not going to be on this commission much longer, but when the results do come out, that i think if it shows that it is not really individuals, the majority of people that are using these im talking inat that castacar these other things. If we find that the majority of these pick up spots are being used by these companies, then i think its time we look at generating some revenue off the use of these curbsides. Its different with individuals, but lets remember that these companies are also gouging our restaurants and so and our stores, because they charge a fee. So they are profiting from this also, and if theyre using these sites more than regular individuals, then i think that should be the focus of this commission. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, commissioner fewer. Why dont we, seeing no other names at this moment, go to Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment on item number 5 . Operator yes, i currently have four callers. Chair peskin first speaker, please. Operator hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Good morning, supervisors. Roland cabran, san jose. My comment is about slide number four of the picture presentation about the portola Transportation Plan. I dont know if you can pull it up and look at it. My concern is [inaudible] the connection between the the sunnydale light rail and the Bayshore Caltrain station. This is a station i used many, many times. Five years ago, that was my connection between the bayshore and caltrain [inaudible] Valley Branch library and [inaudible] the caltrain, and when that was closed, i had no option but driving, and that means driving 50 miles from San Francisco to san jose. The reason i bring that up is because on june 27, 2014, there was a 2 million prop k allocation that went to transit programs, and Nothing Happened after that. So i raise the question of the reason at the c. A. C. Community meeting, and the sfmta promised that they would get back to me what happened to this 2 million funding, and they never got back to me, so until i can get some answers, i will be issuing a [inaudible] to get down to the bottom of this. Chair peskin thank you very much, mr. Lebrun. Next speaker, please. Operator hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Good morning, press peskin and commissioners. My name is cole rose, and i live in district 9. Im asking you to approve the request for citywide daylighting. Ive never owned a car or gotten a drivers license. I believe that s. F. Is a great walking city and could be a great walking city, and i believe the sfmta can help us reach greatness. Over half of intersections still havent been daylit. Most surprising to me was that even some of the nearby School Crossings on harrison street, a high injury corridor, had no dilating or zones that were inexplicably less than 3 feet in length. We need this safety corridor in every area of the city. We need [inaudible] and for everyone who wants to cross the street without guessing whether or not the traffic is fair. Separate, with my volunteers with walk sf, id like to voice my support for the curbside Management Program. I dont use any Delivery Companies, and a double parking is a huge issue for me as a cyclist [inaudible] also, i support paying the [inaudible] to do this work. Thank you for your time. Have a great day. Operator thank you for your comment. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Operator hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Thank you. Good morning, chair peskin and commissioners. My name is brian hogsman, and im walk San Franciscos vision organizer. Walk sf supports this. We support the community Transportation Plan for these two neighborhoods where theres still high injury corridors and wide ranging Transportation Needs and look forward to engaging with this process, and we support the daylighting allocation because not yielding to pedestrians in the crosswalk is consistently in the top three reasons why people are hit and killed in San Francisco, and we know that daylighting is one of the cheapest and more effective ways most effective ways to get people walking and people driving and eliminate injuries and crashes. As cole mentioned, this walk sf organized about a dozen volunteers to go and actually collect data on where daylighting has been completed on the High Injury Network in the mission, and we found that even though many streets have had significant street improvements in the past five years, of the 400plus intersections, more than half of them do not have daylighting at each approach, so were glad that the sfmta is requesting this funding to make 500 sfaex approaches safer. Walk sf wants to continue the Data Collection as long was the sfmta is committed to prioritizing this work. We need prioritizing across the high injury Corridor Network as soon as possible. We also ask sfmta consider options that can cut down the timelines shorter than 15 months to get these curbside painted and add to the corridor. Operator thank you, caller. Chair peskin next speaker. Operator hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Hello. David pilpell. Wanted to weighin on the issue of the cameras. It seems like theres a disagreement on the board, which is fine. I would suggest that if you make that allocation, that you add a requirement that the sfmta go through the surveillance and ordinance requirements prior to implementing the program so that the serious and legitimate concerns about cameras and use of their data and Surveillance Technology be addressed in advance of implementing that, even on a testlimited trial basis. Thanks very much. Operator thank you, caller. Chair peskin next speaker . Operator hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Hi. Good morning, commissioners. This is cat carter with San Francisco transit riders. I would expect our support [inaudible] about who is using the curb space and how and parking [inaudible] to provide better access to businesses [inaudible]. Chair peskin thats not working real good. Operator she actually hung up, so it might have been her line. Chair peskin sounded like she was in the subway, but that thing hasnt been working for eight months. Operator okay. That was the last caller, so why dont we move onto the next item . Chair peskin why dont we give her a second to get back on . Operator okay. Chair peskin are there any other speakers for this item number 5 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And before i call on commissioner ronen, relative to what c. A. C. Chair larson indicated earlier on, there was concern from the c. A. C. That the t. M. C. Was not participatin participating. To francesca or hank, was there any requests from the t. M. C. To participate . Not in the last few months. Weve had a lot of conversations with the Delivery Companies and t. N. C. S over the past couple of years as weve been working on the curb Management Strategy that francesca talked about, and in the curb Management Strategy, there are recommendations to basically study ways that we can start doing the kind of curb pricing that was referred to earlier. We found that could be absolutely, thats really important. We need to start charging people for curb use, we need to start charging t. N. C. S and Delivery Companies for the use of the space, for all the benefits that they derive, from being able to use the curbs because were a vibrant city where you can make money by delivering food to people and other things. But i think one of the commenters said while we work on that and seek your assistance with those kinds of with that kind of legislation, we have real problems, real issues on the streets now, and we have real challenges that merchants are facing now that we want to try to address. Chair peskin okay. So bottom line is you did not ask them to participate financially . Thats correct. Chair peskin all right. Commissioner ronen, would you like to make a motion . Supervisor ronen necessary, thank ynecessary, yes, thank you, and i just wanted to comment that thats not okay to me that we have not asked them to financially participate. So i would like to make a motion to sever the 200,000 