Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use Committee 102416 20161029

Good afternoon the meeting will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the regular meeting of the Land Use Committee im chair cohen and to my right is commissioner woo ho the vice chair and commissioner peskin our clerk the lovely alicia and recognize our friends at the sfgovtv that makes this possibly jim smith and leo madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Yes. Please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the november 1st board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you thank you very much can you call number one ordinance for ordinance 10 61 to change did sidewalk along 15 and 16 streets and making appropriate finding all right. Weve tomato got mr. Rivera the representative from public works here to make the presentation welcome hfa are the floor is yours. Speak into the my case pull it up hold on. There we go. Rivera from the public works the legislation before you is well legally a sidewalks reduction in reality had is happened the area was not development an official sidewalk with 15 feet currently right now the voerpz developing and 10 foot sidewalk that will allow for pedestrian assess as well as keep the parking in the area so everyone is looked this planning has reviewed and determined it meets the beets mta and fire have approved it as well. I have one question the native 10 foot wide sidewalk but the actual exhibit shows it as an 11 foot sidewalks. Ill have to double check a 10 foot sidewalk on de harrow. Correct the sidewalk on 16 at 10 feet and shows the former urban developed. Sidewalk. As 15 feet and the dark line cuts away 4 feet of that and a little thing the remaining thing that 11 i dont care you guys are comfortable with 10 but the map reflect this is did sidewalk change with east side of de harrow. Absolutely i can provide updated copies for the file and double check that was reviewed for 10 feet for the record cleared for 10 feet. This is the signatures of the surveyors signature. Hfa are. Give you a little bit of background mta map a conflict mta no sidewalk and the cars parking on 90 degree angle and whereas the dpw sidewalk is maptd so the proposal i dont know if there isy representatives they will allow for construction of a new sidewalk while also maintaining the 90 degree angle for an ample rightofway plus a compromise so my gratitude so s k s an 16th street not to reduce the amount of parking by having the 15 foot sidewalk hfa i cant that is it go to Public Comment. All right. Folks time to comment on item one two minutes of comment a soft chime with a remaining balance of 30 seconds once that time is expired well cut off the my case and invite the next person behind you anyone wish to comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item one thank you sow colleagues can can i have a motion . On that item. I also move and love to hear from the department offline with regards. With the clarification the width not a problem did you hear it that. Motion made and without objection that item passes thank you item 2 please madam clerk. An ordinance designating ocean avenue silence the Presbyterian Church as a landmark under the planning code and making appropriate findings. Thank you so the Historic Preservation commission is the author of this item before staff presents he understand that jen low from supervisor yees office is here welcome and like to make a few remarks. Thank you, madam chair and supervisors im speaking on behalf of supervisor norman yee the ingleside Presbyterian Church we want to urge the support of this landmarking as youll see from the Preservation Commission that believe is not only remarkable a historic but lie down within the ingleside Presbyterian Church something that has been worked on for over 35 years that is historic and captured many memories and people of distinction within the walls of this church we really want to put in resources to not only preserve it but continue i wanted to commend reverend brown Going Forward and his staff thank you for all your hard work theyve active every week food pantries and afterschool programs and so much for the community. Doing everything we can for the africanamerican and sfolths community. One of willie brown favorite spots in the city. Thank you commissioner peskin good afternoon commissioner susan Parks Department staff im here to present the landmark designation for the Presbyterian Church entitled the great witnesses on ocean avenue in the city even if i think side neighborhood the building was added to the Historic Preservation commission landmark work program in 2013. Can you speak into the mikes. At the request of the paradise. Go ahead. It is significant for two significant as a work of master architect Joseph Leonard that embodies the characteristics of the meow style and unique example of classical architecture in the city best none for jordan park and Ingleside Terrace that is one of leonardos structures and he would secondly, the church is significant into interior with the cloud of witnesses open garden not set ought to be an artists but month artists do the in 1980 one image museum of modern art ali believing the kids in the gym about remember the wall in the last 35 years added role model taking over the gym and many other rooms in the church as an artistic art they make significant chiksz the africanamerican, folk artists and to San Francisco africanamerican history bogart is the art of the everyday done by selftaught artists in cultural agencies and reflected the artists interpretation of the Community Architect identity when the work enconfused and takes over a place as a folk garden environment as such the great cloud of witnesses is the most executed environment for religion and a contribute to San Francisco itself as a reminder the ingleside neighborhood was once held to a thriving africanamerican marching i want to point out the report was a joint project with pro bono consultants ar g Architecture Group mr. Butler and i believe the reverend brown are here to add to Public Comment. Known as a position to the landmark designation and the building meets the established go eligible requirement ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. I dont think we have any questions lets bring up revere reverend. Mime mike president and ceo were proud to be the sponsors of this analogies reflected two years of work by a multi authors including erica shuments and the Deputy Director susan insight and other mechanics of the planning Department Staff that is a unique and significant landmark for all the reasons stated in the dissatisfy presentation it is immediately captures your imagination and inspiration in the steps of the doors in ingleside Presbyterian Church reflects the work of reverend gordon who is not here to speak of the project and importantly helps to rectify the under representation of Africanamerican Community among the citys landmarks today thank you very much. Thank you for your presentation mr. Butler lets go ahead and move into the Public Comment. Anyone wish to comment that would like to speak please come up and do so on item 2. Hi my name is a neeley work for the ocean Avenue Association so were working on projects and most of them relate to smaller buildings for retail use or other community we have lookerson ocean avenue that stands out with the Theatre Building on the 1900 of the avenue near the medical building inside and out this is a special building we urge you to support this landmarking decision and thank by heritage and the landmarking expert in planning and that sproefz thank you very much. Anyone else Public Comment is closed. Ill say ill delighted to see that the landmarking experts in the planning Department Staff is coming together it is a fantastic building as a child i remember the gym im happy to see that it will be designated and preserved colleagues mr. Commissioner peskin. Make a madam chair an amendment to be little the ordinance to address section 302 finding i can have someone brings copies to accept the amendment. Can you read into the record what the amendments are. Yes. I can. On page 2 lines 4 through 20 are planning code section that needs to be included they were inadvertently left out of the resolution. Would you like me to read the finding off. Or i can provide did hard copies for you accept them and move on and have staff come in and that will be great ladies and gentlemen, were going to put a pause on this item get a copy of the amendment so we can review them and read them and take a motion neiman item 3. Commissioner peskin has something to say. First of all, im pleased to support this to mr. Low he assume that supervisor yee would like to be listed as the sponsor right now there is no legislative sponsor of the item should we yes, if we can do see we were going to be the original sponsor but some miscommunication but well add our name. Have you had a chance to look at the amendments as well. Ive not seen the amendments but can get a copy and make sure make sure youre in agreement well put a pause on item 2. One other thing. Im sorry actually part of the reason i invoked mayor brown and it is absolutely true that willie brown is a big fan of this edifice and encouraged me a couple of times to look at it ive not 0 done but intend to do with 3 jog in my mind ironically in 1994 in at the end of its tenure as the speaker of California State Assembly then essential member