the utilities would be identified, and they would be relocated if necessary to service the facilities, and that would be at the utility company cost. supervisor wiener: what if the city wants to move it? it is not in the middle of the sidewalk, to pay for the relocation? these facilities, utility companies are normally controlled by the franchise agreement or their agreement with the city and pays for that, and those are always case specific as it relates to the utility company itself, so i really can only give you a broader answer that typically it would be under the utilities cost. supervisor wiener: thank you. is there anything else you wanted to add? no, sir. supervisor wiener: thank you. colleagues? i want to thank everyone for coming out. making these decisions about our public rights of way, we are perhaps urged since we re taking a look at the surface mounted facilities or to see if there is any way to improve the coordination, to make it more consistent, and to m
i think that is only a good thing, and i think it is getting stronger, and i am up here speaking for the better streets plan, but i will say the better streets plan was developed by all the agencies to gather, and they are taking this back to their agencies and working with the agencies to do that. that said, i think to your earlier point, a supervisor, we can always strength and coordination, and it can only be good for the quality that we get, it i think your point, it has to come as early in the process as we can possibly make it, but i think there should be some event in of just what is being proposed. i observed a couple of things or heard a couple of points that i thought were very interesting, too, if i might. the first, there was the point about adding sidewalk widening into the tool kit that we might use if we are looking at the sighting of facilities. i think the idea as well, if we are putting a facilities in the street, to use them, to make better streets with the