allocation for the curbside Management Program from the rest of the allocations. Chair peskin is there a second on that motion . Second by commissioner walton. On the motion to sever this item from the 200,000 allocation, roll call, please. [roll call] clerk there are nine ayes. The motion to sever passes. Chair peskin thank you, madam clerk. And then, commissioner ronen, i assume that you would like this to go back into the [inaudible] pot for future reallocation pursuant to proposition k, is that correct . Supervisor ronen yes, considering wed probably only have two votes to allocate it to the portola vis valley plan, so lets put it back in the pot and wait for a motion by the t. A. Chair peskin i will accept that motion. Is there a second to the motion . Supervisor mar yes, second. Mar. Chair peskin seconded by commissioner mar. On that motion, a roll call, please. [roll call] clerk that motion passes. Chair peskin okay. Next item, please. Supervisor ronen dont we need to vote on the rest of the items . Chair peskin im sorry. My apologies. On the balance of item number 5, is there a motion to approve the remaining 500,000, as well as the portola 45,651 and maybe someday, an additional few hundred thousand dollars that we just freed up . President yee so moved. Supervisor ronen second. Chair peskin motion by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner ronen. Roll call, please. Clerk on the remaining item 5 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. That motion passes. Chair peskin next item, please. Clerk adopt the portsmouth Square Community based Transportation Plan final report. This is an action item. Chair peskin mr. Lock, good morning. It is still morning. Good morning, chair peskin. Let me pull up my slides. Hopefully, you can confirm you can see my screen . Yes, we can see it. Great. Thank you. This is the portsmouth Square Community Transportation Plan, and i want to say thank you to chair peskin for getting it funded, and then, also a thank you to the [inaudible] and a number of stakeholders who really played a significant role in helping to deliver this project for us. So well talk through our study objectives, the input we received, the challenges we identified, and the recommendations, as well. So the overall objectives of this program were to focus on a single block of portsmouth square and Community Safety as well as chinatown as whole. Portsmou the process that we used involved stakeholder meetings with residents and businesses and folks allaround the square. We conducted intercept surveys in the square itself to understand how people travel to the square today, any issues or challenges they experienced. We also conducted outreach to businesses and surveys to make sure we were getting valid information, as well, and through that, we identified these kind of four key areas of needs that you see on the slide, and ill talk through those a little bit on this slide. Again, because we were able to do this very detailed look and able to get a lot of input from folks, we were able to understand all the particular issues that are experienced around the squares, and that includes safety considerations that involve crossing in front of the garage and conflicts between automobiles and people walking, in particular also crossing the street in the areas around the square were identified in a number of places. Theres some siteline and number of other issues, as well. Sufficient lighting, sidewalk width, and other issues that we experience around the square, and there are quite a few kind of a. D. A. Issues around the square, as well. Cross slopes that are not appropriate for use by disabled individuals, missing curb ramps, and those types of things. And then finally, we did find some particular loading issues around the square that folks experienced, as well. So more quickly through the solutions that we identified through a number of slides here, and try to move through those pretty quickly for you. So in that Pedestrian Safety bucket, with you identified a number of we identified a number of solutions. That includes bulbouts in a number of locations, adding lanes in the garage entry because thats where you experience whats called a double threat, because if theres a pedestrian crossing, a vehicle in the turning lane might not be able to see you. That was an issue we wanted to address through this project. Also, installing potential lights, the extending bollards, and potential equipment that might impact sightlines. And at the corner of clay and kearney, we did identify potential needs to improvement at the crossing. Theres a scramble, for folks who can across on the diagonal, and then, finally, we wanted to upgrade the signing, and its an image on the slide that you can see that allows a sort of more clear indication of when a turn is not allowed. In the a. D. A. Modernization bucket, there are quite a few locations that you can see, indicated by the yellow dots, indicating where either new curb ramps or curb ramps plus will be required to support those, and these are consistent with providing a safe path of passage for all users, so those are identified here. Also, again, refreshing those bollards, and trying to provide a little bit more clarity in signage around the square if you are driving because given the system of oneway streets, it can be a little complicated. Under the pedestrians friendly streets area, we identified a number of places where we might want to widen the sidewalk, in particular, in front of the garage on kearney street. Also potentially under installing lighting under the pedestrian walkway. Its a very dark area, especially at night, and then, a little bit challenging. And there is a notion also thats identified in the portsmouth square redevelopment project to raise that sidewalk level to try to have better integration with the square. And then, in addition, widening the sidewalk along [inaudible] place to make that a better place for passage and consider adding potentially additional bulbout or space to create a cafe zone. And then, we heard from one of the folks maybe expanding the Community Ambassador programs beyond what is provided or has been provided in the past. And finally, there were a couple of loading zone issues that were raised. For those that remember a couple of months ago, the kearney street [inaudible] project that was brought before you. Part of that was consolidating zones along kearney, and that allowed loading zones on kearney, including in front of where the new bus stop would be and the old bus stop on clay and kearney streets, so theres an opportunity to do that. There also is an interest and a suggestion to look at addressing doubleparked vehicles in the transit lane, and then, and you heard this issue, i think, in the comments of c. C. Chair larson. We heard it clearly about the casino shuttle location. There are quite a few locations where casino shuttles operate and pick up. Theres also a tour bus issue thats signed at the hilton, so provide some of those loading and providing some additional training and awareness for casino shuttle drivers could help them have a little more awareness despite the rules that they operate under. This was the preferred design. We did look at two potential options. There was a concern raised if one of the two ticket machines went down, but there were some ways to manage that that could be pursued that involves providing a key to the garage operator. So finally, just want to note that the overall costs for all the improvements in this study is 2. 