Gentleman. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im josh with the Planning Department staff i will start off todays presentation by giving you the expressway on gary how it came to be and some ann nations and ill be followed by two more colleagues from the Transportation Authority will talk about the explorations into the future of the filing more area. So at one time before the construction cut gary was merely a seam in the africanamerican and japaneseamerican and jewish and filipino and other communications and had it span the two areas it was lines with businesses that fronted on it and it was an active corridor. Not only the Jazz Entertainment center but it spanned gary. From this photo in 1958 just before the expressway gary was profiler about 60 feet wide north of Market Street and it was like an your own area. Here another photo before the expressway project was built. Before the post world war ii area we wanted to remake the city in the western edition it was target number one. The firs
Andrew lee im the sfmta project lead. I just want to give you a broad update of where we are and my colleague chester will be giving the update on the fillmore complex. Right now, were approaching the end of the Environmental Impact analysis stage of the bus rapid transit. And the ta is the agency lead for the Environmental Review and the sfmta is our partnership. We have joint meetings established and were working through those issues in close collaboration. When the stage is complete the sfmta is going to be in charge of operating this. Just a quick overview its one of the longest corridors in the city. Its definitely one of our most important transit corridors with more than 50 thousand passengers per day. We have two lines and during the a. M. And p. M. Peak hours we have an express service so its common to see a bus coming along less than 3 minutes. Thats why its critical for us to have smooth operation technologies because with a smooth transit line its possible to have the buses
Look at that in much more detail than we were able to do so certainly the ah nalis will be before you in the future. Thank you. I appreciate that and i think the rest of my comments be best taken up during the approval of the plan itself, and they have to do with the zoning and it does have to do with the Historic Structures and whether they have more flexible uses, but i dont believe those are Environmental Issues at this time. Commissioner sugaya. Yeah, i move to certify. Second. All on motion to certify the final environmental report want commissioner. 50eur. Commissioner. Aye. Commissioner. Aye. Commissioner. Aye. Commissioner. Aye. And commissioner president fong. Aye. So moved commissioners. That passes unanimously. And places you under item 11 western Soma Community plan adoption actions that include adoption of California Environmental quality act findings, adoption of amendments to the general plan, amendments to the planning code, amendments to the zoning maps, amendments to
It happened further down on king street i was clarifying it will this extend down to the point where this incident occurred . I dont know if theres a visible theres a visible of the project location and its in the enclosure which is the prop k enclosure for item 4. Its on since you guys are looking online its on page 73 of the enclosure its on page 11 of telephone of the actual allocation requests ill put it on the overheads as well so you can see the project location is quite willing mid block to the intersection at the third. Its after the mid block crossing. Okay. So this will extend a full bike lane from where the bike lane disappears in the middle of the street all the way to third which doesnt extend to third street. Not in this project. The description is mentioned are those there between second and third or past third street. This is replacing the shadows in this with striping and primarily stripping and is there a man plan to extend this further west. Let me invite jennifer fr
calling names and anyone else who wants to speak please come forward im katie work with the west side group. I wanted to thank liz as well. I have 3 points to make first of all, lots of outreach was done including with residents in our area. And as part of one of those outreach sessions we conducted a very inform survey i wanted to say that 70 percent felt neighbors support of tunnel. Going through our area the reason we got together was some of the options were unpopularity so it was a good way to that was a prospective bridge through our neighborhood that turned out into a tunnel that made people support the project better. The last piece i wanted to mention as well as someone who lives in the neighborhood we see the traffic and Pedestrian Safety issues everyday the offer crowding on the train it was clearly designed for a system or ridership one hundred years ago and if were going to make the tunnel do it right and get an underground station. And if were going to spend the money do