brown was the author of an Assembly Bill 133 which ultimately passed and even though the city and county of San Francisco iconicly took that all the way down to the United States Supreme Court but not had it and a witness of spur seeing none, Public Comment is closed prohibited the municipalities from designating churches as landmarks in the state of california im wondering a exception from the church. Seeds how is 2 were landmarking a church that convenes ab 133 . I think were landmarking that with the churches consent there is a letter that fails i dont think we can landmark without consent more than a church. So presumably some lawyer im looking at mr. Gibner and the City Attorneys Office concurs that is not valid of state law. John gibner, deputy City Attorney. Our office was involved and has reviewed and signed off on the ordinances. Perfect. Thank you lets go to item 3 call item 3. Item 3 an ordinance amending the landmark of one 040 ak abc morris gift shop. Supervisor peskin is the author of this item. Thank you madam president first of all, thank you to the planning Department Staff for writing a great case report for for those of you who dont know who read it and have the time it is very, very well done and speaks to the edifice was built in 1911 but 1947 or 48 there about these was the interior preliminarily was redesigned by frank wright that architect designs with the buildings in San Francisco one 40 maiden lane morris gift shops being being designed encouraging with what of the ultimately built years later in the 1950s with the museum advertised the prototype for that it is an extraordinary interior that San Francisco recognized when that designated this is as a landmark in 1919 over excuse me our 75 landmark or 197856 shannon will remember that im doing this off the top of my head but here we are years later as landmark laws have vultd it is clear we have the ability to landmark that extraordinary interior and in this case also with the ascent of the Property Owner i commend to you colleagues and really want to thank the Planning Department and ms. Ferguson for shepherding that and thank you to the landmark board to make that fit to be part of land use and the historian mr. Turner advocating on its behave and im going to turn it over to ms. Ferguson. Ms. Ferguson. Department staff here to present the landmark designation for one 40 maiden lane historically as the b c morris gift shop in the conservatism district frank floyd withering designated it in 1975 contaminate only the exterior of the building was designated on june 2016 a Historic Preservation commission recommend the landmark designation be amended to include the interior cycle structure and others features there was no known public opposition opposition to landmark designation the Planning Department has shared the report with the Property Owners and worked with them on the finding of the future the Department Buildings the building needs to establish the landmark status is warranted i work with the masters architect that concludes my presentation. Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you for the brief presentation that was selfmanageable. No doctor standard historian may want to say a few words as members of the public thank you my name is paul turner ive published a book on frank and San Francisco Police Commission o San Francisco building on maiden lane with the morris shop is one of the most important works and one of his personal favorites whenever we came to San Francisco he would go that and include if 9 publication of the architecture one of the things that makes it unusual the interior is as important as the exterior in fact, more important ill suggest with its spiral ramp skylit and beautiful wood fortunes a photo on the back of my book all designed by wright himself including the furnishings this is significant because of his connection with the going him museum in new york while in 1943 he kept rising the design and construction was put off and not built until the late 1950s in the meanwhile in 1948 evident hired by lillian and morris to redesign their shop wright didnt take on remodeling jobs but nike saw an opportunity by redesigning the building both nine out of ten to explorer the feature the going him design a spiral ramp as a centerpiece so for the displays of objects built in 1949 and recognized as one or more of his wonderful works not long about his death he mentioned to lillian more or less about his concern of reason theyre all gone she said the b this will be kept in its district for its museum by then that became a pilgrim site for architecture around the world it still is more than any other compatible American Building i can think of this San Francisco treasure including the interior should be kept in its integrity and entire outlet as Lillian Morris said to frank wright thank you. At this time open up for Public Comment and just as a reminder Public Commenters two minutes first call to the podium seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you supervisor peskin any last remarks. No, i would like to i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. And again, thank you to the planning Department Staff and doctor turner. Without objection that item passes. Thank you madam clerk call items 4 and 5 together. We have item 2 in front of us. Right item 2. Colleagues have you had a chance to look at the amendments if so. I did and have two questions one is we should put supervisor yee as a spokesperson and my two questions why it has not been approved as to form and two there are blanket i assume would be filled in on page 3 the number of board file on page 4, the same on page 5 the docket number and two places. John gibner, deputy City Attorney. My office prepared this amendment adding the finding we have approved it as a form the total but to get the documents in front of you the City Clerks Office has prijtd the word vision often when we are making amendments we continue to include the blanket and the City Clerks Office fills them in after the board adopts the amendment so all the predicament numbers will be added by the clerk after the board after the Committee Adopts those amendments. Then madam chair, i will make a motion to accept the amendments and i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. All right. Motion has been made and without objection thank you as amended Going Forward with a positive recommendation. Madam clerk call item 4 and 5 together please. Yes 4 is an ordinance amending 9 planning code for noncommercial and shorter thaned time for the general advertising signs and allow property and item 5 ordinance to correct and update the historic wind as i understand and restrict the areas for advertising signs and delete signed district and making findings. Supervisor peskin is the author of those items supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam chair item 4 is the first of the two piece of legislation today that will amend article 6 the planning code to enhance the penalty for the installation of illegal general advertising signs as you recall in 2002 i was the chief author of proposition g which was the citywide band on general advertising signs and since that time did a number of pieces of legislation to further meet the intent of proposition g as well as meet the voters intention of regulating the general advertising signs in San Francisco earlier this year during the super bowl 50 event first page coverage of an length sign of embarcadero 4 and interesting enough that point out a few weakness in our sign legislation in the planning code in article 6 that was there was a thirty day notice provision that yet the events was to last much less than thirty days in working with the Zoning Administrator and the City Attorneys Office we are figure out out ways to change that to reduce to 3 days served in person and 5 by mail and institute a regime that elevates during the sign i want to thank emily rogers and tom may want to add a few words to this legislation along with the next item 5 has been reviewed and recommended by the Planning Commission number 5 item number 5 is the second piece of sign recommended legislation that is designed to clean up a number of definitions delete and restrict the place where the signs are prohibited and location for the general advertising signs not a big deal given nobody seems to do it through weve provided in prop g and this too has been reviewed and recommended by the Planning Commission and i see ms. Rogers is here and capable and willing to present be on the nuances of those two items. And by way of i have one little amendment to item 5 which is ive distributed to my two colleagues on this panel they are on page 6 at line 20 to delete the hundreder identifying sign and on the next line add identifying sign a formatting issue and on page 7 to capitalize the words signs and so there are these amendments in front of you on the first item item number 4. Thank you very much emily rogers im here to talk about the ordinance they have help to strengthen and maintain the citys characterization the Planning Commission has 3 objectives the first is so strengthen the general advertising signs and in detail especially the signage and im sure them for number one commercial and 3 update and improve our signage controls and this is a goal as far as our Planning Commission is concerned thank you very much. Thank you. I also want to shout out my staff lee that worked with the Planning Department