4 million, and that based on the priorities we can heard from the stakeholder group, it seemed very clear to emphasize Pedestrian Safety and some of the a. D. A. Modernization concerns that would actually be most of the improvements that were identified, and that many of the projects that were identified here have the opportunity to be integrated into the portsmouth square redesignment project that intended to be funded by the prop a that was passed a few weeks ago, and that it still obviously as an undergoing environmental review, but assuming thats passed, theres a great opportunity to pass many of these projects, and we have had great conversation with folks at rec and park that are managing that project. And with that, im happy to take any questions. Chair peskin thank you. I dont have any questions. Ive previously gotten this briefing, but i really want to thank sfcta staff and, more particularly, the various take holders in the community that have participated in this ntip study. So with that, why dont we open it up to Public Comment . Operator theres no Public Comment. Chair peskin okay. Public comment is closed, and i really want to thank the voters of San Francisco for voting for proposition a, which, as mr. Lock indicated, is going to lead to the redesign of portsmouth square, one of the citys three original parks, and hopefully, well be able to shoehorn in these transportation and Pedestrian Safety improvements as part of that project. Stay tuned, and with that, should we take a motion to approve the portsmouth Square Community based Transportation Plan final report. Is there a motion to that effect . Supervisor fewer chair peskin, i have one question. Chair peskin commissioner fewer. My apologies. Supervisor fewer its okay. You know, there is a part where the bathroom is in the park, and theres a gate. Are we going to allow access from walter lum place more access to the park from there . Chair peskin yes. So while that is not a part of this study, it is, indeed, incorporated into the final plans that the Community Voted for overwhelmingly to directly connect walter yu lum to the park on the west side, so the answer is yes. Supervisor fewer okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Chair peskin all right. With that, we have a motion made by, i believe, vice chair mandelman and that was seconded by commissioner yee. On that item, madam clerk, a roll call, please. Clerk on item 6 [roll call] clerk you have ten ayes. The item is approved on its first reading. Chair peskin next item, please. Clerk item 7, walk San Franciscos congestion pricing outreach. This is an information item. Chair peskin thank you, madam clerk. The moment weve been waiting for for any number of meetings. Why dont we start with Jodi Medeiros with walk sf. Good morning, commissioners. My name is Jodi Medeiros, and i am the director of walk San Francisco. I want to share with you our report that weve done on congestion pricing outreach in three neighborhoods in San Francisco. With that, im going to share my screen. There we go. And hopefully, you can all see that. So i think its great to begin with a brief background with who we are. [inaudible] most pedestrian friendly city in the country. We were instrumental in getting our city to commit to vision zero in 2014 [inaudible] and our work is done particularly in partnership and Community Outreach. We do lead the vision zero coalition, including the senior and disability working group, and also the San Francisco bay area Families Commission for safe streets. I want to pause and take a moment and say that this sunday is our annual world remembrance to remember all those that have been killed since 2014 from traffic violence. And i hope youll be able to join us. Thats from 3 00 p. M. To 4 00 p. M. This sunday. Some people may not believe this is possible, but last year, oslo, norway, was able to do it and made headlines across the globe. Oslo, norway is of similar city size to San Francisco, and they had zero traffic deaths last year, and a way they were able to do that was through congestion pricing [inaudible] on the engineering is definitely doing this with equity in mind. I want to stop here and thank the sfcta for taking on the congestion pricing study that were in the midst of right now, and i also want to acknowledge my walk San Francisco team, brian and cole. They are the ones that completed this outreach that we are about to show you, and here we go. So in july of 2019, walk San Francisco secured Funding Foundation support [inaudible] and National Resource Defense Council to put together a Community Outreach approach, and this was in advance of the sfctas outreach. Our goal was to talk to the people [inaudible] in their neighborhood, and we really want to bring their voices into the conversation to help shape sfctas outreach. We directed this from sept 2019 to february in three distinct neighborhoods the tenderloin, south of market, soma, bayviewhunters point. These neighborhoods were chosen for several reasons. First off, they face poor air quality resulting from transportation emissions, and secondly, each neighborhood is also experiencing high traffic rates of fatalities and injuries. This is our High Injury Network map, which you should all be familiar with by now. And so this is why we felt that it was important to outreach to these three neighborhoods because of these three conditions. People here tend to be disproportionately lower income, less than San Francisco as a whole, and they also are not traditionally reached by traditional outreach, so thats why we thought we needed extra to have the time to really explain to them what congestion pricing or ask the questions about what congestion pricing can do for them. So i wanted to show you the groups that we were able to reach. We did do 13 sessions in these three neighborhoods, and they were sessions in english and also in spanish, and we offered [inaudible] as well, but we did not have any chinese. Chair peskin im sorry. Jodi, can you say that again. You did not have any Chinese People or monolingual Chinese People that participated . In just these 13 outreach, thats correct. We offered that to several organizations and did not get taken up on that. Also, because of covid, our outreach was cut short, and so we were still doing collecting and planning and calendaring these sessions, but because of covid, we did end up having to cut short our outreach, so yes. Chair peskin and is there any plan to circle around to the monolingual chinese speaking community, and when you say no, theres no participants of chinese ethnicity that participated or monolingual chinese speakers . Sure. At these outreach, we didnt have any money lingual chineol speakers or anyone who needed assistance in our outreach. So weve handed our findings to the sfmta, and were confident theyre going to go out and outreach to these groups. We had a tieme cutoff, and thats why we were unable to go out and do the chinese monolingual outreach in the neighborhoods i alluded to. Chair peskin but what i was asking was were there individuals of monolingual chinese ethnic or there were not any . Honestly [inaudible] that parmted in our outreach. Chair peskin yeah, and larger, it would be interesting to know what the composition by ethnicity, gender, in each of those subareas looks like, but we can do that later. This is going to be a longterm process. This is, yes. And we did take demographic information, so we can share that with you, as well. Chair peskin thank you. All in all, we only meet 300 Community Members, and so what i do want to acknowledge is this is a mere fraction of the groups that we think need to be brought into this conversation, so we were the tip of the iceberg. And like i mentioned, our timing and funding only allowed us to do a few short months of outreach. We had the Christmas Holiday or the Winter Holiday last year in the middle, so i think that its just, like i said, important that we shared our list, and we did competitive sharing with the sfcta, and were confident that theyre going to go out and do a much more robust outreach, so leave it at that. It was important for us to meet the community where it was and to balance our competing desires. So things that people were already doing and meeting for, we would go to those meetings, and sometimes, wed have a robust hour long session with a powerpoint and all kinds of interaction, and sometimes we just had to do our outreach as a quick and really do a short conversation with a survey. So this is something that we did with st. Anthonys lunch dining room, lunch service. It was our classic dot matrix and started with a question of how do you get here, and how do you get around most . So we thought that it was really we had to be adaptive and nimble with the outreach that was basically going to help people understand just the concept of what we were talking about with congestion pricing. So what were we asking . And i think that this is where we really want to start the conversation, and digging into two primary questions, what was your biggest concerns about the potential congestion pricing program, and where would you want the investments to go . And our outreach really shows that there were similar responses among all the participants. People were really curious about who would pay the full tolls and how much that toll would be. Specifically, how does the program equitably address costs for lowincome San Francisco residents, and also, how does it address regional travelers equity in a city that has undergone gentrification and displacement. And secondly, the question would be will this lead to bigger and more affordable Transit Service. This was the biggest question that came out of this. People were very adamant, is this a last resort method or is this something the city is going out with out of the gate, so have we explored all options of congestion pricing . And i want to say we found most conversations thoughtful and honest and not focusing on individual impacts but focusing on the on those for the community. In bayview, the biggest question was whether residents had to pay the full costs. They talked about being displaced from the neighborhood, moving out of the city, and now having to come back for work. In the soma, there was a great need on transition frequency. Its not surprising, since many tenderloin and soma residents depend on transit for daily trips, and few, if any, have access to automobiles. So the other thing i want to point out sthafs really of interest that was really to interest of us, the feedback was really raw in many ways, especially where the citys feedback initiatives have not brought anticipated improvements or have not appeared to be making basic improvements. So one person particularly said the city asks us for our feedback, but its going to happen no matter what, which was really hard to hear, and another resident of the bayview commented they had outreach fatigue, being asked to give their time and not knowing if their comments were heard. This was a really sobering reminder that we really need to listen to people in the commitment and really value their time that theyre doing, but anything that we do, put forth any kind of pricing, it definitely has to have meaningful improvements in the lives of these communities that are intended to serve. We cant just go marginal. We need to backfill programs, but it needs to be something that is going to be drastically improving the services were providing. Areas of investment, people really want to see cheaper or free transit. By far, this was the most frequently top Priority Investments that we heard, and people asked for reducing fares or completely eliminating them, and despite the current discount programs, current fares still present a challenge to many riders. Very evident that outside of improving public transit, the top group of suggestions were congestion pricing funding was around making streets safer through design. We have put together an entire report, and ill make sure that you receive a copy of this report, but we do want to say that we recommend the sfcta continues its robust outreach, and that it goes beyond fully exploring and better understanding the priorities for exemptions, discounts, and Program Effectiveness and definitely the funding, and transit frequency and transit costs because theres definitely some ask for relief, especially where its needed most. And we want to be working with the community to find out where they want to see better infrastructure and Pedestrian Safety and investments on how congestion pricing money could be used for Pedestrian Safety. So we have this report for you, and i look forward to your questions, and i thank you again for the opportunity to share what this survey and outreach has come up with. Ill leave it at that, and im happy to answer any questions. Chair peskin thank you, jodi. Commissioner walton, do you have any questions or do you want to wait until our own staff, rachel hyatt . Supervisor walton i do have a question. Chair peskin please proceed. Supervisor walton with that slide, the organizations that you talked to, an exhaustive list . Those were the organizations that we talked to in bayviewhunters point . Supervisor walton honestly, thats not going to get us to gauge on everyone that needs to weighin on bayview. Absolutely, supervisor walton or commissioner walton. As i said, ours were a limited outreach. We were before the sfcta after we went out, so this was our initial shortterm five months of outreach, so ill definitely hand it over to rachel. Im sure she can answer that question in terms of what groups are being reached out to in bayviewhunters point. Chair peskin and if you want to relinquish the screen so we can go back to looking at each other. Yes. Good morning, commissioners. Rachel hyatt, assistant port planning. I just wanted to acknowledge the initial outreach that walk San Francisco has done, and we have certainly built on that and done were actually planning on coming to you next month with an informational update on the outreach that weve done over the last few months, but weve been able to expand and done a lot of inlanguageout reach, like chinese and inlanguage outreach, like chinese. Were grateful for this handoff that walk sf has been able to provide. We have heard these same themes, you know, in the work that we have done. They resonate with us, and we will be able to share with you some more, i guess, of our findings about how feet back and these things vary from neighborhood to neighborhood next month in our informational update, and im happy to answer any questions, but mainly wanted to express our appreciation, and also just express that we are hearing these these same things, and even with the larger audience that weve been able to reach so far. Chair peskin thank you, miss hyatt. Commissioner walton, anything youd like to add . Supervisor walton thank you so much, chair peskin. Not at this time. I would just check in and provide input in terms of outreach because i want to make sure that we are getting information that is very reflective of how the community feels. Chair peskin ms. Chang, is there something you want to add . You look like you want to Say Something . I really appreciate both presentations, and just wanted to add to commissioners that rachel will be back next month to provide for detail, but for now, ill just note that some of the folks that weve met with and her team include y. C. D. And apri in the bayview. Chinese newcomers, a. P. Services including selfhelp for the elderly in the chinese community, and in the mission, o. M. I. , and we continue to outreach to partners, particularly in the soma. We have done soma, as well, but we would like to also do well, including weve met with central city s. R. O. Collaborative and others, so very much a work in progress. Chair peskin thank you very much. Commissioner haney . Supervisor haney thank you, chair peskin, and thank you for this work and outreach. One of the questions that i had was if there were outreach to people who drive . I imagine the differences of opinions may be pretty vast between people who do not have cars and do not drive and those who do live in these neighborhoods, and i wonder if, based on the data youve been able to collect so far, whether youve been able to speak with a significant number of people who residents who are regular drivers, and connected to that, people who may be own or work at Small Businesses or businesses in these neighborhoods, how you are reaching these individuals. Obviously, these perspectives are important, as are the people who dont fall into those categories, but i know that the concerns about this that ive heard, of course, have come from people who drive, and i think we need to understand their experiences and what they what they want to see, as well including if there are certain, you know, incentives that would work for