and the public and the City Attorneys Office for a number of months thank you, mr. Hefner. To now Public Comment on items four and five two items combined two minutes. Nice try just kidding good to see i tom. Thank you, supervisors wanted to speak in favor of that supervisor peskin mention he worked with this office and long overdue a whole strictly mass of definitions and controls and consolidate them brings them up to date and emry mentioned jives with the First Amendment a few important pieces of the context for this and perhaps some of the other items on the agenda working as trying to save the streets with the public spaces so encourage birth streets designs to emphasize open space to green them and so on weve said distinctive places for businesses to thrive to protect the city and sunlight and air to preserve views and the public spaces and so on we have also said that we want every neighborhood even though their called mixed use zones voirnl every neighborhood is a residential neighborhood above the ground he need to balance the needs of commerce with the residents that live above to make sure you protect the liveability and quality of life of the neighborhood for upper story residents is important we think those sign ordinances have advanced that and get rid of the blight the billboards this will not be a new billboards but the idea the billboards can show up in our neighborhood oh, no, its not new go somewhere else we should ban them in the legislation respectfully it does that we hope youll support it thank you very much. Thank you any Public Comment . At this time all right. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam chair supervisor wiener if it is acceptable id like to move the two technical amendments to item number 4 and then send items 4 as amended to the i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. As a Committee Report for consideration tomorrow october 25th and send item 5 with recommendation as a Committee Report for consideration tomorrow october 25th as well. All right. Deputy City Attorney no problems with that Motion Perfect well accept that as well as the mainstreams and without objection that passes thank you so madam clerk item 6. Item 6 an amending of the police code to establishment places for people can programs a regulatory process provide the process and identify stewards and make appropriate finding. Thank you, supervisor wiener is the author of that item. Thank you very much madam chair before us today is frankly long overdue and exciting legislation that will after 8 years recognize the pavement to parks that promotes temporary uses and temporary plaza and spaces in the public realm this legislation has nothing to do with with permanent pauses for public spaces the efforts began in 2009 that was the Jane Warner Plaza on the corner of castro and market with broad participation with merchant, neighbors the city departments and our public realm advocates we were able to transform a banner and dangerous intersection into a public gathering space that has been central to the community where people meet and musicians play and people dance and visitors come it is a safer area including pedestrians jan warner was a cardboard place with moveable furniture that was the deal instead of trying to solve every issue brown bag that temporary task the community agreed well use the space to inform of us what works and didnt work the judge do it is flexible and can be transformed and if necessary removed with hard working in the castro benefits district and despite some challenges today Jane Warner Plaza has cafe and tables and chairs this legislation provides a clear precise and process informed by the past 8 years Jane Warner Plaza and other plaza in the various parts of the city it solidifies the importance the public process and recognized the fact that the public spaces are successful only if there is broad buy in and support and helps to promotes quality in the program by encouraging the applications not only in the center of the city but from all over the ordinance before us helps two key aspects that needs support insuring a strong par dime and supporting the activation of those public spaces with public activities this effort includes the pavement to parks has been internationally acclaimed with cities from all over the globally globe we in San Francisco should be very, very proud of pioneering this work i want to strongly thank the city departments for for the most part the public works the Planning Department, the mta and the Entertainment Commission working together to developmental this great piece of legislation that is nearly a year in the making ill be introducing some amendments that are the result of collaboration among our partial agencies the amendments clarified public works role in the issuance of permits it may clarify procedural steps and to clarify the relationship to existing bodies and request the file be duplicated to continue to work on a trailing aspect of the ordinance around fees we will workout that with the department of public works and the trailing legislation our goal to strike the best balance by insuring the departments involved have their costs covered so the fees are not a barrier to industry for local Community Prairie in parts of the city not participated in the 0 program and the projects that need a Broader Community optimistically the department of public works has asked how to deal with application outside of proscribed process were happy work with them and thank for the people that weighed in for the support and letters from numerous organizations walk sf and the Bike Coalition the Parks Alliance and the yerba buena benefits and the noah valley and the castro benefit district the street plans collaborative and the aortas exchange that is broadly sportsd in the Community Today john from the department of public works and neil from and proscribing e robin from planning and stefani from the mta are here to answer any questions im going to turn it over to neil from planning to hear a presentation we have a slide printout and if i may specifically thank and a debris power from my office done an enormous amount of work from my department. Thank you, very much. Supervisor wiener and supervisor cowen and supervisor peskin im neeley manage the group in the Planning Department quickly i want to give you a little bit background before robin to walk you through the protective proposal and at the end well have the opportunity for john thomas from the department of public works to come up and say a few words in support 1902 a truly collaborative process one we worked very, very hard as a city agency and when the stroefz to make sure the consensus package also recognize theres mta sarah johns air force and dan from the department of real estate in support of this legislation id like to pause for one moment and reflect on why adopting this legislation makes it more arbitrate to make public realm improvements that is so important and will be seen as a model for cities across the country and the world your public spaces are one of the Democratic Institutions in our Society Everyone is equal they performed a task for moments the connection we think those fleeting moments between strangers products strong emotions within us public space it is in partnering with the community can help to erase barriers and today more than ever we need more opportunities to connect with the fold san franciscans those connections improve our wellness by meeting a fundamental need of all people the opposite is, of course, social isolation it is two easy in San Francisco today especially during time of rapid change social isolation leads to lack of understanding and importantly undermines our urban culture that binds san franciscans it allows us yields pursuing our personable goals and lives and resident of a collective endeavor that needs says but essential to a Healthy Society how we design our streets and public spaces can encourage those opportunities for social connection or undermine them no often do we design and manage our streets as socially connected spaces our streets as public space can help to build bridges and trust between strangers and people from different backgrounds and strengthen that belief in good intent between the strangers or weaken them and when our streets constitute about 25 percent of the land area and when they were the places we have by far the 2k3wr9 amount of workers connect and visitors the opportunity by the public equals the places for people legislation explicitly recognizes our streets and spaces and works to strengthen our tools for more high quality spaces for san franciscans now the growth felt San Francisco pavement to parks limitations and Market Street festival programs underscores the endeavoring values and recommended by the p 3 a core agencies at the beginning the presentation as well as the countless others shown we have are collaborated together in all neighborhood across the country across the city it includes Numerous Community organizations of all kinds and shapes both philanthropical organizations and this is become an centrally recognized brand that has a request from countless cities from across the country and imlarge project on every single continent this is embedded in the policies framework with the tacks set for the number of projects every year as outlined in the framework and further reflected into through a safety Pedestrian Safety lens and a public space lens in