them to be able to switch to transit or other modes of transportation biking, walking, etc. I think is an important part of this, so im wondering how that part of outreach and incentives are brought into the conversation. Rachel, i was going to pass this over to you. We did ask the question in our demographic information, and when we entered into a conversation with people how they generally get around, and most people in soma and the tenderloin used their 2 feet or muni. More of the participants in bayviewhunters point were drivers, and we saw how the difference of thought around the program definitely was reflective based on how people generally get around. But i think that ours was a small sampling, and that the sfcta has a group that can answer that question more completely. Chair peskin go ahead. Sure. Well, so, certainly, you know, our infill update next month will be were planning to give you a comprehensive report on the outreach that weve done, including addressing questions like that. But in short, yes. We take to and have reached folks of all modes, and like walk sf, we also ask folks for their demographic information as well as their mode usage. You know, Something Interesting we have found is that many people are multimodal, as well, so using not just driving, not just taking transit, but also taking different modes, depending on their trip. And we have taken a very targeted action to try to reach folks driving downtown, such as flyering in downtown garages, so yes, and well make sure to speak to this next month, as well. Chair peskin commissioner haney . Supervisor haney that thats all, but yeah, i just would say that its important, as were designing the [inaudible] experiences and what their needs are and what their concerns are, and how we need to adjust their incentives and behavior in positive ways and support them with regards to equity, and there are people that drive in the tenderloin and soma, but they may not be involved in some of the organizations and things, so just having a way that we are able to reach them. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you. Commissioner fewer . Supervisor fewer yes, thank you, chair. I just wanted to emphasize the need to have those voices of chinese monolingual chinese speakers at the table, and glad that the t. A. Is doing more robust outreach. I have to say, when i heard it was district 10, and that you didnt have one chinese monoling chinese monolingual speaker, i was shocked considering district 10 has such a robust population of monolingual chinese speakers, and im sure that supervisor yee would concur with me, and their membership includes almost all monolingual chinese speakers. Almost, i would think that any survey that you do would not be inclusive if you do not include the voices of monolingual chinese speakers. Chair peskin thank you. Any response from staff, miss hyatt . Well, just that sfctaled outreach has been many events in chinese, in the chinese language, and well be able to record on that next month. Chair peskin okay. Commissioner ronen . Supervisor ronen yes, and im sorry if i missed this, but it looks like the mission and portola city priority neighborhoods are not included. Why is that . Im happy to answer. Sorry for my dog barking in the background. We had a very limited scope based on just a grant. So our outreach in walk San Francisco was just limited to three communities. So i think that sfcta is doing a much greater outreach with these things. Supervisor ronen okay. I think thats great because weve had so many deaths recently in both neighborhoods and are, you know, still grieving and still reeling from those, and i hope that the t. A. Can prioritize both neighborhoods. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you. Why dont we open this item up for Public Comment. Madam clerk . Operator theres one public caller. Chair peskin first speaker, please. Operator caller, i will give you a 30second warning before your two minutes are up. Caller, you may proceed. May i proceed . Chair peskin yes. So, you know, supervisors, i think the presenters have to put this in a framework. Yesterday, there was some forum conducted by ucsf, and i participated after listening to the presentations, and i see that its the same over here. These presenters go downtown, its a well zone. And as far as taxpayers are concerned, thats stress from the pandemic. And yet, these people are talking are congestion pricing and naming some scandinavian countries that are much better off than we are. So this presentation is as good as it can be to a few people who are far removed from the pain, the suffering, the trials and tribe yulations. They just Say Something for the sake of duty, and i know because im at ground zero. So i think dont do any studies that arent a good study. Dont do a halfassed job, and you dont count on the Municipal Transportation Agency dont do anything. You saw they were beiabout to transform the entire [inaudible] avenue before we stepped in. They wanted to remove about 50 parking spaces, and i can go on and on. Operator thank you, caller. Chair peskin are there any other members of the public on this item number 7 . Operator there is another caller. Chair peskin next speaker, please. Operator hello, caller. Your two minutes will begin now. Can you hear me now . Operator yes. So david pilpell again. I hope this is only part of the considerable outreach thats needed. Regardless of what happens, i think its a Good Opportunity to hear what they think on the issue and related matters, but it should be both in targeted communities and other communities citywide in language, not in language in any number of languages, including transit speak and english and other languages. But i also heard in the presentation one of the points made was that people want to be heard and felt like they often participate and nothing changes, and this is all fait ha fait accompli. I think all comments should be responded to, and whether its through m. T. A. S or some other strategy, that thats the norm. I was going to comment that this applies to Market Street, but its all. The comments in the document should be acknowledged, either comment received or this is where you can find this information further, so that people, when they take the time to engage in public projects, that their comments are responded to, and they think that theres a consideration taken in the public involvement. Operator thank you, caller. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Pilpell. That was a good comment. Are there any other members of the public for this item . Operator there are no other Public Comments. Chair peskin all right. Seeing no further Public Comment, Public Comment is closed, and this is an information item. As i se as i said earlier, this is an item that has been going on and off for the last two decades, and i think many of us thought this was the time to resurrect this item that started under the leadership of louise moscovitch many years ago. There has been no provenation about anything. We want to do it right, but we want to go about, albeit difficult during covid, a robust and inclusive outreach process. We will return to this item in the months ahead, and this is an information item. Madam clerk, can you read the next item. Clerk item 8, major Capital Project update, better Market Street. This is an information item. Chair peskin miss olea, welcome back. [please stand by] we held online meetings on november 4th and last night, november 9th. We also will we having a meeting this thursday, november 12th, which is hosted by the lighthouse for the blind and the Mayors Office on disability. We have heard a lot of comments from the public throughout our outreach. There is a lot of disappointment with design changes. A lot of cyclists do not like having to share the curb lane with taxis and delivery vehicles. They would like a protected bikeway. Disability advocates remind us taxis are part of the paratransit system and need access to Market Street. Some blocks have access from alleys behind the building, but some blocks do not. Transit advocates are concerned with all transit vehicles in one lane. They worry the muni lane will become congested. There is concern with enforcement of car free market and peak hour delivery. Both the public and the city want a selfenforcing design that isnt deepen department on officers being posted on every intersection. People requested barriers to force right turns at the intersections. There have been a lot of questions about costs and concerns that we are still spending a lot of money, and there is questions about the full corridor design orthopedic what comes next or what comes next. I will show you two slides that have been added and are posted on the ta website as part of this board package. We talked about the cost comparison last time and estimate we will save over 60 million in the first phase of construction between fifth and eighth streets. This is a breakdown of the Construction Costs. The Construction Costs themselves can be about 75 million. This is the construction contract broken out by trade. What you will notice here, it is sorted by from most expensive or most cost to least. The majority of work in this contract is maintenance or state of good repair. That is costly. A lot of it is under ground, and we will upgrade the aging infrastructure. These improvements are needed and will provide better infrastructure for the city. The enhancements are limited to the roadway and the landscape categories. Of that about 4 million is foreign chancements. Enhancements. When you throw in the signal costs is a little over 4 million, you will get all of the safety improvements as well as transit. None of this work would come back in the future to provide a bike lane or replace the sidewalk. Our intent is to come back between fifth and eighth streets to replace the sidewalk and provide additional enhancements in the future. As far as what is next. We know phase two of better Market Street is the new streetcar track around mcallister as well as replacing the existing track on mcallist mcallister. East of fifth street we havent completed the design. We are dependent on the transportation recovery plan. We are conscious of the fact Market Street doesnt need the same Cross Section for the entire corridor, similar to today. We also know that west of fifth street the Cross Section will look very different. We are still moving forward the hub area plan, which extends the walk or narrows the roadway to just one lane in each direction providing protected bike lanes. These slides are meant to provide Additional Information for some of the Public Comment we received last time, and we are happy to answer any questioning that you have. Thank you. Anything you would like to add . I think we want to say that we have been looking and listening to the conversation to find an answer to make the best come pro myselcompromise and toe more of that back. Thank you, sir. Public comment. Quick announcement. You will be allowed two minutes to speak. I will be giving you a 20 second warning. First caller. Your two minutes begins now. How many callers in the queue . Three at this time. Okay. Please proceed. Your two minutes begins now. Caller good afternoon. This is bryan weeden mire executive director of the San Francisco bike coalition. I am here to emphasize the importance of Public Outreach and engagement. We are considering drastic changes to a project this big. I want to acwilling and thank the staff acknowledge and thank the staff for extending the outreach period for the remain deer of the month so the public can provide more detail. As we said from the beginning since this has been introduced, we recognize the constraints the city is working under, specifically economic challenges of delivering the project as originally designed. We also recognize that federal funds and the need to start the project to take advantage of the federal funds are critical to delivering a project to serve the needs of the people of San Francisco. The project does not feel that the safety and the encouragement element of the bikeway design meet the standards we would expect for a project called better Market Street. We look forward to working with city staff in the weeks to come to make improvements where possible and to realize a Market Street is entire city can be proud of. We have a once in a generation chance to touch this street and we need to do the best we can in that timeframe. Thank you for the additional opportunity for Public Outreach and engagement on this project. Thank you, caller. Next speaker, please. Caller thank you so much. I first want to thank everyone who is part of this project. You have got me involved in local politics in a way i have not been involved in the past. I used to think of the city as the unicorn of spirit and leadership of policy and doing things right. Here i am and i cant believe my anger and frustration of the situation. I dont think there is ill intention behind it. The fact that you are asking cyclists the share the road with motor cars just shows the fact that kids are not going to go there, elderly are not going there, anyone who doesnt have to go there or tourists are not going there. It is disappointing, upsetting and i hope the city or commission will reconsider the Current Situation and find a way to do something about this. Essentially to separate the bikes from the streets and the cars. It is very simple. I dont need to educate you on why or give you an example. This is a once in a Generation Opportunity to adjust the problems. Once in a generation to redesign Market Street to make it proud of and not to run away from. This is to continue the separation. It is a disappointment. I will be engaged in the continuous effort. People who are not involved in this. Thank you so much. I hope you reconsider the plan. Next speaker, please. Caller on this item several things. I have provided comments during the two virtual open houses during the last two weeks and asked the staff to post the comments, questions and responses from the round of outreach consistent with my prior comments on pricing. I would say given the funding available now, design changes seem reasonable to me. I hope that staff will review whether the new design is within the approved ier or needs further review. I am not enjoying filing any more. Finally, i think the comments i heard at least during the two virtual open housing seemed angry and entitled. We can do better than that. Fine to have disagreements about policy. We should do that in a civil i l way. I am trying to and i hope others will, too. Clerk five more speakers on the k queue. I am an organizer with people protected, Grassroots Organization of over 500 members for state street San Francisco. I own a business on market for six years. Lived within three blocks for 10 years. Market street should be first that i got involved in San Francisco 10 years ago. I am deeply disturbed about worse Market Street. Taxis, trucks and private cars always drive faster on new pavement. Bikers will have to share lanes and people walking will have vehicles threatening their lives. Market street is high injury corridor. Fifth and market is the most deadly intersection on all of Market Street. I understand the budget constraint. I was a Small Business owner on the street. I know how hard it is to operate during covid. The fact that staff has doubled down on the plan disturbs me to the core. The sidewalk protected bike lane is needed for most vulnerable. Until then they have to share the lane. People like my mom who use the street to get to the street to get to their house need to be safe. They use Market Street as a cut through. Imagine biking at night alone with a taxi driver down your neck. If you are going to put protected bike lanes into this project, we need turn barriers every two blocks. Mechanical blocks that can be used so Market Street cannot be used as a cut through. It is not safe. Your two minutes begins now. Caller paul valdez. I am an organizer for the light of silence in San Francisco, honoring the lives lost of people biking in the city. I want to thank you for the hard work you have given us thus far. For 30 years this is near and dear to me. I enthusiastically shared my thoughts and experiences more