the city with vision zero and booets on the growth of that program moving from 4 parklets almost 10 years ago to a huge body of work that is owned by city agencies and communitybased organizations includes more than 60 parklets and sfpuc constitution and educational constitution like cca and smallscale projects like the bike corral to the large winter walk in the festivals in the urbanism has touched every single neighborhood in the city and helping to change the open space and recognizes the health is foundational to every community in San Francisco finally San Francisco has been recognized as International Leader in public space and developing Community Engagement that public defenders the members to take ownership of the space and find theyre connected and social public realm and with that, id like to im going to turn it over to ribbon from the City Design Group to walk you through the legislation thank you very much. Thank you neil supervisors im ribbon from the San Francisco Planning Department and as neil mentioned that portland popularity is a strain for our city departments to keep up with the amount of activities that our neighborhoods are asking for we dont have the correct permitting mechanism and the permit for the types of thing our neighborhoods are asking you to help to implement many agrees public works and planning and mta at the closer core of that collaboration and to be more pavement to parks started feeling the demand early on immediately after the inception in 2009, 2010 in 2013 our supergreen agency embarked on a Strategic Planning process we through took to figure out how to grow and meet the demand placed on us in the sustainable and rational way for all the departments involved we stepped through the planned goals to the last one number 4 that brings us before you was the formation and adoption of legislation in developing this fraction we went through a pedestrian of profound interinspection looking at what we were doing on things that were working and one epic this is apparent entity was a strategy a tool it is something we can maximize and create better and to parks and open space weve undertaken on analysis that helps to guide our decisions and updated our Technical Assistance document our manuals all the materials that our public assesses in order to understand how to engage and how to leverage this tool in their own neighborhood though we have figured out how to make a lot of this with work there is still opportunities for optimization and streamlining in our system we have over 60 parlts and each one is a labor of love and those communities that generated those projects and another opportunity to make that easier and more assessable for those communities to engage in developing the legislative framework we looked at internally but did a scion of best practices internationally as well as nationally trying to understand how other citys are structuring themselves and what kind of framework to help their community achieve the public space that pioneered we looked at open street in new york city and los angeles and look at the way that cities are using reversible treatment for streets and eliminate the pedestrian collisions we see weve also looked at on the cities to see how they replicate the tip metrological we have the largest population of parklets and doing this quite a while and theres a lot to learn from counterparts and gotten in touch with those folks los angeles and new york city and chicago there are also thriving pedestrian plaza producing new public spaces with community we spoke to our counterparts in los angeles and new york city and the landmark and australia and investigated the ways that activation can be introduced as public space without building anything or introducing anything physical for that space that means frequent music or pop up events and weve investigated how other cities are leveraging and optimizing the use of vacant lots with city owned one and predevelopment and privately held ones. In doing this national and International Scheme we came up with 15 early outcomes we wanted to make sure that the legislation will be able to facilitate it is quite lengthy not all of them but weve mapped those to the various placed in the city code with alterations to create the streamlining we wanted to achieve and i wont belabor the program too much and supervisor wiener and neil talked about that but for the most part about lowering the exceptions in the program those are process and financial and resource barriers we know we can be focusing emergencies and making it easier for less resource neighborhood and less affluent neighborhood to be assessing this tool and we know that activation is a key component of those places of being successful over time this prevention will help us create activation opportunities that dont require labor us procures for the project sponsor to go through a permitting body over and over every time we want a jogging or a movie night and have Live Performance or other events we want to streamline and figure out ways to provide grants and help the less a affluent neighborhoods with the strategy and finds clear operations perimeters and permitting terms that will be add clarity for the public sponsor and the all the public departments in the reviewing and enforcement neil showed several case studies from San Francisco a broad array of things happening in the city a big step and pavement to parks or excuse me places for people will help to support all those activities when we look at how and where those tastes took place we were able to parcel them out into 4 spaces there are happening on parcel either in a vacant lot or perhaps a vacate storefront or sidewalks as curbing side that lane next to that roadway next to the curve we currently see our intervenes like the safety zones and as well as in the roadway depend on where a community proposes to work these project ideas go through a slightly different workflow in use of force the jurisdiction over right away and maintaining the database and reviewing the design and engineering and in certain cases the review of the Fire Department for projects that may impact their operations quickly without in ordinance there really was not a lot of support for the Community Sponsors taking it a lot of them on by themselves with this were bringing the core agencies and supporting those neighborhoods groups in the realization of their ideas and again looking at the best practices programs across the country we found we shouldnt be asking our Community Partners providing free public programming and providing the Capital Funding for implementation of those reversible projects day to day for example, a better way to bring the resources in the streamlined and coordinate fashion to help the Community Generated projects hopefully after legislation is adopted there is still a lot of work that the departments need to do as neil alluded to those are some of the items on the dockets and with that, im going to turn it over to john thomas City Engineer with the department of public works. Good afternoon sorry. Knowingly and members of the Committee John thomas with public works as has been mentioned by neil and ribbon the departments and supervisor wiener offices worked to draft the legislation before you and public works supports the pavement to parks and stands to work with the Planning Department and others to implement these important projects as you may know public works represents Home Improvements for the public realm this will help to expand those improvements by facilitating projects with a powerful impact on the neighborhood ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Or provide additional input. Thank you thomas and just to be clear other than the fee issue i know well be work with is in trailing legislation my understanding that public works is supportive of remainder of the legislation and thats right. Thank you very much i appreciate your support on this. Thank you. Okay. Any other departmental presentation. Okay. Great. Thank you to everyone and this presentation. Okay at any point well open up for Public Comment Public Comment will be two minutes ill call the cards i have you dont have to testify in the exact order calling names . Good afternoon supervisors my name is nicole the executive director of walk sf walk sf has been working to transform our streets 25 percent of our loaned area into sdhard public space for the last 18 years weve been a leader in the front weve been kind of the founder of tactical urbanism in the United States and saw the benefits this sort of technical urbanism lead to where health or community relayed and traffic state of or whatever people can dream up in their imagination, however, weve fallen behind with the National Landscape two cumbersome and unclear for the process Community Members and expensive for people to participate so many of the short time changes received the same level of oversight and permitting as the larger permanent project so it really didnt encourage or inspire it level of innovation in our city centers streets weve figured out ways to address this this is why youre seeing this legislation today other cities have adopted this same kind of legislation it styled the process and clarifies an unclear nonarbitrate process if we want to continue to encourage the Community Led experimenttion we need to remove 9 pay to play too expensive and two unclear to get involved for Community Members that want to innovate on their