specifically to streetscape. I scheduled meetings and spoke out on the steps of city hall for the design a year ago. As a person biking this is a proposed change and a shock. I am disappointed. The decision to water down the safety are nonvisionary. This new design will not encourage families or intergenerations of san franciscans or visitors. It is a Sustainable Way to move on Market Street. This does not encourage it. I understand the budget constraights and impact of covid. I feel this proposed design was rushed, lacked appropriate Community Outreach. It baffles me to the core we introduced sharing Market Street as proposed design element. Market street is not illegal. It is the city blended civic street. As we all know green paint doesnt protect, doesnt save lives. Sharing is not caring. Sharing can be deadly. I know there are many design challenges on Market Street, utilities and so forth. Please reconsider for better safety. I do not want this to be the bummer Market Street project. Caller, your two minutes begins now. Caller i participated for many years the best i can contribute to this project. The last time i spoke i said the most important thing is the safety of those going to use the dedicated lanes. We cannot have. [ inaudible ] why are they messing things up for us . Some of them before were very rude. People have written comments about that. What is the socalled designers to do is they are arrogant. They start bringing it to people. They ar are are buffoons. Stop this project. When thinks get better in three or four years we can visit it. They are wasting our taxpayers money. Let me remind you. People are suffering because of the pandemic, and we have less traffic. Lets wait for the appropriate time. Thank you. Clerk thank you, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Caller thank you. Good afternoon, chair peskin and commissioners. I am dave alexanders. I organize families and friends in the richmond district. The watered down design can be applied to the whole corridor. We want to make sure that we have the best protection for all users moving forward. Also, we should implement removable barriers to keep unwanted vehicles out of the curb lane. Right turn only superstrong every two blocks to keep taxis and others from speeding down market. We dont want be to encourage ppos on every block stopping cars. Thank you for hearing my comments. Have a great day. Clerk your two minutes begins now. Caller good afternoon, president peskin and commissioners. This is paula rose. I have spoken on my disappointment how the new better Market Street plan puts bicyclists and people with disabilities against each other. Everyone on the original plan fought hard to resolve. I want to focus on asking why this is so vital to this plan . It is notorious to going between fishermans wharf. I dont understand why that is still a feature when Everything Else is cut out. I would love some answers and clarification on that. Thank you. Clerk thank you, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Caller good afternoon, chair peskin and commissioners. I am jody of walk San Francisco. I want to add a couple of words. First, i did want to thank the e City Department for extending the outreach and sending out a survey to help improve engagement. People are part of this project 10 years plus. These changes are big and voices need to be heard. I want to recognize we do understand as advocates the constraints the city is under in funding. We are asking for just to listen to us and see what we can do under these funding constraints. Walk San Franciscos biggest concerns are five of the biggest concerns are along Market Street. Fifth and market is in the first face. It is a car free private vehicles off Market Street. We have yet to see a plan to reduce private vehicles on this corridor. Currently there is fewer cars on Market Street. We are in a pandemic right now so people are not driving down Market Street. That is going to change. We would like to see the way the city plans to address this. We feel that demonstration project can happen now. We dont need to wait for demonstration project if director collins says yes we can can do right turns thank you for listening to the public and the advocates. Clerk thank you, caller. There are no more callers on the line. Thank you. Public comment is closed. Thank you for all of that updated Public Comment. This is the second time we have heard this recently. Obviously, we are going through a tough financial patch. Commissioner haney. Thank you for the presentation and to all of the callers. Obviously, there is a lot of continuing concerns about the new design. I just had a few questions. I know i asked a lot of questions the last time around. Do you have an update on how many responses have been received so far from the virtual open house . We are still collecting comments. We did not have a survey. That will be going up today. Hopefully later today, if not first thing tomorrow morning. We have received comments to our open house via email. On email yesterday we had 50 between november 4 and november 9. Commenters last night we had 25 people speak plus a lot of comments in the chat in zoom in the question and answer. I dont have a total today. We are compiling all of the comments and questions. We will have those posted on our website. I would say to date we have probably received over 100 comments. What in general have the responses been . Most of the comments have been from cyclists, people who bike Market Street frequently. Most are disappointed with the design changes and would like to see a protected bikeway. We have gotten one or two bicyclists in support or comments from a few cyclists in support of the changes who feel comfortable riding in the street already. A few questions and comments about transit and Transit Service on the corridor, concerns about transit being in the center lane. Our modeling and our count shows we can accommodate up to 20 increase. [ inaudible ] we are losing you there. They like having the full sidewalk. For the Disability Advocates and disabled we have heard support for keeping taxis on Market Street as part of paratransit. We have also heard support for keeping the full sidewalk width for people walking. Are there modifications that are being considered as a result of this feedback . Yes. We are open to treatments and restrictions that dont require us to move the curb line. Already we implemented paints buffer and raised curb to separate vehicle lanes and speed table in the curb lanes. We are also looking at the speed limit on Market Street as well as forced right turns, as many people commented. It is something we keep hearing for taxis and delivery vehicles so you wont use market as a through street but you have to turn off if you are in a taxi or a delivery vehicle. We continue to be open to other suggestions. Like i said that dont require us to move the curb line. I liked what jody said from walk San Francisco about quick build projects now. That is another thing we can implement. There does appear to continue to be a fundamental disagreement between you all and most of the people that i have heard from who bike regularly about the design. You know, it doesnt sound like an at a fundamental level you are reconsidering those issues. I remain concerned is people who bike regularly on Market Street i strongly disagree this design provides adequate safety improvements. You know, it is one of the big goals of this, not the only goal but one of the big goals. I hope that you can continue to work with them and for that goal of both bicycle, Pedestrian Safety as well as for public transit. Last thing. How does the final approval for this work for all of these changes . I will talk about the fundamental difference and final approval. The fundamental difference, most cyclists would like a dedicated bikeway. The challenge is that we cannot provide dedicated bicycle space without narrowing the sidewalk by at least 10 feet. That is a challenge. If we narrow the sidewalk by 10 feet, it is a huge utility relocation project to move concrete from the bikeway. You are right there is a difference in bikeway design. As far as final approval, we have received environmental clearance both at the state and federal level. We are not changing the project description. We intend to come back and have additional improvements at a later date. We are taking some legislation parking and traffic legislation to the m. T. A. Board. Mostly cleanup legislation for quick build and what is necessary between fifth and eighth street. We are not reregulating improvements previously approved and not changing these documents. So the answer is that you dont need additional final approvals other . Not for the first phase. This is a multiphased project. We initially thought we could reconstruct all of Market Street from Building Space to Building Space as part of the First Construction contract. Now we realize we cant do it allinone contract. We dont have the funding to do that. It is the first phase focusing on the roadway and maintenance and state of good repair. We will come back to finish the improvements on the sidewalk and public realm. We will be taking the speed tables and minor changes to the m. T. A. Board in early january. I assume you will come back at some point after this is over to us after you receive the feedback . Yes, a quarterly update or we can schedule another meeting. We will leave that up to the chair and m. T. A. Staff. Okay. Executive director chang. To that question, commissioner haney and christina, i believe the ta has funding to be brought back to this body for approval before implementation. It is about 11 million or so. That would happen ahead of procurement. Thank you for that piece of information. Seeing no other name on the roster, this is an ongoing matter, information item. We will be hearing more so that concludes this item. Madam clerk. Please read item 9. Internal accounting report and investment report and debt expenditure report for the three months ending september 30, 20 2020. Ms. Fong. I have the red box. Update. Deputy director for finance and ad ministration. Report on Quarterly Financial statement. 171. 5 million. Liabilities at 310. 3 million. We earns 24. 5 million of revenue first quarter. We incurred 25. 2 million of expenditures first quarter. We are on schedule. In terms of investment compliance we are in compliance with california government code and ta policy and compliant with debt expenditures for sales tax revenue and 8 of bond proceeds to spend within the irs regulations. I am happy to take any questions you may have. Any questions from members . Seeing none. Any Public Comment on item 9 . No Public Comment. No thank you. As usual Public Comment is closed. Any introduction of new items . Seeing none. Any general Public Comment . No Public Comment. Public comment closed. The ta meeting november 10, 2020 is adjourned. Thank you, commissioners. I think it aes public and private property. Im against graffiti. Who can get it out the most who can be noticed the most. I ive seen seniors doing graffiti. The city is art, other people who have their names tag [inaudible] our unit there are 2 sections we are doing one is abating and others are notice of violation to private property. All the utility boxes in public rightofway we abate. We abate calls that come within 48 hours. We are a small group in g f graffiti. We dont have enough help. I have a group in town down and china town and the north tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. Im willing to take it on. I think you are telling me you are ready for this . I think so. Okay. There you go. All right. All right. Ready to do it. Lets go. Want to get the gray signses this over here and the garbage can and normally we dont do private property since its on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black. We had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. We do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the Attorneys Office and they take appropriate action. Damage their property there. Its important to write the color in case they want to say what part of our house you abated the graffiti on. Using your safety glasses the gloves. You got it. You know some places we gashi, people appreciate that. You know, a lot of timeses they say, thank you. The time where its visible. A lot of people put it on the ground. I like when tourists come and say, you do this for your city and you get paid for that . We use the [inaudible] for the holes and the retaining walls. [inaudible]. White on the fire hydrants. Fire box red for the fire boxes. Our brown for the pg and e poles. We are not painters we do our best. Im assuming it has to do with gang activity. If its territorial i mind. In case its gang related and they are marking our territory i would like to paint it over. Anything with numbers like x iv or x 13 west side mob and the bay view those are gang related. With gang related or profanity we will abait it as soon as possible. I consider it an art. There are circles of people that form around it whether or not they should ruin public property. This is art work im for it. Unless its on someones property and they dont want it there. Judge kids with silver paint expressing their ego needs doesnt belong on our property. Graffiti is when you dont have permission to write anything on their property. Eighth street is part of your regular rout . Yes. Everyday. Eighth street. Divisidero street. Irving street. Every block they going through they paint 3 or 4 streets in the block the poles the utility boxes, mailbox. Thank you. Okay. Put the drop cloth. Come on around. There you go. Force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. We are abaters not painters. Get that out of the way and keep moving. How many of these do you do a day . How many poles we do a day . Yeah. Depends on the location. May be 20. Do you like working with the team . Yes because im a people person. I like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. Goodbye. Tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown San Francisco and on every Street Corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes Grocery Stores im the cocoordinated of the Healthy Corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about 23,000 a year so a low Income Neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the cocoordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support Small Businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didnt have access to a full Service Grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the Major Development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from Community Members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the Small Businesses as their role within the community and bringing more Fresh Produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. The Different Stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having Healthy Foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they cant afford it not going to be able to allow it so thats why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, im cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about Healthy Retail in the low Income Community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. Huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and Community Safe way. This is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so thats good as far been doing good. Now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy being a diabetic youre not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my Blood Pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the Business Owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride Business Owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how theyre part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. It is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small Grocery Store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but Healthy Options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have more clerk call to order and roll call. [roll call] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. I am here, as well. Please call item 2. Clerk item 2, proposition h, and neighborhood