streets at the end of the day you are the Community Street and the streets belongs to all of us we should have a say how the streets look and feel contaminate when San Francisco feels like were continuing to grow apart we need the historic subways to bring people together on the streets and in the public realm and hope youll support this policy thank you. Next speaker good afternoon, supervisors im alice rogers im representing the south park Improvements Association were strooeld supportive of the protective and the pavement to Parks Program it is a general gift to the city especially for my district district 6 the most underserved in terms of public space and in my neighborhood we have over one hundred sro units where those residents dont have space in their rooms and dont think the public spaces to have a practices to be confront and communicate we luckily have Success Stories in turn of a plaza that went through the program but a cautionary tail and i say this with the caveat that i had the full support and cooperation and couldnt speak highly enough from the graceness the cleverness of every person in every department in planning and mta and public works it took 8 months internal review after the supergreen departmental review our project was shut down by public works for lack of some permit so we had to repeat the process and submit all the information we already submitted and have an opportunity got opened this is what this legislation is meant to solve thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning, supervisors afternoon. My name is a monday im here for you as a private citizen and a beneficiary of the pavement to parks the my wife and i the only parklet in front of a private residence i want to say a few things quick one thing the flowery language used how those spaces are magic and bring people together is shockingly true i had no idea how much interaction i would have with any neighbors but also how much integration theyll have with each other those build the social fabric are our neighborhood that leads me to my second point hope that more people can experience that and grace use it is very clear that are problems about this legislation gets us; right . It helps to make the procedural flaps go away so it is more streamlined and is an that will be what i hope happens more people will have parklets not only just you know businesses but more private individuals i think one of the problems as a private individual that are a lot of these traps i strongly encourage you to move this legislation forward and couldnt be more thankful for the city staff to make that happen thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors racism intern ceo of the Parks Alliance and want to practicing pro claim our strong support and thank you, supervisor wiener it is core to our mission to engage exultance around supporting open space and parks and recreation in San Francisco and as we all know that open space is harder and harder to come by in San Francisco those programs were partnered with the Planning Department and the safe paichltd youll hear more about that but these projects really have brought communities together and really expanded in the communities to carve out the open space the most recently one in the other haiti were thrilled Francis Scott keys and play together outside so im again, were very, very strongly in support of this legislation we think that is great and anything we can do to gurgle the community to bring down the barriers to make those open spaces in their neighborhood is a good thing. Thank you. Next speaker. Gamechanger supervisors my name is jared the local nonprofit innovating how we develop open space in San Francisco San Francisco has amazing open space, however, the population continues to grow we need to keep pace in underserved areas housing we need to provide more public spaces for recreation by converting the into active places for people to play the experimenttion is due to Large Community demand for the community on the streets and no clear addresses for this and the approval lengthy process is confusing creating the open space is a challenging process and requires demonstration to game the viability one the neighborhoods throughout the city places for People Programs provide an excellent means of at the time out and fourthly what works and didnt does the importance of tactical and Community Driven nature cant be offer stated how people think about the public realm and public in use of force support this to standard device it and increasing the transparent and encourages you to do do same thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors i work at the San Francisco pavement to parks partnering manager given the pavement to parks creates space in more walkable neighborhoods and communitybased organizations celebrating the grassroots engagement in San Francisco i work with the groups that create spaces for almost 3 years the city supergreen agency permitting, technical and Financial Services are confusing and up to date those complektsd form barriers by Community Groups the program is a framework that will streamline the projects in the city ive been to many openings and i was in tears theyre so happy to have open space to sit in and enjoy their neighborhoods and this project is spur important to the city so thank you for supporting it. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im bonnie the project director at park in district 10 im also the intern parks and manager over at the San Francisco Parks Alliance and here to encourage the support for this protective and thank you for your support tunnel top park a grassroots project centered around cloufrts connections and shared ownership and a place to view recreation and Outdoor Activities this past year we had the opportunity to be part of a successful collaboration between the california congest college of arts and the Planning Department that was opportunity by the central dog patch realm frame and students were actually provided with the opportunity to design and build and install a major project within the park they chose choose the tunnel park and through shared resources from ribbon and the Planning Commission and megan a teacher and as well as the students and tunnel steering committees we came together to do focus groups and to look at design workshops and take part in the shared institution of this actual feeding element that provided lighting and shade and brought people together i want to say that places for people legislation will allow for cbo planning and folks will move through the process faster and more efficient thank you. Good afternoon darcy executive director of San Francisco beautiful we advocate to remain the beautiful and the character in San Francisco and as our city becomes more and more exclusive with gathered and gated apartment buildings that are reducing the amount of spice available to the public San Francisco beautiful feels this is critical we encourage more Public Open Space where people can connect truly and as construction becomes more and more it is critical our neighborhoods are allowed to express their unique personalities to the creation and stewardship of open space to remain the Community Connection and encourage you to support this legislation and thank you, supervisor wiener for forwarding. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is marco could director the Climate Action now and had the pleasure to partner with the pavement to parks on 43 avenue and, of course, our goal to teach people about climatic change to build our garden and playland was is living example not only to the brink communities together like you all spoke that brings creatures together and so once there were asphalt now humming birds and butterflies happening out with the younger and middle age happening out in a habitat and i worked for awhile always a City Employee with the public works urban forests and we had many calls inquires about what about the streets parks and what about those i on the better the interagent confines can go with this legislation is attempting to create thank you scott and robin and everyone the better for all of us doing nonprofit having to pound the pavement to get this legislation to be thank you all for this and thank you scott and supervisor cowen thank you. Next speaker hello, im susan ryan im here in in support of places for people legislation speaking as a beneficiary of the pavement to Parks Program a Community Steward for playland on 43 and the fact we have so many people that are involved in the room and to the social fabric to the community that has been created you know again, the flowery language which one had the flowery language the playland has built the social fabric the neighborhood and similar to the guy with the parklet was talking about there is true there are young and old in everyone in between and kids on bikes where else can you safely in a big space ride recklessly on a bike with a helmet there are kids that are eating call from your garden and pulled carrots ive lived in the neighborhood for 40 years were creating a community and building a neighborhood that didnt necessarily exist even though outer sunset has been a stable neighborhood for many years and we are collaborating with agencies in the neighborhood sunset Youth Centers and selfhelp for the elderly and bringing in and engaging the community and so anything we can do to help to streamline this process and make that easier for other communities to build and gave me the citizens i support and this legislation will do that thank you. Next speaker excuse me good afternoon, supervisors my name is rue legal daniels the director the partner for the Yerba Buena Community District im here to support you to streamline and clarify the Community Led place making process since 2011 the yerba buena partnered with the paichltd program on a wide range of public space in the yerba buena district including park mobiles and 6 temporary gardens in containers that can be moved and bike corals and designed a competition for students to create an secure place to park your bike a two year Pilot Project turning an underutilized alley for open space and pause on Market Street at yerba buena partnership continue city planning and the exploratorium to create an supergreen active way for people to closer open space and thirty other projects we would like to implement without the support from city departments those interesting and attractive projects will not be realized because people have a reason to interact and create viabilitycy the y b c has working closely with other city agencies to insure that all streetscape projects meeting of the meet the permitting requirement of the city the pavement to Parks Program has been essential to the implementations and realization of yerba buena voir dires we urge you to support the place for people to make that easier to in fact, navigate the lengthy progress and make sure our neighborhoods are vibrant places for us all to enjoy thank you. Thank you hello supervisors i served with the Union Square Improvement District and glad to see the turnout briefly the u. S. Bid provides the services to the mr. Haney public activation we currently manage the city and counties citys largest pavement to parks and promenade and building the city learned what worked well and what the city will do this is a gamechanger for the city and for those of you who dont know union square is San Francisco number one visitors designation it will be a nice nexus when had they come to union square they have a comprehensive response to San Francisco is xhufgsz and piecemeal in the permitting process as some of us expressed this is an opportunity for San Francisco to be initiative and dynamic and feel for nimble and hungry theres an argument for the vibrant streets that has before made and critically for the Revenue Generation on us of the legislation as mentioned that is expenditure to maintain the public spaces we like the revenues generation components that allows money towards staff and time to maintain those public spaces lastly the legislation is real weve identified 14 alleys in union square for the activation and the department allowed us money for camp ton alley we have a proposal it into planning to activate it with trucks and, etc. We need in legislation it as gamechanger for us and thanks to the city we urge you to support this life e piece of legislation thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I want to see to the last speaker thanks for getting the lights back on. Good afternoon, supervisors tom executive director of liveable city happy to be here for a bunch of reasons including we run the sunday Streets Program one of the most important uses of streets for something other than moving cars and storing cars we know as difficult it can be to organize the use of streets for all of the activities we need streets are 25 percentage the land area this is the largest amount of lands that is in Public Ownership the peoples land in San Francisco more lands in streets than parks in our city and also a bureaucratic plan so many agrees that manage aspects the streets many are singular in their focus with one aspect or one set of systems and using them for other than storage of cars is much, much difficult than it needs to be but 0 so much of the public space in looter neighborhoods see in bye lands for parks it is expensive we need to get smarter as mentioned for Building Community and the Economic Life of the neighborhoods for the egging metrological life and allow people in a dense city to connect and enjoy good inner liveability we urge you to support this legislation and clarify the roles and 19set a group of standards not doing every project ad hoc but methods and standards and some procedures that will help a lot of the successful projects that we are seeing in the public rightofway to be successful and encourage more of them thank you. Thank you very much. Is there any additional Public Comment okay. Seeing none make may we close Public Comment. Public comment is closed. Thank you for scheduling this i want to thank all the members of the public that came out colleagues as you can see we knew a responsibility Advocacy Community that works hard to try to make our streets safe and usable and to make sure that people have access to great public spaces and our communities are for everyone both the people that are driving but also people not driving so i want to just thank and appreciate that work that so many are do in our community you make our job at city hall easier madam chair id like to offer or move we adopt the amendments i calculated which are nonsubstantive and after adoption of the amendments ill move to i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. Sure supervisor peskin has a remark. Then my understanding youll duplicate the file and and keep the file in committee in order to address mr. Thomass remarks. My apologies ill make the amendments or after that ill duplicate the file and move one and keep the other pending to work with public works on the fee issue. So my first motion i move we adopt the motion. Without objection the passes unanimously. Now duplicate the file and move that we for the record one version as amended to the full board of supervisors with a positive recommendation and continue the duplicated file keep it in committee and continue to through the chair. A motion made and accepted without objection that item passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you very much supervisor peskin. Lets go back for a moment ladies and gentlemen, i want to go back to item 3 item 3 a motion to rescind this vote. So moved. Seconded by r without objection that motion passes. Supervisor peskin a new motion. Before you colleagues are a number of reasons so forth on the top of page three similar to the ones that were substantially negative impact item 2 those are for the public convenience and well fair the designation report is in the form prescribed by the hpc and cantonese the documentation be it as significant for the architecture of wright and d that it meets the 2k3w0ib89 criteria of the planning code and e that the boundary and interior and exterior features should be considered for preservation under the proposed landmark ill move those amendments. All right. Thank you. Supervisor peskin is asked us to add the finding in the amendment without objection that passes unanimously. And forward it as amended with positive recommendation. Without objection it passes. Madam clerk lets go back to item 7. Item 7 is a hearing on compliance with the San Francisco street will the policy that calls for increase in pedestrian lighting establishing uniform level of the trifths to led technology. Thank you very much supervisor peskin sorry supervisor wiener. All yours. Madam chair thank you for agendizing those items colleagues over the past years ive called for and held a series of hearings at this committee on the topic of street lights and menu done issue better late than never but one that impacts many, many people daily lives in terms of the safety and liveability of our neighborhoods we have a discussions a number of issues all of the goal of improving Street Lighting in San Francisco and having street lights that actually litigant the sidewalks so pedestrians what cock securely and having good maintenance so that lights burn out less frequently and replaced quickly and move forward the led conversion were currently undergoing and the divided ownership of the street lights some of our street lights are owned by our Public Utilities commission and pg e and some of the challenges that causes the need for better and better corporation between the two agencies as well as any progress for the adopted policy this board adopted at my request that the puc should own all of the street lights which pg e has pubically stated at this committee that that didnt have an objection to assuming something can be negotiated safety on the streets at night is incredibly important for people not tripping and falling and people feeling safe in their neighborhood a basic responsibility of government in 2014 i offered legislation the board adopted to establish a number of policies are for street lights i nodded one of the policies for the municipal ownership and scale lighting along a block updated that adam pedestrian scale late night will be provided transitioned towards led i know is happening having a uniform Response Time for the out oxens on the 311 system the ordinance requires an annual report to the supervisors todays hearing is an update thank you to pg e to report and so with that, i the call that barbara hale from the utilities commission. Excuse me ill have to step out ill not be able to stay but compliment barbara hale and others who worked on lighting the south of market dog patch and potrero hill and some of the dark areas and tell you when you add light it is significantly decreases car breakins and mugings i want to express my gratitude for driving around district with me and allowing me to point out the dark spots barbara hale for power ill go on the screen sfgovtv thank you. I think it pretty much all the topics supervisor wiener that you expressed the first two by the way, backward items 3 to six the performance issues and talk about you know sort of our emphasis areas for the future Going Forward here a quick snapshot on the Ownership Division you talked about you know most of the lights are owned by the city by the San Francisco Public Utilities commission in particular and then by pg e but as you can see there is an assortment of city and state and federal agencies that own the lighting inside the city and county of San Francisco when you look at the ownership breakdown focused on puc and pg e here on this map an illustration it shows from dark blue to throw the lighter blues and graze to green the dominant puc being the dark blue and down the scale in color the pg e ownership increased that gives us a quick snapshot on that and have series loops or regulated loops in the city theyre kind of an emphasis area their challenging for performance so ive highlight those here some owned by puc the yellow and red and some owned by the city black and blue with the red serious of loops converted those are 50 to 90yearold system that operate like the hole holiday lights who won bulk goes out the whole series go out there are an emphasis area for repairs if youre having trouble without via contact the city 311 dial 311 from a phone or sfgov 311. Com and have a handy app the puc has if youre standing in a dark corner waiting for a bus feeling uncomfortable and report a light observed you can do that electronically our phone will locate where you are and tells you we can roll and truck and take care of it 311 then takes that information from a resident and then look at the database we have and sends the information to the puc we review to make sure that we are the owner and then we respond pg e is the owner 311 knows the loopholes and sends to to pg e directly and if not open a wood pole we refer those to pg e we know are pg es. This is an area it integration issue trying to Work Together with an Area Supervisor wiener you included in the policy that was ordinances 24013 one of the steps we undertaken to coordinate. Thank you just a comment on i know you guys have been working and i appreciate that in terms of of the data do we have yes. I have data. My apologies. Youre asking a leading question heres how we are doing how are we responding to the 311 requests it shifts me to the performance part and what weve done adopted the levels of service on the puc on this slide what our exceptions are for our performance if it is a unsafe condition were out there between twentyfour hour and if it is a return to Service Issue that might it takes time and not an unsafe a target of 48 hours and were doing pretty well let me go back the twentyfour hour make save 100 percent of the time meeting the level of goals in the twentyfour hours and for the items under the 48 hours column were hitting about 66 percent on average performance just in the last fiscal year year we have 3 thousand plus of those sorts of requests so you know when how look at how many days in a year were preparing on average 14 of that type of issue each working day you know a factor that effects our level of the performance is unplanned an unwarranted scheduled work. Thank you when you say we your referring. I should be clear im talking about the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Performance my extension that pg e performance. But in terms of the integration and the data is that coming later. No so we are including i should back up 311 staff are including all out age in the 311 system were collecting all requests puc requests are tagged that way and these that are pg e problem areas are being tagged in the 311 system we can see through the 311 system how were doing overall and the data im giving about our performance is from that system. Im sure pg e will talk about that i know that last time there were issues in terms of communication between 311 and pg e were appreciative pg e worked with them and appreciative their voluntarily doing that he, he know youre not involved but have a sense of belonging existence between 311 and pg e has a faster turn around. My understanding the communication is happening within 311 and pg e we have received feedback that per diem at times closes items as complete in the 311 system when rather than them being complete their uncertain as to where the problem was so we have that issue area still or that issue to address in the relationship between 311 and pg e where the 311 system will record it as complete and appears to the reader and resident to be fixed when in reality it is closed because they were unclear to where the outage or repair was needed. Do you have a sense that issue is worked out. I dont know if it is actively addressed ill have to get back with you. I would preservative that 311 and well hear from pg e. This is not on our list of to dos. 311 is a piece of that and managing that well with the 66 percent performance rate and the 100 percent performance rate the underground Service Alert those are where folks will be digging in the streets and need to know whether or not we have stuff they need to avoid you know with the development in San Francisco at the pace it is going were troef quite a bit of urban scheduled work through the underground Service Alert system it publicities us off our plan but overall were performing well and the other area the skeleton work is our pole Assessment Program as you can see through the 9 thousand plus poles weve taken a look at and deemed are acceptable condition 200 and 10 weve replied they needed to be replaced immediately were thrilled also transitioning to a new pg e tariff for decades Distribution Services from pg e to all our Electrical Services and paid 18 to 21 million every year to pg e for this serve that arrangement inspired we tried to negotiate a satisfactory agreement pg e and the sfmta didnt. Could agreement were were before the Regulatory Commission this year making our arguments for the pg e system we awaited a decision to resolve that litigation and mommy a difficult time for the personally surface to connect the city load including our street lights but this is a bumpy area were thrilled collaborating with inventory of life and conversion of the lights to led those areas were called out in the policy ordinance i referred to earlier supervisor wiener. And one of the other things that is challenging for us out on the streets is trees we love them they do impair our lighting performance they shade the streets there is a City Ordinance that specifics the spacing between trees and lighting proper tree maintenance improves the street light system performance and one of the first areas we look at when we get concerns from residents about the streets being dark he know there are street lights and the led encampments will improve our performance and procuring 18 thousand led lights we currently have a bid on the streets there the office of Contract Administration the low cost responses are due november 4th and had trouble getting the program on the ground but it is close to coming to a milestone november 4th bid response due date were looking forward to seeing the financial savings into in less maintenance costs and less energy use and also the preserved safer streets because of the brighter quality of light ounce e once complete until the citywide version is a completed and standard difficult to have a low blue temperature light we have insulated higher color temperature lamps and gotten negative fooeb if the community and sought the Community Input we use the lower left blue temperature lamps were on a better pathway to satisfied residents on the pedestrian lighting another area called out in the street light policy ordinance you spoke of earlier we are following the better streets plan and we are with the exception of the light e valentines day the led program the pedestrian and are sponsored by other agencies typically and funding the street light area improvements which includes pedestrian lighting and so thats where you see in your Capital Improvement plan the area opportunity we have also a new distribute Antenna System program the dos program a joint Publicprivate Partnership in which private carriers licenses the infrastructure the installation consist of a low pounder antenna kirnld in red on the slide as you can see are projecting a bump in revenues from this program when the board approves this program as we bought it to them we were urged to expend those dollars on the street lights so as and move forward additional revenues to fund the areas ive talked about i want to highlight some of the more recent activities i mentioned this as a challenging area sngz on the slide weve converted open alamany boulevard over the next two well be taken care of weve completed the procurement for the third street light Rehabilitation Project coming to third street and distribute the antenna project ive mentioned as well and wanted to highlight the assessment and pole replacement this is a driver for your Street Light Program invests our Capital Investments in the street light area in the future as you can see those are some of the conditions that were seeing as our pole Assessment Team is on the streets those are examples of the kinds of conditions were encountering were taking care of immediately others we assess for future improvements and with that, ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Before you hear from pg e. Thank you, thank you fewer presentation a few things in terms of the average number of days to fix street light problems is that 2. 7. 58. Thats overall includes the 47 hour item so 66 percent of them are done within two days. Okay and this page with the chart about the sfpuc level of Service Goals i dont know the columns of grandchildren 48 houeater th thirty days. Youre talking about the conditions where typically we need to make a purpose for to replace a knocked down pole or to assess the paint conditions and send a truck out those are typical situation theyre not a safety concern with exemption of the knock down but weve given ourselves more room to address those concerns and apart because of the reality of the inventory we need to make purchases without the repair but also they typically are not you know the paints damage is typically not a safety in the streets concerns. When it says meanings is twentyfour hours to check and one and 80 days for replacement. Yes. So we check that and make it safe in the twentyfour hour period and certain it will not fall over and leave it make the order so we have an operating order as opposed to no light leave it there leon and make any orders we need to make to come back out and make the repairs and eliminate the leaning problem we give ours more time than the one and 80 days. Great in terms of the pedestrian scale lighting i understand that the policies and interactions to the better streets plan. Created this back in the day for whatever the country went look at crazy with architecture but also with the redesigning everything around vehicles and wide streets and ripping you up streetcar tracks and building up everyone around the car and not everyone has a car so part of that was all about latinamerican the streets for cars and lighting streets for pedestrian an afterthought if a tree is blocking the light i know that is a major under a taking to transform the city for the pedestrian scale lighting i hope one day well get there but let me know the process. We now have pedestrian lighting requirements in our specifications so when a new block is being or an old block is converted the project sponsor is to install not only street lights but pedestrian lighting for the specification so as major improvements are concurring on a block by block basis the footage pedestrian lighting is being installed and exclude do load measuring the pedestrian amount of light is hits the sidewalks for the pedestrians in the Conversion Program so we are looking to both street and pedestrian lighting quality as we perform our lighting analysis and have prioritized converting to led fairways and pedestrian bridges that are listed on the city streets and public rightofways so youre seeing a better quality of light and the puc is taking care of those areas. Do you have a sense how long not for the whole project but until we, see a Critical Mass of lighting in San Francisco do you think in the next 5 years changes. Ill be completely guessing if i gave you a number supervisor i can i got i need to work with planning to see what their seeing more major street improvements so because thats where the rules that we laid out at the puc would then come into play with a major improvement that have street front forgotten and look at it other major streetscapes projects that city departments are sporndz their responsible for street light and pedestrian light improvements associated with the project for example, van ness brt that project includes a lighting element and the street and pedestrian lighting apply there ill have to work with planning to get you an accurate picture. Okay. Thank you at this point well provide pg e to provide an update as well. Hi supervisors translation for giving us an opportunity to share pg e outage and other issues weve been working with puck i unfortunately dont have an electronic version but madam clerk if you can help me put this presentation. Put it on the overhead directly yeah sfgovtv will show it. There we go. Its up. So with that let me introduce miechz im the public foyers manager at pg e well talk about the outage repairs and future plans we have with that, id like to introduce kari our subject Matter Expert your senior manager for repair and compliance. Thank you good afternoon, supervisors we met briefly 2013 i want to cover what weve done thus far with our lights currently pg e owns 40 percent of 46 Thousand Lights in the city we have improved our street light repair since we met within a 5 year window and 95 percent within 5 days. Im sorry to interrupt so what kinds of issues are resolved within 5 days and simple repairs. Is that an average. Correct average. Simple repairs 95 percent i can actually of september last month we were one hundred within 5 days we are continuing to process and improve the footprint. Thank you. No problem. So here sdpad our repair times in 2014 we remember 93 percent, 2014 up to 94 and year to date 95 percent with the street light repairs. Currently were completed r o loops that is a total of 5 hundred 71 lights actively 2016 projects include four r loops that is noted and anticipate one and 21 lights by the yearend and again loop 340 is 19th avenue and housing street loop 611 and 6283 is post and van ness through mason and have 10 r 0 loops well have a total of 4 hundred and 51 in 20172018. So were continuing it Work Together with the San Francisco public works we are you know work to and then the ownership with the San Francisco public works owns a lot of the lights with the responsibility we continue to work and develop an led program at bit sfmta unique circumstances and adjust the pedestrian sail lighting needs with San Francisco public works and dpw staff and we will continue to cooperate the replacement of r o loops with the puc as well with that, im going to turn it over to for any questions you may have. I want to thank you guys for painting the historical lights jackson street light you guys did it pretty quick. Thank you. Ill pass on the feedback. Sorry go ahead. If i could supervisor i heard our concerns about the 311 interaction ill be working with barb and find the right resources to address that. Since dpw was drainage involved has that communication improved. Say so for the for the most part we have issues were working offline sometimes outages happen and sometimes there is outages we cant get into the system and the daily reports are sent later in the afternoon but our communication has improved. When you say you cant get into the system clarify. For our you know an other age we can work and close work orders during the other ages but continue to work to improve that performance. Is that a 311 issue. It is correct a 311 issue that happened. Have you been working with 311 to try. We tried to notify staff and get the report later on in the day we would like to work on o that process to get the report earlier in the day and in terms of issue that that was raised when pg e through a normal close out pg e outages did you know what go shes referring to. I know when we get a 311 referral we try to contact the residents and if unable to well close it ousted with a message to contact pg e not that im aware of of my cases we can Work Together on that. Sounds good thank you. Thank you very much thank you for your presentation. Maybe you can help our sfmta preserve those historic street lamps on van ness avenue. Those are pg e owned or puc. No, no theyre the citys i was hoping theyll help us. Okay thank you very much to both pg e and the puc i have notified in general, i think were getting fewer constituent complaints in terms of outages for street lights at this point open up for Public Comment please come up mr. Dulavich tom livable city streets is important we do it parolee in San Francisco on the issue of street trees my goal i think the goal of the city to have a healthy tree companion but if you use 1950 highway style for lights youll have healthy street companion and no lights on the sidewalk or no tree canopy and lights on the sidewalks the it helps the disconnect i was disappeared years ago before you were supervisor when delores heights got new street lamps basically in 1950s it was too high it lights the road whether a healthy companion and were happy with delores heights but no light on the sidewalks we cant replace in kind and in many places the Street Lighting need to be rethroughout the other issue we need to look at trees pass as new residents i lived on guerrero street with those high highway street lights there are a terrific amount of light that floods into 2 and 3 story windows if you shield them and get more light on the sidewalks and less into people windows i hope we think about the maintenance piece it is very, very important but integrating them and mindful of our goals and oufshz whether the health and liveability and urban forest is very, very important. Thank you mr. Dulavich seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So i will supervisor peskin if i could entertain a motion to file this item sure or i guess we can reintroduce if we want to continue to check in so sure ill make a motion to file. Without objection and madam clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body . Theres no further business. Then were adjourned